Chapter 1:

It was a beautiful day on Angel Island, the sky was blue with no sign of clouds and everything around the island was just peaceful. At the Master Emerald shrine was Knuckles the Echidna, the very last of his species after what happened four thousand years ago. This big, large emerald was created by the gods because back in the ages, the Chaos Emeralds were used for evil so they created the Master Emerald to generate the power of the emeralds and to have greater power to use it for stop them by whoever harnesses its powers.

Knuckles didn't know a lot about what happened in the past and he tried so hard to uncover everything about it but it was still a long way ahead to understand everything. Before then when he was finding the Master Emerald shards, he got various flashbacks from the past about Chaos and the Master Emerald.

Nothing made quite sense when that happened. It felt like he was passed out and dreaming all of this, but it felt real. It felt like he was there.

Also at some point of all of it, he saw a young female echidna who was trying to prevent what she knew was going to happen, and she was right. Her father was named Chief Pachacamac, the leader of the Echidna Tribe and his daughter was named Tikal. She could control the Master Emerald's power and she was trying her best to tell her father not to use its power for evil, but they never listened.

That night of the attack, the chief and the tribe disappeared when Chaos was out of the Master Emerald, never to been seen again. Because of all of that, Tikal decided to seal herself inside the emerald with him. That is how Angel Island floats in the sky.

Knuckles never understood how the island would float, but it was his destiny to guard the Master Emerald for the sake of the world and from falling into the wrong hands, like Eggman for instance. Sometimes he was bored on the island, and it was also a very lazy life, but he got used to it. Whenever he got visits from Sonic and Tails, it was either to ask for their help to stop Eggman's latest schemes or to just visit him. He didn't mind their company but he also loved the peace and quiet on the island.

He was very tough whenever the weather changed, like when it rained and the lightning crashes in the sky, Knuckles was always on that shrine, keeping it safe. Knuckles had to guard this emerald until he dies, which would be a very long time, if nothing serious happens. This is why Sonic was always fighting Eggman every week, to prevent the world to become his own empire, Eggmanland. Seriously, that name was so original and sounds stupid.

He didn't mind Sonic when he was being heroic, but sometimes he just gets a little carried away, which would eventually annoy the echidna, especially with his smart aleck comments.

What he also enjoyed on the island is the scenery. It was always so beautiful to see things from an aerial view. Everything looked like they've been shrunken by one of Eggman's weapons and the people looked like ants.

Most of the time Knuckles would always sit on the shrine and relax and probably sleep because of how much time he's always guarding the Master Emerald but right now he was kicking back and relaxing. He hoped nothing would ruin all of this.

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Somewhere in the Green Hill Zone, our favourite, heroic hero, Sonic the Hedgehog was on his normal daily runs. This is what he mostly does whenever he was bored, or to explore unfamiliar places. He also does this when Eggman wasn't unleashing his latest schemes and for Sonic to foil them once again.

One time Eggman actually helped Sonic and his friends to save the earth from Professor Gerald Robotnik, Eggman's grandfather who wanted revenge to the humans and wanted to suffer what he went through when one of the soldiers killed his beloved granddaughter, Maria. He created the ultimate weapon, Shadow the Hedgehog to carry out his plans when the time was right, but Amy ended up persuading him by trying to tell him that the humans were good. He ended up getting a flashback from Maria just before she ejected the capsule with him inside to tell him to help everyone and make them happy. Shadow helped out Sonic at the final battle and sacrificed himself for the earth.

But soon after the earth was saved, everything went back to normal and I mean literally, everything was just how it was before this whole Space Colony ARK event happened.

Sonic never forgot that event at all and never wished it to go away. He actually didn't want any of his memories of becoming a hero from the very start through to right now to ever go away. They were happy and magical moments for him. Sonic enjoyed his heroism to the world and was also the fastest thing alive. Nobody can take that from him.

