//------------------------------// // Island in the Heavens // Story: Sonic Adventure in Equestria // by SonvsMar //------------------------------// Before Eggman's machine teleported Sonic to Equestria, Sonic's friends were doing their normal routines. Knuckles guarded the Master Emerald, as always, on the floating island named Angel Island. Angel Island floated, not in the ocean, but in the air, thanks to the Master Emerald. The Master Emerald was an ancient gemstone that had the power to neutralize the power of the Chaos Emeralds. It was Knuckles' duty to guard the Master Emerald with his life. If the Master Emerald were to be taken off of Angel Island, or broken into pieces, the island would fall into the ocean. Knuckles has been guarding the Master Emerald for his entire life, but it has been stolen and broken many times before. Knuckles was sitting by the shrine of the Master Emerald, his eyes closed, but he was wide awake. He was thinking to himself, wondering about his life's purpose, thinking about the times when he could leave the island and enjoy himself. I keep thinking, why was I given this job, this duty, to guard the Master Emerald? Ever since I was born, I've had to guard the emerald, not having a clue about the outside world. That first time when Dr. Eggman stole the Master Emerald was the turning point in my life. Ever since Sonic helped me save the emerald, as well as Angel Island, he and I have been great friends. Ever since then, I've been on many adventures around the world. The adventuring life is great, but my duty still takes top priority. I must keep the Master Emerald safe, no matter what. It wasn't too long ago when I left the island to go to Sonic's birthday party. The party itself was extremely fun, and I had a great time, not having to worry about the Master Emerald. Too bad Eggman decided to ruin it. Oh well. I had fun anyway, but after being frozen in time and space, I'm glad to be back home guarding the Master Emerald. Suddenly, the Master Emerald radiated energy, as if it was calling Knuckles. Knuckles, who is able to sense the Master Emerald's energy, quickly opened his eyes, got up, and ran to the Master Emerald. "What's going on? What is the Master Emerald doing?" The Master Emerald glowed for a bit, before showing an image inside of it. The image showed the seven Chaos Emeralds sitting next to five necklaces with bizarre images on them, and one crown with yet another strange image. "What in the world is happening? ! The Chaos Emeralds!" Knuckles pulled out a grey emerald, remembering that he found it on the island when he returned from Sonic's birthday party. "What does this mean?" Just then, a bright light shone in the distance. The light grew in size and brightness, and when Knuckles finally noticed it, he and the entire island were engulfed in the light. The entire floating island was gone. Knuckles woke up, his head throbbing in pain. He looked around, noticing that he was still on the island. "The Master Emerald! I need to check if it's alright!" Knuckles ran towards the shrine of the Master Emerald, and found it sitting in it's altar, as usual. "I don't know what just happened, but I do know that I must protect the Master Emerald," Knuckles stood by the Master Emerald, curling his fists, "now more than ever!" Back to the present, Sonic and the ponies had finished the party, and everyone but Sonic, Twilight and her friends left. "That was some party, Pinkie!" Sonic said, a smile on his face. The ponies returned the smile, put Pinkie's was as huge as ever. "Thanks Sonic! It's the least I could do for someone new to Ponyville!" Pinkie replied. "It's too bad you really need that emerald," Spike said, already acquainted with Sonic during the party, "I sure could go for a nice, tasty gem right about now." "Heh. Sorry pal. This is too important. Hey, maybe I could bring you some normal gems that I might find while searching for the rest of the emeralds." "Really! That'd be great! Thanks!" Spike said, already becoming great friends with the new guy. "This'll be grea- urp. Ooh." "Sonic, back up!" Twilight quickly stated. Sonic jumped back before Spike burped flames, a letter appearing from them. "Uhh..." Sonic started, clearly freaked out about what just happened. "That's how I receive letters from Princess Celestia" Twilight answered his unasked question. "But... how in the- You know what? Nevermind." Sonic managed to say, dumbfounded. "I wonder what the princess is writing to me for this soon?" Twilight wondered out loud. She opened the letter and started to read. My faithful student... "Princess Celestia!" a royal guard came into the throne room yelling. Princess Celestia knew that something was wrong, and feared for what might be happening. "What is the problem?" Celestia asked. "The royal guards have discovered an unknown island over the nearby ocean in the east!" Princess Celestia calmed down at that, and calmly told the guard, "What is so urgent about an island in the ocean? It does no harm to Equestria, and is certainly not a big deal." "No your highness, the island isn't in the ocean, it's floating above the ocean! In the air!" the guard replied. "In the air?!" That's not possible. I must see for myself." Celestia teleported to her lookout, where she focused to the direction where the guard said the island was at. Sure enough, Celestia found the island, floating above the ocean. "Whatever this is, it must have something to do with Sonic or his world. I must contact Twilight Sparkle and inform her and Sonic about the floating island." Celestia teleported back to her throne room, and proceeded to write a letter to Twilight. I can only conclude that this island must come from Sonic's world, and that the island be investigated. Sonic may know more about this island, so he may be able to give you more information about it. If you would, please investigate this island. I will send a carriage for you all to go there. I wish you the best of luck. "Sonic, do you know anything about this?" Twilight said after she finished reading the letter to the group. "Yeah. That's Angle Island. One of my friends lives there, but I don't know why the island was brought to this world. Me and Eggman were nowhere near it when he took us to this world, so why is it here?" Sonic wondered, his confusion from previous events that day steadily rising. "I need to go there and check it out. I guess you all have to go too, seeing as how your princess wants you to." "Miss Twilight Sparkle, the princess has asked us to take you and your friends to the newly discovered floating island. Please get ready swiftly, so that we