Sonadow One-Shots

Game Night

Everything was ready for tonight.

Sonic the Hedgehog had the drinks, there were plenty of snacks for when they would inevitably crave something, both of their schedules were free, and Tails was on Angel Island helping Knuckles set up some hightech surveillance around the Master Emerald, something he agreed to after weeks and weeks of the boy trying to convince him why some tech really wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Sonic and Shadow, they had the house to themselves for the next few hours.

"So what exactly do you have planned for us tonight?" The cobalt one could hear Shadow call out to him from the living room while he got them something to drink from the kitchen.

"Well," Sonic started as he grabbed both of their cans of soda, walking out of the room to join him on the couch.

"How about we make it a nice and relaxing game night?" He finished while he handed him his drink. Shadow eyed it strangely as he still wasn't all that familiar with drinks that weren't water or coffee, but he accepted it for now as he took a sip and was only mildly taken aback by the bubbles.

A soft chuckle escaped Sonic as he moved to sit down next to the other hedgehog, for which he swiftly received a playful glare.

"Are you quite done yet?" Shadow asked as Sonic dropped down and shot him a grin, placing his can down on the coffee table, with a mutter from his mate about using a coaster.

Even now, a good few years after his release from suspended animation, Shadow was still slowly adapting to life in a modern world outside of the laboratories of Ark or G.U.N. It was a slow process, but not as bad as it probably could've been.

"Anyway, I thought we could play some video games. You mentioned a little while back that you'd like to try out some games, so here we are!" Sonic told him as he took the stacks of games he already had ready on the glass surface of the table in front of them for him to choose from.

Interest piqued, Shadow placed his own drink down and scooted to sit closer to the edge to get a look at their choices for tonight.

"We got some FPS games, some fantasy, RPG, pretty much anything you can think of. Tails and I, we don't really have one genre we stick to." Sonic said as Shadow got to work and looked at all of them.

Almost immediately did he set all the first-person shooters he came across aside, deciding that he handled enough guns during the day at work.

"No love for 'Alien'?" Sonic asked as the other was about to put that aside too, but suddenly hesitated.

"No, why? Is it good?" Shadow asked as he took a second look at the cover.

"Well, it's not so much as a first-person shooter as it is a survival horror. Might be more up your alley." Cobalt suggested, to which Shadow responded by giving him an incredulous look, smirking ever so slightly.

"Are you telling me this because you genuinely think horror games might be something for me or because this game is about aliens?" He asked and it was a legitimately good question.

Sonic shrugged as if to say 'who knows' before he leant back in the couch, earning himself an amused huff. Though that game did not join the stack of the unwanted again.

They were both more than a little subdued than usual just because they were tired. Blue from kicking ass again and black from his demanding job at G.U.N as a one of a kind agent.

Shadow has a position in the military that's his very own. Made up on the spot the minute he got hired because of his unique abilities and expertise.

It took Shadow a little while to settle for something because he had no idea what he would find enjoyable and what not. Of course, he's played board games before, but no actual video games. So this would be a first for him.