I know u didn't mean anything, but when u wrote "boom is usually bad" my thought immediately went to Sonic Boom and I was like "yeah. Boom is bad" :'D
(The cartoon is hilariously funny tho)

Holy smokes you finished this story 6 months ago and I didn't commented. What a shame. Bad me, bad.

I'm so glad that they got out of the island ! Sonic was so adorable again in his big brother "role", for both Tails (successfully) and Knux (well, at least he tried to see the positive outcomes :D). I really liked Knuckles reflexion at the end. About how his home isn't the safe sanctuary he always belived it to be. We usually think that a "home" is the safesest place of the world. Just the thought of this being not the case is so painful. And how painful it could be for someone like Knuckles, for who his island IS almost his whole world... Thankfully his friends will be always here for him !

That last bit made me think a lot, like this whole fic did. Thank you for creating it.

AWWW! SOOO cute and sweet and protective/angsty! Adorable AF! I LOVE this! SO glad they found Knuckles and everything's okay! Phew! The details in this are really amazing! Love it! Can't wait to see what's next!

It's very endearing to see them all chitchatting and bickering again. Part of their respsective coping mechanisms definitely including winding one another up!

The moments of recovering some sort of normality and the little wobble over remembering finding the Gear board were very well done. Rang emotionally true.

And Knuckles needs all the remeinders of how being part of this team works that he can get of course!

-Like your description of Angel Island’s ecosystems.

-Anyway, it’s a decent chapter. In many ways, it’s similar to the previous ones, in that it’s fluff driven. However, as far as fluff goes, it works better at the end of the story than chapters…well, not at the end, I guess.

So, fic’s decent overall I guess, though not one of your stronger ones. Like, at the end of the day, it’s the trio surviving a natural disaster…and, well, that’s it. So, decent. But not at the heights of some of your other works.

This was a wonderful story! You did a great job capturing all the emotion the characters went through. Especially here in the end where Knuckles learns just how important he is to Sonic and Tails amost like another brother to them.

Wow! What a fantastic story! You nailed everything, Speedy. The eruption, the nervousness of the characters, the arguments between Sonic and Knuckles... Everything!
Really spectacular! I loved it!

Knuckles seems so numb in the aftermath of everything, and is a great point of view to follow here, simply because he's all observation and reflection as the three sort of recuperate in their own ways. You've captured so much in this final chapter: their attempts at returning to normalcy, with elements of that emotional stress that brings home how hard it will be to *get* back to that normalcy; the absolutely vivid descriptions of the island's destruction that sort of leaves you in awe of nature; and Knuckles' realization of his importance to the other two, and the lengths they'd go for him. Such great characterization and bond strengthening in this story; bravo. :)

I've only just been getting caught up on the last few chapters recently, and I must say I quite enjoy the way you've characterized Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. The dialogue is true to character. Not to mention the premise of having to save your friend from the aftermath of a volcanic eruption is a rather unique and interesting plot.

I LOVED the begining scene, it was enchanting. It’s so soft and hopeful. I’m sure that everybody imagine that scene differently, reading is so fascinating... Same for the scene with Sonic and Tails, it’s so serene. What a relief after all that mess !

Yaaaas, a begining of a « fight » between Knux and Sonic, confirms that both of them are feeling a little better. I like the idea of the M. Emerald being capable to heal quickly the guardian, but it also can make thing worse. For me it goes in pair with the popular belief that Knux have a badly mended tail after an injury. Small details in the universe developpement that make everything.
The « shade » of the day before is definitely still with our 3 friends… I hope that now thing will go better for them

Change of pace to this chapter comes as a bit of a restful relief!

-“Sonic wasn’t a fan of rains.”

This can technically work grammatically, but I’d just have it as “rain.”

-Anyway, not too much to say, for better or worse. The chapter is okay. It’s a bit similar to the previous one in that a lot of it is effectively dedicated to fluff, with the plot moving slowly. Like, sometimes the fluff is nice (e.g. the description of the rain), but still, fluff.

This was a nice chapter. Both Sonic and Tails made a good plan in taking turns standing watch as even the smallest embers that survived the rain can turn into forest fire if the wind turned. It was also nice to see these three joking with each other as a sign of things slowly going back to normal(or as close to normal as possible).

-No Sonic, don’t eat the chocolate bars! No!

(Seriously, chilli dogs are more your thing anyway.)

-“Fuck, sorry sorry.”

So, I don’t know if this is the language you mentioned earlier in your author’s note. So, speaking personally, I don’t think “fuck” is enough to warrant an M rating. In my mind, not even a T-rating. On the other, while I’m hardly offended, it’s not a word I’d expect to hear from Sonic’s mouth, or really, most characters in the setting.

-So, I’m mixed on the notion of the relationship between Knuckles and the Master Emerald being different from Sonic and the Chaos Emeralds. Like, as far as the Master Emerald goes, that makes sense, but Knuckles has utilized super forms as well (though granted, never in a narrative sense). Minor point, but noticeable.

-“…bad Shadow cosplay.”

…okay, I smirked at that.

-So, anyway, chapter as a whole…

I’ll be honest, when you say that this wasn’t planned, it kind of shows. Because I’m left to ask, what actually happened in this chapter? The answer to that, from where I’m sitting, is that Knuckles was healed, and his relationship with Sonic and Tails is temporarily frayed. It’s a fraying that’s apparently fixed in the same chapter it’s introduced in. So, on one hand, nothing in this chapter warrants an M-rating in my mind. Burns and some bad language isn’t nearly enough to push it into that territory. But on the other, this chapter feels like it’s dragged the story to a near halt, which is a shame when compared to the previous chapters. The writing in of itself is good, and there’s no reason why a character being healed can’t take awhile, but does that need an entire chapter dedicated to it? At this point, I can only say no.

-Very good intro. Does a great job of setting the scene/atmosphere.

-“…maybe eat the chocolate bars for energy.”

Oh yeah, that’s how it starts. Then the sugar rush expires and you feel exhausted. :P

-Anyway, there’s not too much to say about the second section in particular, but the writing and pacing remains solid. The story’s certainly picked up the pace from previous chapters. That said, I can’t deny that the prospect of the Master Emerald restoring Knuckles does strike me as bordering deus ex machina territory. Like, I guess there’s some level of precedent for it, in that the emeralds can clearly empower biological beings (super forms) in addition to functioning as an energy source, but has the emerald/emeralds ever been used to heal a character? Far as I can recall, the answer’s no, regardless of Sonic media.

Course, this is semantics, but noticed it all the same.

-Like the take on the power rings. Also, still in the realm of semantics, but the notion of power rings being used as a healing device syncs in far better with their context than emeralds.

-Anyway, decent chapter.