At Angel Island.
"What's going on? What's with my clothes? Did I shrink or something?" Chris said.
As the Master Emerald's glow died down, Chris looked over the sleeves of his lab coat, which was now too big for him.
"Great to see ya, Chris!" Tails said.
Chris stood up.
"Tails, it's you!" he said.
Cream and Amy also approached.
"We really missed you!" Cream said.
"It's about time you showed up!" Amy said and playfully nudged him.
"Hey, Amy!" Chris said.
"It's good to see ya!" Knuckles said.
Everyone except Sonic, Knuckles, Chomps and Cosmo were excitedly surrounding Chris and all talking at once.
Sonic stood there seeing him, Sonia and Manic meeting their mom for the very first time.
Knuckles was seeing when he and Sonia had gone on their first date. How happy they were.
"Hey, one at a time." Chris said.
"Sonic, who is that boy?" Cosmo asked.
Sonic and Knuckles jumped and were back.
"Oh, he's my friend." Sonic said.
Chris overheard, and was overwhelmed in gratitude that Sonic still remembered him.
"Hi, Sonic." he said.
"How ya doin', pal?"
Chris carefully approached Sonic, trying not to trip on his giant clothes.
"Sonic, I can't believe I'm really here. It's been a long time coming."
"I knew you'd get here sooner or later, buddy."
"You haven't changed a bit. Come to think of it..." he said and looked over at Sonic's friends. "...none of you have."
"Doesn't look like you changed much, either, 'cept for the baggy that some new style or somethin'?"
Chris held up his oversized sleeves.
"No! I-I don't know what's going on!" he said.
Suddenly, Sonic collapses.
"Sonic!" Chris said and bent down over him as the others gathered around them.
"Sonic, what's wrong?" Amy asked.
Cosmo covered her mouth in shock.
"What happened?" Cream asked.
"Say something!" Knuckles said. "I can't lose my best friend! And Sonia, Manic and your mother can't lose you!"
'Or your kingdom.' he thought.
"Uh huh! Uh huh!" Chomps said worried.
"Why isn't he waking up?" Amy asked.
Tails felt Sonic's forehead.
"He's okay. I think he's just exhausted." he said.
Knuckles sighed.
"Yeah, I guess he still has to recover from that battle." he said.
"Sonic got injured in a battle?" Chris said and they nodded.
Later at Cream's house Vanilla was putting Sonic to bed.
"You rest now, Sonic." Vanilla said.
Chris was in the bathroom, looking over his new body. Later, everyone gathered in the living room, where Cosmo was recalling the events of earlier that day.
Your friend Sonic was fighting against a Metarex." she said.
"A Metarex?" Amy said.
"I don't know how many there are, but they've been attacking planets all over the galaxy."
Several shots were shown of many Seedrians running from the Metarex, who had destroyed many civilizations.
"Their goal is to unify all the planets under one absolute rule." she said.
"Let me guess... their rule." Knuckles said.
A shot was shown of several Metarex Fighters in space.
"That's right. They've already extinguished so many planets."
"What do you mean, "extinguished"?" Amy asked.
A shot is shown of a Metarex stealing a Planet Egg.
"The Metarex don't just conquer planets. They take the Planet Eggs." Cosmo said.
"What?" Knuckles said.
"The Planet Eggs are like the hearts of planets."
A shot was shown of many planets dying as a result of having their Planet Eggs stolen.
"Without them, planets lose their power to nurture and sustain life. They become just cold, barren rocks drifting through space."
Then the shots ended.
"And now that they've taken your Planet Egg, your world will soon wither away, just like the others have." she said.
"Our planet will die?" Amy said and Cosmo nodded.
"That's right." she said.
"Excuse my asking, but how do we know you're not on their side?" Knuckles asked.
"Because I'm not! The Metarex are vicious, and they'll wipe out anything that gets in their way. I am not with them; you have to believe me!"
"I wish I could."
"At least let's hear her out." Chris said.
