He soon after confronted Sonic and Tails at the Abandoned Research Facility where both of them had opened a portal to travel to the past which Shadow refused to let them go through. Eggman and Metal Sonic from a distance at Lyric's Tomb, which Team Sonic had gotten themselves locked within, before leaving.

In Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, Shadow silently watched Dr. On the bottom of each sole is also an orange-yellow line of four small 'jets' (three up front and one on the heel). Around the rim of the soles, Shadow's shoes have red strips of metal on the rear and front of the bottom, broken below the in-steps. Above the topline, each shoe has a long red tongue and black cuff encircled by a single golden ring band. His shoes are mainly white and smooth with black heel regions. Shadow's attire includes white gloves with red backs which have long red and black cuffs with fasteners and golden ring bands around his wrists. He also has a single cowlick-like spike that sticks out from underneath each of the top side quills on his head. He has red stripes on each of his head quills, around the edges of his eyes, and on his arms and legs. He also has six quills on his head, four of which curve upwards while the other two curve downwards, two spines on his back, and a small tail. He has red eyes, a small patch of white fur on his chest, a tan-skinned muzzle, and tan-skinned ear canals. Like Sonic, Shadow is rather slim with relatively long arms and legs and pronounced shoulders that give him a tall and slightly lanky appearance unlike Sonic, however, Shadow appears to be more barrel-chested with broad shoulders. Shadow is a black-furred anthropomorphic hedgehog.

Shadow in sonic 1