As knuckles and rouged walked down the halls of the hospital they saw a line of reporters gatherd around shadows roomand they heard them asking him about what sounded like 3000 questions"GET OUT OF HERE IM NOT TALKING ABOUT IT NO MORE, GO WORSHIP YOUR GODMARIO OR WHATEVER HE IS TO YOU AND LEAVE ME ALONE! " They all fell silent and turned to trudge out the door. "ill go in first, he knows me, he might flip if he thinks its another new repoter" rouged said while chuckling "yea ok". Rouge walked up to his door and hesataited a momment before opening it and then walked in "long time no see" she said with a smile. She seemd kinda happy to see himbut he did'nt return the same politness " just what the hell do you wont?" he said spitfully "and who is this little red haird chump with you" " o thats knuckles, he's with me so don't worry about him but anyway i saw about your little fight with mario this morning" " Don't say he's name in my presence" he said and then started squrming to fix the IV chords, " well what did you mean, desturction of all humanity was coming if you did'nt get the emeralds?" "well to begine wirh i promised, maria i would---" " ok don't start with the maria sht again" rouge said sarcastically " well if you insist then i wont tell you why i needed them " " no don't stop him let him continue" knuckles said. Shadow narrrowed his eyes at him and then continued " well the doctor is trying to once again take over the world, and this time he has the help of some new people, from other worlds, i know ones a fox, the other one, hell i dunno what he is i know he has some sort of little robot side kick of some sort and the last one is a human android or something, but of course the only way to over power them all is the emeralds, which that stupid plumber thinks he's going to save the day with, he probably don't even know how to use them properly" As he was going on and on about the emeralds here come walking in a little short fat doctor with that same plastic face and ugly mustache " oh god not doctor mario" rouge mumbles under her breath and then steps back and drags knuckles back with as if to know he's about to do something. He places a hand over shadows mouth and says "hush". "WHAT THE FK DO YOU WANT!" mario slamed his fist down on his broken up legs "now hush i say " "ARHHGGGGGG MY LEGS!" Rouge and knuckles steped out and started down the hall away from his room, "maybe we shoulda helped him" knuckles begain" no he's trouble, it'll probably do him good to get a dose of his own medicine" "but i thought he was a friend" " ha! thats a joke , he's not a lier but he'll do anything to get what he needs or wants and i mean anything, even if it mean his own life, he's crazy if you ask me" "well sometimes thats what it takes" what do you mean?" " you know, to get something done, do it at whatever cost it takes, even if it means death" "yea i guess so if its really that serious" And the silence fell between them again as they walked.
Sonic was up and ready to go when they got back "OH MY GOD! you wont belive what i saw on TV" he shouted as knuckles walked in" what?" " Eggmans up to his sht again with taking over the world, but this time it's different , he wants to destroy it and then rebuild it, with the help of some other big name heros, which reamin annoimous" " i wonder who they are" rouge said oddly" did you hear that mario wants them as well, its like a compiricy is unfolding, like somethign is urging everyone to find them, something is not right about this and im having no part in it, f the dark legion, i don't think thats all thats involved with this, theres something more behind it, something im not ment to mess with, im not the one thats sopose to put a stop to it , im just another victim " And then knuckles turned around and walked off out the door of the apartment. "another victim?" Tails asked "what did he mean by all of that?" " i dunno but one things for sure, we've got to try to get the other emeralds" "thats what he meant, he thinks something is trying to drive all the emeralds together somehow and do something, I'll go talk with him, but get your things together because we've got to go find thoes emeralds do we all might be in danger"She then left to go find knuckles.
