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Knuckles stopped walking and crossed his arms as he glanced around the room he was in. Seeing the elaborate décor, he lifted something off his head and saw it was a huge golden crown with large glittering dark green emeralds and looked at the colorful suit he was wearing. Putting on his crown and smiling, Knuckles chuckled, "Hehehe. This is awesome." He went to a painting of himself with "Emperor Knuckles the Echidna" written underneath it and his smile grew larger. "I'm an Emperor? This is sweet!"
Looking around the room eagerly, he rushed to an enormous closet full of at least a thousand different suit. Shuffling through them, he felt like a kid in a candy store. Stopping his shuffling, Knuckles decided, "Huh. I got a lot of them, but I need a new suit." He went to his desk and pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil. "I'll send an ad out for someone to make me one."
Walking through the slightly crowded street, Rouge and Sonic stopped in front of a completely covered bulletin board and Rouge scoffed in disbelief as she read a bright colorful ad in the middle, "Emperor Knuckles the Echidna is looking for individuals with incredible talent for making him a new suit." She looked at Sonic and she could see he was thinking the same thing. "Oh, Knuckie's role in this is fairy tale is going to his head."
"I know." Sonic agreed.
"We have to take his ego down Sweetie." Rouge stated. She looked at the ad. "And I know exactly how we do that."
"How are we gonna do that?" questioned Sonic and Rouge pulled the ad off the bulletin board and smiled as she held it up and winked at Sonic. She whispered something to him and Sonic smiled. "That is pure genius!"
"I know," Rouge responded, "we better hurry and answer that ad before Knuckie has someone else make the suit."
Nodding in agreement, Rouge and Sonic took off in the direction of the palace Emperor Knuckles the Echidna resided in.
From his room in the palace, Knuckles looked out the window and scowled. He was getting rather impatient from no one coming to make his new suit. Hearing the door burst open, he turned around to see Shadow in the room. Seeing Knuckles, Shadow gave a look that he could hardly care less about seeing the red echidna and Knuckles interrogated, "What are you doing here?"
"Hmph. Obviously I'm not here to be in this story...or help you with something." Shadow coolly responded as he sauntered to Knuckles's desk. He picked up one of the ads and quickly scanned over it before crumpling it up and tossing it over his shoulder. "Oh, and you need someone to help your sense of style…what a waste of paper."
"How so?" questioned Knuckles as he grabbed the ad and began to smooth it free from the effects of being crumpled.
"You're as tasteless as it is when it comes to style," Shadow answered and he crossed his arms, "no one could help you."
Knuckles started, "You-"
Knuckles swore at the black hedgehog and Shadow did the same right back except adding flipping his middle finger at the red echidna before taking off out of the room and slamming the door behind him. Mumbling something as he carefully set the ad back on his desk, Knuckles heard a soft knocking on the door and saw Rouge and Sonic casually stroll into the room. Knuckles interrogated, "Rouge? Sonic? What are you doing here?"
"We're here to answer to the ad you sent out Darling." Responded Rouge as she put a hand on her hip.
"We're the ones who are gonna make you your new suit." Added Sonic as he crossed his arms.
"Really?" Knuckles replied as he crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow. "You two are going to make me a suit?"
Rouge answered, "That's right Sweetie. We may not look it, but we can make you quite the suit."
"Yeah. The suit we can make you is special," Sonic continued, "only people who are smart or honest can see it."
"Really? You're hired!" Knuckles decided and Rouge and Sonic winked at each other.
Walking into a huge room with two looms with Rouge, Sonic surveyed the room and gave a low whistle as he remarked, "Man, this is a big room."
"Well, we need a nice room to make his suit," Rouge hinted with a smile and the pair set their knapsacks they were carrying on the floor, "I can't believe all the rings we got."
"I know. I could buy Green Hill Zone if I really wanted to." Added Sonic as Rouge sat down on a black leather couch.
"And all the stuff he got for us…we can sell it on eBay for even more rings." Rouge continued and a group of Chao brought in the elegant fabric and thread that they requested to make the suit.
Closing the door after the Chao left, Sonic opened the knapsacks and picked up the fabric and thread. Stashing the elaborate silks and threads in the knapsacks, Sonic looked at Rouge as she sat with her feet on a oak coffee table and complimented, "Rouge. Have I ever told you you're a genius when it comes to this kinda stuff?"
"No, but thank you," Rouge responded with a small smile, "I thought this would be better than getting my nine inch heels and kicking him where it hurts. I'm also doing this in honor of my shoe collection."
"You are really protective of your shoes, aren't you?"
