Oh dear chaos no!
"Dad!" Jamie called out as he stood in front of his bedroom door, looking inside with a tilt of his head, his weekend bag on the floor beside him.
Jamie had spent the weekend up on Angel Island with Knuckles and had only just got back. It was the long summer break from school and already it was half over with. Of course Jamie did not think he would come home and find his pregnant mother asleep on his bed at two in the afternoon but there Shadow was, on his bed fast asleep.
"Yeah, what's up?" Sonic asked as he made his way down the hallway and towards his son.
"Why is mum asleep on my bed for?" Jamie asked as he turned his head to look at his approaching father.
"Oh right well he started to miss ya, got in one of his sad soppy moods after lunch so he came in here. I'll go wake him up and move him to our bedroom." Sonic explained then went to walk into his sons bedroom.
"Nah it's cool dad I'll just unpack later." Jamie shrugged as he picked up his bag and lightly chucked it inside of his room.
"You sure?" Sonic asked as he looked at his son, now in the room but not by the bed.
"Daddy hurry up!" Sapphire called from the living room.
"That will be your impatient sister calling me back." Sonic sighed then walked out of Jamie's room to go back to the living room, Jamie following him.
"About time you got back daddy, I had to pause the telly for like ages." Sapphire complained as her father retook his seat next to her, Jamie taking a space on the single chair.
Sonic looked at the TV and gave it a dry expression when he saw just how long it was really paused for.
"Forty seconds? How is that ages Saffy?" Sonic asked with a roll of his eyes.
"Because you are supposed to be the fastest thing alive and not take forty seconds. Ok now let's watch our movie." Sapphire matter-of-fact said with a slightly smug grin at her father then pressed the play button to un-pause the TV.
"What are we...oh no not this again." Jamie began to ask then soon began to groan out in an unhappy manner when the movies title came up.
"What? We like it." Sonic sheepishly said as he glanced at his son.
"Yeah I get that but to watch it for the sixth time in two weeks...I'm going to get a snack then go to my room." Jamie sighed then stood up and chaos controlled to the kitchen.
"Daddy your son has absolutely no taste in movies." Sapphire sighed with a shake of her head.
"Uh-huh." Sonic replied with a raised brow at what his daughter said then both paid attention to the movie that was recorded two weeks ago.
An hour later...
Shadow was slowly waking up from his nap and soon began to open his eyes. The first thing he saw was his son sitting up at the desk on his laptop working away. The second thing he realised was he had fallen asleep on his sons bed which he didn't mean to happen. He slowly sat up and kept his eyes on his son with an apologetic expression.
"Jamie I am so sorry, I did not mean to sleep on your bed." Shadow said with a slightly sad voice.
"Nah it's cool mum. Uncle Knuckles said to not get yourself trapped in a lift again when you are ready to pop out the baby." Jamie said back with some amusement in his voice, never looking away from the screen of his laptop.
"Just for that I'm chaos controlling to Angel Island on the day I am due in two weeks. How was your weekend?" Shadow joked as he moved to sit on the edge of the bed.
"How about I chaos control ya up there instead but yeah it was cool. Uncle Knuckles showed me how to set up the perfect trap, auntie Rouge came for a visit and annoyed uncle Knuckles to the point of anger, which was so funny, and we roasted marshmallows on a fire." Jamie happily answered with a smile, finally looking away from the laptop and looking at his mother instead.
"Traps huh sounds educational." Shadow said with a semi devious smirk.
"Want me to help ya get back at dad for that ice cream prank he did on you last week?" Jamie asked as he slowly began to grin the same, getting a little excited with this.
"That I do, he will not win this war he once again started." Shadow sinisterly said as his smirk grew toothy, chuckling after talking and rubbing his hands together like a crazy guy about to plan the end of the world.
The next day...
Sonic was busy clearing away the used breakfast things after ordering Shadow to go relax in the living room. He was casually humming a tune while loading up the dishwasher when suddenly a crash was heard. Sonic gasped and rushed into the living room thinking the worst, that Shadow had a fall or something. When he entered he cried out as something wrapped around his ankle and began to lift him fast upside down in the air.
"Ahh get me down!" Sonic shouted out as he began to swing side to side.
