Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic, okay? Is that good 'nough for ya? Oh? A wise guy, huh? Well, put 'em up put 'em up. I am not scared. trust me… not…
This was out of pure boredom, sad to say…
(a/n: Um… just a note, I will have a small surprise…)
Broken Hope
Southbound…
Outrunning Tails by five miles ahead, Sonic was determined to find Amy, and find out who took her, as well, if they haven't escaped already. Keeping a walkie-talkie with him, just in case Tails needed to contact him, he wondered about a few things first.
Those pictures, and the footage he saw, were replaying in his mind like a broken record, showing Amy being carried off by an unknown hedgehog. Who was that hedgehog anyways, and what was this hedgehog doing with her? Was he trying to kidnap her? Vaguely, he'd seen the colors of the one who took Amy…a blackish-like hedgehog. The only blackish hedgehog he knew was Shadow… and he vanished two years ago. There's no way in heck he's alive, he even saw it with his own two eyes that Shadow had fallen into the atmosphere and burned up after losing his power in the use of the Chaos Control.
"I gotta cut back on the snacks if I am thinking that…" Sonic sighed.
'Tails, how much time do we got till we reach the city?' Sonic turned on the walkie-talkie and asked Tails.
"Well, Sonic, you'll be there in three minutes, and I'll arrive two minutes after you. That's not a problem. Now, speaking of which, I never asked before. How did you manage to find out where Amy was that fast?" Tails had pondered that; since he was woken up half an hour after Sonic and him had a long talk over the phone, with a frantic voice of Sonic's urging him to get up. Man, was poor Tails tired or what? But hey, Sonic did manage to find out about Amy's whereabouts sooner or later.
'Well, it was after twenty minutes that I talked with you, I noticed this store with a TV. It was showing Amy and another hedgehog taking off with her in arms. There was some smoke and debris everywhere near the bridge, and I want to know what happened to Amy!'
/ Oh! No wonder Sonic was frantic.. Geeze, news spreads faster than someone can say 'thingamajig' / Thought Tails, as he looked ahead, scrunching his face in a worried expression.
The both of them were in for a real surprise once they arrive, and it probably wouldn't be very pretty, either.
Pacific OceanPreoccupied with carrying the armload weight of Amy Rose, whom had fallen asleep after talking non-stop after they left, he wondered about something privately. Shadow found it quite hesitantly annoying, even when she was talking before. Now it was quiet, and he preferred it to be quiet as he traveled over the water, knowing the specific location to where he was located at last time. It was Shadow's own 'home', and he still couldn't believe he had survived the fall to earth after the ARK Incident. Little singe scars were on his quills, but they weren't visible because of the black fur. He felt movement, and heard winces of pain from Amy, because she couldn't move her left leg much, for it being broken.
Slowly, he stopped upon the slightly sandy, and rocky beach to his only place of solitude. Taking his time, he takes steps up the beach, upon the grassy outlines of the forest side of the island. He hadn't known what to think of Amy for now, except that she was in a difficult amount of pain from that ridiculous stunt she pulled off, by accident. Right now, she needed aid, and Shadow had something he kept as he fell to earth. Once he reached a shaded portion underneath a group of trees, he gently set her down to the ground.
Amy stirred a little bit, then she abruptly, from the sharp movement of her leg, the pain seared her entire body, and she lashed out, crying. Shadow was startled all of a sudden, and he kneeled down, reaching within a pocket, gripping a solid object. He didn't bother using the object sooner from before, since he thought it would be a waste of energy. "Amy, calm down, and stay still," murmured Shadow. Amy was able to hear him, so she tried her best to stay still, without acting out from the pain that was literally attacking her since she was trying to move her leg, yet the nerves were damaged, and there was no public hospital for about more than nine hundred miles away. Slowly, Shadow pulled out the object, which was a white Chaos Emerald he kept. "Move you leg out as best you can without flinching. If you can't move it at all, I understand," He was trying to instruct Amy to be calm, and attempt to stretch out her broken leg. She did, but at a slow pace, in which Shadow was being patient for her. Till she stopped moving, which the leg was bent somewhat. He pushed his hand, with the emerald, over her leg. Staring at the jewel, he began to concentrate very clearly, focusing the power of the sole chaos emerald he had in possession. Using that power energy, he began to clear his mind to use it to heal Amy's leg quicker, thus he muttered something, which she couldn't hear clearly at all.
Amy blinked as the emerald was illuminating a white light, feeling her leg tingle a bit. The pain was decreasing a bit quicker than expected; yet she would flinch anymore when she was moving a little. Shadow stopped her. "Keep still, it's almost finished." Never had he used the Chaos Emerald to do what he was doing to Amy, but he could not forget that he kept a promise to Amy, for no apparent reason, but then again, he also kept it to Maria… in which Amy reminded him of Maria, yet Shadow doesn't understand Amy. Halting the power, once Amy could bend her leg fine without too much difficulty, she was helped up by Shadow, and she looked at him.
"Shadow…. Thanks, I never knew the Chaos emeralds could do that, though!"
"You're welcome. And it's easy, if you can manipulate the power to do what the purpose is…"
Looking around, she wondered where she was, since she hadn't any clue what happened after she fell asleep. Taking a few steps forwards, red boots crushing the soft grass. " Where are we, Shadow?"
"I cannot say where this location is, but it's my 'home'".
Shaking her head some, and shrugging, Amy looked around at the greenery; she was amazed at how Shadow could pick out such a place to even live at. She wished she could live somewhere like this, but only that she could live where there was some people, unlike Shadow, who was alone with plants, animals, and himself.
