Us Against The World
Note from Rirureddo
"This is my first attempt at doing a collaboration story and I can honestly say I'm really happy to have my first one be with one of my best friends Bloodrayne666. This means a lot to me and is, in a sense, a story that represents the friendship and bond the two of us have made. Bloodrayne666, thank you for being a really amazing friend and to everyone else, I hope you enjoy this story. I know I sure will because it's a story made by me and someone who I am very happy to be able to call my friend."
Note from Bloodrayne666
"I am really excited to be doing a collaboration story with one of my best friends on Fanfiction, Rirureddo, he and I have had a lot of ideas together and have helped each other in writing our fanfics when the block hits. This is the first collaboration story I'm doing with Rirureddo and I'm really excited to see how this goes. Rirureddo, thanks for being such a help and support and a great friend and to everyone else, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as me and my best friend have enjoyed writing it!
Chapter One
A Stormy Morning
It's a stormy morning in Night Babylon and Rouge The Bat's eyes softly flutter open to the sounds of the rain hitting hard up against her window.
"Geez..." she mutter as she rubbed her eyes and turned her head to look at the storm going on outside. "What a horrible morning..."
A few moments later, a lightning bolt streaked across the sky outside and the flash it emitted filled up her room.
"Gosh, it really is horrible..." she said as she lay her head back on her pillow, letting out a deep sigh.
'This is just great...' she thought exasperatedly to herself before turning her head to look at the clock on her nightstand. "Oh well. Might as well get up now. My alarm was gonna go off in ten minutes anyways."
After sitting up and getting out of bed, Rouge stretched her body out before starting to discard her nightgown and make her way over to her bathroom to get showered.
Meanwhile, downstairs in the living room of Rouge's suite, Shadow The Hedgehog was sitting on one of the couches while E-123 Omega stood in a corner of the room in standby mode.
The hedgehog had been awake for a while and had decided to watch the rain come down to pass the time.
'Hmm, quite unexpected,' he thought to himself as he watched the storm. He was so into his thought that he didn't hear Rouge when she came down the steps.
After finishing her shower, Rouge decided to slip into one of her purple jumpsuits. She brushed her hair and applied some make-up before walking downstairs and seeing Shadow awake in the living room.
"Oh, morning Shadow," she said, walking over to him. "You been up long?"
Hearing Rouge's voice, Shadow turned his head to her.
"Hmm, morning to you too. Hope you had a great sleep Rouge." He turned back around and leaned more into the couch. "And no, I haven't been up all that long. About half an hour or so."
"Ah, ok," she answered. "Yeah, I slept allright." She turned her attention over to the window as Shadow was. "Horrible weather, huh?"
Shadow looked over as well. "Yeah. The news said yesterday that we had a high percent chance of rain today. Even so, I didn't expect it to be this severe. It's really coming down out there."
"Yeah. Horrible, huh?"
Shadow stood up and made his way over to the window to get a better look. "And from the looks of it, it shows no signs of letting up any time soon."
Rouge sighed and sat down on the couch. "Oh well. Shit happens, huh?"
Shadow nodded his head before looking at the stand-by Omega. "At least one of us isn't bothered by the weather."
"Yeah, at least," Rouge agreed as she looked at the robot as well.
"In any case," Shadow began as he leaned against the wall next to the window and crossed his arms. "Since we're both awake, what to do now? The plan for this morning was for Omega and I to go with you on another one of your shopping sprees. But with the weather being as it is, that's obviously out of the question."
Rouge looked over at the hedgehog with a confused look.
"Why would I want to go on a shopping spree?" she asked.
Shadow grinned a bit as he remembered he and she shared a few drinks last night.
"Already forgotten, huh? You came across some jewellery and clothes in those catalogues and magazines you were looking through yesterday and decided to had to have virtually every one you deemed suit your style. And to save you the hassle of having to do most of the labour work by carrying all that you bought, you pretty much signed both Omega and I up to come with you."
Rouge ran a hand through her hair, trying to remember her saying that but she got nothing.
"Must have been drunk, a spoilt little girl like me already has enough junk in her Aladdin's Cave, and anyway, weather like this has put me off."
"You never did take too kindly to the rain," Shadow said. "Some other time perhaps."
"Yeah sure, maybe," said the bat as she let out another sigh.
Shadow felt her frustration as well, but just didn't show it as much as she was.
"This is quite the start to our vacation. It's only been a day and this comes down on us."
"Yeah, pretty boring," said Rouge before she placed her legs up on the couch and thought about the shopping spree she, Shadow, and Omega had planned.
It soon made her think of something else.
"Now that you mention it..." she began. "All the stuff I got, I might spend this morning looking through it all. There's some clothes I don't wear anymore. Might as well give them to charity."
As she stood up and began to headed for the stairs, Shadow raised an eyebrow as he wasn't sure he heard her correctly.
"So unlike you," he said as he watched her. "You usually want to hold onto everything you have."
Going up the stairs, Rouge grinned a bit, knowing deep down that was true.
"Yeah, but again, if I'm not gonna wear it, there's no point in keeping it, is there?"
"Very good point," said Shadow after he thought it over. "And it's going to a good cause. So it's a win-win for all involved."
