Hello everyone! I know that I haven't uploaded a chapter in quite a long time, so I took about an hour to write this chapter. I hope you enjoy it. ^^
Disclaimer: I do not own, nor claim to own the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise or its characters. I only own the plot, the writing, and the ideas.
"HEY YO, TAILS!" THE blue blur called out, jogging up to the front door of their house. Hearing the loud metal footsteps behind him signified that Shadow was right behind him. Fishing out the keys from the inside of his quills, Sonic opened the front door and jumped inside.
"Welcome to my house Shads!" Sonic announced, waving his hand in a dramatic motion. "Here is where all the magic happens," gleefully, the blue hedgehog almost skipped around the room, showing the bio hog all the amazing wonders of his and Tails' house.
"Didn't we come here to find the fox, hedgehog?" Shadow inquired, crossing his arms and narrowing his eyes at the blue blur. They were wasting time. With all those copies of him on the loose, there would be a lot of hell to pay if something went wrong.
"Oh c'mon Shads! Just relax a little. I'm pretty sure Tails isn't here right now so we are going have to wait anyways." cerulean quills puffed up a little and the same position Shadow was in was copied by Sonic. Rolling his eyes, the agent marched over to the coffee table and sat down, his half-lidded eyes glaring at the blue blur in an annoyed fashion.
"Don't you have a way to contact him, even in cases of emergency?"
"Why would we need to do that? We can take care of ourselves." Shadow nearly smacked the blue idiot for being so stupid. He didn't see the necessity of having an 'In Case Of Emergencies' contact. Even if Sonic was the hero of Mobius he can't protect himself all the time.
"Having a contact in case of emergency is important in case you are in a situation where you can't protect yourself," Shadow muttered, still glaring at shining emerald green eyes. The blue blur's enthusiasm was contagious, especially to him. He would never admit that to the faker though. Adding fuel to the already massive ego wasn't good for anyone.
"Do you have an emergency contact Shads?" come to think of it, the biohog didn't have an emergency contact either. The dawn of realization that came onto his rivals face signified to him that he wasn't the only one in the wrong.
"Seems like we are both in the same place here, huh Shads?" the azure hedgehog leaned with his back on Shadow's arm and relaxed, placing his hands over his lap. Resisting the very irresistible urge to shove the blue blur off of this table, Shadow took the time to look around.
The living room consisted of two grey-scaled couches with two pillows in similar designs on each and one wooden coffee table placed in the center. There was an odd-looking flower located in the center, with a beam of sunlight placed directly over it. It was oddly captivating, as he felt he has seen it before.
Blinking repeatedly and looking away, Shadow examined the rest of the room. The walls were completely bare, no pictures from what he could see. The blue blur takes pictures with his friends almost every chance he receives, so why wouldn't any of them be on the walls? Or anywhere else for that matter.
He was about to ask where had all the pictures he had taken gone when he was suddenly yanked off his feet and dragged towards a door that seemed to be the one leading to the back door. Masking his surprise, Shadow scowled at the back of Sonic's head, yanking his hand out of his hold when they reached a place positioned behind the household.
"I just remembered that Tails' is on a working spree today! I forgot to check his lab!" speeding in without knocking, the door slammed open, startling said Kitsune and making him drop the tool that he was currently handling. With a loud bang, the tool hit the floor, Tails' fur puffing up as he looked around wildly for the intruders.
"Hey Tails!" Sonic waved and jogged up to the kitsune who pulled up his goggles and glared at him. "Sonic you promised you weren't going to bother me today! I told you-" the kit went on with his angry ramblings, blue ears pinning down as he smiled sheepishly at his little brother.
"This isn't the time for arguing." the deep voice of the Ultimate Lifeform cut clear throughout the laboratory. Both brothers turned towards the alien hybrid, who was glaring at the blue hedgehog with annoyance eminent. "Let's do what we came here to do and solve this problem before anything else happens." nearly growled the black hedgie. Sonic perked up with realization and looked towards Tails, who was still staring at Shadow in confusion. Mostly because he was there.
"What is he talking about Sonic? What are you guys doing?"
"Okay Tails, we need to talk."
AFTER A LENGTHY explanation of what was currently happening, Tails looked at the floor with his brow furrowed. "So what you are saying is, there are clones of Shadow out to get you," Tails looked at Sonic. "And you need my help to figure out why they are here, why they are after you specifically, and where they are coming from." Tails tapped his foot on the carpet and took a sip of his water bottle.
"Precisely," Shadow muttered, looking out the window. "Yup, that's pretty much it," Sonic added, grinning at his brother. "Do you think you could help us?" his head tipped to one side, his ears flopping one way as he looked at his brother innocently. Shadow had looked at him just as he did that and averted his eyes away from him, a slight heat forming in his cheeks.
Strange. Since that has never happened before.
