"Don't fall."

The darker one snorted in the others general direction. 'Don't fall' she says... Feh... he folded his arms, his usual glare on his face. It was dark out now, but still not cold. This was no problem for the two of them. The heat was enjoyable, considering that they were both from a rather hot climate... zone, if that's what you wish to call it.

"Come now... it's not nice to keep your guests waiting, is it....?" The sentence rolled off her tongue like hot butter as her fingers laced behind her slim backed robe. Her emerald eyes looked over to the other, washing over his taller features.

"I don't need any more encouraging..." said the other. He took two half gloved hands and pressed them together, as if praying. But there was no way the dark purple energy consuming them was from the holy action.

The girl that had been beside him phased out, like a bad TV screen turning off and blinking to that livid white super nova.

The purple energy continued to pulse around his hands as he slid one palm on top of the other facing them out to the city in front of him. The lights were ablaze in the city below, as it was night now, making them all oblivious to the disaster upon them.

"Heh... feeble humans..."

And with that, the energy expanded in a brilliant flash and consumed the small but glorious sea-side city of Station Square.


The skyline was peaceful in the subtropical regions of the mystic ruins. High and far above them lay the shrouded floating island, home to the one and only, Knuckles the Echidna.

His life and duty, the master emerald, sat at its usual place, on top of the newly restored stone shrine. He had a lot of extra time to devote to his one and only love, and he was now digging out the trenches on the side to repair the fountain. Perhaps the master emerald would like it better like the old days. He knew chaos would.

Most of the chao had finely started returning to the island and were wandering about the shrine, going on about their business. His chao was sitting up on the next level of the shrine, watching lazily as the red one worked away.

For now the echidna had a 'broom'-or something which functioned like one- and was sweeping the remains of the dust and plant life out of the water trench. His hands and feet were bare as he used the tied up leaves on a stick to push the pile along. The lower trench that he was working on was much bigger than the other two above him. But this one was much easier to clean out considering it was wider and he could stand in it instead of having to balance precariously on the sides.

He sat down and patiently began to push the pile over the lip of the trench, finding this job to be the most patient testing of them all. Suddenly, something plopped onto his head making him look up with his purple eyes and noted one of the small blue creatures occupying the top of his head. He gently lifted the chao and gave the pathetic looking creature a good quirked eye brow. It looked as if it had been kicked around for a while and then thrown a great distance into a berry bush…Gozaila Berries from the smell of them. "Hey…? What happened to you little guy…?" he said, holding him and standing up. His chao came down from its perch and was hovering next to him with it's tiny red wings, looking at its smaller cousin.

The chao whimpered and then started to cry. Knuckles instantly went into his usual parent mode, trying to calm the poor thing down. Then a red flag went up.

Now let me explain what a red flag is. A red flag is a signal in your mind that is a warning of something bad to come. Here it was warning the red echidna of the hedgehog stalking down the side of the mountain on the far side of the island; something that was not supposed to be there.

His head was instantly facing it as his dreads marked his motion around his scowling muzzle. 'How did he get so close…? I should have felt him sooner…' His defenses went up as he sat the injured chao down and told the red chao, ik'thr, to watch after him as he went and dealt with this new intruder on his island. He stomped on his shoes and was pulling on his gloves as he crossed the bridge in record time, meeting the man half way.

The hedgehog had on a robe that hid most of his features, all except for his glowing purple hands, sickening psychotic smirk, and the dark marks under his eyes. He is still shorter than the echidna but not by much, though that energy did look rather lethal…

"Who are you!?" shouted the crimson being, getting in a defensive stance. "And what are you doing here?!" This guy was starting to ring a serious bad vibe with the echidna.

The others smirk turned into one wicked, sharp toothed smile that gave even the hardened guardian goose bumps. "I'm here for your island…" And before Red could even manage a puzzled look, the hedgehog clapped his hands together in front of him, sending out a massive wave of the energy, encompassing the entire island…