"Ok ok I can handle this. Shadow is asleep…..And hopefully he'll stay asleep…Dear God let him stay asleep." Sonic nervously muttered to himself. Sonic paced around and looked at the clock. "Please Mother of Jesus let him stay in dreamland." Sonic muttered nervously. He didn't think he could handle this. He wasn't a mom/Motherly figure and he wasn't going to breastfeed, mainly because he didn't have the parts to do it with and because the baby was Shadow.
Meanwhile Shadow was having a very bad nightmare. In this dream Shadow was normal, but he was really small and being chased by the vacuum cleaner which was 20X his size. It was sucking up everything even the ground and he didn't make it out alive. "N-no no NOOOOO!" Shadow screamed in his sleep. Shadow kicked and punched the air, trying to wake up from that horrible nightmare. Sonic heard his cries and slowly walked down the hallway and into Shadow's room which was now Classic Winnie the Pooh themed. "What little… a-angel?" Sonic struggled to spit out. Shadow was now awake and crying."DON'T LET IT GET MEEEEEE! "Shadow screamed in terror. "Whoa, whoa Shadow! Calm down." Sonic picked up the crying child and tried to calm him. "Shhhh shhhhh. What's gonna get you?" Shadow cried out once more. "The Vacuum cleaner!" Sonic smiled and tried not to laugh. "Shadow the vacuum cleaner is in the closet. It's not going to hurt you." Sonic chuckled quietly at the little hedgehog that was now shivering in fear. "Stwop it Fwaker! Stwop!" Shadow yelled in a toddler-like voice, embarrassing him even further. "What do you mean? I just told you that it wouldn't hurt-"Sonic noticed a smell in the air and looked at Shadow who was blushing as red as his stripes. "EWWWWWWW Shadow! WTH?" Sonic yelled in disgust. "Well you said I was too young to get trained again." Shadow answered shyly. …."I did….." Sonic said and sighed. Sonic carried Shadow over to the changing table and laid him down. "I don't even know how to do this jeez." Shadow lay there looking at different objects around him. "Sonic, are you done yet, are you? "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Sonic." Sonic pushed a pacifier that said Mute Button into Shadow's mouth. "Shadow shut up. I'm not done yet." Sonic already powdered and wiped Shadow's little butt and was trying to get a new diaper on him. Sonic tried 10 times and every time the diaper either ended up on himself or a weird place on Shadow's body. Finally he managed to get it on correctly around Shadow's waist. "Phew, Ok I got it on." Sonic picked up Shadow who was still sucking on his mute button and took him into the Den and put him down on the floor with his toys. Shadow stared at Sonic and cracked a little smirk from behind the face plate of his pacifier. This would be the time for him to get payback on Sonic.
"What's wrong Shadow? Go ahead and play with your toys." Sonic motioned to the toys on the floor. Shadow stared at Sonic again and crawled to the Jack-in-the-Box and pushed it over to Sonic. "You want me to show you? Ok." Sonic said when Shadow tugged on his sock. Sonic picked up both Shadow and the jack in the box and started to turn the handle. The box played a nursery version of Pop Goes the Weasel as Sonic turned the handle round and round. Shadow waited for the pop and the clown slammed right into Sonic's face. "HAHAHAHAHA!" Shadow laughed and let the pacifier fall out of his mouth and onto Sonic's lap. Sonic put down the toy and checked his bleeding nose "Shadow! You little brat! You did this on purpose!" Shadow had mysteriously disappeared. "Oh God don't tell me he learned how to do Chaos Control!" Sonic got up and looked around the Den and the Kitchen. No luck "Oh if Silver comes home and sees that Shadow isn't here….!" Sonic looked around some more but didn't notice the Maria doll that was being dragged across the floor. Shadow crawled to the stairs. "Oh no." Shadow quietly said as he looked up at the single-flight staircase. "Ok ok I'm a big boy…..at least I think I am. I have to get up the stairs." Shadow put the Maria doll on his back and started slowly climbing the steps. Shadow pulled himself up and crawled to the next one, pulling himself up again. After the first few minutes Shadow imagined he was a mountain climber due to his infant mind mixing with his adult mind. "This is really hard." Shadow grunted as he climbed more. It would be a long day for him.
