Rouge the Bat stood on the front porch of Sonic the Hedgehog's house. She reached out a gloved hand and rang the door bell, crossed her arms and looked to the sky while she waited for somebody to answer the door. It was a clear day, around four o' clock in the afternoon. The sky was a brilliant hue of orange and pink. Her attention was drawn back to the door as it opened slowly to reveal a small fox.
"Hey, Sugar." Rouge said in a flirtatious voice as Tails looked up at her.
"Oh, um...Hi, Rouge." Tails tried to make small talk, although he wasn't very good at it. He was at the age where he had no idea how to act around women, except for Amy, as he saw her as a big sister of sorts. Rouge knew this, and decided to have a little fun.
"Well, aren't you going to invite me in?" Rouge asked with a smile.
"Oh! Um, of course! Would you like to come in, Rouge?" Tails blushed. Rouge giggled and strutted inside Sonic's house as Tails closed the door behind him.
"Can I get you something to drink?" Tails asked, trying to be a good host.
"How about a sex on the beach?" Rouge said as she walked over to a mirror that was hanging on the wall.
"Umm..." Tails was feeling awkward. He never felt particularly comfortable around Rouge. He never really spent much time alone with her. The last time he could remember, they had met in Central City. He expected her to be mean to him, but to his suprise she helped him get inside a government building.
"How do my girls look?" Rouge asked Tails as she adjusted her clothing while looking in the mirror.
"Uh...Uhh...I...Er..." Tails stammered.
"Where's blue boy, anyway?" Rouge asked turning to Tails who sat down on the couch. He was releived by this question and smiled.
"He's outside, mowing the lawn. He hates it. He has to walk slowly, otherwise the blade won't connect with the grass." Tails pointed out the back window.
"How much longer do you think he'll be?" Rouge asked.
"He'll probably be in soon. He's been out there awhile." Tails informed the bat as she sat down next to him.
"Well, that's okay. We can talk until he's in." Rouge winked at the small fox. "Have you been seeing that cute little Cream girl?"
"Um...Yeah...I went to dinner with Cream awhile ago..." Tails answered, embarressed by his poor social skills.
"Oh yeah? What did you do?" Rouge was determined not to let this conversation die.
"We...ate...and talked...lots of talking." Tails answered.
"What did you talk about?" Rouge scooted closer to Tails.
"Oh, you know...Chao, Ice Cream, Flying..." Tails wanted out. He was saved from the conversation when Sonic entered the house.
"Hey, Tails! Can you take the lawn mower into the garage and..." Sonc was cut off.
"SureSonicrightaway!" Tails bolted up from the couch and ran out the door, slamming the door behind him. Rouge giggled and stood up.
"Hey, Rouge." Sonic said in a calm voice. Sonic smelled of grass and was dripping with sweat.
"Did anybody tell you that you look really sexy when you're all sweaty like that?" Rouge liked teasing Sonic too, as she was older than him, but she kept it to a minimum, as she didn't dislike Sonic and didn't want to send him faulse signals. Although, she had to admit, he wasn't bad looking.
"I know." Sonic said. "What brings you here, anyway?" Sonic sat down on a chair, motioning for Rouge to sit down on the couch as she was when he entered.
"It's about Shadow." Rouge stated.
"Does the faker want a race?" Sonic asked in a cocky voice.
"He dissappeared." She informed the hedgehog as he wiped sweat from his spines with a nearby towel.
"What?" Sonic was confused.
"Let me back up." Rouge corrected her posture and began to tell her tale. "I was in my club last night, admiring my jewels. I have a chaos emerald, the diamond one, to be exact, because diamond are a girls best friend, you know. Anyway, it was acting strange. It was moving, and kept floating in a small circle above the case I keep it in. I was curious about what was going on, so I called Shadow. He is very in tune with the emerald's and their properties, so I figured he could help. Long, story short, he came over, and said he felt another energy interacting with the emerald. He described it as tugging one minute and pulling away the next. Then he told me he was going to try and control this other force he felt, to see if it was from a chaos emerald or not. There was a flash, and then he was gone. Vanished into thin air!" Rouge stood up in her excitement, then sat back down and folder her hands in her lap.
"Wow! That's so weird!" Sonic admitted. "Why don't we head over to Tails' lab and see if we can get a reading from the other emeralds? If we can, I bet we can track him down, or use another emerald to pull him to us." Sonic stood up.
"Wow! I wasn't expecting results so quickly!" Rouge also stood and fallowed Sonic as he walked into the garage where Tails was putting gasoline into the lawn mower.
"Hey, Tails! You think you can get a quick emerald reading down at your lab?" Sonic asked the fox.
"Yeah, sure! Why?" Tails asked.
"We'll explain on the way. Let's go!" Sonic pressed a button on the wall, and the garage door opened. Sonic took off to the mystic ruins at top speed, Rouge and Tails flew behind him.
Note: Please review! I have big plans for this story. This chapter was a bit off topic, as I wanted to do a story where Rouge flirted with Tails, so I inserted it here. This story is mainly about Shadow's dissappearance, with a huge plot twist later. And Shadow fans, don't worry, Shadow will be in this story soon.