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This is an AU.
Story takes place 6 months after SA1.
Disclaimer: i do not own Sonic and co. they are the property of SEGA.
Chapter 1.
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“Come on...come on...where the hell is she, Dammit?!”
The blue hedgehog was waiting at the top of a hill, tapping his foot.
“I told her to meet at this EXACT place, I told her what time to meet me at, and she’s STILL late!”
“My, My. Isn’t somebody grumpy today?” a female bat with white skin mocked as she landed on the ground in front of the blue hedgehog.
“It’s about time!” Sonic replied, annoyed.
“Maybe it’s a bit of PMT...” The bat teased.
“Rouge, I’m not in the mood for this right now...”
“Aww, don’t be such a party pooper!”
Sonic glared at Rouge, who he had met only a month ago, when she had tried to steal the Master Emerald. After learning about her addiction to jewels and that she was a secret government agent (She had been looking at a diamond ring and gone into one of her little ‘trances’ when she had revealed the latter), they had struck a deal.
(Flashback)
“All right, I’m here. Now what do you want? I have manicure appointment in fifteen minutes, you know, so make it quick!”
Sonic grinned.
“Well, you know that you’re a secret government agent, or should I say, Not-So-Secret government agent, right?”
“Yeah...”
“And that means that you have a lot to do with the, Guardian Units of Nations, commonly known as GUN, right?”
“Yeah...”
“Well, would you know anything about the Ultimate Lifeform, AKA: Project Shadow, would you?”
“The Ultimate Lifeform?” The Ivory bat asked, and Sonic nodded.
“I know that GUN has a lot information on The Ultimate Lifeform, and I need that information.” He replied.
“And why would you want this...information?” Rouge asked.
“Oh, not much...” Sonic replied, grinning.
Rouge paused for a moment, thinking, before asking;
“Well, what’s in it for me, then? I don’t work for free.”
Sonic grinned, reaching into his quills and pulling out a large diamond. Rouge’s eyes widened. She suddenly became oblivious to the world around her, not letting her eyes stray from the large jewel. Sonic swore he could see her drooling.
Sonic grinned.
“So, would this be considered payment?” He asked, chuckling.
“Uh-huh.” Rouge said absent-mindedly, still keeping her eyes on the diamond.
Sonic again and replaced the diamond in his quills.
“So, is it a deal?” he asked, extending his hand.
Rouge answered without hesitating. “Deal” she said, taking his hand.
The two shook hands on it.
“But remember, No Data, No Diamond, right?”
“Right.”
Rouge winked in his direction, causing him to blush, before taking off into the sky.
Sonic watched her fly off. Then realised he was blushing.
“WHAT THE HELL?!”
(End of Flashback)
“So, have you got it?” Sonic asked, pulling out the diamond.
“Yep.” Rouge answered, pulling out a Data Disk.
The two then proceeded to exchange their items. Sonic took the disk and a grin spread across his face, while Rouge was inspecting the diamond, using every method she could think of to check that it was real. Sonic put the disk in his quills for safekeeping.
“Thanks, Rouge.” Sonic said.
“No problem, Handsome.”
Rouge gave the fastest thing alive one of her seductive smirks, before flying off into the night sky.
Sonic stood there, frozen, for a few moments.
‘Did she just call me...God Dammit, Sonic! What is up with you?! This is no time for fantasies!’ he thought to himself, before running off into the night.
Above him, Rouge was having some thoughts.
‘Wonder what Big Blue wanted with those files? Maybe I’ll take a peep...’
Rouge turned around, and being a bat, she was easily able to make out Sonic streaking off into the distance through the darkness.
She smirked again, before taking after him.
(15 Minutes later)
Rouge was looking through a top-floor window of Sonic’s home. She could see the Blue Blur on his computer, looking through the disk’s files.
Rouge was able to silently make her way into the house by getting through a downstairs window.
‘This is just TOO easy for a master jewel thief, you know.’ She thought.
Clinging to the ceiling, she made her way upstairs and into Sonic’s room, unnoticed.
She watched him for a while, then he eventually said two words;
“Prison Island.”
A million thoughts came rushing through Rouge’s head.
‘Prison Island? Is that where this ‘Ultimate Lifeform’ thing is? And what could Sonic want with it, anyway?’ She thought.
Then a picture came up on the screen. To the right of the picture was a younger Sonic, about 14. (Sonic’s 19 in this story) To the left of the frame was a girl, about 16 years old, with long, golden hair and was wearing a blue and white dress. And in between them was a seven-year-old hedgehog boy, with black fur and red highlights. He also had a white tuft of fur on his chest and had magnificent crimson eyes.
“I’ve finally found you.” Sonic said, zooming in on the hedgehog boy. “My Son.”
As soon as he said these two words, Rouge’s eyes widened and fell to the floor with a CRASH! Sonic turned towards her, with an ANGRY look on his face.
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Here’s Chapter 2! Hopefully, this will help everything else make MUCH more sense.
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Rouge quickly got up, very embarrassed. As soon as she looked up, she found Sonic glaring at her angrily.
“Rouge?” he asked, in a forced calm voice.
“Y-Yes?” Rouge stuttered, knowing that she was probably going to get it.
“WHAT are you doing here?”
Rouge quickly tried to think of a good excuse. Normally, she would try to use her female ‘charms’, but they never worked as well on Sonic as they did normally (if at all).
“Well, I was the one who actually gave you that data, and I was curious, so...”
Sonic cut her off.
“So you decide to break into my house and invade my privacy?”
He finished for her. That made Rouge feel guilty. She decided to change the subject.
“Sonic...I hope you don’t mind by asking...but what did you mean when you said ‘My Son’?
Most of the anger drained from Sonic’s face. He sighed and turned away.
‘Should I tell her?’ he thought to himself. ‘I mean, I’ve never told anyone before. But, she’s a government agent. She just might be able to help me on this.’ Finally making a decision, he began to speak;
“It’s a long story.” He paused for a moment. “A Sixty-Two year long story to be exact.”
“Sixty-Two years?” Rouge asked, raising an eyebrow.
Sonic nodded, and then continued.
“Yes. You see, Sixty-Two years, when I was two years old-”
“Wait, that’d make you...”
“Sixty-Four years old. Sixty-Five years this July, to be exact.”
Rouge looked aghast.
“But how...”
“Let me finish my story.”
Sonic sighed as he began to tell a story that had never before passed his lips.
“Sixty-Two years ago, when I was two years old, I was homeless, with nowhere to go; I managed to sustain myself by rummaging through bins. One day, I was in the Mystic Ruins foraging for any edible berries I could find. I came across a group of overlanders who were studying the planet. Once they learned I was homeless they took me home and took care of me. One of those Overlanders was Professor Gerald Robotnik.”
Rouge gasped. “Eggman’s grandfather!”
Sonic nodded.
“Yes. As I said, they took me home. AKA: The ARK.”
“The ARK? As in, Space Colony Ark?” Rouge asked, and Sonic nodded again.
“As I said, they took care of me there. I met the professor’s granddaughter, Maria. She was like an older sister to me. We were very close. Then, when I was seven, Black Doom arrived.”
“Black Doom?” Rouge asked.
“Black Doom was an alien, and from what I heard, he was the ruler of an alien kingdom. He was working with the professor on a new project, called ‘The Ultimate Lifeform.’ Black Doom wanted it to be a weapon of destruction, but Gerald secretly disagreed. He thought that it should be created for the good of both humanity and Mobians. Black Doom supplied his DNA for use in the project, but he immediately left, but he said he’d be back. However, they still needed the DNA of a mobian to use.”
“Yours?” Rouge asked, and Sonic nodded again.
“Yes. Part of the reason was that not only had I already discovered my speed and learned to use it efficiently, but I had also learned Chaos Abilities.”
“Err, Chaos abilities?”
“Yep, watch.”
Rouge watched with interest as Sonic pulled out the Grey Chaos Emerald from a drawer and lifted it above his head.
“CHAOS CONTROL!”
There was a flash of green light and Sonic disappeared, only to reappear behind Rouge. Rouge’s jaw dropped.
“I would show you more of my Chaos Abilities, but the roof may collapse on both of our heads. Anyway, as I was saying, after Gerald took my DNA sample, he combined it with Black Doom’s DNA, and a few months later, my ‘son’ Shadow was ‘born’. Gerald also decided NOT to speed-grow him, which is what had been planned originally. Over time, I successfully bonded with Shadow, and we became inseparable. We were father and son, and it was possible to see that in many ways, but he was mostly like the little brother I never had. He meant everything to me. Then, when he was 7 and I was 14, ‘it’ happened.” Sonic paused for a moment. It was obvious that this was the first time he had ever revealed this and it was also obvious that to him, it was a great load off his back.
“Err, what’s ‘it’?” Rouge asked.
Sonic growled.
“G.U.N’s what happened. They raided the ARK, their mission: capture the Ultimate Lifeform. I was separated by Shadow and Maria during the raid, and I was later captured. I spent the next 45 years cryogenically frozen. They believed me to be an early prototype of the ‘Ultimate Lifeform’. I was released by accident, and I ran for it, but not before I searched the whole base for Shadow, but to no avail. I scoured the planet searching for him, I knew that they wouldn’t have killed him; they would’ve stored him for research reasons, just as they did with me. As I did this, I first met Eggman. I chased after him, thinking that he might know something about Shadow, but I was wrong. He knew nothing. Over the next five years I met Tails, Amy, Knuckles and of course, you.”
“Did you find any more information before you asked me?” Rouge asked.
“Yes.” Sonic answered sadly.
He then went to a drawer and pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Rouge.
“It’s a list of the people who died on the ARK during the raid. He explained.
Rouge scanned down the long list of names before one caught her eye. Maria Robotnik. But, Gerald was nowhere to be seen.
“Err, Sonic? I know this might upset you, but...what happened to Gerald?”
“Captured by GUN, from what I discovered on that disk you gave me. Went completely crazy and promised to kill us all.”
Rouge could only think of one word to say; “Oh.”
Sonic continued his story.
“Still, although I knew that Maria was dead, I never gave up hope on Shadow. And now I know where he is.”
“Prison Island.” Rouge answered for him.
Sonic was about to speak again when there was an angry outburst coming from the doorway. “YOU HAD A SON ALL THIS TIME AND NEVER TOLD ME?!” Sonic and Rouge turned to face the source of the noise and saw three figures: on the right was a Two-Tailed fox, clearly wishing he wasn’t there at that moment in time. On the left was a red echidna, who was staring a hole right through Sonic, his mouth open, and in the middle was a very pissed-off looking pink hedgehog, who had a massive hammer in her hands.
Truth, Lies and Secret Family AU. Set after SA1. Sonic's got a secret.
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Here’s chapter three, everybody! Hope you like! R&R.
Disclaimer: i do not own Sonic and co. they are the property of SEGA.
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Sonic stared at Amy for a full three seconds before either one of them made a move.
“WELL?!”
“Well what?”
“YO KNOW WHAT, YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU HAD A SON! AND I’M SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR GIRLFREIND! AND BEFORE YOU TELL ME, YOU INSTEAD TELL THIS BI-”
“WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?!” Rouge yelled.
“WELL, HE WAS SUPPOSED TO TELL ME BEFOREHAND, SEEING AS I’M HIS GIRLFREIND-”
“No, Amy.”
Everybody stopped, staring at Sonic.
“But Sonic, as I’m your girlfriend...”
“No. You were never my girlfriend, and never will be. I hinted numerous times that I didn’t like you that way and never will do.”
