Knuckles met up with Sonic and friends.

"Hey Knuckles." Sonic said. "I see you brought some company." Sonic said, referring to Shade of course.

"Yeah, and of course I got some extra company as well in the form of Lara-Su and Chaos.

"Well that's just great, just when I thought I would see the last of them, oh well, our new friend here got us a chaos emerald." Sonic said. Lizzy stepped forward and shyly said hi.

"Hey, names Knuckles."

"Names Shade." Shade said waving to her.

"And my name is Naugus!"

Before they could turn around and look, Naugus sent a lightning bolt down to the group. Naugus grabbed the emerald from them, and quickly flew off.

"Get back here!" Tails shouted, trying to chase Naugus before he could get away.

"Trying to step up to the plate and chase me down huh?" Naugus said looking back at the flying fox. Naugus sent a lightning bolt at Tails, seeing as he feared them, Tails jumped back scared, and eventually fell into the water.

"Tails!" Sonic shouted out. Nicole quickly jumped into the water. Once deep enough, she turned into her mermaid form and swam quickly towards Tails. Before Tails could make anything out she turned back and grabbed the two Tailed fox who was struggling to stay above water.

"I got you Tails." Nicole said, holding Tails from behind.

"Oh, thank you Nicole." Tails said coughing up water a bit.

"Your welcome, come on let's head to shore."

Nicole and Tails swam together back to shore.

"Wow Nicole, that was pretty fast." Knuckles said.

"Yeah, I guess I'm a pretty good swimmer." Nicole said.

"You ok big guy?" Sonic said to Tails who was still coughing up water a bit.

"Yeah, I'm ok." Tails said. "Sorry I went off on my own, I just wanted to try and stop Naugus."

"It's ok, I have a feeling he may be heading back to station square."

Over on the speakers, the announcement for the train heading back to Station Square was made.

"Just in time…" Sonic said. The gang headed up to the train station quickly.

"Next stop, Station Square!"

"I will admit I am a bit frustrated that you let them go off on their own." Commander Ian said over video call. Commander Ian had called Student 21 to see how he was doing, and he was not so impressed when he heard what Student 21 was up to.

"Come on Commander, they were just helping me out…"

"They don't belong here to begin with…" The commander responded with a big emphasis on "they."

"We can and have been trying to track the chaos creature just as much as they've been."

Student 21 wanted to call B.S on that, seeing as he hadn't seen a single hint of this, but he didn't feel he was in the right position to question Commander Ian, especially seeing as he was in a bad mood.

"Now, With our idiots over at the Mobius base sending out yet 2 more subjects we're getting worried and prepared to send these guys back before anymore come. This is where you come into play."

"What do you want me to do?"

"One of the maids has put a tracker outside of your door. Put this said tracker on one of the creatures so we can track them down and send them home immediately. Fail to do so and consequences will be severe. Undestood?"

"Yes."

With that Commander Ian cut the feed. Student 21 got up and looked outside his door to see the box there that contained the tracker. The tracker was quite small, but Student 21 still didn't like the idea.

"God damn it Commander Ian why do you have to have me in a hard place like this…" he said sitting on his bed angrily. He didn't want to do it, but he was afraid of what the consequences would be, nor did he want to find out.

Naugus continued to to fly over the sea looking for Chaos, as he was, Eggman had called him via his earpiece.

"Good news Doctor, I've found another Chaos emerald."

"Excellent Naugus. I've tracked down Chaos, he's around the shores of Station Square. Be sure to give him that emerald as soon as you see him."

"And what if he thinks it's a trap sir?"

"Either introduce yourself to him or if you're worried that that he'll still attack you place it in a spot on the beach and make it look like it's been there the whole time."

"Got it sir."

Naugus wished that he had the ability to just transport over to the said spot, but he was still weak and didn't want to use all of the chaos energy, seeing as it was needed for chaos to energize himself.

On the shores, Chaos had become a part of the ocean for a while, just resting and going along with it, waiting for the hedgehog to get back to Station Square so he could once again attack him. As he was, he noticed something shiny falling from the sky.

Chaos got out of his water into his humanoid form and went over to the Chaos emerald. He picked it up with his hand and looked at it for a bit, wondering if it was a trap. Once it was placed in his body, he knew that it was the real deal.

"It's time…" he said as his eyes glowed. Storm clouds over took the sunny blue sky, and the water started to get rough. Naugus watched as water started surrounding Chaos as he stood.

"This outta be good…" Naugus said, flying over to higher ground to see what Chaos had in store. Tikal appeared in front of Chaos, pleading with him.

"Chaos please...

"It's too late now Tikal…time to show them all what I can really become."

Just as Student 21 was stepping out of his hotel room, he noticed the sudden change in the weather. Before he could even comment on it a huge wave of water headed his way, causing him to jump inside quickly before he got plowed down by it.

"What the heck is going on out there?" asked one of the guests.

"A giant flood, that's what!"

Eggman watched in glee as water flooded into the streets and caused people to panic, running inside or getting on top of their cars.

"That's it Chaos, give them hell."

Before long, station square had turned into a big puddle. Water flooded every street and flooded out every building from the hotel to love park. Soon, Sonic and the gang would be walking right into this mess, and Chaos would be waiting for them…