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"Where the heck has that blue idiot gone?" Knuckles asked out loud in a tone of annoyance, "He's only been here for a minute and he's running around like he owns the place."

After five minutes Knuckles decided to look further away from the shrine, after all, if he was Sonic he would try and find a more secluded area to hide. Knuckles headed towards his shack outside the ruins. When he entered the shack he found a clue though he soon wished he hadn't.

"He took ALL of my food!?" Knuckles continued glaring at the remains of his fridge and the empty space where his food basket usually was, "He must have stored the in my food basket," He kept searching the shack until he saw something in the corner of his eye: muddy footprints, "Hmm… I bet I could follow these to that food stealing hedgehog!"

Knuckles followed the footprints until he returned to the steps to the master emerald's shrine. Once he was on the middle step where the footprints ended he noticed a two things; the food basket was practically empty with the exception of the crumbs and Sonic was nowhere to be seen. After much consideration Knuckles decided to return to his duties of protecting the master emerald, sure he was still mad at Sonic for taking his food but that could wait; the master emerald was his main priority.

Knuckles decided to sit on the steps and rest for a while, soon after, against his will of course, his eyes closed and he fell asleep. Meanwhile on top of the master emerald a certain blue hedgehog had the same idea and was drifting to sleep, until he heard a deafening snoring. Sonic did his best to ignore the snoring but he couldn't handle it in the end and decided to put an end to it. Sonic, still on the emerald, stood up and scanned the area until he found the source of the noise: Knuckles.

Sonic called out to Knuckles a couple of times but each time he did there was no response.

"Knuckles! Could you please keep it down? Some people are trying to take a nap," there was no response "OK Knuckles, I guess I'll have to fight fire with fire, or in this case noise with more noise."

After taking in a long breath of air Sonic let out a shout that made the snoring seem like a whisper much to the annoyance of the echidna.

With a yawn and half closed eyes Knuckles said, "What is it Sonic? Can't you see I'm trying to sleep?" and with that he closed his eyes again, "…Wait a second…" his eyes opened again, "Sonic…"

"Yeah?" as soon as Sonic replied Knuckles sprung to his feet and saw the hedgehog on top of the master emerald. Knuckles felt the anger well up inside of him. That was the last straw.

"That's it! First off you steal all of my food then you have nerves to stand on top of the master emerald!"

"Jeez Knux, calm down the food wasn't that good-" In less than a second Sonic saw Knuckles hurl himself at Sonic, but Sonic dodged the attack and ran. When he looked back he saw Knuckles chasing him, "OK the food was nice!"


Meanwhile in the distance the echo of Sonic's deafening yell had reached Tails' house.

"Hey, didn't that sound like Sonic?" Tails asked Amy who was on the other side of the lab.

"Yeah, I heard it to. Where do you think he is?"

"Judging by the echoes and the fact he said 'Knuckles' I'm guessing Angel Island."

"Tails? Could you do me a favour please?" Amy asked moving closer to Tails.

"Sure," replied Tails "What is it?"