"Ho-ho-ho! What will you do now you pesky hedgehog?" Eggman asked, still holding Femur's unmoving body as though to show her off.

"Eggman..." Sonic began to growl, low and dangerous, at the old mechanic. Keeping his rage under control while staring at the limp form of his daughter was not an easy task but, not only had Shadow warned him of the destruction of his 'Dark Super Form' but Knuckles' increasingly dangerous Chaos Energy surrounded her in her own anger, he had to be the one to keep 'calm'.

"What the...?" The parents focussed on the old human, who in turn was focussed on the girl in his hand. After a moment the runner and puncher realised why; the neck of the undead-turned-dead girl was glowing green, as were her lifeless purple eyes.

"F...Femur?" Knuckles whispered from beside the hedgehog. The girl's head, which had been at an odd and clearly fatal position from her neck being broken moments ago, rolled against her shoulder until her glowing and lifeless eyes were looking straight up. After a few moments of silence, beyond the soft cracking of bones healing and replacing themselves, the hybrid's head returned to facing her attempted murderer.

"...Was weird." Femur said after blinking, the glow of her eyes returning to their usual amount and the life returning to them. With a high-pitched noise no one knew the villain could make, he dropped the undead-turned-dead-turned-undead-again girl. Like before she landed soundlessly on the ground, stretching her neck. "Was weird." She repeated simply as they all stared at her.

"You're alright!" The guardian finally exclaimed, the first to get her voice back beyond their enemy's odd noise upon hearing the girl speak. The woman hugged her daughter tightly, as though the glowing green eyed girl would return to a dead body if her mother let her go. Opportunistic, though definitely shaken from the girl's revival, Eggman ordered his claw to grab the object he'd come for.

"Let go! Let go!" The hybrid exclaimed, suddenly much more terrified than she had been even as she was 'killed'. "Masa Emmy! Masa Emmy!" She cried, reaching for her mother's charge. The parents turned, looking at what she was reaching for...causing them both to freeze for a moment. "Masa Emmy!" Femur yelled again, snapping her parents back to reality.

"Damn it!" The echidna growled, they didn't have more than a minute until the giant gem was out of range and the island fell along with the small hybrid returning to her lifeless state. Suddenly she realised something, THIS was what she had been dreading; fate was about to throw the mere two year old Femur the Echidhog into the same position as every guardian before her. "...Sonic, Chaos Control to the mainland with Femur, then put her somewhere safe and go after the Master Emerald for me." The woman said after unyielding moments of thought.

"What about you?" The hero asked as he picked up his daughter. The purple eyed woman smiled at him tightly, though the hedgehog didn't appear to notice.

"I'll be right behind you. You know I don't like to fight anymore, I'll leave in a moment and fine Femur's body...take care of it until you return." It was somewhere between morbid and saddening that speaking of Femur as a dead body when not around the Master Emerald had no emotional or mental effect of her or her parents.

"Alright." The runner said after another unforgiving moment, pulling the purple Chaos Emerald from his quills. "Chaos..." His voice paused as he drew energy from the powerful jewel, focusing it on what he wanted. "...Control!" The teen called loudly, the customary flash of light appearing as he and the hybrid disappeared from the island.

"...I'm sorry." The red puncher apologised in a whisper to no one.

As soon as the hero and his daughter appeared on the shore of the mainland he pressed the Chaos Emerald he'd used to get there into her hand, causing her eyes to glow the same colour as the emerald.

"Mu-...mmy..." Femur gasped weakly, slowly reaching towards the now falling island.

"Don't worry, Knuckles will be here soon." Sonic tried to reassure the undead girl, he had come to believe the guardian unconditionally since the little girl had been born.

"No..." The hybrid disagreed, slowly shaking her head. She pointed back to Angel Island with difficulty that was to be expected with a 'mere' Chaos Emerald keeping her alive. The hedgehog looked where she was pointing, for a moment seeing nothing...after that moment he noticed a red and blue 'dot' under the island, looking almost like it was trying to hold the falling island in the air.

No! The runner thought then he realised what the echidna had done. Why did you lie to me?! His mind demanded. "Knuckles!" He yelled out instead.

