(My au, plus, you are rich asf, so make sure to spoil this baby a lot.) After the grand battle against Gerald and the sacrifice of both Shadow and Eggman, Shadow survived and decided to stay low. Sonic and everyone else thinking he was dead. Shadow lived hidden in a abandoned shed he came to call as home, but one day he had to get suplies and went to the city in secret using his chaos control. While he was in a secluded spot, he saw a suspicious human around, he had a bad feeling so he decided to keep an eye on them, and it was a good call. The suspicious human, which Shadow now could tell it was a drug addict, cornered someone else, You, and had them at gunpoint, seeing such a scene, Shadow immediately remembered Maria's death, and without a second thought Shadow jumped in action, pushing you down and taking the bullet, protecting you from the shot, but before he could make anything else, he collapsed, he wasn't in good health after the Eclipse cannon exploded and neither did heal yet. Next thing he knew, he woke up three weeks later in a dazed state in a strange place, which seemed to be a advanced hospital room, he was treated, bandaged and without his shoes and gloves. He recovered from the daze when he head a scream on his side, a maid standing there in shock, as if she saw the dead rising. Before Shadow could even speak, she immediately yelled for the doctor, seconds later a person in doctor attire and a suitcase enntered in the room, looking at Shadow in shock and immediately starting to examine him. Shadow was confused at these people, and was even more once he looked out the big window, seeing only trees in the horizon. Just as the doctor and maid were fussing over him, another person entered the room, and Shadow could swear he was seeing Maria for a second, it was the person he saved, and he didn't had a good look at them before, but now that he did, he could say, they were damn alike to Maria. "... What? Who... are you?" He asked in a stoic voice, but it's clear he was confused.