Somewhere in space, two Xorda commanders were seen in a briefing room with the Xorda leader when he sends them off to start their mission which they do.

"Remember, brother, don't have your soldiers engage unless you have been engaged at," The first Xorda commander said before his cocky little brother let's out a small hm causing him to make him face him, "scout the planet, report what were up against and return to base, that is it! His majesty made it clear on this one that we can't make our presence known to the enemy like what happened on Greengate."

"With both those pesky tree huggers gone and those Metarex things gone, I don't see any reason to worry, brother," the second Xorda commander said getting cocky as usual.

"You saw what happened after all the females nuked the males. We underestimated those tree huggers and their mystical ways, we can't let that happen again," the first Xorda commander pointed out.

"Fine," The Second Xorda commander said. Back on Sonic's planet, Tails was seen asleep in his bed exhausted from yesterday when the morning sun started creeping in from the window. Eventually the light woke him up making him look around to see that it was morning, so he jumped out of his bed and got ready to get to work. Upon arriving in the hanger, Tails sees Cosmo sitting at a table eating breakfast.

"Oh hi, Tails," Cosmo said happily after seeing Tails.

"Hi, Cosmo," Tails responded before joining her.

"Sleep well?" Cosmo asked.

"I did," Tails answered.

"Good. Muffin?" Cosmo asked offering Tails a muffin. He grabs one and starts eating it, "so what's the plans for today?"

Tails looked at the ship and gave it some quick thought.

"I'm hoping to get the engines fixed so we can get moving," Tails answered.

"I hope so, the Xordas have probably found at least two emeralds by now, maybe even three," Cosmo pointed out.

"Well then I better finish up and get started," Tails said.

"Well I wouldn't rush on my breakfast and increase the risk of chocking myself to death about it," Cosmo pointed out.

"Are you sure?" Tails asked.

"Yeah, besides everyone's not exactly up yet," Cosmo said.

"Okay," Tails said. Meanwhile at Dr. Eggman's base, Dr. Eggman was seen studying footage of Kirby trying to learn all he could about the pink creature when Bokkun flies in.

"What are you doing, Doctor?" Bokkun asked.

"I'm studying that Kirby creature that we encountered earlier and see if I can counter that thing's abilities, or at least... ahh," Dr. Eggman said having an epiphany.

"Sounds like you have an idea, sir," Bokkun pointed out.

"I do. In the meantime I need some time alone," Dr. Eggman pointed out before Bokkun leaves. Dr. Eggman then started studying all the footage he has on Kirby while on the other screen he had data of Metal Sonic's programming. Meanwhile Sonic was seen running up to Tails' house when his ear starts twitching. He stopped to look up in the sky to see nothing.

"Strange, I could have swore I felt something suspicious," Sonic pointed out. Meanwhile in a ship that was invisible, a squad of Xordas were ready to investigate what was happening on the surface of the planet.

"Remember, keep a low profile while scouting this place," the first Xorda commander ordered before their ship landed in a secure area. The door opens letting the squad out while the pilot stayed behind to manage the ship.

"Keep it hidden until we get back," the second Xorda commander ordered before him and the scouting squad move out unaware that nearby camouflaged in the trees was a male purple chameleon overlooking the situation before running off. Later at a small building, a male bee in a black biker jacket and helmet named Charmy was seen sleeping while a male green crocodile named Vector was seen laying back doing the same thing. Espio quickly walks in waking the two up.

"Espio what's going on?" Vector asked.

"We've got more aliens," Espio answered surprising the two.

"More? Didn't the Metarex get wiped out?" Charmy asked.

"These are different, they looked like... squids of some sort," Espio answered finding it hard to describe what he saw.

"Squids?" Vector asked before running out to where Espio saw the alien ship. They sneak as close as they could to get a closer look.

"What do you suppose these things are?" Charmy asked.

"I don't know, why don't you ask the one behind you," a voice in their heads suggested before they turn around to find an Xorda guard standing behind them.

