Beta Project: Epsilion
by Visler
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Sonic finds Shadow in the Ice Cap Mountains nearly three weeks after the events of
ARK. As our blue hero brings Shadow to Knothole Village for medical attention, Sally and
Nicole stumble across Ivo Robonik's hidden vault. Inside the vault lies the missing link to
Shadow's past, the Beta Project. They also find out that Ivo's cousin, Maria, didn't die and
that she is, in fact, cryogenetically frozen in a hidden lab within the space colony.
Sonic relays ths information to Shadow. Although he won't speak a word of the Beta Project,
Shadow is bent on finding Maria and getting his life back. Will the Beta Project stop Shadow
in his tracks or can Shadow prove why he's called the Ultimate Lifeform?
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----- Chapter 1: Memories Juxapposed -----
Sonic looked up at the velvety black sky adorned with tiny twinkling treasures. The
sky was the same color as... No. He wouldn't go there. He couldn't go there. The wounds were
still too new, and memories too agonizing to recolect. He didn't need- No, didn't want to
remember the dead.
It was funny realy; how they had know eachother so breifly. Yet, in that short
span of time, they had built an unbreakable bond. When he died, Sonic felt part of his soul
slip away with him. The pain of his loss had scared Sonic deaply. His friends- No. Everyone
noticed this and knew that it wouldn't be easy for their hero to forget the brave, black
hedgehog. Shadow...
Sonic realized his mistake too late and found himself crying on his own back pourch.
He had promised himself that he wouldn't think about him, but he had. And now he was paying
the price as the memories resurfaced; anew.
He had to clear his head of the haunting events that had occurred nearly three weeks
ago. He stepped off his pourch and did the first thing that came to his mind; he ran. He ran
from the reoccurring nightmares, the pain, the darkness that had surrounded him since that
day. He ran at full speed in the direction the sun would be rising. Its light would bring a
new day and, hopefully, releif from his memories of the dark hedgehog.
He was so caught up in outrunning the night that he never noticed the pair of light
blue eyes watching him from the shadows. The eyes followed him easily, even though he moved
at speeds faster than sound. Sonic finally sped out of sight and the light blue eyes twinkled.
The figure behind the eyes smirked and disappeared further into the shadows of the forest.
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Author's Note: It seemed longer on paper... Oh well. Not bad for the begining of a second
fanfic. Does it sound like how Sonic would react?
P.S. Thanks to all those who sent me reviews on my first fanfic, Endless Waltz.
More is yet to come...
Up next: Chapter 2: The Mountains' Secret
by Visler
* * * * *
Sonic finds Shadow in the Ice Cap Mountains nearly three weeks after the events of
ARK. As our blue hero brings Shadow to Knothole Village for medical attention, Sally and
Nicole stumble across Ivo Robonik's hidden vault. Inside the vault lies the missing link to
Shadow's past, the Beta Project. They also find out that Ivo's cousin, Maria, didn't die and
that she is, in fact, cryogenetically frozen in a hidden lab within the space colony.
Sonic relays ths information to Shadow. Although he won't speak a word of the Beta Project,
Shadow is bent on finding Maria and getting his life back. Will the Beta Project stop Shadow
in his tracks or can Shadow prove why he's called the Ultimate Lifeform?
* * * * *
----- Chapter 1: Memories Juxapposed -----
Sonic looked up at the velvety black sky adorned with tiny twinkling treasures. The
sky was the same color as... No. He wouldn't go there. He couldn't go there. The wounds were
still too new, and memories too agonizing to recolect. He didn't need- No, didn't want to
remember the dead.
It was funny realy; how they had know eachother so breifly. Yet, in that short
span of time, they had built an unbreakable bond. When he died, Sonic felt part of his soul
slip away with him. The pain of his loss had scared Sonic deaply. His friends- No. Everyone
noticed this and knew that it wouldn't be easy for their hero to forget the brave, black
hedgehog. Shadow...
Sonic realized his mistake too late and found himself crying on his own back pourch.
He had promised himself that he wouldn't think about him, but he had. And now he was paying
the price as the memories resurfaced; anew.
He had to clear his head of the haunting events that had occurred nearly three weeks
ago. He stepped off his pourch and did the first thing that came to his mind; he ran. He ran
from the reoccurring nightmares, the pain, the darkness that had surrounded him since that
day. He ran at full speed in the direction the sun would be rising. Its light would bring a
new day and, hopefully, releif from his memories of the dark hedgehog.
He was so caught up in outrunning the night that he never noticed the pair of light
blue eyes watching him from the shadows. The eyes followed him easily, even though he moved
at speeds faster than sound. Sonic finally sped out of sight and the light blue eyes twinkled.
The figure behind the eyes smirked and disappeared further into the shadows of the forest.
* * * * *
Author's Note: It seemed longer on paper... Oh well. Not bad for the begining of a second
fanfic. Does it sound like how Sonic would react?
P.S. Thanks to all those who sent me reviews on my first fanfic, Endless Waltz.
More is yet to come...
Up next: Chapter 2: The Mountains' Secret