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", "writing": "Knuckles came to with a groggy mind and foggy memory, his violet eyes opening wearily to see a blurry world turned sideways as his sight came gradually into focus with each tired blink. “Huh?” He muttered whilst sitting up to perch himself on the edge of his cot. He took quick stock of his surroundings and was glad to see the emerald glowing before him in one piece. however he was puzzled as to how he got back and why he was just waking up on his bed of sorts. \n\n\n\n\n\n“Oh good, you’re awake” A familiar voice spoke and Knuckles saw the female bat come around from the other side of the emerald. She looked at him with more of a smug smile than usual and that instantly made him go rigid in annoyance. The guardian recognized certain cues in her by now to make a call on something. It appeared to him that she knew something he didn’t”\n\n\n\n\n\nStanding right up on his feet and giving a stern and stone cold glare to Rouge, Knuckles folded his arms and spoke out authoritatively. “Alright stop your shenanigans right there, Rouge.” He said in a rather demanding demeanor. “You know something about this don’t you? Now why don’t you cut the crap this time and tell me why I was unconscious and how I ended up back home?” He glared harder, waiting for her response. He wasn’t playing around when it came to his and the emerald’s well being. He was just out cold from unknown circumstances and needed to know if anything horrible happened.\n\n\n\n\n\nRouge let out a huff and let her eyes roll at the demanding echidna. She wanted so bad to tell him the truth, that he fainted like a school girl after Shadow confessed his feelings and kissed him. It would no doubt make Knuckles panic and pass out all over again, which would be hilarious and what he deserved. But the jewel thieving spy was already late for something she had planned. “I have half a mind to make you suffer and beg me to tell you. But since I have a an appointment I’ll just come out with it because I need to get going” She sighed briefly . “You got knocked out by a piece of debris that exploded from the giant mech you, Sonic, Tails and Shadow took down. Shadow brought you back here and told me to keep an eye on the emerald until you woke up.”\n\n\n\n\n\nKnuckles eyed her for a long pause and his glare relented little by little as he thought about what she said. He recalled the explosions going off after beating the metal giant, there were a lot of them. “Explosions were the last thing I remember hearing, and then everything went black and I woke up here. Is that really it?” He asked her while lowering his guard some, hostility towards the bat waning as it made sense.\n\n\n\n\n\n“Yes, Knuckles, that’s it” Rouge answered simply. “Shadow said he would have stayed because he knows you don’t like me around the emerald under any circumstance. But he had an important mission to leave for and had no choice.” She oh so subtly hinted at the hedgehog caring for Knuckles’s and the island’s well being. Because despite her cold attitude, she did want to help Shadow out by pushing the knucklehead into his arms. Shadow could also be a good distraction if they did become intimate. In those times it was her plan to sneak over and and have time with the emerald. She’d take selfies with it just to Show Knuckles later for the sake of pissing him off.\n\n\n\n\n\n“Guess I had good judgement in Shadow being a good team mate” The echidna smirked and decided he didn’t need to know anything else. “Okay you can go now, shoo out of here” He made the scoot along motion with his hands to gesture her dismissal.\n\n\n\n\n\nRouge huffed with a slight roll of her eyes and turned her back to fly away. “Yeah yeah. You can be a real dick I hope you know” She glared back at him. before whooshing away into the darkening sky.\n\n\n\n\n\nWith Rouge gone Knuckles walked slowly around his emerald, inspecting it for missing chunks since he didn’t trust that bat. Twice around the gem and he was satisfied to find nothing wrong with it, and so he went to sit at his usual post on the top step to the shrine. There he could lean back on his hands and gaze out at the view of forests of trees and towering mountains in the distance. It was starting to get dark and there was a nice and welcomed calm breeze. The peace and quiet was really nice after a hard fought battle and he smiled as he reflected back on it. \n\n\n\n\n\nIt seemed he could remember a lot of the fight and how each of his friends played a crucial role. Actually, as he went over it in his head Knuckles realized Sonic stuck with Tails more than he fought by his or Shadow’s side. But Shadow, the echidna recalled him fighting by his side through most of the battle. They even pulled off attacks combining their powers and abilities like they’d routinely practiced and knew just what to do. Knuckles thought to himself that damn, Shadow was almost mesmerizing in how fluidly he moved while fighting. The echidna really admired the hedgehog’s skill. Sonic and no one he’s known besides Espio used martial arts like that.\n\n\n\n\n\n“So we kicked robo-butt and then explosion debris knocked me out?” He asked aloud to no one and got the idea to touch and feel around his head, both hands searching and pressing on areas all over his skull. No bruising or bumps could be felt or detected and the crimson guardian realized he had no head injury at all whatsoever! “Rouge lied!” He barked and stood up,wanting to punch something! But all there was happened to be the emerald and he sure as hell wasn’t going to hit that! “Dammit!” He clenched his fists and his teeth began to grind in his maw. She lied about him being knocked out by a falling chunk of the robot. Did she think he was stupid? Why would she lie about what happened?” Knuckles was frustrated, so frustrated in fact he went marching over and kicked the nearest object that wasn’t the emerald!\n\n\n\n\n\nClink! Clang cling clank! The sound of metal was heard hitting the series of ledges down the face of the shrine. “Wait a minute…” Knuckles ran to the edge and dropped to his knees to peer down. Sure enough, his sleeping cot laid as a tattered broken and mangled mess at the bottom of the great pillar of stone. “Oh son of a!” He huffed gruffly with even more frustration now. He didn’t want to destroy this particular thing either. Shadow had given him that damn thing after a lot of persuading him that he needed some kind of support when he slept. He didn’t want anything with a cushion because he didn’t want to sleep too deeply, and he actually liked that military cot the hedgehog brought him. Oh great, there was no way he could even hop to fix it. What would Shadow think? He would just have to lie and say it was an accident or that harsh rains blew it off the altar in a storm. But ugh, he hated lying. To knuckles there was a dirty feeling that came with being dishonest, it meant trampling on someone’s trust while tarnishing his own integrity. He even hated little white lies. Shadow had been nothing but trustworthy and the agent long since proved that through the many times he visited the island and showed he genuinely wanted to help preserve the paradise. He acknowledged his trust in the hedgehog by accepting the gift of that sleeping cot.\n\n\n\n\n\n “Just something to support your back better than the stone altar. It’s not like I’m giving you a bed or something. Just a small thing you can be comfortable on while you guard the emerald” The image of Shadow came to mind holding the pristine GUN issued cot folded at his side. “Trust me, you’ll benefit from this”\n\n\n\n\n\nKnuckles remembered rolling his eyes and giving a huff at the hedgehog’s offering, but he ultimately relented without pushing back too much. “Fine. You can set it up though. Just remember I probably wont use it.”\n\n\n\n\n\nBut Knuckles did use it after a while of neglecting it, though he did so secretly behind Shadow’s back. He found that it was perfect and sturdy without being too firm. He could catch a light sleep on it and remain alert enough to wake up in an instant since it wasn’t luxury. It was nice to have if he was honest. He just found it difficult to be honest with the hedgehog because of his stubborn independent nature. Shadow one day had to catch him using it and Knuckles tried to make an excuse. But Shadow knew better and took delight in knowing his token of kindness wasn’t in vain. He expected to be teased over it like Sonic would have done to him. But Shadow only had a victorious smirk to give and a light “Told you so” \n\n\n\n\n\nNow it laid in pieces down blow after the echidna had kicked it, and he was feeling a pang of regret as he stared at it, wondering if Shadow would be mad or hurt. “Crud…” He grumbled and sulked back to the other side of the emerald to sit down and think. Just where was Shadow’s mission anyway?” Knuckles wondered before laying himself on his side and staring out at the horizon. When was that damn black hedgehog coming back again?", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Knuckles came to with a groggy mind and foggy memory, his violet eyes opening wearily to see a blurry world turned sideways as his sight came gradually into focus with each tired blink. “Huh?” He muttered whilst sitting up to perch himself on the edge of his cot. He took quick stock of his surroundings and was glad to see the emerald glowing before him in one piece. however he was puzzled as to how he got back and why he was just waking up on his bed of sorts.





