Episode 5: Angel Island Take Flight
In the Sky Patrol the next day, Sun and the others are in a room that looks like a living room. There is a large and round chair that has a piece taken out of it. Sun, Cream, Cheese are sitting down and having some breakfast. On the table, there are different varieties of muffins and beverages. Sally, Sonic, Bunnie, and Antoine walk in the room to see them. Sonic sits on the couch and lets out a yawn.
"Morning Sonic, you look really tired today," Sun says.
"Yeah. I practically spend my time sleeping in the Chaos Emerald, and didn't get much sleep last night," Sonic answers.
"I can tell," Sun says.
Then asks, "Do you want anything to eat? There's some muffins on the table."
"Sure," Sonic says, and takes a muffin.
Sally sits down next to Sun, "How are you doing Sun?"
"I'm doing okay. This is different than any adventures I've ever been," Sun says.
"Really now. If I didn't know better, I think you and your friends back at home has a lot of adventures as much as we do," Sonic says.
"It's true. I have. In both Equestria and in Canterlot City. I really wish they were able to come, then we can experience this together. I guess the Chaos Emeralds have different plans," Sun says.
Just then, Rotor, Julie-Su, and the Chaotix walk into the room as well. They all sit down and enjoy some breakfast.
"Morning everyone," Sun says.
"Morning," Vector says, and lets out a big yawn.
Julie-Su says tired, "I'll rise, but I refuse to shine."
"I'm hungry. When's breakfast?" Charmy asks, flying to the chair and sits down.
"They're on the table Charmy, so help yourself," Sonic says.
"Yay!" Charmy cheers. He then takes a muffin from the table, and begins to eat it.
Sun turns to Julie-Su and asks, "So Julie-Su, what it's like living on a floating island?"
"It's okay. It's a nice place to live, but where were problems when Dr. Eggman and other beings are threatening it," Julie-Su says.
"You mean like this Dark Legion. I kind of saw it in your memories and you used to be one of them before you met Knuckles," Sun says.
"That's right. At first, Knuckles and I had trouble getting along. Then over time, I ended up well, growing to like him and I ended up falling in love with him," Julie-Su says.
"Aww. That's so sweet," Sun says.
"Thanks. But I do appreciate if you haven't read my mind again," Julie-Su says.
Sun giggles, "I promise."
"But Julie, it was an accident. You know she didn't mean too," Saffron says.
"I know. I'm just well…" Julie-Su says, feeling skeptic.
"Not too comfortable about talking about your past. Don't worry, I understand. There are some parts of my past that I have trouble bringing up. I promise not to pray into it further," Sun says.
"Thanks. I really appreciate it," Julie-Su says.
"Sure, but you know one thing… from the purple Chaos Emerald. I can tell that he loves you too," Sun says, feeling a little sad.
Julie-Su becomes confused and turns her head to Sun.
Just then, Nicole appears on the screen and says, "Good morning everyone. We're approaching Angel Island and we'll be landing very shortly."
"Thanks Nicole," Sally says.
Charms happily says, "You're going to love it there. There so much to do. We can go hiking, walking, flying, swimming, maybe go to the snow and go snowboarding. Or maybe we can…"
Suddenly, Espio covers Charmy mouth before he can say another word.
"How about we focus on putting the Master Emerald back where it belongs before we can think of having fun," Espio says.
"I agree. The sooner we take care of this the better," Bunnie replies.
Still flying in the sky, the Sky Patron is beginning to descend from the sky and beginning to land on the water. The ship is landing close to a large island that is floating across the sea. The island is covered by trees, plants, and has some mountain areas. Some are covered by snow. They reach Angel Island, where Julie-Su and the Chaotix live. The Sky Patrol opens its hatch as a ramp land on the foot of the island. Sometime later, everyone is on the island.
Mighty says, "Welcome to Angel Island, Sun."
"Wow! This place is beautiful. It's looks like a whole city can live on it," Sun says.
"You could say that," Mighty replies, and picks up the Master Emerald with his hands.
"So where do we need to drop the Master Emerald?" Sun asks.
"We need to get to Mystic Ruins that around the center of the island," Julie-Su says.
Sun looks at the deep forest like jungle in front of them, "Okay. But it seems that this is going to be a bit of a trip."
