Oh my fucking internet...

Anyways, here's a kind of a story you'll never see it coming! And it's from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

NOTE 1: All characters from the Sonic franchise, including Maria Robotnik's hedgehog version, belong to SEGA and her creator respectively. Kudos to the guy who had the idea to make a Hedgehog Maria!

NOTE 2: This is an AU Mobius, where the games are canon, but the Archie characters joined in on their endeavors. Some Cyberpunk & Steampunk elements are applied, and I will try my best to make sure that the holes in game events like Adventure, Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedgehog are filled.

Now with that outta the way... LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!

Additional Note: This story is inspired by the unfinished "The Tale of Maria Robotnik the Hedgehog" fanfic, written by Teen Hero.

PROLOGUE

ARK. 21st of January
Secret Cryosleep room

". . ."

Silence.

That's all that lingered in what remains of the deserted ARK, the abandoned space station of scientist Dr. Gerald Robotnik.

". . ."

But in a certain room, the ARK didn't really seem deserted at all.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this certain someone should've died 55 years ago.

". . ."

[ACTIVATING REBIRTH PROGRAM #2584. CODENAME: MARIA]

And sure enough, inside a Cryostasis capsule, laid the new body for the one innocent thought dead in the ARK: Maria Robotnik. And her body was of a young hedgehog girl, probably of 18 years old. Maria's new body had a bright-yellow fur, with the hair spikes forming a chestnut-like hair. She was practically naked inside there, but then again, so is every other Mobian ever.

The capsule then started to warm up, eventually, the ice turning into water. Then, the water started to dry up in the capsule as the girl's new body rested its feet on the floor after all of the water dried up. Once everything was done with, the hedgehog girl slowly opened her eyes as she tried to process the current location she was in.

". . ." She kept herself silent, just looking around for a moment, still processing the current situation before her for a moment. Then, the capsule pod opened, with Maria noticing it as she only exited the pod and held her head a bit, feeling a headache.

"...Where..." she started speaking "...Where am I...?"

She seemed to walk around the current room she was in, being unfamiliar with it for the moment, as if she didn't remember being here before. She walked around aimlessly for a moment before then bumping into a compartment of sorts; there, a set of clothes laid down for her to see, which were a cerulean blue and white dress; a set of white gloves with blue wrist ring bracelets; white & blue boots, and finally, a set of headphones matching the colors of her dress up. Once she saw those clothes, she looked down to her own body and noticed she was bare nude. Blushing heavily and becoming embarrassed, the girl quickly picked up the clothing set on the compartment and wore it around her; to her surprise, the clothes fit perfectly with her body. "...I... quite like this..." she thought, smiling a bit.

Now, there was the other issue, where was she and how was she going to get out? Before exiting the room however, she explored the room to find out anything that could jog her memory, and once she saw her capsule and the letters under it, a bit of her memory returned.

"...Ma...ri...a..." she said "...Maria... is that... my name?"

She tried looking for whatever else she could find to jog her memory and she found some papers, after reading some of them, her memory managed to retrieve itself of some things, albeit with slight headaches around.

She discovered her name was Maria Robotnik, and those 55 years ago, she was diagnosed with a rare disease named NIDS, which would kill her once she reached teenagehood. If it was 55 years ago, it was safe to assume she died, then, but how did she get back was the mystery, and how did she get into the body of a hedgehog is also another mystery, however, she also saw a name which her mind was really having a hard time to remember, and the name was important.

"...Shadow...?"

At the mere mention, her head got another headache again, and some flashes started appearing on her vision, they weren't very clear, but she could see a black silhouette in these visions, and it didn't help the fact trying harder to remember got her with even more headache. She decided to leave it be for now, and start to exit the room through the doorway. However, it seemed the doorway was locked from the outside, so she was basically trapped.

"Great... Now what do I do...?"

Then, her headphones started to come up with a static noise as she held them a bit, then, a voice came clear to her ears: "Hello, Maria! If you're hearing this, then this must mean the rebirth program has worked! Unfortunately, I won't be able to see you when that time comes."

The voice sounded so familiar to her... however, she didn't remember it for now.

"Now, you may be confused a lot by what's going on, and... you probably do not remember a lot of what happened while you were in that stasis, but I'm here to refresh you mind on... some of those events. Maybe you've probably searched around the room and found the diagnostic papers of your NIDS, but if you didn't, let me enlighten you: NIDS means "Neuro-Immuno Deficiency Syndrome", a rare, incurable and fatal disease you developed when you were still a human. As a scientist, I've dedicated myself to find a way to cure this disease of yours, and so I came up with an idea, named Project SHADOW."

That name again...

"Before I continue any further, it seems I forgot to tell you who I am." The voice clears its throat. "I am, or rather, was, your grandfather, Dr. Gerald Robotnik." So that's why the name seemed familiar, he was a parent of hers. "...and I created Project SHADOW so that I could probably find a way on how to make you have immortality to be able to keep living on; however, while researching the papers, I have figured out that the problem wasn't on the cure, it was your body. I had concluded that a Human body was too weak to endure NIDS and there was no capable cure for you. But thanks to Shadow, I thought up a way to save you."