"Of course…and look who's talking about being protective of their shoes."
"Touché." Sonic replied and zipped up the knapsack once he finished stashing everything away. "What now?"
"Just sit and wait around for Knuckie to come around to see what we've created Darling…if he can." Rouge smirked and the pair gave each other high fives before Sonic sat in a chair and put his feet on the table.
"And you're a good actress too." Sonic added and Rouge smiled.
"Thank you. I did take a few acting lessons." Rouge thanked. She took out the piece of paper with Knuckles's measurement, crumpled it up into a ball, and tossed it into the garbage. "I don't know why I'm carrying that around. It's not like it's THAT important."
Nodding in agreement, Rouge and Sonic gave each other another high five before laughing about how their plan was going so far.
A few days after he hired Rouge and Sonic to make his new special suit, Knuckles put down the comic book he was reading. "Man. I really wanna see my new suit and how it's going," he commented to no one in particular, "I have to see if it's impressive as they say it is."
Hearing a knock at the door, Knuckles's violet eyes widened as he saw Eggman walk into the room. Bowing to Knuckles, Eggman started, "Good morning Emperor Knuckles the Echidna. I see you're wearing a different suit from the one you were wearing this morning at breakfast."
"Yeah, I got sick of wearing that one. Besides, that's the suit I wear to breakfast on Tuesday mornings. The suit I'm wearing now is the suit I wear when I read comic books on Tuesday mornings," Explained Knuckles, "and I would pound you because you trapped us in fairy tales, but I need you to go see how my new suit Rouge and Sonic are making is coming along."
"I would be honored to." Eggman responded and left the room and Knuckles smiled as he picked up his comic book again.
Beginning to read it, he looked at the time and set his comic book down again as he decided, "Oh. It's time to change into the suit I wear to lunch on Tuesdays."
Sitting in the room with the looms, Sonic looked up from the comic book he was reading at Rouge as she painted perfect white tips on her fingernails and Sonic asked, "Rouge. How long is this going to go on?"
Finishing her last nail and closing the nail polish, Rouge answered, "As long as we want Honey. Depends on long we want to keep stringing Knuckie along."
"I suppose, but-" started Sonic and Rouge's head perked up.
"Someone's coming!" Rouge informed and she waved her hands to dry her nails faster before slipping on her gloves as Sonic stashed his comic book out of sight.
Jumping to their feet, they dashed to the looms and pretended to work as the door opened. Looking to see who joined them, Rouge and Sonic stopped "working".
"Doctor!" Rouge exclaimed. "What are you doing here?"
"Emperor Knuckles the Echidna wanted me to come see how his suit is coming along." Explained Eggman.
"Oh, just fine." Rouge responded.
Gesturing to the two looms, Sonic questioned, "Can't you see we're nearly halfway done?"
Going up to the looms, Eggman looked to see there was nothing on them before he nervously answered, "Uh, yes. It is quite impressive. I'll tell Emperor Knuckles the Echidna you're making fine progress."
"Nice seeing you." Sonic told him and Rouge waved with a smile as Eggman turned to the door.
As he started to walk away, Eggman thought, "If I can't see the suit…am I worthy of being in office?"
Waiting until Eggman was out of earshot, Rouge and Sonic smiled at each other and gave each other high fives.
Changing into the suit he wore when he was taking his nap on Tuesday afternoons, Knuckles yawned and lay down on the couch. Hearing a knock on the door, he sat up and permitted, "Come in."
Eggman entered the room and, like this morning, bowed to Knuckles and began, "Good afternoon Emperor Knuckles the Echidna. I saw your suit."
"And how is it?"
"It's VERY impressive. I'm afraid it's only half done though."
"Huh. I guess Rouge and Sonic need more rings so they can finish it faster." Knuckles decided. "Thanks for finding out about my suit and give more rings to Rouge and Sonic so they'd finish faster."
"Of course." Eggman responded and left the room.
Lying back down, Knuckles closed his eyes as he smiled at the thought of wearing his new suit.
A week later, Knuckles sat on the couch, posed as a Hero Chao painted a portrait of him in the suit he wore when he was posing for a painting on Tuesday mornings and he decided, "I wanna go see this suit for myself." He looked at the Hero Chao. "You done yet?"
"Chao!" the Hero Chao cheerfully chirped and turned the painting to the crimson echidna.
"Beautiful work." Knuckles complimented when he saw the gorgeous painting of himself and the Hero Chao smiled with pride as Knuckles stood up. He went to his massive closet of suits. "I'll just get the suit I wear when I'm going and looking at a suit on Tuesday mornings."