"I came here so that what happened to me might not happen to all of you. My planet is gone. Everyone I loved - my family, my friends, are..." she said as tears came from her eyes, and she buried her face in her hands. "Everything... everything is gone!"
Later, Chris shut the door to Sonic's room and turned to Tails and Amy, who had also left the room.
"She's calmed down a little. I think she'll be okay." Chris said.
"I can't believe that Knuckles was giving that poor thing such a hard time." Amy said.
"I can't believe you built a teleporting machine in only six months!" Tails said.
"Only six months?!" Chris said shocked. "No wonder you all look exactly as I remember you." he said blushing.
"But you haven't changed either, Chris." Amy said.
"Six years have passed in my world. I'm 18 years old."
"Chris is acting kinda funny, Amy." Tails said aside to Amy.
"Don't forget: he's human." she said aside to Tails.
"Back home, it's been six years since I saw you! But I guess I still have a lot to learn about teleportation..." Chris said.
"If it's been six years, how come you still look the same?" Tails asked.
He shrugged.
"I'm just as confused as you are, Tails."
"We'll figure it out." Amy said and giggled.
Then she opened the door to Sonic's room, only to find that the bed was empty.
"Sonic's gone!" she said.
"Oh no!" Tails said.
Chris ran to the window, followed by Amy and Tails. Amy looked at Sonic's empty bed.
"He must have gone out the window!" Chris said.
"He doesn't even say goodbye!" Amy said.
"That's Sonic for ya. No matter what, he just takes off. He can't even stay still when he's passed out." Tails said.
"I'm just glad he's okay." Chris said.
Meanwhile Sonic ran through the Mobian countryside and scaled a tall mountain. He looked down at the area where yesterday's battle occurred.
"That's weird... There's no wind." he said.
At Angle Island Knuckles was looking at the Master Emerald.
"Something's not right. I don't trust that Cosmo." he said.
"So, is it true, Knuckles?" someone asked and he turned around to see Rouge float down.
"Is what true, Rouge?"
"A little birdie told me that all seven Chaos Emeralds are gone."
"Only six. Sonic thought it'd be a good idea to scatter them into space but was able to get them back after focusing on them when he needed them for the fight." he said with a raised eyebrow then turned around, and didn't see her fly away. "But then after using so much of his Chaos three of them disappeared. And not only that, but Chris came here from his part of the world. Things are crazy here! A Metarex attacks, then Cosmo-" he said then realized Rouge was gone.
"See you around, Knuckie!" she said.
"Hey! Rouge! Come back here! You've got a lot of nerve flying off while I'm still talking!" he said but she was already flying off the island. "Rouge!"
Back at Cream's house Vanilla held up a shirt in front of Chris. It perfectly resembled the shirt he wore as a boy.
"These should fit a little better. They're like your old clothes, aren't they?" Vanilla said.
"They sure are. Thanks." Chris said and rubbed behind his head. "Man, this is embarrassing..." he said to himself.
Outside Cream was playing with Cheese and Cosmo was admiring the Mobian sky.
"Such a pretty place..." Cosmo said.
"I'm glad you like it! Our planet's great. Maybe you can learn to love it here." Cream said.
"Chao chao!" Cheese said.
"Maybe..." Cosmo said beaming. "She doesn't understand." she said to herself.
Tails and Amy were bringing tea to Chris and Vanilla as Chris put on his new shirt.
"Without the planet Egg... her planet wouldn't survive." Cosmo said to herself. "You know, Cream, if we don't get the Planet Egg back..." she said out loud.
"We will." someone said and Cosmo turned to see Cream looking at her. "We've got Sonic on our side. He'll make everything okay." Cream said.
"But Cream, Sonic isn't strong without the Chaos Emeralds." Cosmos aid then Sonic immediately showed up.
"Well, then I guess we'll go have to find 'em."
She blinked.
"I wish you had them now."
"Maybe there was something I could have done instead of sending of sending the Chaos Emeralds away. But it seemed like a good idea at the time."
