The Child That Could Be Chapter 5
By Angnix
(Did something happen between Rouge and Knuckles, not exactly.)
Sonic woke up the next morning wondering what he was going to do.
"Hmmm, what to do, what to do. Hmm, I could just run a lot. Yea, that sounds good."
But when Sonic went into his living room he could hear weeping coming from what seemed to be just outside his door. Sonic hoping it wasn't Amy went to the door and looked out the peephole. It was Knuckles, he was sitting on the front step with this head buried in his hands, and tears were rolling down his arms and onto the porch. Sonic immediately opened the door wondering what Rouge might have done to him.
"Knuckles, what's all the tears about? Gone soft on me?"
"Sonic, I just couldn't do it!"
"Huh?"
"To put it in polite terms I wasn't able to be 'intimate' with Rouge. I just couldn't go through with it."
"Why'd ya come to me for? I'm not an expert, but based upon what I heard all men have that problem sometimes."
"NO! That's not what I meant!"
"Oh I think I know what you mean. I will tell you one thing though, go to someone else 'cause Sonic don't swing that way."
"Ghaww! I didn't say I was gay!"
"Just tell me what happened then! I'm getting tired of guessing!"
"Okay, so after 10 minutes of solid lip time she then put her hand. . ."
"Knuckles, please spare all the little details, I really don't want to know, just tell me how you ended up here!"
"From Rouge's house I made a left on Elm, then went about 5 miles . . ."
Sonic now put his head between his hands while shaking it back and fourth.
"KNUCKLES, I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND ME, BUT I WANT TO KNOW IN AS FEW PERSONAL DETAILS AS POSSIBLE AND WITHOUT DETAILED TRIPLE A PROVIDED DIRECTIONS FROM HER HOUSE TO MINE WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN YOU AND ROUGE THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE CRYING ON MY FRONT PORCH!"
"Okay, geez, you don't have to yell! Anyway, I started thinking again. . ."
"You can think?"
"Sonic! If you want me to tell you my story DON'T interrupt me!"
"Sorry, that just slipped out."
"Anyway, I started to think about why Rouge was interested in me. She didn't want dinner, she didn't want to just talk, all she wanted was just sex. That just didn't feel right. I mean, honestly, I wanted to go through with it, but instead I got out of the bed, ran out the door and ended up here. I just don't know how I feel anymore. I mean, there is the factor of knowing about Venture in the future and I came here feeling guilty that I might 'kill' him if there is no chance he would be born. The problem is his warning, that we wouldn't have a good relationship, and I think I see why. Now that I think about it, I feel that I would want way more than that if I had a relationship with someone. If I am with Rouge and she never wants anything else, I do see a future where I would eventually kick her out. But then there is part of me that wants Rouge, that maybe there is a chance that we could have a relationship that works. I just don't know what to do, and what am I going to say when I see her again? And then there is the Tikal factor, ghaww, she's going to treat me like Amy treats you!"
"Say no more. I can't say I personally went through what you went through with Rouge, but the Tikal thing, just hope that she really doesn't become an Amy. I mean, now that I think about it, what does Amy want from me? I really don't see her wanting anything intimate from me, or at least right now, she just sees me as 'her hero' and I think just wants me to always be her protector, her 'night in shining armor'. But Tikal I am not sure of. She comes from a past culture that is more concerned with keeping a race pure and what the rest of her people believe. She might think that it is the only right thing to do for you and Tikal to be together. On the other hand she may very well be attracted to you, she was following you around and wouldn't go away, who knows, she may have been watching you the whole time since she was released. Now that she is alive again she now can legitimately pursue you."
"Wow Sonic, I didn't know you had such deep insights. . ."
"Hey! What's that suppose to mean?"
"Just ripping with ya."
"So Knuckles, how about if we just walk around Station Square for a while, just try to forget about Rouge and Tikal for a while, that will make you feel better."
"Okay Sonic, I've always wanted to go see more of Station Square anyways."
Meanwhile Tails woke up the next morning.
"Did that really happen?"
Suddenly he saw a creepy-looking jackal looking down on him. He was all black with huge pointed ears, red eyes, and long incisors. He was about 6 inches taller than Tails and had a general menacing air around him. The jackal looked at Tails and barred his teeth, Tails in fear found himself going into a submissive posture with his ears pressed against his head and his tails between his legs.
"Hello there little fox, can you tell me how to find Knuckles?"
"Why, why do you want Knuckles, who are you?"
