Shadow's Little Secret

"Ugh...where am I?" Shadow tried to get up, but the cuffs that held her pulled her down. "Dammit, I'm still in Eggman's place."

She started to get a headache from yesterday and a little bit of pain came from between her legs. "Ugh...I guess the Master Emerald's hypnosis wore off of me when I was sleeping."

The door started to open slowly, which caught Shadow's eye. She looked at the same robot from yesterday, as it came in the room with a glass of water in its hand. It rolled towards the bed and held out the glass in front of her. She said, "Is that for me?"

The robot answered, "Eggman wants Shadow to drink this."

'Come to think of it, I'm pretty thirsty. I just hope nothing is in the water.' Shadow opened her mouth and the robot brought the glass to her lips and she drank the water. The water tasted like it was normal, and she wasn't getting any weird reactions to it. 'Eggman probably wants me to stay alive, so he can get laid more.'

Shadow finished the whole glass, and the robot was going to roll out of the room, until Shadow said, "Hey, Mr. Robot?"

The robot looked at her and rolled back towards the bed. It was waiting for Shadow to talk.

"Why do you like to be ordered around by the Doctor?" Shadow asked.

The robot paused for a second, then it said, "E-270 doesn't like it."

Shadow's ears perked up and she said, "Why don't you like it? Aren't you a robot? Aren't you supposed to do what he says?"

"E-270 knows, but Boss never notices me. All Boss does is order E-270 around and never says thank you for anything E-270 did."

"Poor thing." Shadow said. "What you need is a friend."

"A…friend?" The robot asked, as it looked puzzled. "What is this…friend?"

"It's someone you can always hang out with, someone to talk to, someone to have fun with. They can also make you feel not alone, and will always notice you."

After the robot took in that information, it said, "E-270 wishes to have a...friend."

"I can be your friend." Shadow smiled at the little gizmo. "And to start, I think you should have a name, a good name, because I don't want to call you E-270 all the time."

Shadow giggled, and the robot agreed. It said, "What do you want to replace E-270's name?"

"How about I call you," Shadow was thinking of a good name to call it. She had one and said, "I'll call you Friend."

"Friend…" The robot thought it was a nice name.

Shadow laughed and asked, "Just don't tell Eggman about this, ok?"

The robot became silent, for there was bad news. Shadow asked, "What's wrong, Friend?"

"There's a room that Boss goes in every day." The robot explained. "It's the camera room. It's where every room and hallway in this base has a camera and Boss watches the place for intruders every day. There's a camera in this room too, but the good news is, Boss can't hear us."

"If he sees me talking to you, what's going to happen?"

"Friend doesn't know."

"I thought robots knew everything."

"They don't know everything. They only know things about what they're programmed to do."

"What are you programmed to do?"

"Friend is one of Boss' assistants. Friend does mostly everything what the Boss tells Friend to do. After Friend is done what Boss told Friend to do, Boss just doesn't thank Friend or anything, because Friend is never noticed."

"At least I notice you." Shadow said, softly.

Friend looked up at her and asked, "Why does Shadow hang around in base?"

"I don't hang out here. Eggman captured me and dragged me here, so he can have fun with me every day, the stupid bastard."

"What are those scars on Shadow's chest and stomach?" Friend pointed.

"The Doctor hurt me from disobeying him."

"Would Boss do that to Friend if didn't do what Boss said?"

"Well, something like that, but you're a robot. Robots can't feel pain."

"What does pain feel like?"

"It feels like the most horrible thing in the world."

The robot looked at her again and said, "Thank you…for being my first friend."

"You're welcome." Shadow replied. Shadow started to get cramps on her arms and legs again, and she needed to go to the bathroom really bad. She asked her new friend, "Does Eggman let me use the bathroom, because I really need to go?"

"Friend will let you go, but first, Friend has to shut down the camera."

"Thank you." Shadow said. Friend's legs started to grow, as it rose up to the camera on top of the door. It pressed a little button to shut down the camera. It now grew down to normal and rolled towards the bed. It started to uncuff Shadow's arms and legs, and Shadow was relieved. She stood up and stretched, happily. She walked to the door and opened it.

"Hurry back." Friend said. Shadow nodded and walked out. To Shadow's surprise, the bathroom was right in front of her.

"Wow, I'm lucky." She looked around for cameras from her left and right. She saw none, and walked across to the bathroom door. "After this, I'll pay a little visit to Eggman."
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Tails sat in the front seat of the Tornado, while Knuckles sat in the passenger's seat, and Sonic sitting on the wing of the plane.

"Sonic, you're not going to sit on the wing while we're flying, are you?" Knuckles asked.

"And what if I am?"

"Knuckles, let Sonic do what he wants. He's done dangerous things before and he always survives." Tails said.

