Now onto Knuckles' short story saga, which will be a typical tournament style one, but better. It shall be awesome, or I shall stop writing this...and I won't.


Intergalactic Tournament Saga: Chapter 15 – From All Corners of the Universe

It was a month after the Camerax Crew were defeated and their utopia was destroyed. Knuckles sat atop the stairs leading up to the Master Emerald over on Angel Island. He had his eyes closed and was in deep thought. "Here I am again, guarding the Master Emerald, since I'm the last of my kind, and someone's gotta do it. I do occasionally see Sonic and the others, but I just don't have much time to spend down there before I have to get back and protect this emerald before someone steals it again. Of course, I leave for a short while because, hey, a guy's gotta eat."

Shadow was driving down the city on a black motorbike and punched a robber in the face who came down the other side of the street then passed a jeep which suddenly exploded, because that's what they do. Cream sat by a table at her mom's house, playing cards with Cheese. Omega was chasing a couple of beetle badniks down a sewer tunnel as he fired at them. Vector and Espio were relaxing on the beach while Charmy kept on running up to the water, then away from it again as the tide came in. Eggman and Virus were playing a game of chess in a brightly lit room.

At Tails' house, Sonic, Tails, Amy, Blaze and Rouge were all in the living room. Blaze and Rouge stood by a background with a ship sailing across the sea as they wore standard pirate gear and were readying to attack each other with swords while Tails was capturing this on film.

"Arr! Ye shall walk the plank once I'm done with ya!" Rouge said.

"Don't betcha money on it, ya yellow bellied tyrant!" Blaze replied.

"Arr!" Rouge said, raising her sword into the air.

"Arr!" Blaze said as she did the same.

After a few moments of silence, Rouge turned to Tails. "Line?"

Tails stopped rolling. "You're not supposed to look at the camera! Just like we all shouldn't look at the one behind us..." Everyone turned around a second before Tails said, "Stop, guys! You're setting off the fourth wall alarm!" They all turned to face Tails again. "So anyway, Rouge, you're meant to cut Blaze, and Blaze falls down, then when you drop your guard-"

"Excuse me." Blaze raised her hand.

"Yes, Blaze?"

"Do I have to get cut? Couldn't you just use ketchup or something instead?"

"But then it wouldn't be real!"

"This isn't real in the first place."

"But it's for the movie!"

"What's this movie even called?" Amy asked.

"Catfights on the Caribbean." Tails nodded cheerfully. Everyone else groaned, besides Sonic. "What? I thought it was a good name..."

Sonic stroked his chin. "Y'know, we should make a story, which consists of nothing but parodies of the thousands of things out there." (I'll most likely do this at some point)

"That's a great idea, Sonic." Amy replied. "And I'll be happy to help in any way possible. Any way."

Sonic took a step back. "Thanks for the positive feedback."

Tails then said, "So are we continuing this movie? We're almost done; I just need a little more footage."

"Sure." Blaze shrugged.

Rouge raised her hand.

Tails sighed. "Yes, Rouge, we'll still have time for your 5 minute outfit changing scene."

"Just as long as we're clear on that."

Suddenly there was a knock at the door, which Tails quickly answered. On the footsteps was a green leaflet. Back on Angel Island, a plane flew by the island and dropped a leaflet by Knuckles' feet. He picked it up and heard a typical announcer's voice coming from the card. "Hello there, you have been considered to take part in this years Intergalactic Tournament! All your application are belong to us!"

"What you say???" Knuckles said in shock.

"You have an hour to prepare, make your time." The leaflet then switched itself off.

"A tournament, huh?"

Back at Tails' house...

"A tournament, huh?" Sonic said, crossing his arms. "Sounds like an invitation to party...and I'm sure I've used that line before."

"I assume most people will take part in this." Rouge said.

"I'd better get ready." Tails said before running off.

At Cream's house, Cream looked up from the leaflet. "Sounds like fun, don't you think, Cheese?"

Cheese took out a sign which said, "I don't think so, Cream."

As Eggman and Virus were still playing a game of chess, Virus suddenly smirked. "Heh, a tournament, that sounds interesting."

"Indeed." Eggman said before moving a piece.

"Do you mind if I use one of your discarded robots again?" Virus said before moving a piece.

"By all means." Eggman said before moving his. "Checkmate."

Virus sighed. "Well played."

