Chapter 6
Heading towards egg mans base
Knuckles ran through the jungle with out stopping, holding rouges gloves in one hand and the boots in the other hand he was panting hysterically but he didn't want to stop he kept telling himself he had to save rouge he just had too. He kept thinking if he didn't go save her egg man might kill her.
(back with rouge at egg mans base)little while after egg man had argued with knuckles, egg man picked up rouge and went into his office. Rouge could hardly open her eyes she kept thinking she was going to die, she felt like she was bleeding to death. Egg man walked up to a book shelf and picked up a book he then opened it and there was a big red button, he pressed it and the book case pushed to the side and a big purple room came up and there was a big white bed in the middle.
"let go of me god damn you" rouge yelled but with a weak tone. She kicked weakly "I don't think so rouge you wont be able to leave and you will never be able to see knuckles again" egg man yelled in a very serious way as he strapped rouge to the bed with metal bars across her neck, chest, waist, and feet "now you will stay there and you will never leave this room this place is going to be on total lock down" egg man said as he was walking toward the exit.
"watch I'll escape because knuckles is coming" rouge said softly "are you sure about that rouge" egg man said while raising one eye brow "I know for a fact he's coming" rouge yelled back "think what ever you want rouge but I doubt he's coming" that was the last thing egg man said before shutting the door which covered the room in total silence. rouge just rested her eyes and dozed off.
(back with knuckles) knuckles was running past tall green healthy trees. He really didn't know where he was going but there was something at the back of his mind telling him he was going the right way till he heard some one call his name "hey what's up knuckle head" sonic said as he stopped knuckles dead in his tracks "sonic get out of my way" knuckles growled as he pushed sonic as hard as he could to the other side and continued running "hey you've gotten faster impressive" sonic joked as he was running backwards in front of knuckles but knuckles ignored sonic and just kept running as fast as he could "you look a little tired, there knuckles how long have you been running" sonic asked with a curious look but knuckles still just ran ignoring ever one of sonic's clever come backs.
He was really pissed off and didn't want to deal with sonic right now "dude what the hell is wrong with you" sonic asked as he stopped and knuckles nearly toppled on him "sonic its none of your damn business about why I'm her, where I'm going, and every other question you were going to ask me" knuckles said as he ran around sonic and started sprinted away "wait up knuckles I want to help you" sonic asked "sonic I just told you its none of your business, just go home" knuckles yelled firmly "knuckles let me help you I'm bored, I need some action and you look really bad you look like you haven't stopped running for hours now, have you even eaten", sonic said with a really annoyed look on his face.
Sonic put is hands on his shoulders trying to stop knuckles but he was to strong for him "let me pass sonic!" knuckles yelled "knuckles if you haven't you can pass out now answer me knuckles" sonic yelled as he finally stopped knuckles "tails will be around here with the x-tornado and will give you a ride back to Chris's house" sonic said with a smile.
Soon as knuckles heard that sonic was going to take him all the way back to Chris's house his eyes widened and took off again he didn't want to tell sonic where he was going, then sonic and every one else would have to come and he knew that would just hold him back. "damnet knuckles calm down" sonic told knuckles as he was pushing knuckles back but it didn't really work "tails hurry with the x-tornado" sonic yelled into this watch he had on his wrist.
"ok sonic were only about a few miles away" tails answered. Sonic kept a good grip on knuckles "sonic let go of me before I hurt you" knuckles growled with blood shot eyes.
A few minutes later tails pulled in with the x-tornado and sonic was braking a really bad sweat. Knuckles was still pushing not caring for the really bad muscle cramps in his legs and arms "sonic were here" tails yelled with Amy and Chris in the back seats. but it didn't take to long for knuckles to brake through and take off at top speed while sonic dropped to the ground "don't worry I'll get him" sonic said weakly "before you go take this shot and stab it into knuckles's neck and shoot the substance into him, that will knock him out instantly" tails yelled as he tossed it to sonic.
