Hey! Glad to see everyone is liking this so far! I'm having so much fun torturing poor Shadow. XD But when you see him as a baby, you have no choice, but to cuddle him so much! He's like a widdle doll! 83 Ok, no more goo goo stuff...on with the update!
Shadow: Hahahahaha! XD
Amilina Rosery: Being squeezed into her large melons, I can understand that...
puppydog4: Here it is!
Kenny hilferty: Thank you for understanding. And I couldn't stop laughing either while I was writing. XD
Eggman hater: He's the first to go down...
Chapter 6 The Plan.
Everyone was seated in the living room. Amy, along with Sonic beside her on the 'two person' couch, Alicia standing up next to the wall, Rouge and Tails on the other side of the room next to the television set, then lastly, two people sitting down on a bigger couch. Knuckles sat down on the side with his elbow resting on the arm of the couch having his head in his gloved hand. He wore nothing, but ripped baggy jeans and his usual no fingered gloves and shoes.
A cream colored, rabbit sat next to him in a 'lady' like position. She wore an orange sleeveless polo shirt with a white pleated mini skirt and red and orange tennis shoes. She stared down at the small baby playing with a small doll Amy had brought with her for him to play with. Cream smiled happily seeing baby Shadow toss the doll around cooing excitedly.
"Ok, so what's the plan?" Rouge asked first breaking the small silence around the room.
Tails cocked his head to the side scratching his ear a bit, "It's kinda hard to describe really..." he said nervously.
Amy crossed her arms laying back in her seat, "I hate the fact that we have to go back to Eggman's lair. Why exactly?" she complained.
"I think we need his machine that turned him into a baby, but it won't reverse the effect.".
"Can't you, I dunno...fix it so it can?" Knuckles asked sarcastically.
The kitsune fox shook his head, "No...I got what I could tell from Shadow's blood the other day. Eggman had put something in the machine so it could make the change irresistible to change." he answered.
Rouge looked down at the infant, "Either way...I think this is a good look for him." she smirked.
"Rouge! I don't want my boyfriend to be a baby!" Amy snapped.
The bat simply shrugged looking away from her. Cream watched as baby Shadow tossed the doll in the air once more seeing it bounce away from him. He bent over reaching for it, but unable to even touch the doll. Quickly before he starts to cry, Cream bent over and picked up the doll, then handed it over to him. The black tiny infant cooed happily grabbing it quickly.
"So I guess Mr Shadow is going to stay like this for now until he grows up." Cream suggested looking sad for him.
This brought Amy down knowing that she would have to wait for a long time for him to grow up if he could. Shadow was made fifty years ago, but still aged like normal now for being immortal. He is the same age as Sonic, so she would have to wait nineteen years for him to be his normal self.
She cupped her hands on her face feeling tears prick her eyes, "I dont wanna wait." she whimpered, "I'll be old by the time he turns 19. I just want my boyfriend back...".
Sonic hated to see Amy sad. It tore his heart into pieces knowing that she would have to be forced to wait till Shadow is older. The baby heard a small sniffle from his 'girlfriend' having his ear twitch. He looked over to see her crying.
"Ah...?" baby Shadow cooed throwing away the doll and started to crawl over to her feet.
Everyone watched as the baby got up on his knees and leaned his tiny hands on her knee caps looking up at her. Amy felt him trying to get her attention. She slowly looked up from her hands seeing her 'boyfriend' looking up at her with his adorable big red eyes. She carefully bent over picking him up and setting him in her lap.
Baby Shadow continued to stare up at her with a little sadness in his eyes, "E...E..." he cooed inching his hand up to her cheeks, "E...mi...Emi...".
Amy, including everyone else, widened their eyes hearing the baby call out to her. Wrong name, but it almost sounded just like 'Amy'. Her eyes were huge compared to her friends. The baby was trying to calm her down, but it was like the real Shadow was trying to comfort her. Not the baby Shadow.
Rouge, Cream, and Alicia had large glistening eyes staring at the two with enormous smiles on their faces, "Cuuuuuuuuute!" they all cooed.
"Did...he just call you 'Emi'?" Sonic asked still speechless.
"Wait!" Tails called out rushing over to Amy's side, "Amy! Shadow is still there! He may be a baby, but he's still there! You said that when your sad, he would always clean your tears out right?".
