* / Chapter 1: Brothers / *

/ That morning . . . /

Knuckles: (I better never see that stupid wolf a-)

*the door of Tails' workshop is wide open*

Knuckles: "Huh?!"

*Knuckles walks into the workshop and sees that Tails is missing*

Knuckles: "Tails! Where'd he go?!" / break / "Wait . . ."

*Knuckles sees a black feather laying against the foot of Tails' bed*

Knuckles: (That creepy raven . . .) / break / "Oh no! He must have taken Tails! I'll have to find him! I hope he's okay . . ." / break / "Maybe that stupid wolf has to do with this . . ."

/ Meanwhile . . . /

*Tails wakes up, and thinks he sees Knuckles*

Tails: "Knuckles . . ."

*it turns out it was Sonic standing over him*

Sonic: "No! It's your older brother! Not that creepy snort!"

Tails: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" / break / "Where am I? Where's Knuckles?"

Sonic: "Just forget about that knucklehead for once! You're supposed to be my sidekick! My brother! Not his! So I've taken you back now!"

Tails: "Maybe if you weren't insane and you weren't obsessed with lips and you weren't killing people, I WOULD still be your sidekick! But NO! I will NOT help you! I knew there was something wrong before! And who's Dr. Lee Thompson?!"

Sonic: "Oh, Tails . . . You will surely learn . . . Dr. Lee Thompson is just my assistant. He's out helping with the whole echidna problem at the moment. There's absolutely nothing you can do about it, Tails." / break / "And that's why I'm trying to kill Knuckles."

Tails: "No . . ."

Sonic: "I'll be back later, Miles . . ."

Tails: "Grrr . . . don't call me that!" / break / "There must be a way out! There must! . . . Oh, if only I were as strong as Knuckles!" / break / "Someone . . ."

*Tails bangs his fists against the wall*

Tails: "How could this happen? Did Paws lead me to this? Is Knuckles alright?!"

*a ripped piece of paper falls onto Tails' snout*

Tails: ". . . Huh?"

*Tails looks at the paper, which is a photo of Knuckles*

Tails: "Where did this picture come from?" / break / "That's weird . . . But at least now I have a picture of Knuckles with me . . . It must have been a picture Sonic had . . . and I guess banging on the wall made it fall from wherever it was . . ."

* / Chapter 2: "Someone Else You Know" / *

*Knuckles is packing a backpack*

Knuckles: (I guess I should pack this dumb book, some water, and well there's not really any food . . . I guess I'll have to starve . . .)

*Knuckles looks over at a dresser in the corner, opens the top drawer and takes out a photo of Tails*

Knuckles: (I should take this pictures of Tails too . . .)

*Knuckles leaves the house and begins walking out in the rain*

Knuckles: (Who knows if we'll ever return here . . .) / break / (I really hope Tails will be alright . . . I don't think Sonic would want to kill him . . . would he?) / break / (What about the other echidnas? How will they be saved? Maybe they can't . . .) / break / (I don't really-)

*Knuckles is suddenly hit in the back of the head by a rock*

Knuckles: "Ow! What the heck?!" / break / ". . . A rock?" / break / "Grrr . . ."

*Knuckles sees a tree, but no one is around*

Knuckles: (I should just get out of-)

*Knuckles trips down the hill*

Knuckles: "AH!" / break / "Ow!"

*Knuckles looks up, and a dhole, Duke, is standing in front of him*

Duke: "Hey knucklehead! This is from someone else you know!"

*Duke kicks Knuckles in the face*

Knuckles: "Ow!"

Duke: "It's Knuckles! Knuckles is here!"

Knuckles: ". . . What? Someone else I . . ."

*Knuckles suddenly has some sort of realization*

Knuckles: "What?! No it's just Sonic . . . But I don't . . . Sonic! But there's . . . No!"

*Knuckles is then hit in the face by a 2x4 and falls over again*

Knuckles: "Ow . . ."

*Duke is standing there with the 2x4, with other people standing behind him*

Knuckles: ". . . Oh . . ."

Duke: "You should know who else I'm talking about . . . heh heh heh . . ."

* / Chapter 3: KNAPSACK / *

*Tails is flipping through the stations of a TV*

*The first station is a news station saying that Knuckles is wanted dead or alive*

*The second station is an ad for grapes that are 50% off*

*The third station shows Dr. Lee Thompson screaming, "WANT PLUMP, LUSCIOUS LIPPIES?!"*

Tails: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

*Tails quickly turns off the TV*

Tails: "Gosh!" / break / "I don't feel so good . . . Could that have been . . .?"

*Tails looks over at the photo of Knuckles on the floor, and reaches for it*

Tails: "Huh?!" / break / (I'll quickly put this picture in my shoe . . .)

Sonic: "Miles Prower . . ."

Tails: "Oh my god! Stop calling me that stupid name!"

Sonic: "I'll call you whatever I want, Miles! At least until you learn to obey me!" / break / "Come with me. It is time to show you around a bit. Maybe we'll even get some training started today."

/ Meanwhile . . . /

Duke: "Dang it! How are we supposed to get him now?!" / break / "Oh well, at least we know where he is. We'll have to get a hold of Sonic somehow . . ."

*Knuckles is seen beaten up and hiding under a building*

Duke: "You can hide all you want, you stupid . . . spiky mole thing!" / break / "Well then . . . Can someone please try to get ahold of So-"

Mwah: "Spiky mole thing? Have you found an echidna?"

