A bright light was enveloping the port of Station Square as well as the people who were watching on. Not even a second ago, a gigantic robot, E-99, was standing at the center where he had dropped Sonic into the water below. But the Emeralds had fallen into the water too, and Sonic used their combined powers to become Super Sonic for the first time. He quickly demolished E-99 and tried to use chaos control to warp his friends back home.

But the attempted chaos control had gone wrong. Instead of bringing his friends home, Sonic accidentally brought part of home to Earth. As the light disappeared, everyone looked on in awe as a giant floating island surrounded by clouds came into view. It wasn't the only thing affected by the chaos control.

On the floating island, in the Mushroom Hill Zone, one of the many hidden giant rings spun faster than normal. In fact, it was kept spinning faster and faster until…

"SHA-SHIIING!" It ejected two robots from out the center of itself!

They hit the ground hard and started to tumble down one of the many hills. One was offline, all his parts and pieces limp and unresponsive. The other, however, flailed in attempted to stop his falling.

"Br-*vzckstz \r!" 10-961 tried to shout. His damaged processor was having difficulties operating, moving too slow to react in time to the various objects and obstacles he and 274 were hitting and bouncing off of. Rocks and branches scraped and dented their plating, paint being stripped off on contact and the tumbled wasn't done with its' onslaught. Soon, a series of mushrooms juggled and threw the pair into the air. 10-961 only had enough time to spot the rocks up ahead as he sailed towards them.

His protective eye-guards snapped shut automatically as he attempted to curl into a ball, but it wasn't enough. He smashed face-first into a particularly large boulder that cracked his right eye-guard down the middle. His brother's limp body had skidded off the top of the boulder next to 10-961 before halting a little ways away; ears bent 90 degrees from impact. 10-961 eye-guards snapped open after the threat of damage was gone, but the right one got stuck halfway as it tried to retreat back under the plating; leaving 10-961 with a squint.

"Self Destruct: Deactivated"

"Sure doesn't feel like it.." 10-961 thought to himself as soon as the message came through. Smoke was trailing out of both of them and all the extensive damage was more than 10-961 knew how to fix. But… he had to try something! He tried moving his arms, but they were even slower to respond than his processor.

"… this might take awhile, But I have to get up! Me and my brother are the only ones here!" 10-961 thought to himself. But how could he get over to 274? He had landed on his back and pushing up from that position was proving useless. The pistons in his arms couldn't handle the weight. Then he tried rolling over, but accidentally pinned one arm underneath himself. "A long, long while…"

While 10-961 attempted to get to his brother, Knuckles had just arrived. He had glided from a nearby skyscraper and had just finished climbing up the rocky side of Angel Island. Though Eggman had just been defeated, he didn't want to take the risk of him getting the Master Emerald. He wanted to get there as quick as possible. And despite getting to the island first, he had to walk the way to the shrine. Everyone else was on some kind of flying device.

"Maybe I should've taken the phone Amy offered!" Knuckles scowled at himself. A helicopter or plane ride would be great right about now! At least he only had to get through the Mushroom Hill Zone…

"I hope no one got on the island while I was gone." Knuckles said to himself as he started to run past gigantic mushrooms. For the first few minutes, Knuckles saw nothing unusual or out of place. The mushrooms were growing fine and the local flickies were chirping. Even the grippy vines, as annoying as always, thrived. It wasn't until he was nearing the end of the zone that Knuckles found anything worth noting. The flickies had gone quiet in this part of the zone. As if disturbed by something…

"What's this?" Something caught Knuckles' eye in the underbrush. Knuckles reach down and picked it up. "A bit of blue metal…?" Knuckles asked aloud. It was a small, broken piece of metal having come off of something. But what?

"Hmm?" Knuckles spotted a few smaller pieces scattered about. They were leading towards one of the many big hills. Knuckles sped down the hill in search of the source of the metal. He saw paint transfers on rocks, tinny shards of metal embedded into some mushrooms, and some claws marks that had been slashed into the ground.