Sonic took off, it didn't take long for him to catch up to knuckles, knuckles didn't give up he kept running "knuckles stop!" sonic yelled but knuckles ignored him and kept running at top speed. Sonic quickly got close enough to knuckles and stabbed the shot into his neck. knuckles felt this electric shock jolt him and he felt like he was going to pass out he couldn't breath for a while but then his foot got tangled in a tree root, he sprained his ankle.
He twisted his body and fell in a thorn bush ,"oh god that must suck", sonic said as he looked down at knuckles he had blood on his face and legs "did you get knuc…oh my god we need to take him back to my house now" Chris said as he looked down at knuckles he was breathing really deep "wow we have to leave now" Amy said as she knelt down next to knuckles.
Sonic went over to knuckles and through him over his shoulder and started running towards Chris's house and flying right behind him was tails Chris and Amy in the x-tornado heading to Chris's house.
(back at egg mans) "this robot is going to destroy every thing in it's path I cant wait till it's ready it will take about a few more days" egg man yelled to rouge ,rouge was strapped with metal bars on to a chair and she had a electric shot collar if she tried to escape it would locate where she was and shock her but he would need his computer to shock her or locate her "egg man why would I care about your fucking stupid worthless…" before rouge could finish egg man shocked her, before she knew it bolts of electric shot went into her body for about 2 seconds after that rouge had her head low looking at the ground "god that hurt" rouge whispered "rouge you should watch what you say or else I'll have to do some thing I don't want do" egg man told rouge with his face right in hers.
(back at Chris's house) knuckles opened his eyes and saw himself in a white room on a white fluffy bed he got up and he limped out the door and into the hall. He heard some one call his name it sounded like rouges voice he tried to call for her but no sound came he looked in the mirror and he had no mouth he started to get really scared he touched where his mouth used to be and then he saw rouge behind him so he swung around to look behind him and no one was there.
He ran down the stairs the place looked a lot like rouges place then he saw egg man holding rouge by the neck and holding a huge butterfly knife with a stainless steel blade and it looked so sharp that you could just touch the point slightly and you would bleed to death. Knuckles tried to yell and run towards egg man but he couldn't move anymore. egg man just had this evil smile and put his finger over his mouth then egg man took the knife and shoved the knife into rouge's stomach and out the other side. Knuckles just watched egg man kill rouge. fell to his knees and buried his face in his hands he tried to scream and curse but no sound.
Then there was an earth quake and he fell through the floor and started to fall into pitch black. he suddenly started to melt his skin was falling off his bones. he finally screamed and blood was pouring from his mouth .
Then all of a sudden he woke up screaming and sweating on a bed in a yellow colored room. It had a small dresser and a full body mirror over by the closet and a personal bathroom. Knuckles stepped off the bed but then he felt a sharp pain from his ankle. He looked down and there was a cast with blood on it around his ankle. He got up and limped to the bath room and looked at himself he had scratches and scars on his face he imagined rouge standing next to him "I miss the sound of your voice" knuckles whispered as he put his hand in the glass mirror over where rouges face was but then she suddenly disappeared.
"knuckles umm are you ok" sonic said with a weird look on his face "yeah of course" knuckles answered "were about to eat breakfast are you going to come down and eat" sonic asked " I'm not very hungry but I'll come down just give me a second" knuckles said as he touched this deep cut in his arm that hadn't been bandaged "ok see you then" sonic said as he walked out the door.
About 15 minutes later knuckles limped down the stairs to the dinning room "hey knuckles are you feeling alright" tails asked "a little but I'm going to have to leave after this meal" knuckles said in a crackly tone sense he had a sore throat "your not going any where your sick" cream said as she was stuffing her face with pancakes "I cant stay here I have to go save rou…I mean uh god damnet" knuckles yelled as he stood up and turned his back from the table, took both of his hands and held the back of his head and started walking into the other room.
