Here's another story I really felt like writing.  It features Knuckles 
and the Chaotix, as well as Sonic and his evil robot duplicate.  Remember 
the final Saturday morning show, "The Doomsday Project"?  Remember at the 
end where Snively escaped and he came out of that elevator or whatever it 
was?  Remember he was laughing away, and he said, "Now it's my turn.  AND 
I'M NOT ALONE!" then he moved out of the screen to reveal something 
behind him, something we never got to see?  Well, I think it was 
Mecha-Sonic, and so here's my story, I call it, "Total Chaotix".

"Sonic," Sally asked Sonic one day after they had beaten Robotnik, "what 
happens now that Robotnik is gone?  Is this the end of the Freedom 
Fighters?"
"I don't know, Sal," Sonic answered.  "Robotnik may be gone, but that 
doesn't mean someone else will come to Mobius and try to continue 
Robotnik's work!"
"Sonic, don't say that," Sally said, shuddering at the thought.
"Why not?" Sonic asked in his usual annoying manner.  "It could happen."
"Well, let's hope it doesn't," Sally responded.

Unfortunatly, Sonic was right.

Deep in the heart of Robotropolis, aka ground zero, Snively and a 
metallic hedgehog were discussing how to get rid of Sonic once and for 
all.
"I guess we'd better start reconstruction right away," the hedgehog 
mumbled in his raspy metallic voice.
"You can do it," Snively said,  "You'd do it better and faster than me.  
See ya!"  and he was away like a shot.
"Okay, Snivvler, I'll reconstruct Robotroplis," the hedgehog said under 
his breath, "but you'll get what's coming to you.  Mecha-Sonic isn't 
going to take this lying down!"
In two minutes Mecha-Sonic had reconstructed half of Robotropolis, and 
the other half in two more.  He stopped right next to Snively, who had 
been watching in fascination.  
"`Bot patrols will be up and running again in a few hours," Mecha-Sonic 
said to him.  
"YEs!" Snively replied, jumping up and down as if he'd eaten too much 
sugar.  "We can rule Mobius together!  Only you'll be my sidekick, 
because I thought of it."
"What do you mean, `we'?" Mecha-Sonic snickered.  "I'll rule Mobius, and 
you'll be my lowly assistant, just like you were for Robotnik."
"Oh, yeah?" Snively cried, and he ran towards Mecha-Sonic, intending to 
hammer him, but Mecha-Sonic easily overpowered the little human and 
Snively was soon lying on the ground, moaning.  
"I'll rule Mobius and you'll be my lowly assistant," Mecha-Sonic said 
again.  "Any questions?"
Snively started to say something, but given the fact a mere mindless 
robot had beaten the crap out of him, he kept quiet.  
On the Floating Island, Knuckles and the Chaotix had just gotten the 
news.
"You mean Robotnik's finally gone?  No more Chaotix?" Mighty asked.
"That's right," Knuckles said.  "I could see the explosion from here.  
Robotropolis is a rubble pile now.  I saw the explosion from here."
"Well, I guess we can relax now," Espio exclaimed, lying against a rock.
"And I can listen to my music," Vector exclaimed, turning up his 
Metallica tape so Knuckles and the rest of the Chaotix could hear.
"You're always listening to music, Vector," Charmy remarked.
"Bullshit!" Vector shouted.  "The battery's dead!"
"Thank God," Knuckles said, breathing a sigh of relief.  "Now we can have 
some peace and qiuet around here."

But peace and qiuet was the last thing they would have.....

