Sorry the lateness. I'm a Sloth, remember. This I made a reference to my Fanfics in here, take wild guess where.

-Crossroads-

Maria raced down the hall to Shadow's room; the visions were becoming more frequent. She nearly knew all of Shadow's future, but some visions didn't seem to take there proper place. What worried Maria the most was that none of her many foresights showed Shadow with his family, it was as if it would never happen.

Other visions had Maria worried, like one was that Shadow was king of the world that Jules and Locke came from, and Shadow ruled it with an iron fist. Maria saw some people worshiping an angel statue of her. Some visions displayed far worst scenarios. Maria stopped dead in her tracks and collapse on her knees. Tears were welling up in her eyes.

"Shadow," she murmured to herself, "What have you become?"

"What he was destined to be…" said a booming voice out of no where.

Maria opened her eyes to see that see wasn't on ARK anymore. So wasn't sure she wasn't anywhere at all. She stood on a small circle of light that seemed to float in a dark void. Soon her feelings of despair were soon replaced by rage.

"Okay! I know my life was dull, but how about a breather for at least a weekend!?!"

"Your 'breather' must wait." Said another mysterious booming voice.

"You must be aware of the course of action is to occur in your world."

Maria sighed, "Okay, Fine. Just come out and tell me."

"We prefer not to do that," said the first voice,

"We always watched over all since all began," said the second.

"And none of all have seen us." Said the third,

"Look here, bubs!" shouted Maria in a angry and demanding tone, "I recently seen visions of my best friend being a evil ruler and a lot other stuff that I rather not talk about, so I'm not in a happy mood at the moment when some certain VOICES teleported me into a pocket dimension when I was trying to my friend, SO THE LEAST THE VOICES CAN DO IS AT LEAST SHOW THEIR UGLY MUGS SO WE CAN HAVE A FRIENDLY CHAT!"

As soon as her rant was done, Maria saw three masks, each in themes of dinosaurs, floating in front of her. She warmly greeted the mask with a cute smile,

"Thank you, very much. That wasn't so hard, was it?"

"These are the forms we choose to address ourselves to heroes." Said the first voice who was an orange bird-like creature mask.

"We are the Ancient Walkers," stated the second voice who was a purple skull.

"We existed since all existed." Sated the last voice, who was a horned purple lizard creature.

"And I bet you brought me here to inform about a 'threat to all of existence." sighed the Space girl.

"Yes," said the Orange bird, "For the events that had and will occur have been placed for the shake of destiny and most occur for the shake of diversity."

"So you're going to tell me about what's happening with Shadow, right?"

"Correct, young one." Said the Purple Skull.

"As his name is stated," began the Purple Lizard, "Shadow is a darkness that is made from light."

"And so darkness will where he go at the end of his time."

Maria's face was set to stone as she said, "What?" while restring her anger.

"Shadow is a being of darkness, and darkness is where he shall return when his life is through." Stated the orange bird.

"Says who?" demand the skeptical space girl.

"It was always been…"

"As to start to finish…"

"As with all creatures…"

A huge vain began to bugle on Maria head as the Ancient Walker continue to speak.

"Whose destiny was written for them since the time of their birth…"

"They follow through it until their time of passing…"

"By fate itself to see what must be."

"Soooooooooo," began Maria, "What you're saying is that people who are stuck living a terrible life are destined to live that life until they die? And that people who act evil are evil and people who do good are good? And those things can never change?"

"Yes,"

"Yes,"

"And yes."

"That is… THE MOST IDOITIC THING I HEARD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!" wailed the young lass, "For omnipotent beings that existed sense existence, you sure don't know about people.

"Everything, including destiny and people, changes on one degree or another. People who live a whole life of evil can at least try to repent if they're truly sincere about it and learned their lesson.

"And by the way, Destiny is the choice of action one choices and strives for and fate is the stuff that happens on the way and can only truly affects one is determined by one's will and knowledge confronts it!"

There was a long and cold silence between the four.

The Purple lizard turned to the Orange bird and said.

"She got us there."

"Can we get to the reason why we're all here now?" Butted in Maria.

"Yes," stated the orange bird, "We shall."

"There are many worlds, young Maria Robotnik." Said the purple lizard

"And each one have a similarity to next one." Said the purple skull

"Ever since your first visions from the Master Emerald, you'll for see the events the would occur to the closest one you're destined too-"

"It's Shadow and it was by MY own choice," Maria said as she crossed her arms.

"But you are still bound by the Master Emerald, even when it returns to its proper place in worlds and times…"

"And your current woes about you're Grandfather's devious lies to Jules and Locke, as well as Shadow's well being as made you tap into altered realities of different Shadows of other Zones."

Maria took a deep breath of hope, "So… Shadow won't become that evil tyrant of Mobius? What that whole team up with Pet Force and the Road Rovers? That was a cool adventure."

"Shadow is many things; he is a darkness that is consistent with the light. The two are in proper balance, unlike the forces that wish to tip the scales. But in the end he must be what he is."

"So you must not tell him of the events that occur, for doing so may cause two worlds to end in the same, and all worlds must have different endings."

"I guess now I can't really chew Shadow out about leaving that pink hedgehog for his blue brother's girl and become an evil King of Mobius." Said Maria to herself. She turn to the heads and asked, "But what about Shadow himself, my Shadow, what will he be?"

"We can not say,"

"But know this, there are Shadows, as well as others of yourself, of many Zones who faced the same trials and have happy endings,"

"Though some not as joyous as others."

"FAREWELL!"

And in a flash, Maria found herself back on ARK.

"Well, I'm still not use to that whole, 'Transwarping-through-realities-thing' quite yet."

And Maria then began to set off what he went to do earlier. But when she came to Shadow's quarters, the military personal were already there. Her Grandfather was finishing talking between Shadow and the government head.

"Well, let's us begin with the test."

The head honcho did not looked amused, "It better be wroth the money and wait, Robotnik."

Shadow made a smirk, "Believe me, sir. After this demonstration, you'll have a blue light bargain on your hands."

Professor Gerald and the hunch looked surprise at their pet project's unexpected and weak trash-talk while Maria slapped her forehead.

IDOIT! She thought, What a time to have a cocky attitude!