"What are we going to do?"
"Well, we could try to stop Eggman before he uses the project."
"Or we could..." Shadow sat back listening to the plans of the two. By what they were saying, he could tell they didn't know what they were doing. Almost all of the pain was gone from Shadow's body. He healed much quicker than the average person, due to his chaos energy. However, there was still something bothering him. It was a pain in his middle back he felt whenever he stood up. It got worse over time, but Shadow chose to ignore it. "Well Shadow, what do you think we should do?"
"There's not much we can do. We can't go on a direct assault, or try anything sneaky. Besides, we don't even know where Robotnik is."
"Don't worry, I'll come up with something." Tails left the room for his workshop. Sonic sat next to Shadow, "How you feeling?"
"Fine."
"Anything you want to talk about?" Shadow thought for a moment. "Yes actually, there is."
"What is it?"
"Why do you love me?"
"What?"
"From what I understand, love goes deeper than just kissing and hugging. There is a reason the two people feel the attraction. What is your reason?"
"Well I like almost everything about you."
"What's there to like?"
"Well for starters, you're not as cold as you act. You always say you don't care, but you're just as heroic as me, if not more so. You always go out of your way to help, like me. All despite your past."
"What do you mean 'despite my past'?"
"Well, you had a rough past. What happened on the Ark would have changed anybody, even me. Most people would be horrible and cruel."
"But that's how I was when I came to Mobius."
"Against GUN, not everyone else, even though you acted like you did hate everyone. But that's besides the point. You're so...friendly. Not to mention all the other stuff about you, like how you're caring, how you're so determined," Sonic went on to list every trait about Shadow he could. "Why do you like me?", Sonic asked when he was done.
"I guess...you were the first person to accept me, other than Maria. You might have hated me in the beginning, but you were different after you learned about me. You were the first person not to run in terror every time they saw me, despite what I'd done in the past. I guess, I always saw something in you though...the way you were so selfless, the way you devoted your own life to making other people's lives better. I wanted to be like that, but I couldn't...not in the beginning anyway. I guess you were the missing part of me."
Sonic smiled, as did Shadow. Sonic leaned over to him and kissed him on the cheek, but Shadow pulled him into a bigger kiss. He pushed Sonic down again, so he was on top. He pinned Sonic down, and began to tease him with small kisses. Sonic groaned, he hated being teased. Shadow wasn't experienced with this kind of stuff, but it seemed to come to him naturally. He was the ultimate life-form after all. Shadow leaned in and gave Sonic a small bite on the neck. A slight moan escaped Sonic's mouth, and Shadow smirked. He had hit a sweet spot.
Eggman examined the project closely. It oozed with chaos energy readings. The project had more power than he anticipated. He noticed a collar around its neck. It must be incase the project escaped containment. He could use that to his advantage. Time to awaken the beast.