Warnings & Disclaimers
Okay, I'm going through the phase where I pretty much hate the stories that I'm writing but I've come up with a story to which I actually like! Can you believe that? I promise this is the last story I shall publish and delete and all that stuff, so welcome to my new Shadikal story called Time! please read here because I will have some announcements and important things that you must need to here in this story.
i. This story is set in the 1950s, meaning that they would be 1950s slangs, dressing and no presence of iPhones and all the stuff that has been brought up in the 21st century but will be instead looking at the 20thcentury
ii. This story is rated M; as it would have controversial topics so this story would not be censored to; alcohol, abuse, swearing, sex [there will be some lemons, but it would be mostly limes], drugs, violence, sexism [sorry gals, it was an issue in the 1950s] and homophobia. I will put warnings on the top of chapters when these topics will appear but I will warn people that most [if not all] chapters will not be censored to swearing. I will not be adding racism to the issues because it's very hard to be racist towards animals and yes, I can humanize them but I simply feel like it would ruin the concept of it being a Sonic the Hedgehog story [however, not against any writer who does like writing humanized stories or be biased to any story with humanized characters of course]
iii. There will be no OCs in this story, mainly because I've realised that they are too many sonic characters in the franchise for me not to use but I am not against any author and will not be biased towards any story that does uses OCs. This also means that some characters would be shifted and all in order to fit the story line more.
iv. No character is going to be perfect. Every character is going to have an issue and all issues would be important. Although, it may seem like characters may have more issues than others but it's only to fit the story line more. I'm not making any character less perfect than other. All character will have their imperfections BUT I can't necessarily avoid OOCness as like before, there are no OCs and most characters may not have met the main characters in the story [also the fact that it's kind of in the 20th century and all] so it may be original perspectives being made about characters' opinions on characters.
v. Usual pairings aside from Shadikal include Sonamy, Taismo, Knuxouge and Silvaze. This would probably be the major ships while other ships would be hinted and all.
vi. Please remember that I don't exactly live in the 20th century [none of us do really], and if I do make mistakes please review it politely and don't be snide or rude about it and may also add some things that were not technically invented in the 1950s [this doesn't mean I'd go as far as to say iPhones and laptops and stuff, I'm not that crazy.]
vii. As there would be no OCs, all Sonic characters, locations and all that belong to SEGA/ARCHIE, not me. You also don't have to give me credit if I make up a place like 'Chao Café' or something like that. The only thing I truly own, is the plot. :)
viii. I'm switching the some of the places and I will explain now so that you wouldn't get confused. Mobius is still a planet, let's say, Mobius is like planet earth. Mobotropolis and Moebius are like countries like England and America for example. And obviously, cities would be Station Square, Central City and all that. Just wanted to explain.
Anyway, I'm done with my ranting! Time to enjoy the story y'all! [see what I did there ;)]
*awkward cough* I know I'm not funny… don't judge me.
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1 | going back to the past
The black and crimson hedgehog sighed before pouring another glass of bourbon.
He didn't know why he was drinking so much. It was his least favourite type of alcohol. His favourite was vodka, even though it was one of the most bitter types of alcohol that ever existed. He liked the bitter burning sensation his throat felt every time he drank it. He was used to bitterness after all, that drink was nothing compared to the bitterness that he had experienced in his life. It was like sweet bitterness, which was weird because they were two opposite tastes, but he didn't care. Vodka was bittersweet to him, that was probably what was going to be his favourite taste in the world but annoyingly for him, bourbon was the only source of alcohol he had in his stupid office and even though he hated it, he was desperate for some alcohol. His crimson eyes glanced—more like glared—at the newspaper beside him, before drinking his bourbon hastily. He dropped the glass before looking at the newspaper glaring at the title.
Is Scourge Enterprises going to beat Crimson Industries in the best manufacturing industries in whole of Mobotropolis?
