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Be Careful What You Wish For

Without warning the blue chao jumped from the table and raced out of the kitchen screaming.

"What's wrong with him?" Maria yelled holding her ears to block the chao's screams.

Shadow shook his head as Sonic raced by him screaming "I'm going to be a chao forever!" at the top of lungs. "He's just upset because now we have idea how to change him back." Shadow sighed as the screams began to take on a rhythmic pattern. "I originally thought all we had to do was wait for the balance in his body to be restored."

"Change him back?" Maria asked in confusion as she uncovered her ears. The loud screams had been replaced by sobbing which drifted into the kitchen from the living room.

"Sonic was originally a hedgehog like me. Before I found you I had been captured by Metal Sonic, a robotic version of Sonic. Sonic sacrificed himself to save me, so I injected him with my blood to bring him back to life. It worked, only he came back as a chao and not a hedgehog."

"That makes no sense; Sonic's injuries should have simply healed. He should not have been changed so drastically."

"What about you Maria, my blood changed you from human to hedgehog."

Maria smiled, "That's true, but you see the vial you injected me with also contained a small amount of ring energy."

"Ring energy?"

Maria nodded, "Yes, rings allows a person a single wish. And I had always wanted to be like you Shadow, so your dna provided the power and the ring energy granted my wish."

Shadow's eyes went wide, "Sonic's body is practically full of ring energy due to all the rings he's gathered over the years."

"Then that has to be it! Someone there must have made the wish and the energy in Sonic acted accordingly."

Shadow rubbed the back of his quills, "But… no one said anything."

"They wouldn't of had to, ring wishes can be made simply be thinking them."

"But I didn't say that I wished it!" Shadow blurted out before he could stop himself

"You wished for Sonic to be a chao?"

Shadow grinned sheepishly, "Well… not really in so many words. I was simply thinking about how Sonic sometimes acted reckless. Then that made me think of that time on the Ark when one of the chao Dr. Gerald had accidently opened the door to the outside and was almost sucked into space."

Maria smiled, "Subconsciously you must have wanted to be back on the Ark with the chao. So the ring energy in Sonic must have interpreted that want as a wish to turn Sonic into a chao."

"Can't I just wish him a hedgehog again?"

Maria shook her head, "Legends of the rings state that only the keeper of the rings can undo wishes."

"So all we have to do is find this 'keeper' and Sonic will be normal again, well as normal as Sonic gets."

Maria shook her head, "It's not that simple no one has ever seen the keeper. Most have dismissed the claim that he even exists."

"You never know until you try."Shadow said as he walked into the living room. He stopped and just stared; "Now that is just sad."

"What?" Maria asked as she stood beside him, she had to cover her mouth to suppress her laughter. Lying in the middle of the floor was a still sobbing chao that had curled himself as close to a ball as a chao could get.

Shadow knelt beside him, "Come on Sonic we have to go see Obsidian."

A sob was Sonic's response.

"And then we can go find the guy that can change you back into a hedgehog."

"Huh?" Sonic uncurled slightly.

"He'll be easy to find."

Sonic jumped to his feet, "All right let's go!" the little chao then raced to the door.

"What are you going to do when you can't find him?" Maria whispered as she followed Shadow.

"I haven't gotten that far."

Maria smiled, "You'll think of something."

"Don't I always?" Shadow said smugly as they headed to the hospital

At the hospital

"Obsidian can you hear me?" Maria whispered softly.

Obsidian moaned and slowly opened his eyes; he looked around the room, "Where am I?"

"Your in Knothole hospital, we brought you here after you saved my life." Knuckles spoke up his voice reverent.

Obsidian just grinned at him, "It was the least I could do after you threw me that nice welcome party." Without giving Knuckles time to retort Obsidian looked at Shadow, "Were you able to find anything out from the computer file?"

Shadow shook his head, "I'm sorry Obsidian after you were shot things got a little hectic. I had to get everyone out of there before anyone else got hurt."

Obsidian's face fell; he was startled as Sonic jumped from Shadow to the bed. The chao had his infamous grin plastered on his face.

"Once again it's Sonic to the rescue." The chao exclaimed as he puffed out his chest in pride.

Everyone just stared at him.

