Disclaimer: Do I really have to say it again? Sega and the sonic team still own the sonic characters. Slick belongs to my friend.
An/ My pups talking will alternate between baby speak and regular talking due to Nate's experiment wearing off. Just incase anyone gets confused when the talking is normal.
Shadow: Why did you turn me into a baby?
Nate: A good friend requested you as the fourth one so I agreed.
Shadow: Well I guess its okay. Enjoy the story.
Chapter 2: Another pup!
The next morning Slick was woken up by Nate bouncing on his bed.
"Swick, Swick wake up! Tails found Adow outside and he's sicky." Nate yelled.
Slick's eyes snapped open and he jumped out of bed to see what Nate was talking about. When he got downstairs he saw Tails running a test on Shadow to see why he was sick but was shocked when he noticed Shadow was a pup like Sonic, Scourge and Nate.
"Tails how the heck did Shadow become a were-pup?" Slick asked. "He wasn't at the house yesterday.
"I don't know. I went outside to take a walk and saw his foot sticking out of the bushes." Tails replied.
"I'll check the surveiwence tapes from yesterday afternoon." Nate said turning to his computer. "Computer run the feed from 10 minutes before the explosion to 2 minutes after it."
"Scanning… footage found." The computer said in a male British accent.
The three turned to look at the screen and watched as Shadow Chaos Controlled in and dropped to his knees in the bushes. From the looks of it he was wounded on his right arm and his inhibitor ring was missing. From there Shadow passed out and Nate was seen running outside on screen.
"Computer stop pwayback." Nate said. "I think I know why Shadow is sick Tails." he continued while the computer went to standby mode.
"Why?" Tails asked.
Before Nate could answer two blurs raced into the lab and tried to skid to a halt before smacking into the wall.
Tails, Nate and Slick couldn't help it they burst out laughing at the pouty looks on Sonic and Scourge's faces.
"See you two this is why I said no revving in the house." Nate said still chuckling.
"Sawry Nate" Scourge said looking at his adopted brother and wincing from the pain of his bleeding nose.
"Don't bwame Scourge, Nate" Sonic said also sporting a bleeding nose, "It was my idea to race in the house."
Nate sighed. He really couldn't blame the two for their behavior. He knew Sonic didn't like to sit still and always had to be moving something. Scourge being Sonic's anti-self also had the same problem but ever since Nate had adopted him he had been mellowing out some. "Slick, Tails could you cwean these two up while I check Shadow's energy wevels to see if my theory is true?" he asked.
"Sure Nate but why would you need to check his energy… Slick trailed off as the answer came to him. "His inhibitor ring was missing! It must have been lost when he got his injury!" he exclaimed.
"Exactly" Nate said. "His rings help keep his chaos energy under control and limit his power but with one missing combined with the energy my emerald released yesterday his energy is out of whack causing his sickness." he explained.
"Can it be cured?" Tails asked coming back with Sonic and Scourge behind him.
"I think so he just needs to lose the excess energy and put a new ring on. Luckily for me he left me one along with a copy of Gerald Robotnik's notes on his creation." Nate answered.
"Then what are we waiting for?" a weak voice asked behind them.
All 5 of the others whipped their heads around to see Shadow sitting up weakly on the lab table.
"Shadow!" Nate exclaimed running over, "How do you feel?"
"Wike I've been hit with Amy's hammer." he replied
"Well since your energy is messed up I'm not surprised but we are about to take care of that." Tails told him.
"Computer pull up file Project Shadow subsection energy levels the start up the chaos energy extraction pod." Nate said.
"What will that do?" Slick asked.
"I'll set the pod to extract the energy until it reaches the point in Shadow's file then put the spare ring on him that he left here. The good thing is that the energy seems to have healed his injury so he should be fine when the process is over." Nate said having Tails set the black and red were-pup in the machine. "Computer begin extraction he commanded."
The pod whirred to life while a white light shined from the inside.
"Good the machine is stable and working perfectly." Nate said looking at the displays from Tails arms. "The extraction should only take a couple of hours. Why don't we go upstairs and have lunch." he suggested.
Over a lunch of frozen pizza everyone discussed the baby situation.
"I've analyzed the emerald you gave me Nate and its possible it may turn you back but Sonic, Scourge and Shadow will stay as were-pups until we can find another cure. It seems it was the mix of energy from you and Shadow that caused this. On top of that you using your blood in the emerald's creation to tie it to you seems to have worked sine it won't cure the others. The emerald may also grant you your super form but I'm not sure." Tails explained.
"It's worth a shot." Nate said taking the orange elemental emerald from Tails. He stood in the middle of the kitchen and closed his eyes. "Chaos Elemental Control!" he shouted. There was a flash of light and when it cleared Nate was back to his 21 year old self. "Yes it worked!" he exclaimed.
"Aww what about us bwo? Scourge sniffled.
"Don't worry little man Slick and I will take care of you, Sonic and Shadow until Tails and I find a cure." Nate told him. "Speaking of which the extraction should be done so I'm going to go check on Shadow."
"No need I heard the machine end the process while you were talking to Scourge." Tails said from the basement doorway holding Shadow. "It worked so now all we need is his spare ring and he'll be all set."
"Here it is." Nate said taking the ring out of a drawer in his study and putting it on Shadow's right arm when he got back to the kitchen.
"That's better." Shadow said in relief. "Now let's hope you and Tails find a cure before Eggman learns some of his enemies are babies.
Little did they know one of Eggman's spybots had filmed the whole scene in the kitchen and was transmitting it to its master.
AN2/ There is chapter 2 and I hope you enjoy. Yes I know it wasn't funny and had a lot of science in it but I wanted a unique reason why Shadow was a pup. Credit for part of the idea goes to my friend Slick the Wolf. Thanks buddy. Please read and review
Shadow: I have to say that was interesting. You managed to nail the function of my inhibitor rings spot on. This may end up a good story after all.
Nate: Thanks Shadow glad you like it.
Sonic: Why did I only get one line?
Nate: Sorry Sonic I didn't notice until the end. You'll get more in chapter 3.
Sonic: Alright then
Nate: See you guys next time