None of these characters are mines and please bare with the story, it gets pretty interesting
--2 days later... knuckles had decided to stay with sonic and tails for a few days--
He was standing around inside sonic's apartment, kinda bored but he did'nt bother to say so. Sonic and tails had been arguing over something to do with a tornado ship of some sort for the past half hour, he really had no idea what they where talking about so he just stood there lost in his mind thinking stuff over and then he poped his head up and looked at both of them " do any of you know anything about the dark legion?" Sonic and tails turned there head towards him and stared a minute then sonic said " sounds like some sort of witch craft gang but no buddy i dunno what it is" " iv heard about it.its something to do with thoes chaos emeralds" dispite his young age tails sounded very mature, and then he continued " sonic said you where an enchida and they have alot to do with thoes emeralds.." knuckles blurted in" yea theres this emerald on the island that my grandfather said i was suppose to be protecting when he was gone and yea he's taught me alot about but i still don't fully understand its powers and so on, and i don't understnad the connection between the dark legion and the emeralds" " well considering i found one about a week ago iv been reading up on there power and ..." He paused a momment and walked over to the computer to pull up some info about the emeralds " well heres alot of stuff i found out about the emralds it dont say much about the dark legion though but i do know the dark legion from what i read the groups ancesters where the ones that formed the emeralds and they where ment to use for evil but then they where taken back by the other enchidas to prevent there miss use" But why did'nt they jsut destroy them after that" " well they found good use for them and they where also duplicates of the master emrald so if they got destroyed then they would be screwed over big time!" " o ok"
knuckles fell silent and stared down at the floor for a momment... and then a loud BOOM came form outside that sounded like a bomb blew up. It made knuckles jump and tails and sonic went rushing over to the window and saw nothing abnormal, knuckles however looked up thru the window facing the ocean and saw a huge tidel wave coming" OOOHH SHT! ITS COMMING STRAIGHT FOR US!" "AHHHHH!" sonic started running around in circles acting like and idiot and tails just stood there with his mouth wide open"uhh uhhh WE NEED TO GET THE TORNADO! YEA THATS IT!" Tails took off flying and in about about 1 minute he came flying up to the window on a small plane"HOPE ON QUIKLY!" knuckles jumped on the small plane without thinking twice and sonice leaped on right behind him " ill bet robonic has something to do with this" "whos robonic?" "you mean you don't know who old robo-butt is?" " nope never heard of him" "where have you been at? he's like our "nemisnes" or something, he's always trying to take over the world and stuff and its hour duty to stop him! The worlds fate in there hands? ...god help us." uh yea" knuckles just kinda doubted these 2 being able to save the world or whatever , i mean they just don't look like the type "hold on guys!" tails turned the plane at a 90 degree angle to take a better look at what happen, there wont any damag anywhere the water had died down before it reached the apartments or the city but it had put a large piece of land in the water which knuckles thought looked formilar, " hey can you fly a little closer to that tails?" "hey thats angel island" tails shouted back " how'd it get down there?" sonice asked kinda confused lookign " o no they must've came back for it! Tails carry me down there!" He made the plane take a quick dive downward which made knuckles sick from his still quizzy stomach and he puked on sonic" " OOO NOO BUDDY! GAH! YUCK!" Knuckles looked very embaressed"um sorry?" why did'nt you turn the other way!" " uh my head jurked this way when he went down...besides if things where the way they where when i left, i have a shower ya know" " gah! ok buddy"
When he climbed out of the plane everything was how he left it all but the master emerald was gone and the old ruins seemed broke up. HE stood there a momment recallign the horror that had occured what seem like just minutes ago and heard the words "GONE" . " URHH! STOP TORTURING ME!" he screamed this at the top of his lungs and then looked over at sonic and tails staring at him wide eyed, did i just say that outloud? " buddy uh something the matter? "no of course not uh i mean yea i saw a spider or soemthing" good going knux you saw a fking spider nice lying man " your making all that racket over a spider? " yea im arachnephobic or what ever its called haha" he gave them a kinda weak smile saying he was ok" " if you say so buddy" Knuckls looked around the ruins where the master emerald and saw a girl lying infront of where the emerald once was, she appered to be knoked out or fainted, he walked over to her and looked down at her a momment, she was a very pretty girl or should i say bat.He kneeled down beside her and placed a hand on her chest to see if her heart was beating which it was..."hey sonic, come over here a seconde" Sonic come speeding over there "you rang? hahahaha...WHOA whos the babe? thats your gf? " no i don't know who she is, i wonder how she got here?" Just as they where dicussing this the ivory colored bat raised up grabing at her head , her blue eyes wide with fear and she glaced up at sonic and knuckles then jumping in a fighting position "ok who are you two?" " i was about to ask you the same thing" She ignored his question and turned to see that the jewl was gone " ARHHH! its gone!" she cried out " yea i know, did you see what happen to it" " well a matter of fact i did see some of what happen til i got knocked out by thoes creeps, wella nyway i was about to get my jewl --" "WAIT! YOUR JEWL!" "yea did i studder? my jewl" he couldnt belive she was trying to take the only thing he had left to him "no i think you've got this all wrong that emerald was mine, you see my grandfather just passed ...well my whole family .." "im sorry" : thanks but yea i was suppose to be gaurding it" " and why wont you hear gaurding it?" she asked suspciously "never mind that just tell me what you saw while you where here" " ok well as i was saying i was here about to get YOUR jewl or so you say and then these guys came in on this ship or something but it looked as though they warped in because its almost like they just appeard there after a huge thundering noise, and then a few of these guys jumped out of it, they kinda looked like you accept they where black and had green eyes and they seem to have a green fog or vapor around them. One just walked up to me without warning and poped me aside the head with his gun and yea thats all i saw"
