Shaded Life
by shadow-manic65
Disclaimer: Sonic and co. are copyright Sega and / or DiC. Ketru, Ali,
Dr. Sena, and other fanmade characters are copyright 2004
shadow-manic65. Do not use without permission.
A/N: Second chapter coming up!
Note #1: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog. If I did, I would be rich!
Note #2: "This means a character is talking."
This means a character is thinking.
This means a change in place is happening.
This means a change in time is happening.
THIS MEANS SOMETHING IMPORTANT IS HAPPENING.
"This in a phrase of one or two words means someone is getting used to something."
Note #3: Any suggestions tell me, or else!
Ali: Or else what?
Don't know.
Note #4: Recap:
"Ta-ta!" Sena smiled, dissapearing.
"No! Come back!" Queen Aleena practically begged.
But it was too late. She left. And she brought Sonic and Manic with her.
"No! No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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Sonia never found out about her brothers. Aleena didn't want her to know. But she always would.
Sonia was the only thing good in her life, and she loved her with all her heart. She always dreamed of the day she would be reunited with her sons.
The bad thing about it was that she didn't even know if they were still alive.
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"But they're evil now! I saw Manic yesterday while I was walking out of the store! He had this knife and he was killing someone!"
"I know they're evil now! What do you think I am? Stupid?"
"Yes," she said under her breath.
"I heard that!"
"Oh well. I saw Sonic last Tuesday. He was hitting someone with a whip. Oh, why can't we stop them from doing these awful things, Ketru? Sena is so heartless!"
"I know," Ketru sighed. "Poor boys. Sena took their entire childhood away from them." He sighed again. "Well, let's make sure it doensn't last for much longer! Let's go!"
"Right!" Ali agreed. "As soon as I put on my make-up!"
"COME ON!" Ketru ordered, dragging her by the arm.
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He hated Sena. Everytime she had sent him out on something and he failed, she always hit him with a whip. Even if it was a little tiny thing, there was pain. She knew he hated her. She always told him that he should be more thankful, because if it wasn't for her, he would be dead now. She told him that his parents abandoned him and his brother Manic when they were babies, and she saved them.
His brother Manic.
He was the only person Sonic cared for, as well as vise-versa. Through the toughest of times, they always helped each other out. He hated everyone in the world, except for Manic. He couldn't see why everyone else could be as nice to each other as they are.
Note #5: Now, on with the show!
Shaded Life
by shadow-manic65
Chapter 2: The Truth
Mystic Ruins
A golden fox was in the cockpit of a blue plane. The Tornado, as he called it, was still in its prototype days.
A cheerful pink hedgehog ran into the room. "Tails!" she called.
"What is it now, Amy?" the golden fox, "Tails", asked, rolling his eyes. He could always could count on Amy to disturb him when he was working on the most important of all projects, and, knowing her, it was probably something not worth talking about.
"Today is the day Fury will ask me to be his girlfriend!" Fury was a red hedgehog that went to school with Tails and Amy. Every girl had a crush on him, especially Amy.
Today in about a million light years into the future, Tails thought. He knew for a fact Fury wouldn't pick Amy to be his girlfriend. Sure, she was popular and all, but she was too annoying when it came to relationships.
"Well anyway, can't talk anymore! Meeting Cybil at the bus stop! See ya, Tails!" she said cheerfully, skipping out of the workshop.
Unlike Amy, Tails wasn't that popular at school. For one, nearly everyone thought he was a geek because he liked building things so much. Amy was a new kid at school when Tails was in the first grade, and the reason they were friends was because he was the first person to bother to show her around.
Now Tails is in the sixth grade (Note: He is 12 in this story because I think 8 is too young). He was a straight-A student, which his parents were very proud of. But he sure wasn't proud of it. He wished his life could be more exciting.
Unknown to Tails, something very exciting was about to happen to him.
Mysterious ship
"Is the fox near?"
Sena was on a red, flying ship. (SPOILER: It's the Egg Carrier, but since I'm not using Eggman, Sena has it) Sena and a mobian were inside the captain's room. Sena was sitting indian-style on the floor, while the mobian was flying the ship.
Sena had named her creation "The Sena Towers". In the procktonial language, it meant "Vji Tipe Fitvsuzis", which meant "The Sena Destroyer".
"Yes, mistress, the fox is near," the mobian, Jorden, replied. Like Sonic and Manic, Jorden was kidnapped by Sena when he was very young. He was also raised to be evil. Also like Sonic and Manic, Jorgen hated Sena, hated everyone. Unlike Sonic and Manic, there was no exception.
Sena also knew Jorden hated her. She smiled to herself, she had raised them to hate her. But because of her abilities, she forced them to do whatever she ordered.
"Good, good," she said. The fox was a special one. She had no need for it, but she sure could use it to gain more children to be evil.
