Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic or Spore. I just write about them.
Sonic Prime: Chapter 1
"The Final Frontier"
"I can't believe we ever agreed to do this."
"Come on Knuckles, it'll be fun!"
"Flying an untested spaceship designed by a nine-year old into outer space? You call that fun? It's more like suicide."
Sonic rubbed his nose delightfully in response. "Don't you want to see outer space?"
"No. I heard enough about it from stories of your last battle with 'Botnik." They were walking towards a somewhat small spaceship that was parked on a runway, which was perched on the edge on a cliff. On the other end of the runway was a small, two-story workshop. As Sonic and Knuckles got closer, the door to the workshop opened to a two-tailed fox.
"Hey! You actually showed up!" "Of course we did, Tails!" said Sonic.
"It's all warmed up and ready to go." Tails proudly stated, walking over to the ship and giving it a pat.
"How long will we be gone? I can't leave the Master Emerald for too long. Robotnik is probably still eying it despite what happened last time," said Knuckles.
"You mean when I saved your backside?" Sonic said, nudging Knuckles with his elbow.
"Yeah. That." Knuckles said flatly. "The black hole is 76 light-years away, and since we'll be traveling at a speed of 3.9 light-years an hour it should take about a day or so." said Tails. Sonic walked up the the spaceship and began looking at it as though inspecting it.
"So it's two days, round trip?"
"Should be. All we have to do is investigate a possible black hole."
As they prepared for takeoff, Knuckles couldn't shake a sense of foreboding he had. He walked into the cockpit, which had one seat and a tiny view-port to look out of, and saw Tails typing into the computer. "Hey, what's powering this thing?" Tails swiveled the chair around to face Knuckles. "The Chaos Emeralds."
Knuckles' eyes grew wide, and he slowly backed out of the cockpit and into the sleeping quarters. The quarters had three simple futons all laid out on the floor, but Sonic was busy peering out the small viewport on the wall, looking out at the runway. "Hey, Sonic? Did you know that Tails has this thing powered by the Chaos Emeralds?" Sonic turned to Knuckles and shrugged.
"Nope." And with that he turned back around.
"That's it? You're not worried at all?"
"Why should I be? Tails knows what he's doing."
"Because I am worried. And I guard the controller."
Sonic looked down, then shrugged again, saying nothing else but "Mmph."
Sonic paced back and forth in the quarters, getting more anxious by the minute. "I hate being locked up like this. I can't go anywhere. It's just one room. One, small room."
"And a cockpit."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Knuckles had been watching Sonic pace for the last three hours. After about four hours of sleep Sonic had suddenly gotten up and just started pacing around the room. Tails had fallen asleep in the pilot's chair around the time Sonic went to sleep, but had yet to wake up.
Then the ship began to shake. It began slowly, but then became more violent, reaching a point where Knuckles and Sonic couldn't stand up. Tails finally stirred and began screaming from the cockpit. While Sonic tried to balance himself, the shaking got even worse. Knuckles embedded his knuckle spikes into the floor and used them to slowly crawl to the cockpit. When he got there, he didn't feel like he could stand up, so he laid stomach down and the ground. "Tails! What's going on?" Tails spoke while frantically pressing buttons on the dashboard. "The ship drifted to close to the black hole! I can't escape it's pull!"
Knuckles finally managed to use Tails' chair to drag himself up, and immediately wished that he hadn't. He was met with the set of nothing outside the view-port. This wasn't the regular darkness of space. This was, if possible, darker. It was like a black wall stood in front of the window. The shaking caused Knuckles to lose footing again and slam his head into the side of the cockpit. He slumped to the ground, feeling something warm sliding down the side of his head. Sonic was rolling around like a rag-doll in the quarters, already unconscious. Knuckles' sight began to be invaded by darkness. The last thing he saw was the lights going out and the computer shutting off, then nothing.