Cream started to get scared and held cheese in her arms and started "it's ok cream knuckles is only angry about something…again" tails said as he put his arms around cream to calm her down "knuckles who do you have to save" Chris questioned "you know what it's none of your damn business" knuckles yelled as he turned around and pointed at Chris "dude calm the hell down your scaring every body" sonic yelled to knuckles as he stood up from his seat "sorry I'm just pissed off I have to go" knuckles said as he started for the front door "no knuckles lets talk in the front room before you hurt some one" sonic said as he lead knuckles in the front room.
They went in to the front room and sat down on a big four seat couch "so knuckles what's up why are you acting like this, yea I know you're hard headed but I know you wouldn't of yelled at Chris like that just to be you" sonic asked "I don't want to talk about" knuckles said as his head hung down "if you tell me maybe I can do some thing about it but if you don't tell me I cant really do anything, so what the hell is up with you" sonic asked as he rubbed his arm.
Knuckles told sonic every thing about his journey but then he stopped at the part of when he woke up by the tree "knuckles tell me what happened" sonic asked "well I woke up and I went over by the lake to wash my face but then I noticed that rouge was gone and there was this T.V. communicator and it was egg mans and he told me if I was missing something I didn't answer then he showed me rouge and she looked like she was slashed with a knife a few times so then, I ran with our stuff and I didn't stop till you found me" knuckles said in a vary serious tone "oh my god" sonic said "and now I feel it was my fault that this happened to her so I have to save her" knuckles said "but knuckles it is not your fault you guys where just at the wrong place at the wrong time and I think egg man knew that you would do this so that you would die before you would be able to get back the master emerald and as soon he knew you were died he would just kill rouge" sonic told knuckles to give him some confidence
"you are probably right we should leave in a few minutes to give tails some time to fix up the x-tornado" sonic said "no I don't want this to be come yours or the others problem" Knuckles said "knuckles don't worry about it we are glad to help trust us it's no problem buddy" sonic said " uh, fine your right I can always use a few more helpers" knuckles said and smiled "oh where did you put rouges stuff " knuckles asked "in the drawer over in your room" sonic answered. A few minutes later knuckles went in his room to take a nap.
A few days later knuckles's ankle started to get better and he could walk with out limping so they where going to take off the next day. "so knuckles are you ready to leave tomorrow" tails asked "of course I've been ready for the last three" knuckles said with a smile.
(back with rouge) "egg man can you just let me go please" rouge pleaded "I cant do that or else you will probably sneak back here and grab the master emerald for yourself so you will have to stay here in till knuckles is dead then I'll just have to kill you so either way you will not leave here alive" egg man said as he typed in weird codes in his computer "I'm not the one who is going to be dead" rouge yelled to egg man ,"and who might that be", egg man said as his finger was right over the electric shock button ," uhmm uh never mind" rouge said as her head went down looking at the floor "can you at least loosen these straps I can hardly breath" rouge asked "no because then you can just slide out" egg man said as his eyes where planted on the computer screen.
( back with knuckles) "ok are you ready to take off tails" sonic asked as him and knuckles climbed on to the wings of the x-tornado "yea lets go', tails yelled back to sonic as he started the engine "you think rouge is still alright" Chris asked Amy in the back set ," I'm sure she's fine", Amy answered as the x-tornado started to take off .
A few hours later they where a little less than half way there till a huge army of egg mans robots came "my god I've been waiting for some action" knuckles told sonic "yea this'll be a piece of cake" sonic answered back to knuckles. They got into there battle positions and got ready to fight but then they noticed there weren't just 14 or 15, there were millions of robots surrounding them "egg man probably made a cloning machine to clone all of his robots to make millions of them maybe even billions" tails screamed. "don't worry we can take'em all" sonic yelled.
They fought and fought and fought but there were way to many. they where getting really tired and it was really bad far knuckles's ankle "there are way to many of them" knuckles yelled to tails while he tore of a robots head and threw it at another robot "I know I'm trying to figure out how to shut down all the robots and damage the cloning devise so that egg man cant use it any more" tails yelled back while he was typing in random numbers "well make it fast I don't think I can do this for another 3 hours" sonic said as he kicked a robot into another.