Sometimes these were why he went on daily runs, to picture everything from defeating Eggman for the very first time, meeting Tails which was one of the most memorable moments not only for him but for Tails as well, then Knuckles when he was on Eggman's side until he got tricked, rescuing Amy from Metal Sonic, he really needed to know why Amy can't defend herself these days but probably because she always wanted him to rescue her and he really gets annoyed by it. Defeating Perfect Chaos, meeting Shadow and Rouge plus saving the earth, Blaze when Eggman and Eggman Nega teamed up to steal the Chaos Emeralds and the Sol Emeralds which were from Blaze's dimension. He even remembered some moments with Silver when that future, telekinetic hedgehog tried to kill him when mistaken to be the Iblis Trigger but eventually helped each other out later on.

He never forgot Cream, Cheese, Vanilla, the Chaotix, the Babylon Rouges, some friends from the storybook series and other adventures, even Big the Cat on the Egg Carrier. He made a lot of friends along the way.

Suddenly, the sky got dark. Sonic knew it wasn't going to rain because he saw the forecast on the news before he left his house. This didn't seem right but Sonic had a good feeling why. He looked up to see Eggman's Airship about to land. Sonic took a few steps backwards so he wouldn't get hit by it.

That airship didn't take long to land at all, which then Eggman walked out and moved towards the hedgehog. Sonic was ready for anything because the only thing Eggman wasn't a genius was fighting without his big robots or inventions.

"Well, well, if it isn't my favourite rodent." Eggman greeted with the name calling.

"What are you doing here Egghead? Are you unleashing some kind of lame scheme again?"

"My schemes aren't lame!" Eggman shouted out.

"Then why do I foil them all the time?" Sonic then asked him while smirking that he won.

"True but this time it shall be me who will finally win!"

"And how are you going to do that? Enlighten me with your new lame plan."

Eggman stared at Sonic angrily as he was getting annoyed with his smart aleck attitude.

"Joke time is over hedgehog, now it's fighting time, and just to make this interesting, I'm going to fight you myself."

'He's joking right?'

By himself? Well that's a first. Eggman wouldn't last a fight with the blue, supersonic hedgehog without any inventions.

"Hahaha, are you serious? Where's your big flying car that's wide enough to support your weight?" Sonic mocked while laughing so hard. He didn't know this was going to happen in his life.

"Well it's… HEY! No one has ever made fun of my weight!"

"Well now I'm your first."

Eggman was furious now. He now wanted payback for what he just heard from his nemesis' smart mouth. Really, nobody had ever made fun of his weight. Ever! All they did was the name calling but that was it, even if some of the same calling was Egghead, Egg face, Egg belly and so on.

"That's it rodent! Let's fight right now and avoid all of this!" Eggman shouted out.

Somehow, that just frightened the blue hedgehog.

"Alright then, bring it on!" Sonic accepted.

"But let's make this fair shall we. I'm not using any of my inventions remember? So now, what aren't you using?"

'So a fair fight eh? Well I might as well do it just to make this interesting for him.'

"Well let's see… I won't use my Sonic Boost, Homing Attack, my speed, Sonic Wind-

"Will you just get to the point?!" Eggman interrupted as he didn't want to hear Sonic name every single technique he well know knew.

"Very well, I won't use any of my techniques. Just a good, old fashion fight, and just to make this fairer, I'll go easy on you."

The hedgehog then started the fight with his right fist aiming for his enemy but was somehow stopped. He looked and saw that Eggman grabbed a hold of his fist. Sonic gasped because he didn't expect something like that to happen, even from Eggman.

"Okay then, you can go easy on me, but I won't."

Eggman then threw his fist at Sonic's left cheek and somehow got a direct hit. Sonic fell backwards a tiny bit was able to straighten his balance, but it did hurt. Maybe it was now time to act serious and not go that easy on Eggman. He started pulling his fists at him and Eggman did the same. It was going on for several moments with the same tactic. Nothing was changing yet.

While they were doing so, Sonic started going through his thoughts with a lot of questions. How is Eggman doing so well right at this minute? He hasn't seen him this good, except when they're at the Olympics.

About 5 minutes later, both Eggman and Sonic were getting exhausted. They both had a few scratches on them but nothing else. Sonic never felt this sore and exhausted in his life when it came to fighting against Eggman. He went for a charge towards Eggman but the scientist dodged and knocked Sonic to the nearby tree. The hedgehog hit the tree heard with his head and now his vision was going blurry. Then everything went black.