A/N: Hey, everybody! This is my first fic so please don't flame me or my story. Also, please review and tell me if you like my story or make suggestions. I hope you all like my story. Disclaimer: I don't own anyone except for my character Orange so don't sue me!
Chapter 1: Orange the Echidna
Angel Island- 8:00a.m.
Knuckles the Echidna is at the shrine of the Master Emerald. He is laying down next to the M.E. with his hands under his head and staring up in the sky. "Is this going to be the rest of my life?" he thought to himself. "I mean, I know that it's my destiny to guard the M.E., but is that all there is to my life." He then closed his eyes.
" What are you doing? Sleeping on the job?" Knuckles lazily opened his eyes and looked up. Standing right above him was Tikal. The light brown echidna had her hands on her hips and had a kind of annoyed look on her face. Knuckles quickly sat up and looked at her also with a somewhat annoyed look on his face. "What do you want? You're only supposed to travel through time to see me when I need your help or there's some kind of problem. Well, I guess since you're here you can watch the M.E. for me while I take a short break." " But, Knuckles! I thought I felt a disturbance here, but everything seems fine." " Maybe you were just imagining things." he smirked. " Wait!" she yelled. " I'm going to stay nearby for a while just to make sure everything is all right. Please, at least take a walkie talkie with you and stay nearby just in case." Knuckles nodded and took the walkie talkie from her hand.
Knuckles walked down a path into a wooded area. Before entering the woods, he noticed that Sonic and Tails were stretched out in the grass sleeping. He decided to leave them alone and continued his way into the woods. He walked along a path until he reached a small meadow. When he came closer, he noticed a figure laying in the grass. He could not make it out at first, but upon further examination he realized it was a girl. She looked to be about 18 years of age. She was an orange echidna with black bangs hanging down in front of her eyes. Her eyes were emerald green and she wore a blue dress and a pair of black boots. She was laying in the field relaxing and staring into the sky. Knuckles was watching her from behind a tree and thinking to himself. " Who's that? How did she find this island? It just doesn't make any sense at all." Just then his walkie talkie crackled a little bit. The girl sat up and caught sight of Knuckles who quickly ducked back behind a tree. " Oh my. I didn't know I was being watched. I'm sorry. Did I trespass?" Knuckles came out from behind the tree and said in a calm voice, " Not…exactly…" Orange stared at him and then blushed as she said, " Oh my! I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Orange!" Knuckles then replied, " Hi, I'm Knuckles-" He was quickly cut off, " Oh wow! Are you the guardian of the M.E.!" Knuckles stared blankly for a second then said, " Yes, but how did you know about the M.E. and this place?" She answered him, " Oh, I guess Tails hasn't told you about me yet. I'm staying with him for a while. I was on the run from some evil men. I'm the guardian of one of the Time Crystals. There are five and if they were all combined and fell into the wrong hands the world could be destroyed. My mother was the guardian before me but her and my father were killed. She gave it to me and my brother got me to safety. However, recently, we have found posters with my picture on them. He told me that for my safety I should run as far away from there as I could. That's when Tails offered me some shelter here. Please let me stay! Just for a short amount of time. I'll leave as soon as the situation back in the city dies down a bit." Knuckles stared with his mouth open a bit, " Of course you can stay. Stay as long as you need." Then he laughed a bit, " Besides, we can't have the world destroyed." Orange then laughed also, " That's right! That wouldn't very good!"
Just then , Knuckles' walkie talkie crackled again and he could hear Tikal's voice coming through, " KNUCKLES! Help! Eggman's attacking! I summoned Chaos but he's having trouble holding him off! Eggman has two chaos emeralds powering his machine! He's trying to take the last five emeralds! Come quickly!" Just then he heard Eggman's voice, " There is not hope for you now, girl!" Then it went dead. " Damn! I lost the connection!" Knuckle's yelled. " Listen…um…Orange! I have to go help my friend, Tikal!" " Please take me with you! I think I can help!" Knuckles stopped and stared at her for a moment, " You can only come if you stay out of my way and far from danger!" She nodded, " Right!" They then ran off in the direction of the M.E.
Author: Okay, that's chapter one for you all. I hope you enjoyed.
Sonic: Hey! We were barely in that chapter!
Tails: Yeah! We didn't even get one line!
Author: Oh, well! You guys don't show up until chapter two.
Sonic : Why does Knux get to in this more than us!
Author: In case you haven't noticed, this story is about Knux and Orange!
Tails: You always get this way when you write about them…sigh
Author: Yeah…I know…you guys are annoying me now so just shut up…--; Okay now I'll introduce the next chapter- Chapter 2: TIME WARP! Remember to please review and I'll have the next chapter up as soon as I can! Cya! falls over on Knux and cuddles him.
