Chapter 7

Amber stood in front of the group of heroes, studying each carefully. The bat seemed like a good flier, the male hedgehog looked like a runner, and the rose hedgehog looked to mentally strong.

"You will all pay for what you did to Maria!" Amber screamed.

"Oh boy, here we go again." Sonic said. "Look Amber, Shadow tried doing the exact same thing two years ago but he found out that Maria wanted him to protect the planet, not destroy it."

Amber faced him.

"And what do you know? You arrogant, foolish little hedgehog. This world is being destroyed by the humans. I'm just speeding it up. Maria was too young to know what she wanted. I don't follow a little girl's orders like Shadow. I listen to Gerald alone."

"Amber please." Amy spoke. "You don't look evil at all. Shadow was far more intimidating and he turned out to be a hero."

Amber smirked.

"That just shows you that looks can be deceiving."

In a flash, Amber sped to the group and grabbed onto them.

"Chaos Control!"

In a flash of golden light, they were gone.

Mountainous Area

The group reappeared on top of a huge boulder. Amy and Rouge were kind of dizzy since they never used chaos control but Sonic was fine and staring at Amber.

"Amber, why did you bring us here?"

"For an uninterrupted battle. I know you three are all this pathetic planet has to offer and once you are all out of the way, no one will stop me!"

"THINK AGAIN!" a familiar voice shouted. Sonic, Amber, Amy , and Rouge all looked over towards another boulder. Standing on it were none other than Knuckles and Tails.

Amber smirked upon laying eyes on Knuckles.

"Couldn't stand losing to me huh?"

"Yeah right, you pulled some cheap tricks and it won't happen again."

"Say what you want to, it still won't matter."

Amber's eyes then fell to the chaos emeralds sticking out of Knuckles' natural fur pockets. She threw her head back and laughed.

"You truly are a fool Echidna. Bringing the emeralds here was the worst thing you could have done."

"Yeah well, maybe I got a plan." Knuckles responded eying the emerald shard around her neck.

"NOW TAILS!"

On cue, Tails pulled out a small laser rifle and fired it at Amber who had no time to react and was hit in the eyes.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH."

Knuckles turned to Sonic.

"Sonic, she's temporarily blinded, grab the shard!"

Sonic nodded and sped towards the screaming hedgehog.. He stuck his hand forth and ripped the shard off.

"Good, now bring it here!" Tails screamed.

Sonic nodded again and sped towards Knuckles and Tails. Rouge and Amy were at his side. When the group reached them, Sonic threw the shard to Knuckles.

"Here, reform it now!"

Knuckles caught the shard and was about to reconnect it with the emerald when a hand grabbed it away.

Amber laughed at the group.

"Did you really think it would be that easy? Chaooooooos Arrooooooooow!"

Amber's attack flew and hit Tails and Knuckles. The chaos and master emerald dropped to the ground beside them. Amber was about to reach for the emeralds when:

"Black Wave!"

Rouge's attack hit Amber in the back causing her to drop the shard at Knuckles feet who was up again.

"Knuckles do it now!" Rouge screamed.

Amber's eyes widened.

"Noooooooooooooo!"

Knuckles grabbed the shard and reconnected it with the golden chaos emerald.