"Uh huh!" Rouge's voice called out as she reached the top of the stairs.
"You need any help picking out what you no longer need?" Shadow called out to her.
"Only if you wish to Shad! I'm not gonna burden you!"
Shadow stood up straight off the wall.
"With the storm going on, there's nothing better to do so why not?" He walked over to the stairs and followed her up them.
Rouge smiled as she saw him coming up the stairs.
"Thanks Shad. Come on then." She made her way down the hallway and into her room
Shadow's eye flinched a bit at the nickname Rouge had come up with for him. She only recently began calling him by that and he was still getting used to it.
Soon, he shrugged it off and followed Rouge into her room.
Not even a second after entered, he saw her with her wardrobe open and was already going to work through it.
"Not wasting any time, I see," he said as he sat on the edge of her bed.
"I never realized just how much shit I got in here..." Rouge said to herself before beginning to take out and separate some of her clothes.
"Ok, um...this can go, and this one, and that one..."
Shadow turned his attention to the pile of clothes building up, taking notice of a few of them.
"There's some in there I never even knew you had." A few seconds later, he looked at them again. "I take that back - there's a lot I didn't know you had."
Rouge couldn't help but laugh a bit. "It's okay." Going back to her clothes, she started muttering to herself about which ones to give away.
"Okay, this can go...That can go..." She came to a stop on a few of her tops. "This can stay...so can this..."
"Some are a bit harder to let go of, isn't it?" Shadow chuckled.
"Yeah, a little," Rouge responded as she continued to separate her clothes.
Soon, she had a pile of all the clothes she intended to give away.
"Is that everything?" Shadow asked.
Rouge nodded.
"I think so." She closed her wardrobe and looked at the clothes she had piled up. "I'll put all those in bags and take them to charity later."
"Sounds good," said Shadow before he thought about the empty space in her closet and smirked. "Why do I get the feeling it's only a matter of time before your closet gets that filled up again?"
Rouge turned to Shadow, returned his smirk, and gave him an innocent shrug before kneeling down to sort out the clothes she picked out.
Shadow grinned again but before he could say anything, he heard loud footsteps making their way upstairs.
"It appears Omega's finally decided to come out of stand-by mode," said the hedgehog.
"I wonder what he wants," Rouge said as she stood up.
Shadow looked and saw Omega walking down the hallway towards her room. "It looks like we're about to find out."
Soon, Omega stood right in Rouge's doorway and turned its head to Shadow. "Shadow," it said in its usual monotone voice before looking over to the bat. "Rouge.
"Good morning Omega," Rouge said with a smile as she greeted her friend. "What is it?"
"Received message from GUN HQ," the robot replied.
That caught Shadow's attention and a serious look appeared on his face. "Message? What kind of message?"
"Yes. What kind of message?" Rouge repeated, the same look coming to her face as well.
"Report to GUN HQ at twelve noon for emergency meeting," said Omega.
Shadow's eyes narrow slightly. "A meeting, huh?"
"Thank you Omega," Rouge said before folding her arms just underneath her chest. "Hmm, I wonder what this meeting is all about."
Shadow was thinking the same thing.
"Maybe a routine meeting just to check on the welfare and well-being of the agents. Or may be something else entirely. Whatever the case, we'll find out when we get there."
Rouge thought about it some more before agreeing with Shadow.
"Yeah, okay." With that being said, she went back to sorting her clothes.
Standing up, Shadow stretched out his body a bit before noticing that Omega was looking at the clothes Rouge was going through.
"Rouge is donating those to charity," he said to the robot. "Just in case you're curious."
Omega turned its head to Rouge and made a motion with its head as if it was cocking it to the side.
"Very out of character."
"That's what I said," Shadow smirked.
Like she did with Shadow earlier, Rouge gave him and Omega another innocent shrug.
"A girl just wants to get rid of a few things, that's all!"
"And it's going to a good cause, so that's something too," Shadow added.
Omega then moved it's head up and down in a nodding motion, agreeing with them.
Shadow looked over at the window, seeing the rain still coming down like no tomorrow.
"Well Rouge, before we go and drop those clothes off and see what's up with the meeting GUN's called, how does breakfast sound?"
Rouge smiled over at him. She was feeling a bit hungry and wasn't going to turn down food.
"That sounds great Shadow. Thank you."
Shadow nodded to her before turning to Omega.
"Omega, care to give me hand?"
"Affirmative," the robot replied.
"Alright, let's go," said Shadow as he left Rouge's room with Omega following him. "And this time, don't accidentally burn anything. We both remember what happened last time. No need for a repeat of it."
"Affirmative..." Omega repeated, only this time in a bit more of a lower tone as it indeed remembered what Shadow was referring to.
Rouge chuckled and shook her head at her friends as she watched them leave.
"If those two know what's good for them, they'd better not try and burn down my kitchen again!" She went back to sorting her clothes as her mind trailed to what the meeting GUN summoned them for could be about.
'Hmm, like Shadow said, I suppose we'll find out what's up all in due time.'
And that's our first chapter! Hope you enjoyed it! Stay tuned for more coming soon!
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