CHAPTER 5: Cracking Knuckles
It was the middle in the night in station square right by an alley knuckles was sitting on a trash can he was looking at newspaper that was about sonic's fight with dr robotnik he sighed and let it go as it flew into the air.
knuckles was having a flashback of guarding the master emerald on the floating island angel island back at mobius he was wondering if they were ever gonna get home he had to get back it was his job as the guardian of the master emerald to protect it at any cost if anything happen to the emerald on his watch then he failed his duty
"there's gotta be a way back home...but how" knuckles said to himself
suddenly knuckles heard footsteps he turned around
"who's there show yourself!" knuckles demanded
dr robotnik then appeared out of the shadows
"greetings knuckles" said dr robotnik
"robotnik what do you want!" said knuckles
"relax echidna i don't mean any harm i just overheard your problem and was hoping i could fix it" said dr robotnik
knuckles raise an eyebrow and cross his arms" oh really"
" indeed i want you to find the chaos emeralds and bring them to me the chaos emeralds are the thing that brought us here so maybe if i had them all i could reverse the effect and send us back home" said dr robotnik
" i see but considering what happen the last time i trusted you why should i believe you" said knuckles
"because who else are you gonna trust to get us back home" the doc asked knuckles though about it but couldn't come up with an answer
" that's what i thought that fox boy tails is intelligent for his age but not smart enough to comprehend the power of the emeralds and sonic is not gonna help you considering he wants us to be prisoners on this planet forever" said dr robotnik
"what!" said knuckles
" yes sonic knew he could use the chaos emeralds to warp himself through time and space that's the reason he attacked "chaos Control" he found out that I'd collected all the chaos emeralds to keep them out of his grasp you know how reckless sonic is i was afraid of what he might do if he got a hold of the emeralds so i set up defenses but there was no stopping sonic he was determined to push his selfish search for thrills all the way this time, no matter who got hurt finally, sonic invaded chaos control, and to my horror, he finally achieved his goal sonic destroyed chaos control and sent us all here, just for the fun of it" dr robotnik explained
"sonic...he's crazy" said knuckles
"now i can't promise that i'll change my ways but i wanna actually help you guys get back home but that ignorant hedgehog refuses to let me i found one of the chaos emeralds sonic snatched it from me and said he's going to stay here as long as he pleases!" said dr robotnik
" that selfish hog" knuckles said angrily
"he said that we can't leave here until he says so he thinks this world's a lot more fun than ours and if we don't agree it's our tough luck! you'd think he'd be more concerned about his buddy?" said dr robotnik
"sonic isn't my buddy! i'm sick and tired of sonic turning everything into a game! either sonic gives us that emerald or i'm going to take it from him!" knuckles growled
" careful sonic says he'll crush anybody who tries to get it back" said dr robotnik
"so then a battle to a bitter end" said knuckles
dr robotnik grinned evilly "still gullible as ever my chronic sonic problems are over" the doctor thought to himself
the next day at the thorndyke mansion sonic, chris, tails, and chuck were in the garage looking at the chaos emerald which was in some kind of large container
" a chaos emerald does anybody know where they come from or how they work" chris asked
"nobody knows much except that they're real powerful" said tails
" the origin of the chaos emeralds is one of the biggest mysteries back at my world the only thing scientist and historians could find out about the emerald's origins is that the original owners of the emeralds was this alien race called the ancients whatever happen to them is unknown" said sonic
"well hopefully me and chris's analysis can reveal more information about them" said chuck
"suddenly the floor door knocked it was the mansion's maid and cook ella " i know you're in there, you haven't let me clean your room in so long i'm issuing a dirt alert" she said
" crap! its ella sonic, tails, quick hide" said chris
sonic and tails panicked ella opened the door and sonic and tails quickly sat on bean bags pretending to be dolls
"i thought i find you here christopher" said ella
" oh hi there ella" said chris
"hmmm, keeping this room dust-free is a losing battle, not that i'm complaining, but that invention making of yours leaves this place such a mess its like cleaning a dirt road" said ella she then noticed sonic and tails who were pretending to be dolls
