The next day...
Rouge came back from the store and was greeted by everyone. Not. She walked in and Sonic was watching TV with Shadow, Amy and Cream were baking, Tails was drawing blueprints for inventions. Knuckles, however, at least smiled and waved at her.
"Oh, don't everyone say hi at once." Rouge said sarcastically. Sonic and Shadow waved, without taking their eyes off the TV, Rouge rolled her eyes.
"Bye the way Sonic, I got your special rubbing ointment, you know, for your special place." Rouge said with a smile.
"Huh what?" Sonic said turning around, Shadow turned also.
"That got your attention, here is your soda." Rouge said tossing a 6 pack at him.
"Thank you." Sonic said ripping a can off the plastic holder.
"I got a movie for you guys, rated PG, and for me, Knuckles and Shadow, I got an R!" Rouge said with a smile.
"No thanks, I got a better show to watch." Shadow said with an evil smile.
"Okay, but its supposed to be really scary." Rouge said.
"Yeah, but im a robot, I don't get scared." Shadow said "No feeling, remember."
"Whatever." Rouge said putting the bag on the table and looking threw it. "Here, the ladders." She said handing the ladders to Tails.
"Okay, one in our room, one in yours." He said. "Ill install them."
"Pretty soon it will be dark enough for our movie, Knuckles, we'll watch it in half an hour." Rouge said.
"Okay." Knuckle replied.
Shadow smiled evilly. 'Yes, so does mine.' he thought.
Half an hour later, Sonic, Amy Tails and Cream decided to watch their movie, too. Shadow left to go somewhere 5 minutes ago. Knuckles and Rouge entered the room. They didn't see him. Shadow. Behind the headboard. There was a small, 2 or 3 foot space, to originally hide from Eggman if he came. Rouge sat on the bed, Knuckles headed for the air bed.
"Your not gonna watch the movie on that thing, are you?" She asked.
"Yeah." He said stopping, and putting the movie in the VCR.
"No you're not, come on the bed with me, there is more than enough room." She said with a smile. Not evil. Knuckles smiled back.
"Thanks." He said. The movie started.
The movie was almost over, it was at the high point of scary. Something really scary happened and Rouge wrapped her arms around one of his. Suddenly, Rouge heard something from behind them, a chuckle? Giggling? A male voice... Rouge leaned closer to Knuckles' ear. Or where it should be.
"Knuckles, listen, I hear something, its probably Sonic or something, go with me okay?" She asked in a whisper only Knuckles could hear.
"Alright." He whispered back.
"Oh Knuckles, you're so handsome."She said loud enough for the entire room to hear. She heard the laugh again. So did Knuckles. They knew who it was. Shadow.
"You, Rouge, are the most beautiful woman I have ever lay eyes on." Knuckles said loudly.
"Yes, but do you know who is more handsome, strong, and brilliant then both of us together? Shadow of course." Rouge said, hardly containing her laughter.
"Yeah. He is so brave and heroic, much better than anything or anyone." Knuckles said almost bursting with laughter.
Shadow knew what they were doing by the tone of their voices.
"Okay, fine, you caught me." Shadow said climbing out from behind the headboard.
"Gasp Shadow! What are you doing here." Rouge said sarcastically. Knuckles burst out laughing, as did Rouge.
"Hahaha, very funny." Shadow said angrily. "Im going to watch TV in the livingroom, you guys are boring anyway."
"Okay, handsome." Rouge said laughing.
Knuckles and Rouge continued to watch the movie after they settled down. Later, Shadow came back to sleep in his corner, Knuckles went and slept on his Air matt, and Rouge slept on her bed. The night had fallen. Knuckles awoke to slight noises, he was a light sleeper. Something sounded like talking, threatening, cursing and sounds like someone was tying someone up. He listened more carefully.
"Sonic, my old nemesis. Its good to see you." The voice was obviously Eggman.
"You may have us. But you will never get the rest of us." Sonic spat.
"There are more? Perfect, the Echidna must be here." The Eggman voice said.
Knuckles got off of his air matt and Shadow opened one eye.
"Shadow, get out, Eggman is here." Knuckles whispered. Shadow nodded and quietly said, 'Chaos Control'. Luckily, Eggman didn't see the light, or hear Shadow's voice.
Knuckles knew there was not enough time to carry Rouge down the ladder. They were coming for them. Knuckles quickly let the ladder down and ran back to the bed where Rouge was. No time to get out. He grabbed her and hid behind the headboard. Rouge opened her eyes slightly and saw Knuckles holding her, they were hiding, she knew. She turned her head to where the door was, she saw shadows and feet under the door.
"They'll find us." Knuckles whispered. "Unless..." he gently slid under the bed, with Rouge.
"In here!" Said Eggman. The door swung open. Eggman looked at the open window. The ladder hung down. "They escaped!" Eggman yelled as he ran back to where Sonic and the others were.
"Told you Egghead." Sonic said with a smile.
"Shut up, blue boy." Eggman said slapping Sonic across the face. "Take them to the base." he instructed the robots. They did so. When Knuckles was sure they had left, he climbed out from under the bed, with Rouge.
"You okay?" Knuckles asked.
"Yeah, fine, what happened?" she asked.
"Eggman got everyone, Shadow though, escaped." Knuckles replied.
"Oh, we need to rescue everyone." She said.
"Yeah, Shadow would be no help, he would probably just leave or start bragging about being the ultimate life form." Knuckles said.
"Yeah, plus, his history with Eggman would not help save lives." Rouge agreed.
"In the morning, we'll go after them." Knuckles said.
"Okay, we need a good nights sleep." She said stretching.
"Yeah." Knuckles nodded, then lifted Rouge onto her bed, she was still in his arms.
"Come on." Rouge said patting the spot next to her "we need a good nights sleep, that matt wont give you much energy."
Well... No, I guess it wouldn't help..." He said.
"Its only for a few hours." She said.
"Okay. Im coming." he said as he lay next to her.
" Good, now go to sleep, we need as much energy as possible." Rouge said closing her eyes.
Authers Notes:
Yeah, this is a long chapter, sence the last one was so short. please R&R!