Sorry for the LOONG wait, but here it is.

Chapter 2

Rouge awoke from her slumber the next morning, getting out of bed and into the bathroom. Rouge looked in the mirror/medicine cabinet, "ugh I hate the morning." the rough looking bat said to herself. She opened up the cabinet, got her tooth brush and began brushing. Then started doing her hair because it was everywhere. Finally her make up, that she always has off.

Rouge looked at the clock, "12 o'clock. I kinda overslept." Suddenly she got a phone call. She went to get her cell, seen it was Knuckles and answered, "Hello" Rouge said to phone. "What are you doing?" Knuckles replied asked. "Nothing I just got finished dressed. What are you doing?" the bat said back.

"Well I was on my way to pick you up. So we could go on the date. Be ready I'm gonna be there any second." Knuckles said. There was a knock on the door, "hold on Knuckles some one's at the door." She opened it to find Knuckles standing there. Knuckles smiled "you all ready?" Knuckles said. Rouge didn't like it when he did that and he's been doing that a lot lately. "Knuckles you know I cant stand when you do that. Why call if your already in my front door" Rouge said, crossing her arms.

Knuckles knew she didn't like that, but he sometimes liked getting her mad, "aww babe you look sexy when your mad." Knuckles said trying to smooth talk his way out of an argument. Rouge smiled, "what am I going to do with you?" She said, as she began to laugh.

They began walking in silence, until Knuckles broke the silence, "what were you and Shadow talking about last night?" Knuckles said curiously. Rouge turned to him "well he brought us up and I asked him why he didn't have a GF and uhh I think that's it." Rouge answered, forgetting about bumping into Sonic.

"So where do you wanna go Rouge?" Knuckles asked. Rouge looked at him a little annoyed at that question, "I thought you already knew where we where going?" Rouge said. Knuckles thought Rouge wanted to go somewhere fancy, or something, "no, I don't know." Knuckles replied. Rouge put her hands on her face and looked up, "well it such a nice day today. Why don't we keep walking?" Rouge suggested.

Knuckles nodded, but inside he didn't like the idea, "alright rouge lets go." he said, with no kind of excitement in his words. They made it to the park and began walking. About an hour later Knuckles had to go to the bathroom. Rouge nodded and suddenly a black figure was heading towards her. "Who could that be." Rouge said squinting cause the sun was in her eyes. The black figure walked towards Rouge, "Hi Rouge, what are you doing here?" he said, looking a little sweaty.

Rouge seen it was Shadow, "hi shadow, nothing me and knuckles are just walking around this giant park. What are you doing here and why are you all sweaty?" Rouge asked. Shadow whipped the sweat of with his rag, "I was training my chaos sphere's. So where is knuckles anyway?" Shadow said, putting the rap away. Rouge pointed at the restroom, "he's in there, doing his business." Rouge said.

Shadow didn't pay any attention as he got lost into Rouge's eyes. Knuckles finally came out, with some toilet paper stuck to his shoe. "Hey Shadow what are you doing?" Shadow finally came out of his trance "umm Nothing I was just about to go. See you Rouge." He said as he waved and continued his training. Knuckles looked at Rouge, "what did he want?" he asked.

Rouge looked at him, "nothing he just came to say hi." She answered. Knuckles grabbed Rouge's hand, "where do you want to go now?" Knuckles asked. Again she got annoyed, "I don't know. I'm in the mood for something sweet though." Rouge said. Knuckles thought, for a while and it hit him, "how bout some ice cream?" Knuckles said. Rouge had a smile and agreed.

She loves ice cream, but not to much, she has to keep up a figure. "Sure lets go." She said as she grabbed Knuckles hand flew away. "Damn Knuckles how much do you weigh, or is all that weight from oversized Knuckles?" She said, struggling to stay up air. Knuckles chuckled "you'll be fine" he said. Rouge landed outside of the ice cream store, "Finally, were here." Rouge said, popping here back.

The couple entered and walked to the front counter. "What do you want, Rouge?" Knuckles said looking for his wallet. Rouge looked at the menu, "I want cookies and cream. What are you getting?" Rouge asked. Knuckles looked at the menu, "uh I don't know vanilla guess." he said, continuing to look for his wallet. He looked in his front pockets, back pockets, even his shoes.

