Our Dirty Little Secret

Chp. 3| Whoops

When Shadow came back to the machine from his exploration, Silver almost immediately realized that Shadow was chewing.

Last Silver checked, he wasn't crazy. So he was certain that Shadow hadn't been eating any thing when he came to the lab. "Uh, Shadow? What are you eating?"

Shadow answered plainly: "Those candy-looking things over there."

Suddenly, Silver had a look of terror on his face, which made Shadow pretty nervous. Silver flew to the bowl Shadow had spoken of. It turned out that Shadow had eaten plenty of the cubes.

Which, to Silver, was very, very, baaaaaad.

"Shadow, how many did you eat?!"

"I don't know, about twelve?" Shadow answered, starting to feel frantic. It was then he noticed a strange feeling in his chest. He looked inside of his hoodie, and thought he saw his chest fur shrinking. "Why does my chest feel so weird?"

"That means it's working! Why did you eat any of those in the first place!? They could have been poison for all you knew!"

"How was I supposed to know they were dangerous? They looked like Starbursts!"

"That doesn't mean you can EAT them! They're in a LAB, that should have made it seem unsafe enough!"

By this time, not only had Shadow's chest fur shrank into a patch of white, but his chest had begun bulging.

"Okay, I'm gonna go see how I can reverse the effects of this, you stay here. And do NOT eat any more of those cubes! The transformation will be even more difficult to fix!" Silver said as he flew off somewhere else in the lab.

Shadow, on the other hand, became scared. He tried not to cry out for Silver to come back as he felt something strange between his legs. For the first time in his life, Shadow wished he wore pants. He was embarrassed, and hoped that no one would see him. As his face turned red, part of him wanted to run and hide.

In other words, he felt naked.

Silver finally found the procedure needed to help Shadow, but he knew Shadow wouldn't like it at all. As he walked back to Shadow, he thought he heard whimpering.

"Shadow? Are you okay?" he asked.

When he reached him, Silver saw Shadow shaking and heard him whimpering. He tapped Shadow's shoulder to get his attention, but was immediately met with a slap in the face.

"Ow! What was that for!?" He asked, lightly rubbing his face.

Shadow felt worse after hurting his friend. "I'm sorry. Just don't touch me, I feel really weird."

"Shadow, I HAVE to. I need to check the process in order to fix it."

Silver reached a hand out to Shadow, but he backed away in embarrassment and fear. "Please...don't touch me..."

Sighing inaudibly, Silver let his arm drop. "Shadow, I'm not gonna hurt you. I promise, me checking you isn't going to hurt."

"Promise me you won't laugh." Shadow demanded.

"I promise." Silver said as he walked slowly toward the shaking hedgehog.

Shadow tried stay calm as Silver came closer to him. As Silver knelt in front of him and began prodding between his legs, Shadow wrung the end of his hoodie. He yelped in surprise when he felt something sensitive being touched.

When he finished, Silver's face was bright pink.  He stood up and tried to say camly, "Well, the transformation is complete. It's official: Shadow, the cubes changed your parts and um, you are now...female."