Hello, firstly I'd like to apologize for my lack of updates; I'll be sad to say I will be discontinuing the iLove You iCarly story. I have no inspiration for it no longer… I have a project that will be a blessing to my fellow Brothers in Jesus Christ. To God be all the glory.

I do not own any of the characters listed from SEGA, except my own fan characters.

Also, I will NOT tolerate ANY bashing towards Christianity or any Christian individual, including myself. But I do accept critiques for the story. Without any furder ado, enjoy.
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"For this way God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. –John 3:16"

Shadow closed the Bible he was reading the verse from.

"Hmph." He glared at it and stood up, throwing it softly on top of his dinner table. The red and crimson hedgehog walked slowly towards the bathroom door in his house and grabbed the doorknob and gradually opened the door, sliding himself inside. He removed his jacket, shirt, pants and shoes and placed them on top of the toilet. He moved himself in front of the mirror and stared at his reflection. He stared at himself for what seemed for hours, but were actually a few seconds. His life… he didn't understand why was he still living. A few years back, he thought that his only purpose was to defeat evil and all that he went through in A.R.K. But, now that all of this was gone, and now that Mobius was calm and no evildoers needed punishment, he felt empty; hollow. But he would refuse to believe there was a higher Being that created the heavens or give him supposed happiness and purpose. God was a myth for him. He was "one-hundred percent atheist" and he refused to believe there was a God. It was simply illogical to him; a myth, a made-up fairy tale that people made up so they can feel better about themselves. It was a lie to him. After an intense stare at himself, he broke his trance and got inside the bathtub and started to shower.

"God loved the world…"

The words echoed inside his head.

"He gave His one and only Son…"

He pleaded it to make it stop, but his supposed prayers were unanswered.

"Everyone who believes in Him will not perish…"

He started to clean his fur with soap and tried to ignore the Voice his ears heard inside of him.

"… but have eternal life."

"Eternal life."

"Life."

Shadow removed the soap lather from his ebony fur and after a few minutes he was out of the shower and proceeded to grab the towel. He started to remove the warm water out of his fur to be amazingly sparkly and dry. He grabbed the clothes that he had laid on top of the toilet a few minutes ago and threw it on the "dirty clothes bucket" or so he liked to call it, because it was indeed a bucket. He walked towards his bed, where he had his new set of clean clothes already laid out for him to wear.

After he got dressed with his red t-shirt, black jacket, some black jeans and his favorite Converse shoes, he put on his headset and rocked out to some music. He opened the door, grabbed his car and house keys, and headed towards his car. He thought it would be an ordinary day over at the park where the gang was going to meet for a friendly picnic and chat about life.

But he did not know his life was about to change.
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"Lord, thank You for this amazing new day. Please use me to tell my friends that You are real. Put words in my mouth that come directly out of Yours; please, use me as Your instrument and let this day be of pure victory. In the name of Jesus, Amen."

Miles "Tails" Prower stood up from his previous kneeling position and proceeded to prepare the picnic at the Free Hills Park, which was the location of his planned evangelization picnic. It seemed like a nice idea and he had been preparing for this day. After long minutes of preparation, the picnic was perfectly laid out; a huge, blue and white mantle covered the soft grass below it. A beautiful brown basket with blue and white ribbons that combined with the mantle was the center piece, and from it a light smoke—signaling something hot and tasty inside it—made it tempting to open it. Next to the basket a group of assorted fruits formed a circle around the basket, and leaning against the basket a group of about twenty plates standing in vertical fashion completed the scene. Alongside with everything, some napkins and a jar of orange juice and another one of fruit punch complemented the scene perfectly. Tails grabbed some plastic cups out of a bag and placed them on top of the basket. His smile was beyond comprehension, and his tails wagged happily.

Tails had a highly scientific mind, but he noticed that none of the scientific theories or hypothesis added up to a common conclusion. He always had the "if God is real, why is the world suffering from hunger, wars, pain and all that stuff?" argument. But one day, he understood. God is not guilty of one's actions; He gave us a free will and He does not force himself toward an individual. God's love is far beyond anyone's limitations, and Tails understood that. He had changed a lot, and wanted his friends who weren't Christians yet to experience this amazing feeling that he felt.

To Tail's surprise, an early guest appeared, half hour before everyone else would get here.

"Shadow, I am so glad to see you!" the two-tailed fox greeted Shadow with a warm hug that Shadow didn't hesitate to give back.

"Thanks for inviting me, Tails," Shadow smiled shyly. "What are we doing today?" Shadow asked looking at the picnic Tails had set out beautifully.

"Just sit down and eat, have fun, and later on talk about life," Tails smiled, trying to not reveal the real purpose of the picnic.