may leave for the island." a voice said from outside of the front door. "Well, everypony ready?" Twilight asked the group. "You bet!" they answered in unison. "Alright everypony, let's go!" Twilight opened the door, and the group exited to the carriage. Sonic entered the carriage last, and stood up in his seat, rather than sitting down. "Sir, we request that you sit down during the flight so that you will not fall of." one of the carriage pullers explained. "Don't worry about it. I'll be fine, I'm used to this. Just go. We need to get to the island as fast as we can!" Sonic replied. The carriage pullers flapped their wings, and took off towards the island. Sonic couldn't help but wonder about his friends during the trip. I wonder... If Angel Island is here, does that mean Knuckles is here too? In that case, is Tails here? Are the rest of my friends here? I guess I'll find out as time goes on. Still, this isn't right. When me and Tails were taken to Blaze's dimension, nothing else from our world was taken there too. Only me, Tails, and the Chaos Emeralds were taken there. The same thing goes for when Blaze was taken to our dimension. Why is it that Angel Island came to this world? Could it have something to do with the emeralds? Maybe even with the Master Emerald... "We've arrived." a carriage puller interrupted Sonic's thoughts. Sonic noticed that they were, indeed, on the island. "Thanks for the ride guys." Sonic said to the pullers, jumping out of the carriage. "Come on everyone, I'll lead the way to someplace important on the island. It's not too far from here." Sonic ran toward what he knew as the path to the shrine of the Master Emerald, where he hoped Knuckles would be. The six ponies followed Sonic through a cave, where they noticed a door made of ice, and a pedestal with a blue key-like object inside of it. Through the door was a hall filled with ice. Twilight wondered how only that room was covered in ice, and not the rest of the surrounding area. Twilight shook the thought away as they reached the end of the cave, and arrived outside, where they saw another floating island, this one smaller than the rest of the island, with a bridge connecting it to the main island. Sonic rushed towards the small island, with the ponies running after him. They managed to cross the bridge to a ruined altar. Seven broken pillars surrounded a center shrine, where a giant emerald shone bright. Next to the emerald was a red figure that looked similar to Sonic in form. "Hey, Knuckles! Glad to see you're okay!" Sonic yelled to the red figure. The figure jumped down to Sonic, and greeted him. "I was wondering when you'd show up. The Master Emerald has been acting odd, and I feel like something strange is going on. The island is the same, but I feel like the rest of the world isn't. Sonic, do you know what's going on?" "I sure do," Sonic pulled Knuckles away from the shrine to explain the situation. While Sonic talked to Knuckles, Rarity decided to take a closer look at the giant emerald. "Oh my! Such a huge hunk of an emerald! It just doesn't fit here in this dreadful place! I'll have to take it home with me, where it will fit in much better. It's too big to carry on it's own, so I'll just break it into equally-sized pieces, and take them home with me." Rarity levitated the emerald into the air, and used her magic to try and break it into pieces. "So, let me get this straight, Eggman teleported us into a new dimension full of multicolored talking ponies?" Knuckles asked Sonic. "Yep, and now that you're here, we can look for the emeralds together." Sonic replied. "Sorry Sonic," Knuckles turned back to the altar, "but I need to protect- THE MASTER EMERALD!!!" Knuckles noticed Rarity levitating the emerald into the air. He ran towards her to try and stop her, but when he got close... *SMASH* The Master Emerald was shattered into pieces, and each piece flew across the planet, as it did so twice before. "Oh my! That wasn't supposed to happen!" Rarity exclaimed in shock. "You! YOU! I'M GONNA-" Knuckles started to rage at Rarity, before the island began to shake. "Oh no! Without the Master Emerald, the island will fall into the ocean!" Knuckles exclaimed. "Knuckles, you can glide off the island. Follow us to a big tree. We'll talk there!" Sonic yelled to his friend. "As for you six," Sonic quickly turned to the ponies, "we need to get you back to the carriage! Let's speed up!" Sonic then picked all six ponies up in a rather goofy looking way, but he managed to get them all to the carriage in record time, and got each of them on, jumping on last. The pullers flew off the island quickly, before it fell into the ocean with a huge splash. The carriage flew to Twilight's house, with Knuckles gliding behind them. When they landed, the group of seven jumped out, and the pullers flew back to Canterlot. Knuckles landed right beside them, fully engulfed in rage. "You idiot!" Knuckles yelled at Rarity, "You shattered the emerald into pieces! Count yourself lucky that I can sense the pieces, and that I can restore the Master Emerald as well, otherwise, I'd bury you alive!" "Come on, Knuckles, she didn't know." Sonic tried to calm down his friend. "Too bad! She should know better than to try and steal a giant gem that obviously belongs to someone! Unless you want me even angrier, I suggest you just leave me alone, so that I can find the pieces of the Master Emerald." "I can help Knuckles. We can work together to find them!" "Sorry Sonic, but only I can sense the Master Emerald. Only I could find them. I'll have to do this on my own." Knuckles said, calming down. "Okay then. Good luck." "Thanks, and Sonic, take this!" Knuckles threw the Chaos Emerald that he had to Sonic, who caught it with ease. "Thanks Knuckles! Call me if you find any more!" Sonic called to Knuckles, who started to run off, looking for the Master Emerald shards. "Sure thing." Knuckles replied, before he was too far to be seen. "What a brute!" Rarity said when he was gone. She received many frowns at that statement, to which she replied, "What? He is." "Ugh, nevermind. It's getting late." Twilight replied as she looked at the sky. "Sonic needs to rest up if he's going to search for the Chaos Emeralds." "Yeah." Sonic agreed, "I'll see you all in the morning before I leave, okay?" "Sure." Twilight's friends replied. They bid each other a good night, and headed towards their own homes. Twilight and Sonic entered Twilight's house, and got ready to sleep. Twilight offered her spare bed for Sonic to sleep on, which he gratefully took. They all got a good night's sleep to prepare them for the next day.