A/N: You know the drill, and I don't need to explain anyway. The characters will get an upgrade like Level Up Item from SA1 and SA2. Also, a familiar character will appear in this chapter.
Sky Central, Workshop
03/26/2003
In the workshop, Tails and Sonic are in Tails' Workshop, "And what are these new gloves do anyway?"
He's wearing new white gloves with a black color design on the top of the gloves, "These gloves will help you climb on any surfaces that are impossible to climb." Sonic smiled, "All right, I'll trust you." "What about mine?"
Stick's new boomerang is metal-colored of a stick and has a sharp angular turn, "Your boomerang now can hit at more powerful force than your old boomerang." She nodded.
"Also, be careful it's still a prototype and hasn't been tested yet." Nicole appeared in the workshop, "You guys ready?" "Yeah, we're ready."
Sky Central, Hangar
03/26/2003
Sonic, Tails, Blaze, and Sticks headed to the hangar of the Sky Central, "So, did you upgrade the Tornado, Tails?" "Yup, I added a back seat and new weapons for defending."
They nodded. Meanwhile, Blaze thought, 'All right, when you get on the plane... don't look down.' "You all right?" She was surprised by Sonic, "Y-Yeah, I'm fine."
They saw many planes and aircraft stored in the hangar and saw Tails' Tornado, but it was different. It had two seats, a Gatling gun, a symbol with two tails on the tail, and had a little yellow scheme.
"Sonic, do you still have the emeralds?" "Yup, and they're ready to use." They nodded, and they got on the plane. "I'm going to sit in the seat." "Sure, Blaze." She sits on the back seat while trying to calm herself, "All right, just calm down."
"Nicole, can you hear me?" "Loud and clear." Meanwhile, Tails is wondering about something. "What is the name of it, anyway?" "Well, according to Sally, it's called Angel Island." "Right, thanks." He started the engines and saw the doors opening.
"Think you can handle it?" Sonic saw Sticks in on the other side of the wing, "Of course, after all, I'm an adventurer!" The Tornado quickly moves and flies to the sky.
The Sky
03/26/2003
Sonic and Sticks sit on the wings of the Tornado. Meanwhile, Tails and Blaze are sitting in their seats on the airplane. 'Don't look down! Don't look down! Don't look down!'
Blaze saw the sea at the bottom, 'A-A-All right, it's scary down there!' "Blaze, you all right?" Blaze was shaken by her fear, "Y-Yes, I'm fine."
"Looks like someone is scared of heights." Sticks teasing Blaze, "I'm not scared of-" Tails turned plane to the right, "HEIGHHHHHHHTS!"
He centers it, and they see how Blaze is scared, "Maybe, I should go on ahead." "All right, good luck, Sonic." Sonic jumped and turned into Super Sonic.
Angel Island, Jungle
03/26/2003
Super Sonic flight, straight into the jungle until he got uppercut forces him out of the Super Form, "Ow!"
He looked in front of him and saw a male red Mobian wearing white gloves with black pointed knuckles, yellow scarfs on both hands, and black and yellow shoes with green cuffs and metal plating on the sides.
"So, you did arrive." Sonic stood up, "Who are you?" "I'm Knuckles the Echidna. As the guardian of Angel Island, I command you to leave the island." Sonic steps forward, "Not gonna happen." Both of them quickly react.
Tails, Sticks, and Blaze saw Knuckles and Sonic, "Got one at least." "Shoot." They saw Knuckles holding the six Chaos Emeralds and Sonic holding the blue Chaos Emerald.
Knuckles quickly flee the scene, "Wait!" Sonic dashed, trying to catch him, "Sonic, wait!" They run, trying to catch up with Sonic.
Knuckles quickly knocked the trees and boulder over, covering his escape. Sonic runs through the dust, finding him he's not there, "I lost him." "Sonic!" He turned to his back and saw Blaze, Sticks, and Tails behind him, "What happened?" "And who's that Mobian?"
"The short answer, I got forced out of my Super Form by that Echidna named Knuckles calling himself the Guardian of this island." Blaze was surprised to hear it again, "Did you say Echidna?" "You heard of it?" Blaze nodded, "We need to tell the others." "All right."