Amy paused, falling to the ground, and then began to cry.
“Y-You mean t-that you never l-loved me?”
Sonic looked at her dead in the eye.
“As a friend and sister, yes. But that’s all.”
Amy cried for a few more moments, before getting up and lifting her hammer above her head, fury covering her face.
“YOU’LL PAY, YOU BLUE BA-”
But before she could finish, an orange beam of light came out of Sonic’s raised hand, and hit the hammer, obliterating it. Amy stood there, frozen by shock, as another Chaos Spear began to charge up in Sonic’s hand. He then pointed it at Amy.
“Now Amy, why don’t you leave quietly, NOW, or do we have to do this the hard way?” He asked. Amy didn’t need telling twice. She ran from the house as fast as her legs would carry her, while bawling her eyes out. Silence enveloped the room, before sonic decided to break it.
“Just how much of the story did you guys actually hear, anyway?” he asked.
“Everything from ‘As I did this, I first met Eggman. I chased after him, thinking that he might know something about Shadow.” Tails answered him, staring at the turquoise coloured carpet.
“Sooo...Big Blue’s a father, didn’t think you had it in ya!” Knuckles exclaimed, patting Sonic on the back, whose face turned slightly red.
“Knuckles...”
“Why don’t you tell them the full story, before Knucklehead gets any more...‘assumptions’?” Rouge suggested.
Sonic sighed, and began to repeat his story...
About 15 minutes later, Sonic had finished. Both Tails and Knuckles were staring at him, wide eyed.
“So you’re 64 years old...”
“Yes, Knuckles...”
“When you were two, Eggman’s grand-daddy took you to ARK...”
“Yes...”
“After 5 years, you had a son who was created by combining your DNA with that of an alien freak...”
“Yes...”
“Seven years later, GUN invaded the ARK and captured you...”
“YES!”
“You were in stasis for 45 years...”
“YES!”
“You chased Eggman, thinking he knew something about Shadow...”
“YES!”
“And you’ve just found out that Shadow’s on Prison Island."
“He said YES, Knucklehead!” Rouge practically yelled. That echidna really pissed her off at times, and this was one of them.
“Wow.” Was all Knuckles managed to say.
Tails then spoke for the first time since he had entered the room.
“But Sonic, why didn’t you tell us beforehand? I mean, I’m your best friend!”
Sonic sighed and sat on the bed. He didn’t have an answer for that. Luckily, Rouge spared him.
“Tails, if it was YOU in that position, would you say anything about it?”
“Well yes, of course I would of-”
Rouge raised her eyebrows.
“No.” Tails said, admitting defeat.
“Exactly.”
Silence enveloped the room again, before Tails spoke again.
“And Sonic, how DID you get those files, anyway?”
Sonic grinned.
“Think, you caught me in my room, with a ‘secret’ agent, talking about my past, with a bunch of Top-Secret government files loaded onto my computer. Put two and two together and what do you get?” Sonic asked, pointing at Rouge.
"And haven't I answered that question already?"
"I know, i just can't believe what's happening, that's all."
Knuckles was the next to speak.
“So, what kind of deal did you do with Bat-Girl then?”
Everyone else groaned. Knuckles had asked that question at least 15 times, now. And everybody was getting fed up about it.
“What?” Knuckles asked, stupidly.
Sonic, Tails and Rouge exchanged looks that plainly said “Idiot.”
Sonic got up and walked over to the computer. After a few moments, a map of Prison Island came up on-screen.
“That’s where I need to go.”
“You’re going?”
“Tails, I may I remind you that I’ve waited FIVE WHOLE YEARS for this. Do you really think that I’m just going to sit down and do nothing?”
Tails sighed.
“If you’re going, so am I. You won’t be able to reach Prison Island by foot, that’s for sure. And I should be able to disable some of the security systems.”
“Leave the hacking to the professionals, kid.”
Everybody stared at Rouge.
“That’s right, I’m going too. I can hack into any security system in less than a minute. I’m also the most advanced one here at breaking into compounds unnoticed. And if I run into trouble, I’m more than capable of taking care of myself.”
Sonic looked at Knuckles.
“And you?” he asked.
“Well, I’d love to come, but the Master Emerald...y’know.”
Rouge raised an eyebrow.
“If it’s so important, how come you’re not guarding it now?” She asked.
“Well...you see...”
“Did you shatter the emerald again?” Sonic asked.
“No, it’s not that, it’s just that...yes.” Knuckles admitted.
“Why not come, then?”
“Aww, may be Knucklehead is too scared to come.” Rouge teased, in a mock-baby voice.
“No, I’m not scared, it’s just that...All right, alright! I’ll come!”
Sonic grinned.
“We should wait until morning. After we all get some sleep.”
Sonic nodded in agreement with Tails, thinking about how the day ahead could possibly go.
Next chapter: Rescuing Shadow, Egg-Head's discovery and more poking fun at Knuckles!
Disclaimer: i do not own Sonic and co. they are the property of SEGA.
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Sonic stared at Amy for a full three seconds before either one of them made a move.
“WELL?!”
“Well what?”
“YO KNOW WHAT, YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU HAD A SON! AND I’M SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR GIRLFREIND! AND BEFORE YOU TELL ME, YOU INSTEAD TELL THIS BI-”
“WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?!” Rouge yelled.
“WELL, HE WAS SUPPOSED TO TELL ME BEFOREHAND, SEEING AS I’M HIS GIRLFREIND-”
“No, Amy.”
Everybody stopped, staring at Sonic.
“But Sonic, as I’m your girlfriend...”
“No. You were never my girlfriend, and never will be. I hinted numerous times that I didn’t like you that way and never will do.”
Amy paused, falling to the ground, and then began to cry.
“Y-You mean t-that you never l-loved me?”
Sonic looked at her dead in the eye.
“As a friend and sister, yes. But that’s all.”
Amy cried for a few more moments, before getting up and lifting her hammer above her head, fury covering her face.
“YOU’LL PAY, YOU BLUE BA-”
But before she could finish, an orange beam of light came out of Sonic’s raised hand, and hit the hammer, obliterating it. Amy stood there, frozen by shock, as another Chaos Spear began to charge up in Sonic’s hand. He then pointed it at Amy.
“Now Amy, why don’t you leave quietly, NOW, or do we have to do this the hard way?” He asked. Amy didn’t need telling twice. She ran from the house as fast as her legs would carry her, while bawling her eyes out. Silence enveloped the room, before sonic decided to break it.
“Just how much of the story did you guys actually hear, anyway?” he asked.
“Everything from ‘As I did this, I first met Eggman. I chased after him, thinking that he might know something about Shadow.” Tails answered him, staring at the turquoise coloured carpet.
“Sooo...Big Blue’s a father, didn’t think you had it in ya!” Knuckles exclaimed, patting Sonic on the back, whose face turned slightly red.
“Knuckles...”
“Why don’t you tell them the full story, before Knucklehead gets any more...‘assumptions’?” Rouge suggested.
Sonic sighed, and began to repeat his story...
About 15 minutes later, Sonic had finished. Both Tails and Knuckles were staring at him, wide eyed.
“So you’re 64 years old...”
“Yes, Knuckles...”
“When you were two, Eggman’s grand-daddy took you to ARK...”
“Yes...”
“After 5 years, you had a son who was created by combining your DNA with that of an alien freak...”
“Yes...”
“Seven years later, GUN invaded the ARK and captured you...”
“YES!”
“You were in stasis for 45 years...”
“YES!”
“You chased Eggman, thinking he knew something about Shadow...”
“YES!”
“And you’ve just found out that Shadow’s on Prison Island."
“He said YES, Knucklehead!” Rouge practically yelled. That echidna really pissed her off at times, and this was one of them.
“Wow.” Was all Knuckles managed to say.
Tails then spoke for the first time since he had entered the room.
“But Sonic, why didn’t you tell us beforehand? I mean, I’m your best friend!”
Sonic sighed and sat on the bed. He didn’t have an answer for that. Luckily, Rouge spared him.
“Tails, if it was YOU in that position, would you say anything about it?”
“Well yes, of course I would of-”
Rouge raised her eyebrows.
“No.” Tails said, admitting defeat.
“Exactly.”
Silence enveloped the room again, before Tails spoke again.
“And Sonic, how DID you get those files, anyway?”
Sonic grinned.
“Think, you caught me in my room, with a ‘secret’ agent, talking about my past, with a bunch of Top-Secret government files loaded onto my computer. Put two and two together and what do you get?” Sonic asked, pointing at Rouge.
"And haven't I answered that question already?"
"I know, i just can't believe what's happening, that's all."
Knuckles was the next to speak.
“So, what kind of deal did you do with Bat-Girl then?”
Everyone else groaned. Knuckles had asked that question at least 15 times, now. And everybody was getting fed up about it.
“What?” Knuckles asked, stupidly.
Sonic, Tails and Rouge exchanged looks that plainly said “Idiot.”
Sonic got up and walked over to the computer. After a few moments, a map of Prison Island came up on-screen.
“That’s where I need to go.”
“You’re going?”
“Tails, I may I remind you that I’ve waited FIVE WHOLE YEARS for this. Do you really think that I’m just going to sit down and do nothing?”
Tails sighed.
“If you’re going, so am I. You won’t be able to reach Prison Island by foot, that’s for sure. And I should be able to disable some of the security systems.”
“Leave the hacking to the professionals, kid.”
Everybody stared at Rouge.
“That’s right, I’m going too. I can hack into any security system in less than a minute. I’m also the most advanced one here at breaking into compounds unnoticed. And if I run into trouble, I’m more than capable of taking care of myself.”
Sonic looked at Knuckles.
“And you?” he asked.
“Well, I’d love to come, but the Master Emerald...y’know.”
Rouge raised an eyebrow.
“If it’s so important, how come you’re not guarding it now?” She asked.
“Well...you see...”
“Did you shatter the emerald again?” Sonic asked.
“No, it’s not that, it’s just that...yes.” Knuckles admitted.
“Why not come, then?”
“Aww, may be Knucklehead is too scared to come.” Rouge teased, in a mock-baby voice.
“No, I’m not scared, it’s just that...All right, alright! I’ll come!”
Sonic grinned.
“We should wait until morning. After we all get some sleep.”
Sonic nodded in agreement with Tails, thinking about how the day ahead could possibly go.
Next chapter: Rescuing Shadow, Egg-Head's discovery and more poking fun at Knuckles!
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Chapter 4
The next day, everybody was ready (And Rouge was having fun with the register)
“Big Blue?”
“Rouge...”
“Fox Boy?”
“HEY!”
“Hot-Head?”
“WHAT?!”
Knuckles snatched the paper out of her hands, and asked;
“Bat-Girl Rip-Off?”
Tails laughed while Knuckles ducked Rouge’s pick-nails, which had been thrown at him by said annoyed bat. Sonic sighed. If things kept going like this, they wouldn’t get to Prison Island until next year. He cleared his throat and they all looked in his direction.
“Are we going to go now? We don’t have all the time in the world, you know!”
Tails nodded while Knuckles and Rouge just gave an “Hmph!” The four of them then proceeded to Tails’ workshop, where the X-Tornado was waiting for them. (A/N: Don’t worry! This is the only Sonic X reference here!)
“Everybody ready?” Tails asked, with everybody else clinging to the wings of the plane.
“Yep.”
“Ready.”
“Of course.”