"Doesn't sound bad," Shadow simply stated matter-of-factly and sat down on the mantle. Shadow made himself home and grabbed a plate and opened the basket, revealing a mountain of hot and sweet cinnamon rolls. He licked his lips with a smile and placed one of his victims on the plate. He then grabbed the fruit punch jar and poured the fruity liquid inside his plastic cup and took a quick zip, and munched down on his cinnamon roll, only to get a blank stare from Tails.

"What?" Shadow said defensively. He did not like being stared at while eating. And he did not want Tails eating his cinnamon roll.

"Won't you pray with me thanking the Lord for the food—"

"I won't do anything of that ridiculous subject," interrupted Shadow harshly, "do it to yourself if you want. But I won't do it."

Tails stood frozen cold staring at his own plate and felt a small tear build up, but managed to hold it. He then sighed and prayed silently as Shadow watched. He now felt bad for snapping like that at the fox, but Tails needs to learn to not do that to people.

For the rest of ten minutes, there was no word spoken whatsoever. Shadow finished his entire meal and so did Tails, but Tails' ears perked up. A small smile formed in his mouth as he saw Amy approach. She was another devoted Christian just like Tails.

"Here comes Amy!" Tails exclaimed.

Amy was now nineteen years old; she was taller, her hair was longer, and her body had developed gracefully. She looked grown up now. Shadow didn't let this go unnoticed; he stared at Amy from top to bottom, making Amy kind of uncomfortable and embarrassed at the same time. She was wearing a white tank top and some black jeans, and held her hair up in a ponytail, letting her curled quills fall down gracefully.

"H-hey Tails, h-hey Shads!" Amy greeted kindly.

"Hello," Shadow greeted as he smiled.

"God bless you, Amy! Thanks for coming!" Tails smiled and hugged Amy as she kneeled down.

A few minutes after Amy arrived, more of the gang started to appear and Shadow observed them all. Knuckles came after Amy, then Sonic, then Rouge, then Blaze, and then Espio. They all looked different except Rouge and Espio. Amy, Sonic and Blaze seemed changed; more cheery and happy, and that was especially noticeable on Blaze; the grin she had on her face couldn't be moved, removed or replaced with a frown; it was unbelievable. But, nah, nothing of particular interest; at least Rouge was her normal, "sexy" self, as Shadow thought.

"Well, we are all gathered here to talk about Someone very much special to me, Amy, Sonic, Knuckles and Blaze," Tails started, and Shadow already knew where this was going.

"Don't tell me this is an evangelization picnic," He interrupted. He felt the tension rise up when he blurted out this simple phrase.

"Yes, Shadow, I hope you don't—"

"WHAT did I tell you, Tails?" He blurted out. Tails' eyes widened and a small tear built in his eye.

"If you could just listen—"

"Amy, don't get yourself involved. That's it, I'm leaving, I don't want to hear any of this," Shadow stood up, grabbed a cinnamon roll from the basket, and darted out furiously.

"SHADOW, come back!" Amy, Sonic, Knuckles and Tails shouted simultaneously, but he was so furious that he did not hear them at all.

"Shadow…" Sonic whispered softly.

Tails started to softly whimper, and he was quickly hugged by the surrounding group. Rouge and Espio smiled softly at him and allowed him to continue.

"Well… I, ah… I just wanted… I just wanted you guys to know how much God makes me happy," Tails said between tears, "and I just want Him to make you guys happy as well; He will give you a real purpose; but… I, ah… I just want you guys to know who He really is," Tails burst into tears, which made Rouge shed a tear also.

"I want you guys to know that He is not a myth, like I previously thought," Tails cleaned his tears and made a broken sigh, "I just want you guys to be happy; to experiment true bliss."

Later that day Rouge and Espio gave their hearts to the Lord truly; but the minds of the foursome of Amy, Knuckles, Sonic and Tails could not move away from Shadow…

He was a tough nut to crack open.

"This is UNBELIEVABLE!" Shadow yelled furiously at the top of his lungs while driving his car rather fast than usual. He was blinded with fury and he didn't pay attention to his surroundings.

"God! GOD! There IS no God! It is a MYTH! A RELIGION! Since it's a FAIRY TALE, and hasn't been proven yet, it's FAKE! FAKE!" he punched his steering wheel, making his Chevy Cobalt honk its horn. His eyes were bloodshot and he felt that his world was spinning.

60mph.

"Oh, let me try! God, if you're oh-so-real, why won't I die right now, send me to hell for all I care! After all, I'm a sinner and you hate my guts. Come on, DO IT!" he shouted at the heavens.

80mph.

"Yeah, probably I will end up being eaten by Satan and his demons! God, you're a MYTH! If you're real then, where were you when I needed You the most!"

95m—

Crash.

Everything was in slow motion.

His car swirled in the air three times.

His eyes closed slowly.

He felt nauseous.

The car fell over the short bridge.

It landed upside-down.

And it all went black.

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Nam