Rouge knocked violently on the door, her patience decreasing by the second. All she wanted to do this entire day was to sit down on the couch whilst drinking coffee, eating Dominos Pizza, and binge watching a new show. Was that too much to ask?

But, no, she was here instead, dealing with her friend's weird, unexplained mental state.

She saw the handle twist as Sonic opened the door hesitantly. She noticed he started sweating bullets when he saw her.

"H-hey.. R-Rouge! Ummm... you're h-here! I-I wasn't expec-ting you, I-"

Rouge kicked the door open, slamming Sonic against the wall. He let out a muffled scream as the door collided with his face.

Without waiting for an invitation, she sat down promptly on the sofa crossed legged. She reached over to grab the last biscuit left on a plate on the coffee table.

Sonic came into the room at the moment, rubbing his head to soothe his injury. His eyes filled with horror when he saw her eating the last shortbread biscuit, but he didn't vocally protest.

"Well, explain." she said as she munched on the biscuit with extreme satisfaction, especially because it was the last one, and it was Sonic's.

"Okay, before I start, I'd like you to know that I am completely sorry and take full responsibility over the situation and all that happens after, despite others being involved. I would also like to say that I will make it up to you, Shadow and Omega for the trouble I caused, and-"

"You might as well stop this little, rehearsed speech of yours. You aren't getting out of this THAT easily. I've seen this all before, criminals trying to wriggle their way out of a harsh punishment by apologising and facing up to it, and not to mention coming up with excuses, but that doesn't wipe away the fact that you DID do it, and you felt good about it at the time. So you might as well stop this now, because I already smell the bullshit."

Sonic gulped. Rouge swore she saw the entirety of the Niagara Falls dripping from Sonic's forehead.

"R-right." Sonic gathered his thoughts. "So, Knuckles and I were talking, and he said he'd give me 20 bucks if I could successfully scare Shadow. As any sane Mobian would, I accepted! Imagine how much chilli dogs you can buy with that money!"

Rouge rolled her eyes.

"Anyway," Sonic continued. "I conducted research, I dragged Shadow everywhere, literally dragged, I took him to: supermarkets, the beach, I even took him with me to get my grandma her flu jab!"

"And how did you do that? Shadow hates old people, and hospitals." Rouge asked, confused.

"Shadow hates everyone, what else is new?" Sonic said.

"Fair point."

"At that visit, I learnt something very interesting, he's terrified of needles! I remember the nurse holding the needle as she walked past, and Shadow jumped as far as far away as he could, and when she gave my grandma the jab, he flinched and quickly turned away, I even noticed he was trembling!"

"Can you blame him? Shadow's probably had all kinds of needles pierced into him whilst being strapped to a lab table." Rouge pointed out.

"Yeah, I guess. But do you know what else I found out?" He leaned in closer to Rouge, almost whispering in her ear. "He's afraid of peanuts."

"Maybe... he's allergic." Rouge suggested.

Sonic laughed. "The Ultimate Lifeform... having an allergy to peanuts, how ultimate."

"Fair point, smart ass ." Rouge said.

"Anyway - continuing on. I saw him shudder when he saw the peanuts, and so, like a good friend, I asked what's up, y'know? Then, he told me how once, Maria almost died when choking on a peanut. I'll admit, was expecting a more exciting story, but that's life for you."

"Okay... but just get to the point."

"Okay! Okay!" Sonic huffed. "So, I had found enough information for what I needed to do. I went to Nicole, because, you know, I needed her holograms and nanites or whatever. It took a lot of convincing and bribing-"

"What did you bribe her with?"

Sonic acted like he had never heard the interruption. "When she agreed, I got her to make my living room look bare white. It had a single white table in the middle, with a row of needles on it. Laying beside the table, was the dead, bloody corpse of Maria. It also had, and this is the real cherry on top of the cake, a pile of peanuts on the floor."

"Oh... my...god."

Sonic started sweating again. "And so... I dragged Shadow and Knuckles to my house. I took Knuckles to prove that I deserved that 20 bucks. I led them to the room and well... Shadow screamed, mind you, I was disappointed that it wasn't a high pitched scream, but whatever, and then... he fainted. Then I dumped him on your kitchen floor."

Rouge was face palming now. "How... could you be... so dumb?" she asked, almost crying at Sonic's total stupidity.

"I got my 20 bucks though..." Sonic said.

Rouge suddenly stood up and walked until she was right in front of the blue hedgehog. She then proceeded to kick him, sending him flying through the roof.

Sonic's screams grew fainter as he soared away, until all that was left of him was a satisfying sparkle over the horizon.

"I hope he drowns in the ocean." Rouge muttered.

She left Sonic's house, she had found the root of the problem, but she still needed to correct whatever happened to Shadow, because she was his friend or something.

Oh well, I've got this far, no point in stopping now. She decided.


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