"oh my there so precious are these your toys" said ella
" i'm taking care of it it" said chris
"it almost looks real to me and that yellow one looks like that popular kids toy" said ella she pulled out her phone and showed an image of a stuffed toy that resemble tails it had a zipper and a antenna on its head(its the tails doll) it creeped sonic, chris, and tails out
"that thing looks like it belongs in fnaf" sonic muttered
"who said that!" said ella
chris panicked" ah i think i just heard mr tanaka just call me for martial arts practice i better go" he grabbed sonic and tails and ran out
"i'll watch" said chuck he ran out to
"try not to break a window this time" ella shouted to chris
chuck, and chris were running outside while still holding sonic and tails
" wow that was a close one" said chris
"we sure fooled her" said chuck
" i don't even know why you guys are even bothering to keep us a secret from your butler and maid there gonna find out eventually" said sonic
"will tell them about you guys...just at the right place at the right time" said chris
"whatever" said sonic
while chris bumped into his butler mr tanaka
sonic and tails pretend to be dolls again
"master chris may i ask what's going on and what you are holding" mr tanaka asked
"oh uh me and grandpa were are just practicing on some test dummies i bought" said chris
"hmm...there weird looking ones maybe they might come in handy for are next training section" said mr tanaka
chris chuckled "yeah maybe so OW" he said as sonic elbowed him on his side
"something wrong mr chris" mr tanaka asked
"oh uh its nothing he he bye" he said as he walked away
chuck coughed" i think i'll-
"sir, while i commend your desire to stay fit, i would stick to something more suited for someone your age like bowling" said mr tanaka
" you can't tell me what to do i'll climb mt everest if i"-" he stopped talking when mr tanaka gave him a stern look
"perhaps you should slow down. rest is important, and i believe it is time for your nap" said mr tanaka he grabbed chuck arm
" don't need a nap!" chuck protested
"you can play later." tanaka responded
"i have work to do!" said chuck
"come along" mr. thorndyke" said mr tanaka
" forget it!" said chuck
"off to bed" said mr tanaka
"take your hands off me" said chuck
sonic, tails, and chris watch as chuck was dragged inside the house
"test dummies really" said sonic
"look i was panicking and it was the first thing that i could come up with" said chris
just then amy ran out of the house and accidentally bumped into chris
"ow" said amy
"amy you know it's dangerous to go wandering around here by yourself you could get spotted" said chris
"i just saw a news report. it looks like they found another chaos emerald" said amy
the gang were inside watching the news on tv
"the strange energy spikes which seem to be coming from the silver valley area have played havoc with computers and machinery across the entire region" scarlet explained
"i bet its a chaos emerald" said tails
"sweet we already found the location of the next emerald maybe finding the emeralds will be easier then we thought...although i took a morning run at that silver valley place a few days ago and i didn't see any emerald
" maybe you didn't see it because of how fast you were running" said amy
"maybe" said sonic
"you know silver valley isn't very far from here lets check it out" said chris
" hey sonic maybe while were there we can have a picnic it would be so romantic" said amy
" uh yeah no thanks last time i went on a picnic with you i found out you put some kind of love potion in my drink" said sonic
"and it turn out it was just normal juice the lady who sold it to me rip me off" amy said angrily
"anyway how can we get there without a car my grandpa's resting ,i can't ask mr. tanaka to drive and that teleportation device i been working on is far from complete i could also try using my jetpack but i only invented one" said chris
"if i fly my plane i'm gonna get spotted what can we do" said tails
"hmm hey i know how we'll get there" said chris
the gang were on a train to silver valley chris was sitting down in a seat and sonic, tails, and amy were by him pretending to be toys it was getting him lots of attention
"those stuff animals are cute" said a child
"isn't he a little too old for toys?" said a women
"ever heard of collectors lady" chris muttered
"this is stupid can i just run really fast the rest of the way and hope for the best nobody sees me" sonic whispered to chris
"shh can you stop talking for 5 minutes" chris whispered to him
"its okay sonic were almost at our spot" said tails
" hey chris i need to blink what do i do" amy asked
" i got eye drops want that" said chris
