I apologize for not updating last week, I was busy. Next chapter may be late, I'm not sure yet. Oh, btw, my birthday's next week. I turn…14! Bwahaha! The world shall feel my terror!

Ciel:…Despite that, most of your OC's are still older than you.

Oh yeah…Ciel got into my intro stuffage. So, he get's the disclaimer. XP

Ciel: Aw man. Okay, Gemini and I belong to the author. Shadow, Sonic and all those guys belong to Sega. Say, who's Sega? Is that a guy the author know? I dunno…Say, do you have any bubblegum? I ran out, and- ends intro

Shadow left the apartment, and walked a good five minutes before he realized he had no idea what to do. So, he stopped and thought. Unfortunately, it was in the middle of the street he realized this, and therefore held up traffic for awhile. Suddenly, it hit him.

No, literally; it hit him. One of the cars in the front suddenly started up again, and drove right into poor Shadow (the driver claimed his brakes spontaneously combusted, but it looked more like they were blown up. Did I mention the driver was Bean?), running him over. Everyone on the streets stared, except for Sonic. Sonic walked over to Shadow.

"Say buddy, you okay?" Sonic asked. Shadow growled.

"I just got ran over, what do you think?" The Ultimate Lifeform said.

"Well, you can talk, and nothing looks broken. Does that mean you're okay?" At that, Shadow realized something; he was okay. Well, of course he was, he's the Ultimate Lifeform. So, Shadow got up, dusting himself off.

"Guess I am fine," He said. Sonic nodded.

"If it wasn't for that Ultimate Life thingy of yours, you'd be dead meat. I am so jealous." Sonic said that last bit as a sarcastic joke, and Shadow knew it. However, it didn't seem evident enough. You see, also on the streets was Amy Rose.

"That's it!" She exclaimed. "Sonic is jealous of Shadow! So, if I want to get to Sonic…then I'll make him jealous by dating Shadow! If Sonic realizes I'm dating dark and angsty over there, then he'll realize his true love and take me back! It's perfect!" Amy squealed in delight, and immediately ran over to the Ultimate Lifeform, glomping Shadow in her bone-crunching hug.

"Amy, what the hell are you doing?" The unfortunate victim yelled. "Get some contacts, I'm black, not blue!"

"Actually," Amy began, taking a deep breath, "…I just a new set of contacts, but that's beside the point! I have decided that you, Shadow, are my new boyfriend!" She looked over at Sonic to see his reaction. The blue hedgehog was busy looking at…a Sailor Moon manga? Her eyes still weren't the best, but it was obvious that he was paying absolutely no attention. Well, that would change soon enough.

Twenty minutes later, Shadow was having the worst time of his life. Amy had dragged him to Café Meri, which was known as the absolute girliest, pinkest, non-emo places in the city. No, more likely the country. Screw it, it was the girliest ever. Of course, this put Shadow in a living, breathing hell, complete with unicorns, flowers, pink makeup, and let's not forget, Amy.

"Why am I here again?" He asked, receiving stares from nearby customers. "This place is the spawn of Satan. Spaaaaawn."

"Come on Shadow, it's not that bad," Amy replied. "This is the best café in town! I mean, look how pretty everything is! All pink, and happy, it's great! It's one of those places where it seems like hopes and dreams come true!" She sighed happily, oblivious to the angsty hedgehog's suffering.

"If hopes and dreams come true here, then I hope and dream that you die a slow, painful death." Amy giggled.

"You are so silly! Come on, lighten up! Here, I'll order you something. What would you like?"

"Is there anything not pink?"

"Well…the strawberries aren't pink, but I think that's it." Shadow groaned.

"Fine, get me that." Some of you may be wondering why our beloved Shadow didn't run away from this horror like Sonic would, or why he didn't use Chaos Control. The answer was really quite simple: Amy had hired Omega (and by hired, I mean blackmailed) into guarding Shadow so he wouldn't escape.

"Come on Omega, help me out here," The Ultimate Lifeform pleaded. "I'll be in an early grave if I stay here much longer."

"NEGATIVE. COMRADE SHADOW CANNOT DIE. BESIDES, IF I LET YOU ESCAPE, I WILL BE EXPOSED."

"Exposed? Never mind…I don't think I want to know." Dang it. He really should have brought his gun, but no, he just had to leave it in his room because it needed cleaning. And his Chaos Emerald? Let's just say Rouge had a midnight run when he wasn't looking, and couldn't resist his shiny little gem. All in all, he was screwed. Luckily, Amy had left him temporarily while she ordered

"Black Volt to Chaos Freak, Black Volt to Chaos Freak, do you read me?" The voice came out of nowhere, whispering in his ear. Shadow looked around, and saw no one. He decided he was hearing things. "A-hem, Black Volt to Chaos Freak, Black Volt to Chaos Freak, do you read me?" Again, Shadow saw nothing, and ignored it. "BLACK VOLT TO CHAOS FREAK, DO YOU READ ME?"