“Oh good, you’re awake” A familiar voice spoke and Knuckles saw the female bat come around from the other side of the emerald. She looked at him with more of a smug smile than usual and that instantly made him go rigid in annoyance. The guardian recognized certain cues in her by now to make a call on something. It appeared to him that she knew something he didn’t”





Standing right up on his feet and giving a stern and stone cold glare to Rouge, Knuckles folded his arms and spoke out authoritatively. “Alright stop your shenanigans right there, Rouge.” He said in a rather demanding demeanor. “You know something about this don’t you? Now why don’t you cut the crap this time and tell me why I was unconscious and how I ended up back home?” He glared harder, waiting for her response. He wasn’t playing around when it came to his and the emerald’s well being. He was just out cold from unknown circumstances and needed to know if anything horrible happened.





Rouge let out a huff and let her eyes roll at the demanding echidna. She wanted so bad to tell him the truth, that he fainted like a school girl after Shadow confessed his feelings and kissed him. It would no doubt make Knuckles panic and pass out all over again, which would be hilarious and what he deserved. But the jewel thieving spy was already late for something she had planned. “I have half a mind to make you suffer and beg me to tell you. But since I have a an appointment I’ll just come out with it because I need to get going” She sighed briefly . “You got knocked out by a piece of debris that exploded from the giant mech you, Sonic, Tails and Shadow took down. Shadow brought you back here and told me to keep an eye on the emerald until you woke up.”





Knuckles eyed her for a long pause and his glare relented little by little as he thought about what she said. He recalled the explosions going off after beating the metal giant, there were a lot of them. “Explosions were the last thing I remember hearing, and then everything went black and I woke up here. Is that really it?” He asked her while lowering his guard some, hostility towards the bat waning as it made sense.





