It is late at night on a winter's evening, snow blowing around Mother Nature's storm, as two bright lights are showing through the fog… until it reveals to be headlights from a red/black vehicle and driving in it are both the famous Sonic and Shadow the Hedgehog, the former driving his car while the latter sat pouting crossly, muttering to himself once in a while of how he himself got talked into spending a week at Amy's cottage, despite this blizzard and such else.

"I could've canceled."

"The hell you were," spoke Shadow, keeping his ruby-colored glare on the road to avoid an accident.

"Oh come on!" the cobalt hedgehog whined like a 10-year-old, "I already had plans for the weekend too!"

"Sonic, isn't there something else you could be doing besides playing that goddamn "Olympics" game over and over," then he added sourly, "Without yelling at the screen to a certain red plumber?"

"Hey, it's Mario's fault I had to go the same speed as him!" Sonic slouched in his car seat, "And besides," he smirked, "I wasn't the first one to actually scream the F word when it came to his rival, Wario."

Shadow glared dumbfounded, "Only ONE time I did that! ONE TIME!"

"Uh, Shads…?" Sonic suddenly noticed a new pair of bright lights coming straight towards them, "Sh-Sh-Sh-shadow!"

"What-?" The black hedgehog caught sight of the upcoming truck, "Oh shit!" He quickly turned a hard right to one side, avoiding any cause of damage.

Sonic was gripping for dear life, "Damn it, what was that?"

"Hey you were the distracting one!" Shadow then noticed the same truck in his rearview mirror, "They don't give up, do they?"

"Well, at least I didn't make him mad!" Sonic shouted back, yelping as Shadow was now sliding all over the road, "Stop, stop, stop!" He knew he should've offered to drive but nooooooo…

"Hey, trucker-boy, here's the bird you ordered!" Shadow grinned, whipping his hand and of course, gave the "bird", receiving a loud honk of rage as Shadow slammed on the gas and Sonic's scream was the only thing left heard in the snowy fog, leaving the truck behind.

"SHADOW, STOP IT!" Sonic's eyes watered with tears as they were going so fast, "Could you at least let us get to Amy's ALIVE?"

"Fine enough," Then, secretly smirking to himself, he chuckled, "Ah, that was kind of fun."

We see a view of a small cottage, supposedly belonging to Amy Rose, and it wasn't snowing as much as it was earlier that night. The garage door is slowly opening, pouring out bright light as a shadowed figure stands there quietly, with what looked like a weapon of some sort… the figure came out, looking like a familiar two-tailed fox, wearing a hockey mask… he raised the chainsaw and…

"Yo, Tails!"

Tails, stopping in the middle of cutting what seemed to be large logs, turned at the cocky voice. Sonic and Shadow had driven up, Sonic still a little shaky but that was probably from either the coldness or Shadow's wild ride. Shadow, however, remained as cool as he always had done many times, even from the chaotic drive.

"Oh!" Tails lifted up his hockey mask, smiling happily to see his brother-like hero, "Sonic, you finally made it! Do you know how long it took to keep Amy company?" Then he spotted Shadow, and paused. He did know Shadow was coming but strangely, and lately… Tails couldn't trust him and for secret reasons…

"Good to be here too, Miles…" Shadow crossed his arms. He could tell for some reason that the fox didn't feel comfortable around him lately.

"So, Tails, where do you plan putting logs like that?" Sonic decided to bring in a little joke to lighten things up.

Tails' odd answer? "Bend over and I'll show you."

Both hedgehogs looked a little surprised at this reply. Sure, Tails learned a few jokes from Sonic, or two, but this one… frowning but yet smiling, Sonic answered with a nervous laugh, "Now look, little buddy, haven't we spoken about which type of humor to use around our friends? You know better by now then to…"

"Who said I was talking to you?"

Sonic paused… if Tails wasn't directing the joke at his brother figure, then… he turned to Shadow, who looked a little shocked but remained expressionless, knowing full well that this insult had been thrown at him. Imagine that, the young genius fox brave enough to insult him, the Ultimate Lifeform. Tails just gave a quick pout and placed his mask back on, charging up the chainsaw.

The blue Mobian placed a hand on his friendly rival's shoulder, "Now I'm sure Tails was kidding, he might just be freezing from being out here for a while."

"If that's what you say, Hedgehog." Shadow turned towards the front door, "Either me first or you want to get pounced by Amy."

"Oh whatever!" Sonic followed him, "All I know is Hot Chocolate is involved."

With Tails, he still was cutting the logs up, "Sure…" he mumbled to himself, softly, "It was a joke Sonic… you knew that…" he then growled in a voice not his own, "But what he heard, it won't be a joke for long… and I won't have it…"