The waves clashed fiercely against one another as if the storm had caused a riot. The Storm was getting worse by the minute, and the tiny sailboat would soon be ripped to pieces. As the boat rocked back and forth, threatening to tip over, the three passengers struggled to maintain the ship's balance. The older of the two girls was struggling with the ropes when the younger girl ran onto the deck clutching her pet chao.
"Cream!" the pink Hedgehog yelled over the blasting winds. "I told you to stay in the cabin!"
"The cabin is flooding!" the young rabbit girl struggled to say as the heavy rain batted against her face.
Amy the hedgehog was about to utter a string of curses when two story tall wave appeared out of the ocean and threatened to swallow the small boat whole. They're screams would have carried out to the island, but the winds stole their screams away.
Sonic the hedgehog was running along the edge of the mudding beach, trying to spot any boats on the horizon. The red echidna who was falling behind was knuckles, and he could barley keep up with sonic at half his normal speed.
"S-sonic, wai-wait up a sec." knuckles gasped before putting his hands on his knees and wheezing.
Sonic came to a stop and turned to his friend. "C'mon, man! We have to find the boat!"
Knuckles looked up" there's no way of finding them, Sonic. The Storm could have blown the boat in any direction. "For all we know they might be on the other side of the island, or worse, they might be-"? o
Knuckles was suddenly cut off as Sonic shouted "LOOK!" and pointed towards the Ocean. Knuckles followed his finger and saw a sailboat on the water.
"Alright, time to see what this baby can do!" Sonic said as he took out the Blue Emerald.
He raised the jewel over his head and Bellowed "CHAOS?"
"Sonic wait, what are you-" Knuckles began as he grabbed the hedgehog's shoulder.
"CONTROL!" Sonic yelled and there was a flash of light.
The loud wails of the wind abruptly ended, making Knuckles think he had gone death. He no longer felt the sting of the rain on his head and shoulders. He looked around in amazement and saw that the rain had stopped in it's tracks, and now there were millions of beads floating in the air. Water beads. They floated there, not falling as rain should.
"What the?" Knuckles began as he took his hand off Sonic's shoulder. Sonic looked at him in surprise.
"So, your still here, huh?" Sonic said. The sound startled Knuckles, the disturbing silence of frozen time made him forget the situation. The two looked out across the ocean, at the Waves frozen in place.
"Here, hold this." Sonic said as he chucked the Emerald to Knuckles over his shoulder and rolled into a ball.
Knuckles Caught the Blue Emerald and said " Wait Sonic. Even if the waves are Frozen in time, that doesn't mean their solid."
Sonic simply started spinning in place like the wheel of a race car before the green light.
"You'll still fall through the water, Sonic! Just because you were able to run across the surface of that swimming pool last week doesn't mean you can run three miles into the ocean and back befor-"
Sonic interrupted his friend again, except this time he did it by taking off into the waters. He let go of the charge-up with a crack that sounded like a crack of thunder in the Realm of Frozen time. He left behind a blue steak as he blasted through the waves, kicking up a white spray that stayed in the air.
Without thinking, Knuckles leapt after his friend, forgetting that he himself could not run across the waves. But he moved faster then he ever did before.
Knuckles looked at the Dark Blue Emerald in his hand. Glowing Blue energy sprang forth from the jewel and surrounded him like the yellow energy around Sonic when he went Super.
Knuckles soon caught up to Sonic as the pair leapt from wave to wave. Sonic was so intent on reaching the sailboat that he only noticed the Echidna when they landed on the deck.
Sonic looked at Knuckles and said, "Wait, what-"
Knuckles grabbed the frozen Cream with one hand and the frozen Cheese with the other.
Sonic nodded and grabbed Amy. It was like carrying a mannequin over his shoulder.
Two blue steaks blasted off the boat towards Sunday Island.
As the Time stop was beginning to fade The water droplets began to fall slowly. Sonic and knuckles skidded to a stop on the muddy beach with the girls on their shoulders and st them down. The rain started to fall harder and time regained it's normal pace.
Amy and Cream screamed, but their screams were cut short as they realized that they were on land.
Amy saw Sonic and threw herself at him. "OH SONIC YOU SAVED US!" She cried. "SONIC SONIC SONIC!"
"Whoa!" Sonic exclaimed as they fell to the muddy ground.
Knuckles was looking at the Blue Chaos Emerald. Eggman had enhanced the powers of these Emeralds, but Knuckle hadn't expected them to have these results. It reminded him of a story his mother had told him as a child?
"Mr. Knuckles?" the rabbit girl asked, snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Uh? yes Cream?"
"Thank you for saving us, but could we please get out of the rain. I fear that Cheese might catch a cold out here."
"Right. You grab my hand." Knuckles said. He turned to Sonic." You coming, man?"
"Yeah just as soon as Amy lets me up?" came his strained reply.
Metal Sonic cut the jet engine as he began to glide over the island. He spotted the odd cliff formation that looked like a jutted spire facing the sea. The spire made the cliff look like the front of an old sailing ship. Metal sonic zoomed in and saw that the top of the spire was flat and had palmtrees lining the sides of the spire. The flat surface looked like a runway, and Metal also saw the small house on the edge of the cliff as well. Metal was preparing to land when a strong gust of wind rocked him back and of course. Metal had to reactivate his engine to get back to the mission, and with the Light Blue Emerald powering his engines, Metal Sonic became a blue streak in the sky.
On the ground below, to other blue streaks were headed for the little house that Metal Sonic had seen. Tails came out of the house to greet them, and Shadow was in the doorway. Cream ran to Tails and hugged him.
"Strange," Said Shadow. "I saw two blue blurs coming this way, and since when are you fast, Knuckles?"
Knuckles shrugged and flipped the blue Emerald in the air. "It's this Chaos Emerald. It, It reminds me of a story?"
"LOOK!" Amy suddenly shouted, pointing into the air." It's some sort of bat thing.!"
Indeed, a metal bat-like was flying towards them, leaving a glowing blue trail of flames in it's wake.
"Is that One of the Fat man's robots?" Sonic asked as he stepped forward.
The Blue and Black Robot Swooped down towards them as it flew over the cliff edge.
Suddenly, the blue component of the robot broke away and rolled into a ball and the disembodied bat wings came for them.
"TAILS!" Sonic shouted. "GET THE GIRLS INSI-"
Sonic was cut off as he dodged the glider. Knuckles wasn't so lucky as the glider hit him square in the chest. It knocked him over the cliff and he went sprawling to the waters below.
The rolling metal ball came at sonic as if it were laser guided and suddenly jumped into the air as if to take off his head. Sonic noticed that the ball was covered in meshing layers of bladed spikes, similar to his own ball form. Sonic ducked at the last moment and ball went over him and rolled onto the ground, were it shifted and transformed into the robotic doppelganger of Sonic.
Sonic turned to face his double. "So I see that Eggman has finally decided to rethink his strategy of sending in countless pieces of junk and just send in the one good looking piece of junk."
"you will eat you words, meat bag." The doppelganger said and turned to the ones fleeing into the house. "As for the rest of you, hand over the Enhanced Chaos Emeralds to me and you might live to see another day."
