Characters x Reader Oneshots

Boom! Shadow the hedgehog x GNReader: Protector

Alarms were blaring hard and loud as the sound echoed around the entire facility. Bright red lights strobed the walls, seemingly adding to the stress you were feeling. Your movements were quick and precise, but you soon grew out of breath and unsteady on your feet.

"You have to keep moving, unless you want to get caught?" His snide comment sent shivers down your spine. With a growl, you picked up the pace, with the ebony hedgehog following closely behind you. This had all been an exercise, the grand training mission of training missions.

You had known Shadow for a few months now while living on Bygone Island, you were accustomed to people with his type of attitude and grew to accept him as a friend; though he'd never call you that. Shadow had one of those personalities that were hard to bond with initially, but once you broke the exterior you met the real hedgehog behind the mask.

You have always been intrigued by Shadow's fighting skills, begging him on multiple occasions for him to teach you a few moves. He had only agreed as a way to defend yourself whenever he wasn't around, but those small lessons grew into training for missions and using anything as a weapon. Fast-forward a few months and now you're sneaking into one of Eggman's hidden facilities located underground.

Shadow would offer a hint every now and again when prompted, but mostly when you had gone in a circle three times. He was pretty hands-off, letting you make the decisions to see if his teachings had stuck. You weren't doing too bad, a few mistakes along the way but overall you had successfully snuck in; that was until now.

You had walked into a room without checking if there was some kind of alarm set in place and now the whole facility is up in red lights and trumpeting sirens. You had sprinted down countless corridors which ultimately led you to a huge open room.

You were panting, leaning against your bent knees to try and catch your breath. Meanwhile, Shadow was standing beside you, arms crossed over and a grimace on your face "What's our exit strategy?"

You looked around with wide eyes, noting the lack of any other doors except the one you came through which had automatically sealed shut open entry, "Our what?" you nearly cried out. Shadow sighed, pinching the fur between his brows, "We're going to die in here if you don't figure something out, and fast." he barked out.

Maybe you weren't cut out for this yet, maybe it was too soon for you to be sneaking into secret bases with only a few months of training. You heard a deep cough beside you, turning to Shadow his eyes were cast to the ceiling but his head was nudging to his right. You followed his movements and caught the large computer system bound against the wall.

Your mouth formed an 'O' shape as you ran over, pressing random buttons hoping one of them would turn off this blasted screeching sound. Instead, another loud and obnoxious sound came through the speakers, "Ah Shadow the Hedgehog, hello old friend it's a pleasure to see you again."

Eggman.

"I wish I could say the same, doctor." Shadow huffed, arms still folded. Eggman cast his gaze to you, "(Y/N), what a surprise. I never thought I'd see you trying to steal from me, why if this were anyone else I would've been worried but knowing you're the one robbing me makes doing this a lot easier." he began to cackle, pushing a button on his end of the screen.

Badniks popped up through some holes in the floor, they began blasting at you both as you tried to dodge them. Shadow easily avoided them but didn't fight, this was your mission and you were going to get them out of here.

"Aren't you going to help me?" You screamed out, ducking behind the desk chair that was teaming with bullet holes. Shadow scoffed in response, "This isn't my mission, you can defend yourself." he could be so cruel when he wants to be.