Shadow glared at Eggman, the fat mad scientist had caught the black hedgehog via ambush. "Aaaah Shadow... aren't reunions heartwarming? Personally, I always find that they chill the heart, but that's just my opinion. Maybe you share it too, judging by the looks you give me. You should be honored you know, I'm trying out my latest mind control serum on you! I didn't even go after Sonic! Though I could have..."

"I couldn't care less about your damn serum." Snarled Shadow, pulling against Eggman's new chains... they were built to stop him using chaos energy, though they would break if hit by it. That was a fault Eggman was trying to fix. Eggman "Tut tutted".

"You should feel more interest in the progress of science Shadow, after all, you were created by it." Shadow's glare was burdened with even more hate now. Eggman felt the hate and stopped gloating. He just bustled around, occasionally having robots go near Shadow so that the chains could be tightened or something or other. "Full tautness." He called, Shadow's back was now pressed into the wall. Eggman held up an injection needle filled with something a sickly green. "Okay then... robot e-5131235165465, inject the serum." The robotic arms with a name that Eggman always made up whenever he addressed it (it's name was so long he'd forgotten most of it), took the injection needle and advanced towards Shadow, who had never felt so helpless, and was hating the fact. He didn't even wince as the needle punctured his skin, his only curse... badly. He blinked, Eggman didn't notice, the liquid was making him feel weird... not like Eggman's usual attempts at mind control serum though... "Alright Shadow, recite "twinkle twinkle little star"." Shadow just gave him a strange look. "What?! I like the song! Now recite it!" Shadow gave Eggman another weird look then said.

"No."

"What?! But... but... I LIKE TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR!"

"And I don't. Let me go Eggman."

"No."

"Yes you will... or rather, I will." Shadow looked at Mephiles as he walked in... crystalline form, he usually used the form that looked more like Shadow when he was trying to get weird crystal sellers to run away. "Hello Shadow... in trouble with Eggman?" Shadow frowned.

"No, I'm having a birthday party." He said, voice dripping with sarcasm. Mephiles smiled.

"Oooh... then please let me cut the cake." Shadow sighed in annoyance, why did he have to be friends with absolute weirdoes? First Sonic, and then (after he'd found he didn't like being evil) Mephiles. And then of course everyone else had suddenly become his friend... except the humans.

"I'd prefer it if you cut the ribbon first." He said, holding up his hands as best he could. Mephiles grinned.

"Of course." He made the scissors sign with two of his fingers and covered them in chaos energy, then pretended to snip away at the chains, he was actually sending small bolts of chaos energy at them, and after they had fallen to pieces and Shadow could move around freely, Mephiles pretended to put the "scissors" away. Then he paused. "Am I allowed to give a "hair" cut to our wonderful friend? He seems to have an overgrowth." Eggman started stumbling back, trying to escape, Mephiles caught the back of Eggman's jacket with one hand, the mad doctor was trying to escape, long legs working hard, but in vain. Shadow shrugged.

"Sure." Eggman screamed in terror as Mephiles pulled out a REAL pair of scissors and descended on him.

Ten seconds later, the doctor was left with no mustache to speak of, only stubble under his nose. "He actually had a caterpillar in there you know." Said Mephiles, after tossing what was left of Eggman's beloved mustache out the window.

"Maybe he was planning to eat it." Said Shadow absently, he was rubbing his throat, it felt weird. Thankfully, Eggman had passed out.

"You feeling okay Shadow? That mind serum isn't actually working is it?"

"No... it's something else."

"Let's talk to Tails... maybe he'll know what it is." Mephiles took on his form which looked more like Shadow's as they walked out, and just in time too. A whole bunch of crystal sellers were waiting with determined looks on their faces.

"Did you happen to see a creature made of crystal inside?" They asked. Shadow shook his head.

"Nope, I heard a few splashes..." Before Shadow could finish his sentence the crystal sellers ran off to get scuba diving gear. Mephiles breathed a sigh of relief.

"Isn't there some way we can get those mad people to leave me alone without me having to not look like myself?" Asked Mephiles.

"I have no idea, if you get an idea try it out, by all means. Just don't kill 'em, you might get in trouble." Said Shadow. Mephiles sighed longingly.

"All this hero business is great, and it feels better... but being a bad guy does have it's perks... what I wouldn't give to send those people to hell..."

