Inside an interrogation room…

Soon after Shadow was restrained and arrested by the police and immediately taken from the castle to the police station, he was immediately and quite roughly taken and dragged out of the police car by 2 black-suited Echidna men and into the police station before they dragged and bring Shadow into an elevator and one of them press the down button and the elevator went down toward an underground room consists of dozens of interrogation rooms for interrogating criminals under the police station.

Once the 2 black-suited Echidna men took Shadow into one of the interrogation rooms (which Shadow see that it's quite dimly lit yet bright enough to show parts of the room with steel plated walls that prevents any attempts of escape and had a camera hanging on the wall and had only a table and 2 chairs on opposite side of the table in the room) and locked the door, they then forced Shadow to sat down on the chair before they proceed to take out and put an electronic controlling collar around Shadow's neck to suppress his Chaos energy and weaken him then they spend the next few minutes in taunting and beating Shadow up.

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An hour later…

"Guess us putting that collar on him before beating him up was too much for him… Not like he can't take it and he deserved it anyway." muttered the first black-suited Echidna man to himself as he glared coldly at the weak and injured black and red hedgehog sitting on the chair in front of him before he turned to glance at the second black-suited Echidna man standing to his left behind him.

"Wake him up." the first black-suited Echidna told the second black-suited Echidna (who nodded before he woke Shadow up by drenching him with a bucket of cold water that he lifted up from the floor).

After the second black-suited Echidna threw cold water on Shadow to wake him up, Shadow groan and slowly opened his red eyes to take a look at the room he's in before he stared at the 2 black-suited Echidna men standing in front of him.

"No dozing off, hedgehog." said the first black-suited Echidna warningly to Shadow (who scowled defiantly at him).

"You still give me such a defiant look, do you? Know your place!" snapped the first black-suited Echidna as he glared at Shadow before he raised and swung his right foot down on Shadow's stomach hard, which make him winced and let out another groan of pain as he fall off the chair and landed hard on the floor.

"Come on, cooperate. Or what, you want another shot?" the first black-suited Echidna added coldly and smugly to Shadow as he got down on one knee near him to grabbed one of his black/red quills to pull him up from the floor, which make Shadow glared weakly at him before he glance at the camera hanging on the upper left corner of the wall near the door.

"Huh? What about the camera over there on the wall? Don't tell me that you're thinking that the camera can be used as video evidence?" asked the first black-suited Echidna to Shadow.

"Of course not…" replied Shadow.

"So you're not a dumb hedgehog. Which is good, 'cause we get to take as much time as we NEED ON YOU!" said the first black-suited Echidna to Shadow before he slammed his head back down to the floor, let go of his black/red quill and stood up before he kicked Shadow hard on his stomach again.

The first black-suited Echidna then turned around and walked away from Shadow and he took a clipboard with a single paper on it from the second black-suited man Echidna. "Obstruction of justice, blackmail, defamation, possession of weapons… Manslaughter too, yeah? Talk about the works." the first black-suited Echidna read out the crimes written on the clipboard to Shadow as he turned back to glance at him. "To think that all those crimes written here were led and executed by a no-good hedgehog like you… And you seemed to be enjoying every second of it… Huh?" the first black-suited Echidna asked Shadow.

"What's does… he mean by… I was… enjoying it…? Everything's hazy… I can't remember…" thought Shadow in hazy confusion in his mind.

"…You should know your place." said the first black-suited Echidna with a shake of his head to Shadow before he glance and gestured his head at the second black-suited Echidna to him (who uncrossed his arms to approach and kneel down behind Shadow to uncuffed the collar on his before he roughly grabbed his shoulder to bring him up into a sitting position).

After the second black-suited Echidna forced Shadow into a sitting position, he then massaged him bruised wrists to bring circulation back into them before he saw the first black-suited Echidna approach and got down on one knee in front of Shadow to shoved another clipboard with another paper on it at him. "Sign here, hedgehog. It's a confession under your name." the first black-suited Echidna explained to Shadow.

"… No way I'm signing this after what you did to me!" snapped Shadow at the black-suited Echidna before he slapped the clipboard away with her left hand.

"I see… You don't want to sign it, huh?" said the black-suited Echidna coldly to Shadow before he raised and swung his hand to backhand his face for the second time (which make Shadow let out another groan of pain from it). "I need your hand to sign this and I and my fellow policemen will make sure that you sign it, one painful way or another." the black-suited Echidna added to Shadow before he shoved the clipboard to him again (which make her glared at him before she snatch the clipboard from his hand).

"And one more thing, hedgehog. Don't you expect that you can walk out of here in one piece. For we're going to make you understand… that one must take full responsibility for their actions…" said the black-suited Echidna warningly to Shadow as he take out a light grey fountain pen from his pants pocket and hold the pen out to Shadow (which he glance for a few seconds before he take the pen from him as well) before he stood up, crossed his arms and watched him.

Shadow glance at the clipboard in his hands before he wrote and sign his full name "Shadow", on it then he handed the clipboard and the pen back to the black-suited Echidna standing in front of him.