Yes, I changed the summary. The only reason it didn't say that earlier is that I didn't want to give away too much of the story just from the summary.
Yup, here we go again. Sonic and all related characters belong to Sega. Drake is my fan-character.
Chapter 4: Battles
Amy shrieked as she followed Sonic and Tails through a loop-de-loop. This zone was the regular seaside resort with a few surprises mixed in. It had a bunch of gears and strange, rolling, long-armed robots. Finally, they reached the end of the zone, and Sonic grabbed the spinning blue medallion.
"Say, you were right, Amy!"
Amy rolled her eyes. "What would make you think I was lying?"
"I wonder if there are any more medallions," Tails said.
Sonic made the blue one disappear to some unknown safekeeping place. They stood there and looked at each other.
"Something's not right," Amy finally spoke up.
"Yeah," Sonic agreed. "We should be warping out of the zone now."
Suddenly, a giant multicolored robot fell from the sky. The letters GIS were printed on its chest: Getaway Island Staff.
"Now I know this place is run by Eggman!" Sonic cried. He ran towards the boss robot.
"Be careful!" Amy cried.
The robot was firing bombs and homing beams, but Sonic grabbed some rings and managed to dodge them. He noticed a weak spot near the robot's head and nailed it twice with homing attacks. Suddenly, one of the beams hit him and he dropped all his rings. Sonic scrambled to pick them up, but the robot just blasted him and he lost them again. The second time, he didn't get to pick them up and he was left defenseless. Sonic looked up.
"I don't know if I should chance another homing attack, but what else can I do?"
Tails went running forward to help out his idol, but someone else beat him to it. Tails gasped. Standing on top of the robot's head was a black creature, around Sonic's size. "Shadow?!" he cried.
The creature blasted the robot's weak spot with a beam. It clanked and fell over in a smoking heap.
Tails shook his head. "I don't think that's Shadow. He wasn't able to fire beams like that before."
The creature fell down in front of them.
"Who is that?" Amy asked. "He looks like Knuckles."
Sonic put his hands on his hips. "Alright, Knuckles, why did you paint yourself black?"
The creature shook his head. "I'm not Knuckles."
"But that's impossible," Sonic said. "Knuckles is the only echidna. Unless Tikal is still out there somewhere…"
"Who's Tikal?" the creature asked.
Sonic shook his head. "Never mind." How could there be another echidna? He couldn't be one. But with that white mark on his chest, that crooked tail, and those long dreadlocks, he had to be an echidna. "Are you a figment of my imagination?"
The creature looked distressed. "No more questions! There's no time! My name is Drake, yes I'm an echidna, and you're not supposed to know about me. I need that Chaos Medallion!"
Sonic blinked. " Chaos Medallion?" he held up the blue medallion he had just collected. "You mean this?"
Drake's eyes lit up. "So you have more than one! I need to get them back. May I have those two?"
"Why do you want them? What are they?" Sonic asked. "I'm not giving them to you until you answer my questions!"
Drake shook. "I-I can't do that. It's forbidden."
"Well, sorry," Sonic said. He began to put the medallion away.
Suddenly, Drake lashed out with his dreadlocks spinning in a kind of whirlwind formation. It knocked Sonic over backwards and the medallions flew out of his hands. Drake quickly scooped it up and rocket-boosted into the air.
"Sorry I had to do that!" he called. "I'll be back for the Chaos Medallion of Strength. I hope you won't make me do that again." He jumped away on the tops of buildings.
Sonic slowly sat up and rubbed his head.
"Are you okay?" Amy asked, kneeling next to him.
"Yeah, fine," Sonic said. He stood up and brushed some sand off of him. "I have no idea who that guy was, but all I know is that he is not to be trusted. It's strange though, he didn't seem to want to fight…"
"Chaos Medallions?" Tails asked. He pulled the red one out. "Is that what these are? This is the Chaos Medallion of Strength?"
"Maybe they have something to do with the Chaos Emeralds," Sonic said. "If that's the case, then it's a sure thing that Eggman is also looking for them. Maybe Drake's also in on it!"
"I don't know," Tails said. "He didn't seem like a bad guy. He helped us trash that robot."
"Looks can be deceiving," Sonic replied. "Anyway, I think it's up to us to get those Chaos Medallions before Eggman and Drake."
Drake hopped away from the battle scene clutching the shiny blue Chaos Medallion of Knowledge. It was too bad he had to fight that blue hedgehog and his friends, but this was the only way. He had to prove to himself that he was a good keeper.
Meanwhile, while Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Drake were battling it out on Getaway Island, Rouge had arrived on Angel Island. She and Knuckles were both searching for Master Emerald shards, on separate parts of the island, of course.
Knuckles was zipping through a strange land called Pumpkin Mine. Shining pieces of fruit sat in mine carts, distracting him. For a moment, he stopped to admire a bunch of amethyst grapes before grabbing the last emerald shard. He finally decided, "Mining for pumpkins has to be the stupidest job ever."
Up above, Rouge was flying through Egg Lagoon, a sticky yellow fountain with giant white towers. She shook her head as she grabbed her final Master Emerald shard. "And I thought I had seen everything."