It all happened in the blink of an eye, Sonic and Tails were nowhere around and things went from bad to worse. Metallix sent onslaughts of robots, aircrafts, and Dragoons, within the first few days Metallix had in his possession 5 emeralds, the Master Emerald, and 4 Time Stones. While the previous forces fought stronger, the amplified power of the real Phantom Ruby from Metallix proved too much.

Sunset Heights was burned to the ground in various bombings, the Grand Metropolis and it's Power Plant was taken over, and Metallix was trying to occupy the rest of the world such as South Island and Westside Island. Without Sonic things seemed bleak and barren, but they knew they had to keep it together if they were going to survive. And even then the rest of the world wasn't going to be spared anyway.

Knuckles was running through the Mystic Jungle trying to get to the Grand Metropolis, Power Plant, and Central City to try and fight off the robots that were there. He took a slow turn running alongside the waterslide that was being bombarded with Aero Chasers and Motobugs. Jumping to some high platforms over the waterslide he didn't waste any time dashing off. Knuckles: Angel Island and the Master Emerald are important, but as of now I'm only doing this to make things easier for myself and others.

Stage 3- Assault Terrain:Mystic Jungle

Immediately grinding on a rail Knuckles switched to another to avoid an oncoming Buzzbomber. Sliding down the other he jumped off a spring into some ruins, after dash punching into Shield Breakers he headed out. Getting out of there he ledge jumped to the water slide, he slid down it crashing into Motobugs that were coming down.

Sliding to the left off the the slide he ran on the side of a huge tree before heading into the jungle. Aero Chasers flew in from behind bombing him with fire as he jumped or went in different directions to avoid them, they eventually floated up crashing into a branch. Knuckles ran through a loop de loop before dash punching into a line of Egg Pawns, he skidded along the side a a cliff before falling into the slide.

This time as he was sliding down he saw explosions happening in the distance and in the jungle, as Knuckles was about to slide over a hill he jumped gliding back into the jungle. He ran into a closed metallic door pushing a button to open into instantly seeing the bring that lead to Central City on fire with some Chainers on it.

Knuckles ran down the bridge destroying the punch combo before running off to the burning city as a part of the bridge collapsed behind him. Knuckles: Just my luck, hum?

Rings: 0

Time: 4:15

Score: 4000

Perfect Bonus: 6000

Total Score: 10000

Rank: S

As Knuckles ran in he already saw Shadow and Silver taking care of some Mini Titans, Shadow landed multiple Chaos Spears while Silver lifted some up and tossed them around. Knuckles: The Power Plant! Silver: Yeah, we've been trying to get there while protecting the city but these enemies just keep coming! Shadow: Our best chance is for one of us to sneak by there. Knuckles: Well I can't do it. Silver: Shadow, you should go! Shadow: I agree, I'll be back.

Shadow rushed down a damaged road with Knuckles and Silver covering him, he eventually ended up in the Grand Metropolis seeing the place nearly destroyed. The Power Plant was mechanized being silver and red with dark skies hanging over and robots everywhere, aircraft were flying around and the lava was pouring everywhere. Shadow: I don't know whos doing this, but I know what we'll make them stop. Shadow looked at the door frowning before skating in.

Stage 4- Fear Factory:Grand Metropolis

H-VC-A's hovered in the air as soon as he entered, Shadow Homing Attacked each one jumping into a tube from behind seeing the result of the Power Plant's fate. Existing the tube he ran up a ramp turning left sides back to a straight path while quick stepping out of the way from bombs. He ran down a ramp going through a loop de loop before bouncing on some springs.

The springs bounced him to a busted door with Egg Fighters spawning in, Shadow sent a ray of Chaos Spears at them as they were blown to pieces. Shadow ran out of another busted door to see lava pouring out from various pipes and containers. Luckily platforms floated up in the air allowing him to jump from some pillars to the outside.

When he got outside he took a hang glider that was there, soaring through the air seeing lava and broken machinery below Eggales flew up alongside him. Shadow blasted them out of the sky by drilling the glider into them, turning himself left he landed in a sequence of doors closing behind him as he skydived. Escaping the doors he slid under a acid tank sliding down a hill that led him to a rail.

On the rail bombs dropped ahead of him creating gaps that he had to jump over, the end of the rail was bended upwards with a spring at the end. Shadow sprang to a hook speeding fast down an assembly line before dropping down to a huge floating platform declaring victory with his arms crossed. Shadow: Too easy for me.

Rings: 0

Time: 5:20

Score: 6000

Perfect Bonus: 2000

Total Score: 8000

Rank: B

The platform crashed down sinking into the lava with Shadow teleporting to the computer room to disable the machinations, he pressed it disabling the robots, stopping the lava flows, and cooling the place down which in turn cooled the lava. "Atmosphere at normal levels" the machine had said as Shadow teleported out of the Power Plant.