"They probably think hell is made of rubies Mephiles." Mephiles groaned again.

"Do not mention crystal to me..." Shadow sighed, then rubbed his throat, swallowing, a familiar frown sat on his face. "Okay this is seriously freaky Shadow... what the hell is wrong with your throat?!"

"I have absolutely no idea what the hell is wrong with it." Said Shadow. They were both covered in sand as Sonic skidded to a halt.

"Hey Shads!" Shadow groaned.

"Shut up Faker."

"Why?" Asked Sonic.

"Yelling is not appreciated." Mephiles looked at Shadow.

"First your throat is feeling weird, and now your ears? Shadow maybe Eggman found some sort of new poison..." Shadow gave him a glare.

"I'm immortal you idiot."

"Oh yeah." Mephiles looked slightly sheepish. Sonic however, had called Tails and the fox was expecting them to come over.

"He'll check you out."

"We were on our way to his house originally Faker."

"Oh where you? Cool." Shadow rolled his eyes at Sonic's completely carefree attitude... he winced as Sonic burst out laughing, Mephiles had shown him a picture of a de-mustached Eggman.

Tails grinned. "Shadow has a cold."

"WHAT?!" Yelled Mephiles, Shadow covered his ears, wincing. "Sorry, I mean what?"

"Shadow has a cold." Tails repeated.

"But... but how?"

"It must have been that serum." Growled Shadow, rubbing his arm where the needle had punctured it. Sonic however, was in heaven.

"You have a cold Shadow?! Oh this is so awesome..." He rushed out of the room.

"What's he doing?" Asked Shadow. Tails smiled nervously.

"Er... I don't think you want to know."

Tails was right, Shadow didn't want to know. But he found out anyway. Sonic had called all the others over. Rouge just laughed and said that it had been going to happen sooner or later, Knuckles didn't really see what the fuss was about, Amy squealed in the loudest possible manner and started giving her wishes that Shadow would be better soon... the black hedgehog wanted to kill her, her loud voice was sending pain through his head. The volume in the room got steadily louder as they started wondering what had been in the serum until finally Shadow had to yell himself. "SHUT UP!" They all quietened. "First of all, if I'm sick, it's nothing to gloat about. It's Eggman's fault."

"Now I'm even gladder that I got rid of his mustache." Shadow glared at the interruption and couldn't continue talking until five minutes later, everyone had wanted to see the photo.

"That looks... unnatural." Was all Knuckles had said when he'd seen it.

"And second, it's nothing to start yelling about either, if I'm sick I'll just have to put up with it until I'm better won't I? And third... let me out so I can go... I don't need to be here any longer, I know what's wrong with me so my presence isn't required."

"We know what's wrong with you too Shads, you're an emo who's got a cold." Snickered Sonic. Amy gave Sonic a smile while Shadow's eye twitched.

"You are signing your own death warrant."

"But you don't understand the meaning of a cold yet! You have to stay here until you do...!" Shadow punched Sonic in the chest, sending him out, Amy rushing after him to see if her Sonic was okay.

"It'll have to wait until you're completely healthy again Shadow." Said Tails as if nothing had happened, pushing Shadow back into the bed. "You need rest, and medicine and..." With the saying of each different thing, Shadow's eyes got more and more incredulous.

"Definitely not!"

"Oh definitely yes, and that also means no races with Sonic." Shadow smirked at that, he liked that idea. His blue counterpart however, did not.

"What?! Nooo!" He complained. Shadow winced, he punched Sonic in the chest again, sending him flying out of the room for the second time.

"Thank god..." He muttered as the silence descended... no more loud noises. Tails looked at him.

"Okay then... umm... Amy? Would you call Vanilla and Cream...?"

"Sure!" She rushed out to do as Tails had asked... and to see if Sonic was okay.

Okay, I have a cold right now. I hate being sick... anyway, I got the idea for writing a story where Shadow, who is supposed to be immune to diseases etc. gets sick! :D

Disclaimer: She just likes torturing Shadow.

*whacks Disclaimer* Shut up! And do your job.

Disclaimer: *rubs head* CrazyNutSquirreldoesn'.

In normal speed please.

Disclaimer: *glares* FINE.... CrazyNutSquirrel doesn't own Sonic and co. or anything else so far except the story, SEGA owns the rest.

Much better, R&R and tell me what you think. ^_^