There was a flashback to last night, when Super Sonic scattered the Chaos Emeralds.
"Chaos Control!" he said.
Sonic used Chaos Control to scatter the Chaos Emeralds across the galaxy causing him to relinquish his Super ability and plummet to Mobius as the flashback ends.
"At least he didn't get the Emeralds." he said.
Then the door opened, and Tails, Amy, and Chris walked outside.
"You must have been pretty wiped out after fighting that thing." Tails said.
"I was. But I transformed into Super Sonic and I thought it would be a cinch, but boy, was I wrong!" he said.
"Sonic, listen. The Metarex are extremely powerful. They've traveled through space and taken every Egg from every planet they've encountered." Cosmo said.
"There's nothin' to worry about as long as Sonic's on the scene, Cosmo! We'll get the Planet Eggs back!" he said. "I promise!"
"A dangerous quest in outer space! Could anything be more romantic?" Amy said.
"Cheese and I wouldn't miss an adventure like this!" Cream said and stood up.
"You can count me in, Sonic!" Tails said.
"I want to go too! I've been waiting six years to have another adventure with you!" Chris said.
"Great, then it's settled!" Sonic said. "We're going into outer space!" he said then pointed to the sky.
Later the group was descending the stairs into Tails' workshop.
"Tails, to go into space, won't we need a spaceship?" Chris asked.
Tails pressed a button, turning on the overhead lights.
"Ta-daa!" he said and the light reveal a huge spaceship built by
Sonic gave an impressed whistle.
"It's so big!" Amy and Cream said together.
"It's a multi-purpose fully mobile flying fortress! I call it the Blue Typhoon, and with a few quick adjustments, we can even fly into space! Only..." Tails said.
"Only what?" Chris asked.
"I was planning on using the Chaos Emeralds as the power source. Now what are we gonna use?"
Chris pointed to something above him.
"I know what we can use!" he said.
At Angel Island Knuckles was searching for Rouge.
"I shouldn't have told that batty Rouge anything." he said and saw a mountain and lake in front of him. "Oh no!" he said and turned around to see that the Master Emerald was gone. "The Master Emerald's gone!"
'Not again!' he thought and saw the day Sleet and Dingo got the Master Emerald.
Back at Tails' workshop Chris was seated in a chair, carefully loading the Master Emerald into position. Tails supervised from the cockpit of the Blue Typhoon.
"The readings look good, Chris." Tails said.
"The Master Emerald oughta give us enough power to go interstellar!" Chris said then the group turned to see an angry Knuckles run in.
"What's the idea?!" he said.
"We need to borrow your Master Emerald for a little while." Sonic said a little uncomfortable.
"No way! It goes back where it was!"
"But we need it to go into outer space." Amy said.
"Outer space?" he said incredulous.
"We have to find the seven Planet Eggs before so we have enough power to defeat Metarex when Sonic is strong enough." Cosmo said.
"We're going to travel across the galaxy, battle Metarex, and save planets! Doesn't it sound like the best adventure ever?" Cream said.
"It sounds just peachy." Knuckles said then looked at Sonic. "Now gimme back that Emerald, Sonic, or I'll come up there and take it!" he yelled.
Cream shook in fury.
"Listen to you! You should be ashamed!" she said.
"The fate of the entire galaxy is at stake!" Cosmo said.
Knuckles cowered back as Amy approached him, hammer drawn.
Then he shivered seeing what Sonia did to someone years ago.
"But if you won't listen to reason... maybe I could knock some reason into you. It'd be a pleasure." Amy said as her eye twinkled dangerously.
"H-Hey, let's calm down..." he said while Amy inched forward again.
Then they started aggravating the poor him.
"Sonic, please help me!" he said panicking. "Chomps!"
"I'd like to, but I don't get involved in fights I can't win. You're on your own." he said rubbing Chomps' head.
"Na uh, na uh." Chomps said shaking his head getting Sonic to snicker.
A montage started of the group working on the Typhoon. Chris, Tails, and Amy inspected the engine. Then, Tails showed the Typhoon's blueprints to Sonic.
