Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26167440-20160111225919/@comment-679780-20160126225903

Ultimatesonic91 wrote: Anti Fanboy Bunker group on Google+ said that the Emeralds dont have unlimited power cause they were drained and overpowered I think the Chaos Emeralds serve as a sort of conduit to chaos energy itself. They are like batteries but with infinite charge. However a fawlty battery would not work regardless of how much power it has, just as how I compare the Chaos Emeralds losing positive or negative power. When a Chaos Emerald looses it's positive or negative power, I believe it's because of the quality of the chaos energy, not quantidy.

Either that or you're right and the Special Stages are where the Chaos Emeralds go to recharge power, but I believe they go there more to "restablize" after excessive use.

Sonicisawesome2448 wrote: It was behind Super Sonic when he was flying which was indicating that he was moving.

The Chaos Emeralds were only drained of negative energy, not the postive energy which can recharge the Chaos Emeralds completly if Sonic focus on it. Quality of energy that the Chaos Emeralds can charge depends on A LOT of emotion. For example when the Chaos Emeralds were drained of their negative energy they were useless to an individual, but with everyones possitive feelings (Both Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Big and the survivors of Station Square cheering) restored the powers of the Chaos Emeralds.

As for Super Sonic's light show, yeah Super Sonic can produce small flashes of light. In Sonic 2 and 3, flashes of light follow Super Sonic and in modern era Super Sonic is surrounded by a golden aura and can become like lightning. But I still think Sonic Advance ending could be Chaos Control related to explain his prolonged state as Super Sonic as well as a flash of light much brighter than he is usually capable of.