"Daddy why are you hanging upside down? Oh is this a new game?" Sapphire asked as she stood behind her father, who was trying to free his ankle.
"No it is not, ahhh!" Sonic seriously said then cried out as he fell down to the ground landing on his rear.
"Ow. Where's your mother?" Sonic complained as he stood up then asked with a clearly annoyed tone.
"Mama is in my room with Jamie and asked me to find out what you were shouting about." Sapphire innocently said with a smile up at her father.
"Right well I need a few words with him." Sonic grumbled as he began to walk out of the living room and towards his daughters bedroom.
He didn't get far until the same thing happened again but now he was hanging upside down in the hallway.
"Shadow!" Sonic shouted out with some anger.
"Yeah, what's going on?" Shadow asked as he walked out of Sapphires bedroom and stood in the hallway looking at his struggle to get free husband.
"How many traps have you made Jamie set up?" Sonic asked with high frustration in his voice as he once again began to free himself.
"Not many more to come my love." Shadow said with high amusement while smirking at his husband.
"Shadow I swear you will stop this before you accidentally end up upside down! Ahh!" Sonic seriously called out then once again fell down but on his face this time.
"Only if you admit defeat and say I am the best." Shadow said as he crossed his arms, resting them on top of his bump, and never stopped looking amused with that smug smirk on his muzzle.
"You do realise how childish you sound right love?" Sonic sighed with a slightly shake of his head and began to walk over to his husband.
"Ahh! Damn it Shadow!" Sonic cried out as he was back to being upside down but a little closer to his husband and facing him.
"How are you pulling this off anyway?" Sonic asked as he once again began to free himself.
"Chaos control duh." Shadow said as he thought that was obvious.
"Jamie stop helping your mother!" Sonic shouted out then freed himself but landing on his feet.
"I'm not doing anything but setting up the traps." Jamie said as he finally left his sister's room and stood beside his mother.
"Which means you are helping your mother so just stop ok." Sonic dryly said as he gave his son an unimpressed expression.
"But I'm not helping mum, I'm helping Sapphire." Jamie smirked with amusement as he crossed his arms.
"What?" Sonic whispered then slowly turned around to face his innocently smiling daughter.
Sapphire slowly reached behind her quills and revealed Shadow's chaos emerald and held it up a little.
"Sorry daddy but there was ice cream involved. I was the one chaos controlling to slow down time so Jamie can set up the traps." Sapphire said as she kept giving her father that innocent smile.
"When did you learn to chaos control like that?" Sonic asked with shock for as far as he was aware Sapphire only really knew the basic teleport.
"Mama has been teaching me but I still need an emerald to do a chaos control though. It is ok though because that means me and you are the same when it comes to that stuff daddy." Sapphire cheerfully said with a bright happy smile up at her father.
"Right well that explains that doesn't it. Can we all just stop this now and leave poor daddy alone." Sonic sighed then turned back around to look at his still very much amused husband.
"You win ok Shadow so call off your minions and go take them for that ice cream. I need to lay down for a while." Sonic sighed out in slight defeat.
"Fine, come on you two let's leave your father to soak up in defeat while we have victory ice cream." Shadow announced with a smug tone never removing his gaze from his husband.
Sapphire smiled brightly and rushed over to her mother then Shadow chaos controlled them to the mall for that ice cream but not before setting one last trap. Sonic sighed out in relief and began to walk towards his bedroom only to yet again end up hanging from his ankle.
"SHADOW!" Sonic's screamed out in frustration.
After Sonic finally got free, managing to once again land on his feet, he dashed into his bedroom and closed the door shut. He scanned the room with suspicion then when he deemed it safe he approached the bed.
"If he thinks I am going to just not retaliate to this then he is delusional. I need to get him back that is safe yet way too epic to be out done." Sonic muttered to himself as he got onto his bed and laid down, looking up at the ceiling in thought.
"Maybe I can mess with his beloved gravy like get the beef flavour and swap labels or something. Nah absolutely not, I do not have a death wish." Sonic thought then very quickly scrapped that plan for life was very worth living to him.