"Yeah. We also have to carry a big gemstone with us," Vector says.
"Let's get going. The sooner we get the Master Emerald the better," Sun says.
Sally turns to Rotor, "Rotor, you need to stay with the Sky Patrol with Nicole. When the island begins to levitate to the sky, we need you and Nicole to start the engine and land the Sky Patrol someone on the island."
"You got it Sally," Rotor says.
Rotor walks back inside the Sky Patrol to get ready to fly it on the island.
"Alright, time for us to deliver the Master Emerald back where it belongs," Sonic says.
"We'll show you how to get there," Julie-Su says.
Sun nods her head, "Okay Julie-Su, lead the way."
Julie-Sun and the Chaotix begin to lead Sun, Sonic, and the Freedom Fighters to Mystic Ruins where the Master Emerald is.
Meanwhile, In Dr. Eggman's Egg Carrier, the mad scientist is sitting in front of the controls as he looks over his deck of cards. Each card has a picture of one of his creations. He then places the cards down, and types on the controls close by. The screen appears to show Sonic and Sun before the fight.
"Hmm, there's something different about that girl. How was she able to move as fast as Sonic? It will appear I have underestimated her quite a bit," Eggman thinks.
Dr. Eggman then types in the controls and shows his original plans of the Dark Chaos Emerald. He then looks over his old plans to use the Dark Chaos Emerald to control the Seven Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald.
"I still wonder how Sonic and the others have been trapped inside the Chaos Emerald and the Master Emerald could have shattered. I wonder if it's a side effect of the Dark Chaos Emerald. As of now, Glittering Sparkle is the only one who can control its power. This will be proven useful," Eggman thinks.
Just then, the door to the control room open and Glittering Sparkle along with Orbot and Cubot walk into the room.
Cubot floats over with excitement, "Hey Doctor, what are you working on?"
"Nothing much. Just gathering data about our battle with Sonic and that girl, Sun," Eggman says.
"I have to agree. She suddenly move fast as Sonic. I find her quite unique," Orbot says.
Glittering Sparkle huffs, "I still find it hard to believe, even if I've seen for myself. Sun never moved that fast before."
"That is true, but she is able to now, and will cause more problems for us in taking the Chaos Emeralds," Eggman says.
"I suppose so. That girl is just a big goody goody," Glittering Sparkle sternly says.
"Are you jealous of her?" Cubot asks.
"Jealous of her? What for?" Glittering Sparkle sternly remarks.
Then says, "I just don't like her. She thinks she is better than me just because she's smart, athletic, popular, and is just a big goody goody and is nice to everyone."
"She seems nice enough," Orbot says.
Glittering Sparkle huffs, "Just be sure she doesn't get in my way or talk about her so much in my presence."
"Um yes," Orbot nervously replies.
Glittering Sparkle turns to Eggman, "So Doctor, where are we going?"
"Simple, we're going to find our enemies and since they have the Master Emerald, I know where they're heading," Eggman says.
"Where?" Glittering Sparkle asks.
"Angel Island," Eggman says with an evil grin on his face.
Back on Angel Island, Sun and her mobian friends continue to walk through the forest of Angel Island. Sun looks around as she sees the interesting plant life and animals the island has to offer. She sees different colored birds flying through the sky. Then see other small animals that looks like chipmunks, penguins, and other kinds of birds and bugs around the area.
Sun asks, "So guys, have you explored the entire island."
"I'm not sure. We explored a lot of parts of the island, but I'm not sure if we're able to explore all of it," Mighty says.
"There's also a desert on the island too. Don't ask us to go there. After what happened last time," Vector says.
"Um okay," Sun says.
Then asks, "So Julie-Su, anything else you can tell me about the island?"
"Hmm, well, the island used to be where Echidnas live. However, there has been well, a lot of scuffles to say and now there aren't that many on the island anymore. Knuckles, the Chaotix, and I lived on the island together. Most of the Echidnas lived in a city called Albion," Julie-Su says.
"I'm sorry," Sun sadly says.
"It's okay. It's been hard, but we're able to get through all of this," Julie-Su says.
"I see," Sun says.
The group continues to walk through the forest until they come out to see a clearing. Sun becomes astonished to see and tall alter that is surrounded by pillars that are in ruins. Some of the ruined pillars are covered in vines and leaves.
