Ch.7 The Little Trinket Saves Shadow

Author's note: You asked for it, you got it.


I was tinkering with a digital clock trying to see how it worked when Tails came into the room.


"Hey, shouldn't you be resting?" Tails asked.


"No," I said, "I don't need any rest, I'm a robot."


"Oh, yeah, I sometimes forget that. Sorry, Omochao," he apologized.


"It's okay," I replied.


"It's just that," he continued, "you act so human. Like your'e a real person."
"I do?" I asked.


"Yeah, you do. Although annoying at times, you act like a person, not a robot. I overheard you say something to Sonic, and that's when I realized it," he said.


"The shuttle pod will have a ten minute gateway to land."


"What was that?" I asked Tails,


"Oh, that's just the warning system I made," he replied. "Come on, you should see what Earth looks like from space."

We walked into the cockpit and I saw the most amazing view. The earth was just a blue ball with white, swirling clouds, tall, brown mountains, some glittering with snow on top sitting on lush, green land covering the earth wherever there wasn't any blue, sparkling water. I watched in awe and saved the picture into my memory files.

"Cool, huh?" he asked

"You bet," I answered.

We landed an hour later, right after I finished turning the clock into an RC Jeep. Tails was pretty impressed and couldn't figure out how I did it, but then again, I didn't know either. So when we exited the ship, I got to take my RC for a test drive, and I was literally behind the wheel.

Sonic was laughing his head off when he saw that I had made something that Tails couldn't, and Knuckles said that he would make me a mini off road course in his backyard if he had the chance, and I was enjoying the attention.

I gave everyone a wave goodbye and drove off to the City Square; of course I could only go a maximum of 20 mph, but I was small enough that cars could go right over me. I passed a few stores; Amy and Rouge were in Clarissa's Designer Clothing Store together, and I saw Knuckles and Sonic in the 24/7 Gym. Tails was at the Game Exchange browsing for the latest hit, and Eggman was in the Smith & Wesson Gun Shop. Then I stopped dead in my tracks. There was Shadow, in the Personal Fitness Gym. I couldn't believe what I saw. I was actually right. At first I thought I needed Tails to check if my memory was fragmented, but my sensors detected heat where Shadow apparently was. He had to be real. I ran in there as fast as my little robotic chao legs could take me and went over to where I saw Shadow, but he wasn't there. I set my scanners specifically to find him, and looked about the room. There he was, in the middle of a crowd hoisting up 100, 200, 300, 400, and even 500 pounds of weight, no sweat! I went under everyone to get to the front of the crowd. As he waved to everyone that that he was finished, the crowd was gone except for me.

"Go away, I'm done here," he said coldly.

"Shadow, it's me, Omochao!" I said.

"Omo-who? I don't know anyone named that," he replied.

"I'm the robotic chao that helped you save the world!" I exclaimed.

"Save the world? Yeah, right. I hear, that it was Sonic the Hedgehog that saved the world, not me. Why are you still here? To annoy me out of my wits?" he asked.

"But, you helped him! You helped Sonic! You are the one who sacrificed yourself to save the world! You're the REAL hero! Before you left to help Sonic, you said something about keeping a promise to a girl named Maria! Don't you remember!?"

Shadow had a blank look on his face like he didn't know what I was talking about. "No, I don't remember." That had caught me off-guard. I didn't think he would lose his memory.

"Ok. It's a good thing that Eggman programmed this into my memory. Shadow, after you were created by Professor Gerald Robotnik on ARK, a spaceport, an team of Gun agents invaded ARK and destroyed everything in it. They killed everyone except the professor and you. They even killed your only friend, Maria. Maria sacrificed herself to save you, her Uncle's experiment for the ultimate life form. Before she launched you off of ARK, she asked you-"

"To promise her," he interrupted, "to make everyone happy, and give the world a better future..."

"How did you-?" I asked.

"I don't know. I can only remember bits and pieces of my past," he answered. "And I don't like anything that I remember. My hatred, grief, anger, everything." Then I saw men in black uniforms with writing on the back. It said, GUN.

"Come on, we'd better get you somewhere safe," I said. I led him to the back door, which was luckily unguarded and went into an alley.

"Those guys have been after me all week," he said. "I can't go anywhere safely."

"Maybe not by walking," I said. He looked at me, puzzled. "Just pick me up and RUN. I'll tell you where to go."