Chapter 40: The Past Revealed

In the beautiful lights of the endless infinite of space and with the help of the Shining star of the solar system, Light starts to beam through the room of the human girl who died here over 50 years ago. Cream starts to wake up. She gets up to Shadow Sleep in the chair at the other end of the room. She stretches and sees Amy next to her asleep. The door opens and it's Cheese floating through the door.

Cream: "Morning cheese. Where did you come from?"

Cheese: "Chao Chao!"

Cream: "Where is the bathroom anyway?"

She hops out of bed in the same clothes she was in yesterday. She walks out the door and walks to the bathrooms Cheese pointed to. She finds the girls bathrooms and walks in to find Stalls and Showers. Tiny robots are in there cleaning any germs or if someone doesn't have the absolute common decency to clean up after themselves.

Cream: "Fancy."

She heads into one of the stalls to handle her business. She opens her phone and text's her mother.

Crm Text: "Good morning mom. We are still up here in space. Hope you are doing alright. Hope you're fine. Love you."

She puts her phone back in her pants and two voices start to come up. She recognizes the voices and they enter the room.

Rouge: "So after we got out of Rail canyon, we got the Chaos emerald."

Beth: "Well. It seems you guys had your hands full. What did you guys do with the emeralds?"

Rouge: "We separated them. Sonic has one. Shadow has two. Gloom has three of his own."

Beth: "Where's the last one?"

Rouge: "Can't say it out in the open. He has ways to spy and watch our every move."

Beth: "This came into mind. (Whisper) I have an idea."

Cream: "What kind of idea?"

Beth: "HOLY MOLY you had me spooked for a moment!"

Cream: "Sorry."

She stands up off the seat and flushes and leaves the stall.

In the vents the Black hedgehog chooses not to peep and tries to listen to the plan but can't get a good hearing. He's desperate but he's not that desperate.

Gloom: "Maybe later."

He crawls away towards Marias room and finds the pink one awake. She turns the record player back on and puts on Nino precioso back on. She walks out of the room while Shadow notices she put the song back on.

Gloom: "Okay back to see if they'll find anything here."

Back in the bathroom Beth explains the idea close so no one can hear.

Beth: "If we're looking for him why not have him capture one of us-"

Amy walks in at the right moment. And sees them huddled up.

Amy: "Morning guys, What are you talking about?"

They grab her and bend her down with them.

Beth: "Listen here, Since Gloom is Watching our every move why not have him capture one of you and we track you to his hideout."

Amy: "That's sounds like a great idea. But how do we get him to catch one of us?"

Beth: "Let him hold you for ransom. Besides he knows you three long enough to have a reason to hold you."

Cream: "Not it."

Amy: "Fine, let him hold me. I mean that much to shadow and Gloom knows it. He'll definitely have me held for the emeralds."

Beth: "Don't care how you do it, just make sure you get captured later. If one of you gets captured. We can track you and he could lead you to the chaos emeralds."

Rouge: I like this plan, but should we inform the others about it?"

Beth: "I say later. Until then it's our classified mission."

Amy: "It's for the best."

Beth: "Good. Also the chaotix detectives want to investigate Maria's room to find something."

Meanwhile in maria's room

Vector is walking down the hallway and makes it towards Maria's room where Shadow is laying on the bed admiring his new rings.

Vector: "Hey Shadow."

Shadow: "mmhmm?"

Vector: "I'm here to search the room."

Shadow: "Go ahead."

He gets off the bed and walks towards the chair at the corner. While vector looks around, He takes a good look at the dresser and decides to move it. He moves it carefully which nothing could fall off while the music plays quietly. A certain Blue hedgehog walks in at the perfect time.

Sonic: "Yo guys, I came by to check up on-"

They see a hole in the wall that leads to somewhere and Vector and Shadow see sonic at the doorway.

Vector: "Maybe you guys should go in. Cause I doubt I could fit."

Sonic: "We came all this way up here to be mice in the walls?"

Shadow: "Only for today."

Shadow goes in first and finds the inside of the wall and sees a lot of pipes and wires. Sonic follows behind him.

Shadow: "Careful, it's tight in here."

Sonic: "Hope we don't get stuck."

He sqeezes through and it starts to get darker.

Sonic: "Hold on, Shad."

