A/N: Shadow and Sonic are sitting around talking, when they suddenly discover a frightening beast! What is the creature they find? This is another comedy chapter. It's based on a story in Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Thank you for reading! ~PierceTheBre


Endless Shadow Oneshots, Chapter 5 - The Thing

Shadow and Sonic were finally beginning to get along. They decided to hang out one fall night. They didn't go anywhere special, just sat on a fencepost and talked about Eggman...and Chaos Emeralds.

There was a field of turnips across the road from them, which Shadow noticed, were moving. Suddenly, they saw something crawl out of the field and onto the road. It looked like a bat, but at the same time it did not. Shadow couldn't quite make out what it was. Then, it crawled back into the turnip field, as quickly as it had appeared.

"What was that?!" Sonic cried.

"I don't know. Maybe it's just some stupid drunk. It probably won't show up again," Shadow replied.

After about 30 minutes had passed, the thing appeared again. This time, it crawled about halfway onto the road and then stood up. It stared at the two hedgehogs for a minute, and they stared back. Shadow still couldn't tell what it was in the dark. It then turned back around and walked back into the turnip field.

Then, it came out a third time and stood right in front of them. Sonic screamed in terror, and Shadow was just about to attack it, but then it turned around...and started twerking!

"What the...?!" Shadow cried. The two hedgehogs were now scared, and started running. But Shadow stopped Sonic, and said "Wait...I think I know who it was."

"Who it was?!" Sonic shouted. "That was a demon from my worst nightmares!"

"It was Rouge!" Shadow snapped. "We're being foolish. Look, we can go back right now and I'll prove it to you. You can even touch her if you don't believe me!"

After Shadow had practically forced Sonic to agree, they went back to the fencepost they had been sitting on. The bat-creature was still there, but its rear-end was now facing their direction and twerking even harder. Up close, they could see it had on black tights, a white bra, and thigh-high white boots.

"Eww," Shadow said under his breath.

"Umm, Rouge?" Sonic asked. The twerking bat didn't answer. Instead, she began shaking her butt faster.

Sonic walked in front of it, so he was looking into its face. It had bright blue eyeshadow, way too much blush, and red lipstick. "Uhh..." he started, "Rouge...if this is really you...please stop." He then poked her in the cheek.

The bat screamed in his face.

"AHH!" Sonic screamed back. He took Shadow's wrist and ran back to Sonic's house.

"Whew, that was close," Sonic said when they finally arrived. "I guess I better lock the doors." He turned around and put in the deadbolt. He glanced in the peephole he had in his door, and he saw none other than the bat twerking on his porch!

"What the heck?!" Sonic screeched. "Shadow, look at this!"

Shadow glanced through the peephole. "Oh, God, it's as disgusting as ever," he muttered. "I have to put a stop to this."

He used Chaos Control, threw open the door, and ran with the thing until he got to the lake. He tied up its arms and legs with some spare rope he happened to find, tossed it in, ran back to Sonic's home, and unfroze time.

"I think I solved this problem," Shadow said with a smirk.


Sometime later, Rouge the Bat - the real one - was going to perform at Club Rouge. Shadow had been backstage with her when she was getting ready. She put on red lipstick, white foundation, bubblegum-pink blush, and her trademark blue eyeshadow up to her eyebrows.

"How do I look, Shadow?" She turned around to face him, and he leaped back in horror. She looked exactly like the twerking beast he and Sonic had seen a few months before.

"Rouge!" Shadow exclaimed, "Is this really you?!"

"Duh, Shadow! Don't be silly. What's the matter with you, big boy?"

Shadow ignored her foolish remarks. "Do you...do you know how to...twerk?"

Rouge giggled. "I'm a performing artist, Shadow! Of course I do!"

Shadow immediately dashed over to Rouge. "Well, then, I can't let you go out there and terrorize all those people with your so-called act." He grabbed a sponge she had used to apply her foundation, and gagged her with it. He then grabbed a stage rope and tied her arms and legs up, just like he had done to the monster from before. Finally, he took a bottle of makeup remover and a cloth napkin.

As soon as Rouge realized what was about to happen, she vigorously shook her head and tried to stand up.

"This must be done." Shadow poured the makeup remover onto the cloth and slowly wiped away her "face."

"Mmm!" Rouge tried to cry out. After Shadow had removed her makeup, he threw the cloth down and grabbed her makeup.

"I know makeup is like a necessity to you, but you can't go around scaring people." With that, Shadow threw down Rouge's makeup and let it break. "I'll buy you some more, I give you my word. Just...just let me buy less vibrant hues for you next time."

Shadow then untied Rouge and pulled the sponge out of her mouth. "What the heck was that for?!" She shouted.

"...You wouldn't understand," Shadow replied, his mind drafting back to the nightmare he had witnessed in October. "No one, except perhaps Faker, could understand..."


A/N: Ha! What a fun chapter that was for me to write! :3 The Christmas Special I'm writing should be up either tomorrow or on Christmas Day, and that will be a serious chapter. Thanks for your time! ~PierceTheBre