Episode 6: The Lost City Part 1
One bright sunny day in Knothole, Sonic and Sally are laying down on the grass as they look up in the sky. It's been a while since Sonic, Tails, and their friends are able to kick back and relax.
Sally says, "It sure is a nice day."
"It sure is," Sonic says.
"It's been a long time since we relaxed together. If you don't mind me asking, what's it like traveling Mobius?" Sally replies.
"It's fun. You get to see new places, meet new people, eat some food, stopping Dr. Eggman along with his badniks. Traveling is exciting when you have to save the day," Sonic says.
"I would like to visit the places you went to with Tails," Sally says.
"Maybe someday. Maybe we can ask Rotor and the others if they want to come too," Sonic says.
"I would like that," Sally says.
Sonic closes his eyes as he feels the breeze traveling across the sky. Sally looks up at the blue sky to see the clouds and sees birds flying around. Sally soon becomes confused to see a strange large rock floating over the sky.
Sally turns to Sonic and says, "Hey Sonic, what's that?"
Sonic opens his eyes and sits up to see the floating rock floating across the sky and over their heads. The rock's shadow covers Knothole catching the Mobians' attention. Tails, Rotor, and Antoine are among them to see the floating rock. Sonic and Sally are surprised to see it.
But Sonic recognizes it, "It's Angel Island."
"Angel Island? What's that?" Sally asks.
"It's an Island that floats in the sky 24/7. We have a friend named Knuckles who lives on the island and guards a special gemstone called the Master Emerald that gives it the power to fly," Sonic says.
"Really? An Island that is allowed to be in the air because of a gemstone. I would like to see it," Sally says.
Sonic stands up, "I was thinking the same thing. Let's go tell the others and we can go to the island together."
"That's a great idea. Let's go find the others and get the Tornado flying to the island right away," Sally says.
"Then let's do it," sonic says, and picks up Sally.
With that, Sonic super speed to find the others while carrying Sally in his arms. It's not long for Sonic and Sally to find the others, and explain what they want to do.
"I think it's a great idea," Rotor says.
"Me too. It's been a long time since we saw Knuckles," Cream happily says.
Then turns to Cheese, "Right Cheese."
"Chao Chao," Cream happily says.
"Um are you sure zis is a good idea?" Antoine asks, feeling weary.
"Don't worry Antoine. The Island is safe, and we have a friend who lives there too. I'm sure he won't mind dropping by for a visit," Tails says.
"Then let's go on the Tornado and head to the island," Amy says.
"The Tornado is too small for all of us. Luckily, Rotor and I have been working on a new plane. The Red Tornado," Tails says.
Not long, they arrive at the airfield to see the Red Tornado. It looks kind of like the Blue Tornado, but it's big enough to carry more than a few people."
"Great work guys" Sonic says.
"We knew you liked it. Now we can take it up to the island," Rotor says.
"Then let's go," Bunnie says.
Everyone is soon inside the plane and buckle their seat belts. Rotor starts the engine of the plane and they take off to check out Angel Island.
On the Floating Island, there is an ancient ruin known as Mystic Ruins. Close by is the altar where a large green emerald known as the Master Emerald stands. Sleeping next to the Master Emerald is Knuckles the Echidna, the guardian of the island and protector of the Master Emerald. Knuckles continues to sleep next to the Master Emerald when he hears a strange sound. Knuckles opens his eyes and turns his head to the woods. He sits up to hear voices.
"Hmm, someone's on the island? But how? I better go check it out," Knuckles says to himself.
Knuckles decides to walk down the stairs of the altar and walks into the woods to see if the mysterious visitors are doing anything bad intentions. As Knuckles walks to the forest, a small spy drone flies down to see him walking away from the emerald.
The spy camera sends to Dr. Eggman and Snively in their lair. They watch Knuckles leave the Master Emerald as they hear strange sounds and voices in the background.
"So Knuckles is distracted by the strange sounds and leaving the Master Emerald unattended," Eggman says.
Then the camera changes to the Master Emerald.
"So this is this Master Emerald you speak of. It sure does seem to be powerful," Snively says.
"The Master Emerald has incredible powers and is connected with the seven Chaos Emeralds. With Knuckles not around, the Master Emerald is ours for the taking," Eggman says.
Then turns to Snively, "With the Island floating around the area, we can find the island, get the Master Emerald before Knuckles notice the thing."
"Yes sir," Snively says.
Eggman and Snively begins to laugh maniacally.
Back at Angel Island, the Red Tornado is flying towards the Island to where the Master Emerald Shrine is. Sally, Rotor, Antoine, Bunnie, and Nicole are amazed to see the island this close, and can't wait for them to explore.
