Knuckles! Fist of Fury/The Adventures of Knuckles and Hawk

**Knuckles! Fist of Fury** (or, **The Adventures of Knuckles and Hawk**) is the seventeenth episode that happens in Sonic X: Heroes Forever.

## Characters:

* Knuckles the Echidna
* Rouge the Bat
* Tikal the Echidna (First appearance, voice only)
* Julie-Su (First appearance)
* Vector the Crocodile
* Espio the Chameleon
* Charmy Bee
* Saffron Bee
* Mighty the Armadillo
* Ray the Flying Squirrel
* Sonic the Hedgehog (Mentioned)
* Ruby the Bat (Mentioned)
* Locke the Echidna (First mention)
* E-02 Heavy the Robot
* E-03 Bomb
* Hawk (First appearance)
* Bruiser Boys (Only appearance)
	+ Li Yan (First appearance)
* Christopher Thorndyke (Mentioned)
* Doctor Eggman
* Decoe
* Bocoe
* Bokkun
* Scratch
* Grounder
* Arms (First appearance)
* Frankly
* Davy Sprocket (First appearance)
* Skweel (First appearance)
* Dynamight (First appearance)
* E-91 Lady Ninja (Only appearance)

## Plot

The episode starts with Knuckles retelling the story of his adventures that are seen in the episode which first took place a couple of weeks ago. He first discovers some ancient ruins and enters in to investigate until he hears a voice of someone begging for help. Knuckles smashes his way through the ruins and rescues a trapped human named Hawk and together, they both escaped from the ruins. Two days later, Knuckles has met a female echidna named Julie-Su and they start to wonder if Hawk had found what Knuckles was looking for or if he was pulling an Eggman on them. Julie-Su asks who that is, to which Knuckles clarifies it's Ivo Robotnik. Knuckles also explains he's been studying the language of China. Curious as ever, both echidnas decide to pay a visit to the former's new friend who lives in Oriental City. After seeing a doll that was trying to look like Sonic, they come into a bar, bringing a lot of attention by the customers in there.

Knuckles questions the bar-server for the whereabouts of Hawk but he replies that he knows nothing about it. Some men, known as the "Bruiser Boys", in the bar then attempt to fight Knuckles and Julie-Su before the latter gets her double-barreled pistol out and aims at them. Knuckles tells her to put it away before things turn ugly, to which she replies that with the way things were, it already was. It is then that Li Yan intervenes who says he will lead Knuckles and Julie-Su to Hawk and he's also aware of the Chaotix. At this point, Scratch and Grounder make themselves known and decide to report the news back to Eggman.

Meanwhile, Vector, Espio, Charmy, Saffron, Ray, Mighty, Heavy, and Bomb are all looking for Knuckles, but, they realize that talking to the humans isn't the best way to go about it. Charmy and Saffron spot Li Yan with Knuckles and Julie-Su, though neither recognize the pink echidna. Espio feels Li Yan looks suspicious and the Chaotix all decide to follow after the trio. Li Yan leads Knuckles and Julie-Su into a building and trick the echidnas by activating a trapdoor under their feet. As the two fall, Knuckles tells Julie-Su to grab onto him. When she doesn't comply, he puts her onto his back and braces himself against the wall. Julie-Su says she could have saved herself, but, Knuckles remarks he doesn't normally offer rescues. The two jump down into into Hawk's prison cell, much to his surprise. Knuckles tells him they just dropped in, leaving Julie-Su unamused.

At the Egg Fort, Scratch and Grounder explain what they had seen to Eggman and that they heard the Chaotix being mentioned. Eggman really doesn't want Knuckles to join forces with them as it would be Carnival Island 2.0. He tells Scratch and Grounder to send out Arms, Frankly, Davy Sprocket, Skweel, and Dynamight while he gets an E-Series robot ready to go.