The said pink hedgehog remembered how whenever she was sad, Shadow would be there to wipe her tears clean, then cooed her name to her to calm her down. Baby Shadow did the same thing. She nodded her head still staring at the little infant in her lap, "Yes...he's done that several times...".
"Then Eggman hadn't really erased his mind! Amy, did you remember anyone when you were a baby before?".
"...no not really? I was a baby, babies have very tiny brains so I couldn't remember much.".
"But to Shadow, he's not really an artificial hedgehog! So he has a higher brain than any other baby, he just acts like one because he is!".
Alicia leaned her head to the side, "What are you even saying?" she asked.
Tails turned his attention to everyone around him and continued, "If Eggman hadn't erased everything from his mind, then that means that Shadow is still in that tiny body! So if we somehow figure out a way to turn him back...-!".
"Why not a chaos emerald?" Sonic interrupted having everyone look at him confusingly, "Hey, Shadow's always with his emerald, right? So if we give him an emerald, then maybe he might be able to turn back.".
Cream spoke up softly, "But how will he be able to do that? Do you think he might still have his powers?" she asked.
Rouge held up her hand walking over to Amy and Shadow, "Only one way to find out." she said taking out a red chaos emerald from her side back around her waist.
Knuckles' eyes widened getting up from his seat, "R-Rouge!? Where did you get that?!" he hollered.
She looked at him from the corner of her eye with a sly smirk, "From your place, of course. Knuckie, you are cute, but you really should sleep lighter sometimes." she chuckled turning her attention away from the fumming echidna to the baby.
She gently placed the heavy gem in his tiny hands. Amy held it in her hand making sure he didn't drop it, "Shadow, can you transport?" she asked.
Baby Shadow looked back and forth from her and the emerald a few times before stopping to stare at it. It was shiny and big. Like a...big apple. A wide smile came over the tiny being, and he quickly opened his mouth placing it on the gem sucking on it.
Rouge, disgusted by what just happened, turned away to Knuckles with the same smirk, "Your right. It is yours. You can have it back." she said before walking away to her spot.
Knuckles glared at the bat clenching his fists in pure anger and annoyance. Amy sighed and took the gem away from the baby having him whine for it back, "No, Shadow..." she lightly scolded handing the emerald to Sonic.
He took it, gagging at the baby spit on it, but quickly wiped it off with a baby towel that was from the baby bag Amy had brought with her along with the doll. Tails sighed knowing that giving an infant a chaos emerald wouldn't solve the problem, "Ok...plan 'B'?" he asked looking around the room.
"Why not use the Master Emerald?" the angel wolf spoke up holding her hand up.
The angered echidna turned to her with a frustrated look on his face, "And why would I let them use the Master Emerald...?" he asked.
"Wait! Why don't we use the Master Emerald?" Tails said, "Seeing that the chaos emerald didn't work, maybe a bigger and stronger sorce of power could change him.".
Cream smiled before speaking, "Yes! That can work! Mr Shadow will be back to normal again!".
Amy joined in with a thought in her head, "And maybe...if we somehow get Eggman's machine he used to change Shadow into a baby, then rewire and use the M.E. with it, it might actually work!" she suggested.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! I never said that we can use the Master Emerald! It might not even work! And if it does, give me one good reason why I should lend it to you all?!".
Having enough of his ramblings, Alicia stood up from the wall and marched over to Knuckles having him slowly walk back into the wall, "Sure, I'll give you three good reasons. You will have to deal with all the diaper changes, all the sobbing and whining and crying, and..." she held up her hand making a tight fist and a flame to poof out from her palm with her power, "YOU will get this every day of your life until Shadow turns to his normal age!".
Now pushing his body against the wall in total panic, Knuckles shook in fear hearing all the reasons she had given him, including the first and the last one to be the worst of all. In total defeat, he quickly nodded his head, "Ok! Ok! I'll do it! Just don't give me any changing, or anything!" he cried.
Rouge shook her head rolling her eyes, "What a baby...".
Amy smiled knowing that with everyones' help, changing Shadow will be faster and easier than she thought. Feeling a soft pat on her cheek again, she looked down at the baby seeing him smile at her. She couldn't help, but squeal quietly from his undying cuteness. Gently, Amy leaned down and nuzzled her nose against his, "Soon, we'll get you back to normal. Just wait, Shaddie." she smiled.
"Emi!" baby Shadow replied happily.