Scene 4: Meeting up with a fellow rival

Back at Sonic's house, they sat down by the TV, eating some chips while watching anime. Sonic grabbed a handful of chips, and then shoved them in his mouth. He then grabbed the controller and turned up the volume a bit. Shortly after that he sighed.

"Guys, do you find me a bit boring now?" asked Sonic. "I just don't seem to want to do anything anymore." Sonic said with a yawn, "And I feel tired very often. I can't be tired though, I'm Sonic the Hedgehog!" cried Sonic

Tails turned to Sonic and smiled

"No, it's okay." Tails reasoned, "You've probably just not been having enough fun yet." Said Tails "You just need some excitement, and less negative thoughts. You could use a rest though." Suggested Tails.

Sonic just shrugged

"I don't know, Tails." Said Sonic "You may have a point, but I still do want to do stuff." He said as he walked towards the door. "I'm going outside again." Said Sonic as he opened the door and left.

Amy sighed to see Sonic leave again.

"Why does he always have to leave like that?" asked Amy. "Why won't he spend more time with us?" she asked

Tails turned to Amy

"Well, he's a busy guy with a busy schedule." Said Tails with a smile. "You know that's Sonic, he's always on the go to help others out." Tails added, and tried to comfort Amy. "Come on, Amy, let's just watch some TV. We love anime." He said as he turned back to the TV to watch some shows.

As Sonic walked outside, he still sighed a bit walking out of his streets.

"Nothing much has gone on." Sonic whispered to himself. "And I can't get the thoughts of Ginkgo out of my mind either." He added. He stopped for a moment and looked at a tree that was in front of him. Sonic groaned and started to bang his head on the trunk a few times, until a voice called out to him.

"Well, there's something you don't see everyday!" called out the familiar and mocking voice. "Faker hurting himself by slamming his head." He added.

Sonic turned back to see Shadow stand behind him. Sonic turned around and started to walk towards Shadow.

"Oh hi!" Sonic said not exactly meaning it. "Where did you come from?" he asked

"I walked here, and then I saw you banging your head on a tree trunk, what gives?" he asked, eager to know why.

"I'm just trying to get some thoughts out of my mind, Shadow." Said Sonic, but then he whispered under his breath "You damn pseudo-hedgehog!" he then turned back to Shadow and smiled. "So how has it been for you? You seem to be healed now after that blast from that laser." Sonic pointed out.

Shadow looked down on the ground for a bit, and said nothing much, but a short reply

"Yeeeeeeeeah, I guess…." Said Shadow "Has Shadi still been a handful for you?" he asked "That kid can be a real jerk sometimes." Shadow admitted

"Yeah, I know!" Sonic agreed with an annoyed tone, "I mean he's just a psychotic troublesome freak." Sonic snapped. "He just keeps taking his hate and placing the blame on everyone else, because he insists on doing so." Sonic paused for a while. "He hates being told what to do, so he has to bug people who star in video games too, like you and me."

"I know!" Shadow said angrily "What's up with that? He hates just about everything!" he snapped. Sonic sighed and added on.

"Well, out of the Sonic series, he seems to hates Jet the most, and then its you." Sonic told Shadow. "I mean he hates you so much he practically wants to torture you!" Sonic sneered as he clenched his teeth and fist tightly. "I don't really like you either, Shadow, but Shadi has no right to hurt you like that, or be a nuisance to you!" said Sonic as he could be seen suppressing his anger a bit. A pulse could be seen on his head, as well as a rapidity of Sonic tapping his foot with his hands to his thighs.

"He just keeps attacking all of us because there's no other way for him to be entertained!" Sonic screeched "That stupid idiot just wants to bug us because he has to be a stupid disser, and then he goes beating up Jet because he thinks he's not worthy of dissing us!" Sonic snapped once more, and he soon started to grab Shadow's chest hair and pulling him towards Sonic's face and just about losing it.

"Listen, Shadow!" Sonic continued to sneer and breathe harshly. "Tell Shadi that if he makes eye contact with me just one more time, there's gonna be a beating!" warned Sonic. "If I see that stupid jerk one more time, I'll smash him with a Bounce Attack!" Sonic shrieked as he pushed Shadow harshly, making him fall backwards. Sonic then stormed off, not being able to suppress his anger much longer. Once he walked a bit more further, he stopped, and then let out a loud scream

Shadow sighed and then got up once more.

"I think that kid's finally got to Sonic's head." Shadow said in a disappointed tone, as he placed his left hand next to his face, making a cukoo like sign.

Just then, there was a loud crash, which startled Shadow a bit. Shadow looked towards the tree, to see Eggman and his damaged up mobile land right next to the tree Sonic was banging his head on.

"Eggman?!" cried Shadow "What are you doing here?" he asked curiously, and then glanced at his Egg-mobile. "Whoa!" cried Shadow as he fidgeted a bit, kind of swinging backwards, but managed to keep himself balanced "What the heck did you do to your ride?" he asked

Eggman sneered and got up.

"For your information!" Eggman started. "I wasn't doing anything to my machine, now why would I do that?" he asked. "I've been constantly attacked today, that's all." Said Eggman.

Shadow smiled and was interested about this story.

"You got clobbered by the twerp as well, didn't you?" asked Shadow

Eggman sneered again and jumped on his mobile.

"Well for a start, Sonic was pissed so he kicked me into the sky." Said Eggman. "Then I had to be suspended in the air, spinning around for quite some time. Then I had to land next to another bratty hedgehog that goes by the name of Shadi. He just got so pissed because I broke some stupid shell!" shouted Eggman. "So he kept hitting me with that stupid Sugar Cane, and then blasted me back here!"

"So, the little kid's hassling you too, huh?" asked Shadow "But that's not a lot of beating, though." He pointed out

"Well that makes two times I got sent flying into the horizon!" sneered Eggman

"Heh, make it three!" said Shadow with a smirk, "Unlike Sonic, I don't really hate you, but as far as you go, you're Sonic's enemy, so you're kind of like a rival to me." Said Shadow with a grin.

He raised an arm, "Chaos Spear!" he shouted, sending stars on the Egg-mobile, causing it to fly into the sky again.

"Curse you hedgehogs!" shouted Eggman as he was sent flying into the sky once again, until he was out of sight.

Shadow chuckled a bit and placed his hand towards his eyes, glancing at the sky.

"You know, this would have been much funnier had it been Sonic who knocked you out again," Shadow pointed out. "But too bad he left so soon, I'd like to see him knock you away and have Shadi knock you back again, now that would be a real interesting game of pong." Shadow joked and walked off. He started to follow Sonic, interested about where he was headed and what he was going to do.