"...I merely needed to change your body."

"Is that why...?" she thought, now making the connection. "However, the process would be very long, and by the time I came up with it, the military already arrived to seize Shadow for themselves... and while they killed and captured every scientist that was working with me on this, they accidentally also killed you..."

Maria gasped, she thought the NIDS was what killed her, but instead, she now knew that she was the victim of an indirect homicide. "Because of that, they allowed me to have some private time to mourn your loss, but then, I remembered about wanting to change your body, so I've decided to do just that."

As Gerald was speaking, Maria started exploring around the small room that kept her in for 55 years, finding many other things around the room, including a small compartment. "With the same methods that I've used to create Shadow's body, I've created a female Hedgehog body for you, Maria. Only in your case, I have not used that vile Black Doom's blood in order to give you immortality. I've used... something else, that was in my study for some time. I cannot tell you what it is now, as I want you to find out yourself once you get comfortable in the new world you're going to."

Once she opened the compartment and picked up what was inside, it was revealed to be a Chaos Emerald. "I've left some things for your utility in that small room, including your clothes and a Fake Chaos Emerald I've created for you to use your new Chaos Energy Powers. Yes, you can use them just like how Shadow does it, only you'll have a bit more strain than him."

"I... remember a bit... about these Emeralds." Maria thought. "So this Gerald then created this Fake Emerald... to help me control my Chaos Energy...?"

"Like Shadow, you're able to use Chaos Energy in various ways, although your abilities will be very different from Shadow's. However, one ability you two share in common is the Chaos Control. The Chaos Control allows you to manipulate both Time and Space so that you can either teleport to anywhere you remember in your vision, and also to stop time altogether."

Maria was a bit weirded out by all that, knowing that she could stop time and also teleport all over the place, but given how her energy strain was a bit high, she could take that as saying that it was controlled for the time being and she wouldn't be too powerful.

"Now then. I left the picture of both your room and a city for you to practice your Chaos Control if you want to. Firstly, try to teleport to your room by seeing its image from the picture, then, once you have it in your head, simply pull it out from it and shout 'Chaos Control!' to be able to use it." Maria guessed it's why she was locked into the room. Nevertheless, she picked up the pictures and looked at the one with her room in it. Once she pictured enough, she followed Gerald's instructions.

"Chaos... Control!" Once done so, she saw herself getting teleported into her room with no problems, albeit she lost a bit of her balance for a moment. Once she looked around, memories of the room started coming back to her, however, they were weak enough so that she wouldn't get a strong headache. "I see... so this is the room I lived in..."

"I'm sure you've probably managed to teleport to your room by now." Gerald's voice continued on her headphones. "You are still probably having issues however, but as I always say, practice is key, so keep practicing and you'll be able to even teleport short distances without the need of a Chaos Emerald!"

"Now then, you can use the other picture, which shows Station Square, to travel towards Mobius. You can stay in the ARK for a bit if you want, but you'll never have the experience of really and finally living if you don't go down to Mobius. Now then, I'm afraid I must depart, but I want you to remember this from me, Maria..." At that point, she paid attention to the headphones.

"...Be strong. This world may have thorns where you can hurt yourself, but if you manage to be strong enough, no one and nothing will ever be able to stop you from achieving your dreams."

"...My dreams..." She said out loud. Then, Gerald went to finish the message: "I must head out now. I hope you can have a better life in this new future you'll be living from now on. Farewell, Maria." The message then ends, with Maria then looking at the door of her own room as she opened it and exited.

Once she did, she found herself on one of the corridors of the ARK and saw the Blue Planet below her. She was absolutely marveled by it, Mobius was a really impressive Planet for her, at least.

"...So... that's where I'm going to...?"

She looked back at her room and the things inside there. She might not remember a lot, but she at least remembers now that this was her room and these were her things, and she wouldn't want to just leave them here in the ARK to rot up and be forgotten. She looked around the ARK and found a casing she could use to bring the things she needed with her. She returned to her room and put down everything that was there into the case as she then picked it up with ease, however, she noticed something weird with that.

"...This case is filled with my things now, so it should be heavy... right?" She repeatedly lifted the Case up and down with one hand, but she was doing it with such an ease that the case seemed very light to her. Maybe she got an enhanced level of strength from the body change?

Anyways, once she was done, she saw another compartment where she'd find a pretty high sum of rings on it. (I'm considering the rings being Mobius' currency) She picked up the rings and then put them inside the case as well before exiting her room. Then she looked down at Mobius from the window, then looked at the Station Square picture she held in her hands.

"...I guess I have to do this." Once the image of Station Square was in her mind, she grabbed the Fake Emerald and held it in front of her as she started to concentrate.

...

Maria was in for the ride of a lifetime once she arrives to Mobius.

"Chaos... Control!" And with that, the ARK was only a shell of its former glory yet again...

For those of you who are thinking Maria is acting Out-Of-Character, keep in mind: She has Amnesia, like how Shadow had before. I plan on using this to give her a more different personality later on, while still retaining some of her gentle personality from the past.

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