"...What am I looking at?"

Shadow glared at his cavemates; more specifically, he tried his best to ignore Rouge's unsuccessful attempts at stifling her giggles and instead focused all his ire on a fluffy pair of fake ears and six unevenly painted lines on Omega's giant robotic head.

"GREETINGS SHADOW." The walking arsenal said. "I AM A KITTY CAT."

Rouge let out a full on belly laugh that the other two ignored entirely.

"Your attempt at a costume is pathetic." Shadow crossed his arms. "You didn't even draw the whiskers right."

"COUNTERPOINT: I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT I LOOK VERY CONVINCING. THE VILLAGERS WILL FALL TO OUR CLEVER RUSE."

"Have you looked in a mirror?" Shadow snapped back.

"NO NEED. I TRUST ROUGE. SHE CAUGHT ME IN THE TRUST FALL." Omega's occulars focused more sharply on Shadow. "YOU HAVE YET TO COMPLETE THE TRUST FALL WITH ME."

"Not this drivel again," Shadow groaned. "Fine. Take your shoddy, incomplete attempt at a costume into town and you'll see that nobody is fooled."

Rouge's laughter faded as a cruel grin spread across her face. "Oh?" She leaned forward. "Do I hear you believing in the people of the village, Shadow?"

The black hedgehog bristled in offense. "More like I have absolutely no faith in your disguise!" he shot back.

Rouge hummed, satisfied, pretending to check her nails (sadly impossible to do when she was wearing gloves) as she leaned against Omega's large metal arm. "Given that the collective IQ of that village is somewhere in the negatives, I think what we have is enough."

Shadow opened his mouth for a rebuttal, then paused as he considered the sheer idiocy of even the most clever (if they even could be called that) members of Hedgehog Village. He grit his teeth, knowing he was beaten, and simply replied with, "I'm embarrassed to even know you."

"You embarrass us too~ Okay Megs, let's go get you adopted by some rich lady so we can rob her blind."

"MEOW."