suddenly a little girl started to pulling on amy ear this annoyed her
"hey, mom, could i get one of these" she asked her sleeping mom "wake up, mommy look it oh please can i have one please mommy, please, you said i could have a toy if I was good! i want it-
amy kicks the girl sending her onto the other side of the train the girl screamed and cry
"your looking to be great mother amy" sonic whispered sarcastically amy shot a glare at him
the gang were unaware that inside the train a tiny floating camera was watching them it belong to dr robotnik
dr robotnik was in his lab using the camera to spy on them he grinned and turn on his walkie talkie
"knuckles i found sonic's location he's heading to silver valley" said the doctor
sonic and the gang made it to silver valley it was a large forest with mountains and lakes they spent the next couple of hours trying to find a chaos emerald sonic ran through the entire area multiple times trying to find an emerald none of them were able to find one eventually they gave up and were now having a picnic
"this picnic was a super idea, amy" said tails
"it was worth the trip, even if there is no emerald" said chris
"yeah it wasn't an entire waste of time i got to hand it to you amy you sure do know how to make good chili dogs" said sonic
amy laughed "thanks guys...say shouldn't there be a lot of people here if they found a chaos emerald"
"i guess it must've been a mistake. we can still have some fun while we're here" said chris
"yeah your right i never get tired of coming to this place there lots of room to run around here" said sonic
"we could take a hike in the mountains, or go swimming in the lake" said tails
suddenly the gang heard loud punching sounds
"hey what's that noise" said chris
the gang look out in the distance and they saw some tall trees falling down revealing knuckles
knuckles saw sonic and glared at him "there he is" he growled he then started running towards him
the gang saw knuckles running to them
"hey its knuckles" said tails
sonic smiled "hey knuckles what's up" he said however his smiled disappeared when he saw knuckles look very angry knuckles jump in the air and his hand turn into his fist the gang were surprised by this they all got out of the way and knuckles punch the ground causing it to crack and also ruining the picnic
"my picnic its ruined!" said amy
sonic glared at knuckles "something bugging you knuckles" he asked
"don't act like you don't know why i'm here" knuckles said angrily
"huh?" said sonic
"sonic, i'm sick of all of your selfish stunts this time, you've gone too far by stranding us here i'm challenging you to a showdown" knuckles explained
sonic raised an eyebrow" a showdown?"
"yeah you and me right now a battle to the bitter end" said knuckles
sonic and the gang were surprised by this
"yeah he really does seem to consider you a friend deep down" chris said to sonic sarcastically
"knuckles for the last time its robotnik's fault were here not sonic" said tails
"knuckles i swear if lay a finger on my sonic you'll be sorry" amy said angrily
"stay out of this amy this is between me and sonic" said knuckles
this made chris, tails, and amy mad, chris pulled out his metal bo staff, amy pulled out her hammer, and tails pulled out a stun gun and all of them got in front of sonic
"no this is between you and us you listen here knuckles if you want to fight sonic your gonna have to get through us first" said chris
however sonic got in front of the 3 and stop them
"hold up guys" said sonic he had a smirk on his face "you heard him this is between me and him relax i can take him" he said the 3 hesitated for a moment but they put their weapons down
"thanks" sonic said to them he then turned to knuckles "alright knuckles if you want to tussle for a bit sure thing" he said he then picked up a flower "you know this place isn't as bad as you think i want to get home as much as you do but stop and take the scenery every once in a while this planet is pretty cool its nice here yeah you like this world too if you weren't such a party pooper"
"enough talk lets go" said knuckles
"ah relax, will ya we have all afternoon to duke it out, buddy boy" said sonic
"i'm not your buddy and don't forget it, smart aleck now put 'em up I didn't come here to sniff the flowers" knuckles shouted
sonic sniff his flower" that's your loss you don't know what your missing but if you rather get clobbered by me-
"SHUT UP give me the emerald you stole or else" said knuckles
sonic was confused by that but a smirk once again appeared on his face "your brain is even slower than your feet"
chris, tails, and amy laughed at that comment and that just made knuckles more furious
knuckles then got into a fighting stance sonic threw his flower away and also got into a fighting stance, chris, tails, and amy were watching the fight
