Anonymous asked:
Could you do a fluffy knuxouge prompt? Maybe a little angst in the beginning? I love knuxouge and I can't find any good stories of the two that I haven't read lol
cutegirlmayra answered:
(picture of edna mode saying "It will be bold, dramatic!)
But first, Prompts are on shutdown darling, till further notice. Now, I insist on reading before purchases of commissions, and if you see any prompts unrebloged by idontworkforsega, I suggest you take the first precausion and heroically, with fashon darling, walk up and address it to him. That's a new feature.
And now… let us begin.
Prompt:
Rouge carefully moved through the air vents, being careful to not startle any egg-guards below who marched in robotic formation with spears.
She made little noise and smiled mischievously down to them whenever she passed the slit lines of sight light that protruded through the mostly dark, cramped spaces of the rectangular passageway.
"Hmph, what a sloppy bag of defense Eggman's drag out this time." She shook her head, before seeing red lights flare to life and the robots stop to ready their spears in both hands.
She blinked… confused as to who may have tripped the trigger.
"Oh, I'm up against an amateur, am I?" she looked a little annoyed, but the robots looked to each other and dashed off, leaving her with a playful smile. "More the ancient treasure to steal for me." She almost cooed out and continued to move through the vents.
"I suppose I can move faster now that I don't need to worry about not making a fuss." She started to advance, her metal heart-shaped pendants on her feet clanking against the thin steel.
"Ugh, Eggman really should design these to be more pleasant on a lady's back and hindquarters." She complained, before hearing something coming from the corner she was about to pass.
"Hmm?" she peeked her head in.
"WAHHHH!" Digging through the vents like a loud, stream train—It was no surprise that Knuckles pierced his knuckles in dents onto the bendable steel under his weight and force and rammed himself into Rouge.
"Augh!" she was pressed up against the side of the vent, as she was slightly knocked off focus for a moment.
"Ughhh… Huh?" she blinked her eyes open after a moment of fleeting consciousness, looking to see Knuckles had jammed his head underneath her-…
Oh dear…
Her eye twitched and anger marks flew out around her head.
"GET OFF ME, YOU RED APE!" she threw a punch down that quickly knocked his long muzzle out of where it had 'lodged' itself down under as he moved back and shook his head.
"Ow! Hey! Grr… BAT GIRL!" he seemed surprised, his eyes growing wide as he moved to his knees, getting some stability, but looking ready to rumble in the vents…
What an idiot!
Rouge kicked up her legs and slammed up against the top of the vent, causing him to grunt upon impact.
"Ugh!"
"What do you want!? Why are you even here? Was that you that tripped up the alarm?!" She opened her mouth to the full extent it could be to holler in his face, causing some of his hair to fling back as he closed his eyes at her wind force.
"I should ask you the same question! Eggman's got my treasure! And I'd bet the Master Emerald you're here for it too!" his own face showed the intensity of his anger as well, frustrated to see his competition but also to have a rather pointy shoe slamming him up uncomfortably against a vent's ceiling.
It was cramped as it was without the two over each other…
"Ohh~ You don't say." Rouge suddenly dipped her head down, turning it in a rather seductive way. "You know,… the more times we meet, the more wealthier and… tempting you become, treasure hunter." She lowered her eyes, slipping her foot down to lessen the force she was holding him up with.
With enough force lifted, he finally stirred himself to wake up and move, grabbing the foot and moving it away, leaning over her a bit as she was moving under him, but he barely noticed the shift.
"You've got a lot of nerve coming up against me, Rouge!"
"As I recall… you crashed into me." She glared a bit, not liking him ignoring that little encounter… "Don't forget the details, hothead. You assaulted me."
"Assaulted?!"
"Check where your face lands, you dope!"
She slammed her other foot into his chest, knocking him up and down as she slithered away by pulling herself onward and through the vent she wanted to go through anyway.
He held his stomach, twitching a moment, "GAh… Rouuuuuge…" he seemed ticked off now, closing one eye and barely opening the other. "You'll pay for that… Thief!" he punched the vent, shaking it and causing a part to tear.
"GET BACK HERE!"
"Ah!" she felt her feet sliding… "Oh no." her eyes shrunk as she reached to try and grip at the next corner, but it was too far out of reach. "Ahhhh..!"
