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You're So Beautiful
Chapter 2: Station Square
It was almost dawn in Station Square and Sonic was standing by a park bench waiting for Knuckles to arrive.
He started pacing back and forth, pondering his thoughts. "Jesus Christ, I still don't know why Knuckles would do something like that." Sonic glanced back at the clock tower, it was 6:30.
"He's not gunna show, he's scared…" Sonic said aggravated. Just then, Sonic looked down to see a crack in the ground becoming several more cracks.
"Oh crap!" Sonic shouted as he quickly jumped away from the shattering ground, a red echidna bursting through and landing next to him.
"So you wanted to talk, Sonic." The echidna said with out looking at him. A stern look was frozen on his face. Sonic just stared at him with hatred. Knuckles stared back and for a while, there was no talking.
"I can't believe you did that to her…" Sonic spoke up from the silence. Knuckles just chuckled.
"What's so funny? Huh?!"
"Oh nothing Sonic, just how naïve you are." Knuckles slyly replied. Sonic clenched his fist, digging his nails through his gloves and into his skin.
"Why'd you do that to her?" Sonic asked with even more anger in his voice.
"Look, Sonic… As your friend I strongly suggest you let her rot in a gutter somewhere." Knuckles spoke with the most certainty he had ever had. Sonic was in shock and awe, was one of his best friends really saying this? Of course he was, there was one denying it. With that Sonic stood up clutching his fist, Knuckles easily noticed this and turned to face the blue hero.
Laughing to him self, Knuckles said, "Oh don't tell me she got you too. That easily, Sonic The Hedgehog has been fool." That was followed by about two laughs before the crimson sidekick was sent flying by a well deserved punch to the face. As Knuckles hit the ground, it left a pretty nice dent in the street.
"Heh heh, two can play at that game Sonic!" Knuckles shouted charging at the hero. When his giant fist was thrown at Sonics face it past right though it as he was flung into the air by a sweeping kick and then smashed into the ground by an axe kick against his stomach.
"You won't beat me Knuckles…" Sonic stated coldly, not evening looking down at his 'friend,' this was one of his mistakes. Not realizing that Knuckles used his current position to go under ground. Reaching from underneath the street, he pulled Sonic into his little tunnel. From here, Knuckles landed a few blows before having the tables turned on him getting nailed with a few kicks from Sonic. With this Knuckles grabbed Sonic's throat when he came too close, and threw him straight up and out of the tunnel. Chasing after him, Knuckles jumped up, grabbing him and tossing him into the ground, destroying the bench and a near by light post. The ruckus was waking some of the residents of Station Square; some even came to see what was going on. Eventually, a crowd formed around the two.
"You haven't slipped up a bit, Knuckles." Sonic said, wiping blood from his face.
"Heh, you're no too bad yourself, Sonic." Knuckles replied as he charged at Sonic, Sonic acted in the same manor. Bringing their fists back, they punched each other only to catch the other's fist in their hand. They each exchanged kicks from one another as they each tried to pull their hands free, but the other had a firm grip on the others hand. Sonic noticed misplacement in Knuckles footing and used it to sweep him off his feet and with a quick change in stance, flipped Knuckles over his shoulder into the hard ground below them. Knuckles was able to hold onto Sonic's arm and dragged him down to the street as well, punching him non stop. Blood started dripping out of Sonic's mouth and eventually he was coughing up blood.
"GET OFF ME!!" Sonic yelled, grabbing Knuckles' over sized fist and throwing him on his back. With his advantage, Sonic repaid Knuckles with the same treatment. The streets became bloody as the two were heavily bleeding.
Back at the hospital…
Rouge had awakened to the sound of her TV. She noticed a familiar newscaster on the TV; she was shocked at what the report was about.
"Attention citizens of Station Square, it appears that a large group has surrounded what appears to be a fight between, Sonic the Hedgehog and one of his closest friends, Knuckles the Echidna. There seems to be a lot of damage done to the park"
"Rouge, I would… Rouge?" The Doctor noticed Rouge wasn't lying in her bed any more.
Station Square…
A black hedgehog was watching the brawl of the two heroes from high atop a building. Tossing adark blue Chaos Emerald in his hands, he smirked.
"Should I stop this? No it appears someone else is coming to stop this unneeded fight" He thought to himself pondering his thoughts, he had memories of the ARK and Maria. Thinking through what may have been the worst day of his life, Amy suddenly flashed into his mind. He shook his head and her image vanished from his mind.
