The Maria Files

Authors note: Yeah, I know. The complaints are probably 'This doesn't go along with the story line' or 'you have no idea what you're doing' or 'JEEZ you're confusing', but I can't help that. And don't copy my story line or my characters. I will find you. evil laughter there's no safe place from me!!!

File 1- Sonata no Kokoro (Nobody Knows Your Heart)

Entry 1- Memories to Come


…Inside Space Colony ARK…

Shadow the hedgehog stood, quietly, by a window facing Earth. Shadow was a red and black hedgehog, created by Professor Gerald Robotnik. He was the ultimate life form…

Shadow looked down at Earth. Before, when Maria was there, with him, he had looked down on Earth with hope. When he had been awakened after fifty years of captivity, and Maria taken from him, probably- most likely- gone…nonexistent except for in his quickly recessing memories, he looked at Earth with contempt and anger. Revenge for the death of a loved one…Now he didn't know what to think, looking down on Earth. He knew that he had saved the people. He knew that he didn't belong there. He knew Maria wasn't there. But he wanted to go back because that's where Maria wanted to go…and a part of him hoped Maria was down there, looking for him in the Space colony ARK.

Space Colony Ark had been shut down for years, and then…then the Doctor came. Shadow recalled the doctor easily. The grandson of Shadow's creator, Doctor Robotnik was also a skilled mechanic and scientist. He had freed Shadow from his confines in the military base. He had gotten so close to destroying the world before they all decided to save it. When the Space Colony's Final Lizard had been defeated at last, Shadow had hidden from everyone in the control room. He didn't know what to think then. So confused…it was so strange how he wanted to destroy the world but he couldn't do it! Did that mean he was not the ultimate life form?

The Chaos Emeralds had left so much energy in the Space Colony that it should have been functioning for the next few years. But it wasn't. The power had stopped coming a few hours ago.

Shadow's eyes had gotten used to the darkness, but he knew that he would need the light. The dull blue glow of the Earth would not sustain his needs. And it wasn't like he could live in the one room anyway. Shadow turned and left the room. As the door locked shut behind him, Shadow watched the dull blue disappear, quietly, from the walls of the hallways inside ARK. The control room. He'd have to reach the control room to turn on the power again. And he already knew the password: MA-RI-A…Maria.