Gathering all of the Chaos Emeralds usually results in Sonic the Hedgehog achieving his super-powered form. But in the comics, Sonic generates an evil clone of himself that can destroy moons when he absorbs red versions of these gemstones on the alien planet Thoraxia.
Why Sonic would ever be on an alien planet instead of fighting Dr. Eggman on planet Mobius can only mean one thing. It happened by accident. An alien species called the Xorda had been attempting to destroy his homeworld, and Sonic just couldn't find it within himself to let that happen. To win, he had to run extremely fast (of course), but doing so accidentally transported him light-years away to planet Thoraxia. And that was when the series became a Sonic space odyssey of sorts as the hedgehog spends the next year trying to get back home.
But before Sonic's return journey began, Sonic had to solve an ongoing war on Thoraxia between two insect-like aliens in issue #126, the Blodex and the Bzzzz. It's clear from the start that the Blodex are the victims, so when the massive Bzzzz Queen attacks, Sonic chooses to protect the Blodex. Luckily, Thoraxia just so happens to have its own red Chaos Emeralds. According to legend, these gemstones fell from the heavens and bestowed upon the ancient Blodex leader of the time the power to destroy the Bzzzz Queen before her eventual return thousands of years later.
Sonic, being the nice hedgehog that he is, absorbs the red Chaos Emeralds to take them on and appears to kill the queen and all of her minions in an instant. But it wasn't Sonic at all. It was a superpowered clone while the real Sonic was forced to watch from the sidelines. It turns out that this other hedgehog didn't kill the Bzzzz to save the Blodex. He just believed in his own power. When Sonic confronts him, the clone decides that the best way to prove his resolve is to destroy the planet's two moons. Sonic, of course, stops him before he has the chance to carry out his dastardly scheme, but, from that moment on, Sonic is at the complete mercy of his evil clone who beats him mercilessly. It's undeniable that the clone would have triumphed had these alien Chaos Emeralds not shared the same properties as the green gemstones from Mobius. For their power is only temporary, and the evil clone soon dissipates into nothing just like how Super Sonic always reverts back to his normal form after he runs out of Chaos energy.
Like other aspects of Archie Comics' discontinued series, the origin of these red Chaos Emeralds remains a mystery. But in this case, shrouding them in ambiguity was the right choice much like how the history of the green gemstones on Mobius is also unknown. The only tragedy is that the series was discontinued before Sonic could experience all the various ways that the other differently colored Chaos Emeralds affected him. Of course, this is where the comics greatly diverge from the games as no Chaos Emerald is the same color in the latter. This is just another example of why the comics will always be more interesting than any other medium. Sonic can only collect one group of multi-colored Chaos Emeralds in the games and this just results in the blue hedgehog transforming into Super Sonic. This is exactly what happens when Sonic absorbs the green gemstones on Mobius. But there are so many different colors and types of Chaos Emeralds in the comic universe, and Sonic the Hedgehog's time on Thoraxia proves that they most likely can unlock a whole host of other types of transformations just like the red gemstones did.
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