After Sonic contacted the others about Knuckles the Echidna, "It's hard to believe that someone can get Sonic out of his Super Form." Sally was shocked to hear it, "True. He says that he knew that I was coming to this island." "You think Eggman is behind this?" "It's possible that he's tricking that echidna thinking that Sonic is the bad guy." Nicole theorizes it.
Sticks asked her, "By the way, is he the only Echidna here? I haven't seen other Echidnas outside of Angel Island." Blaze nodded, "It's true. We haven't found any other Echidnas since they disappear." Sonic cracks his knuckles, "I think we should start on finding him."
"Yeah, I think you should." Sonic remembers something, "By the way, did you find the survivor of that pod?" "Not yet. We're still working on it. Just continue finding Knuckles and stop him." "Got it."
They turned off their communicators, "Let's go." They nodded and ran into the jungle.
Sonic runs on the vines and grinds some of them. Tails fly through at full speed. Sticks swing with the vines, "This is fun!" She flipped after releasing from the vines before catching the next one.
Blaze runs on the ground, 'Let's see if that training paid off.' She begins dashed with fire, causing the trees to set on fire.
Sonic noticed Blaze accidentally setting the trees on fire, "Blaze, you're setting the jungle on fire!" She turned and saw its burning, "Oops." She stopped using the dashed and run without setting the jungle on fire.
While flying, Tails notice something coming towards them, "Incoming!" They saw it and quickly dodged it.
"What was that?" They saw a Flame Craft floating in front of him, "Is that one of Eggman's creations?" "Definitely." It shoots fire, causing them to dodge it, "We need to stop it before it burns everything." "Yeah." Sonic jumped, and Homing Attacked it, damaged it.
Tails threw his Dummy Rings at it, and Sticks threw it damaged it five times. Blaze spin kicks it, pushing it away, "Blaze, move!" She heard Tails' voice and moved out of the way, and saw a beam hit it, causing an explosion.
They saw Tails holding his blaster, "That was amazing, Tails!" Sticks hugged him for the move that he just did, "Sticks, you're embarrassing me." She saw Sonic and Blaze watching Sticks hug him. "IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK!" She quickly let go of Tails while she's blushing heavily.
Suddenly, a fire appeared, causing the jungle to set on fire, "You got to be kidding me!" "Nope." They saw the path is inflaming, "Do we have to move forward?" "Yes, we do!" Sonic quickly dash to the front.
"We better get going." "Yeah." They move forward, trying to keep up with Sonic.
They run through the path while dodging the burning derby, "Gotta speed up!" Sonic quickly Spin Dash, trying to avoid all of them.
"We should too." They nodded on Tails' idea and quickly tried on Spin Dash.
They dodge the debris and run across the bridge, "Oh hohoho, so you all survive." They see Eggman on his aircraft with a flamethrower, "Eggman, you seriously burning this place?" "Yes, the burn will stop anyway." He shoots flame, and they dodge it, but the bridge behind them gets burned.
Blaze tries to kick it, but Eggman dodges it. Tails threw his Dummy Ring while Eggman wasn't looking and hit, "Ugh! Take this!" He shoots a missile from his aircraft, damaging everyone, "Not bad!" Sonic jumped, and Homing Attack caused some damage to it.
He quickly up close and punches the back and front of it, "You thought that's going to work?" Suddenly, Sonic's left hand glowed blue and pushed Eggman's aircraft away. It flies again, but an explosion suddenly appears around him, "Gotta get out of here!"
He ejects the flamethrower and flies away, "Wait!" They tried to catch up with him, but Knuckles stood in their way, "So, you're Knuckles?" "And I see your friend talk about me."
He cracks a smile, "Can you swim?" "Why asking that?" He pushed the button with his feet, causing the bridge to break, "Aaaaaah!" They quickly fell to the bottom.
A/N: The opening is very similar to Sonic 3&K Intro. Knuckles' design is similar to the Skyline design, and if you think I used Blaze's fear too much. I'm sorry, and I don't hate her, all right?