Prologue

Frozen in a machine created by the grandfather of Dr. Eggman. She was place in the machine while in slumber. As the door of the machine closes she slightly opens her eyes not trying to make since of anything going on around her. She sees white fog starts to fill the small space, then she falls back into her deep slumber.

Chapter 1 The Awakening

The door opens and the sudden cold breeze forcibly awakens her and as she tries to make since of what is going on she finds herself staring in the face of a sharp edged robot. It's red eyes beaming strait at her. In the sudden panic she screams at the top of her lungs. The robot reacts to the sudden sound that its monitors picked up from her screaming. It attacks, applying that the robot thinks the sound is a threat. The moving heap of metal aims to stab her in the stomach but in her attempt to move out of the way the robot only grazed her side. Still enough pain to make her flinch from the wound. She quickly crawls down and tries to leap in the direction toward the door. Seeing the room on the other side of the robot, debris, rust, the whole place is a wreak.

'How long have I been asleep?' she thinks when in the moment that she is lost in her thought that a great weight slams her into what use to be controls in front of her. Her body being stabbed and pressed into more metal an exposed but still active electrical wire makes contact with her flesh shocking her and the robot holding her down but the electricity travels along the blood to the robot, short-circuiting it. She takes what little will she can pull through and pushes at least off of the active wire. As soon as she falls to the ground she blacks out.

Opening her eyes a flash of memory of what happened goes through her mind, so she tries to crawl her way out. With the exit only ten feet away from her she dedicates her strength on getting out. Only a foot away from the door she finds herself unable to keep moving from lack of energy, but she managed to at least push the door open with her hand and what greets her is a small sprouted plant.

'This is basil I do believe, so its edible. Enough to keep me from dieing at this moment anyway.' Her vision blurs as she reaches for the small plant.
'Just don't let me die.' she thinks to herself, closing her eyes as she grabs the plant but then she realizes that what she grabs is a lot bigger than what was the plant itself. She focuses her vision enough to see in her hand, an apple?

'What the hell?' but without a second though she takes a bite of the red jucy fruit. Tears swelling in her eyes she eats the delicious apple. Finishing the fruit to the core she looks ahead to the plant she thought was basil and sure enough ... it was basil.

'okay now I'm confused...' reaching for the plant her stomach rumbles.
'wish i had another apple...' and not a second later from the basil plant she watches a lump start to grow from the side of it and surely enough it became an apple.
'okay... weird but i guess when you are starving to death you'll take what you can get...' finishing the second apple, she feels her hunger subside.
'Okay... now lets see how well i can move.' she pushes herself up with her elbows. She cringes at the pain in her back from being forced into the controls earlier. Laying herself back down on her stomach, she tries to move her legs.
'Good thing my spinal cord isn't cut.' She brings her knee up to her chest and pushes herself up with her leg. She manages to lean her back against the wall next to the open door she was in front of, taking deep breaths to ease the pain in her back. Suddenly she hears what sounds like clanking metal and grinding gears traveling down the hall.
'Oh shit! Another blood thirsty piece of scrap metal...' Looking towards the entrance to the hallway she sees the gleaming metallic face of the robot peering around the corner to scan the room. Out of the corner of her eye she sees something fly past behind the robot, she couldn't see well but it looked like a white blur. Before she realized what happened, the robot was knocked over on its side with a giant gash in the side of its head and on top of the robot stood a... white bat and an ocelot?...
'okay... what the hell is going on?...' she stares at the two with a dumbfounded look.

"What is a kid like you doing in a place like this?' says the ocelot as he walks over and offers his hand.

"That's the thing... I don't know. I just woke up in here and i was, and was attacked first thing." being hesitant about grabbing the ocelots hand, she looks over at the bat which was staring at her in a confusing manner.

"You have no clue how you got in here?" asked the bat crouching down next to her.

"Not really... it'll probably come to me though because right now I feel a little light headed from the blood loss." taking her hand and placing it over her side that was sliced open.

"Well then tell us your name kid, I'm Stealth and this here is Rouge." the ocelot says offering his hand one more time.

"My name... um i honestly have no clue what my first name is... but my last name is Ookami and that's all i really remember..." she says while scratching the back of her head as if she is embarrassed when she has no clue why.

"Well that kinda makes you a shady character to just randomly be in an abandoned factory that's infested with exus robots." says Rouge leaning in to glare at the girl with the injuries.

"Actually that might work... We can call you Shade and if you don't remember anything why not start a new life?" says Stealth as he finally bends down to grab her hand to pull her up

"Ow... yeah but where would i go if i don't even know were i am? That seems like a pretty cool name though, Shade Ookami..." she says cringing as the pain travels through her from her wounds.

"Hun, you can just join us in the Cat Country. Of course you will have to go through some training first." Taking one of Shade's arms and slinging it over his shoulder to help support her.

"Stealth... are you sure that's such a good idea?" says Rouge as she goes to Shades other side to help her out the exit door.

"I don't see why not and I'm sure we'll find someone to train her." says Stealth looking over at Rouge giving her a slight smile. Amused by her blushing

"Thank you but i don't even know what it is you guys even do." she stands on both feet but allows them to help support her.

"We are Freedom Fighters and we fight to help the innocent and try to put a stop to the army of Exus robots." says Stealth with a smile.

"But I'm no super human, i don't think i can even defend myself against one of those things." says Shade as she is mostly out of the exit door.

"Human?... You look like a normal wolf to me..." says Rouge as she whips her head around to look at Shade with the most confused look she has ever made.

"A wolf?... That's impossible, i was born a hu...man" says Shade as she releases her arm to feel her head and then realizing that what she felt were her ... ears? She quickly turns her head to look behind her and sure enough... there it was... a tail.

"Born a human huh?..." says Rouge with a look of surprise.

"Wha... what the hell?... How did this happen?" she then remembers about when she was forced into the controls and she had that massive amount of electricity surge through her body. She went unconscious after she pushed the robot off. 'Was that the cause of this?...'

"...I've seen weirder things happen." says Stealth just shrugging about it and continues forward.

"Why are you so calm about this? Aren't you at least a little curious about how this happened if what she says is true?" says Rouge staring at Stealth as if that's the craziest thing she has ever heard.

"We can try and figure it out later but right now she is injured and we need to get home and rest anyways. We're done here." says Stealth finally making it to the ship and helping Shade inside. Stealth hops in and starts the engine. Looks back at Rouge, amused at her annoyed eye rolling.

"Thank you for saving me but may I ask where we're going?" said Shade as she fastens her seatbelt in the back seat.

"The Wild Company's team base" announced Stealth as the engine roars to life and then forward in motion.

"We aren't seriously taking her directly to the bas, are we?" shouts Rouge as she grips the back of Stealth's seat roughly.

" Yes we are Rouge and like it or not she may even be staying for a while." Looks in the rear-view mirror at Shade, "So do you know how old you are?"

"Sixteen. . ." she stares into the rear-view mirror to look back at Stealth.

"My daughter is just a little than you are. I think you'll get along with her." He smiles than looks back to the sky.

As the long ride in silence and sitting next to the bat, Shade decides to look out the window and sees dark, almost black, clouds over head and covering the entire sky but with evergreen trees covering the entire ground.

"Is it going to rain?" said Shade, still staring out of the window.

"No, it's smoke and radiation clouds from the explosion." Said Rouge with her arms crossed, looking the other way.

Still looking out the window, Shade's eyes widen with disbelief. 'How long was I asleep? . . .' she thinks to herself as slowly she feels herself slip into unconsciousness.