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Chapter 7 Wanting to unlock
Knuckles gave the dark hedgehog one last look, to make sure he was okay, before turning to see just what Chaos was. He had expected some kind of large robot with allot of underwater propellers, to create the current that had pulled the dark hedgehog under. What he actually saw wasn't anything like that.
The water in the middle of the pond had come up, and formed itself into a sea monster shape. But how could plain water do that?
/"I'll bet that doc is trying to mess with me. That this is probably just some illusion that he cooked up to distract me." /Knuckles thought, throwing a glance over each shoulder. When he didn't see anything he turned to ask Eggman what was going on, but before he could something in the pond splashed him with a wave large enough to soak him instantly.
Before Knuckles could react he felt something pull his feet out from under him, and start dragging him into the water.
"Oh no, you don't." Knuckles said, as he yanked his feet free, from whatever it was that had gotten a hold of them, and jumped back on dry land.
The water along the edge of the pond formed itself into two hands, and went after Knuckles a second time, but Knuckles punched both with a left cross, that splattered them both to pieces.
/"What kind of freak show has the fat man got going here anyhow?" /Knuckles wondered, as he scanned the water for another attack.
The sea monster shape came up again, but before Knuckles could do anything, the dark hedgehog spin attacked it in the head. The shape dissolved before Knuckles eyes as the dark hedgehog hit the top of the water, and rolled along the surface until he had reached the shore on the other side of the pond. The dark hedgehog turned around, as the water reformed itself into the sea monster shape, and tried to spin attack it again, but Chaos, as the Dr. Eggman had called it, hit him with a wave of water that knocked him back to the shore.
Knuckles jumped in the air, and glided over to Chaos, planning on dive bombing the thing in the same place that the dark hedgehog had hit it. But gliding wasn't nearly as fast as a spin attack, and Chaos saw him. Before he could move the water around Chaos formed itself into a huge arm that swung at him. He tried to dodge the watery arm, but he wasn't fast enough, and the blow connected.
Knuckles flew threw the air several hundred feet before crashing into the train track, just outside the Mystic Ruins train station. A normal person would have been crushed by the impact, but Knuckles was a hardy Echidna, and only suffered a few, rather large, bruises. The train track itself, on the other hand, was another matter. "It looks like they will have to replace a railroad tie, and at least two rails. /Knuckles thought when he surveyed the damage, but he had a water monster, or some kind of Eggman illusion, to fight, and shook the thought of damages away, as he jumped back onto the mainland, and charged back to give Chaos, and Eggman one for. /
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Eggman laughed, as Shadow tried to attack, but was, once again, pulled under by Chaos.
/"This is almost too easy." /He thought to himself. Things were defiantly going better than they had last time. Sonic and the black hedgehog had managed to coordinate their attacks, thus keeping him from being able to defend himself properly, but now it looked like Knuckles and the black hedgehog were either going to have to retreat, or be destroyed. Eggman could work with either.
"Bwahahaha." He laughed.
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Shadow wasn't going to let Chaos try to drown him, a second time, and he ignited the jets at the bottom of his shoes to try and evaporate some of the water.
Chaos gave out a groan, that Shadow assumed was one of pain, and lessened his grip on the Ultimate Life Form. This was just what Shadow was waiting for. He kicked his legs, as fast as he could, and hit the ponds small shore like a torpedo.
He was a little dazed when he got up, because he was used to hitting enemies at high speeds when his body was curled up in a spin attack, and hitting the shore with his head was a little disorienting.
The red Echidna came running up, so fast that he ran across the water, but Chaos hit him with a another wave attack, which slowed him down enough that he started to sink.
Shadow jumped up, and tried to spin attack Chaos again. The water creature was still busy with the red Echidna, and the blow connected.
Shadow rolled up to the shore, and uncurled himself to survey the situation. Chaos tried to reform himself, but in order to do so; he had to stop creating the currant that was slowing down the red Echidna, who got in a lucky shot. Chaos moved himself to another part of the pond, and started reforming yet again.
Shadow attacked immediately, but Chaos saw him coming, and quickly dropped back into the relative safety of underwater; before moving to, yet again, another part of the lake.
Shadow and the red Echidna pursued Chaos, who created another large arm, which he tried to hit Shadow with, but the Ultimate Life Form was too quick for him, and he missed.