The plane slowly began to make its way down the runway. It began to pick up speed, before finally lifting off the ground and into the sky. Sonic looked into the pale blue sky and once it was safe too, he loosened his grip on the wings, as did the others. He rolled onto his back and tried to relax, but it was impossible. His mind was clouded with worry. He knew perfectly well that they had only one shot at breaking his son out of that place. It was then something else crossed his mind. What if he didn’t remember him? What if G.U.N had erased Shadow’s memory? Sonic swore that if they had erased his memory, or indeed hurt him in any way, he would destroy G.U.N personally. Then he remembered that Gerald had designed Shadow so that it would be impossible to erase his mind. Unless GUN found some way around that. Knuckles saw the look that Sonic had on his face.
“You Ok, Sonic?”
Sonic rolled his eyes.
“Knuckles, We’re about to break into a top-secret government base to rescue his long, lost son. He’s not worried one bit.” Rouge answered for him, in a VERY sarcastic tone.
“Sorreeeee...”
Silence ensued for a few moments.
“One question, do you think Shadow will even remember Sonic?” (Knuckles doesn’t know all the details about Shadow’s creation)
“What do you mean?” Rouge asked, raising an eyebrow.
“Well think, we could release Shadow and something like this could happen: ‘Oh yes we’re the sonic team and that blue guy over there, he's your dad’, and then he has a mental breakdown.”
“KNUCKLEHEAD, SHUT IT!” Sonic and Rouge both yelled at the same time.
“But-”
Rouge decided to play her new trump card. She got out a piece of the Master Emerald that she had found, and dangled it over the edge of the plane. Knuckles’ eyes went wide.
“Ok Hot-Head, here’s the deal: you don’t do anything to annoy or upset any of us, or this little piece of your precious emerald meets the bottom of the sea, alright?”
Knuckles glared at her, then sat down and started to pout.
About an hour later, Prison Island came into view.
“Alright, I’ve equipped the X-Tornado with a special cloaking device that makes it invisible to both G.U.N’s and Eggman’s radars. Unfortunately, it only works on mechanical objects.” Tails explained, as the plane landed on the island. He then handed three wrist communicators to each of them. “Use these to contact me when you need to.” The others nodded, then ran off. Little did they know that they were not the only ones currently after Shadow...
Aboard the Egg Carrier III...
Dr. Ivo Robotnik, AKA Dr. Eggman had his sights set on the island.
“Project Shadow...I still can’t believe that the ultimate weapon of destruction is related to that blue pest...nevertheless, it shall still be mine! MUAHAHAHAHA!”
Meanwhile...
The others had located a high security back-door.
“How come they always seem to have back doors?” Knuckles asked. Sonic shrugged.
“Who cares? Rouge, it’s all yours. Sonic replied.
Rouge stepped up to the terminal beside the door and plugged something into it. After a minute, she said;
“Alright, we’re in. I’ve managed to deactivate all security systems up to level three.” They were about to continue through the now-open door when Tails’ voice came in over the communicators.
“Alright, I’ve located Shadow. He’s in the centre of level 5. Good luck.”
The others then proceeded through the door. Due to the disabled security systems, they were easily able to make it up to level 4. As they entered lv.4, Knuckles opened an air vent and they all crawled in.
“My lord, it reeks in here!” Sonic complained as they crawled through.
“Sorry.” Knuckles grinned sheepishly. Sonic and Rouge paused to give him disgusted looks, before crawling on, eventually reaching the exit.
“Wonder why there weren’t any lasers in that air vent?” Sonic asked.
“Because this place was designed to be resistant against humans, not mobians, and the average human wouldn’t be able to fit through that tiny vent, so they obviously didn’t bother.” Rouge answered for him.
“Humans can be idiots.” Sonic muttered. Knuckles was about to answer ‘so can you’ before remembering Rouge’s earlier threat. Sonic lifted his communicator to his mouth.
“Tails, how much further?” he asked.
“Well, that air vent took you through most of level 4, so after you drop down, keep going until you reach another security door. That’ll take you to level 5 and it’s straight on from there.” Quickly and noiselessly, they dropped through the whole onto the floor. Grabbing onto Rouge and Knuckles, Sonic sped off until they reached the door. Rouge got out her hacking device again and plugged it into the terminal next to the door. Within seconds, the door was hacked and open.
“You know, for a top-secret base, the security is a complete joke.” Rouge complained, as they made their way up the corridor, making sure to avoid any cameras along the way. They eventually came up to another security door, but no terminal was in sight.
“Great, so how are we going to open this without alerting the whole bas that we’re here?” Knuckles asked.
“You sure this is the only way, Tails?” Sonic asked into his communicator.
“Positive.” Tails replied.
Sonic was then struck by an idea. He took the hands of both his comrades and began to vibrate quickly, before going RIGHT THROUGH THE DOOR. Once they reached the other side, Knuckles asked;
“Ok, What did you do?!”
“Simple, I vibrated our molecules at such a speed that we went right through the door. In other words, we vibrated through it.”
“You spend too much time around Tails.” Knuckles said weakly. They were now in a very small room. A capsule was placed right in the centre. They ran up to it and peered into it, and Sonic could see his son’s face for the first time in 50 years.
There was a small keypad on the capsule. Rouge tried every password she new, including the password to her own computer out of sheer desperation, before Sonic told her to stand aside. He then typed his own password in. M-A-R-I-A. As expected, the capsule opened. The seven-year-old hedgie slowly opened his eyes, trying to make out the three blurry figures above him, before recognising the middle one.
“Daddy!” he said happily. Overwhelmed by happiness, Sonic picked up his son and hugged him.
“Yes Shadow, it’s me.” Sonic said, tears of happiness in his eyes.
Then the wall collapsed.
The next day, everybody was ready (And Rouge was having fun with the register)
“Big Blue?”
“Rouge...”
“Fox Boy?”
“HEY!”
“Hot-Head?”
“WHAT?!”
Knuckles snatched the paper out of her hands, and asked;
“Bat-Girl Rip-Off?”
Tails laughed while Knuckles ducked Rouge’s pick-nails, which had been thrown at him by said annoyed bat. Sonic sighed. If things kept going like this, they wouldn’t get to Prison Island until next year. He cleared his throat and they all looked in his direction.
“Are we going to go now? We don’t have all the time in the world, you know!”
Tails nodded while Knuckles and Rouge just gave an “Hmph!” The four of them then proceeded to Tails’ workshop, where the X-Tornado was waiting for them. (A/N: Don’t worry! This is the only Sonic X reference here!)
“Everybody ready?” Tails asked, with everybody else clinging to the wings of the plane.
“Yep.”
“Ready.”
“Of course.”
The plane slowly began to make its way down the runway. It began to pick up speed, before finally lifting off the ground and into the sky. Sonic looked into the pale blue sky and once it was safe too, he loosened his grip on the wings, as did the others. He rolled onto his back and tried to relax, but it was impossible. His mind was clouded with worry. He knew perfectly well that they had only one shot at breaking his son out of that place. It was then something else crossed his mind. What if he didn’t remember him? What if G.U.N had erased Shadow’s memory? Sonic swore that if they had erased his memory, or indeed hurt him in any way, he would destroy G.U.N personally. Then he remembered that Gerald had designed Shadow so that it would be impossible to erase his mind. Unless GUN found some way around that. Knuckles saw the look that Sonic had on his face.
“You Ok, Sonic?”
Sonic rolled his eyes.
“Knuckles, We’re about to break into a top-secret government base to rescue his long, lost son. He’s not worried one bit.” Rouge answered for him, in a VERY sarcastic tone.
“Sorreeeee...”
Silence ensued for a few moments.
“One question, do you think Shadow will even remember Sonic?” (Knuckles doesn’t know all the details about Shadow’s creation)
“What do you mean?” Rouge asked, raising an eyebrow.
“Well think, we could release Shadow and something like this could happen: ‘Oh yes we’re the sonic team and that blue guy over there, he's your dad’, and then he has a mental breakdown.”
“KNUCKLEHEAD, SHUT IT!” Sonic and Rouge both yelled at the same time.
“But-”
Rouge decided to play her new trump card. She got out a piece of the Master Emerald that she had found, and dangled it over the edge of the plane. Knuckles’ eyes went wide.
“Ok Hot-Head, here’s the deal: you don’t do anything to annoy or upset any of us, or this little piece of your precious emerald meets the bottom of the sea, alright?”
Knuckles glared at her, then sat down and started to pout.
About an hour later, Prison Island came into view.
“Alright, I’ve equipped the X-Tornado with a special cloaking device that makes it invisible to both G.U.N’s and Eggman’s radars. Unfortunately, it only works on mechanical objects.” Tails explained, as the plane landed on the island. He then handed three wrist communicators to each of them. “Use these to contact me when you need to.” The others nodded, then ran off. Little did they know that they were not the only ones currently after Shadow...
Aboard the Egg Carrier III...
Dr. Ivo Robotnik, AKA Dr. Eggman had his sights set on the island.
“Project Shadow...I still can’t believe that the ultimate weapon of destruction is related to that blue pest...nevertheless, it shall still be mine! MUAHAHAHAHA!”
Meanwhile...
The others had located a high security back-door.
“How come they always seem to have back doors?” Knuckles asked. Sonic shrugged.
“Who cares? Rouge, it’s all yours. Sonic replied.
Rouge stepped up to the terminal beside the door and plugged something into it. After a minute, she said;
“Alright, we’re in. I’ve managed to deactivate all security systems up to level three.” They were about to continue through the now-open door when Tails’ voice came in over the communicators.
“Alright, I’ve located Shadow. He’s in the centre of level 5. Good luck.”
The others then proceeded through the door. Due to the disabled security systems, they were easily able to make it up to level 4. As they entered lv.4, Knuckles opened an air vent and they all crawled in.
“My lord, it reeks in here!” Sonic complained as they crawled through.
“Sorry.” Knuckles grinned sheepishly. Sonic and Rouge paused to give him disgusted looks, before crawling on, eventually reaching the exit.
“Wonder why there weren’t any lasers in that air vent?” Sonic asked.
“Because this place was designed to be resistant against humans, not mobians, and the average human wouldn’t be able to fit through that tiny vent, so they obviously didn’t bother.” Rouge answered for him.
“Humans can be idiots.” Sonic muttered. Knuckles was about to answer ‘so can you’ before remembering Rouge’s earlier threat. Sonic lifted his communicator to his mouth.
“Tails, how much further?” he asked.
“Well, that air vent took you through most of level 4, so after you drop down, keep going until you reach another security door. That’ll take you to level 5 and it’s straight on from there.” Quickly and noiselessly, they dropped through the whole onto the floor. Grabbing onto Rouge and Knuckles, Sonic sped off until they reached the door. Rouge got out her hacking device again and plugged it into the terminal next to the door. Within seconds, the door was hacked and open.
“You know, for a top-secret base, the security is a complete joke.” Rouge complained, as they made their way up the corridor, making sure to avoid any cameras along the way. They eventually came up to another security door, but no terminal was in sight.
“Great, so how are we going to open this without alerting the whole bas that we’re here?” Knuckles asked.
“You sure this is the only way, Tails?” Sonic asked into his communicator.
“Positive.” Tails replied.
Sonic was then struck by an idea. He took the hands of both his comrades and began to vibrate quickly, before going RIGHT THROUGH THE DOOR. Once they reached the other side, Knuckles asked;
“Ok, What did you do?!”
“Simple, I vibrated our molecules at such a speed that we went right through the door. In other words, we vibrated through it.”
