THE NEXT MORNING IN SONIC'S ROOM...

(Shadow's POV)

I woke up to Rouge looking over top of me with a very angry look on her face. I smiled at my bat friend, in hopes to cheer her up but unfortunately it didn't. "Hi Rouge." I said, waving to her.

"Shadow, I told you yesterday not to get any candy from the store." the white bat said firmly as I crossed my arms and put on a pouty face.

"You promised to get ice cream yesterday and guess what? You didn't!" I pouted and asked. "As a bonus, how did you figure out?"

The bat smirked and ran to the bathroom. She came back with a wet washcloth and gently wiped my face. When she was done, she showed me a stain of chocolate on the washcloth. I smiled nervously. "Oops..." I said.

"Oops indeed. Now as your punishment, no dessert until you turn back to normal." she said as I gasped. No dessert! I wouldn't live without the sweetness of ice cream and Swiss rolls.

"THAT'S NO FAIR!" I snapped.

"Well then that's tough." she said, picking me up and walking out the room. "Now let's get something in your tummy."

IN THE KITCHEN...

Once we got to the kitchen, Faker was making pancakes for breakfast. There was two plates of one stack of pancakes on the counter and started flipping an extra pancake and placing it on a separate plate in his hand. He gave Rouge one of the stacks and me the plate with only one pancake.

"Enjoy!" he said, patting me on the head.

"Thanks Sonic!" Rouge said as she began to cut my pancake into small pieces. What is she doing?! Doesn't she know I can do it myself!? Once she was finished, she put a tiny dab of maple syrup on each piece of pancake and placed a piece on a fork. "Shadow say ah..." she said as I tilted my head away from the pancake.

"Come on Shadsy, eat up!" Rouge stated as I shook my head. "Shadow, I don't want you to have a sad tummy. Now eat up please." I shook my head again as the white bat sighed.

"Okay listen, if you be a good boy and eat your breakfast then I'll take you to Tails' place so he can turn you back to normal...if you don't want to be a baby forever." she stated as I rolled my eyes.

"Your probably just gonna-" I started as Rouge stuffed the slice of pancake in my mouth.

"Good baby!" Rouge cooed as I chewed and then spitted it back out, let all of it go all over Rouge. Faker chuckled in the background, laughing his head off with what just happened. The bat clenched her teeth shut and took me into Faker's bedroom, with him still laughing.

SONIC'S BEDROOM...

She carried me to my crib and sat me down. I smirked at her as she looked at me, quite furiously. "Now Mister, you deserved yourself a timeout!" she shouted pulling out a key and locking the door. "If by any chance you get out of this room, you'll receive an awful punishment! Got it?"

"Yep but I got a question." I stated. "Where's the bathroom cause I think that baby food I ate yesterday is starting to kick in." Rouge slammed the door shut, ignoring my question. Now I was angry.

"ROUGE! STOP PLAYING WITH ME AND LET ME OUT NOW!" I shouted to the top of my lungs. No one responded. "ROUGE! ROUGE! LET ME OUT NOW OR I'M TELLING OMEGA ON YOU AND HE'LL BE SO MAD! LET ME OUT!" Still no response.

"FAKER! LET ME OUT NOW!" I shouted, trying another strategy. No one responded. I sighed as a tear when down my face. I jumped out of the crib, landing on my rear end, and crawled to the door. "Rouge? Faker? Is anyone home?" I asked. No response. Tears began to well up my eyes. They left me...

OUTSIDE THE DOOR...

(Sonic's POV)

Rouge and I were standing outside my bedroom door, waiting for Shadow to bang at the door. "Rouge, do ya think this is a very good idea? Being so quiet that he think that we're not even here?" I asked very quietly.Suddenly, we heard a sudden outburst of crying.

"I DON'T WANNA BE HERE ALONE!" Little Shadow's voice cried. "I'M SCARED!" I then looked over at Rouge, who had a very sad look on her face as she opened the door to see Shadow crying. Rouge picked him up and rocked him.

"It's okay. It's okay." Rouge said in a soothing voice. "We're here and we'll never leave you." She cradled him into the living room as I gave him a bottle of warm milk to calm him down. Once he was asleep, Rouge gave hm a small blanket and we quietly watched TV.