It’s been a long day of constant battling with Eggman. It was extra rough since it started to downpour midway through the fight. Sonic pats himself down, his fur being wet from the rain. Once he’s fully dried off he sighs and heads to his kitchen to eat a chili dog (most likely-), but then a familiar ebony hedgehog chaos controls in front of him and startles the azure hedgehog.

“Holy- Shads..could ya give me a warning next time before scaring me? The haunted house is down the street, bud.”

He says with a light chuckle and before he could say anything else, Shadow simply pulls Sonic into a firm, but not painful hug, burying his face into his shoulder. Obviously, this catches the blue blur off guard yet, he immediately relaxes and hugs the ebony hedgehog back, replicating his hug. Sonic lets out an involuntary sigh of relief and closes his eyes. But he notices something. Shadow is warm. Really warm. His eyes open and his brows furrow. He pulls back a bit to look at Shadow.

“You’re so hot.”

He mutters, the comment making Shadow deadpan.

“Are you serious right now?”

He grumbles, think Sonic is just flirting as he usually did. The azure hedgehog rolls his eyes, now concerned.

“No- dude, you’re literally burning. Are you sick?”

He asks, pressing his hand against Shadow’s forehead.

Shadow scoffs lightly and pushes Sonic’s hand away from his face.

“No, I’m not. I’m always this warm. When I was created, Gerald made it so my natural body temperature is higher than a normal mobian’s.”

Shadow says.