"I told you to be prepared."
"Shut up!" Sonic desperately shouted at the other, clawing at the cushions so as to not fall or slip over.
Shadow tst before jabbing his head in the air a little to make his police cap not fall over his crimson eyes. "As you wish."
The blue hedgehog fought back his tongue to slip a snarky comment, now turning his head to distract himself.
"So how was your day?" Sonic chirped with a slight pant, finally after the longest 20 minutes of his life,(Which was saying something as rather reading one of Tails books),was comfortable at the high speeds they were going at. He noticed earlier that the whole vehicle went straight into a swirling white and blue portal, transporting them into a spacey scenery of the cosmos.
The ebony hedgehog viewed the small mirror he had under the silvery ceiling of the police car,looking at the blue figure who seemed less panicked than moments ago. "Decent." Shadow merely replied with a nonchalant tone.
"Wow,thanks for explaining the wonderful events you had this morning!" Sonic exclaimed with obvious sarcasm. *Even if Shadow lost his memory again, he sure still is as boring as ever!*
"I presumed you wouldn't have wanted to hark of all the paperwork I've done this morning,or do you?"
"Oh not really." Sonic chuckled, "Thanks for saving the boredom then."
He received no acknowledgement from his statement, Shadow was too focused on looking onward of the clear windows, really not wanting to have an accident in the middle of dimension traveling.
"Hey, so uh wh-"
"I turned on the screen for you,pay your attention to that."
Sonic placed a mocking pout on his lips. "Ok moody,fine." His emerald eyes darted to the TV in front of him, his eyes slightly widened when he saw a similar blue hedgehog like himself! "Shadow! Look there's another fake version of me! Looook!"
"I took note of that, I checked the channels to be age appropriate for you." Shadow stated before looking at him with a 'well duh' look.
"Gee thanks,dad, but I can watch whatever I want. I'm not a child." Sonic objected before shaking his head. "Not my point, why aren't you baffled about this? Maybe he did all that nasty stuff you told me about!"
Shadow sighed before unlocking a small compartment in front of his feet. His hands slipped onto a slightly dusty folder with the name 'Sonic' on the front. He briskly threw the file onto Sonic's lap. "Take a look for yourself, I caught the right blue hedgehog."
Sonic's face lit up, finally some evidence for him to understand what on Mobius was going on! Though it quickly vanished, the blue speedster's smile turned into a narrowed look. "I can't move, only a tiny bit of my fingers."
"Very well then." Shadow in a flash snatched the note pad paper still attached to Sonic's forehead. Sonic yelping in slight pain gave the lifeform enough time to push a button, an invisible force field surrounded the hero.
"Finally,yes I can move!" He exclaimed,lightly kicking the front seat to stretch his muscles.Sonic didn't pay mind of the force field,now having the file in his hands he carefully turned to the pages, and immediately cringed at the picture attached to it. "Uh why is this picture in the file?" Sonic asked with concern.
"It was the only picture I was presented with." Shadow replied, resuming to drive safely inside the long portal.
"But this one was awful!" Sonic whined, taking the picture from the paper clip and showing it to Shadow,which failed miserably when the force field made him sit back down. "Hey!"
"Relax, it's just for precautions." Shadow said,implying about the force field. Sonic scoffed.
"No,I mean why this picture? I look awful!" The picture the hedgehog was fussing about was an image of himself completely soaked in water,while hanging upside down. A tight rope clinging on his blue leg, The worst thing was Sonic's expressions, obviously looking tired from the dark circles under his eyes, but also dumbstruck at the same time. Sonic squinted his eyes, noticing another gloved hand in the corner of the picture,pointing at him in his not so memorable moment. *Who's that? He or she had fun taking this.*
His thoughts were interrupted, Shadow finally replying,"I was given this to my boss, hedgehog. I don't have the authority to question the photo."
Sonic cocked his head before replying, "You talking about that guy who tried to prison you back when you tried to help the black arms take over the world?" He asked, "General whats his name?"
"What are you talking about? No, you must be mistaking me for another."
"Mistake you for another black and striped hedgehog? I don't think so. And hold up,you're a G.u.n agent,of course you have authority to question stuff. *Heck you've been doing it since I met you.*
Shadow turned to him with a confused expression. "What's G.u.n? Is that another department of police time officers? Or the plant Mubus officers?"
"No, G.u.n the lame cop organization from my- no I mean OUR world." Sonic corrected.
The ebony hedgehog shook his head. "Then I don't have a clue on this G.u.n. organization. I work for the entire multiverse, what you're seeing now on the screen is different versions of you from the whole parts of space and time.
Sonic sighed in frustration,this was too much to take in at once,even though another version him,Zonic, told him similar things back when Scourge caused mayhem on the two planets,Mobius and Moebius. But in that point, Sonic just wanted to punch his doppelganger in the face. He even frowned when he saw 'sonic' do something 'uncool.'
"You sure this is a version of me? He literally tripped when running at just 400 miles per hour! That is just unSonic like!"
"You think that's bad, then I'm glad I didn't show you the other Sonics." Shadow said grimly.
"Kinda interested now that you said it."
"Just keep looking at your file."