"This place looks amazing," Sun says.
"We knew you like it. It's a great place to play too," Charmy says.
"Yes," Saffron happily says.
"Master Emerald first. Play after," Espio says.
"Alright," Charmy says.
Suddenly, Sun hears a strange sound. She turns around to see the bushes and it begins to move making a rustling sound. Sun then shrugs her shoulders and turns to the others.
Sun asks, "So how exactly do we place the Master Emerald back?"
"That part is easy. We just climb to the top of the altar and place it there," Sally answers.
"Oh," Sun replies.
Not long, Mighty, Vector, and Espio walk up the stairs of the altar and places the Master Emerald back in place. Suddenly, the island begins to shake, and then, the Island begins to rise from the sea. Seeing the Island flying up, Rotor starts the engine and begins to fly the Sky Patrol. Meanwhile, Eggman's Egg Carrier is still flying in the sky. Eggman, Glittering Sparkle, Orbot, and Cubot are in the control room. They soon see Angel Island rise from the sea on the monitor.
Glittering Sparkle is astonished, "Whoa! The Island really can fly."
"That's correct. Which means the Master Emerald is back where at the Mystic Ruins, much means our enemies are already on the island," Eggman says.
"Boss, what should we do?" Orbot asks.
"Simple. We'll send one of my robots to attack them first. Then Glittering Sparkle will join in the field to give them the element of surprise," Eggman says.
"Huh? Why do I have to?" Glittering Sparkle asks, confused.
"Because while Sonic, Sun, and the others are dealing with my robots, you can sneak in and take the Chaos Emeralds. I'm sure you can handle that," Eggman says.
Glittering Sparkle looks at her hand and says, "Hmm. Maybe I will. I like to see what else I can do with the Dark Chaos Emerald's power."
"That's what I wanted to hear," Eggman says.
Orbot and Cubot look at each other in concern.
Back on the island, Sun is amazed to see the Island is actually starting to fly in the air and slowly traveling over the sea.
"Wow! So the island really can fly. I remember Cloudale back in Equestria and it's known as the Cloud City, but never a whole island flying in the air," Sun says
"I knew you like it. Angel Island is also a good place to relax," Sonic says, laying on the ground down below.
Sally rolls her eyes, "Oh Sonic."
Sun giggles, "He reminds me a lot of Rainbow Dash."
"If she has the same personality as Sonic, I imagine you were able to deal with it," Sally says.
"Well, Rainbow is still a good friend all the same, and will always be when we need her," Sun says.
"Sounds like you have a lot of good friends," Bunnie says.
"Yeah. They're great. Of course, some of the friends I met weren't always friendly. Me and my friends are able to forgive them and we became friends," Sun says.
"How so?" Sally asks.
"I can name a few of them. Falling Star from Equestria turned into a she-demon and hypnotized everyone to create her army. The Dazzlings: Adagio Dazzle, Aria, Blaze, and Sonata Dusk, who were actually sirens hypnotized everyone in school. My friend, Twilight from the human world, used a locket to suck up me and my friends magic and used it to create portals to another world. The human Falling Star turned into a magical girl who was bent on getting revenge on her bullies. Finally, Sombra tried to take over an empire, and tried to use a band to control everyone in a festival, and get revenge on those who defeated him," Sun explains.
Everyone stares at Sun and blink their eyes with confused looks.
Charmy says, "Wow! You and your friends are a really forgiving group."
Sun, Sonic, and the others begin laughing with smiles on their faces. Suddenly, Sun stops laughing to hear rustling sounds. She turns around to see one of the bushes is moving. She walks over with a curious look. She then moves some of the bushes out of the way to see what it is.
At the altar, Sonic and the others can't help but laugh. Suddenly, they hear a loud scream. Everyone quickly turns their head to see Sun sitting on the ground and is shaking like a leaf. Sonic, Julie-Su, Sally, and Espio hurry to Sun.
Sonic asks, "Sun, what's wrong?"
"The-ther-ther…" Sun stammers.
"What?" Espio asks.
"Ther-there's… A mechanical echidna head in the bushes!" Sun panics.
"A mechanical?" Espio asks.
"Echidna head?" Julie-Su replies, confused.
