knuckles prime

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knuckles felt completely exhausted

after the whole drama of destroying the master emerald to keep it safe from Eggman, finding all the hiding shards and putting them back together, he believed he deserved a good rest for just a little while

plus this gave knuckles a chance to allow his body to deplete in energy as he had stored most of the master emeralds energy inside himself after the incident

it had caused him to even glow a bright shade of green, but luckily it was returning to his more vibrant red

but with how his purple eyes still held a green shine to them it would take a while until it was all out of his system

in this state, he also seemed to be linked closer than usual to the emerald, similar in a way to Tikal and chaos, but not as intensely, he could hear Tikal and Chao's which was nice but sometimes they didn't want to talk, and he was ok with that, having people in his head was an odd sensation anyway and he was happy to get a little alone time before-

something was moving to the island

his senses were heightened more than usual, being able to detect anything abnormal within a 500-foot radius distance compared to his usual 300 feet

"KNUCKLES!" the voice of tails screamed above as the sight of a red aeroplane came closer

with a growl and gritted teeth he eyed the plane holding two pests ( best friends he would consider family) in the sky coming towards his island

"what do they want now?!" Knuckles internally questioned as they came closer

as they got closer they began to land

luckily Knuckles had created a stone replica of a plane landing area so as not to destroy any of his islands ecosystems

the two exited the plane and ran towards the red echidna

"what do you want?" Knuckles grumbled as the two stood directly in front of the guardian

"well someone woke on the wrong side of the bed" the blue blur smirked

but tails simply hit him on the arm as he got back to the topic of their arrival

"we're here to warn you that it seems Eggman may be planning to use the master emerald for something big" Tails explained worriedly

"what's this big thing? Knuckles asked curiously

"We're not sure, but all we know is that you need to move the M.E before he comes to take it" Sonic replied

"well it can't leave the island, it and we are still trying to return the chaos's energy back to normal, it is in no condition to be transported" Knuckles stated finally

"oh yeah, thought you were glowing, but I thought that was because of your sunny attitude," Sonic said with a grin, pointing to eyes with another smirk

"zip it hedgehog, but even if we did move it, it would cause my island to crash one more and Eggman will suspect that we were onto him" Knuckles pointed out

"but Eggman will know it's still on the island" tails added with ponder

"then I guess we'll need to keep it hidden somewhere so he can't take it" Sonic stated, not seeing another solution

"But how?! it's a massive rock with a massive energy signal!" tails exclaimed, gesturing to the massive gem in the process

"well...is there any way we can maybe, decrease the power perhaps Eggman's detectors won't be to track it ?" Sonic questioned although he was running out of ideas