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The treasure in the sea of clouds
Chapter I Rouge is bored
Two months after the Emerl incident.
Rouge was sitting at G.U.N. headquarters in her personal office by the look on her face you could say that she was very bored after the incident with the gizoid nothing interesting seemed to happen, of course the information that she got from the master computer allowed her to collect many rare jewels all around the world but after getting all of them she had nothing else to do, not even missions or attacks of the good doctor seemed to happen, it was as if everyone was busy with something except her. Sonic was doing his heroic deeds running around always supported by the two tailed fox and chased by the pink hedgehog with the young rabbit. Knucklehead was as always up there in Angel island with her emerald, it was always funny to visit him, he was very easy to tease but unfortunately it seems that he didn't considered her a big treat to the emerald anymore so he stopped chasing her around whenever she flew up there, making her visits to Angel island less and less thrilling each time and Shadow one of the few people in this world she will consider friend or as he would say "ally" was busy in what she called "I am searching the reason to live" mode and finally Omega... well he was just being omega.
"God, if nothing happens I am going to go insane!" Rouge whispered to herself tired of playing minesweeper for the thousand time.
"Well... if you only sit and play that stupid game all day of course nothing is going to happen" A voice spoke behind her startling the poor hunter.
Rouge quickly turned around only to meet the always serious face of her sometimes partner "Shadow! Next time knock before you enter into my office, you almost gave me a hearth attack!"
"I did, but you were so busy trying to beat that stupid game that you didn't pay attention when I knocked your door for almost ten minutes" Shadow responded very irritated.
Shadow the hedgehog, Rouge best friend was a dark hedgehog that she met during an adventure regarding an intergalactic gun in space that could destroy the earth in the space colony code named ARK, still remembering the difficulty of the mission that for better or worse changed her life because from that point forward, it was like her destiny was always intertwined with what she like to call "The Sonic heroes" especially Shadow...Shadow,His live was definitely something else, created as a weapon by Eggman grandfather, Shadow saw his best human friend die in a cruel manner, after that he followed a path of revenge to destroy all humans with a space gun but in the end after remembering something from his past, he decided to save the world instead at the prize of his own life, time later in another adventure Rouge found out that Shadow somehow managed to survive, literally returning from the dead with no memory of nothing, not even her... after that and many other crazy adventures that includes aliens and ancient weapons Shadow became very close to her. Shadow most clear defect in Rouge opinion is that he still lives by the code that he is the "Ultimate live form" and he is far superior to everyone.
"He, he sorry about that Shadow, I was so bored that I think my mind started to wander around by itself, but tell me what brings you here?" Rouge eyes started to shine when she said the last part because she knew that Shadow only visited her when he needed something important and usually it was something like to obtain an ancient artifact or the chaos emeralds to stop the resurrection of a god or something like that, but whatever the reason she was more than happy to help this time...for a small price of course, she was bored but that doesn't mean she was stupid.
Shadow sighed judging by the bat expression he knew she was going to be disappointed "To tell you the truth I was just checking on you"
Rouge ears fell when she heard that "Oh... well that is nice" Rouge then turned around to star playing her thousand and one minesweeper game.
Shadow eyebrow started to twitch "Will you turn that stupid computer off! If you are so bored, why don´t you do something productive like collecting the chaos emeralds"
Rouge didn't even move "I already collected them three times ,in fact no one seemed to care when I collected them not even you Shadow when I took yours"
Shadow quickly started looking for his emerald but when he didn't find it he just extended his hand "Give it back NOW"
Rouge opened her desk drawer tossing an emerald to Shadow "Take it, consider it your birthday and Christmas present"
Shadow took the emerald glaring at the bat who just ignored him and judging by his face of vaguely controlled fury you could tell that he was already starting to regret this visit "Well how about you go steal something like the world biggest diamond or something like that"
Rouge opened her drawer and gave shadow a paper that was from one month ago "Read it"
Shadow took the paper and started reading the front page "The Biggest Diamond of the world stolen... what!? You mean that you...How?" Shadow was out of words he always taught her ally was good at stealing but to steal something that even he would have some troubles was impressive.
Rouge yawned reclining in her chair"Yes, I stole it and if you keep reading you will find out that most of the rarest jewels in the world are missing ,How you ask? Well, Thanks to the information I got from G.U.N. main computer when the Emerl incident happened I had downloaded the security systems of all the museums around the world, after studding them it was like going shopping to the mall"
Still a little shocked Shadow regained his composure "You know that if they catch you will be send directly to jail and they will probably throw away the key,right?"
Rouge just smiled good old Shadow, he was sometimes too singled minded "Of course not, even if they catch me they know and fear that I will tell all about their little secrets" Rouge said the last words very slowly.
Shadow raised an eyebrow "What do you mean?"
