Tails was flying Sonic across the area as Sonic would go back for the others once they landed.
"Today's forecast is a sunny sky and a 100% chance of adventure!" Sonic says.
"Just up ahead!" Tails said as he flew to the entrance and landed. Sonic revved his feet and dashed off, blowing snow on Tails' face as he soon came back with Anne and the Plantars.
"Whoa, cool temple…" Sprig says as they walked around and saw some symbols of the emerald.
"Those look like the stones from the box." Anne says.
"They're Chaos Emeralds. Legends say that they were merged into the Master Emerald." Tails says.
"Whoa…" Sonic says as they all approach the owl statue. Sonic looked at his map. "I've seen this." Sonic says and scrolled around until the place shook as the owl glowed green and shot a beam, scanning them and giving them a compass.
"All right!" Anne says.
"Look at Tails!" Sprig says as Tails had something on him. Suddenly, multiple lights were on Tails.
"Oh, no…" Sonic says as drones arrived.
"Run!" Hop Pop says. They ran to the door as it was shot down.
"Oh, no…" Anne says.
"Hello, Anne Boonchuy." Eggman says. He came in with the Egg Mobile as Knuckles jumped down.
"Heads up, my little stalagmites. Someone call an Uber? Hey, thanks for doing all the hard stuff." said Robotnik as Knuckles leapt off the Egg Mobile.
"But we'll take it from here." said Knuckles.
"Okay, we really gotta talk about your new look. It's like Professor X meets the Monopoly man. And what kind of genius shows up to Siberia in a convertible?" said Sonic. Anne giggled.
"The kind of genius that can turn up the heat…with a flick of a switch. Good one! I'm sure that wasn't important." said Robotnik. Then he pushed a button and fired a missile at the group, but Sonic caught it and threw it back, barely missing Knuckles as it hit the wall and created a hole.
"Let's go!" Sonic says as they begin running. Sonic and Anne destroyed 2 badniks and looked down.
"Tails, take Hop Pop and Polly up. Anne and I will go low!" Sonic says as Tails flew with Hop Pop and Polly.
"Little stretch and here we go!" Sonic says as he and Anne leaped off. Sprig stayed in Anne's hair
"Eat your heart out, Shaun White!" Anne says.
"Wahoo!" Sonic cheered. he and Anne starts snowboarding as Frobots and Badniks were chasing them and shooting lasers at them.
"Whoa!" Anne says as she dodged the laser beams. There were explosions in the background.
Sonic and Anne were moving left and right, avoiding all the lasers as Tails tried to get close, but drones tried to hit them. Polly climbed up and took a blaster and shot drones, sending him down as there was an explosion.
Knuckles punched a badnik and used it as a skateboard.
Sonic and Anne start shooting snowballs at the badniks. "Snowball fight!" Anne says.
"My first snowball fight!" Sprig says.
"It's too easy, challenge me." Sonic says.
A swarm of Buzz Bombers surrounded them and shot lasers and missiles and flames at them. Sonic went at Trans-Sonic speed as time slowed down around him.
"I took over 9 million steps today." Sonic says and pushed two drones into each other and moved Buzz Bombers towards the flames.
Sonic grabbed Anne and Sprig and got them to safety before hopping on a badnik and leaped on a buzz bomber and made it shoot the others. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
"I make it look good." Sonic says as Knuckles jumped through the explosion
"It's Knuckles!" Anne shouted as Knuckles tried to knock Sonic out, but Anne tossed a snowball at him as Knuckles glared.
"Do not interfere!" Knuckles says and tries to punch Sonic, but Anne pulls Sonic away at the last moment as Knuckles punches some trees.
"For a guy named Knuckles, you are really bad at punching." Sonic says.
"I have been training for this my entire life!" Knuckles shouted.
"And I have no training, yet I am ahead of you!" Sonic says.
"Epic burn!" Anne shouted.
"Also your mom stinks!" Sprig says as the trio boarded across the snow and off a rocky ramp as Knuckles was so mad, he punched through it
Sonic dropped all his rings.
"My rings!" Sonic says as Knuckles landed in front of Anne.
"You have Serious anger issues." Sonic says.
"You mock me with your jokes." Knuckles says.
"Yet you are one." Sprig says.
"Yeah, and you echidnas have a habit of ruining my life." Sonic says.
"My life? You know nothing about my life." Knuckles says.
A flashback shows a village with echidnas.
"Back before my tribe was on the verge of its greatest achievement, the last known owls were located and soon Longclaw and the owls' secrets will be ours."
Young Knuckles walks with a spear, the echidna spotted him and walks towards him and grabs his shoulder.
"But my father stopped me from joining the fight. He said my time of honor for my tribe would come, but it was not this moment."
His father stands and leaves to catch up with the others.
Flashback ends
"Those were the last words he spoke to me. I never saw him again."
Anne let go of Sonic after pulling him and Sprig. Sonic was sad to hear that from Knuckles.
"We both lost everything that day."
Knuckles stop for a moment before Tails uses a gadget that wraps around him as he struggles.
"Eat that, sucker!" Polly says.
"Sonic, you guys okay?" Tails asked.
"Deceiver!" Knuckles shouted, still trying to break free.
"Know I didn't mean it." Knuckles breaks free as Anne grabs the compass.
"Tails, take the rings and go." Anne throws the compass to Tails. Eggman catches it by surprise, until the missiles come out from the side.
"Later, suckers." Robotnik flies off with his Egg Mobile as missiles shoot, knocking Tails and the Plantars out.
"Guys!" Anne called Sonic to get them before Anne and Sprig followed him.
"Come on, you guys, wake up!" Anne shakes them but they are still unconscious. Tails' body was cold.
End of chapter
