Gullible No More

By: Phoenix Ride

Ch.1: A Foolish Ally

"Heh," Eggman sighed, as he stumbled back inside of his fortress.

Yet another failure to add to his schemes. Things had seemed to go so well today too!

He had managed to convince Knucklesto be on his side again, and once the echidna was fully engaged with his rival, Eggman surprised everyone by suddenly appearing and capturing Sonic, trapping the pesky blue rodent inside of a torturous cage. The look of shock on Sonic's face was gold, pure gold! But, just seconds away before Eggman could finally finish him off, Knuckles decided to go all noble again and completely destroyed Eggman's machine, saving Sonic, and sending the doctor blasting off to fly to his doom.

This was the usual end result after Eggman convinced the echidna to do his dirty work. Knuckles was gullible and believed his lies, tricked into thinking that Eggman's cause was actually for something good. The naïve fool believed the doctor would change. Everyone except him knew for a fact that that wouldn't happen any time soon.

Then, once the trick was revealed, Knuckles disbelief and anger was always a pain. Especially the latter since Knuckles always came pounding at Eggman full force! It was never good to be on the receiving end of Knuckles blows, but you can't ever say Eggman didn't ask for it in the end.

Having Knuckles strength was like wielding a double-edged sword. If the gullibility flashed over to intelligence it was a very dangerous weapon to wield. But the temptation to use it erased any regards of risk.

And Eggman had used Knuckles many times, and many times Knuckles had believed. The echidna's gullible nature had always been his flaw. So naïve to become blind to the difference on what was good and what was bad. But I guess that's to be expected when you spend your whole life spent on a floating island alone.

The sudden thought of Knuckles living situation made Eggman pause as he briefly reflected on a small moment from his past, back when he was younger, and before he had become obsessed with destroying Sonic the hedgehog.

Those were good times back then, and his life had nearly taken a different course. But things change, and now there was only one goal on his mind.

Starting tomorrow he would come up with another plan to destroy Sonic, and make sure everyone in the world remembered his name.