"so can sonic beat him" chris asked
"to be honest i don't know so far knuckles is the only one we met who's equally as strong as sonic the last time they fought it ended on a tie so the outcome of this fight is unknown" said tails
"i see...well if he has any trouble fighting i'll jump in" said chris
"no offense chris but knuckles would kill you with one punch" said tails
"kick his butt sonic!" amy shouted
back with sonic and knuckles, knuckles made the first move he charged toward sonic and was gonna throw a punch at but sonic jumped out of the way and knuckles broke a boulder into pieces knuckles then charged towards sonic again and threw multiple punches at sonic but sonic easily dodge them all and he then jumped onto a higher ledge, he gave knuckles an unimpressed look.
knuckles then jump and charge toward sonic again but once again sonic dodge the attack by jumping sonic then was heading down and was gonna deliver a swift attack towards knuckles who dodge the attack by rolling out of the way the 2 then ran to the nearby forest while at the same time throwing punches at each other sonic then ran up a while while knuckles was quickly following him, sonic then ran up the tree and got up to the top.
"huh not a bad view" said sonic however the tree started shaking knuckles pick up the tree sonic was on and threw it sonic fell off but landed safe on the ground he ran into the forest and knuckles chased him knocking down all the trees that were in his way.
they got out of the forest and now knuckles was chasing sonic up and down on the mountains they made it to steep hill of a mountain and sonic then spin dash towards knuckles who grabbed sonic and the 2 tumble down a rock hill and then landed in water
"AH HELP ME AHH" sonic shouted as he flap his arms around however he stop when he realized he just landed in a small lake stream knuckles gave him an unamused look while chris ,tails, and may gave him a confused look
"he he its lucky i fell in the kiddie pool" said sonic he then got back up "get ready your going down" he said to knuckles
knuckles glared at him" lets end this now" he shouted
"right but before we do may i ask why exactly your so angry at me you know just curious" said sonic
"don't play dumb with me" knuckles growled "robotnik told me everything he told me how your purposely triggered chaos control to teleport us here and are keeping the emeralds from him so he can't send us back well its either you give me the emerald you stole or you'll never be able to run again"
sonic and the gang were surprised by this
"whoa whoa whoa wait...robotnik told you this" said tails
sonic facepalmed "not again" he said
knuckles charge towards sonic who did same they threw multiple punches and kicks at each other knuckles punches sonic sending him to a boulder he landed on the boulder with his feet and the charge towards knuckles he slammed knuckles into a nearby wall.
sonic then charge toward knuckles again but knuckles punched the ground causing a small earthquake that sent sonic in the air knuckles then jumped and punched sonic sending him crashing into the ground sonic saw knuckles coming down to him with a fist sonic dodge the attack with a backflip sonic then charge towards knuckles again he ran around knuckles in a circle creating cloud of dirt knuckles look around trying to find sonic suddenly sonic ran to knuckles and did a swift kick on him.
knuckles took the kick well he then dig into the ground sonic looked around wondering where he went knuckles then emerged from the ground and punched sonic into a nearby waterfall sonic got back up and spin dash towards knuckles which slam him into air then did ground pound attacks on knuckles over and over sending him deeper into the ground sonic did one more ground pound attack on knuckles causing pieces of a nearby rock wall to fall on knuckles
"yeah sonic!" said amy
"that was awesome" said tails
"you showed him" said chris
"you seriously need to stop being so gullible knuckles" said sonic
suddenly knuckles burst out of the rocks and punched sonic sending him flying into a tree sonic quickly got back up
"sorry but its gonna take a lot more then that to bring me down" said knuckles
sonic sighed and looked at his friends "alright stand back guys it looks like this is gonna take a while" he said
however there fight was interrupted when something emerged from a nearby lake it was a large red-violet robot with an all-around glass encasing center, it has large construction digging claws for arms and feet and one large green eye on its top its name was E-47 chris, tails, and amy yelped as the robot scoop them up and trap them inside its glass encasing center.