Since Chaos had ignored the red Echidna, in order to try and take out Shadow, the Echidna reached Chaos, and hit him with an uppercut, which knocked Chaos's head out of the water.
"You're going to pay for this." Eggman shouted, as he went to such Chaos up into his flying contraption, while the water creature extended a tentacle to the water, to replace some of the mass, which it had lost.
"Not this time." Shadow said, as he jumped up to attack Eggman, but Eggman turned, so that the front of his flying contraption was facing Shadow, which opened up, to reveal something round and red. Shadow wasn't sure what the red thing did, but it was too late to change direction, and he hit it dead on, and was sent flying back into the ground. Shadow was curled up for a spin attack, but he hit the ground going backwards, which knocked the wind out of him.
Shadow lay there for a few moments, dazed. Once again he had lost his Chaos Emerald, and the red Echidna had probably lost his sometime during the fight. Shadow hadn't felt good in all the time he had been unfrozen by G.U.N., but right now he felt particularly grumpy. /"Just wait until I get my hands on you Eggman!" /He thought as he lay there wallowing in his self pity, in too much of a bad mood to even try to get up.
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Knuckles watched Eggman fly away, and then turned to the dark hedgehog. He was lying with his back to the ground, and he didn't look like he was going to get up any time soon. Knuckles wondered if he should help him. On the one hand the dark hedgehog had attacked him the moment he saw him, but on the other hand Knuckles hadn't been very nice either, and the fact that Eggman was behind this implied to him that not all was as it appeared.
Knuckles decided to go help him up. He walked over to the dark hedgehog, and extended his hand. It took the dark hedgehog a second to notice the hand, but when he did his eyes followed the hand up Knuckles arm, all the way to his face, and gave him a chilling look.
Knuckles was taken aback. He had never come across someone who could be so cold when all he had done was try to help.
The dark hedgehog got to his feet, without Knuckles help, looked him in the eye and said, "If you ever get in my way again I will kill you."
Knuckles wasn't one that took threats kindly, but part of what had happened had been his fault, and he couldn't expect everyone to be as forgiving of his foolishness as Sonic had been. Still it took a tremendous effort for him to just say, "Right." turn and leave.
As he walked he thought to himself. "If I ever run into that dark hedgehog again I'm gonna show him just how hard it is to kill Knuckles the Echidna."
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Amy sat on the couch completely exhausted.
After arriving at the house Tails had locked himself into his workshop\garage, saying that he wanted what he was working on to be a surprise.
/"That was three hours ago." /Amy thought to herself.
The whole situation had pleased Amy at first. She and Sonic were alone together, and it was the perfect opportunity for them to get to know each other better, but it hadn't worked out that way.
After being locked out of Tails' workshop\garage Sonic had started pacing around the house, rather quickly.
At first Amy had tried to follow him around, and start up a conversation, but he didn't seem interested. So then she tried just following him around, and waiting for inspiration, but nothing came to her, and after three hours she finally got tired. So she had sat down for a rest.
Amy watched Sonic whenever he was in the same room, but he kept moving around going from one room to another. It reminded Amy of the chase scenes in the Scooby Doo.
Finally Sonic seemed to get tired of seeing all of the rooms in Tails house in fast-forward, because he sat down on, to Amy's disappointment, the recliner, grabbed the remote, and flipped on the TV.
"Hey kids this is Al. From Al's toy barn. We got the lowest prices in town. In fact I think I feel a deal hatching right now." The TV squawked.
Sonic jammed his finger on the channel button, and the TV switched to a different commercial.
"I despise that chicken." He muttered. "Everyone knows that he's some guy in a chicken suit, not a Mobian."
After fifteen minutes of flipping threw channels they heard the sound of the door to Tails garage\workshop, opening.
Amy turned around on the couch so that she could see Tails, as Sonic turned off the TV, and zipped up to his buddy. "Well, what is it?" He asked.
Tails responded by pulling one of his hands out from behind his back, and holding up what was in it up, for inspection.
"No not the Chaos Emerald, I want to see what you've been working on." Sonic said.
"Are you sure that this is a Chaos Emerald?" Tails asked, the smile never leaving his face.