“You spend too much time around Tails.” Knuckles said weakly. They were now in a very small room. A capsule was placed right in the centre. They ran up to it and peered into it, and Sonic could see his son’s face for the first time in 50 years.
There was a small keypad on the capsule. Rouge tried every password she new, including the password to her own computer out of sheer desperation, before Sonic told her to stand aside. He then typed his own password in. M-A-R-I-A. As expected, the capsule opened. The seven-year-old hedgie slowly opened his eyes, trying to make out the three blurry figures above him, before recognising the middle one.
“Daddy!” he said happily. Overwhelmed by happiness, Sonic picked up his son and hugged him.
“Yes Shadow, it’s me.” Sonic said, tears of happiness in his eyes.
Then the wall collapsed.
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Here's chapter 5, everybody!
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Amy rapped her knuckles hard on the door.
“Grandma?” She asked. “Grandma!”
“Calm down child, I’m coming!” Amy’s grandma, Lily, called as she opened the door, and Amy literally collapsed into her arms.
“Now, child. What on Mobius is the matter?” Lily asked, taking her inside and putting the kettle on.
“SONICHASASONANDHESAIDHEDOESNTLOVEME!” Amy blurted out.
“Child, take a deep breath and slow down what you’re saying.”
Amy took a long, deep breath and repeated herself.
“I’ve just found out that Sonic has a son, and that he doesn’t love me.” She said.
That caught Lily’s attention. She knew that Sonic just didn’t like Amy that way, but the fact that Sonic had a son was completely new to her. (Of course)
“He has a son?” She asked, and Amy nodded.
Lily took a sip of her cocoa and asked “How did you find all of this out?”
Amy took another deep breath and began explaining everything that she had heard the day before.
Lily frowned and took another sip of her cocoa.
“Did you give him a chance to explain himself? It sounds like you only heard part of his story.”
Amy sighed and looked at the floor.
“No.” She muttered.
“And why not?”
Amy sighed again.
“I was upset...besides, I’m his girlfriend! He should have told me about it before! I had everything planned out for us. We would get married, have kids...”
Lily interrupted her. “Amy, answer this truthfully. Would you be eternally happy if you married Sonic?”
Amy fell silent, and began to think. 10 minutes later she gave her answer.
“No.” She gave a small smile.
“And do you know what you must do now?” Lily asked.
“Yes.” Amy nodded and walked out of the cottage.
Back with the others...
When the dust cleared, the heroes saw a familiar sight.
“Eggman.” Knuckles growled. And sure enough, there was the egg-shaped doctor himself, in an upgraded Egg-Walker (Tails’ final boss from SA1). Shadow, who was still in Sonic’s arms, took one look at the ugly metal contraption, and buried his face further into his father’s fur.
“Ah, Sonic! I can see that you have what I’m looking for! Now hand him over!”
Sonic clutched Shadow even tighter. “Ah, shaddup you giant talking egg!”
“Hmm, I guess I’ll just have to it the hard way, then.” He fired a laser blast at the heroes, which blew a hole in the floor where the heroes had quickly moved from. He steered his machine, trying to lock-on.
BAM! Knuckle’s punch sent the walker off-balance.
WHAM! Rouge’s kick sent it all the way over, hitting the floor with a CRASH!
“Agh! You’ll pay for that!” Eggman called. He attempted to steer his creation to its feet, but before he could, a Chaos Spear hit the controls, sending the machine haywire and eventually causing it to explode, but not before Egg-Head punched the ‘eject’ button first. “I’ll be back!” he cried, as flew off into the distance.
“And you’ll just get your ass kicked again.” Knuckles muttered. Sonic nodded.
“Let’s go home.” He said, and everybody agreed.
Later, they were standing by the X-Tornado. Tails (annoyingly) had fallen asleep at the controls of the aircraft. Knuckles approached the Two-Tailed and shook him awake.
“Awww...Knuckles, why did you have to do that?” Tails muttered drowsily. “I see you found Shadow.” He said, noticing the Black and Red hedgie in the arms of his father.
“Yep. Thanks for telling us that Eggman was here, too.” Sonic said, in a VERY sarcastic voice.
“Huh? Eggman was here? I didn’t see him...”
Rouge scowled.
“Yeah, but it would help if you could actually stay awake, you know.”
“I-I fell asleep?” Tails asked. “Oops...”
“Just. Fly. The plane.”
“Ok...”
This time, they travelled on the INSIDE of the plane. Shadow was on Sonic’s lap, who was generally making a fuss of him (Are you okay? How did they treat you? Did they do anything to you? Etc.). Rouge felt a small smile surface upon her lips watching them. Meanwhile, Knuckles was being his usual, stupid self.
“Are you SURE we’re going the right way?”
“For the millionth time, YES!!” Tails yelled. He had officially lost all patience with the echidna.
“Oh, Knuckles.”
“And what do you want, Bat-Girl?”
“Do you remember our deal?” Knuckles’ face turned pale. Quick as a flash, Rouge pulled out something green and threw it out of the cockpit and into the water.
“NOOOOOO! I’m coming for you, Master Emerald!” Knuckles yelled and dived off the plane and into the water below. A few moments of silence passed before Rouge said;
“Do you think he’ll like that piece of stained glass?” she asked, pulling out the REAL Master Emerald piece and the plane filled with laughter.
Later that night...
Later, everything was silent in Sonic’s house. Sonic was watching Shadow sleep soundly on the guest bed. Sonic got up and whispered; “Good night, son.” before walking out of the room, closing the door behind him. Sonic was the happiest he had been in years. He kept on pinching himself to make sure that he wasn’t dreaming all of this. He then noticed his phone flashing, and he picked it up.
“You have one new message, received today at 2:47pm. Playing message.”
“Hey Sonic, it’s Amy. Before you destroy the phone, I would like to say that I deserved everything you said to me last night. I shouldn’t of shouted at you like that, just like I shouldn’t of chased you around for all this time, because quite frankly, it’s been a complete waste of time for the both of us. I wanna make it up to you, tomorrow, Station Square Park, 3:00pm. No, this isn’t a trick to get you to do date me. I’ll see you tomorrow, I guess...”
“End of message.”
Sonic put the phone down, thinking whether he should accept Amy’s invitation or not. Then he heard a voice behind him.
“So, Pinky’s trying to patch things up, is she?”
Sonic spun around, to find himself face-to-face with a snowy coloured bat.
“Rouge!” he blurted out. “I thought you’d already left?!”
Rouge shrugged. “I did, but I got worried about how Shadow could be taking all this, so I came back. Anyway, are you gonna accept Amy’s invitation or not?”
Sonic shrugged. “Dunno. I just don’t want it to end in another argument like yesterday.”
Rouge smiled. “Thought you’d say that.” She went to speak again, but was cut off by a knock on the front door. Sonic opened it to find a red, soaked and pissed-off echidna glaring back at him.
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Amy rapped her knuckles hard on the door.
“Grandma?” She asked. “Grandma!”
“Calm down child, I’m coming!” Amy’s grandma, Lily, called as she opened the door, and Amy literally collapsed into her arms.
“Now, child. What on Mobius is the matter?” Lily asked, taking her inside and putting the kettle on.
“SONICHASASONANDHESAIDHEDOESNTLOVEME!” Amy blurted out.
“Child, take a deep breath and slow down what you’re saying.”
Amy took a long, deep breath and repeated herself.
“I’ve just found out that Sonic has a son, and that he doesn’t love me.” She said.
That caught Lily’s attention. She knew that Sonic just didn’t like Amy that way, but the fact that Sonic had a son was completely new to her. (Of course)
“He has a son?” She asked, and Amy nodded.
Lily took a sip of her cocoa and asked “How did you find all of this out?”
Amy took another deep breath and began explaining everything that she had heard the day before.
Lily frowned and took another sip of her cocoa.
“Did you give him a chance to explain himself? It sounds like you only heard part of his story.”
Amy sighed and looked at the floor.
“No.” She muttered.
“And why not?”
Amy sighed again.
“I was upset...besides, I’m his girlfriend! He should have told me about it before! I had everything planned out for us. We would get married, have kids...”
Lily interrupted her. “Amy, answer this truthfully. Would you be eternally happy if you married Sonic?”
Amy fell silent, and began to think. 10 minutes later she gave her answer.
“No.” She gave a small smile.
“And do you know what you must do now?” Lily asked.
“Yes.” Amy nodded and walked out of the cottage.
Back with the others...
When the dust cleared, the heroes saw a familiar sight.
“Eggman.” Knuckles growled. And sure enough, there was the egg-shaped doctor himself, in an upgraded Egg-Walker (Tails’ final boss from SA1). Shadow, who was still in Sonic’s arms, took one look at the ugly metal contraption, and buried his face further into his father’s fur.
“Ah, Sonic! I can see that you have what I’m looking for! Now hand him over!”
Sonic clutched Shadow even tighter. “Ah, shaddup you giant talking egg!”
“Hmm, I guess I’ll just have to it the hard way, then.” He fired a laser blast at the heroes, which blew a hole in the floor where the heroes had quickly moved from. He steered his machine, trying to lock-on.
BAM! Knuckle’s punch sent the walker off-balance.
WHAM! Rouge’s kick sent it all the way over, hitting the floor with a CRASH!
“Agh! You’ll pay for that!” Eggman called. He attempted to steer his creation to its feet, but before he could, a Chaos Spear hit the controls, sending the machine haywire and eventually causing it to explode, but not before Egg-Head punched the ‘eject’ button first. “I’ll be back!” he cried, as flew off into the distance.
“And you’ll just get your ass kicked again.” Knuckles muttered. Sonic nodded.
“Let’s go home.” He said, and everybody agreed.
Later, they were standing by the X-Tornado. Tails (annoyingly) had fallen asleep at the controls of the aircraft. Knuckles approached the Two-Tailed and shook him awake.
“Awww...Knuckles, why did you have to do that?” Tails muttered drowsily. “I see you found Shadow.” He said, noticing the Black and Red hedgie in the arms of his father.
“Yep. Thanks for telling us that Eggman was here, too.” Sonic said, in a VERY sarcastic voice.
“Huh? Eggman was here? I didn’t see him...”
Rouge scowled.
“Yeah, but it would help if you could actually stay awake, you know.”
“I-I fell asleep?” Tails asked. “Oops...”
“Just. Fly. The plane.”
“Ok...”
This time, they travelled on the INSIDE of the plane. Shadow was on Sonic’s lap, who was generally making a fuss of him (Are you okay? How did they treat you? Did they do anything to you? Etc.). Rouge felt a small smile surface upon her lips watching them. Meanwhile, Knuckles was being his usual, stupid self.
“Are you SURE we’re going the right way?”
“For the millionth time, YES!!” Tails yelled. He had officially lost all patience with the echidna.
“Oh, Knuckles.”
“And what do you want, Bat-Girl?”
“Do you remember our deal?” Knuckles’ face turned pale. Quick as a flash, Rouge pulled out something green and threw it out of the cockpit and into the water.
“NOOOOOO! I’m coming for you, Master Emerald!” Knuckles yelled and dived off the plane and into the water below. A few moments of silence passed before Rouge said;
“Do you think he’ll like that piece of stained glass?” she asked, pulling out the REAL Master Emerald piece and the plane filled with laughter.
Later that night...
Later, everything was silent in Sonic’s house. Sonic was watching Shadow sleep soundly on the guest bed. Sonic got up and whispered; “Good night, son.” before walking out of the room, closing the door behind him. Sonic was the happiest he had been in years. He kept on pinching himself to make sure that he wasn’t dreaming all of this. He then noticed his phone flashing, and he picked it up.
