Episode 18: Trouble in Families

In the desert where the Dark Legion's camp are at, The Chaotix, Mighty, and Ray are being held prisoner. They are chained up and are unable to escape. Charmy and Saffron are trapped in a glass orb that is close to impossible for them to escape.

"I can't believe the Dark Legion are able to get the jump on us," Vector says, gritting his teeth.

"It didn't help that Enerjak is able to capture us and brought us here. How did eh got our anyway?" Mighty replies.

"I don't know, but we need to escape and warn Knuckles," Espio says.

"I don't see how can this get worse," Vector says.

Suddenly, a flash of light appears and disappears in a second. The next moment, Julie-Su along with Eve's family are on the ground of the desert.

"I-I think it just got worse," Ray replies.

Julie-Su holds her head, "Oooohhh!"

"My head hurts," Cloud-Ra says, holding his head.

Espio calls out, "Julie-Su."

Julie-Su and the two grown mobians turn their heads in shock to see the friends that have gone missing.

"Espio! Vector! Mighty! Ray! What happened?! Julie-Su asks, shocked.

"So Enerjak got to you guys too, did he?" Vector asks.

"Vector," Espio firmly says.

Then Mighty asks, "But what is Eve and her family doing here?"

"We were hoping to have a relaxing tie on the island. Eve suggests we come here to have some family time together," Obsidian says.

"Knuckles and I were trying to find you guys, and it turns out Archimedes is missing too. Enerjak attacked us and somehow he knows that Eve along with her father are related to him," Julie-Su says.

"That doesn't sound good, does it?" Vector asks.

"No it's not. To make matters worse, Enerjak took Knuckles and Eve and Enerjak teleported us here," Cloud-Ra says.

"And it's a good thing he did," A voice says.

Julie-Su turns her head with a bitter expression to see Kragok and some of the Dark Legion soldiers.

Julie- Su says, bitter, "Kragok, so you were involved in this."

"Yes. It's a pleasure to see you so soon, Julie-Su. And it appears to have a few more 'guests' with us," Krago says with a smirk.

Then commands the Legion, "Make sure you keep them here and make their visit more comfortable."

The Dark Legion hold their guns and surround Julie-Su and Eve's family. Cloud-Ra holds Shun and Jazz while Obsidian hold the Echidna twins. The group realize that they are in big trouble and are now prisoners of the Dark Legion.

Somewhere in space, there is a moon that is far from Mobius. On the rocky part of the moon, a tornado appears and is spinning two beings inside. Trapped in the vortex of the tornado are Knuckles and Eve. Not long, they've been captured by Enerjak who is their ancestor, Dimitri, and now are being taken where Enerjak is planning to do with them. Soon, the tornado stop spinning and they land on the moon.

Feeling dizzy, Eve says, "Whoa! Talk about a real spin off."

"No kidding," Knuckles says, and shakes his head to clear the spinning.

He looks around, and asks, "Where are we?"

Knuckles and Eve look around to see the stars in the black sky, and the sun that looks a bit close. What really shocked them is to see the planet mobius.

"Knuckles… I think we're on the moon," Eve says.

"And I think we're in trouble. It's funny to know how one's blood relatives can make the worst enemies," Knuckles says.

"No kidding. I kind of had that experience with the Black Amrs and now Enerjak," Eve says.

Eve then stands up and looks around. She then sees Mobius from the moon.

Eve turns to Knuckles, "Knuckles, we have to do something."

"I know. I just don't know what. Enerjak was able to overpower us. If we try to do anything, Enerjak will use his power against us," Knuckles says.

Thern Eve looks around, "Speaking of Enrjak, where is he anyway?"

Suddenly, both of their bodies are being trapped in strange rings. They both become paralyzed and are unable to move. They struggle to break free from the strange rings.

"What is this?" Knuckles demands.

"I think we got our answer," Eve says, struggling against the energy.

Suddenly, Eve is being drifted away.

"Eve!" Knuckles screams.

Knuckles becomes shocked to see Eve is being drifted to Enerjak who is walking on the moon like it's no problem.

"Hello young hedgehog, I find it surprising to see you again," Enerjak says.

