so, i completed tornado act 2, i completed eggmanland, i completed egg dragoon, then i got to the first battle with dark gaia and completed it. the sequence then took me to the second battle with dark gaia where sonic is super sonic, and because i had been playing for so long my hands and back where aching badly so i stopped playing. BIG MISTAKE. i went back to the world map to see that my eggmanland completetion and my defeat of the egg dragoon was saved but nothing else. when i played through eggmanland and defeated egg dragoon again it just took me back to the world map. i went back and searched in shamar where the professor was but it was no use. does anyone have any clue what may have happened or is anyone able to tell me what i can maybe do?????!!!!! please i am pulling my hair out over this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant complete the game and restore the final section of earth, please help!!!!!!!

So let me get this straight... You beat Tornado 2, Eggmanland, Egg Dragoon, Dark Gaia 1. Then you got hand cramos and stoped playing on Dark Gaia 2 and returned to the World Map. You played through Eggmanland and Egg Dragoon once more only to see another arrival to the World Map. next you went to Shamar to search for Pickle. Thats when I get confused. He wasn't there, or did the same thing happen?