"It can talk in our heads?" Charmy asked.

"It's called telepathy and yes, we can do that," The Xorda answered before the three of them get knocked out by a second Xorda guard that catches them by surprise.

"Let's bring them aboard," The first Xorda guard ordered. Back at Tails' workshop after Sonic arrived, him, Tails and Cosmo were working on the ship making repairs as quickly and efficiently as possible when Kirby, Fumu and Tuff arrives.

"Hey guys, we're hoping to get the ship moving soon, hopefully today even depending on how quick everyone can get here," Sonic pointed out.

"Meta Knight and his crew said they would arrive as soon as possible, now King Dedede and Escargoon on the other hand, I'm not too sure where they're at," Fumu pointed out as Amy, Cream, Knuckles and Rouge arrived.

"Well let's get them up quick," Knuckles suggested before heading off to get everyone else up, but gets stopped by King Dedede.

"If you did try that you would have some quality time with my hammer," King Dedede pointed out as he walked by Knuckles and went over to Tails to see what needed to be done.

"How far along are we?" Escargoon asked.

"Nearly there," Tails pointed out as he grabs a blueprint for the Blue Typhoon to have a look at what's next. Sonic's ear starts twitching again before he looks around to see nothing in sight, "what's wrong, Sonic?"

"I feel something strange," Sonic answered.

"Is it Eggman?" Tails asked.

"Worse," Cosmo pointed out realizing something.

"They're already here?" Fumu asked.

"That might be the case," Cosmo answered before looking around before Sonic spin dashes at the door and hits an Xorda that was camouflaged.

"Your pretty smart for a hedgehog," a voice in Sonic's head pointed out.

"Did you say something, Tails?" Sonic asked.

"It wasn't Tails, Sonic, these creatures are capable of telepathic communication," Cosmo said before Sonic grabbed the Xorda.

"How long have you've been spying on us?" Sonic asked.

"Long enough," the Xorda pointed out making Sonic realize something.

"Check the ship!" Sonic shouted before Kirby rushed inside; one moment later, Kirby comes across the rest of the Xorda squad planting a bomb before Meta Knight rushes in. The Xordas try to attack them, but Meta Knight readies his sword and quickly disposed of them quickly as one sneaks out only to bump into Sword Knight and Blade Knight.

"Know which way to the mess hall?" The Xorda said obviously making a bad joke before Sword Knight and Blade Knight pull out their swords. Seconds later, Meta Knight flies out of the hanger as the bomb started ticking while the Xorda leader watched patiently; seconds before detonating Meta Knight throws it and flies back as fast as he can to avoid getting caught in the explosion.

"What?!" The Xorda leader asked frustrated as Meta Knight landed.

"Okay. Are we good?" Meta Knight asked. Later everyone was getting ready for takeoff.

"Engines are functional," Meta Knight said.

"Roger," Tails said starting up all systems.

"We're green across the board," Escargoon said.

"Okay, commencing ignition," Tails said as the engines start up.

"Ignition successful," Knuckles pointed out, "Tails are you sure we should leave the Master emerald behind?"

"It'll be fine, guardian," Rouge pointed out.

"Okay," Knuckles said as he looked at angel island one last time as the ship started to lift up into the air.

"We're all set," Sonic said giving Tails the signal.

"Right, let's go get those emeralds," Tails said before the Blue Typhoon takes off into space unaware that nearby, Metal Sonic retrieves several fragments of the Master emerald before flying off. Meanwhile with everyone on the Blue Typhoon who were using the two chaos emeralds in their possession to track the remaining 5.

"Coordinates locked in, let's see what this warp ring is capable of," Sonic said before the Blue Typhoon shoots a ring shaped energy into the distance which opened up to the first location; they then fly through the portal.

"Warp successful," Meta Knight said as everyone looked to see a planet in the distance.

"According to this, the third chaos emerald should be somewhere on that planet," Shadow said.

