MYSTIC RUINS

Sonic woke up in Tails house with a loud yawn. It was so loud it woke Tails up who was sleeping in the other room. Sonic got out of bed and looked at the digital clock. It was 10am. Sonic put his shoes and walked out of the house to stretch. Tails walked out a few minutes later.

"You all ready Sonic?" Tails asked

"Yep" said Sonic

Tails was silent for a second.

"Um… Tails?"

"Yeah" Tails answered.

"Have you thought about how were going to go without the Tornado!"

"Oops…"

"What are we going to do?" Sonic asked.

"Hmmm…" Tails thought.

"Could you fly up there?" Sonic asked hopefully.

"No, way! I could never fly that far!" Tails said.

Sonic and Tails were both thinking of completely stupid ideas for a while until finally Tails had a good idea.

"Sonic I have an idea!" Tails exclaimed.

"I hope this idea is better than your super powered trampoline idea." Sonic joked

"Hey! That could have worked!" Tails yelled

"So what is your idea?" Sonic asked.

"Why don't you use Chaos Control?"

Sonic was silent for a minute, "Tails I haven't used Chaos Control for two years"

"But you did it with a fake emerald! If you can do it with that fake one I made you can surely do it with a real one!" Tails said.

Sonic thought about this for a while.

"Alright I'll give it a try" Sonic said.

Sonic reached into his pocket and pulled out the blue chaos emerald. He held it in his right and tried to focus. "CHAOS CONTROL!" Sonic yelled.

Nothing happened.

"Uh, maybe you should try again." Tails suggested.

Sonic nodded and tried again only this time he focused harder.

"CHAOOOOOOOOOSSSSS…"

Sonic closed his eyes.

"CONTROL!"

Still nothing happened.

Sonic tried several times but it still didn't work.

"Hm, you need to be closer to the thing your trying to transport to?" Tails suggested.

"Meh, it's worth a shot." Sonic shrugged.

Sonic and Tails dashed off toward the entrance to Red Canyon. They ran through the cave, past Ice Cap entrance and when they got out of the cave they saw that Angel island had fallen back into the water!

"Oh my, God! Not again!" Sonic screamed as he ran across the bridge that was somehow connected to the Island again. Tails was running close behind him. When Sonic got to the end of the bridge he saw that the master Emerald was not on top of the Altar.

"Damn that metal Sonic!" Sonic heard Knuckles say.

"Metal Sonic?" Tails said.

Sonic ran around the Altar and saw Knuckles with the Chaotix detectives.

"Knuckles what happened?" Tails asked.

"Metal Sonic came here and stole Knux's big emerald." Vector said.

By now Vector, Charmy and Espio and fully regained conciseness, and they were all standing up.

"Where really sorry Knuckles." Espio said.

Knuckles looked at his feet and then up at the purple chameleon "It's not your fault… it's mine, I was gone for way to long I knew I should have came back…"

"Uh, Knuckles?" Sonic said.

"What?"

"When you were dashing off did you ever stop to think how you were going to get up to Angel Island when it was like two billion feet up in the air?" Sonic asked.

Knuckles had a surprised look on his face.

"So even if you had got here sooner you couldn't have got back up there." Sonic replied.

"Oh, Vector, if you ever touch my plane again I'll Tazer you!" Tails yelled angrily.

STATION SQUARE (whatever's left of it)

Metal Sonic landed on the bloody pavement of Station Square side walk. He looked around for a few minutes then activated his walkie-talkie.

"Master Eggman! Something had happened to Station Square! It looks like there was a war here everything is completely destroyed! If that hedgehog was here I suspect he's dead!"

"But you don't know that for sure! Go to Mystic Ruins that's were his fox sidekick lives!" Eggman said on the walkie-talkie

"As you wish, Master." Metal said.

Metal turned off his walkie-talkie then activated his booster rockets and flew off into the air at lightning fast speeds.

ANGEL ISLAND

Tails sat in the front seat of the Tornado typing buttons. "There that should do it the tornado is ready for take of!"

Sonic and Knuckles where standing beside, the Tornado and the Chaotix were playing poker on the grass. Sonic and Knuckles pushed the Tornado out into a long open field so it would have space to take off.

"Alright guys I'm going to fly it around for a minute to see if it works." Tails said.

"OK"

Tails pulled a lever back and the Tornado started moving, once it got to the edge it took off into the air. Sonic and Knuckles watched it for a few minutes until finally Sonic spoke.

"So… are you sure you don't want me and Tails to help you find the Master Emerald?"

