Episode 3: Knuckles, Guardian of the Master Emerald

Sonic and Tails look for their third emerald thats located in a place called Floating Island. After their arrival, a mysterious looking fist with brass knuckles pops out of the bushes along with a shadowy figure saying "that blue haired kid ain't gonna get my emerald". Later, as sonic and tails search in the jungle, a super robot named frankly confronts them and fought. Sonic wins the fight while frankly was about to use his ultimate attack until the shadowy figure appeared out of the bushes and is revealed to be knuckles, a teenage boy with red dreadlocks and brass knuckles. Knuckles defeats frankly for now as he retreats back to robotnik. Sonic thanks knuckles for beating the super robot but knuckles angrily tells the two that they better not steal the master emerald or else they'll get a beating of a lifetime. Later while knuckles goes back to his post he finds the emerald missing and learns that it couldn't been sonic and tails because their just not getting here. Finally knuckles quickly learns that robotnik tricked him and he wants to help sonic defeat him before its too late. In Robotnik's Airship, frankly was the one that took the master emerald to give it to robotnik. Robotnik was about to use the object to fuel his airship as his ship ran out of gas. Suddenly, sonic was able to take the emerald from him and everyone fought. Frankly is able to use his ultimate attack on sonic as he used his electrical powers to create a big sized electric ball. But sonic deflected the attack and destroyed frankly with his sonic spin. Knuckles and Robotnik also fought and knuckles won and got the emerald. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles got out of the airship on time but not before sonic ran around the ship making a tornado and sending robotnik back to robotropolis. Lastly, knuckles thanks the two for helping him and the master emerald is back to its rightful place and sonic and tails found their third chaos emerald.

Background Information
 * this is knuckles first appearance in the series.
 * this episode comes from sonic the hedgehog 3 game.
 * Its possible that robotnik came to the floating island just to find an emerald but instead wanted to fuel his airship.
 * In Sonic the Hedgehog Issue #13, it was crabmeat who took the master emerald but in this episode it was frankly not crabmeat.