It's been five long years ever since the Space Colony Ark incident. A time of great crisis it was, but it was also a time of great adventure, which was something that was pretty lacking for five years for the furry animals of planet earth. Some of them enjoyed the peace, while others detested it. One of those who no doubt detested was Dr. Eggman himself, because instead of being in action, he was behind bars for five long years.
He sits in his prison cell in the GUN facility, eating his lunch for day, which was cold foul soup. It was awful, but after five years of drinking it, the doctor actually didn't care that much about it anymore. He was just tired of what his life had come to, tired of how the tables had turned so suddenly and have stayed in such ways for a long time. The doctor drank his soup in silence, drowning in his misery.
“Ugh,” he moaned. “I've been in this cell for five years, and nothing ever changes. That blue rat smiles all day, thinking he's really defeated me since it's obviously been five years and I've yet to actually escape.”
“Hey,” said a male in a cell right across from Eggman's. Eggman looked at who had just called his name, and this was a muscular tough guy who would give you bad feelings the second you laid your eyes on him. Bruises and tattoos everywhere on his body lied. Humongous guy, with humongous arms. He looked like he could cost some major trouble as he looked like the black version of the Hulk.
“Oh, hi Joe,” said Eggman. Yes, it's been five years in the cell, of course Eggman is going to make some kind of friends in the prison. Although, Eggman never really liked Joe actually, he was actually quite annoyed by the guy, but he never said anything, as he knew the big guy could kill him in a heartbeat. “Sorry for you having to listen to my sorrows again.”
“Aren't you some super genius? There must've been something you hadn't tried yet in this place to escape.”
Eggman thought for a moment, and as time passed, his face slowly grew a grin, and then he slowly chuckles at the thoughts he conjured up in his head.
One month later, fliers are stapled around the world, saying this, “MISSING DR. EGGMAN, GUN'S MOST WANTED VILLIAN.”
***
The Mystic Ruins was definitely the place to go to if a person just wanted peace and quiet to get away from the rest of the world. For the past five years, it's definitely been that place without any chance of that changing. This was where the famous Sonic the Hedgehog would relax, the blue hero that's saved the world so many times before. But because of the lack of adventure for five years, have people simply forgotten about Sonic?
You could say so for most people, but other people still come up to him for his autograph. But Sonic had slowly blended into the rest of the world, always spending all his days just laying down on the grass in the Mystic Ruins wondering when the next piece of action will come. This particular day, he was relaxing as usual, daydreaming about an adventure he thought he would never get. But maybe, he would get one this time, as he's about to receive some interesting news.
“Sonic!!” screamed a voice that was too familiar to Sonic. Sonic turned around on his back and saw that it was none other then his former partner in crime, Miles Tails Prower. The two had a great relationship in the past, fighting side by side against Eggman's antics. But lately, the two have grown apart, due to the lack of adventure that was in the world. The two never found a reason to really come together again and just hang out.
“Tails?” said Sonic in a puzzled manner. Sonic sat up and yawned, then faced Tails. “Wow hey, it's been awhile. How have ya been?”
Tails was always happy to see Sonic, but being apart from him for so long, he wasn't as excited to be with him these days. Tails definitely had his own life now. He's now a scientist working for the government to improve the technology of the world. He came a long way from stopping the missile years ago from annihilating Station Square. “It's good to see you again too Sonic,” said Tails. “It's been way too long, but I've been doing great working for the government. I've been able to really assist in the advancing of our society! Have you done anything big in the past five years?”
Sonic was a little said to hear that question, because he really had been on a five year vacation, doing absolutely nothing but just long for adventure. “Um, what brings you here Tails?”
Tails was a little ticked because of the way Sonic ignored his question, but Tails hid those feelings, and just answered Sonic's question. “Well Sonic, I have a message from the president, and he says he has a mission for you he thinks you're perfect for.”
Sonic jumped immediately at the news, shocked at hearing his wishes finally come true. “W-what? A mission?”
Tails nodded answering to Sonic's question. “Yes Sonic, it's a really important one. Let's heard over to the white house so you can hear all you need to hear about this.”
Sonic nodded in agreement, and the two started to head for Station Square. To Sonic, it definitely felt like old times, he and Tails running together towards a new adventure. But little did he know, this adventure would be a little tougher then he had originally thought.