An hour later, floating space ships were sent to collect the applicants taking part in the tournament. Those entered for the tournament boarded the ships, which headed straight to its designated area. Knuckles exited his ship and arrived in a futuristic white circular area, in the middle of the place was a 3D map. Knuckles followed its directions, as others did and eventually arrived outside the dome. The planet outside looked quite similar to earth. Far ahead were hundreds of people talking to one another on a concrete path and an arena was further ahead.

Knuckles walked towards the massive crowd of people and eventually found Sonic and Tails among them. "Hey guys, I see you were invited too." Knuckles said as he approached them.

"They would be crazy not to invite us." Sonic replied.

"I wonder why I was invited..." Tails said.

"They probably saw your encounter with the Camerax Crew." Sonic replied.

"Sonic!" He heard a voice call from behind. As he spun round, Amy came to a screeching halt beside him. "Thank goodness I found you."

"We'd best be careful, since we don't know what to expect from these guys." Sonic said, looking around at the other contestants.

"Right!" Tails, Knuckles and Amy responded in unison.

Shadow, Rouge and Omega met up with them shortly after. "Glad you guys could make it." Shadow said as they approached them.

Blaze and Cream approached them seconds later, with Cream looking around the area.

"This should be quite interesting." Blaze said as she crossed her arms.

Silver the Hedgehog ran over to them as he waved while saying, "Hey, it's you guys again!" He stopped by Sonic. "I didn't expect to see you here."

"Yeah, nice seeing you too."

Silver and Blaze stared at each other for a few moments, before Charmy the Bee landed down in between them and shouted, "You guys are all here! Awesome! This will be the most tournament ever!"

"But that sentence doesn't make sense…" Cream replied, scratching her head.

"So where are Vector and Espio?" Knuckles asked.

"Looking around and stuff, you know, the basics and all that." Charmy replied.

Crystal flew over to Sonic and landed beside him before saying, "Hey Sonic, I thought I'd see you around here."

"Right back at ya."

"Well you seem to be quite popular…" She said, looking around.

"What, do you like me in that way too?"

"No, you're not my type."

"Not your type? I'm everyone's type. I'm caring, cool, determined, and funny."

"Yeah, but you're a hedgehog."

"That's pretty harsh, you know."

"Just pointing it out." She said with a shrug.

"Excuse me but could you tell us who you are?" Shadow asked.

"I might as well while I'm here." Crystal cleared her throat. "I'm an angel assassin from another planet populated by other angels and go by the alias, Psychic Angel, but just call me Crystal. I shall not mention my age, but I have a younger sister who's called Ruby. My measurements are 77-63-88." She said as she felt her chest, turned to the side, and then spun around. "That's in centimetres, I think. I hope I can get along with all of you."

"Some of that really wasn't needed…" Knuckles commented.

"I'll say…" Sonic added.

Charmy raised his hand. "Where are you wings?"

"I'd rather now have them out."

Amy cheerfully shook her hand. "Nice to meet you, Crystal. As long as you stay away from Sonic, we'll be friends for life."

"That's okay; he's not my type anyway."

"What does that mean?"

"He's a hedgehog."

"That's kinda harsh."

Sonny the Hedgehog, Shade the Hedgehog, Amber and Mads walked over to Crystal as Mads said, "Hey Crystal, so who are these guys?"

"I'll introduce them." She cleared her throat. "This guy here is the supposed fastest thing alive, he moves at the speed of sound, and apparently is quite a ladies man too. You know him, you love him, he's Sonic the Hedgehog!"

Sonic bowed before she continued. "This two tailed fox here is the smart guy of the group with a super high IQ…apparently, and has the ability to fly using his two tails. He could give Batman a run for his money with his vast intellectual inventions. He goes by the name "Tails", but his real name is Miles Prower."

"Well I don't like to brag…" Tails said as he turned away slightly.

"The tough guy there can cleave stones in half with a punch. The last of his kind makes him determined to protect the Master Emerald from all thieves, and he has a few skills such as gliding and the ability to climb up surfaces. He's Knuckles the Echidna."

"That's me alright." He nodded.

"The black hedgehog is the final product of an experimental project to create a being with the power to never age and save humanity. By default he's one of the strongest characters, but distances himself from most people due to unfortunate circumstances. He's the ultimate life form, Shadow the Hedgehog."

