Knux is SEGA's and Pheebs is Craig and Nickelodeon's.
Knuckles and Phoebe: What Did You Say?
"Um Knuckles...are you honestly sure about this?"
The crimson echidna glanced back at the meek, blue-clad Japanese-American girl that was standing by the tree, her hands clasped in front of her timidly. Right now, the two unlikely companions were on top of a high hill overlooking a vacant construction site.
Knuckles shook his dreadlocked head, scoffing lightly. "Look, nobody said you have to join in, right?"
Phoebe put a hand to her chin. "Well no..."
'Exactly...That's why she's better off going home now... It's way too dangerous out here.'
"Besides, you've already helped enough with finding a piece of the Master Emerald. There's no need for you to get in the way down there."
And with those words spoken, Knuckles proceeded to walk down the peak. If that echidna had looked back, though, he would have seen Phoebe crossing her arms and developing a rather peeved expression.
"Pardon me?"
Her miffed tone halted the Mobian in his tracks, causing him to look back once more, only this time to fix the girl with a confused expression.
"Huh...?"
"Well...?"
'What's up with her?'
Though bafflement caused him to speak slowly initially, Knuckles effectively regained himself, shaking off Phoebe's distempered expression dismissively.
He had no time and was in no mood to get into an argument...especially with a girl.
"Well, you can't fight as well as I can...or anyone else for that matter. Pretty much all you'd be doing is slowing me down."
That same nettled expression never left Phoebe's face. "I see."
Before the Emerald' guardian even had a chance to blink, Phoebe pushed him aside as she stomped her way down the hill, the petite preteen grumbling indignantly along the way.
"Wait a second! Where are you going?"
No reply emanated from the school brains of P.S. 118. She was too irked by the echidna's masculine insensitivity to really give a hoot...
'Hmph! Slowing you down my grade-point average!'
...thus leaving a thoroughly perplexed Knuckles to scratch his head.
'What did I say?'
Knux...you've really never heard of tact, have you?