mercurylamps asked:

HELLO I AM HERE WITH PROMPT! SO... KNUXOUGE... sonic forces knuxouge... where they're watching the world they loved, in ruins, the master emerald probably destroyed/stolen for what appears to be for good... hurt/comfort ?! (hahah i just copy-pastad from our cha i'm so excited aaahhh)

cutegirlmayra answered:

Me too, AHHHH

Prompt:

"It's a shame the world has to end like this…"

Rouge walked up to the cliff where the fire was finally taking out the remaining percent of the last city they were trying to save.

Knuckles had his arms crossed, watching solemnly as a skyscraper fell down into the burning pit.

"…" Rouge looked over at him, seeing no real expression and growing slightly concerned.

"Strange, by now you would have shouted out something about me being pessimistic and unfeeling." she closed her eyes and gestured a hand out, before blinking them open and still seeing no real change in him.

"..You okay?" she dropped the act, but remained looking seriously towards him.

"…Is this what it comes down too?"

She looked out over the hopeless scene.

"All my life… I've been one thing." he held up his fists, and tightened it, gritting his teeth together, "A HERO! Guardian of the Master Emerald! When that was taken from me, I spent every last strip of strength I had left to retrieve it! Only to find it was melted down along with Chaos still imprisoned inside it. Now it's used as fuel to all of Eggman's goons… Without Super Sonic, we were forced into hiding while Sonic used my very life's purpose to destroy the ends of the world! And for what? THIS!" he gestured out at the burning city, "I've never known a more wasteful appetite!" he slashed his arm down, truly enraged, as Rouge held her other arm and brought it close, looking down, as if ashamed she couldn't stop this grim fate either.

"Knuckles.." she turned to him, being much more gentle, and speaking very soothingly to him.

She put a hand daintily up to his shoulder, giving the kind of comfort only a woman could offer. "It's not any of our faults. Sometimes… the world has it's cycles. Where one life dies…"

A robot collapsed in the flames, sending off a huge domino effect of explosions, before the flicker of the fires below let out more popping sounds of things being crushed under their influence and destroyed.

"Where's the rebirth? Are you suggesting we have to live like Phinoexes from now on!?" He turned to her, lifting a fist and shaking it, but not directing it at her.

"No… All I'm saying is that from the ashes… wings do take off." she flapped her own down to her sides, and against her back, before folding her arms and closing her eyes, looking down in grief.

"Tails said that with this last victory, there's nothing left to lose." she looked up to Knuckles, tenderly relaying the news she was sent to give him.

"Sonic's going all out now. He's not holding a single thing back. We're all going with him. I came to get you, too."

He gruffed at that, turning around and moving his shoulder to get her hand off it, not taking her comfort anymore.

Nothing was really piercing his heart anyway, and she could see that, that she was failing at helping him.

"That good for nothing… so, he tries to help, sure. But what good does Super Sonic do when he can't even harness the 7 Chaos Emeralds properly!?"

"He can't help it, Knuckles! Without Chaos, none of us, not even Shadow can fully wield their might!" she lost her temper then, gesturing a tensed hand out, before swiping it down and yelling clear to his face.

"Has it ever occurred to you that Sonic may this world's last hope?!"

"If you ask me, our last hope died along with this city."

WHAMP!

Knuckles had to bend his knees from the pressure of that slap for a moment, feeling it upon the back of his head.

His teeth tightened as he roared while spinning around, about to jab back before pausing, his anger suddenly washed away when he saw tears in her eyes.

"…You imbecile! Watch what you say!" her emotions swarmed her, and she wasn't able to hold them back. "You brute! You selfish, ignorant, and pompous fool! Some of us still hope for a future with better times! Some of us hope that your island comes back, that your stupid, precious emerald can keep it afloat again, and that some bat's can return there to pester a lovable echidna again!"

He blinked his eyes, slowly lowering his fist down, watching her as if he hadn't noticed how she truly felt.

Which, he didn't.

"Rouge…" his eyelids arched back, realizing his folly.

"Oh, shut up!" she turned around, holding herself to try and keep it in. "Haven't you caused enough suffering!? Even without you causing it, there's still enough for everyone in this world!"

"….I'm…" he lifted a hand up to her bouncing shoulders, as she continued to cry, not able to hold it back anymore.

He pulled her in and she willingly turned around, crying in his chest as she squinted her eyes shut, hitting his chest lightly.

"You idiot..! Watch what you say… you'll break hearts that way.. don't you know…"

He lowered his head, and closed his own eyes.

"…Maybe I still have something left to fight for then."

He looked up, "As hopeless as it seems… there never really is a 'rock bottom' I couldn't climb myself out of."

She slowly blinked her eyes open.

"I'll just have to carry you with me."

"What..? Ah!"

He lifted her up upon his shoulder, and started walking towards camp.

"Alright then. No more guarding. It's time to start fighting without a cause. And if there is one, heh…. I'll have to start piggy-backing off of yours."

He looked up to her with a smile she hadn't seen in a long time, and winked.

She held her hands up in surprise for a moment, before being touched and hugged his massive head, kicking her feet out in a feminine manner as he had to wobble to keep balance.

"R-Rouge! S-settle down up there! Hey!"

"Aww~ Aren't you my little Guardian Hero~"

"Quit that! Why are you rubbing my chin like that!? Not it off!"

"ROOOOUUUUGGGEEEE!"