He pulls out his Electric blade and decides to shake his arm fast it charges the blade. It starts glowing blue and electricity is being jolted around the blade.

Sonic: "I'm gonna fall in love with this."

Thanks to the light they follow the path where shadow can guess she would only fit through. He climbs up some pipes and past the outside of the vents. They bump and crawl through the tight spaces of the Ark and find a laptop and a locked box with a key. They shine the light onto it and find a sticky not on the back of the laptop. He looks at it says "Password: Shadow368"

Sonic: "Sweet. Now we got something."

Shadow: "Go back."

He picks up the laptop and note book while sonic carry's the box locked box with the key. They go back the way they came from and climb over the vent Gloom is hiding in. They go down back into the area with the hole. Shadow pops his head back to see Amy, Rouge, Cream, Vector, and Beth seeing them climb back out.

Shadow: "Hi."

Amy: "Hi. Found anything?"

Sonic: "Yep!"

They crawl out of the whole with the stuff.

Shadow: "Whatever Gerald was hiding. He entrusted Maria to keep it."

Sonic: "How come you guys haven't found this yet?"

Beth: "We chose to leave her room alone until one day we needed it."

Shadow: "Thank you again. Not bad Vector."

Vector: "All part of being a good detective."

Research Lab

10 minutes later, they call everyone into the lab to discuss about what they found. Cal and researchers join in with them to help.

Tails: "Amazing."

Shadow: "I knew something was up here."

Knuckles: "So what's on the laptop?"

Shadow: "That's what we're here to find out."

Espio types in the password onto the laptop while Sonic opens the box to find a brown envelope and other suff. Pictures of Gloom and Shadow and Maria in there.

Sonic: "Wow, you guys use to be so happy."

Shadow looks at the old photos of him and Maria. Shadow breathes in and out through the nose and looks at the old photos of the trio and all the activities they did.

Amy: "You two used to be so cute."

Shadow: "Yeah, at least one of us turned out fine."

Espio: "Hey guys. There's some footage here. Gloom's records. Shadow's wakes up. Black Doom meetings."

Shadow: "We need a bigger screen."

Beth: "Hey Ben, bring me a projector and a hdmi… And a projector board."

A group of GUN soldiers bring in what Beth requested and they plug all them into the screen and turn off the lights. Omega processes plugs in a cord to the laptop and him and starts accessing data and information on the computer. Espio goes onto Gloom's file and clicks on the oldest video. Everyone in the Room sits down somewhere including other researchers and gun agents. Shadow sits on the table with Sonic and Amy. Cal stands in the middle of the room and watches at a good view. The video starts playing and we see a Gerald and Black Doom watching standing infront of the pod of Gloom. A scientist finishes hooking up camera and moves out the way.

The Creation room

Gerald: "From the studies of the bio lizard and 5 months of blood, sweat, and tears. He's showing good progress. His heart started beating last week. His Blood is type is A+. His cells have grown magnificently. I noticed a lot of iron in his blood cells. He's grown strong. His vitals are sterilized. We detected a large amount of energy in his cortex."

Black Doom: "Good. His power. He's strong. He maybe worthy to be the next heir for the glory of Black Arms."

Gerald: "The subject has been a bit unstable. The power in his Frontal cortex has fried some of our machines. He might be a bit unpredictable. But with enough discipline and training from you I'm pretty sure he'll learn to control it. We also know he has enough power to perform chaos control. He might be enfused. Thanks to the lizard and other discoveries I made to ensure his creation. He might be the most powerful being on the planet. I call him the ultimate life form."

Black Doom: "Is he ready to come out now?"

Gerald: "He is."

Black Doom: "Thought of a name?"

Gerald: "No. actually not. We'll think of one later. Time to say happy birthday."

He heads over to the pod and turns a knob and hits a button on it and all the liquid inside the tank with him drains. Gloom starts to wake up a bit tired and see nothing but water and glass through his first seconds of life. The pod opens and he falls out with water following him and he slams on his face. He starts to cough out a lot of liquid from his mouth and nose and he takes his first breaths of oxygen.

Gloom: *gasping* *cough* *cough* *breathing* "Oooiiiee. Eee-ee… G-gooooo"

Gerald: "Shhh, it's alright my boy. You're okay."

