Surprised squeak! ”..H-Huh? No, no..! Um.. He didn’t even hear it! I think he would know you didn’t mean it...!” Pat pat on the child’s head..?

”M-Mao..! It’s okay! ..If you stop crying I’ll uh... I’llll.... show you how to do hero stuff sometime! Yeah!”

”What.”

”Oh if you say so.” Smile!

”..I feel like you said that before. Dunno about the teeth part, though. Kinda funny sounding..” ...Maybe he’s just a very distracted person.

Kuri looked taken aback by the other smiling, but not scared. ..He just didn’t think he’d seen Zero smile that big before. ”Woah. I forgot you had sharp teeth. They look pretty cool. You kinda look like a smiling shark, though.” The moonrat smiled once more after saying this.

He just sorta stares. Followed by a curious and somewhat confused head tilt. It was probably worse just staring, but he wasn’t sure what he would say.

Oh, crap, he’s staring back. Squeak! ”U-Uh. You’re Shadow the Hedgehog, aren’t you?” Clearly that’s exactly who this was, but it didn’t hurt to ask as well.

”....” ”I think I have to take you in instead—.”

”I think I could just carry you like a football.” He held up his hands briefly. ”I made the gloves part of my outfit kinda resistant to electricity. ...Kinda.”

He managed to sidestep the first attack, then duck under the second attack. ...They didn’t seem to be trying very hard to kill him. In fact, they didn’t really seem very dangerous. ... He could probably just wait and catch them some other time. Head scratch.

MM

Nose twitch. He doesn’t recognize some of these people..

He.. turns around. “..Oh hi! ….What are you doing?”

“..D-Do you have to look that violent about it, though?” He could withstand such a thing, but it didn’t mean he wanted to.