"guys!" said sonic
"what the" said said knuckles
then out from the sky dr robotnik flew down in his egg mobile and laughed
"robotnik!"said chris "grr you rat you tricked them into broadcasting that news story"
"i generated artificial energy spikes just like the ones made by chaos emeralds! it isn't my fault that those news hounds barked up the wrong tree" said robotnik
"i hate to admit it but robotnik even had me outfoxed" said tails
"nice pun tails" chris said sarcastically
"well his plan fell cos were out of here" said amy she pulled out her hammer and started hitting the glass, chris did the same with his metal bo staff but it didn't crack
"try all you want that glass is nearly indestructible" said dr robotnik
"ROBOTNIK"
the doctor look down and saw sonic and knuckles below him
"robotnik what are you doing!" said knuckles
"what does it look like i'm doing idiot i'm simply doing a little trade i let sonic friends go and in return he gives me the emerald he has and the i'll use its power to conquer this world" said dr robotnik
"WHAT! but you said you wanted to use the emeralds to get us back home" said knuckles
dr robotnik laughed "you imbecilic fool i'm never going back to that rodent filled dump i much rather rule over actual people i simply said that in order to trick you into killing sonic which would make getting the chaos emerald much easier however i watched the entire fight up from the sky and its clear you haven't improved from your previous fight with the hedgehog it was obvious the fight was gonna end on a tie just like last time so i decided to take matters in my own hand"
knuckles was now angry" you swindler you lied!"
"no duh sherlock of course he lied like seriously knuckles you let him trick you again" said sonic
"like you weren't" knuckles responded
"smooth move knucklehead" said sonic
back with chris, tails, and amy they were still trying to break the robot glass shield but to no avail
"its no use this glass isn't breaking" said chris
"well i guess well i have to try a different tactic maybe we could try to disable this robot's shield chris mind giving me a hand" said tails
"sure thing tails" said chris he and tails both took out small mini lasers and use them to make a hole in the center of the robot revealing wires
"cool you made a mini laser too" chris asked
"doesn't every genius make one anyway we now gotta figure out which one of these wires is for the shield" said tails
"we don't have time for this, tails! Step aside, i'll "fix" that robot" amy said as she pulled out her hammer
"ah amy!" said tails
"no don't!" said chris
amy smash the robot's center causing an explosion it got the attention of sonic, knuckles, and robotnik when the smoke cleared E-47's glass shield broke
"hey! get us down from here!" said amy
"look what've you done, you've wrecked my robot, and it isn't even insured" said robotnik
sonic then ran past the robot causing it to trip and fall, sonic friends fell out of it and sonic then ran back and check on them
" hey what's up" sonic asked
"ah thanks sonic" said chris
"it's not over, sonic my robot may be down but it certainly isn't out" said dr robotnik just then E-47 got back up and activated its missiles chris, tails, and amy ran away from it and got to sonic's side
"please you think that 1 robot and can beat the 5 of us" said sonic
"no but lucky for him he has a few friends to help him" said dr robotnik he press a button on his egg mobile and suddenly thousands of robots were flying in the sky they all landed on the ground and surrounded sonic and the gang
"last chance hedgehog give me your chaos emerald or die" said robotnik
sonic smirked" sorry but its not us that are in danger its your robots" he said he looked at his friends and they smirked too
"ATTACK!" robotnik shouted
the robots started firing lasers at the group they all jumped out the way of the way of the lasers and charged towards the robots.
