The Sniper Splashed through the lukewarm water that went to his waist. It was a dark green in color and vines dangled from trees overhead slapping him in the face causing him to push them out of his way with one hand and the other to keep his already damp fedora hat from falling into the water. The sun seeped through the leaves, branches and vines just to irritate Fang even more.
He had been hired by Dr. Robonik to get another Chaos emerald before his X 'cohort' Rouge to get the Chaos Emerald first.
The two had known each other for some time and didn't value each other as Friends, or Enemies. They had both agreed the feeling was mutual. One minute they would joke with each other like a pair of Friends, the Next they would be at each others throats like sworn Enemies. Fang's ears perked up to a strange sound that sounded like something slicing through air above head, mixed with the sound of flapping. He knew it all too well.
'Rouge...' He thought to himself.
After a few moments of rushing away from the sound of air being sliced through a clearing in the swamp appeared where there were no trees or vines, just the sun that beat down on the water there making it a little hotter then Lukewarm. The Hybrid took this as an opportunity and splashed his tail into the water disturbing the peaceful current less water into chaos. Propelling himself up he landed on a solid tree branch in the nick of time. After a second of gracelessly landing he started running atop the branches. As if on Que Rouge flew next to the Hybrid.
" It's been awhile, Nackie boy." She stated flying closer to him.
" Don't call me that." His crimson eyes glowered from under his Fedora hat that he still had to keep in place with one hand.
" What would you want to be called then? Nackie Man?"
The Bounty hunter sighed doing his best to ignore her. They spent the majority of their time just running, or Flying in Rouge's case. Soon they found themselves at a edge of trees and below them the water that they came from was blocked off by a massive brown bolder that was soaked making it appear darker then a dry rock would. In front of the bolder was a giant round lake like territory with some land on the sides of the circle. North of the duo was a equally huge waterfall that caused all the water that fell from it to be a foam like white.
" Do you think the Chaos Emerald is in there?" Rouge asked staring at the water concerned.
" If I knew I certainly wouldn't tell you."
Rouge rolled her eyes, he already knew where it was so she would just have to follow him and steal it from him in the nick of time. That was her plan B. Carefully she plopped down on a tree branch, dangling her legs off the side with her hands clasped behind her head. The Sniper gave her a few cautious looks before deciding to speak to her.
" Aren't you coming?"
"Me?," She crossed her legs causally," I Don't know where it is."
" Then how the hell did you get this far?"
Rouge bit her lip, the only reason she did get this far was she was following him," Well," Her teeth sunk into her lip further," There was a news report."
" There couldn't of been, " his solemn eyes met hers," Only my client knew where it was, he hid it from all."
" At G.U.N." She added.
The Sniper Smirked seeing where this was going," You work for G.U.N. ?"
"Yes..." Her eyes never left his hand that rested on his holster.
" Then where's your badge?"
She sighed, she was slightly grateful that she brought it with her," Fine look at it all you want, but you're not going to keep me from that Chaos Emerald."
Reaching into the depths of her shirt she pulled out a small black rectangle made out of fabric that had another see through side with a white card that had codes written for a computer. At the top was a picture of Rouge, and under it was her thumb prints, then an golden oval with three small triangles at the top, and a point at the bottom with G.U.N. on it. Tossing it gently to Fang he jumped up to catch it with his gloved hand. Taking a few moments to look it over to see if it was fake he shrugged and did something unexpected. He rubbed the small card against the side of his face smiling like a pervert.
" Pervert..." Rouge sighed again, she wondered why G.U.N. Wanted him so bad, she had only seen him act like a pervert, flirt, get drunk, and look for Chaos Emeralds only to get them taken away soon. Rouge had originally been asked to bring him back to G.U.N. for questioning, and 'help' they had hinted at. But she got sidetracked about the 'Chaos Emerald' he kept grumbling about he had to find. Naturally Rouge followed.
Soon she gave up on the idea of getting the badge back anytime soon so she flew off her perch and stood next to Fang," C'mon, let's go."
" Fine." He said in a suddenly cheerful voice and handed her the badge.
Grumbling incoherent words she walked over to the ledge of the boulder and flew over to the left side of the circle. Coming after her was the same purple Sniper. Using his tail to jump over to the ledge he narrowly made it and regained his balance after a couple seconds of ungracefully Teetering on the edge. Rouge walked with her nose in the air in front of Fang, she didn't care about the pebbles crunching under her heels or the defiant 'CRUNCH' it made. On the other hand the Sniper walked on his tip twos and winced at ever little 'CRUNCH'.
" Why are you so paranoid?" Rouge asked without a hint of emotion in her voice or turning her head.
" Because at any moment there will be booby traps."
" You just like saying that word, don't you?"
Grinning he didn't reply.
Leaving the conversation behind Rouge attempted to be serious on the topic,"The lethal ones?"
" Who knows, I was only told 'Be carful for there be traps, they should be no problem if you heed the 'stones''"
"You mean these pebbles?" Kicking the pebbles to make her point Fang winced even more.