Duke: "Hey! Aren't you one of Sonic's workers? We've got Knuckles under this old building!"

Mwah: "Knuckles?! That's even better! I'll go get Sonic! Wait here!"

Knuckles: (Oh no . . . I should out get of here . . .)

*Knuckles begins to dig*

Knuckles: (I guess I'll dig have to out here of . . . I can't think even straight . . .)

/ Meanwhile . . . /

Sonic: "Welcome upstairs, Tails. Now to start you off, we'll-"

Mwah: "SONIC! SONIC! We've got him! Knuckles! He's under an old building! Come with me!"

Tails: "WHAT?!"

Sonic: "Really? Good! I hope you remember where he his! Where'd you even come from, anyway?"

Mwah: "Uh, through the window . . . I think I remember . . . let's hurry!"

*Sonic shoves Tails towards Moussy*

Moussy: "Huh?"

Tails: "Uh!"

Sonic: "Moussy! Watch Tails for me, okay?"

/ Back at the building . . . /

Duke: "Under here!"

Sonic: "Hey Knuckles! Knucklehead?" / break / "It doesn't even look like the idiot's in here!" / break / "Ugh! Stupid! How could he have disappeared? Hmmm . . ." / break / "Who's knapsack is that?"

Duke: "It's Knuckles' . . . he threw it at me before running under the building . . ."

Sonic: "Hmm . . . he has a book, water, um . . . some weird . . . I don't even know candy thing . . . and a highlighter with no cap . . ."

Duke: (What the heck?)

Sonic: "Everything has highlighter on it . . . and . . . what is this? Some paper-book-thing?" / break / "Well, oddly enough, there doesn't seem to be any dangerous good in there . . . unless he was planning on killing someone with a rotten candy and a highlighter . . ." / break / "Well, just watch out for him I guess . . . Come on Mwah, let's hurry back to the headquarters!"

* / Chapter 4: The Fire / *

Tails: "Ugh! Why do I have to babysit little kids now? I guess I should read them a story . . ."

Diaper snort mouse: "Grapies!"

Tails: "Grapes? I don't have any grapes . . . grapes are Knuckles' favourite food . . . Knuckles . . ."

*Tails grabs a book from the shelf*

Tails: "Here . . .*

*A comic books falls out by accident*

Tails: Whoops!"

*The comic book turns out to be a Sonic comic book, with Knuckles on the cover*

Tails: "Oh . . ." / break / "Knuckles . . ." / break / "Um . . . this 'In the Artic' thing should be okay . . ." / break / "'The artic is so cold! My . . . knuckles are freezing up . . . then when my friend threatened to give me a . . . knuckles sandwich, I wanted to scream . . . that's when my own . . . knuckles unfroze . . . so I gave him a . . . knuckle sandwich instead . . .'" / break / "Really?"

Sonic: "Tails! Why are you babysitting? That's supposed to be Amy Roses's job!"

Tails: "Sonic! Did you find Knuckles? Did you kill him?!"

Sonic: "No, unfortunately . . . But don't worry! He'll be dead in no time!"

/ Meanwhile . . . /

*Knuckles comes out of the ground and leans his head against a wall*

Knuckles: "My head . . ." / break / (I . . . just . . . want . . . to . . . fall . . . asleep . . ."

/ Later . . . /

*Tails is back in his cell*

Sonic: "I'm sorry we didn't get your training today, Tails."

*Sonic slams the door*

Tails: (I don't want to 'train'! I wonder what Knuckles was doing under a building anyway . . . I really hope he's okay . . .)

/ Outside the Lippies headquarters . . . /

* A coyote, Fangs, is walking while holding a walky-talky*

?: "Where are you right now, Fangs?"

Fangs: "Just walking around Sonic's HQ, over!"

?: "Do you see anyone around there? Sonic? Is Duke there?"

Fangs: "Not that I . . . awwwe!"

?: "What? What?!"

Fangs: "There is someone here after all! It's Knuckles! He's asleep here . . . he looks sad and very abused . . . over!"

?: "Good! Obviously Duke found him earlier! Now why won't you go kick him or something?"

Fangs: "I couldn't . . ."

?: "What?! Seriously, Fangs? Are you that useless?! Why not?"

Fangs: "You should see him! Plus, I don't really feel like getting beaten up right now, and . . . Wasn't I supposed to light the building on fire? Over!"

?: "Yeah, I guess. Just find a spot where you can light it from the inside . . ."

/ While later . . . /

*Knuckles wakes up to notice the building is on fire*

Knuckles: "What the heck?!" / break / "Great . . ." / break / "My eyes! Ugh they're all messed-up!" (Why is the building on fire any . . .) / break / "Tails!"

/ Meanwhile . . . /

Tails: "HELP! HEEELP!" / break / "Knuckles!"

*Knuckles gets to a door and runs inside, but ends up tripping*

Knuckles: "Ah!"

Tails: "HEEEELP! KNUCKLES!"

Knuckles: "Tails?!"

*Knuckles stands up and looks ahead*

Knuckles: "Don't worry, Tails! I'm coming!"

Tails: "HELP!"

*Knuckles begins running ahead, but a bunch of debris falls over and hits him*

Knuckles: "Ah!" / break / "Ow!"

*Knuckles falls over*

Knuckles: "Tails . . .?" / break / "Ugh . . ." / break / "Tails!"

*Knuckles looks over to see Tails walking away with Paws*

Knuckles: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"