AN: The first enstallment of 'Distance In Your Eyes'. Now bear with me, because my memory sucks for I haven't played a Sonic game in years. I've created this story using only my imagination and the memories I have of the characters and their personalities.
As he laid back against the Master Emerald he was protecting, he crossed his legs and arms and gazed at the veiw that beheld in front of him. Knuckles the Echidna had always enjoyed watching the sun set over the ocean on his homeland of Angel Island. It seemed as if he could always have something to look forward to as each day ended. Being the only guradian of the Master Emerald, he couldn't live a normal life like his friends. Well, his friends don't exactly have normal lives concidering the fact that one is a mechanic genuis fox and the other is a freedom-loving, ambitious hedgehog. Being a guradian, however, was a life long commitment that was forced on him ever since he was born. He knew the importance of his role and he knew how dedicated he had to be, especially since the Master Emerald was the only thing that kept the island afloat and thus perserving his heritage, but he often thought about life beyond Angel Island or even Planet Mobius for that matter.
Knuckles sighed sadly as he continued to watch the sun set.
I shouldn't be thinking like this...It's not right; I have my duties to serve and to Protect..
He tried shaking the thoughts from his head and he closed his eyes, trying to take a small nap. His efforts were futile however, as he heard the distant sounds of his two buddies laughing and playing nearby a body of water.
"Knuckles! Knuckles!" the familiar voice of Miles 'Tails' Prower called out.
Knuckles opened his eyes and sneered as he looked down at the fox "What?"
"Come and hang with us!" Tails pleaded "Sonic is too much of a chicken to go into the water!"
"Hey!" the voice of the Blues hedgehog objected "You know I can't swim!"
"Well, Knuckles can show you!" Tails argued "C'mon Knucks!"
"I'm not going down there!" Knuckles argued as he laid back and closed his eyes again
"Well, as a concerned friend" Sonic began "I think you're in need of a break from that gem. You're going to go crazy if you don't relax even for just a little bit!"
"Yeah, Knuckles!" Tails called out "Come and take a break with us!"
The Echidna growled and rolled his eyes in irritation "Fine! Just promise to leave me in peace as I relax"
"Whatever you say" Sonic replied
Knuckles left his seat in front of the emerald and decided to decend down the ruins' stairs to meet with the hedgehog and fox. He took out a retractable beach chair, sat down, crossed his arms, and decided to take a nap as Tails continued to tease Sonic over his fear of water.
"C'mon, Sonic! It's just water. It's not even deep!" Tails said as he stepped his sneaker in the water
Sonic just rolled his eyes and ignored him
"One of these days, you're going to have to learn to swim" Tails reminded him
"But that day isn't today" Sonic retorted
"But it could be today"
Knuckles sneered and opened a purple eye, irritated that his nap was again being inturrupted.
He growled at the young fox "Look Tails, Sonic doesn't want to learn to swim! Not now, not ever! Now, shut up and let me sleep!"
Unbeknownst to them, as they argued, a robotic machine hovered iconspicuously over the Master Emerald with it's claw slowly decending from it. A low chuckle emerged from the controller's throat as the claw got closer and closer to the emerald when the claw finally cletched it from the top.
"I can't beleive how easy this is without that cursed echidna around protecting it." Dr. Eggman said to himself "Now, I can fully try out my new transporter. If the Master Emerald can survive it, than the Chaos emerlads will surely survive it."
Knuckles was ignorant to what was happening to his precious emerald, but as he continued to attempt to sleep, he had a strong suspicion that the Master Emerald was in trouble.
Maybe it's a gut feeling...or paranoia... Whatever the case is, I need to check up on the emerald.
Knuckles got up from the beach chair andbegan climbing up the cliff with his strong fists. Knuckles arrived to the top where he saw Eggman on his Eggmobile with the emerald.
"GIVE BACK THE EMERALD, EGGMAN!" Knuckles yelled angrily through sharp, cletched teeth.
