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Broken Hope

"So, Blizzard, where did you come from?" Tails asked, with a bunch of questions on mind, but he'd only let a few pass by often. He didn't want to bother her with so many questions.

"Um, well. If I tell ya, you wouldn't try n' lock me up, would ya?"

"Huh?" Both said in unison.

"Aw, these bad people came aboard the Colony and they…………"

Blizzard couldn't shake something that was bothering her. A sight that always was branded to her memories, just like it was branded to Shadow's. The day they came. Fifty years ago………

"Stop them! They're trying to escape!" Cried a male voice in the background, the alarms buzzing off. Blizzard could hear them faintly, as she was trying to find a place to hide, in the same room whereas Maria and Shadow were trapped in. The shutter doors opened to reveal a stammering Maria, after hearing gunshots down the hallways' corridor. Shadow was trying to aid her, but Maria insisted that she could do it herself… after she locked the shutter door controls.

"Maria! Shadow!" Blizzard, being scared of these bad people that drove her to the same place they would attempt to hide. Blizzard came running, to Maria first. Shadow came to the both of them, Blizzard literally crying, and shaking. Surely there was some way all three could escape, but then Shadow was standing on a platform, and Maria got up. Blizzard watched clueless at Maria, then to Shadow. Why was she heading over to a control desk? Blizzard stood there, then she merely caught Maria after she fell, letting Maria use her as a support.

"Maria, I'm scared… why are they doing this??" Sniffed Blizzard.

"Don't worry, everything will… be fine… I promise, Blizzard… and Shadow," Maria reached over to a button, and pressed it softly, soon, Shadow was alarmed, and so was Blizzard. Shadow pounded the glass to the capsule, but it wasn't of any use as the capsule shot down, not before Maria said kind words, words that changed Shadow's ways after exactly remembering what she had said.

"Shadow!!! Maria, what did you do?!"

"I had to keep him safe…" Maria couldn't sustain her breath for very long. She needed medical attention right away or else she would never make it. Blizzard came to her side, again, and held her up.

"Please, don't die," Bliz noticed the gunshot wound in Maria's chest. "What am I gonna do if the bad people take me away? What if they do bad things to me? I want to get outta here!" Blizzard was sobbing, until the shutter doors were nearly busted down. Scared, yet fearful of her and Shadow's only friend's safety, Blizzard let Maria lay against the wall. "I'ma kick their butts. I'ma not gonna go down withoutta fight!"

"Blizzard, no. I don't like fighting. I don't want to see you slain by those awful people. They have just misunderstood everything about you, and Shadow. Please…" Maria's dying breath gave Bliz something to remember forever… Maria was about speak some more, until… everything whited out…

"And you say I'm dull, Tails," Mumbled Sonic.

She hadn't been paying attention, nor did she notice the impatience of Sonic, tapping his foot like she was wasting their time trying to look for this Amy Sonic mentioned about. After the whole thing whited out before her eyes, Blizzard blinked once, and shook her head, her quills literally bristling a little. Both Sonic and Tails caught her staring off into space moment. What was up with her? And colony? Blizzard couldn't be talking about the Space Colony ARK, could she?

"Uh, where exactly was this colony at?"

"I'm sorry… it was in outer space."

"OUTER SPACE?!" Shouted Sonic.

Tails flinched, covering his ears, while Blizzard ringed out her ears from his loud voice. " OW! My ears! Watch your volume of voice, megaphone!" Shot Blizzard.

"Megaphone? Hah, I bet you're some type of clone of Shadow or me!"

"Clone? Whaddya mean 'clone'??? I'm not his or your clone!"

"Are too!"

"Are not!"

"Too!"

"Not!"

"Too!!!"

"NOT!!!!!!!"

"STOP!" Tails intervened the squabbling blue hedgehogs. Both of them looked at Tails, and then Blizzard looked away, offended at Sonic. Sonic merely grumbled about Blizzard's attitude, even though it does remind him of himself… a little.

"Sheesh," Sonic receiving a skeptical glare from Tails. "Sorry, Blizzard." Why does he even have to put up with this? It was a constant tug-o-war between walking away and forgetting about Amy and this other blue hedgehog, and the other end of finding and apologizing to Amy, and probably making friends with this hedgehog. Still, he hadn't the brightest idea who she really was, but then again, why bother trying to find out when she's probably gonna have something to throw back at him every time he makes a comment?