Rouge just smiled returning to her game "Let's just say that the president did something when he was young that included some goats and a lot of beer... and as a personal favour NEVER approach G.U.N. commander dressed as a clown you will regret it, trust me on that one"
Shadow just looked if the bat was serious or not, realizing that he really didn't wanted to know he changed the subject "Well how about your club? Why don't you made that the best club in this part of town or better yet the best club in the country"
Rouge continued her game "I sold it, once everyone learned that I lived there every time something happened someone always busted through the doors and started screaming something like 'Come out bat girl I know you have it!' or 'Give me back the master emerald!' or 'Sonic! I know you are in there!' or "MARIA!!!!" (Evil glare to Shadow) let just say that is not good for business"
Shadow sweat dropped "I was drunk okay, How I was supposed to know that Sonic would had the balls to actually challenge me into a drinking contest that night."
Before he could continue Rouge waved her hand she didn't wanted to listen to that story again "Yeah yeah, I heard that a thousand times already but that was just one of the reason that really made up my mind to sold the club"
Shadow shook his head Rouge was impossible when she was like this "Well I give up! You really don't have anything to do anymore"
Rouge finally lost cursing aloud "Damn mine! I swear this game is rigged" Turning off the computer the bat turned around to face Shadow "Anyway, you are right maybe I should go look for a rare jewel or something like that"
Shadow thought about it for a second "Well I don't know about no jewels but I think I once heard about an ancient treasure located in a place called the sea of clouds"
Rouge perked up a little after hearing this "The treasure in the sea of clouds, my that sounds so romantic! Come on tell me more about this treasure"
Shadow looked away sightly nervous "Well the true is that I forgot about it"
Rouge raised an eyebrow after hearing this "You forgot about it? How can you forget ....aw never mind I had forgotten that you have the memory span of a newborn child"
Shadow just growled her ally was really asking for it "Whatever, but I think I told the story about that treasure to Omega the night before we fought against the metal overlord"
Standing up faster than Sonic the hunter took hold of Shadow's arm "What are we waiting for! let's go look for him right now"
But before Rouge could react Shadow released his arm from her grip "Sorry, but I already have something to do, you are on your own on this one" After saying this Shadow lifted his emerald to the air "Chaos control!" and in a blinding flash the black hedgehog was gone.
"Shadow, wait! Damn he's gone, typical he always leaves me with more question than answers but on the bright side not all is lost, I´d better hurry and find Omega" With that in mind the bat went to search for his mechanical friend.
Omega, Rouge second best friend, was a robot built by doctor Eggman an odd E-series robot that decided to betray his creator to prove that he wasn't worthless, Omega joined her and Shadow for the first time when they fought against Metal Sonic and even thought Shadow and Omega almost killed each other the first time they saw each other, Shadow and Omega now consider each other good friends and partners . Nowadays Omega usually patrol the city in search of Eggman robots to destroy.
Rouge finally found Omega standing in the city square "Hey Omega!"
Omega turned around raising his claw like hand his red eyes seemed to shine and he started to talk "Yo! what's up my bat friend?"
Rouge blinked "Huh?"
Omega red eyes shined again then he bowed to the bat looking like a perfect gentlemen "How are you my fair lady? How can I be of service?"
Staring at Omega the bat carefully approached him "Hey Omega are you okay?"
Crossing his arm Omega eyes shined again "I downloaded an E-mail and a virus has corrupted my systems, now I can't seem to control my personality data base when I speak" Omega responded finally talking like he always does.
"An E-mail with a virus? Who was the person who sent it?" Rouge asked if it was an Eggman virus she could easily erase it.
Omegas eyes shined "I don't know mommy but I am scared!" Omega finished resembling a little girl.
Rouge groaned "If you don't know who sent it then it will be very difficult for me to fix you,(sigh) nobody ever told you to never open an e-mail if you don't know who the sender is"
Omegas eyes shined again "Ah screw this! Let's kill everyone until I get better Bwa ha ha ha!!" Omega raised his arm making it a machine gun "Beware the day of purification has come!" but before the robot could perform his "purification" Rouge kicked him in the head making him fell into the ground.
"Cut that out! I'm not in the mood" Rouge then started to think how to solve the problem at hand.
"But I want to be repaired now!" Omega started to whine in the ground while Rouge kicked him one more time.
"Damn I need some kind of genius to fix this, someone who knows a lot about robots and stuff like that" Rouge thought about it for a second, she knew someone like that and his name was at the tip of her tongue.
Omega stood up grumbling "Ouch my butt! Be more careful next time woman!"
Still lost in thought those words hit the huntress "butt?, tail?, yes Tails! The fox should be able to fix you!" Rouge exclaimed happy to remember the cute fox.
"That two tailed freak? Are you sure about that" Omega asked with a cigar on one of his arm.
Taking the cigar out of Omega's hand and tossing it away Rouge took hold of his hand "Yeah, I'm sure let's go"
Omegas eyes shined "Wow! this is like so cool, I hope that cute fox fixes me fast"
Rouge eyebrow started to twitch "Omega?"
"Yes, girlfriend?" Omega answered with a very girlie voice.
"Shut up or I'll kill you okay?" Rouge said while she was starting to crush Omega's hand with her own
Omega only nodded the look on the bat face told him that she was more than willing to honor her words.
That's it for chapter 1 hope you liked it!