Meanwhile…
"Mama why is uncle Eclipse being dragged away by a mall cop?" Sapphire asked as she, Jamie and Shadow stopped walking to the smoothie bar, for Shadows needed a smoothie first, and all watched the scene.
"He is probably annoying Becky again." Shadow semi seriously said with a deep frown while watching his brother trying to break free to get back to the smoothie bar in which meant getting back to annoying Becky.
"Hey uncle Eclipse, not having any luck with Becky still!" Jamie called out with some amusement.
Eclipse stopped struggling and turned his head to look at his family. He grinned then chaos controlled out of the mall cops grip, making the guy gasp in shock. Eclipse appeared in front of Shadow and was smirking deviously at his brother.
"Why didn't you just chaos control out of the cops grip first time instead of struggling?" Sapphire asked sweetly as she looked up at her uncle with a smile.
"More fun and it makes the cop feel like he is in control. Shadow…" Eclipse replied to his niece then spoke to his brother in a sweet innocent manner but was stopped from saying anything else.
"What ever it is it's a no. Now if you will excuse us we need to get my smoothie then the kids ice creams before going home to have a nap." Shadow very seriously said as he frowned at his brother.
"Perfect, come on guys lets go get that ice cream while your mama talks to Becky for me." Eclipse happily said with a smile then motioned for the two to stand beside him.
"You both dare move from my side then I'll tell your father the real reason why the conservatory window got broken and had to be replaced." Shadow threatened while glaring at his brother to not even dare chaos control his children away with him.
"Yeah kids don't move from your mothers side…chaos control!" Eclipse deviously said then did exactly what Shadow didn't want him to do.
"Damn it Eclipse, just you wait until I get my hands on your alien ass!" Shadow shouted with rage then marched over to the smoothie bar and stopped in front of Becky.
"Becky I need a large peach passion with blueberries." Shadow seriously said with some anger in his voice but was doing his best to calm down.
"Sure thing Shadow, I am sure Jamie and Sapphire are fine. Eclipse is very annoying but he is good with them." Becky sincerely said with a smile then got to work in making Shadows smoothie fast.
"It's in his nature to annoy the hell out of ya but I do have to agree, he is very good with kids. Takes his childcare responsibilities very seriously." Shadow replied and was now officially calm and even held a soft smile as he spoke.
"So is he still trying to get that smoothie date from you?" Shadow asked with a grin as he watched Becky begin to blend up the fruits for his smoothie.
"Yes and I have to give it to him, he is very persistent and doesn't give up easily." Becky sighed out in slight despair as she kept her eyes on her job.
"That's my brother in a nutshell, determined little pest and wont ever give up until he gets what he wants. He isn't all that bad once you get to know him and he can be quite entertaining. Take last week for an example, he went over to some manager at a DIY store and insisted that nails came from peoples hands and that it was barbaric to kidnap people and rip their nails from them then sell them for people to use. I finally had to step in and drag Eclipse away before things got ugly." Shadow said with an amused smirk at the memory he had from that afternoon.
"He seriously thought that and had the guts to go up to the manager and have it out with him?" Becky asked with a raised brow as she glanced at Shadow.
"He can be a moron believe me, I've had years of him making stupid choices and dragging me along for the ride, but he means well." Shadow softly said with a smile while watching Becky pour the smoothie into a large cup.
"Hey babe, erm where's the kids?" Sonic announced his presence then raised a brow when he notices his kids were not with his husband.
"With their uncle and if you even dare think about getting them involved with pranking me back then I'm divorcing your hedgehog ass and taking half of everything." Shadow calmly said with a grin then was passed his smoothie.
"Thank you Becky." Shadow happily said as he held onto his much wanted smoothie.
"Aw but you got them to prank me, that is so uncool babe." Sonic whined as he gave Shadow a sad look.
"Don't care, I'm pregnant and needed the extra assistance. You try carrying twins and still have the energy to prank your husband alone. Besides they wouldn't help you even if you bribed them with cake for breakfast every day for a week." Shadow factually said with a sly expression at Sonic then drank some of his smoothie.
"Bet they would although Eclipse wont have issues with helping me and I wont need to bribe him either." Sonic said in thought as he thought about asking Eclipse to help him with his master plan he thought of seconds ago.