Down on the battle field, the two were sweating, but neither one was willing to give up.
"Give up Sonic, you know you can't win!"
"Heh, I was about to say the same thing knucklehead!" Sonic replied in a cocky but serious tone. Knuckles only replied with a quick grunt and then a charge, Sonic couldn't help but charge as well. As they became closer and closer, their hands were brought farther back behind their heads for an unbelievable final blow.
When time felt as if it had slowed down, the two were right in front of each other, when a very familiar voice to both of them had screamed, "STOP IT!!!!!" Rouge had tears bursting from her eyes. "STOP THIS POINTLESS FIGHT!!!"
"Rouge?" The heroes said in unison. Forgetting that they were about to punch each other, they were both smacked hard in the face by fists and were sent flying at opposite ends of the crowd. Everything was silent, the crowd quickly vanished and all that was left was Sonic, Knuckles, and Rouge. Rouge had fallen on the ground, cupping her face in her hands as tears rolled down her face. The two heroes just laid there, both too consumed by pain to move.
Shadow was looking down at the trio, shaking his head slowly, "It's over, time I take my leave. CHAOS… CONTROL!" and with that, he was gone.
Sonic was just laying there, his eyes half open, and as if all his pain vanished, he stood up and walked slowly towards Rouge.
He dropped to his knees, engulfing her in a tight embrace, and whispered into her ear, "I'm sorry." Knuckles watching this, was laughing hysterically.
"How can you fall for her bull shit? You're such and idiot Sonic." The crimson echidna chuckled. Sonic only replied by lifting his right hand and raising his middle finger. Knuckles just shook his head in disappointment.
"C'mon Rouge, this asshole can rot." Sonic said picking him self and Rouge up, he sped off back to the hospital.
After a few minutes, they were at the front door. As Sonic reached for the handle, he paused in motion and fell to the ground, Rouge had been on his back for most of the way there so she was okay at the price of hurting Sonic. The doors slowly opened at the sound of the fall. It happened to be Rouge's doctor.
"Rouge! Are you alright?" The doctor was concerned.
"I'm fine, help Sonic." Rouge was able to keep her self calm from the doctor's stupidity. The doctor was pleased to help, and was able to get Sonic a stretcher and his own personal room.
"Get his heart beat on the monitor!"
"Right away sir." And with that the nurse had Sonic's heart beat up on the monitor in a heart beat. The doctor let out a deep breath at the sign of a steady heart beat.
"Alright… He's going to be okay." The doctor muttered under his breath. It was then that he heard a knock at the door. He opened it to see that it was Rouge.
"I'm sorry, but you can't leave your room until you've completely healed."
"It's okay doctor, let her in." Sonic had managed to recover faster than he had thought, but he was still in pretty bad shape. When Rouge heard this, she shoved the doctor out of the way and went up next to Sonic, holding his hand.
"Sonic, you didn't have to do that."
"You don't know what he said about you!" Sonic practically yelled, but couldn't from the pain in his chest.
"Sonic, you said you were only going to talk to him, you didn't have to loose your temper because he said some things about me." Rouge exclaimed, trying to calm him down. Sonic only turned his back to her. "If you don't let me talk to you, you'll only feel worse. Now come on, talk to me." Sonic rolled back over and looked at her with a smile.
"Rouge, I'll be fine, now what time is it?" Sonic asked glancing at the clock attached to the wall. If he could, he would've jumped out of his bed. "10:30! I've been out that long?!" Sonic grunted in pain.
Rouge laughed at Sonic's out burst, "Calm down, you need some rest anyway." She leaned in and gave Sonic a kiss on his cheek.
"You missed." Sonic said with a smile.
"What do mean I missed?"
"You missed!" Sonic answered. Rouge was still puzzled until her lips met with his and they held it for a short while before Sonic's ribs gave out from pain. He chuckled at his little agony.
"See you later Sonic." Rouge waved good bye as she left back to her room.
And at last, chapter 2 has arrived. Sorry for the long wait but after chapter 1 I couldn't think of anything until after I wrote 'You've Been Chosen' Also, you guys remember the little fight between Sonic and Knuckles in chapter 3 or 4 of the original? Well this was my remake of that very same scene, BIG improvement right? Well I hope you enjoyed and please review!