Sonic and Amy shot Tails a pair of confused expressions. Tails stifled a laugh, and pulled out another Chaos Emerald, identical to the one he was already holding. Amy and Sonic stared at the two gems a moment. Both were the same color, the same shape, and size.
"You made a Chaos Emerald?" Sonic asked.
Tails nodded.
"That's way past cool! Does it work the same way as a Chaos Emerald?" Sonic asked
Tails shook his head, and said. "Uh uh. A real Chaos Emerald gives off positive energy, where as my duplicate gives off negative energy."
Tails statement confused Amy, and Sonic, and the latter scratched his head.
"In short, if we make Eggman think that this is the real one," Tails said holding up the fake Emerald. "and he gives it to Chaos, then it will drain his energy instead of boosting it."
"Cool!" Sonic said enthusiastically. "Can you make a copy of the other six?"
"I'd need the other six to do it, but fake Chaos Emeralds get more complicated when you work with more than one." Tails answered.
"How so?" Sonic asked.
"Well," Tails answered. "when you bring two Chaos Emeralds together their power isn't added, as in ten plus ten, but multiplied, as in ten times ten. Now since a fake Chaos Emerald gives off negative energy, when you bring two of them together you have a negative times a negative, which is a positive, and" Tails stopped talking, noticing the confusion on his friends faces, and tried to think of an easier way to explain it. "Let's just say that an even number of fake Emeralds produces energy, but an odd number of fake Emeralds drains energy."
"Okaaaayyyy that works for me." Sonic said, even though his expression was one of slight confusion.
"Anyway now we can go after Eggman." Tails said.
"Yeah." Amy shouted jumping up and down. "You guys can take me with you."
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Sonic squirmed, and looked around the room for inspiration. The clock caught his attention.
"Well look at the time. We better get you back to the Train Station Amy." Sonic said.
"But." Amy started to object, but Sonic grabbed her hand, and rushed to the train station. But when he got there he was in for a disappointment.
There was no train waiting to go to Station Square, and after a little looking around he saw why. Something had damaged the train tracks, and a train couldn't reach the Station. Which meant that Amy was stuck with him.
Tails arrived a second latter, and noticed the crest fallen look on Sonic's face.
"What happened Sonic?" Tails asked.
"The train track has been damaged. Amy can't go home." Sonic said, forlornly; however Sonic's mood was, apparently lost to Amy."
"Oooh that means I'll have to sleep over at your house! Isn't that great Sonic?! Amy asked.
Sonic stifled the gag that he felt coming on, as he tried to think up what he was going to do.
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Rouge the bat, folded up her palm top, put it back in her belt, and punched in the code, that she had just hacked out of the systems mainframe, to the mansion.
"Rich people are soo stupid." /She thought to herself, as the security deactivated, and she started picking the door's lock. "They think that they can just buy an expensive security system, and their precious valuables will be safe from the likes of me."/
The door opened and Rouge walked in. She wasn't exactly sure where the item that she was looking for was at, but she had robbed enough places like this to know how rich people think. They tended to either put something valuable where they would be able to show it off to their guests, or where they thought that nobody would be able to find it.
Military people where much smarter, like that Colonel Schmit. Rouge had a fraction of respect for military people. They forced her to push herself, and come up with something clever, unlike the rich people who just kept spending more money, and not really trying to outthink the people after their fortunes. Even so the G.U.N. had barely managed to capture her, when she had tried to steal their Chaos Emerald.
A picture of a safe hanging on the wall caught Rouge's eye as she remembered the, big bad Colonel, who had offered her the ultimatum of either staying in jail, or agreeing to help him track down Dr. Eggman, with a bomb attached to her wrist to make sure she kept in line.
Rouge moved the picture, and found a safe behind it. "Rich people have such a lame sense of humor." She thought as examined safe, looking for the best way to crack it. After a minute she tried the combination, using her sensitive ears to listen for the clicks that would tell her when to turn the combination's little knob the other way.
She had the safe unlocked in less than five minutes. Hoping that Clarence had been right she opened the safe, and stared at the Chaos Emerald.
"Yes!" /She thought as she took the gem, and then left discreetly. "If Schmit wanted to keep me in line he should have planted a tracker on me, instead of a bomb. That way I would have at least had to make an effort to find Eggman, but this way all I have to do is go about my business, and just report that I can't find him." /
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To be continued...