***
In Station Square, there was a sub-urban area that was calm, yet full of life. Houses were everywhere, just on the side of the city area of Station Square where all the traffic and car horns were seen and heard. It makes one think how such a peaceful area can be next to something that's the exact opposite of it. But it was Station Square, the city with everything you could think of, the sub-urban area really was like its own city though.
There was a small cheerful house in sub-urban Station Square, which was colored mainly brown and yellow. This is a house, that a certain pink hedgehog would visit everyday no matter what. Yes, none other then Amy Rose. She had her own pink colored house in Station Square, which was very close to this brown one, home to one of Amy's newest and most favorite friends.
These five years, Amy had definitely matured in many ways, but also didn't in other ways. Amy was the kind of person that didn't like to lose her youthful energy in favor of a more sophisticated life. She loved her personality the way it was, although, she was self-conscious about her other qualities. One thing that never went away for Amy was definitely her crush on Sonic, which is still as strong as it was before. But she doesn't go around chasing him as much.
Amy walks up to the brown house and knocks on the door. The door opened and at the door was Cream the Rabbit, and her pet chao Cheese. “Come in Amy!” she says. Cream was someone Amy had met a month after the events of the Space Colony Ark. Amy quickly connected with Cream, which eventually leaded to them being as close as sisters. They spent everyday together just talking and playing around. Amy loved having someone she didn't feel inferior to, one she felt she had authority over. Cream's never the type to want authority, so it was fine with her.
“How's my favorite rabbit and pet chao doing today?” asked Amy.
“Good good, are we going to go shopping today like we planned?” asked Cream.
“You betcha!” said Amy.
But before the two took off, Cream noticed the TV was on. She quickly ran to go turn it off before going, but the news was interesting enough to warrant her attention that she told Amy and Cheese to come over and watch the news first. Amy and Cheese followed, and went to Cream eying the television screen.
There was a female news reporter that was speaking. The images were of Dr. Eggman, the mad scientist that almost killed Sonic during their adventures of Space Colony Ark, something Amy would never forget. “It has been recently leaked that the world famous Dr. Eggman has ESCAPED the GUN prison, and is now on the run from the local authorities. It's been rumored that he's been free for weeks now, angering much of the public that have realized they were living not knowing this mad scientist was on the run.”
Cream turned the TV off, and then quickly turned to Amy with a worried look on her face. “Oh my, he's actually escaped?!” Cream asked in worry. “Now I'm really scared to go out.....” Cream waited for a response from Amy, but she didn't get any. Cream looked up and saw that Amy was in deep thought about the whole issue. “Amy?”
Amy began mumbling, saying, “Hmm, Eggman is back....if I do this.....” Amy then suddenly gasped, and smiled widely with a great idea in her head. “This is it Cream! This is my one chance to finally get Sonic's attention!”
“Amy..,” said Cream. Cream was very aware of Amy's obsession with Sonic, it probably was the one thing Amy always kept hanging on to. Cream always thought Amy's obsession was unhealthy, especially since Sonic never showed her any affection back. Sonic actually showed her lots of disrespect these past five years, like he had with everyone else.
Amy didn't care though, no matter how many times Sonic ignored her, Amy always kept looking for ways to get Sonic's attention. “If we capture Eggman, it will impress Sonic so much that he will really go on a date with me! Oh, I can just imagine it, going out with my favorite hero of all time and living my happily ever after!”
“Amy, how in the world are we ever going to find Eggman?”
“Simple Cream! I know just the person that can help us! Let's go guys!” Amy quickly ran out of the house. Cream and Cheese exchanged annoyed looks, and then quickly followed Amy.
***
The white house, a place of complete awe to many people of the world. Only the most important people really got to really explore this place. The place where the leader made all his or her decisions on certain issues. The president had made a special request for the old hero, Sonic the Hedgehog. He sat in his office, ignoring all the paperwork he had on his desk, because he knew that Sonic would be appearing in the room very soon, taking a step on the red carpet.
The door suddenly opened, catching the president's attention. And out came Sonic, who quickly ran over to the president's desk, with Tails following him pretty quickly. Sonic was excited, wondering if the president really had an all important task for him.