"Think again my love, he will not prank me while this pregnant and he will want something in return for his services. He will get you to convince Becky over here to say yes to a smoothie date with him so good luck with that." Shadow said with amusement while looking at his husband.
"Say Becky." Sonic cheerfully said with an innocent smile at the white vixen.
"Pass." Becky dryly said with a small frown.
"Oh come on Becky, Eclipse isn't all that bad. It's just one meaningless smoothie date with him, what could go wrong?" Sonic said in a whiny voice while giving Becky a desperate begging expression.
"I know he isn't but I just don't feel anything for him and it would be wrong for me to agree to this date and lead him into thinking I am interested in him." Becky said with a sigh while looking back at Sonic.
"It's because he is an alien isn't it and a totally different species to you." Sonic said with a sly grin at Becky.
"No that has nothing to do with it Sonic, I'm totally diverse and all that." Becky said with a hint of annoyance at the accusation.
"Then why wont you give Eclipse a chance to show you he is perfect for ya?" Sonic asked next as his grin grew wider.
"Sonic you cannot make someone love someone else so quit while you are ahead. Becky doesn't love Eclipse so just leave it as that, he needs to learn that he cannot always be with someone he loves especially when that someone doesn't love him back." Shadow calmly said with a sincere tone then carried on drinking his smoothie at a slow pace.
"He loves me?" Becky asked in shock as she didn't think Eclipses feelings for her went that deep.
"Oh hell yeah he does, why do you think he only comes down here to get a smoothie when you are working?" Sonic said with a wink.
"He never outright claimed he loves you Becky but I would say he does. Either that or he loves the way you make smoothies." Shadow casually said after swallowing his mouthful.
"Shads, not helping." Sonic muttered quietly while gently nudging Shadow then smiled brightly at Becky.
"He totally loves you and the way you make smoothies. Heck he loves everything about ya so what do you say, willing to give him a chance and go on one little smoothie date with him?" Sonic happily said as he kept smiling at Becky, able to see she was thinking about this.
"Please say yes so I can go to him and tell him I got him a date with you and in exchange I want him to help me get Shadow back." Sonic thought as he began to get a little anxious as Becky was taking her time in answering.
"I don't know, he is a nice enough guy I guess, I just don't think it would be a good idea." Becky sighed as she was getting a little tired of this.
"Oh I get it, you are scared of Black Doom aren't ya, maybe even scared of becoming apart of the family too?" Sonic asked with a grin at Becky who narrowed her eyes back at him.
"No I am not scared of any of that." Becky said with some anger in her tone and looking annoyed at Sonic.
"He is trying to provoke you Becky because now he is going to say 'then prove it, go on that date with Eclipse'." Shadow calmly said as he began to rub his belly with his free hand slowly.
"Yeah totally true, so prove me wrong Becky and show me that you are not scared of the alien side of the family. Go on that tiny little date than rub it in my face that I was wrong and you were right." Sonic said with a wide grin and looking very smug right now.
"No." Becky dryly said with an unimpressed look at Sonic.
"Ha! She sure told you my love and good for you Becky for not feeling pressured to say yes." Shadow said with high amusement at his husbands failure then drank some more of his peach smoothie.
"Anyway you have a wonderful day Becky. Come on Sonic lets go find the kids and Eclipse then stop them from having too much ice cream." Shadow pleasantly said with a grin then linked Sonics arm and both walked away from the smoothie bar.
One week later…
"Knuckles how nice to see you here!" Shadow called out as he walked over to the Master Emerald shrine with an innocent smile.
"Oh no you don't, get off my Island Shadow, I want no babies born here!" Knuckles called out as he rushed down the many steps.
"Aw but you are such a great midwife and you have experiences too." Shadow teased with his smirk widening enough for his canines to be on display.
"Go give birth somewhere filled with professionals." Knuckles said with panic as he finally reached the bottom and was now a meter away from Shadow, who had stopped his approach.
"Oh chill pill Knuckles, I'm not ready to pop for another week, you are safe so relax." Shadow said with a satisfyingly amused expression as he got the reaction he was after.
"Right well what do you want?" Knuckles asked with an unsure look in keeping Shadow here longer for he knew babies came whenever they damn well liked, wherever they damn well liked.
