A/N: Well, let the silliness begin! This is going to be absolutely crazy. A while ago I had an idea for a joke about Shadow driving his motorcycle and Rouge trying to get him to slow down. Then I told it to my friends, and an hour later we had a whole bushel of ideas! So the credit for some of these ideas does belong to them.
Anyway, I thought it'd be fun to show Shadow and Rouge coming to Earth for a while, and seeing all the cool sights for the first time. And also being rather confused about how some things work down here!
Some of these one-shots will be very short and built entirely around the central joke, while others will have a bit more development and plot thrown in. Some will be in-between. But they'll all be an illustration of just how many pickles two Mobians can get into on an unfamiliar planet! Things may get OOC here and there, but this is all pure silliness anyway.
Also, it certainly won't be all landmarks; a lot of the one-shots will focus on the intricacies of driving and road signs, and others will focus on regular Earth things like malls. If you have an idea for something you'd like Shadow and Rouge to encounter, I'm all ears!
And yeah, I know, most of the things that confuse Shadow and Rouge probably exist on Mobius anyway. But let's pretend they don't, at least for a while. :P
Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic and Co, or Harley-Davidson. Nor do I own the Statue of Liberty!
"Ow . . . whatta flight," groaned Rouge, stretching.
She and Shadow had just arrived in the U.S. of A., intending to traverse the nation on Shadow's Harley-Davidson.
Don't ask me why; this author never actually came up with a reason. Maybe they were on vacation?
The point was, they were going to traverse the nation, and Shadow was busy searching for his motorcycle in the airplane's cargo hold, much to the flight operators' displeasure.
"Well, let's go," said Shadow resignedly, tossing the Harley-Davidson out onto the tarmac and hopping aboard. Rouge hopped into the sidecar.
"Where are we, again?" asked Shadow, as he started up the motor and drove out of the airport.
"New York City!" crowed Rouge. "We should see some of the sights while we're here."
So they stopped to see the Statue of Liberty.
"What's it for?" asked Shadow, squinting across the water at the enormous green statue on an island.
"It's not for anything. It's art!" snorted Rouge. "Some things are purely aesthetical, Shadow."
"Well, I don't get it," grumbled Shadow. "Why would anyone want to create art of a lady standing on an island holding a torch above her head?"
"Silly," replied Rouge, rolling her eyes. "That's not a torch! That's obviously an ice cream cone. She's holding it up high so the whales in the harbor can't get it!"
"Hmm." Shadow tilted his head dubiously at the statue. "Yeah, I guess you're right."