(back with rouge) "this time they will not even get close to my base alive look at all of my robots there are thousands out there destroying them" egg man said as he let out his annoying Santa clause laugh known as his evil laugh "there going to make it out of that and when they get here there going to kick your little eggish ass".
Before she could go any farther egg man back handed her in the face as hard as he could and left rouge with a black eye, a busted lip, and a bloody nose "see what happens when you miss behave like that" egg man said as if he was talking to an 8 year old "get me out of this chair so that I could kick your ass" rouge screamed but then egg man threw a hard cover dictionary at the back of rouges head and rouge let out a low cry "oh did that hurt" egg man said from behind her " didn't feel a thing eggy" rouge said trying to sound like if she felt like a million bucks.
back with knuckles) "finally I got in I just have to type in this code and every thing is done" tails yelled to sonic and knuckles. It didn't even take a second for all the robots to fall to the floor "finally I'm so exhausted" sonic cried.
Sonic and knuckles where breathing really hard and had a lot of cuts. Tails landed on a small island and stepped out of the x-tornado and typed in codes and information about random things in till there was a communication message from egg man "guys get over here I just got a communication message from egg man" tails yelled so all of them came crowding around the laptop to see what was up, then egg mans face popped up.
"hello I see that you have damaged all my robots and my cloning machine well I'm only going to say this, if you try another stunt like this I'm going to have to do something I really don't want to do" egg man stepped back a little from the camera so that his whole body was showing and they noticed there were blood all over his gloves and some droplets on his clothes "I cant watch this" knuckles said as he walked away and sat down on the floor and buried his face in his arms.
"I hope he's ok" amy said "yeah me too" sonic told Amy. Then the video continued with egg man pulling rouge in the screen showing off all of her wounds and blood all over her, every one let out a low gasp "hey where'd knuckles go I bet he would really want to come and see this doesn't he want to come and see his rouge" egg man asked "what did you say rouge you want to say hi oh sit here and talk amongst your selves till I get back from the grocery store" egg man said as he walked out the door and four huge robot guards came and guarded everything that rouge might be able to get out of.
"rouge are you ok rouge" tails screamed "…what who is that" rouge mumbled "ya that's right wake up tell us
what happened to you" Chris asked "uhmm guys I think I'm going to die here uhh wheres knuckles I want to talk to him in private" rouge said having a hard time keeping her head up "uhmm I will try to get him to talk to you he couldn't stand to see you in that condition" tails said while he walked towards knuckles "uh knuckles rouge wants to talk to you"tails asked.
Then knuckles lifted his head and his eyes where red as if he was crying "no I don't want" knuckles said as he rubbed his eyes. "but knuckles…" " no get away from tails, fuck !" knuckles yelled "knuckles I'm not taking no for an answer" tails yelled. Knuckles was surprised by his bravery "fine give me the damn laptop" knuckles yelled and snatched the computer and sat on the floor.
" hey I haven't seen you in while" rouge said cheerfully like if nothing was wrong "rouge what happened to you" knuckles said "well I was just thrown around a little you know egg man being an ass" rouge said as she did her best to smile. A few of her teeth where bleeding "rouge I'm coming for you I'm going to save you I'm so sorry this had to happen to you it's all my fault" knuckles said as he looked away from the screen "knuckles it's any thing but your fault you didn't know, ok I need you to know that I'm going to be ok and you have to be like that hard headed, brave, hot knuckles that I've known most of my life ok can you do that, for me" rouge asked as she kissed her hand and put it up to the screen to show a red lip stick print on her hand
"sure, wait what did you say after brave" knuckles asked "uh hard headed" rouge said as she looked to the left and smiled "no you didn't " knuckles smiled blushed a little "yeah I did" rouge said as she ran her finger through her hair "it's fine your not so bad looking either" knuckles said with the reddest blush ever " thanks" rouge said as she winked at him.
They spoke with each other for hours but before she could finish a sentence egg man came in and shut off the computer knuckles looked at the blank screen for a few moments in till he filled with anger and threw the laptop. Sonic thought fast and ran at top speed and caught the laptop before it hit the floor. He just looked at knuckles and sighed.