"Nah, I can handle the Fat Ass. Besides I think those Black creatures may be a greater threat than Eggman."

Sonic nodded.

"Plus I have the Chaotix to help me."

Vector stopped playing poker and ran over to Knuckles. "Whoa! Time out! I never agreed to this!"

Espio and Charmy walked over to Vector.

"C'mon Vector, its our fault for losing the Emerald, the least we could do is help to get it back!" Espio said.

"No, way! I'm a detective not a soldier!" Vector protested.

"If you don't I'll show everyone that tape of you drunk at Sonic's Christmas party." Espio said smiling.

Vector waved his fist in Espio's face then signed. "Fine… but when we get back you better give me that tape!"

"Deal" Espio said shaking his hand. That's what I make copies for, Espio thought.

"Hey what's that flying next to Tails?" Sonic said.

A blue figure was flying toward Tails it got closer and closer, until it hit Tails and knocked the Tornado out of the air!

"Tails!" Sonic cried.

"It's Metal Sonic! I'm sure of it!" Vector yelled.

As the figure got closer, it became clear that Vector was right.

Metal Sonic landed in front of them. "Hello Sonic… Ah, the Chaotix, I see your still standing from the beating I gave you."

"You'll pay for what you did to Tails!" Sonic said.

Metal chuckled. "Don't worry you'll see him again… soon you can join him up in heaven!"

Sonic lunged at Metal but Metal ducked and Sonic hit the ground. Knuckles went to punch him but Metal grabbed his fist and threw Knuckles. Vector, Espio and Charmy ran at him. But Metal activated his booster rockets and flew above them, and they all crashed into each other.

Metal laughed, "FOLISH HEDGEHOGS!"

Sonic suddenly homing attacked Metal sending him flying into the altar.

Sonic landed from the homing attack in front of Metal, "Hey, this isn't over yet."

Metal smirked, "Wouldn't have it any other way!"

Sonic and Metal lunged at each other, fighting like demons. They looked like blue blurs bouncing off the ground at each other. But as the battle went on, Sonic got tired, but Metal was a robot, and robots didn't ever get tired. So after a few more minutes, Sonic was almost completely out of energy, and Metal used that as his advantage. Within moments Metal had knocked Sonic unconscious.

"Finally I have proven superior! Now, to finish him off and rain supreme!"

Suddenly a blade popped out of Metals wrist and he raised it over Sonics neck ready to lunge and kill him.

Suddenly Knuckles punched Metal in the back sending him flying into the altar. Metal looked at the red Echidna, "You meddling Echidna!"

"I won't let you kill Sonic!"

"Fine, I shall kill you first and with you gone the Echidna's will cease to exist!" Metal laughed.

Knuckles and Metal ran at each other and began fighting. Metal had the advantage with his long blade. Knuckles had to keep his eye open for it because one false move and that blade would kill him instantly. The fight raged on for a few moments but sure enough Knuckles made a false move and Metals blade struck Knuckles right leg.

Knuckles let out a cry of pain and collapsed. His leg was not chopped off but the blade had dug at least half-way into his leg. Metal laughed and got ready to kill him. When suddenly, Espio and Vector ran at him, it didn't take Metal a minute to punch Vector in the face knocking him out, again. But Espio was putting up a good fight. After a few minutes Espio jumped away from Metal and threw shrunken stars at him. Metal deflected them all with his blade. Surprisingly, after Espio was done throwing shrunk en's neither off them moved.

"You and your friends have put up a good fight, but you must realize… you're ALL DOMED!"

"I don't think so!" Tails shouted.

"What?" Metal said looking around.

Metal saw that Tails was in the Tornado and flying toward him.

Tails pressed a button on the Tornado and bullets started firing from the wings. Metal was fast but not fast enough to doge rapid-fire bullets. Metal cried in pain, he was hit at least five times. Metal knew he couldn't keep fighting, so he activated his booster rockets and flew off.

A few hours later when Sonic and Vector woke up, Tails was doing first aid on Knuckles leg.

"Does it hurt?" Tails asked.

"A little but I'll be fine." Knuckles said.

"Metal was really strong, If it wasn't for Tails we'd all be dead by now."

"Hey Knuckles, are you sure you don't want us to stay incase he comes back?" Sonic asked.

"Don't worry about it Sonic, next time we'll be ready for him." Knuckles replied.

Sonic nodded then hopped on the wing of the Tornado.

The Tornado took off, and disappeared into the sky.