Gloom: *Panting* *Panting* *Panting* "GAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

A burst of Energy from Gloom Blast Gerald and Black Doom away for a bit and the camera gets tossed around for a bit until it falls on its side getting a good look at gloom. One of the doctors in the room come close to gloom to help him but he pushes him away and runs off.

Sonic: "Not bad for his first minute of life."

Amy smacks him across the head to shut him up.

Sonic: "OW!"

Gerald picks up the camera and ends the recording. Espio clicks another video of Gerald finding Gloom hiding with a few agents. After the little incident in the creation room, Gerald tells one of the researchers to hold the Camera while he helps Gloom.

Gerald: "Hold this."

He approaches Gloom in the middle of the cargo hold while he keeps his distance from him.

Gerald: "Listen Buddy, we only want to help you so may you please come with us and we'll-

Gloom: "HAAAA"

He slashes a pencil towards him and Gerald keeps his distance. A group of security guards come to help stop the hedgehog from hurting anyone else. Two sneak up from behind and grab him by the arms. Gloom struggles and tries to fight them off. He punches one of them and kicks one away from him but they overpower him. they fall and plumet him into the ground and he still struggles.

Gerald: "Calm him down. Get the syringe."

A doctor comes up with a needle ready to relax Gloom but he notices the person with the sharp pointy needle reaching down for his neck. He screams as the needle is coming for him. He goes into a rage.

Security guard: "DO IT!"

He unleashes his power and that makes him stand up and toss all the people off him. he kicks the syringe far away from them then goes into a rage. The guards try attacking him and his eyes start glowing haze yellow with purple and he fights the guards in combat he doesn't know. Its like his body just tells him to go along with it. He punches them while the guy with the camera watches in shock.

Researcher: "How the hell can he do that? He's just woke up."

A guard runs up towards him trying to attack him but grabs him by the neck and holds him by the neck. The guard punches him while trying to release him. He gasps for air until He impales his stomach with his hand. He reaches in grabbing whatever is in there and rips out his intestines with heavy amount of blood pouring out as he screams.

Guard: "AAAAUUGGGHHAAAAAAA"

Sonic: "Woah!"

Tails: "Ooooohh"

Knuckles: "Man."

Beth: "It seems we underestimated how strong he is."

Reasearcher: "Oh My!"

Reasearcher: "Oh my word"

Reasearchers: "OOOOooohh!"

GUN soldier: "What the Fuck Man!"

GUN Soldier: "Holy Shit"

GUN Soldier: "Oh my God."

Cal: "This guy was trouble from the beginning."

Cream: *GASPS*

She closes her eyes.

Charmy: "I think I'm gonna be sick."

He grabs a bucket in the room and barfs in it.

Vector: *Grunts*

Shadow: …

Amy: "Oh sweet chaos."

Gloom drops him like a ragdoll. He focuses his attention on Gerald while the guy with the camera can only watch in horror. He walks towards him as he stays there with nowhere to go. A little blonde girl runs up with her teddy and blocks him as he looks and calms down. He looks down and sees blood on himself. He looks around to see innocents in Blood beaten down and others staring in fear. He looks back at the man he killed and breaks down in tears. He falls onto his knees in tears crying a bit until the girl walks up and hugs him.

Maria: "Are you okay?"

Gloom: *Crying*

Maria: "Shhh, it's alright. you're only afraid, are you?"

Shadow: "Maria?"

Cal: "Hmm"

Amy: "Awww she was so adorable!"

Beth: "Oh my… holy shit she was so adorable. I wanna strangle her in her crib."

Shadow: "What?"

Beth: "Kidding, kidding."

She continues to hug him until he calms down. She stops until he's done sobbing. She looks at him and uses her dress to wipe his face. Black Doom floats in to check on him and offers his hand to him.

Black Doom: Come. There is so much to teach you."

He looks at his hand and maria's face and she smiles and he gets up and takes his hand. The video ends there.

Cal: "Wow. Day one of him being alive ladies and gentlemen."

Amy: "Shut up."

Espio scrolls through some images of gloom turning darker. He reaches a video where he's learning how to fight from one of the security guys who used to be a professional boxer. He uses pads for him while Maria records him jabbing with lefts and right hooks while she watches her friend box.

Maria: "Keep it up."

Espio hits another video showing Gloom in her room. She's drawing in her book and notices gloom is drawing on the wall of her. he looks tired.

