I Will Protect You

Chapter 13

Rouge's POV

I had just got done cleaning up my little sandwich mishap and was sprawled out on Shadow's couch with the t.v. on but I wasn't exactly watching it, instead I was just mostly using it for sound. I was still lost in thought about what just happened upstairs.

'Sonic...after all this time...he was alive... and I thought... that...that...' My thoughts were interrupted by a loud coughing fit from the t.v. I growled at it and turned off, " There's never anything good on television anyways. " I mumbled as I closed my eyes and returned back to my thoughts.

That was when I heard that coughing again. I forced open one of my eyes with a growl as I looked back over at the TV thinking I accidentally hit the remote causing it to turn back on. My eyes instantly widened in shock when I saw that the TV was still off, but the coughing was still continueing.

I began to swivel my ears around trying to pick up the direction in which the sound was coming from. I panicked when I realized that the sound was coming from upstairs.

In a matter of seconds, I was one NY feet and took three running steps before forgetting about the stairs and flew up them at full speed all the way Shadow's door.

I barged right in not even bothering to knock. My eyes widened in horror at the sight in front of me, Sonic was on the floor wrapped in the comforter and clawing at his throat gasping and coughing for breath as he kicked and failed his legs all over the place. Tears were surfacing in the corner of his eyes as his peach muzzle started to pale with a tinted mixture of red as he continued to struggle.

Not knowing how to respond to this I ran over to his side and began freeing him from at least the comforter. He seemed somewhat relieved when the comforter was gone and his coughing finally stopped and he was able to catch his breath.

The silence didn't last long however, when Sonic tried to sit up. His eyes widened as he screamed a blood curdling cry of pain, and hunched over as he clutched his lower stomach and began coughing more violently this time.

Red liquid oozed out the right side of his mouth as his breathing became more ragged. Totally out of options now I reached my little purse, that I always keep with me, and pulled out my phone scrolling through the contacts list until I came to his number, and immediately pushed call.

I looked over at Sonic only to wince at the sight of him. He was still hunched over clutching his stomach and moaning and groaning after every coughing fit he had. A small puddle of blood began to form next to him as he continued to cough it up and spit it out onto the floor. I rubbed his back to try in sooth him a bit but only caused several of his quills to fall out in my troubles.

I knew this was bad as I grew more impatient waiting for Shadow to pick up, " Come on Shadow pick up already... Come on... Come on! What is taking so long!?" I began to worry about Shadow's well being until I breathed a somewhat sigh of relief after hearing a slightly angered and out of breath, "hello?"

Shadow's POV

"Alright... I should... be...far... enough...away," I panted heavily as I leaned against a tree trying to catch my breath. I had ran all the way from the G.U.N. facility in hopes to get away as fast as I could without risking being caught.

I slid down the tree, not really caring that pieces of bark were getting lodged in my quills. My mind was on different things at the moment, like for instance what the heck it was that I just previously read and the file that I had recovered that had my name on it.

I ran through all of the information in my head as I continued to think things through. ' OK so it turns out that Sonic was also an experiment created by the Professor, and apparently someone's DNA was used in his creation. Hmmm...if that's true and he was created by doing that does that mean that maybe... Possibly, Sonic is..." My thoughts were cut off by an annoying buzzing sound and a jingle of some strange out of tone tune.

I let out a loud groan upon realising that it was my phone and then reached into my pocket and pulled it out. I let an annoyed grunt escape my lips as I read the caller ID. " Ugh! What could she possibly want!? It better not be something pointless or meaningless. " I grumbled before holding the phone up to my ear and letting out a smooth, " Hello?!"

As soon as the phone was up to my ear it was done again as a very frantic Rouge began yelling inaudible sentences into my ear. I carefully brought the phone back up to my ear when she took a breath. "Now Rouge calm down, take a deep breath and tell me what is wrong..." I spoke in my usual calm tone of voice towards her but was until I heard what she had to say. "Its S-Sonic...s-something is wr-wrong with him. He's choking and screaming and gasping for air and clutching his stomach! I have no idea what is going on! Shadow please save him he can't breath and he's beginning to cough up blood!"

At first I was wondering on how she knew Sonic was there in the first place, but then my mind sprang to more important things upon hearing Sonic's condition. "I'm on my way!" I reasured her as I hung up and dug through my backpack for something.

A green chaos emerald was held firmly in my grasp as I stood up and flung my backpack back over my shoulder. I held them emerald up to my face admiring it for a minute before taking a deep sigh, " I was hoping I wouldn't have to use this but..."

I then held it up to the air in a tight fist as the thought of Sonic being in pain came to my mind, "Chaos Control!" In a blink of an eye and a bright green flash I was gone. Transporting through time and space at the speed of light to reach my destination.