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7:00 A.M. Station Square

Sonic had spent the night on the top of the tallest building in station square. He awoke to the sound of helicopter blades whirling loudly as he
opened his eyes to see several news helicopters and a screaming crowd below. "We have the hero and savior of the world, Sonic the hedgehog on
camera", yelled a reporter. "What do you have to say Sonic?" another reporter said. With a quick smile Sonic said "Well I'd like to say that I
would love to hang around to chit chat but I gotta catch a ride", Sonic said. "Catch ya later dudes", and with that, he was off in a blue blur.
"I guess I'll go catch knuckles at angel island", thought Sonic. "I
should return the chaos emeralds"

Angel Island: 7:05 A.M.

Knuckles walked up the familiar steps of the master emerald shrine, carrying all the shards of the master emerald. In a way, he was glad to be back home, but truth be told, he was sorry the adventure was over. He knew he shouldn't be jealous of a certain blue hedgehog, he had been taught to ignore jealousy in his training, but he couldn't help it. Sonic was always so free, always going wherever he wanted, while he, Knuckles, was stuck on this damn floating island. He punched the floor of the shrine in anger,
and in doing so, he noticed something very peculiar. In the large depression in the floor where the master emerald usually lay, a series of
drawings were encircled. From the looks of them they seemed to be extremely old, maybe centuries. He knew this shrine like the back of his hand, why hadn't he noticed these before? One drawing was of a sinister looking white enchidna with his hands raised to the master emerald. The second was of the monster Chaos, destroying the world. Knuckles remembered Tikal saying that chaos had almost destroyed the world once before. But the most peculiar of all, two hedgehogs were pictured, one blue, one black.
"It doesn't make sense", muttered knuckles. Just then Knuckles heard a booming sound in the distance. He turned in the direction he saw it, only to see a blue streak ramp of the top of a mountain, fly through the air,
and land in a perfect perch on top of the master emerald shrine. "You never fail to make an entrance, do you", said knuckles. "Hey, I can't help
it that I'm just so much cooler than you are Knuckles", said Sonic teasingly. Knuckles gave a quick smile, he knew it was true, even if he wished it was not. "Hey Sonic, come look at...", he trailed off as he saw
a familiar looking blue plane in a nosedive toward the ocean. "Oh geez Tails", yelled sonic. "Be right back Knuckles", sonic said as he went into spin dash. He then ramped of on old fallen down pillar and flew over the
ocean toward Tails' plane.

Over the ocean: Same time

Tails was panicking. Another one of his infamous plane crashes just great!
He pulled the throttle up but nothing happened except for another explosion toward the rear and more black smoke. "Looks like this time it's
the end, no ones coming to save me", whimpered tails. Just then a blue
figure landed on the left wing with a boom. "Sonic!!!!", yelled an overjoyed Tails. "Don't get so happy Tails in a minute we're both gonna be
shark dinner so do what I say okay", yelled sonic over the roar of the engine. Tails nodded. "Pull up on the throttle as hard as you can, I'm
gonna be the motor", yelled sonic. Sonic then let go of the wing and
allowed himself to be flung backwards. He grabbed onto the back of the
plane just in time, and crawled into the space where the motor had exploded. If he went into a spin dash, it might create enough energy so that the belts that cause the propellers to spin would move again. He went into the hardest spin he could. Tails pulled up on the throttle just as they were about to hit the water. "This is the end", he thought. But no, the plane pulled out level just in time, skimming the water. Sonic pulled
himself up to the passenger seat. "We did it!!!", cried Tails. "Tails
watch out!!!", yelled Sonic. They were headed straight for the emerald
shrine. But just then two spiked fists grabbed hold of the back of the
front of the plane and started to push it back with their incredible strength. They came to a halt not two inches from the edge of the shrine. "Wow thanks Knuckles", said tails. "Hmph", was the only reply. "So Tails, what went wrong this time", said an annoyed Sonic. "Well actually nothing, I was shot down by one of Eggman's robots", Tails replied. "WHAT!!!", said Sonic and Knuckles in unison. "That guy can't keep his head cool for two
minutes", said sonic angrily. "Well I'm afraid the reason is because,
well it's that, " "WHAT!!!", yelled Knuckles. "I've discovered his
next plan", said Tails softly.

Unknown region of the galaxy: 12:00 midnight

Shadow had been running through the jungle for half a day now. It seemed
to be endless. "HOW AM I EVER GONNA GET OF THIS GOD DAMNED PLACE!!!",
yelled shadow. Just then, he came to a clearing. There stood the same
temple that he had woken up on this morning. But now, a strange white echidna stood at the entrance staring at him. They stood there staring for a moment. Then Shadow zoomed up and grabbed the echidna by the throat in a split second. "Tell me where I am now", said Shadow. The white echidna threw shadow to the ground with surprising speed and power. "I will tell
you, Shadow the Hedgehog, if you will accompany me to the inside of my home", it replied, beckoning to the temple. " I believe you have something I need dearly." "I have nothing of yours!", yelled Shadow. "In fact, I don't even have anything with me, I have no idea where in the universe I
am!", he yelled again. The white echidna pointed to the strange stone Shadow held in his palm. "I will tell you where you are, how you got here, and what the stone you posses is if you agree to help me", said the echidna
calmly. "Agreed?", said the echidna as he held out his spiked hand. "Agreed", said Shadow as he shook the hand. A moment of silence followed. "I'm waiting", said Shadow. "You are on earth, my friend, year 958 A.D.,
and the stone you posses is called a time stone", the echidna replied.

Ohhhhhhh remember the time stones? From sonic CD? On sega genesis? No? Well you'll find out about them soon enough, I'll have the next part posted
in a couple days, chow.