She fell back towards him with each shake, though she tried to fight it, there was nothing to hold on to.
When she was far enough back to him, he reached up and grabbed her foot. "Got you! There's no way I'm letting you take my family's sacred jewels!" He dipped his head, infuriated.
Her eyes suddenly lit up with wonderment. "…Jewels?"
She swung her head back to him, playfully, though clearly trying to pretend she wasn't freaking out by his brute strength… although liking the attention of the big angry goofball. "Just how rich are you?" she hummed, almost excitedly figuring this out just now.
His eyes opened wider in innocent confusion, before his face turned a bright red and he shook it profusely, "L-look, woman! I don't have time for your games! Eggman's going to melt what's left of my family down to make his metal goons! I won't let my people die without some history of them!"
"So, you were storing an inheritance! You naughty echidna…" she smirked, allowing herself to slip down back to him as he tugged too hard, thinking she was still putting up a fight.
She leaned her back up against him as he stopped shaking the vent, and let the back of her wings encircle his head, holding it there as she brushed her hair up into his face.
"You should have told me… I would have been much nicer if I'd known you had buried treasure left over from your family… I should have realized you were an heir~" she then stopped playing as he was frozen in baffled sentences that didn't make any since, just trying to spat out a flustered comeback that clearly wasn't cohesive or well thought out.
"I'll help you get your treasure back…"
"Like heck you will!"
"Hey,… no need to shout, ya big lug. I happen to have a good taste for fine quality gems like my men. If you split some of your precious jewels with me,… I'll help you find where the big man is stashing them, deal?" she turned her head, making sure he felt the motion, before looking dead in his eyes.
"That won't be a problem… will it?" she kicked the bottom down and Knuckles went crashing down from the ceiling, but she flapped her wings and smiled at his clumsy descent.
"Grr… like I'd work with the likes of you!" He pushed some of the debris away, then the steel that was above him and ripped it fully off, having it come back to hit him on his head.
"YEOUCH!"
She floated down and sighed, placing her hands on her hips, "That didn't seem to bother you before…" she looked straight down the corridor, mapping out what she already knew in her head… and which way was the quickest to his treasure…
"Well, heh." He smirked, getting up. "Before… you weren't so bad. I even thought you were changing a new leaf."
She wasn't looking behind her, but her eyes drooped in sorrow. "Maybe I was…" she whispered faintly, before he slowly lowered his hand from his head, and made his way over to her.
"…I liked you better when you were under my command… instead of fighting against me." He stood directly behind her, and she was reminded of the days back in the war against Infinite and Eggman…
"Heh, you were so demanding… But you never did stop calling."
He smiled, closing his eyes and letting some soft chuckles escape his throat. "…You always seemed to get yourself into tight situations…"
"Did it worry you?" she slightly turned her eyes behind her, wondering…
"Was it meant too?"
"Ugh, you are toying with me." She flung her head forward, upset and turning aggressive again. "All I ever wanted was some praise. But you only praised yourself." She glared rather intensely. "You should have just taken my offer. I think I'll just take your treasure and leave you in tears, begging me for compassion on your sorry hide…"
She didn't hear anything.
Her ears perked up and she started to turn around, "Knuckles?" Her voice was let go of some of it's threatening hostility, as large hands wrapped around her waist… and hoisted her back.
"Look out!"
A horde of robots started firing, "Ah!" she was amazed as he threw her above his head. "I didn't even see them!"
Knuckles dove forward and started ripping through them. "I guess old habits die hard! I won't let you get to my family's treasure, Rouge!"
She landed unsteadily, but looked worriedly back to him. "Oh, would you pipe it, already! I would have helped you anyway!"
Suddenly… he turned back with a strong smile. "Heh."
Her face lit up with heat,… was he… wanting her to race for it?
His eyes showed everything she needed to know and more.
He threw a robot around and back at another robot, and her heart raced at his brute strength that a moment ago terrified her.
He was protecting her…
"A lead start… as a compensation." He smirked and adjusted his gloves, before giving her a teasing head tilt. "What..? You're going to make this adventure interesting… aren't you?"
She smiled fondly to him, her face wrote the words 'I love you' as she turned to sped off down the corridor.
"That gold is as good as mine!"
