AAARRGGG!! I hate cliff hangers, but I wanted to make all you people know how I feel when I read one, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA, cough, ahem, R&R and enjoy!
30 Minutes
Chapter 7, The Hospital and the Death
9:56pm December 1, 19X3
Everyone in the storage room (which was everyone who lives/works on the ARK) heard the gunshot. Maria's eyes began to get hot and fill with tears, so did Thomas's. Gerald was extremly angry, "After all those years of working on him, I finally succeded! Then he gets taken away from me by getting pierced by an inch long piece of steel and--" He turned to his son and grand-daughter, they were both crying, Thomas had silent tears falling from his eyes and Maria was wailing. Gerald immediatly took back what he said and gave them both a hug, "I am so sorry..."
10:00pm December 1, 19X3
Shadow lay there dying he felt the pain dart through him like a missile. His short little life flash before his eyes; when he first met Maria, his first words, his first dinner, etc. He wanted it all to end, and then he didn't want it all to end. He wanted the pain to go away, but he wanted to live to be with Maria. He began to feel short of breath...
10:02pm December 1, 19X3
The agents opened the storage room door and said, "We have not found the project, but we will comehere once a year to find it." All the agents have left except for agent McGovern. His walkie-talkie said, "Jase, c'mon, theres no one there!" McGovern said to his walkie-talkie, "I know, I just gotta clean this little thing up." He went over to the Robotniks, "I know it is here, I will find it, and steal its dark, meaningless life and banish it to the pits of hell. But even thats too good for it." He kneeled down to Maria and Thomas made he step backwards one step, McGovern smickered and good one of Maria's bangs and flipped it. Then he stood up and said, "I'll see you later." He waked out of the room and shut the door.
10:05pm December 1, 19X3
Everyone opened the door, confused, but relieved. Gerald stood at the windowed and made sure G.U.N. had left. Thomas ran to the computer at the secretary's desk which was only 20 feet away. He said to the computer, "Check for unauthorized audio systems and video camera!" The computer was beeping for a minute, then replied (in a mechanic voice), "negative." Thomas went back to the storage room, grabbed the power drill and practically flew to the hidding place.
10:06pm Decmeber 1, 19X3
Thomas arrived at the hiding place in one minute, that would have to be his record for many years to come. He knocked on he floor board and said, "Shadow, SHadow are you okay?" He got no reply, Thomas was the most scared he ever was in his entire life, next to knowing he would lose his beloved wife, Alicia. He undrilled all of the screws and saw death of a loved one once again. THat moment flashed before his very eyes, the moment that changed his life forever, that moment 5 monthes ago.
4:23pm April 7, 19X3
Maria Robotnik was only 3 monthes old, she was too young to know what was even going on in her life. All she knew was she had a loving mother, father, and grandfather. Maria had bright blue eyes becuase she was a baby and later would get her icy blue ones. Thmas was with Alicia and, Alicia was carrying he beautiful daughter in her arms. Maria was pulling on her mothers natural golden blonde hair as Alicia was carrying her to the E.P room. Alicia saw the glowing red letter on the door, "DO NOT ENTER, EXPERIMENT IN PROGRESS." Alicia, smiled, closed her eyes and shook her head, she didn't care that the sign said that becuase she wanted to see how her father-in-laws project was coming along. She enter the room and saw a pod filled with greenish-yellow liquid with a mean looking adult rabbit inside of it, Alicia automatically knew it was Project S.H.A.D.O.W. He had been working on it for years, and this one, he had been working on for 3 monthes. Gerald was seen at a controller's desk (a/n: Thats what I'm calling it, ya know it cartoon those machines that have all those buttons, levers, and do-hickeys? That what it will be called.) pushing all buttons and differnt kinds of liquid where going into the pod. Then the computer said, "Warning; danger of loosing life of specimen, life clock starts at 3, 2, 1, 0, life; negative." Gerald slammed his fists on the controller'd desk, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO!!!!!! Looks like I added too much nitrofilion.sigh Time to start all over again, dump the specimen." The rabbit was suctioned from the pod. Gerald went over to a cabinet that was full of fetuses (YAY FETUS!). Gerald said, "You know, I have always been fascinated with hedgehogs." Gerald grabbed a jar that had a hedgehog fetus in it.
A woman over the PA said, "G.U.N. has found out about project S.H.A.D.O.W. they have come to--" The woman was cut off. Gerald was an old man so he was not fast (a/n: I dunno why that just seemed funny). Gerald urned around an said, "Alicia! Thomas! You should not be here!! Get out, befroe they kill you!" Gerald grabbed the files for S.H.A.D.O.W. and the fetus and tried to run, but almost fell over. Alicia handed him Maria, "I am a fast runner give me the files!" She didn't wait for him to answer and took evrything. Thomas shouted, "Alicia, WAIT!" He ran after her. She ran to the hiding place and hid the fetus and files in the floorboard. Then out of the dark, a voice was heard, "So, Missy, where did you hide the files?" Out of the darkness, Agent McGovern appeared. Alicia shouted, "I'll never tell a monster like you!!" Thomas reached the end of the hallway, and saw his entire life change in 3 seconds. McGovern smiled and said in a monotone voice, "Pity." He pulled the trigger. Alicia was dead. Thomas felt a pain stab from his heart like 1000 knive white hot from the pits of hell. His life was over, the woman he loved for 10 years before even marrying her was dead in less then a second. Thomas shouted through tears, "I'LL KILL YOU YOU SON OF A BITCH BASTARD!!!" McGovern pointed the gun at Thomas, "Really, I think it would be t'other way round, Robotnik." Thomas stopped dead in his tracks. McGovern's walkie-talkie said, "Jase, there is no record of the porject, lets move out." McGovern didn't want everyone to know he ruined the chances of finding the project, so he simply said, "Roger that." With no regret, he said to Thomas, "I'll be back." With that, he fled. Thomas kneeled down to his wife to see she was not dead, but barely holding on. She said, "T-Tom, tell M-M-Maria that I love--" She was dead.
The rest of it was a blurr.
10:06pm Decmeber 1, 19X3
All of that flashed through his mind in 1 second. Thomas began to cry uncontrollibly, he grabbed shadow and ran to the hospital wing.
1:28am Decmber 2, 19X3
Shadow was lying in a hospital bed with a wrap around his left foot and AB positve blood being put in his blood stream by an IV. A male green echidna (who was the doctor) dressed in a white, doctor's unifrom said to Thomas, Gerald, and Maria, "He is lucky to have survived, by studying how much blood he lost, he was in there for about half an hour. You may go see him. They all rushed into the room that contained Shadow, Shadow looked at them a wink, since it hurt to move. Maria was lifted on the bed by Gerald, she gave Shadow a gentle hug, they exchanged no words though. Thomas said to Gerald, "But he is still young, not even an adult could survive that. How did he survive?" Gerald smirked at his son, "I told you he was the ultimate lifeform."
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