WHY, JLS?! WHY MUST YOU BREAK UP?! I LOVE YOU! I...oh, hello there! Err...you didn't read anything! I'm not upset that JLS broke up...okay maybe a bit. *balling eyes out* but WHY?!

Right, enough of that depressing news, Knux and the missing M.E is alive and kicking!

Summary: Knuckles the echidna: greatest guardian ever?...not! After a fight with a mysterious person, Knuckles got injected by something that would make him into a beast, while losing the M.E in the process Sonic and Amy set out on this mystery, while Tails finds an antidote, will they find the culprit in time, before Knux turns AWOL?! Find out in this fanfic!

Awesome! On with the fanfic, I do not own any characters that are in this fic, they belong to SEGA!

Alright, enjoy!

-H.S.H-

Knuckles and the missing master emerald!

chapter 1: the Master emerald goes missing...again.

In a magical, floating island far away called angel island, lived the proudest, and greatest guardian who ever lived who goes by the name Knuckles the echidna...well...not the greatest guardian ever.

He believed that his duty was to protect the master emerald, but sometimes he fails.. miserably. His only targets are a certain bat and evil. But this time, the only targets were his opponents. a few weeks ago, Sonic the hedgehog created a competition for the greatest guardian ever, since Sonic had that chilidog incident, he dropped out. Anyhoo, his remaining opponents were: Amy, with her hammer, Shadow, with his damn fourth chaos emerald, Cream, with her chao friend cheese, and somehow, Vector, with his headphones.

While Knuckles was guarding the M.E, he said to himself: "Ha! No ones gonna beat me in this completion! I'm the greatest guardian alive, no one can take my place, NOONE!" His bellowing voice was heard throughout the island.

*At night...*

It was night time, our great guardian was leaning on the steps, looking at the stars. His amethyst eyes scanned over the skies. Smiling, Knuckles turned to the M.E. He then turned back. Suddenly, there was a rustle or two, Knux stood up and scowered the area, he didn't want the M.E to get stolen again. A blur passed him, he flinched a second later, but he missed him. The blur passed him again, he tried to punch him, but missed again. "Where are you?...show yourself!"

"Haha! We meet again, Knuckles the echidna!"

"That voice...you!"

The mysterious voice cackled "Yes it's me! Its been a while, hasn't it?"

"I don't care, leave this place! Before I-"

"Before you what, Knux for brains?!, Fight me? Pfft! That's a cheap shot! You never defeated me!"

Knuckles said no more and lurched for the mysterious figure, who disappeared into thin air, then reappeared behind him. before Knuckles noticed, something sharp went into his back, he inhaled with his teeth shut. Suddenly, his vision went all blurry. When the figure tried to steal the M.E, he caught the figure and tossed him off, causing him to fall flat on the ground. After a few pants from the crimson echidna, his collapsed to his knees. The figure quickly got up, Knuckles tried to get up, but his legs fell numb, soon, his arms fell numb too, the figure bashed his kneecap on Knuckles' face, causing him to fall on the ground. Slowly, his eyes tried to stay open, but, the only thing that he saw was the figure, holding the master emerald.

Once again, Knuckles the echidna, has failed his duty as guardian of the master emerald.

*In the morning*

With red, dusty eyes, the echidna woke up groggily. His blurry vision muted up some of his hearing, but the first thing he saw, was...you guessed it! the M.E was gone...again. His eyes cracked open in an instant. He got up quickly and searched for the precious jewel all over the island.

*25 minutes of searching for the master emerald later...*

As he returned to the entrance of the island, he drooped onto his knees, his eyes, worrying and anger, he felt so angry and confused, he looked up into the sky and shouted: "WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY*pants* YYYYYYY?!

After a few minutes of tantrums, Knuckles decided to wander off aimlessly to seaside hill. Where,- as you already might've guessed- Sonic and the gang were.

*At seaside hill zone...*

The sun was blazing hot, the ocean was soaking wet, and the Sonic heroes are having fun! Wherever it was surfing, making chillidogs, or just playing in the sand, there was no limitless fun they could do.

Currently, there was a volleyball match. The dynamic duo: Sonic and Tails vs. Team jubilee: Amy and Cream. The scores were tied at the moment...the last point would win the entire game, and the completion was rising.

