Shaded Life Chapter 3: The Past Returns, a sonic the hedgehog fanfic

Shaded Life

by shadow-manic65

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A/N: Chapter 3 is up!

Note #1: Maybe I should bring up the rating..................(Anyone ever saw a PG movie like this?)

Note #2: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog. If I did, why would I be entertaining you mere mor- I mean, enjoy the fic! '

Note #3: "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 #4: If you want to suggest something, tell me! If I take it, run for your lives, it's a sign of the apo- I mean, I'll consider it! '

Note #5: Recap:

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.

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.

"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."

"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.

"Anyway, their evil, and you're the only one who can save them," Ketru explained

"What can I do?"

"This."

Note #6: I have a question (OO Here we go!) CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT SONIA AND MANIC'S SONIC-ADVANCETISED EYE COLORS ARE?! If you answer, I'll give you a seat of pow- I mean, I'll be happy! '

Note #7: Now, on with the show!

Shaded Life

by shadow-manic65

Chapter 3

Sena's Base: Sonic and Manic's cell

It was now about 12:00 midnight, and Sonic couldn't sleep.

He didn't know why, but he just couldn't get to sleep. It couldn't be the hard, concrete floor- he had slept on it every day of his life. He didn't know what was wrong.

He got up from where he was laying down, and started feeling for the wall. The prison camp was underground, and the only light they got were from two or three light bulbs, but Sena turned them off at about seven. When they were no lights, it was pitch black.

He made his way to the wall, and started looking for the water spigot, the only thing they could get water from. Sena once got it for them, but she stopped when they were about four. They were dehydrated for days, until they had finally found out how to work the water spigot.

He turned it on, and the liquid gushed down. He cusped his hands together, and started drinking (Yes, they have to drink from their hands. Get the picture, the only luxury item they had was a blanket).

He stopped drinking, crawled away, and lied down. While he was lieing there, he started thinking about when he and his brother was growing up.

Thirteen Years Ago

A 3-year-old blue hedgehog was huddled into a corner, his arm rested in a blanket, like a sling.

He heard the door at the other side of the hell open, and a female figure started to walk down the corridor, holding a 3-year-old green hedgehog by the neck.

She stopped in front of the cell, and pushed in a code, making another set of bars fall down from inside the cell, and the bars in front of her to open, once inside, the bars behind her fell again, and the bars now in front of her opened.

"That's all for today!" she exclaimed, throwing the green hedgehog, and he hit the floor with a loud thump.

The bars in front of her fell again, and the bars behind her opened. She stepped out, pushed the keypad, and the bars outside fell again, making the bars inside rise again.

A few cells down, two prisoners, a snake and his girlfriend, watched in sadness.

"Poor boys," the female one said. "They are so young. They should be out having fun right now, but instead.........."

"Instead," the male said, "they are locked up in here."

Two Years Later

A green hedgehog's screams echoed down the corridor.

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" he kept on screaming at his older brother, who was wrapping up a long cut on his foot.

"Hold still, Manic! We have to dry up your boo-boo!" Sonic told him. He was cleaning it up with the blanket, with water from the water spigot, the only thing he could clean it up with. They had no clothing, which was pretty much normal for a male mobian.

"What's the point?" He asked. "We're never getting out of here anyway!"

"You got to have hope, Manic," the blue hedgehog reassured him. "We'll get out someday," even though he had about given up all hope also.

Five years later

"It's been another year!" Sonic shouted out. It was winter, and he and Manic were huddled up in the corner, desperately trying to keep warm. They had no clothes, the blanket was wrapped around Manic's head because of a wound he had suffered because of a failed mission, and despite having fur, they were still freezing to death.

"Ten years. We're ten now, and we haven't had a real life yet!" Sonic shouted out again.

Manic looked down at his bare feet, and he looked like he was about to cry. He tried not to, he didn't want Sonic to see him weak. He was now ten, and he never had tasted 'freedom' as some newly-caught prisoners called.

"I wonder what 'freedom' feels like," he said.

"What what feels like?" Sonic asked him.

"Freedom. What does it feel like?"

Now Sonic looked at his bare feet. They may never know.

Present Time

A tear fell down Sonic's cheek. Manic didn't know it, but in the middle of the night, Sonic did indeed cry. Their life had been so much torture and pain. Manic had thought that Sonic was someone who didn't feel for anything except for himself and Manic. But Sonic longed for freedom as much as he did.

Those accursed Mobians!, Sonic thought. They will pay for what they did to me and my brother!

Six hours later

"Get up!" Sena ordered, kicking Sonic in the side, which made him roll into Manic. The two hedgehogs were then thrown against the wall, Sonic on top of Manic.

"It's a new day, and it's time for your wake-up call."

The two hedgehogs growled in response.

Thirty minutes later

Manic was thrown into the cell.

"That's enough for today," Sena smiled. "You two can have the day off."

Some day off, Sonic remarked. Locked in a cell all day. He then rushed over to his brother. "Are you alright?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Manic reassured. "Man, I hate that whip!"

"Let's add it to the list," Sonic remarked.

"I know I ask this every day, but why is it that we are the ones who are cursed like this?" Manic shouted out.

"Because our lives were the ones that were chosen to be ruined," Sonic remarked with a dark glare. "But at least we have each other," he smiled.

"Yeah, you're right."

Aleena's house

Sonia was in her attic looking through some stuff from her birth. She still couldn't believe she had brothers! She had always wanted a little brother or sister, but finding out that she had two brothers who had spent their lives as captives made her sick to her stomach. She wanted them to be free, but she didn't know what to do about it.

Just as she found a picture of her mother holding three babies, Ali walked up into the attic.

"What are you looking at?" she asked.

"I'm going through some very old stuff," Sonia answered.

"Trying to find out some stuff about your brothers?"

Sonia sighed. "Yes."

"You want them to be free, don't you?"

She sighed again. "They've been locked up for fifteen years. That's so unfair!"

"I know," Ali told her. "Cousin Huimuhui was locked up for 200 years."

"200 YEARS?!"

"Yeah, but he's a prockter. 200 years is like a walk in the park for us."

"How old are you exactly?"

"1,997."

"1,997?!"

She smiled. "Yep."

"But you look like a teenaged human!"

"I know. You see, when a prockter wants to stop aging their body, they stay with that body for the rest of their lives."

Sonia looked like she was going to faint. She just knew this was going to be the adventure of her life.

A/N: That's a wrap!

Note #6: Sorry this chapter wasn't as long as the other two, but I just can't think of anything! Stupid writer's block! Hopefully I'll be able to write more tomorrow.

Note #7: Next time (hopefullly) some action we'll start. For a fact I'll finish up "Sonic and Manic: Growing Up", but I'm not sure what else I'll do.

Note #8: We'll, I might as well say tootles! The new season of Sonic X starts airs tomorrow (or should I say later? It's already technically the 18th), and I don't want to miss it! Read and Review!

See ya!