Knuckles stood there dazed" Hellooooo did you just hear word i said?" "yea yea i was just thinking about they sound just like the freaks that came in and destroyed everything yesterday" "O is that so huh?" yea " they just came in and klled everybody...but me:" He then got silent and rouge could tell he was getting upset and she found herself feeling some pitty on the guy and she could'nt think of no words to say that would probably bring him comfort. " Um well i don't think iv properly introduced myself...im Rouge, and you are?" He did'nt answer her question, he just turned around away from her. She did however mange to see the tears streaming down his face. " are you ok?" she asked in a concerned tone of voice. he managed to choke out "yea fine, and im knuckles" She walked up to the stranger in hopes of conforting him and put her arms around him to hug him, then whispered in his ear" i know how it is to lose someone...the pain don't never go away but it will get better" she felt wierd trying to comfort a complete stranger but in the same since she felt as though she had known him for a while.He did'nt say nothing just contnued with silent sobs. "WHOA who knew the knux was such a fast dude!" Sonic came strolling up behind the two of them, and knuckles kinda backed away from her arms still keeping in lock with her sypathetic crystal blue eyes and then he turned his attention to sonic "o we where just discussing something" " o yea and what was that somthing? hmm?" His eyes where still a little red from crying and he just mumbled under his breath" I'll tell you later". "haha sure you will buddy." 'yea" he then sighed and walked off.
"Knuckles wait" he heard rouge call after him and then he turned around, she was running up behind him " hey look um i can uh maybe help find your emerald. If you want some extra help, I mean after all i am a world class treasure hunter." she smiled with thoes words " sure stick around I could use your help, because between me and you i don't think i have much hope with thoes two" He flashed his glance over to sonic who was over by the ruins playing with some sort of bug and laughing "yea i see what you mean" and then she laughed. "well i don't think it's going to be on this island thats for sure, and im not going to stay up here tonight because they might decide to return and i don't think i'll be able to take them on with my bare hands, there pretty strong. and fast, it was almost like they where robots or something, but anyway i did want to go back to the place i always went to when i wanted to be alone " " oh hmm don't mind if i come do you?" "nah" They continue to walk till they came up to the darker part of the woods and then there was a small lake with a few trees around it and it was a very relaxing place. He went over to set on a large stone near the water, he reached down and helped rouge up there as well. " i always came here when i wanted to get away from everything, kinda like run from my problems" "yea we all do that sometimes, it's good to get away from stress" " but you could run a million miles away and the one thing you wont ever be able to escape is your thoughts, they always stick with you and can be your worst enemy" She could'nt think of nothing to reply with on that one so she just sat there staring down at the water, he's got a very unique but forlorn way of looking at life, i bet alot sht's happen to him , thats one of the things that attracted her to him. "KNUUUUUUUUUCKLES!" sonic shouted at the top of his lungs.Sighs "guess its time to go ..." he mumbled in a hushed voice.
The couch sonic had irratated kuckles everytime he went to turn over and CREEEEEEAK jesus christ how old is this thing! sounds likes its ready for the fcking junk yard! He fianlly found sleep and settled down after about 30 minutes of tossing and turning...then what seemed like maybe not even an hour later sonic and tails where in the kitchen arguing over what to cook for breakfast? "ERRRR! I CAN'T SLEEEP WITH THIS REDICULAS RACKET!" THere was a momment of silence and then sonic shouted back " what are you talkin bout buddy! o yea do you want chili dogs for breakfast or yuck pancakes" " i don't want nothing i just want sleep, i sleep when im depressed and this is not a god day" " god buddy its 7:30 you need to get up" this is not going to work this is not going to work this is not going to work "i have no appitite" Come to think of it, it had been about 3 or 4 days since he had ate.." what happen to your save the world idea or what ever?" " o can't save the world on an empty belly" sonic said with a huge smile. " yea guess you cant" Knuckles shot sonic an evil look and gave up on trying to go back to sleep and went and crawled into the shower. When he got out he felt a little better.
"So how do we know where to start looking for them ?" "We don't" knuckles answerd with a puzzled look " yea we do" tails butted in "we can track eggman, im sure he has something to do with this, he's bound to. i mean the last i heard he was looking for the chaos emreralds, they harnes some sort of power that he needs to open up the space colony ARK and thats his key to take over the world" " yea that makes since bu--" "i have a radar i created to track the emeralds" they all turned around to see rouge standing behind them with a seductive smile." Remember i promised last night i was going to help out , so here i am and according to this theres an emerald located around here near the police station or perhaps inside" "Sonic shrugged his shoulders" well what are we standing around here for lets get busy!" "this should be interesting" knuckles mumbled. Tails said loudly to get everyones attention" We all don't need to go in there because its going to look suspicios , just one of us" they all turned and looked at knuckles "OHH no not me! no way i hate authority!"