“Reporting for duty Mr. President!” said Sonic who definitely sounded like he was ready to get back in the action.
“Ah thank you for bringing Sonic here Tails,” said the president.
Tails nodded towards the president accepting the comment. “It wasn't a problem at all Mr. President,” said Tails.
“Okay Sonic, have you been watching the news lately?” asked the president.
Sonic shook his head. He wasn't very up to date with all the news of the current world. That was a common result if all you really did was lie around at the Mystic Ruins just daydreaming all your wishes. The president took out a remote, and turned around towards the TV, turning it on with his remote controller.
The TV showed images of Dr. Eggman with a female reporter reporting that Eggman had been missing for weeks from the GUN prison cell. This shocked Sonic and Tails, they both apparently had no idea of this recent piece of news.
“What?!” exclaimed Tails. “Eggman's escaped for weeks?”
The president nodded sighing at the same time. “We were hoping we'd catch him in time to not have to make this go public, but it's been a month now and we're still having no such luck finding him, no matter what we try. We're very scared for what he can accomplish in such time. He might've already built a new base and is planning his attack to take over the world. We're getting desperate at this point, we need to catch this mad man now.”
The president turned over to the two figures who were just staring at the TV. Eggman hadn't been in their minds very much except when they were remembering the old times of having to stop him. “So Sonic, this is why I had Tails call you here. We need you to help us get Eggman back behind bars. We fear of what he plans after being stuck in that prison for five whole years.”
Sonic nodded in agreement with the president. He suddenly spun his body around and gave the president a thumbs up and smirked. “No problem president, I'm sure I'll get this egghead behind bars in no time!”
“Oh Sonic, of course, Tails and Agent Rouge will be helping you on your mission as well,” said the president.
This took Tails by surprise, not aware that the president was going to assign him to go with Sonic on the mission. “Uh, Mr. President, do I really have to? Like, I've been really busy in the lab lately...”
Sonic turned to Tails pretty confused by Tails' comment. The Tails he knew would never turn down an adventure with him. “Come on Tails, it'll be just like old times when we were kicking that egghead's butt!”
Tails sighed, it wasn't like he was going to reject the president anyway. “Alright, I guess you can count me in. Rouge is going to join us too president?”
Rouge the Bat was a very shady person, secreting working for GUN when she was collecting chaos emeralds for Doctor Eggman. Despite being a GUN agent, Sonic and Tails never trusted Rouge that much, due to the fact she had just basically been able to work with Eggman so well, collecting basically all the chaos emeralds for him powering that eclipse cannon. Both of them weren't quite sure what Rouge had been up to these past five years.
Sonic still had these thoughts about Rouge, proven when he says, “Rouge is a lil shady president, you sure we can trust her?”
The president laughed at Sonic's worries, knowing that Sonic wasn't usually the type to worry, and also knowing how untrustworthy Rouge can seem. “Rest assured you two, Rouge is definitely on your side. She may seem very shady, but she's definitely on our side.”
“Oh, how rude,” said a voice that can from a figure in the shadows. It came out from the shadows, revealing herself to be Rouge the Bat, which is the person they had obviously been talking about. “You know, if you knew me a lil better, you would know I would have absolutely no reason to betray you,” said Rouge. “Unless of course, the doctor were to offer me some jewels.”
“Same old Rouge,” said Sonic. Sonic never talked to Rouge much during the Space Colony Ark adventures, but he did with her a little after, hearing her entire story. It left a bad feeling in Sonic's stomach, he really didn't feel comfortable even talking to this person. But the president says she has to help them, so Sonic really didn't have a choice.
Rouge chuckled like she always did. “So, shall we get started?” she asked. Sonic and Tails nodded, and the three of them ran out of the room.
***
In the forest of the Mystic Ruins lied a lot of beautiful rivers and trees. It was the place for all sorts of wildlife to live at. But apparently, it was also the place for strange portals to appear, as a portal all of a sudden appeared, and out came this white hedgehog who looked absolutely exhausted. He immediately fell to the ground coming out of the portal, landing hard.
“Ugh...must....complete....mission....,” he said. He slowly got up, and began walking through the forest.
