Continued from where we left off...
Sonic and Shadow arrived in a room filled with brightly coloured liquids in different sized bottles. Some bottles contained powders or pills as an alternative, all the while still fluorescent in colour.
"Welcome, Sonic." Shadow said proudly, "to my greatest accomplishment yet. Sure none of these can take over the world like I'd want them to, instead they provide help to those in need of ... Help."
Sonic laughed. "Okay. So... What do you think is for me?"
"You approached me today seeming yourself, however you have a certain weakness about you. It is not due to an injury, so I will assume it is due to deep feelings you want to get rid of... Possibly for Miss Amy Rose."
Sonic felt his cheeks go red. "Yep." He said shyly.
Shadow jumped in the air and flew to the top two shelves of his magnificent potion collection.
"You have a few options." Shadow grabbed some bottles: green, gold, and red. He held up the green and began to dictate: "The green liquid can help you become your normal self again, in summary. Of course, there are side effects and whatnot-"
"Next." Sonic interrupted.
Shadow held up the gold bottle. "This one might not interest you that much, but it actually causes the person you are in love with to feel the same way as you."
Sonic paused and thought. He was not in any place to be considering this life choice, so he gestured for the next one.
"this one..." Shadow began, holding up the red bottle, "Will cause the opposite of the gold one.. So, basically, you will not love Amy whatsoever, and she will not love you whatsoever."
Sonic paused. "Wait. Amy loves me?"
"No idea, but I imagine she cares about you. That would disappear."
Sonic buried his head in his hands. "Shadow.. There's no way I can do any of those things. I need something to help me cope with these feelings, not get rid of them completely. I can't deny I love her, but I'm not ready to do anything in accordance with it. So just... Knock me out romantically for 24 hours, give me a high, anything - just distract me."
Shadow nodded and began mixing multiple potions together. Sonic caught a glimpse of some green, gold AND red going in, and many other colours. Eventually, the colour was blue like him.
"Drink this." Shadow said with pride.
Before asking questions, Sonic did so without hesitation. After completing the whole bottle, he started to say, "What happens next?" But he was knocked out quickly and abruptly, causing him to fall to the floor.
