I'm really sorry for the lag in updates. I've been going through some stuff and haven't had the motivation to continue writing, but here I am! I wrote this song while listening to Entombed by Deftones, enjoy!

Shadow sat on the dining room chair, his thoughts scrambling to try and make up an excuse. Sonic was right. Why didn't he remember the things the blue hedgehog was talking about?

Eggman warned Shadow that the blue hedgehog would try and make it seem as if they met before, but something was different.

Sonics emerald green eyes showed.. confusion and distrust yet his face was almost as stoic as his own.

"I..." for once in his life, the bio engineered hedgehog had no explanation as to why he didn't recall the events that happened. "I don't know."

Sonic squinted slightly, the distrust growing if only slightly,"how far back do you remember."

Resisting the urge to resort to pinning his ears back when he did whenever Eggman brought out torture devices, he cleared his throat,"I remember waking up on Eggman's table. That is as far back as I can recall. I'm sorry I have mislead you to believe I was the same person you remembered. I believed I was doing the right thing, hiding my true purpose. My new purpose."

The blue hedgehog was speechless. Sonic had only assumed the bio-hedgehog was now lying about remembering when he was first released from the capsule by himself and Tails. He did not expect anything more to be revealed.

"What 'new purpose' are you talking about?" Sonic stood cautiously, not knowing what the black hedgehog was truly capable of doing.

Taking a deep breath, Shadow stood up, his ears finally bending backwards in a sign of relentless submission,"I've been feeding The Doctor with information on you and your friends and your plans to infiltrate his secret bases."

Sonic looked completely appalled at the betrayal and heartache this information caused. He subconsciously took a step back, anger fueling his voice as he narrowed his eyes at the black hedgehog his heart once beat for,"get out."

"What?" Shadow took a step forward but was met with a brutal stare from the blue hedgehog in front of him. His chest became heavy with guilt and it aches with an emotion he couldn't name.

"You can mess with me, play with my feelings, screw around with my head, but when you mess with my friends who I consider family, that's where I draw the line," Sonic stood in a fighting stance incase the black hedgehog tried something," go back to the hole you crawled out of, Shadow the hedgehog. This is your only warning to leave, I don't want to hurt you, but I will if I have to."

The black hedgehog narrowed his eyes, but turned towards the door and stepped out nonetheless. His anger at himself fueling his steps as he walked out of sight from Sonic's house.

...

"What do you mean he was giving information to Eggman? He said he escaped from-" Tails was cut off by Sonic's angered voice at the betrayal.

"He lies to us, Tails," the energetic blue hedgehog paced back and forth, trying to release his anger and stress. "He pretended to know us- to become one of us- to get on our side to stab us in the back."

The twin tailed fox was about to speak up again but was interrupted by Sonic," chaos how could I be so stupid? It was obvious something was wrong but I was blinded because of how I felt toward him!"

That statement caught the fox kit off gaurd,"how you felt towards him..?"

Continuing his pacing, Sonic gave up in hiding the truth from his little brother," I fell for him. I liked him. It's what blinded me from realizing he wasn't actually on our side."

Taking a step towards his brother, Tails placed a hand on the cobalt hedgehog's shoulder," Sonic, I don't think that's why. I mean, no one realized it. Your feelings didn't get in the way of anything, we all believed he was the same person he was before. For all we know, Eggman could have brainwashed him or something. Don't you remember the paperwork we read? He's a biologically engineered hedgehog we found in a cryogenic chamber. He's prone to not remember things and to be distant, maybe Eggman did something to him and messed him up."

Sonic sighed, and crossed his arms,"you're right, I should give him the benefit of the doubt at least. But the thing is, I told him to leave and I haven't seen him since."

Rubbing his finger on his chin, Tails spoke up,"you know.. I think.. I think I remembered reading something about a microchip in Shadow's ear. But I think it would have been taken out, Shadow showed up at Rouge's house in pretty bad shape."

"It's worth a shot right? If Eggman fooled him enough and did all those beatings on him he still deserves to be saved even if he did pretend to be something he isn't," Sonic and Tails walked to the garage to find the discarded paperwork to see where exactly they could find a control panel in the crashed Space colony to see where Shadow was located.

After a quick search, Tails pulled up the files and read over them carefully,"hm, it only vaguely suggest that Shadow has a tracking device."

"Remind me again why we didn't use this when he was taken?" Sonic looked over his kit brothers shoulder to look at the documents in his hand.

"They only mentioned it once and after fifty plus years I'm not even sure it would continue to work."

Sonic shrugged it off,"let's go, bro. I know we'll be able to find something at least."

...

The duo arrived at the crashed space colony within the hour, just as before, they crept through the halls until they found the room Shadow was rescued from. The floor was covered in the same ooz that the ebony hedgehog had dripping off his body as he was released from the gel like prison.

Sonic sighed quietly before turning around and pointing out the lone computer in the corner of the room. The golden furred fox nodded and attacked a wire from his Miles Elecrric to the ancient computer to get a quicker read on the files hidden behind the locked hardware. After a few moments, the passcode and firewall were opened and the files came flooding in. Every known possible fact about Shadow the hedgehog had been written down and was now on Tails' tablet.

"Oh wow.. I knew we would get some good information, but I didn't know we would get this, of all things," Tails worries look concerned his older brother who scanned the words on the document on the screen.

"Wait.. So Shadow never found out that Maria was killed? How?"

"I'm not sure, it looks like the only copies of the incident were hidden under lock and key until this current copy was some how logged into the computer and saved manually. Someone deliberately put it in there for someone to find," Tails finished, he scrolled to another document.

"This one just talks about his power to manipulate Chaos Energy. That's important but not relevant to what we're looking for, I'll keep it pinned," the golden kit scrolled a few more times before finding the document that they were originally looking for.

"Damn," Sonic mumbled," the tracking chip was in his left ear, that was the one that was most damaged, it had a whole piece of flesh missing from it when he showed up at Rouge's house."

Knowing his brother was about to give up, Tails wracked his brain for another possible solution. When an idea popped into his head, he snapped his fingers,"wait! If he was injured in Eggman's base then the tracking chip must be still there! We can track it and find Eggman's current hidden base!"

"What are we waiting for? Let's bounce!"