Knuckles gave the dark hedgehog one last look, to make sure he was okay, before turning to see just what Chaos was. He had expected some kind of large robot with allot of underwater propellers, to create the current that had pulled the dark hedgehog under. What he actually saw wasn't anything like that.
The water in the middle of the pond had come up, and formed itself into a sea monster shape. But how could plain water do that?
/"I'll bet that doc is trying to mess with me. That this is probably just some illusion that he cooked up to distract me." /Knuckles thought, throwing a glance over each shoulder. When he didn't see anything he turned to ask Eggman what was going on, but before he could something in the pond splashed him with a wave large enough to soak him instantly.
Before Knuckles could react he felt something pull his feet out from under him, and start dragging him into the water.
"Oh no, you don't." Knuckles said, as he yanked his feet free, from whatever it was that had gotten a hold of them, and jumped back on dry land.
The water along the edge of the pond formed itself into two hands, and went after Knuckles a second time, but Knuckles punched both with a left cross, that splattered them both to pieces.
/"What kind of freak show has the fat man got going here anyhow?" /Knuckles wondered, as he scanned the water for another attack.
The sea monster shape came up again, but before Knuckles could do anything, the dark hedgehog spin attacked it in the head. The shape dissolved before Knuckles eyes as the dark hedgehog hit the top of the water, and rolled along the surface until he had reached the shore on the other side of the pond. The dark hedgehog turned around, as the water reformed itself into the sea monster shape, and tried to spin attack it again, but Chaos, as the Dr. Eggman had called it, hit him with a wave of water that knocked him back to the shore.
Knuckles jumped in the air, and glided over to Chaos, planning on dive bombing the thing in the same place that the dark hedgehog had hit it. But gliding wasn't nearly as fast as a spin attack, and Chaos saw him. Before he could move the water around Chaos formed itself into a huge arm that swung at him. He tried to dodge the watery arm, but he wasn't fast enough, and the blow connected.
Knuckles flew threw the air several hundred feet before crashing into the train track, just outside the Mystic Ruins train station. A normal person would have been crushed by the impact, but Knuckles was a hardy Echidna, and only suffered a few, rather large, bruises. The train track itself, on the other hand, was another matter. "It looks like they will have to replace a railroad tie, and at least two rails. /Knuckles thought when he surveyed the damage, but he had a water monster, or some kind of Eggman illusion, to fight, and shook the thought of damages away, as he jumped back onto the mainland, and charged back to give Chaos, and Eggman one for. /
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Eggman laughed, as Shadow tried to attack, but was, once again, pulled under by Chaos.
/"This is almost too easy." /He thought to himself. Things were defiantly going better than they had last time. Sonic and the black hedgehog had managed to coordinate their attacks, thus keeping him from being able to defend himself properly, but now it looked like Knuckles and the black hedgehog were either going to have to retreat, or be destroyed. Eggman could work with either.
"Bwahahaha." He laughed.
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Shadow wasn't going to let Chaos try to drown him, a second time, and he ignited the jets at the bottom of his shoes to try and evaporate some of the water.
Chaos gave out a groan, that Shadow assumed was one of pain, and lessened his grip on the Ultimate Life Form. This was just what Shadow was waiting for. He kicked his legs, as fast as he could, and hit the ponds small shore like a torpedo.
He was a little dazed when he got up, because he was used to hitting enemies at high speeds when his body was curled up in a spin attack, and hitting the shore with his head was a little disorienting.
The red Echidna came running up, so fast that he ran across the water, but Chaos hit him with a another wave attack, which slowed him down enough that he started to sink.
Shadow jumped up, and tried to spin attack Chaos again. The water creature was still busy with the red Echidna, and the blow connected.
Shadow rolled up to the shore, and uncurled himself to survey the situation. Chaos tried to reform himself, but in order to do so; he had to stop creating the currant that was slowing down the red Echidna, who got in a lucky shot. Chaos moved himself to another part of the pond, and started reforming yet again.
Shadow attacked immediately, but Chaos saw him coming, and quickly dropped back into the relative safety of underwater; before moving to, yet again, another part of the lake.
Shadow and the red Echidna pursued Chaos, who created another large arm, which he tried to hit Shadow with, but the Ultimate Life Form was too quick for him, and he missed.