Julie-Su walks to the bushes and takes out the strange echidna head. Most of the echidna head is made of metal with bionic eyes, the left one is a red triangle. He also has long dreadlocks that seems to have what looks like pincers or claws.
"Oh, it's only Dimitri," Sonic says.
Sun calms down and becomes confused, "Uh, Dimitri?"
"Um yeah,"Julie-Su says, turning her.
Then introduces, "Sun, this is Dimitri. Don't let his appearance scare you, he kind of had to be like this for one way and another."
Sun sits down and looks a the head a little, "Um hello. My name is Sun. It's uh, pleased to meet you."
"Hello. I must say, you are not like any human I have seen in the past," The robot head says.
"Um yes. It's kind of a long story. In uh short, I'm from a different world, and I got here through Chaos Control," Sun says.
"A human using Chaos Control? Dimitri says, confused.
"It's a long story. In short, Sun and her friends found the Master Emerald shards and puts it together and find the Chaos Emerald. Using them to fight some crazed chick using a Chaos Emerald Eggman created sent them both here," Sonic says.
Dimitri simply answers, "I see."
"I'm surprised you're taking this rather well. I could imagine you be as shocked as I am," Sun says.
"Well, I have encountered all kinds of strange phenomenon in my lifetime," Dimitri says.
Espio whispers to Mighty, "I wonder what he means, when he was Enerjak or Grandmaster of the Region?"
"Who knows," Mighty says, shrugging his shoulders.
"I guess I can understand, I encountered all kind so situation with magic in my home world. My friends and I gathered the emeralds and the shards are tough though. But um, I guess I still find something strange," Sun says.
"What's that?" Ray asks.
"Well… uh, I think I forgot to mention this, but the last five of the shards… they were somehow in my body," Sun says.
"They're what?!" Sonic exclaims in shock.
"I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. After that, I used the Master Emerald to cut the connection of the Chaos Emeralds with the dark one. And then, I used the Emeralds to stop her," Sun says.
"Hmm, this is very unheard of, but it's possible you have a strong connection to the Emeralds as well, probably as strong as the Guardian," Sun says.
"Guardian?" Sun says.
Suddenly, everyone begins to hear loud thumping sounds, and multiple ones for that matter. The next moment, multiple robots come out, blue robotic bees, red crabots, ladybug robots, and marching orange robots coming at them. Everyone becomes shocked to see the badniks coming at them. Sonic and the others are shocked to see the robots on the island. Sun is surprised to see them.
Sun asks, "Sonic, what are those things?"
"More of Dr. Eggman's goon bots," Sonic says.
"You guys have problems with robots while me and my friends have problems with magic," Sun says.
Sonic grins, "Sounds like we have a lot in common."
"Uh guys. I hate to interrupt your conversation, but we need to deal with these robots," Vector says.
"Once robot kicking coming up!" Sonic says and spins his legs.
He then spins off and rams one of the robots.
"That was fast," Sun says.
"You can say that again," Sally says.
Sun looks up and screams, "Get down!"
Everyone duck their heads as the blue Bee-bots fire at them. Sun then uses her fire powers to create a fire force field to prevent the attack. Sun then uses the charm to create speed. Sun launches fire balls at the robots.
Sally activates her Ring Blades, "Come on, Sonic and Sun are going to need some help."
"Sounds good to me," Vector says.
Bunnie brings out her blaster from her robotic hand, "Let's get 'em!"
"What should we do with Dimitri?" Saffron asks.
"Looks like you and I will have to keep an eye on him and the Master Emerald while the others take care of these robots," Julie-Su says.
"Sounds fine to me," Saffron says.
Julie-Su and Saffron take Dimitri to the altar where the Master Emerald is. At the same time, Sonic, Sun, and others fight the robots. Sally, Bunnie, Espio, and Antoine use their weapons and gear to fight the robots. Mighty, Ray, Vector, Cream, Cheese, and Sonic fight with their physical abilities. Sun also uses the powers from her geode necklace and her new charm from the bracelet. Mighty and Vector punch the orange robots. Bunnie and Sally take care of the flying badniks. Ray, Charmy, Cream, and Cheese kick the many crabots. Sun then uses her firepower at the ladybugs, and Sonic uses his spin dashes.
Unknown to Sun and the others, Glittering Sparkle is hiding behind some of the forest trees close by. She can see Sun and her new friends are fighting of the robots.
