Connection: Remix

Author: Blu Evermind

Summary: Months after the Ark incident, Shadow mysteriously returns to Station Square. Now it's up to Sonic and friends to discover how…and why. SONADOW; Action to come in later chapters.

Notes: This is a re-write to a story I wrote 3 years ago…there are many things I'm trying to do with the rewrite: 1) I want to add more depth to Sonic and Shadow's relationship. I felt in the first one, things just went from one extreme to the other, too quickly. I think this is because back then, I didn't have much relationship experience. 2) Further develop the plot. I loved the plot of the first one (an idea I thought over for weeks before putting it on paper) I would just like to spread out things more. 3) MAKE IT LONGER. I'm a short-chapter kind of girl but I can make more short chapters, therefore making the story itself longer. Maybe work on that Tails/Amy/Fiona triangle a little more…and much more Sonic/Shadow sap moments because I love them so.

Another Note: I haven't used in a few years. I don't even know how long this is going to be here, for I had another Sonic/Shadow story up before that was taken down for very silly reasons. So, I'm going to post this here, but I also have a fiction journal now (greatestjournal(dot)com(slash)nothingbutgreys), that's where you can also find my other works. I have chapters 1-4 completed as of now and I'm writing chp 5, I just wanted to post this because I've been getting a few reviews on Connection Pt 1 and 2, so I wanted to keep those readers updated...I am going to rewrite Pts 1 and 2, and complete 2.

And with that settled, let's begin!

CHAPTER ONE

Sonic the Hedgehog, world's savior, found himself at the beach tonight, emerald eyes looking forlornly at the waves breaking the sand. It was a few months after the ARK incident. Weather forecasters had announced that debris from the explosion would be coming back to earth soon. Sonic was afraid, though.

As he looked up into the starry sky, soon to be filled with burning scraps of garbage—he was quite frightened, because Shadow's body might come down with it. And that would stop this hopeful feeling he'd had lately. That somewhere out there, Shadow was still alive.

Sonic kicked a seashell and dropped to the ground. "I don't know what these feelings are," he murmured to himself, "but I wish they'd leave me alone."

Waking in the night to hear dark voices desperately calling his name was getting on his nerves. Seeing red eyes, wide in fear in the shadows of his bedroom at night was quite troublesome for the blue hedgehog.

He punched the sand beneath him, "IF YOU'RE DEAD—THEN STAY DEAD!" He cried. "But if you're alive...then come back already." His chin fell to his chest, hiding his facial expression. If the world saw him like this, so distraught over Shadow's—his rival's—death, they'd think him weak, think he couldn't still take up his responsibility of protecting everyone.

So he held back the tears and didn't think that the ghost of Shadow the Hedgehog may be haunting him.

There was light here in Oblivion. Every shadow gave way to it. Even when he closed his eyes, he saw it. There was no hiding from it, or his newly recovered memories. He knew everything now. About Maria and the Professor and how, at first, he wasn't created to be the Ultimate Lifeform, but Maria's protector, and companion. But one mystery remained…

Who had betrayed them?

Shadow left the question unanswered for the moment, and gave into his memories once more…

The soldiers killed Maria as she tried to save him. Tidbits of conversation came back to him.

"Human bastards," Shadow spat as he and Maria ran through the halls, trying to escape the military menace.

"Oh Shadow," Maria panted, "They can't all be like that! There has to be humans like the ones in the books—that we watch on the satellite television feed…"

Maria suddenly shrieked as a solider popped up in front of their path.

"Okay, Missy, now just surrender calmly and nobody gets hurt—"

"Like hell they don't!" Shadow cried, rolling into a ball and hitting the armed solider straight in the face. A single shot echoed through the air and Maria held her hands against her abdomen firmly. "Shadow!" she gasped fearfully.

"No!" Shadow was next to her immediately, "keep putting pressure on it; we'll be at the escape pods shortly.

They hadn't actually seen the escape pods before—just knew where the room was.

At the time, Shadow and Maria didn't know that there was only one escape pod left…and it could only hold one.

The light even broke through the memory, and Shadow was back in the present. Wherever that present WAS…

"I've got to get out of here…" Shadow announced, and began to walk forward, exploring the light.

"Sonic!" Amy's high pitch voice broke through the heavy layer of angst clouding the blue hedgehog.

"Amy? What are you doing out here alone—at this time of night?"

Amy stood next to Sonic, his head reaching the height of her waist. She was staring at the sea, a mysterious look in her eyes.

"What's…wrong?" Sonic asked.

"You've been looking pretty down lately; I haven't seen you smile in days…the question is, what's wrong with you, Soniku?" she leaned down, face extremely close to Sonic's.

The blue hedgehog turned away. "It's nothing. We all get the blues sometimes, Amy."

"Oh, yeah? Then how come you get yours at the exact same moment the news reports the debris from the ARK incident?" she pulled out her hammer, playfully hitting Sonic on the head.

/Wow, I didn't know Amy had been stalking me this closely/ He felt a little intruded on. "Anybody would be depressed hearing about that again."

Her green eyes bore into his for a second. Then she pulled away, a big smile on her lips. "I GUESS you're right. I mean, Tail's is still obsessed with finding his fake chaos emerald he lost up there."

Tails wasn't as much of a wreck as Sonic was at the moment, but he was still a mess.

But Sonic had to stay strong. Even when at that moment, the first twinkling pieces of debris burned up in the atmosphere.

He stood up, taking Amy's hand, "Let's go back."

Amy squealed childishly as Sonic took her hand. "Yeah!"

And they turned away from the sky, their past, even as a particularly large, shiny bit of it was about to enter their lives again.