Sonic points out, "This looks like a good place to land."
"Sure Sonic," Rotor says.
Rotor drives the plane to the island and lands at the clearing safely. The Freedom Fighters walk off the plane and decide to explore around. Sonic and Tails turns to the Altar to see the Master Emerald, but someone's missing.
Sally walks over, "So this is the Master Emerald?"
"Yeah. It's what keeps the Island up in the sky," Sonic says.
"It's mighty pertty," Bunnie says.
"But… where's Knuckles? He should be here," Amy asks.
"Yeah. Knuckles is around that rock all day and night," Sonic says.
Suddenly, they hear a strange sound up in the sky.
"What's that?" Cream asks.
Antoine looks up and says, "Look! Up in ze sky."
Sonic and the others look up to the sky to see some kind of flying saucer in the sky. Then it heads off into the direction of the woods.
"What's that?" Amy asks.
"I'm not sure. Maybe the saucer is heading to some kind of camp," Nicole says.
"But not many people live on the island. We better go find out what that is and find Knuckles," Sonic says.
"You're right. It could be trouble," Tails says.
Sonic, Tails and the others begin to walk into the woods to see where the flying Saucer is going.
Later on in the forest, Knuckles is flying from branch to branch in the treetops to find the source of the strange noises he's been hearing. Knuckles continue to hear the strange sound and they sound louder.
"Who could be on the island and making this much noise?" Knuckles asks himself.
Suddenly Knuckles hears someone calling out his name. Knuckles becomes confused and looks behind him. He then hears more voices calling his name, and they sound familiar. He looks down to see Sonic, Tails, Amy, Cream and Cheese, along with five newcomers.
Knuckles calls out, "Sonic! Tails! Guys!"
The Freedom Fighters look up to see the red echidna up on the tree.
"Hi Knuckles," Cream happily says, waving her hand.
"Chao Chao," Cheese happily replies.
Knuckles jumps off the tree and lands on the ground, and asks, "What are you doing here?"
"We wanted to show our good friends the island. Knuckles, this is Sally, Bunnie, Antoine, Rotor, and Nicole. Guys, this is Knuckles the Knucklehead," Sonic says, and laughs a little.
Knuckles grits his teeth in anger, "Very funny."
Sally walks over and says, "It's nice to meet you Knuckles, I'm Sally."
"It's nice to meet you too. Welcome to Angel Island. So you guys are here for a visit?" Knuckles replies.
"Anyway, we wanted to visit you, but we didn't see you where the Master Emerald is. Then we saw this flying saucer and..," Sonic says.
"Flying Saucer? What flying saucer?" Knuckles asks.
"We saw one when we were at the altar. We followed it to the forest to see where it's going," Tails says.
"Something strange is going on. I heard voices and strange machinery sounds and decided to come here," Knuckles says.
As the group explains about the strange going ons on the island, A mysterious female Mobian is spying on them from the bushes. She watches as Sally walks off to search for the direction to where the saucer is going.
She brings out her communicator and says, "The guardian and his friends saw them. Should I follow them,"
"Of course, make sure you aren't seen by any of them until the time is needed," A male voice says from the communicator.
"Okay," The female Mobian says, and turns the device off.
She then continues to secretly spy on Knuckles and the Freedom Fighters.
Knuckles says, "I'm guessing the strange noises and the flying saucer might have some strange connection."
"I'm thinking the same thing, but what would they be doing on the island?" Sonic asks.
Before Knuckles can answer, Sally calls out, "Guys!"
Everyone turns their heads to see Sally hurrying to them.
"Sally, what were you doing?" Sonic asks.
Sally says, "I followed where the flying saucer is heading and I found out where it's going."
"You know where sugar?" Bunnie asks.
"The saucer landed at some campsite. It's full of unknown individuals wearing black cloaks. They are armed with weapons and next to it was a city that seems to be protected by a shield next to the mountains," Sally says.
"Something strange is going on and I intend on finding out," Knuckles says.
"We'll help you Knuckles," Sonic says.
"Alright, but we need to be quiet. We don't want whoever is that camp to see us," Knuckles says.
Sally takes the lead to where the flying saucer has landed. Of course, they have to travel there stealthily so they won't be spotted. Sometime later, they take a look at the bushes to see a large campsite full of mobians wearing black cloaks. What's more, the site has machinery, weapons, robots, and flying saucers.
"Whoa! I've never seen so many weapons in one place," Tails whispers.
"They're up to something, and I don't like all the armory they have," Knuckles whispers.
