THEY DID THE MASH

[mansionstaff]

Who: ERRYBODY
What: CURSES
Where: ALL OVER THE SCHOOL
When: Halloween night through November 7th.
Warnings: 2spooky.

It was a dark and stormy night--

Well, no. It wasn't. In fact, it was rather cool and clear, a perfect October evening for the perfect October celebration. Stars winked above, the choice accompaniment to the orange moon looming overhead. Tonight. Tonight would be a party.



But just as the sun begins to set, the sound of cackling can be heard ringing through campus, the harbinger of what could only be described as Halloween Shenanigans.

Woe betide those that fell into her path.

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Comments

[maverickhunterx]

Ohhhhh, he was so cute! It was a sad thing that back home, there weren't so many animals to play with.

"Awww...you are lost."

X was careful not to kneel down too much as he made an attempt to pick the little thing up with his chubby six-year-old hands.

[flawlessbitty]

Wait a minute...

No, so it wasn't X. Or was it? It looked like X for a moment, but...

Oh, no. He was a victim of the exact same thing, wasn't he? He was younger, far younger, much as he was. He wouldn't be able to help him if he couldn't even help himself!

Those tender hands, however...

He remembered that day, the day he was created. He couldn't even speak at first. Maria took his cheeks in her hands, despite Gerald Robotnik's warnings -- unsurprising, considering the previous prototype's behavior -- and she introduced herself.

His first word was Maria, all while he felt the comfort of her hands.

...

He couldn't find himself struggling out of his grasp. Instead, he huddled close, his younger mind more frazzled and practically short-circuiting. What to do?

I died of cute.

[maverickhunterx]

The poor thing...

His core twinged with sympathy.

Still, he didn't deny X's attentions, even as he made the attempt to hug him close to give him some sort of comfort. He probably needed it, little as he was. Where were his parents?

Or, if he was someone's pet, his owner?

"It'll be okay, little guy." X spoke softly: if you spoke loudly to animals, you scared them; he remembered reading that in a book once. "My name's X; I'll do everything I can to help you out."

:3

[flawlessbitty]

Shadow squirmed a little, just enough to make himself comfortable within his grasp. He didn't necessarily like being coddled like a baby - in fact, he normally despised it - but given the situation he was in, he found a strange, solacing warmth from it.

This was more news than anything that he wasn't alone in this.

He mewled, staring up at him and whining. He couldn't speak. He could only complain and squeal like a feeble child. He could not wait until he got out of his mess.

"Sssssss..."

He especially couldn't wait until he could say 'X' properly, let alone anything else.

[maverickhunterx]

Fleetingly, X wished he could speak animal. Reploids could do a lot of things, couldn't they? Speaking the language of creatures would, in hindsight, be more useful than a lot of other stuff, X thought.

It would be more useful than weapons, at any rate.

X quirked his head and stared down at him, keeping his grip steady, but gentle. He didn't want to drop him, after all.

"I wish I knew what you were sayin'. C'n you understand me at all?"

[flawlessbitty]

Shadow nodded energetically, showing that he could understand X 100%. Of course, it was an issue that they couldn't communicate on a mutual level, on a language they both understood. With him being only capable of chirrups and peeps, he wasn't going to get anywhere, despite his knowledge of the English language.

Unless...

... aha!

He held his hand out and used his other to make a scribbling motion, his fingers positioned as if he was holding a pencil. Hopefully that got the message across to him that he required paper. He could talk to him that way!

[maverickhunterx]

Wow, he did understand! That was a relief; it was so much easier to--

Oh? What's that, Lassie Shadow? You look like you're scribbling something?

Wait, why would he be moving his hands like tha--OH!

As he spoke, X repeated the gesture, as though to ask a silent question of clarification:

"You want a pencil?"

[flawlessbitty]

No, X, you ignorant dumb-butt. The clear issue here is that Timmy fell into a well.

In all seriousness, even as a child, his little robot friend proved to be useful, after all. Shadow was relatively pleased, showing it with a smirk and a curt nod. The best way he could possibly communicate was through writing, through action, through drawing, so he had to get these two items.

Are you up for the quest, X? Maybe he'll even give an empty bottle as a reward.






Okay, no.

No he will not.

[maverickhunterx]

B-but Shadow! X needed that bottle! It was pertinent towards his quest to find Princess Zero and bring order to the Kingdom of Neo Arcadia!


So he was right? Okay, good, things were finally starting to get somewhere, and X and his new animal friend were really starting to communicate with each other. If he was a less humble child, X would have puffed out his chest and beamed with pride...

As it stood, he stuck with simply beaming. Be careful that you don't get blinded by the sheer radiance of his smile, Shadow. Legends have said that it had the power to kill fledgling vampires and Zombies.

"I found lots of things like that in the room I woke up in...I'll take you there, okay?"

Room he woke up in = his dorm, of course.

[flawlessbitty]

oh please you can go through a dungeon with one less bottle of reploid-compatible milk

Aha, excellent. Thankfully, the might of his bright smile did not vanquish him, no matter how dark he seemed. Instead, Shadow clung relentlessly to his leg, ready to hitch a ride on him until they get to... wherever it is X was going to take him.

With a slightly more optimistic squeak, he nodded against his inorganic being.

Let's get the show on the road.

[maverickhunterx]

Okay, so it was time for them to go...

Except one thing.

Poor baby was clinging to his leg still. Considering the journey they were going to have to trek, that wasn't the safest place for him to be, even if the material of his pajamas was pretty soft.

"Though, uh...would it be okay if I carried you? It's a bit dangerous to cling onto my leg like that."

[flawlessbitty]

Would... X even be capable of doing that? He parted ways from his body and tilted his head, silently questioning his child-like strength. Shadow didn't doubt that he had some power at his normal age, but would he maintain that same strength now?

Either way, he wasn't grabbing onto him anymore, nor would he struggle if he got carried, so it was all up to him now.

[maverickhunterx]

The little thing was off his leg; X took that as a good, positive sign. Did that mean he trusted him?

Well, he wasn't going to break that trust.

"Uhm, don't worry. I'm not going to drop you."

His hands were gentle but unsure as he pulled the hedgehog into his hands. How was he supposed to hold him? Holding him straight was probably not the best idea (X knew he himself would have been uncomfortable if someone carried him like that)...

With a moment's hesitation, he settled with cradling him, making sure to keep his hold steady.

"Just hold on tight, okay?"

He broke out into a light jog.

[flawlessbitty]

Shadow was perfectly fine with his handling. In fact, he felt an odd sense of comfort wash over him as he was cradled softly to his chest, as if he had the safety of a hedgehog mother protecting him from harm.

He had to wonder... what if Maria could have held him like this? Would it have felt the same way?

He wasn't about to doubt that. If not, she would have handled him even better than this. She definitely had a tender touch.

He held onto him, bobbing up and down only slightly as X traveled. The movements only served to sober him up, leaving him feeling strangely relaxed. Yaaawwn.