"Let's head for the surface," Sonic said. Back on Sonic's planet, Dr. Eggman was seen placing three pieces of the emerald inside Metal Sonic before typing in some programming. The Master Emerald isn't as powerful as it was during the whole Metarex war, but it'll do," Dr. Eggman said making some last adjustments. Later in the training room, Metal Sonic was turned on before he looks at himself.

"Metal Sonic, you've been given some new abilities which we will be testing before our next fight with Sonic," Dr. Eggman said before a red glass ball filled with fire appears.

"Use your new abilities to absorb that fire," Dr. Eggman ordered before Metal Sonic's head opens up all mandible like before massive winds heading towards Metal Sonic's head emerge before sucking in the orb; his head then closes before with the help of the emerald shards form the ability to shoot fire out of his mouth and hands which he uses to burn the targets that pop up, "excellent!"

Metal Sonic looks at himself before nodding to himself.

"Dr. Eggman, the ship is ready for lift off," Decoe pointed out walking in.

"Good, let's get things together and move out," Dr. Eggman ordered. Meanwhile the Xorda leader gets news about the failed attempt to see what they were up against.

"I should have known that they were more persistent than I thought," The Xorda leader said underestimating Sonic and his friends, "but these new prisoners of ours should shine some light on what were up against."

The Xorda leader enters a prison room to see not just the chaotix but a male creature that looks like Kirby, but had a blue body, a tan face, white legs, blue feet and blond hair, his name was Knuckle Joe and was captured by the Xordas along with others while being held in tubes called stasis tubes.

"We're ready to wake them up for interrogation," guard pointed out.

"Good, we'll start with the ones we found before the ones on Mobius," The Xorda leader ordered. Back with Sonic and his friends who were ready to enter the planet's atmosphere.

"Once were down there we'll need to scout the area," Sword Knight suggested.

"Right. With Sonic's speed that shouldn't be a problem," Meta Knight said.

"I've actually been working on a new device that should make scouting a planet easy," Tails pointed out typing a few things on the controls before outside several small drone like vehicles deploy from the ship and head down to the planet before their video feed appears on screen showing the planet was mostly ocean with a massive storm over it.

"Looks like the storm's too violent for the ship, we'll need to find a safer way down there," Meta Knight pointed out.

"The emeralds stay here on the ship, so no chaos controlling down there," Sonic pointed out.

"We need to find a an area close by that the storm isn't striking; let me look around the area," Tails said looking around; after a while of searching, Tails spots sunlight nearby, "bingo!"

"Looks good, although it is a couple miles from the location," Fumu pointed out.

"I can reach it in a couple minutes, but there's water involved," Sonic pointed out.

"I can reach it no problem," Meta Knight pointed out.

"Anyone else?" Tails asked before Rouge and Knuckles step forward, "Okay, we've got a small strike team."

Later In the planet's atmosphere, several pods were seen falling to the surface before they break open revealing Meta Knight, Knuckles and Rouge who immediately start flying towards the facility in the distance.

"Looks like no ones home," Knuckles pointed out.

"Are you seriously jinxing it, red head?" Rouge asked.

"What have I told you about calling me that?" Knuckles asked.

"Save it, we've got company," Meta Knight pointed out as several ships fly towards them.

"Look at what you did, red head," Rouge said.

"How does me opening my mouth have to do with anything?" Knuckles asked.

"I said save it!" Meta Knight shouted as the ships get closer and began to open fire on them, forcing the three to dodge the projectiles coming right at them; he then hopped on top of one of the fighters and stabs the engine forcing the ship to barrel roll to the water below as he jumps off and flies towards the next one while Knuckles punches through the next one. Rouge kicked one of the ships causing it to lose control and falls into the water as well.

"Heads up, looks like you poked the hornets nest!" Sword Knight pointed out as several more ships fly towards their location, "and I don't want to hear anyone say that Knuckles jinxed it!"