"Where the hell is my wallet?" Knuckles said to himself, not being able to find his wallet. Then, he remembered he left it on one of the steps at the altar. "Oh no. I hope Rouge doesn't get mad." Knuckles thought. Rouge went to the cashier, "I want three scoops of cookies and creams, and another three scoops, but vanilla." Rouge order, moving out the way so Knuckles could pay.

The cashier pushed all the buttons, "your total is $8.39." The cashier said, looking at the couple. Rouge looked at Knuckles, "come on, pay the girl." Rouge said. Knuckles looked at her, " I uh…Forgot my wallet, hehehe" Knuckles exclaimed. Rouge took a deep breath as she pulled out her wallet from her purse and gave the cashier the money. Rouge stared at Knuckles, "that's a shame. A man can't pay for is girlfriends ice cream." Rouge told him as she took her seat.

Knuckles followed her, "Its o.k. I paid for yesterdays meal." Knuckles told her. Rouge couldn't believe Knuckles said that, "uh no you didn't you put half and I put half." Rouge said as she rolled her eyes. Knuckles shrugged it off and they began to eat their ice cream.

They finished and walked out the door. Knuckles thought where they were going to go next. Rouge looked at Knuckles hoping he knew where to go next. "You want to see a movie?" Knuckles asked. Rouge nodded happily, "but I'm not gonna lift you up again." She exclaimed. They began walking calmly in downtown.

Suddenly there was a big explosion and crowds of people began to run the other direction, opposite of where Knuckles and Rouge where going. Knuckles looked up, "what was that?" he asked, confused on what's going on. Rouge shrugged, "I can't be something good." She said. The two raced to see what was going on. They turned a corner and seen about 30 robot with the eggman symbol on it, blowing up the town.

They both gasped, "we have to stop them." Knuckles said to Rouge. Rouge nodded, "lets go." Rouge replied. They two were about to charge until a blue blur went passed them and a heavy wind picked up. "Your not gonna get away with this." Sonic yelled, jumping up and destroying one robot. The two went to help Sonic, "Rouge you better sit still. I don't want you to get hurt." Knuckles told Rouge. Rouge looked at him, "don't worry, I can take care of myself." She said as she destroyed one robot with her screw kick. "See" Rouge simply said.

Sonic landed next to them after killing another there, "hey guys, just in time for the part." Sonic said with a smile. Rouge smiled, "where here to help, Sonic." Rouge said. "We were here before you Son…" Knuckles was saying until he got interrupted by Sonic. "Watch out!" Sonic said, tackling Knuckles to the ground. Knuckles got mad at this, "why the hell did you tackle me?" Knuckles hollered. Sonic helped him up, "you almost had your head chopped off, knucklehead." Sonic yelled back. Rouge took a deep breath and shook her head as she began to go after more robots, Sonic and Knuckles followed.

There was only a few left to kill and the hero's was starting to get tired. Suddenly, one of the robots captured Rouge and began flying off, "HELP ME!" She screamed. Sonic looked at Knuckles "Knuckles they got Rouge!" He yelled. Knuckles was busy fighting a robot, "Not now Sonic, cant you see I'm busy." he said dodging a ray of bullets. Sonic turned back and jumped into the and did an aerial spindash and went right through the bot and quickly caught Rouge.

Knuckles finally destroyed the few that was left and Sonic landed still carrying Rouge. Knuckles looked back to see Sonic carrying Rouge, "what the hell is going on here?" Knuckles asked, coming closer to Sonic. Rouge gave him a very evil look, "Sonic, saved me. Where you?" Rouge asked, still being held by Sonic. Knuckles thought of what Sonic was saying. He put his hands on his head.

Sonic looked at Rouge, "are you alright? He didn't hurt you did he?" Sonic asked, concerned about her. Rouge looked up at Sonic, "Yeah I'm o.k. You can put me down now." Rouge said, blushing just a little bit. Sonic smiled and put her down. Knuckles walked up to Sonic, "I don't want you touching her again." Knuckles yelled. "I was saving here, just liked I saved your dumbass." Sonic yelled back. Knuckles didn't say anything as he knew Sonic was right.

They said there good byes and Knuckles and Rouged turned around to head back to their own homes because there were exhausted. Sonic looked back to see if Knuckles and especially Rouge was o.k.. Sonic noticed something on Knuckles feet, "hey Knuckles!" Sonic yelled. Knuckles and Rouge turned around to see what he wanted, "what?" Knuckles yelled back. "You got some toilet paper on you shoes." Sonic said laughing a little.