Running is just a way of keeping you safe. It pulls you away from danger at full speed and makes sure you stay away from it. Many people, because of pride, don't run, and they get hurt from it. No matter how much it hurts your pride, running can always be an acceptable way of keeping away from life-threatening danger.

Everyone could already feel the island start to slowly descend, but most people who didn't understand what just happened disregarded the idea, thus causing a bigger problem for Sonic, because he had to find a solution to the safety of the residents on Angel Island. Sonic had never felt so responsible before, he has to find the Chaos and Sol Emeralds, the Master Emerald, Robotnik and Eggman Nega are working together and both his world and Blaze's were going to be taken over if they didn't do something fast.

Sonic's first instinct was to get back to the pizza parlor where everyone else were, but he knew that he had to alert everyone he could about what was happening to the island. He would have to wait for the rest of the group at the pizza parlor to come find him. After a while passed, no one appeared, so he decided to carry out his own plan. He turned to Blaze and Ultra.

"Ultra, you just stay here and wait for the others; Blaze, you and I need to escort as many people off of the island as possible." Sonic said. Without waiting for a reply from Ultra, Sonic and Blaze started to come up with ways to convince the residents to get off the island.

"You can just bomb some houses and scare the people off the island." Ultra suggested.

"What? Why would we do that?" Sonic asked. "We're trying to get people off unharmed, not dead."

"We have to tell them that the Master Emerald's gone, and tell them about how it effects the island itself if they don't know already. We have to get anyone off we can." Blaze said.

"And if that doesn't work you can make a bomb and wipe them out." Ultra said. Ignoring Ultra, Sonic and Blaze set off to warn people about the island.

"Hey, Ultra, is the island really going to drop into the sea?" Sam, who walked up to Ultra, asked.

"Probably." Ultra said.

"…And we can't do anything about it."

"No, probably not."

"Sonic!" Ultra and Sam heard someone calling Sonic's name. It was Amy. Ultra was just about to walk up to her to explain what's going on, when Knuckles ran past him and grabbed Sam.

"Okay, speak up, where is the Master Emerald?" Knuckles demanded furiously.

"It's right behind me." Sam replied.

"Do you think I'm stupid?"

"Well, you asked for and answer and I didn't say it was the right one." Sam replied, as the rest of the group arrived.

"Where is Sonic? I need to talk to him." Shadow asked Ultra and Sam.

"Right here!" Shadow turned to see Sonic and Blaze run right up to Shadow. "What do you need?"

"Sonic, do you remember those craters caused by the random explosions a while ago?" Shadow asked.

"Yeah, what about it?"

"There was something strange about the fact that Robotnik would have explosions go off at random locations, so I had Tails take a closer look at one of the craters."

"So did they turn out to be what you suspected?"

"I think you should have Tails explain this to you."

Sonic went up to Tails to ask him about what he found out about the craters.

"I saw a small hole at the center of the crater, and it turns out that the explosions we saw were actually just used to propel a small, but much more powerful bomb deep under the surface of the island. I think Robotnik is planning to destroy the entire island!" Tails explained. "There is also a good chance that the explosions we saw before we got onto Angel Island are serving the same purpose, but it's to destroy the entire planet!" Sonic didn't have anything to say. He sighed and walked to the rest of the crowd.

"We can't stay on this island any longer. We need to get off of this place immediately." Sonic didn't leave time for any questions; he started walking away from the town. The sun was starting to rise, and Sonic used that as a compass. He walked east; it was closest to the shore on the ground below.

"So you're telling us to just get off the island?" Sam asked.

"Yes I am, it's either that or you go down with the island!" Sonic replied.

"We still have time! At least give us time to prepare!" Ultra said. Sonic was going to tell them about the bomb and that they could go off any minute, but something seemed to have stopped him from saying that. "Fine. I'll wait for you guys here" Sonic said.

Fifteen minutes have passed and anyone who left has come back with a few extra belongings. Except Ultra. He carried two backpacks, carried a large handbag and had a large suitcase. "Is this too much? If it's too much, I can carry lighter. Should I carry lighter? Or is this fine? I don't know, what about you?" Ultra kept on asking stupid questions, so nobody paid any attention to him. Sam carried a samurai sword and a kendo mask. He claims that kendo is a hobby, and he feels safer when he has a weapon around him. Nobody minded that, since it didn't really slow him down or anything, but everyone shifted their attention on Ultra, who had trouble holding onto everything.

"You're going to have to travel lighter, Ultra." Tails commented.

"Well, I was kind of expecting that, I guess." Ultra said as he kicked all of his bags onto the side. "Just let me get my glasses." Ultra grabbed a pair of tiny glasses tinted red out of his bag. "Optometrist got confused with the frame and size that I selected and he thought I wanted sunglasses. I think I should get a refund." Ultra said, holding the tiny glasses up and letting anyone who had one give an opinion. Again, nobody paid any attention to him so they just followed Sonic as he walked east.

"Did you find anything about when the bombs were going to blow?" Sonic asked Tails, just loud enough that no one else can hear them.

"No, they're remote controlled; they can go off any minute without warning." Tails replied. Just then, at that very moment, Sonic heard a high-pitched beeping noise coming from below the surface. Before Sonic could respond, a massive explosion sent a deep crack through the ground, and it was quickly followed by more blasts that continued to put cracks into the ground. Finally, the island started to split into two, but that didn't stop the bombs. The kept on exploding, putting deeper cracks into the island and breaking it into more smaller chunks.

Sonic could only stare at what was happening to the island. He was helpless to stop it, now that it was happening. They could only try to get off the island alive.

"We need a miracle." Was all he could say.