Back at the cell, Hawk describes the stone that he saw and when Knuckles senses residual Chaos Energy on him, he realizes it was a Chaos Emerald that Hawk had discovered. Knuckles then started remembering his time back home, guarding the Master Emerald on Angel Island and how the Chaos Control happened and Julie-Su realizes that's why they weren't on Mobius anymore. Now understanding the deeper meaning behind the Chaos Emerald to Knuckles and Julie-Su, Hawk tells them he could have it and that he hid it before being taken to prison. Just before Hawk is about to say where he hid the emerald, Knuckles covers Hawk's mouth before he could finish his sentence, realizing that every sound they make is recorded since Knuckles is pointing to a microphone in the cell. The two quickly got into a casual conversation, with Hawk mainly discussing about the cuisine in his home country. Afterwards, Knuckles yelled at the microphone loudly causing Li Yan to pass out, while Julie-Su blasts the device. The Chaotix arrive mere seconds later and Mighty bends the bars as if they were rubber, allowing Knuckles, Julie-Su and Hawk to escape just as Li Yan comes to his senses. Running away from the prison, Knuckles, Julie-Su, and Hawk rode on a rickshaw to travel towards another section of Oriental City, while Mighty carries the rest of his friends.

Suddenly, the group get cornered by Arms grabbing them and Frankly, Davy Sprocket, Skweel, and Dynamight made themselves known. Before the Chaotix could do anything, Frankly blinds them with the Badnik Beamer. Mighty says he could easily crush them if he wasn't blinded and then Heavy jumps down and lands on Skweel with a Megaton Drop, punches out Davy Sprocket's chest, and throwing him at the remaining Badniks while also ripping out Davy's Dark Ring and breaking the Dark Ring itself. The Chaotix then start wondering where Hawk, Knuckles, and Julie-Su went, when Ray spots Rouge up above them and they start following. Unknown to them, Rouge is more focused on wondering how she can find the next Emerald so she could be a step closer to saving her mother.

Not realizing that Rouge is following them, the three travelers arrive at the old factory district of Oriental city and walked towards what seems to be an abandoned subway tunnel. While Rouge follows them, she suddenly gets struck by the rickshaw driver. Soon, Hawk is able to excavate the Chaos Emerald with his bare hands.However, Eggman intervenes and demands the Chaos Emerald. Julie-Su then proceeds to shoot at Eggman, but, it appears to be a hologram which fizzled quickly on contact. The next thing that happens is that Hawk begs for help when the rickshaw driver launches a chain at Hawk's hand. From the sound of Eggman's voice, the rickshaw driver reveals herself as Eggman's new robot: E-91 Lady Ninja. Knuckles engages a fight with Lady Ninja which causes the robot to drop the Emerald. Julie-Su takes over the battle while Knuckles goes to grab the Emerald. She manages to shoot Lady Ninja's weapon out of her hands and at this point, the Chaotix arrive. Espio manages to intercept at shuriken when Lady Ninja tried to throw it, and Knuckles tells Hawk to grab the Emerald. Unfortunately, the major battle cause the ground above to collapse into the subway tunnel. Thanks to Mighty's strength and quick thinking, Hawk, Julie-Su, and the Chaotix escape and knock Lady Ninja backwards. At this point, Rouge manages to wake up. Upon seeing the dust flying plus the Egg Fort, Rouge deduces that it's *definitely* her cue to get out of there.

Back at Hawk's home, Knuckles was so frustrated that he punches a punching bag which knocks into a wooden beam. Charmy manages to hold the beam up and it's at that moment that Knuckles discovers two metallic claws which are his trademark "Shovel Claws". He tells the group that the his father, Locke, passed them down to him on his previous birthday and they were forged on Mt. Mobius from the same martial as the Power Rings. Returning back to the collision site with his newly equipped Shovel Claws and telling Mighty to stand guard, Knuckles burrows through the rocks and not long, he retrieves the Chaos Emerald. He then comes back up to find Heavy and Bomb deactivated, Julie-Su and the organic Chaotix knocked out (Julie-Su barely regaining conscious by now), and Hawk missing. Bokkun flies by, sending a message from Dr. Eggman who demands the Chaos Emerald in exchange for Hawk. Bokkun tries out his new karate skills, but, he misses Knuckles completely and by this point, the other organic Chaotix are awake too. They leave Bokkun to his own devices.

