The Guardian
"So these are chaos emeralds." Serena said. "Imagine the jewelry I could have if I had all seven."
"Don't even think about it, dumpling head." Rei said.
"But we are lucky." Ami said. "Sonic entrusted us with this one so we can stop Eggman when we see him again."
"You have a great responsibility." Luna said. "Use this power to find the moon princess, we can't let the emerald fall into the hands of the enemy."
"But for now let's resume our original objective until we see the enemy again." Ami added.
"Why can't I hold the emerald?" Serena whined.
"Because I know Rei is smart and wise, she wont harness the emerald to up her physical performance in school or sell it to buy useless junk." Luna explained.
"Good point." Ami said. "Rei you take it for now."
"I promise, I won't let you down." Rei said.
"I can't believe this!" Serena whined. "They're all against me!"
Meanwhile in the Dark Kingdom
"I'm sorry for my failure with Sailor Moon." Nephrite said. "It won't happen again."
"Don't trust him, my Queen." Said a male voice, then appeared Zoisite. "He will just fail again against both Sonic and Sailor Moon."
"He may have a chance Zoisite." Beryl said. "Dr, Eggman sent the mercenary out to assist his hunt in the chaos emeralds. And he agreed to help you collect the energy, so go and get me that energy!"
"How is Eggman anyway?" Zoisite asked.
"He's punishing his lackey's for losing his chaos emerald." Beryl smirked. "Hmhmhmhmhm."
"Yes." Nephrite said. "He left for Earth."
"You know, he will just fail again." Zoisite said.
"Don't question my orders!" Beryl snapped. "If he doesn't succeed he will suffer."
At Nephrite's abandoned church.
"I shall ask help from Draco the Dragon to help me find my next victim." It showed a young boy collecting bugs. "Ok I will call you Draco, when the time comes."
Meanwhile in the forest
"So." Sonic said. "The scouts have one, and Eggman has one, so we know where three of the emeralds are. But there are still four unknown emeralds, we'll have to start looking for them."
"When?" Tails asked.
"Now." Sonic said, then Sonic grabbed Tails by the arm and started running, but unexpectedly, they bumped into a 12-year-old boy dressed in a safari suit. With jars of bugs, beetles, butterflies, and caterpillars. Along with empty jars and a butterfly net.
"Ow." He said. "Watch where you're…" The site of Sonic and Tails left his mouth hanging open. Sonic and Tails did nothing at first but then they just ran off again.
"Ok..." He said regaining his senses by shaking his head. "I got bugs to catch."
"Yes you do." Nephrite said, approaching from the trees. "Hi, I'm Maxfield Stanton, mind if I see your net young man?"
"Sure." The boy said, slightly suspicious. Then, like Katie he began to put a spell on the net.
"You will keep catching until your energy gets at its strongest!" Nephrite said devilishly.
"This net is very good for catching bugs!" Maxfield said, handing the net to him. "So go on and keep catching beetles!" He walked away. "And offer up your energy hahahahaha!"
Nephrite walked out of sight and he saw the strange figure of Eggman's mercenary jumping through the trees nearby
"Clam Down!" Nephrite shouted to him. "When the time is right you will know what to do!"
The spell made the boy become Nephrite's slave.
"I must catch more bugs." Muttered the boy and he violently began swinging his net and even squishing worms and beetles, "I must only catch strong magnificent bugs!"
Two and a half-hours later Sonic and Tails ran back to the forest. Unfortunately they didn't find any emeralds, they looked mainly outside the cities in Japan.
"I can't believe this, no emeralds." Tails said.
"I know." Sonic said. "But there are many more places left to look." They heard loud grunting and yelling, they looked to they're left and they saw the same boy from before.
"It's almost sunset." Tails noted. "He should be getting home."
"Right." Sonic said and he rushed over to the boy "Hey kid! You should start heading home!"
"Grr you again." The boy grumbled. "Leave me alone! I must catch all the bugs."
"Sonic." Tails said rushing next to Sonic. "He seems different."
"I think you should calm down." Sonic suggested.
"No." The boy said. "I must use energy so you can bow to the Dark Kingdom!"
