"I fail to understand why this vegetable needs a face."

"YOU FAIL IN GENERAL."

"Omega," Rouge chided before Shadow could try to kick the two ton robot in the head, "don't be a jerk. And Shadow, the point is that pumpkins are giant, bright orange fruits, not vegetables, that we can put faces on for fun. So we do it for fun."

Shadow glared at his pumpkin like it was the most obnoxious thing in the world. "I hate fun," he deadpanned.

"I know," Rouge said as she handed him a black marker. "Now draw the most miserable face on this pumpkin. I want to see the most sour, bitter pumpkin I've ever seen in my life."

Shadow rolled his eyes, taking the marker. He glared at the pumpkin like it was the cause of all his problems, red eyes roving over the tough orange surface.

"FELLOW CAVEMATES."

Rouge looked up; Shadow kept glowering at his pumpkin. Omega seemed to not mind his half-attentive audience, raising his pumpkin into the air. "BEHOLD: I CAN NOW EMOTE WITH THOSE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS THAT YOU ORGANICS ARE SO INCLINED TOWARD."

The pumpkin showed a grinning expression with narrowed eyes. Omega turned it until a new face was revealed, a laughing face. He turned it again to show a glare. He kept turning the pumpkin, showing a multitude of faces that, by all means, shouldn't have fit on a single pumpkin, but Rouge decided she was more impressed than confused by this breaking of possibility.

"That's so cool, Omega! That's going to be helpful when I can't tell if you're joking or not."

Omega turned his pumpkin around until it showed a prideful expression. "I WILL MAKE GOOD USE OF THIS UNTIL IT ROTS AND I THROW IT AT ANY WHO STAND IN MY WAY."

"Hmph."

Both robot and bat glanced over at the hedgehog as he snarled at his pumpkin. A very crudely drawn frowny face was smudged over his pumpkin; a far cry from Rouge's carefully drawn scary face or any of Omega's pinpoint accurate faces. Shadow bristled at their stares, silently daring them to say anything.

Rouge and Omega were not the sort to ignore dares.

"Well sweetie, I guess art just isn't your forte."

"REITERATION: YOU FAIL IN GENERAL."

Shadow threw his marker at them.