Later that night, Knuckles and the Chaotix climb to the top of the building where Lady Ninja awaits him and Hawk is seen tied to the edge of a crane out in the open air. Knuckles throws the bag holding the Emerald into the air, but, then a card is tossed to knock it away from Lady Ninja's hands. Rouge is seen to have thrown the card. As Rouge and Lady Ninja pursue after the Emerald, Knuckles uses the fight as an opportunity to rescue Hawk. As Lady Ninja demands it, Rouge grabs a weapon and shoots the robot, but, Lady Ninja throws a shuriken which cuts open the bag, leaving it to drop. Mighty attempts to catch it, but, misses and Ray manages to grab him before he lands on the ground. Hawk grabs the Emerald and runs while the robot turns towards his direction and launches a chain towards him. Ray then sees a soccer ball in the middle of the street and kicks it at the robot. Mighty comments Ray could make a technique out of that, but, Knuckles says they can talk about it later. At this point, Rouge decides to leave, mentally hoping her mother would forgive her.

As Hawk continues to flee away from the scenery, he finds himself at a dead-end. Frozen with fear, the Emerald mysteriously disappears out of his hands and Lady Ninja steps out of the shadow, thanking him and proceeds to run until Heavy and Bomb stop the robot in her tracks. By using a Tether Ring, Heavy collides with Lady Ninja, making her shatter and drop the Emerald. Hawk then gives Heavy the Emerald and tells him to give it to Knuckles.

During the next day, Knuckles shakes hands with Hawk and he and Julie-Su proceed to leave Oriental City with the Chaos Emerald while Hawk tearfully bides farewell, the echidnas promise to return to the city someday. They see the plane the Chaotix had boarded. Unknown to the echidnas, the Chaotix all agree to be registered as citizens of Chris' country. Back on the boat, while holding onto his Chaos Emerald, Knuckles receives a vision of the Master Emerald's altar in Angel Island with a female voice saying "The servers are the seven Chaos..." Knuckles mutters to himself what the phrase means and he admits to Julie-Su that according to his dad, Chaos Visions are always cryptic. Both echidnas realize there's more Emeralds to find as the episode ends.

## Differences between this and the real episode:

* The man that leads Knuckles and Julie-Su to the bar mistakes Knuckles for Sonic and a hedgehog in the real episode. Here, Sonic is mentioned because Knuckles found a toy that was trying to imitate him.
* Unlike the real episode, Knuckles thinks that Hawk may be untrustworthy at first.
* In the real episode, it was Decoe and Bocoe that were trying to be waiters in the bar. Here, it's Scratch and Grounder.
* Eggman uses his selection machine in the real episode to find an E-Series robot straight away. He sends out Badniks as a diversion this time.
* In the real episode, Knuckles and Hawk escape because the former punched a hole in the wall. In this episode, it's because Mighty bent the bars.
* There wasn't a soccer ball in middle of the street in the real episode.
* In the real episode, Rouge compliments Lady Ninja's shot as the bag breaks open. Here, she's too angry to even try.
* Knuckles tries to punch the hologram of Eggman in the real episode. Here, Julie-Su tries to shoot him down.
* Rouge is more agitated and alert when she wakes up from being knocked out than she was in the original.
* Lady Ninja is defeated in the real episode, Lady Ninja was short circuiting because Hawk splashed water on her. Here, it's because Heavy and Bomb attacked.
* The Shovel Claws' origins weren't mentioned in the original episode, here, they're a family heirloom Knuckles got from his father Locke.