Manic didn't talk to me at all for 3 days in a row. He just acted as if I was never there, even when u was right in front of him. I just didn't know what to do.

I sighed trying to clear my mind so I could go to sleep. I closed my eyes, but ask I could think of was Maria. 'She must be so ashamed of me',I thought sadly. My heart sank in a black abyss at the thought of what a disappointing and shameful creature I was to her now. Before I knew it, I feel asleep.

X hours later X

I opened my eyes after I felt a soft surface choose against my muzzle. I saw Manic hitting me with his pillow. "What are you doing, Manic?" I asked trying to pretend I was frustrated instead of content for him having made any kind if contact with me. Even if this contact was hitting me with a pillow. "You were talking in your sleep" said Manic and stopped hitting me with his painful weapon. "So?" I responded.

"You were sweating...shaking...and um, yelling" Manic answered hesitantly and looked down. "What was I saying?" I asked firmly looking into his ocean blue colored eyes. He looked up at me, folded his ears and said "Maria"

My heart sank again as my head was filled with memories of the blond blue-eyed angel. She was the only person that ever reply understood me. I looked at Manic straight in the eye and saw tears forming in his eyes. "Are you okay?" I asked concerned and hipping that the question wouldn't bring more tears.

"It...it just made me feel bad"

"Feel bad? Feel?! A man is not supposed to feel!" I yelled while getting off the bed. Manic just stared back at me blankly, there was no expression on his face, but I knew he was hurt. "Stop being such a pussy and be a man for fuck's sake!" I said.

Then I punched him in the face.

-3rd POV-

Manic fell of the stairs he was standing on to talk to Shadow (who was on the top bunk) and hit the cold, hard ground. He looked up at Shadow's eyes only to see anger and hate. 'Why did he just do that?' was think, 'How did he change so suddenly? And why's he mad at me?!' Manic thought as he stood up and started backing away from the black furred beast. But that only made smirk. He knew how vulnerable Manic was mentally. Manic just stood there in the corner of the cell shaking as he wondered what was going through Shadow's mind at the moment.

Shadow wasn't even sure of what was going through his own mind, all he was sure about was that he felt rage and partie and that he had to take it our on someone. Someone weak and fragile. He walked toward Maid and wrapped guy's aground his neck and pressed with all guy's strength. Pressing his trachea and making it harder for oxygen to reach Manic's lungs. Manic put his hands on Shadow's wrists and tried to pull them away, but he was too strong. That attempt only made Shadow angrier and choke Manic harder.

Luckily for Manic, a guard and a mysterious man in a lab coat got there in time answer opened the cell. "Let him go!" yelled the guard as he went inside the cell, took out a teaser and pressed it hard against Shadow's neck. Shadow released Manic's neck as the painful electricity ran through him. The guard teased him again making him fall into unconsciousness. Manic looked at the guard and stuttered breathing heavily "Th-thank you"

The mysterious would in a lab coat went inside and lifted Shadow up bridal style. The guard said "You're welcome"

Then they both left with The Ultimate Life Form.

-Shadow's POV-

I woke up in a metal chair. I looked at my surroundings but everything was white. "This is the same room where they injected me with that experimental drug" I said out loud. "That is right" said a familiar voice making my ears erect. I looked up at the wolf. 'Bastard'

"So...I see ze experiment had gone well, yes?" He said. "Well?! I almost strangled my cellmate and you call that well?!" I returned angrily.

"Affirmative, that was ze experiment" he said. "There iz one more experiment we need to do on you" he said darkly. "Extend your arm.

I did as I was told without complaining and but my loser lip as the cold needle penetrated my skin.

(XXXXXXXXXXXX)
I was walked back to my cell soon after. The guard punched me on the stomach before pushing me in and closing the cell. I tried not to show pain in case someone was watching. I looked at Manic, who was sleeping in the bottom bunk. He was curled up in a bask asleep. I don't know why, but something made me walk over to Manic. He looked so peaceful when he was sleeping. But I knew he was nit going to be so peaceful once he woke up and saw me.

Then, I started feeling something...I don't know. An urge. An urge to touch him. As if to see if he was really real. Maybe it was just the damn drug.

Without thinking,I began to pet his head. Manic's eyes snapped open and looked at me. His blue eyes were filled with pure fear and he was shaking a little. I spoke " Manic I'm sorry about earlier...out was the d-"

"Get the Fuck away from me! Don't touch me!"

I sighed and clinched to the to bunk to try to sleep, but I couldn't. I couldn't sleep during the whole night. I felt so guilty.

(XXXXXXXXXXXX)

The next day Manic and I were walked to the dining area by a guard. As soon as we got there, Manic started speed walking away from me. I sighed and made my way to the line. I was starving. "Yo, blackie" I heard a voice call from behind me. "What the hell do you want?" I asked turning around to see a purple Echidna. "I heard those rumors about you breaking Absterold's arm and being Manic's accomplice in his attempted murder aren't true" he said cracking his knuckles.

I nodded. "I have no idea of what you are talking about" I said. I could see the other prisoners standing up and walking towards us with the corner of my eye. "Everyone feared you because of that. They didn't better you with you driest came here because they thought you broke the dictator's arm and tried to kill him and survived. Usually when someone layouts a hand in him, they're executed right away" said the purple Echidna, " but now that we know it was a lie, we have no reason to fear you"

The group of convicts started choosing in on me. 'I have to attack before they attack me' I thought. I jumped over the Echidna's head at top speed and landed behind him. I wrapped my hands around his head and trusted it with all my strength, all my anger, until it made a 'crack' sound. Some convicts gasped and others just starred back at me with furious expressions. I pushed two of the terrified prisoners our of my way and ran towards the dining takes. I was looking for something that I could use as a weapon. My heart raced as adrenaline ran through me. I had to act fast. I knew I didn't have much time.

"Get him!" Yelled one of them. I looked at the table next to me, searching for something. Anything to use against them. I grabbed a dirty knife and a fork that were lying on the table and got in fighting position. "Waiting for someone to attack me" I challenged. A red hedgehog ran out of the crowd and punched me on the face. I could feel the blood rise to that area. I growled and stabbed the bastard in mouth his eyes. I stabbed him repeatedly, ignoring his cries. He pleaded me and begged for mercy, but I ignored.

I pulled the knife and fork out of his eyes, making his unconscious (or lifeless) body collapse. I ran towards another prisoner, who's back was facing me. I stages him him on the neck with my weapons and left them there. Then I buried my claws deep into his back, ripping his flesh and touching his spine and he screamed and cried in pain. Deciding to end his misery, broke his spine with all my strength.

Suddenly, I felt strong pain in my wrists and neck. "AAAAAAHHHHHH!" I yelled in pain. I pulled my hands out of the corpse's back and, amazingly, the pain stopped. I looked down at metal bracelets and realized that the bracelets, along with the metal collar I had grown used to, caused electrical shocks.

Two guards came in and pulled me out of the dining area. "Ya goin' in da bax!" Said one of them.