You know being a mechanic, a G.U.N worker, and a friend to three very different people doesn't make my life very safe, but it is interesting and occasionally fun. Being the niece of Dr. Robotnik doesn't help very much either. Or knowing that you've abandoned people that only helped you when you needed it the most. But that's my life, there are mistakes that I wish I could change, but that goes for everyone. Right? But life goes on and time doesn't stop for anyone, well unless you're my friend Shadow and can stop time itself, but I'm getting ahead of myself. My name is Hope Kintobor. I am fourteen years old and I'm a G.U.N mechanic…
I laid in my cot within the small room G.U.N had given me. It was more like a closet, but I didn't have any where else to stay and I wasn't going to go back to Knothole. Sitting up I quickly strapped on my crimson shoes, I had slept in my clothes so I could easily get up and get out. Grabbing the handle of a wooden brush I quickly ran it through my hair then hurried out of the room before I was late. Which of course was nearly impossible since I lived in the building, but still I liked to be prompt. I ran down the hall with my fingers itching to be covered in motor oil and be working on a motor or a machine. As I turned the corner I ran into something black and furry, I landed on my bottom then looked up to see who I collided with. He stood there arms crossed and an annoyed look in his ruby eyes, I smiled sheepishly at the black hedgehog.
"Sorry, Shadow. I shouldn't have been running." I apologized with a shrug as he rolled his eyes then I saw a slight smirk appear.
"Humph, just be more careful, Hope." He said as he helped me to my feet. I smiled then began to walk away again towards the workshop.
"I'll see you around, Shadow!" I called waving at him as he looked back and made a short wave then went on his way. You have no clue how long it took for me to get him to wave back, yeah he was very silent and serious. But Rouge and I have been working on breaking it down. Not very much progress though, but only time will tell. To my delight I found E-123 Omega in my work shop, he needed some repairs and to my honor only let me work on him.
"Hi, Omega! What's wrong this time, big guy?" I asked climbing onto a ladder to reach the middle of his back to see if the circuits needed re-wiring or if I needed to replace something.
"The accuracy of my missile launcher was thrown off during my latest mission. Can you fix it?" He asked in his metallic voice, I smiled and patted his shoulder.
"Well I'll see what I can do." I said then began my workday. I was still working on it by lunch time and I didn't want to stop.
"Alright, the blue wire is suppose to transfuse with the white then its supposed to connect with the transformer battery so that means this needs to go to-"
"Hope? Honey, have you been here all morning?" I heard a familiar voice call out, I peeked to the side of Omega to see the shadow of a bat. Rouge. I kept quiet hoping she wouldn't find me.
"I believe the girl is-" Omega began to say when I shhhed him.
"I don't want her to find me! I want to finish this first." I whispered to him as I heard the click of her boots.
"Alright then miss lunch, see if I care." She said then more clicking giving the me the okay to come out. I stood up and turned around to grab a ratchet to find Rouge standing behind me with one hand on her hip.
"Kiddo, you're gonna work yourself to death if you keep this up. Come on and have lunch with me…I bet you didn't even have breakfast, did you?" She said as I sighed shaking my head.
"But Rouge! I really want Omega to be ready for his next mission, and I'm not even hungry!" I said and right on que my stomach began to rumble. Rouge tilted her head to the side as a smirk appeared on her face.
"Not hungry, huh? When did you eat dinner?" She said as I stepped back knowing she was going to be mad at me.
"Well umm…you know when I ate lunch with you and Shadow yesterday?" I said sheepishly as she tapped her foot in agitation.
"So you haven't eaten anything since lunch yesterday?" She asked again as I nodded.
"Well, sorta. I did eat a cereal bar before I went to bed." I said hoping it would calm her down. It didn't.
"Oh really? And what time was that?"
"Uh, hehe. Two, I think. In the morning?" I said as she instantly grabbed my wrist and began to drag me down the ladder and towards the lunch room.
"But Rouge!" I whined as she continued to drag me through out the building and towards the cafeteria. Lets just say that once I stepped into the room my nose and stomach made a connection. Instantly I felt my mouth water as the smells surrounded me.
"Well maybe I could eat a little…" I said as Rouge smirked and walked with me to the line…
Shadow sat across from me as I dug into my food, Rouge sighed shaking her head.
"Manners are a very welcome thing here, kiddo." She said as I flushed again.
"Sorry." I said then went back to eating, Shadow simply stared at me as I ate.
"Aren't you going to eat?" I asked after taking a drink from my apple juice as he rolled his eyes.
"I have no need for food." He said with solemnity as I looked to Rouge.
"He's also the Ultimate Lifeform, Hope. You need to eat." She said as she pulled a nail file from nowhere and began to do her nails.
"Aw, but Rouge! I wasn't even really hungry-" I began to say as she sent a glance to my nearly empty plate, I sighed then crossed my arms.
"Well I wasn't until you brought it up! And besides-"
"Hope, you're a human girl. You need the nourishment to develop into a normal human, I don't." Shadow said as he cut me off, I sighed then stared at my plate. Lifting up a fork I began to move my food around, just playing around when Shadow sent me a curt look. Yeah, it was different in my world. Working with the Ultimate Lifeform, the world's greatest treasure hunter and the largest walking arsenal but that's my life and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
There! I've been wanting to post this for ages! So now there's one story under Hope Kintobor! Because there was nothing before, so hopefully this will get a fair amount of feed back! I might work on this more since it's the only 'Hope' story so you might be seeing more updates on this! Please review and ~God Bless!~