Lying on the couch as he stared at the ceiling, Sonic asked, "Hey Rouge. What do you think would be better to buy? Casino Park or Green Hill Zone."
Flipping the page of the magazine she was reading as she sat on the remaining space on the couch, Rouge answered, "You're gonna have to settle for Green Hill Zone Sweetie. I already called Casino Park." Her head perked up. "Oh great. Knuckie and his people have to come when I'm going to read my horoscope."
Stashing her magazine under the cushion, Rouge got off the couch and went to one of the looms as Sonic did the same and they started to "work". Stopping as Knuckles and a few Hero Chao come in, Sonic greeted, "Knuckles! Came to see your suit, eh?"
"Yeah. Where is it?" replied Knuckles.
Gesturing to the loom she was "working", Rouge informed, "This is the jacket for your suit."
Looking at the loom, Knuckles saw nothing and thought, "Oh no! I can't see the suit! Am I too stupid or dishonest to see the suit? I can't let anyone know!"
"So, what do you think?" questioned Sonic and Knuckles looked at the pair.
"It looks awesome! This suit is so awesome that I'm gonna throw a huge parade to show it off when I wear it!" Knuckles started.
"Oh, what a wonderful idea." Commented Rouge and Rouge and Sonic waited until Knuckles was gone before exchanging mischievous grins.
Four days later, Knuckles was in his room wearing his suit that he wore when he was waiting for a suit on Saturday mornings when he heard a knock on the door and saw Rouge and Sonic enter the room. Eagerly bounding up to them, Knuckles interrogated, "Do you have my suit?"
Rouge held up an empty hanger and responded, "Right here Darling. I'll help you get into it."
Going behind a changing curtain with the Emperor of the story, Rouge turned her head away as she helped Knuckles into his "suit". Soon finishing dressing him, she stepped back to Sonic and Knuckles looked over his "suit". Looking between Rouge and Sonic, Knuckles questioned, "How do I look?"
"Awesome." Sonic replied with a thumbs up.
"Absolutely handsome." Added Rouge with a sweet smile and Knuckles smiled.
"Perfect. I'm going to go show it off in the parade." Knuckles told them and proudly sauntered out of the room.
Grinning at each other, Rouge and Sonic rushed to the window to see Knuckles marching down the street and Rouge remarked, "How long do you think it'll take the sucker to realize that he's got no suit on?"
"Oh, he'll figure it out…eventually." Answered Sonic and the duo burst out howling with laughter, eventually getting to the point of rolling on the floor and holding their stomachs as they saw Knuckles's face turn bright red from the realization he had no suit on, but continued his procession.
Finally controlling their laughter, Rouge and Sonic stood up and heard the elevator's ding and saw the doors open and the pair dashed through the doors before they slid shut.
Stopping inside the elevator as the doors closed and the elevator began to move, Rouge and Sonic saw Knuckles with his arms crossed and frowning as he glared at them and Rouge and Sonic doubled over with laughter. "Oh man! I wish I had a camera!" Sonic choked, a single tear running down his cheek.
"Why?" questioned Knuckles.
"So we could've gotten a picture of your face and upload it to Facebook!" Rouge laughed and it took a few minutes before the pair eventually calmed down.
"You know, I don't appreciate what you two did to me." Knuckles huffed.
"Oh Knuckie, we didn't want to. We were doing what the story had us do." Replied Rouge and she winked at Sonic with a small smirk and Knuckles scowled.
Attempting to ignore the abuse he was taking, Knuckles commented, "Well, Shadow's ego is as big as ever."
"Heh. He flipped you off…finally!" responded Sonic with a small fist pump. "Shadie Boy finally decided to give me a break!"
"But now that you mention it…I wonder how Shadow is." Wondered Rouge and Sonic looked at the female bat.
"Rouge. Obviously, Shadster's able to deal with whatever he's doing." Sonic reassured and Rouge rolled her eyes as she crossed her arms.
"You're just saying that because he didn't flip you off…this time." Rouge pointed out.
"Hey, if it gets me through this…I'll take it." Shrugged Sonic as the elevator came to a stop and Amy, Blaze, Knuckles, Rouge, Silver, Sonic, and Tails marched through the elevator doors as they opened up into the next fairy tale.
My comments:
Knuckles as the Emperor: He's the easiest to trick.
Rouge and Sonic as the Imposters: Obviously Rouge needed a partner in crime, so who better than Sonic to join her in messing with Knuckles?
Rouge and the honor of her shoes: There goes Rouge with her shoes again. That might be an unhealthy relationship.
Okay, enough from me. Hope you enjoyed the chapter and please review!