Sorry, no background story this time... you should be happy that I updated in the first place. OH, BLAHRGGAG, I UPDATED!11!1!1
A/N chapter five, we finally hear about sonic and knuckles. Yay, or boo.
Fallen Angel: Chapter 5: The Food Factor and Friendly Fakers.
She walked into the next room, then Shadow rose and followed her in. He was glad for the change in scenery, as it meant that the previous subject would be dropped... and hopefully left. He entered to find himself in a room with a small 'island' in the center. On the island were fixings for sandwiches. Rouge did everything fancily, and thus, there were small loaves of rye, wheat, white bread, sourdough, French bread, and a few others he didn't recognize. Meats included roast beef, smoked turkey and chicken, honey glazed ham, and none of that store bought sliced stuff; this was genuinely hand cut tender meat. Other ingredients included sliced of egg, tomatoes, fresh, crispy lettuce which could crunch appetizingly in your mouth, releasing a moist, refreshing, bitter sweet taste onto your buds (I once had to write a 2 page essay about lettuce. Rawrg at Mrs. Tupper... ), cheese of a variety of aromas and colors, and little tooth picked olives to hold it all together. It was enough to make the buffet at Subway look like an averagely stocked refrigerator. On the opposite side of this array, there was a bowl of fruits, both known and exotic to the dark animal. Then he noticed Rouge hanging upside down above the fruit, picking up small sliced bits and plopping them in her mouth. She stopped eating and said, "Do you like? Knuckles made it up fresh for us."
"Knuckles? That twit knows how to cook?"
Rouge scowled at him again, but her inverted state rearranged it into a rather creepy smile, "Hey, don't talk about my fiancé that way..."
"Oh, so you to finally got together, eh? I thought there were too many problems concerning his, erm, condition."
"You mean you didn't see it on your way up?"
"See what? Robotnik's grave or something?"
"No, silly, Angel Island."
"Well how in the world did it get here? It used to be at leastsixty miles away."
" I'll tell you the story if you really wanna know, but it's gonna cost ya."
"Just how much does it cost?" Shadow asked smoothly as he began to assemble a Roast beef on Rye.
"It costs," she began, then passed for one moment to think about the wording, "It'll cost you the name of the person you're here to get together with."
Damn Shadow thought. I thought she gave up on that? I must have underestimated her determination... "Honestly, Rouge, I'm not here to look for a mate, I'm here to do more recovery. There's nothing to tell..." He sweat dropped as he spoke, and gave one of his rare nervous smiles. He quickly occupied himself with his newly formed sandwich.
"Oh fine. We'll play it your way for now." She ate a few more pieces of pear, then began, "It's too good to not tell you anyway. After the invasion, we were both focused on repairing parts of the city. Station square was barely touched as you've probably seen, but it is a large suburb of Westopolis, and the rest of the city was thoroughly trashed. I was busy repairing the headquarters of G.U.N., but knuckles was more concerned about the Ruins and such, so we had a bit of a split up until everything was fixed. About two years ago, he called me up and asked if we could, ya know, rekindle things, so we did. But, there were so many issues with the Master Emerald and My work, and so many other little things thatwe could only reallysee each other every few weeks. But then, the big lug did something right! He cooked for me."
Shadow interjected with a sudden burst of logic, "but you're a fruit bat. You don't eat anything cooked!"
"A fruit bat I may be, but everyone needs different vitamins and minerals, anyway, hold your thoughts until I'm finished or I'll find a way to force it out of you!" Shadow stared and made a little groan. Rouge reached over and grabbed an egg and started nibbling on it to prove her point, "So, I was so impressed with his ability to cook that I came up with an idea. I hired him as my personal chef!"
"You WHAT!"
"That's right. I hired him. And it made sense for three reasons. The first was because I could have good food that wasn't fruit once a week. If I have to eat something, I might as well like it. The second was that I no longer had to prepare any of my food myself. Lunch, and supper were all bagged up for me to take with me, and breakfast was arranged at my bed side buffet style. Not that it's really difficult to cut up fruit and arrange it, but that brings me to the third reason. I get to have romantic meals with my Knuxie poo and come home to him every night."
Shadow thought for a moment, then said, "First, please don't use that voice again, or else I may lose the sandwich I just ate," he thought it would be pleasant to eat it again, but not pleasant to see happen, "and two, that doesn't tell how Angel Island got transported sixty miles from nowhere?"
"To respond in order, eeeww, and Chaos control."
"So Sonic transferred it?"
"Yup, that's right. We gathered up 5 of the seven emeralds and had him move the whole island. Of course you had one of the emeralds, but we couldn't get access to the gem owned by the G.U.N., even with my high clearance."
"It still takes a solid twenty minutes to fly that far up, even going as fast as you or Knuckles can, so how do you guard it when he's on the surface?"
"We don't do anything. We let Tikal and Chaos take care of it."
"Chaos?" he asked as he pictured an A.C. experiment.
"You weren't around the last time Chaos was unearthed. He, er, it. Whatever it is, he was sealed away in the master emerald centuries ago, he was released before you were freed and wreaked havoc in rage of lost friends. Tikal, who I'm assuming you also don't know, was the one who sealed herself in the emerald to imprison chaos there as well. But to make a long story short they're both out now, and Tikal befriended it. So Chaos is as peaceful as a baby... with the fighting force of the German military."
"I must admit, you've caught my interest. Please tell me more about Chaos and Tikal."