"How am I supposed to know?"
Crossing her arms over her chest she sighed," Do you have any idea where around here the Chaos Emerald is?"
" Behind the waterfall." He replied knowing her answer
" I'm NOT getting wet."
" Suit yourself." He said tip toeing past her and briefly pausing at the towering waterfall above him.
The water splashed at his face before he even went inside it. All he could see were rushing waters that was foamy white and looked like it was coming down hard. Fang couldn't hear Rouge's complaints over the roaring of the rapids. Sometimes he could see rainbow trout coming down from the waterfall and other fish. The sky made the water that wasn't white a pretty untainted blue. Making sure his hat stayed in place again he ran through the water getting soaking wet from head to toe. Rouge left alone desperately needing to ask him to come to G.U.N. and with ever ounce of her being wanting the Chaos Emerald, rushed after him with her wings covering her face so her make up wouldn't get messed up.
Appearing on the other side of the water fall to find Fang ringing his hat out, Rouge decided notify him of her without directly speaking to him," Now my wings are wet...I can't fly..."
Fang turning his head to her didn't reply. The water dripped off her clothing weighing it down, including her pink heart 'shirt'. It also made it a slightly darker color. Fangs eyes clung to her shirt like the water clung to her skin. Rouge wasn't surprised about this reaction instead she ignored it. The floor was like a smoothed out grey rock that was slick and moist, the walls were made out of the same thing. Above head was a icicle like stone that felt like it could plummet towards them any second. Ahead of the duo was a wall with two small holes that looked like they went somewhere only a Mobian could get to but only on knees and elbows.
"Now I know why he wanted me to get the Chaos Emerald, he couldn't get his fat ass through the hole." His voiced seemed to carry through the cave creating voices that repeated his sentence in a smaller voice.
Rouge shrugged," Which smaller cave do we go in?"
"The one on the Right is the on Ivo told me will crumble, so Left."
Nodding Rouge kneeled down on elbows and knees them crawled into the small cave. Snickering Fang muttered 'She fell for it now I get to be behind her' Crawling after her he took off his hat and lightly bit down on it to keep it in his mouth. He tried not to think of where it could've been...or the last time it's been washed...Shaking those thoughts off he crawled on and after a few minutes they came to an opening to get out. Rouge stood up and stretched, soon Fang got out too and he put his hat back on its rightful place then tugged it over his eyes.
" It was so cramped and cold in there." Rouge whined rubbing her arm to generate heat.
"I've been through worst ." He boasted.
Rouge's eyes grew big at their surroundings, instead of the normal grey smoothed rock, the walls were made of moist dirt with tiny gems in them ranging from, Blue, Green, Yellow, Red, Purple, Pink, and Orange. The gems seemed to shine with whatever color they were. Before Fang could blink twice Rouge ran across the room to get to a wall and dug her fingers into the dirt ripping out gems.
" Stop it!" Scolded Fang trying to grab Rouge and make her stop stealing the gems.
"Why?" She asked ripping a Red gem out and rubbing the dirt off before elbowing him to buy some time.
"'Heed The Stones' Sounds like he meant These gems."
" Your point?"
" Something MIGHT happen."
"Like?" As if on que the ceiling started to crumble shedding its dirt onto both of them.
"Like That!" He shouted hitting the gems out of her arms
"HEY!" Growling she carefully picked them back up.
"Leave them." Demanded Fang with a scowl on his Face.
"Hmph That's not likely."
The Dirt piled up on them and the floor rumbled, Fang winced," Get Back in the hole, the ceiling there is made up of Rock." He commanded crawling over there."
"But there's more gems-"
"NO." He grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her into the hole, they barely had time to get all the way into the hole before the ceiling completely fell down onto the ground covering up the gems, and the way out that was in front of them. The ceiling in there was rock but the walls were like dirt that was moist, not completely mud but almost. The bat shivered.
"I'm cold now..."
The Sniper Smiled," Here." He scooted over to her and let his tail rap around her waist creating a line of warmth where the tail was.
" How long will it take before we find the Chaos Emerald and get out of here?"
" We have to make sure the dirt settles then we will proceed."
"Wait, there's dirt in front of us making it impossible..."
"That won't be a problem." Reaching into his holster he pulled out a small shovel.
"You thought of everything." She smiled
"Not everything, the one thing I DID forget was condoms..."
Sighing she flicked him and took the shovel out of his hands," I hope you don't Think you would actually need Those?"
" If you're willing to take care of a chil-"
" I'll never do that with you," Tucking the gems away in her 'shirt' and shoes she began digging,"So you might as well forget it."
"But Maybe-"
"-in your Dreams."
His grip tightened around her waist and he rapped his arms around her neck," Aw..."
Laughing she continued digging," It's going to take more then that."
"Is it because of that one Idiot?"
"Which one?" She joked pushing a pile of dirt aside.
"Both I guess the Emo, and the gullible one."
" Why would Shadow be the Idiot? He happens to be Very Smart."
