Sonic was lying down on the couch after a long hour of nothing, but diaper changing, and feeding his tiny arch rival. Baby Shadow was nothing more than a pain in the butt in a nicer way to put. He was wriggling around on the changing table not giving him a chance to put on a fresh diaper for him including getting hit with a blast...of baby powder. Sonic the blue hedgehog was covered in white from head to the waist. Seeing what happened to him made the tiny life form burst into a fit of giggles only making him more angry in seconds.

Soon it was time to feed. He never thought feeding a child was easy, he didn't think at all how feeding the stubborn ultimate life form would be so hard. Baby Shadow was tucked tightly in his high chair, almost wanting to be duct tape to keep his hands to his sides. Sonic watched Amy feed him tiny mushed up fruit, or veggies for a while, so how bad could making them be? He was wrong completely wrong. He took a small apple slice and tried to smoosh it with a hammer of all things, but instead ended up making a large mess of apple chunks on the counter, and floor.

Finally, after a series of hard hammering and fruit, he finally had enough sludge to make the "perfect" baby food, or so he thought. Sitting down in front of Baby Shadow, he took a tiny spoonful and held it up to him. The tiny infant looked at it, but looked away disgusted of what is on the baby spoon. Sonic did all he could think of to feed him. Amy had used a few ideas she came up with. Acting like the spoon was an "airplane", or "train", or make a small funny eating face for him. So he chose the first. Moving the spoon around the infant, he made a small swishing noise like the spoon was flying. It intrigued the little life form, but when it was coming for a landing, he pulled back and swung his little hand at the spoon knocking it out of the much larger hand. Sonic growled quietly, but tried his best to calm down. But bit by bit, his anger rose with ever sort of way to make the baby listen to him.

After some more minutes of begging to actually eat something, and giving up, he was now on the couch resting his heart out while Baby Shadow was lying down on the tiny baby blanket a few ways from him. Just one tiny minute was all he really needed, until the loud sounds of the front door being unlocked and opened brought him out from his few seconds of relaxation. Sonic slowly sat up pulling his head up to see Amy walking in and closing the door behind her. He glared at her, "Nice to see you home, honey..." He said sarcastically.

Amy, hearing what he said, rolled her eyes, "Wow, don't I feel the love." She returned the sarcasm with a small to-go bag in her hand, "And I brought this to award you by being a great help to me.".

In a flash of blue, Sonic was up out of his comforting rest, and at the table with the bag in hand he swiped out from hers. Amy stood there slightly shocked, but a look of boredom on her face. She sighed, but shrugged his childish ways off. Walking over to the sleeping baby, she knelt down and gently swept him up in her arms, "Hey, baby. Mama's home." She cooed.

His ears twitched at the sound of his "mother's" voice bringing him out of his peaceful sleep. His tiny eyes opened slowly, and a quiet yawn escaped his mouth, only to make a small squeaking sound. Amy giggled at how adorably cute he was, "I got a special surprise for you." She smiled as she dug into her bag next to her which contained a special toy she bought just for him. Baby Shadow was still in and out of his daze, he almost wanted to go back to sleep. But when she took out a small doll and showed it to him, his eyes slowly opened up more, and sparkled.

Amy was holding up a small doll that had long blond yarn hair with a small blue headband and a cute tiny blue dress with matching slippers sewn on the feet. Her eyes were blue as well and a small, yet happy smile was sewn on her face. Shadow immediatly threw his arms at the doll whining to hold it. Amy giggled and handed it to him. Baby Shadow took the doll and held it tightly in his hands. He seemed to adore the doll, but of course, couldn't help, but suck on one of the tiny stubbed arms.

Standing up, Amy walked with him in her arms to the kitchen. Sonic was busy finishing off his delicious chilly dog. It was halfway done until he stuffed the entire half into his mouth like a snake swallowing it's prey whole. Amy stared at him completely grossed out. Sonic seemed to notice quickly and turned to her with a small smudge of sauce on his cheek, "What?" He asked even tho his mouth was full.

"Your disgusting." She answered bluntly, "Why can't you eat normally? You'll choke to death someday.".

Sonic shrugged and grabbed the napkin that came with the meal, "Can't help it. I'll die without them anyways." He joked wiping his face clean.

Amy sighed, "Even if I tried being nice to you, you still act like a child..".

"Hey, I can't help it either! Besides, Miss Vanilla explained that we all act like children. Remember?". She rolled her eyes.

"Yes. Inside of us. Not out.".

Sonic grumbled a little seeing no reason to continue. He then turned to the little monster he tried to baby sat and noticed him holding a doll in his tiny hands. He couldn't help, but snicker a little, "What's that?" He asked pointing at the doll.

Amy looked down to where he was pointing, "Something I saw at one of the stores. I thought maybe it could put a smile on his face." She said smilng herself.

Baby Shadow looked up at Sonic still nawing on one of the arms, "Does he even remember Maria at this age?" she shrugged.

"Not sure, but his eyes seemed to glitter when I showed the doll to him. So maybe he does remember her. He remembers my name." She smiled.

Sonic looked away crossing his arms, "He also remembers that I hate him..." He grumbled.

"Oh Soniku." She giggled.

Sonic widened his eyes a little and had a tint of blush on his cheeks after hearing her giggle and calling him his old nickname she used to give him. It somehow made his heart skip a beat. Something he rarely feels. He turned to her again seeing the smile she had still, but something about it was more different. It was more...adorable. He looked away again to hide his blush that seemed to grow in seconds.

Amy cocked her head to the side, "Sonic? You ok?".