"Hey, I heard that talk before!" Sonic said.
"Now!" Nephrite called at his abandoned church. "Since he's so young his energy climbed very quickly." Then Draco the dragon appeared from the body of the kid and took his energy. He was 150 big and tall dragon with a teal scale body with golden eyes.
"Woah, what the!?" Sonic shouted. Tails Flew over to the boy's body and brought him over to Sonic.
"I'll take this boy back to the workshop and once there I will call the Sailors!" Tails said.
"You do that little buddy." Sonic said focusing on Draco, and Tails rushed away with the boy's body.
"Hello, Sonic the Hedgehog." Draco said. "I'm a constellation warrior from the Dark Kingdom sent by my master Nephrite. I have collected the energy I came here for and now I can finish you off and claim your chaos emerald!"
"Over my dead body!" Sonic shouted.
"That's the idea!" Draco laughed and he began to blow fireballs at Sonic, he just kept leaping to the side but there was no real winner because even if Sonic moved to the side the fire would just hit and burn the trees and plants. Sonic didn't seem to notice because Sonic would just start dancing after each dodge.
"How dare you mock my accuracy!" Draco yelled. "Time to turn up the heat!" Sonic then rushed up his arm and struck his head and he went down. Then Tails came back to see Sonic winning and unfortunately the small blaze that the forest was suffering.
"Ok." Sonic said recoiling back to Tails. "Let's finish him off!" Draco regained his senses and quickly snapped up Sonic and ate him. Sonic failed to notice him since his back was turned.
"HA HA HA!" Nephrite laughed, watching his celestial map which is showing him all that was happening. "I did something that Eggman couldn't do! Kill Sonic the Hedgehog!"
"SONIC NO!" Tails screamed.
"Sorry Tails." Nephrite said. "You're buddy is now being digested by the constellation Draco the Dragon!"
"Ow." Draco moaned. "This diner isn't agreeing with me." Then Draco spat Sonic up and he was glowing.
"What! No!" Nephrite screamed. "No one can stop Draco!" Then Sonic held up his chaos emerald.
"This is how I escaped, I got a little power boost." Sonic said triumphantly.
"Hooray!" Tails cheered.
"Now let's finish him off!" Sonic said, then Sonic and Tails joined hands and combined their attacks together to make a double speed dash attack and it ripped through Draco who then burst into nothing. The energy returned to the kid who was still unconscious.
"Now I need to do a little damage control." Sonic said and he scooped up some dirt and he ran around the blaze really fast while throwing the dirt on the fire and it went out in little time.
"We're Here!" Sailor Moon shouted, who had just arrived with the other sailors.
"Wow Sonic." Sailor Mars said. "You already won!"
"Looks like you had a hard time." Sailor Mercury said inspecting the broken trees and scorched plants.
"So I ran all the way out here for nothing!" Sailor Moon whined.
"I lost." Nephrite said. "I need assistance." Then Nephrite whistled which carried across the winds of the land. and something popped out of the trees and stuck everyone on the head, knocking them unconscious, all they saw was a red blur.
Then when everyone awakened, they found that they may have been captured, they were all tied to wooden chairs and were in a dark room with one light shining over their heads.
"Is everyone ok?" Sonic asked, everyone answered yes.
"Ok now where are we?" Sailor Mercury asked looking around.
"Exactly where I want you!" A voice said.
"That's not a voice we know." Sailor Mars said.
"We know you." Sonic said. "You're—."
"That's right." A shadowy figure said. It just stepped into the light, revealing a red creature similar to Sonic.
"I'm Knuckles the Echidna, the last of them and guardian of the Chaos Emeralds, the Master Emerald and the floating island."
"Is this a friend of yours Sonic?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Sonic and Tails are not my friends! And neither are you Sailor Warriors! My friend Dr. Eggman told me everything you plan to steal all the Emeralds and conquer the floating island. He teamed up with Queen Beryl of the Dark Kingdom and is now trying to foil your evil plan." Knuckles objected.
"You're wrong." Sailor Mars said. "Beryl and Eggman are the enemies, they want the emeralds for themselves, they want universal domination! I mean how do you explain the island falling?"