“You have one new message, received today at 2:47pm. Playing message.”
“Hey Sonic, it’s Amy. Before you destroy the phone, I would like to say that I deserved everything you said to me last night. I shouldn’t of shouted at you like that, just like I shouldn’t of chased you around for all this time, because quite frankly, it’s been a complete waste of time for the both of us. I wanna make it up to you, tomorrow, Station Square Park, 3:00pm. No, this isn’t a trick to get you to do date me. I’ll see you tomorrow, I guess...”
“End of message.”
Sonic put the phone down, thinking whether he should accept Amy’s invitation or not. Then he heard a voice behind him.
“So, Pinky’s trying to patch things up, is she?”
Sonic spun around, to find himself face-to-face with a snowy coloured bat.
“Rouge!” he blurted out. “I thought you’d already left?!”
Rouge shrugged. “I did, but I got worried about how Shadow could be taking all this, so I came back. Anyway, are you gonna accept Amy’s invitation or not?”
Sonic shrugged. “Dunno. I just don’t want it to end in another argument like yesterday.”
Rouge smiled. “Thought you’d say that.” She went to speak again, but was cut off by a knock on the front door. Sonic opened it to find a red, soaked and pissed-off echidna glaring back at him.
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Posted 27 September 2008 - 11:41 AM
Chapter 6.
Knuckles pushed past Sonic and began walking up to Rouge, who started whistling innocently. Knuckles got right in her face before yelling;
“WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!”
A sly grin appeared on Rouge’s face.
“What was that for?”
“You know what!”
“No, I don’t.”
Knuckles growled and pulled out the piece of green stained glass.
“You tricked me into believing that this was a piece of the Master Emerald! Now, explain yourself! And give that Master Emerald piece back!”
“What? It’s not my fault you need glasses now, is it?” Rouge answered, clearly very amused.
“ARRRRRGGGHHHHH!” Knuckles had really had it by now. If things carried on like this, he would probably end up doing something stupid – as usual.
He was about to scream something at Rouge before Sonic cut him off. He had good reasons too, as well. Not only did he have a child sleeping upstairs, but he didn’t want Shadow to learn any of Knuckles’ bad language, either.
“I’ll stop when she-”
“Oh look, Knuckles. There’s Tikal!” Sonic said, pointing over Knuckles’ shoulder.
Knuckles immediately turned around and started running in the direction that Sonic had pointed in.
“Wait for me, Tikal! Don’t leave me again!” he yelled as he ran. Rouge laughed.
“Well, I’d better be going, too. And this time, I swear I will actually go.” Sonic nodded.
“Ok. And Rouge?”
“Yeah?” Rouge asked turning to face him.
“Thanks for everything.”
“No problem.” Rouge said, leaning forward and kissing the Blue Blur on the cheek, before flying off.
If she had thought to look behind her, she would of saw first-hand that it was possible for a hedgehog’s face to go from the blue to red in less than five seconds. Trying to keep strange thoughts out his head, Sonic muttered;
“I hope Shadow’s still in bed. Getting him to get in bed was as easy as...well...getting any other seven-year-old kid in bed. In other words, almost impossible.”
The next day...
“Sonic, I’m sure it’ll be OK.”
Sonic, Tails and Shadow were at the breakfast table, and Tails was trying to tell Sonic that everything would be all right during their meeting with Amy later on.
“Come on, this is AMY we’re talking about here, you know.”
“Sonic, didn’t she say that she’s come to her senses about you?”
“Tails, can you remember what happened the last time she said that?” Sonic asked.
“Um... yeah.” Tails replied, getting a flashback on opening the front door and getting bowled down by an avalanche of dried flowers.
Sonic checked his watch.
“Almost 11.am. Better get going. C’mon, Shadow.”
Shadow nodded and followed his father out the door. A few minutes later they were walking through Station Square, getting odd looks from passers-by.
“The media’s gonna have a field day after this...” Sonic muttered, as a group of teenage girls stared at him as they passed.
“Daddy, what is Amy like?” Shadow asked.
“Well...she’s a nice girl...chases me a lot...”
“Is she your girlfriend?” Shadow asked, making Sonic splutter.
“N-No, we’re not T-That close.” Sonic answered. As he said this, he found himself thinking of Rouge again.
‘How come I just can’t keep my mind off her? Don’t tell me that I’m falling for her...” he thought to himself.
They turned around and noticed that a little line of followers had gathered behind them. Sonic gave them all a sharp glare and they scattered quickly, allowing Sonic and Shadow to continue. When they got to the park however, Amy was no-where to be seen.
“Where is she?” Sonic asked.
As if on cue, a large metal craft, with the highly familiar logo of a certain Egg-Shaped villain came crashing out of the lake in front in front of them.
“What the...” but before Sonic could finish, a large metal claw shot out and grabbed Shadow.
“Shadow!”
The craft then began to take off. It rose higher and higher, taking Shadow with it.
“DADDY!” he cried, terrified.
“Shadow...no...Shadow...” Sonic whispered. He then felt himself being picked up and gain height.
“Huh?” He asked, looking at the city below him. He then looked upwards and saw none other than Rouge, carrying him towards the robot.
“Count yourself lucky. My apartment’s only a few blocks away from here, so I could see what’s happening.” She explained. And with great effort, she swung Sonic onto her back.
The craft then began to fire lasers at the pair.
“Hold on tight!”
Sonic held on to Rouge as tightly as he could as she began to manoeuvre her way away from the lasers.
When they were close enough, they spotted Shadow, still trapped in the claw. Then they were directly underneath him, Sonic asked;
“Rouge, can you launch me towards the claw holding Shadow?”
“Sure thing.” She answered, and Sonic immediately felt himself being propelled forwards. He curled up into a spindash and easily sawed his way through the claw and grabbed hold of Shadow. Rouge then expertly flew beneath them and caught them. When they were a safe distance from the craft, Sonic pointed his hand at the craft and summoned up a HUGE Chaos Spear, totally obliterating the craft.
“I’ll get you for this, you Blue Rat!” Eggman yelled as he flew off in his Mean Machine (Or whatever he calls that mini-craft of his)
When the heroes touched the ground, Rouge (literally) collapsed, massaging her sore back.
“Man, you guys weigh a ton.”
Sonic laughed and took hold of her hands, helping her up.
“Thanks.” She muttered, before they heard a screech behind them. It was Amy, staring at them in horror.
Sonic looked at Rouge, and quickly let go of her, both of them embarrassed, but Amy had seen enough. She turned around and began to run back down the street as fast as she could. Rouge was the first one to speak.
“Bye Bye friendship with Amy.” She said.
Sonic couldn’t help but agree.
Chapter 7.
Amy stormed in, slammed the door of her bedroom shut behind her and launched herself on her bed, crying into her pillow. After a few minutes she was able to stop the trail of tears flowing down her cheeks.
‘What am I doing? I told myself that I’d got over him...’ she asked herself. ‘I guess that letting go is much harder than I had anticipated...’ she a sigh escape her lips as she took in these words. ‘I’ll admit it; the only reason that I started chasing him in the first place was because of all those times he saved me....I thought he did because he loved me....I guess I was too thick-headed to realise that he did it for everyone.’ Amy got off her bed and slowly made her way to the window. ‘I never actually thought about his feelings before, I just acted upon my own. My god, I’ve been so selfish...’ she trailed off, guilt overcoming her.
Meanwhile, At Rouge’s apartment...
The ebony bat walked in and threw herself onto her sofa, a small smile etched upon her face. She remembered holding hands with the blue hedgehog only an hour before, even if it had been a result of the Egg-Shaped freak trying to kidnap his son, and even if Pinky had broken it up after about 3 seconds. It had felt....nice. Being around the hedgehog made her feel something that she had never felt before. She loved being near him, being around him. She couldn’t get enough of him. She couldn’t deny it any longer.
“I’ve fallen in love...with Sonic the hedgehog.” She finally admitted. As she said this, she felt as though a great weight had been lifted off her chest. “Now, there’s got to be some way to get him to notice me... there has just got to be.” she muttered to herself. Little did she know that he already WAS noticing her a lot.
Sonic’s place...
Sonic, Shadow and Tails were all currently at the dinner table. Sonic stabbed at his steak pie, clearly uninterested in the food. Shadow, noticing his father’s strange mood, asked him what was wrong, but Sonic simply just smiled and told him that everything was okay. Shadow, being too young to really understand, accepted this answer, but Tails had a good idea of what could be bothering the fastest thing alive. After Shadow had been put to bed, he decided that it was time to get some answers.
“Sonic, you can’t fool me, I know perfectly well that something’s up, know what happened?”
Sonic sighed. He had been expecting this to happen, and he muttered something about Amy and hands.
“Sorry?” Tails asked. Sonic felt himself beginning to go red.
“Well, after the incident with ‘butnik earlier, Amy saw me....” he trailed off.
“Yes?”
“...caught me holding hands with Rouge.” Sonic muttered. Tails just managed to stop himself from grinning stupidly.
“It’s not what you think!” Sonic said hastily, but Tails already knew what could be wrong with the hedgehog.
“Hhm...Sonic, what do you think of Rouge?”
“Huh?” Sonic looked at the fox, questionably.
“Oh, come on. I’ve seen the way you act around her.”
“Wait, are you implying that...”
“Hhm, MAYBE.”
“Tails....”
“Sonic, seriously though, what do you think of her?”
Sonic opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out.
“Oh. I see. Ah.”
“See what?” Sonic asked weakly.
“Do you keep staring at her?”
Sonic groaned. “...yes.”
“Do you feel yourself heat up whenever she’s around you?”
“...yes.”
“Do you blush every time she kisses you?”
“...yes....wait a minute, WHAT?!”
“AH HA! So it’s true! She DID kiss you!” Tails cracked up laughing. Sonic’s face was redder than Knuckles’ fur had been when he had tried making Tomato Sauce. Tails managed to control his laughter.
“Seriously though, you definitely have feelings for a certain Bat.”
“Ya think?”
“There’s no doubt about it, you’ve got a HUGE crush on her.” Tails said, unable to keep himself from grinning like an idiot.
Sonic gave the Fox a strange look.
“What’s so funny?” He asked.
“Oh, It’s just the whole ‘You-and-her’ thing is kinda cute.”
Sonic smirked.
“You can talk. We all know about you and Cream.” This made Tails go pail.
“....what?” he asked, trying not to blush.
“So it’s true, you DO like her!” It was Sonic’s turn to look smug and Tails’ turn to go red. Sonic lent forward. “So, how does it feel to have a taste of your own medicine?”
Tails attempted a glare, but failed miserably. He summoned up what he thought was an intimidating voice.
“I-If you tell her, I-I swear...”
Sonic laughed.
“Come on, Tails, why would I do that?”
“...or I’ll tell Rouge what you think of her!”
“Deal.” The two shook hands on it.
“But, if you tell Cream, just remember...”
“Don’t worry, Tails. The day I tell Cream will be the day ol’ Knucklehead gets some sense knocked into him, and we both know that that ain’t gonna happen anytime soon.” That last comment made both of them laugh.
In Hawaii...
“TIKAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLL! WHERE ARE YOU?” Knuckles shouted.
Chapter 8.
The next day Tails woke up to the delicious smells coming from the kitchen. As he entered the kitchen, he saw the reason behind the smell.
