Broken Leg

Chapter 1 The Injury

    Eggman has Sonic battling him in Shadow's territory to keep his friends from showing up, and it works. So without Sonic's friends there he gets attacked and breaks his leg, he falls to the ground and Eggman goes to deliver the final blow when Shadow comes in and destroys all the robots.

     "Ahh, what, that's no fair! I was going to win." Eggman yells and flies away in his Eggmobile. Shadow runs over to Sonic who's lying on the floor in pain.

     "Sonic are you okay?" Shadow says, looking at his leg.

     "He broke it, Shadow. It hurts a lot."

     "Here I'll take you to Tails he will.. "

     "What, no no no I don't think Eggman realized I broke my leg and if he does he'll attack nonstop, I'll be in the way more then anything as my friends try to protect.. gahh " Sonic screams in pain again grasping his leg, tears rolling down his face.

     "You've, unfortunately, got a point. Tell you what, I'll take you to my place, get you casted and stuff and we'll figure out what to do after that." Shadow picks Sonic up bridal style and Sonic, still in pain, is slightly calmed by being so close to Shadow's chest. Shadow takes him to his cave, Sonic knew he lived in a cave from Eggman's slight obsession with Shadow he'd mentioned it before but Sonic hadn't been inside since he renovated it, his cave had a bed placed up against the right wall with two bedside tables, they were placed on either side, and it was right in front of the door when you walk in, to the left of the door was a table with two chairs parallel each other and against the back wall was a oven with a cabinet above it and a fridge to its left. Shadow had carried Sonic to the bed and sat him down; he's bandaging his leg and putting it in a cast.

     "There you go Sonic" Shadow says, taping it up. "Now all we gotta do is figure out what to do with you?"

     "Shadow, if I were to disappear, do you think my friends could fend off Eggman?"

     "I think they could, it's just them having to protect you constantly that I'm worried about." 

     "Then what if I stayed here, and only left when I could protect myself."

     "Wait, here!?"

     "Yep."

     "Sonic, I don't have a guest bedroom."

     "I get that, but where else can I go where Eggman won't find me?" Shadow goes silent knowing that his place is their best bet "Exactly. Shadow, please say I can stay here." Shadow's about to say no and force Sonic to find some other way, but then he looks at Sonic's cast and his face still wet with tears and changes his mind.

     "Fine, but you do realize this means you have to sleep in bed, with me, right?"

     "Wait, why can't I just sleep on the floor?"

     "I'd feel mean, putting someone in a cast on the floor. But, I'm not sleeping on the floor of my own house."

     "Oh, ya that makes sense." 

     "You still want to stay here?" Shadow says, hoping Sonic would change his mind.

     "Yeah, it's fine." Sonic says with a smile that makes Shadow feel a little less upset about the whole situation. Afterwards Sonic and Shadow just talked for a while about anything really till it was dinner time.

     "Oh wow it's dinner time already!? I swear it was noon like two minutes ago." Sonic says, after checking his watch.

     "Well, why don't I cook us something." Shadow says while standing up and walking over to the kitchen.