sonic took out robots with homing attacks and spin dashes, tails was shutting robots down with his stun gun, and amy was smashing robots with her hammer
with knuckles robots were advancing towards him he put his fist together
"you picked the wrong fight" said knuckles he then charged towards them and started smashing robots left and right some robots got scared and ran away knuckles notice this and started chasing after them
"oh no you don't you wanted a fight your gonna get one" knuckles shouted
with chris he was taking out robots with his metal bo staff and some serious martial art moves some robots were floating in the air and were firing lasers at chris who dodge them
"you guys need to chill" said chris he took out 2 glowing blue balls and threw them at the floating robots, the glowing balls froze the robots in ice, they fell to the ground and broke into pieces on impact.
robots then surrounded chris and trap him in a circle but chris had a smirk on his face, he pressed a button on his bo staff and it started glowing on the bottom he jump in the air and slammed the bo staff on the ground and it created a electrical shock wave that destroyed the robots surrounded him
"phew wish mr tanaka was here he would have love to participate in this" said chris
after destroying a couple more robots sonic and the gang took out all the robots except for one
" nice job guy just one more to go" said sonic
sonic and the gang all looked at E-47 the 5 look at each other and nodded they all then charged at the robot E-47 fired missiles at them and tried crushing them with its digging claws but they all dodged the attacks knuckles then punched the robot, tails threw a ring bomb at it, amy hit it with her hammer, chris stab it with his metal bo staff, sonic then ran to the robot and spin dashed into it sending it into the air sonic then jumped and delivered a swift kick on its face with enough force to send it crash landing into a nearby which cause itself to be electrocuted
"heh piece of cake no sweat" said sonic
"nice job show off" said chris
sonic chuckled" i don't think you should be the one calling someone a show off" he said he then looked at robotnik who looked stunned
"so egghead want to send out anymore robots we can do this all day" said sonic
then suddenly amy started hugging sonic much to his annoyance
"oh sonic your so great out there!" amy said happily
"take it easy amy" said sonic
suddenly E-47 got back up again much to the gang's surprise
"i'm not calling it quits yet, sonic! You only had a preview of this robot's firepower! you and your friends are through!" said dr robotnik
E-47 begins firing at multiple directions the gang dodged the attacks and hid behind a rock
"i've got you now" said dr robotnik
"oh no" said amy
just then knuckles got in front of them
"i'll take care of this" said knuckles
sonic smirked "sure thing knuckles"
knuckles then charged towards the robot dodging the bullets fired at him, he then started smashing the robot destroying it he then jumped and got up to robotnik's level
"knuckle!" robotnik said nervously
"you liar!" knuckles shouted he then punched robotnik's egg mobile so hard it sent him flying into the sky the doctor screamed as he disappears into the horizon knuckles delivered the final blow on E-47 he smashed the robot's head which cause its body to crack and it exploded which caused a shock wave it was blowing knuckles away but luckily sonic ran to him and grabbed his arm, they were hanging on to a tree branch once the shock wave stopped sonic and knuckles landed on the ground the 2 looked at each other and smiled
"sonic!"
the 2 saw the rest of the gang running to them amy of course was hugging sonic again
"you both made it" said chris
"uh yeah me and knuckles had it all under control" said sonic
knuckles the turn to leave which surprised the gang
"knuckles!" said chris
knuckles looked back at them he said "hmph" with a smile and waved bye at them
amy then ran up to knuckles
"i bet you want to apologize to sonic for believing all the lies that robotnik told about him, and you probably want to thank him too only you're too proud!" said amy
"zip it!" knuckles snapped at her
amy was surprised at first but then chuckled, knuckles, then chuckled too, he looked back at the rest of the gang who chuckled as well.
"hmph later" knuckles said with a smile he the continued to walk away
"so are you guys like cool now" chris asked sonic
sonic watched knuckles disappear into the woods and smiled
"we've always been cool chris" said sonic
