Sonic dashed along the endless checkerboard path with Knuckles following close behind and Michiru trying to keep up with the pair of them. Sonic followed the instructions the Eternity Ring had given him, which was to simply to follow the path. Suddenly a white light flashed around them, and the next thing Sonic knew that he and the others were in a different location now. Sonic looked around and saw that they were now in a wooded area.

Don't worry Sonic, you have arrived in the Soul Society. Said the voice Ring Of Eternity from Sonic's head.

Sonic turned back to his teammates and who were confused by their very sudden arrival and said, "Dudes, we're in the Soul Society."

Knuckles nodded, but Michiru glanced around at the place.

"Our mission begins now." Sonic looked at Michiru "Michiru now's the time for you to lead us to the Emeralds."

Michiru shut her eyes for a couple of seconds and then she pointed ahead of Sonic towards what was just more forest, "I can just feel Emerald power coming from that direction."

"Now we're talking!" Sonic cheered.

The group began walking into the forest lead by Michiru, and for the next ten minutes they walked straight along the forest path, and they continued to walk along the path. While walking, they heard the sounds of running water nearby and soon they came out of the wood and came to a river. Michiru stopped walking and said,

"I can feel more emerald power here!" She beamed."Its a lot of energy though so I think you may need to stay away, Sonic." Michiru informed.

"That's right, sit tight, Hedgehog." Knuckles added.

Sonic crossed his arms, "Yeah yeah."

And so Michiru and Knuckles left Sonic to go and find the source of the Emerald energy in the area. Sonic went and sat by the river, this was probably going to be the most boring adventure he's ever been on if they find the emeralds without any trouble. but Sonic figured that would be better than the world almost ending.

"Hehe, they left you all alone have they?"

Sonic looked up and he jumped up when he saw a familiar-looking human girl descending from the air and stopping on top of the surface of the water. She was smiling cheekily at Sonic who just glared back at her.

"You!" Sonic pointed at her," When did you get here?!"

Yami giggled again," I got here not too long ago, I followed the Emerald energy to here but... it looks like you guys beat me to it." She shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly.

Sonic glared at her, not believing a single word she said.

Yami made a fake frown before shrugging her shoulders," Aww, no reply. That's a shame I wanted to hear something witty before I plunge the world into darkness."

Sonic rolled his eyes, "I don't know if you got the memo but other people tried that and they failed, so what makes you think this will be any different?"

Yami formed a wicked smile, "Because I'm different, a lot more different from your previous enemies. I am eight-thousand years of raw Chaos Emerald power, the same power that transformed your friend Kintobor into that disgusting egg-shaped human. When I have all seven Emeralds, I will transform this universe into a breeding ground for pure pain and suffering."

A purple energy sphere formed in Yami's hand,

"I'll show you what I mean."

"Sonic!"

Michiru and Knuckles came running out of the wooded area. Michiru holding three Chaos Emeralds one of which was grey.

"Talk about good timing!" Sonic said, "We should be able to win this now."

"Oh look! The cute little hedgehog's friends and he's brought another woodland creature for me to kill." Yami shouted.

Michiru and Knuckles rushed to Sonic. Sonic took the grey emerald from Michiru and he handed it to Knuckles

"Get ready Knuckles, we only got one chance to sap that thing's energy."

"I know." Knuckles replied.

"What about me?' asked Michiru.

"When her energy is low enough, use your power to blast her to oblivion." Sonic answered and Michiru who liked the sound of that smiled, "But I'm gonna have to tell you to stay out of the way, got it?"

Michiru nodded and distanced herself away from the area.

Yami tossed the energy ball at Sonic and Knuckles, but they leapt out of the way resulting in an explosion that destroyed most of the area. Yami threw more energy spheres at Sonic who easily dodged them all with his speed, while this happened, Knuckles tore out a massive chunk of earth and tossed it at Yami turning her attention to the chunk and she fired an energy ball at that. The explosions created a smokescreen of dirt

Sonic began circling the ground at superspeed creating a cyclone that trapped Yami in it, but the cyclone was blown up creating a strong gust blowing everything away in the area,

"WHAO!"

