A/N: first fic on wattpad let's goooo
At some point of a lazy afternoon. Knuckles, the warrior echidna was doing his job as the guardian of the Master Emerald. He stands inside the hidden palace zone in his position in front the Emerald itself.
This is his typical spot he settles in. He originally would've looked around the rest of angel island if he felt something could break into the zone. However thanks to recent events involving a certain blue hedgehog an orange fox and a lying cheating no good Traitor, the guardian now has to be more vigilant of the ancient gem; more so than before.
As one could imagine the red echidna was less than pleased with this arrangement but it comes with the territory of being the last of your kind, after all it's not like he has anyone else around to watch the Master Emerald while he's gone. So he'll just have to suffer for the time being until he's sure the old man dr. Eggman as he called himself; isn't going to bother him again.
The halls of the hidden palace zone are completely silent
Not even the ambient noises of the wind or the little critters outside running around
It's Radio silent
Until a loud rumbles throws him off focus and balance. The palace is shaking. There must be an earthquake!..
But how?
Angel island is in the sky and can't be affected by Seismic waves from the earth. He takes the opportunity to check the huge green mystic stone on the pedestal. Placing his hand on it while attempting to keep his balance. And the M.E. isn't actively berzerk-ing at the moment. Good, he's been worried about it since that bot had absorbed a ton of energy from the Emerald. Fault of the Traitor.
Then that leaves the question: what or who is causing the earthquake?! He really should figure out what's going on but for that he has to go outside and leave the M.E. unguarded. The red echidna stands still pondering before he gets an idea.
"Oh I know! I'll set up traps!" He shouts in glorious triumph
"You're very smart Knuckles" "why thank you Knuckles" he begins muttering to himself. he should really get some sun while he's out hopefully it's not too hot outside
He takes some materials that he had stashed away; uses them to make nets, trapdoors and an alert system a small explosion should go off if it gets triggered.
He took a nice stroll through lava reef and sandopolis before reaching Mushroom hill
When he does get outside there's no more earthquake shaking everything relentlessly and it seems as though all the little animals have retreated to their homes so he probably won't be able to ask them if they know what's going on right now
Although even if he could ask them they probably wouldn't know what was going on anyway as he's usually the one who knows what is wrong with the landscape in this neighborhood
And after a nice climb in the trees he reaches the tree tops and then he looks at the horizon seeing the endless ocean. He looks left, more ocean. He looks right and there's an island that wasn't there before. He looks back-
Wait a minute ...
There's an island. That wasn't there before. Where the hell did that come from?
This seems like it will be quite an adventure.