***
On another side of the Mystic Ruins, lies a floating island high in the sky. And on this floating island lies a read echidna that has not left the island in the past five years, literally. Of course, this was Knuckles the Echidna. Surprising how he was finally having contact with the outside world, he suddenly went back to his old ways of just isolating himself from the world by staying on the island just guarding the master emerald for eternity. He barely got any visitors.
But this was the day he'd get a visitor at last. But the guests were actually very unexpected. It wasn't the former blue rival, or the annoying bat girl, it was the pink Sonic fanatic and her rabbit friend and chao. Amy Rose had Cream fly her all the way to Angel Island, with Cheese following the two quickly. Knuckles quickly ran over to his guests as the three landed on the ground.
“Amy and Cream?” asked Knuckles. “What brings you two here?”
Cream was breathing heavily. Carrying anyone was quite the chore for her, but she didn't want Amy to know it was hard carrying her, as Amy was very self conscious about her weight. Cream wasn't going to go through another period of constant exercise and dieting with Amy, as she was always dragged through it with her whenever Amy was.
Amy meanwhile, was actually not so tired, actually enjoying her quickly flight over to the island. She said, “Oh just wanted to say hi to my favorite echidna!”
Knuckles looked at Amy in a weird way, pretty shocked and weirded out at Amy's comment. Amy wasn't the kind of person to immediately compliment him. “Um, is something wrong with you Amy?” he asked.
“When was the last time you actually got off this island and had some fun?” Amy had a motive without a doubt, but flattery was a new way to gaining that motive instead of her usual aggressive ways.
Knuckles just kept getting weirded out by Amy's comments. “Um, you can say I've actually never left this island since our time on the Space Colony Ark.”
Amy gasped at Knuckles' comment, shocked by the fact he had been on this island for five straight years. “Well then, why don't we get you off this island and have some fun?!”
Knuckles looked at Amy annoyed, still very confused on Amy's behavior. “Um Amy, I can't just leave the master emerald, it's my life long duty to guard it and you know that.”
Amy smiled at Knuckles already expecting such a comment to come out of his mouth. “VECTOR!” she called.
Suddenly, a green crocodile came running towards the three. It was none other then Vector the Crocodile, who was actually a good friend to Knuckles. He was the leader of the Chaotix Detective Agency. However, they haven't really had much business. “Reporting for duty miss Amy Rose!” said Vector.
“Okay, you'll guard the master emerald until Knuckles comes back Vector, got that?” asked Amy.
Vector nodded. “No problem, you just better pay me!” said Vector. “We can't afford any non paying tasks...”
“Um Vector,” said Knuckles. “It's okay, you don't have to guard it, I'm not going any.....whoa!”
Amy quickly grabbed Knuckles and then grabbed onto Cream, who started to fly off the island. Cheese quickly followed, leaving Vector the Crocodile alone on Angel Island.
***
Back in the forest of the Mystic Ruins, this white hedgehog still lurked around. You can say it was pretty unusual to be born into a world by coming out of a portal. Who exactly is this being? And where had he come from? Well, he kept walking and walking, as if he was determined to do something.
“I have to find him,” he says. “Who knows what he could be doing at the moment? I just hope I ended up at the right place.”
He suddenly stopped, as he saw a small building oddly placed in the middle of the forest. The sign read Chaotix Detective Agency. He found it pretty strange that a detective agency would have a building in the forest, it made people unable to actually know about this place. He turned around after observing the building for so long, and began to walk away. But before he could actually escape...
“A customer?!” asked a very energetic young person.
The white hedgehog turned around and saw a small bee that was getting closer and closer to his face, until their noses were literally touching. He had the creepiest smile on the planet. “Um, no, I was just going...,” the white hedgehog said.
“Nonsense!” said the bee. “Come on in please!” The bee suddenly dragged the white hedgehog and flew as fast as he could into the building. The white hedgehog unfortunately didn't have enough time to react, and he certainly didn't seem like the kind of person to inflict damage on an innocent bystander.
The room was quite small, there was a desk at the back, and really nothing else. Where did this bee even sleep thought Silver? The bee put Silver on a chair in front of the desk, and then the bee sat on the big chair that was in the desk.