He glanced at Scourge, the sap green hedgehog, whose blue eyes were smiling at the camera, but Shadow knew that that smile was nothing but fake. Scourge the Hedgehog was fake himself. No one knew much about him—then again, no one knew much about Shadow himself either—but this was different. Scourge was bad news, and yet only he seemed to see it that way. The whole of Station Square seemed to think that Scourge the Hedgehog was an innocent man trying to start business but Shadow knew him, knew him too well. And the things he could say could ruin Scourge's whole life, but it would backfire on him too. If he says anything, he could be known as the businessman who just wanted to win and is willing to make up stuff. And also, all the bad stuff, he knew about Scourge could potentially affect him too and in the end, could risk him losing the business completely.
"Mr. Shadow?" A voice called as he raised an eyebrow before turning to Lien-Da, his secretary. He couldn't help it, but he had always found her attractive, then again, so did everyone in the office. She was around his age, or little older, she never really talked about her age that much but not like he cared, he didn't mind older women. She had red dreadlocks, which matched her red-fur, which he found pretty attractive. She was in her usual grey buttoned up shirt and her matching grey tight sheath skirt, which brought out her figure and black heels. Her blue eyes glanced at the bottle of bourbon before looking at the hedgehog.
"I'm guessing you're not handling the news very well." she realised as Shadow snorted before smiling sarcastically.
"Would you?" He asked as she shrugged. She never really opened up about her past, but it wasn't like he wanted to be in a relationship with her. He was done with relationships, didn't need those.
"I suppose." she shrugged. "but then again, you're letting this little game get to your head, whose to say the Scourge guy even knows what the hell is doing?"
Shadow glanced at the teal hedgehog, who had nothing but a smirk on her face. Sometimes, he had wondered why he let her be his secretary, her attractiveness? Her ability to make him realise how stupid he was being in situations like this? He wasn't sure, but either way, her little 'pep talk' was enough to make him sit up on his chair.
"Tell Dulcy to type up some new job entry qualifications and—"
"Oh, you didn't hear?" Lien-Da cut off as the hedgehog raised an eyebrow as she laughed a bit. "Dulcy quit."
Shadow's eyes widened before he let out an exasperated sigh. He hated this. Sure, his business wasn't doing to well due to the war and the depression but after the war was over, everything was improving. His business was going up, sometimes going down and it was still trying to go up. She knew that it was probably part of the reason why Scourge's business was able to catch up, but still. This wasn't what he needed.
"And you're only telling me this now?" Shadow hissed as Lien-Da rolled her eyes.
"In my defence, all you do is sit there and drink. Not large amount of work done." Breezie admitted as Shadow glared at her, afraid to admit that she did have a point.
"Anything else, you need to talk about but I was too busy drinking to care?" Shadow asked sarcastically as he watched the echidna roll her eyes as she sighed.
"The boys want to meet you in the usual bar." She said as he sighed.
"You might as well go. You'd do more there than here." she muttered as Shadow put on his brown trench coat before walking in front of her. "Listen to me." He growled. "Talk like that and I'd leave you out on the street got it?" he hissed as she smirked.
"You don't scare me." she admitted before moving closer to him, feeling her chest against his. "And if you wanted to leave me on the street, you would have done it a long time ago." she whispered his ear before smirking on walking away.
Why is she my secretary?
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"This is our new start!" the newly twenty-one peach echidna in the red jumper dress with white blouse underneath, her dreadlocks in a ponytail as her cobalt eyes glanced around the shops and the little boutiques. After travelling for so long, she never expected to be back here, Station Square, where everything began. But something drew her to this place. Maybe it was that she missed her family, or that running away from the past wasn't always the answer.
"You sure you want it here, Tikal?" the green seedrain asked her friend worriedly, her blue eyes looking at her friend with curiosity as a nice dark blue collar dress fit her figure. Tikal looked over to her friend before giving her a smile.
"Yeah Cosmo, I'm sure." Tikal reassured as Cosmo gave her friendly smile. The pink hedgehog in a red polka-dot swing dress sighed, before looking around her surroundings.
"Never pictured coming back here." She admitted as the two girls beside her let out a chuckle, all thinking the same thing.
"I can't even believe that you talked me into this." The lavender cat in the black and white polka dot Hepburn dress grumbled as the pink hedgehog's jade eyes smiled at her.