"Unfortunate circumstances is an understatement."

"The happy go lucky pink hedgehog there carries around a big Piko Piko hammer regularly. Where she puts it? We'll probably never know. She loves Sonic to an amusing degree, while Sonic doesn't exactly feel the same way. Her name is Amy Rose."

"He'll feel that way eventually." Amy replied. Sonic just shrugged it off.

"The cute rabbit there is normally always seen with her chao, Cheese. She's unnecessarily kind to pretty much almost everyone, due to her youthful personality. Her name is Cream the Rabbit."

"Thank you very much, Miss Crystal." She replied.

"The flirtatious bat there is a devious jewel thief, who steals jewels, obviously. Her main job is working as a government spy for an organization called G.U.N. She occasionally uses her looks to get what she wants at times. Her name is Rouge the Bat."

"You sure know your facts…" Rouge replied.

"The strong looking robot is E-123 Omega, the last of the E-series robots created by Eggman. He was sealed away and was eventually reawakened by Shadow and Rouge. Since then, he has made it his goal to destroy any robots serving under Eggman and to kill Eggman himself."

"And I shall achieve my goal in due time." Omega replied.

"The purple cat there is a princess from an alternate dimension, and she's pyrokinetic to boot. She protects the sol emeralds in her world from the evil Eggman Nega. She tends to keep to herself half the time and just talks when necessary, though she can be quite knowledgeable. Her name is Blaze the Cat. And that's about it for now."

"What about me?" Silver waved.

"Maybe later."

SA2 then started speaking through the speakers surrounding the outside of the arena. "Hello contestants! Now that everyone is here we can finally start the first stage of the tournament! We've invited 250 of you, but only 200 will get through to stage two. There shall be three stages, the first is a written exam, the second is one-on-one fights and the third…we'll leave that for later. You'll now be free to follow the right path to start the first stage. Get comfy because you'll be here for three days!"

"Three days!?!" Knuckles said in shock. "Who will protect the master emerald during that time!?"

"Settle down, Knucklehead." Knuckles looked to the right and saw Eggman who then said, "Those who would have stolen it are probably here."

"You're behind this tournament, aren't you, Eggman?" Sonic said.

"I see you're still pinning the blame for anything that happens on me, my spiky blue friend."

"Well this seems like something you'd do."

"I assure you that I am but a contestant, but I look forward to facing you." Eggman said, smiling at him.

Sonic turned to Knuckles, who also smiled and gave him a thumbs up. Sonic then turned to Shadow who nodded at him. He then turned to Silver, who glanced back. He looked further behind him and saw Metal Sonic who gave him the finger. Sonic then looked at Blaze who turned to him and said, "Sonic, I've never been a rival of yours."

"Oh right."

"Though if you consider me one I'd be fine with that."

"Sure, why not." He glanced over at Sonny who waved at him, then looked at Crystal who held up a picture of Jet the Hawk. "…I just noticed I have too many rivals…"

"Just the perks of being the main character." Crystal replied.


Song used:

Peanut Butter Jelly Time
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Team Chaotix were at Tails' house. Espio and Vector sat on the couch in the living room while Charmy had just taken a plate out of the cupboards in the kitchen. Cream walked into the kitchen seconds later and up to Charmy. "Excuse me, Charmy, but would you happen to know what time it is?"

Charmy took a deep breath. "Well…it's peanut jelly time!"

"It's what?" Espio and Vector replied.

"Peanut better jelly time!"

"It's what?" Cream asked.

"Peanut butter jelly time!" He then looked through the cupboards as he said, "Now where he at?" After finding the peanut butter, he put it on some toast with jelly as he said, "Now there he go!" a few times before shoving the toast in Cream's mouth.

He then hopped to the right as he said, "Peanut butter jelly!" then hopped to the left as he repeated it. He then took out maracas as he said, "Do the peanut butter jelly! Peanut butter jelly!" Then took out a baseball bat and threw it out the window.

Charmy began looking through cupboards as he said, "Now where he at?" before finding the washing up liquid and washing the plate as he said, "Now there he go!"

He then slid to the right as he said, "Now peanut butter jelly!" Then slid to the left and did the same a few times. He then hopped and froze in one spot as he said, "Now break it down and freeze!" several times. As Charmy carried on dancing, Cream slowly backed out the room.