Shadow the Hedgehog

"Ok, I'll be right back," replied Hope as she went back into Shadow's room. "Shadow can you take me back to GUN quickly? I want to drop off the teleporter." Shadow nodded and took her back to the lab in a flash. As she stowed it in a secure locker along with her tazer, she tried to contact Melody. "Can you hear me?" she thought.

"Yes this could a lot of fun," thought Hope.

"That makes sense I guess. Do we tell anyone about this?"

"Hmmm, I would look rather good with a crown on my head though. In all seriousness yes we need a way to block out random thoughts."

Hope shuddered. "Let's try to stay positive. Maybe this will only be temporary."

"Erm I think so. That might explain why we can't hear the others as well. The teleporter is a prototype but I have no idea how it caused a telepathic link when we touched. Let's just hope this is all it's done."

"I'm making it up. I think Shadow just used chaos control to reach their apartment. So I guess this means we're telepaths. How could this day get any weirder?"

"This isn't a trick." Hope then thought of Rouge and Shadow trying and failing to carry a large diamond up some tight stairs. "I'm thinking of something."

"You thought of that just to spite me didn't you?" she joked. "You were thinking of Skye and Tikal being all sickly sweet."

"I wasn't thinking out loud you dolt, I was just thinking!" Hope gasped. "I think we really can read each other's thoughts. But I can't hear Shadow or current time Red. Can you? And think of something, if I can say what it is then we are 'linked' in some way."

"Ok, ok just let me think!" said Hope. "She's not practicing to be a vantriliquist, that's for sure. But what's going on here? Can I hear her thoughts? Oh I knew I should've tested out the chronosphere more before using it," she thought to herself.

"Yes I'm sure! I don't understand what's happening here."

"Wait, you said you didn't but asked how I knew? What's going on here?" worriedly asked Hope.

"You were mentioning one day magicing up a pair of bracelets for us. But your lips never moved."

"I wouldn't mind you doing that one day, it'd be a nice ges- wait, how did you do that without opening your mouth?" asked Hope.

"Well luckily you haven't. It was just an unfortunate accident."

"No. It's just made me even more cautious. I work with hazardous materials all day, so I've faced greater risks."

"Agreed. And we should definitely never mix them."

"It's quite nice. And yes, there's nothing special in them."

Hope poured out their milkshakes then headed back to the balcony.

Hope went into the kitchen and grabbed some snacks before prepping some more milkshakes, humming happily as the blender whirred.

"Sure that'd be great. I'll get the drinks and snacks and you get the music "

"Sounds like a plan. Do you want to listen to it out here?"

"You know I'm honestly not sure right now. Something relaxing."