Okay! New fanfic, you guys may not appreciate me starting a new one but having multiple story is good for when I get block (Which I have on Doomsday right now)

This is a zombie fic. So if you don't like that you should probably turn around now. Pairings and main characters are:

Shadow Amy

Knuckles Rouge

Sonic (undecided)

Tails (undecided)

Slayde Alexia

Well Sonic and such don't belong to me, Slayde does so does Alexia. Enjoy, read and review.

When All Else Fails

Prologue

*Maria's POV*

Hacking into these things is starting to get a real bore now. Just how many firewalls do these things have? I asked myself as my hands darted across the keyboard in a timely fashion. I knew they'd detect my presence in mere minutes so I had to finish up quickly. I was seconds away from giving up on my search and finding out where the next GUN base was when I happened upon the two words I was looking for. 'Project Shadow.' I almost cried in happiness, I had been searching for what was just past the band of three decades. They were keeping him in a base deep in the forest; Ori. Of course, the bloody thing is literally hundreds of square miles. I quickly hacked further to find the longitude and latitude, it seemed that there was simple a tiny base with next to no soldiers guarding it as its purpose had been long forgotten over the past thirty years. I quickly went to the front of the van that I was in. I had inherited some of my grandfathers genius but it ended up being more mechanical. Like my father. "Reece, we had a new objective." Reece was my hand build robot and did my driving for me.

"Yes mistress, heading to the downloaded coordinates. Difficulties to be expected on rough terrain." The robot reeled out. I nodded, knowing the robot was programmed to understand, and went to lay down in my bed. It'd take a few hours to make our way there.

My dreams were suddenly woken by a gentle rocking. I quickly glanced around to see that the van had just been parked, Reece turned to look at me. "Good timing mistress. Do you wish for accompaniment, or shall you go in alone?" The robot asked. I hopped up and grabbed some of my stuff I would need, various lock picking devices and such, finally plugging an ear piece in my ear.

"I'll need you to relay through where I need to go. I shouldn't run into any complications, but you never know." I stated to my trusty companion. He swiftly moved over to the computer in the back of the van in a speed that surprised me. I never got used to how fast something so heavy could move. I hopped out the back of the van and looked around at him. "I'm going in right away. Hack into the cameras and be my eyes." I told him as he turned to the keyboard and got to work as I stealthily dashed across the forest floor.

"All outside cameras images have been frozen. Good luck mistress." Reece reeled off. I continued, but ran a bit faster this time, only having to look out for possible guards rather than cameras as well. I reached the entrance to the base almost immediately, it looked like it sloped down into the base. "Warning, three people coming to the door, likely the patrol for outside. Suggest hiding nearby and sneaking in before the door closes." I quickly jumped to the side and climbed on top of the tunnel that protruded out of the earth. Seconds later the doors opened and three men in a typical GUN uniform stepped out. I waited until I heard the door start to close and quickly did an athletic manoeuvre to swing inside. The door shut with a thud just as I landed. "I'll be keeping track of you and looping cameras that you approach. For now just head down the stairs. This complex seems to be far bigger than what was previously indicated." I sighed. Why can't anything be simple? I asked myself, running down the hall and taking turns as instructed, hiding when needed. It took half an hour but I finally managed to find what I was looking for. Entering the room I found a large tub hooked up to various machinery, I peaked inside, yet could barely see a thing through the glass. Swiftly I made my way over to the control panel. It was dusty and covered in a layer of grime. I swept it off with my hand and hit a couple of keys. The thing came to life.

Project: Shadow

Status: Cryogenically frozen

It's him I thought to myself before getting my hacking tools out. Several seconds and I already had full control, obviously the software hadn't been updated for years. I clicked on drain and the liquid inside the pod rapidly thawed and receded. The pod opened to reveal a little bundle of black and red. The little baby Shadow who was stolen from the lab before he could develop, almost driving my grandfather to insanity, yet luckily the cure had been found due to that very incident. I then made the promise I would free him before he could be used as a weapon. I picked up the little bundle of fur. It looked like he was sleeping, that would be useful as it meant I could go along quietly. I took one step out of the room and suddenly an alarm was going off.

"Reece! What's happened?" I panicked over the microphone, quickly dashing out the room fully and rushing down the hallways.

"It seemed they had an alarm to be triggered if the door was opened while the pod was opened. I didn't forsee this, it was an unusual form of a warning mechanism. I'm coming in." Reece announced quickly before the com went dead. Shit I thought, I knew my way back, my photographic memory remembered the whole journey, but I didn't want Reece to get himself hurt, or destroyed. I continued the way I came swiftly, not caring for cameras anymore, I could hear them not too far behind me. I continued running until I had made it past halfway which made me confused. I was sure I should have seen Reece by now as he was faster than me. I quickly ran up the stairs that lead to the entrance and found it wide upon, stuck by something too simple to be true, a steel pipe. Reece was still nowhere in sight. Dashing to the van I found it in camouflage mode, making it all but invisible to the naked eye and if I didn't know where it was I doubted I'd have ever found it. I sat and waited, oddly no one came up for five minutes and I started to wonder whether Reece had been apprehended when suddenly he came bursting out the door, removing the prop like it was no more than tissue paper between paper. The doors close themselves slowly, damaged from being held open so extensively. Four soldiers managed to successfully get out and started shooting at him as he run. He ran funnily, like he was holding something. I saw of the bullets hit Reece and I knew that he would be unable to drive. Swiftly I grabbed Shadow and put him inside the cot I had prepared long long ago. Starting up the van I looked expectantly to the back of the van, suddenly it opened and Reece dash in, placing a blue and black bundle not unsimilar to the red and black one right next to it.

"Reece what's that?" I asked, knowing full well what it was. Reece just jumped back out of the van.

"Insufficient memory, data has been corrupt. Go mistress, leave." He announced as he slammed the back door shut. I drove off quickly hating every second of it. I glanced in the mirror seeing Reece holding off the soldiers as best he could before a tree came and hid him from my view.

Hours later I was still driving in the infernal forest, lost completely. Luckily I had stumbled across a dirt road and made my vans tracks look like it was going one way but turning in it as it was completely compact and didn't leave a trace of my turning, making it look like I was going in another direction than I was if they so happened to find the tracks, they would lose us. A village suddenly came into view. I entered it and looked around for a bit, getting stares from people. It seemed they didn't get many visitors. I quickly continued through and found a town less than a mile away. It's population was slightly over five thousand. A good size to hide in, but no so big that it was seen by many countries. I hadn't even seen this settlement on a map before. I drove around a bit until I found an area of newly built houses, I swiftly entered the agents at the end, it seemed that the agents were suspicious, but none of them expressed it. Most people probably came here if they were on the run for something. I was told there was two other towns nearby within five miles and that one had a populous of three thousand and the other of two thousand. Not to mention nine villages each with various populations of five hundred to a thousand. It was the perfect hiding place from GUN, and they would never expect me to be right under their noses. I quickly bought a house on the spot, much to the surprise of the agents, thanks to the inheritance I had received from my grandfather. Driving my van into the garage. I forged adoption papers for the two little bundles in the cot sleeping still and picked up the black and blue one. I looked into his cute little features as he gave me a dopey and confused look. His face resembled Shadow's strikingly.

"It looks like they did experiments to you with Shadow's DNA little fella." I told him, he just tilted his head in a cute way and started wiggling his arms towards me, like he wanted a hug. "You're a cute one aren't you." I cooed to the little hedgehog as Shadow woke up and looked at me with his cute eyes. "This is going to be crazy." I murmured to myself as I picked up Shadow in the other arm and hugged them both.