"Apple Kid, you're amazing." Knuckles said, clapping his friend on the shoulder, his glove coming away just a little less white than it had been beforehand.

He stepped onto the metal platform after X.

"And there's definitely a way to reverse the machine's effects - He said so after the last time he tried to robotisize a student. Only... heh. I kinda smashed the machine that time. Won't do that again."