Once there was a young bat princess, a spoiled and mean one. An Enchantress turns her into a vampire and puts a powerful spell on the castle and all who lived there. A handsome red echidna finds a castle where his adoptive father is held a prisoner...
After the fiasco, Rouge and Knuckles became close friends and at that time, Rouge had started to change her personality becoming sweet, kind and sisterly. Rouge (in warm clothes) is seen reading a book under a tree in the snow. Knuckles (who is also dressed warm) comes over to her.
Knuckles: Rouge? What are you reading?
Rouge closes and tries to hide the book.
Rouge: Uh, nothing.
Knuckles was able to see the title, though.
Knuckles: 'King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table'?
Rouge: Ugh, why does that hardly work?
Knuckles chuckles and hears the castle staff.
Knuckles: They seem to be having fun.
Rouge: Yeah, but when I go in, it just... Dies.
Knuckles: You're not the only one, when I go out of my home; laughter fades. People think I'm funny but I don't really think it's much of a complement.
Rouge: What do you think we run off somewhere?
Knuckles: Huh?
Later on, Rouge is seen taking out a book from the library.
Rouge: A little gift from The Enchantress. A book that takes really makes you escape. It's the cruelest trick of all of them. I can't go out because of me being a Vampire. But it might be for you. Now then, think of the one thing you've always wanted: you'll find in your mind's desire and pure heart.
Knuckles thinks of his biological parents and they go to a city called Knothole which is also Knuckles' home land.
Rouge: Where are we?
Knuckles: Knothole.
Rouge: Oh, I love Knothole. What do you wanna see? The Great Oak Slide? The Berry Bush Forest?
She notices Knuckles isn't listening to her.
Rouge: Knuckles?
He looked around the cottage they were in.
Knuckles: It's a lot smaller than I thought... This is the Knothole of my childhood, these were the borders of my life. In this crumbling, dusty attic where an artist loved his wife.
He picks up and emerald shaped rattle he found on the ground.
Knuckles: Easy to remember, harder to move on; knowing the Knothole of my childhood is gone.
Rouge: What did happened to your real parents?
Knuckles: That's the one story my adopted Father: Vector didn't tell. Me, Espio and Charmy knew better than to ask.
Rouge sees and picks up a doctor's mask and gasps when she realizes what happend back then.
Rouge: The Plague of Knothole.
Flashback-16 years ago...
A doctor is operating on Knuckles' biological father: Locke, who is coughing and eventually dies. The doctor turns to a young adult Vector.
Doctor: You must leave, now.
Young adult Vector goes to Knuckles' mother: Laura and sees her dying. Laura was Vector's best friend and hated to see her suffering.
Laura: Quickly, Vec. Before it takes him too.
She kisses an emerald shaped rattle as if giving one last goodbye kiss to her son and dies. The young adult Vector then picked up the crying infant Knuckles and took him to the same village where he grew up in to keep him safe.
Flashback ends.
Rouge: I'm so sorry.
Knuckles: *Sniffles* Let's head back.
Rouge nods and they head back to the castle.
Back in the village, after hearing of Vector, Espio and Charmy come back. Fiona decided to talk to the asylum man to take Vector to the asylum.
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Asylum man: I don't usually leave the asylum at 12 at night.
Fiona throws a bag of money at him.
Fiona: Eggman, I want you to take Knuckles' father away.
Eggman: So, you want me to throw into the asylum unless agrees to marry? Oh, that is despicable. *Evil laugh* I love it! *Laugh evilly before coughing and back to laughing*
Meanwhile, in Knuckles' cottage, Vector, Espio and Charmy are getting ready to go back into the forest to find Knuckles.
Espio: Vector, this is a dumb idea.
Charmy: Come on Esp. If no one will help us, then we have to do it ourselves.
He leaves with the others at the same time Fiona and Tangle in a carriage pull up at the cottage and realize that the boys left. Fiona then holds Tangle by the shirt collar.