“Pancakes!” he cried.
Shadow was already wolfing them down like there was no tomorrow. Like his father, he had kinda a bottomless stomach. Tails smirked at the sight and grabbed a plate.
“I used to make Shadow and Maria pancakes once a week aboard the ARK” Sonic told him, flipping a pancake into the air and catching it with perfection. “If I mentioned the word the word ‘pancakes’ Shadow here would be in front of me in less than a second, looking for them. Isn’t that right, Shadz?”
The black hedgehog didn’t answer, but carried on chomping instead. Sonic smirked and turned to face Tails directly.
“By the way, do you mind looking after Shadow for a while?” I’ve got something to do....”
“Don’t worry about it, of course I will.”
“Thanks, little bud.”
“But.....would this ‘something’ involve a certain bat?”
Sonic blushed several shades of red.
“W-What gave you that idea?”
“That bouquet of white daffodils left on the cabinet beside the front door. Her favourites. I’m not blind, Sonic.”
Sonic sighed.
“Oh all right, I’m going to ask Rouge out on a date. Happy now?”
Tails grinned.
“But Maria said a date was a fruit. Are you going to take Ms. Rouge fruit picking?” Shadow asked, looking up from his now empty plate.
Sonic laughed.
“That’s not exactly what I meant, Shadow...”
“Then what did you mean?”
“Hhm...I’ll tell you when you’re older...”
“Aww, but I wanna know NOW...”
“Later, Shadow. Anyway Tails, I gotta go. See ya.”
“See ya, big bro.”
Sonic picked up the daffodils and walked out of the door. Tails looked at Shadow, thinking of a way to keep him occupied until Sonic came back.
“Sooo....you like drawing?”
Later....
Sonic was outside Rouge’s place. He was almost as nervous as he had been when they had been breaking Shadow out of Prison Island. He took a deep breath and knocked on the door. A few seconds passed before the female bat answered.
“Um...hey Rouge.” Sonic tried to wipe away all nervousness he had, but failed miserably. “I...brought you flowers.” Sonic produced the daffodils from behind him.
“Daffodils! My favourite!” Rouge took the bunch and sniffed them. “But why-”
“Um, Rouge....will you go on a date with me?” Sonic cringed inwardly, hoping he had said this correctly.
A few moments passed before Rouge gave her answer. Rouge threw her arms around the hedgehog, taking him by surprise.
“Oh Sonic, of course I will!” after a few more seconds Rouge broke the embrace and laughed at Sonic’s face. “Aw, you look cute when you blush!” this statement caused Sonic to go even redder.
“So.” She said. “Where’re we goin’?” Sonic grinned.
“Diamond palace.”
Rouge nearly fell over. ‘DIAMOND PALACE?! That was the most expensive place in town! Not to mention the most romantic....’
“But...how did you...” Rouge began.
“Well, seeing as I’m a world-renowned hero, I have my connections.” Sonic told her, the smile on his face looking as though it’d never vanish. “So that’s you and me, seven o’clock, OK? I’ll pick you up.”
“Roger.” Rouge said, wrapping her arms around him again. Little did they know they were being watched...
Their eavesdropper watched from his perch, watching everything that was going on. He looked like Sonic, except for several defects. He was emerald green in colour and had a pair of large scars running up his chest. His eyes were sapphire blue and his shoes were green and rimmed with black with a silver buckle. He was wearing a black jacket with a fire pattern on both sleeves and had sunglasses that were crimson red in colour.
“Perfect.” He thought, and took off as fast as the blue wonder himself.
Later, Sonic entered his house in almost dream-like state, and forget about the step by the doorway, and fell over it.
“Ow....” he complained, massaging his now sore head. “Ooh...” he entered the lounge to find Shadow lying on the floor, surrounded by felt pens and scribbling on two pieces of paper, with Tails watching him.
“Daddy!” Shadow said happily, holding up a picture. It was a picture of Sonic and Rouge, with Shadow in between them, all standing in front of a large house. Sonic could also pick out Tails and Knuckles, as well.
“Well done, Shadow. Why don’t we put your picture up somewhere, where we can all see it?” Sonic asked.
Shadow nodded and held up another picture. This one was of Maria, laying face down in what appeared to be blood. And a man was standing next to her, with a pistol in hand. It was only then Sonic realized what Shadow had seen. He crouched down and hugged his son tightly, tears trickling down his face. Tails watched them silently. He wished that Sonic still gave him this kind of attention...but he seemed to of stopped getting it upon Shadow’s arrival.
Elsewhere....
Sonic and Rouge’s eavesdropper was studying the ‘Lonely Hearts’ column of the Station Square times. He scanned down the article until he found what he was looking for: The picture and description of a certain pink female.
“Perfect.” We whispered. Then the TV behind him flashed up a news report:
“This just in: There have been reports of a red yeti with dreadlocks roaming around the plains of Antarctica, seemingly moaning out ‘TIIIIIIIIIIIIKAAAAAAAAAAAAL!’. This is believed to be some sort of yeti mating call. Keep watching for more updates. Thank you.”
And that’s chapter 8! Anyone who can guess the identity of this ‘Eavesdropper’ gets a cookie.
Knuckles pushed past Sonic and began walking up to Rouge, who started whistling innocently. Knuckles got right in her face before yelling;
“WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!”
A sly grin appeared on Rouge’s face.
“What was that for?”
“You know what!”
“No, I don’t.”
Knuckles growled and pulled out the piece of green stained glass.
“You tricked me into believing that this was a piece of the Master Emerald! Now, explain yourself! And give that Master Emerald piece back!”
“What? It’s not my fault you need glasses now, is it?” Rouge answered, clearly very amused.
“ARRRRRGGGHHHHH!” Knuckles had really had it by now. If things carried on like this, he would probably end up doing something stupid – as usual.
He was about to scream something at Rouge before Sonic cut him off. He had good reasons too, as well. Not only did he have a child sleeping upstairs, but he didn’t want Shadow to learn any of Knuckles’ bad language, either.
“I’ll stop when she-”
“Oh look, Knuckles. There’s Tikal!” Sonic said, pointing over Knuckles’ shoulder.
Knuckles immediately turned around and started running in the direction that Sonic had pointed in.
“Wait for me, Tikal! Don’t leave me again!” he yelled as he ran. Rouge laughed.
“Well, I’d better be going, too. And this time, I swear I will actually go.” Sonic nodded.
“Ok. And Rouge?”
“Yeah?” Rouge asked turning to face him.
“Thanks for everything.”
“No problem.” Rouge said, leaning forward and kissing the Blue Blur on the cheek, before flying off.
If she had thought to look behind her, she would of saw first-hand that it was possible for a hedgehog’s face to go from the blue to red in less than five seconds. Trying to keep strange thoughts out his head, Sonic muttered;
“I hope Shadow’s still in bed. Getting him to get in bed was as easy as...well...getting any other seven-year-old kid in bed. In other words, almost impossible.”
The next day...
“Sonic, I’m sure it’ll be OK.”
Sonic, Tails and Shadow were at the breakfast table, and Tails was trying to tell Sonic that everything would be all right during their meeting with Amy later on.
“Come on, this is AMY we’re talking about here, you know.”
“Sonic, didn’t she say that she’s come to her senses about you?”
“Tails, can you remember what happened the last time she said that?” Sonic asked.
“Um... yeah.” Tails replied, getting a flashback on opening the front door and getting bowled down by an avalanche of dried flowers.
Sonic checked his watch.
“Almost 11.am. Better get going. C’mon, Shadow.”
Shadow nodded and followed his father out the door. A few minutes later they were walking through Station Square, getting odd looks from passers-by.
“The media’s gonna have a field day after this...” Sonic muttered, as a group of teenage girls stared at him as they passed.
“Daddy, what is Amy like?” Shadow asked.
“Well...she’s a nice girl...chases me a lot...”
“Is she your girlfriend?” Shadow asked, making Sonic splutter.
“N-No, we’re not T-That close.” Sonic answered. As he said this, he found himself thinking of Rouge again.
‘How come I just can’t keep my mind off her? Don’t tell me that I’m falling for her...” he thought to himself.
They turned around and noticed that a little line of followers had gathered behind them. Sonic gave them all a sharp glare and they scattered quickly, allowing Sonic and Shadow to continue. When they got to the park however, Amy was no-where to be seen.
“Where is she?” Sonic asked.
As if on cue, a large metal craft, with the highly familiar logo of a certain Egg-Shaped villain came crashing out of the lake in front in front of them.
“What the...” but before Sonic could finish, a large metal claw shot out and grabbed Shadow.
“Shadow!”
The craft then began to take off. It rose higher and higher, taking Shadow with it.
“DADDY!” he cried, terrified.
“Shadow...no...Shadow...” Sonic whispered. He then felt himself being picked up and gain height.
“Huh?” He asked, looking at the city below him. He then looked upwards and saw none other than Rouge, carrying him towards the robot.
“Count yourself lucky. My apartment’s only a few blocks away from here, so I could see what’s happening.” She explained. And with great effort, she swung Sonic onto her back.
The craft then began to fire lasers at the pair.
“Hold on tight!”
Sonic held on to Rouge as tightly as he could as she began to manoeuvre her way away from the lasers.
When they were close enough, they spotted Shadow, still trapped in the claw. Then they were directly underneath him, Sonic asked;
“Rouge, can you launch me towards the claw holding Shadow?”
“Sure thing.” She answered, and Sonic immediately felt himself being propelled forwards. He curled up into a spindash and easily sawed his way through the claw and grabbed hold of Shadow. Rouge then expertly flew beneath them and caught them. When they were a safe distance from the craft, Sonic pointed his hand at the craft and summoned up a HUGE Chaos Spear, totally obliterating the craft.
“I’ll get you for this, you Blue Rat!” Eggman yelled as he flew off in his Mean Machine (Or whatever he calls that mini-craft of his)
When the heroes touched the ground, Rouge (literally) collapsed, massaging her sore back.
“Man, you guys weigh a ton.”
Sonic laughed and took hold of her hands, helping her up.
“Thanks.” She muttered, before they heard a screech behind them. It was Amy, staring at them in horror.
Sonic looked at Rouge, and quickly let go of her, both of them embarrassed, but Amy had seen enough. She turned around and began to run back down the street as fast as she could. Rouge was the first one to speak.
“Bye Bye friendship with Amy.” She said.
Sonic couldn’t help but agree.
Chapter 7.
Amy stormed in, slammed the door of her bedroom shut behind her and launched herself on her bed, crying into her pillow. After a few minutes she was able to stop the trail of tears flowing down her cheeks.
‘What am I doing? I told myself that I’d got over him...’ she asked herself. ‘I guess that letting go is much harder than I had anticipated...’ she a sigh escape her lips as she took in these words. ‘I’ll admit it; the only reason that I started chasing him in the first place was because of all those times he saved me....I thought he did because he loved me....I guess I was too thick-headed to realise that he did it for everyone.’ Amy got off her bed and slowly made her way to the window. ‘I never actually thought about his feelings before, I just acted upon my own. My god, I’ve been so selfish...’ she trailed off, guilt overcoming her.
Meanwhile, At Rouge’s apartment...
The ebony bat walked in and threw herself onto her sofa, a small smile etched upon her face. She remembered holding hands with the blue hedgehog only an hour before, even if it had been a result of the Egg-Shaped freak trying to kidnap his son, and even if Pinky had broken it up after about 3 seconds. It had felt....nice. Being around the hedgehog made her feel something that she had never felt before. She loved being near him, being around him. She couldn’t get enough of him. She couldn’t deny it any longer.