There was a knock on the door in Tails' Workshop, and Tails said, "Come in."

Rouge opened the door and looked around. She walked near the Tornado and asked, "I heard about what happened to Shadow, and I was wondering if I could come along, since I'm one of her best friends."

"Well, "Tails answered, "There isn't any room on the plane, but you can fly to the base, can you?"

"Of course I can." Rouge's wings got ready to fly. The garage door opened slowly. The Tornado now had access to leave the garage and fly. The plane and Rouge flew out of Mystic Ruins and headed towards Eggman's base."
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Shadow was feeling better now. Her arms and legs ached from being trapped on the bed for the night. She walked back to the bedroom, where Friend was waiting for her.

"Should Friend chain you back on bed?" Friend asked.

"No, lets take a visit to Eggman and kick his ass."

"Ass?" Friend was puzzled.

"Never mind. Let's just kill him."

"But, he is boss to Friend."

"He's your boss that never paid attention to you and bossed you around. He never liked you. He was selfish and wanted things for himself. So, do you want revenge or not?"

Shadow was right. It did want revenge, but it didn't want to hurt its only master. But its master never gave friendship to it. It said, "Eggman deleted. Eggman master no more. Eggman now Friend's enemy. Shadow, new master, and friend."

Shadow smiled, but she didn't really want to be Friend's boss. She giggled and said, "As your new boss, I order you to come with me and kill Eggman."

Friend did a cute, little salute and rolled out the door. Shadow was going to follow it, but she forgot something. "Whoops! I better do this so Eggman won't get me again."

She raised her left arm up in the air, and the familiar flash was around her. The light faded, and Shadow was now a guy and continued to follow Friend. He took the hidden, green Chaos Emerald out of his quills. "Eggman's so stupid, he didn't know I had a Chaos Emerald with me."

Friend looked up and down at Shadow and said, "Shadow look different."

"That's because I changed genders. It's a long story, but if I can take you back home, I can explain."

"What is home?" Friend asked.

"It's where I live." Shadow answered and held the Chaos Emerald in the air, while holding Friend's little hand. "Chaos Control!"

Shadow and Friend disappeared from the hallway. Since Friend knew where the room was, Shadow had no problem to get there. Shadow never had a robot for a friend before, but it felt nice.

Eggman was just sitting there, looking at the screens. He was bored. He had nothing to do. He was just sitting there like a zombie. He was thinking about getting laid again. He had that pervert-grin on his face. But when the flash of light from Shadow and Friend entering the room, he jumped out of his chair and looked behind him. He said, "Shadow, how did you get out of the room?"

"Some help from my new friend." Shadow pointed to friend. Eggman was in shock. His own robot was fighting against him.

"E-270, take Shadow back to the room, immediately!" Eggman ordered.

"E-270 no longer called that. Now, E-270's name is Friend. Friend will no longer listen to Boss."

"WHAT?" Eggman was furious. How could one of his greatest assistants just turn against him like that? "I'm going to turn you into scrap since you now disobey me."

"I won't let you." Shadow jumped in front of Friend and yelled, "Chaos Spear!"

He used the attack and it hit Eggman and he was down on the floor. Shadow walked up to him and growled deeply. He kicked him and said, "Now it's about time you had some punishment."

Shadow punched him, making him fly to the wall, hitting it. He looked back at Friend and said, "Don't you have any weapons?"

"Friend has a machine gun in head, but Friend can't use it until master says so."

"Ok then, get the gun out and shoot the bastard."

"Bastard?"

"Just shoot your ex-boss!"

Friend took out its machine gun. It was attached to its head, and it was ready to fire at Eggman. But Eggman had something else in plan. A remote control was next to him and he pushed down on the red button. Huge stomping sounds were heard around the base. Suddenly, the wall next to Shadow crashed down, and he ran away just in time.

It was the robot from Angel Island. Its claws were in attack mode and it was ready to strike Shadow. Eggman climbed on the robot and sat in the seat on its back and said, "You may attack when ready, E-242."

E-242 Dashed to Shadow, while he threw another Chaos Spear. The robot made a barrier around itself and Eggman. Shadow jumped up to its face and shouted, "Chaos Blast!"

The robot just blocked it and threw it to another wall. Shadow gasped and said, "How can you block a Chaos Blast?"

The robot roared (yes…it roars), showing off its tongue. On the middle of the robotic tongue was the Master emerald. Shadow asked, "You gave you're robot a tongue pierce?"

"No," Eggman answered, "it's a safe place to keep the Emerald in the robot. No more conversations! Attack now, E-242!"

E-242's claws grew bigger and slashed Shadow on the chest, and making the old wound bloody again. Shadow was thrown to the wall from the slash. There was another line of blood on his chest, and the blood stained his chest hair. He stood up and held his chest with a hand, "I'm not done with you yet. I'm not a quitter."

