The Maria Files

Author's note: I kind of messed up my story, but what the heck! Ahahahahaha…I'll have to make it better now! Reviewers, thanks sooo much! I'm too lazy to mention names, and I haven't updated my settings for a lonnnng time. Eh. I'm just so stupid sometimes. but, I can Answer your question,™ersi Fanel (Hey, I think...I spelled it wrong...)! Miserie is younger than Shadow, about Tails' age. But her mind is totally warped. Her brain functions like a six year olds would. So she doesn't love Shadow like Amy loves Sonic, she loves him like a little kid would love their best friend- just like an older brother. That's why she's always so sweet to him.

File 7 Bright Smile

Entry 4 Blast Away


Shadow watched Knuckles pace the ship. "This is so wrong…" He was muttering.

Amy was watching him, leaning on her hammer. "Knuckles, are you okay?" she asked.

"AM I OKAY!" He yelled. "I'M IN COHORTS WITH EGGMAN, NO, I'M NOT OKAY!"

"It's not like he's doing anything WRONG. His ship was already almost destroyed." Amy said. "And he's so weak, we could beat anything he could possibly make instantly."

Miserie looked at Knuckles, and then at Amy. "Shadow?" she asked. She wasn't looking at him.

Shadow looked at her. She was sitting on the floor, making something with spare pieces she had found while the Doctor was trying to rev up the engine, which he was still doing. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"Shadow, why don't they like…the doctor?" Miserie asked. "Is it because he calls them stupid?"

"…I don't know." Shadow replied.

"Why does anyone not like someone?" Miserie asked. "I don't understand…" She looked up at him, holding a spherical item in her hands.

Shadow bent down to look at what she was making. "What's this?" He asked her.

"A prototype eyeball!" She said. She pointed to her eye. "This one will fit in my eye socket. And I'll be able to scan stuff and see infrared lasers, and, oh! I want to be able to see through things too! It's so much fun making things!"

Shadow smiled. "Oh yeah…" He said. Miserie went back to working.

The ship lurched.

"The ship is moving!" Amy gasped. She put her hammer away. "Yes! Here I come, Sonic!"

"…If he doesn't shoot him down first.." Knuckles said.

"Oh shut it, Knuckles. I told you, we can beat him!" Amy scolded.

"Alright, Alright!" Knuckles said. "Jeez, Amy."

Amy grinned.

Miserie asked, "What were all the explosions?"

"…I don't know." Shadow said. "They were like lights, moving so fast. They turned red before they blew up. I guess it was some sort of missile."

"Like a super missile!" Miserie said. She looked at her eye. "Super missiles are really powerful! They're supposed to be real hard to make though. If you could make a bundle of missiles that don't blow up even while contacting each other, that's awesome!"

"…So are you saying you want to learn how to do that?" Shadow asked. Miserie looked up at him.

"Oh, no way!" She said, grinning. "Then I'd have to leave you for a long time. Right? I don't want to be by myself. That would be scary. I like being with you."

"…" Shadow smiled. "Alright." He said. He sat down next to Miserie, sighing. They watched Amy and Knuckles argue over what would happen when Sonic showed up.

"Who's Sonic?" Miserie whispered to Shadow.

Shadow shrugged. He could only sum up the name in his head, there was no picture that went along with the name.

"I mean, he did that on ARK." Amy said.

"So? What if he's already lost the Emeralds? How would he do it then?" Knuckles said. "Besides, Shadow can do it better, and you know it. He did it for really long distances. Sonic could only do it for a short distance."

"But Sonic had a fake Emerald that time!"

"What are you talking about? Chaos Control?" Shadow asked.

"Well, yeah!" Amy said. "Can't you land ANYWHERE you want?"

"…Well, basically, yeah." Shadow said. "Anywhere you can"

The ship rocked back and forth, throwing Knuckles onto his face again. Amy was thrown into Shadow's lap, and both forces pushed him into a wall. Miserie was the only one who hadn't been fazed, she was already up and running.

"It's a missile! We've been hit!" She cried, running in circles around Knuckles.

"What!" Amy asked, sitting up.

"Will you get off me?" Shadow asked. He tried to push Amy off, but she wouldn't budge.

"If we got hit, that means we're STUCK!" Amy cried. She turned around and started shaking Shadow by his shoulders. "Have you any CLUE what that means!"

"S-St-St-St-To-To-To-To-Op-Op-Op-Op- It-It-It-It!" Shadow said.

"Wah! We're going down!" Miserie cried. She fell down dizzy. "Whoah…"

Knuckles got up. "Always on my face, I swear…" he muttered. The ship slammed into the ground and he went sprawling on his face again.

Miserie was added to the list of people in Shadow's lap.

"Will you two GET OFF?" Shadow asked.

Amy got up with Miserie, who fell over at one of the ship's next spasms.

"What's going on?" Miserie asked. She started sliding. "It's tilted! Ohhh noooo!" she cried.

She slid into Knuckles and they tumbled to a wall on the on the other side.

Shadow watched Amy start sliding too. "…"

"The door, it's right behind you, Shadow! Open the…! Sonic!" Amy cried.

Shadow blinked. "Open the Sonic." He repeated slowly.

"Shadow?" Shadow heard someone calling his name. He turned around.

"…?" Shadow blinked at a blue hedgehog with green eyes, staring at him as if he wasn't real.

"…You're…Alive?"