"I don't need your remarks. Where is Julie-Su and where's my family?" Eve demands in anger.

Enerjak chuckles and places his hand under Eve's chin so she has to face him.

"Do not fret little one, your family is not harm. Of course, I wouldn't hurt those who are part of my bloodline. They are sent to those who have supported me," Enerjak says.

"The Dark Legion!" Knuckles says, glaring at him.

"What?!" Eve exclaims.

Then angrily says, "Then why send me and Knuckles on the half-broken moon."

"Still have plenty of spirit, Eve, was it," Enerjak says.

Then turns to Knuckles, "As for you Knuckles, I'm going to break you entirely… completely, mercilessly! You are going to pay for what you did!"

"What I did? What did I do?" Knuckles asks.

"You fool! You're only the latest continuation of misguided beliefs that were formed long before you were born! Your kind could never comprehend the limitless power I alone possess! Power transport you from the Floating Island to here, and create the air you now exist in!" Enerjak says.

"Oh really. Last I checked, Knuckles and I were not only able to beat you, but we were able to give you a one way ticket to space," Eve sternly says.

"As yes. I do remember, but I also remember the interesting power you have and how you use it to escape my grasp," Enerjak says, turning to Eve.

"Speaking of escaping, how did you get out of that space shuttle?" Eve demands.

Enerjak smirks, "Like I will tell you and your so called friend about it."

Knuckles angrily says, "Just you wait, when we get out of here we're going to be sure you sent farther into space."

"You two think you succeeded due to your own cleverness. You two could never hope to overcome one such as I," Enerjak angrily says.

"A bit prideful much," Knuckles mutters.

Enerjak creates powerful Chaos Energy from his hand, "Allow me to demonstrate!"

Suddenly, the group disappears from the moon. And suddenly, ends up at the bottom of the ocean. Eve holds her breath to she then suddenly, realizes. She is able to breath under the ocean. However, she turns to see Knuckles is trying to hold his breath. Eve gasps in shock.

"Now observe! From the surface of Mobian's moon to the deepest, darkest depths of Mobian Oceans! This is what real, absolute power is all about," Enerjak says.

Eve is shocked and begins to struggle to break free.

Enerjak floats to Knuckles, "The ability to do anything with both a thought. I gather from your expression, the reality of your situation is beginning to sing in!"

Enerjak maniacally laughs as Eve struggles to break freedom the power Enerjak has over her.

Meanwhile, Julie-Su and Eve's father, Cloud-Ra find themselves in Kragok's tent. Kragok sits at his desk while Julie-Su and Cloud-Ra glaring at him.

"Alright Kragok, why do you want me and Cloud-Ra to come here?" Julie-Su sternly asks.

"It's quite simple Julie-Su, Dimitri advise that you and Cloud-Ra have been brought back to the Legion," Kragok says.

"Brought back?" Cloud-Ra says, confused.

Kragok stands up and walks to Cloud-Ra, "Indeed. You see, we had a run in with your daughter, Eve. and we were able to match her D.N.A with yours. So we know that you and your daughter Eve same blood as Dimitri, and myself."

"Yourself? What are you talking about?" Julie-Su demands.

Kragok then brings out a cuffed bracelet of some kind. The cuff is made of some kind of metal with strange star designs.

Kragok presents it to Cloud-Ra, "Perhaps this will light up this little mystery."

Confused, Cloud-Ra stares at the cuff bracelet. However, something about the bracelet is familiar to him. Cloud-Ra takes the cuff bracelet and looks at it very carefully. She then looks at the inner part to see a name on it.

Cloud-Ra reads, "Luger?"

"This… this is my brother," Cloud-Ra softly says, enough for Julie-Su and Kragok to hear.

"What?" Julie-Su says, confused.

Cloud-Ra turns to Keagok, "Where did you get this?"

"It's quite simple, Luger was my father," Kragok answers with a smirk on his face.

Cloud-Ra eyes wide in shock.

"I do admit, you are shocked, but it is true. It is a surprise to find you live and started a life of your own, but I am curious to what happened during the accident. You can imagine the Legion's relive that you are still alive," Kragok says.

