Shadow was at a loss of words. He wasn't sure how to react to this. "S-Sonic...I"

"I hate to interrupt the moment you two are having", his voice rang over the sounds of panicking civilians, "but I have plans to put into action!", it was Dr. Ivo Robotnik, in person.

"Eggman!"

"I've something to show you Sonic." Eggman pulled a switch, and the capsule that was positioned behind him opened up...to reveal Tails. He was bound in energy shackles, and he was unconscious. "What are you doing to him?!"

"That is a secret."

"Well I'm taking him back from you!" Sonic rushed at Eggman, a fierce look in his eyes.

"Sonic don't, it's a tr-" Shadow was cut short by Sonic being surrounded by an energy field. Eggman laughed maniacally, "I can't believe you fell for that!" Robotnik input a command into his computer, and the field around Sonic lit up. Shadow needed to act quickly, so he did the only thing he could think of. He swapped places with Sonic using Chaos-Control. He felt the field push an electrical current through his body, paralyzing him. "What? You saved him? No matter. I can use this to my advantage." The containment unit teleported Shadow to Eggman's position.

Robotnik swapped Tails with Shadow. He took Tails and held him over the edge of the building he was on. "Here Sonic, you can have him." Eggman let Tails fall off the skyscraper, and he connected the capsule Shadow was in to his Egg-Mobile. Sonic caught Tails and looked up, just to see Eggman speed off. He checked Tails condition, still breathing. He realized, Shadow had just saved him, but he payed for it in the process. Maybe Shadow felt the same way. He had to get him back.

Shadow woke up, his vision fuzzy, and his body aching. He tried to move, but he was in some type of machine. He could see Eggman at a control panel, tuning the settings of the machine he was in. "Ah, I see you're awake Shadow. Now, I'm going to ask you a question, and you're going to answer or...well you'll see." Robotnik put a microchip into the machine. Suddenly, several tubes connected themselves to Shadow, and made a low buzzing noise. "Now Shadow, where is the project?"

"What?"

"The project on the Ark. The second one my grandfather was working on." Shadow's eyes widened, he thought nobody knew about the project. He couldn't tell Eggman where it was located. It would mean destruction on a massive scale. He had to keep the secret, so he remained quiet. "Not feeling talkative? Well then, let's change that." The tubes lit up. They drained the chaos energy from his body, and fired it back into him. It coursed through Shadow's body, and it hurt worse than anything he'd ever experienced. It actually made him scream in agony.

The machine powered down after about two minutes, what Shadow felt as two years. "Now, where is the project?"

"F-fuck you." Robotnik turned up the dial on the machine and, the tubes lit up again. This time it was worse. It felt like millions of machines tearing his very DNA apart. Shadow had experienced pain before, but this was different. He could sustain torture, mutilation, even near death, but this machine...it made him want to die. For the first time in his life, Shadow knew the true definition of pain.