Shadow finally woke up after the ordeal with Eggman. He saw that Rouge was with him. "Rouge." Then he hugged her and she hugged him back. "Shadow, I have some good and bad news." "Which do you want to hear first?" she asked. "The bad." he replied. "The bad news is that there's no cure for your symptoms." "What?" he asked in shock. "But the good news is that the symptoms you have are temporary." she replied. "Well, that's interesting."

"Rouge, do you have a Chaos Emerald?" "I do." "Can I borrow it?" he asked. "Sure." she replied. "Chaos Control." he shouted. To his relief, he still had Chaos Control. Then he reverted everything back to normal at about 10 seconds. "You can keep the emerald, Shadow." "Thank you." Then they kissed.

"Sorry to interrupt, but we need to see how we can treat Shadow's symptoms." Sonia stated. "Okay, then let's go." Shadow complied. Then they met up with Sonic, and Chris had wonderful news. "I called my grandpa, and he's going to come here today." Chris stated. "Thats great." Sonic added.

Then after about 2 hours, Chris's grandpa came, and took some of his lab equipment with him. "Hey Chris." "Hey grandpa." "So what help can I be kiddo?" he asked. "A friend of ours needs help." Chris replied. "Okay, so who is he or she?" his grandfather asked. Then Sonic, Shadow and the others came. "Do you all need help?" he asked in a humorous tone. "No, it's just me." Shadow interposed. "Okay, what so let's get to work." his grandfather ordered.

Then he had Shadow lay down on the floor, and then he took a sample of his blood. Then he put his blood in the microscope he took with him, and then he discovered some very interesting things. "Shadow, you have a lot energy in you." "So." "So what that means, is that whenever you happen to overextend yourself, you begin loosing some energy. "So what I'm trying to say is that, you're gradually loosing your immortality every time you overextend your power." "Thanks for the help Dr. Thorndyke." Shadow stated. "You are very welcome." he complied.

Then Sonic, and the others began testing or treating his symptoms. Sonic had Shadow race against him. Shadow could still run fast but yet he got tired after awhile. But yet Shadow could stretch well, but whenever he expands himself to much or if he kept someone tied up for a long time, he'd really start to lose his energy, and as a result, it would make him very tired.

Then Maniac tested out Shadow's flexibility. He got a lot of hammers. He first used the hammer that doctors would normally use. Then he hit Shadow's knee with that hammer. "Do you feel anything?" he asked. "No." Shadow replied. Then he used a normal hammer. "Feel anything now." "No."

Then he used all the types of hammers, even a sledgehammer, but it was no use. Then at his last effort, Maniac used a hammer that he made himself. It was a hammer composed of pipes and a brick. Then he hit Shadow's knee again, and before he knew it, it knocked him back and as he was knocked back, he screamed. Then he broke through one the manisons windows and broke it, and eventually he landed in Chris's swimming pool.

"That was not cool." said Maniac in a sarcastic tone. "Well, I'm glad this is only temporary, but for how long?" Shadow pouted.

Then before Shadow and the others knew it. They felt an earthquake. Then while the quake occurred Shadow ran out of his room to see if Rouge and the others were okay. They all were fine, but then Rouge fell off the stairs, and then Shadow caught her using his elasticity. "Thanks Shadow." "You're welcome." Then he got Rouge up.

The quake was already over after a few minutes. But then Sonic turned on the TV, and saw on the news that Station Square was also in the earthquake, but yet it was still going on. Then Sonic immediately realized that many people could get killed. "Guys we have to go save Station Square. Many people will die if we don't go." "You got it." Shadow replied. The rest agreed. "Well then, let's go."

Then they ran to the city, and many things were falling. People were running. Then as a poster was about to fall. Shadow stretched then made the poster bounce off him. Then Rouge flew and saved people from a falling building.

Then Sonic ran and grabbed pedestrians from the avenue of the city. Sonia, Cream, Amy, and the others took many people to the nearest refuge center. Sonia smashed and punched her way out of the falling debris to find Sonic and Tails. Tails managed to save Chris's teachers from the school Chris went to.

"I think that's the last of them." "I agree Sonic." Tails stated. "Now let's get out of here, guys." Sonia pleaded. Then as they tried to run back to the mansion, they realized that Shadow and Rouge were not there. So they went and looked for them.

They eventually found them. They were trying to save many people from inside a building that was about to collapse. Rouge flew and she threw as many people as possible out of the building. Shadow used his body as a trampoline to catch the people. She eventually got all the people out. Shadow had some to little energy left. "Rouge!" Shadow shouted.

Then Rouge realized that the building was about to fall on her. Then she flew to land on the ground as fast possible, but the building was falling rapidly. In a desperate effort, Shadow stretched and held the building for as long as possible. Immediately, Rouge flew away and landed safely. She stood and waited for Shadow.

But when Shadow reverted, the building fell on him, just as he was about to run. "Shadow! NO!" Rouge shouted. She was running to Shadow as fast as she could, but with the last of his energy, Shadow bounced the building off him, and he stretched himself to Rouge. His arms were stretched still, as he held her, and his body laid face down.

"Shadow, thank God you're okay." "Yeah." he added. "If I last like this forever, I wonder if you'll still love me?" "Shadow, I'll always love you." "And I truly, deeply, love you, Rouge." he stated, then he got unconscious. Rouge cried, and thought he was dead, but then all of a sudden his arms gradually pulled the rest of his body to Rouge. She grabbed him, and she held his body, and cried. Sonic, and the others went to Rouge and stood by her.

But then Shadow woke up. "Am I dead?" "Shadow. Shadow, I love you." Rouge joyfully shouted. Then they kissed again. "Let's see if I can still can stretch." he stated. But when he lifted his arm, and tried to stretch, it didn't. Then Shadow realized that his stretching power was gone. Then he shouted for joy, and hugged Rouge. Then he hugged Sonic and the others, and they hugged him back.

"What a day?" "Let's go home, guys." Sonic said in finality. Then he, Shadow, Rouge, and the others went back to the mansion, to rest and wait for new adventures.