"I managed to open the file, before Shadow almost left me." Sonic glared at the mentioned hedgehog.

"Is that why you were holding onto my elbow when we arrived in the forest?"

"What did the file say?!" Obsidian interrupted his voice full of excitement.

"Umm… well I only had time to read a few words, Danzi Kai. But I have no idea what they mean."

Everyone jumped suddenly as the door to the room flung open, and a very angry Sally walked in.

"You have a lot of nerve Sonic! I should have been told about your condition instead of you letting me worry myself sick about you!"

Sonic sweat-dropped, "Umm…chao?"

"Don't even go there Sonic, Knuckles already spilled the beans."

"Blabbermouth." Sonic scowled at Knuckles. He then turned to Sally, "I'm sorry Sal, I didn't mean to worry you. I just didn't want you to see me like this. Can you ever forgive me?"

Sally just shook her head at the puppy dog eyes Sonic was giving her, "Why can't I ever stay mad at you?"

Sonic grinned, "It must be my charm."

"It's definitely not your IQ." Shadow laughed poking Sonic in the head.

Sonic shoved his finger away, "At least I'm not a blood bank!"

"That's a low blow chao face." Shadow growled

"Will you two just stop it?! I swear you two are like two year olds!" Maria scolded.

"He started it." Sonic said as he pointed at Shadow.

"What is with all the ruckus! My patient should be resting."

Everyone turned to see Dr. Quack standing in the doorway.

The doctors eyes went to the chart he was holding, "Obsidian I have the results of the tests here. If everyone would please wait outside."

As soon as everyone had left Obsidian grinned at Dr. Quack, "Give it to me straight doc."

"All right." Dr. Quack took a deep breath as he stood beside the bed, "The tests show that the metal is anchored all the way down into the bone. As well as into parts of your cranium, though the tests didn't show just how far. Rotor seems confident that all of the metal can be removed. I am not that optimistic; I fear that you internal organs may be damaged beyond repair due to the strain of trying to keep your Mobian body alive under all of the metal."

"What are the odds I'll survive the surgery?" Obsidian asked his voice calm.

"I put your chances of survival at 20%."

Obsidian closed his eyes, after a few minutes he opened them, "I still want to have the surgery,"

Dr. Quack stared at him in disbelief, "Obsidian you need time to think about this."

"I have thought about it doctor, and it has to be done. My life was stolen from me and I'm going to do everything in my power to get it back. And if it takes dying to do it then I will."

"Very well if that's what you want. Although let me make this very clear, If I get in there and removing the metal is killing you I will not proceed with the surgery."

Obsidian shook Dr. Quacks hand, "Agreed, oh and could you not tell the others of the risk. I don't want them to worry."

"All right if that's what you want, though I think you should tell them. I will send a nurse to come get you in a few minutes to take you back."

As soon as Dr. Quack had left the others rushed in eager to find out what was said.

"The doctor was simply informing me that Rotor is confident that the metal can be removed from my body."

Maria grabbed his hand, "That's wonderful Obsidian! Are they going to do the surgery today?"

Obsidian nodded, "Yeah, a nurse will be here in a few minutes to get me."

"Are you nervous?" Sonic asked from Shadow's shoulder

Obsidian considered the question, "Not really, I'm more nervous about not knowing who I am. All I have to go on are a few words and even they aren't very helpful."

Sonic hung his head, "Sorry."

"It's not your fault Sonic, you did your best and without you I wouldn't have anything."

"I have Nicole running the words through all known data banks." Sally said as she glanced at her hand held computer.

"I have the Chaotix on the case as well Obsidian. And if anybody can find out information it's those guys."

"As long as they don't have to find a computer room." Shadow said crossly.

Everyone stared at him in confusion.

"What! They can never find it without my help."

Before anyone could ask Shadow what he meant the door opened and a nurse walked in, "All right Obsidian Dr. Quack is ready for you."

"Good luck Obsidian!" Sonic called as they wheeled the bed out of the room.

Obsidian gave them a thumbs up as the nurse took him down the hallway.

"I hope he'll be ok." Maria said as they went into the waiting room.

"I'm sure he'll be just fine." Shadow said as he placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

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