A Sonadow Story:
Hero's Heart Corrupted
Chapter 2: Viral Plague
Shadow's gloved hand stopped when it reached the side of the package and he quickly turned to Sonic, who looked back.
"Are you sure you don't know where this package came from or who delivered it?" he said to his blue counterpart in a light whisper. Sonic looked back down at the package and stared at it for a few moments before only nodding, losing his voice from the suspense. Shadow did not know why they were acting like this, it was only a stupid package to him. It just seemed to give off an uneasy air. The black hedgehog shook the thought off and took a deep breath.
A tearing sound of paper was heard. Sonic watched intently as his black doppelganger tore through the paper of the package, which seemed to take several minutes to them when it was actually ten seconds in reality. The blue hedgehog's gloved hands started to shiver as he waited to see what it was. Shadow by then had finally finished tearing the paper and reached a hesitant gloved hand into the mysterious package. He barely felt the small Styrofoam pellets due to the glove on his hand as he searched the box. He felt something solid hit against his hand and quickly grabbed the object, pulling it out as he did. What he revealed was… (Insert drumroll here)
A disk.
A clear disk.
A clear stupid disk.
A disk.
A DISK.
The two supersonic hedgehogs sat in absolute silence as they stared at the disk with blank faces. Nothing happened. No robot had changed from this disk form to its real self. No mythical demon came from the disk to try and attack them. Nothing.
"What the hell? You mean we have been fretting over a stupid disk?" Shadow growled as he gripped the disk a little tighter. His blue counterpart noticed this and quickly put a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"Easy, Shads. Maybe this disk will have some use, like tell us we won the lottery or something," His rival joked and the black hedgehog quickly whipped his head around to face him. His reassuring hand on the latter hedgehog's shoulder was denied when it was shrugged off. The joke did not help at all.
Shadow quickly jumped up from his wooden rocking chair and drew his arm back that held onto the disk, about to throw it.
"No!" Sonic yelled and quickly grabbed his arm to keep him from tossing it halfway across Mobius. "Shadow, no! This disk could be really important! Why would someone deliver it here if it meant nothing?"
"People are foolish! They could just be playing with us and our minds! Didn't you notice how we were acting back there before opening the package!?" The Ultimate Lifeform growled deeply, still struggling to get out of his rival's grip. Sonic ignoring the question and having no choice, he quickly used his free arm to snatch the disk away from his black doppelganger before he got out of his grip and dashed into the house, a furious black hedgehog following.
Both hedgehogs ran into the living room again with Tails, Rouge, and Knuckles sitting on the couch, watching the two play a game of "Catch The Hedgehog". Knuckles quickly interfered and extended his arm to stop Shadow in his tracks with Sonic stopping a foot away.
"What the hell is wrong with you two? We can't leave you both alone without resulting in a childish fight," The red echidna said in an irritated tone. Shadow didn't seem to hear because of his mind thinking many ways to hurt Sonic as he death-glared said hedgehog.
"It's not my fault that Mr. Grumpy over there wants to throw a harmless disk that could contain valuable information to Pluto!" The blue hedgehog yelled and glared back at Shadow, but not as dark as Shadow's glare. Knuckles turned toward Sonic with a confused expression.
"Wait, what disk?" The red echidna questioned and lowered his arm again when the elder hedgehog had calmed down. The Fastest Thing Alive held out the clear disk for everyone to see, which immediately caught Tails' interest. But then something surprised the blue hero. The other side of the disk facing him was not clear, but actually had writing on it, written with black marker.
"Sonic…'x'?" he said not very fluently aloud and everyone faced him instead of the disk.
"What, Sonic?" Tails asked him and said hedgehog repeated what he had said, but more fluently this time. Everyone gave him questioning looks, wondering why he was saying that. The yellow kitsune got up from the couch and moved to his big brother, taking the disk to see what he was reading. His eyes lit with amusement when he read the writing.
"Oh! You mean .exe!" he chuckled as he waved his namesakes.
"What does that mean?" everyone except Shadow and Tails asked. Instead of Tails answering, it was Shadow.
"It is an executable binary file. Some operating systems, notably MS-DOS, VMS, and TWENEX, use the extension '.exe' to mark such files," The Ultimate Lifeform stated with his arms crossed over his chest like knowing that vocabulary was child's play. (Don't worry, you don't have to know what that means! XD) Everyone, even Tails, was surprised to hear that from the bionic hedgehog. He only shrugged.
"Tails, English please," The Blur Blue said after snapping out of his shock.
"He basically means it's a downloadable file, which I don't recommend. These are unprotected, meaning my computer could easily get a virus or hacked into," The twin-tailed fox rephrased and everyone nodded with understanding.
"So what do we do with it if it has no use?" Sonic questioned and Shadow took this chance to swipe the disk from the kitsune. ("IT'S NO USE!" ~Silver the Hedgehog 2006)
"I say that we throw this useless piece of crap out the window and never speak of it again."
"Wait, Shadow! Maybe it can be useful! I only said that it could hold some malware, not that it didn't hold anything helpful. I can look into it and see if it is safe to download," Tails quickly said before any harsh decisions were made.
The Ultimate Lifeform gave the twin-tailed fox a solid, dark glare before handing the disk back to him.
He softly grumbled, "Don't come to me when something horrid happens involving it," before quickly walking to and leaning against a wall. The crew of Mobians stood in an awkward silence before Sonic spoke up.
"How about we all just rest up and we'll figure this all out tomorrow?"
Everyone nodded in agreement as they noticed moonlight seeping through the windows and stars dotting the night sky. All of them soon started to make up sleeping arrangements.
"Alright, of course, I sleep in my room, and so does Tails in his own room." Sonic pointed at himself then at his little brother when Tails was mentioned. "I have one guest room with two separate single beds in there, and of course there is the couch. You guys can settle this amongst yourselves. Good luck with that and goodnight to all!"
The blue hero winked before whipping around and walking down the hall with a little bounce to each step. Shadow could not help but glare at his rival, his all-too-happy attitude sickening to the black hedgehog.
But then Shadow remembered what had happened outside on the patio. Sonic's attitude could just all be an act, no matter how much the blue hedgehog denied it. The bionic hedgehog softened his glare to a simple watching stare as his rival disappeared into his room, which was the last door on the left of the narrow hallway. He sighed and turned to the remaining Mobians in the living room, which were Rouge and Knuckles. Tails had left to go to his room, which was the second farthest door to the left. There was only one door to the right in between the two doors to the left, Shadow guessing it was the guest room. Finally there was a door all the way at the end of the hall in the middle. The black hedgehog suggested it was the bathroom.
"You two can take the guest room, I would rather sleep on the couch anyway," he said and moved to the cobalt blue couch. Rouge and Knuckles did not argue, not wanting to fight with the defiant antihero.
Although the red echidna was having an argument in his mind about sleeping with Bat Girl in the same room, he did not say anything. His temper was rough, but Shadow was a different story when messed with. The albino bat and echidna turned and walked down the hallway to the guest bedroom without a word. Shadow grunted and slowly sat himself on the couch. It was strangely comfy, and he did not complain. The elder hedgehog lied down on the comfortable couch and sighed again after such a long day.
Shadow softened his razor-sharp quills so he did not stab them into the couch and gently closed his eyes, listening to the pitter-patter of the rain outside hitting against the window. He soon drifted off to sleep, not a sound in the household.
~End of Chapter 2~
IT'S NO USE! XD
Sorry, had to do it. o.o Anyways, I hope y'all enjoyed this chapter! :D