In the distance she saw him setting on the ledge of the rooftop and walkded over to take a seat beside him, neither of them said nothing but just sat there enjoying one anothers company until she asked "arnt you cold up here?" that was a stupid question she thought to herself angerly "hmm not really feels good to me" he did'nt attemt to carry on any conversation but just set there thinking about some things i wonder if that mario guy has anythign to do with robonic , i guess its not impossible, but no one else beleaves me on the conspiracy deal, how do i know that the dark legion is'nt just a load of bullsht just to get me to find thoes emeralds god i hate feeling confused. He raised his head and looked up at Rouge and relised how beautiful she was. "well where getting nothing done setting here" she then jumped up and extended her hand toward him " are you going to come along or what?" " i have nothing better to do so i guess so" He did'nt take her hand but just jumped up himself "i may aswell be another dumb f in the rat race for these useless hunks of rock" She laughed at his staments and said "yea, people are acting stupid over them but you have to think about it, there problems that they are trying to solve are probly important to them like yours are" He did'nt reply back, he just silently truged through the snow, looking at his feet and then he looked back up at rouge "you know i don't think iv told you but your very pretty" his says with a smile" yea kinda random" . her chicks turn a pail pink and she mumbles "thanks"
"So where all going to look for the emeralds?" knuckles asked impatiently "yea we've got our stuff together, and according to my statitcs some of the emeralds are spreaded out everywhere and we might be better off to split to look for them" While discusing this there was knock at the door "wonder who that is..." sonic jumps up and runs to the door "you wrang" he says with a wide smile and of course it was mario and his brother luigie "o sht" sonic slamed the door and turned around "we've got plumber issues, just, just act natural and at like you have no idea what he's talking about" he turned back to the door and opend it "yea buddy what can i do for ya?
Meanwhile rouge pulled knuckles off into sonics room whispering"you need to hide, he clearly stated that he knew you had them" "No i have to get out of here" he opend the window but before he could climb out rouge leaned in and kissed him and then pulled away and gave him her cellphone "don't go to far" He did'nt answer her but just started out the window "ill call you when its clear" He just nodded and then jumped down. She slamed the window shut and creeped back out the room to hear sonic talking with mario "buddy i can tell you, i have no idea who that guy is, infact iv never layed an eye on him." The 2 brothers turned around whispering something to one another and then tured to face sonic, the talled one said " well me and my bro are going to take your word for it if and only if you let us look around, sonic hesatated and looked around the room and met with rouges eyes and she told him in her stare that it was ok for them to search the place " well ok, if you have to but let me tell you your not goign to find nothing, but what ever makes you happy" The 2 mean came in and started looking around, searching everywhere they could think of and they found nothign . "well thanks for your coroperation" and then they walked out calmly. what if they run into him on the street. Rouge went over to the phone and called him to let him know things where clear.
Later on that night the 4 of them where in the other city near the robonipolis looking for you guessed it, the emeralds . "this place is huge we'll stand a better chance of finding them if we split" "yea he's right" So sonic and tails went own searching and so did knuckles and rouge, " This place makes me feel like ill never find them" knuckles said hopelesly."dont worry, with a little skill and this radar will be able to find them in er uh no time" she said with a smile. He did'nt say nothing he just walked with his head down yea me and 100 other dumbfks, i wish i could rewind time, i hate how things are now, i feel like im being forcefed life, why am i even still alive? whats my purpose, once i find thoes emeralds ill just have to set on that god forsakend island alone, angel island? ha thats a joke ,more like a demons torture. Its not fare, its not right that i have to be left alone with this sht, ah whats this doing me any good right now, just feeling sorry for myself , im getting nothing done doing this, just more sht built up inside in me, its going to keep building til i snap, i suppose thats what people call a nervous breakdown, just keep being forcefed reality of death, life and thougths like this,yep a perfect cocktail for a nervous breakdown.
Rouge looked over at knuckles and noticed that he was trembling "is ther something wrong?" she just relised how stupid that sounded, of course there something wrong, he's lost everything that matters to him. He stoped and looked up at her his eyes flooded with tears "does it look like im ok?" he lowered his head back down and continued walking "You can't keep blaming yourself for this, it wont your fault" " yea you wont there how do you know? i did'nt do nothing to help no one, i deserve all this sht, i dug my own grave and now i have to lay in it, i could'a helped them but i was'nt strong enough, so now here i fking am left with all there pain they just endured for the last 5 secondes of there life, all of them just had to deal with for that long but look at me, im going to have to have this sht rubed in my face for the rest of my life" "knuckles---" he cut back in " you know what? i don't have to deal with this, i control my life, i can fking end it ,why should i be the one left alone with it?why---" "STOP IT!" she screamed at the top of her lungs she turned to him with tears in her eyes and then she turned and ran off. He stood there with his mouth droped open great iv scared her off "ROUGE, YOU DON'T NEED TO RUN AROUND HERE BYE YOURSELF!" she kept running and paid no attetion to him.
