Knuckles: Dark Horizon
By: Phoenix Ride
Ch.1: Enter: The Dark Legion
Weeks passed since Sonic recovered from the attack of the now beaten Nazo, and now everything seemed once again at peace. Well, peaceful in one sense of the term. There was the ocassional attack by Dr. Eggman, but his plans seemed like a nuisiance ever since Knuckles birthday. A birthday that the Guardian of the Master Emerald would never want to remember again.
Knuckles had been so pleased when Sonic and the others got a wishing crystal for his birthday. He knew that the crystal possessed enough magic to tell him truth on what really happened to his kind. But the wish turned into a distaster, bringing forth a silver being called Nazo, who almost destroyed the world.
Luckily Knuckles made it so Nazo never exsisted by changing the past. That also meant the silver hedgehog never destroyed his race. But coming back to the future his kind was not there, and Sonic had been terribly injured during the battle. Now the echidna just sat on the Master Emerald's alter, dreaming about his kind, and wondering if the wishing crystal had finished it's job.
"Aw" said Knuckles, breathing in the fresh air " it's nice to be back on the alter again. The Chaotix deserve a day off after what I put them through a few weeks ago,"
Suddenly, the echidna's super hearing detected a strange sound making him stand up striaght in alert. Looking left and right Knuckles saw nothing unusal until a barradge of laser beams fired his way.
The echidna dodged and ran into the forest making as much noise as he could to lure the ones shooting at him away from the Master Emerald's alter. Taking a shortcut to the cabin Knuckles went inside and quickly locked the door.
"Who's shooting at me?" thought Knuckles " well it's to late to find out right now. I need to keep whoever they are from getting the Master Emerald,"
Quickly the echidna hastly searched the cabin looking through all the drawer's until he finaly found what he was looking for, a warp crystal. Warp crystals were really rare to find, it was very fortunate that Knuckles had found about three of them during one of his treasure hunts and now their powers would be put to the test.
"Warp me to where my enemies are," said Knuckles to the first wishing crystal.
The crystal glowed and transported Knuckles to a clearing on Angel Island where it wasn't so clear anymore. Mysterious figures in black cloaks had set up camp in the clearing, about two dozen or more.
Sneaking closer to the camp, but keeping in the shadows, Knuckles crept up to where two mysterious figures were talking. He couldn't see their faces but he could hear their words.
" I can't believe we're hunting one of our own," said the first figure.
" He's not one of us" said the second figure, in an almost angry tone " he's a Guardian, and that's all that matters to Lord Dimitri,"
"Rumors floating around says that this Guardian is no ordinary Guardian," said the first figure.
" Don't be so foolish Julie-Su" said the second figure " even if what we overheard between that idiot Remington and Locke are true, he's still no match for the Dark Legion,"
"Locke?" thought Knuckles as the two figures walked away " so my father and the other echidnas are alive. I did succeed in getting rid of Nazo. But if these guys are echdinas too, why do they want me?"
Curious for answers Knuckles creeped around camp looking for the group's apparent head honcho Dimitri. It wasn't to hard to guess where Dimitri had to be. After all the biggest tent in the camp usually belonged to the leader.
"Now" said Knuckles to himself " time to find out what this guy wants with me,"
"Hey you" came a voice from behind Knuckles " put your hands up and surrender now,"
Knuckles turned around quickly to see another figure in a black cloak holding a gun to his head. Knuckles raised up his hands like he was told, but then surprised his enmey by sweeping his feet out from under him.
The Dark Legionarre landed on hard on his back his finger accidentally pulling the trigger on his gun as he went down. The shot screamed by Knuckles leg leaving a fresh cut as he bounded right in the middle of the Dark Legion's camp.
Soon Knuckles found himself surrounded by a hoard of black cloaks all aiming weapons at him as he ran and dove towards safety. Watching from the safety of the woods a brown echidna saw Knuckles struggling to escape from the hands of the dark legion.
The red echidna was doing remarkably well, that is until the Dark Legion threw a glowing blue net over him preventing Knuckles attempt to escape.
"Take him to Dimitri!" shouted one Dark Legionarre, and soon Knuckles was being dragged away to Dimitri's tent.
Having just witnessed the horrifying seen from the shadows of the trees the brown echidna lifted up his wrist com to his mouth and started to speak.
"This is Remington reporting to the Brotherhood" said Remington " looks like our suspicions have been confirmed. The Dark Legoin has invaded Angel Island, and they got Knuckles,"