Check the OP. Check Omega. Check Eggman consistently scaling to Sonic the entire comic with no anti-feat against Eggman scaling to Sonic.
Actually, Eggman does have Low 2-C scaling outside of Sonic, from the Chaos Emerald’s durability.
Note, they never said Chaos Emeralds were destroyed by the Universal Level + explosion, but the Zone
itself collapsing from the explosion
took the emeralds with it.
Even if you can calk up Sonic and Knuckles surviving to their Super Forms, the same cannot be said about the Chaos Emeralds, as Sonic and Knuckles don't keep their Emeralds (like, ever in the story after using them), except for the one Knuckles manage to keep.
And no, Knuckles wasn't protecting the Emerald from the explosion in his fist, as we can see his palms are open when the explosion happened.
Emeralds getting destroyed by Base Characters, who scale to other Low 2-C's, are consistent with the story.
Plus the fact Knuckles is stated to be a Living Chaos Emerald from his birth, and Chaos Knuckles is a form from Knuckles' powers growing out of control, by the Encyclopedia itself.
Living Chaos Emerald =/= 2-A.
2-A which Knuckles grows into. Chaos Emeralds alone don’t have any feats at 2-A but they do have the Low 2-C explosion feat for durability and Low 2-C Creation from creating a Zone from nothing.
Pls prove what is nonsense through the story's logic, not your own.