I love the idea that the team in Sonic Boom found out Shadow was a father by accidentally kidnapping his kid and being met with an absolutely fucking enraged alien hybrid outside ready to bust their door down. He’s had his kid taken from him by some really bad people before, so he’s seeing nothing but red. The only thing on his mind, the only thing he can think of, is to get his kid back.
Bonus points if Silver’s a baby and cries the whole time, only stopping once Shadow has him in his arms after bodying everyone else and clinging onto him. Shadow thinks that they’re all unconscious, but one of them is still awake and watching him soothe the baby. The baby who seems very happy to see him.
Or if they invade Shadow’s home, whether it’s an abandoned cabin he decided to claim or his cave, and Shadow is threatening them all to leave. And regardless of if they’re already fighting or Shadow is getting angrier and threatening to really injure them if they don’t leave, as soon as everyone hears the sound of a baby crying, Shadow turns around and teleports away.
If they manage to find Shadow, they find him tending to his child.
Sticks is terrified of Father Shadow. She knows how dangerous parents are when protecting their young, so she’s most likely to listen and back off, but I can totally see Knuckles getting so excited by the sight of the little one that he completely forgets about Shadow and goes to get closer. He just barely avoids getting hit by a chaos spear.