Sena loved kidnapping newborns, they were the easiest. She had a whip she would use on them. If they started crying, she would hit them with it until they got the message and stopped (A/N: I know this sounds heartless, but remember, Sena is heartless).
She remembered doing it to Sonic and Manic just like it was yesterday.
Fifteen years ago
Sena walked into her quarters with Baby Sonic and Baby Manic in her arms.
Both were crying uncontrollably.They couldn't find their mother anywhere, they were taken by this strange woman.
"Oh, shut up already!" she yelled at them, scaring them. But they still cried.
She couldn't take it anymore. She got a whip from across the room. "If they won't shut up," she started, hitting Manic on the side with the whip (A/N: I know its child abuse, but Sena is pure evil, and she doen't care about anyone other than herself). The baby green hedgehog cried in pain. "Then I'll just have to show them who's boss," she finished her sentance, then hit Sonic, causing the blue hedgehog pain.
"This is going to be fun," she smiled evilly.
A year later
The two hedgehogs were in a cold, gray cell, where they spent most the day. Both the hedgehogs were crying in their sleep. They had wrapped themselves in a yellow blanket that Sena had thrown into the cell. She didn't care about them, she just needed them to stay alive.
Sonic had a long cut on his arm, and Manic had a black eye. They have been here in Sena's fortress for over a year, and it sure wasn't fun.
A door on the other side of the room opened, which woke Manic up. He looked down on his brother to see that he was still sleeping. He wondered who was here. He got his answer when someone he definitely didn't want to see came in front of the cell.
Sena.
She opened the cell, and Manic hid under the blanket. He also pulled Sonic's sleeping head under the blanket.
"How cute," Sena said to herself. "He's trying to hide from me." She pulled the blanket away, and saw little Manic sitting there, shivering, with fear in his eyes. "You're coming with me," she whispered, and then carried him away.
A year later
Sena opened the cell. "That's it for today," she said, shoving the battered form of Sonic in.
"Swonic?" Manic asked his older brother. Sonic crawled over to where his brother was. "Are you okway?"
"Why this hwappen to us?" Sonic asked.
"What?"
"Why this hwappen to us? Why us here gwetting hurt? Why not swomeone else?"
"I no know," Manic said with tears in his eyes. His brother was right, why were they cursed with having being tortured every day of their life? They were barely two, why do they have to go through so much torture?
"Me take nap," Sonic said, wrapping himself in the blanket.
Two years later
Two four year old hedgehogs were standing at the entrance to their cell, their hands on the bars. Four years. Four years and they never left the cursed thing, except if you count going to Sena's quarters to get tortured.
"Sonic, do you think us'll ever get out of here?" The green hedgehog asked his older brother.
"I hate say it, but no."
Three years later
"I hate Sena. I hate Sena. I hate Sena. I hate Sena," a seven year old blue hedgehog muttered continuously.
"Okay, Sonic! I get it! I hate Sena too, you know!" the younger green hedgehog said.
"Manic, we've been stuck in this cell for seven years! If someone were here, I would beat them up in anger!" Sonic complained. Sena's methods were starting to kick in, and the two brothers started hating everyone. Besides each other, of course.
"Uh, Sonic, I'm here!" Manic reminded him, a little hurt.
"You know I wouldn't hurt you, Manic. You're the only person in my so-called life that I care about."
Manic smiled at that comment. Everyone and everything seemed to be against them, except each other.
Present Time, Prison Hall
A guard led Sonic down the prison hall.
Sonic hated this place. It's where he spent most of his time, or really, his cell. It was usually the only place he could see his brother Manic, but that was the only good thing out of it.
They got to the cell. It had a number key pad next to it, and the guard punched in the code. Sonic didn't bother looking at it, Sena changed the code like every five minutes. The bars opened, and the guard pushed Sonic in. He then shut the cell, turned the key pad off, and went on his way.
Sonic looked around the surroundings he was used to see after fifteen years. There wasn't really anything in it, the cell was underground, so there was no window. The only things that were in the cell were himself, some food, some water, a blanket, and his brother Manic was at the back corner, staring at the wall.
"Hey, bro!" Sonic greeted. The only time he was happy was when he was with his younger brother.
"Your back!" Manic stated, happy to see his brother. "What did you have to do?"
"Sena made me get more prisoners," Sonic said, disgusted. Serves them right for not trying to rescue him and his brother.
Manic was also disgusted. "I hate those stupid free Mobians! Don't they know we've been trapped in here for our entire lives?" Manic was the same as Sonic, he hated everyone except Sonic.
"They don't know or they don't care," Sonic answered. "Theyre getting what they deserve. The only thing that would make this perfect would be if they were all dead," Sonic said, grinning evilly. (A/N: Never thought Sonic would do that, huh?)
Manic also grinned evilly. "Next time we get out, shall we go on a killing spree?"
"Gladly."
Aleena's House
"We're here!" Ketru said to Ali.
"I refuse to let anyone see me without my make-up!" Ali complaind.