He cleared his throat and looked back with a smile of his own, but trying hard not to show any nerves he was holding inside, "Oh yeah! I'm fine. Just remembering how that little twerp made my day a living hell..." He glared at the tiny baby.

With a small huff, Amy moved to the chair next to him and sat down putting Baby Shadow on her lap, "Sonic, I don't know what happened, but I'm sure it wasn't as bad as you say it is.".

His eye throbbed annoyed, "Really? Try changing him when he threw powder at me, and feeding him food I didn't know how to make, and been thrown in my face. Not to mention him biting my tail when I was resting!" He growled.

Amy was having a hard time trying to not laugh at the many mistakes they made, but her lips were quivering, "O-Oh...really? I-I didn't r-realize that..." She stuttered.

Sonic turned away again, "Screw it, I'm not baby sitting again..." He pouted.

She took a deep breath then slowly let it out now calming down from almost bursting into laughter. She smiled at him, "Ok, it was bad, but I'm really thankful for what you done for me. I can bring another special chilly dog for you if you help out still?".

His ears perked from the sound of "chilly dogs" escaping her mouth. He hated helping out with the little monster, but knowing he'll get his favorite food for free, he had no choice, but to surrender. With a price that is, "Make it three and we got a deal." He suggested turning to her with a playful smirk.

"I said another, which means "one"."

"I say three."

"One!"

"Three!"

"...two!".

"Deal." Sonic smiled finally sealing the deal.

Amy growled under her breath, "Darn hedgheog..." She muttered. She heard him chuckle which made her smile a little. Sometimes being angry at him was hard when he was the clown of the Sonic team, "Ok...now that that's out of the way, we can start talking about what happened today.".

Sonic stopped quickly after hearing a little serious tone in her voice, "What do you mean?" He asked.

"When Cream and I left to go back home, we noticed a group of people crowding a nearby store. We went over to it and saw that it was a store for electronics, but was completely blown up." Sonic's eyes widened as Amy contiued, "We were then stopped by the police from going in, but the Chaotix were there to inform us about what happened.".

"Those guys were with the police? Must've been a small robbery.." He muttered.

She glared at him making the cobalt blue hedgehog to freeze in his seat from talking again, "They had a guy who worked there and who saw the entire attack. He was still recovering, but was able to tell us what happened. Somehow something came and blew the entire store, but escaped with a few machines with it. The scary part is is that the guy claimed that he saw you there...".

"What? But..I didn't! I didn't rob that place! I wasn't informed about this, why wasn't I?" Sonic said a little freaked about what was going on.

"I know, but he then told us that "you" had red glowing eyes. So...we thought it could be Metal Sonic.".

Sonic growled angrily, "Damn it! I thought I destroyed him a long time ago!" He shouted angrily.

Amy didn't tell him to watch his language. She knew how he would feel if he knew the robber was none other than his older nemesis, "I'm sorry, Sonic. But we told the police that we will solve the case so you won't be arrested.".

"But I'm a suspect still. When I get my hands on that damn metal piece of trash, I'll make sure he won't be alive again!" He shouted slamming his fist on the table making it shake roughly.

Baby Shadow jumped after that and immediatly started to whimper in fear. "Sonic, stop! Look what you did!" Amy quickly held him up and placed him over her shoulder rocking him gently, "It's ok, it' ok.." She cooed calming him down slowly.

Sonic slowly calmed himself down. He breathed heavily a few times until his breath was slow and steady, "...I-I'm sorry. I guess my anger got to me again.." He said quietly.

Amy looked at him sadly, "I know. But make sure you don't release your anger again. It might come out more than now, or ever. Like last time when you were on the Meter-!" A gloved hand was placed quickly, but gently on her mouth silencing her.

"-I know...I know. I remember, but I won't make that mistake again. I promise." He whispered staring into her eyes lowering his hand down slowly.

A small blush crept on her face. Hearing his calm voice, his gentle hand on her, it all seemed too familiar. He was like that to her once until he "broke up" with her, and she went to Shadow before all this happened. Why was she having those same feelings as before?

Sonic was the same. He didn't mean to stop her like that, but he hated to remember how scary he was. How threatening he looked to his friends. He didn't want that to happen again. His dark side might come out and possibly harm someon he liked, maybe loved. After that, he vowed to himself not to show any sort of anger that might lead to that horrifying turn. But hearing about his old rival coming back and destroying things and hurting people, he couldn't help, but release a little bit of anger out. After seeing Baby Shadow quiver and Amy angry at him, he had to stop. But who's to say it might come out again?

Their quiet moment was interrupted by a small grumble sound. The two jumped a little, but quickly turned to the little infant. Amy pulled him off her shoulder and held him in her arms, "You didn't feed him at all...right?" She asked.

He shook his head, "Key word. Tried." He answered.

Another grumble was heard from the baby's tiny stomach. Baby Shadow looked up at Amy and started to whine again opening his mouth a little and bit down on the doll's hand. Amy sighed, but smiled down at him, "Ok, time for food." She announced as she got up from her chair and made her way over to the high chair, and placed him in strapping him down.

Sonic watched her leave to the kitchen to make some food for Baby Shadow. He couldn't help, but smile at her. She would make a good mother someday. "Ow!" He gasped turning around to the infant.

Baby Shadow held the doll in one hand by the arm, and had his thumb in his mouth sucking on it. Sonic glared a little at him rubbing the spot he hit behind him on his head, "Yeah whatever..." He grumbled turning away from the giggling life form.

I'm sorry for the late updates. I'm doing some commission peices for people and I'm losing track of when to upload and stuff. I know people are not liking this story, but I hope you all will still read it and enjoy it. I'm not gonna stop and I'll try my best to do my other stories for you all.