(Renamed) Life After: Sonic Crew
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I've decide to replace the old harder on the eyes, chaps, some new words added, not much but easier to read, that's about it, everything is pretty much the same.
Chapter One: True Feelings
There he was doing nothing as usual, except guarding that giant green rock. It had been three months since the events of ARK and three months since he had last seen her, the one person who has tormented him day and night without speaking to him. He thought of her, the last words she spoke;
"I've got something better than jewels that I'm thinking about right now, it will all work out you'll see."
'What did she mean by that?' He thought over and over.
Then a twig snapped, catching his attention, he looked ahead...nothing;
"I've been thinking too much, I need a nap." He said. He then lay down in front of the Master Emerald and fell asleep.
Darkness lured around him.
"Is this a dream?" His question echoed.
Then in the distance he saw a familiar figure; she giggled at him and said "Hey Knuckles."
"Rouge..."He said softly but shaken, then she came closer to him and kissed him lightly on his lips.
"I love you." She whispered in his ear.
"And I love you too." He looked up at her; he turned his head back and noticed the shrine with the Mastered Emerald, he turned back and walked off with Rouge holding her hand and smiled at her.
All of sudden something grabbed her and cupped her mouth.
He went into a fighting stance and yelled, "Let go of her now, before I kick your ass!"
"Knuckles! You have been too distracted by her to do your job, guarding the Master Emerald!" The figure said in a deep god like voice, reviling himself to be a glowing sky blue echidna with bright white eyes.
"That doesn't matter to me now!" Knuckles yelled.
"That's is why you cannot be with her! You no longer care about the Master Emerald! You've been solely trusted with guarding it! You can not be thinking of your self when there are such great things at stake!" He said.
"I've never done anything for myself in my entire life; everything I've ever done has been for the good of the Master Emerald! And now all I want is one thing, to be with happy...with her." He said losing his voice.
"Disobey the will of the guardians and she will suffer this fate!" He then he slashed a very sharp knuckle barb across her neck, and let go of her. Her eyes widen and became all white; she fell to the floor and was surrounded by a pool of red thick blood.
Knuckles ran to her and fell to his knees and turned her head saw the large wound from where the blood flowed through.
"Rouge...no...no...no...please don't leave me...please...don't leave...me, I finally got you and...now...please don't leave..." He began to cry over her dead corpse.
He looked up at the blue figure and said, "Why can't I be happy for once in my life? Why does my guardianship of the Master Emerald have to stand the way of me being happy? Why? She was no harm, she wasn't a threat!"
"Knuckles, you know very well that's not true. She is a thief; she would have had her way with you. Your mind must be on the Master Emerald and nothing else!"
"But that still doesn't answer my question!" Knuckles yelled back.
The darkness began to fade.
"Yoo-hoo wakey-wakey-wakey mister guardian." A sly voice said.
Knuckles woke up and looked at Rouge who smiled at him and asked, "Was the little guardian having a bad nightmare?" She laughed.
"Shut up Rouge…"
"Sheesh, so touchy-touchy, what were dreaming about? Besides me?" She asked with a wide grin.
"I wasn't dreaming about you and its none of your business." He said crossing his arms.
"Yes you were, why else would you be calling out my name out loud in your sleep?" She said with one hand on her hip.
"Why'd you come here?" He asked flatly, trying to change the subject.
"Just to catch up with and old friend."
"Old! I'm old look whose talking you're—"He stop because he saw Rouge raise her as if she was going to slap him;
"Watch it buddy, finish that sentence and I will slap the shit out of you!"
"Yea...forget what I was about to say." Knuckles chuckled nervously.
Rouge calmed down and sat down next to him, "So still guarding this huh?"
"Yeah life for me is never any different." He looked away;
'At least not until you popped up in my life...'
"So how's your life going?" He asked.
"Not bad actually, as you already know I'm not a thief anymore but I do work for the president more often now. And I'm trying to accomplish more of my dreams now." She answered.
"Which would be..." He asked as he made a hand gesture.
"Well I've always wanted to write a book and more than that I've always wanted to...to..." She stopped talking and turned her head and began to blush slightly.
"No...No go on Rouge, finish" Knuckles insisted.
"Well ok but promise not to laugh! And only if you tell me about...um...um... Ah ha! You have to tell me about who you like. And I know there's someone!" She poked at his chest.
"How would know?"
"Everyone in this world likes someone!"
"Fine..." He said annoyed.
"You better not lie to me Knuckles because I'm telling you something very personal to me." She said while giving him a death glare.
"I said I will! Sheesh you're so untrusting, now finish what you were telling me."
She sighed and began, "I've always wanted to be a...a...mother."
There was a strange and weird and uncomfortable pause…
Then, Knuckles scooted away from her and raised and eyebrow and ask;
"Are you serious?"
"Why is it so shocking to everyone that I've always wanted to be a mother?" She let out a heavy and aggravated sigh.
"Can I ask why?" She sighed again;
"Because I remember the joy my mother had when she took care of me and my brothers and sisters. I've always wanted to experience the joy that my mother had, a joy that I never got from stealing jewels or anything else...okay enough about me now let's hear about your love." She chuckled.
"Oop! Would ya look at the time, nice seeing you again but it's time to leave, see ya!"
