Shadow had got up from the couch and was walking around Amy's house admiring her decorations.

"You like it?" Amy asked from behind him.

Shadow turned around. "Yeah, your decorating is really nice."

"Thank you. Hey com'on let's go. I want to show that you're being nice." Amy took his hand and brought him out of the house.

They both walked into the village. Sonic saw them and walked over, Tails followed.

"Hey Shadow." Sonic greeted in a not so excited tone of voice. He knew Shadow was just faking this niceness.

"Hello Sonic." Shadow replied in a more lighthearted tone of voice.

Sonic cocked his head in confusion. "Okay."

"What?" Shadow asked. "I just said hello to you."

Sonic frowned. "This is weird."

Amy punched him in the arm. "Be nice!"

"What did I say?!"

"You don't say that to him! Say hi back."

Sonic pouted. "Hi…" He shook Shadow's hand and the black and red hedgehog nodded in approval.

"I heard that you found me on the beach unconscious. Thanks for helping me out." He replied.

Sonic didn't look happy. "Yeah, you're welcome, don't mention it." He mumbled under his breath with his arms folded

Amy gave the blue hedgehog a death glare. "Com'on Shadow, let's go find Knuckles." She took Shadow's arm and walked away with him.

Sonic stood there with Tails.

"Well this is different." Tails commented, watching the two walk away. "Maybe this will be a good thing Sonic."

"We'll see about that." Sonic mumbled.

Knuckles was lifting weights when Amy and Shadow found him. He had no desire to work out his legs, only his arms, because arms are the only things that matter.

"Hi Knuckles, look what I found." Amy greeted him with Shadow.

"Hi Amy. Who's that?" He replied while doing bench presses.

Amy smiled and pulled Shadow towards her. "This is Shadow, he washed up on the beach."

"Oh." Knuckles put the weight on the holder and sat up. "Hi Shadow."

Shadow gave a smile. "Hi Knuckles."

Suddenly the weights attached to the metal bar started to slip.

"Oh!" Knuckles noticed and dove for them before they hit the ground.

Shadow acted quickly to catch them. He zoomed around to the other side of the bench and caught them with one hand and made sure Knuckles didn't fall. He lifted Knuckles' upper half onto the bench and held the weights up in a triumphant pose.

Knuckles was astounded. "Wow, thank you. I didn't think you were that strong with your skinny arms."

Shadow looked at him and smirked. "You're welcome."

Amy started clapping for the save that the hedgehog had made. "Way to go Shadow!" She gave him a hug.

Knuckles stood up. "Hey to celebrate, you wanna go to Meh Burger?"

"That would be great." Amy approved. "How about it Shadow? it's better than it sounds, trust me."

Shadow shrugged. "I guess."

The hedgehogs and echidna made their way to Meh Burger while Sonic watched them go.

"He's faking it. I know it."

When the trio got to Meh Burger they got in line. Shadow held his hand up to stop Amy from getting out her money.

"Don't. I'll pay."

Amy put her money back and kept the line moving. When they got to Dave at the cash register she ordered for them and let Shadow pay. They got their food and sat down.

"So Shadow, do you remember what happened before you washed up on the beach?" Knuckles asked.

Shadow shook his head. "I don't remember. All I remember is walking up at Amy's house and that's when she told me. Nothing else."

Amy nodded. "But we're all happy that you're alive."

Shadow laughed. "Well it's a good thing that I can't die."

"What?"

"Nothing."

After they got done eating, Amy offered Shadow to stay at her house for the night. He took the offer.

"It's the least I can do since you did these wonderful things today." She said as she let him in the house.

"Thanks. I'll see you in the morning." Amy led him to her extra bedroom and closed the door.

Shadow flopped on the bed and fell asleep.

The next morning Shadow was up early making pancakes. When the pancake aroma hit Amy's nose she woke right up.

"Shadow? What are you doing?" She asked with a yawn.

He turned around from the stove. "You're awake. I just made pancakes, you do like them, don't you?"

"Why would I have mix if I didn't like them?"

Shadow laughed. "Good point." He put a second pancake on her plate and handed it to her. "Here."

Amy looked at it. The pancakes were perfect, she almost didn't want to eat them! She sat down at the table. The black and red hedgehog made some for himself and sat down across from her.

"How'd you sleep?" He asked her.

Amy looked up at him. "I slept fine, thank you."

"Me too."

Sonic suddenly ran in through the back door. "Amy! I know why Shadow's acting like this! It was Sticks!"

Shadow looked confused. "Who?"

Amy gasped. "Sticks? What did she do?"

"Also Eggman is trying to steal some Plutonium or whatever."

Amy jumped up. "We have to stop him! Shadow come on!" She ran out the door with Shadow following behind her but Sonic stopped him.

"Hold up!" He demanded with his hand in Shadow's face. "I don't trust you, so you better just stay here."

Shadow moved the hand away from his face. "Sonic, I'm going to help. Move it."

Sonic blocked the door. "Only if you cut out this act of yours."

"What act? Sonic, I'm sorry but you have to move!"

"Nope." Sonic quickly shut the door and locked it so Shadow couldn't go outside.

"Bye Shadow!" Sonic said from the outside and left.

Shadow looked around. The front door was open. "He obviously isn't very bright." He ran out the doorway to the action going on outside.