She had just woken up. The female feline yawned as she rose from her bed. She did not look forward to the day's work. Their most recent project with the "Ultimate Lifeform" or Shadow had failed. Again. She was at a loss.
Her boss, the director, was probably furious. He always was when their attempts had failed. She quickly threw on her olive-green turtleneck and black dress pants. Before she left her dorm room, she went through her morning ritual and affixed her lab coat to her clothes.
Walking through the halls of the dorm, the purple female saw other residents going through the hall. She waved politely but kept on her way. The female cat was going to do a check-up on Shadow. Course she wasn't going to walk up to him and ask him. The crimson-splashed hedgewolf would attack her on site. No, she was going to monitor him and see what mood he was in today.
Shadow was the Ultimate Lifeform. One of the first species before Mobians. As being one of the last of his kind, Shadow was placed on his own reserve. The ebony male had his own island. A very large island; in the human world it would be the size of Africa, but with the climate between the grasslands, a boreal forest, and a rainforest. All in different regions. Essentially the Ultimate Lifeform was the main species, Mobians being a subspecies.
From what they could observe, Shadow was a solitary being, very intelligent and very aggressive. Since the midnight male didn't speak very often, they couldn't gather very much information. Though they did know that he could transform into the shape of a mobian, however he deemed the form weak and is rarely seen in it. He is well over a hundred years old, maybe more, but still retains the age range of twenties.
"Good morning, Blaze," said a voice in a sleepy, yet thoughtful manner.
Blaze opened her eyes, not realizing she had them closed, to the sight of her crush. His amber eyes instantly locked on to her golden ones.
"Silver, I didn't expect you up this early." The ivory hedgehog shuffled his quills. "Well, after our last attempt, I thought I would check on him," he chuckled.
"So, how is he today?" the purple-furred female asked, putting her hands on her hips.
"Well," the telekinetic male sighed, crossing his arms in the process, he s torn up four cameras already and is currently searching for another one. So, he's pissed at us."
"That bad, huh?" her voice dropping to a whisper," He really didn't like that squirrel girl." She didn't either, but it wasn't her choice, it was the director's. However, it was Shadow's choice whether he accepted them. From what they dealt with, Shadow was picky. Very picky. Blaze let out a sigh.
"Samson," she called out to a tan sloth," Is Miss Rose here?" The sloth she called out was a frail male wearing a lab coat and glasses.
"Yes, she arrived fifteen minutes ago," he said, timidly. He pushed his glasses up.
"Good. Get her prepped then come get me," Blaze said as she walked out of the surveillance room. She was heading toward the dining hall. The female was hungry.
"Now Miss Rose, why did you choose to volunteer?" Blaze asked the peppy sakura hedgehog in front of her. "Oh, I wanted to help out with any science department I could." Blaze nodded, she knew Shadow would reject her too. Shadow didn't seem to care for the overly-energetic type. That much she did know. The female scientist thought it best to look for another girl after they sent her in.
"So, what am I supposed to do?" the pink hedgehog asked, putting her hands on her hips.
"Don't worry, we'll guide you through once you're inside the preserve." the icy feline said, smiling.
Blaze hurriedly sped to the surveillance room. Again, Shadow rejected another female. It was expected at this point.
"Samson! Details!" the golden eyed female demanded.
The sloth jolted, "Yes, ma'am. Uh...he's rejected other one. What are we going to do? This is the seventeenth one," he stuttered.
Blaze sighed and rubbed the bridge of her snout," Send evac. I'll find us another volunteer," she ordered. She noticed the sloth shivering and stuttering at her order.
"Samson," she called icily, the sloth jumped, " What else happened?" It was an order not a request.
The sloth nervously stuttered and fidgeted, "U-uh...W-w-well, She-Miss Amy-after their encounter-she attacked-" he was cut off when he was grabbed by Blaze on the shoulders, forcing him to look at her.
"What do you mean 'she attacked'?" she growled.
"M-miss Amy had a hammer! Shadow dodged it, but-but he wasn't happy! He left- he left after that! Please don't hurt me!" he exclaimed, both hands covering his head.
Blaze let go on her hold on the shivering sloth. She left the room with only a few words, "Go get some sleep. I'll get the next volunteer," she said quietly.
"Where are those files?" the purple female asked herself. She had been searching for the volunteer files for over half an hour. She was getting restless. Blaze shut the drawer she had just finished searching. 'Not in there either,' she thought angrily. The library was a large place, so it had a lot of places the files could be at.
She walked along the various rows of shelves and stopped in front of one. She rose herself to the top shelf. Those files were there. She growled in annoyance and began taking them into her arms.
"Ms. Blaze, I would like to speak to you." a silky voice called from behind the fiery female. She sighed quietly; she knew who it was. Putting on a fake smile, she turned her head.
"Good evening, Ms. Bat. How can I help you?" She asked, already knowing what she was going to say.
The ivory bat placed a hand on her hip. She was wearing a mocha if not toffee-colored skirt with a matching jacket and blouse. Her blouse was unbuttoned, showing off the bat's goods just a bit. "Listen, I know this is a difficult process, but we need to see progress and soon. In the director's exact words, he wants puppies." she said, ending in a monotone voice.
'So like the director...' Blaze thought, 'He seems more like a kid than a director of several different science departments.'
"To expand this department's projects..." the ivory bat's voice cut her back into reality, " we need to see progress in other words, find Shadow a mate." With that, the huntress left the library, leaving the knowledgeable cat to her thoughts once again.
She didn't blow up in anger or shout she simply sighed and said, " If it really was that easy it would've been done already. You want this project to progress so badly, then take it up with Shadow." She looked at the files in her arms.
Shadow was picky. He didn't like snobby types like Ms. Acorn. Nor overly energetic types like Amy and her hammer didn't help that. But most of all, from what Blaze witnessed, was when they ran or screamed in terror. When that happened, she swore she would see a quick look of hurt in Shadow's eyes. Blaze didn't blame him, so this time she would choose the volunteer from the list. She knew or thought she did on what Shadow liked.
"Ugh..." the feline groaned. She had just spent the last three hours looking at nothing but files of volunteers. Blaze started to get frustrated.
"What's his problem?!" she growled, flipping to random files. Then she stopped on one particular file; Blaze read through the file's content and decided on that one.
"I'll go with her. It's late and I need to sleep," she yawned as she went to her bed and fell into a deep sleep.