Back in Robotropolis, Mecha-Sonic sat in Robotnik's chair, tapping its 
arms while Snively cleaned up the mess Mecha-Sonic had just made.  
Snively was wearing an apron that said, "I am an ass" on it, and he did 
not look happy.
"After you've cleaned up this mess, you can wash the dishes," Mecha-Sonic 
called to Snively.  "And don't forget to sweep the walk, and clean the 
garage, and...."
"Work, work, work!!" Snively grumbled.  "That's all I'm good for around 
here!"
"Just for that, Snively, you can go to the blackboard and write 'I will 
not `DIS' the master' five hundred times," Mecha-Sonic said.
Snively went up to the blackboard Mecha-Sonic set up behind the chair and 
began writing.  Now he was pissed.  That damn hedgehog was really 
starting to get on his nerves.
"This is strange, Princess," Rotor said to Sally.  "Sensors show that 
Robotropolis is up and running again."
"No, way, Rotor," Sonic remarked from the other side of the room.  
"Robotropolis and `ol Blubberbutt aren't ever coming back.  You saw what 
happened with Sally and me!  We trashed the place!"
"Why don't you go and see for yourself, Sonic?" Rotor suggested.
"Gotcha, Rotor," Sonic said, and he raced away.
Meanwhile, in Robotropolis....
Mecha-Sonic had an idea.  He'd go to the Floating Island, and steal the 
Orange Chaos Emarald, and use it to power a new Doomsday Machine.  
Robotnik was a fool, he thought to himself.  He didn't see that his 
doomsday project failed because he didn't have a reliable enough power 
source.  Mecha-Sonic had been doing research, and discovered the Orange 
Chaos Emarald was even more powerful than the one that held the island 
aloft.  That Emarald could crush Mobius and the Freedom Fighters for 
sure.
"Snively," Mecha-Sonic said after a while, "I'm going to take a little 
trip.  I'm going to go to the Floating Island, and steal its Orange Chaos 
Emarald.  That little trinket is sure to make me ruler of Mobius.  you 
stay here and sweep the chimney."
"Fuck that metallic meatball!" Snively swore after Mecha-Sonic had gone. 
"What does he think I am, his personal slave?" Snively slapped himself 
and answered his own question.  "Of course!"
Mecha-Sonic had reached the Chaos Emarald cave where the Emaralds were 
held.  "At last!" he snickered.
He blasted through the entrance easily, and headed to the back of the 
cave.  He passed a blue, a green, a light blue, a gray, a purple, and a 
red Chaos Emarald, but ignored them.  At last at the back of the cave he 
found the Orange Chaos Emarald.  He held it up and laughed a fiendish 
laugh.
Knuckles and the Chaotix heard an explosion.  
"What was that?!" Knuckles cried, ducking to the ground.
"What was what?" Charmy asked.
"That explosion, dummy!" Mighty yelled at him.  "You didn't hear it?"
"We heard it," Vector and Espio said together.
"All right, everybody, calm down," Knuckles said to the frantic Chaotix. 
"It sounded like it came from the Chaos Emarald cave.  We'll just go 
there, and make sure none of the Emaralds are missing."
Sure enough, the Orange Chaos Emarald was missing.  Knuckles screamed 
when he saw the empty stand where it had been.
"Who did this?" he yelled, and said a series of swears, banged into the 
walls, and jumped about three feet in the air, then slammed back down 
again.
"Shit!" Mighty shouted.  "What are we gonna do now, Knux?"
"We're gonna find out who took that fuckin' Chaos Emarald, and damn the 
person who did!" Knuckles answered.
Back in Knothole....
Sonic was lying on the couch, starting to doze off, when someone--or 
something--radioed him.
"Wha-?!" he cried out, and suddenly woke up.
It was Knuckles, and was not happy.
"Did you take my Chaos Emarald?" he yelled.
"No, I didn't," Sonic answered, worried this would resukt in yet another 
brawl.  "What would I want it for, anyway?"
"Alright, alright," Knuckles said, "for once, I'll believe you.  But we 
have to find out who did!"
"Well, it can't be anybody from Robotropolis," Sonic said.  "I already 
went there, and nobody's there.  Maybe I could check again, just to make 
double sure-?"
"Yeah, you do that," Knuckles said.  "Me and the Chaotix'll be right 
over.  Knuckles out."
Sonic quickly went to Robotropolis.  He knocked on the metal door to 
Robotnik's fortress.  To his surprise, someone came to answer the door.
"D-did you s-s-steal the C-C-Chaos Emarald?" Sonic asked, finding it hard 
to talk.
"Maybe," a raspy metallic voice replied from a small slot.  "But thanks 
for coming, anyway.  We've been waiting for you." The slot closed, and 
Sonic said, "Hey, what's going on here?" The door opened, and....
*BONK* 
Knuckles and the Chaotix arrived in Knothole.  Knuckles found Sally and 
asked her, "Were'd Sonic go?" 
"I don't know," she said.  "He must not be back from Robotropolis yet.  
He just went back there about an hour ago...."
"Uh-oh," Knuckles exclaimed.  "I smell trouble."
Knuckles and the Chaotix went to Robotropolis.  They came to the same 
metal door Sonic had knocked on, and Knuckles said, "Mighty?  Will you do 
the honors?"
"With pleasure," Mighty exclaimed contently, and bashed down the door.
They found a stairway, and climbed it.  At the top there was an air duct 
system, and Vector suggested they crawl through it.
"Sure, why not?" Espio agreed, "but that's quite a cliche..."
"Aw, shut up and crawl," Knuckles said, and they climbed in.
"Do you think we'll find Sonic here?" Vector asked.
"Of course we will," Knuckles answered, still crawling.  "He must have 
been captured by whoever stole the Emarald."
Indeed he was!  Upon reaching the end of the air system, Knuckles and the 
Chaotix found Mecha-Sonic sitting in Robotnik's chair.  Beside him was a 
roboticizer, with Sonic standing in it.
"So," Mecha-Sonic said evilly, "our guests have arrived!"
"That's right," Knuckles replied angrily.  "We want our Chaos Emarald 
back!"
"That won't be nessescary," Mecha-Sonic said, pushing a button.  "Right 
now I have outher matters to attend to."
The button caused the roboticizer to start up.  Mecha-Sonic was 
robotcizing the real Sonic!
"NOOOOOOO!" Knuckles screamed.
TO BE CONTINUED....
P.S. here's a summary...
Part I of the Total Chaotix series.  Snively has survived Doomsday, but 
his companion, Mecha-Sonic, takes over Robotnik's operation.  After 
Robotropolis is reconstructed, Mecha-Sonic steals the Orange Chaos 
Emarald, and is about to use it to rule the planet.  Knuckles and the 
Chaotix are making it their personal quest to get it back, and are also 
trying to rescue the real Sonic from the clutches of his robot 
duplicate.  By Elaine Will