[Knuckles comes to, trapped inside his box. The room he is inside is shrouded in darkness, only faintly illuminated by his box's walls. He can barely notice the faint silhouette of elk antlers.]
Where have you taken me? A dungeon? A torture chamber? A pit so deep that no one will ever hear my screams? [Mason presses a remote, revealing Knuckles is actually inside a fancy, cozy foyer.] Oh. That's quite nice, actually.
MasonDamn right. Always pictured myself living in a place like this one day. Now I don't know how to ski, but with a house like this, you bet I could learn.
[in his police cruiser outside the resort, to himself] All you have to do is sneak into the bad guys' lair, try not to get yourself killed by their superpowered weapons, and then save your cool new best friend. What could possibly go wrong? [takes a glance at Mason's stolen gauntlets] Come on, Wade. What would Knuckles do? [cut to Knuckles sitting inside the box, lost in thought] He'd come up with an awesome rescue plan.
Ah... I am visualizing my inevitable escape and your brutal destruction at my hands. [laughs maniacally] Yes! Your arms have just snapped off with the most satisfying crunch.
Mason
Well, it's a good thing you're trapped inside that case then, buddy.
[enters the foyer] Stop talking to him!
Mason
He was talkin' to me.
Mason
Fine with me. I'm gonna go relax. Job's done, and we about to get paid! [claps and leaves]
[Wade pulls up to the front door of the resort in his police cruiser and exits the car.]
All right. Geared up. Here we go. [places down his gear: the oil can, the wire, the hairspray, the floss, and the lighter, before donning Mason's gauntlets] Hang tight, Knucks. I'm comin' to get ya. All I need is the perfect rescue soundtrack. [gets his Spotify rescue playlist cued up on his phone] Let's do this, Spotify! Time to rock out! [attempts to hit the play button multiple times, but the gauntlets are too thick to register on his phone] That's not gonna... [tries again to hit play with his nose, but when he finally does, his playlist only plays the extremely ill-fitting "I Don't Want to Wait" by Paula Cole] Oh, no, not that song! Oh, forget it. Warrior mode activated. [slams his gauntlets together, accidentally releasing a burst of Chaos energy. It is so strong that it knocks him back, spills the contents of the oil can right on the fireworks inside the cruiser, knocks his sunglasses off his head as they crack to the ground, and causes the hairspray to blast the fire from the lighter right on his cruiser, igniting the fireworks as they go off.] The fireworks were supposed to be the grand finale!
[Willoughby and Mason are playing chess against each other when they hear the fireworks erupting outside.]
Mason
What the hell?
Mason
Sounds like someone just set off...
[The two agents leave the foyer, leaving Knuckles all alone and confused on what is going on. Willoughby and Mason head out onto the balcony and see Wade's fireworks still exploding.]
Is that the round little man again?
[The remaining fireworks finish exploding with Wade's cruiser relatively intact.]
Oh. At least she's still drivable.
[But Wade has spoken too soon because the cruiser erupts in flames.]
[looks up] That's right! I'm here for the echidna! [hears beeping from the left gauntlet gauntlets] What's that beeping? That can't be good. Wonder what that-- [presses a button and accidentally activates the right gauntlet's rocket boosters before being sent flying] Oh, no! [jerks to his right] Yah! Ay-ay-ay! [flies upwards] Oh, no! [floats downwards] Oh, my God! [jerks to his left] Wee-hee-hee-hee! [tries to regain control as the agents stare dumbfounded] I will be right with you guys! [accidentally flies straight in their direction] Oh, God! [crashes through the windows and hits the ground]
Mason
You guard the echidna. I'm gonna go and handle this. [leaves to fight Wade]
[Willoughby follows suit.]
[The two agents come out from the destroyed resort, where Wade's cruiser is still on fire.]
[grunts in frustration] We are SO SCREWED!!
Mason
Yeah, I'm pissed, too. But what are we gonna do? I guess the deal's off.
No. No, you don't understand. The deal's not off. There's no backing out... with him. We've been selling weapons to one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in the world, run by an absolute sociopath! Now, we're screwing him over on a deal! [mockingly] "We don't just get to take our ball and go home". We show up empty-handed, he's gonna straight-up kill us! Most likely in a pretty horrible way.
Mason
Well, that doesn't sound great.
No! Not great! Not great at all. We need to get them, fast, before he gets us.
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