Sonic 3 & Knuckles | Play Through Part 1
0At the end of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog had defeated Dr. Eggman's latest scheme, putting a stop to his Death Egg and collecting all seven Chaos Emeralds. As Sonic and Miles "Tails" Prower flew off in the Tornado, they paid little attention to the broken space station plummeting towards Earth. Breaking into the atmosphere once more, Dr. Eggman could not control the direction of the falling sphere, each cloud passing over the machine being guided by fate and nothing more. As fate can be a strange mistress, it just so happened that in the pathway of the rapidly descending fortress was an island that was thought to only exist in legend. Hiding in the atmosphere under the shadow of clouds lay Angel Island, a floating island that moved across the oceans but never touching them. Perhaps the island would have stayed out of the eyesight of the doctor if not for this one moment, when the Death Egg collied into the surface of the island, shaking it to its very core. For the first time in eons, the island began falling as well, pushed by the force of Eggman's creation. Colliding into the ocean, a massive tidal wave erupted on all sides. Though many were to notice the towering waves from miles away, none knew of the island that now sat idle in the ocean, untouched by the disaster except for the once-proud invention silently waiting to rise up once more...
A few days after this event, the young fox "Tails" was busy finishing up an invention of his own, the Jewel Radar. Fine tuning it, the machine came to life, immediately picking up the signal of Chaos Energy located somewhere beyond the shore. Thinking that it may have something to do with the strange tidal wave only days before, "Tails" flew out the door, heading towards the beach where he knew Sonic the Hedgehog was.
Sonic, who had been taking a much-deserved nap, awoke the exact same moment "Tails" hopped out the door. Looking about at the beach, the blue hedgehog spotted a strange ring washed up on shore. Running over to it, Sonic picked up the ring, noticing the characters of an ancient language carved onto its surface. Immediately, Sonic was reminded of a legend that he had heard long ago, about an ancient civilization that lived upon an island. Creating a society of peace and harmony, the people who lived within attributed their great prosperity to the "Stone of Power," a sacred gem whose energy guided them. One day, as these stories often go, a sect of wise men decided that they wanted to take the power of the stone for their own selfish gain, and tried to seize the energy. Unable to control it, their foolishness caused the great civilization to disappear in the blink of an eye, their way of life being forgotten. In its wake, the gods took the land, rebuilt it, and sent it, along with the "Stone of Power" into the sky...