[Aw man. She looked pretty sad - this robot must have meant a lot to her.

Knuckles never really much knew how to deal with sadness. It wasn't something he felt a lot and not being around other people for most of his life left him with the impression that sadness in general was just kind of Way Too Tricky.

Well, he'd fight it on his own terms.]

Hey. Don't give me that! Maybe he did leave. But we don't know that for sure, right? He might just be someplace waiting to be found. I'm good at finding things - I know I let you down with that flower you needed to find and I'm real sorry about that. But if this Robot guy can be found? I'll find him. I'm a Treasure Hunter, after all!

[Robots were not treasure. But the general principles of finding them had to be somewhat the same.]