WHAM!

"Please! Stop! Stop it! Stop it, RIGHT NOW!!" She cried.

His rasped voice roared in her face.

She screamed, trying to pull the angry boy away from her.

Screaming, and screaming, without stop when-

BEEP-BEEP-BEEP! BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!

-Rouge's alarm clock rang.

The first thing she did when she woke up was spring upstraight, and pant like crazy, aqua eyes widened. Then, she slammed her hand on the off button, and got out of the bed.

"What an aftershock!"

Rouge walked over to the kitchen in the apartment.

She put some coffee beans in the coffee machine and pushed a button, activating it as the coffee came out instantly.

"I can't beleive I still can't get over what Shadow did to me, last month."

She sighed, took the coffee, and plopped herself on the couch in the living room.

She took a sip of the Decaf Latte and put it down.

She streched and reclined herself in the couch.

"Ah, it was last month... Only as a June Day, Late at Night... me and Shadow had a date on that day... it was so romantic. Until we got home. I told him that he didn't need Maria, when he had me. That's when he went crazy. His fur lit up all red, like he was gonna Chaos Blast, and he pinned me against the wall. Then he breathed on me. I tryed to get him off me, but I couldn't. In my luck, Cream opened the door in time, and she was able to calm Shadow down with that flute of her's. I don't know how she does it, but she always plays that song to him, and it calms him down..."

She took the coffee, and took another sip of it.

She took the clicker from next to where she sat the coffee down again by the table next to her, and turned to TV to channel 12.

"Welcome back to News 12 New Jersey: As local as local news gets." The man on the camera said.

Took a sip of coffee, but choked on it, and gagged when she heard the reporter say, "...And now back the Sonic story: Leaving? As told by our top Journalist, Kiekkko Kitsune. Kiekko?"

She dropped the coffee mug on the floor, and it broke to pieces, as her jaw dropped, at the sound of those words in one sentence: Sonic and Leaving, without the word: Not.

A tear jerked from her eyelid, hearing the repoter tell her about her friends.

This was devastating for her.

"Yes, that's right folks. Sonic has left Station Square, to a VERY small town by the name of 'Dragon Lane' which is literally only one street long. Aparently, Sonic is with Tails, Amy, Cream, Shadow, Knuckles, and four othe rmysterious minks who by the group name: SMPR, the first letters of each of their names. My question to you is, where is Rouge? Where has our classical Rouge and Shadow duo gone too? Let's find out." Kiekko the journalist says from the TV.

A recorded video pops up in front of the house.

Amy walks out of the house with Shana, Cream, and Magmis.

"Say, why is their a camera there?" Cream asked the other three.

"I call first hits!" Shana said.

"I call seconds!" Magmis said.

"I'll finish it off!" Amy said, whipping her hammer fron behind her back.

"And I'll drive the other guys away!" Cream said, pulling her flute from her pocket.

Shana firmed a ball of darkness in her hand, Magmis formed a small faultline from the ground, making Magma rise from it, and Amy pulled her hammer back.

Shana shot her ball of light at the camera first, making it submerge into a grayscal picture, then Magmis taking her blow of Magme made the screen fill with static, and Amy thwacted it with her hammer making the picture black with only the sound availible to the smashed-up camera.

The camera man tryed to run away, but Cream started to play.

The man calmed down, and stopped, dead in his tracks. Her faints, and falls to the ground.

The melody was a quick B-flat-scale, seemingly with some notes slurred to each other ,to the next note up, or a random note. Almost liek she was playing, "Infinity" with it.

The charming sounds made everyone in the area suffer the same fate as the cameraman.

Of course the screen was black, so you could only hear the flute playing, which was still quite fuzzy.

When they got back to the studio, everyone was asleep, including the cameraman.

Rouge rushed to her apartment bedroom, packed up her stuff as quickly as possible, put a black belly-shirt, jeans, and her old white boots and the pink hearts on. She zoomed into the bathroom, putting her makeup and on and brushing her fur/hair and teeth. Wizzing down the apartment stairs, she zipped through a slip of paper, and ran out the apartment door, along with luggage.

She ran and ran until she came to a sign that read 'Dragon Lane' on it.

After she stopped, and had read it, she quickly sprinted to The Mansion on 12 Dragon Lane.

The white black-winged female bat gave a sigh of relief. She had made it their without any harm done to anyone.

She knew exactly how reckless and careless the Shadow and Cream duo could be!

~~~to be continued...~~~