"C'mon Blaze, just admit you missed this place." Amy smiled. "Besides, this isn't going to be like the last time, it's been so long, maybe they've forgotten about it." Amy reassured as Blaze sighed. Tikal didn't show it that much, but she needed that reassurance. The girls had been through a lot, a lot ever since they left Station Square. The worst was at the Casino Night Zone, which was a hotel in Central City, or the place where the girls spent the worst two months of their lives, before deciding to come back to Station Square, home.
"You do realise that coming back here means we have to face them?" Blaze reminded as Tikal bit her lip. She still remembered the harsh words that her father had said to her when he told her the news. How she couldn't confine in her mother because well, her mother wasn't there anymore. The only relative she had, the only love one she could turn to just bailed on her, before, she turned to her friends of course, who gladly took her in, before telling them about their own problems.
"I know. But we had to meet up with our problems at some point. Better now than ever right?" Tikal shrugged, mainly trying to reassure herself, considering that it was her idea to come back, not like she was backing out of it or anything, she was just worried that maybe her father still hated her and never wanted to see her face, considering what she had brought to the family, the shame. But there was a tiny bit of her that was still remaining for hope, that maybe he had missed her, but she honestly doubted that. The good news is that she was old enough to get her new place and didn't have to leave with her father anymore. Luckily, the girls had a large amount of money earned from the Casino Night Zone, although none of them were proud of how they earned the money, but they still had it so they could look for apartments.
"I guess, but I swear if—"
"Blaze, we promise we're not leaving you. We didn't leave each other during the Casino Night Zone era, we're defiantly not going to leave you now. Okay?" Amy reassured as Blaze gave the girls a smile. Tikal smiled at Blaze, she was probably the most worried about coming back and she didn't blame her for it either. No one was too keen on looking back on their deadly past, not even Amy who even though was dashing friendly smiles, she was pretty sure that she was nervous like the rest of them.
"I'm going call for a taxi." Cosmo smiled, before hailing for a taxi. The yellow taxi stopped, before a dark orange porcupine with a pair of amber-coloured eyes slid his window down.
"What can I do for you ladies?" He asked with a cocky grin.
"We're going to Chao Garden Apartments." Cosmo answered as he nodded, showing a sign that he knew the place before the girls dropped their bags in the boot and entered the taxi. Chao Garden Apartments was one of the most luxurious apartments in Station Square, which emphasized on the large amount of money they had as they were even able to buy their own separate apartments. Even though they weren't proud of how they made the money, it didn't hurt to spend on it on something nice and luxurious, mainly to get their mind of on how they earned the money. Tikal looked out the window. A large amount had changed since she had gone, maybe because there was finally no more war or the economy had gotten better but everything seemed so much more, lively. Sure, Station Square was always known as a lively place but never still lively. She had never seen so many advertisements for broadways and fashion lines. She had never seen so many buildings, industries, more like empires in her entire life.
She left the cab take a swift turn before arriving at Chao Garden and boy was that place huge. She was impressed by how large the building was and more surprised over the fact that it was a hotel and not a skyscraper by now. The grass in front of it was freshly mowed as in the middle was a nice decorative fountain, spurting out perfectly blue water. Tikal and the girls go out of the car, before looking at their new home.
"I can get used to this." Blaze shrugged as Tikal gave her a small nudge. It did look nice, something that the girls really needed, a nice clean start.
"Thanks!" Cosmo smiled, before opening her purse.
"No, no. On the house." The porcupine smiled before dashing her a wink, to which Cosmo flushed a little. Blaze rolled her eyes at the sight before helping Amy with the suitcases, and eventually watching him drive away.
"He seemed friendly." Tikal smiled as Cosmo shrugged.
"They all seem like it. We've known better." Cosmo admitted as Tikal nodded. Whether she liked admitting it or not, those two months changed her life and she had known better than to be fooled by a pretty face.
"C'mon, this is a brand new start in a brand new place!" Amy said lightening up the mood as the three girls looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "Well, kind of. You know what I mean!" Amy huffed playfully before the three girls laughed at the hedgehog before entering their home.