Cloud-Ra gets his teeth as he clutched his hand to his robotic arm as he turns his head away.

"Well?" Kragok asks, a little impatient.

"I do apologize. I… I really don't like talking about it much, but if you insist. What I can tell you that the transporter did succeeded before it exploded. Sadly, I lost my arm and was founded by a human scientist. I ended up living with him and became his assistant," Cloud-Ra says.

"Interesting. I wonder what he will say to find out you are still alive and still quite young on that," Kragok says.

"Hmm, it's kind of a long story. I'm not sure I can explain to you," Cloud-Ra says.

"It is quite understandable. There's plenty of time to discuss about it. Since you and your family and Julie-Su are going to be part of the legion," Kragok says.

Cloud-Ra and Julie-Su are shocked to hear that Kragok are not going to let them leave so easily. With their friends and family here, there's not much they can do.

After their little meeting with the Dark Legion Leader, Julie-Su and Cloud-Ra walk around the camp. They both look around to see the Dark Legion walking around working on machines, hovercrafts, and such.

"So Cloud, how do you feel about being back here all this time?" Julie-Su asks.

"To be honest, I feel a bit uncomfortable about being here. This is the type of person I used to be most of my life. They were my friends and my family. Yet, I feel weird around them. I should feel at home here, and instead, I feel like a complete stranger," Cloud-Ra says.

"I guess it's understandable. It's been years since since the incident," Julie-Sus says.

Suddenly, they hear someone shouting, "I expect the members of this squad to have their vehicles ready to move at a moments notice!"

Julie-Su groans, "Great. It's Sergeant Rykor."

"Rykor?" Cloud-Ra says, confused.

"Yes. He's very strict," Julie says.

They turn to see the dark red echidna wearing the black robe like the others. Part of his face is metallic with a bionic eye.

Julie-Su whispers, "Just follow my lead."

Cloud-Ra nods.

Julie-Su walks over and says, "Sergeant Rykor, I'm here to uh, resume my position."

"Is that so, soldier?" Rykor questions.

Then strictly says, holding a strange stick., "You so much as give me reason to doubt your loyalty… and you'll see stars in broad daylight! Is that CLEAR?!"

"As a bell, Sergeant!" Julie-Su sternly says, taking the stick.

Then Rykor notices Cloud-Ra, "And who might you be?"

"Cloud-Ra," Cloud-Ra answers.

"Hmm, I thought you look familiar. I recently heard news that you've been alive and now that you are back where you belong," Rykor says.

"Is that so?" Cloud-Ra questions, crossing his arms.

"That what we're going to make sure of. Otherwise, you and your family will find yourselves in an uncomfortable position," Rykor says.

Meanwhile, Knuckles is still under water. The echidna continues to hold his breath and looks up to see Enerjak above the sea and holding Eve hostage.

Knuckles thinks, "Enerjak can suck on raw eggs before I give in to him. I'm not going to let him get away of abducting Eve, or everyone else for that matter.

Knuckles begins to swim from the depths of the sea to find Eve.

In his thoughts, Knuckles says, "My chest feels like it's about the burst!"

Suddenly, a shark begins to swim towards them.

"Uh no! Trouble," Knuckles thinks.

Knuckles then position himself to hold still, "If I float in position, the shark probably think I'm part of the landscape."

Knuckles stands completely still until the shark swims away. Seeing the shark is gone, Knuckles continues to swim to the surface.

Knuckles thinks, "My head… getting… woozy! Can't… take much… more of this! Need air!"

Suddenly, something grabs Knuckles by the ankle.

"What the?" Knuckles says, confused.

Then something begins to drag Knuckles down.

Meanwhile, the alarm goes off in the Brotherhood Headquarters. Locke runs over to see the Dark Legion on the screen. Just then, another echidna walks over. He is wearing a blue rob and blue boots.

"I was afraid of this, father. The Dark Legion are back," Locke says.

"Yes. the dark side of our family strikes back," Locke's father says.

Just then, the two echidnas notice, "Wait a minute, isn't that…"

"Yes father, that's Julie-Su… and Eve's father? What's he doing here?" Locke says, shocked.