"Who's there?" He asked, trying desperately trying to find the source of the voice. "Where are you?"

"You aren't responding right, Chaos Freak."

"Chaos Freak?" Oddly enough, the voice sounded familiar somehow.

"Your code name, Shadow. All spies have code names!"

The speaker's name finally came to him. "Ciel? What the heck are you doing?"

"Chaos Freak, you aren't doing it right!" Shadow groaned, hoping no one else was noticing him talking to thin air.

"…Fine. Black Volt, what the heck are you doing?"

"I'm here to save you, Chaos Freak. It's after five, so Sunglasses and I decided to rescue you."

"And by Sunglasses, I presume you mean Gemini?"

"Yeah, just don't tell anyone! Now listen, here's the plan…"

Shadow waited a few minutes. Nothing, no plan. He looked at the other people in the café. Amy was chatting with a waitress, the other customers were not important enough to be mentioned, and Omega was just sitting there, staring.

"Okay, a plan would be good now."

"Hold on, I can't read the script. It's dark up here, you know. Hold on, I think I got it. It says…jump."

Shadow was confused. "Jump?"

"Yeah," Ciel replied. "Get on a table, and jump with your arms stretched out over you."

"And after that?" No reply. Maybe that was it? The black and red hedgehog groaned at the fact that he was about to make a complete fool of himself, and proceeded to jump on the table.

"COMRADE SHADOW, WHY ARE YOU ENGAGING IN LEG-BODY MOVEMENT KNOWN AS JUMPING ATOP THAT FLAT SURFACE CALLED A TABLE?"

"Uhmm…because I'm Shadow and I can?" He replied nervously. No one else really seemed to notice, but then again, most people would either ignore him anyway, or thought anything he did was cool. At that point, Amy returned, drink in one hand, and a bowl of strawberries in the other.

"Shadow, I brought your strawberries! Say Shadow, what are you doing?" Shadow sighed, when suddenly, he was grabbed by the wrists, and swooped out of sight. It actually wasn't too far, just though the hole where the vent was. Shadow looked around in the dark vent. With him was Ciel.

"I saved you Shadow!" His winged brother cheered. "Sorry it took me awhile to read the script….my reading isn't the best."

"Yeah, about that…" Shadow blinked, and then proceeded to strangle his "little" brother's throat. "You call pulling me into a vent after publicly embarrassing myself a rescue? We're still in the same building! If I get out of here, Amy and Omega will be right behind me, and-"

"SHAAAADOW, WHERE ARE YOU MY LOOOOOVE?!?" The sound of Amy's screech filled the whole building, permanently damaging many ears in the process. Shadow cursed, swore, and then cursed a few more times. Ciel rubbed his overly sensitive ears, which would probably still hurt for a few days.

"Crud, what're we going to do now?" Both of the hedgehogs said at the same time (because twins can do that). Suddenly, Amy's shriek stopped. Then it started again.

"SOOOOOOOOOONNNNIIIIIICCCCC!!!" Shadow snuck to a hole in the vent, and saw that the Faker had, miraculously, arrived, and was getting the glomping of his life by Amy. Gemini had shown up also (frog parts removed, except for some green highlights in his fur), smirking.

"Oh, I see!" Shadow exclaimed. "While you snuck me away, Gemini convinced Sonic to go back to Amy, so I'd be safe from her, right?"

"Not really, but let's go with that," Ciel replied. In reality, Ciel was the only one doing the rescue. Gemini and Sonic had just gone in because Sonic claimed the café had a mean chilidog recipe. Either way, it worked, and Shadow snuck out with ease.

A while later, Shadow and his brothers had ended up outside, leaving the two "lovebirds" alone.

"Much as I don't like saying this, thanks guys," Shadow said, the word "thanks" barely getting past his mouth.

"No problem!" Ciel replied happily.

Gemini was quiet for a minute. "You know…things have been hectic recently, eh?"

"Sure have," Shadow replied, "What with killer brats, police cars, robots, and definitely way too many guests."

"Yeah. So, I was thinking…how about we take a break, and head over to Club Rouge? Sound good?" Shadow lighted up, for Club Rouge meant…well, Rouge, mainly.

"Sure, I'd love to go." He replied. "Let's go now, it's late anyway." The boys headed on over, unaware of what the night still had to offer…

Oh yes indeed. This chapter didn't come out according to plan, but hey, it worked. Next chapter, the brother's first encounter with alcohol. Hey, what's humor without a little drunkenness every now and then? Stay tuned, and drop a review if you have any suggestions!