"Since you are the one that gave me back my life I guess I should tell you. Five thousand years ago I was the king of the civilization that built the pyramids that now exist in the desert region of what is now Angel Island. My name is Kentlechan the Fourth. We had control of the Emeralds, the seven Servers that I have just now liberated from your machine and the Controller that your Echidna friend now guards. I found the Emeralds and liberated them from the god that protected them when I found it's weakness. I was the most powerful king in all our people's history, I had everyone under my control and all of the lands around me had to pay me tribute. No one dared to cross my path. But our people were caught off guard, the god Chaos returned and destroyed our people; we were cursed to spend all of eternity as ghosts. I was once as lowly as all the other ghosts, but I quickly rose in power and strength, I became there king, King Boom Boo."
"Boom Boo? Sounds like something a child that just soiled themselves would say. . ."
Suddenly the jackal's eyes glowed, at once Tails was being choked by an unseen force, before Tails passed out the force then let him go.
"Silence, my powers that are now enhanced by the Emeralds are far greater than anything than you can imagine! Anyway, in my glorious pyramid I encountered the current Emerald Guardian, that dang Echidna was able to defeat me! A lot of my power was lost that day! But let's just say that when you built that machine and brought that girl back to life that caused a disturbance in the Spirit World, all of the spirits began to talk about your machine, I heard about it, me and my buddies came here, basically that's what happened. Now that I am not limited to the darkness, I can finally get revenge on that Echidna, take back the Master Emerald, and maybe go out and have some booze."
"Uh, well, Knuckles is usually guarding the Master Emerald, but now is in the city of Station Square."
"Well, I can always go back and get that Master Emerald, take me to this Station Square little fox, just remember; I have no qualms about biting off the head of another canine."
Tails eyes grew super wide and huge drops of sweat started to pour off his head.
"Okay, you have to take this train. . ."
Meanwhile on Angel Island Tikal and Amy eventually went to sleep to the huge relief of Chaos, but then they woke up.
"Good morning Tikal! I hope someone comes back for us today! Then we can finally go to the mall! Oh wait a minute! I totally forgot to tell you about the wonders of the shoe department. There are a total of 38 wonders that I have so far discovered, number 1 is. . ."
Chaos had enough. Using the power he had over the ocean Chaos sent a huge pillar of water to suck up Tikal and Amy.
"Chaos! What are you doing? What is wrong with you?"
The huge pillar of water then moved toward shore and gently set the two girls down on the shore right next to the entrance of Twinkle Park. A huge crowd of people gathered around looking at the girls that appeared out of a column of water.
"What are you guys staring at? Anyway Tikal, the mall is in this direction. . ."
(What do you think? Be honest now!)
By Angnix
(Did something happen between Rouge and Knuckles, not exactly.)
Sonic woke up the next morning wondering what he was going to do.
"Hmmm, what to do, what to do. Hmm, I could just run a lot. Yea, that sounds good."
But when Sonic went into his living room he could hear weeping coming from what seemed to be just outside his door. Sonic hoping it wasn't Amy went to the door and looked out the peephole. It was Knuckles, he was sitting on the front step with this head buried in his hands, and tears were rolling down his arms and onto the porch. Sonic immediately opened the door wondering what Rouge might have done to him.
"Knuckles, what's all the tears about? Gone soft on me?"
"Sonic, I just couldn't do it!"
"Huh?"
"To put it in polite terms I wasn't able to be 'intimate' with Rouge. I just couldn't go through with it."
"Why'd ya come to me for? I'm not an expert, but based upon what I heard all men have that problem sometimes."
"NO! That's not what I meant!"
"Oh I think I know what you mean. I will tell you one thing though, go to someone else 'cause Sonic don't swing that way."
"Ghaww! I didn't say I was gay!"
"Just tell me what happened then! I'm getting tired of guessing!"
"Okay, so after 10 minutes of solid lip time she then put her hand. . ."
"Knuckles, please spare all the little details, I really don't want to know, just tell me how you ended up here!"
"From Rouge's house I made a left on Elm, then went about 5 miles . . ."
Sonic now put his head between his hands while shaking it back and fourth.
"KNUCKLES, I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND ME, BUT I WANT TO KNOW IN AS FEW PERSONAL DETAILS AS POSSIBLE AND WITHOUT DETAILED TRIPLE A PROVIDED DIRECTIONS FROM HER HOUSE TO MINE WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN YOU AND ROUGE THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE CRYING ON MY FRONT PORCH!"
"Okay, geez, you don't have to yell! Anyway, I started thinking again. . ."
"You can think?"
"Sonic! If you want me to tell you my story DON'T interrupt me!"
"Sorry, that just slipped out."
