The Origin of Shade the Echfox
Disclaimer: I own Shade the Echfox, and everything in this chapter,
so if you want to use her, ask before you use her or I'll go medieval on
your butt.and you know I can.
I'll add more disclaimers when it's necessary
I would like to thank my Muses Mrs Prower, Jim the Otter you both
encouraged me to getting round to writing this, Also For being there when I
needed a shoulder to cry on and I thank you a thousand times over. *Claps
and both muses blush*
Chapter One
Hmm where Do I start?
I guess at the beginning, yes all things must begin somewhere. For me it began in a laboratory, as the subject of a "dangerous" experiment, you see I wasn't born. No I was created, but one thing they didn't bring in to account when I was "designed" - you cannot create a living thing with out giving it a soul.
I know I'm not that much to look at really. a bit of a freak some might say, a white female Echidna, with blue fox ears and a white fox tail with a blue tip. Don't ask me the technicalities of how I came about; I've tried long and hard to forget that place. Oh don't get me wrong, I wasn't treated that bad, I mean I had food, drink and regular exercise, But I was never allowed to leave the confines of my "quarters" which was basically a glorified cage. I was never allowed to meet anyone who wasn't involved in my upbringing. not even the ones who were studying me were allowed to talk to me. Or even the other test subjects, whom I knew of, but never seen.
I always felt so alone. Even when I was being taught it was mostly through a video wall with a web cam by it.
Every morning and every night my "cage" door would open and I would head to the exercise room and I would be put through a regular training schedule, yes still being observed. At one point I was given a laptop computer, that was a major turning point for me. Why? You ask. The answer is simple I had access to the lab's mainframe from that and working through that I learned to hack systems and to cover my tracks, after almost getting caught a few times, but I knew the price of getting caught doing anything that wasn't planned by the scientists. Immediate Termination. I seen a few when I was hacking in to the cameras, I didn't realise at first what was going on. The first time, I'll always remember. The test subject was tied on to a table and wires were attached to him, I think he was a sort of bat of some kind, then I saw one of our captors, she was working at some kind of console and then the bat started shaking and spaseming, screaming all the time, then after a while, he went still. I couldn't watch as they took the body away.I ran to what passed as my bathroom and threw up.
I've seen it a couple of times when I hacked in to their cameras. I didn't want that, but I wanted some type of freedom. After I saw the I.T's I spent most of my time trying to find a way to escape, then I saw something that gave me an idea.
A fire drill.
Some of you might get the feeling that you know what I was thinking of doing, well maybe you do and maybe you don't. By this time was getting quite handy with the hacking, I could now shut down some systems and make it look like power loss and it would take my captors about ten to twenty minutes to get the system back up and running.
I knew my plan was risky, and if I were caught I would be terminated, like some pest. The one thing I noticed, during a fire drill all the staff would leave the building, leaving all us test subjects inside. how kind of them if there was a real fire. Anyway, this would give me enough time to shut down all the cameras in the lab and the doors too, which would when I set them not close, I didn't know if it would work. For weeks I studied the layout of the lab so I could plan an escape route.
So one evening after my exercise session, I sat down with my Laptop, and hacked my way to the fire protection systems and made it believe that there were fires blazing all over the Lab. The Fire Alarms rang, the sprinklers went off and the scientists ran from the building. From that moment I only had a few minutes before they realised there wasn't a fire, so I worked fast to shut the cameras down and open the doors. I was so relived when I heard the doors unlocked. This was the moment of truth. I was shaking, knowing what would happen if I got caught, and my heart was pounding, thoughts kept running through, my head.what would it be like on the outside, what sort of people would I encounter out there. I started to have second thoughts; maybe I should stay. then the thought of what could be in store for me.
I ran through the door and out in to the corridor, it looked so alien to me, all the walls a uniform grey, with cell like doors every few hundred meters, as I ran, my foot steps echoed along the corridor, but I knew where I was going from all the layouts I studied. With every step I took I expected to be caught, by someone, who had realised that the alarm wasn't real. I was almost out, when I saw something on the floor-a cigarette lighter. I picked it up as I ran by, another plan forming in my head, one that might make my captors believe I was dead.
Then I saw the door. That was one of the greatest moments of my life, feeling the sun on my fur for the first time. As I ran through the door and headed away from my prison, I could have sung and danced. I was free.
When I was a few hundred meters from the labs, I took off most of my lab issued clothing off and my identity tags as well and put them all in a heap, and set them alight with the lighter. I thought they wouldn't look from me as I fled in to a nearby forest. I thought I was safe. I thought I was better off. I thought I was free. How wrong I was.