Then the screen shows The Chatoix and the others. Even Obsidian and the young ones.

Athair walks over and says, "And it appears that Knuckles friends are captured by the Legion."

"Yes. And Eve's family. I was afraid of this. With Cloud-Ra there, they must have found out he was part of the Legion," Locke says.

Locke's father says, "Something's very wrong here! No sign of Knuckles, the Dark Legion have captured his friends along what the hedgehog's family, and they are ready to strike."

"Yes. I'm afraid I know where they're going to strike at… Echidnaopolis!" Locke says.

Meanwhile, Knuckles is in deep trouble right now. Knuckles tries to swim his way up, but some green tentacle is starting to pull him down. Suddenly, Enerjak's head appears in the Chaos Energy.

Knuckles swims as he thinks, As if I didn't have… enough problems with old mask face has to… come and gloat!"

"Gloat? That's much too mild a word to describe my desires at the moment," Enerjak says.

He then smirks and says, "In fact, I am so thoroughly enjoying watching you give a whole new meaning of being at the bottom of the Food Chain!" Enerjak remarks.

Knuckles continues to be pulled down until he comes face to face with a large, green, one eye octopus. The octopus growls in anger and it looks to be hungry.

Knuckles finds himself continuing to be dragged down by a large octopus. Knuckles tries to smack the octopus, but the tentacle grabs it. Knuckles struggles to escape the octopus' grasp and breathing for that matter. Above the water, Eve can see what is happening. The hedgehog continues to struggle against Enerjak's powers. Eve looks down to see the octopus has Knuckles pulled down to the bottom of the water.

Eve gasps, "Knuckles!"

Eve clutches her hands and begins to create powerful Chaos Energy with her hands, "That it! I had it!"

Enerjak turns his head to see Eve using her Chaos Energy that flows through her hands.

"What are you planning, girl?" Enerjak questions.

"I'm going to get Knuckles before he drowns," Eve answers.

Then shouts, "Chaos Blast!"

Eve's then bursts her Chaos Energy causing Enerjak's to lose grasp of her. Eve then falls into the water and begins to swim on it. She takes a deep breath and dives into the water as fast as she can. Sonic uses her super speed to speed down to the water and rams the Octopus on the head, causing it to let go of Knuckles. Knuckles begins to swim up to the surface. Eve then hurries to Knuckles and helps him up. Soon, the hedgehog and echidna reach the surface, and Knuckles can breath.

Knuckles says, "Th-thanks… Eve."

"You're welcome. Are you okay?" Eve replies.

"I think so. You saved me," Knuckles replies.

Then Knuckles notices with a groan, "Oh no."

"Oh yes! Your only hope is for you to kiss my feet and beg for mercy! Enerjak remarks.

"Fat chance!" Knuckles angrily says.

"Obviously, we haven't reached your breaking point yet," Enerjak says.

Eve angrily says, "Alright, that's it! Your little game is finished, Dimitri! Oh, we are are so out of here!"

Eve then spin dashes super fast that it consumes Enerjak into a large wave. Eve then grabs Knuckles and speeds off. Eve super speeds across the water as she has Knuckles in her arms.

"That was fast thinking Eve, but I don't think Dimitri, or Enerjak, is going to like it," Knuckles says.

"Who cares! Our friends and my family are in trouble! We gotta find them!" Eve says.

"You're right. If they're with the legion. If we find them, then we'll find your family and our friends," Knuckles says.

Eve turns her head back, "I just hope we can find them before Enerjak finds us."

Back in the Dark Legion's camp, Vector and the others are having trouble of their own. They notice Julie-Su and Cloud-Ra walking along the camp, without anything bounding them.

"It looks like, Julie-Su and Eve's dad aren't going to make this easy for them about joining their legion," Mighty says.

The next thing they see is two of the Legionnaires escort Cloud-Ra away from Julie-Su.

"Y-yes. W-we have to help them," Ray says.

"But how? We're trapped and we have no clue where Eve's mother and the young ones are being held," Charmy asks.

Vector moves his hands behind his back, "Don't worry, I think I know how. Just as soon as I… well, fix the mess we're in now."