"Game point. Service!" Amy threw the volleyball into the air, she leaped and hit it across the boys side. Sonic reacted quick in a flash and hit it back. Cream attempted to hit it to Tails, and the clever fox whacked it back with his two tails.

"Hey! That's cheating!" Amy pointed out as Cream jumped on Amy and whacked the ball with her long, flappy ears. Sonic kicked the ball back. After a few cheating back and forths with the ball. Amy summoned her hammer and smashed the ball onto their side...but the game wasn't over yet. With a flash of blue, Sonic dived down to hit the ball on the other side. Cream wacked it back with ,once again, her long, flappy rabbit ears.

The hero and sidekick jumped and hitted the ball together, as if it was one of those slow-motion basketball shots, but this was volleyball, after all. Amy and Cream watched as they ran towards the ball before the others got it. They were at the same height, both struggling to get the ball onto their opponents sides. Amy managed to tap the ball out of their hands, as it was dramatically falling onto their side. They turned around and dashed for it...still in slow motion. Tails lurched for it in some kind of distorted battle cry, but with a slip of his squeaky gloves, he ball eventually landed and he fell face first. The game was over. Amy and Cream had won.

"Whoo! We won! Girl power!" The pink hedgehog celebrated with the cream colored rabbit. They were high fiving each other and whatnot. Sonic helped the two tailed genius up, they both went over there to congratulate them, but instead of friendly sportsladyship from Amy, she did nothing else but glomped Sonic...err...let's go the other side of the beach before things get too,err,...meh! Nevermind!

Since there was nothing to do in the future, Blaze and Silver dropped by not only for a visit, but for some fun in the sun...and what can anything be fun than playing chess, Right?... Is playing chess fun?... No?...I guess not.

"Ahem, I believe that's checkmate!" Silver triumphed before Blaze. Blaze stared daggers at the ivory hedgehog.

"Aw, come on! Its just a game of chess! Nothing personal, right?" Silver reached a hand towards Blaze, somehow, Blaze took it as a 'well played' handshake, everything went well until Silver's hand started warming up.

"Err...Blaze? You can let go of my hand now." Innocently, the futuristic princess let go of his hand, everything with his hands were fine...all until the hands exploded into flames! Silver screeched as he made his way to the pool, with Blaze behind him.

Meanwhile, Shadow and Rouge were...I don't know, just sitting around...oh, wait! I know what they're doing! They were playing go- fish! And Shadow was currently winning.

"Hmm...got any four's?"

"Hmph! Go fish." Shadow grunted as he took another card. "Got any nine's?"

"Go fish." Rouge took another card. "Got any aces?"

With that statement, Shadow slid all the cards across, they were all aces.

"Guess that I win...for the 87th time." Shadow triumphed in front of Rouge while she threw her deck of cards down. "Who's the ultimate?!"

The ivory bat sighs in defeat "...Shadow is."

"Uh huh, and don't you forget it!"

On the other side of the beach, Knuckles was wheezing from running all those levels he had to run to get here. Normally, he never felt this tired before, so what was stopping him now? Anyhow, he was getting closer and closer to them by every step, when Sonic FINALLY got away from Amy, he realized that Knuckles was there.

"Yo Knuckles!" Sonic called out. However, Knuckles' vision started to become blurry, just like that fight last night. When it became too blurry to see, he collapsed on the sandy sand.

"Knuckles? Knuckles! This isn't you to collapse like this! Wake up, dude!" Sonic tried to wake him up, but he failed. Eventually, the rest came over and hovered upon a half- worried hedgehog and an unconscious echidna. Some gasped as some just stood there.

"What happened?" Tails asked worriedly.

"I don't know, but we need to get him somewhere close, now!" So, Sonic carried the echidna to Tails' lab, -which was surprisingly next to the beach-, and the rest followed.

*Somewhere hidden on the beach...*

"Ahahaha! In just 48 hours, Knux for brains will forget everything he knows and will unravel into a rampaging beast, thus, destroying mobius and his disgusting little friends, and then they'll all bow down to me!" The evil voice cackled once more.

Muhahaha! A cliffy in the first chappie! Ain't I a stinker?! Might as well, give you the news for S.C.B: It should be done at the end of this week! Its all the homework that's been slowing me down lately, I'm having trouble enlarging a frickin' shape on MyMaths! And I keep getting a red face...ugh! Damn you mymaths!

Oh well, review plz! And I'll see ya later!

PEACE!