Chapter 6: Collect the Emeralds, if you can.
Sonic rushed off towards Angel Island. According to Tails, one of the emeralds was currently located here. The problem was the stubborn echidna living on said island.
Knuckles sat beside the Master Emerald, as he always does whenever an exciting world-trotting adventure wasn't occurring. He spots the blue blur making a difficult jump onto his turf and speeding towards the shrine he was at.
"Hey Knucks. Have you seen a Chaos Emerald around here?"
"I have, Sonic," replied Knuckles with a hint of hostility, "but I'm not letting you have it!"
"Why is that?"
He crossed his arms. "The Master Emerald has given me visions of a strange creature that has been quickly snatching up the emeralds. I don't want it to fall in their hands."
Sonic pointed at himself. "That's why I'm trying to get them before they do."
Knuckles shook his head. "I see this ending horribly."
Sonic pointed at Knuckles. "If you just showed me where the emerald is, Knucklehead, I'll keep it safe. Trust me."
Knuckles grumbled. "Fine. It is right here." He showed Sonic the red Chaos Emerald, which he was keeping safe.
Before Sonic could take it, Mauve appeared out of thin air. "Oh, thank you," they said, and shoved the emerald into their body. Sonic and Knuckles stared wide-eyed at Mauve as it grew extremely large wings. "What?" it asked them, confused at why they were standing there unmoving. "Well, see yah!"
Mauve took to the skies, leaving a confused hedgehog and an enraged echidna.
"See what I mean, Sonic. He took the emerald because you wanted it!"
Sonic shrugged, "Well, if you didn't show it off, then he wouldn't have taken it in the first place."
Knuckles could not retort that statement.
Tails was flying high in the sky in the Tornado.
"The energy fluctuations are peaking. That means that the emerald should be right over…THERE!"
Floating in the sky was the gray Chaos Emerald. Tails angled the plane perfectly so that it would fly by within mere inches of the emerald, and he would be able to reach out and grab it. He was getting closer. Half-a-mile, quarter mile, 1000 feet, 500 feet, 200 feet, 50 feet, and…
Flying at about a few hundred miles an hour, Mauve swoops in and grabs the gray emerald. "This is so easy," said Mauve, as he flew back to the mainland. Tails had no words.
Dr. Eggman was floating about in the Egg Mobile. "That fox said that the emerald was around here somewhere…"
And indeed, it was. The green Chaos Emerald was just kind of floating there, up for grabs.
Eggman steered the hovercraft down to the ground, got out, and was about to grab the emerald when someone teleported in and grabbed it first.
"No…it can't be."
It wasn't Mauve who grabbed the emerald though, it was Shadow.
"Well doctor, looks like you and your enemies need a little assistance.