"Oh no you don't! You have to do it because I told about my dream, now go on and don't you dare lie to me..." She said a bit angered by Knuckles.
"Ok...there is someone, she's beautiful, sweet, and she doesn't know I like her,"
"Like? Stop lying Knuckles..." Rouge said pushing him playfully.
"Okay! fine I love her! There happy?" He yelled crossing his arms again. A blush made its way onto his cheeks.
"Aww, look, you're blushing too! Can I have a name please?" She asked eagerly wanting to know.
"No." He said turning his back to and lying down.
Under his breath he whispered, "Cause she's sitting right next to me."
Rouge's sensitive bat ears heard what he said and she blushed heavily.
She suddenly began to grin happily at the thought, "Aww Knuckles that's so sweet I didn't know you cared about me, let alone loved me!"
Knuckles's eyes went wide;
'Son of a…she heard me! Those damn ears! Now what am I supposed to say?' He got up quickly and turned to face her, only to be met by her soft and gentle lips.
As she kissed him, she moved up on to his lap. She put a hand on his cheek as he put one around her and another on her thigh. She moaned softly as he continued to kiss her. She began to giggle as he began to play with her tongue.
They were going to need air sooner or later. When they broke off they heard some snickering.
All of sudden Espio the Chameleon became visible and fell to the floor laughing his heart out and saying;
"Oh my...pfffihahahahhahah! Knuckles the Echidna: powerful guardian of Master Emerald is in love with Rouge the Bat!" Knuckles blush into a new shade of red, Rouge turned into a soft pink.
As if that wasn't bad enough in tree up head of them, Sonic fell off branch with camera in his hand laughing harder than Espio; he got up and started walking over to them. Tails and Amy popped out of a bush and walk towards them.
"Anyone else hiding up here?" Knuckles ask extremely embarrassed knowing that they were going even more fun of him now.
"Jeez Knuckles, you call yourself a guardian? We've been here way before Rouge got here and you couldn't tell we were here?" Espio laughed some more, "Or was it because you're too busy thinking about her…or maybe it's because you were way into that kiss?"
"So…Rouge…Knuckles…how did the other's tongue taste?" Sonic said trying to contain his laughter.
"Alright…get it out of your systems now before I get mad." Knuckles said all was quiet for a moment, and then Sonic, Tails, and Espio busted out laughing harder and louder then before.
Growling a little Knuckles deicide to withhold his rage and use this to his advantage, "Well Sonic, Tails, Espio I don't see any of you guys holding a girl on your lap and kissing her." Espio and Tails shut up.
Sonic sighed and started talking about what they had been talking about earlier and showed them to camera, "Nice to know what your dreams are Mama Rouge! hahahaha!"
Rouge got up off Knuckles's lap and walk towards Sonic who continued to go on, "Man I wonder what a bat and an echidna mix into, maybe something with dreadlocks and wings of a bat or may—'' Rouge's blood boiled and she ended up kicking Sonic in between the legs. He fell to the ground in pain.
Tails chuckled a little, "Ouch that's gotta hurt."
Sonic held himself, groaning as a silence covered them.
"What'd we do now?" Tails asked.
"Well we could get me an ice pack please?" Sonic ask while holding himself.
"Knuckles where do keep ice up here?" Amy groaned trying to aid the hedgehog in pain.
"In my house, in—"
"You have a house up here?" Rouge interrupted.
"Yeah of course I do, who doesn't have a house."
"Well I've never seen it; can you at least show me?" Rouge asked while looking for the house.
"Sure why not...um just wait a sec." Knuckles then got up placed his hands on the Master Emerald chanted some words and then the floor under the emerald opened up and it slowly spun inside and the floor close up sealing the emerald inside.
"What'd you do?" Tails ask him.
"Well that place were it is now is called the Chaos Chamber, that is impenetrable cell only a guardian like me can open and go in to." Knuckles explained.
They then arrived at Knuckles's house and when they walked in. It was a simple place 1 room, 1 bed, a living room: 2 couches and a kitchen.
"Wow Knuckles do you know how cook?" Amy asked
"A little bit not much just what I can kill."
"Kill?" Rouge asked him in shaken voice.
"Yeah like chickens and stuff like that." He answered.
Espio laughed "Chickens live up here?"
"Yea just about everything lives here except maybe cows."
"Moooo" Tails joked.
"No…not funny." Sonic said dully.
"So why'd you guys come here any way?" Rouge asked the three.
"We came to see if maybe Knuckles wanted to come to Cream's birthday. I still don't why she wants you come, any way you coming?" Sonic began
In a forest near Knuckles's house
"Three more warnings, three more that's all you get then matters will taken into my hands Knuckles." The figure knelt down on a branch and disappeared.
(Near Tha Iced Out Snowman's house in the street)
Snowman: The fuck you want?
Lawyer: Just disclaim it before I take your car.
Snowman: Yea...right... (Doesn't see his eclipse get towed away...)
Snowman: Oh shit! Hey wait, I still got payments on that!
Lawyer: Disclaim it then!
Snowman: Motherfucker, fine they (sonic crew) ain't mines! Now give me car back!
Lawyer: Here (releases car from tow chain, car slams on ground)
Snowman: Hey what the fuck? That's metallic paint job you bitch!
Lawyer: Not my problem... (zooms off)
DJ: Stupid gov't assholes...