[A frantic, hysterical Knuckles comes on. He seems to be part-lionfish now, but that isn’t entirely what’s upsetting him at the moment.]

Where are they????!

I’ve looked everywhere and they’re not here!

Did that queen or her guards do something to them?! Look at what she’s done to all of us! Sephiroth tried to warn us and we wouldn’t listen! Now he’s gone! Radley too!

[He looks ready to knock over the entire coral reef looking. If there’s a coral reef. He’s far too upset to think about the usual possibilities for disappearances like just being sent home, or those weird, mysterious temporary disappearances that no one understands or remembers. Not only is he upset that they’re missing, he feels partially responsible for having just gone along with everything like usual. Maybe they’d be here if he hadn’t ...]