Knuckles smirked. "I let Eggman borrow 2 chaos emeralds. I hid all but one from you on the island and Japan. But now I have that emerald back!" Knuckles held up the chaos emerald that Sonic had. "Now I will teach you all a lesson when you deal with me!" Knuckles readied his fist and charged at Sailor Mercury. But a red Rose shot at Knuckles and he stopped. Everyone looked up to see Tuxedo Mask to the rescue, he was standing in a window which then signified that they were being held inside a building.
"Yes!" Sailor Moon cried. "My love has come to save me!"
"This doesn't involve you stranger." Knuckles said. "Leave or I'll pummel you!"
"Torturing victims while they're defenseless?" Tuxedo Mask said. "That just makes you a cowardly naive little Echidna!"
"So you're my enemy too?" Knuckles said. "Well Knuckles never runs from a fight! Then Tuxedo Mask pulled out his cane and swung it really fast like a sword and cut the ropes tying everyone."
"Thanks." Sonic said. "Quite odd how a cane can cut ropes but who cares, now let's get that chaos emerald!"
"Bubble Spray!" The fog surrounded Knuckles.
"Gee." Knuckles said. "I can't see no ware to go, but down!" Everyone ran into the fog and all they found was a hole that Knuckles dug underground.
"Oh no!" Tuxedo Mask shouted, he was feeling weird vibrations in the ground. "Get out of the way!" Sonic, Tails, Tuxedo mask pushed the Sailors out of the way when Knuckles popped out of the ground to land a sneak attack. But the attack missed.
"Hmm." Knuckles thought. "You're not as wimpy as I thought. I will still save everyone from a dark fate you plan to give."
"You have it all wrong!" Sailor Mars said. "Wont you believe us!?"
"Liars!" Knuckles shouted. "I will need emerald powers to stop you!" Knuckles picked up the emerald, but when he looked at it all he saw was an empty hand.
"What!? How!?" Knuckles shouted. He examined everyone and he saw Tuxedo Mask holding it.
"Hey!" Knuckles yelled. "Give that back!" Tuxedo Mask threw another rose and the petals sprayed all over Knuckles face and blinded him, when it cleared everyone was gone. "NO!" Knuckles screamed. "I will get that emerald back if it's the last thing I ever do!"
Later they all escaped from the window that Tuxedo Mask used to get inside with it was an old warehouse in a rundown abandoned shopping district. Everyone looked around for Tuxedo Mask but he was gone and he took the emerald with him.
"I guess for now we can leave the emerald with Tuxedo Mask, but we will have to take it from him eventually." Sonic said.
"Now we have another enemy." Sailor Moon sighed. "This just isn't my day."
"He has obviously been deceived." Tails said. "Somehow, we will make him see the light."
"He can be a powerful ally." Sailor Mars said.
"But for now, we need to get the chaos emeralds and stop Eggman and the Dark Kingdom. I guess, now, Knuckles to. Sonic said.
The Sailors waved bye to Sonic and Tails when they all went back home Sonic and Tails returned to the workshop.
Sonic picked the unconscious boy and ran him back into the city to return him home he saw a mother and father holding each other crying. Sonic's instincts told him that those are the boy's parents and apparently they're worried. He dashed over to the two. The boy woke up in Sonic's arms
"Are you the animal I saw earlier?" Asked the kid
"Yes." Sonic said. "You had a rough day, I'm taking you back to your home."
"What happened?" The boy asked. "I remember nothing."
"Don't worry." Sonic said. "Everything's ok now."
"Are you two looking for this?" Sonic asked, showing the boy.
"That's our Mark!" Cheered his parents, hugging and kissing their son.
"Mom. Dad." Mark said, hugging his parent's back. "I think my bug catching days are over."
"Are you the animal that has been a buzz in the news lately?" Mark's father asked.
"I don't know." Sonic said. "Maybe."
"Well thank you!" Mark's mother said. "You're ok in my book! Thanks for bringing my boy back!"
"No problem Ma'am." Sonic saluted as he rushed back to the workshop.