The quartet woke up by the Tornado in a jungle to see a 13-year old black bat boy, smirking. "W-who are you?" Ajia asked. "My name is Jasper the Bat." Sam asked, "Where are we?" "Angel Island. Follow me." The four did as told and soon found themselves at an alter. They noticed a giant green Chaos Emerald in the middle. Then, a red echidna came. "Yo, Jasper. Took you long enough." He then noticed the others. "I see you're antiquated now." They were all surprised. "UNCLE KNUCKLES!" Ajia exclaimed. He wasn't her real uncle, but she thought of him as one because her dad was so close with him.
Reese asked Jasper, "Are you Knuckles' son?" "Nope. My parents are Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat. Knuckles just trains with me while my parents are on missions for the military. He was close to my mother, but she believed he was already married to his job."
Sam was surprised. "Shadow the Hedgehog!? Dad said he was his greatest rival!" Knuckles growled. Jasper looked at Ajia and Ember. "So what were some pretty faces like yours doing in that nasty chemical plant?" Knuckles explained, "Forgive him, he got his flirtiness from his mom." Ajia revealed to the two, "Our parents were kidnapped by Metal Sonic! We were trying to find them, but they weren't there." Jasper smirked, "Well, I'm a new G.U.N. agent myself. I've been trying to stop that faker faker for a few weeks now. You might be interested by what I found today." He held up a flash drive.
Reese inserted it into his Miles Electric revealing a picture of the old Death Egg...or what was left of it. "It appears that Metal Sonic is trying to build a robotisizer ray to robotisize the planet. Every plant, animal and human will turned into a mindless robot. And he'll rule them with this new version 2.0 body he built that is powered by your parents' powers." They were all shocked. Ember exclaimed, "How could that brute do that to our parents." Reese asked, "How can we get to space? The tornado doesn't have enough power." Jasper explained, "I brought you here to Angel Island using Chaos Control." Ajia remembered, "My parents said I might be able to do that if I have an emerald." She brought out the emerald her parents just got her for her birthday.
Jasper continued, "I could bring us all on the death egg with three emeralds, but to bring everybody back home, which I believe is 11 people, I would need six emeralds to transport that many people all the way down to Earth. I already have one, and it seems Ajia has one, so there are four more to go." Ember gave off a noblewoman's laugh. "Hohohohoho, you mean three more." She took them back to the Tornado and pulled out her shopping bags from Central City. She pulled out a purple Chaos Emerald from one of them. "Would you believe that they had this in the Central City Emporium. After the stories Father told me, I just knew it would come in handy." They were all so grateful for their friend. "Way to go, Ember!" Her best friend praised. Jasper went on and said, "A cat who's got beauty and brains."
"So where are 3 more?" Reese asked. Knuckles explained, "To make sure they wouldn't get stolen and used for evil again, Sonic and I ventured across Angel Island and hid the Emeralds we still had. We put one in Ice Cap Zone, one in Carnival Night Zone, and one in Sandopolis Zone."
Ajia said, "Then let's grab those Emeralds and save our parents." Jasper cut in, "I want in too. G.U.N. assigned me this mission, and I need to show them as just as good as my parents." Knuckles asked, "Are you sure you want to do this, Jasper?" "Positive. I'm ready for a fighting mission, Knuckles. It's time I put your teachings to good use." Knuckles nodded. "Okay, but make sure you survive. I care for you like a son I don't have...plus if Rouge finds out I got you killed, she'll have me join you." Jasper chuckled. "Okay."
The team set off for Carnival Night, now knowing exactly what to do.