“So, have you come here to get help to solve your problems wonderful customer?!” asked the bee.
“Um actually, that's none of your concern so I'll just be going...,” said the white hedgehog.
“ESPIO!”
Suddenly the white hedgehog could feel a sort of pressure on his hands, as if they were being grabbed to make sure he couldn't escape. The figure that was doing that suddenly turned visible, yes it was Espio the Chameleon. “Please, let us help you, not only are we the best detective agency around, but we are in DIRE need of business,” Espio said. “Now Charmy, you can go ahead and explain some things.”
Yep, the bee was Charmy, another member of the Chaotix Detective Agency. He was awfully young to be working for something like that though. “Okay!” said Charmy. “Now, just be sure to know if you want our help you'll have to pay very well for our services as Espio said, we're in dire need of business!”
“Ugh,” moaned the hedgehog. “I don't need your help! Don't make me do something I know I'll regret doing please and just let me go!”
Espio sighed, and was about to let the hedgehog go, but Charmy all of a sudden bursted into tears, surprising the hedgehog, but not Espio. Espio was quite used to this last ditch effort to get a customer from Charmy. But it apparently seemed to be working this time.
“PL-PLEASE!” cried Charmy. “WE NEED TO PAY RENT NEXT WEEK, AND WE SPENT ALL OUR MONEY ON DUMB THINGS LIKE FOOD! WE NEED TO BE HELPING SOMEONE!!!!! WAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“H-hey,” said the white hedgehog nervously. The hedgehog obviously didn't have a big ego, and he seemed to feel very bad for making Charmy cry. “D-don't cry, I'm sorry if I made you upset...” But the crying just didn't stop, Charmy just kept bawling on and on, until this hedgehog said, “Okay fine, I'll accept your kind help.”
Charmy suddenly stopped crying just like that. “Really? GREATTTTTTTTTTTTT!”
“W-wait, you mean it?” asked Espio who was quite shocked by the answer.
The hedgehog nodded and said, “Yes, I guess a little help won't hurt. By the way, my name's Silver, it's nice to meet you two.”
***
Meanwhile, in another part of the Mystic Ruins, there was a blue hedgehog, a fox, and bat walking around. Deep in the forest they were looking for something. The bat was named Rouge, who was apparently carrying a device of some sorts that seemed to be leading them somewhere. Sonic and Tails just seemed to be mindlessly following her.
“You two seem awfully quiet,” said Rouge. “I would think after five years, we'd all be talking tons.”
“Well, I guess you can say not much happened these past five years for me,” said Sonic. “Um, where exactly are we going again?”
“We're going to go visit Eggman's old Mystic Ruins base. You know, that place where that Egg Carrier was built.”
“I guess that's a good place to start an evil epic plot.” Sonic chuckled a bit, just thinking about the excitement Eggman is going to bring him.
Rouge stopped, followed by Sonic and Tails, as they all saw that they had reached the door that led into Eggman's new base. It was a bit rusty, as it hadn't been cleaned in the longest time. Rouge went up to try to open it though, and it opened like it was no problem. The doctor knew how to make lasting technology. “Well boys, looks like we've made it. Ladies first of course!” Rouge quickly walked into the door.
Sonic started walking towards the door, but before he could, he turned around at Tails, who seemed to be deep in thought about something. Ever since their adventure started, Sonic felt this uncomfortable feeling with Tails that he just had to get off his chest.
“Tails, is everything okay?” asked Sonic.
Tails didn't answer for a bit, still deep in his thought. But once he heard Sonic's question, he came out of his deep place in thought and said, “Oh, I'm fine Sonic. Let's get going.” Tails then quickly hurried into the door.
Sonic's face had this plain expression, as if all of a sudden he was deep in thought. He wasn't the kind of person to keep people waiting though, so he quickly ran through the door.
***
Very close to the three people on a mission though, were Amy, Cream, and Knuckles, who decided to take up a mission themselves to find Eggman. Well, at least that's what Amy and Cream knew, Knuckles thought he was being taken out to have some fun.
“Um Amy, why are we at the sight of Eggman's old base?” asked Knuckles.
Amy quickly turned around to Knuckles trying to find a quick answer. She then said, “Um, just wanted to bring back some memories to you was all! Now we're going to go into the base so we can remember even more about our adventures!”
