[Sonic's already gone by the time she arrives, the dirt and grass he'd kicked up settling back to the ground as he reaches his new perch atop the loop de loop. She could have still hit him if she'd really wanted to, the fact that she wasn't displaying her usual level of murderous rage doesn't go unnoticed.]

Well, I like to think I'm not so bad, but it's really all a matter of perspective, isn't it? You know what they say, 'everyone's the hero of their own story'. Call me arrogant, but I admit, I never really expected to become the villain of someone else's. But here we are, huh?

[He's her bad guy. That doesn't feel great! He fully expects all this to just piss her off more, if only because everything he says seems to just piss her off, but this is probably the most willing to talk that he's ever gotten her.]

I wanna make things right with you, Surge. I really do, but I'm not just gonna let you kill me. If all you really want to do is to keep trying that though, then so be it, but what if you succeeded? Would you really be satisfied?