To be continue.
Please R&R. Oh, and all flames will be giggled at by my muses and I then used as something that I don't think you will want to know about.
Chapter One
Hmm where Do I start?
I guess at the beginning, yes all things must begin somewhere. For me it began in a laboratory, as the subject of a "dangerous" experiment, you see I wasn't born. No I was created, but one thing they didn't bring in to account when I was "designed" - you cannot create a living thing with out giving it a soul.
I know I'm not that much to look at really. a bit of a freak some might say, a white female Echidna, with blue fox ears and a white fox tail with a blue tip. Don't ask me the technicalities of how I came about; I've tried long and hard to forget that place. Oh don't get me wrong, I wasn't treated that bad, I mean I had food, drink and regular exercise, But I was never allowed to leave the confines of my "quarters" which was basically a glorified cage. I was never allowed to meet anyone who wasn't involved in my upbringing. not even the ones who were studying me were allowed to talk to me. Or even the other test subjects, whom I knew of, but never seen.
I always felt so alone. Even when I was being taught it was mostly through a video wall with a web cam by it.
Every morning and every night my "cage" door would open and I would head to the exercise room and I would be put through a regular training schedule, yes still being observed. At one point I was given a laptop computer, that was a major turning point for me. Why? You ask. The answer is simple I had access to the lab's mainframe from that and working through that I learned to hack systems and to cover my tracks, after almost getting caught a few times, but I knew the price of getting caught doing anything that wasn't planned by the scientists. Immediate Termination. I seen a few when I was hacking in to the cameras, I didn't realise at first what was going on. The first time, I'll always remember. The test subject was tied on to a table and wires were attached to him, I think he was a sort of bat of some kind, then I saw one of our captors, she was working at some kind of console and then the bat started shaking and spaseming, screaming all the time, then after a while, he went still. I couldn't watch as they took the body away.I ran to what passed as my bathroom and threw up.
I've seen it a couple of times when I hacked in to their cameras. I didn't want that, but I wanted some type of freedom. After I saw the I.T's I spent most of my time trying to find a way to escape, then I saw something that gave me an idea.
A fire drill.
Some of you might get the feeling that you know what I was thinking of doing, well maybe you do and maybe you don't. By this time was getting quite handy with the hacking, I could now shut down some systems and make it look like power loss and it would take my captors about ten to twenty minutes to get the system back up and running.
I knew my plan was risky, and if I were caught I would be terminated, like some pest. The one thing I noticed, during a fire drill all the staff would leave the building, leaving all us test subjects inside. how kind of them if there was a real fire. Anyway, this would give me enough time to shut down all the cameras in the lab and the doors too, which would when I set them not close, I didn't know if it would work. For weeks I studied the layout of the lab so I could plan an escape route.
So one evening after my exercise session, I sat down with my Laptop, and hacked my way to the fire protection systems and made it believe that there were fires blazing all over the Lab. The Fire Alarms rang, the sprinklers went off and the scientists ran from the building. From that moment I only had a few minutes before they realised there wasn't a fire, so I worked fast to shut the cameras down and open the doors. I was so relived when I heard the doors unlocked. This was the moment of truth. I was shaking, knowing what would happen if I got caught, and my heart was pounding, thoughts kept running through, my head.what would it be like on the outside, what sort of people would I encounter out there. I started to have second thoughts; maybe I should stay. then the thought of what could be in store for me.
I ran through the door and out in to the corridor, it looked so alien to me, all the walls a uniform grey, with cell like doors every few hundred meters, as I ran, my foot steps echoed along the corridor, but I knew where I was going from all the layouts I studied. With every step I took I expected to be caught, by someone, who had realised that the alarm wasn't real. I was almost out, when I saw something on the floor-a cigarette lighter. I picked it up as I ran by, another plan forming in my head, one that might make my captors believe I was dead.
Then I saw the door. That was one of the greatest moments of my life, feeling the sun on my fur for the first time. As I ran through the door and headed away from my prison, I could have sung and danced. I was free.
When I was a few hundred meters from the labs, I took off most of my lab issued clothing off and my identity tags as well and put them all in a heap, and set them alight with the lighter. I thought they wouldn't look from me as I fled in to a nearby forest. I thought I was safe. I thought I was better off. I thought I was free. How wrong I was.
To be continue.
Please R&R. Oh, and all flames will be giggled at by my muses and I then used as something that I don't think you will want to know about.