"Looks like signs of a robot! Eggman MUST'VE been here!" Knuckles thought uneasily. Fists at the ready, Knuckles was ready for anything at the bottom.

Except maybe two blue robot Sonic lookalikes; with one trying to shake the other awake.

"Eh?!" Knuckles shouted as he got close enough to see the scene in full. Electricity sparked off both frequently, the one still online twitching now and then. It twitched a little harder at the volume of Knuckles' voice.

"Are you one of Eggman's Robots?!" Knuckles continued to shout. "Because you landed on the wrong island!"

He waited for a response.

Slowly the online bot turned to face Knuckles. It took far too long in Knuckles' opinion as the bot seemed to just stare at him once he made eye contact. Just as Knuckles was about to repeat himself, the bot… tried to speak. " I dzbt( n/ n-n-nzzt/)# wo00P [/ ma izzt." But for the life of him, Knuckles had NO clue what the heck that scrambled piece of a sentence was supposed to mean.

"Um…" Knuckles muttered as he thought how to proceed. Ping! A thought came to him!

Knuckles crouched down the bots' level and lifted the two onto his shoulders. He waited until the online one reacted, as delayed as the reaction time was, before speaking again. Thankfully, he was just a hard twitch of surprise and a blurted beep.

"I'm taking you to Tails. He's good with machines!" Knuckles stated determinedly. And off he marched with the two in toll. "So I can interrogate with you without that nonsense noise, of course!" A delayed beep and buzz followed.

Speaking of Tails…

He and Chuck where landing on Angel Island next to the Master Emerald along with a copter with the rest of his friends. Sonic and Chris were waiting for them next to the emerald shrine.

"Wow! We're really on a flying island?" Chris exclaimed as he took in everything. "How does it float?"

"Ha! Look straight ahead Chris and it's pretty obvious." Sonic laughed. They were sitting on the bottom steps of the Master Emerald Shrine.

"OH Right! I think I'm still a little fried." Chris replied. While Sonic had healed all his physical injuries, Chris still felt exhausted.

"And I need practice!" Sonic said as he ran a hand through his quills. "I didn't mean to bring the floating island to Earth. Chaos Control is lot more difficult to 'control' than I thought." He sighed afterwards.

Neither of them could say anything else as the whole gang filed out and rushed towards the two.

"SONIC! You had me SO WORRIED!" Amy yelled as she rushed over and hugged him with all her might; which is a lot. It HAD been a close call, so Sonic let her have her hug, but..

"Lo-oosen up… just .. a bit?"

"Eh?"

"Can't… BReath."

"Oh, sorry!" Sonic gasped as Amy relaxed her death grip. Sweet glorious air!

"That was AMAZING Sonic!" Tails exclaimed, Chuck close behind with the same enthusiasm. "I've never seen the chaos emeralds do that!"

"Yeah! I'll have to try that again!" Sonic replied.

"NO YOU WON'T!" Came a shout from a little ways a way.

"uh.."

"You JUST teleported my home into the middle of STATION SQUARE!" Knuckles continued to shout as he briskly walked towards the shrine. He wasn't quite in full-view yet, still in the forested area near the shrine.

"Yo Knuckles! You made it the party!" Sonic teased/shouted back. "It's good to see you're okay!" A trip and a shout of surprise followed, and a few clanks that sounded like metal. "uh… nevermind?"

A grumble of 'I'm okay..'

"You need help?"

"No! I got this!"

"What's he even got?" Asked Amy curiously. A collective shrug from everyone as they waited for Knuckles to make his way into the clearing. When he did make it to the group…

"Uh.. Knucklehead? What's with the robots?" asked Sonic

"The SONIC-like robots?" Amy added.

"The sonic-like robots that are sparking and smoking?" Chris finished. Tails had rushed to his plane for his toolbox and brought it over.

"They look heavily damaged Knuckles. What happened?" Tails asked as he put down his box near the group.