"...See, if I take these wires, and attach them to the transformer which connects the Master Emerald..." he said and Sonic nodded while Knuckles carried supplies.
And Sonic ran by with an equal amount of parts.
At the Blue Typhoon Cockpit Tails and Chris were looking over the controls.
"Chris, I'm sorry our part of the planet got invaded right when you came to visit us." Tails said.
Chris shook his head.
"Are you kidding? Don't be! I haven't been this excited in years. And now that I'm older, I can finally be of some use to you guys!" he said and typed on a keyboard. "So is the initial takeoff sequence ready? Prepare to activate the Master Emerald!"
"This reminds me of our old times back in Station Square."
"We should load this ship with lots of cool gadgets. That way, when I tell Grandpa about it, he'll get really jealous!"
"Sounds good to me!"
In space above Mobius and Earth Dark Oak broadcasted a message to a new Metarex, called Metarex Spike, who was approaching Mobius and Earth.
"Do not let them leave the planet. Stop the development of the spacecraft and destroy them." he said over the radio.
Then Metarex Spike entered the atmosphere.
At Green Hill Amy, Cream, and Cheese were carefully bringing food supplies toward the Typhoon.
"This should be the last of the supplies we have to haul from home. Of course, now we have to load everything onto the ship." Amy said.
"I can hardly believe it. Pretty soon we'll be taking off and speeding through-" Cream said then turned to see Cosmo sitting alone on a tree stump. "Hi, Cosmo." she said Cosmo looked up as Cream placed her bags down. "Would you mind carrying these downhill, please?"
Cosmo looked startled, but stood up anyway.
"Oh, okay." she said and struggled to pick up the bags.
"Are you sure you can handle it?"
"I got it." she said and hurriedly picked up the supplies, but found them too heavy.
Their weight caused her to stumble, drop them, and roll down the hill. Cream covers her mouth.
"She doesn't have it!" Cosmo said and the food spilled everywhere. "I'm okay..."
"Cosmo!" Cream said and she and Amy rushed over to her.
"Are you all right?" Amy asked.
"I think so..." Cosmo said and she sat up.
The sun was blotted out for the briefest moment. Knowing what was happening, Cosmo's lips quivered in absolute fright. An object flew over them, and an explosion could be seen in the distance.
"A Metarex..." she said.
Metarex Spike picked itself up, having survived the rough landing.
"-=- following directive number one -=-
-=- destroy the enemy spacecraft -=-" Metarex Spike said and attempted to blast Tails' workshop with its hands, but missed. "-=- adjust firing error -=-
-=- 296 tangent 8 -=-"
Spike tilted its hands slightly to the right, and was about to fire again, but Sonic buzzed right past it and bounced off of its head, distracting it. Knuckles leapt into the fray and tackled Spike into the ground. Even though Spike was embedded in the ground, it wasn't defenseless. A golden sword materialized in its exposed hand, and Spike used it to slice a nearby tree.
"I don't think we're gonna stop that thing this way!" Knuckles said.
"You're right, but we gotta try!" Sonic said and tapped his medallion then aimed a shot at it.
Metarex Spike stood up and pointed its sword at the two Mobians.
"-=- it is futile for you to oppose us -=-
-=- you are never going to leave this planet alive -=-"
Typhoon now out in the open and Tails and Chris on the were on the bridge watching the fight.
"There's no time. What's our status?" Chris asked.
Tails rushed to his seat and typed on a keyboard, bringing up some diagrams.
"I still have a few adjustments to make, but we can work on those in the air, so I guess we're ready." Tails said.
"Let's go."
They both nodded to each other.
At Green Hill Amy was talking to Tails via wrist communicator.
"You're ready? We're leaving now?" Amy said on comlink
"Soon, but we have to activate the Master Emerald first, so we need Knuckles." Tails said over comlink. "Would you mind finding him for me?" he said and rubbed the back of his head.
Amy closed the com.