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Luckily for Tikal there was an elevator because she knew that there was no way that she was going to carry all of her suitcases up the stairs. Unlike Amy, she at least chose the second floor, Blaze had chosen the third floor and poor Amy had chosen the fourth. Cosmo, being her usual lazy self, just picked the first floor. The girls had thought of staying on the same floor, but Blaze that it would be more realistic to be independent so stay at the bottom of each other on each floor but Amy had thought of if they wanted to do the thing, so the girls decided to be independent and not beneath each other, but at least they were in the same building. Tikal had to admit, she wasn't such a huge fan of this, mainly because she didn't really like being alone for so long. Maybe it was because when her father abandoned her in a way, the girls were all she had. But she knew that they did have to become independent some time. The friendship was still there, but they didn't need to hang out all the time.
Tikal sighed, before finding apartment 3F. She looked at the quite-wide and long hallway before unlocking the dark green door, only to see one of the best apartments that she had ever since in her life. Nice shiny wooden floor with a small cute light blue kitchen table with four matching light blue chairs. There was a brown arm chair at the sight of the living room, which a matching brown couch leaning on the wall, facing the black and white TV sitting on the table. Tikal smiled at her green curtains before looking at the view of the city. She could really get used to a place like this. Smiling, she walked up the stairs before dropping her suitcases in her room. She smiled at the sight of the queen sized bed covered with nice purple satin sheets as in front of it was a nice wooden swing chair. Tikal jumped on the soft bed, before gazing out of her bay window, a little part of her wanted to look at her new home in awe all day but she knew that she had to unpack, get supplies for the house and even start looking for a new job. Tikal sighed, before getting out of the bed, starting her new life.
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"Shadow!" someone cheered as Shadow walked into Chaotix Bar as he gave a small smile to Vector, the green crocodile who owned the place. Vector was probably one of the only people who knew who could make a bar and become rich off it. It was amazing how many parties he threw in able to make it into quite a successful business, although he wasn't a big fan of the crocodile personally considering that he didn't exactly know how to keep a secret and was willing to do anything for money, even though it hurt other people but then again, that was what people called business? Especially those with the likes of Scourge the Hedgehog.
"Hey Vector." Shadow groaned, not in the mood for his wild behaviour.
"What's got you so down Shad?" Sonic, the blue hedgehog with emerald eyes in brown suspenders with his white shirt sleeves rolled up asked with a grin on his face as Shadow frowned, out of all his friends, the one that annoyed him the most was Sonic. Mainly because he was purposely trying to get feelings out of him, or simply his cocky, care-free attitude, either way, he annoyed him. But they were still friends, the annoyance was more of a friendly spar because in the end, he did care for the annoying hedgehog, but he was never going to admit it out loud because if he did, he knew that he will never hear the end of it.
"Nothing, Faker. And for the last time, don't call me Shad." He hissed, using his favourite nickname to shut the hedgehog up as Sonic raised his arms up in defence.
"Alright, don't burn the whole bar down." Manic, the green hedgehog with blue eyes, brother to Sonic in the black suspenders with white long sleeves commented, settling the two hedgehogs down as Shadow let out a short laugh.
"Anyway, before you guys all kill each other, we've got your usual order." Vector said towards Shadow as he let out a small smile. On a day like today, he needed his usual shots of vodka. He walked towards the bar, before Espio, the purple chameleon and one of Vector's best friends handed him the shot of vodka before Shadow drink it hastily.
"Woah, you normally drink vodka like scotch, what the hell is going on?" Silver, the silver hedgehog in a white short sleeve shirt and plaid pants asked as Shadow glared at him a bit before sighing, while Espio was currently giving him another round of vodka.
"Fuckin' Scourge Enterprises. That's the hell what's going on." Shadow explained before about to drink his vodka only for Knuckles, the red buff echidna with purple eyes in the red long sleeve striped shirt and brown pants to snatch it away from him.
"What the hell?" Shadow snapped at the echidna as Knuckles frowned. "We all care for you, but none of us want to see you drunk out of your ass."
"Okay, let's not have a fight over who cares about who more or anything like that." Tails, the yellow fox with blue eyes in a pink plaid shirt and black shirt suggested, doing his usual bring peace to the group as Shadow sighed. As much as he wasn't a mushy guy, he did need his friends right at a moment like this, whether he liked to or not.
