Tails winced at the blow.
Espio smirked and kept meditating.

Knuckles casually dusted off his gloves. "You had it coming." He remarked pointedly.
Sonic picked himself up. "You're boring. Can't even have a bit of fun." He shot back once he recovered.
"You're annoying." Knuckles countered.
"Better annoying then a downright pessimist."
"I'm not a pessimist."
"Yeah, sure you aren't."
At this point, they had raised their voices and were so close their noses were almost touching.

Pearl was holding back laughter


(Meanwhile i'm not....)

The rest of Sonic and Knuckles' 'civilized discussion' mostly consisted of traded insults, defensive statements, and a bit of yelling.

Rookiehad decided to sit down, tail flicking boredly. There was no way this could lead to a sensible conclusion.

Espio sat down to meditiate.
"Enough please." Tails said trying to seperate them.

The two glanced down at Tails, shot a glare at eachother as if to say 'We'll settle this later', then backed off.

"Thank you."

Sonic ruffled Tails' head fur. "Aw, it's nothin',"

Espio opened his eyes, "Can we get going?"

(Gtg)

"Yes." Knuckles growled, walking off.