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Chapter 6: Adventures in Parenthood/Expectant Parenthood

As happy as they were to have their new baby girl, Knuckles and Rouge really had their work cut out for them; is was fine the first two weeks because Rouge was stuck in the hospital recovering, so the nurses did most of the work while all she had to do was breastfeed Ruby-Emerald. But that didn't last because soon she was back on her feet and was able to leave the hospital with her baby.

Actually when I said that both Knuckles and Rouge had their work cut out for them, that was a lie; since Rouge was fully healed, she was now off of maternity leave and had to return to work at G.U.N, and since Knuckles was back to guarding the Master Emerald, it was only him that had to do the parenting work. He had to take up the mantle of stay-at-home parent since the one job he had required him to stay home to guard the Master Emerald.

And lets just say, the Master Emerald was less of a hassle to take care of than Ruby-Emerald.

"WAAAAAHHHHH!"

Knuckles rushed down the steps of the Master Emerald's alter to a small hut about two feet away from it, the inside only had three rooms: a small kitchenette, a small living room with a Chaz lounge and a T.V. and a bedroom with a full sized bed and a baby crib. Knuckles had this hut made for his wife and daughter because he didn't want them sleeping out in the open, and he's spent his whole life living out in the open while guarding the Master Emerald so he didn't really need a house.

He rushed into the bedroom towards the crib, Ruby-Emerald laid inside crying hysterically; Knuckles reached in to pick up and hold her, "Shhh, its okay sweetheart. Daddy's here, don't cry. What's the matter?", he said. A small grumble from her abdominal region informed Knuckles that she was hungry, so he set her back down in the crib in order to prepare a bottle for her, but it wasn't the usual bottle of milk.

You see because Ruby-Emerald was half bat, the milk had to be blended together with three cups of fresh insects; baby Mobian bats were fed alternative meals between their mother's milk and fresh insects to not only ensure they got the recommended daily amount of protein but also to ensure they had healthy immune systems, once the babies reached 18 months of age, they could be weaned off of the "insect-milk" and start drinking regular cow's milk.

Also because she was half echidna, Ruby-Emerald had to be fed every five to six hours, which seems like a wide time gap for feeding except when she was fed, she consumed up to 40% of her body weight because of how thick the insect-milk was.

Walking into the kitchenette, Knuckles grabbed one of the containers that Rouge had pre-filled with her breastmilk, using the breast pump she had gotten at her baby shower, and poured some into the blender; then he reached into the cupboard and pulled out a bag of live, wingless mosquitoes. Bags of these were sold in pet shops to feed lizards and small snakes, but Knuckles and Rouge had bought about fifty pounds of them so they'd enough to feed Ruby-Emerald.

Knuckles poured about three scoops of the flightless bloodsucking insects into the blender and closed it, turning it on and mixing the bizarre combo; once he was sure it was blended enough, Knuckles shut off the blender and poured the thick and chalky colored liquid into a baby bottle. He then placed the bottle into a small pot of water over a griddle, heating it up; he then took the bottle back to the bedroom and gave it to Ruby-Emerald.

The little halfbreed immediately grabbed onto the bottle and began guzzling down the insect-milk while Knuckles checked her diaper, seeing that she had indeed soiled herself and went about removing the diaper and applying powder as well as a fresh diaper onto her bottom. He then took the empty bottle from Ruby-Emerald and picked her up so he could burp her, to which she released a loud almost frog-like belch.

"Haha, that's my girl. You know, you're a lot more trouble than you're worth but I've honestly been through worst, plus I love you too much to be bothered by it", said Knuckles as he wiggled his nose against Ruby's which caused her to laugh. Then she let out a loud yawn as her eyelids began to droop, Knuckles gently laid her back down in her crib and turned on the mobile above her, its slow movements and soothing music putting her to sleep.

This gave Knuckles the chance to walk back outside and up the stairs of the Master Emerald's alter, he sat down to take a breather; this wasn't the first time Ruby had disturbed his all important Emerald guarding. For the past month, Ruby-Emerald would constantly cry, sometimes it was for food or her diaper was dirty or she'd simply cry and cry until Knuckles carried her in the hopes that she'd tire herself out, even if it took all night long.

Sometimes Rouge would come home from work to find Knuckles dead asleep on the lounge as he had tired himself out taking care of Ruby-Emerald, so she'd help him out by tucking him into her bed and going outside to guard the Master Emerald for him. Rouge knew out of the two of them, Knuckles was the most stressed because of the baby and she did her best to contribute in taking care of her but it was hard since she worked full time at G.U.N, and sometimes her work stretched into long hours of the night, she wasn't always able to be home long enough to tend to Ruby-Emerald.

It upset Rouge that not only did she not have enough time to spend with her daughter but also that her husband had to exhaust himself taking care of her on his own, but Knuckles always insisted that he didn't need any help and he could handle taking care of her himself but he did think it wasn't fair that his wife had to miss out.

