Aishitene Motto Chapter 4

Escape

Knuckles was holding onto the vixens hand tightly. He could see what was happening but he could not believe it. The Sapphire he knew was changing from her fox form into her true form. He was in a panic state now. He did not know how to stop this from happening. All the while behind him he did not see what Eggman was doing as he went back to his computer punching away at the buttons.

"Sapphire.. please if you can hear me fight this please. If you don't you will become your ture form and will be like that forever. I don't want that for you it is something I never wanted for you." He gripped her hand tightly though because she was in and out of her fox form sometimes he could feel her hand and sometimes he could not.

What was he suppose to do? He only knew of one power that could save her and that was the master emerald itself. He soon went to pick the vixen up and was about to leave out when he turned and found himself in another cage. Eggman laughed as Knuckles growled.

"Eggman! Let me out of here!" The scientist just laughed at the red creature.

"Do you really think I would do such a foolish thing? I'll let you go if you hand over the Sapphire." Knuckles eyes glowed with an anger that not even Eggman had seen before. Even with the intense electricity that was surrounding the cage it did not stop the echidna from attacking it. Though while doing so he was thrown back into the other end of the cage giving himself a heavy dose of electricity. Eggman just sat there and laughed as the echidna tried his best to try and get out of the cage. "You truly are a funny character Knuckles the echidna." Knuckles then looked around the cage. He didn't see anything and sighed. He knew it was a matter of time before Sapphire would revert back into her gem form. The echidna took a deep breath as he closed his eyes and sat down his legs crossed. He then softly started to chant. Eggman just watched as he soon started to glow a soft blue. The scientist just shook and laughed. "That will not work Knuckles! You're trapped!!" Knuckles opened his eyes they were blue now. Looking around he saw that Eggman had vanished out of the room. Apparently he assumed that the two would not leaving anytime soon. Knuckles walked over to the vixen and held her tightly and started to chant softly in her ear.

At first it seamed as if nothing was happening but soon after a while the fading soon stopped and the vixen was her solid self again. She weakly opened her eyes looking at him.

"K-K-Knuckles?" her eyes snapped opened as she pushed him away fighting away a blush that was trying to creep out. "What are you doing touching me?" The echidna rolled his eyes at her and sighed.

"I just saved you Sapphire." Sapphire was about to respond but soon looked around seeing they were in a cage.

"So what happened? How did we end up in here?" The echidna went and crossed his legs again.

"Can't you tell? Eggman managed to capture us like this when you were weak." Sapphire looked at him but then the memory of what happened before flashed into her mind.

"Knuckles, what did he mean by gem? Knuckles what is going on?" Knuckles looked at her and turned away closing his eyes. He wasn't prepared to tell her what she really was n fear on how she would respond. He sighed softly and looked down.

"Look we don't have time for that right now Sapphire. We need to get out of here." Knuckles was about to go and try to attack the cage when Sapphire pulled him back.

"I want to know what is going on and what gem he was talking about!! Why did I feel like I was about to die when he poured that liquid on me?!" Knuckles sighed softly.

"When we get back I will tell you alright? Now do you have enough energy to help me or not?" Sapphire looked at him and wanted to growl but did not. She then held her hands out as they started to glow. She then sent a blue beam at the front of the cage. A few seconds later the cage blew up sending both Sapphire and Kncukles into different walls in the room. Knuckles stood up and rubbed his head. "Jeez you could have been a bit softer about that." The vixen brushed herself off as she stood up.

"What ever Knuckles. You have some explaining to do when we get back." Knuckles looked at her. Part of him did not want to go through this but he had to. He then went to the door of the room punching a hole into the door and knocking it down. Sapphire walked over beside him and looked at him. "There is a knob you know." Knuckles rolled his eyes and then took off the vixen not far behind.

In his control room Eggman could see the both of them running. He slammed his fist onto the control panel in front of him. He grabbed the intercom next to him.

