The first egg laying bat . Sourght of.

" Your wifes in labour" she stated. Knuckles eyes widened and he stoped breathing, He stoped jumping around out of frustration and the colour drained from his face.
" I WHAT!" Screamed Rouge, incredably supprise. It wasn't possible! Not at six months! She changed her mind when a contraction hit her and she whimpered . Knuckles snapped out of his trance and began yelling again
" Do something!" He screamed at the nurse. She led Rouge into a room next to Siberias and Knuckles laid her on the bed. Rouge tossed around as she felt the pain keep growing. Although it wasn't as bad as she had expected, it was enough to make her scream slightly. Her breaths race in and out of her body and Knuckles kneeled at her side , muttering
" Don't worry , Don't worry " over and over, to Rouge and himself. The nurse made Rouge look at her and said in a sothing voice
" Now calm down Rouge, I want you to tell me , when did your waters break?" . The bat looked up , only half paying attention and said between breaths
" Wha? No. They didn't aaarRRGH!" screamed Rouge as she felt he pain surge again. She felt something moving inside of her but from what she could tell the baby seemed to stay in one place.
" Oh my god! ROUGE!" Yelled Knuckles, taking her hand. Rouge began to feel something inside of her that felt incredably uncomferable to say the least. She whimpered as she pushed whatever it was out of her. Although it seemed to move it to fast and easily. Either this was the easiest birth ever, or there was something wrong. Knuckles gripped her hand and sat there incredably nervous and panicy while the nurse shock her head in confusion
" Wait , this shoud'nt be happening! Her waters havn't broken and she's only halfway through her pregnancy!" She siad in desperation. Knuckles turned to her and said loudly
" Yeah? Well tell that to the baby! Its coming out now!". The bent down to nurse to check and came back up with a plain and slightly confused look on her face.
" Actually... its not" she said
"What?" Said Knuckles, while Rouge realised that the pain had died down and the baby hadn't moved. Whatever she felt was right at her entrance. Gritting her teeth she pushed it out. That was too easy, she thought to herself, way too easy. After the momentary pain of the contractions, Rouge felt almost no pain, it didn't make sence. " What happened?" Said Knuckles. Rouge sat up. No way was that the baby, it was still inside of her, so what just came out? She didn't feel tired like all the mothers said they usually did when they gave birth. Well , she was tired, but apparently most people are so excasted that they could barly move and she was definalty not THAT tired . So what was that? She looked at what the nurse and Knuckles were staring at, and saw, dripping in bodily fluids, lay peices of a half solid, cracked eggshell.
" Im confused" said Rouge, staring at the eggshell. It creeped her out that she had just layed part of an egg. She even felt a little sick. Although she was also happy becuase of it. Bats did not lay eggs and never have, so the egg part must have come from Knuckles, as he was an echidna. This was finnaly proof, to her and Knuckles, that it was his child. It was too bad that there wasn't an easier way of proving it.
Knuckles stared at the shell in shock. He was prepared for a baby! Or at least a full egg. Why did Rouge pass smashed peices of half a shell? Suddenly he felt incredably worried, was that all that was left of his child? Was it dead? He knew that being able to have children with Rouge was too good to be true! All they could ever produce were peices of eggshells. He looked at Rouge, expecting her to seem sad as well, but instead she looked a little shocked but seemed to be calming down. He saw that her stoumuch was still the same size. His child was still alive! So what was with the eggshells?

" It must have been because of its different species parentage" said Tails later on, as Rouge and Knuckles just told everyone what had happened. They were all still at the hospital, as Siberia had stoped feeling pains and was now very quite. Rouge had been checked over by the docters, having a quick scan that confirmed the baby was still there. Rouge had been wondering when something would come up. She had been expecting difficulties, becuase this was the first ever crossbread of two very different species. I hope that's the worse that happens'she thought to herself, feeling a little weird after becoming the first bat in history to lay an egg.
Shadow kept coming out, looking as if he was in his own mind and wondering back in, not really focassing on anything. One thing was for sure though, he looked incredably nervous. " Im guessing becuase Knuckles kind lays eggs and Rouge doesn't , the embroyo got confused and grew part of an eggshell around it, but when the shell began to interfear with the placenta, Rouges body realised that the eggshell wasn't needed and so got rid of it" finised Tails. Everyone stared at him. " What?" He asked when he realised
" How do you know so much about mixed species biology?" Asked Rouge, looking suspios. The young fox shrugged and said " It was part of the advanced couse at the science college, we had to spectculate what would happen if vastly different species could reproduce with one another" he said , sounding very smart for a 16 year old.
" And you chose us for this little specualtion?" Said Rouge suspiously. Tails shrugged again and said embarissed
" Hey! I couldn't think of any other species to do! And it came in handy didn't it?". Rouge shrugged and nodded.
" So, is it going to be like a normal birth from now?" Asked Knuckles, who was still dazed from thinking his child would be born three months earily, something he was not prepared for. At least now he knew that it was his child. He wasn't the smartest of creatures but he knew that bats did not lay eggs and so had happily just went back to Rouge as if they had never broken up.
" Yeah probably, but Rouge may have to pass more eggshell, if the baby starts to try and grow it back" awnswered tails.
" Oh goody" said Rouge sarcastically , rolling her eyes. Tails shrugged and laughed. They all sat for a few seconds just smiling befire their attention was caught by a high pitched scream.
All heads jerked towards the door. The screams continued and got louder and louder and everyone outside sat and waited for the moment of truth.