I suppose you wondering why the hell Sonic is up at 3 in the morning. Well because of his throbbing jaw, he's been up for hours putting ice on it. Rouge loves the night, so she's up too. Cream went back to her room. She's asleep, so is Tails and Knuckles. Shadow? I don't have the slightest clue where he is, he ran away from Amy. If she figured out it was him, it'd destroy his reputation. Hmm. It was only the second day they were on the ship. No ones killed anyone. I guess that's a good thing. Shrugs

Rouge walked down the halls, in thought. The only way that echidna would know the Master Emerald was on that island, was if he had a shard with him himself. Or if he had a radar in his possession. She knew this was something her bosses would be interested in, but she wasn't too honest of a person. She wanted the Master Emerald for herself. They already would get all the chaos emeralds. But what they didn't know, was that as soon as she got that thing removed from her neck, She'd take ALL the emeralds for herself. She was finding them, so they should belong to her!

Rouge stopped, hearing Sonic yelling
"Amy! Amy please!" Sonic begged
"Keep that dirty mouth quiet, will ya?" rouge made fun of, knowing his dirty comment at the dinner table.
"It's not what it looks like!" Sonic pushed Amy off of him.
"Get a room!" Rouge put her hands on her hips walking away.
Sonic nervously crawled backwards, knowing Amy would be furious.
Amy laid there "Oh Sonic… I thought you'd never be interested in me sometimes.. but then I saw you watching me In that hot tub… oh Sonic..Take me you aggressive hedgehog you!" She got back up ready to pounce on him.
"Hot tub?! Amy wait!" Sonic put his hands in front of him to stop her, Amy jumped at him, and he ran before she touched him, he wasn't interested in her at the least bit; and hot tub? He didn't even know there were hot tubs!

Rouge knew the best time to search for the possible emerald shard in Knuckles room was in 2 weeks or so, but she was to curious to wait that long. She needed a distraction. But what? She knocked on the door to knuckles room. She had to knock more then once.
"Ohh knuxy? You uuuup?" Rouge said flirtatiously.
Knuckles opened the door, he wasn't happy. "What do you want?" he asked annoyed.
Rouge let herself in. "Soo knuxy… how are things?"
"Things are late." Knuckles said tired. "Why are you up anyway?" he asked suspicious.
Rouge sat down on his bed. "What can I say I love the night life" She looked to the side, searching his closet from a distance with her sonar. She couldn't sense anything in there, but there was a shard in his room, she could sense it.
"You know I wouldn't mind sharing that master room with you" Rouge winked.
Knuckles glared at her knowing she was up to something. "Why you! Get out!" he snarled blushing.
"Whyyy?" Rouge smirked "I think you like having me here" She lowered her eye lids, slipping her hand under his pillow, as she thought, the shard was right underneath knuckles pillow. How old fashioned she thought.
"Get out!" he snarled louder.
"Ok ok! have it your way," Rouge walked out of the room.
Knuckles slammed the door.
Rouge walked down the hall 'ahh.. so an emerald shard is on this very ship! In 2 weeks knuxy.. this little tooth fairy's going to pay you a visit…'

Rouge walked up to the pool area, and to the hot tubs.
'it couldn't hurt' she thought, as she took her shoes off, dipping her feet in the hot water. "ahh… much better" She leaned back sitting on the edge of the hot tub, her feet and ankles submerged in the hot steamy water. 'I could of taken that shard now, but if I took it, it'd probably jeopardize my current mission. Ugh damn those guys. If I could just get this thing out of my neck, I'd be home free and fly away from this joint' rouge was frustrated.

---Third day—it's 11am. Sonic's been hiding from Amy ever since the 'wet hedgehog' incident. Everyone's asleep, except Tails, he's the only one that slept early.

11:45 am

Rouge knocks on Shadow's door. No response is given.
"Shadow? It's me…. Yaaaa there?" Rouge knocked a second time.
Shadow lay on his back, eyes closed, on his bed.
Rouge tapped her foot impatiently. "Shaaaadow…?"
Shadow practically drooled he was fast asleep.
Rouge twisted the doorknob, to her surprise it was unlocked, she tip toed in. 'Don't tell me he's sleeping..' Rouge came over to the bed. 'He is!' Rouge put her hands on her hips glaring at Shadow, she noticed he was in a comfortable state. 'He looks so different this way…'she thought, seeing the crease on his forehead was absent from his expression. Rouge took a moment and then realized she shouldn't stay too long, she didn't want him to wake up and see her there, talk about invasion of privacy! Rouge took a step back, bumping into a vase behind her, making a small 'ching' sound. Rouge felt a drop of sweat move down her forehead. 'Why am I worrying myself? He's fast asleep! I can make all the noise I want and that Hedgehog won't budge! Hmm..' Rouge looked at Shadow once more, '..I better do what I came here to do..' she said to herself, a little shameful.
Rouge picked a note from in-between her bosom. She slipped it into Shadow's hand, and tip toed away to the door, only looking back once she got to the door.
"Later sleepy head! Nice chat'n with ya!" she said sarcastically, and closed the door.

Shadow smirked, as Rouge closed the door, not noticing his consciousness.