06/11/16
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The next day, Carl called his friends to come over to the factory around noon. As the gang arrived to the factory, it was Rouge and Knuckles's turn to go into the game world. Though Knuckles wasn't happy but since Rouge volunteered to be his partner, he had no other choice but to work together as a team in the game world. And he hates to make her angry. Their mission was that they are going to be in a jungle level to find an artifact in an ancient ruin.
"Are you ready for this Knuckie?" Rouge asked him.
"Well yeah. I can't wait to fight in the game, beating alligators if possible" Knuckles said.
"You know you're kinda cute when you talk about how tough you are" Rouge chuckled.
"Whatever" Knuckles rolled his eyes. He and Rouge gets into the tubes.
"Scanning, Knuckles and Rouge. Virtualization!" the computer scans them into the game
(Jungle level)
Rouge and Knuckles appeared into the game, Knuckles was now a red echidna with spikes on his fists, crescent moon mark on chest, purple eyes, red, yellow and green shoes with lego like pieces on, white gloves.
"Whoa, what animal am I?" Knuckles said.
"An echidna, but only resembles are your pointy nose and spikes" Carl spoke through the computer.
"And I'm once again a bat" Rouge said, flexing her wings.
"Yup. So what powers do I have, Carl?" Knuckles asked.
"You got slight super speed and super strength. Also you can glide through the air like a flying squirrel" Carl said.
This made Knuckles grin widely and punches a huge rock and it turned into dust. He proceeds to pull up a tree with his bare hands and breaks it in two.
"YAAAARGH! I feel like Superman!" Knuckles shouted. Rouge shook her head at how much Knuckles is enjoying this.
"Let's go and find the ruins. And maybe I'll give you some grapes" Rouge said with a seductive wink.
"You're batty" Knuckles muttered.
"Batty?" Rouge blinked in confusion.
"Yeah. You are a bat and annoying" Knuckles explained.
"Ohohoho. You are so cute" Rouge giggled.
"Hmph! I am not cute!" Knuckles scoffed.
"Okay okay. Let's go" Rouge said, walking in front of Knuckles. He sighs and follows the white bat.
In the jungle, many bugs made screeching noises and birds singing in the trees. Knuckles sees a large log in the way and decides to lift it up.
"HRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" He struggles to lift it up until he got it over his head.
"Aww….what a gentleman you are" Rouge chuckled.
"Huh, really?" Knuckles scoffs and throws it aside. They continued to see a river ahead of them, "Ladies first" Knuckles stands aside.
Rouge smiled and began fly over the river with an ease. But that until a crocodile jumps out of the water and bites onto her foot, dragging her into the water.
"AAARGH! GET OFF ME!" Rouge kicks the crocodile.
It let go of her foot but it came to attack her again, she then held its jaws to keep it from biting her, "Knuckles, I need a hand here!" Rouge yelled.
"I'm coming Rouge!" Knuckles jumps in the water to save Rouge. He knocks the crocodile away from Rouge and he grabs the crocodile's tail to swing it around and throw it far away from them.
"See you later croc!" Knuckles yelled.
"Thanks Knuckles" Rouge said.
"No worries Bat-girl" Knuckles said. They swam up to the surface and Knuckles shakes his spikes.
"Whoa. Careful" Rouge said, squeezing the water from her hair.
"Sorry" Knuckles said, he then heads into the tropic forest again with Rouge, "Say Rouge, what do you and Hex do during free time?" Knuckles then asked Rouge.
"Well we often examine diamonds and other jewelry. Teaching bullies lessons and sparing" Rouge said.
"You still like treasure stuff, huh?" Knuckles said.
"Mmhmm….and you still like doing boxing fight?" Rouge said, "I can see why your gloves looks like boxing gloves"
"Yup. I train boxing for two hours a day" Knuckles said.
"That's what I like about you Knuckie. Nobody can bully you in school because they don't know what is coming" Rouge said.
Just as she said that, a loud boom was heard and the two looked to see a huge stone jaguar with glowing eyes coming out from a pyramid.
"MUUUUUUAAAAAAAARGHHHH!" the stone jaguar roared loudly and jumps down the pyramid in front of them.
"Great, I'll smash it like-…..AAAAARGH!" Knuckles rushes at it but got swiped away at the wall. He gets up and checks himself, "I'm okay!" Knuckles said and runs to it again. Rouge takes out her heart bombs to throw at the stone jaguar but misses. But one managed to crack the right eye.
"Hey giant stone cat! Over here!" Knuckles shouted and knocks it into the gorge.
"Did we win?" Rouge asked, flying down to Knuckles.
"I think so" Knuckles shrugs. Then, loud rumbling was heard and the stone jaguar jumped out of there and lands behind them, growling.
"RRRRRRRRAAAAGH!"
"Oh, crap" Rouge said.
"RUN!" Knuckles shouted. He and Rouge ran together from the stone jaguar through the ancient ruins and came up to a volcano crater.
"That's it Knuckie. We lure it into the lava!" Rouge said.
"Alright! Hey Stone kitty! Come here!" Knuckles whistled for the Stone Jaguar, getting its attention. It began leaping at them but Knuckles grabs its wrist and threw it into the lava.
"RAAAAAAAAGH!" The Stone Jaguar roared as it sank into the lava. Rouge and Knuckles looked down and then at each other.
"Knuckie, that was amazing!" Rouge gave him a hug.
"Thanks" Knuckles rolled his eyes in annoyance from the hug.
"No really, that was awesome" Rouge said, patting his back playfully. They then heard the lava bubbling and out came the stone jaguar roaring.
"You got to be kidding me. This big cat has nine lives" Rouge said.
"Then do you have an idea bat-girl?" Knuckles asked her.
"If that thing is made of rock stone, then its weakness has to be water!" Rouge said.
"Good idea Rouge. Let's find something wet" Knuckles said, running with her with the Stone Jaguar after them. As they ran, the Stone Jaguar tore down trees in the way.
"Get ready!" Rouge shouted as she saw a lake right down a cliff. She grabs Knuckles hand and began flying. The Stone Jaguar tries to jump after them in the air but due to its weight it falls into the lake.
"Can you swim scaredy cat?!" Knuckles taunted.
"You have done well both of you" Carl's voice came.
"Ah, thanks Carl. Now how about virtualizing us to the real world?" Rouge said.
"With pleasure" Carl virtualized them to real world.
(Real World)
They got out of the tubes and looks at themselves to see they are humans again.
"Wow. That was fun" Rouge said, "I told ya it was a great idea to have a woman as your partner, Knuckie" Rouge said.
"Whatever. As long you don't act seductive at me" Knuckles said.
"Alright, who's next this time?" Carl asked the group.
"Perhaps me again" Sonic said.
"Then it is decided. But this will be different. You'll be using hover-board race kind of thing to hover around in the game world" Carl said.
"Okay sir" Sonic said and leaves with the other guys. Carl leaves the laboratory for a break in his job. But without their knowledge, a familiar figure sneaked in and turns the computers back on.