Including Sonic, Knuckles and Michiru.

"Is everyone okay?" Sonic uncurled from a ball.

"I am and the Control Emerald is too luckily..." Knuckles he held up the grey emerald in his hand.

"What about you Michiru? Michiru?" Sonic looked around and didn't see Michiru with them. Before Sonic could ask, they heard another explosion that sounded very close, Sonic and Knuckles sped towards the site which was an open field where they saw Yami chasing Michiru with energy blasts.

"C'mon Red!"

Sonic charged ahead and hit Yami in the face with a hook and Yami grabbed Sonic by his arm held an energy sphere in his face, she grinned but Sonic shook himself free as Yami released the sphere and very quickly Sonic used his insta-shield and so the attack was batted back to Yami resulting Sonic being blown back by another explosion that Yami was caught in,

Sonic slid across the ground until he saw Knuckles standing above him. Sonic sat up and saw the explosion cloud.

"What about Michiru?" Knuckles asked.

"I'm here!" The two of them saw Michiru running towards them in her super-state.

"AHH!" Shouted an angry voice from the explosion cloud, then a strong force blew the cloud away to reveal Yami with a nasty scar on the right side of her face.

"I'm digging the new look!" Sonic taunted.

"Silence! You blue rat!" She screamed," No more games! I'll just take what's rightfully mine!" Then she disappeared and seconds later, Yami appeared with a crazed grin and grabbed Michiru's neck squeezed it as hard as she could.

"Knuckles now!" Sonic yelled.

Then a blast of grey energy came from the emerald Knuckles was holding. Once it hit Yami who almost immediately loosened her grip on Michiru, and Michiru threw her first at Yami knocking her backwards.

"Damn it! " She cursed.

"Good job guys, now Michiru!" Sonic shouted and Michiru put both her hands out and two balls of energy began increasing in size in her hands. Sonic saw Knuckles still draining Yami's energy he shouted, "Yo Red! Get out of there unless you wanna get fried!"

"But she still has so much energy! How's that possible?!" Knuckles replied.

"Not enough time!" Sonic grabbed Knuckles and evacuated the area.

"Say goodbye!"Then Michiru unleashed the torrent of energy point-blank consuming her creating a deep crater in the process.

Exhausted, Michiru turned back to normal.

"HAHAHAA! Did you think that would stop ME!" shouted a voice from within the crater. Michiru looked down into the hole and was horrified when she Yami barely bruised and smiling.

"Your eight-thousand years too early to be contending with me, girl!" Yami began to glow purple and all of a sudden, Michiru felt tremendous pressure and everything went black. Sonic and Knuckles rushed to her side. They called her but she didn't respond.

"What's up with her?!" Sonic shook Michiru.

"She must have used too much energy." Knuckles explained.

Yami flew into the air and then she raised both of her hands in the air and she formed a gigantic ball of purple energy. It was so large that the sky was hidden from them.

Yami let out a loud laugh "It was fun Sonic! I admit that was a good fight, I can see why your so tough to kill, but as I said I am not like the others!" And Yami released the ball that was slowly descending towards Sonic and the others.

Sonic and Knuckles in the meantime were frozen until Knuckles turn to Sonic and said, "What do we do? No doubt she'll kill us with that"

Sonic didn't answer, he just said." Take Michiru and get as far away from here as possible, got it?"

Knuckles looked at him confused, "What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to transform into Super Sonic."

"What?!"But then Knuckles paused thoughtfully and then said."Are you sure that's the only way?"

"I don't know! But I know that this creep is gonna destroy this world too!" Sonic yelled.

Suddenly the other two Chaos Emeralds in Michiru's possession began to rumble violently, and then emeralds released a white light that consumed everything around them.