All copyright stuff is in Chapter 1

The 3 Shadows, Episode 1 - Genesis.

Chapter 3 - Shadow awakens

Shadow awoke to find himself in a strange bed in a strange room. There was a single window that lit up the room quite well. Posters of several unknown groups and a single TV added to a rather stereotypical 12 year old's room. His relaxing was soon broken by a rather nasty pain in his right shoulder. He found it bandaged with a rather basic bandage.

Suddenly a strange figure walked into the room. A average sized fox, clothed in paint soaked overalls and with large bracelets on either wrist stood in the doorway.

"Good, you're awake", said the figure.

"Who, who are you?" asked Shadow. The figure removed his overalls to expose his real identity. A fox with several black stripes, couldn't be more than 12 years old stood before him.

"I'm Miles Prower. And who might you be?" asked Miles

"My name is Shadow the Hedgehog, where am I?" asked Shadow.

"You're just outside the Green woods, in my bedroom. Or perhaps I should just say planet Earth Alien", said Miles.

"Alien?? Oh is that because you saw me fall from the Sky. I'm no Alien it's just I spent all my life on a space station called ARK", Said Shadow

"Space station? Cool. What were you doing up there?" asked Miles. Shadow shook his head.

"Sorry, I've said too much already. The less you know the better, trust me. If only Maria… Oh god Maria, I need to get out of here", said Shadow.

"Not a chance. You've been unconscious for the last four days. And you have a broken shoulder. You are in no condition to even stand", said Miles. Shadow tried to get up but the pain was unbearable, he fell back onto the bed.

"I guess you're right. So what's up with the get-up?" asked Shadow.

"Oh this," said Miles pointing to his overalls, "This is my paintball suit. I'm paintballing champ you know. And these are my prize wrist shooters"

Miles pointed to the wrist bracelets. Shadow instantly concluded that they fired some sort of bullet, perhaps one of those paint balls, from the pack on his back connected by some tubes.

"What's paintball?" asked Shadow

"You really have spent most of you life in Space haven't you? Paintball is a game in which two teams of people pretend to have a war. The aim is to shoot the other team with special paintballs. When these hit someone they explode and cover a small area of their overalls with paint. It's a sign they have been hit and therefore are taken out of the game. Last one standing wins", said Miles.

"Sounds fun, and you're champ?" asked Shadow.

"4 years running now. All thanks to the wrist shooters, which I created", said Miles.

"You? But you're so young, how did you learn to make such things?" asked Shadow

"It's a gift. All the prowers seem to have great mechanical skills and I'm no different. I love building stuff like this", said Miles, "But enough talking, you should get some rest. Here I'll put the Tele on"

Miles walked over to the television and turned it on. Shadow smiled as Miles walked out. He began to wonder about Miles, why was he so nice to him? Perhaps he was really just a nice person. On the television was the news and something drew Shadow's attention.

Today the General United Nations called for any leads on finding this man. He is known as Gerald Robotnik and should be considered armed and dangerous. GUN neglected to say why they wanted him but there is a reward of one million gold rings for the first person to find him.

My Master? Alive? I have to find him before it's too late. So GUN are some sort of Government here? And after what they did on ARK I'm starting to worry about Professor Robotnik. I need to find him and protect him, but I'm too injured to do anything now. As soon as I'm fit I'm going to find you Professor and together we'll find some answers.