Amy walked into Shadow's hut and was surprised to find it still dark,
with Shadow still in bed. She frowned and walked over to the window
and opened the curtain. A bottle of aspirin fell out of the window and she
picked it up. "An aspirin bottle? Wha-" Shadow stirred as she shook the
bottle. There was barely any sound, very few pills were left. "Shadow?
Shadow what is this? The first time I've ever seen you take anything was
for your headache." Shadow mumbled something incoherent, took the
bottle from Amy and downed the last two pills. Amy didn't hesitate; she
took Shadow by an ear and headed to Tails' house.
"How long has he been doing this?" "Uh, about three days Tails." Tails
checked Shadow over while Amy made him hold still. "Shadow?
Shadow what happened? Your Chaos Energy levels aren't where they
should be. You've lost about twenty five percent!" "Well I said I don't
get headaches very often. Listen, I know how to reverse everyone's
robotization at the same time." "Really!" Amy burst out, excited. Tails
frowned but stayed silent. Amy and Keira finished but Tails held Shadow
back. "I don't know what you're planning, but, I don't think you can
handle an energy output that big. If you'd let me monitor the next time
you reverse the-" Shadow gave Tails a slow, sad smile and held a finger
to his lips to signal 'shhh'. Tails' eyes widened. "I know what I'm doing.
I'm the only one who can do this. Goodbye Tails. Take good care of your
family." "What about Amy? What about her Shadow?" "Her family can
take care of her. Her mother, father and brother were roboticized; they'll
come back to her. Yours will come back to you. Amy will be better off
because if you hadn't noticed, I don't age." Shadow quickly caught up
with Amy and walked her home.
Knuckles nearly jumped out of his skin when Tikal appeared. "He faces
his hardest challenge yet, the test of love and trust. What he plans will
kill him; love and trust can prevail though." "Hey Knuckles! I came by
to-" Tails stopped in mid sentence when he spotted Tikal. "Tails we have
to stop Shadow from . . . doing, something!" "Only love and trust can
prevail." Tikal spoke again. "Only Amy can stop him now! We have to
get to her and fill her in before it's too late!" Knuckles jumped into
Tails' plane. "Whaddya waiting for!" He called to Tails as he ran to catch
up. As the plane flew away Tikal sighed and looked towards
Robotropolis. Chaos appeared beside her and she leaned into his arms. "I
hope Amy succeeds, love is the strongest power known, even stronger
than pure Chaos Energy. Shadow stayed by the Master Emerald too long.
He can't replace his energy or contain it any more; soon he'll have none
left and will die unless Amy can talk him out of his plan."