Sonic stood there with Shadow in his arms in front of the camera.

"CUT!" The director shouted. "What is wrong with him?!"

Sonic shook his head. "I don't know. He was fine when we took break."

"Well you better find a way to make him stop acting like this before five. Or else the whole day will be wasted!"

Sonic nodded. "Shadow why are you acting like this? Stop it." He looked at Shadow who was now babbling on like an infant.

"Shadow." Sonic sighed and sat down in the Thinking Chair with him. What the heck is going on? He thought. Shadow looked at him and crawled up on the arm of the chair while happily babbling. Sonic saw and got him before he could fall off.

"Shadow."

Shadow stared off into Space.

"You want down?" Sonic asked him. The black and red hedgehog nodded and Sonic put him down on the floor. He crawled off towards the toybox and pointed at it.

"What?"

"Toy."

The blue hedgehog got up. "You can open that yourself you know."

Shadow got up on his knees and tried to open the toybox, but failed to do so. After a few more tries Sonic opened the box for him and pulled out a toy plane. "What about this?"

Shadow grabbed the toy plane out of his arms and rolled it on the ground while making plane noises. He looked at Sonic. "You too."

Sonic blinked. "Me too?"

Shadow nodded.

The blue hedgehog dug around in the toybox and found a red firetruck. He showed it to Shadow and the hedgehog nodded again.

"Shoom!" Shadow raised the plane in the air like it was taking off. Sonic just looked at him and started to play along with him, as confusing and weird as it was to do so.

"Wheeeeeeyyyoouuu wheeeeyyyyoooouuuu" Sonic made firetruck noises and drove the truck on the floor.

Shadow laughed and continued to fly the toy plane in the air. The blue hedgehog had no idea why he was doing this but it just felt easier to go along with him. The black and red hedgehog soon got tired of the plane and set his eyes on Sonic's firetruck.

"Have?" He said while pointing at the truck.

Sonic looked at the toy and back at him. "You can have it." He gave the toy to him and looked at the plane. "If you have that can I have the plane?" He asked.

Shadow also looked where he was looking. "No."

"No? But you have the truck now."

"Mine."

"But this isn't yours, it's Blu-"

"MINE!"

"Okay! Okay." Sonic handed him the plane. Shadow held both in his arms with a frown on his face.

Side Table Drawer hopped over to them. "What's going on?" She asked. "We're supposed to be filming Blue's Clues now."

"I don't know." Sonic shook his head and replied. "He just all of a sudden started acting like a toddler for some reason."

Side Table Drawer looked at Shadow. "I've never heard of that happening before."

Shadow put the toys on the ground and began ramming them into each other. He giggled and started to blow spit bubbles.

"I don't know but you'll have to watch him while he's like this so he doesn't hurt himself." Side Table Drawer told Sonic. She watched the hedgehog play.

"You're right Side Table, as weird as this is. I can't let him hurt himself."

The baby hedgehog looked over at them and smiled.

"And he's smiling. That's really unusual."

"How much does he smile normally?"

"Never."

"Oh."

"Soic!"

"What?"

Shadow pointed up to the Felt Friends on the wall. The blue hedgehog looked up at the felt frame.

"Yes, I see the felt people."

The Felt Friends didn't respond to them and Shadow climbed into the toybox.

"Shadow. Come back out from there." Sonic got up and reached into the toybox to get him out of there, but the only thing he felt was a sharp pain going through his hands.

"OW!" He pulled his hands out and looked at them. "Shadow why did you bite me?!"

The hedgehog laughed and laid on his back. He cooed and giggled.

Sonic sighed and got him out of the box when Shadow tried to make it known to him that he was hungry. He kept chewing on Sonic's sleeve and started to whine.

"Shadow, what do you want now? Stop chewing on my shirt." Sonic took him away from his shoulder and looked at the hedgehog. The whining continued.

"What do you want?" He asked again. "You can talk. Tell me with words."

Shadow wouldn't talk but he did start to cry because his message wasn't getting across to the hedgehog.

"Oh no." Not now!" Sonic bounced him up and down and rubbed his back. "Com'on, you're okay, stop crying now. Shhh."

He didn't stop and Sonic was getting annoyed.

"Maybe he's hungry." A voice said coming from somewhere. Sonic looked up and saw that the Felt Friends were talking to him.

"Hungry?"

"Yeah, he was chewing on your shirt. Maybe he's hungry."

Sonic looked back at Shadow. "Are you hungry?" He asked him.

The hedgehog sniffled and nodded.

"Then why didn't you say so?"

Sonic carried him into the kitchen where Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper were busy preparing snacks for the playdate. He sat Shadow down in a chair.

"Hello!" Both of them greeted them. "Is it time yet?" Mr. Salt asked.

Sonic scratched the back of his head. "Well no but I have a problem."

"What is it?" Mrs. Pepper asked. She hopped closer to him on the table.

"He's stuck acting like a little kid and I don't know what to do about it." Sonic answered.