"Well, Tikal is the only other echidna that is alive to date. She's actually a few hundred years old, but she stays young from the power of the master emerald. Chaos was the god of the echidnas, but he became enraged by their ignorance. When he was released, he manipulated Robotnik into helping him exact his revenge. Both of them are tied to the master emerald. Tikal could even die if she stayed too far away from it for too long. Fortunately, it takes a very long time for that to happen." she paused, then continued, "But that's all I know. If you want any more info, you'd have to ask Knuckles, and he's out right now."
"Hmmm," said Shadow. He realized that Rouge was a lot more talkative than usual. Was she really this glad to see him?
"So you're just gonna have him be your chef forever?" He asked, remembering what the conversation began with.
"Yup! as long as we're together. And besides, I do pay him. I guess you could kind of call it his allowance, but, that kind of implies some things..."
Shadow's mind wandered for a brief moment, and the image of Rouge in black leather whipping a naked knuckles and telling him he had been a very nughty boy flashed through his imagination... "Uuhhh," he shuddered.
"Anything wrong?" the white bat asked.
"No, it's just cold around this time of year." He lied. then this brought on a conversation about the weather and yadda yadda yadda...
They continued conversing until about seven, then Shadow insisted that he leave because it was getting late. He thanked Rouge, and left, forgetting to try and find knuckles on the way out. Now that he had been here, he would never have to walk halfway again. He retrieved his bag, then produced the emerald after Rouge was out of sight, then yelled out, "CHAOS CONTROL!" and (you guessed it) disappeared in a huff of green light.
Meanwhile, a certain pink hedgehog was calling up her favorite blue counterpart.
"Hey sonic it's Amy"
"Oh. Hey Amy. What's up?" the blue thing replied in typical sonic fashion
"Well, I called to ask if you had noticed the snow."
"Who hasn't? It's up to my waist!"
"Did you also notice that the bay had frozen over?"
"Nope. Haven't been outside except to grab the mail."
"Well, I thought it might be nice to get out and do some skating tomorrow, and I wanted to know if you'd like to go with me."
Sonic, not understanding the circumstances behind this, agreed with, "Yeah, sure! It could be fun."
"Kay. How about I meet you by the pier at ten tomorrow morning?"
"Alright. Thanks for inviting me, I'll be there"
"Oh, and Sonic, I forgot to tell you." She became very excited rather quickly, which startled sonic. "Guess who's in town!
"Um... Gee, I'm dry on ideas Amy. Fill me in."
"Your gonna freak. It's Shadow. He's back from the ARK!"
"No way. Shadow? The shady bum finally decided to show himself. Do you know where he's at?"
"He's at the Seaside resort in Station Square. You stayed there once. You should know it."
"Yeah. I'll be sure to give him a call! Thanks again Amy"
"See ya tomorrow Sonic." They both hung up. But Sonic, ever clueless, proceeded to call up his two pals, Tails and Knux, and invite them on his date.
Returning to our dark and red-striped friend, we see him materialize in his room on the roof of the hotel. Shadow set down his bag, then found that the message machine was beeping two new messages. One was from the owner, wishing him a good stay, and the other was from Sonic.
Then, a running commentary went through the mind of the unrecorded hedgehog. It flowed something like this:
(At the same time: Sonic's recording and Shadow's mind)
Sonic: Hey Shad! Long time no see, eh. Just called to welcome you back home.
Shadow: Sonic? What is that imbecile calling me for, and how does he have this number?
Sonic: Oh, and have you seen the snow? Man! You could drown in that stuff!
Shadow: (Pauses) what does he think? That I'm blind?
Sonic: Speeking of cold stuff, Amy invited me and the guys to go ice skating tomorrow, and I was hoping you could come
Shadow: Why is he being kind to me? Doesn't he realize that we're enemies? Rivals at best?
Sonic: Well anyway, if you can come, we're meeting at the peer at 10. See ya there!
Shadow: (He paused until the end of the recording.)
"I don't think I'll ever understand that blue moron," he spoke to himself, "a vast majority of our encounters have been in combat, and an even greater percent of that has been with us against each other. We have brutally beaten into each other with no remorse, and yet, he still manages to think of it as merely a game... like he's doing it all for the fun of it. He even treats me as if we're the best of friends, when 90 percent of the time we are fighting." He paused once more. "Whatever... I can think this over in the morning. It's too late at night to be using complex thought."
And with that, Shadow flicked off the lights, and set his alarm for 9:45, just incase some thing could coax him into changing his mind. And he knew that something eventually would, whether he wanted it to, or not...
meanwhile, (final split of this chapter, I promise) off in the jungle, a certain deep violet, overweight cat was sleeping calmly. His loud snoring was a sign of his being a light sleeper, and the slightest sound would have awakened the docile creature.
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The sound of the mecha nearby startled the large animal, and caused it to react in it's seemingly dim witted way. The pilot of the mecha spoke under his breath, "Damn, the oaf is awake. Time for action."
The large cat heard the voice, but not what it said. His mental receptors took in the information, but could not run through the fact that his closest friend could not speak. He responded with a simple, "FRRAAOOGGYY?" and was met almost instantly with a shriek of, "LIGHTS OUT!" and a large metallic arm slamming down into his skull.
So there Big the cat lay. His body was unconscious on the floor, with a small trail of blood trickling from his skull. In his unconsciousness, he was unable to defend his friend from pursuit and capture by the notorious one known as "the egg-man." Doctor Ivo Robotnik left from the ruins, and retreated back to his lair.
Yay for the end of five chapters. And yay for the first time I include a private conversation that doesn't include Shadow. And whats this about Robotnic beating up kittins? Find out in Chapter six of Fallen angel, "73H 5K4735 0F D00M".
From here on, chapters should be more to the taste of those just interested in another Shadamy fic. So now you can have what you want. Amy and Shadow in awkward situations that make them fall in love with each other. Yeah! REVIEWS...
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