Sonic nodded before a question popped into his mind. "Hey,who is your boss anyway? Is he a human or a uh Mubunus?" The cobalt hedgehog hoped he got the term for a person living on Mubus was correct.
Luckily it was, the ebony hedgehog didn't correct him at all. Though he did shake his head in denial. "I'm not permitted to share personal information with criminals,much less about my boss."
Sonic groaned immediately after that,slumping into the rather soft car seat. "Oh for chaos sake...I'm not a criminal! Please,tell me something!" As soon as he pronounced please onto his sentence, Sonic tilted his head. *Please? I said please to Shadz? Woah,I must be desperate!*
Shadow grew in silence,as if pondering if he could have maybe a little bit of trust for this strange hedgehog. *He hasn't tried to harm me in anyway for some time,unlike the other inmates I had in here. Maybe- no, this is your job,and you will take it seriously.*
"My boss is a hedgehog much like you and me." He slipped the words rapidly. Mentally he face palmed himself. *Darn it. Well that's barely anything important anyhow.*
"Oh,really?" Sonic wasn't expecting a clue,but he sure was grateful for it. "Gee, now how about other information about him or her?"
"Him." *I did it AGAIN.*
"He? Wow score one for me! I'm getting somewhere!" Sonic chimed with a victorious smile.
*Not for long.*
"What does he look lik-"
"No further questions, I'm driving."
Sonic rolled his eyes, *Well I at least got something, and boy this car ride is taking forever! But at least I can see the wonderful descriptions about myself!* He resumed to skim through pages of the files, his smile slowly fading away until there was a sulky,and a sad expression replacing his positive emotions. "This is wrong…" He murmured.
"Then why did you commit these crimes?" Shadow questioned.
Sonic threw the files on the floor before shouting at Shadow. "I DIDN'T! I haven't done a crime in my life! I don't care if you don't believe me,just let me go free! I want to see Tails and Knuckles and Rouge and Cream and," Sonic stopped to catch his breath, "And heck I want to see Amy!"
Shadow had no empathy on his expression, but in the inside he felt slight pity for him. Though he quickly made it vanish when he thought, *My boss is never wrong about people,he did commit these despicable crimes, and he has to pay for them.*
"Please, I want to have a taste of some yummy chili dogs!" Sonic yelled louder than previously. Shadow groaned before asking, "Are you hungry by any chance?"
Sonic was taken aback from this before nodding slowly. "Sort of, I didn't get to eat breakfast this morning...what time is it now?"
Shadow glanced at the clock, "It's 3:25."
"No wonder I'm starving! Foood! Come back to me!"
Shadow fumbled into the same compartment with Sonic's folder before taking a Turkey sandwich. Handing it to Sonic with politeness. "Then here, take it and replenish your digestive system."
Sonic knew Shadow meant to be sincere,but he couldn't help but shudder. "Eww don't talk about our stomachs and stuff. And is there big any chance you have a chili dog in that box thing?" He asked,pointing at the compartment while also noticing Shadow must have accidently knocked over another file.
"Trust me,this is better quality of food then the piles of filth you're going to get. I suggest you start eating now, we will be in our destination in approximately 15 minutes." Shadow said with no hate or annoyance,way different than what the normal Shadow would do. He also didn't notice the file now close to Sonic's sneaker.
Sonic smiled before taking the sandwich,quickly munching on it happily. "Tfmks Shadmf." He managed to say with food in his mouth. Shadow looked away in slight displeasure before nodding. "Don't mention it."
Sonic patted his stomach in content,his tummy happy now that it had some nutrients. *Now that I'm full, I'll just look at the other file next to me. Maybe this is another (but very unlikely) Sonic who is better and cooler than me!* Carefully, he picked up the file from off the floor and tried to open it,to his surprise, the folder was some sort of a hologram, having the colors black and green on it than red and blue like his was.
The other thing was that he couldn't open it, the folder glitched when he tried to turn a page. "Dang it! Why does this thing keep doing weird stuff and why does it have a different color than mine? Is it more special than my folder?" Sonic unintentionally babbled. Shadow instantly turned around,his eyes widening when he saw his prisoner have the corrupted file. "Give that back!"
Shadow snatched the file away from Sonic,stuffing it back where it came from. The blue hedgehog couldn't hear the mumbles from the other, other than just a few grunts.
"Uh,what was that file Shadow?" Sonic asked. The cop didn't reply back,clearly not pleased with date almost being exposed to him.
"Not talking to me?"
*No, I refuse. I quickly made the slight trust I had in you vanish. Good luck in your new life in a jail cell, hedgehog.*
Sonic huffed before trying to speak once again. "Hello? Mr.cop?"
Sonic pouted again and crossed his arms, staring directly at Shadow's seat. "Fine don't talk to me! I don't care!" *Why is his so quiet? He was more talkative a moments ago! Did I do something wrong…? Or that's right you did a very sneaky thing. But c'mon! He can't stop talking to me for long, I want to keep talking to him! I need him!* Sonic stopped his thoughts before rephrasing his sentence. *Or I mean...I do need answers on that mysterious file...yeah that's it. I need him for answers...oh boy, this is going to be a long adventure for me.*