I drew some pics to go with the story the other night but cnt put them up coz my scanner is all screwed up lol
Here's the next chapter

Chapter 4

That evening, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge and Cream n Cheese were sitting in the hospital waiting room. They'd been sitting there for a good few hours already and had gotten tired. Shadow had gone in with Amy.

Sonic stretched and sighed. He looked over at Cream.

"Does it usually take this long to have a baby?" he said impatiently and sounding rather stupid.
"Don't ask me!" Cream replied.

"I know we've been waiting a long time, Sonic. But our friend's having a baby right now. We gotta be here for her!"Rouge said.

"I know that, of course I do." Sonic replied. "It's just…why does this baby keep changing its mind?"
"What do you mean?" Knuckles asked.

"Well earlier it seemed that it couldn't wait to get out here. But now it's-"
"He!" Cream butted in. "The baby's a boy, you know."
"How do you know?" Sonic said.
"Amy was telling me at the beach. She had a scan a few weeks ago."

"Anyway," Sonic said, "Now he is taking his sweet time to get here, you know?"
"Oh shut up doofus!" Rouge said.

Sonic folded his arms in a slight huff at being shushed at. Just then Shadow rushed in breathing, out of breath. Everyone blinked and stood up.
None of them spoke, waiting for Shadow to tell them any news.

Shadow gasped for breath. There were tears dwelling in his eyes.

"He…he's here…" he said.

Everyone smiled.
"That's great!" Tails said.
"Is he ok?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah…everything's fine…come see…" Shadow gasped.

Shadow led his friends through to Amy's room. As he opened the door, Amy looked up. She looked tired but smiled. She carried a small bundle in her arms.

"Hey guys." She said.

Everyone gasped in awe as the walked in and saw Amy and her new baby.

The baby had black fur with a small tuft on his head, like Amy's. The tuft was also black but had very small pink streaks. His spikes were the same shape as Shadow's and his eyes were emerald green.

"He's really beautiful." Cream said.
"Yeah. Congratulations you guys." Knuckles said.

The others nodded in agreement.

"What are you gonna call him?" Tails asked.
"Well…." Amy thought for a second.
"Wow, all this time I haven't really thought about it that much." Shadow said.

"I like the name Ray." Amy said.
"Ray…yeah sounds good to me." Shadow said.

He walked over to Amy's side. She gave him the baby and, all of a sudden, the tears in Shadow's eyes began to fall.

"Hey there Ray." He said to his newborn son. "I'm your daddy…"

Meanwhile Eggman was busy conducting his moves.

"Now that my machine is ready I can finally get rid of Sonic forever! I must do it as soon as possible. I don't want anything to stop me now!" he was saying to himself.

"I shall strike early tomorrow morning, when they will be least prepared. And then I'll be able to take the 7 chaos emeralds and finally be able to use them for my benefit; taking over the world!"

He laughed loudly and manically.