Chapter 1:

They all looked at each other, a bit anxious.

"it's because of what Mephiles said?" asked shadow.

"not just that, I want to know more guys, am I really the only one left? What happened to my family? This kind of stuff. I don't know why, I just need to go to Angel Island!" said knuckles.

"Okay you heard the man, get ready guys, we are going to Angel island!" said sonic.

"Wait! WE are going?" said knuckles.

"did you think you can get rid of us easily?" said Amy.

"and you need a plane to get there" said tails.

"and who knows what could happen to you if we leave you alone, maybe the government will capture you and brain wash so you give them information about power emeralds!" said sticks.

"Guys I…" started knuckles.

"Leave the speeches for later, for now we need a bigger plane." Said shadow.

"Don't worry about that" said tails. "I did some work on the tornado, look at this."

He pressed a button, and then the tornado grew a larger with more sits.

"How did you…" started shadow.

"Ancients technology, even if I do ask what they used a growing ray for." Answered tails.

"Great job, it's time for a new adventure!" Said sonic.

Later

They were flying on the tornado, going to Angel Island. Knuckles was still lost in his memories.

Flashback, Ten year earlier:

A ten years old knuckles (imagine his design similar to the original knuckles) was going searching for his dinner in the forest. He ate hippopotamus for lunch so he was looking for something less greasy. He then heard sounds not far.

He went to investigate, and he saw new animals, but they walked with only two legs, just like him, they were two small and another a bit bigger. Two of them were blue with spikes; the third had yellow and… two tails? Anyway he was small enough for dinner, So knuckles attacked.

He rushed trying to get the small yellow one, but the small blue one pushed him out of the way and kicked knuckles.

"Uncle Chuck! Tails! Run!" said the small blue one.

They can say word with their mouth? What kind of animal are they?

"Stop it sonic!" said the bigger blue one said. "It's an echidna… I can't believe it!"

He slowly walked to knuckles.

"hello, my name is Chuck, This is sonic" he said pointing to the small blue one, "and this is tails" he pointed to the small yellow one "can you talk?" he said.

"… you mean say worlds with my mouth?" asked knuckles.

"yes, what is your name?" asked Chuck.

"Knuckles" answered knuckles.

"nice too meet you, are there more people like you?" asked chuck.

"knuckles is alone" answered knuckles.

"how longue have you been here alone?" asked tails.

"Knuckles have always been alone" answered knuckles.

"you have been alone so longue that you don't even remember your people, oh sad." Said Chuck, "tell me knuckles, would you like to come with us?"

"come… with you?" asked knuckles.

"yes to our island, you could learn to live with people again. I guess you will still have education problems, but I'll do my best to teach you how to be social." Said chuck.

"Social?" asked knuckles.

"I have a lot of work to do" said chuck smiling, "so what do you think?"

End of Flashback

Knuckles never regretted this choice, Uncle Chuck taught him well, he didn't care that he was stupid, he just wanted him to live normally, and he kinda succeeded, at least knuckles has friends now.

"hey knucks, are trying to think again?" said sonic.

"Oh no, I was just remembering, you know. How Uncle chuck found me and stuff." Answered knuckles.

"you didn't do the best impression" said sonic.

"yeah, sorry for trying to eat you tails!" said knuckles.

"YOU TRIED TO EAT ME?!" yelled tails.

"Focus on the Sky!" said shadow.

"you guys said you found him 10 year ago, shadow wasn't part of the team yet?" asked sticks.

"we me shadow four year after knuckles." Said sonic.

"by that time Knuckles already became buffed" said shadow.

"even before he was quite buffed for a ten year old" said tails.

"That just how awesome I am" said knuckles.

"now that I think about it, you still didn't tell me and sticks how you met shadow." Said Amy.

"Actually shadow already told me" said sticks.

"well he didn't tell me." Said Amy.

"oh it's quite the story, it all began when…" started sonic.

"We arrived guys!" said tails.

"OH COMMON! Seriously!" yelled Amy.