FLOOD FIGHT: Chris is looking for Knuckles on Angel Island in order to give him the last Chaos Emerald. Sonic and Tails run into Knuckles at a different place in Mystic Ruin. They find Dr. Eggman lying on the ground there. Chaos had been alive. However, it had become violent to the point where it would not even listen to Dr. Eggman and attacked him. Seeing Decoe and Bocoe carrying Eggman onto the blimp and flying away, Sonic and the others feel a foreboding danger. Sonic and Knuckles see the image of the past again. SHADOW: Sonic helps the citizens look for the children who are separated from their families at Station Square, where Chaos had left traces of destruction. Chriss family decides to evacuate to the City until things settle down. Just then, Eggman hacks GUNs computer and finds out that, this is the world he was born in. He also finds out that his grandfather, Gerard Robotonik is deeply involved with GUNs highly classified information. Eggman gets a hold of the classified information called Project Shadow. Rouge and Topaz are ordered by the President to find out what Eggman is up to. SHADOW KNOWS: Sonic is captured by GUN. It seems that GUN thinks Sonic had snuck into Prison Island to steal the classified information of Project Shadow. Sonic who does not have the slightest idea of GUNs allegations, flees from GUNs helicopter and ends up a fugitive. At about the same time, the Chaos Emerald is stolen from the National Museum. The theft is recorded on the surveillance camera. The President, after seeing the tape, comes to the conclusion that Sonic is the criminal, and orders an open criminal investigation.