Who are you?
A question that Knuckles the Echidna would always answer with "Guardian of the Master Emerald." It was, after all, all that he'd ever had to define himself by. He was the Guardian. He always had been, since his first clear memory, until now.
But now... he'd been told that he wasn't able to do his job. That he was a failure at his very reason for being. (Not that he was certain of Rouge's tale... but it made more sense than anything he'd come up with - just managing to trigger a Chaos Control and ended somewhere else didn't explain the animal life around here.)
Knuckles unconsciously frowned. What was he, if he wasn't the Guardian?
He looked at his right hand as he walked, and removed the Shovel Claw as he did so, revealing their unique shape.
He snorted. At least, he'd always thought they were unique. No other mobian he'd ever encountered had bone spurs on their hands like he did. He'd always held them as a sort of badge of his position.
Of course, now he knew that was wrong. Tikal's visions showed him that all male Echidna had such spurs. One of his illusions shattered.
Still, it paled in comparison to this.
His senses homed in on his target. He began moving faster. He could tell that Rouge was keeping pace with him as well.
He got the feeling she was giving him the cold shoulder. That was all right with him, though. This was all her fault.
As he moved, he picked up a few more rings. Another mystery of this world - he'd seen more rings and other constructs in the area than he could recall ever seeing in one place before. Was there so few people sensitive to chaos energy that all this power was just going unused?
Oh well, that just made it easier for him, if it was. He could bring out his big attacks if he needed.
They were close now. He paused to get a better feel for the direction. By now, even Rouge's sensitivity should have picked up on the emerald...
"North?" She asked.
"Yes," he replied. "And moving."
And they were off again.
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