Since Chaos had ignored the red Echidna, in order to try and take out Shadow, the Echidna reached Chaos, and hit him with an uppercut, which knocked Chaos's head out of the water.
"You're going to pay for this." Eggman shouted, as he went to such Chaos up into his flying contraption, while the water creature extended a tentacle to the water, to replace some of the mass, which it had lost.
"Not this time." Shadow said, as he jumped up to attack Eggman, but Eggman turned, so that the front of his flying contraption was facing Shadow, which opened up, to reveal something round and red. Shadow wasn't sure what the red thing did, but it was too late to change direction, and he hit it dead on, and was sent flying back into the ground. Shadow was curled up for a spin attack, but he hit the ground going backwards, which knocked the wind out of him.
Shadow lay there for a few moments, dazed. Once again he had lost his Chaos Emerald, and the red Echidna had probably lost his sometime during the fight. Shadow hadn't felt good in all the time he had been unfrozen by G.U.N., but right now he felt particularly grumpy. /"Just wait until I get my hands on you Eggman!" /He thought as he lay there wallowing in his self pity, in too much of a bad mood to even try to get up.
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Knuckles watched Eggman fly away, and then turned to the dark hedgehog. He was lying with his back to the ground, and he didn't look like he was going to get up any time soon. Knuckles wondered if he should help him. On the one hand the dark hedgehog had attacked him the moment he saw him, but on the other hand Knuckles hadn't been very nice either, and the fact that Eggman was behind this implied to him that not all was as it appeared.
Knuckles decided to go help him up. He walked over to the dark hedgehog, and extended his hand. It took the dark hedgehog a second to notice the hand, but when he did his eyes followed the hand up Knuckles arm, all the way to his face, and gave him a chilling look.
Knuckles was taken aback. He had never come across someone who could be so cold when all he had done was try to help.
The dark hedgehog got to his feet, without Knuckles help, looked him in the eye and said, "If you ever get in my way again I will kill you."
Knuckles wasn't one that took threats kindly, but part of what had happened had been his fault, and he couldn't expect everyone to be as forgiving of his foolishness as Sonic had been. Still it took a tremendous effort for him to just say, "Right." turn and leave.
As he walked he thought to himself. "If I ever run into that dark hedgehog again I'm gonna show him just how hard it is to kill Knuckles the Echidna."
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Amy sat on the couch completely exhausted.
After arriving at the house Tails had locked himself into his workshop\garage, saying that he wanted what he was working on to be a surprise.
/"That was three hours ago." /Amy thought to herself.
The whole situation had pleased Amy at first. She and Sonic were alone together, and it was the perfect opportunity for them to get to know each other better, but it hadn't worked out that way.
After being locked out of Tails' workshop\garage Sonic had started pacing around the house, rather quickly.
At first Amy had tried to follow him around, and start up a conversation, but he didn't seem interested. So then she tried just following him around, and waiting for inspiration, but nothing came to her, and after three hours she finally got tired. So she had sat down for a rest.
Amy watched Sonic whenever he was in the same room, but he kept moving around going from one room to another. It reminded Amy of the chase scenes in the Scooby Doo.
Finally Sonic seemed to get tired of seeing all of the rooms in Tails house in fast-forward, because he sat down on, to Amy's disappointment, the recliner, grabbed the remote, and flipped on the TV.
"Hey kids this is Al. From Al's toy barn. We got the lowest prices in town. In fact I think I feel a deal hatching right now." The TV squawked.
Sonic jammed his finger on the channel button, and the TV switched to a different commercial.
"I despise that chicken." He muttered. "Everyone knows that he's some guy in a chicken suit, not a Mobian."
After fifteen minutes of flipping threw channels they heard the sound of the door to Tails garage\workshop, opening.
Amy turned around on the couch so that she could see Tails, as Sonic turned off the TV, and zipped up to his buddy. "Well, what is it?" He asked.
Tails responded by pulling one of his hands out from behind his back, and holding up what was in it up, for inspection.
"No not the Chaos Emerald, I want to see what you've been working on." Sonic said.
"Are you sure that this is a Chaos Emerald?" Tails asked, the smile never leaving his face.
