"Stop before I kiss you." (does he mean it? maaaaybe? maybe not! sonic'll never tell. aka: sonic is being playful to knuckles~)
The simple matter of fact is - he can't not afford to give him shit. Whenever that smug bastard runs his mouth (and inevitably himself) into a ditch in the name of showing off to a not so easily impressed emerald guardian, the mix of initial bewilderment and secondhand embarrassment eventually concedes to smirks and justified snark. Maybe even a thumped forehead to send a vine tangled hedgehog into a lazy pendulum swing.
"Told you so." He tuts, the conclusion of 'just stay on the ramp, Sonic' having ended as he fully expected it to...a spectacle he'd eventually cut the hedgehog out of. Doesn't mean he can't gloat over him a bit first for it.
Having pushed through the tangle of dense thicket to make it to where the blue blunder hung like some tree's puppet, he takes a moment to assess the accidental pinata for any noteworthy injuries before unintentionally timing a short, barking laugh with a goading swat to send Sonic into another round of swinging in place. "Or is this part of the 'showing me' something?" Because it's something all right. Some might call it 'embarrassing'. For folks capable of shame, anyways.
With a toothy smirk, he stops the next swing by clasping the corser of vines caging a portion of peach fur, allowing the speedster's sense of vertigo to settle before pulling him in close enough for a more personalized public shaming when...he has to go and ruin his vindication with... that.
Brow furrowing over a squint that very much roughly translated to 'are you fucking serious right now-', he waits a total of two seconds of heat flushing across his face before just letting go, the angle of having drawn him in more than enough to get him swinging around again.
"J-just get yourself loose already!"

















