Reason for Insanity

Shadow's Decision

Shadow looked around the house again and pulled out her phone. Dialing 911, she waited for someone to pick up before explaining what they needed to know of the situation.

"Station Square Police Department," a voice said.

Shadow explained what she thought was necessary to the person on the other end of the line. The police arrived in minutes and examined the scene. Shadow hesitated and then ran out of the house.

"Tails," she said when she got to his house. "I need your help."

Tails looked up at the sound of her voice. "What can I do for you?"

"Black Doom...Sonic...has kidnapped Shadic. I need you to help me get him back. Sonic is very dangerous and he could do anything to my son."

Tails nodded. "Of course I'll help you. Did you have any plans?"

Shadow shook his head. "Not really. Sonic has transformed himself into Black Doom, and he told me to meet him on the ARK tomorrow."

"And now you don't have much of a choice but to go."

"He wants me to join the Black Arms. I told him I would, but that is just so that I can get my son back. I will not take orders from that insane schizophrenic."

"Are you going to find a way to fix Sonic?" Tails asked.

Shadow shook his head. "He can't be fixed. Sonic is ill, Tails. He's becoming more insane by the day. We need to capture him and lock him up in an insane asylum."

Tails looked away and nodded. "I...I know that."

The female hedgehog sighed. "Do you have any inventions that we can stop him with or use against him?" Tails nodded and walked inside, picking up some serums. "What are those?" Shadow asked.

"They can paralyze him, I think." Tails nodded, looking at the serums. "Then you can bring him to an insane asylum."

"Great," Shadow said. "Anything else?"

Tails nodded and threw Shadow a serum that would transform her into a Black Arms alien. "Use this to infiltrate the Black Arms."

Shadow smirked and nodded. "All right." She looked at the serum.

"Are you going to take it now, or later?" Tails asked. "I'm not sure if it will be permanent or not; most likely it is."

"I'll keep it for when I have no other choice."

Tails smiled. "Alright," he said. "Let's come up with a plan, then. You'll go to the ARK to meet Sonic/Black Doom. What are you going to do when you get there?"

"See what he wants, I guess." Shadow shrugged.

"Alright," Tails said. He gave both serums to Shadow, who pocketed them. She looked at the Black Arms one; it would be good to use in a few days.

"Anything else I should do before going up there?" Shadow asked.

"That's it."

Shadow nodded. "Thanks, Tails." Tails smiled and watched Shadow leave. A few days later, Shadow arrived at the ARK. When nobody was there waiting, she yelled. "I'm here!"

Sonic appeared in front of her. "You came," he said, chuckling. His eyes shone madly. "The voices told me you would."

"Why did you take Shadic?"

Sonic chuckled. "Because...you took him away from me. I told you that I wanted to raise him with you, Shadow. I told you that I would stay with you after you gave birth. Why did you send our child away?"

"You weren't there, and you weren't going to be there." Shadow shook her head as she spoke. "He reminded me too much of you."

The schizophrenic's eyes widened. Shadow doesn't care for you, the voices said. Kill her...kill Shadic...make them suffer like they did to you.

Sonic nodded and transformed into Black Doom. Shadow's eyes widened as he did so. "Sonic? What are you doing?" Shadow backed away from the alien. The alien raised its hands and sent out a ball of energy towards Shadow. She dodged the blast and looked at it. "What are you doing?" She yelled at Black Doom.

"I'm going to kill you, and then our son." Black Doom threw another ball of dark energy at Shadow.

Shadow's eyes widened in fear. She held out her hands to stop the energy ball but skid back as it hit her. She screamed in pain, then took out the Black Arms serum, looking at it. Black Doom noticed this and chuckled.

"Go on...take it."

Shadow looked up at Black Doom then back at the serum. Closing her eyes, she injected the serum into herself. A massive pain filled her body. Groaning, she began to transform. Pain erupted in her forehead as Shadow groaned. A third eye opened, red like the others. Directly above that, she felt a gem embed itself into her head. Wincing, Shadow moved a hand to her head as Black Doom watched with interest. Her hands changed to having only three fingers, each with a sharp claw. All the black and red fur over her body flattened into her skin, causing her to shudder. Looking down at herself, Shadow saw as the white fur covering her breasts became thinner. Wincing, she felt her feet shift to have only three toes and her tail extend in length. It curved around her body, lightly resting on the floor. A large arrow tip formed at the end of her tail during the process. Both the irises and pupils of her eyes dissolved into red orange as the color filed her eyes. The third eye did the same, pupil becoming silt rather than disappearing. Shadow looked at herself in confusion before looking at Black Doom. This wasn't what she had been trying for.

"Interesting," Black Doom said. "You still look like a hedgehog."

"I wasn't supposed to...why didn't it work properly?"

Black Doom threw her another serum. "This will make you a full Black Arms alien. You'll look like the Black Bull."

Shadow nodded. "Why are you giving me this?" Shadow looked at the serum in her hand.

"Because you must become a Black Arms if you want to save your son."

Shadow looked at the alien, more confused now than before. Black Doom wasn't supposed to help her. Taking a breath, she injected the serum into herself. Minutes later, the Black Bull stood in Shadow's place. It roared loudly. Black Doom laughed and turned back into Sonic.

"Finally you are under my command!"

Blsck Bull's eye widened. It should have known Sonic would do something like this. The Black Bull tried to attack Shadow, stopped by the other's control over it. Sonic laughed in triumph and turned into Shadow. Looking around the area, he thought about what to do next. Now that he had Shadow on his side, there wasn't any real point to killing Shadic.

"I suppose we can put my plans in motion now."

The Black Bull growled. It broke free of the mind control and lunged at Sonic. Sonic's eyes widened as the Black Bull lunged at him, vaguely wondering how it broke free. It roared and began to attack him, turning into Shadow as it did so. Sonic dodged back, looking around for something to use against Shadow. He'd normally be evenly matched, but Shadow had never attacked him with this much anger before.

"You'll never control me. Why are you doing this?" Shadow asked.

"Because they deserve it for everything they have done to me." Sonic turned his head a bit, listening to the voices that were starting up again.

Kill Shadic... they said. That will break Shadow's heart.

Sonic chuckled and brought out his son.