*Shadow's POV *
"Are you okay, Hun?" Rouge asked as she helped me walk into the fox's lab.

"Sonic attacked you?" The fox gasped as he looked at my wound. "Why? That's not possible. He can't be working with Eggman!"

"I'm sorry, Tails but he is. I watched it all happen. Sonic stabbed him and tried to get Shadow's emerald." Rouge said as I let go of her and laid down on the examination table, shivering lightly at how cold it felt against my fur.

"Can I?" The fox asked as he got close to me and I nodded, he proceeded to check out the wound.

"This is stupid. The wound will heal in an hour, Bat." I rolled my eyes as I tried not to flinch or tense every time the fox would touch the open wound.

"We have to make sure Sonic didn't use anything on that blade, Hun. Just stay calm."

"I don't understand. I have an emerald as well and so does Amy. How come he didn't attack us? How come he only attacked Shadow?" The fox said as he let go of me. "Everything looks fine but it's deep. You need rest." He started bandaging the area.

I had learned not to snap at the fox or the rest of the group because of Rouge. She wanted me to get along with everyone and everyone was accommodating to how I felt comfortable. They gave me space and even asked permission for certain things which made me feel a lot more calmer around them.

I sat back up and looked down at my injury as I started to think back at how Faker had been acting.

"He didn't even react when I stabbed him." I said making the fox drop his ears just a bit.

"Yeah. Well, when Dark takes control, Sonic doesn't feel much." He explained. "He feels it afterwards though. He is probably seriously injured after your fight." He sounded hurt, but he wasn't mad at me for nearly killing his best friend.

"He tried to kill Eggman not too long ago and now he's working with him. I don't get it." Rouge said as she placed one hand on her hip.

"He said he would be getting something out of this. That all he needed was my chaos emerald." I explained again, fixing my fur and my quills as I stood up. I flinched lightly when my hand hovered over the wound. It surprisingly hurt. Usually Faker could never hurt me this bad.

"Maybe Eggman is-" Rouge cut him off by raising a hand in front of his face.

"Tails, sweetie, Eggman isn't doing anything to Sonic. Sonic is acting this way on his own. I'm sorry." She lowered her hand, the fox's eyes welling up with tears. "The next time we see Sonic, we have to do anything to stop him."

The fox looked like he was going to say something, anything to defend his best friend but the more he thought about it, he knew he had nothing to say to protect him. No matter what, the next time we saw Faker, we were not going to hold back, whether he was stopped dead or alive.

"I know." The fox said, sadness in his voice as he now looked down at the floor.

*Sonic's POV *
"So what? You're just going to watch me all day?" I said as I opened one eye to see Metal Sonic by my door.

"Directive: Monitor your activities." Metal replied as he crossed his arms and kept staring at me. Creepy. "Fear status: Not detected." I scoffed at that.

"Egghead needs me for his plan, why would I be afraid?" I rolled my eyes and placed my hands behind my head then crossed my leg over the other.

"Damage detected: Injury present." Metal said as he walked closer to me. My hand wasn't bleeding as much as it used to. "Error detected in decision making process." He said making me look at him confused.

"Chaos, can you talk normally?" I rolled my eyes then repeated to myself the last sentence he said to me so I could try to understand what he said. "Oh. I made a bad choice?" I asked and he nodded.

He was actually not so scary now that I was this close to him. Now that I was on his team and not getting into deadly fights with him.

"Trust in that individual was misplaced." He said making me even more confused at his words, he got closer and sat down at the edge of the bed. Was he being nice to me because he had orders to keep an eye on me? Or because of something else? What was he trying to tell me?

"What do you mean?" I sat back up, his robotic eyes scanning down to my injured and poorly bandaged hand.

"Your error was placing trust in him." He mentioned as he reached for my hand and started redoing the bandage. My ears perked up at the sudden careful actions the robot in front of me was doing but let him continue.

He let go of my hand soon after he finished then stood up again.

"In who?" I asked Metal but he now looked to the door as if someone was there, listening, watching us.

"I will maintain surveillance on you." He said as he walked to the door without looking back at me. "His statements should not be trusted." He said before he left the room.

Wait.

Was he talking about Eggman?