Chapter twenty-five
Ten minutes into watching the cake non-stop, Black Doom appeared in the kitchen and was behind Shadow. He cleared his throat as he had something important to show Shadow. Shadow perked his ears up and spun himself around while still sitting on the floor by the oven. He looked up at Black Doom with wide eyes in shock and amazement.
"Wow, dad finished the cloaking device. I didn't think he was done with it yet." Shadow whispered out as he looked at a now black and deep red streaked hedgehog in front of him.
Black Doom looked almost identical to Shadow but a head and a half taller and he didn't have a patch of chest fur. Black Doom also didn't have his third eye in this form as it was invisible for all to see it. There would have been little point in changing his image if everyone figured out what he was so it had to go to appear like a regular Mobian hedgehog.
"Yes he did and I must say, I don't look half bad as a hedgehog. This walking thing is a little strange but adjustable, I will get better the more I practice. Also this mouth and talking through it is quite intriguing too." Black Doom smirked at his hedgehog son as he watched Shadow stand up.
"I know exactly what you mean, took me ages to gain a steady balance when walking and standing. Although running was way easier to do for some reason." Shadow smirked back with some amusement.
"Shadow we are all set up, how's the cake coming along?" Maria called as she, Cream and Cheese began to walk/float towards the kitchen.
Maria was the first to enter the kitchen then froze with wide eyes at, what she thought , was two Shadows. Cream and Cheese came in and too tilted their heads at seeing, what they also thought, were two Shadows.
"Erm…am I missing something here?" Maria asked with a puzzled expression.
"I finished the image changing device for Black Doom, one of my best mechanical inventions I must say." Gerald announced as he walked into the kitchen and explained why it looked as if Shadow suddenly had a taller twin.
"Oh right, you can definitely tell you are both related now." Maria smiled with a friendly tone.
"Indeed. I need to get going but I will visit soon, I have the sudden urge to see what this form can do. Call me if you need anything and I shall see you all in a few days." Black Doom said with an amused smirk then vanished using chaos control.
"Well he seems happy with his new image." Shadow shrugged with a grin on his muzzle then went back to cake watching, taking his previous position on the floor in front of the oven.
"You know Shadow when we said to keep an eye on the cake we didn't mean to actually watch it constantly, just to check on it every now and then to make sure it doesn't burn." Maria giggled as Shadow gave an intense look at the cake baking in the oven through the glass door.
"Check on it, watch it…basically the same thing." Shadow casually said as he never removed his eyes from the slowly baking sweet treat.
"Actually no it isn't." Maria sighed with a shake of her head and left it as that.
"Yes it is." Shadow stated with a matter-of-fact tone and smirked as he heard Maria sigh.
"Guess who's back?" Sonic called as he entered the house with Michael and Jason behind him, both humans looking a little tired from their wonderings.
"I would guess you obviously and just in time to help watch the cake bake." Shadow called out as he still kept his eyes looking inside the oven.
"Yeah but why are you watching it bake for?" Sonic asked as he walked into the kitchen and stopped beside his boyfriend, raising a brow in question.
"I'm keeping my eyes on it so it doesn't burn duh. Honestly Sonic you really need to use that brain of yours." Shadow teased with a playful tone as he quickly glanced up at Sonic then went back to his duties.
"Right you do know keeping an eye on it doesn't mean constantly watch it right?" Sonic rolled his eyes as he spoke back to Shadow.
"That is exactly what I said but he was not having any of it." Maria said with a smile.
"Yes it does now hush or your presence is going to upset the baking process." Shadow said with a light chuckle as Sonic lightly pushed him with a foot.
"Your constant watching is going to upset the baking process, I'm surprised it has the courage to rise with you starring at the poor thing intensely Shads." Sonic teased back with amusement as Shadow just moved his mouth and mimicked his words in a childish manner.
"I'll leave you all to it, I need to organise some things. Oh Shadow not too much cake, we do not want a repeat of what happened up on ARK." Gerald announced then grinned down at Shadow.
"I will never hear the end of that will I? It happened one time dad, one time." Shadow groaned as he crossed his arms with a frown, slightly narrowing his eyes at the almost baked cake.