Just then, a Legionnaire walks over with a gun and angrily says, "Will you clowns cut out the racket!"

Suddenly, Vector grabs the Legionnaire and his blaster, "I'll show you who's the clown!"

Vector uses the gun to hit the Legionnaire on the head into consciousness and leaves a bad bump on the head.

"Now that's out of the way, I get the rest of you out," Vector says.

Suddenly, they hear a loud clicking sound, causing them to turn to the source.

Mighty shouts, "Vector, look out!"

Before, Vector can turns his head around, something pops and a strange gas begins to surround the area. The Chaotix soon collapses and are knocked out cold. Holding the gun is Julie-Su, and is not pleased about having to do this to her friends.

Kragok walks over and says, "Very good, my dear!"

"Will that be all, Commander?" Julie-Su asks.

"Just one more thing, soldier. Finish them off" Kragok says.

Meanwhile, Eve continues to super speed on the water she holds Knuckles. They look around the area to see Enerjak isn't following them.

Knuckles says, "I think we gave him the slip."

"I hope so, We need to find the others," Eve says.

Knuckles looks up, "There's Angel Island."

Eve looks up to see the floating island above them.

Then says, "I'll get up there."

Eve then uses her Chaos Energy to fly herself and Knuckles in the air and to the island. They fly so fast and high, that they are able to reach the forest landscape of the island. Once they're on the island, Eve and Knuckles stand on its ground.

"Alright, we just need to find the Dark Legion's site and we'll find everyone," Knuckles says.

Eve and Knuckles then hurry through the forest to find the Chaotix and Eve's family.

Meanwhile, Archimedes and his grandfather are in trouble themselves. They are still trapped in a sphere container.

Archimedes says, "I refuse to accept the possibility of they're not being any way out of this, that we can't find grandfather Deo."

"Have you forgotten, Archimedes? Were up against a creature so powerful, it defies the imagination," Grandfather Deo says.

"However powerful Dimitri may be, grandfather, outwitting his Lieutenants is well within the realm of possibility," Archimedes says.

Soon, Archimedes and his grandfather feel their prison is moving. That's because Kragok is holding it while the Legionnaires follow. One of them is holding a box

Kragok sees the small ants and says, "I've imagined this day drawing for a long time!"

"With the touch of a button, I eliminate one set of problems," Kragok adds as he places the orb in the box and the Legionnaire seals it tight.

Then the Legionnaires puts the box in the dance and begin to bury it under it.

Kragok continues seeing the process, "Allowing us to focus attention on reclaiming that which should be ours!"

Once the box is buried the Legion leaves the area to continue with their main goal.

Kragok commands the Legion, "Inform everyone the operation commence immediately! Today, Echidnaopolis! Tomorrow the world!"

Trapped in their prison, Archimedes is trying his best to teleport his way out, but fails.

"No way to teleport! The electromagnet field is even stronger in here!" Archimedes panics.

"Easy, lad! We've been in tough spots before" Grandfather Deo says.

"Tougher than this? I can't remember ever feeling this helpless!" Archimedes says, deflates.

Archimedes and his grandfather are trapped inside.

Back somewhere on the Island, Knuckles and Eve are running through the forest and are now having Enerjak on their tail. Eve turns to see the Powerful Echidna following after them. She then accelerate her speed through the forest, but Enerjak is following behind. Enerjak create a powerful Chaos Energy with his hand and fires a Chaos like lighting. Eve quickly turns and gasps to see the lighting bolt heading towards them.

Eve pushes Knuckles out of the way, "Look out!"

Knuckles falls down a hill and Eve ends up taking the hit. She screams in agony and falls into unconsciousness. Knuckles continues to fall down and lands into the bush. Enerjak looks around to see if Knuckles is around, so far nothing.

Enerjak simply grins, "Well, looks like that is that. I may not be able to finish off Knuckles, but I at least have you, Eve."

Enerjak uses his Chaos Energy to teleport himself and Eve out of the area. Unconscious in the bushes, Knuckles ends up getting hit when he falls down, and has no clue Eve has been taken by Enerjak, who is also her and Knuckles' ancestors.