"It's your fault, Knuckles" Dr Eggman said slyly "You should've been keeping an eye out for this thing or else the bad guys would get to it!"
Knuckkles growled and yelled as he leaped up to Eggman's height and began fighting him while trying to take the emerald from the claw. Eggman was a terrible fighter, but he had fast relfexes and his Eggmobile helped him improve greatly as he fought with Knuckles. As Knuckles missed his punches on Eggman, Sonic and Tails began to notice the noise of quarell that was taking place. Sonic grabbed ahold of Tails' hands as Tails flew up to the top of the island. When the two landed, they saw their ally fighting with Eggman.
"Oh no!" Tails exclaimed "We gotta help him, Sonic!"
The Eggmobile swerved rapidly in the sky as Eggman and Knuckles messed with the controls to stop one another.
BBOOOOSH!
It crashed onto a cliff.
WHAMMM!
It landed on the ground
Swooosh!
It's in the sky again.
Sonic and Tails tried to help out thier ally, but they constantly ducked and moved out of the way as the chaos continued. The Eggmobile was up and about, flying and swerving in the sky like a broken down roller coaster.
"We can't help him out at this rate!" Sonic exclaimed to Tails as he dodged again "We'll end up getting squashed by that thing!"
Knuckles let out a frustrated yell and swereved a punch that was directed at Eggman, but he dodged out of the way and made Knuckles press the transporter button. Sonic and Tails saw right in front of their eyes, the Eggmobile, and it's passengers disapear into thin air.
"KNUCKLES!" they yelled in unison
The air around the two fighting enemies got darker until it was black with just a hint of white and began to swirl around them as they continued to fight. Knuckles quickly grew dizzy from the swirling patches of black and specks of white but was determied to fight Eggamn for his emerald.
I gotta do this...
Knuckles shook his head and blinked his eyes as he tried to focus. As he fought, he noticed the atomsphere around him change, not just physically but universally. The grvavtional pull was getting heavier and heavier which meant the risk of either one of them falling had multiplied.
Eggman suddenly pushed Knuckles off the machine and tried to make him fall into the swirls of the transporting air and for him to be lost into space. Knuckles fell off the machine, but gripped onto the Master Emerald for dear life, rather to protect it instead of himself. The vertigo was getting to be too much for the echidna but he managed to grip on it...until Eggman shot a laser at him, and unintentionally, the emerald.
The emerald shattered into many peices and Knuckles plummetted from the Eggmobile. The gravitational pull nearby Earth was powerful so he fell dangerously and began to burn up like a metorite, headed towards Earth. Knuckles began to loose conciousness as his body plummetted closer and closer to Earth.
Until it came to an end with a loud boom and a deep impact landing...
There was silence as dust particles swirled gently in the air until a black scottish terrier made it's way towards the hole in the ground that suddenly appeared in front of him. The dog sniffed at the hole and who was inside it until it let out a couple of alarming barks. At that moment, a young woman made her way to the front entrance of her house, got out her keys and unlocked the door. She stepped inside and closed the door behind her as she noticed, from the sliding door, the dog bark at something in her back yard. She set down her purse and opened her sliding door.
"Pepper!" she called out to the little black dog.
Pepper turned his head and approached her, still barking as if saying Look what I found!
The female followed the terrier to the hole curiously as she saw the dust particles swerve in the air. She peeked inside the deep hole in the ground and found the red echidna unconcious.
What?...how?...so?...what?
She looked up at the sky curiously and looked down at the huge dirt hole.
He must have fallen from the sky...but...does that mean he's...from space?
Despite her confusion and curiousity for how the echidna ended up there in her backyard, she felt great pity towards him especially because of the condition he was in. She leaned down and tried to pick him up gently, for she could see one of his legs was broken. Once she was sucessful in picking him up, she headed back inside the house with the little dog following right behind her.
AN: Sorry if this first chapter sucked. It's my very first Sonic related fanfic so no flames. Just...Constructive critism, I guess. The identity of the female who got Knuckles will be revealed in the next chapter so I hope that'll keep some readers interested.