"Sonic wants to know if you will help him with a little project. I would suggest to say no because it sound dumb and a waste of time." Shadow casually said with little interest in why he was here.
"What project?" Knuckles asked with some interest in this.
"He calls it code-name pizza delivery, I call it pathetic." Shadow replied with a small frown and crossing his arms while he spoke.
"Ah right I see, tell him I will hear him out but if I do not like the project it will be a no." Knuckles said with a grin as that was code for pranking Shadow and nothing to do with pizza.
"Ok I will but be warned, the pizza in my restaurant is far better than anywhere else. Chaos control." Shadow semi seriously said then vanished back home.
Shadow appeared in the living room and in front of Sonic sitting on the sofa waiting for his return.
"The red one said he will hear what this moronic project is about then give you his answer. Just for the record if you do plan to make a pizza delivery then might I suggest advertising the pizza at The Ruby Shard." Shadow said with a smile at his husband, looking innocent in his features but not too innocent.
"Wait how did you…oh right, yeah, it's in the code name. Sure thing babe. Well I better go have that talk and all that, I'll see you later ok." Sonic said with a slightly nervous smile then stood up and rushed out.
"He is such an idiot sometimes and forgetful too." Shadow sighed with a shake of his head for he knew exactly what his husband was up to, organising a prank on him.
"So much for not doing this kind of thing again." Shadow thought as he walked out of the living room and towards the kitchen to get his gravy fix.
"And he calls me childish, well at least I…" Shadow muttered to himself as he walked into the kitchen then froze with wide eyes as he looked up the table.
"No." Shadow whispered as his eyes began to water.
"N-no." Shadow said more loudly as the tears began to fall.
"NO!" Shadow cried out in despair and dropping to his knees as the stream of tears kept flowing out of his eyes.
"How could you Sonic!" Shadow sobbed out loudly as he bowed his head with pure heartache in his features.
On the table was nothing anyone would deem cry-able unless you were a heavily pregnant half alien hedgehog named Shadow and full of hormones. Sitting neatly on top was a glass jar of instant gravy granules and a used up tube of quick dry super glue laying right in front of it. The label on the jar told him it was his precious gravy and the dried drips of glue that ran down the sides told all it was glued shut.
"You are so mean, s-so damn mean Sonic." Shadow whispered as he stayed there and cried.
"HA!" Sonic cried out as he jumped out from hiding in the conservatory and was grinning madly at Shadow.
"Consider yourself pranked babe. You really think I would do that to your gravy? That is some cheap gravy inside an empty jar of your gravy, pretty good prank huh love." Sonic said with some pride in his work.
"I hate you." Shadow whispered as he slowly lifted his head up and glared with anger at his husband.
"It was a prank babe, just a harmless joke." Sonic defended himself as he was getting very anxious with the way Shadow was looking at him like he was game.
"That was not funny!" Shadow shouted with rage and slowly picked himself up, still glaring at Sonic very harshly.
"But it's not grandma chaos instant chicken gravy babe, it's just a cheap shops own brand inside that jar." Sonic said as he took a step back and starting to grow a little fearful of his husband right now.
"Stay away from me you got that, just stay away." Shadow seriously said with narrowed eyes that promised pain then vanished using chaos control leaving a stunned Sonic behind.
"Erm I think I went too far." Sonic whispered to himself as he was unable to look away from where Shadow was once standing.
"I knew I should have not done any gravy pranks on him." Sonic sighed sadly as he bowed his had in guilt.
Two hours later…
"And why is mama upset?" Sapphire asked with a small frown up at her father after they all entered their home.
"It was a prank went wrong and it really upset him. I don't know where he is but I do know he will be back. If I had to guess, he's on the Black Comet sulking or planning his revenge." Sonic answered with a sad look in his eyes and was feeling a little more guilty now.
"If you ask me, mum can dish it out but cannot seem to take it back." Jamie casually said as he grinned at his father, not seeing anything wrong with the prank his father did to his mother.
"No, I went too far and I shouldn't have done anything while in the condition he is in. I also shouldn't have messed with his gravy either, that was clearly a very huge mistake that will never be repeated." Sonic said with a sigh as he led the way into the kitchen to get snacks and drinks sorted.