"You're asking me! I have no clue!" Knuckles said back. "I found the two like this! This one was trying to wake up his twin here." Knuckles heaved the two as gently off his shoulders onto the bottom steps leading up to the Master Emerald as he could. Both of them appeared offline at the moment. "They took a harsh tumble down in Mushroom Hill Zone. The one that WAS awake can't speak right, his voice must've broke."

"So these two are a complete mystery?" Chuck replied. "I guess we could fix them a bit, see – or hear- what happened."

"BUT only to hear what happened, okay? They could be Eggman's robots after all." Chris said with concern.

"hmm…" Tails started to look over the robots. "There must be a panel somewhere…?"

Tails had a keen eye for mechanics, and as he poked and probe the two bots, he noticed slight differences between the two despite the muck, leaves, and missing bits. The two had to be slightly different models; an older and a newer.

"A-Ha!" Tails exclaimed as he pushed a spot on the back of the head just right. A bit of metal had popped loose to reveal wires and plugs and…

"Eggman's logo!" Shouted Knuckles.

"But… it's all scratched up?" Amy added.

"Not to mention the wrong color… it's also a bit creepier looking than normal." Sonic remarked.

"Was Eggman's logo ever different than what he has now?" Chuck asked. "Like maybe a prototype version?"

"No… and what's even weirder is that the other one doesn't have the logo at all." Tails replied as he removed the paneling of the other metal sonic's head.

Just then, the metal sonic Tails was currently examining turned online. Tails was so spooked he slammed the paneling back into place. A series of garbled beeps and bloops followed as the robot frantically (or as frantically as rubbish movement could allow) at the strange people around him.

"Uh… hi?" Cream squeaked out. "Who are you?"

"Tuuu^(*-nuuaAA-z-zzzzst_*ONenee" The metal sonic tried to say slowly, but the result was still far from understandable. "MaaaAHTELL—iz" The last bit came out a little better.

"Okay 'Mahtelles', we want to know what happen to ya. Robots aren't usually on Angel Island." Sonic said. They all waited for a response.

10-961 was baffled and maybe… just a little bit terrified. He wasn't really sure WHAT these people were; they certainly weren't made of metal like him. The red one hadn't exactly sounded friendly, what with the whole 'interrogation' thing. Just then, a funny looking thing showed up.

"Lucky! There you are! Was wondering where you went!" Sonic shouted in greetings. It had a gold bell covering most of it, wings on its head, rabbit like feet, and various items attached to it. It let out a delighted beep and rushed over to hug Sonic.

10-961 only realized it was a robot like him because of it arms and eyes. The strange, clunky looking bot seemed to like the blue one a whole lot. Maybe these people weren't to be afraid of? But first he had to know who these people were. With effort, 10-961 lifted his hand and pointed at Sonic and gave a quizzical beep.

"Excuse me?" Sonic didn't get it right away what the look-a-like bot was doing. Lucky knew though, and repeated the motion, but at everyone. "Oh! You want to know who we are? Well I'm Sonic" Sonic! 274 had mentioned Sonic before! So this was who he was talking about? Sonic and co.? 10-961 wished his scanner hadn't been damaged or else he might've gotten more information.

"I'm Cream and this is my Chao Cheese!"

"Chao Chao!"

"I'm Chuck! Chris' grandfather."

"I-I'm Chris, I really hope you're nice!"

"Tails here, as you can see by my two tails!"

"Amy!"

"and Knuckles…"

"Beep Beep!" that would be Lucky

That would be the 'Co.' part thought 10-961. He wasn't sure why, but something in his damaged processor tingled with wrongness, but he couldn't place why. They all seemed nice enough. Maybe it was something else?

"Since it seems you have a lot of damage, Tails here is going to take you to his workshop to fix you and your twin there." Chuck said. "You okay with that?"

10-961 thought for a minute. Although he just met these people, this WAS the best shot he had at getting himself and his brother in working order again. With a painfully slow nod, 10-961 and 274 were hoisted up and on their way to the Workshop.