As Sonic was being dragged into the lake he let go of one of his crutches. Espio immediately dived into the lake head first. Looking ahead in the lake, he saw Sonic trying to whack away at the tentacle with his remaining crutch but it had no effect. Whatever was pulling him had a very strong grip and was reeling him in by his wounded leg. Espio began swimming towards Sonic trying to grab onto him. Sonic was going deeper below the lake. Sonic looked up and saw Espio and began to flail around for him. Espio was getting closer, just a bit more and grabbed his hand. Espio then climbed towards the tentacle, crawling over Sonic, to his annoyance, grabs his Kunai and begins slashing at the tentacle. The tentacle looked like a sectioned pipe about as thick as Espio's leg, with a sharp tip with something resembling an eye on it. Espio continues slashing and stabbing, Sonic was able to free himself loose and tried to fight his way back up but he was sinking. Espio swims up, grabs Sonic with one arm around his waist and keeps kicking his way to the surface. They reach the surface only a few feet away from the water's edge. Sonic was gasping and breathing heavily. Espio just kept swimming towards the edge of the lake. He got there, got himself out the water and hauled Sonic back to land.
"Seems to me I wasn't the only one looking for you," Espio said while dragging Sonic away from the lake. Sonic coughs a bit and says mockingly "Seems to me you weren't the only one who found me." Espio sits up Sonic against a large rock. "Who would be going through all this trouble to look for you?" Sonic quipped in "Another concerned friend?" Espio just stares at Sonic. "Sonic what are you hiding?" Sonic caught off guard "Whaddya mean?" Espio looks Sonic dead in the eye "You've been very quiet ever since this incident occurred and that's unlike you to do that, it's like you're avoiding being asked about it. Why is that?" Sonic started getting up, "Do we have to do this right now? I think I saw my life flash before my eyes a few seconds ago!" "Then that really should've jogged up your memory." Sonic was getting a little frustrated, then gasped "Watch out!" Espio turned around with kunai in hand just in time to see the tentacle whip around his body and toss him aside. Sonic yelled "Geez can we catch a break?!" And four more robot tentacles erupted from the water and came whipping their way toward Sonic. "Well… I guess nAAAAGh!" Sonic was lifted into the air by his uninjured leg and slammed against the ground. Sonic tried as best as he could to whack the arm with his crutch but it didn't help him. He was dragged off the ground again only to get slammed down once again. He looked around hoping to see if Espio was there but out of the corner of his eye he saw the kunai. Sonic reached for it and grabbed it right before he was taken into the air again. He readied the kunai and tried to take a stab at the tentacle but his arm was caught by another tentacle, followed by another then he ended up with one wrapped around each limb and one around his neck. His body was then jerked heading towards the lake. Miraculously the tentacles were severed and he dropped to the ground. Sonic rushed to get the tentacle snippets off of him "One close call after another HOLY SH-!" Another tentacle comes out the water slashing through the air. Sonic was able to leap and roll out the way before it smacks into the ground. More came and one wrapped itself around a rock. A massive green bubble began to emerge and head towards the shore. As it got closer it was revealed to be a head, about 30 feet tall, with large black spherical eyes on its sides and a metallic beak underneath. It let out a metallic screech.
Sonic, kunai still in hand, readied himself for the next few tentacles from the Klanken. Sonic still couldn't stand up right, but he remained on his one leg staring intensely at this monstrosity. The Klanken started to whip its tentacles at Sonic but he jumped over one, and back flipped to dodge the other one but he fell on his back upon landing "Well at least I have one good leg to work with." The Klanken wasn't done it kept trying to grab Sonic with its metal arms but he was still quite nimble and able to jump, hop and roll out the way. "Ok I'm finding my groove again yea!" Sonic tried to do another back flip and landed on his broken leg which caused him to yelp as he grasped onto it. This allowed the robot to grab him by his hand. He was jerked towards the Klanken and dragged across the grass, but again the tentacle was sliced then Sonic felt as if he was being pulled away. Sonic struggled to get free "What is going on?!" Creepy enough, a voice was heard "Keep calm Sonic" Sonic piped up "Espio?!" "I'm trying to stay hidden I'm going to need for you to just keep getting as far away as possible you understand me?" Sonic a little confused replied "Uh… yea." He was then dropped to fend for himself.
The Klanken lashed its arms out wildly to get to Sonic once more but Sonic was just out of reach. Sonic got up and began to just hop away he could hop high but not too far. The Klanken wrapped its arms around a rock and began to pull its body out the water until it was fully out. At that moment a kunai was staked through its arm so that his tentacle was stuck. It pulls on it frantically but to no avail another one of the arms gets staked as well. Then Espio appears and dashes toward the Klanken with a katana drawn. The Klanken struggled to free itself it winced a little. Espio jumped and twisted in the air, Katana in hand and splits the robots head in half spurting out black ink everywhere. The robot let out a screech and Espio continued his onslaught. He jumps over the robot throwing shuriken inside the robots head and lands directly in front of the Klanken's face. It Snaps its robotic beak at Espio but was a few feet short of missing the target. Espio waits a few seconds in front of it then the shuriken explodes sending ink flying all over splattering over Sonic's face. The Klanken screeches out again, and it starts getting choppy then becomes silent, and motionless.
Sonic who watched the whole thing from a little way didn't say anything he just waited then started clapping with a smile on his face. Espio walked over towards Sonic slicing the air with his Katana to clean off his blade Espio then said "Luckily for us that thing wasn't made to travel on land." Espio was covered in ink as well. "Sonic don't think for a second that we're not done here I still want answers but for now," Espio tries to shake off some of the ink, but doesn't really get any off him. "Let's get back home, I have an assignment to complete." Sonic then laughs and says "Yea I think we also need a rinse." Espio helps up Sonic and they begin to walk towards the nearest town.