sonicstarchild asked:
17. Knuckles and Rouge cause ya gettin lots of sonamy rn xD
cutegirlmayra answered:
I have been gettin' a lot, thank you :) I don't exactly mind… but it's nice to have a change xD
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Taking off down the route, Tails's voice sounded over the communicator over the new location of another metallic treasure they needed to activate the counter-attack on Metal Sonic's new form.
With these extremely hard metals being the only thing able to penetrate his defenses… not to mention the metals are Metal Sonic's new form's weakness, then maybe they stand a chance!
Teaming up with Rouge, Knuckles takes off down to the muddy cave, within the marshlands of the island nearest to the floating Angel Island.
"A marshland? In the middle of the ocean?" Rouge looked around as she landed softly to the squishy ground. "Ugh, yuck." she kicked her leg out, not liking how her shoes were getting ruined.
Knuckles digged through the sludge, before realizing his knuckles were useless here.
He grew anger, and smashed his fists down, only spraying up more mud.
"You'd think they bury this thing someone nicer…" she turned around to see the massive whole spraying up dirt, and moved slightly over to it, leaning down.
"You sure don't sound happy. Need some help~?" she lowered her eyelids, smiling before he looked up, glaring.
"I never said I needed a partner, bat girl!" he turned his head back down, closing his eyes and having an anger mark pulse on his head, before hitting the mud again.
"Grah!.. it's not use…" he sweat drop, pulling his arm back. "The more I hit, or even dig deeper… the mud just slushes back down…"
"Slushes? Heh, what a word." She rolled her eyes, and smirked. "If you come out of there, maybe I can drill through it. After all, I'm quite the handy girl." she winked, leaning one leg out and putting her hand up to her chin, as if examining the situation, but also looking good as she did so.
"Heh. Did you even hear what I said?" Knuckles looked back up to her, but was smiling.
"Oh yes. No partners. I heard loud and clear." she fanned out her hands before putting them up to her ears, then glared down at him. "If you'd just ask nicely, I might just say we could be friends on this one."
"This one? After all the times you sided against me?" Knuckles started climbing out of the hole. "You've gotta be some kind of-…uh… uh-oh…no-no…..noooooo~"
He started sliding down the hill as he was climbing, …. he suddenly realized.
His butt touched the bottom. "I'm…" he blinked his eyes, "Stuck."
She peered down.
Leaning her head back up, she started laughing hysterically.
"Grrr.. JUST WAIT! I'LL GET OUT OF 'ERE AND I'LL-!" he held up a fist, shouting up at her, but then heard her laugh even louder and looked upset, pouting slightly.
He folded his arms, closing his eyes as he knew wouldn't be able to get out without her help…
"Haha! Oh, Knucky. Haha, what have you gotten yourself into now?" She flapped her wings out and flew up, hovering over the hole.
"Tell you what… I haven't had a moment alone with you in a while… Do you mind?" she got an idea, and suddenly came down the hole.
"Wh-wha-what are you-?" he was cut off from his surprise, half expecting her to just drill already with her spin kick.
She instead, started to advance towards him, and when he stepped back, he stepped on some elevated land, and slipped back, falling on his back.
"Ye-ouch!" he rubbed his back, not liking that outcome, before seeing Rouge lean down over him. "Whaha!?" he was completely flustered and started shouting out random things now. "W-WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, B-BA-BA-BAT GIRL!? Y-Y-YOU GIRLS HATE THE MUD! G-G-GET AWAY FROM ME!"
She just smiled, tilting her head to the side and raising an eyebrow. "All I want is some quality time. Just relax and tell me how've you been..~" she leaned further towards his face and he strained his whole face back, before falling to the mud and started to dig like his life depended on it.
She twitched, having mud spraying everywhere, before her anger marks started coming out. "ALRIGHT. I SEE HOW IT IS!" she smashed a foot into the mud. "Every lady's got to get down and dirty sometime!" she spun quickly and drilled a perfect hole down into the dryer core of the island.
As the two dropped into it, she huffed and puffed, before glaring up at Knuckles as he came down, crashing.
"Offph!"
"Serves you right for being so rude and distant. Hmph." she looked away, folding her arms.
She then came right back at him, leaning down where he had fallen and shouting out more insults, her arms thrusting down to her sides.
"What's the big idea, anyway!? I've left your precious Master Emerald alone, haven't I!? You know… you probably wouldn't have guessed this, but I actually took the good guys side this time just to see how your knuckle-headed self was doing these days. Hmph. Serves me right for trying to make sure you were keeping up with yourself. Clearly, you've let go quite a bit. At least your shouting's gotten less grumbly." She pointed a strict finger at him, before folding her arms and leaning away.