He closed his eyes, not daring to say what his heart said back…
He looked back at the on-coming robots, rotating his shoulder to stretch it out a bit and then pounded his fists together. "HURAH! Alright. Now I'm fired up. Come at me! I've got a good feeling the treasure's this waaaay!" he came running into the fray.
After she had successfully taken quite a handful, she left the rest for him and moved slowly through the woods, making sure to leave 'breadcrumbs' of gold… just so he knew she was still there…
"If this doesn't say 'take me, I'm yours.' Then I don't know what will get through to him." She lifted up her head, looking behind her and sighing.
"…You were saying?"
She suddenly panicked as a voice from ahead faltered her flying path and caused her to land abruptly.
"K-Knuckles!"
He stood with his arms tightly folded around his head, which was dipped into them. Sturdy and smirking, he revealed this by lowering his arms and fisting up his hands.
"You have something that belongs to me…" he got into a fighting stance.
"…Couldn't leave without my payment." She winked.
"You didn't even help. At most, you were a hinderance."
"Why? Couldn't keep your eyes off the real treasure at hand?" she flirted.
"Oh no, the gold was too flashy. Reflected in my eyes off the shine of your shoes and chest-plating." He threw a sucker punch with his words, and she knew he wasn't going to try anything… not so long as she still held even one piece of his family's jewels.
She took out her favorite of the bunch, a brilliant diamond strung with gold beats, metal tassels with gems sparkling through slight holes within it, and of course… a ruby to match his eyes along the pattern.
"Your family seemed awfully greedy… only taking the finest of the fine." She also got into a fighting stance, "For once… I'd like you to take me seriously."
His smirk opened to his pearly, white teeth.
"If I did that… you'd think too much of yourself."
Her anger peaked then, and she dropped the seductive act, throwing her arm holding the trinket down. "Oh! You are impossible! Can't you tell I'm flirting with you, already!?"
"You always flirt. It's part of your deceptive art!"
"Knuckles! For the last time! Admit if you're the least bit interested in what I'm selling!"
"And what's that? A lot of makeup and leather?"
That was the last straw.
The two duked it out, Rouge actually fighting seriously, which threw Knuckles off guard as he realized she wasn't holding back any punches or kicks.
"I'm! So! Done! With! Ignorant! Men!" she spoke through gritted teeth, jamming as best as she could each blow of her rotating, spin-kick into his rough fist.
But she was flung down and pulled towards him, as she struggled to break out of his hold on her.
"Unhand me you pathetic excuse for a-!"
He kissed her neck.
Her head came shooting up.
"For a…"
Her eyelids lowered as she felt his long muzzle trail up to her cheek… another kiss that paced itself against her cheek…
"A…" her will all but melted into the silent confession and she moved up into his grasp, turning around and stringing her arms around his neck.
He frowned then, "Sorry about this." Something clanked against metal…
"H-huh?" Rouge came out of her daze of wanting the affection from him to realize that behind her back, he had just stuffed all the remaining jewels she had dropped into his back.
Her eyes twitched with fury.
"I… Don't have to search for any remaining artifacts of my ancient heritage's heirlooms anywhere else… right… R-Rouge?" he was nervous about asking, blushing a little at his own deception as Rouge's eyes sparked with an idea.
She slowly turned her head to him, cocky and ready to dish out her full revenge on him.
"You're going to have to dig it out, Knucklehead." She lifted herself perfectly up against him, causing his face to force itself up to avoid… certain things…
"R-…Rouge?" his body trembled.
She looked down with a devil's wicked grin.
"Excavate me." She dug her luscious lips into the gold mine of her dreams, but it he seemed, once again, frozen in flustered emotions.
She pulled away, disappointed, "Oh for the love of," she hollered back in his face, "KISS ME, MORON!"
"B-but.." he tossed the bag aside, "You really don't have any of my jewels…" he gulped, "Hidden… r-right?"
She had him right where she wanted him.
"Rouge?" He was fully gushing red now, sweating hard as she really didn't have anything left on her person.
But she'd die before ever letting him know that.
"Why don't you find out, treasure boy?"
"You… You mean…" his hands began to move…
That was a good sign.
She smiled, coming back for more and pressing her hands against his face so he couldn't back out with another cheap trick again.