Sonic and Amy shot Tails a pair of confused expressions. Tails stifled a laugh, and pulled out another Chaos Emerald, identical to the one he was already holding. Amy and Sonic stared at the two gems a moment. Both were the same color, the same shape, and size.
"You made a Chaos Emerald?" Sonic asked.
Tails nodded.
"That's way past cool! Does it work the same way as a Chaos Emerald?" Sonic asked
Tails shook his head, and said. "Uh uh. A real Chaos Emerald gives off positive energy, where as my duplicate gives off negative energy."
Tails statement confused Amy, and Sonic, and the latter scratched his head.
"In short, if we make Eggman think that this is the real one," Tails said holding up the fake Emerald. "and he gives it to Chaos, then it will drain his energy instead of boosting it."
"Cool!" Sonic said enthusiastically. "Can you make a copy of the other six?"
"I'd need the other six to do it, but fake Chaos Emeralds get more complicated when you work with more than one." Tails answered.
"How so?" Sonic asked.
"Well," Tails answered. "when you bring two Chaos Emeralds together their power isn't added, as in ten plus ten, but multiplied, as in ten times ten. Now since a fake Chaos Emerald gives off negative energy, when you bring two of them together you have a negative times a negative, which is a positive, and" Tails stopped talking, noticing the confusion on his friends faces, and tried to think of an easier way to explain it. "Let's just say that an even number of fake Emeralds produces energy, but an odd number of fake Emeralds drains energy."
"Okaaaayyyy that works for me." Sonic said, even though his expression was one of slight confusion.
"Anyway now we can go after Eggman." Tails said.
"Yeah." Amy shouted jumping up and down. "You guys can take me with you."
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Sonic squirmed, and looked around the room for inspiration. The clock caught his attention.
"Well look at the time. We better get you back to the Train Station Amy." Sonic said.
"But." Amy started to object, but Sonic grabbed her hand, and rushed to the train station. But when he got there he was in for a disappointment.
There was no train waiting to go to Station Square, and after a little looking around he saw why. Something had damaged the train tracks, and a train couldn't reach the Station. Which meant that Amy was stuck with him.
Tails arrived a second latter, and noticed the crest fallen look on Sonic's face.
"What happened Sonic?" Tails asked.
"The train track has been damaged. Amy can't go home." Sonic said, forlornly; however Sonic's mood was, apparently lost to Amy."
"Oooh that means I'll have to sleep over at your house! Isn't that great Sonic?! Amy asked.
Sonic stifled the gag that he felt coming on, as he tried to think up what he was going to do.
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Rouge the bat, folded up her palm top, put it back in her belt, and punched in the code, that she had just hacked out of the systems mainframe, to the mansion.
"Rich people are soo stupid." /She thought to herself, as the security deactivated, and she started picking the door's lock. "They think that they can just buy an expensive security system, and their precious valuables will be safe from the likes of me."/
The door opened and Rouge walked in. She wasn't exactly sure where the item that she was looking for was at, but she had robbed enough places like this to know how rich people think. They tended to either put something valuable where they would be able to show it off to their guests, or where they thought that nobody would be able to find it.
Military people where much smarter, like that Colonel Schmit. Rouge had a fraction of respect for military people. They forced her to push herself, and come up with something clever, unlike the rich people who just kept spending more money, and not really trying to outthink the people after their fortunes. Even so the G.U.N. had barely managed to capture her, when she had tried to steal their Chaos Emerald.
A picture of a safe hanging on the wall caught Rouge's eye as she remembered the, big bad Colonel, who had offered her the ultimatum of either staying in jail, or agreeing to help him track down Dr. Eggman, with a bomb attached to her wrist to make sure she kept in line.
Rouge moved the picture, and found a safe behind it. "Rich people have such a lame sense of humor." She thought as examined safe, looking for the best way to crack it. After a minute she tried the combination, using her sensitive ears to listen for the clicks that would tell her when to turn the combination's little knob the other way.
She had the safe unlocked in less than five minutes. Hoping that Clarence had been right she opened the safe, and stared at the Chaos Emerald.
"Yes!" /She thought as she took the gem, and then left discreetly. "If Schmit wanted to keep me in line he should have planted a tracker on me, instead of a bomb. That way I would have at least had to make an effort to find Eggman, but this way all I have to do is go about my business, and just report that I can't find him." /
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To be continued...
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