Somewhere in Green Hill Zone: 8:00 a.m.

Sonic was making his usual morning run through the Green Hill Zone while whistling the music of Endless Possibility like normal.

'Man, things sure have boring since I defeated Dark Gaia.' Thought Sonic, bored beyond all reason.

Suddenly, he heard a loud noise to his left and saw a huge wave coming toward Green Hill, luckily, Sonic had a Chaos Emerald with him. He was just able to stop the giant wave with it. Then he saw what had caused it. Angel Island had fallen from the sky, yet again, for about the third time.

"Oh man Knuckles!" said Sonic worried for his friend living on the Island.

Sonic immediately rushed to Tails' house so they could use his plane to fly over to the island, because it was in the middle of deep water and neither of them could swim, in fact, NOBODY on Mobius could swim except Knuckles and Rouge, and Rouge was off treasure hunting, and Knuckles was on the island. Tails set the plane to maximum speed and got to the island as fast as possible.

Angel Island; Master Emerald Shrine: 8:12 a.m.

When Sonic and Tails had got to the Master Emerald Shrine, Knuckles usual hang out area, they found not only Knuckles, but two others, Tikal, and Chaos, who were standing around Knuckles' unconscious body.

"What happened here?" asked Sonic and Tails in unison.

When Tikal was about to answer, Chaos interrupted her and pointed upward, Sonic and Tails quickly looked up too, when they did, they saw something they couldn't believe. It was one of the Artificial Chaos fromthe space colony ARK. These evil mistakes of science were thought to be completely gone after Shadow's raid on the ARK to destroy them, this one was apparently able to escape and make it to Mobius somehow though.

Before they could react, it attacked them and started to go for the Chaos Emeralds and Master Emerald.

"Don't you dare touch those emeralds!" said a weak voice. When everyone looked up, they saw Knuckles, using the last of his strength to try to stop the creature, being the guardian of the emeralds that he is.

"Knuckles, you shouldn't try to fight it. It's become too Strong!" objected Tikal.

"I'll try to distract while you get away with the emeralds!" argued Knuckles.

"But your hurt, you can't take it on and expect to go unscathed!" said Tails.

"I'll be fine, Tails, just grab the emeralds and get out of her-"

Knuckles was cut off by a powerful attack from the Artificial Chaos.

"NOOOO!" screamed Tikal, worried for Knuckles.

Just as soon as it attacked Knuckles, the creature had stolen the emeralds and used them to use a 'Chaos Control' to teleport somewhere else. About ten seconds later the island started to shake very violently, enough to break a Richter Scale.

"Everyone, quickly, get to the X-Tornado!" yelled Tails gesturing to his plane.

After scrambling to the plane with Knuckles in tow, they hurried to Tails' home to examine Knuckles.

Tails' House; Green Hill Zone: 8:30 a.m.

"Is he going to be alright?" asked Tikal worriedly.

"While his condition may be a bit, err, unfavorable now, he should be fine after some rest." Said Tails

"What did that creature want with the Chaos Emeralds anyway?" asked Sonic.

"That creature is almost exactly like the real Chaos, except it is not an organic creature, so it is behaving the same way Chaos did a while back." explained Tikal.

"Oh, I see, so it's trying to gather all the power it can, just like Chaos did!" said Sonic.

After saying that, Chaos sent a telepathic message to Tikal.

"Oh, I see." said Tikal.

"What is it?" asked Sonic.

"Chaos just told me he believes that the creature that stole the emeralds had been secretly been watching your adventures, discovering every thing you discovered."

"Why does he think that?" asked Sonic .

"Chaos said that since Shadow's raid on the ARK to destroy those creatures he kept having visions of you on your adventures every night he slept in the Master Emerald." explained Tikal.

"Oh I see. Wait a minute! That means it's not just going after the Chaos Emeralds. It's going after every main source of power I've discovered and gathered!" said Sonic

"Yes, and in the order you discovered them in." said Tikal.

"We've got to warn Blaze it's going after the Sol Emeralds!" warned Tails.