Knuckles was about to leave the factory for the day when he saw the hawk from earlier speaking to the female bat. He didn't know enough Portuguese to know what he was saying but he could tell he was making her feel uncomfortable. Knuckles wanted to just walk away, he didn't want to draw attention, but he then suddenly started walking towards them "Rumi. You want to have lunch with me?". The hawk glanced back at him irritated "Se perder equidna". Knuckles understood that well enough but chose to ignore it "Rumi?" ignoring the hawk. He turned back to Knuckles "Você tem um problema". Knuckles calmly shook his head "Sem problemas" "Muito tarde" the hawk pushed him. Knuckles stepped back and warningly raised his hand "Não me deixa com… fome". The hawk stared at him confused so Knuckles assumed he said it wrong "Você não gostaria de mim quando estou com… fome". Again, the hawk was confused, Knuckles cringed "That's not right, is it?". The Hawk got impatient and tried to punch Knuckles, but he moved out of the way. The human saw them "Ei, você quer começar algo. Leve para for a". Knuckles quickly walked away with Rumi.


Later that day Knuckles was speaking to a squirrel mail man, he was asking about if there was any mail for him. The mail man shook his head disappointing Knuckles. The squirrel laughed and took out a large package. Knuckles stared at the package like it was pure gold "Oh, yes" he hugged the squirrel before taking the package.


He ran into his flat and petted Chomps "You see that? See that? That's my ticket out of here". He took a bag out of the cupboard and took out computer equipment. He assembled a computer and immediately encrypted everything that was being sent out. He then typed a message to someone called Mr Blue "Mr Blue, are you there?". He waited and started to open the package as a message returned "Mr Red! Good hearing from you again, my mysterious friend" "I've finally found it" "At long last. It's a lovely little flower, isn't it?". Knuckles opened the package and found a white flower when Mr Blue sent another message "Be sure to try a high dose. Good luck :)". Knuckles spent some time trimming the flower petals into a bowl and crushed them into a powder. He eventually created a lightly purple liquid that he put in a small bottle. Knuckles made a small cut on his finger and dripped it onto a glass slide. He then mixed it with a few drops of his new solution. He placed it under a microscope and looked through it. His blood cells had a faint green aura in the centre of each one which slowly began to die. Knuckles was hopeful for a moment when the aura returned and began to grow. The blood on the slide began to smoke before all the cells died. Knuckles leaned back from the microscope and sighed "Damn it!". He went back to his computer "Another failure" ":( How much did you use". Knuckles looked over to the flower which now had no petals "All of it" "Then it's time to meet". Knuckles rubbed his head "Not safe" "Neither's your body generating chaos energy. Stop chasing flowers. Send me a blood sample. Can't help you if you don't let me". Knuckles thought for a moment and looked over to a newspaper cut that showed Julie-Su.


Knuckles was placing a test tube of blood into a led lined box before putting it into a package. He wrote on the box "Mr Blue. Station Square". After delivering the package Knuckles spent the rest of the day taking a very calming walk through the city.


In Central City inside Techno Base, the elderly echidna from before was at his desk working. On the desk was a name saying Luger. A green female Pronghorn wearing a black jacket, Clove came up to him "Here's something a bit more interesting. It's possible chaos sickness. A Japanese man drank a bottle of soda. Guess it had a little more kick than he was looking for". This got Luger's attention, chaos shards couldn't cause this kind of sickness "Where was it bottled?" "Emerald Town southern continent". Luger stood up and took a puff of his cigar "Have our people look for a red male echidna at the bottling plant. Tell them no contact! If he even thinks they're there, he's gone!".


Luger was waiting on a military airstrip with a gorilla "I got you who I could. Short notice, but they're all quality. And I pulled you one ace". In front of the two of them was a squad of young troops speaking to one another when a helicopter began to land. A red and black zeti with short black horns on his head walked out of the helicopter. The gorilla handed Luger a file "Zavok. On loan from the marines". Zavok was the same height and build as Luger. Luger nodded to the gorilla "I know you cashed in some chips for this, Joe" "Glad I could help. Just make it good". Luger boarded a large plane with all the troops. The plane took off and once in a stable flight Clove started handing out files to the troops who were all sitting down "This is the target and the location. Snatch and grab, live capture. You'll have your dart clips and suppression ordnance, but live fire is for backup only. We got locals out there, but we want it tight and quiet". Zavok opened the file and saw the picture of Knuckles "Is he a fighter?". Luger stood up and faced the group "Your target is a fugitive from the UF government who stole military secrets. He is also implicated in the deaths of two scientists, a military officer, a state trooper and possibly two hunters. So don't wait to see if he's a fighter! Tranq him and bring him back".


Knuckles was lying awake in his room when he heard his computer beep. He quickly went over to it and made sure the computer was encrypted before he saw a message from Mr Blue "Good news. Preliminary blood tests show significant chaos reduction". Knuckles stared at the screen for a moment before he realised, he should probably respond "Will it cure me?" "Yes. But… I need more data". Knuckles rolled his eyes "Oh, come on. Impossible. Data is not here" "Where is it?". Knuckles looked back to his picture of Su "Home" he quickly closed his computer after sending this.