"Figure it out, you dunce."
Amazed a moment at his hangs pulling her closer, she kissed him again.
When he moved into it, positioning himself more upright as her wings kept her up just a little above him, she realized he was actually putting his all into kissing her.
Having the old flame lit again, she fluttered her wings down gently and passionately let the fire burn.
It wasn't long before she noticed him reaching down for the bag, as if still thinking that was where her mindset was.
She pulled away quickly, "Oh, for the love of-" she kicked the bag away, having the contents spill out and pulled him down. "Pay attention!" she scolded him, blushing just as profusely as he was.
That was when he saw it… the young woman in love he had failed to see so many times…
She was there… just as flustered as he was… but as desperate to be noticed and loved as he was about getting ahold of his family's treasure, and saving it from anyone daring to put it in harm's way.
"Can't I hold your-" He leaned up and kissed her, but this time she was angry, meaning a little more aggressively than their kissing beforehand.
He was trying to give that girl he just saw his full, focused attention, but she was now fighting back a bit. "Ah! Ha… Attention for more than five minutes?" she breathed a second, the cold air leaving them both thinking and feeling their hearts race a moment.
She was blushing… her eyes weren't angry, they were torn between a frazzled woman kissing the man she loved and the seductive thief going in for the kill on a man that frustrated her more than life itself.
In the end, she just lunged down once again to him, before slowly… he could feel her anger slipping away, and the real tender woman peek through the surface. Again… and again… he drew her out little by little with each gentle reminder that he wasn't going anywhere, nor was his attention elsewhere…
For the time being…
But she stopped just before he could have started actually thinking about looking for any of his stolen things…
She pulled away, laughing, happy she at least got some satisfaction out of tonight's adventure.
"I just wanted to see you blush."
Knuckles wondered for a moment if this was her way of saving face, of putting back on the mask of a powerful woman… but he hadn't completely kissed that woman. He had kissed someone frailer than her… and he knew it.
But he did figure out he was duped, and that realization was swept over by that anger and embarrassment. His mouth dropped a second, gasping in his own conflicted state between two minds before a fist rose up and shook. Once again, he was unable to form words in his rage that had won out over seeing the softer, younger side of Rouge. "Hrr… G-Grr…Rr…Rou…Rouge..!" He wanted so much to be mad at her… but something inside him couldn't.
He would never admit it, but something in him clicked in that moment.
He figured out that he was, in fact, the treasure worth stealing to her.
Rouge, perhaps keeping up appearences and playing off the whole scandalous kissing spree, sprawled out her body but pulled in her legs, as if a siren having sunk the ship before the sailor even knew he was drowning.
"Found your real passion for treasure now, Kncukles?" she winked, "Got'cha." She swiped at his bag, then gave him the victory sign, or peace symbol with her two fingers. "Next time you want our old dynamic back, just say so, silly~ You really had to make me work for that one."
"Wait!" he reached up to try and stop her from flying, but she was quick to escape any more of her fragile, diamond heart from being revealed too vulnerable…
The rest of the adventure would have to continue with him racing after her over the rising sun. Her pausing to look back for him before cheerily taunting him and flaunting her 'booty' of not only the gold in his convenient little sack… but also the one he was too flustered to grab.
( D/: ROUGE. I kinda think that maybe after Sonic Forces, she'd want more time with just him and her, but that Knuckles would still want the dynamic they used to have… whereas… she's ready for a more / mature relationship. To be fair, I headcanon that they kiss but nothing more. Rouge guards her actual tender heart, but yearns to express it more. There's a common theme of 'freedom' in Sonic that reveals each character wanting freedom in something. So I touched on Rouge and Kncukles's xD Knuckles wants a carefree life away from duties passed down to him and Rouge wants to let more of her vulnerable and compassionate side out instead of her usual strong, woman side dominate the stage all the time. I wanted to purposefully avoid writing anything above 'fluff'. XP But you said 'slight angst' and I was like wha-wha? Does that mean romantic or just cute? Can I include emotional turmoil and complexity of character or is that too much and not really 'angst' but character expression? And then this idea was more angry 'kiss me, baka' and I didn't know if you would take that as cute and ahhh I did my best Precious Anon /x/ Edna wasn't kidding/messing around… lol!)