“Amy, isn't this a little dangerous? I mean, I know Eggman's in prison but still, it's Eggman's base.”
Cream sighed and then said, “Amy, just tell him why he's really here. I hate lying.” Cream was definitely an honest rabbit, which definitely angered Amy, who's schemes usually involved some form of lying.
“Tell me what?” asked Knuckles. Knuckles was now very annoyed, he didn't enjoy being tricked, as he knew he had gotten tricked enough before in the past. “Amy, why am I really here?”
Amy sighed, sounding very annoyed. She then said, “Okay Knuckles, the truth is, Eggman has escaped from GUN's prison cell.”
“What?! That's impossible!”
Amy nodded. “Yeah, it says he's been out of the prison for a month now. I thought if I could catch Eggman, it would finally get Sonic to notice me! Then we can have that wedding on Emerald Coast, and then we can that true kiss, which I'll be thinking about forever and ever and ever and...”
“So you dragged me out here for a selfish reason instead of taking me out to have some fun?!” asked Knuckles sounding very angry. He was definitely not in the mood to hear Amy talk about Sonic, especially when he was mad.
“Well, I thought you could really help us Knuckles,” said Amy. “I mean, I'm pretty tough, but it seemed like a good idea to have backup.”
“Well, you can forget it! I'm going back to protect the master emerald!!!” Knuckles then started back for Angel Island, whichever direction that was supposed to be.
“Knuckles wait!” shouted Amy, who quickly began following Knuckles. Cream and Cheese then quickly began following Amy.
***
In another part of the Mystic Ruins forest, a white hedgehog had just revealed his name to be Silver in front of Espio the Chameleon and Charmy the Bee, both members of the Chaotix Detective Agency. Silver started walking out of the house, with Espio and Charmy following him very shortly. All three got down the small stairs.
“Ok, I guess I'll tell you what I'm trying to do,” said Silver. “You see I'm looking for this person named Eggman N....”
“Eggman?” asked Espio. “Eggman is trapped inside the GUN Prison Cell, what are you talking about?”
Charmy's eyes suddenly lit open. He quickly flew to the TV that was beside the house and turned it on. “Espio, Silver, come over to this TV quick! I forgot to show you this before Espio.”
Espio and Silver quickly went over to Charmy and had their eyes laid on the TV. There was a female reporter on it, standing next to a sideshow of images of Dr. Eggman. She seemed to be reporting that the mad scientist had gone missing for about a month, the news recently leaking today.
“What, Eggman's escaped?!” asked Espio.
Silver thought of how similar Eggman looked like the person he was looking for. Perhaps this is the person he came to this place to search for. Maybe he's changed his appearance so that Silver wouldn't recognize him, but Silver seemed to know this person very well, and Eggman resembled the person very well.
“Yeah, that's the guy I'm looking for,” said Silver. “You could say it's kind of my responsibility to take care of him.”
“Well I'll be,” said Charmy. “I can't believe we're going to be on the hunt for a mad scientist! This sounds totally cool!” Many things amused Charmy, and that apparently included looking for a mad scientist that could take over the world.
“So then, are you working for the government or something then Silver?” asked Espio.
“Um, you could say so,” said Silver. Silver did do work for the government in the place that he came from, but what exactly that place is is still unknown to us. The three then start off on their journey, getting further and further away from the detective house.
***
Knuckles was mad, very mad. It was a long time ago he had gotten this mad. Being stuck on a floating island for who knows how long hadn't gave him any reason to really be mad. But contact with actual people had ignited those feelings yet again, as he glides all the way to Angel Island trying to forget about the whole incident.
Amy felt bad though, very bad, as she had Cream fly her to Angel Island, following Knuckles. Amy could sometimes be a jerk, but she always knew if she did something wrong. “Knuckles, wait!!” she yelled.
Knuckles landed on the island and then turned around to Amy. “Go away Amy!” screamed Knuckles. “I'm not helping you okay so just give up!”
Amy, Cream, and Cheese finally landed on the island. Amy quickly went over to Knuckles and said, “No, I'm not here for that. I just wanted to say I'm sorry Knuckles. You were right, I was really doing something for my own selfish reasons when it looked like I was just being a good friend. I'm really sorry about that.”
