Heya all! My forth chapter! I hope you all love the story! Thanks to everyone that has reviewd! I love you all! I don't own Sonic:begins to cry from that fact:
Chapter Four: Nowhere To Run!
" I'm sure if we turn on the news we'll get a better idea of what's going on," Tails said as he grabbed the remote.
" This is Trish, standing in front of a building that just irrupted into flames a few minutes ago. Luckily, no one is inside the apartment complex so no one is hurt. The building is known for not having many renters, infact there are only 4 people that live in this building. The Owner of the building, who has many more buildings to go to, his son and daughter, both who had just bought rooms, and the currently missing Rouge The Bat. I'm Trish, for Action news."
Tails turned the TV off as they all looked at Rouge.
She just sat there, quiet staring at the screen, " My home?"
" Rouge are you ok?" Amy asked.
" Now where do I go? I don't have a home," Rouge chuckled, " looks like I'll be in here longer than a week."
" I'm sure one of them can help you."
" What do you mean one of us Sonic?"
" Well Amy, if you've forgotten; I don't really live anywhere because I go on so many adventures, I occasionally stay at Tails's but that's it."
" She can't stay with me," Tails said.
Knuckles looked at him as he started laughing.
" What's wrong with you? You finally go metal from hanging out with Sonic for to long?" asked Knuckles.
" Hey!" Sonic yelled.
Tails shook his head as he stopped laughing, " no, it's not that, I kinda blew half of my workshop up working on the X-Tornado. Never mix acid and plane fuel. I'm sorry Rouge."
" It's okay, what about you Amy?"
" Sorry, my house is being up to dated on the safety codes," Amy said sadly.
" I was staying at Amy's since my mom was away for business," Cream said.
Rouge sighed and Knuckles stared at her. ' He'll never let me stay on the Island, after all the times I've tried to steal the master Emerald.'
" You can stay on Angel Island, if you want."
Rouge couldn't believe what she was hearing, " I can?"
Knuckles nodded, " Yeah, I mean, if you want to."
" What if I try and steal the Master Emerald?"
" I know you wont."
Rouge smiled, " Thanks Knucklehead."
" No problem Bat Girl."
" Well, now that that's settled, I'm hungry."
" Your always hungry Sonic!"
" Can we go get food please Amy? Isn't there a burger place around here?"
" I know where that is!"
" Great Tails! Let's go who's coming with me?"
Amy, Cream and Tails raised their hands.
" Knuxs you coming?"
" No Sonic, but you can bring me back a burger. What do you want Rouge?"
" I'll take a burger too."
Sonic, Amy and Tails walked out of the room, leaving Knuckles and Rouge alone.
" I must say Sonic, planning on leaving them alone so they could spend time together was genius," Amy whispered.
Cream nodded, " here I thought you didn't have a romantic bone in your body."
" What are you guys talking about? I'm hungry, let's go," Sonic said from in front of them.
Tails smacked his head with his hand as he looked at Cream, " seems you were right."
Amy, Tails and Cream sighed as they followed Sonic. Knuckles was in the room with Rouge, and no one else. ' It's not that I dislike being with her alone, wait! What am I saying? It's Bat Girl course I don't like this..then why did I offer to let her stay on the Island? Further more, will Chaos and Tikal allow it? I mean, they told me where to find her so they should right?' He thought about yesterday and what Tikal and Chaos did. How surprised he was to get such a message, and what he saw in the Master Emerald.
Knuckles was just standing there, pacing back and forth. ' Where in the name of the Master Emerald was Rouge!' He wasn't worried about her. No, not him, he didn't like her. He was just curios to hear what she had to say.
" Knuckles?" a female voice called out to him.
" Tikal? Where did you come from?"
" I sensed that you were stressed and came to see what was wrong Knuckles."
" Nothing is wrong, Bat Girl just went missing. She had something important to tell us and she hasn't contacted us since. That was four weeks ago tomorrow."
" Why don't you ask the Emerald where she is Knuckles?"
" Yes, I think that would be a good idea Tikal," a figure rose from the water.
" Chaos? But how are you talking? You don't have a mouth!" Knuckles yelled.
" I can speak telepathically young Guardian."
" Well, ok, why don't you look ask the Emerald Knuckles?"
Knuckles nodded and walked up to the Master Emerald, " What do I say Tikal?"
" Just ask it to show you where Rouge, hopefully it will."
" Master Emerald, I ask you to show me where Rouge the Bat is and who is holding her captive. Please, we need to find her. I beg of you, please show me!"