Shadow was still trying to crawl up the stairs and was almost halfway up when Sonic finally saw him. "Shadow! Thank God you're ok!" Sonic exclaimed as he scooped up Shadow in his arms and took him downstairs, crushing all of Shadow's physical labor that he had done for the past 15 minutes. "But-but-." Shadow was shocked and upset that his work had been thrown away and started crying. Sonic rocked Shadow and tried to calm him down. "Shhh, it's okay baby. Shhhh." Shadow was now red-faced and bawling. "S-sonic…."
Sonic got Shadow's Maria doll out from behind Shadow's back and gave her to him, hoping that it would calm him down. Shadow cried from behind the doll's hair, getting it all wet and covered with mucus. Sonic then tried bouncing Shadow on his knee, not knowing what to do else. Shadow coughed and slowly calmed down. "Sonic I was almost up there!" Shadow said to Sonic upset. Sonic somehow didn't hear what Shadow was actually saying. "Awwww does baby Shadz wike dis?" Sonic cooed at him and smiled. "Sonic I said-Atchoo!" Shadow sneezed and fell back into Sonic's lap. "Awwww bless you little one. Sonic said as he tickled Shadows tiny belly with his pointer and middle finger, making Shadow laugh. "Hehe, hahaha Sonic stop it stop it. Sonic I mean it!" Shadow pushed out of Sonic's tickling grasp and tumbled out onto the floor where Sonic was sitting. "Awwww somebody did a tumble, how sweet." Sonic cooed knowing that the nicer he was to Shadow, the better chance of him not being thrown into space was. Shadow was now cranky and tired because of Sonic and fell asleep on the carpet right there. Sonic chuckled and pulled a blanket over the little hedgehog to keep him warm and got back to listening to an audiotape of "Where the Red Fern Grows."
Soon Silver came home with tons of grocery bags. "Sonic could you help me bring these in?" Silver asked as he placed bags on the kitchen island. Sonic, who was now asleep with the tape running in his Walkman, was asleep as well. Silver sighed and went over and removed the headphones from Sonic's head and pause the tape. "Hey I was listening to that!" Sonic yelled at Silver once he was up. "Sonic I need you to help me get the groceries I bought inside from the car. Sonic slowly got up and went out into the cold air to retrieve the grocery bags. Silver followed and got the rest of the bags and started unpacking them.
"So did Shadow give you much trouble?" Silver asked as he put a box of dry fettuccini noodles in the pantry. "Well YES! He did wake up before you got home and then got a jack in the box to hit me in the face." Silver paused and chuckled. "Sonic I'm sure he didn't mean it." "Like Hell he didn't mean it! He also disappeared away from me!" Sonic shouted while rubbing his face. "He WHAT!? " Silver Shouted. "It was your job to watch him Sonic!" "Yes but-"Sonic started to say but Silver was already freaking out. Silver looked pretty much everywhere except the floor in the Den. Silver started to get angry at Sonic and started to lift him up with his telekinesis. "Silver, wait look!" Sonic pointed at the blanket in the middle of the floor that was moving up and down. Silver glanced over and saw the blanket and dropped Sonic. "Oof!" Sonic grunted as he picked himself up off the floor. Silver walked slowly over to the moving blanket and carefully pulled it back to reveal the little black and red hedgehog, sleeping the day away. "Phew." Silver sighed and put the blanket back. "Sonic you're lucky. If you had lost him your ass would be in space right now." Sonic lay down on the couch. "Silver it was nothing. What kind of hero would I be if I couldn't find something as easy as an 8 month old?" Silver snickered. "A sucky one Sonic…..So I see you tried to change him? Sonic stared at him in confusion of how Silver knew until he looked down and realized that he was wearing a thick Huggies diaper around his waist. Sonic blushed hard. "Ummmmm you could say that I tried to….heh"