"The time's almost here! Cream, go find Knuckles and tell him that Tails needs him on the ship. Cosmo, you come with me and help me get the supplies aboard." she said.
"What's going on?" Cosmo asked nervous.
"Tails is almost ready to power up his new ship, and he needs Knuckles to activate the Master Emerald." Amy said grim.
Cream and Cosmo were surprised.
Meanwhile Sonic dodged Metarex Spike's hand as it pounded the ground, then sliced a tree in half.
"Hey! Up here!" Sonic said.
Spike stood up in front of Sonic and charged its finger lasers, but Knuckles punched it into the ground again from behind. He leapt up to the tree where Sonic was.
"Huh? Hey, I think I finally stopped him." he said.
Suddenly metal objects protruded from the fifteen holes in its chest.
"I don't think so!" Sonic said.
The metal objects were spike missiles that were launched at Sonic and Knuckles. So they leapt atop the missiles, directing them away from themselves. Sonic looked back in horror that the missiles were headed straight toward the Blue Typhoon.
At the Blue Typhoon Tails pressed a few buttons that warm up the engines.
"Radar system activated!" he said and looked to his right and screamed as the fifteen missiles were speeding toward the bridge.
At Green Hill Sonic immediately blazed through the missiles, saving Tails.
"It stinks to get blasted out of the sky before we left the ground!" Sonic said.
One of the stray missiles exploded behind Sonic. He looked up to see Metarex Spike approaching and fired its finger lasers and razed the forest near the Typhoon., Knuckles was there to ran circles around Spike, causing it to fall into a sinkhole.
"Happy landing, pal!" he said.
"Knuckles!" someone said so he looked up to see Cream flying at a distance. "Tails needs you on the ship! He plans to beat the Metarex!"
"I just did!"
Suddenly Spike started to stand up. It took a swipe at Knuckles, who dodged. Sonic stomped it back into the hole, but it stood up again.
"Go on, Knuckles. I got this guy!" he said and got it with his guitar this time.
At Tails' workshop Amy and Cosmo put down the food just outside the cargo bay of the Typhoon.
"You know, Cosmo, you might want to carry more than one at a time." Amy said.
"Right." Cosmo said and tried to load the pack on her back into the Typhoon, but its weight caused her to fall.
"Why don't you just take it easy." Amy said and waved in amusement.
On the Blue Typhoon Tails looked at the holo-monitor, then pressed two buttons.
"The main engine's ready." Tails said and pressed another button. "Connecting to the Master Emerald! You copy?"
On the control room one of the readings on the dash in front of Chris rose.
"Main engine now connected to the Master Emerald." he said and the engines started to warm up.
In the Engine room Knuckles stood before the Master Emerald as it glowed brightly.
"The seven Chaos Emeralds are the servers. Our hearts intensify their power. The controller serves to unify the chaos!" he said and extended his hands brighter. "We need you and the seven Chaos Emeralds great power to find the Planet Eggs!"
"Ignition!" Chris said and the engine roared to life, and the turbines spin. "Okay, the engine's fired up!"
At Cream's house Vanilla was knitting when Cream opened the door.
"Mother?" Cream said and Vanilla looked up. "Mother, would it be all right if I go out into space with everybody?"
"You mean on that nice spaceship that Tails built? Sure, sweetie. Just don't touch any buttons." Vanilla said.
"Thanks, Mother!" Cream said and they hugged.
"Cream..."
"Goodbye, Mother... Goodbye." Cream said to herself.
At Green Hill Sonic landed several hits on Metarex Spike, but the giant Metarex warrior landed unscathed in front of him.
"Hurry it up, guys..." someone said.
Sonic turned to see that it was Tails' voice coming from behind him in the Typhoon.
"Huh?" he said.
The ground rumbled as the Typhoon prepared to launch.
On the Blue Typhoon Bridge.
"The acceleration thruster's almost charged!" Tails said and several meters increase. "Takeoff time."
At Green Hill the ground collapsed as the Blue Typhoon started to rise.