"No, no you wont my son so not too much." Gerald said with high amusement and chuckled to himself as he left the kitchen.
"I get one sugar high and it is with me for all eternity." Shadow complained with a sigh.
"Besides that was chocolate cake not plain cake." Shadow pointed out with a smile as he did have to admit he had a whole lot of fun running about at top speed around the space station.
He even made a game of it which was called dodge the residents after getting as close as possible to them without crashing into them. Lets just say he kept that up for almost half an hour before he took a turning and crashed into Gerald, who was ready for him with padded protection all over.
"I am glad you girls decided to not do chocolate." Jason whispered over to Maria and Cream, amusement in his tone as he could remember watching the security cameras of Shadows little sugar rush and guiding Gerald to where Shadow was heading so he could be stopped.
"Yeah it was only because we didn't have chocolate to add into the mix." Maria thought as she giggled, she did plan to make chocolate cake and only give Shadow a very, very small slice of it.
"Did you find anything interesting on your walk?" Cream sweetly asked the two adult humans, smiling happily at them both.
"We saw some unusual orange flowers that we don't have back on Earth. I think that was after we got lost and had to be escorted back." Michael answered with a grin.
"Maria is the cake supposed to be going that brown in the oven?" Shadow called out as he gave the cake a concerned expression, unsure how this kind of cake was supposed to look.
Maria smiled and went over to Shadow and kneeled down to have a look.
"Seems like it is done." Maria sweetly said as she stood up and grabbed a towel to get it out.
Shadow moved and stood up, watching his human sister carefully as she opened the oven, grabbed the cake and placed it onto the side while closing the oven door shut with a gentle push with her foot.
"I do love the smell of freshly baked cake, it makes the whole place smell sweet." Cream said with a bright tone as she looked at the sweet treat they were going to use for their tea party.
"Yeah I second that comment, well since you are all fine I'll just…" Sonic said as he slowly backed away from Shadow who was smirking at him deviously.
"Oh no you don't, we are going to spend some lovely time together." Shadow said as he quickly grabbed Sonics wrist into a deadly tight hold.
"Aw but I don't wanna play tea parties." Sonic whined as he was forced into the living room to wait with Shadow by Shadow.
"Tuff now sit." Shadow smirked as he pushed Sonic down onto the sofa.
"You cannot keep me here, this is kidnapping." Sonic complained with a small pout.
"Kidnapping you say." Shadow said with a dark look in his red eyes as he had a brilliant idea on how to make Sonic play.
Twenty minutes later…
"More tea Cream?" Maria asked as she held the teapot and gave the rabbit a sweet smile.
"Yes please Maria." Cream happily answered.
"Sonic quit complaining this is not bad." Shadow rolled his eyes as he spoke to a gagged Sonic tied up on the floor in the sitting position next to him.
Sonic was squirming and making muffled noises as he tried to undo those tough knots Shadow tied but was having no such luck. He gave a groaning noise and decided to look at his cup in front of him on the coffee table, that was not yet filled with tea, real tea as Shadow pointed out it would be much better if they used real tea and not air.
"How about this, I take the gag off and feed you your cake." Shadow said with an innocent smile at Sonic.
Sonic vigorously nodded as he did not like all this fabric in his mouth. Shadow chuckled then tore off the duck tape gently, screwed it up and put it onto the coffee table. Sonic spat out the scrunched up cloth out of his mouth and feeling so relieved it was gone. Sonic took in a few deep breaths through his mouth and sighed in a depressing manner.
"Now open up for the choo-choo train Faker." Shadow smirked as he moved a slice of iced vanilla cake towards Sonics mouth.
"I will have my…" Sonic began then had to stop talking as Shadow shoved the cake into his mouth.
"Oh quit being such a baby Sonic and eat your cake like a good boy." Shadow smirked evilly as he placed the rest of the cake back on the tea plate.
The two girls were finding this display very funny and couldn't help the giggles from leaving their mouths, even Cheese was looking very entertained by the two hedgehogs.
"I will get you back Shadow just you wait and see. In fact I can make it so it wasn't planned at all and make it seem like a total accident." Sonic thought a he concocted a little plan to get his revenge using some of the information he has gathered about Shadow so far, chewing his cake in a slow fashion so no more would be shoved into his mouth.