"…Something that kinda bugs me, Shadow, how did you survive the fall?? Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge, and Eggman thought you were dead… I even thought you were gone…" Shadow looked at Amy, and silently nodded, until she remembered when she noticed his glove ring was missing on one glove, and the other was still there. Sonic gave her the ring because Amy was crying about Shadow one time, and Amy kept it with her inside her pocket. "Oh, before you answer me, here… Sonic… recovered that, when he told me he was hanging onto you, trying to save you from falling," Amy mentions as she pulls out the ring, and she hands it to Shadow, who takes it with no emotion. Looking at it, he grips it.
"Thank you for the concern, but I do not want to explain how I managed to evade death."
"Come on, you can tell me, it's not like I'm gonna tell anyone else, on a promise that I will never tell anyone else!" Amy offers.
"I'll think about it."
"Oh, darn it, why does almost everyone I know have to be stubborn??"
"Well, would you mind explaining to me of you negative attitude towards me mentioning sonic?"
"Erm… I don't wanna talk about it."
"Well, do you see how I feel when I don't want to talk about the subject you brought up?"
Amy bit her lip, and she sighed. Shadow was right about that… he didn't want to talk, and she didn't want to talk about either subject now. Amy walks off in a direction more northerly; Shadow blinks once, before he became clueless at Amy's wandering off. She was liable to get lost, but he knew this forest better than her.
She wanted to be off on her own for a while, since talking wasn't gonna get her anywhere else. Stepping past bushes, and long grasses, she nearly trips over something, and that something pouncing her leg. She became a bit scared, but heard a small playful growl coming from whatever got her leg. Looking back, she saw a little tiger animal walking off her leg, and to somewhere else. Then a small weight was felt on her head, and it was very warm. Reaching up after she slowly stood up, she could feel wings on the little bird animal that was perched upon her head. Taking it off slowly, it looked like a little firebird, and she giggled. "Aawww! How cute!" The little phoenix chirped, and Amy let it go, watching it fly away. There were other assorted little animals, and she was surprised they didn't bother Shadow at all.
Shadow was in a tree branch, surveying Amy's encounter with the animals of the island. Although he did use the power of the Chaos Emerald he had with him, he did feel that something was wrong, far off. Like he said, pure instinct that something wasn't right… something familiar was about to spring from idle, and it had to do with something… someone, which he had forgotten when he remembered Maria more. Shadow vaguely could remember this one memory of seeing the vague image of another person in his life, besides the professor, and Maria. This was all throwing poor Shadow into deep confusion, because as he crash landed back to earth with the protection of the chaos emerald he had, he merely landed on his head, making a long skid mark into the soil before his Hyper form vanished. That collision accidentally released another faint image of a memory… but he could not recall it when he was awake, strangely… if he tried, it was either a blank, or an entire blur to him.
/ Maria, I'm confused. Who is the other person that was with the professor?…… /
Unknown Location
Drip… drip… drip… drip… drop… drip…Continuous sounds of water droplets clashed unto small puddle pools of water. It was dark, except it really wasn't, because a luminous glow was coming from the very center of the cave-like setting. Why do we bother going here? It can be an obvious tale of unknown stories because of the old G.U.N. logo upon a desk-like corner of the area. In the center area, from before, lies a shiny huge box, with reflecting colors, and a solid, steel-like box in the core of the big 'box'. Many pipe-like connections were directly in the steel container; otherwise we would have seen what was in here.
The formations of pointy-like rocks were hanging from the ceiling, when a sudden shaking of the land above, startled the quiet solitary silence, and one of the sharp rocks cracked, and split from the roof, above the desk, which seem to be controls of some type. The giant shard crashes into the desk control, breaking a few buttons. And as that happens, the old system begins to malfunction, as the damaged circuits cut out, and the entire thing fails. But on the outside, it was an old base, not abandoned, though. The alarms began to fire off, as the bored guards sprang awake.
"What's going on?" Asked the first security guard.
"Don't ask me. Some of our lookouts say that a meteor impacted, and it shook the whole island. Probably a false alarm. Stupid system never really was never reliable since there isn't any concern for what's inside the hidden core." Answered the second.
"Hidden core? Isn't that where the… thing that was labeled 'dangerous, hostile, and extremely wild' from years ago… is in there?"
"Don't know, don't care. Thing's in control, and there isn't any worry. In a few months, they say that the highest official is gonna come and euthenize the thing quickly so it can die."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
What those poor idiots didn't know is that the system failed instantly, and the brilliantly colored outside of the box, which was obviously a force field of some type to keep in this 'dangerous' thing, shut down, and the bars unfolded to spread apart. The steel container came apart; pipe-like things actually arm things to hold down the 'sleeping' subject. Those arms malfunctioned, and let go of the subject, whom had its arms crossed, and was in a standing position. This… thing was a hedgehog, none in doubt, because of the long quills extending from the back, and the head. Yet there was a strange aura around the hedgehog. Definitely the color was almost like Sonic's color, but a way darker bluish hue all around the body. And the dark bluish hue shaded into black at the end of the quills. The ears were black tipped, with one thick horizontal line on each ear diving the black with the blue. There was a tanktop-like shirt over the chest, yet it only had one strap, and the entire single-strap was metal. There were shoes, but they are regular tennis shoes, black and white, to be precise.
Slowly, the figure opens its eyes, eyelashes following each blink.
…Eyelashes?
"Where am I?… What am I doing here? Where's the Professor? Where's Maria? Where's Shadow?!? I better have an explanation right now before I kick some major butt!…" but… to her avail, no one was around, and she only hear her echoes. Something was up, and she had been freed of her little prison for an accidental reason…
Time to get outta here…
Pacific Ocean
Unknown IslandShaodw looked alarmed for no reason… the release of this power he felt, it was too vaguely familiar to point out who it was…
Only one name came to mind… as if it appeared out of nowhere in the midst of pure thoughts.
" Blizzard……"