5 Minutes Ago, Location, The park
Knuckles and Rouge were walking together and talking about random stuff when all of a sudden, Eggman came out of no where and grabbed Rouge. Rouge was kicking and squrming but Eggman had 2 robots with him, who were holding her tightly.
"Let her go Egghead!" Knuckles yelled as he ran after Eggman's ship.
"How about, no!" Eggman yelled back as he flew forward. Knuckles charged after him as fast as he could. Eggman's ship had new jet boosters though, he was much faster than before. But Knuckles just kept running after him, and he was doing a good job of keeping up with Eggman. Knuckles was so focused on getting Rouge back he didn't look where Eggman was going. Knuckles leg started to hurt, he looked down at it and saw nothing yet, but he knew soon it would turn into something, but her didn't care, he couldn't let Rouge go.
"What are you doing Eggman!" Rouge yelled at him.
"Well, my dear, we are forcing your friend to run after us, you see, up ahead about a mile or two from here, is the cliff of Station Square. He is to focused on getting to you, he wont notice he will be running right off. Tape her mouth!" Eggman finished, telling the last part to his robots. They took duck tape and put it over her mouth, along with them tying her arms up behind her back.
Sonic and his friends saw where Eggman was going, because Cream lived close to the cliff. To close. They watched as Eggman flew off the cliff and turned around to face Knuckles, who wasn't far behind him. Knuckles noticed where they were, he was to close to the edge to stop running, so he jumped.
He threw his arms out and leaped, he was a very good jumper, he landed direcly on the top of the little ship. Eggman, had a plan though. He grabbed Rouge and stood on the edge of the ship.
"Now, Knuckles you and I both know that no one can live threw this fall. Well, exept me, because I have something soft to land on." Eggman said with a girn and held Rouge tighter.
Knuckles noticed this. "Eggman, don't do it." Knuckles said softly, but angrily.
"Oh, im going to do it. Bye bye!" Eggman finished as he leaped off the back of the ship, with Rouge in his hands.
"No!" Knuckles yelled as he jumped after them.
Sonic and the rest of them saw this and ran to the cliff. "Knuckles!" Sonic yelled down the cliff. It was almost night time so it was to dark to see anything.
Knuckles was speeding down twice as fast as Eggman and Rouge because Knuckles was diving like a bullet. He reached Eggman and grabbed Rouge from his hands. Knuckles pulled her tied arms over his head like a necklace. Knuckles kicked off Eggman and sent him spiriling downward.
Knuckles shot his arms out as to glide although he was going down fast, he reached the cliff and dug the spikes on his knuckles into the cliff. He looked down at Rouge and noticed Eggman had hurt her wings pretty badly, bad enough not to be able to fly. He gently took the tape from her mouth and swung her onto his back.
Everyone was on the top of the cliff when they heard a loud, Thump.
"That sounded like, someone hit the bottom..." Amy said looking downward and starting to cry.
"Come on, lets go..." Sonic said taking Amy's hand.
"No one could survive that fall..." Tails said walking over to Cream and hugging her.
Shadow stood on the edge and looked down. Nothing. He walked after Sonic and the rest of them, Cream and Tails were at the front, along with Amy who had caught up to them, Shadow was behind them by himself. Sonic was at the back staring at the cliff, he wasn't far from the edge.
He turned around to look at everyone, they were all looking back at him, sadly. They turned around and continued walking. Sonic heard a slight, thud, thud, thud. He turned at the cliff just in time to see a white gloved hand grab the egde and pull another one up.
"Knuckles!" Sonic yelled running back. Everyone turned around and saw Sonic helping both Knuckles and Rouge onto the top of the cliff. They hurried back and helped Sonic. Once they were both safely on the top, Rouge lifted her arms off Knuckles shoulders and Knuckles untied them carefully. Everyone went over to Rouge and asked if she was okay.
"Oh yeah, im fine to by the way." Knuckles said sarcasticly.
"Sorry pal, you okay?" Sonic asked turning to Knuckles.
"Yeah, fine..." Knuckles said looking at his leg. It was a little tired and painful, but not so bad.
Rouge remembered as they were climbing up the cliff, Knuckles didn't use that leg a lot. Rouge crawled over to Knuckles and hugged him tightly. He hugged her back. "Thanks Knuckles." Rouge said as she let him go.
"Come on you two, lets go to Tails Lab." Amy sugested getting up from her knees, along with Cream, Sonic and Tails. Shadow was already standing. Knuckles stood up and stretched, then helped Rouge up.
They started walking towards The Lab. Tails and Cream, trotting in the front, Shadow behind them, Amy behind him, Sonic not far behind Amy, and Knuckles and Rouge at the back talking. Sonic heard Knuckles and Rouge stop and turned back at them. Everyone heard them stop and they all turned.
Knuckles and Rouge were stopped and staring into each others eyes. Rouge had her hands, palms open, on Knuckles chest, Knuckles was holding her lower and middle back with his hands. They stared at each other. Knuckles leaned it, Rouge leaned in after him. Their eye lids got heavy and closed. They leaned closer, into a kiss. Rouge's arms went over Knuckles shoulders and onto his back. They stayed that way for a moment, then they slowly pulled away. Both of their eyes were half open as they stared at each other. Knuckles whispered into Rouges ear.
"Did he just say?..." Amy whispered to Sonic quietly.
"Yeah, he said he loved her..." Sonic whispered back.