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Hour 01: The First Promise

Shadow, who has just defeated Dark Oak and had save the world, decides to remain in the remaining part of the Ark. He was searching through some files in the computer of his creator, Professor Gerald Robotnik. Then he happens to go through several video clips from the past. Eagar to know his past, Shadow decides to open the first one.

Shadow was in his pod as he was first being let out. Professor Gerald pressed the button to let him out.

"At long last, with Shadow now done, there's still a chance to save all of us."

The film started to screw up and lost all vision afterwards. Shadow slammed his fist in anger.

"Why did it have to do that? Let me see if I can hack back in." He started to press into the keyboard. "That should do it."

"…Access Denied…"

"What, but how?" He started to clang his fist in rage. "Wait what about the other ones." He started to go the second clip that was displayed in front of him.

Maria arrived to the section where Shadow was there and she saw him. At first his appearance shocked her, but she didn't run.

"Maria, this is Shadow. He will be the one to help us with our troubles that we are dealing with. And also, he will be your protector Maria."

"Shadow" She started to slowly place her hand towards Shadow. Then she placed her hand on his forehead. Shadow didn't do anything. He didn't show any anger, neither any happiness as well. He was just an emotionless person. "Grandpa, is something wrong with him?" Shadow heard her and quickly jumped away from her, thinking that the problem that she said would harm her. Though the only thing it did was stuttered her.

"What do you mean Maria?" Maria turned to her grandfather.

"He doesn't look happy! He doesn't look like he likes this place or even wants to do this!"

"He not supposed to like it."

"What do you mean?" She started to give a serious face to her grandpa.

"He was build to be the ultimate weapon. No ultimate weapon is supposed to have feelings."

"You're wrong. All living creatures should have emotions. They should have feelings, even if it's bad ones." The professor put his head down in a depressed way.

"Maria, don't be mad. There's something I should have said instead of that. It's that Shadow-"

The signal started to cut out and each time he tried to put it back, it always loses signal to that point.

"Why? Why? Why?" He had his head up and his hands press on the sides of his head. Then he started to calm down. "Why would Professor Gerald say something like that when I do in fact have this anger feeling inside? There must be something in the other recordings that should show some light into the subject." He started to go to the three clips to await more blast from the past.

Maria and Shadow were one of the corridors of the Ark looking out into the space.

"Shadow, you see the planet over there?"

"Yes Maria, I see it." They both started to stare at the planet known as Earth from the colony. They even saw the glow that the planet is emitting due to the sun rays that hits the planet.

"Oh, one day I wish to go to that place. Grandpa once told me that the images there are too much to explain in words. But he said that we can't go there yet."

"So you wish to go there."

"Yes more then anything in the colony." Maria started to get happier. Shadow let out a smile.

"Maria, I'll do everything I can to make your wish come true."

"You promise." Shadow didn't say anything, but he did give a nod. That made Maria too glad that she gave Shadow a hug. That came to a surprise to Shadow as the only thing he did there was gasp a bit of air. But unlike the first time they touched each other, there was no threat to it from Shadow point of view. So he just stands there. "Thank you Shadow"

Then the image started to lose signal and wouldn't allow itself to continue further. Shadow didn't got angry this time. All he felt was a bit of confusion.

"If I made a promise to this… Maria. Then why can't I remember anything." He then saw a little section on the bottom of the screen he didn't see before, so he decides to click on it. There showed some information like how it was organized and where the clips came from. "It looks like this clips came from the camera's images from the colony. Wait, it says that the one that organized it all was… Maria."