"I see you without your make-up all the time," Ketru said, getting out.
"Yeah, but you're related to me!" Ali shot at him.
"Aleena's our sister-in-law!" Ketru shot back.
"Oh, yeah. I forgot."
"You forget just about everything I tell you!"
"I do not!"
"Yeah, you do! Remember the time we had to go back to Procktaria for Cinga's wedding? You got the message, but you forgot to tell me!" Ketru and Ali were having one of their "moments".
"You forget stuff all the time!"
"Bye, mother! See you-" Sonia walked out the door, but stopped at the sight of the two arguing prockters.
"Skajd fsdnks?" Ketru and Ali had resorted to their own language.
"Gsiu aljkks reiskjd husla!"
"Slsjfl gfpsin rej?"
"Ydkkm!"
"Sdsk sjdkl?!"
"Who are you guys and what are you doing?" Sonia asked.
"See? The girl's leaving for school! That proves it!" Ketru shot at Ali.
"Proves what, fdsk?"
"Ekjfk fksh dlklfd!"
"Ddjkd-"
"Ketru? Ali?" Aleena asked, walking outside to see what the commotion was all about.
"Hey, Aleena!" Ali greeted.
"Long time no see!" Ketru greeted also.
Aleena sighed. Ketru and Ali could end their "moments" just as fast as they could start them.
Inside
Ketru and Ali were inside the kitchen, talking to Aleena. Aleena had introduced them to Sonia, and vise-versa. They told her that they needed to talk to her about something.
"You told Sonia that you needed to talk to her about something, but now, your in here talking to me! What is all this about?" Aleena asked Ketru & Ali.
"It has something to do with both of you, actually," Ali explained.
"You remember Lacey, don't you?" Ketru asked her.
"Yes, your aunt. Why?" Aleena asked.
"She wants you to know something that everyone in the Sena family knows." Ali informed.
"What is it?"
"Now, Aleena, this may come as quite as a shock. Are you ready?" Ketru asked.
"Yes. What is it?"
Ali took a sigh. "You remember Sonic and Manic, don't you?"
"MY SONS? WHAT ABOUT THEM? ARE THEY ALIVE? ARE THEY WELL? ARE YOU BRINGING THEM HOME? AM I FINALLY GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE THEM AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS? ANSWER ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Aleena said, it seemed like they were playing 20 questions.
"They're alive, Aleena," Ketru informed her.
"Oh, thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" She said, praying.
"But, there is somehing you need to know," Ali informed.
"WHAT?!"
"Are you ready?" Ketru asked.
"YES!"
"You sure?"
"YES!"
"Be ready for anything."
"ANSWER ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Aleena," Ketru sighed, "my dear sister-in-law, they-"
"YES?!"
"They-"
"YES?!"
"They are evil."
Aleena suddenly gre silent. "They're what?"
"They're evil, Aleena," Ali informed.
Aleena looked very pale. "What happened to them?" she asked calmly.
"Luma. She raised them," Ali sighed.
"What do you mean 'raise them'?"
"We know her techniques. We captured someone who was raised by her and forced the answers out of him," Ali explained.
"You see, Sena has this whip that she uses when they are young, and hits them with it. Even when they are babies, they are tortured," Ketru explained.
"That's child abuse!"
"We know. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if she did it to Sonic and Manic right when she captured them," Ali sighed.
Aleena looked like she was about to faint.
"Mother?"
Everything went so silent you would be able to hear a hair drop. Everyone looked over to the door of the dining room.
And saw Sonia standing there.
"I have brothers?" she asked.
Ketru and Ali had regret in their eyes. They should have made sure that she had left.
"I guess I owe you an explanation, dear," Aleena said, motioning for Sonia to come and sit next to her. "You see, you actually have two brothers, an older one and a younger one."
"You three are triplets," Ali finished for her.
"TRIPETS?" Sonia asked, totally shocked. "How come I didn't know about them?" She faced her mother.
"You see, honey, when you three were on week old, Sena entered my palace."
"PALACE?"
"Yeah. Aleena is the old queen of Mobious.
Needless to say, Sonia was very, very shocked. "What happened to them?" she asked.
"Sena took you three away, and I followed her. I was able to catch up with her before she left, and I was able to save you. However," Aleena said, "your brothers weren't so lucky."
"What are their names?"
"Your older one is blue, and his name is Sonic. Your younger one is green, his name is Manic."
"Sonia," Ketru took over the converstion. "We need your help. Your brothers are evil."
"EVIL?"
"Yep," Ali said.
Sonia looked like she was going to throw up.
"Anyway, their evil, and you're the only one who can save them," Ketru explained
"What can I do?"
"This."
A/N: That's it!
Note #6: Sonia's found out about her brothers! Wonder what will happen?
Note #7: Looks like Sonic & Manic are going to go on a killing spree! Hope Sonia can save them on time!
Note #8: Hope you liked it! Expect the next chapter in about a week.
See ya!