His head swung up into view, "CLEARLY!?"
"Ah, hear that? Just a touch more manly and deep in that then your usual barbaric screeching." she threw another jab at him.
He got himself up as quickly as he had fallen, holding a fist up but not daring to use it, and shoved his face up against hers. "WANT TO SAY THAT AGAIN, THIEVING BATGIRL!?"
"Is that the only insult you can come up with, tough guy?" she raised an eyebrow, but her anger was rising just the same, and she ended up shoving her forehead up against his, "If I had a dime for every time I've said something that your ignorant little brain didn't pick up on, I wouldn't need to steal rubies anymore!"
"WHAT WAS THAT?!"
"You deaf old echidna!"
"T-…Thieving batgirl! I'll call you what you are!"
The two twitched in absolute rage, before their anger started to slowly fade, seeing how close they were, and really looking into each other's side for the first time in several long months…
They were about to pull away, ducking their heads down to do so, before they heard something sliding above them.
"Huh?" hey both looked up, before having their faces covered in mud.
"…AAACK!" Rouge flung her hands up, and looked disgusted. "This has got to be the worst gig I've ever done!" she started wiping the mud away, as Knuckles left it on a second longer, as if still processing the moment before.
As he wiped himself off, she stomped a more solid piece of rock to try and get the mud off her shoes, looking still pretty upset.
"…Did you mean that, Rouge?"
Rouge stopped, and flung her head about, "Mean what!? You ignoramus!" she wiped her eyes of the mud next.
"Echidna!" he called back, as if thinking she said his species name wrong.
She looked back, confused, before groaning and rolling her eyes, continuing to wash herself… oh…
She looked down, seeing some had dropped…
"I.. I didn't realize you were only trying to help us out… wanting to talk." he was getting the mud off his shoulders, so it was her chance to turn around and try and clean out a bit.
"It's not like you said anything different…" Knuckles grumbled, before sighing. "I guess I pinned you wrong. Maybe you have changed." he was about to turn around, but Rouge shoved a foot in his cheek to keep him facing the other way.
"People don't change that fast, knuckle-boy. But I do admit… in the past you wouldn't have been so…" she fixed herself up and turned back towards him, still with some mud on her face. "apologetic… the last time I left you still were hollering till the sun went down. I'm glad to see there's some form of gentleness to you now." she stood confidently, happy he was calming down, and liking the new direction he was taken.
He blushed and looked away, not sure how to take the praise. "Yeah, w-well… I've learned the hard way." he shook his head, shrugging. "How to treat a girl verses a dude."
"Oh?" she seemed intrigued, but also… strangely suspicious. "Like how?" she glared slightly.
"Huh? Oh. Amy says yelling only furthers the anger. She told me to count." he held up his gloved hand, innocently.
"1, 2. 1, 2. 1, 2." he literally counted his fingerless glove as one, then moved to his thumb, considering it worth counting.
Rouge pfft'd a slight snicker…
Then she was laughing her head off again.
"H-he-hey! It can work, okay!?" he tried to nervously defend himself, as Rouge just felt she would die laughing in this miserable place.
"You're- HAHAHA- U-unbelievable. HAHAHA!"
Seeing her laughing mad him mad, anger showing on his face before he silently mouthed the count in his head and touched his thumbs to his gloves in the count of 2′s.
That's when Tails's voice came back.
"Hey, you two! How's the treasure hunt going?"
Knuckles looked down at his communicator, then him and Rouge smiled up at each other.
"I think it's gonna go just fine." he smirked.
She batted her eyes, "More than fine… if you keep this up, Knucky~" she winked.
He blinked in confusion, not sure what she meant by that.
"Alright! I'll see you guys with the metallic counter soon!"
The communicator blizt'ed off and Knuckles helped her up, offering his hand as she took it.
"Now then… if I were a metallic mineral that didn't want the rest of the world to have it's greedy little hands on me… where would I hide?" Knuckles rotated his arm, getting ready for some hunting again.
"Hmm… Oh~ Probably the darkest place imaginable." she flirted, moving up against Knuckles, but he didn't seem to notice.
"Ah, yeah. Good thinkin', Rouge!" he knew she was leaning on him, but not for the purpose she was intending, and just took off towards where she stated.
She frowned, before smiling warmly to him, having a fondness for the lovable lug, before looking more serious with a smirk and flying off down after him.
They continued to talk as they moved deeper into the tunnels… but mostly about the objective at hand…