And they weren't the only couple having issues...

Back down on the surface, in Sunset Heights, Infinite and Nyx were dealing with their own host of problems; Nyx was now a month and a half along in her pregnancy and her symptoms haven't gotten any better, in fact despite Rouge saying they'd get worse, Infinite still wasn't prepared.

Nyx became far more aggressive to the point where she wouldn't let anyone touch her because her maternal instincts tricked her into believing they might hurt her unborn baby, she had made a makeshift cave out of blankets and pillows inside her bedroom to hide in until she gave birth just like real wolves. Her cravings for meat became stronger to the point where she tried to eat it raw, which only resulted in her vomiting up the uncooked flesh.

Speaking of vomit, she also began feeling the effects of morning sickness. Even if it wasn't morning, Nyx would always vomit at rather awkward and random times, and each time Infinite had to clean her mess; it was like the worst part of her being sick times a thousand.

And what also happened to Nyx could be seen as either good or bad depending on how you look at it.

Her lusty behavior towards Infinite seemed to increase by a hundred percent because when he got home from performing his community service, she'd drag him up to her room and lock the door; there was also no chance for him to escape either because during one particular night where he was very tired, Infinite discovered Nyx's secret favorite kink: she was in to bondage. She had locked him in the room with her, and blindfolded him with a scarf and used another to gag him; then she tied his arms and legs to the bedposts with rope and just had her way with him.

Nyx was so consumed by lust that she didn't give him even a small moment of reprieve, since she had twice as much stamina as he did she was able to keep going for hours until she got tired or bored, and she'd crawled back into her makeshift cave leaving Infinite, bound and unconscious, on her bed. Sometimes she'd forget he was still there and Infinite would spend several hours tied there until Metal Sonic came to untie him.

The whole experience left Infinite exhausted and sometimes with sore muscles from being tied up for so long, but despite the fact that he was well within his right to refuse, he never did because even if the constant love making was ridiculous, he wasn't going to lie and say he didn't enjoy it because he did. But even if he did enjoy it, he wished Nyx would give him a night of peace.

Infinite eventually managed to escape his wife's clutches when he got a call from Shadow asking to meet him in town, so while Nyx was asleep in her makeshift cave, he quietly sneaked out of the house and headed downtown. Infinite finally met up with Shadow and 123-Omega, the former of whom had bought him a double cheeseburger and fries since him wasn't able to have dinner last night because of Nyx and didn't make himself breakfast for fear of her catching him.

He took the food from Shadow and began stuffing his face, "Thanks Shadow, so why'd you call me here?", he said. Shadow smirked, "Well I know you've been practically held hostage by your pregnant wife so I figured you could use some food. Anyway as to why I called you, it's because of a case that the commander at G.U.N assigned to my team: according to the reports, about hundreds of dollars of medical equipment and medicine has been stolen from local hospitals and clinics.

"It's become a government issue since the reports have also stated that the culprit has been spotted in and near one of Eggman's abandoned bases. Now I know you're wondering why I'm asking you to help us out is because Rouge decided to take the day off and we're short one person, and also this is part of your community service", said Shadow.

Infinite understood the situation as it had only been two and a half years at this point and his sentence of community service had not yet been fully served out, and he also needed an excuse to get out of the house and away from his horny wife. So later that day, Infinite joined Shadow and Omega in their investigation; they decided to do a stake out outside of the abandoned base the reports said the thief was squatting in, the plan was to catch the thief as they returned to the base with the stolen goods.

It was about five hours before Omega detected movement outside of the base, Infinite and Shadow looked to see the thief wearing a dark cloak and dragging what looked like an oxygen tank into the base. "Thief detected! Mission protocol engaged", said Omega. The trio slowly approached the base, quietly waiting outside the doors for the thief to come out again.

After a few minutes, the cloaked figure once again stepped of the base again; Shadow and Infinite then tackled them to the ground, the thief let out a loud scream of pain as they fell to the hard floor. They started coughing violently, "P-p-please d-d-don't hurt me! I-I-I'm not d-d-doing anything w-w-wrong", they stammered. "Well you should've thought about that before you decided to steal from hospitals and clinics. Do you know how many sick and injured people you're putting in danger by stealing medicine and equipment?", said Shadow.

Infinite was taken aback by the thief's voice, it sounded like a voice he had heard before. He stepped towards them and threw their hood back to reveal them to be a young male jackal wearing a green beret who had bloodshot eyes and dark bags beneath them, and a small trickle of blood dripping down the side of his lip. Infinite gasped in shock as gazed upon the terrified face of the jackal before him, he felt his breath hitch and his heart rate quicken.

"L-L-Levi?! I...is that you?"

Author's Note: That's it for Chapter 6 and I just dropped another big bombshell on y'all! If you want to know what happens next, come back for Chapter 7 and see; until then, this is SuperKirbyLand234 signing out!