"I agree. They're planning on using them for something," Sally adds.
Amy whispers, "Knuckles, take a look at a few over there."
Knuckles turns his head and becomes shocked to see some of the mobian with their hoods off. What's shocking is that the hooded mobians are echidnas, and they seem to have robotic dreadlocks, bionic eyes, and even their arms are metal.
"Knuckles, do you know who they are?" Sonic asks.
"No. I… I've never seen them before," Knuckles says, shocked.
Suddenly, they begin to hear footsteps as they hide behind the bushes. What they see is a heavily cyborg echidna. Most of his body is metal and a bit of red is on the dreadlocks, and has one large red bionic eye and a black eye with a red dot in the middle. He is accompanied by a female red echidna wearing a black bodysuit with black boots and a brown belt. She has red hair with dreadlocks, peach skin, and blue eyes. One of her dreadlocks is made of metal while the rest are wrapped in white ribbons of some kind.
"What is that?" Sonic asks, shocked and quiet.
"I don't know, but I'm getting a feeling these Echidnas are not normal," Sally says.
They soon hear the female echidna says, "We have everything we need to destroy the barrier Grandmaster Dimitri."
"Dimitri? It... it can't be…" Knuckles asks, shocked.
They soon hear the cyborg says, "Good Lien-Da. Those fools will know that they make a mistake of saving our kind."
Sonic, Knuckles and the others hide behind their bushes.
"I'm not liking where this is going," Cream worriedly says.
"Chao Chao," Cheese replies.
"Knuckles, do you know that uh, Echidna?" Sally asks.
Knuckles nods his head, "I do. Dimitri has another name and is called by Enerjak. A malevolent Chaos Demigod. He tried to use the Chaos Emerald to bring Angel Island back to where it once was before it was taken to the shy, but not without a price of destruction. He's actually one of my ancestors from 400 years ago."
"But how is he still alive?" Sonic asks.
"It has something to do with his new robotic body," Sally adds.
"But what are they doing on the island?" Amy asks.
Before Knuckles can answer, someone says, "Taking over Echidnaopolis."
Sonic and the others turn their heads to see a pink female echidna coming out of the cargo boxes that are close by. She wears a black tank top with blue boots. She also has a robotic arm and a metal dreadlock.
"Sorry if I surprise you," The pink echidna introduces herself.
Knuckles is surprised to see a pink Echidna.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Sonic asks.
"I'm Julie-Su and I'm working with Locke to keep an eye on his son and the Dark Legion," The pink echdian answers.
"How do you know my father?" Knuckles asks.
"Well. I used to work with the Dark Legion until I decided to leave that and started working with Locke," Julie-Su says.
"You used to be with the Dark Legion. Is that who the strange echidnas wearing the cloaks are?" Cream asks.
"Yes," Julie-Su answers.
"How do we know you're not still working with them?" Amy asks, giving Julie-Su a stern glare.
"If I did, I would have called for backup right now," Julie-Su says.
"She has a point," Sonic says.
"Yes. she would have let them know if she knows where here," Sally adds.
Before Julie-Su can answer, they begin to hear strange stomping. They turn around and gasp in shock to see a giant cannon with legs. The cannon is being controlled by two of the Legionnaires and heading towards the shield.
"What is that thing?" Amy asks.
"It looks like a giant fire cannon or something," Amy says.
"This is bad," Julie-Su says.
"It's really bad," Sonic says.
They soon hear Lien-Da says, "Get ready to charge the cannon."
The cannon begins to charge up.
"They're going to blow up that shield and the city along with it," Sally exclaims.
Everyone gasps in shock.
The cannon begins to charge up and prepares to fire at this barrier to the city, Echidnaopolis. Knuckles grits his teeth in anger to see what the cloaked Echidnas are trying to do. Sonic turns his head to see Knuckles showing pure anger in his eyes.
"I gotta stop them," Knuckles says.
"Knuckles…" Sally worriedly says, but Knuckles then charges out of the open.
Sonic rolls his eyes, "Here we go again."
Lien-Da and the Legion watch as the cannon about to fire at the barrier. Before Lien-Da can give the signal, she hears a loud crashing and a bang. Lien-Da and the Legionnaire turn their heads to see the cannon has crashed to the ground. And Knuckles stands on the sided machine.
"Hey! What do you creeps think you're doing?!" Knuckles angrily demands.
"Why you little…" Lien-Da says in fury.
She brings out her wipe that begins to emit electricity. She swings it towards Knuckles, but he dodges out of the way.
"Who do you think you are to interfere and destroy our cannon?" Lien-Da angrily says.
