Disclaimer: I guess you are sick of me repeating myself when I say that I DON'T OWN ANYTHING!
At Angel Island, Knuckles was wondering about the Red master emerald, until Tikal came out of the green master emerald and told Knuckles, "It's about time you know about them" Knuckles just nodded and sat down. Tikal then began, "There were many Echidna tribes when they still existed, and some of them had their own master emeralds." Knuckles nodded, taking in this information. Tikal acknowledged that facial message from Knuckles and continued, "As with their own master emeralds, they also had their own chaos emeralds to go with the master emeralds. Each master emerald had it's set of seven chaos emeralds. It doesn't matter if the chaos emeralds are from different master emeralds, their powers unlock when seven emeralds are together, but they all have to be different color, and grant it's owner powers that are unbelievable. The same could be said about the master emeralds, but they'd be nearly god-like if they possessed all seven master emeralds, but that's only in theory. If someone got hold of all seven master emeralds and chaos emeralds, then they'd be, literally, unstoppable." Knuckles nearly had a heart attack when he heard that someone would be unstoppable when they possessed all the emeralds (that would be about 56 altogether! This includes the seven master emeralds, and each set of seven chaos emeralds that go with the master emeralds).
Back with Eggman, he was busy working on creating a sleeping potion, when Shadow walked in carrying a handful of various mushrooms, fungus, herbs, and even liquids of sorts. The fat man praised the dark anthro and ordered him to wait outside. The ebony hedgehog nodded and did as he was told. About five minutes later, the evil doctor came out with two guns that contained some special liquids. "Alright Shadow, here's the plan" He called to Shadow, who was leaning on a wall with his arms folded. Shadow raised his head with an evil smirk as he heard the doctor's instructions.
Ozone was checking out Earth going pretty much anywhere that he pleased, seeing the sights, meeting new people, and the such. He had a lot of fun just flying around the planet seeing new things, until he got hungry. He spotted a forest below him, and dove down in there. Thanks to the education he got from his planet, he was able to find some edible plants and mushrooms. To ordinary Earth creatures, they'd think Ozone just picked out random fungus and leaves and ate them without knowing what they were.
Once Ozone's hunger diminished, he took off again and headed for Tails' workshop. By the time he got there, Tails came out with eagerness. Ozone figured that it must mean something important. "Hey, Ozone! I got something to tell ya. I set up a place near the workshop where you can stay if you need a temporary 'Home'" Ozone was surprised to hear the young fox tell him something he was about to ask the mechanic about, and told Tails, "Thanks, Tails. You know, I was just about to ask if I could use your workshop as a 'home' and help you out with your inventions as payment for 'rent'." Tails, as excited as he was already, became a little more ecstatic knowing that he would get alien help (PUNintended) with his inventions. The alien smiled knowing that he now had a place to go to whenever he wanted a place to hang out in for a while.
At the Chaotix base, Vector looked at Espio and saw him with a fearful face that said he was afraid of something. The chameleon in question was usually calm, quiet, and brave, but something's been bothering him for the past few days. Charmy was in his little atrium, but when he saw Espio, he flew over and asked him what's bothering him. He told the young bee, "I don't know why, but the really powerful feeling I felt a few days ago from some entity came closer yesterday, and I feel that we must stop it before something bad happens." His boss then spoke up, "Espio, you need to get out there and confront whatever it is that's bothering ya. We might not have a job yet, but that doesn't mean we can't confront our own problems in the meantime." Espio turned his head to look at the croc, then the boss continued, "Espio, let's go find that entity and work this out so that you can be your old self when a job comes around." The chameleon nodded his head in acknowledgement and motioned for Charmy to follow him as the three of them ran out of their base and strait toward the entity that was bothering Espio.
As they were looking for the source of Espio's problem, they had little luck searching for whatever was bothering their comrade. Suddenly, Espio's nervousness intensified as they neared Tails' workshop. Charmy was the first to notice this, and called to Vector, "Hey, boss, we must be getting near the source of the problem" The reptile looked at the bee, then at the chameleon. He then noticed what Charmy was referring to and praised the young member of the group for his insight. Using Espio as a tracking device, they searched the workshop until they came across a small 'house'. Once there, Espio's shuddering had reached it's peak effect that he now was afraid of even getting near the house. Vector shook his head in frustration, and rang the doorbell to the small house.
Inside the house was Ozone, taking a nap on the couch, until he heard the doorbell ring. He woke up with a small trace of grumpiness but went to the door to see who it was. He found the Chaotix group outside with Espio on the ground in fear. "Can I help ya?" the alien asked. Vector replied, "Yeah, our friend here, Espio, said he get this strange feeling that something terrible was gonna happen when he sensed a powerful entity somewhere. He said it arrived only a few days ago, and he just got a little worst each day. We used him as a tracking device to find the source and it looks like it may be here." Ozone looked at the chameleon, and said, "Is he always like that?" Charmy replied, "No. he used to be quiet, calm, and brave, but he hasn't been the same since he felt some strange presence some time ago. We went looking for the source, and found you near that source."
What is it that Espio is getting freaked out about? Why did Eggman need guns with ammunition that puts it's victims to sleep? All that might be answered in the next chapters of The Rise of Ozone the Hedgehog: Defender of Peace!