Chapter Return: Zero to Hero

Knuckles and Darth Vader had defeated Arthur off-screen because that happens sometimes and that's really kinda lame. Knuckles and Vader took his two rings off of his fingers and placed one upon each of themselves.

"Hark!" cried Knuckles. He examined the wellness of his hand. "I cannot wear it on my fourth finger. I must circle it round my thumb!"

Vader thought this was pretty cool, so he too wore his ring on his thumb. Knuckles wore it on the left and Vader wore it on the right. "Now what do we do with our rings, Knuckles?" asked the Sith lord.

"We must find more rings, I guess," replied the echidna with redness on his hair and shoes. "It might help us save the Master Emerald!"

"What happened to the Master Emerald, Knuckles?"

"Roar! Espio dedicated his tie collection to it and it was hit with a queasiness spell." Knuckles had weeping tears and Vader pat him on the shoulder like a bro.

"Woof," said Pal like a stinkin' mutt.

"What say you, kiddo?" asked Knuckles with a wipe of the nose from teary anguish.

"Woof," said Pal.

Knuckles and Vader had a problem because they couldn't speak the dog language. This meant they had no clue as to what Pal had to proclaim.

Pal then walked over to Arthur's fallen evil and kicked it with mud and dirt. The contents mixed with Arthur and he dissolved into the earthen properties. It was like thousands of years of erosion in a matter of seconds.

"Blimey!" cried Knuckles upon seeing this. Vader was very surprised too.

"Woof," said Pal.

"Knuckles, I think Pal is trying to say that Arthur's whole life has been defeated by our heroic manliness," suggested Vader.

Knuckles smiled at the thought and gave his comrade a thumb-up, but then his ring fell off and landed in a hole. "OH-NO! Now we must dig underground tunnels in hopes of retrieving my royal icon!"

And so, Knuckles, Vader, and Pal got shovels and dug a deep hole to reach the centre of the planet.

New Continue?