Chapter 1: The War Still Rages Within
Gun does not only exist on the ground. With Tails' superior technology, they are able to have unparalleled air supplies and radar systems. In order to setup and maintain these more advanced systems, Gun has a small base that's built on Angel Island. This benefits Knuckles greatly, as he can be warned of threats before he sees them and he doesn't have to be the only guardian of the Master Emerald. However, this fails to deter him from standing in front of it all day.
On this dark hour, a Gun soldier speaks to Knuckles through his earpiece.
Bean “Dynamite” MacGyver the Woodpecker: 21
Bean: Seeing nothing bad out there. You sure you wanna stay up all night?
Knuckles the Echidna: 18
Knuck: Now that you mention it, I am getting drowsy. I might get to bed. But, touch the Master Emerald and I'll knock your head off.
Bean: Yeah, yeah. I get it already. Geez! Can't you trust us a little bit?
Knuck: Maybe I will two years from now.
Bean: Oh, boy. Two more years of death threats for helping out. How gracious of you.
Knuck: Be gracious for the little land you Do hold, for it's still mine.
As Knuckles steps down the stairs of the altar, a laser comes from miles away and blasts the Master Emerald into several large pieces, all of which fly out towards the continent below. He turns back and sees that it's gone.
Bean: Yeah, well-
Knuck: The Master Emerald!! Where'd It Go?!!
Bean: What?! It's Gone?!!
As he steps back onto the top of the altar to see a puddle of water grow into a Humanoid form that has a floating brain inside of it and golden eyes. As an orb of light circles it, the Humanoid looks all around and stairs at Knuckles before getting angry.
Chaos: The god of Destruction
Chaos tries to roar with rage, but he has no lungs.
Knuck: Did You Destroy The Master Emerald?!!
Without a word, Chaos violently punches Knuckles off of the altar and then runs away as fast as he can, with his tail dragging behind him.
Bean: What's going on over there?!
Knuck: I don't...
Knuckles passes out. Meanwhile, near a small lake on the floating island, an obese Cat sleeps in his shack while his pet frog searches for flies. As Chaos runs aside the lake, the frog hops towards him to meet him. Once in front of each-other, they stare one-another down.
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Froggy: The demigod of Luck : )
Chaos stands tall and tries to roar before stepping towards Froggy. Froggy then jumps through Chaos, taking a chunk of his water with him. Chaos tries to yell in pain before he runs away and jumps off of the island, disappearing into the rain. Meanwhile, the obese Cat walks up to Froggy.
Big the Cat: 35
Big: Froggy? What are you doing out here? Where did that tail come from?
Froggy looks at his new tail before something takes him over and he hops away.
Froggy: *Ribbit* *Ribbit*
Big: Hey! Where ya going?!
As Big runs after Froggy, Bean gets Knuckles up.
Knuck: Whatever that thing was, it must've destroyed the Master Emerald.
Bean: Should we start evacuating people? 'Cause, the island falling will both beat up our base and cause a pretty big flood down in the city.
Angel Island starts shaking.
Knuck: I can get the pieces back. It'll take a few days before the island will lose its power.
Bean: I'll tell the others to keep an eye out for those shards. Need a ride down to the ground?
Knuck: I already have one, in a sense. Let me show you.
Knuckles climbs to the top of the altar, jumps off of it, and glides away.
Bean: Huh... Looks like that'll take a while.
On the ground, Sonic stands tall atop the apartment building and looks up at the clouds.
Sonic: AAAH!!!... I've gotta get outta here.
He runs and jumps onto another building a few times before seeing police cars on the ground that are chasing something.
Sonic: They've gotta be going somewhere fun.
Sonic jumps down onto a police car and leaps onto more of them until he reaches the front of the line. In the middle of a busy intersection, Chaos, without his tail, picks up a car and violently smashes it onto another one, killing the inhabitants of both of them.
Sonic: No...
Cop: Aim! FIRE!!!
Seven officers shoot at Chaos all at once, but their bullets only absorb into his body. Chaos looks back at the officers, tries to scream, and sends their bullets back at them. In a split second, Sonic saves one of the officers, but only one of them.
Cop: Th-Thank you, sir.
Sonic: Don't thank me. Hey!
Sonic hops in front of Chaos and stares him down.
Sonic: Who Are You And Why Are You Here?!!
Chaos tries to yell and runs towards Sonic with his fist out. Sonic dashes through Chaos, trying to grab his brain, but the Humanoid spreads across the ground and flees into the sewers.
Sonic: Hey! Where're You Goin'?!! You Coward!!
Hours later, as Chaos walks along the coastline of Soleanna, a sphere surfaces to the top of the water and Robotnik steps out of it.
Ivo: Chaos, I presume? I've heard that you enjoy the power of the Emeralds. I have a proposal for you.
He pulls out the green Chaos Emerald and Chaos gets excited.
Ivo: I can give you this one, but you must do some work for me first. Agreed?
Chaos thinks.
Ivo: You enjoy all the killing, don't you? All I ask is that you do it more in order to get what you want.
After a moment, Chaos extends his hand to Ivo and the two shake on it.