With Shadow…
"Come on sweetie, you are going to have to get out of that bed eventually." Crystal softly said as she stood beside a bed in a room that was made for when Shadow stayed over, so it was basically Shadows bedroom up here.
Shadow was curled on his side with a thick warm blanket covering him fully and refusing to move or leave. He has been like this since he came up here after that prank on him and not left his bed once.
"I'm sure he is very sorry now Shadow and is missing you very much. Why don't we both go down to your home together, would you like that?" Crystal said with her tone unchanged but was feeling a little annoyed with not getting a response from Shadow.
"Fine, ok, I'll just let your husband and two children know you wont be coming home then." Crystal said with a small grin as she tried different means in getting Shadow to talk back.
Shadow remained silent and unmoved.
"Hey er wow he still here?" Eclipse spoke as he approached Crystal then looked at the lump on the bed covered by a blanket.
"And not talking either which is very frustrating." Crystal muttered as she was now frowning and sounding a little unhappy.
"Did you ever think that maybe he is asleep?" Eclipse asked with a grin then reached out to grab the blanket, pulling it to reveal Shadows head slowly.
"Ah that would explain why he wasn't responding." Crystal said with a nervous laugh as Shadow was asleep.
"I say we leave him for another hour then get him up." Eclipse suggested as he draped the blanket back over Shadow then very soon after that they both left Shadows bedroom.
Half an hour later Shadow was up and had left his room to take a slow wonder before returning home to his family. He was still annoyed about the prank and was going to have a few words with Sonic when he returned, he just wanted Sonic to stew in regret and guilt a little while longer. He walked into a large open area that was empty of life and as soon as he approached the middle a flash happened in front of him.
"Good to see you up bro, how you doing now?" Eclipse said with a grin as he stood directly in front of Shadow.
"Annoyed but fine, you still begging for that date with Becky?" Shadow said with a small frown then placed a hand on his bump as a light manageable pain was felt.
"Probably complaining for food, it has been hours since I ate something." Shadow thought and mad a mental note to monitor the pain and times between for just in case.
"Alas my love has declined for the one hundredth time but I will not give up for I know she cares about me." Eclipse said with dramatics to go with his words but was looking determined to win over his love interest.
"Ever thought of maybe just outright confessing how much she means to you instead of bugging her every day for a smoothie date? Maybe she would like to do something other than what she does six days a week." Shadow advised with a smile and was now slowly rubbing his bump in a gentle circular motion.
"Actually no that hasn't crossed my mind. I must go see her tomorrow and confess my never dying love and affections then take her out somewhere she would love to go." Eclipse beamed out with joy as he planned what he was going to say and do in his head.
"Yeah you do that and you can thank me if she says yes to you." Shadow said as he smiled through the slightly more painful pains in his tummy.
"Shadow you are in pain." Eclipse said and was no longer looking all bright and cheery, he was looking serious and concerned instead.
"Oh relax, this takes hours." Shadow assured as he kept smiling at his brother.
"Your in…" Eclipse whispered with wide eyes.
"I believe so yes." Shadow grunted as pain happened again and it was once again slightly worse than the last pain he felt.
"DAD!" Eclipse called out with some panic in his voice as he kept his wide eyes on his brother.
"What is it my...oh dear chaos you are in labour Shadow." Black Doom appeared beside his sons then very quickly picked up on Shadows stress signals then concluded what was happening.
"Y-yes but it will be hours yet, plenty of time to get to the…ahh shit." Shadow tried to stay calm as he spoke but broke out of that when a sharper pain erupted in his belly, making him bend forward to try and cushion it.
"Shadow language." Black Doom semi serious said as he gave Shadow a frowning expression.
"I bet you curse when doing something like this." Shadow growled back with some aggression while glancing up at his father.
"Should I get Sonic up here?" Eclipse asked as he glanced at his father.
"Oh no." Shadow whispered then seconds after a gushing sound was heard as his waters broke.
(I'm so mean I know and making you wait until next chapter to find out if it will be twins or triplets. I'm sure it has been figured out but who knows what will happen, well apart from me for I am writing this, so until the next update…)
