Dr. Eggman had gotten away with the Master Emerald and begun to head back to his base; Thrower was along for the ride. "That was almost too easy" Eggman laughed, "Last time Sonic turned super and chased me throughout outer space and sent me crashing down to the planet" Eggman finished. At this moment, no one knew the Master Emerald was missing. The island started to float down a little bit back down to the ocean where it once was the first time Sonic and Tails landed on the island and when Knuckles took the Chaos Emeralds from them.
Meanwhile, Team Sonic were rushing toward Eggman's Base in hopes of stopping him, the place he would have most likely taken off to. Sonic started to think about Shadow and said out loud "So what do you think happened to Shadow?" Sonic said to both of them. Knuckles answered him, "Last time I remember, Shadow, Rogue, and Omega were captured by Dr. Eggman when they tried to attack him." How could they get captured so easily, Sonic thought, Eggman normally has a difficult time taking care of just one humanoid animal, yet alone two and his own robot.
Meanwhile, Team Rose (including Cheese) was fishing at one of the ponds around Station Square looking for Froggy. The water was not transparent like it normally was, making this task much harder then normal. They often caught a lot of normal fish, and they threw most of them back into the pond. Big was very good at fishing, but for Amy, Cream and Cheese, they were beginners.
Knuckles thought about the Master Emerald while running with Sonic and Tails, "You two go on without me, I'm going back to Angel Island to see if the Master Emerald is there" Knuckles said as he left at the next folk in the route. Knuckles thought about the Master Emerald more, it was his job, his life to protect that large green emerald, how could he leave a task that significant up to some Chao(s) that appeared like him? Why did he allow help from a six-year-old rabbit who probably does not know how important the Master Emerald is? How would people react if he failed at his job again because he was not at least there to stop it? Why did he let Eggman years ago dupe him and steal the Master Emerald or that bat Rogue get so close to it?
Many thoughts went through his mind as he got closer to Angel Island and soon he was at the boundary of Station Square and Angel Island was insight right above. Knuckles could not reach Angel Island from here, but there was a hidden path that only he knew about, it was an underwater cave and inside existed a teleporter that would go right to the Hidden Palace Zone. Knuckles took a deep breath and dived into the ocean. He remembered exactly where to go, first he would punch a hole in the wall at one spot, then go in and close it back up, then go into the teleporter. After he went into the teleporter, he appeared in the Hidden Palace Zone and rushed to where the Master Emerald was normally placed at, all he found was some Knuckles Chao(s) that were still out cold. Knuckles became very furious and he quickly ran to the edge of the island and glided off toward Eggman's base.
Meanwhile, Sonic and Tails already got to the base, they look around and saw a lot of badniks guarding the place, getting in would be harder without Knuckles. Sonic grabbed onto Tails's hand and rushed to one of the backdoors that was for some reason a bit high up. Tails lifted Sonic up and they entered the door, having sneaked passed all the badniks outside the base. They were nowhere near as good as spies like Rogue and the alarm soon went off. Some badniks appeared, but they were not much of a problem for them, as they were the weaker ones that were destroyed in a single hit. "Where is Dr. Eggman at?" Tails asked, "I don't know buddy, he could have not gone too far from here.
Deep underground, were some prison cells, Team Dark was locked up here. Each of them was in different cells to prevent them from pulling off a team move to bust out. Not even Rogue could find a way out of this one, pass the bars were a lot of turrets, lasers and badniks. Sonic and Tails finally found the main room where Eggman spends most of his time at, there they found two robots, who looked like they were not ready for a fight. Knuckles busted in thought the window still full of rage, it showed mostly in his voice. "Tell me where Eggman is or else, your going to be a pile of bolts!" Knuckles said, still full of rage. "Dr. Eggman is not here" one of the robots said, "I know that, tell me NOW if you want to live longer!" Knuckles demanded. "We can't tell you" the other robot said, "THAT'S IT, YOUR BOTH GOING DOWN NOW!" Knuckles rage took over and he quickly destroyed the robots and started to destroy the machines around the rest of the base.
The power got shut down when one of the machines was destroyed and in the prison cells, Rogue easily got out of the cell and freed Shadow and Omega. They had to blast their way out of the underground to the surface, but they made it and Team Sonic did not know about this as they were too busy figuring out where Eggman went. After awhile, Tails thought about it, "Eggman must be in outer space, looking for the last three Chaos Emeralds, if he gets them last three and uses them with the Master Emerald, we'll all doom" Tails said, "All right, lets hurry" Sonic said. They quickly rushed out of whatever was left of the base and to the X Tornado. They all got in and Tails reached outer space within a few minutes.
They landed on ARK, "One Chaos Emerald should be inside ARK somewhere, one should be somewhere on the half-destroyed moon and the last one should be somewhere in the floating space junk" Tails told them. "What makes you so sure Tails?" Sonic asked, "I saw it on a Chaos Emerald radar back in Eggman's base" Tails answer. "We got no more time to waste. We need to go right now!" Knuckles said, who ran off to the half-destroyed moon."Tails, you'll do better then me out in the space junk because you can fly, I'll look for the Chaos Emerald around ARK" Sonic said and soon they were all alone.
Sonic ran around inside ARK, going through the gravity change rooms and even running around outside ARK a lot. Soon he found the Master Emerald laying on the ground outside ARK and he grabbed it. Tails was flying from space junk to space junk, they were made up of demolish spaceships, space rocks, and many kinds of trash thrown out by space travelers. Soon he saw the Chaos Emerald floating and he grabbed it. Knuckles climbed up and down looking for the last Chaos Emerald and he dug in many places till he found the last Chaos Emerald right in the center of the impact that blew half the moon up.
Soon everyone was back at the X Tornado on ARK, "We did it!" Sonic started, "now Thrower won't be able to go hyper form on us" Sonic finished."I won't rest till we get the Master Emerald back" Knuckles said not long before Eggman showed up from above them and said, "Thank you for finding the Chaos Emeralds for me, I been waiting so I'll have less work to do. Now I'll take them as my own" Eggman laughed and press a button that caused the remaining Chaos Emeralds to go toward him. "Oh no, now he has all seven Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald!" Tails said in fear, "We need to stop him now!" Sonic said. They all get into the X Tornado and chased after Eggman back to Earth.
Author Notes: After awhile, I finally added an another chapter to the story, but for my last chapter I got no reviews :( . The next chapter will be the final (I'm not saying this because of the limited reviews, but I'm saying this because it was one of my plans from the start).