Knuckles, duped by the doctor, ran off to find this miscreant. When he woke up, the Chaos Emeralds were gone, but Knuckles also saw a huge egg in the distance, surprised, he then recalled a legend of an ancient dragon sent to destroy the world in the end times, thinking this mysterious egg to be the dragon he set out, and A giant egg-shaped figure appeared out of nowhere, calling himself 'Dr.Д®ggman', he explained to Knuckles he had come here to study this giant egg, and that an evil hedgehog named Sonic was trying to not only interfere with his research, but steal the Chaos Emeralds as well. Meanwhile, Knuckles is taking his usual walk along the Emerald altar to check if the Emeralds are alright, suddenly a huge earthquake came out of nowhere, Knuckles saw the Emeralds reverberating in mid-air, stunned, he was suddenly threw into the air before blacking out. Turning his crushing defeat into a sleek advantage yet again, he kidnaps Animals to convert into Badniks and created a new line of weapons. Robotnik detects the presence of a massive Chaos Emerald within the island's depths, he decides to once again seek out the Chaos Emeralds so that his fallen Death Egg can regain orbit in space. This island has special properties - not least of which being its eponymous power of magical suspension. Having not been completely destroyed after all, the Death Egg has crash-landed on the Floating Islandtaking it to the ocean below. At the end of Sonic the Hedgehog 2the evil Dr. The European release came later that month. This game marks the first appearance of Knuckles the Echidna. It was released as a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

Sonic before the sequel sprites