"Besides, four foxy ladies just entered the bar, behave will ya?" Vector insisted as Shadow raised an eyebrow. Of course, Vector was also quite the ladies man. Sure, he didn't mind casual flirting here and there and neither did his friends—even though Tails was quite the awkward flirter—but Vector was a real ladies man. Although not many of the ladies he liked liked him back but he liked to flirt a lot. A little bit too much if you asked him.
Shadow watched Vector walk over to the foxy ladies that Vector was trying to get a swing at and realised that they were really attractive. The first one was a lavender cat, her eyes as gold as Silvers, a nice red jewel in the middle of her forehead, not contrasting with her purple fur as she was in a black and white polka dot Hepburn dress. Her arms were folded, probably not falling for the crap that Vector was saying to her, not like he could blame her or anything. Next to her was a green seedrain, her blue eyes seemed fascinated by the bar decorations but he wasn't too sure that she was listening to Vector but she still looked nice in her dark blue collar dress. Next to her was pink hedgehog in the red polka-dot swing dress who like the cat, wasn't falling for Vector's crap either but had an interesting smile on her face, probably interesting on how long he was going to pull it out on them for. And finally, the girl at the end, who was probably the only one who was interested in Vector's crap, was the girl who he seemed interested about the most.
She wasn't as tall as him, maybe it was her heels making her look taller than she needed. She was in a nice red jumper dress, with a white blouse underneath it. Not many girls pulled off that look very well, sometimes, he knew some girls that would only go with the jumper dress and not the white blouse or some girls just didn't know the colour that blended that skin well but she did. Her smile was cute too, glistening her cobalt eyes as she was dashing Vector's cute smiles here and there. He was infatuated by her, even though she was a lot more innocent than all the girls he was usually infatuated by, he was defiantly infatuated by this one.
"Woah, those girls are smokin'." Silver grinned before whistling.
"Which one of you fucking whistled at us?" The lavender cat hissed, walking up to them as Silver gulped. If there was anything that Shadow had studied right now about her, it was that she was defiantly not someone to mess with and defiantly wasn't like Silver's type of girls.
"Do we look like dogs to you?" She hissed rhetorically as Silver was about to answer but Manic covered his mouth quickly, causing him from saying anything stupid.
"Blaze!" the pink hedgehog shrieked before giving them an apologetic look. "Sorry, she's very sensitive to guys at the moment."
"And are you?" Sonic asked with his usual cocky grin as Shadow rolled his eyes at his poor attempt to flirt with the girl, but he couldn't help but admit that the pink and blue would look cute together.
"Still thinking about it." She flirted before Sonic smirked as all Shadow wanted to do was gag at the two of them. It was clear that they clearly had a physical attraction, but could they please do it somewhere else where it was just the two of them and not giving each other eye sex at the moment.
"Everything okay? We just got back from talking with the crocodile. Boy he can talk." The green seedrain commented as the echidna was right beside her, as Shadow was trying his best not to check her out obviously, although it was pretty hard.
"Oh, don't worry about him, you'd get used to his flirting." Tails reassured before dashing seedrain a smile, making a smile back as all Shadow wanted to do was gag. Couldn't people keep the eye sex and the smile filtrations to themselves?
"So, we know you're Blaze." Manic said, pointing at the lavender cat before glancing at the other girls before asking "so what are your names?"
"I'm Amy." The pink hedgehog smiled. "And this is Cosmo and Tikal." She said, pointing at the green seedrain and peach echidna.
"Tikal, what a nice name." Shadow muttered, but loud enough for Tikal to hear as she glanced at him, before giving him a small smile, making him flush awkwardly. He knew that his friends were going to ask him questions about what he said and were probably looking at each other in confusion but he was currently trying his best to ignore them.
"Oh… um… thank you." Tikal flushed, before Shadow gave her an awkward smile. He wasn't an awkward person in general, but something about her made him less of himself and he wasn't sure why.
"So, what brings you girls to the bar?" Knuckles asked.