Maria: "Y'know what I'm gonna call you? I'm gonna start calling Gloom. Because of how Doom and Gloomy you are."

She walks over with her camera towards him shows the camera and him.

Maria: "Smile for the camera Gloom. C'mon, Smile."

He doesn't seem impressed at what she's doing so he stands up and walks away out her room.

Maria: "Another day Gloom. Another day."

Sonic: "How many videos did she make of this guy?"

Espio: "A lot."

Shadow: "Take us somewhere farther."

He skips ahead a bit further and takes him to where maria gets older.

Maria: "Welcome back to cooking with Maria and Gloom."

Gloom: "Why cook? We have a machine that can make any food we want."

Maria: "Don't be lazy Gloom. We won't have it anymore once we get down the planet one day."

He skips to more photos of him and her. one where he's sleeping and another to when she painted his face. They come across another video.

Maria: "Okay guy's. Gloom is growing spikes out of his back."

She videos him grabbing his pink spikes crawling out of his back that agitate him a bit.

Tails: "Yep he's starting to learn."

She grabs one and shows it to the camera.

Maria: "Pink. And deadly."

The video ends. He goes a bit forward and finds another video of Gloom training.

It's about another year and he's still learning how to fight. He's taking on five guys and he's starting learn a bit of martial arts. Another video of her disturbing him while reading and he enjoys it. Finally to a video with his first experience of needles. He's fighting trying to fight a guard that holds him down screaming to not kill him.

Gloom: "Please don't kill me, Please."

Nurse: "We're not going to kill you honey we just need a few samples of your blood."

Gloom: "No, I don't wanna."

Maria walks up and closes his eyes with her hand and he calms down. He feels a prick in his arm and he grunts from it. The video ends when they got the blood samples. Next video is working on project shadow. Gloom is helping her nails and Gerald walks in to tell them that he is working on project Shadow.

Gerald: "Hey honey. Hey Gloom. I have good news."

Maria: "What is it?"

Gerald: "We're working on another him."

Maria: "Wait another?"

Gerald: "That's right. Also, we're going to the planet for about a week."

Maria: "Yay."

Gloom: "Yyyaassss."

Maria: "What's he going to be called?"

Gerald: "Shadow, Project shadow."

The whole room looks at him for a moment.

Shadow: "Oh yeah here comes my part."

He spams through more photos of Gloom until he comes across Shadow in the pod then keeps going.

Shadow: "Wait, go back."

He goes back to the video of shadow. Shadow can be seen with Gloom staring at him. He plays the video.

Maria: "There he is guys. Project Shadow. Newcomer to the family we're building. Hopefully we can keep him under control this time."

Shadow: "Keep ME under control?"

Maria: "Hey Gloom. What do you think he's thinking about?"

Gloom: "He's not thinking about anything. He doesn't even know where he is. Let alone what is life."

Maria: "You see this is why no one likes you. You're too depressing."

Gloom: "Truth is the right way. And the truth is he's going to be exactly like me. a clone."

Maria: "Oh c'mon give him a chance. He'll be more than that to you will he?"

Gloom: "Yeah. It's a perfect match."

Maria: "It?"

Gloom: "Yeah. He'll agree to everything I say."

Maria: "Oh Geez. What am I going to do with you."

Shadow: "SUCH an Asshole."

Amy: "I wonder who that reminds me of?"

Sonic: "Okay, at least I know a thin line."

Shadow: "Shh."

He skips to about a week later and sees a video of the same scientist who put the camera in the same place as Gloom. He presses play.

Gerald: "Well with the help of the Gloom we can create the new ultimate life form and make use of him."

Black Doom: "Are you prepared for the outcomes that are about to happen like last time?"

Gerald: "Yes. Maria is waiting for him. and Gloom will stop him incase he goes out of control. I'm pretty sure he will help humanity in interesting ways."

Black Doom: "and the black arms."

Gerald: "Everyone ready?"

Researchers: "Ready!"

He turns the knob like he did with Gloom and opens the glass doors. He falls out dead and unconscious. One of the security teams dressed in armored gear checks up on him with Gerald. They check his pulse and they get jump scared by Shadow gasping for air.

Shadow: *Gasping* *Gasping*

He throws up water and other liquid and coughs them out.

