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Knuckles was busy 'digging' through his memories as a child, while gliding towards Angel Island, to find more about the red gem Amy showed him, until he found something hidden deep down his memories. There were seven chaos emeralds, and also seven master emeralds. He was chosen to guard the green master emerald, but he never questioned the reason until now as to why he forgot about the seven master emeralds. He forgot because he was focused on the green master emerald and didn't bother to wonder if there were any other master emeralds.
As soon as he arrived at the master emerald's altar where it had remained for a long time, he mentally asked the gem about other master emeralds. After a while, Tikal appeared outside the master emerald and said, "I guess it's about time you know about the others."
Back in the forest, once breakfast was over, Ozone started asking questions about Sonic, like what he does in general, his likes/dislikes, and other topics that people normally talk about. After what seemed like an hour, Sonic decided to introduce Ozone to his friends and to GUN. "I've got nothing else to do. It might help to know some people and whatnot." Ozone responded with interest.
He first introduced the alien to Amy, who looked slightly intimidated at his appearance, but was assured that he doesn't use his weapons unless he really needs to. Sonic thought about introducing him to Tails, but remembered that he was there when Ozone landed. The next ones he decided to introduce to Ozone was Team Chaotix. "If you need something found, an infiltration group, or some muscle to help ya out in a lot of situations, give these guys a call." Sonic informed the alien. He then went to Cream's place and found her playing with her Chao outside. Vanilla greeted Sonic when he knocked on the door, and asked about his 'friend'. "This guy is Ozone the Hedgehog. He came from space and doesn't like to fight. Don't be intimidated by the weapons he carries, he doesn't use them unless threatened." At that moment, Cream came by and asked about the foreign creature. Vanilla explained everything Sonic told her and Cream was excited that she met a friendly alien.
After saying their goodbyes to the rabbits, Sonic planned to take Ozone to be acquainted with Shadow the Hedgehog. He looked all over Westopolis looking for the ebony hedgehog, until he heard a sinister chuckle. From his experience, that chuckle belonged to only one being, Shadow. He started, "Been a while, Sonic. You ready to lose?" Sonic shrugged that off and said, "Not this time, Shadow. I've been looking for you so I can introduce you to the new visitor. He came from outer space, and we can prove it" Shadow was a little skeptical about Ozone coming from space, until he noticed the weapons he carried. "Alright, Sonic. I'm convinced already. I know that the weapons he carries are not made from this planet." Ozone was taken back when Shadow said 'this planet'. "Shadow! have you been to other planets?" Ozone asked in excitement. Shadow nodded 'no' which caused the alien to sigh in disappointment. Sonic then spoke up, "No time for challenges this time, Shadow. Just wanted to get you acquainted with Ozone." "hmph." Was the last thing Sonic heard Shadow say before jumping towards the roof of another building.
After a while, Ozone was introduced to the rest of Sonic's friends and was acquainted with them all. Now that everyone knew Ozone, he asked the blue blur to go see Tails. Sonic just nodded 'sure' and dashed towards the fox's workshop with the alien in hand. Once there, Ozone told the young anthro that he forgot some things in his space pod and needed to retrieve them."Right this way, Ozone." Tails responded, showing the visitor to his work area. At the work desk where he does his tinkering, he faced Ozone and asked him how he shrunk the space ship's size. "I activated one of it's security programs so that no one but myself can use it. Let me get it back to normal size so I can retrieve the stuff I forgot." With that, he pushed a piece of the chassis inwards and it grew to normal size.
"It's all yours once I'm finished in here, Tails" Ozone said before entering the vessel he landed in. Ozone pushed some buttons on the keyboard next to the exit he came in from and a screen made of what seemed like gelatin popped out of the wall near the door. He placed his open hand and pressed on the gel-like screen. It scanned the molecular structure of the user and recognized it as it's owner. "Welcome back, Ozone." The computer said, then added, "How can I be of service today?" Ozone replied, "I'm here for a few things…"
About five minutes later, the alien opened the door to his space pod, and told Tails, "You're the only one besides me who can start up this vessel now. All you have to do to start it up is to use the keyboard near the exit and type in the command on the screen. Then follow the directions from there. It'll be straightforward and simple to do. I've reconfigured the security system to respond to our molecular structures only when prompted." Tails was very excited when he heard that he can now use the foreign space vessel and use it as his own. Ozone gave the young fox a demonstration of how it works, and he was surprised when the orange anthro got the hang of using and operating the vessel so quickly. "You sure are a fast learner, eh Tails?" Ozone said with enthusiasm. Tails simply replied, "When it comes to technology, I can't help but find out how they're made, how it works, and what it's uses are."
Ozone was about to leave when he remembered something he had in his hands. It looked like an ID card, but with Ozone's face on the top-left corner of the card. He had a similar one in his other hand, but it had Tails' face instead. He ran back towards the young fox and said, "I almost forgot to give you this. It's a special card that works like a key when you want to get in the space pod, and is needed if you want to start up the space ship." Tails turned just in time to see Ozone tossing the card to him, and caught it before it hit him in the head. The fox looked at it for a moment, and became excited that he can now pilot the ship. Ozone noticed his excitement, and said, "Almost forgot to tell you this, but if you don't know how to pilot the space ship, don't worry about a thing. I've set everything up for you. Do you know how to fly a plane?" Tails nodded 'yeah' and the alien continued, "Same concept, but a lot more options to use. Once you try it out, you'll probably learn more about it through experience than through me explaining it." He turned to leave, before saying, "Have fun, Tails". With those words, he levitated himself with his powers and rocketed out of the workshop to continue his exploration of the planet.
Seems like Ozone isn't as bad of a person/anthro as we thought, eh? What does Tikal know about the other master emeralds? There's more coming soon, but until then, laters.