" Well he doesn't know you like him at all."
"Shut up." She lightly hit his arm with the shovel.
" And I don't know where to begin with Knuckles, I mean C'mon you'd think he'd understand by now..."
"And you're any better then them?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"'Let's get in bed' is all I can really understand that you want. Not only that your how much older then me?"
"Hey! I'm only four and a half years older!" He defended.
" Lets see... if you were two years older you would legally be a pedophile to me."
"The Pedo law only applies to people under eighteen. Last I checked you were at least eighteen."
"...Since when did you know about the 'laws'?"
" I USED to be a GUN agent but I quit."
"Why?"
"Eh heh...long story."
" It's not like I'm going anywhere soon."
"Fine."
Nack had joined G.U.N. when he was sixteen, normally you had to be at least eighteen but he had known his weapons so well he had been allowed to join early. Everyday the Weasel-wolf had gone up to the leader and asked if he had a mission, only to come back empty handed. The reason that they had told him was because he was 'too young and too short too ignorant' the list went on. Slowly he made his way to the G.U.N. official.
" Can I go on a mission now?" He asked standing on his tip toes to seem taller.
" No not today maybe tomorrow."
"That's what you said yesterday, and the day before that, Why did you let me become a part of G.U.N. if I wasn't going to do anything?"
" Err you knew your weapons pretty well...but...well...ok Today your first mission is to supervise the solders and give advice."
"Really?" He asked exited.
" Eh heh yeah..."
Running out of the room into the weapons vault, he smiled. The weapons vault had walls with weapons on every inch of them with whatever you could imagine. The floor was tile and had a few wooden crates with extra weapons packed in them to the brim. Smack in the middle of the room was a couch. Pulling himself onto the couch he curled up in a tight ball with his tail rapped around himself like a cats would. This was where the solders marched through preparing for battle. He would fall asleep and wake up to marching then he would do as told.
Marching footsteps brutally awoke the weasel-wolf and he jerked up on the couch looking around he saw a tall blonde officer reaching for a flimsy gun that Nack had tried but it had nearly exploded in his face. Racing over to the man the small mobian tugged at his leg.
" That Doesn't work! You'll get yourself killed for sure!"
The man ignored him and took out the bullets for that one then loaded it. The weasel-wolf hadn't given up yet he dragged a wooden crate over and pushed it in front of said person, climbing on top it he stood on his tip toes and he was the same height as the solder.
" I wouldn't use that if I were you."
The solder seemed to find this humorous and burst into laughter and held his side," A purple weasel telling ME what weapon to use?" Lifting one hand he grabbed Nack's cheek and stretched it out like an older grandma would do," Get A life!"
" I Have A life, but you sir don't you don't know your weapons at all, look you no bullets for half of your other weapons, what will happen when you run out, hmm?"
"Who are you to tell me what to do, you midget?"
" I got permission from the general."
"Liar."
He had enough, storming out of the room he had trapped that solders room to kill him when he got back, if he did get back from using that gun. Later he ran from G.U.N. and didn't return then one by one he attacked them in there sleep until they were low on solders. The entire place had been amazed at his skill at murdering when he wanted to. They even feared him to a certain extent They had put up wanted posters all over and wouldn't rest until they had him on their side once again.
"Damn." Commented Rouge shoveling the last pile of dirt out of her way.
Shrugging it off a stream of sunlight filled the small tunnel and automatically Rouge crawled out as soon as Fang released her from his death grip. She was stretching on a mound of dirt that they had to dig there way throw. Fang popped up suddenly and climbed out.
" So Nackie where's the Emerald."
"According to my client it should be above head."
Looking up they noticed it no longer had a ceiling," Wow, my wings are still wet so I can't fly..."
"No worries." He pointed up to small steps that looked like they helped them reach the top.
Smiling she started to climb the stairs that were on the side of the wall, it was tricky but with that kind of cement it was easy to hold on. Within a couple minutes They had both reached the top. Standing happily they looked at the now night time sky with the moon providing pale light. Over a little to the left was a green Chaos Emerald.
"Mine!" Rouge screamed running over to it and picking it up before Flying off into the star filled night.
Fang didn't even attempt to follow he knew that they would cross paths sooner or later and he would get it. He watched her fly gracefully through the sky giggling a laugh that seemed to innocent for her. It wasn't like her but when he was around she acted different, either that or she was acting different around every one else but normal around him. Her wings sliced through air and she looked back and waved at Fang smiling. Returning the favor he sat on the roof like place dangling his feet off of the edge. The company he had today had been good enough for him, He even felt like they were acting like friends now.
The End
A/N
whew the longest one shot I have written I'm proud about the way it turned out but tell me if you see any errors or if this possibly needs to be M. I'm lazy with the disclaimer so I only own the place and plot...Another note don't flame if you don't like FangxRouge I don't have anything against ShadowxRouge, or KnucklesxRouge and to prove it if you want me to do a one-shot on one of them then ask and I will :D