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After Sonic's most recent adventure he has decided to relax in Station Square by the beach. During his relaxation he hears a voice yelling his name "Sonic!". Sonic looks up "Huh?" and searches the sky. Then he notices Tails driving the Tornado. Tails flies right down and lands right next to Sonic. Sonic says "At least you didn't crash like last time that would be a little too familiar". Tails,completely ignoring the joke, says "There has been some high energy levels acting up in the desert". Sonic happy to finally have something to do exclaims "What are we waiting for then let's go!".They fly from the beach towards the desert. Tails says "According to the energy levels it is 6 of the seven chaos emeralds!". Sonic asks "You have the other right?". Tails assures"Of course it powers the Tornado." After 3 hours they finally near the energy levels. Sonic asks "Did you tell Knuckles about this? He would like to get in on this action". Tails says "I went to Angel Island to tell him but he was gone". Sonic says "thats not like him to be away from the Master Emerald like that". Tails yells "Look!". He points out Eggman flying in his Eggmobile. "I'm surprised he did'nt fry himself out here". Tails flies down, ready to confront him. Eggman sees them and saws "Its about time you two show'd up". Sonic answers "We would have been here sooner but our invites must have got lost in the mail" "Enough of this!" Eggman yells. Eggman attempt to crash into Sonic but he speed out of the way. Sonic laughs "That was your big plan?". Then the Eggmobile lifts up, connected to a huge mechanical scorpion. Eggman responds "I think it went well enough don't you?". The scorpion is called the Egg-pion it has for thin legs, two claws that shoot bombs and finally a tail that can shoot a laser. It is a dark red color with the tail being black. Tails notices the thin legs and says to Sonic while he's dodging the bombs "Aim for the legs they can be the weak point". "Thanks Tails" Sonic runs up and tries a spin dash on the left front leg but it is ineffective. Eggman laughs at his attempt. Sonic thinks, I need a more stronger method of attacking the legs. Eggman then fires a bomb at the Tornado. Tails sees the incoming bomb and smacks it away making it hit a leg. Sonic figures he needs Eggman to fire more bombs at him to destroy the legs. Eggman angered at Tails discovery fires 2 more bombs at Sonic. Then Sonic does a homing attack on the first bomb then the second sending both back into the claws and blowing them up. Eggman yells "How about this then?" then he fires the laser at Sonic while he is in the air. Sonic cut by the laser only a bit while he jumps on the tail. "What!" Eggman screams. Sonic uses the tail to cut the other 3 legs off then the tail itself. Eggman falls into the sand then disconnects his Eggmobile and tries to escape. Tails yells "Sonic! Thundershot!". Sonic understands and jumps to Tails while he starts to fly then Tails kicks Sonic while he jumps in front of him and Sonic hits Eggman and makes him fly off out of control. "That was awesome!" Sonic congratulates. Tails then tries to start the Tornado but it has no power. Tails looks at where the chaos emerald is and it's not there. Tails yells "Sonic, the emerald was stolen!" Sonic replies "What! Really? How?". Then a loud metallic clanging sound is made. Sonic and Tails look to see a door in the ground that reads "N.A.T.H." on it. Sonic says "Whoever took our emerald must have gone down there let's go Tails". He nods and they both enter the underground doorway.
Meanwhile in a prison-like room filled with several different cells Knuckles awakes and sees a figure with spikes pointed up. Knuckles yells to him "Shadow? Shadow!" the figure stops in the doorway and looks at Knuckles he then proceeds and closes the door behind him. Then from the cell next to him knuckles hears "What is it!" he looks and sees Shadow standing against the wall with his arms crossed. Knuckles apologizes," Sorry, I thought that was you who walked out the door there". Shadow says "Yeah I locked myself and you up then walked out". Knuckles yells "Well I didn't know you were here!". Shadow explains," Listen these characters I've never seen before locked us then they plan to use all the chaos emeralds to all use their power". Knuckles asks," How many are there? I'll show them who's boss". Shadow informs," There are a total of 4, one a metallic colored hedgehog, one green hedgehog and...""Did the green one have a single black spike in front?" Knuckles asks. Shadow surprised says "Yes how did you know?"