“I’ve fallen in love...with Sonic the hedgehog.” She finally admitted. As she said this, she felt as though a great weight had been lifted off her chest. “Now, there’s got to be some way to get him to notice me... there has just got to be.” she muttered to herself. Little did she know that he already WAS noticing her a lot.
Sonic’s place...
Sonic, Shadow and Tails were all currently at the dinner table. Sonic stabbed at his steak pie, clearly uninterested in the food. Shadow, noticing his father’s strange mood, asked him what was wrong, but Sonic simply just smiled and told him that everything was okay. Shadow, being too young to really understand, accepted this answer, but Tails had a good idea of what could be bothering the fastest thing alive. After Shadow had been put to bed, he decided that it was time to get some answers.
“Sonic, you can’t fool me, I know perfectly well that something’s up, know what happened?”
Sonic sighed. He had been expecting this to happen, and he muttered something about Amy and hands.
“Sorry?” Tails asked. Sonic felt himself beginning to go red.
“Well, after the incident with ‘butnik earlier, Amy saw me....” he trailed off.
“Yes?”
“...caught me holding hands with Rouge.” Sonic muttered. Tails just managed to stop himself from grinning stupidly.
“It’s not what you think!” Sonic said hastily, but Tails already knew what could be wrong with the hedgehog.
“Hhm...Sonic, what do you think of Rouge?”
“Huh?” Sonic looked at the fox, questionably.
“Oh, come on. I’ve seen the way you act around her.”
“Wait, are you implying that...”
“Hhm, MAYBE.”
“Tails....”
“Sonic, seriously though, what do you think of her?”
Sonic opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out.
“Oh. I see. Ah.”
“See what?” Sonic asked weakly.
“Do you keep staring at her?”
Sonic groaned. “...yes.”
“Do you feel yourself heat up whenever she’s around you?”
“...yes.”
“Do you blush every time she kisses you?”
“...yes....wait a minute, WHAT?!”
“AH HA! So it’s true! She DID kiss you!” Tails cracked up laughing. Sonic’s face was redder than Knuckles’ fur had been when he had tried making Tomato Sauce. Tails managed to control his laughter.
“Seriously though, you definitely have feelings for a certain Bat.”
“Ya think?”
“There’s no doubt about it, you’ve got a HUGE crush on her.” Tails said, unable to keep himself from grinning like an idiot.
Sonic gave the Fox a strange look.
“What’s so funny?” He asked.
“Oh, It’s just the whole ‘You-and-her’ thing is kinda cute.”
Sonic smirked.
“You can talk. We all know about you and Cream.” This made Tails go pail.
“....what?” he asked, trying not to blush.
“So it’s true, you DO like her!” It was Sonic’s turn to look smug and Tails’ turn to go red. Sonic lent forward. “So, how does it feel to have a taste of your own medicine?”
Tails attempted a glare, but failed miserably. He summoned up what he thought was an intimidating voice.
“I-If you tell her, I-I swear...”
Sonic laughed.
“Come on, Tails, why would I do that?”
“...or I’ll tell Rouge what you think of her!”
“Deal.” The two shook hands on it.
“But, if you tell Cream, just remember...”
“Don’t worry, Tails. The day I tell Cream will be the day ol’ Knucklehead gets some sense knocked into him, and we both know that that ain’t gonna happen anytime soon.” That last comment made both of them laugh.
In Hawaii...
“TIKAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLL! WHERE ARE YOU?” Knuckles shouted.
Chapter 8.
The next day Tails woke up to the delicious smells coming from the kitchen. As he entered the kitchen, he saw the reason behind the smell.
“Pancakes!” he cried.
Shadow was already wolfing them down like there was no tomorrow. Like his father, he had kinda a bottomless stomach. Tails smirked at the sight and grabbed a plate.
“I used to make Shadow and Maria pancakes once a week aboard the ARK” Sonic told him, flipping a pancake into the air and catching it with perfection. “If I mentioned the word the word ‘pancakes’ Shadow here would be in front of me in less than a second, looking for them. Isn’t that right, Shadz?”
The black hedgehog didn’t answer, but carried on chomping instead. Sonic smirked and turned to face Tails directly.
“By the way, do you mind looking after Shadow for a while?” I’ve got something to do....”
“Don’t worry about it, of course I will.”
“Thanks, little bud.”
“But.....would this ‘something’ involve a certain bat?”
Sonic blushed several shades of red.
“W-What gave you that idea?”
“That bouquet of white daffodils left on the cabinet beside the front door. Her favourites. I’m not blind, Sonic.”
Sonic sighed.
“Oh all right, I’m going to ask Rouge out on a date. Happy now?”
Tails grinned.
“But Maria said a date was a fruit. Are you going to take Ms. Rouge fruit picking?” Shadow asked, looking up from his now empty plate.
Sonic laughed.
“That’s not exactly what I meant, Shadow...”
“Then what did you mean?”
“Hhm...I’ll tell you when you’re older...”
“Aww, but I wanna know NOW...”
“Later, Shadow. Anyway Tails, I gotta go. See ya.”
“See ya, big bro.”
Sonic picked up the daffodils and walked out of the door. Tails looked at Shadow, thinking of a way to keep him occupied until Sonic came back.
“Sooo....you like drawing?”
Later....
Sonic was outside Rouge’s place. He was almost as nervous as he had been when they had been breaking Shadow out of Prison Island. He took a deep breath and knocked on the door. A few seconds passed before the female bat answered.
“Um...hey Rouge.” Sonic tried to wipe away all nervousness he had, but failed miserably. “I...brought you flowers.” Sonic produced the daffodils from behind him.
“Daffodils! My favourite!” Rouge took the bunch and sniffed them. “But why-”
“Um, Rouge....will you go on a date with me?” Sonic cringed inwardly, hoping he had said this correctly.
A few moments passed before Rouge gave her answer. Rouge threw her arms around the hedgehog, taking him by surprise.
“Oh Sonic, of course I will!” after a few more seconds Rouge broke the embrace and laughed at Sonic’s face. “Aw, you look cute when you blush!” this statement caused Sonic to go even redder.
“So.” She said. “Where’re we goin’?” Sonic grinned.
“Diamond palace.”
Rouge nearly fell over. ‘DIAMOND PALACE?! That was the most expensive place in town! Not to mention the most romantic....’
“But...how did you...” Rouge began.
“Well, seeing as I’m a world-renowned hero, I have my connections.” Sonic told her, the smile on his face looking as though it’d never vanish. “So that’s you and me, seven o’clock, OK? I’ll pick you up.”
“Roger.” Rouge said, wrapping her arms around him again. Little did they know they were being watched...
Their eavesdropper watched from his perch, watching everything that was going on. He looked like Sonic, except for several defects. He was emerald green in colour and had a pair of large scars running up his chest. His eyes were sapphire blue and his shoes were green and rimmed with black with a silver buckle. He was wearing a black jacket with a fire pattern on both sleeves and had sunglasses that were crimson red in colour.
“Perfect.” He thought, and took off as fast as the blue wonder himself.
Later, Sonic entered his house in almost dream-like state, and forget about the step by the doorway, and fell over it.
“Ow....” he complained, massaging his now sore head. “Ooh...” he entered the lounge to find Shadow lying on the floor, surrounded by felt pens and scribbling on two pieces of paper, with Tails watching him.
“Daddy!” Shadow said happily, holding up a picture. It was a picture of Sonic and Rouge, with Shadow in between them, all standing in front of a large house. Sonic could also pick out Tails and Knuckles, as well.
“Well done, Shadow. Why don’t we put your picture up somewhere, where we can all see it?” Sonic asked.
Shadow nodded and held up another picture. This one was of Maria, laying face down in what appeared to be blood. And a man was standing next to her, with a pistol in hand. It was only then Sonic realized what Shadow had seen. He crouched down and hugged his son tightly, tears trickling down his face. Tails watched them silently. He wished that Sonic still gave him this kind of attention...but he seemed to of stopped getting it upon Shadow’s arrival.
Elsewhere....
Sonic and Rouge’s eavesdropper was studying the ‘Lonely Hearts’ column of the Station Square times. He scanned down the article until he found what he was looking for: The picture and description of a certain pink female.
“Perfect.” We whispered. Then the TV behind him flashed up a news report:
“This just in: There have been reports of a red yeti with dreadlocks roaming around the plains of Antarctica, seemingly moaning out ‘TIIIIIIIIIIIIKAAAAAAAAAAAAL!’. This is believed to be some sort of yeti mating call. Keep watching for more updates. Thank you.”
And that’s chapter 8! Anyone who can guess the identity of this ‘Eavesdropper’ gets a cookie.
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Posted 02 October 2008 - 07:10 AM
Sonic was smartening himself in front of the mirror. He had put on a tuxedo, complete with black pants. He was even more nervous than before, and this was obvious in his face. He was trying to keep calm (and failing). The only thing he was currently thinking of at the moment was how his date with the love of his life was going to go. Tails was watching him from the hallway.
“I wish it was me going out with MY love tonight...” he thought to himself. An image of Cream in a long-flowing, flowery dress entered his mind. However, Tails was soon snapped out of his trance by Sonic.
“Mobius to Tails, come in, please. Repeat, Mobius to Tails, come in please?”
“Huh? Wha?” Tails asked, annoyed at his fantasies being interrupted.
“Are you Ok, bro? You kinda zoned out on me, there.” Sonic asked, looking concerned for his younger brother.
“I’ll be Ok. What did you want?” Tails asked.
“Well, I’m going to be leaving pretty soon. I’m gonna be leaving Shadow at Vanilla and Cream’s house, all right? And YES, I’ve already told them about Shadow...”
Shoving away more images of Cream, Tails nodded and told him he’d better get going, as Rouge would be waiting for him.
Rouge’s place...
The white bat checked her watch. It was ten past seven.
‘He should have been here Ten minutes ago!’ She thought furiously. No sooner had she said this, had a familiar blue streak appeared and stopped in front of her.
“It’s about time you got here!” Rouge said, pretending to be angry. Sonic laughed.
“Hey, its better being late than never, isn’t it?” The blue hero replied, rubbing the back of his neck. Rouge grinned and leapt onto his back.
“Tally-Ho, tiger!” She said.
“Yes, Ma-am!” Sonic replied in a posh voice, before zooming off, his date clinging to his back.
Meanwhile....
Amy was waiting in Station Square, waiting for her date to pick her up. Finally, she caught sight of a green hedgehog in a tuxedo. Smiling, the pink female picked up her handbag and ran off to meet him.
At Diamond Palace...
Sonic and Rouge entered the posh restaurant. The walls where golden and the carpet was a magnificent ruby colour, just like Shadow’s eyes. The tables were polished pine and the chairs were silver, with a ruby cushion on each. A waiter, a black and yellow-haired Tiger walked up to the pair.
“Greetings and welcome to the...Ah! Master Sonic! Table for two, is that right? Allow me escort you to your table.” He said in a French accent, and led them to their table. “I hope you enjoy yourselves, Master Sonic and Miss.....”
“Rouge.” She told him.
“And Miss Rouge. I hope you enjoy your visit.”
“Thank you, Jordan.” Sonic said to him. Jordan bowed to them both before leaving the pair. Sonic pulled Rouge’s chair out for her.
“Always the gentleman, aren’t you?” Rouge asked, sitting down. Sonic blushed slightly and sat down himself.