She then continues to use her wipe to attack Knuckles. The Guardian continues to dodge the attacks. Just then, Sonic hits Lien-Da's back, causing her to fall down. Sonic lands on the ground right by Knuckles.
Sonic asks, "Need a hand, Knux?"
"I had everything under control," Knuckles says.
"Whatever Knuckles. Let's go kick these creeps," Sonic says.
Sonic then speeds off and says, "Dibs on their cyborg leader."
The Legionnaires begin to shoot at Sonic and Knuckles. Sonic spin dashes to dodge the attack. Sally and the others come out as some bring out their weapons. Sally uses her ring blades to slice two of the Legionnaire's weapons. Antoine fights some of the Legionnaires as they fight with their metal spears. Bunnie flies using her robotic legs and fires with her robotic palm. Amy uses her hammer to smash them to the ground. Tails and Rotor fight against the Legionnaires will they keep Cream and Cheese safe. Sonic spin dashes and hits the Grandmaster in the face.
He lands on the ground and says, "Take that cyborg."
Dimitri then lifts his robotic hands to create powerful Chaos Energy. Sonic dodges the attack and spin dashes to Dimitri again. Before Sonic is dodge, the chaos energy hits Sonic and cause him to collide through a few trees. The Legionnaire fires in the air as Bunnie continues to dodge and fire as soon as she can. Sonic groans as he looks up to see Dimitri is floating to where he is.
Sonic then begins to spin dash and attacks, but Dimitri catches Sonic in mid spin. Dimitri then uses his energy to throw Sonic at Tails and Amy.
Dimitri says, "Seems that you never knew how powerful I am you simpletons."
Knuckles then collides his fist to Dimitri's face. Sonic, Amy, and Tails sit up to see Knuckles fighting with Dimitri. Dimitri slams his fist to the ground, and Knuckles dodge the attack. Knuckles then punches Dimitri in the face. Dimitri then grabs Knuckles and throws him to the ground.
"Knuckles!" Sonic screams.
Dimtri has Knuckles pinned to the ground by his neck. Knuckles grabs Dimitri's hand and tries to escape, but the cyborg's grasp is too strong for him to break free.
"Let… let go!" Knuckles shouts in anger.
"Not likely boy," Dimitri says.
Knuckles continues to struggle as he tries to break free from Dimitri's grasp. Dimitri then raises his hand that is flowing with Chaos Energy and attempts to strike Knuckles. Before he cold, a Chaos Energy fires and strikes Dimitri, and causes him to release Knuckles. Dimtri stands up to see another echidna landing in front of him. This echidna looks like Knuckles, but also has dark red stripes on his head and the two front dreadlocks. He is wearing traditional tribal clothes and has the same white crescent on his chest and purple eyes as Knuckles.
Knuckles says, shocked, "Dad?!"
Dimitir growls in anger, "Locke."
Then commands the Legion, "Dark Legion, move out!"
The Legionnaire does what the Grandmaster says and decides to retreat. Before they leave, some of the legionnaires throw smoke bombs on the ground, covering the entire area in smoke. Sonic, Knuckles, and everyone cough due to the smoke. Soon, the smoke clears up and the Dark Legion is gone.
Sonic says, "No use following them if they can cover their tracks."
"I have to agree. The Dark Legion are very persistent, but what are they doing here and trying to blow up the city," Sally says.
Sonic then turns his head, "I'm beginning to think he has the answer."
Sally turns to the direction Sonic is looking to see the echidna Knuckles calls dad helps him back on his feet.
The echidna, Locke asks, "Are you alright, son?"
"I'm fine. Thanks dad," Knuckles answers, rubbing his neck.
Then begins to ask, "It's great to see you, but what are you doing here?"
"I came to find you and it seems I need to tell you about Echidnaopolis," Locke says.
Confused, Knuckles begins to ask, "It has something to do with these Dark Legion Julie-Su told me about. Who are they? How is Dimitri alive and is some kind of robot? What exactly is Echidnaopolis? Why are they…"
Locke presents his hand having Knuckles to present finishing his sentence.
Then says, "Echidnaoplos is where you were born in. A city hidden on Angel Island. Sadly, the Dark Legion has found it after all this time."
Knuckles eyes widen and is in shock.
Just then, a group of echidna gather around the Freedom Fighters and the three echidnas with weapons. Cream and Cheese become scared and hug Rotor in fright.
"They are part of your kind, Knuckles. It is time you learned about our history Knuckles and how the Dark Legion connected with the trouble we're dealing now," Locke says.
Knuckles, Sonic and the Freedom Fighters stare at Locke and the Echidnas in shock.