Thank you to all that review my story and here is another chapter.
Chapter 13
The afternoon arrived with music booming out of the hall in the centre of Sonic's home town. Everyone that couldn't make it to the wedding came to the reception. Couples danced and food was given out, Shadow making sure that Knuckles and Sonic ate something. Knuckles slumped into a chair tiredly, he was getting tired and he had been trying to hide it but now he was beginning to fall asleep, he looked round and saw an exit and walked towards it and out into an enclosed garden, finding a bench he sat quietly and relaxed in the quiet surrounding.
"Shouldn't you be inside?" came Tail's voice as he stood in front of Knuckles.
"Just having a bit of quiet" smiled the Echidna, looking at the young fox.
"I'll tell the others you are out here or they will panic" smiled the two tailed fox making his way back into the hall, once more leaving the Echidna alone. Knuckles soon found himself falling asleep but was started by something sharp being pressed against his stomach, he moved to get away from it as he opened his eyes to see Rico, the wolf that had been Robotnic's helper.
"you don't seem so threatening now" the wolf smiled revealing his canines. Knuckles growled showing his own sharp teeth before he jammed his fist into Rico's stomach, it gave him time to get away from the knife and to start to run, but he was brought to the ground and rolled onto his back, he stared into angry yellow eyes.
"Now now, you should be careful in your state" sneered the wolf.
"What do you want?" growled Knuckles as he kicked.
"to take you to Robotnic, he wants his fun, to finish what he started" he stated "but first we need to get rid of something"
The wolves knife once more was pressed against the top of Knuckles stomach and pushed down to cut, Knuckles released a yelp and tears started to slip down his cheeks.
"NO!" he yelled as he bucked but the knife continued before it was suddenly wrenched free as a blue and black blur appeared on the seen.
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Sonic held his head as he heard a yell of pain and quickly ran towards the source to see that Shadow was also reacting to the same shout. Everyone started to follow in surprise at the men of the wedding suddenly disappearing into the garden. Amy and Sarah followed shocked at the scene of Sonic and Shadow tackling a wolf being and bring him down but what shocked them was Knuckles struggling to get up clutching his stomach as blood stained his clothes. Sarah ran towards the injured Echidna, making him sit out of the way so she could assess his injures. The cut was deep but not deep enough to harm the child but Knuckles was losing a lot of blood.
"Amy get Jake" she yelled as she put pressure on the cut, she smiled at the Echidna to reassure him that the child was fine, after she had said that Knuckles fell into unconsciousness. Amy came out with a muscular rabbit that headed to Sarah and picked Knuckles up rushing him to the hospital. Sonic and Shadow had finished of Rico, letting the beaten wolf to run off into the forest after Shadow had used a trick with a certain pressure point that would slowly killed the wolf before he reached anywhere important. The two hedgehogs turned to see Amy waiting for them before she lead them to the hospital, explaining what she knew as they walked.
An Hour later Sarah came out of the operating theatre.
"Everything should be fine, Knuckles received a deep cut to his abdomen area although it wasn't deep enough to cause harm to the child, he lost a lot of blood. We replaced it and stitched him up, he should be up and about in an hour" the girl said smiling as both Hedgehogs sunk in their chairs in relief.
Knuckles blinked sleepily as he looked around, panic set in as the sterol smell assaulted his senses and white walls where all he could see, he sat up quickly and found himself looking into red eyes.
"your awake" came Shadow voice as he pushed Knuckles to lay down. Knuckles looked wide eyed at him before the event from earlier came back.
"the baby…."
"is fine" smiled Sonic as he came up to the bed, Knuckles rolled over onto his side and put a hand onto his stomach in protection, a sign that Shadow and Sonic had come to recognise as a gesture that he was upset.
"I nearly kissed them" came a small whisper. Shadow grabbed him to sit up.
"You can forget that idea this instant" he said sternly "you did nothing wrong"
"Shadows right Angel, there was nothing you could have done with a knife in you stomach" said Sonic sitting on the bed pulling Knuckles to lean against him, wrapping his arms around the Echidna. Knuckles looked into angry red eyes in front of him seeing no blame, he relaxed and leant against the blue hedgehog. Sarah came in smiling at them all.
"you where a bit early for you appointment" she said "But I did the checks while you where unconscious, and your babies are perfectly fine"
"thank you" said Shadow, nodding his head before sitting on the bed.
"Wait a minutes…Babies?" said Knuckles.
"I'm picking up 4 heartbeats maybe more" said the Doctor smiling "Tails asked if he could come in?"
"Yeah" nodded Knuckles before looking at his husbands "we're having lots of kits"
"Wow" said Sonic
"More than one running around" said Shadow in shock.
"Hey" came Tails quiet voice as he came in.
"Hey Tails" smiled Knuckles as he rubbed his stomach.
"Sarah's telling everyone that you are fine but you wont be returning to the party, so I came to see you and to give you part of your wedding present from Me, Amy, Misty, Vix and Rob." said Tales handing over a small box. Sonic unwrapped it to reveal a key.
"When your well enough, we can travel to the door that they key opens" smiled Tails slyly. The four sat talking until it got late and Sarah came in.
"I'll give you a choice seeing as it is your wedding night you can stay here or you can go home but you need to rest so sorry no fun and you have to eat to get your strength back"
"Go home please" said Knuckles looking at Shadow and Sonic pleadingly.
"Fine, but you do as you are told" said Shadow sternly looking at Knuckles who nodded.
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Knuckles soon found himself being put into Sonics bed at his house and told to stay put as Shadow and Sonic went to make dinner as Tails stayed with Knuckles.
"Knux, are you alright?" asked the Fox as Knuckles cringed.
"yea, just the little ones are moving and its pulling the cut" smiled Knuckles. Tails looked at the lump, moving a hand forward before stopping.
"can I?" he asked, he had wanted to touch the lump ever since he had heard about the child moving. Knuckles smiled and nodded.
Sonic and Shadow came up half an hour later to find that Tails had fallen asleep still leaning against the bump and Knuckles was dozing. Sonic put the food down and carried Tails to his own room, as Shadow helped Knuckles sit up to eat his meal.
"How are you feeling?" asked the Dark Hedgehog.
"Fine but hungry" said Knuckles digging into his food, smiling when Sonic came in and sat beside him.
"after you have eaten, its bed time" said Shadow, Knuckles pouted his eyes sparkling.
"But?"
"No" came from Sonic "you remember the terms to coming back here"
"can u at least stay?" sulked Knuckles crossing his arms and glaring at the bed.
"with you looking so adorable, how could we resist?" teased Sonic as he changed out of his suite, Shadow did the same as the Blue hedgehog removed Knuckles stained clothes. Once the two where in bed, Knuckles yawned and cuddled up to Sonic who gave a yelp as something kicked him. Knuckles started to giggle.
"it seems juniors don't want you close" he said through his giggles. Sonic rolled his eyes before moving to lay behind Knuckles as Shadow took his place. It would happen occasionally when they where going to sleep, the little ones would decide who their 'mother' curled up with depending their mood. The events of the day crashed into the three and soon they where fast asleep well into the next day.