“Yes, Knuckles, that’s it” Rouge answered simply. “Shadow said he would have stayed because he knows you don’t like me around the emerald under any circumstance. But he had an important mission to leave for and had no choice.” She oh so subtly hinted at the hedgehog caring for Knuckles’s and the island’s well being. Because despite her cold attitude, she did want to help Shadow out by pushing the knucklehead into his arms. Shadow could also be a good distraction if they did become intimate. In those times it was her plan to sneak over and and have time with the emerald. She’d take selfies with it just to Show Knuckles later for the sake of pissing him off.





“Guess I had good judgement in Shadow being a good team mate” The echidna smirked and decided he didn’t need to know anything else. “Okay you can go now, shoo out of here” He made the scoot along motion with his hands to gesture her dismissal.





Rouge huffed with a slight roll of her eyes  and turned her back to fly away. “Yeah yeah. You can be a real dick I hope you know” She glared back at him. before whooshing away into the darkening sky.





With Rouge gone Knuckles walked slowly around his emerald, inspecting it for missing chunks since he didn’t trust that bat. Twice around the gem and he was satisfied to find nothing wrong with it, and so he went to sit at his usual post on the top step to the shrine. There he could lean back on his hands and gaze out at the view of forests of trees and towering mountains in the distance. It was starting to get dark and there was a nice and welcomed calm breeze. The peace and quiet was really nice after a hard fought battle and he smiled as he reflected back on it.





It seemed he could remember a lot of the fight and how each of his friends played a crucial role. Actually, as he went over it in his head Knuckles realized Sonic stuck with Tails more than he fought by his or Shadow’s side. But Shadow, the echidna recalled him fighting by his side through most of the battle. They even pulled off attacks combining their powers and abilities like they’d routinely practiced and knew just what to do. Knuckles thought to himself that damn, Shadow was almost mesmerizing in how fluidly he moved while fighting. The echidna really admired the hedgehog’s skill. Sonic and no one he’s known besides Espio used martial arts like that.





“So we kicked robo-butt and then explosion debris knocked me out?” He asked aloud to no one and got the idea to touch and feel around his head, both hands searching and pressing on areas all over his skull. No bruising or bumps could be felt or detected and the crimson guardian realized he had no head injury at all whatsoever! “Rouge lied!” He barked and stood up,wanting to punch something!  But all there was happened to be the emerald and he sure as hell wasn’t going to hit that! “Dammit!” He clenched his fists and his teeth began to grind in his maw. She lied about him being knocked out by a falling chunk of the robot. Did she think he was stupid? Why would she lie about what happened?” Knuckles was frustrated, so frustrated in fact he went marching over and kicked the nearest object that wasn’t the emerald!





Clink! Clang cling clank! The sound of metal was heard hitting the series of ledges down the face of the shrine. “Wait a minute…” Knuckles ran to the edge and dropped to his knees to peer down. Sure enough, his sleeping cot laid as a tattered broken and mangled mess at the bottom of the great pillar of stone. “Oh son of a!” He huffed gruffly with even more frustration now. He didn’t want to destroy this particular thing either. Shadow had given him that damn thing after a lot of persuading him that he needed some kind of support when he slept. He didn’t want anything with a cushion because he didn’t want to sleep too deeply, and he actually liked that military cot the hedgehog brought him. Oh great, there was no way he could even hop to fix it. What would Shadow think? He would just have to lie and say it was an accident or that harsh rains blew it off the altar in a storm. But ugh, he hated lying. To knuckles there was a dirty feeling that came with being dishonest, it meant trampling on someone’s trust while tarnishing his own integrity. He even hated little white lies. Shadow had been nothing but trustworthy and the agent long since proved that through the many times he visited the island and showed he genuinely wanted to help preserve the paradise. He acknowledged his trust in the hedgehog by accepting the gift of that sleeping cot.





 “Just something to support your back better than the stone altar. It’s not like I’m giving you a bed or something. Just a small thing you can be comfortable on while you guard the emerald” The image of Shadow came to mind holding the pristine GUN issued cot folded at his side. “Trust me, you’ll benefit from this”





Knuckles remembered rolling his eyes and giving a huff at the hedgehog’s offering, but he ultimately relented without pushing back too much. “Fine. You can set it up though. Just remember I probably wont use it.”





But Knuckles did use it after a while of neglecting it, though he did so secretly behind Shadow’s back. He found that it was perfect and sturdy without being too firm. He could catch a light sleep on it and remain alert enough to wake up in an instant since it wasn’t luxury. It was nice to have if he was honest. He just found it difficult to be honest with the hedgehog because of his stubborn independent nature. Shadow one day had to catch him using it and Knuckles tried to make an excuse. But Shadow knew better and took delight in knowing his token of kindness wasn’t in vain. He expected to be teased over it like Sonic would have done to him. But Shadow only had a victorious smirk to give and a light “Told you so”





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