This choice: 1 1/2 ft (about half his height) • Go Back... Shadow's body shone and twinkled with awakened Chaos energy. He gasped, staring as the energy focused and gathered, funneling into the Emerald held by Rouge. As the energy was extracted, Shadow felt drained, his body growing weaker and weaker, and, at the same time, the room seemed to grow around him. No, he was shrinking, his shoes seemed to be rising to meet him, swallowing his feet, his gloves bunched up and the gold ring limiters slid forth and fell off.
"No, Rouge, stop!" The black hedgehog was horrified by what was happening, he tried to step forward, reaching to grab the Emerald and try to stop it from shrinking him, but Rouge just held it higher, and his reach was insufficient. Craning and stretching and jumping, he still couldn't reach, his huge, oversized shoes weighing him down, and the aloft jewel only seemed to rise further from him with every try.
Shadow staggered, his heavy shoes tripped him and he fell back, feet popping out of them, dragging with them enormous, floppy black socks. With a musical 'ping' the gold limiters on his wrists fell off his flailing arms as he tried to regain his balance and struck the metal floor. Shadow was almost a full foot shorter now, shrunk and weakened like a drained battery or a leaking balloon. He fell on his tail on the tread plate steel, still shrinking. The power continued to siphon, and the jewel in Rouge's grasp grew brighter and more brilliant while Shadow weakened.
"How interesting. Instead of producing infinite energy, this variation seems to like to absorb it instead from other Chaos energy sources." Rouge said, peering over her gleaming Emerald, which had turned a rich, blood red. Her voice seemed amused and cold, and there was a sort of malicious glint in her eye. Shadow groaned and writhed as the feeling of having his power sucked out intensified and he shrank in a sharp spurt. He was curled up on the ground, beside his massive shoes and far too large gloves.
Finally the feeling started to peter off and fade and the shrinking slowed. Shadow was down to half his original size as he shakily got back to his feet, feeling significantly de-powered. He couldn't have more than 50% of his original strength. Rouge polished the cut facets of the Emerald she held, looking down with mean apathy on Shadow, who stared back. He couldn't understand why she was acting this way, could it be the influence of this new Chaos Emerald? Regardless he had to get away before she used it again and took away his remaining power! He clenched his fists and screwed up his face in concentration- it felt so much harder than usual to summon the energy out of himself, he summoned all the strength he had left and bellowed in a much softer, higher-pitched voice than normal, "Chaos Control!" He felt the familiar weightlessness as the technique slowed time and he scrambled away, glancing back once at Rouge's cold eyes with fear before he teleported away in a feebler flash of light.
A split-second later Shadow reappeared elsewhere in a weakened state, weary and aching, wearing only his oversized socks.
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