“Shall we order, then?”
Later…
Sonic and Rouge left the dance floor, both of them laughing. They sat back down at their table.
“You know, I don’t think anything could ruin this night.” Sonic told her.
“Oh yeah? Look behind you.” Rouge told him.
Sonic spun round in his seat to see what she meant. His jaw hit the floor. Amy and Scourge had just entered the restaurant. Rouge snapped him out of his trance.
“So, wonder who that green boy is?” she asked.
Sonic turned around to face her.
“That’s Scourge. He’s another one from ARK!” Rouge’s eyes widened.
“ARK? But how -”
“I don’t know.” He lent in, indicating that she should as well.
“But by the looks of him, he was only released within the past few years.”
“Then I take it that his resemblance to you isn’t just a coincidence?” Sonic shook his head.
“Far from it. gerald decided to give me a brother when I was 3. He was created from my DNA. We were like brothers, until he was imprisoned when Shadow was three because he was deemed too dangerous to be around. Two years later, he broke out, killing thirteen people in the process.
Rouge’s mouth dropped in horror.
“He killed THIRTEEN PEOPLE?!” she just managed to keep her voice down.
“Yep. For some reason, they were all males. My guess is that he has something against physically hurting females.”
“At least we know he won’t harm Amy. But you know one thing?”
“What?”
“He’s watching us.”
Sonic turned, and Scourge quickly put his head down again.
“I doubt it’s just a coincidence that we’re in the same restaurant at the same time and that he’s dating AMY of all people.” He muttered.
“I agree. So, what do we do now?”
Sonic paused.
“I say we just keep an eye on him. Keep as many tabs on him as possible. I know what could happen if he gets angry....” Rouge couldn’t help but agree.
Later on...
Sonic was dropping Rouge off at her place.
“I had a wonderful night, even though it could have gone better.” Rouge told him.
“That’s true.” He replied. It was his turn to kiss her on the cheek.
“I’ll be seeing you soon, Rouge. I’ve got to pick up Shadow from Vanilla’s place.”
Rouge smiled at Shadow’s name.
“Well, you better get going. You don’t want Scourge getting him...” She froze, her eyes widening in horror.
“Sonic...what if Scourge knows about Shadow?!”
Sonic’s eyes widened.
“Good lord...” he muttered...
Vanilla’s place...
“Daddy!”
Sonic smiled and picked up his young son.
“Thanks for everything, Vanilla.” He told the adult rabbit.
“Oh, it was nothing. He’s a little angel! Anyway, how did your date with Rouge go?”
Sonic paused for a moment. He could hear a report on a spiny red thing roaming around the plains of Shahra desert calling ‘Tiiikaaaallll!’ on Vanilla’s TV.
“Better than I could of hoped for.” He whispered. “Anyway vanilla, I’ll have to go. Tails might be wondering where we got to.”
Vanilla beamed. “We’ll be seeing you!!!” She closed the door and the two hedgehogs made their way back down the path. When they reached the end however, a familiar green hedgehog dropped down in front of them.
“Hello Sonic, Shadow.”
“I wish it was me going out with MY love tonight...” he thought to himself. An image of Cream in a long-flowing, flowery dress entered his mind. However, Tails was soon snapped out of his trance by Sonic.
“Mobius to Tails, come in, please. Repeat, Mobius to Tails, come in please?”
“Huh? Wha?” Tails asked, annoyed at his fantasies being interrupted.
“Are you Ok, bro? You kinda zoned out on me, there.” Sonic asked, looking concerned for his younger brother.
“I’ll be Ok. What did you want?” Tails asked.
“Well, I’m going to be leaving pretty soon. I’m gonna be leaving Shadow at Vanilla and Cream’s house, all right? And YES, I’ve already told them about Shadow...”
Shoving away more images of Cream, Tails nodded and told him he’d better get going, as Rouge would be waiting for him.
Rouge’s place...
The white bat checked her watch. It was ten past seven.
‘He should have been here Ten minutes ago!’ She thought furiously. No sooner had she said this, had a familiar blue streak appeared and stopped in front of her.
“It’s about time you got here!” Rouge said, pretending to be angry. Sonic laughed.
“Hey, its better being late than never, isn’t it?” The blue hero replied, rubbing the back of his neck. Rouge grinned and leapt onto his back.
“Tally-Ho, tiger!” She said.
“Yes, Ma-am!” Sonic replied in a posh voice, before zooming off, his date clinging to his back.
Meanwhile....
Amy was waiting in Station Square, waiting for her date to pick her up. Finally, she caught sight of a green hedgehog in a tuxedo. Smiling, the pink female picked up her handbag and ran off to meet him.
At Diamond Palace...
Sonic and Rouge entered the posh restaurant. The walls where golden and the carpet was a magnificent ruby colour, just like Shadow’s eyes. The tables were polished pine and the chairs were silver, with a ruby cushion on each. A waiter, a black and yellow-haired Tiger walked up to the pair.
“Greetings and welcome to the...Ah! Master Sonic! Table for two, is that right? Allow me escort you to your table.” He said in a French accent, and led them to their table. “I hope you enjoy yourselves, Master Sonic and Miss.....”
“Rouge.” She told him.
“And Miss Rouge. I hope you enjoy your visit.”
“Thank you, Jordan.” Sonic said to him. Jordan bowed to them both before leaving the pair. Sonic pulled Rouge’s chair out for her.
“Always the gentleman, aren’t you?” Rouge asked, sitting down. Sonic blushed slightly and sat down himself.
“Shall we order, then?”
Later…
Sonic and Rouge left the dance floor, both of them laughing. They sat back down at their table.
“You know, I don’t think anything could ruin this night.” Sonic told her.
“Oh yeah? Look behind you.” Rouge told him.
Sonic spun round in his seat to see what she meant. His jaw hit the floor. Amy and Scourge had just entered the restaurant. Rouge snapped him out of his trance.
“So, wonder who that green boy is?” she asked.
Sonic turned around to face her.
“That’s Scourge. He’s another one from ARK!” Rouge’s eyes widened.
“ARK? But how -”
“I don’t know.” He lent in, indicating that she should as well.
“But by the looks of him, he was only released within the past few years.”
“Then I take it that his resemblance to you isn’t just a coincidence?” Sonic shook his head.
“Far from it. gerald decided to give me a brother when I was 3. He was created from my DNA. We were like brothers, until he was imprisoned when Shadow was three because he was deemed too dangerous to be around. Two years later, he broke out, killing thirteen people in the process.
Rouge’s mouth dropped in horror.
“He killed THIRTEEN PEOPLE?!” she just managed to keep her voice down.
“Yep. For some reason, they were all males. My guess is that he has something against physically hurting females.”
“At least we know he won’t harm Amy. But you know one thing?”
“What?”
“He’s watching us.”
Sonic turned, and Scourge quickly put his head down again.
“I doubt it’s just a coincidence that we’re in the same restaurant at the same time and that he’s dating AMY of all people.” He muttered.
“I agree. So, what do we do now?”
Sonic paused.
“I say we just keep an eye on him. Keep as many tabs on him as possible. I know what could happen if he gets angry....” Rouge couldn’t help but agree.
Later on...
Sonic was dropping Rouge off at her place.
“I had a wonderful night, even though it could have gone better.” Rouge told him.
“That’s true.” He replied. It was his turn to kiss her on the cheek.
“I’ll be seeing you soon, Rouge. I’ve got to pick up Shadow from Vanilla’s place.”
Rouge smiled at Shadow’s name.
“Well, you better get going. You don’t want Scourge getting him...” She froze, her eyes widening in horror.
“Sonic...what if Scourge knows about Shadow?!”
Sonic’s eyes widened.
“Good lord...” he muttered...
Vanilla’s place...
“Daddy!”
Sonic smiled and picked up his young son.
“Thanks for everything, Vanilla.” He told the adult rabbit.
“Oh, it was nothing. He’s a little angel! Anyway, how did your date with Rouge go?”
Sonic paused for a moment. He could hear a report on a spiny red thing roaming around the plains of Shahra desert calling ‘Tiiikaaaallll!’ on Vanilla’s TV.
“Better than I could of hoped for.” He whispered. “Anyway vanilla, I’ll have to go. Tails might be wondering where we got to.”
Vanilla beamed. “We’ll be seeing you!!!” She closed the door and the two hedgehogs made their way back down the path. When they reached the end however, a familiar green hedgehog dropped down in front of them.
“Hello Sonic, Shadow.”
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Posted 13 October 2008 - 04:30 PM
Gah! What a cliffhanger! Sorry to be a little bit of a necro I guess I'm just bored...
U STOLE THE IDEA OF SCOURGE X AMY FROM THE AMY ROSE SHOW!!!
U STOLE THE IDEA OF SCOURGE X AMY FROM THE AMY ROSE SHOW!!!
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Posted 13 October 2008 - 04:35 PM
razourikthehedgie, on Oct 13 2008, 05:30 PM, said:
Gah! What a cliffhanger! Sorry to be a little bit of a necro I guess I'm just bored...
U STOLE THE IDEA OF SCOURGE X AMY FROM THE AMY ROSE SHOW!!!
U STOLE THE IDEA OF SCOURGE X AMY FROM THE AMY ROSE SHOW!!!
Actually, I haven't even read it....I haven't been on the site for that long. Before, I posted my fics onfanfiction.net under the name 'Pokelad'...
....you HAVE read all this fic, haven't you?
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Posted 14 October 2008 - 03:09 AM
Yeah, most of it! 
Ok, so its just a coincidence then...?
Ok, so its just a coincidence then...?
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Posted 14 October 2008 - 02:06 PM
y671, on Sep 28 2008, 04:29 PM, said:
XD. What do you think of the story?
Weeeeeeeeeeellllll,
I think its great except for the whole dating thing. Personal opinion on rouge the bat, I think shes a slut.
However, Tails and Cream is just plain wrong. SHe i like 6, and tails is 8, neither have even hit puberty.
Also, I am against mixed dating among species.
But I like the rest.
Ain't nothin' but a thang...
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Posted 14 October 2008 - 02:28 PM
Shadow Link, on Oct 14 2008, 03:06 PM, said:
Weeeeeeeeeeellllll,
I think its great except for the whole dating thing. Personal opinion on rouge the bat, I think shes a slut.
However, Tails and Cream is just plain wrong. SHe i like 6, and tails is 8, neither have even hit puberty.
Also, I am against mixed dating among species.
But I like the rest.
I think its great except for the whole dating thing. Personal opinion on rouge the bat, I think shes a slut.
However, Tails and Cream is just plain wrong. SHe i like 6, and tails is 8, neither have even hit puberty.
Also, I am against mixed dating among species.
But I like the rest.
Well, I've got nothing against dating among species. And I'm actually not that sure what to think about Rouge. And I forgot to mention, all the characters' ages (Except Rouges', for storyline reasons) have been moved up four more years than they are usually shown.
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Posted 14 October 2008 - 02:34 PM
I dont have anything against dating other species either... At least the tails and cream thing isnt wrong anymore...
Oh wait, a 12-year old dating a 10-year old?
Oh wait, a 12-year old dating a 10-year old?
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Posted 14 October 2008 - 02:39 PM
razourikthehedgie, on Oct 14 2008, 03:34 PM, said:
I don't have anything against dating other species either... At least the tails and cream thing isnt wrong anymore...
Oh wait, a 12-year old dating a 10-year old?
Oh wait, a 12-year old dating a 10-year old?
Well, it's not AS wrong.