“R-really?” asked Knuckles surprised by the apology. “You really don't seem like the apologizing type Amy.”
“Y-yeah, but I feel bad. I won't bother you again Knuckles, don't worry.”
“Well, it's no problem Amy. It's about time one of you treated me like I have actual feelings.”
Amy thought about Knuckles' words for a second. How Knuckles seemed to feel like he wasn't anything important in this world to people, when his job was actually very important. “Hey Knuckles, why don't you ever get off this island to talk to people?”
Knuckles stood and thought about the question. Then answered, “Well, I figured people weren't really interested in me. I figured that there was no point in it, because all I really have to do is just guard this emerald. Anything else is extra.”
“That's not true. You need friends Knuckles, everyone feels alone eventually with no one to talk to. Lucky for you though we came up here today to show you that!”
“Yeah, I guess it does get a little lonely up here. Well, thanks you guys. But I should get back to my purpose.” Knuckles turns around and begins to walk to the altar. But then he notices something stange. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! IT'S GONE!”
It was true, the master emerald wasn't at the altar at all. Vector stood in front of the altar with his hands grabbing his head showing worry. He heard the large scream and turned around absolutely mortified that the crew had returned. “Uhhh, hey guys,” he said.
“Vector!” shouted Knuckles. “What happened to the master emerald?!”
Suddenly, the island began to rumble, as if it were going through this massive earthquake. But there was a very good reason for it. Without the master emerald, the island will fell into the ocean. And that fact still held true, as the island to plummet into the ocean. Everyone on it tried to hold on to something, as the roller coaster kept getting faster and faster. But when it finally hit the water, everyone was under the ocean for a few seconds. The island then rises back up to surface and floats on the water, and every lied on the island, trying to recover from the sudden amounts of water that had entered their body.
***
Inside the former base of Eggman in the Mystic Ruins was a lot of darkness, and dust, and rust, and broken robots and machines. It was a pretty sad place, then again, what mad scientist base isn't? Not much was really functioning in here, people wonder why the government hasn't taken down the base yet. Sonic, Tails, and Rouge had to use a flashlight to get through the base.
“Isn't there some generator we can activate to turn on the lights?” asked Tails.
“If you find one fox boy, then yes,” said Rouge.
Sonic was still thinking about his friend Tails. How he suddenly felt this disconnection from him that wasn't there before. He wondered what had changed, but he suddenly stopped thinking, when the lights suddenly flickered on. All the lights, not a single light was now off.
“How did ya do that Tails?” asked Rouge.
Tails was quite confused at Rouge's comment, not to mention nervous. “Uh Rouge, I didn't do anything.”
“Could Eggman really be in here then?” asked Sonic.
The three didn't waste time and continued exploring the old base. They eventually entered this room that looked like it was actually recently used, it was cleaner then most of the base, and some of the machines actually looked like they were in perfect working condition.
“Eggman has got to have gotten in here!” Sonic concluded. “It looks like someone was in this room.”
All three of them walked around the room just observing the surroundings trying to get any clues to Eggman's location. Rouge suddenly stopped however, when she noticed this capsule at the back of the room. She looked at what was inside the capsule, that made her gasp like never before. “S-Sonic, T-Tails, get over here!” she said.
Sonic and Tails quickly got to where Rouge was, and looked over at what Rouge was staring at. They both suddenly gasped at their sight too. All three of them were absolutely surprised at what was inside this capsule.
“I-it can't be!” said Sonic.
Oh but it is Sonic. A figure was inside the capsule. It looked like this black hedgehog with some red on his spines. With that white furred chest, it was obvious who this person was. It's been five years since the Space Colony Ark adventures, but apparently the other hero had survived the crash. Inside the capsule was none other then Shadow the Hedgehog. His eyes were closed, as it seemed like he was in deep rest. But before Sonic, Tails, and Rouge could swallow what they had just stumbled upon to, Shadow's eyelids opened up, awakening from his rest...
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What is Shadow doing in Eggman's old base? Who could've stolen the master emerald? And why is Silver looking for Eggman? And where is Eggman right now? All this on the next episode of Desperate Hedgehogs.
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