"Apology accepted… even though you were a lot nicer to argue with than that fat bad man that tried to take me hours ago."

"Fat bad man?…"

"I dunno, he called himself Dr. Robottynickerbocker…whatever… Eggdude…ah I don't know…"

"…Eggman," They both sweatdropped. Who could have known he would have tried to steal her if she was a connection to the ARK, too? Psht, he'd do anything to take over the world, well, maybe except selling his soul or something or negotiating with aliens. Maybe she was something in connection to Shadow as well? Could Blizzard use the Chaos Control? They weren't even sure.

"Yeah, that's his name. I done kicked his hiney tincan-walker thingy outta the place I was locked up in for… I dunno, how long has it been?"

"Fifty-two years, Blizzard." Mentioned Sonic.

"…. Oh yeah, fi---… Fifty-two?!?!? I've been locked away for that long?"

"I guess."

"Wow, I musta been sleeping for a while…"

"What did Egghead want with you?"

"I don't know, said he was either gonna make me an offer, or he steal me anyway if I said no, so I kicked his butt."

"You kicked his butt? Whoa, I guess you've got guts to do that," Smirked Sonic. Maybe Blizzard wasn't that bad at all. Sure, she has an attitude from who-knows-where, but she has got to be cool if she could kick Egghead's walker, and his butt! all the point that she might be something special, or whatnot. 'Course, she did look like him, and chances betting, Eggman thought she looked like himself. Heh, he would have wanted to see that, and kick him to the half, intact moon and back.

"Um, I hate to interrupt, but Sonic, Blizzard, we still have to find Amy……" Tails was getting a little impatient, as he was already in his Cyclone, getting ready to take off again. Sonic and Blizzard looked at eachother.

"I bet you can't run as fast as me," Sonic says in his usual glorified-I-can-run-faster-than-anyone-else tone of voice.

"Wanna bet?" Blizzard managed to sling back.

"You're on!"

Unknown Location

Time of Day: Late afternoon

Amy simply sat there, on a fallen tree log. She was bored as heck, and who knows what would happen for her. She had that little talk with her pet earlier, and guessed that Marti kind of understood, even though it was just a bird. For once in a while, Amy felt a bit lonely. The object she's always chased ever since she was saved by Sonic, who was the object, she could never even catch. What made her think she could catch Sonic? Even her constant begging didn't work, and still Sonic denied her. Maybe Sonic wasn't really meant for Amy at all… Just as a supporting, and helping friend. Amy sharply looked away at the little rainwater pond that was in front of her. Drops were pouring into the puddle, despite the lack of rain. But then if there was no rain, where were the droplets of water coming from?

Sniffling, and pouting, almost to the point of crying again, Amy was attempting to hold it back, even though she never wanted to cry about Sonic's latest outlash towards her. He was so mean, instead of calmly telling her the usual 'No' answer.

Being too late, she let out her sadness through crying aloud, where no one, not even Shadow or Marti, could hear her. She let it all out, tears streaking down her cheeks, and leaving to fall to the ground floor. Not only did she do that, but also she got up, and sat on the wet ground instead, putting her head against the log she sat on. It wasn't a rotten log; it just was there for a while, covered in some fallen leaves. Her heart was in pieces upon the floor, and there wasn't anyone there to put them back together into a whole.

"Amy... I heard you…"

That voice again, Shadow's. Immediately she wiped away her eyes, poorly attempting to dry them because Amy didn't want Shadow to see she was in tears, and pretty much crying because of Sonic. Slowly, through the brush of the thick forestry, Shadow pushed his way past the bushes, having come because of the persistent noise of disturbance. He could hear that well? Amy looked away, hiding her face away from Shadow's gaze.

Blinking once, Shadow noticed he was going to have a little hard time getting her to talk, or something she would like to do without having to force her to talk. Evil was never his ways again. Gently, he approached the weeping pink hedgehog. Extending out his right-gloved hand, he lifted her left hand away from her face. Yet again his emotions were perplexing him to the point where he must at least calm her down. Shadow takes his left hand, and covers her hand.

She freezes, and Amy tries not to let herself blush. Why is Shadow holding her hand?…