Echo enters the chamber and Knuckles holds up his hammer "Angry girl". She grins and runs towards him. Knuckles tries to swing his hammer to hit her. She slides underneath and kicks him over. They both laugh "What's going on?" she then sees Razor walk out from behind a shelf. He awkwardly leans against it trying to look confident. Echo frowns and walks past him "You're so thick-headed that you can't tell when someone's hiding all the way across the universe and wants to be left alone" "We need to talk". Echo turns back to him "No, you wanna talk to me" she kept walking. Razor looks to Knuckles "I need her to stay". Knuckles breaks of part of the jaw making his bed. He threw it in the doorway "Stay. Please". Echo begrudgingly turns to face them "Alright". She goes over to the shelf and takes the biggest bottle "Here's the deal. I'll listen to you till this is empty". She starts drinking, "Lost Hex is in danger and people are dying. We need to get back there. I need your help and-". He stopped when he saw that the bottle was empty "Wow" "Finished. Bye" she drops the bottle, and it shatters on the ground. She headed for the doorway but "Striker is dead". She stops, "Blade, the Goddess of Death, has invaded Lost Hex" "If Blade's back then Lost Hex's already lost" "I'm going to stop her". Echo raised her eyebrows "Alone?" "Nope. I'm putting together a team. It's me, you and the big guy". Knuckles throws a ball at the wall "No team. Only me" "It's me and you" Razor corrects himself. She scoffs "I think it's only you" "Wait. Just listen. The Elite's are legends. Sworn to defend the throne" "I'm not getting dragged into another one of Striker's family squabbles".
Razor narrowed his eyes "What's that supposed to mean?" "Your sister. Her power comes from Lost Hex same as yours. When it grew beyond Striker's control, she massacred everyone in the palace and tried to seize the throne. When she tried to escape her banishment, he sent the Elite in to fight her back. I only survived because…". She stares blankly in front of her "Look, I already faced her once back when I believed in the throne, and it cost me everything. That's what's wrong with Lost Hex. The throne, the secrets, the whole golden sham". She tried to walk away but Razor grabbed her arm "I agree". She pulls a dagger "Don't get familiar" "I agree. That's why I turned down the throne. But this isn't about the crown. This is about the people. They're dying and they're your people, too". She pushed him back "Forget it. I have" "Okay. Great. Thank you" "For what?". Razor holds up the remote "For this. Didn't see that, did you?". He presses a button, and the disc falls off his neck "There… That's better. You know, go ahead. Stay here and enslave people for that lunatic. Keep drinking, keep hiding. But me". He holds up his hand and Knuckles passes him the ball "I choose to run toward my problems and not away from them". He throws the ball at the window "Because that's what-" it bounced back and hit him in the face knocking him over. He springs back up "Because that's what heroes do" acting like nothing happened. He runs and jumps out of the window. He slides down the sloping wall of the palace. Knuckles runs over to the window "No, stay!". Razor lands on the ground and runs through the junkyard towards the Tornado. He yanks open the top hatch and lands inside. He runs over to the cockpit and presses buttons on the control panel and then presses his hand on a palm scanner "Welcome. Voice activation required" "Razor" "Access denied".
Razor frowns "Uh… Razor, son of Striker" "Access denied" "God of Thunder" "Access denied". Razor tries to think "Strongest Chaotix" "Access denied" "Strongest Chaotix!" "Access denied". He sighs "Damn you, Sonic. Snacker". The Tornado powers up "Welcome, Snacker". Razor laughs but the back of the plane is suddenly torn off by Knuckles "Stay!" "No, no, no! Stop!". Knuckles enters and bashes his fist against the walls breaking more stuff "Stay!" "Stop! Stop breaking everything!" "Don't go". Razor hits different buttons on the console and a hologram of Rouge appeared "Hey, Red. We did it. The jobs finished". Knuckles stops and stares at the screen "Now I need you to turn this bird around, okay? We can't track you in stealth mode. So, help me out. I need you-". The message ends, Knuckles grunts and clutches his head. He starts to scream and collapses to the ground. His fur shines green for a moment. Razor walks over to him concerned "Knuckles. Hey, hey. You alright". Knuckles gasps and backs away from him. Razor holds out his hands "Sun's going down! Sun's going down! Breath". Knuckles holds his head "Oh, that hurt. I don't know what happened. I haven't changed since Metal".
He gasped "Metal, Oh, Gaia. What happened did you stop him?". Razor nodded "Yeah. He's gone". Knuckles sighed in relief "How's Rouge?" "Uh, Rouge is fine" "How far away are we from Mobius?". Razor didn't understand "Don't you know?" "I never thought of it". He got up and ran over to the console "Voice activation required" "Knuckles" "Welcome, strongest Chaotix". Razor came up behind him "Uh, what?" "Ship's log". A video plays showing Knuckles in the Tornado. He grabbed the controls and attempted to land. They heard an alarm and Naugus' voice "Suguna, hear ye. Attention please. I have some bad news". They look out and see a giant hologram of him "My beloved exalted champion has turned up missing. Take to the streets. Celebrate my champion. It seems that that criminally seductive Lord of Thunder has stolen him away". Knuckles looked insulted "Stolen away. I kicked your ass easily". Razor looked insulted but for different reasons "Seductive God of Thunder. We need to move". They headed out of the jet, Knuckles looked troubled "This is bad. This is really bad". Razor put his arm over his shoulder "Just stay calm. The sun's going down. The sun's getting real low".
Scourge and Echo entered the throne room where Naugus was waiting "I'm upset! I'm very upset. You know what I like about being upset? The blame. Right now, that's the mindset that I'm in". As he spoke Xenor stepped forward with the melt stick "And you know who I'm blaming?" "Naugus, I can-" "Hey! Don't interrupt me!", Scourge shut up. Xenor held up the melt stick surprising Naugus "Why are you handing me the melt stick? He was interrupting. That's not a capital violation. Where was I? My precious champion has come up missing and it's all because of that Lord of Thunder. Your brother. Whatever the story is. Adopted or complicated. I'm sure there's a big history". He then pointed at Echo "And your contender". Scourge raised his hand "My dear friend, if you were to give me 12 hours, I could bring them both back to you. Alive" "I could do it in two" Echo said. Scourge paused then "I could do it in one" "Let's stop there. You know what? I woke up this morning thinking about a public execution. But for now, I'll settle for this sweet little who's gonna get him first. So, you're on the clock".
The two walk together "What have you done?" "I don't answer to you, Scourgy". He grabbed her arm "It's Scourge. And you will answer to the Naugus". She pushed him back and he took out a dagger "Why would you help my brother escape with that red fool?" "I don't help anyone". The two fought and Scourge saw the tattoo on her wrist "You're one of the Elite". She kicks him back into a wall, but he surprisingly smiles "I thought the Elite had all died gruesome deaths". She put her knife to his throats "Choose your next words wisely" "I'm terribly sorry. Must be a very painful memory". He clamps his hand on her head and he sees a vision of Echo on a flying robot horse. She was leading an army of Elite to Blade. The vision then flashed forward and showed the ground covered in bodies. A cat pushes Echo out of the way and takes a knife through the chest. Scourge releases Echo who falls back. She quickly gets back up and punches him in the face.