The young hero was slow to wake up the next day as someone lifted him from the crib. Emerald eyes slowly opened to see his metal counterpart carrying him away from the crib. That's when he noticed that the front of his diaper was warm. 'what the...' the little hedgehog wondered for a second before he was placed down onto the changing table.

That's when the hero's eyes widened as the realization of what happened came over him. 'oh no.' the young kit thought as he was strapped down to the changing table. This was not going to be fun...

A few minutes later after a lot of struggling and a "bit" of an argument between the two, metal managed to change Sonic into a new, dry, dipper. Though afterwords Sonic face was bright red as he though 'I don't think I'm going to get use to being a baby...'

That's when metal disappeared then reappeared a few seconds later with a baby bottle before he started unstrapping the young kit form the changing table. As soon as that was done metal picked up the kit and carried him over the the rocking chair.

As this happened Sonic frowned as many thoughts ran through his head, most pertaining to escape though the young kit shot most, if not all, of them down because they all either required him being his normal adult self, metal leaving leaving him here alone, or both... and since neither of those conditions we probably going to happen again any time soon he was stuck... though the same few question kept popping up in his head, 'why? Why did Eggman turn me into a baby to get rid of me? wouldn't it have been easier to have just killed me, which would have made sure I could never meddled in his hair-brained schemes to take the wold again.' though those thoughts were quickly pushed aside as metal sat down in the rocker and fed him the bottle.

Metal's thoughts were very much the same as his charges as he watched him drink the milk. He continued wonder why his creator did this and not just killing his rival as the young hero finished the bottle. After burping the kit his transmitter started beeping again telling him he had a transmission that he needed to answer. Metal quickly placed the kit in his crib and exited the nursery, remembering to close the door, before turning on his transmitter and asking "what do you want?"

"no need to be rude metal," Eggman said over the transmitter, which would have made metal roll his eyes if his eyes could be rolled. "i was just going to inform you that we have an approximate location of the chaos emerald so I'm going to call up you know who so that when you're ready you can head out."

"that's fine sir." metal said before ending the transmission and reentering the nursery to bid his time till he could head out.

Meanwhile in a town about, at normal speeds is, a days travel from Eggman's base a black hedgehog lay in bed asleep till his phone started ringing. With swift and almost unsee-able movements the hedgehog garbed the phone from the side table and activated it before saying tiredly, as-though he was up all night, "who are you and what do you want?"

"why hello shadow, good to hear you again, I was wondering if you could watch someone for a while." the person on the other end of the phone asked.

"and why should i do this for you Eggman?"Shadow asked with distaste.

"what if I said I'd give you a chaos emerald and let you keep it if you do this favor whenever I need it done." Eggman said calmly, as if he had suspected this.

Shadow seamed to think about it few minutes before saying "fine Eggman. I presume that you want me come to your closest base."

"yes, be here in two hours." Eggman said before he hung up.

With a sigh Shadow placed the phone back down on his side table and gets up to get ready for what Eggman wants to do as a question ran through his head 'who could he want me to watch?'

Meanwhile back in Eggman's base Metal once again placed his young rival in the play pen hoping that this time his counterpart would actually play with the things in the play pens. But Sonic on the other hand was majorly annoyed to have been put back into the play pen, as once again he found that everything in there to childish for him. And so he just sat there staring at metal.

Metal did the same as he gave what could have a sigh before saying "what will it take to get you to play with those toys..."

"nothing you or Eggman can think of." Sonic replied sourly, like he resented being put in this position, witch was true.

With that metal leaned back in the chair in an attempt to calm the growing annoyance he was feeling towards the kits attitude, but since his rival was so young now he didn't think he would be able to punish the kit without lousing all of the his limited trust in him.

An hour and fifty-five minutes later the little hedgehog gave "small" yawn from both boredom and tiredness. Metal noticed this in a second before getting up and heading into the kitchen to do something he hadn't done so far. He pulled one of the already made bottles out of the fridge and placed it into the microwave for a little-bit before taking out, knowing that it would not cause the kit any problems, and walking back into the nursery and picking up the tired kit before going over to the rocking chair and feeding the young hero the milk.

Once the hero finished the bottle and was burped metal paced the now asleep sonic into his crib before leaving the room to go speak with Shadow and Eggman to find out were the emerald is and to at least tell Shadow a few things to keep an eye on with there former rival.

Meanwhile Shadow had just entered the base and found the control room where he saw Eggman working on one of his meany projects. "ahem." Shadow said to catch Eggman's attention.

Eggman quickly pulled him self away from his project and looked at Shadow before giving somewhat of a smile. "why hello shadow thank you for doing this."

"yeah, yeah." Shadow say "now can you tell me who want me to watch and perhaps why?"

"it would be easier if you see him." Eggman said after a moment as metal entered the control room "ah, metal. Would you please take Shadow to your charge's room."

without even the tiniest bit of hesitation metal replied "yes sir." before walking out of the room with Shadow right behind him.

"so..." Shadow said after a few minutes silence "who's your charge?"

"you shall see." metal said "but I must warn you that you should keep a close eye on him."

'Okay...' Shadow thought as metal opened a door and said "he is in here. Now I must go and do my mission." before he walked off.

Shadow cautiously entered the room to find it to be a nursery. 'what in chaos?' Shadow thought 'are they pulling a prank on me?' that's when a small movement in the crib caught Shadow's attention.

Shadow slowly walked over to the crib slightly hoping that this was just his eyes were just playing tricks on him. They weren't. Inside the crib half under a light read blanket lay a blue baby hedgehog fast asleep, as if nothing would be able to wake him up.

After a few moments Shadow slowly recognized the young hero. "sonic?"