The next day Knuckles woke up. Rouge was on the other side of the bed. He got up and stretched. Rouge woke up.
"Oh, morning Knuckles, you ready?" Rouge asked.
"Yeah." He replied. The sky was dark and gray, like rain was coming. "We leave in twenty minutes, be ready." Knuckles said. Rouge nodded. She lifted herself out of bed, although she was still in pain. Her arm hurt a little bit, where a bruise was.
Twenty minutes later, they left to rescue their friends. Rain was drizzling. They came to the base.
"Huh. Eggman's bases never change, do they." Rouge said.
"Nope." Knuckles agreed. He took a step forward, as did Rouge. No alarm. They shrugged and went forward. A door? It looked like a regular, door.
"Nice." Rouge said raising an eyebrow.
"Its open." Knuckles said punching it off of its hinges.
"It really was, you know." Rouge said referring to the fact it had no lock.
"Whatever." Knuckles said, he knew it wasn't locked all along. He just didn't like the door.
They walked in and saw Eggman right there, with everyone.
"Hello, Echidna. Bat." He said formally.
Earlier...
Eggman was crying over the fact that he was so lonely.
"Why cant I find anyone! If I see one more happy couple, ILL DIE!" Eggman said.
"You know, we are still here." Sonic said.
"Yeah, sorry, its just IM SO SAD!" Eggman yelled.
"Um... There... There?" Sonic said uneasily.
He heard a door fall down.
"Don't say a word about this, or I'll kill Amy." Eggman threatened.
Now...
"Hey Eggman. Just want to talk." Knuckles said calmly. "First, to Sonic, then to you."
"Okay..." Eggman said making evil eyes at Sonic. He gulped.
"Hey, Chilly Hog!" Knuckles said walking over.
"Red Man! Hey." Sonic replied.
"Yo, you still eaten them raw eggs?" Knuckles said.
"Yep. Love 'em." Sonic said.
"Really?" Knuckles asked
"No, I just, 'pretended to love them'" Sonic said.
"I see... lonely?" Knuckles asked.
"Eh, cry and weep." Sonic said.
"Sitting in front, watch out." Knuckles said. Sonic was sitting, in a cell, with everyone.
"What are you guys talking about? Rouge asked.
"Nothing." Knuckles said walking back to Rouge.
"Please, sit down." Eggman said pointing to a table.
"Rouge, I have a plan, work with me." Knuckles whispered.
Knuckles took the seat closest to the cell, right in front of it, Eggman sat across. Knuckles looked at Rouge who was standing, and patted himself on his knee, gesturing her to sit there. Rouge hesitated, but remembered what Knuckles just said. She sat down.
"Tea?" Eggman offered.
"Alright." Knuckles said.
"Don't worry, I didn't put anything bad in the tea, or any of the condiments for that matter." Eggman said passing Knuckles a cup."Sugar?" He asked
"No thank you, I already got my sugar." Knuckles said kissing Rouge's cheek. She giggled.
"So... You two... An item?" Eggman asked, twitching.
"You could say that." Rouge said with a smile.
"I... See." Eggman growled and got angry. He swiftly pulled a gun from his pocket and aimed it at Knuckles. He stood up, with Rouge.
"Cool off..." Knuckles said.
" TAKE THIS!" Eggman said firing the gun, Knuckles sidestepped and the laser hit the cell, opening it.
"Thanks for the parting gifts." Knuckles said running out with everyone. Eggman broke down and cried.
Once they got far away from the base, but could still see it. They stopped.
"YEAH!" Sonic yelled high-fiving Knuckles.
"Im so glad I went to summer camp!" Knuckles said laughing.
"What are you guys talking about!" Rouge repeated.
"Me and Sonic, we went to summer camp a while ago, we made up a secret code that only we could understand." Knuckles explained.
"Is that why you guys were talking about raw eggs and calling each other weird names?" Amy asked.
"Yeah, we made up the code names at camp." Sonic said.
" Knuckles, do you know why Eggman is after you?" Tails asked.
"Yeah, I stole something. When we were in Eggman's base, a few days ago, before I fought him with Rouge, I found something is a box. A Chip. He called it, MCV2.0. when Tails and Sonic were fighting Eggman, I took it. I tried to destroy it but its invincible, so I was going to Tails lab to see if he could deactivate it. That's when I met up with Rouge." Knuckles Explained.
"What does it do?" Tails asked.
"Well, it was supposed to be a new micro chip for making his robots indestructible." Knuckles said.
"Do you have it?" Tails asked.
"Yeah, hold on." Knuckles said sitting down and taking his shoe off. He looked at the lego-like gray part on the top of his shoe, he pulled it off and revealed a secret compartment. Inside was a small, green chip. He handed it to Tails.
"I see..." Tails said taking out his magnifying glass and looking at it. "Shouldn't be to hard." he took out his screw driver and tinkered with it until it made a beeping sound and it turned gray. "Useless!" Tails claimed dropping it on the ground and stomping on it. It smashed apart.
"Great, lets go home." Sonic said. Shadow suddenly ran to them.
"Hello, you broke out? Good." Shadow said. The rain was still pouring.