A warm sunny day, as a young rabbit and flower-girl play in the meadows behind a small house. It is Cream the Rabbit and Cosmo the Seedrian.

"Ah, it's so nice out here. I don't see any reason this weather would change at all." Cosmo spread her arms out, smiling.

Cosmo then noticed Cream picking flowers and walked over to her, "Cream, what are you doing?"

Cream turned, smiled and held up her bundle of flowers, "I'm making flower wreathes for my mommy and Shadow-papa."

"Oh, Shadow's coming?" Cosmo asked.

"Yep, but maybe he'll be nicer to you." Cream said.

"I hope so." Cosmo nodded.

--

Meanwhile, Shadow the Hedgehog skates along down to Vanilla's house where he finds Sonic, Tails and Knuckles in the front yard, cooking up their chilidogs for the lunch.

"Hey, Fake." Shadow greeted.

"Oh. Hey, Shad." Sonic greeted back.

"We got them ready and hot." Knuckles picked up the first chilidog with a long fork-like tool.

"Oh I get the first bite, don't I?" Sonic grinned. Shadow just sighed.

"Forget it, Blue boy, Tails always gets the first." Knuckles smirked.

"Yay!" Tails cheered, taking his chilidog.

"Aw, no fair and after the hard work I just did!" Sonic whined and grabbed Tails, still holding his chilidog, "Tails, you better promise me half of that!"

Shadow sweat-dropped, "Faker can't seem to get the point, can he?"

Knuckles sweat-dropped too. "Not that I'm aware of anyways."

"It's mine first!" Tails yelled.

"I only said half!" Sonic yelled.

Tails thought quickly and stuffed the chilidog in his mouth, leaving Sonic dumbfounded as Tails burped and got out of his grip.

"MILES!!!" Sonic ran after Tails, peeved, "YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THAT BIG TIME!!!"

"Ha ha, you're too slizzo!" Tails laughed.

Knuckles and Shadow just sighed.

--

Later inside, Vanilla was serving tea and biscuits as Shadow, Cream, Cosmo, Tails, Knuckles and Sonic sat on the couches together.

Sonic took his chilidog and snarled, "You're still gonna pay for it, Miles."

"Only if you kiss Amy." Tails grinned.

"Never."

"Say it."

"No way, dude."

"Fine, but I'm still not saying sorry, you know you like Amy Rose."

Sonic only pouted and bit into his chilidog. He stared at Tails and made a face. Tails only smiled to himself.

Cream and Cosmo sat together as Cheese was sitting near Cream, eating a biscuit. Cream and Cosmo looked at each other and giggled. Shadow sat across from them, staring at Cosmo and muttered, "Bet it was fun working as a Metarex."

Cosmo heard this and dropped her biscuit and started coughing. Tails went over and helped Cosmo until she stopped choking. Cosmo took a sip of tea and stared at Shadow, "Why do you always bring this up, Shadow?"

"Clearly, you know you enjoyed working for an enemy, that was about to take over that galaxy." Shadow frowned.

"I never liked the Metarex and besides..." Shadow cut Cosmo off, "Just admit, the rest of us would be happier if you had just left."

"Shadow!" Knuckles and Sonic yelled.

Tails gasped and said, "Hey!"

Cosmo looked down sadly and dropped her tea cup. Cream, Tails and Shadow see Cosmo crying and she ran out the front door.

Cream began to get upset and she turned to Shadow, "Why did you say that, Shadow-papa?! Cosmo felt really bad because she was worried she couldn't be anyone's best friend anymore! You should've told her the reason in the first place why you wanted to get rid of her!"

"Hey, she deserved being unhappy from what I know!" Shadow said.

"THEN MISS MARIA DESERVED HER DEATH, DIDN'T SHE?!" Cream yelled.

Shadow gasped silently.

"Cream..." Vanilla said but Cream went out the front door with Cheese following her.

"Cosmo! Cosmo!" Cream was calling, following her friend.

Vanilla sighed as Tails glared at Shadow and Knuckles and Sonic looked down.

"What?" Shadow asked.

"You know why!" Tails said, angrily.

"And besides, she hardly did anything to you, she ended up saving the galaxy right?" Knuckles said.

"I can't believe it, I try taking down a spy and you all turn against me." Shadow frowned.

Sonic grabbed his chilidog and spoke, "Maybe you should've thought better, maybe like asking if anyone ELSE wanted her gone, not just you." He then took another bite and a small low sound was heard.

"Ew, Sonic!" Knuckles held his nose.

"Gross!" Tails whined, holding his mouth.

"That is nasty." Shadow glared, fanning away the smell.

Sonic blushed and pouted, "Oh shush about it. It wasn't even me!"