Chapter 2

Wooh!! Good to get that off my chest. Now let's see what happens when Shadow interferes. Enjoy! :D


Shadow's POV

The black hedgehog certainly didn't want to be here, but Faker and his friends were still searching around the city elsewhere.

"Maybe I should just go get them…No, because then Silver might run off."

Sigh.

"I guess I'll have to do it myself."

Silver POV

Silver's head was pounding, and for a moment he thought he was hallucinating. But he wasn't. Shadow was standing before him.

He was watching him, his eyebrows scrunched together as he tried to figure out what was going on.

Silver was finally able to stand up, with a bit of effort.

"What do you want, Shadow? Can't you see I'm in an international crisis?"

"Trust me, I don't want to be here, and I much less do not want to face your attitude today. So just come home and make your friends happy," Shadow said growling.

"Well, hate to break it to you, but I don't want to go back. Not ever. It feels good to be let off the leash," The newly invited side of his mind coming out.

"No! Get out of my head!" Silver practically screamed to the world.

Shadow sighed. At least no one was around.

"I think Silver's going insane."

He watched as Silver argued with himself, alternating between two voices: his normal one, and a low, dark voice that Shadow thought he had heard before somewhere.

"That voice sounds familiar," The black hedgehog said quietly.

Silver fought against the voice in his head, trying to keep balance.

Let me handle the situation. Trust me, you'll be a whole lot better if you do.

"Huh?" Silver's eyes widened.

The voice in his mind took over as Silver was in shock. He was pushed all the way to the back of his mind while the voice took his place. Now all he could do was watch in his sub-conscious.

Finally, things start going my way.

Silver turned to face Shadow, his eyes glazed over with a coat of black.

Shadow just stared.

All of a sudden, Silver punched Shadow, straight in the face. Shadow stumbled back a couple steps, then his body started glowing red. He wiped the blood that trickled from his nose.

His head jerked up to face Silver eye-to-eye and without losing eye contact, he punched Silver in the mouth. In his sub-conscious, Silver flinched as he still felt the pain.

His stranger voice controlled body fell to the ground.

Silver wiped the blood from his lips. He stared angrily at Shadow. Then an evil grin formed on his lips.

"I've been wanting to do that for a while. I feel better now," Shadow said with a small smile.

"And I've been wanting to do this for a looong time," The low, dark voice said.

Silver watched in horror as he knew what the voice was going to do.

"No! Don't do it! Don't hurt him!"

Shut up. I do not need you nagging me.

Silver stared at him in shock.

By the way, you can call me Meph.

"Meph? Now where have I heard that before? Well, doesn't matter, at least I can call him something instead of just voice."

Meph, in Silver's body, kicked Shadow in the 'sacred' area, then as Shadow was bending over in pain, he brought down the heel of Silver's boot down on his head. Shadow fell to the ground, unconscious.

Snickering, Meph flowed to the back of Silver's mind again, letting Silver recover control of his body.

"Oh my God! What have you done! Now he's going to kill me when I wake up!" Silver knelt over Shadow's unconscious body.

Well, he mustn't know our plans, should he?

"What?"

Never mind, I'll tell you later. Just follow my directions. You do want to get away from him before he wakes up, don't you?

"What I do want to do is go home. I don't even know what's going on anymore."

Just get out of here. Go to the warehouse by the dock.

Meph made Silver's arm point west, towards where the dock was.

"Ok fine, anything to get away before he wakes up."

Good boy. Now, towards the dock.

Silver took off at a steady run towards the dock, ignoring edgy glances from passerby.

Soon, the salty smell of the sea wafted to Silver's nostrils, filling him with memories of times when he would come down here with Blaze.

"I might not ever get to see her again. I hope I do, though."

Once they reached the dock, Silver sat between two crates in the corner of the warehouse, trying to get comfortable.

"This is going to be a long night," He thought silently, then closed his eyes.

Shadow's POV

Shadow slowly opened his eyes, then closed them as pain came to greet him.

Now he remembered.

Embarrassingly, he had taken a sound beating from Silver. But Silver would never harm him, he wouldn't hurt a fly.

"What has gotten into that kid?"

Rubbing his head, he stood up, taking a look at his surroundings.

"Still in the park. Silver's not around, though. Guess he ran off."

Sigh.

"Maybe I need some help after all…"

He took out his green Chaos Emerald, and clutching it tightly, he teleported to Sonic's house.