Disclaimer: if i owned Sonic then i wouldnt be writing fanfiction now would i?
N/A: i know this took a long time for me to update! i'm sorry, but hey! some people dont update for years or just leave you hanging! eh... so yea...
It has been three days since Shadow's fever, and it has gone down enough to call him stable, but Tails still insists on him staying in his workshop, in the spare apartment room upstairs. Shadow, feeling too tired to complain agreed, and so here he was being examined by Tails. He walked into a large whole body scanner and put his hands on the walls and the glass door closed. The glasses he had on had a special tinting to them so the bright light didn't hurt his eyes. He walked out after the light subsided and he threw the glasses onto the bin next to the door. Tails called him over to the large computer screen where the machine was sending the data.
"Do you still feel tired or drained Shadow, like you have no energy left?" Tails asked him as he clicked away on his computer.
Shadow was stretching his arms trying to wake up the muscles in them. "Yeah, you could say that, ever since I used the gun thingy," he said as he rested against the wall next to the computer "could it be that my chaos energy levels are extremely low?"
Tails looked at his screen and said nothing as he clicked a couple more times bringing out a diagram of Shadow's body structure.
"You see Shadow? I think that since you were man-made they didn't really figure out how the chaos energy system structure worked. If you look here," he clicked on one of the options on the side of the picture "you can see the whole chaos energy structure." He pulled out another one almost identical, but Sonic's. "If you notice Sonic's structure is much weaker than yours, but if you take a closer look to yours, you can see some types of "pockets" of energy where the concentration is much stronger. If you look at Silver's his is more like Sonic's but also like yours because his system seems to be more evolved and stronger, but this is to be expected since he is from the future. So basically, if you compare this older one of you, with the ones I took yesterday and today, you will see that the older one has much more energy in these "pockets". Now, these pockets are found in the muscles, I think this was done as so, so they would be protected. I think that using the gun caused these pockets to be drained and as an aftershock, it put your defenses down and put your body on over drive to protect the muscles and vital organs so they wouldn't get an infection and as everything regulated, your fever started going down, but your chaos energy levels are still extremely low for your standards." Tails finished his whole explanation turning to Shadow to see his reaction.
Shadow was nodding at Tails understanding everything he said, but the question still remained, how do we get the chaos energy levels back to normal? He was about to ask his question, but Tails was talking again about going into more details, but those didn't really interest Shadow so he interrupted him.
"I don't mean to be rude, Tails, but how do we get my chaos energy levels back to normal?" Shadow asked removing himself from the wall and going to look over Tail's shoulder and to the computer screen.
"Well, I have a theory that if you use one of the chaos emeralds and try to "suck in" the energy instead of channeling it out wards, the "pockets" might refill themselves and your energy levels might go back to normal, but you must be careful not to overdo it!" Tails kept on rambling how he mustn't overdo it, but those warning were ignored after the first one.
Shadow made his way towards to chaos emeralds' container and put his paw on it and gave him access to the first emerald, only Tails' paw had the authority to get all of them, that is unless he called a Code 7: Emergency Situation, when that was in place, anyone from the gang would be able to retrieve all of them.
Shadow removed the emerald, the red one, and he turned to face Tails. "Do I do it here or outside in case I explode?" he asked half joking half being serious.
"Outside, I don't want any excess radiation in here because it doesn't work!" Tails said already twisting his tails to fly outside "follow me Shadow!"
Shadow did as told and followed him to the large backyard and he stood some ways away from the building before Tails gave him the go. As soon as Tails calibrated the small chaos energy tracking camera pointed to Shadow, he gave him the go.
Shadow started concentrating the energy feeling it flow and paid special attention to making sure the "pockets" were filled with enough energy. As soon as most of the "pockets" were filled he already felt much more energized like his old self and ready to go. He filled the last one and let the excess energy he didn't need flow back into the emerald where it was safely kept. Tails was flying towards him with the camera under his arm where the data was safely kept.
"Great work, Shadow! How do you feel now?" Tails asked as he had a huge grin on his face as everything went as planned, maybe even better!
Shadow took a moment to feel the energy coursing through him before he answered Tails with a grin. "I feel like I could take on the faker in a race and win!"
"That's great! I need to run some tests on the video I took and put it in the files, but I think you're good to go! But I still want to keep you under surveillance just in case, okay? So be back from the race before dark!" Tails yelled the last part to Shadow as he was already flying to the lab to save the video to the computer.
Shadow was left alone in the backyard, so he did the thing he knew best to do, he ran at a fast pace, leisurely enjoying the wind on his face. He went inside and took the spare keys Tails gave him and he also took his wallet, just in case. He headed back out, continuing to run at the nice pace he had.
He made it to Vanilla's flower shop, Flowers for All, and decided to go inside and ask if they knew were Sonic was. When he entered, he saw that many spring flowers had arrived and Cream was placing them with the price tag all around the walls in the vases. Next to the door was the cash register with the classic large bouquet that would the center of attention to all the customers.
Cream turned to look at Shadow as he walked in and she jumped up and scurried over to him as she handed him a sunflower and asked him "Are you better now, Mr. Shadow?" with and excited voice and a hop in her step.
Shadow always had a soft spot for Cream, she reminded him of the most innocent side of Maria and her childish antics from time to time. He smiled at her and nodded his head "Yes, I feel much better now, I think Tails figured everything out, but he still wants to keep me under surveillance just in case. Oh, your flower, by the way," He said giving her the flower back.
She shook her head no and said "You can keep it!" she had a smile on her face and then turned around and ran up the stair to where her mom was taking a break from arranging all the new flowers. She found her mother taking a plate of the cookies they made last night towards the stairs.
"Is something wrong, Cream?" Vanilla asked from hearing all the ruckus from downstairs.
"No, mother, but Shadow is better and he came to visit!" Cream had a sort of "fascination" for Shadow, like an older brother sort of thing. He would always take her out for ice cream if he had the time and he once let her ride on his motorcycle, with her mom's permission of course. Vanilla knew that Cream was hopping she would let her go and get the frozen treat with Shadow today, but since he just got better from an unknown source, she thought best to ask Shadow if it was okay with his first.
"Okay, but let's see if he feels well enough to go for ice cream this time." Vanilla said as she walked down the stairs with the cookies and Cream trailing behind her. She sets the plate on the counter next to the bouquet and then looked at Shadow who was looking at some other flowers, the sunflower still in his hand. Vanilla smiled at that. Cream must have given it to him; she's so sweet to him, almost like a real little sister. Shadow stopped looking at the flowers and looked at Vanilla and smiled at her, knowing his and Cream's tradition would be fulfilled today, his race with Sonic would have to wait.
"Hey Vanilla, would you mind if I took Cream for some ice cream?" Shadow asked looking at Cream who was sneaking a cookie off of the plate.
Vanilla smiled with her sweet smile from always, and nodded her head as she walked behind the cash register and got out the stamp card that they shared. Shadow walked over and took it, turning to Cream who was happily eating the cookie as she was bouncing on the heel of her foot.
"So are we going?" she asked, impatient as always. Shadow chuckled at her childish behavior and nodded.
"We sure are, and come on, if we go this time, the next one will be free!" Shadow said leading her out the door.
N/A: Well that was interesting, was it not? What flavor ice cream shall they get? When will the tittle start making sense?! oh, yeah. that. it'll happen eventually! Remember to review! :D 3