"-=- you are doomed -=-" Metarex Spike said and fired fifteen more missiles from its chest.
"Great." Sonic said and spun after the missiles, destroyed them all, and landed on the hull of the craft. "It's been fun, but we have to be runnin' along now!" he said and put his guitar away.
In the Engine room.
"Master Emerald, we need you! Release the power of Chaos to us!" Knuckles said.
In the Control room.
"We're almost there. 80... 90... 95... The chamber's energy supply is at full capacity." Chris said.
Outside Sonic watched as Metarex Spike fly toward them.
"Sonic, we're gonna use the main cannon! Stand by!" Tails said over the loudspeaker.
Then the ship's runway folded back, and a giant cannon emerged.
The ship's energy was diverted to the cannon, Sonic Driver.
"Transferring power from the energy chamber to the main cannon! Cannon pressurization sequence now in progress." Tails said over intercom and Sonic ran inside the cannon. "Sequence complete. Sonic, do your thing!"
Sonic stopped running and landed on the platform where he had to spin.
"Here goes!" he said and started spinning, thus charging the cannon.
In the Cargo hold Cream and Cosmo were worn from their work. Amy added the last of the food to the massive pile and sat down herself.
"Last one." she said.
"Attention, everyone! Brace yourselves!" Tails said over intercom
On the bridge Spike landed in front of the Typhoon within range.
"Target Metarex dead ahead!" Tails said.
The targeting computer locked on to Metarex Spike just as it launched fifteen more missiles.
"Sonic Power Cannon, fire!" Chris, Knuckles and Tails said.
The Sonic Driver charged a massive amount of energy, then launched Sonic as a ball toward Spike. He decimated the missiles, then spun through Spike, leaving a burning hole in its chest. Metarex Spike exploded, finally defeated. Sonic continued to helplessly spin as the Blue Typhoon took off.
"Hang on, Sonic." Chris said and flew toward him in a support craft as the he continued to fall.
Sonic slowly opened his eyes.
"Hi, Chris!" he said.
Chris opened his canopy and prepared to catch him.
"I got yaaaa!" Chris said and managed to take his hand, and fly back to the Typhoon. "Mission accomplished!"
On the Bridge.
"An excellent catch, guys! Now get ready!" Tails said.
The Sonic Driver was stored back inside the ship, and the ship's power was transferred back to main engine. Additionally, two extra wings were projected.
"Retracting main cannon! Rerouting energy to the main engine! Forward wings deployed! All right, Blue Typhoon... here we go."
Outside the Blue Typhoon activated its main engine, and it took off, headed for space. Chris' spaceship flew alongside it.
On the Cargo hold.
"Let's go up to the bridge!" Amy said and stood up.
Then she ran out of the room, followed by Cream, Cheese, and Cosmo.
A few minutes later Amy appeared on the bridge, and Sonic smiled at her. Cream and Cosmo were next. The former looked down.
"Hey." Amy said.
"What a beautiful view! I've always wanted to know what our planet looks like from this high up." Cream said.
Sonic looked up at Amy and scratched the back of his head, until he realized there was something in his quills. He took it out and held it up.
"I wonder what this is?" he said.
On Eggman's base it was sunset, and Decoe looked up from a console.
"You wonder what what is?" Tails asked over the radio.
"This thing on my head." Sonic said over the radio.
'Unless it's from Buttnik.' he thought.
"I'm afraid I have bad news, Doctor. Sonic seems to have discovered your electronic bug." Decoe said.
Eggman laughed.
"I planted it on him before he woke up. Clever, aren't I? Now, fire up the engines and follow that spaceship."
"Roger!" Bocoe said and pulled a lever. "Engine... fired up!" he said and engine ignited.
"Don't let them get away! Full speed ahead!" Bokkun said.
Outside.
"Hey! I give the orders around here!" Eggman said inside.
"Sorry, Doctor." Bokkun said.
Rouge flew after the Crimson Egg, which was flying after the Blue Typhoon, which in turn was flying out into open space.