"Mu-...mmy..." The undead girl repeated, her eyes beginning to lose the purple glow that was keeping her alive. At that moment the Egg Carrier and Master Emerald flew past nearby, the old mechanic piloting the earlier wondering what caused his rival and his unkillable child not to chase after him...but he knew he didn't have time to turn around and find out, lest he'd keep driving without looking and hit a tree or they'd snap out of it and go after him. "Mu-mmy!" The girl screamed as she momentarily got the green glow in her eyes that signified the equally momentary return of her full strength, the island having hit the water.

"Gah!" The green eyed male cried, falling to his knees with a hand over his heart at the scream of the girl with the glowing eyes.

"Mu-...mm...y..." The Master Emerald out of range and the purple Chaos Emerald now dull without energy, Femur's body became limp and her life-showing glowing eyes stopped their glow.

"Knu...ckles..." Sonic breathed, he'd never felt such strong pain before...it was like something was trying to rip him apart from the inside, however the pain began to dim as Femur's 'life' ran out.

"Faker?" The hedgehog's head snapped to the side, seeing his black and red rival standing there calmly...with the Master Emerald at his side under his arm.

"Shadow?!" The runner questioned as the glow returned to his daughter's eyes.

"Masa Emmy!" The hybrid exclaimed, running to the side of the gem. She placed her forehead against it as though to show it her thought, nodding after several moments. The undead girl jumped on top of her mother's charge, glowing and beginning to float. "...Chaos Control." The light was so blinding that no one could see.

The blue hedgehog blinked several times, finding himself on his back on Angel Island. Looking around he saw his hedgehog rival nearby, his daughter on the Master Emerald in the shrine...and a confused looking echidna looking around.

"Knuckles!" Sonic exclaimed, running to her and pulling her into a tight hug. "What were you thinking?!" He demanded.

"I was trying...to stop you from dying, and leaving Femur with no parents...it looks like I failed though; I ran out of air trying to keep the island above water as long as I could, and since you're here it means that you must be dead too. It's odd...I never thought a spirit could return to Angel Island without their body being is a casket in the cavern under the shrine..." Knuckles explained, looking very sad.

"Mu-mmy!" The woman gasped as her daughter charged into her, knocking them both over. "Mu-mmy okay...Mu-mmy okay!" Femur sobbed happily, clinging to her mother.

"Femur? How can you see me?" The guardian asked, confused...the ex-chief had told her that no guardian should be able to see, hear or even feel the spirit of their parents. The upcoming guardian blinked, confused.

"Me mu-mmy see." She stated, clearly not understanding why she shouldn't be able to see her.

"You're not dead echidna." The woman looked up to the eternal male, now only more confused; by both him being able to see and hear her as well and his words. "Your daughter used Chaos Control with the Master Emerald...put everything back where it belonged and brought me here as well." Shadow explained.

"You can do that?" Knuckles asked, the girl with glowing eyes nodding proudly.

"Shad Masa Emmy." She said with a smile. Despite her parents both usually being able to understand her cut sentences, their minds didn't fill in the words this time...luckily, her father realised what she was trying to say.

"Shadow got the Master Emerald back from Eggman." He explained to the girl's mother.

"Why?" The guardian asked.

"I was headed in the direction of the island...saw the Doctor with the Master Emerald. I thought you might need it." The dark hedgehog stated, he remembered Rouge telling him before she'd disappeared several months ago about the undead girl 'dying' without the gem.

"Masa Emmy me call Shad." Femur stated, Sonic's mind returning to the pain in his chest...had that been some odd, desperate cry for help that the anti-hero had understood but he couldn't? From the somewhat confused look on the older man's face, the hero decided that it was unlikely.

"Either way...thank you Shadow." Knuckles said truthfully. The dark hedgehog had no response, he simply left...leaving the family of three to their lives together, fate having been overturned by the plea of an undead little girl and the power of a creation of man.

That's the end of this story, but I want to make a sequal of Femur's life when she's 15 or so...it'll take a bit for me to work out the last few kinks. See you all then. P.S. For anyone who is wondering; "Masa Emmy" is Femur's childish way of saying Master Emerald, like how she calls Shadow "Shad".