Knuckles and Rouge weren't in the least happy when they found Sally, as well as Sonic in a park, talking amiably. Amy had died! Did they have no shame? Of course Rouge hadn't been her friend till recently, and Knuckles wasn't that close to her, but even so, they were close enough to mourn her death. They looked at each other and silently decided not to speak to them, but stay close and listen, sitting together Knuckles allowed her to rest her head on his chest, and both closed their eyes listening to their conversation carefully.

"I am still shocked about what I saw..." they heard Sonic say. "I held her in my arms...I told her I loved her."

"Do you?" asked Sally.

"I did...I don't know it's confusing."

Typical indecisive Sonic.

"We loved her, she was like my sister" Rouge frowned when Sally said that. A sister wouldn't go out with her sibling's boyfriend. Rouge might be someone who liked casual sex and all that stuff, but if there was something she wasn't, was a cheater. Knuckles had to control himself to avoid yelling then and there.

"She was special...I couldn't break her heart, I couldn't bring myself to tell her the truth" Sonic sighed. This was the stupidest excuse they had ever heard. But one of the most common ones people that cheat do. Yet, Knuckles seemed stiff. Rouge would have to ask later why.

"Have you told him?"

Oh, Rouge knew who he was... She knew. And that was her queue. Knuckles didn't interfere when he saw her take out her communicator.

"Hey...could you come to this address? I have something to show you" She didn't allow Sally's boyfriend to answer.

"Good idea" he praised, this was better than she drinking her troubles away like before.

"Hun, what goes around comes around. They all gotta pay their dues"

"And you also like a good drama"

"Well, that too. Karma is my best friend"

Rouge got up, making sure the couple wasn't going to move anytime soon, and went all the way to the other corner of the park. Knuckles walked close behind towards a monkey wearing a long jacket, a beanie, and a shirt. Well, dressed, well for the bat's taste he was very fashionable. It made sense why he had a girlfriend that looked like some yoga teacher and Instagram model. But as Rouge knew, those types go to the handsome ones, rich or athletic. Those were the majority she had seen as a private investigator. Knuckles had known about these details because of how his girlfriend loved to gossip about them. He couldn't deny it was entertaining to listen.

"Rouge, Knuckles? What is it?" they had worked together before, as he had asked her to help him find a person who was threatening one of the leaders of his kingdom. And Knuckles also knew him due to various exchanges they had done in the past.

"Hi Kenny"

"Please don't call me that, not even Sally calls me that"

"She won't listen," said Knuckles offhandedly.

Rouge laughed, he at least gave her a genuine smile. This made Knuckles sigh in relief it had been a long time since Amy's death and at last, his bat was laughing in a non-drunk, nor flirtatious way.

"Oh, c'mon, that's the way you greet an old friend?"

"Well, if the said old friend doesn't tell me why she needs me, then yes"

Had he heard anything? Rouge wondered if Sally bothered informing him.

"You get used to it" added Knuckles with a small chuckle.

"Of course you would know my friend"

"You wound me Kenny! You call him a friend but not me?" Rouge faked offense. After a few laughs she straightened up. "Well, Ken do you know what happened recently?"

The brown monkey shook his head, looking at her confused. Knuckles was about to speak when a voice interrupted.

"Sonic? Sally?" Everyone looked towards the source. It was Amy, in a cute white dress.

"I..." Sonic was terrified. Rouge could see it. Ken Khan was confused at this, it seemed he didn't know Amy had died. As for her boyfriend? Knuckles was in extreme shock.

"Dark...Chaos..." he whispered. Rouge hugged him to reassure him and frowned. She should have warned him about this.

"Oh Sonic! I still love you!" Amy threw herself at the blue hedgehog that had no idea how to react. After all, his dead ex-girlfriend was right here, hugging him. Rouge knew this guy had been in denial after hearing the rumors that Amy was alive, well Knuckles had been a bit too, but she said it while drunk, so he obviously thought it was a lie.

"What is wrong? You both haven't been visiting me!"

"Oh, were they going to have a picnic or something? Rouge I know you are an inv-"

No, Khan didn't finish when he heard the chipmunk speak. Of course, not, Knuckles regained his composure, the three of them frowning at the scene.

"You need to step off" Sally interfered with a frown. "Remember you left, and he is now my boyfriend. You need to move on"

Of course Rouge knew Sally was referring to the supposed ghost. Sally obviously wanted Amy to go to the after-life. Though it was impossible now. Knuckles knew that a being created with Dark Chaos couldn't be killed, he had to find a way to seal it or something. Food thing someone was guarding the emerald in his place for now.

"What!?" Ken's yell was heard by the other three. Rouge was starting to regret this, because she had seen Amy in her worst, and the slow rise of a dark aura was starting to appear.

"Shit..."

"This is gonna be hard. Stay back" whispered Knuckles after he heard Rouge swear.

"Babe!" Sally quickly got up when the furious monkey stomped towards her, rage in his eyes the other pair went after him. He was going into dangerous territory.

"Wait, calm down" of course it was a stupid thing to say, the bat knew this. But she had to try. "We don't want a storm to brew right now, so breathe in and let's talk like-"

"We are done, Sally. You could have broken up with me, told me you still loved Sonic or something," said Ken with a frown having relaxed his serves, but the pain, betrayal, and anger still in his eyes. And then he glared at Sonic. "And YOU, you had the best girl in the world, someone who worshiped at your feet. You left her like that, more like, cheated on her. Both of you didn't even have the decency to break up with us. Instead of going behind our backs."

Well, Knuckles and Rouge had to agree with his speech. That was a big burn if they had ever seen one.

"I'm sorry" whispered the crying chipmunk. "I..."

"Congratulations, you both created a new kind of stupid," said Ken then looking at Amy and offering the pink crying hedgehog a hand. Rouge had to keep herself from awing at how sweet it looked. Knuckles knew his girlfriend well enough to know she would try to play cupid. "Come, let's go. Rouge, Knuckles, come with us"

"Uh..sure" The bat really had a bad feeling about this. Something in her mind told her something would happen to these two and it wasn't going to be pretty. She went into the car with them, Ken at the wheel.

"Rouge...Thanks" said the monkey, she knew he was holding his emotions back.

"You're welcome hun" she answered kindly. "you deserved to know."

"Are you ok Amy?" asked Knuckles towards the other female.

"I knew he was cheating on me...with my si- I mean my ex-best friend...I knew it. I was a fool! I believed him when he said I love you for the last time!" Rouge noticed how the girl balled her fists. Knuckles was cautious, if she went on a rampage he would have to use her energy to stop her."Ken, can I tell you something?"

"What is it Amy?" he considered her a dear friend, and no, with this situation Rouge and Knuckles could sense that he felt even closer to her.

"I was dead"

He looked at her confused. "Dead? What do you mean? I get you are heartbroken, or more like when you first found out you felt dead, but there is no need to exaggerate"

"No, Ken, she was literally dead," said Rouge mining her lip. "She committed suicide a week ago"

He stopped, right in front of G.U.N quarters. "Amy...but how!? How is she here!?"

"Eggman brought me back with the power of chaos" Amy looked out the window. "It's a thing that was kept a secret. Few know about this. I live here now..."

"In G.U.N?" Ken looked at Rouge who nodded. "I'm going in with you"

"Ok, fine. Just a warning, this might be a bit shocking for you" Amy didn't say anything, only nodding in agreement to what Rouge said.