Shadow curled into a ball and aimed for the robot. It spin dashed on the head on its repaired eye, breaking it again. The robot's arm quickly grabbed the Shadow-ball and threw it, like it was a real ball to play with. Shadow was thrown down on the floor. His back was staring to ache, and he started to see stars in his vision.

"Now, finish hi-" Eggman was cut off when Friend aimed for Eggman on E-242.

"Target locked on." Friend said, as it shot Eggman with its machine gun on its head. "Target shot."

Eggman's bloody body fell off E-242 and fell on the ground, hard. Since Eggman was now dead, there was no one to stop E-242 from attacking everything it sees, including Shadow. Shadow got up and was shaking a little. "Like I said, I don't quit."

Shadow created another Chaos Blast and threw it at the robot. It snatched it and threw it back at Shadow. Shadow was hurt by his own attack. While he was attacked, he dropped the Chaos Emerald on the floor. He was thrown to the wall, and crashed down to the floor, landing on his head. His eyesight became blurry, as he was going to pass out from the head-crash. He looked up at the robot in his blurry vision, about to stomp on him with its feet, until he was pushed away. Friend pushed Shadow off the spot and was his replacement. Instead of stomping on Shadow, the big robot stomped on the little robot.

"Friend! No!" Shadow was too late. Friend was in pieces, except for its head. And Shadow finally passed out.

Friend looked at Shadow, as he was unconscious and said, "Thank you…for being my first friend."

Then, Friend's eyes turned from red to black, as it shut down.

Now the passed out Shadow's only hope was if Sonic were here to help. The robot was now wild, destroying everything like a failed experiment would do. Then, it turned at Shadow. It walked towards him and raised its foot over him.

Suddenly, another wall was crashing down. E-242 caught the wall with its claws, trying to block the lasers. The Tornado and Rouge got here just in time. It was in attack mode, and it was shooting more lasers and kicking the wall into pieces.

Rouge saw Shadow and said, "You guys go kick this robot's ass to distract it. I'm going to get Shadow out of this place."

Rouge went near Shadow. Rouge shook him to get him conscious again. Finally, after it seemed forever, he woke up and saw Rouge. He said, "I'm so glad to see you. Eggman…he's dead…and I'm hurt very badly…and I want Sonic."

"Don't worry," Rouge said, softly, "I'm going to get you out of here. And you'll see Sonic soon, so don't worry."

Shadow looked at Friend's head for the last time, and then he was carried in Rouge's arms. She noticed the abandoned Chaos Emerald on the ground. She smirked and picked it up. Then, with Shadow still in her arms, she flew as fast as she could out of the base.

Meanwhile, the Tornado's lasers were hitting E-242, but it was blocking with its automatic barrier. Sonic grabbed a power ring from Tails and spin dashed at the barrier, causing it to break. Knuckles punched its other eye out, and now it was blind. Sonic dashed through the robot, and a bright flash was around E-242, as it blew up in the room. Sonic and the others backed up through the door so they weren't in the room during the explosion.

Finally, it cleared up. The robot was down, with its mouth open. Knuckles went inside the mouth and took out the Master Emerald. He snuggled the Emerald and said to it, "Who's my baby? You're my baby, yes you are."

"Knuckles…what the fuck?" Tails said. Knuckles stopped snuggling and whistled while looking away from Tails.

"Uh…don't ask."

"Where's Shadow?" Sonic asked.

"Rouge took him out to safety." Tails answered.

"And where's Eggman?" Sonic asked another question. Knuckles was about to vomit, as he pointed where the fat man was. They all gasped as they saw the bloody body in front of him. Sonic said, "I wonder who killed him?"

"I don't care. At least he's dead and Shadow's safe, and so is the Master Emerald." Knuckles replied and walked to the door. "C'mon, we're done here, now let's go."
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Everyone was out of the base, including the Tornado, which now turned back into to a plane.

"He needs a hospital." Rouge said while walking towards Sonic. Sonic was about to cry, as he saw Shadow, all wounded from the robot. He saw the wounds on his chest and stomach, and the big bump on his head. Rouge gave Shadow to Sonic, and he cradled him in his arms.

Shadow looked up and immediately started to cry and said, "Oh god, Sonic!"

Shadow held Sonic tightly and cried on his shoulder. "I missed you so much. I don't want to go to the hospital. I want to stay with you. I feel like I haven't seen you in a million years."

"I understand. I do have medical treatment to heal your wounds at my house. And it's only been one and a half day, sweetie." Sonic cuddled Shadow in his arms, while he murred, softly. Shadow nuzzled his chest, feeling the warmth of Sonic's body again, smiling happily, while Sonic carried him to the Tornado, to get the hell out of here.