"Oh that is an unusual problem." Mrs. Pepper replied. "I've never heard of that before."

"I know, it's confusing, and now he's hungry."

Shadow heard him and started to whine again. Sonic went over to him. "Don't cry, Sonic's going to get you some food okay?"

"W-w WAHHHH!" He started crying louder than ever. Sonic covered his ears.

"Do you think you two could help me make a snack for him?!"

Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper nodded. "We can!"

"Great!"

Paprika hopped over from the kitchen cabinet. "What's going on?"

"It's hard to explain but when you get down to it, Shadow here is hungry, and getting him some food will likely make him stop crying!" Sonic told her.

"Oh! I can help!"

"Nice!"

Sonic picked Shadow up and tried to rock him. "Shhhh, shhhh. It's alright. Stop crying please. It'll just take a minute. Calm down."

The seasoning family went over to the cabinets to see what they could find.

"Let's see what we have here…" Mr. Salt said to himself. "Peanut butter, raisins, crackers, applesauce…"

"What about peanut butter celery sticks?!" Paprika exclaimed.

"That's an idea." Sonic replied with Shadow still crying in his arms. "Do you have any celery?"

"I think we do!"

Mrs. Pepper hopped over to the edge of the counter. "It's most likely in the fridge. Can you get it for us?"

Sonic nodded and walked over to the fridge and opened it to find the celery. He looked in the vegetable drawer.

"I found some." He took the celery out of the drawer and held it up. "It's still good." He adjusted the way he was holding Shadow. "Look buddy, we're going to make you some peanut butter celery sticks!"

Shadow just coughed and whined.

"Aww poor baby."

Sonic put the celery on the counter and Mr. Salt picked it up and took it to go cut it into smaller pieces. Mrs. Pepper got out the peanut butter and a butter knife to spread it on the celery.

"It won't take long to make dear." Mrs. Pepper said.

Mr. Salt came back with the celery pieces and laid them on a paper plate. "Now all we need to do is spread the peanut butter on top and voila! Healthy peanut butter celery sticks!"

Sonic and Mrs. Pepper nodded and the pepper shaker and Paprika started to spread the peanut butter on the celery.

"Shhhh. It's almost done." Sonic told the black and red hedgehog while twisting around slowly and bouncing. Shadow had calmed down and was now sucking on his thumb with tears in his eyes.

"And we're done!" Mr. Salt announced when they were finished. "You know what Paprika? This is a great idea. We should make more of these."

"We should!" Paprika replied. "They're really yummy."

They pushed the plate closer to Sonic and Shadow. "Bon appetit!"

"Thank you." Sonic thanked them and picked up a celery stick. "Here Shadow, look, it's a yummy celery stick with peanut butter on it." He moved to towards Shadow's mouth.

Shadow took his thumb out of his mouth and stared at it. This was something he hadn't eaten before, ever, not even on the ARK. He sniffed the food but didn't do anything.

Sonic looked at him. "Shadow? Have you had peanut butter celery sticks before?"

He shook his head.

"Oh, well. It's good, trust me." Sonic took a bite of the stick. "Mmmmm! Do you like peanut butter?"

Shadow slowly nodded his head.

Sonic smiled after eating and swallowing the last bite. "Then you'll like this. Here." He picked up another celery stick and handed it to him. Shadow looked at it before taking a little bite of it. He chewed and then swallowed.

"Well?" Sonic asked him.

Shadow didn't smile but he did take a larger bite of the celery stick.

"There we go." Sonic responded and laughed. "I knew you'd like it."

"We're glad we could help." Mrs. Pepper said while Shadow ate some more celery sticks.

"Thank you for helping us." Sonic thanked them.

"Can we make some more?" Paprika asked.

"Of course we can." Mr. Salt went to the peanut butter and dipped the butter knife in it. "Bring me some more celery!"

Shadow was done eating and was now yawning.

Sonic wiped his face with a rag. "Are you tired buddy?"

He nodded and yawned again. Sonic wiped his eyes with a tissue. "Com'on lets go put you down for a nap. Bye you guys."

"Bye!"

Sonic took Shadow into the living room and looked around for somewhere for Shadow to sleep. The director was still there waiting.

"Well?" He asked.

"Shadow is tired."

"We have to get this filmed!"

"I'm sorry but I still have no idea why he's acting like this, the only thing you're going to get filmed if we do film is a crying baby."

The director sighed. "My whole day, wasted…"

"I'm sorry."

"Go on."

Sonic walked into the purple polka-dot bedroom. He saw a few blankets and some pillows on the floor that he could make a little sleeping area out of. He figured it was a bit rude to put him in Steve's bed. Once the area was assembled he laid Shadow down and covered him up with a blanket.

Shadow whined for a bit but slowly fell asleep after a while. Sonic walked back into the kitchen where he saw Shadow's leftover water bottle. He picked it up and read the label. "It couldn't have anything to do with this water, can it?"