It has been happening in a strange event in real life where literally Eggman is taking over the control of your world while manipulating the unaware population that takes the Chaos Emeralds to prevent disasters.

You were guarding a chaos emerald until an Eggman robot that seemed to command little robots wanted to steal it. The emerald shines itself and you lose all your perception until you finally notice you defeated the robot.

A male presence appeared while seemed impressed by what he saw from you.

"The chaos emerald has reacted to give you the power to defeat that Eggman robot for yourself."