She smirks and thinks, "Dr. Eggman is right, Sun and her Mobian friends are so busy fighting, that they have no clue I'm close by. I just need to get Sun by herself and attack her to grab the emeralds."
Sun continues to fight against the robots that are coming her way. Sonic, and the others do the same. Sally and Antoine slashes some ladybug robots with their sharp weapons. Bunnie blast the flying badniks. Everyone continues to fight against the evil robots. Just then, one of the bee-bots blast the ground and send Sun back as she falls to the ground. Sun hits the ground and her bag hits the ground. Then three of the Chaos Emeralds fall out. The purple one rolls into the bushes close by.
Sun sits up and says, "Ow."
Sun looks at the ground to see the cyan blue and red Chaos Emeralds on the ground. She then quickly picks them up and puts them in the bag. She opens her bag and counts them all.
Sun shockly says, "There's one missing! Where is it?!"
"Oh looking for this!" A female voice says, and holds the purple Chaos Emerald out in her hand.
Sun gasps in shock to see Glittering Sparkle holding the purple Chaos Emerald with a smirk on her face.
"Glittering Sparkle?! What are you doing here?!" Sun demands and stands up.
"It's quite simple Sun shine. Dr. Eggman and I wanted the Chaos Emeralds. Since you didn't want to give it to us willingly, we decided to do it by force," Glittering Sparkle says.
Sun sternly says, "Give it back! One of Sonic's friends is in there! I promised to get them out!"
"I'm well aware of that. I'm well aware of why you are so keen on finding the emeralds and the Master Emerald. And just to save those who are inside," Glittering Sparkle remarks.
Glittering Sparkle then laughs at Sun and her goals. Sun glares at Glittering Sparkle and is unamused. Sun soon becomes confused to notice something off with Glittering Sparkle.
"Her hair and her eyes? Her eyes are bright purple and her hair has dark purple highlights? Could this be the Dark Chaos Emerald's doing?" Sun thinks.
Sun asks, "Glittering Sparkle. Please, give me the Chaos Emerald and the Dark Chaos Emerald. I promised my friends to get the others out. And the Dark Chaos Emerald is too dangerous. It has negative energy around it. You need to give it to me. I can protect you from your power."
"Sorry Sun, but I'm afraid it's impossible to do so," Glittering Sparkle says.
Glittering Sparkle grabs the collar of her shirt and pulls it down a little. Sun gasps in shock to see the Dark Chaos Emerald is on her chest, like it's a part of her body.
"You see Sun, I have fuse with this emerald to say and gain quite a unique ability," Glittering Sparkle says.
"So that's why you can use Chaos Energy back in New Mobotropolis," Sun says.
"Correct. Now that I got one of the Chaos Emeralds. I like to see what I can do with it," Glittering Sparkle says.
Glittering Sparkle then raises her hand and sends dark energy around the purple Chaos Emerald. Sun shields her eyes from the blinding eyes. Sonic, and the others stop fighting to see the glowing light. Glittering Sparkle continues to send dark energy to the Chaos Emerald as she maniacally laughs.
"Yes… Yes…" Glittering Sparkle says with a grin and laughs.
The Purple Chaos Emerald begins to glow and lifts from her hand. Then a dark purple beam of light fires from the emerald and lands on the ground. Everyone shields their eyes to see the blast and the light disappears. Sun and the others uncover their eyes and becomes shocked to see this.
"Uh is that who I think it is?" Vector asks.
"But… but zis cannot be…" Antoine says.
Out of everyone, Julie-Su is not only shocked, but devastated.
She softly says, "Kn-Knuckles?"
Sun is shocked to see the echidna known as Knuckles is out of the Chaos Emerald, but something is different about him. Knuckles is wearing a strange golden armor with black around his body, and a gold face plate. The knuckles shows what looks like gold claws. He wears gold and black bands on his dreadlocks. He removes the faceplate to reveal a dark gray face with little purple eyes.
Sonic and the others are shocked, mostly because Knuckles has taken a form that is familiar to them. Julie-Su covers her mouth as tears begin to fall from her face. As for Sun, she is very concerned about what she is seeing. She can tell that this is not the same Knuckles she sees from Julie-Su's memories. She can tell that Glittering Sparkle has done something to Knuckles, and it's only going to get worse.