-Authors note to the others-

If you guys like the crap that spewed out of my brain and have any ideas you would like to share, PM me or leave some sort of "review" (I find it more like comments than anything else) and I'll see what I can do.

-Back to Shadow-

Today is June 13th, 2067 (like I said, my universe) and it was nothing special. The weather was hot and humid, rain in the afternoons, and my birthday was around the corner. If you guys know me, I hate celebrating. I prefer to be by myself and not get bothered...but not this time. What you, the audience, don't know is that I've been hearing rumors about my past lately. The whole Maria thing is a lie and was programmed into my brain and that somewhere in the ARK, I have a relative from my "past" life. I never believed such things but it's now starting to catch my curiosity. I went to Prower's (Tails') lab and asked him if we could fly up there with a team. Without a problem he was okay with it. Several days later (it's now June 16th) we gathered some people and loaded them up with gear, armor, and a gun. These people were coming with me and are highly expendable to me. Sonic, Knuckles, Prower, and Rouge (don't worry, she will be used for something other than a sex object). We suited up and went to our destination. Once we reached it, we stepped off into a dark and dusty place. You can tell this is the docking station due to other pods that were left here by the workers. Once we turned on the power we were in business. We found a map and marked where we needed to go. All of is started walking out of the Terminal and into the main hallway. It was huge with large glass windows for a ceiling, blast doors instead of standard mechanical sliding doors (like in Doom), and littered with decomposed bodies. You can tell it's been a while due to must of them being a skeleton and others barely having anything else on them. We walked through trying not to trip or trigger and security systems. We're at one of the main service elevators and thank god it worked. Once the lift was here, we boarded and rode to the designated floor. We stopped at the 10th floor and got off quickly. There were about three door in front of us. "Data Center", "Test Chambers", and "Subject Files". Prower and Sonic started with the "Data Center", Knuckles and Rouge went to the "Subject Files", and I went to the "Test Chambers". I entered into a large white room to see equipment and beds/tables scattered every where. As I scavenged through to find some info, I stumbled onto a cryogenic tube. I wiped my hand across it and saw another being inside. I decided to leave and get someone to help me haul this to the ship. I left the room to go and find Knuckles and Rouge. I walked through the door and saw Rouge reading a document from a file that was recently opened.

"So, mind telling me what you have there?" I asked with curiosity. "Shadow, theseare untold secrets about you that "I" never knew about you. Your middle name is Montana, you were ment to be 7 feet tall, and you have other relatives. That and well, the whole rumor back at home, well...it's...true..." She said, trYing not to upset me. "Let me see this." I snatched the paper out of her hand. "Where the hell do you see that?" I asked with haste. She pointed to it and I read it aloud.

-Document-

...Project Shadow will be equipped with a memory cap loaded with a memory file that will activate before he wakes up to give him the allusion that whatever we programmed into the chip will show up in his head. We will load a memory unit showing that he was once friends with a girl we will call "Maria" and let the rest generate on its own. But we know that in the end, she's supposed to get killed and leave the Project with emotions that we may have never seen out of him. This may be essential to know how we can program the rest of the drones and how they need to act within certain situations... (the rest is either burned or illegible).

-Back to Shadow and Rouge-

"Shadow, are you okay?" She asked, noticing that I have a depressed look in my face. "Yeah..." I answered slowly. "I'm just a little disappointed, that's all." We both stood there in silence for a few seconds. "Rouge, do me a favor and get the others. There's somthing in the "Test Chamber's" that we need to carry out, okay?" I asked to see if she understood.

-Few minutes later-

We were all gathered around the cryogenic tube. With all of our might, we picked it up (barely) and attempted to bring it back. Within two long hours we finally did. No one questioned why I wanted this out of here and neither did I. We just returned home and set this in the lab, ready to let him or her out.