Shadow: *cough* *cough* "uuuuuh… ah… haaaa. Okaaass dah"

Gerald: "Shhhh, it's alright. You're fine."

Shadow: "Huuuhhh."

Gerald: "Welcome home. Do you understand me?"

Shadow: …

Gerald: "You'll catch up"

Sonic: "So you were the friendlier one?"

Shadow: *Sigh*

They skip ahead about two weeks. Maria records him with her camera. He's in the nursing room about to get his blood drawn. A lot of security around him. He's a bit shy from Maria's camera.

Maria: "Hey Shadowww? Are you alright?"

Shadow: …

Maria: "You're shyer than Gloom was."

Shadow: "Hmph."

Maria: "You know what's cool about you two? It's the fact that you and him learn fast. The both of you like learning."

Shadow: "Yeah. We do."

They come in with the needle and the security team get ready.

Nurse: "All right baby, are you ready?"

Both Shadow's of past and present: "Yes Ma'am."

She pricks his arm and he takes it like a champ. He doesn't scream. Everyone relaxes and lets the nurse do her thing.

Nurse: "All right and that should do it. You did better than your brother when I first did this."

Shadow: "Thanks"

Amy: *Giggles*

Sonic: "Yeah big man, you were brave."

Shadow: "Oh ha ha."

They skip ahead to when Maria visited the Planet once. Looks like they're in the United federation. Gloom has Maria's camera and he videos them talking by a lake outside near a forest and a Mansion where Gerald is in a meeting at.

Gloom: "Wonder what those idiots are talking about. Careful not to fall in that large body of water!"

Maria: "We're fine!"

Gloom starts noticing all the chirping that's going around.

Gloom: "Hey, you guys here that noise?"

Maria: "Its just the birds."

Gloom: "You mean those flying rats?"

Maria: "They're not rats. And eww."

Gloom: "Man. This place is beautiful."

Shadow: "Skip it."

Sonic: "C'mon shadow you can't deny this is a lovely scene."

Shadow: "I said skip it."

Espio skips two weeks and they see pictures of them leaving Mobius and back to the Ark.

Amy: "She seems sad."

Shadow: "She was. The first time I learned about despair."

Cal: "Boy I feel you."

He continues through the files and goes to another one. Failed subject.

Espio: "Failed subject?"

Shadow: "Hit it."

He plays it and it's another experiment and birth of a new hedgehog. But it's different. They look scared and in a hurry.

Researcher: "Sir he can't take this much more!"

Gerald: "GET HIM OUT OF THERE!"

They shut down the system and release another Black hedgehog from his tank.

Knuckles: "There's another?"

Shadow: "No it doesn't look right."

Gerald: "Check his vitals!"

Shadow: "Oh no."

They check for a heart pules and any sign if he was alive. The black hedgehog doesn't seem to respond.

Researcher: "He's gone sir."

Gerald: *Sigh* "DAMMIT!"

He tosses picks up a chair and tosses it towards some stuff that falls over.

Gerald: "None of us in this room say a damn word to this or anyone. Especially maria and the ultimate life forms."

GUN Soldier: "Shit, you had a third brother."

He looks and stares at it and skips ahead to Gloom and Shadow's training.

They are racing on final rush and Gerald takes notes. They keep spamming through the memories and make it towards Gloom's departure.

Gloom is with Black doom in the cargo hold with Gerald, Maria, and Shadow. Maria is crying, Hugging Gloom who Is in a bit of tears as well.

Maria: *Crying* "Oh Gloom. *Sniff* I'm gonna miss you."

Gloom: "It's only for a year. I'll be back."

Gerald: "You be well boy. Don't do anything stupid."

Maria: "Promise me when you ever come back to the planet. Make sure to see me so we can be a family again."

Gloom: "I promise. Yo little bro, You'll miss me right?"

Shadow of both past and present: "Damn right."

They both perform their personal hand shake. They slap each others hands up and down and gives each other a fist bump then hive five each other and perform a heart sign with each others hand and point at each other and go up in the air.

Sonic: "What was that man, I gotta steal that."

Shadow: "Fuck you faker."

Rouge: "So you do feel love do yah."

GUN Soldier: "How wholesome."

They hug each other one last time before meeting each other over 50 years later.

Shadow: "I love you."

Gloom: "I love you too."

Amy: "awwww"

Shadow: "You're saying aww to the same guy that slapped you on the ass?"

