Sorry Sonic, shopping with a new friend. I'll be back later. Sonic frowned as he'd gotten a message from Shadow as they'd planned to hang out until Sonic had gotten a text through their group chat making him surprised as he was activating WhatsApp. It's not Bruce you're hanging out with is it.

No Sonic it's not Bruce and you always get irked when that happens. No I'm hanging out with my new friend, Grace and having fun. Just relax Blue Blur.

Ohhhh you made a new human friend you haven't told us aboht. You should introduce her to us sometime.

Maybe, Gotta go..

Shads has left the chat

Sonic took a deep breath as he saw Toni and Shadow's cub, Shade there asking what was going on, making a frown cross Sonic's face as he was having a bad morning only Toni was staring noticing her dad was shedding quills knowing it was quilling so hedgehogs shed quills making Sonic annoyed hoping Tom or Maddie didn't step on them noticing Shade staring at them in awe picking them up.

"Just helping pops as you don't want grandpa Donut or Grandma Pretzel stepping on them or getting powers, that's why those GUN agents were after Uncle Knux and Wade, right." Shade asked.

"What did you say about my dad and uncle." they heard a voice say belonging to a female echidna cub who looked like a mini Knuckles making Sonic sigh. "Hey Knux Jr we were talking about what happened to your dad and Wade in Reno." Sonic told her

"Ohhhh okay." she said.

Meanwhile at the mall, Shadow and his new human friend, Grace were at Starbucks and talking and getting to know each other plus Shadow was surprised she had a YouTube channel where she talked about them which made him flattered and the reason he hadn't told the others about this, because it was a big deal after Maria plus he was wearing a trenchcoat which Grace

She was surprised that Sonic was encouraging him to introduce her to him and the others but Shadow wasn't sure yet plys he hoped Darkside wouldn't try anything involving the Chaos Emeralds making her in awe making Shadow nod. "Of course I wanna meet them." Grace told him as they'd exchanged WhatsApp details before leaving only surprised seeing Knuckles Jr chasing Toni making him sighing. "Uncle Sonic riled her up during baseball and now she's on a hitting spree and throwing baseballs using her Flames of Diaster." Shade whispered making him sighing.

"Shade, Toni take it like warriors." Knuckles Jr yelled making Knuckles and Wade stunned.

"Knux calm her down, Sonic is hiding from her, along with our girls." Shadow told them. Knuckles and Wade got her to take deep-breaths and meditate like they'd taught her and this was why she wasn't in school because of her anger issues seeing Shade and Toni came out of hiding along with Sonic relieved that things were calm again asking Shadow how things went with Grace making the others curious as Shadow glared at Sonic for mentioning this.

"Grace is Shadow's new pal. He was hanging out with ner at the mall." Sonic told them.