OK, I know there is a story out there like this (Are You There For Me?) and a comic (Black & Red), both about Shadow going mental. But…I don't know, I just got a burst of excitement while playing Shadow The Hedgehog this morning so I decided to start some story…I don't really have anything prepared so I'll just type as it comes…and yes, I'll try to keep up with 8 Years Later too…anyway, on with the story.

My Best Friend Went Mental Yesterday

By Hyper Active Prower

My name is Sonic…my best friend went mental yesterday.

Shadow sits in a little box now. He had been tearing up his apartment, until Amy who was on the lower floor found him. It scared her to death, and she reported him to the…mental society? I don't really know, but he's captured in a box now. I'm scared too…what if he comes and tries to murder me or something? I'm just scared, Shadow's strong. You never know, he could get out of the box.

Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and I came to Shadow's house today to see if anything could have made Shadow go mental. There were shards of glass everywhere, and broken pieces of wood and furniture. The door to his bedroom has been torn off half way. I felt around the wall by the window. Tails examined the floor with a magnify glass. Amy sat on the couch and cried. Knuckles tried to put the door back.

The wall felt weird and ruff. He had scratched the window, too. It was scary. What could he have been thinking then? He seemed fine, and then he just…went crazy.

"He was screaming…very loud" Amy cried between sobs. Tails then screamed. Amy cried out.

"What's wrong, Tails?" I turned to him.

"I just fucking stepped on a piece of fucking glass!" he yelped.

"No need to curse, Tails" said Knuckles still facing the door frame trying to repair the door.

"But dude, it hurts! Really bad!" he said. Knuckles sighed.

"You know the feeling Knuckles, when you are frustrated, mad, or in pain, you just feel you need to cuss." I said

"Yeah, I know. I thought we were trying to stop though?" questioned Knuckles.

"No that was smoking" said Tails holding his foot. Knuckles was silenced. I guided Tails to the couch to sit down.

"Sonic…." He said as he sat down

"Yeah?" I said.

"Why did Shadow go mental…" He said.

"I…don't know Tails"

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I wanted to find out what happened to Shadow…really. But I couldn't find out how. The mental society people asked Shadow but he literally just tried to bite someone's hand off when they came in there.

I walked down the road, singing Boulevard of Broken Dreams quietly. Tails was flying just a few inches above the ground now since his foot hurt so bad. Shadow going mental was probably the worst thing that could have happened in our lives. Amy was still crying. Knuckles stared at the ground while walking. Tails held onto my shoulders. It must have looked like I was about to fall.

We eventually got back to Tails and my house. Knuckles would take Amy back to her apartment, even though she didn't want to. Then Knuckles himself would go back to his apartment.

I ran my fingers back into my quills and let a sigh of frustration out.

"Sonic, Shadow wasn't going to kill himself, was he?" Tails looks at me with worried eyes.

"I don't think so, he was just trying to cause destruction…" I said. Tails ran into his room. Then I wondered, could he have just had a bad past in that apartment and he couldn't stand it anymore so he just destroyed everything?

I fell on the couch. So much to think about. What will become of Amy? Tails? Knuckles?

I started singing Hold On (by Good Charlotte, awesome song!).

"Hold on…..if you feel like letting go. Hold on…it gets better then you know…" I sang. I started really getting into singing after a while, I started listening to music all the time, and looking for lyrics online. I just found that I had a great singing voice and now I always sing to fit my mood.

I stopped singing. This was a big problem…and I needed to solve it. I got off the couch and walked over to the door and grabbed my jacket.

"TAILS, I'M GOING TO THE MENTAL SOCIETY! I'LL BE BACK LATER!"