Amy: "Don't ruin it."

Shadow: "Hehe. Hey skip ahead to the second and last one."

Espio does that and continues on through memories of her and the Ark. He makes it to the last picture of the three of them and moves back to the second from last video.

Maria: "Hey Shadow and Gloom. If you're getting this message. That means I'm probably dead. The news went out last week stating that we have to pack up and leave soon because G.U.N has ordered a raid on this place. They'll be here any minute. My Grandfather told me everything. All of it. I just made the time for this because I know they are going to kill if they have to. There are a lot of good people who are willing to die for the research they created here. Some of them already left. Close personal ones. A lot of people are still working as hard as they can to get everything out of here. I don't know what's gonna happen to me but all I know is that I'll have to leave this place soon. I made this message in case I die. This might be my last video up here in this place. I just want you to know that Gerald Robotnik told me everything. Where you came from, how you were made, your true nature. He told me everything. I just want you to know no matter where you are right now to promise me; you'll go on living. No matter what you do or who you become in the future. I am proud of the both of you. as a friend, sister, or mother however you want to call me. Remember all things I told you and what you'll do in the future. I know you two are destined to save and protect the world. no matter if they hunt you down or shun you out, you keep fighting as long as you can. Keep moving forward. The people on that planet deserve a 2nd chance. Just make sure they understand it. Live life to the fullest you two. Make everyday matter. You deserve it. I know that Gloom is being used for the black arms and I know about everything I need to know that happened in this place. I know you made friends and loved ones you can trust in the future. I'm scarred right now, and they'll be here any moment to shut us all down, but whatever happens here Is history. Just promise me you'll go on fighting and living to see this place prosper, to see the seasons past, the children grow, and experience a time of peace you have never known. I just know this message landed in your hands right now shadow. Somehow, I'm pretty sure you'll find this message. Even some evil people of this planet choose to do harsh things to others, just know that it's not what the whole world has to offer. Keep moving and forget the past. Fight to protect those around you. See the loved ones of your live to see another day. Just promise me you'll keep going on. You both are the proudest boys I ever met. And I couldn't be any prouder to watch the both of you day by day with this camera and share all the heartwarming times in this place. You both are truly a gift to this planet and I thank you for that. I thank for every single thing you have done up to this point and being here loving me. I just know you'll be brothers again someday. You'll be back in this place again. I just know it. So as I say this. Go with what's right in your heart. Run to your very last days. Go with love. Bring love to the world. Goodbye guys. I Love you."

The video ends with Maria kissing her hand and waving into the camera and it stops. The room is dead quiet for a moment and they all look back at him. They stare with a few tears in some of their eyes.

Sonic: "Wow. Just… Wow."

They all see something they never saw shadow before. Tears in his eyes.

Rouge: "She loved you two more than anything."

Shadow: "I know."

Cream comes up and hugs him from behind with a tear in her eyes and Amy hugs him as well.

Cal: "Sorry about what happened to her."

Sonic: "Listen, we can continue this later if you need alone time?"

Shadow: "No it's fine. Its… continue the next one."

Espio continues the next video.

Maria: "Okay Shadow. They'll be here in an hour. I'm gonna hide this in the spot. Listen, the passcode to finding the Blood vile is 14530. I repeat 14530. You'll find more evidence and intel in the meteors floating on autopilot far from this ark. It floating deep In space around this Planet Somewhere 100 Km away circling this planet and away 100km from this place. It's out there. Your Black Arm blood is floating in space. You'll find what you're looking for in the photos. I love you."

Researcher: "I seen that rock."

Shadow: "Spill it out."

Researcher: "I'm bit of an astronomer. we call it the 100km rock because it was 100 km away from this place. It always circles the Globe every day. Whatever you're looking for is on that large meteor circling the planet. It's gonna pass by us in about 15 minutes if we don't chase after it now.

Cal: "Ready the ships."

Shadow: "No need."

Sonic and Shadow pull out the chaos emeralds and the two run down towards the cargo hold until they get a better view of the rock. It's been 5 minutes and the rock starts to appear.

Shadow: "Ready?"

Sonic: "Ready."

Shadow: "Chaos"

Sonic: "Chaos"

Shadow and Sonic: "CONTROL!"

They both teleport to the meteor out in the distance.

To Be Continued…