It... didn't hurt him. Why didn't it hurt him? Knuckles couldn't guess at anything, except... was it the musician's doing? The echidna was snapped out of his thoughts by the shock of electricity surging through him painfully and staggered in midair, but managed to shake it off - he could take a lot more than this.

Sonic had a ring? It figured. It almost made Knuckles with he had an Emerald with him, but for the fact that he preferred keeping them safe (at least, the Master Emerald). Knuckles could still, however, follow suit, curling into a ball and shooting towards the monster.