"They have escaped!! Get them!" Soon the two were confronted by more then a hundred robots. The two found themselves back to back looking at all of the bots. The echidna grinned softly. He was about to grab the vixen's hand but she smacked it away.

"Alright Sapphire I'll make a deal with you. If I get more bots then you I take you out and you tell me what you have been doing since you vanished so long ago." Sapphire held out her claw cracking them.

"And if I win echidna?"

"I will tell you whatever you wish to know." She grinned softly as jumped up attacking a robot.

"ONE!!" She then attacked another slicing it in half." TWO!!" Knuckles grinned as he jumped up attacking the robots the both of thm counting off each robot. Ten minutes later they were down to the last dozen. Knuckles sent on into a wall.

"Forty three!! Forty four!!" Sapphire blasted a bot to pieces.

"Fivity one!! "

The final robot went down by the hands of Sapphire. She panted and looked at Knuckles. "Seventy five…" Knuckles whistled. "Give it up echidna I know you didn't get as many as me." He rolled his eyes. He hated when the vixen did that. He had a name and for some reason she would rather call him echidna.

"Fine Sapphire. You win. Now let's get out of here." As they were about to turn to leave they were stopped by a huge robot. Eggman laughed.

"Did you really think I would let you off." Both Knuckles and Sapphire looked up at the huge robot. Knuckles then grinned softly.

"And you forget who you are up against." The robot was grey and took up all of the space in the near area. Nothing real special to it but a name and a few guns attached to it. No one of the Dr. best work. The robot sent an arm down at the two and they both dodged out the way. Knuckles ran up the right arm and Sapphire the left. " First one to the top gets to knock the head off." Sapphire grinned as she kept running.

Knuckles reached the top first and soon slammed both fist into the robots head cracking it. Sapphire soon appears and soon kicked the head out. She grinned softly. Eggman growled in anger.

"DAMNIT!!" Both Sapphire and knuckles landed on the ground. Sapphire was about to speak when Knuckles grabbed her both of them skidding to a wall. Sapphire looked to see the huge robot on its face. She had almost been crushed. She then looked to see she was deep in the echidna's arms. She looked into the echidna's purple eyes. She had a pink face as she pulled away.

"Jeez Knuckles, I thought you had a girl." Knuckles looked down a bit. He had not noticed that he was holding onto the vixen for so long. It was funny to think that he had been in a short relationship with Tikal for a while but things could not work out and so they said their goodbyes. He had told himself that dating and girlfriends and such were not for him because of his duty. Though for that brief moment sitting there holding her he got a strange feeling somewhere deep down. He couldn't figure out where it came from but it made his stomach jump. He soon just shook his head as the two of them took off at full speed out of the large fortress.

Eggman watched as the two vanished away from the fortress. He wasn't upset or angry anymore. He knew where he would be able to find them. Thanks to the small device that was planted on the vixen. He would always know where they were. Now they were just toys he had lost. He would find them and get his gem back if it was the last thing he did.

After a bit of running the two slowed to a walking movement. Now thinking of what the vixen said annoyed the echidna and he turned to confront her on it.

"What did you mean I should have a girl? You know as well as I do that my work keeps me from silly stuff like that." The vixen rolled her eyes.

"Wow how late are you with that echidna. Why get so work up. If you don't have a girlfriend you don't. I could care less to be honest. " Knuckles grinned softly.

"Speaking of which, do you got a special someone?" The vixen looked at him and growled her face pink.

"That is none of your business echidna! I am the one asking the questions. "She turned from him as she sharply looked him in the eye. " Now what in the hell is the gem Eggman was talking about?" The echidna looked away. He was trying his best to avoid such a conversation but now that she knew he would have to tell her the truth. He sighed.

"Alright… I'll tell you everything when we get back to the cabin I promise."

Authors Note: Sorry for the short Chapter don't worry the next one will be longer and better