"Anyway, I started to think about why Rouge was interested in me. She didn't want dinner, she didn't want to just talk, all she wanted was just sex. That just didn't feel right. I mean, honestly, I wanted to go through with it, but instead I got out of the bed, ran out the door and ended up here. I just don't know how I feel anymore. I mean, there is the factor of knowing about Venture in the future and I came here feeling guilty that I might 'kill' him if there is no chance he would be born. The problem is his warning, that we wouldn't have a good relationship, and I think I see why. Now that I think about it, I feel that I would want way more than that if I had a relationship with someone. If I am with Rouge and she never wants anything else, I do see a future where I would eventually kick her out. But then there is part of me that wants Rouge, that maybe there is a chance that we could have a relationship that works. I just don't know what to do, and what am I going to say when I see her again? And then there is the Tikal factor, ghaww, she's going to treat me like Amy treats you!"
"Say no more. I can't say I personally went through what you went through with Rouge, but the Tikal thing, just hope that she really doesn't become an Amy. I mean, now that I think about it, what does Amy want from me? I really don't see her wanting anything intimate from me, or at least right now, she just sees me as 'her hero' and I think just wants me to always be her protector, her 'night in shining armor'. But Tikal I am not sure of. She comes from a past culture that is more concerned with keeping a race pure and what the rest of her people believe. She might think that it is the only right thing to do for you and Tikal to be together. On the other hand she may very well be attracted to you, she was following you around and wouldn't go away, who knows, she may have been watching you the whole time since she was released. Now that she is alive again she now can legitimately pursue you."
"Wow Sonic, I didn't know you had such deep insights. . ."
"Hey! What's that suppose to mean?"
"Just ripping with ya."
"So Knuckles, how about if we just walk around Station Square for a while, just try to forget about Rouge and Tikal for a while, that will make you feel better."
"Okay Sonic, I've always wanted to go see more of Station Square anyways."
Meanwhile Tails woke up the next morning.
"Did that really happen?"
Suddenly he saw a creepy-looking jackal looking down on him. He was all black with huge pointed ears, red eyes, and long incisors. He was about 6 inches taller than Tails and had a general menacing air around him. The jackal looked at Tails and barred his teeth, Tails in fear found himself going into a submissive posture with his ears pressed against his head and his tails between his legs.
"Hello there little fox, can you tell me how to find Knuckles?"
"Why, why do you want Knuckles, who are you?"
"Since you are the one that gave me back my life I guess I should tell you. Five thousand years ago I was the king of the civilization that built the pyramids that now exist in the desert region of what is now Angel Island. My name is Kentlechan the Fourth. We had control of the Emeralds, the seven Servers that I have just now liberated from your machine and the Controller that your Echidna friend now guards. I found the Emeralds and liberated them from the god that protected them when I found it's weakness. I was the most powerful king in all our people's history, I had everyone under my control and all of the lands around me had to pay me tribute. No one dared to cross my path. But our people were caught off guard, the god Chaos returned and destroyed our people; we were cursed to spend all of eternity as ghosts. I was once as lowly as all the other ghosts, but I quickly rose in power and strength, I became there king, King Boom Boo."
"Boom Boo? Sounds like something a child that just soiled themselves would say. . ."
Suddenly the jackal's eyes glowed, at once Tails was being choked by an unseen force, before Tails passed out the force then let him go.
"Silence, my powers that are now enhanced by the Emeralds are far greater than anything than you can imagine! Anyway, in my glorious pyramid I encountered the current Emerald Guardian, that dang Echidna was able to defeat me! A lot of my power was lost that day! But let's just say that when you built that machine and brought that girl back to life that caused a disturbance in the Spirit World, all of the spirits began to talk about your machine, I heard about it, me and my buddies came here, basically that's what happened. Now that I am not limited to the darkness, I can finally get revenge on that Echidna, take back the Master Emerald, and maybe go out and have some booze."
"Uh, well, Knuckles is usually guarding the Master Emerald, but now is in the city of Station Square."
"Well, I can always go back and get that Master Emerald, take me to this Station Square little fox, just remember; I have no qualms about biting off the head of another canine."
Tails eyes grew super wide and huge drops of sweat started to pour off his head.
"Okay, you have to take this train. . ."
Meanwhile on Angel Island Tikal and Amy eventually went to sleep to the huge relief of Chaos, but then they woke up.
"Good morning Tikal! I hope someone comes back for us today! Then we can finally go to the mall! Oh wait a minute! I totally forgot to tell you about the wonders of the shoe department. There are a total of 38 wonders that I have so far discovered, number 1 is. . ."
Chaos had enough. Using the power he had over the ocean Chaos sent a huge pillar of water to suck up Tikal and Amy.
"Chaos! What are you doing? What is wrong with you?"
The huge pillar of water then moved toward shore and gently set the two girls down on the shore right next to the entrance of Twinkle Park. A huge crowd of people gathered around looking at the girls that appeared out of a column of water.
"What are you guys staring at? Anyway Tikal, the mall is in this direction. . ."
(What do you think? Be honest now!)