"Well, did your dad ever tell you about Eggman? Knuckles and I were at his base; I was a fox then. Eggman said whoever won between me and Knuckles would live. Of course, the echidna won handily, because I was out after just a few punches... anyway, I remember being injected with something by Eggman before the world went black... and when I woke up, I had become a crocodile. My guess was that Eggman messed up the lethal injection somehow..."
A couple of tears ran down my face, but I shrugged them off. After all, crocodile tears are usually thought to be fake...