The ships fly closer before the three spring into action taking down three ships at a time while the ships fire at them. Luckily they dodge each projectile while attacking the ships. Meta knight approaches a ship and tries to stab it, but it swiftly moved out of the way in time without even turning surprising the star warrior.

"They're getting smarter," Meta Knight pointed out after he teleports in front of the ship and slices it in half while Knuckles was seen trying to punch his way through a ship, which was mocking him by dodging each punch. Back on the blue typhoon, everyone else watched the whole situation.

"These guys are tough," Sonic pointed out.

"Tails, is there any way we can help?" Cosmo asked.

"There's been something I've been wanting to try for a while, but wasn't too sure if it'll work," Tails pointed out pulling up controls for something.

"What might that be, Tails?" Sonic asked.

"You see, I've been experimenting with human tech before we went home and I found a way to guide missiles to their target by using lasers," Tails pointed out before pulling up a screen, "I've also been working on a few kinks with it to ensure it hits the target 99 percent of the time."

Cosmo was impressed and curious, because of this she walked over to have a look herself to see the ships on screen. Tails readies several missiles before getting ready to fire. The first missile flies off towards the first target guided by a barely visible laser light. Eventually the missile hits the Xorda ship and destroys it.

"Looks we've got support," Meta Knight pointed out while trying to attack one of the ships. One after the other the Xorda ships start blowing up from the missiles hitting them, but one last ship dodges the last missile, "what did I say? They're getting smarter."

Meta Knight thought quickly to find a way to destroy the sip standing in their way, but then thought of something. He retreated into the clouds before the Xorda ship let its guard down, he then swoops down and cuts the ship in half.

"Nice," Knuckles commented before the three proceeded towards the base.

"That was impressive," Tails said.

"That's Meta Knight for you," Fumu pointed out before the blue typhoon followed the team towards the base while keeping their distance.

"Let's hold position here," Sonic suggested before Tails agreed and stops the ship to hold position. Back on the ground Meta Knight, Knuckles and Rouge sneak into the base.

"Leave no stone unturned," Meta Knight ordered as they snuck through the halls of the base looking for the chaos emerald that was inside; they subdued guards only when absolutely necessary as they moved quickly through looking at every corner they come across before they come across a reinforced door, "bingo."

Meta Knight, Knuckles and Rouge knock a guard out quickly and use his tentacle to open up a scanning security system that was set up at the door causing it to open to reveal a red colored gem.

"That was too easy, but that's what scares me," Rouge pointed out before Knuckles and Meta Knight agreed with her; they looked around to see nothing in sight, but something was definitely off. Knuckles' ear starts twitching causing him to react quickly by punching something behind him, then several invisible Xordas appear around them.

"You Mobians and star warriors are clever," the Xorda leading the group pointed out before their enemies sprung into action and took out every soldier in sight; they then grabbed the Chaos emerald and make a mad dash towards the exit which was slowly closing.

"Looks like the base is on full alert," Knuckles pointed out as they ran quickly towards the door and make it through in the nick of time; hoping to clear a landing area for the Blue Typhoon they quickly take down their defenses as the X-Tornado arrives to pick them up. It then flies off.

"That was too close," Meta Knight pointed out as they get close to the blue typhoon. Meanwhile the Xorda leader was seen interrogating Knuckle Joe.

"I told you, I only know about Star Warriors, not these so called Mobians or seedrains or however you say it," Knuckle Joe pointed out before getting shocked by a taser looking device.

"It's seedrian. Now tell us, what were you three doing so deep in space?" The Xorda leader asked.

"We were part of a battle against a being that calls himself Nightmare, after we defeated him, we were left drifting in space," Knuckle Joe pointed out.

"He's telling the truth sir, we're not gonna get much out of this star warrior," a Xorda advisor pointed out.

"I see, put him back into stasis for now, maybe we'll have better luck with the Mobians," The Xorda leader ordered before they take Knuckle joe away.