Marble Zone

Sonic ran past a small temple, searching for the next Special Ring. He looked in the distance, to which there was giant temple; the same one as seen in his vision that was set on flames. He took the time to appreciate the view of the river of lava between him and the temple, but all that stopped, when Sonic noticed Robotnik, in his Egg-O-Matic, flying towards it.

"The ring must be there…" Sonic said, to himself. He jumped onto a platform that was in the middle of the lava, however, it began to sink, along with the grass setting on fire. Sonic looked up, to find some Buzz Bomber flying above him. He jumped and grabbed onto one. It tried to shake him off, but Sonic manage to get on solid ground before he slipped off. However, he was still too far away from the temple and still had a river of lava blocking him but noticed that was a cave entrance, which lead down and under the lava.

"If I can't get across the lava," Sonic smiled. "I'll just go under it!" He ran and was met by a dungeon made out of marble. Bat Brains fell from the ceiling and flew towards Sonic, but he destroyed them, freeing the animals. Sonic noticed that there was a long stretch of lava between him and the other side of the dungeon. There was also a block of Marble to his left. Sonic push it into the lava and jumped on it, as it floated to other said. However, more Bat Brains came down to try and knock Sonic off.

"If I destroy any of these, the animals will fall into the lava!" Sonic said. "I'm just gonna have to keep them away from me!"

The Temple

Robotnik flew towards the temple. Under his Egg-O-Matic was a capsule. He dropped it near the temple. The animals in the area looked up to see what he was doing. Robotnik laughed, as a hand out from under the Egg-O-Matic and pushed down the button that was on top of the capsule. The capsule opened, with tractor beams coming out of it and grabbing the small animals. The animals were then pulled towards the capsule until there were none left in the area. The capsule closed up and locked itself.

"Success!" Robotnik laughed. "No longer will I have to send those animals back to the base to turn them into badniks! That capsule should turn those animals into badniks within the next ten minutes." He looked around. "In the meantime, let's find a Chaos Emerald, shall we?"

Dungeon

Sonic pushed a block onto a switch, allowing a giant weight to lift, allowing access to the lower floor of the dungeon. Sonic jumped down, only to be met with a wall of lava. Sonic ran away as the lava chased him down the corridor. Sonic looked up to see a platform. He jumped up and grabbed the ledge, pulling himself up to get away from the lava. He climbed up the until he found himself face to face to a Caterkiller.

"Think we can talk this out?" Sonic asked. The Caterkiller attacked, making Sonic jump out of the way and roll into it, freeing the animal.

"I guess not."

The Temple

"Why can't I find any of the Chaos Emeralds?" Robotnik yelled.

"That's enough, Eggman!" Sonic running up to him, with his fur slightly burnt.

"Ahh, the guardian!" Robotnik said. "Where is it? Where are the Chaos Emeralds?"

"I ain't telling you, Eggman!" Sonic said. Eggman flew to the capsule.

"Then maybe you'll tell your 'friends,'" Eggman laughed, pressing the button on the top. The capsule busted open, releasing Caterkillers, Bat Brains and Buzz Bombers! Sonic jumped onto one the Caterkillers, hurting him, but sent the Caterkiller's parts flying everywhere. Sonic grabbed the parts and threw it at the other badnik, destroying them all. Suddenly, a fire ball came flying down, landing near Sonic. He looked up, to see Robotnik laughing, while shooting fireballs down.

"Get burned, hedgehog!" Robotnik yelled.

Sonic grabbed another part of a Caterkiller ran towards the lava river, allowing Robotnik to get closer.

"Come and get me, Robuttnik!" Sonic smirked.

"You've just made your last mistake!" Robotnik yelled, shooting fireballs at him. Sonic threw the Caterkiller part at the cannon area of the Egg-O-Matic, where the fireballs were coming from. As Robotnik tried to fire his next fireball, the underside of his Egg-O-Matic burst it flames, making it lower and towards the lava river.

"Bye bye, Eggman!" Sonic said, running away. "May we never see you again, you hard boiled egg!"

"No!" Robotnik yelled. "This can't be!" The Egg-O-Matic, however, barely landed on the other side of the lava river. Robotnik gave out a sigh of relief, as the flames died out. He pulled a switch on his machine, allowing it to fly (barely) as he made a getaway.

Back at the Temple

Sonic returned and ran inside the Temple, just as it reached sunset. Inside the Temple was another giant ring.

"How couldn't Robotnik find this?" Sonic asked himself. "They must only appear at certain times of the day…" He jumped inside.

Special Zone

Sonic was back in the weird zone that he was in before.

"The island…" the voice said. Sonic could see a city, where, ontop each building, was a turret. Buzz Bombers patrolled the area. "...will become his battle station…"

"No…" Sonic said. "I thought he died in the lava…"

"The Emerald… Cope…" the voice said. "Save… us…."

Marble Zone, The Temple

Sonic woke up. There was a purple gem stone in his hand, like the red one.

"That looked like the Spring Yard Zone!" Sonic said. He ran off to find Spring Yard before Robotnik got there.