"Shadow you look a little twitchy, you ok?" Maria asked as she noticed an eye twitch.
"Maybe I should stop eating cake." Shadow smiled innocently as he could feel the starts of a sugar rush from the icing on the cake.
"Yeah I think you had, how about some water to dilute some of that sugar?" Maria offered gaining a semi fast nod from her hedgehog brother.
Maria stood up and left the party to get Shadow a glass of water. Sonic on the other hand had figured out his plan and was going to execute it very soon, maybe not today but soon.
"Just you wait my lovable little hedgehog, just you wait." Sonic thought as he gave a smile and decided to except his fate of joining in with this tea party now that he had the perfect way to get revenge.
"Tea Sonic?" Cream asked with a smile.
"Absolutely Cream, I would love some tea." Sonic said with a friendly tone and inwardly laughing evilly at his fool proof idea.
"You've changed you tune, finally realised there is no escape?" Shadow grinned at Sonic as Cream poured tea in Sonics cup.
"Well I figured since I'm all like tied up right now, and these knots are tighter than Knuckles' bond with the Master Emerald, I'll join in and make the most of spending time with my lovely boyfriend and friends." Sonic said with an innocent smile back at Shadow.
"Here is your water Shadow." Maria announced her return and placed the glass in front of Shadow.
"Thanks Maria." Shadow replied then picked up the glass and drank half before placing back onto the coffee table.
"Yeah can we untie Sonic now please Shadow?" Cream asked with a sweet smile at the Ultimate Lifeform.
"But he will just run away as soon as I do." Shadow frowned with a sad look in his eyes.
"I promise I wont run and I am kind of want to drink my tea without the help." Sonic assured with that innocent smile at Shadow.
"Oh fine then but if you run then I'm dragging you back and tying you up again." Shadow seriously said then got with undoing those tighter-than-Knuckles'-bond-with-the-Master-Emerald knots.
"I wont run, trust me Shads." Sonic said with a cheerful tone as he could feel the knots loosen.
Sonic was now free and was true to his word, he didn't run off. He picked up his cup and sipped at the warm tea with a smile that masked the feeling of vengeance he was going to dish out on his boyfriend.
"Might do my revenge on Shadow tomorrow but I need to know what he is doing. How can I ask without it sounding suspicious?" Sonic thought then a light bulb lit up as he knew just how to do that, ask everyone of course.
"So what are your plans for tomorrow everyone?" Sonic casually asked as he sparked up a conversation.
"Well me and Maria are going to the flower fields to pick flowers." Cream cheerfully said with an innocent smile, Cheese cooing in agreement at that.
"Yep we thought the kitchen would look brighter if there was a vase of wild flowers sitting in the middle of the table." Maria said with her tone sounding excited with doing that.
"Well I don't have any plans since I'm stuck here until further notice." Shadow groaned with annoyance as he wanted to come with the girls but knew he couldn't.
"That's a shame, hey why don't we do something together tomorrow, what do ya say love?" Sonic said with a happy smile at Shadow.
"So you have no plans too then?" Shadow raised a brow at his boyfriend with slight suspicion.
"Nope, although I was going to go have a run first thing in the morning before breakfast. I suppose I can still do that then we can do something together." Sonic grinned as he could tell Shadow was starting to suspect something.
"I suppose it would be nice to have some company while stuck indoors…sure that sounds great." Shadow said as he gave it some thought then beamed out happily with a smile as he figured why the hell not.
"Perfect we can think of something to do later but right now I say lets have cake. Maybe not you Shads, you might want to stick with just tea or your water." Sonic chuckled at the disappointed frown on Shadows muzzle.
"Whatever." Shadow grumbled and hated the fact he was sugar sensitive still.
"I will rule the day my system stops being so damn sensitive to sugar. On that day I shall declare cake day where we will eat nothing but cake." Shadow thought as he picked up his glass and took a slow sip of water.
(Thank you for reading, still having an interest and being patient in waiting for this up-date. Please tell me your thoughts on this and all comments are welcomed. Until next chap and I do really believe this story is coming to an end soon.)