Outside Shadow found many many robots destroyed and damaged with Knuckles and Silver looking severly tired as the clouds cleared with the sun shining through. Shadow: If this is any indication, things weren't looking too good on your end. Knuckles: Yup, so many robots. Silver: Yeah if wasn't for you we probably would've been done for. Shadow: Hmph. But what happened to Sonic and Tails? Knuckles: Still don't know, but I do know that's half of the reason we're in this mess. Shadow: I take the other as the doctor's doing? Silver: Eggman may have went missing, but what did he create that could be this destructive? Knuckles: He had to have used the ruby to do it, the real one.

In a magenta metallic room Sonic The Hedgehog awoke slowly to the sounds of beeps and machinery finding he couldn't move his arms and legs. Sonic: Where am I? That's when a familiar red robot floated down as Sonic connected the dots. Sonic: Metallix! Metallix: So you remember a week ago, splendid. Sonic: Alright, I'm taking you down when I get out of here! Metallix: A threat that you can't even make? I've already planned the destruction of Earth, you can't delay the inevitable. Sonic: Destroying the world and killing many is your goal? That's no good. Metallix: I honestly have no plans for you, other than destruction, say goodbye.

Taking aim at Sonic Metallix shot out a plasma shot as Sonic quickly tilted his head down which destroyed what was holding him, dropping to the floor Sonic Jump Dashed over another shot running away. Sonic: Sorry man, but I gotta juice! He then dashed off triggering various alarms and security breaches.

Sonic dashed to a long hallway as robots continued chasing him down.

Stage 5- Metallic Carnage:?

He jumped off a ledge sky diving down a vertical shaft dodging lasers and Aero Chasers before landing to go through a loop de loop being in a hall as Eggales flew above him. They tried to chase after him but he sped up with them getting a wall to the face exploding. Continuing to go down the hall Sonic Homing Attacked a Chainer to pieces, he pushed a nearby box to a switch opening a door in front of him.

Once the door opened Sonic wall jumped up vertical walls while avoiding lasers up to a spring, springing to a track he dashed through loops, turns, ramps, and straight paths. After going down a ramp Sonic slid under some closing doors turning left to go on a grind rail. It was very brief as he crashed into the outside area of the unknown place after be halted by a stopper placed there. Outside he found a tower with a red ladder, climbing the ladder he arrived at a platform connecting to another bridge.

The tower and bridge began to rumble after being shot by a robot pursuing Sonic, the tower and bridge fell down along with Sonic who charged a Spin Dash barely making it to the other tower. Sonic: If they were trying to destroy me, they're doing a very good job at it. When Sonic looked down he saw clouds and mini Egg Carrier like ships. He climbed down the other tower running across another bridge while jumping over missiles, at the end he Light Speed Dashed through some rings to a hallway filled with robotic sea creatures on the outside.

Running through the aquarium like hallway he used giant fans under him at the end of the tunnel to propel himself to some floating Gunners. Home Attacking the Gunners he Jump Dashed to a platform before jumping to some more staying clear of sharp pendulums that swung by. Upon landing on the last platform it rocketed him out of the inside area, it ran out of fuel dropping itself and Sonic through the sky seeing the unknown area fade from view. Sonic: Come on step it up!

Rings: 47

Time: 4:59

Score: 7000

Perfect Bonus: 3000

Total Score: 14700

Rank: X

However Sonic wasn't out of it yet, a ginormous silver robot flew down hovering at 200 mph and appearing 10x taller than Sonic as he was falling. Sonic: So you're the big cheese! Can't say I wasn't expecting this, I'll wipe the floor with you in no time. With that, the battle began.

Stage 6- Vs. The Scrambler:Steel Skies

It punched at the falling platform with Sonic jumping up and running on the arm quickly Home Attacking into the large core before ground pounding back to the platform. It and Sonic did the same thing twice more, that's when it had fireballs hovering around it, tossing them at Sonic he dodged them the best he could in the small space hitting the last one back.

Spawning in the fireballs it lined them up like a bar throwing it horizontally to Sonic as Sonic ducked but then the bar came back as Sonic Quick Stepped past it instead while continuing to hold on. Sonic: Is that all you got? After his small taunt the robot backed up charging its core at Sonic.

From the core came a laser with Sonic jumping, sliding, and crawling under before charging a Homing Attack at the core stomping back down to the platform as the robot came back up close. It used its arms to grab the small platform and shake it, Sonic was flung off but quickly recovered after Home Attacking the core again.

The robot went to the side of the platform shooting spike pillars at it, Sonic jumped over each pillar with the pillars dropping to the ground below until Sonic jumped on the tip top of the last one and jumped into it. Making a last ditch effort the robot began slamming itself down on the platform completely. Sonic: Whoa, that's a big one! Sonic simply charged a Light Speed Attack that went through the core and robot completely as the other huge pieces fell off. Sonic: That's right, all bark and no bite!

Sonic was falling on the top of the robots' torso bracing himself for impact as he saw the Earth and a icy tundra in view. Sonic: I'm gonna crash, ah! He fell down with the robot sinking into icy waters while Sonic flew into a roll down snowy mountains.

Mission Progress 5%: Is that it?