Power Switch Chapter 6

   Shadow was still trying to crawl up the stairs and was almost halfway up when Sonic finally saw him. “Shadow! Thank God you’re ok!” Sonic exclaimed as he scooped up Shadow in his arms and took him downstairs, crushing all of Shadow’s physical labor that he had done for the past 15 minutes. “But-but-.” Shadow was shocked and upset that his work had been thrown away and started crying. Sonic rocked Shadow and tried to calm him down. “Shhh it’s okay baby. Shhhh.” Shadow was now red-faced and bawling. “S-sonic….”

  Sonic got Shadow’s Maria doll out from behind Shadow’s back and gave her to him, hoping that it would calm him down. Shadow cried from behind the doll’s hair, getting it all wet and covered with mucus. Sonic then tried bouncing Shadow on his knee, not knowing what to do else. Shadow coughed and slowly calmed down. “Sonic I was almost up there!” Shadow said to Sonic upset. Sonic somehow didn’t hear what Shadow was actually saying. “Awwww does baby Shadz wike dis?” Sonic cooed at him and smiled. “Sonic I said-Atchoo!!” Shadow sneezed and fell back into Sonic’s lap. “Awwww bless you little one. Sonic said as he tickled Shadows tiny belly with his pointer and middle finger, making Shadow laugh. “Hehe hahaha Sonic stop it stop it. Sonic I mean it!” Shadow pushed out of Sonic’s tickling grasp and tumbled out onto the floor where Sonic was sitting. “Awwww somebody did a tumble how sweet.” Sonic cooed knowing that the nicer he was to Shadow, the better chance of him not being thrown into space was. Shadow was now cranky and tired because of Sonic and fell asleep on the carpet right there. Sonic chuckled and pulled a blanket over the little hedgehog to keep him warm and got back to listening to an audiotape of “Where the Red Fern Grows.”

     Soon Silver came home with tons of grocery bags. “Sonic could you help me bring these in?” Silver asked as he placed bags on the kitchen island. Sonic, who was now asleep with the tape running in his Walkman, was asleep as well. Silver sighed and went over and removed the headphones from Sonic’s head and paused the tape. “Hey I was listening to that!” Sonic yelled at Silver once he was up. “Sonic I need you to help me get the groceries I bought inside from the car. Sonic slowly got up and went out into the cold air to retrieve the grocery bags. Silver followed and got the rest of the bags and started unpacking them.

      “So did Shadow give you much trouble?” Silver asked as he put a box of dry fettuccini noodles in the pantry. “Well YES! He did wake up before you got home and then got a jack in the box to hit me in the face.” Silver paused and chuckled. “Sonic I’m sure he didn’t mean it.” “Like Hell he didn’t mean it! He also disappeared away from me!” Sonic shouted while rubbing his face. “He WHAT!?“ Silver Shouted. “It was your job to watch him Sonic!” “Yes but-“ Sonic started to say but Silver was already freaking out. Silver looked pretty much everywhere except the floor in the Den. Silver started to get angry at Sonic and started to lift him up with his telekinesis. “Silver, wait look!” Sonic pointed at the blanket in the middle of the floor that was moving up and down. Silver glanced over and saw the blanket and dropped Sonic. “Oof!” Sonic grunted as he picked himself up off the floor. Silver walked slowly over to the moving blanket and carefully pulled it back to reveal the little black and red hedgehog, sleeping the day away. “Phew.” Silver sighed and put the blanket back. “Sonic you’re lucky. If you had lost him your ass would be in space right now.” Sonic lay down on the couch. “Silver it was nothing. What kind of hero would I be if I couldn’t find something as easy as an 8 month old?” Silver snickered. “A sucky one Sonic…..So I see you tried to change him? Sonic stared at him in confusion of how Silver knew until he looked down and realized that he was wearing a thick Huggies diaper around his waist. Sonic blushed hard. “Ummmmm you could say that I tried to….heh”