Spotted speedster

Season 1 Ep. 5

Location: Station Square

[3rd POV]

It is nighttime. Knuckles is sitting alone on a bucket in the alley. A loose newspaper blows into Knuckles' leg. He picks it up and glances at it. Seeing that it is a picture of Sonic and Eggman battling, he lets it go. It blows away. He has a flashback of himself guarding the Master Emerald at Angel Island. He is so deep in thought that he is unaware of a figure appearing behind him. It is Dr. Eggman. However as he draws closer, Knuckles stands up and prepares to fight if needed.

Knuckles: Dr. Eggman! What do you want!?

Eggman gets on his knees before Knuckles, causing the echidna to become confused.

Dr. Eggman: Please help me! The Chaos Emeralds were sent to this world. If we don't do something fast, Sonic could make us prisoners on this planet forever! If we collect all seven Chaos Emeralds and cause Chaos Control again, we can return to our world. Sonic knew he could use the Chaos Emeralds to warp himself through time and space. That's the reason he attacked our base! To abuse the power of Chaos Control! He found out that I collected all the Chaos Emeralds to keep them out of his grasp! You know how reckless Sonic is. I was afraid of what he might do if he got hold of the Emeralds, so I set up defenses, but there was no stopping Sonic. He was determined to push his selfish search for thrills all the way this time, no matter who got hurt! He even dragged his friends and family into it! Finally, Sonic invaded, and to my horror, he finally achieved his goal! Sonic destroyed our base, and the machine to protect the Chaos Emeralds, and sent us all here just for the fun of it! 

Knuckles: So Sonic caused it. ... What about the others? Do they know this!?

Dr. Eggman: His friends and family are none the wiser! They believe he could do no harm, they won't even listen to me! After ending up in this world, I finally came to my senses. I want to spend the rest of my years quietly in my homeland. Yet Sonic has convinced them I only want to bring harm and destruction!

Eggman pulls out an handkerchief, crying into it. He then blows his nose, while Knuckles may be buying it, a figure hidden in the shadows shakes their head.

??? (thoughts): How low can you get?

Dr. Eggman: What can I do? He won't even give me a chance to fix things! I want to get us back, but Sonic won't listen to me at all. In fact, he stole the Chaos Emeralds from me! He doesn't want to collect the emeralds to get back home. He's having too much fun running around this world with those special legs.

Knuckles: That guy.

Dr. Eggman: He said that we can't leave here until he says so! He thinks this world's a lot more fun than ours, and if we don't agree, it's our tough luck.

Knuckles:  ... That selfish hog!

Dr. Eggman: Didn't Sonic tell you anything? He must know that you must return to your homeland as soon as possible.

Knuckles becomes mad, which is what Eggman wants. Therefore he continues.

Dr. Eggman: He doesn't care about his friends! You'd think he'd be more concerned about his buddy.

Knuckles: He's not my friend! I was just about getting fed up with the way he does things. Always turning everything into a game! Either Sonic gives us that Emerald, or I'm going to take it from him. ... You're sure that we can return home if we have the Chaos Emeralds?

Dr. Eggman: Definitely. Please believe this poor old man!

Knuckles: Okay. I'll go settle things once and for all.