Team Sonic are one of the four playble teams, the others being Team Rose, Team Dark and Team Chaotix. Later, Sonic and Shadow team up to fight against the Finalhazard, before Shadow plunges into Earth. In the last story, in the Cannon's Core, Tails is playable in the first part of the stage, Knuckles is playable in the fourth part of the stage, and Sonic is playable in the fifth and last part of the stage. In the Dark Story, they appear as bosses, with Tails being fought by Eggman after he completes Weapons Bed and Cosmic Wall, Sonic being fought by Shadow after he completes White Jungle and Final Chase, while Knuckles is fought by Rouge after she finds all shards in Mad Space, completing the stage. Sonic, revealed to have survived due to holding Tails's fake emerald and using Chaos Control, encounters Shadow once again and the two fight on their way to the cannon. Tails fights Eggman again after thinking that the latter killed Sonic, wanting to avenge him.

Knuckles encounters a beautiful female bat named Rouge in Meteor Herd, after finding the last shards, and he saves her from falling to her death after they fight. After Sonic defeats the Egg Golem in the pyramid, the team arrive at the ARK in space. The team then infiltrate the pyramid, with Knuckles searching for the keys in Death Chamber to open a gate so that the heroes would procceed further, encountering King Boom Boo on the way. Later, Tails and Amy meet Knuckles and Tails chases the President's limo in Route 101 before flying into Eggman's pyramid base. After escaping the forest, Sonic, Tails and Amy watch Eggman as he blasts the moon. Sonic escapes the Island, and encounters a black hedgehog named Shadow in the forest. Tails arrives at the Island where Sonic is kept and goes through Prison Lane to save him, not before fighting against Eggman. Meanwhile, Knuckles searches after the shards of the Master Emerald in Wild Canyon. Sonic escapes from G.U.N, going through City Escape, but gets caught again. Out of the six playable characters, Team Sonic are playable in the Hero Story, and are bosses in the Dark Story. They watch Sonic sprint into the distance just before the end credits.

In the last story, Tails and Knuckles, along with Amy and Big, support Sonic as he fights against Perfect Chaos (Chaos will all seven Chaos Emeralds). The three team up once again to fight against Chaos, but after this, Sonic and Tails chase the Egg Carrier while Knuckles stays behind. He fights against Sonic and Tails, but the three end up losing the Chaos Emerald, which are given by Eggman to a water monster named 'Chaos'. While Sonic and Tails are collecting the Chaos Emerald while trying to stop Eggman, Knuckles is once again duped by Eggman, but this time, he is duped into thinking that Sonic wants to steal the shards of the Master Emerald from him. Sonic later brings the Master Emerald back to Knuckles, and in the end of Knuckles's story, Sonic saves Knuckles in Sky Sanctuary after the latter had defeated Mecha Sonic. After Sonic and Tails fought and defeated Knuckles, Eggman stole the Master Emerald, and the three teamed up to (unsuccessfully) stop Eggman. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles are the playable characters in this game.ДЄfter Sonic and Tails met in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the two flew to Angel Island, where they met Knuckles the Echidna, the guardian of the Master Emerald, who opposed them due to being duped by Eggman that they are aftet the Master Emerald.

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