Chapter 10: A New Requirement for the Evil Emeralds
During the fight, Knuckles had discovered something shocking. He looked over to see a computer monitor, that had an important alert on it. "I can't believe this!" said Knuckles "This is bad." Knuckles began reading the alert aloud, "'Evil Chaos Emeralds unstable. Energy source is too low, an overload is very likely.' How am I going to warn Sonic?" Knuckles was thinking rapidly, when he heard a noise. He turned around to see E-106 standing behind him. Before Knuckles could react, E-106 sprayed purple knock-out and Knuckles dropped to the floor like a box of rocks.
Knuckles awoke back on the Floating Island. "Oh, my head. How did I get here?" Knuckles looked around to see nothing was different. Knuckles stood up and stretched a little bit, when something caught his eye. "Whoa! What's that?" Knuckles looked to see what looked like a huge meteor headed for Leaf Forest. Knuckles watched as it crashed into Leaf Forest creating a huge flash of white light that covered the entire Floating Island. As soon as it cleared, Knuckles was in shock. "Whoa! That was no meteor! I'd better go check it out." Knuckles climbed and glided his way over to the Leaf Forest. He reached the crater where he saw the 'meteor'. "Wow, this crater is huge! What caused…Sonic!" Knuckles looked in horror to see Sonic lying in the crater.
Knuckles jumped down in the crater, picked up Sonic, and ran off. Sonic awoke to see he was in a bed. He sat up and looked around, confused. "Sonic!" cried Amy, running into the room "I was so worried." She wrapped her arms around his neck, and began to cry. "Don't cry, Amy. I'm alright" said Sonic, trying to comfort her. Amy let go of Sonic, and dried her tears. "What happened to you?" she asked. "I lost a fight with Eggman. He has evil chaos emeralds. Their much more powerful than the regular ones I used. How did I get here?"
Amy began to tell Sonic about how Knuckles had brought him to Tails's workshop, which is where he is now. "Where did Knuckles go anyway?" asked Sonic. "Right here" said Knuckles entering the room. "Thanks, man. You saved me." "No sweat. You would have done the same." "But, what are we gonna do about those evil emeralds of Eggman's?" Just then, Tails sat up in his bed next to Sonic and said "I know exactly what we can do." "Tails" said Amy "were you pretending to be asleep this whole time?" "Well, for a little while I laid here and listened to you guys. I didn't want to interrupt" replied Tails. Amy got real mad, real fast. She grabbed him by the neck and began shaking him "You dirty little fox! Me and Cream were worried sick!" Sonic and Knuckles grabbed Amy and tried to get her to stop. "Amy!" yelled Sonic "Don't kill Tails! We need his help!"
Meanwhile, while everybody was fighting, Eggman was having troubles of his own. After returning to his base, he got the bad news. "What!" yelled Eggman "My emeralds have no more power!" "Y-yes" replied a little robot, shaking with fear "the e-evil emeralds have no more e-energy. You would need a huge p-power supply, like the m-master emerald." "That's it!" cried Eggman "I'll use the master emerald to give my evil emeralds, unlimited energy! But, who should I send for the job?" wondered Eggman. "I'll take the case" said a strange voice. From out of the shadows, stepped a purple weasel. "I'm Nack the Weasel: Expert Jewel Thief." "How did you get in?" asked Eggman angrily. "Never mind that, I want to help you steal that emerald." "Surely, you not doing this just voluntarily, are you?" "No way!" shouted Nack "You use what you want of the master emerald, and I'll take the rest." Eggman laughed "You're one smart weasel. I like the way you think. Welcome to the Eggman family." Nack and Eggman shook hands sealing the bargain. Sonic now has two problems on his hands.
End of Chapter 10