It was Midnight with mild light from the moon; a giant floating island appeared in the distance, floating very slowly, Angel Island. At the center of Angel Island stood the Master Emerald on its shrine, being guarded by Knuckles, whom was sleeping; someone was watching them from the bushes nearby.
A few miles away were the base of the Chaotix Detective Agency with Vector, Espio and Charmy on guard for the night. In the surveillance room, the security camera picked up an intruder on the island; Espio ran to the room to witness someone steal the Master Emerald.
"Someone get a hold of Knuckles! We have an intruder trying to steal the Master Emerald!" he shouted, sprinting past Vector and Charmy, "I'll head to the scene immediately; you contact the others and tell them to return from their active cases ASAP!" he yelled, heading in the direction of the shrine.
Back at the shrine, Knuckles was still sleeping; the intruder quickly secured the Master Emerald in his possession, picking up the behemoth of a rock and walking away slowly. Espio arrived just in time, catching the intruder in his tracks with the Master Emerald.
"Put the Emerald back!" demanded Espio, taking out 4 shurikens and sizing up the intruder, who had the darkness in his favor since Espio couldn't see his face; the intruder didn't say a word.
Espio threw out his shurikens, but the intruder summoned a rock shield from the ground, blocking the shurikens. The intruder ran forward summoning two giant boulders from nearby and threw them at Espio, creating some space between them; he took out a phone and left a voice message.
"I have the item of Interest." Yelling at the phone, "Come and pick it up, I'm going to be in a tough spot for a bit." he added, putting the phone away and returning his attention to Espio.
"Who are you?" asked Espio, seeking information; the intruder didn't answer.
The two charge at each other and begin combat, Espio jumps in the air doing a front flip and throwing 3 shurikens backwards aiming at the intruder, but the intruder responds by once again throwing up his rock shield to block.
"You're starting to annoy me with that shield of yours!" barked Espio uncharacteristically; the intruder rushed forward with a boulder floating in his hand.
The intruder threw the boulder at Espio, but luckily he dodged it; the boulder destroyed 3 trees nearby. Espio got in a relaxed position and used his camouflage ability to keep hidden from the intruder; the intruder created a giant spherical rock shield to surround him, only leaving a small space for his eyes so that he could see what was going on.
Espio jumps from behind with a huge dagger in his hand and pierces the rock shield, and even getting a scratch on the intruder; the intruder begins to rage.
"I'll send you to hell!" screams the intruder, making a hard glove out of his rock shield.
He moves forward and quickly jabs Espio twice in the gut and then performs a roundhouse kick; Espio gets up anyways, trying to stall until Knuckles wakes up. The intruder jumps in the air and lands the crushing blow to Espio's face, knocking him unconscious.
"That pest is taken care of…" says the intruder, adjusting his rock gloves; Knuckles wakes up and sees Espio on the ground, unconscious with blood trickling out his mouth.
He looks around and catches the intruder out the corner of his eye; he clenches his fist and grits his teeth with violent expression on his face. He gets up and walks over to the intruder, who had the Master Emerald behind him.
"Now I know you wouldn't be foolish enough to intrude into MY Island and STEAL my Master Emerald, not to mention injuring one of my comrades!" yells knuckles, cracking his neck and fingers.
Knuckles leaped forward and aimed a hard punch at the intruder; the intruder dodges it at the last minute, avoiding the HUGE crater left by Knuckles' punch. Knuckles looked much more grown up, he white stripes on the end of his dreads and a pair of Red, Yellow and Green colored goggles around his neck and an irritated expression on his face.
The intruder took a hesitant step back, realizing that the person before him was a much more dangerous foe than the previous. Orbot and Cubot flew down in an egg mobile and safely secured the Master Emerald in their possession, flying away righ afterwards.
"HEY!" screamed Knuckles, shaking his fist angrily, "Give me my Master Emerald!" running right past the intruder and chasing down the robot duo.
Knuckles winds up a punch and jumps off a nearby rock, gliding to the egg mobile and grabs hold of the rear. Cubot tries to push him off, but it's useless. Knuckles grabbed Cubot, throwing him overboard, leaving only Orbot behind; Cubot shrieked as he fell to what seemed like his impending death.
The intruder, who was running on a rock path in mid air made by his power, caught Cubot and headed towards Knuckles and Orbot. Knuckles bashed Orbot's head into the egg mobile until the carrier malfunctioned; Orbot released a sleeping gas from his mouth. The intruder retrieved Orbot and the Master Emerald and they made their escape, leaving knuckles on the crashing aircraft while Angel Island also began falling from the sky.