She kept running and heard him scream something at her but she kept running til she gave out of breath and stoped in an alley way when she finally did notice that her radar was going crazy with the warning on that she was close to a chaos emerald.She looked up around and saw Shadow staring at her with his head tilted and he somehow looked different and more evil. He held out a yellow emerald and yelled "CHAOS CONTROL!" and her whole body went numb.
Knuckles runned off in the direction that she was running to come upon the scene of her body up against the wall frozen with a horrified expression on her face and then he looked up to see shadow walking towards him, his eyes flaming up and glowing " ill give you a head start on the count of 3, enchidna and i suggest you take this to value and run as fast as you can" " But i thought you where in the hospital" "SILENCE! 1" "how the--" "2" Knuckles ran over and grabed up rouge and took off running. You know what im not fking running this time, where did that get me before. He sat her down for a momment and pulled out the 2 emeralds he had and bowed his head to whisperd a prayer then looked up to see shadow running his way "CHAOS CONTROOOOLLL!" He screamed at him and rouge became unfroze and shadow froze before him. He heard her coughing and reached down and took her hand pulled her to her feet and took off running "we've got to get out of here" "don't worry he'll be froze for a while" He stoped running and slowed to a walking pace " how did he get way out here? " " he has clones,robonics cloned him a few times" "you think maybe i could get that emerald while he's frozen" "yea, you can" She walked behind him as he made his way toward the duplicate shadow. He walked up to him and took the emerald out o fhis hand and stared hm down a mooment, it kinda creeped him out the way he had his eyes fixed right onto him and that made him step back after he got the emerald. "well i guess we should get going" "yea..."
As they where walking down the street the snow begain to fall creating a beatuful atmosphere and thats when it hit him BAM! It hit him Like a ton bricks and the next he knew he was looking up at himself. "What the fk is going on here?" "i don't know you tell me! I did'nt know i had an identical twin!" "identtical twin? you have got to be kidden' me man!" Hehe watch this sht "So if your the REAL knuckles and thats what YOU say? why don't you get the misses' to tell which is the real one? hmmm?" Knuckles holds his head down for a momment and then looks back up " this is rediualas, she can tell us apart" Then he turns to her and she's standing there with a blank puzzeled look on her face "right?" " uh, yea um cough yea well i hate to say this but you are acting kinda weird" "huh? come on now" And thats when sonice walks up "WHOA! buddy theres 2 knuckleses, is one like an evil clone or something?" He jumps in a fighting stance "alright the fake step forward right now or both of you are going out" " o yea...riiiight. like im scared of this waesel looking faggot" Dry hackinging laugh "ok i know you can tell us apart now! if you can't then im leaving" THen he turns and begins to walk away and thats when sonice wams him up aside the head with a spin dash "uhhhhh goodnight" and then he falls out. Sonic begins to hear a dry hacky laugh behind him and turns around to see a little short pink ball. " KIRBY!" eveerybody said all at once "damn...looks like thoes chaos emeralds dont work to well" he turned around and took off running and sonic sped behind him but feld because he pulled out a small black round objectand slaped it on the side walk, "see ya suckers!" he jumped thru it and was gone" hey! where'd he go" sonic yelled while pacing around the spot he jumped down. "and he has one of thoes emeralds" knuckles said with a sigh. Rouge walked over to knuckles " are you ok?" "yea i guess" he climed to his feet "Well theres no way to catch him now...im going to find somewhere to turn in...i feel tired as fk" he then tuend around and walked off, "yea i guess he's right" rouge turned and follwed behind him " yea! me to " tails added "but what about the emerald?" "we'll look for it later" tails mumbled while still walking away.