Tikal smiled as she looked at Chaos, ' I told you he liked her.' ' You were right Tikal. Looks like the young Guardian is in love, even though he doesn't know it yet.'
They both heard Knuckles gasp, " No, this can't be!"
Tikal and Chaos were at his side in a second.
" What's wrong Knuckles?" Tikal asked.
" It's Rouge, look!"
His finger pointed at the Master Emerald. Rouge was sitting on a table, she looked horrible, there was blood everywhere. She was just lying there; blood was coming out her mouth.
" Oh my, what in the name of the Master Emerald has happened to her?"
Knuckles looked to Tikal, " show me who has her."
It was more of a demand then a request; the picture changed to an egg shaped man with a long red mustache.
" EGGMAN!" Knuckles yelled, rage over taking him.
Tikal and Chaos stepped back in fear.
They had never seen him this mad before. He starred as the Emerald showed them Rouge's location; it was at an old abandoned military base in the desert. It would take about a day to get there. ' Just hang on Rouge I'm coming, and I'll save you from that mad man, no matter the cost!'
" I swear I'll kill him if he does anything else to her!"
Then Knuckles ran off the Island, headed towards Tails's workshop. Tikal and Chaos watched as he ran to the edge of the Island and jumped off into a glide.
" Poor young one, his love is being tortured by that mad man," Chaos said.
" I just hope he makes it in time, "Tikal said in a low whisper.
Chaos nodded as they disappeared in a flash of green light.
That had been the second worst day of his life, the first being the day he found her. He wasn't angry that they had found her; he just hated seeing Rouge in the condition she was in, and the complete fear in her eyes when she saw them. That image would never disappear from his mind. He looked her over, she looked a little better, but most of her body was wrapped up. You could only see the face and her left arm. Her wings were in a cast as was her left leg.
Her right leg was wrapped up in bandages because of all the infected cuts. All Knuckles could think about was that she was safe, and he'd never let Eggman get a hold of her again. A hospital gown covered her torso, but he knew that there were bandages under there to.
" Knuckles?" Rouge broke his thought as he looked at her.
" Yeah? What do you need?"
" Nothing, you were just staring into space, what are you thinking about?"
He blushed, 'you, why?'
Like he was really going to say that, " how I'm going to get you to the Island without causing any of your cuts to open up." She smiled; he actually cared that she was in pain?
She felt a blush creep up on her face, " I'll be okay whatever you decide, as long as you don't drop me."
He smiled, she was trying to pretend that none of this had happened, block out all of her memories. He mentally cussed out Eggman with every cuss word he knew. Yes, Eggman would pay for what he did to her; he would make damn sure of that.
" I'm sorry Rouge," he whispered.
Rouge looked up at him, " what do you have to be sorry for? You didn't do this to me, Eggman did."
" I'm sorry that I didn't get to you sooner, the Master Emerald showed me where you where just yesterday. I'm sorry I couldn't help you sooner and that Eggman did what he did to you."
Rouge wanted to start crying again but didn't, " it's not your fault. Do you hear me? It's not. If this whole thing is anyone's fault it's Eggman's. HE captured me. HE tortured me. HE made me believe that you were dead. This is all HIS fault and WE will get him back."
Her hand rose as touch his cheek gently, " I know you would never do this Knuckles, nor would you ever wish it on someone."
He closed his eyes for a second, then opened them, his eyes didn't connect with hers, but he stared at her wrist, his eyes widened, she noticed she quickly drew her hand back but he caught it, softly.
" Rouge, did he do this to you?"
Now she felt the tears roll down her cheeks as she shook her head in a 'no' motion, " I did."
Knuckles lost his breath for a second.
" I thought that you guys were dead, I thought that I was going to die anyway, so why not kill myself, I thought that that was the only way I could escape Eggman, death. He wouldn't let me die until I told him where the last Chaos Emerald was, and I was never going to tell him. Every time I went into some sort of shock because of his torture, he'd make sure I didn't die, but wouldn't let me heal enough to move. I just wanted to die so I could be free, I'd take the Emerald's secret to my grave."
Knuckles almost wanted to cry himself as he heard her story, " but, you're never going to do it again right?"
She looked at him through her teary eyes, " No. Now that I know you guys are alive and that I'm not in the base, I don't ever want to do it again."
She threw herself into his chest and began to cry, cry for the fact that she had even considered suicide. She was far beyond disgusted with herself.
He patted her back and whispered, " it's okay Rouge, I'm here for you. I'll never let him get near you again."
She soon stopped and noticed the sun was setting, " look, isn't is beautiful?"
He smiled and was still looking down at her; she had her eyes towards the window, " sure is."
