Chapter 2: The Victim

Shadow the Hedgehog walked down a lonely street in Tokyo. He couldn't believe it, him fired, and especially after all the publicity he's given SEGA. Even worse, if he even wanted to have a chance at getting his job back he had to try to be nice. "This just isn't fair," he muttered to himself. He then heard his stomach rumble, and realized he hadn't eaten lunch. "Well, no use thinking about this on an empty stomach."

He turned the corner and saw two restaurants, McDonalds and Burger King. He looked at Burger King and muttered, "Never again," he then walked into McDonalds and got in line.

He looked around the restaurant, 'Maybe I could try working here.' he thought, 'It a nice place and I guess wearing one of those little paper hats wouldn't be too embarrassing.'

"Hello sir may I take your order," a white hedgehog asked him from behind the counter.

"Oh, Hello I'll take a McDouble with a medium vanilla sh... SILVER!"

"Shadow! What are you doing here?"

"I was about to ask you the same thing!"

"I work here, I'm..."

"Silver, get back to work!" the Silver's boss yelled

"I'll talk to you after my shift."

"Okay, But I still want my food. AND DON'T FORGET THE ONIONS!" Silver just stared at him. "Don't ask."

"Don't want to."

Later Shadow was sitting at a booth by a street window, drinking his milk shake. Silver was sitting across from him.

"So," Shadow started, "Why are you working here, video game business not going well?"

"Yeah," Silver responded, "After Sonic Next Generation things pretty much went down hill for me. Everyone thought I sucked and didn't want to see me in any more games. Granted I was in both Sonic Rivals games, but come on, they only came out on the PSP, so over half of the sonic fans couldn't get it."

"Don't worry Silver, you don't suck, SEGA just made you suck."

"Thanks that makes me feel a lot better," he retorted sarcastically, "So, what's wrong with you? I figured that one of SEGA's biggest stars would be eating out at some five star restaurant."

"Yeah, well, I need to save every penny I can, I just got fired."

"What!"

"Yeah it's true." Shadow went on to explain how the ESRB had ordered that he be sacked, and what he had to do to get his job back.

"Wow, that really sucks."

"Tell me about it. I guess I can pretty much kiss my career goodbye,"

"Well why don't you just try being nice?"

"I just won't work. I am not a ni-yi-yi...ni-yiyi-yi... I can't even say it for crying out loud."

"Well maybe some one can help you, like Cream, she the nicest person I know."

"She can't, her mother has a restraining order on me."

"Why?"

"It was either driving a motorcycle through her roof, or using my chaos blast to knock her out of the ice-cream line." Again, Silver didn't say anything "Hey wait a minute, maybe you can help me."

"Who me?"

"Yeah, your nice, and you don't annoy the s*it out of me like most other nice people I know."

"I don't know, I do happen to value my life."

"I'll get you in good with SEGA so you can have your own game."

"Deal."

"Yes! Let's get started then." Shadow stood up on the table, "Look out world here come the new ni-yi-yeyi-yi... you get the point."

So, the two hedgehogs went into town to begin Shadow's nice training. While Shadow was noticeably happy that he now had a chance to keep his job, Silver was praying that he would still be alive to further his.

"So, what do we do first?" Shadow asked.

"First let's start with something simple, like saying nice things,"

"Like what?"

"Well, see that lady over there,"

"Yes"

"Just go over and tell her that, um, she is wearing a very pretty dress."

Shadow proceeded to walk over to the lady who was wearing a blue dress with darker blue flowers on it. "Hello madam," Shadow began, "I must say, that dress makes you look very fat." You probably saw that coming.

"What! You *ss hole!" she then pulls out a can of pepper spray and sprays it right into Shadow's eyes.

"Ow, gerrr, Bit*h!" She sprays him again, "Why you..." acting fast Silver cups his hand over Shadows mouth before he can say anything else. The lady then walks off.

"What was that for?" the black hedgehog yelled as soon as silver let go.

"I was stopping you from going blind! And, what the heck was that! All you had to do was repeat what I said!"

"Sorry! I don't have all that much experience at being ni-yiyiyiyi... that word that begins with an 'N'. I'm not sure how to do it!"

"Ugh, this is going to take more effort than I originally thought,"

The two hedgehogs were back at McDonalds, sitting in the booth by the street window again. After the incident with the women, Silver realized that he had to literally teach Shadow how to say nice things. It was not going well.

"Okay, repeat after me: Your hair looks good."

"Your hair looks bad." Shadow said

"No, repeat, your hair looks good."

"Your hair looks awful,"

"No, g-o-o-d, good,"

"Horrendous,"

"No, sound it out, Guh,"

"Guh"

"oud,"

"oud,"

"Guh-oud"

"Guh-eed, goh-ood, goh-ud..." Silver quickly slapped him on the back, "Good,"

"Okay, now were getting somewhere. Now say it one more time."

"Your hair looks good,"

"Perfect! Now, go and try saying that to the lady over by the soda machine," Shadow walked over to the soda machine while chanting 'Your hair looks good' repeatedly in his head.

"Hello ma'm," he started, "Your hair looks..."

"Yes,"

"Looks..."

'Come on, Shadow, you can do it,' Silver thought.

"Looks like some thing a cat threw up," the lady started to cry.

'ARE YOU SERIOUS?' Silver yelled in his mind.

"Hey," a big burly voice said from behind Shadow, "Are you messing with my wife,"

"So, what if I..." When Shadow turned around he saw a six foot tall wrestler. "Heh heh, hello sir you have such an ugly wife, no I mean, I'm screwed," then the wrestler upper-cutted shadow in the jaw and sent him flying through the roof. After admiring his work, him and his wife left. Three minutes later Shadow came crashing back through the hole in the ceiling and made a hole in the floor the size of his face. Need to say that's what he landed on.

"Shadow! Are you alive?" Silver asked frantically.

"I-I'm ok-kay, I th-think," Shadow stuttered while walking around as if he were drunk

"So, you want to try again?"

"Actually, I'm g-g-going to go h-h-home, get an ibuprofen and start ag-gain in the m-m-morning."

"Good idea. Do you want me to drive?"

"Yes."

'This is going to be a long next three days,' he thought.