"It's Tikal's first drink." Amy answered as Shadow eyes widened a little. She did look quite young but he didn't expect her to just turn twenty-one.
"Oh, what did you get?" Silver asked curiously, the first sensible thing that he said ever since, he well, whistled.
"Vodka." Tikal admitted as Shadow eyes widened more. He was mainly impressed, because most girls either take scotch on the rocks or start with something simple like beer, not move straight to vodka.
"Really? Not something simple like beer?" Knuckles asked with a confused tone.
"Beer sounded too boring. I kind of wanted to try real alcoholic stuff." She admitted as Manic cocked an eyebrow before plastering a smirk on Shadow only for him to look at him with a confused expression, saying what the fuck are you thinking?
"Fun story here. My pal, Shadow over here just happens to love vodka." Manic admitted before Shadow glared at him, only to see a bunch of smirks some the guys and not to mention a wink from Manic before returning to the girls.
"Really? Vodka?" Blaze asked surprised as Shadow sighed. This was the main reason why he didn't tell people about that was because he knew that people were going to judge him.
"Blaze don't judge. Maybe Vodka is sweet to him." Tikal defended. He wasn't sure why she was defending him, she had just met him, but the fact that she defended him made him feel so secure around her, like he could count on her for anything. She smiled as Espio brought out a shot of vodka, before telling her that it was on the house—typical Chaotix Bar saying for pretty girls—before Tikal looked at the shot of vodka. She probably didn't know how to drink it, which he didn't know why but he found kind of cute.
"You take it in one go." Silver explained as her mouth formed an 'o' shape, but glancing at the shot glance, before drinking it in one go as everyone cheered including Shadow who wasn't really a cheery guy.
"You like it?" Amy asked as her eyes widened a bit before dropping the shot glass.
"It's really bitter." She giggled, before trying to stand up, only to have to hold on to the chair. She was probably getting a bit tipsy, considering that this was her first time probably taking any form of alcohol. Amy caught her, before swinging her arm over her shoulder.
"Wow, you're a light drinker." Amy giggled before turning to the guys. "It was nice to meet you…?"
"Oh, how rude of us." Manic said before sighing and introducing himself. "I'm Manic, the blue hedgehog over here who was giving you eye sex is my younger brother Sonic— "
"Younger by five minutes and I wasn't giving her eye sex!" Sonic defended as Manic gave him a yeah right look.
Yeah right. You looked like you were going to bang her brains out right in front of us.
"Anyway, the yellow fox is Tails, the silver hedgehog who was an idiot is Silver—"
"So sorry about that." He apologised as Shadow turned to Blaze who seemed to give him a small smile, suggesting that maybe she was over it and willing to forgive him.
"The red knucklehead echidna is Knuckles and finally, the black crimson hedgehog who loves vodka is Shadow." Manic finalized as Tikal smiled.
"That's cute." Tikal smiled as Shadow flushed, trying not to take her words to seriously considering that she was a little bit tipsy at the moment.
"Well, we should go, but it was nice to meet you guys." Cosmo smiled before the girls walked away, hearing the door of the bar close behind them as Shadow ever wondered if he was going to ever see Tikal again. He wasn't sure why, but she defiantly wasn't like other girls. She actually wanted to know her. He wanted to know Tikal.
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WOO HOO! DONE WITH CHAPTER ONE! I WILL BE POSTING KNUXOUGE HIGHSCHOOL STORY BY THE END OF THIS WEEK SO PLEASE CHECK IT OUT! I'D GIVE YOU A HINT, IT'S GOING TO BE CALLED 'REBELLIOUS' AND I'M SO EXCITED TO WRITE IT AND PRETTY MUCH AS EXCITED AS I AM TO BE FINALLY WRITING A SHADIKAL STORY I LIKE AND I PLAN ON CONTINUING TO WRITE: D
More about everyone's past would come soon and we will soon know what happened in the Casino Night Zone and why Scourge and Shadow have such beef and why Shadow finds vodka bittersweet? I actually got that idea from jazzisms [read her stories, they are awesome!] Anyway, hope you enjoy this, see you soon, peace out suckers!
