Shadow walked into the lobby, as he did very week he came here, but he didn’t expect to people to take double takes when they looked him over. He had to admit, he knew he didn’t look very good. Before he came here, he was sparing with Sonic. Something he had promised to do to help him better in hand to hand combat.
He checked in with the secretary and took a seat. He knew his quills were a mess, not having time to clean up before leaving for his appointment, but it was weird. He came in looking like this before, but no one really took a notice. Why was this time any different?
He grabbed a magazine and when he went to open it, he realized why everyone was starring. He looked to his gloves and shoes.
He was still in his training gear. He forgot to change out of it.
Shadow only shook his head. Nothing he can do about it now.
A door opened and a lady stood in it “Shad-“
Shadow saw her falter in her sentence, she thinking the same thing everyone else was. He only stands and walks by her silently. He walks to the door of his doctor.
XXX
The doctor looks up from her notes to the door clicking open. When Shadow walked in, she couldn’t help but notice his much different get-up then that of what he wears all the time.
The base of his gloves are little longer, and the red metal plates reach past his inhibitor rings to the top of his hands. His shoes had the same thing, the metal plates reaches past where they would end on his normal outfit and stopped that the top and back of his shoes. She liked the new get up, but it didn’t suit him very well. Or maybe it was the fact she never seen it before.
“New get-up, Shadow?” She smirks
Shadow shakes his head. “No, it’s for training for hand to hand combat. G.U.N. protocol, It’s also protocol to wear it in new environments. Everyone has one.”
“Your quills are a little frazzled too, mind telling me who you were against?”
“Sonic, was my opponent.” Shadow takes note of his doctor’s look of shock and takes it as a need to explain. “Nothing like that.”
“Then... Why are you guys fighting?”
“A few weeks ago Sonic was in battle, and Eggman was actually able to dodge Sonic’s Homing attack. Something no one had ever done.” He crosses his arms. “I took at upon myself to teach him some hand in hand combat. Some say stick to what works and what you know. I don’t agree. When using the same fighting style over and over again, you opponent will learn the pattern and come up with a new tactic.”
“And I take it, you do this at G.U.N.?” It’s more of a statement than a question.
“All personnel are allowed to use the program to their own doing. I’m an employee, so Sonic gets the perk of that as well.” Shadow explains. “We started off slow, with his homing attack. We made it a little less predictable and added an attack at the end. Of course Tails had a hand in helping in making that attack more damaging.”
“Tails? What did he do to help?”
“He made this bracelet, he calls it an enerbeam. Tails, Amy and Knuckles, also got one. It helps in making robots short circuit. It also helps in combat. With this enerbeam, Sonic can either continue his homing attack or dive for the enemy and cause a minor explosion in the landing.” Shadow explains.
“Was one given to you?” She asked
“No.” Shadow looks to his inhibitor rings. “It was offered to me, since I’m like their family now, but I couldn’t risk it. I don’t know how it will react to Chaos Energy. Tails and Amy don’t possess chaos energy, and even though knuckles if the keeper of the master emerald, he doesn’t have very much chaos energy in himself. Sonic, he had a limit but not very much. The only time he can complete a chaos control is when I’m around. Chaos energy holds no threat to them.”
“But what about you? If Tails had given you one of those gadgets, what would have been the outcome?”
“Both cinereous are polar opposites.” Shadow goes on to explain. “My chaos energy could have no effect and I could use it the same as everyone else, or, my chaos energy could cause it to overload and put the entire planet in a magnetic state, or cause the world to implode on itself. So no, I’m not taking any chances.”
His doctor smiles and writes a note down. “So, worked on his homing attack. What else did you teach him?”
“To me, combat is an art, to make your opponent fight himself.” He smirks. “For a robot, the size of a building, attacking it isn’t going to help. You need to have it track your moves, and hit you where you are. If you’re standing on top of it, it will attack its head. Hence, brains is better than bronze.”
“Hasn’t Sonic always done it like that?”
“Yes. I just taught him how to do it in different ways.” Shadow smiles, sighing. “One reason I started this, was to spend more time with him. When we fight together, it’s almost like a dance, we are in sync. We take off at the perfect time and land at the same time. You really don’t understand, unless you have seen it for yourself.”
His doctor smiles, in understanding. She had seen it before. Then start by running next to each other, before splitting in different directions; a distraction technique. Then they meet back up again, going into a ball and jumping. When a hit is made they go into a ball for a second to break the fall and get right back into a run. She had even seen them join hands, look at each other in assurance and Shadow will launch Sonic up into the sky. “You both do better together, than alone. Anything else you taught him?”
"I had him learn a few fast pace punches and kicks. To better his damage output." Shadow smirks. “I had him put on a different pair of shoes, a brown scarf, and runner’s tape when training with me. The shoes will help keep traction in the base, and the tape will keep his hands and feet from getting sweaty and will resist an alipping.”
“And why the brown scarf?”
“If I have to train looking like an idiot, he can do the same.”
The timer rang, ending the session for the day.
Shadow stood, making a way for the door.
“Shadow?”
Shadow turned back his doctor as she smiled to him and spoke. “I like the Get-up.”
Shadow didn’t say anything back. He walked out the door, through the lobby, and into the hall.
“It’s not too bad.” He looked to his hands, looking at the gloves. He put his arms to his side and kept walking. His decision was made up.
“I still don’t like it.”
Therapy Session by LoverAngelForEver
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