(I DO NOT OWN SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG/ULTIMATE LIFEFORM,

HE IS OWNED BY THE SONIC TEAM! For goodness sake get it through your thick heads people.)

In my version Shadow hasn't died and don't expect him to. I'm making a movie on this and my best friend, Zack, is playing Shadow so I'm not gonna let my friend die! I might make fun of him a bit, though. I didn't design this thinking Zack is Shadow, although I designed it as myself being Maria.

There are a few new characters. Maria, Sonic's sister, Breeze, Knux's sister Jwan, a young echidna, Tiavinah, a curious armadillo, Stella, an innocent wolverine, and everyone on the Dawgz team.

Warning: I sorta just started from scratch. I'm basically ditching the past and making a future.

My name is Maria. I am Sonic's sister. I am a Hedgechidna. 6 years ago I was on a vacation with Sonic, Knux (Knuckles), and Breeze, Knux's sister. That was when I had my first run in with Shadow, Shadow the Ultimate Lifeform. I didn't know it then, but it would be the first of many.

Our first encounter didn't go over very smoothly. A little while afterwards I had my memory wiped, so remembering is a bit hard. Shadow and Sonic obviously didn't like each other but I knew nothing about Shadow at the time. All I can remember clearly was Shadow charging at Sonic. When a black hedgehog charges at your younger brother suddenly it doesn't matter if you know them or not, you just gotta do somethin' about it.

I punched 'em in the gut. I was unaware of my strength. He flew in the air and smacked into our ship, spaceship that is. That was my first encounter.

The second time I saw Shadow I was on the Space Colony Ark. My mother is, shall we say, insane. She's overly protective of me and yet she never shows any true love for me. It's as though she's protective just because I'm her daughter. She wants to control my life instead of letting me live it myself. One day I got a letter inviting me to go on a space cruise. I took any opportunity I could to get away from mom. Naturally I didn't tell mom I was leaving.

When I got on the ship I bumped into Shadow. Despite our rendezvous on my vacation we quickly grew to like each other. Don't even think of it like that I meant we were friends. Shadow seemed to stalk one of the human girls on the ship, Dee. I tried over and over again to tell him her name and even tried to introduce the two but Shadow's mind was constantly going everywhere. One moment he's drooling over Dee the next he's stuffing his face at the buffet table. One night I was walking to my room when stopped as I overheard a conversation between Dee and Gerald Robotnik.

"So, grandfather I hear you have a force field capable of with standing a nuclear explosion, is that right?" Dee said.

"Why, yes, it is. And after my creation of Shadow I feel that I may be able to create many wonderful things for the sake of our good man kind. Although the force field is not yet finished, it is still a prototype." I heard the kind smile in Gerald's voice.

"So, could you tell me how to work it?" Dee said in a way that began to make me nervous.

"Well, why in the milky way galaxy would you want to know that?" I myself was thinking the same thing.

"Just tell me, old man!" Dee hissed.

"That's no way to talk to your grandfather, young lady!" I heard a clicking noise.

"Tell me." Dee hissed once more.

"Okay! Um… the instructions are in the drawer to the right of the master computer!" After that I heard a gunshot and a loud thump. My blood went cold.

"Thank you, grandfather. I appreciate your services, I really do." Dee's laugh was high pitched and cold. "And now for my next victim," I silently prayed it wasn't me "Shadow the Ultimate Lifeform."

She stepped out of the room shotgun in hand. She saw me and her eyes narrowed. Intuition made me turn and run the other way. Of course she chased me. I ran to pod sector 5 where I got ready to get in the escape pod and leave. I looked back to see if she was close. But when I turn my head forward again I ran straight into Shadow.

"Are you okay?" He asked and picked me up off the floor.

"I'm fine. Look Shadow, Dee is after you. You have to get out of here!" I heard the door lock behind us.

"Who's Dee?" Shadow cocked his head to the left. I turned to see a flustered Dee aiming straight for our heads. Luckily Shadow never noticed she'd entered the room.

I pushed Shadow into the escape pod and was about to press the button when Dee shot at me. She hit my arm, but only barely.

"You have to get out!" I screamed. But Shadow hardly heard me.

"What's your name?" He said to Dee. His eyes clouded as though in a trance.

Dee paid him no mind, "Maria!" She screamed as I pushed the escape button.

After that my memory was wiped and I wouldn't see Shadow for another year.

A year later I joined Sonic's Team and had no memories of meeting Shadow what's so ever. My first mission was one of the more dangerous one's and it involved going back on the ark.

Shadow was a good guy and had joined Sonic's team to help man kind instead of breaking it down bit by bit. When we arrived on the ark Shadow and I found so many things familiar that we were sort of creeped out. We met up with two humans, Sally and Tommy, who told us our past on board ark. Dee kidnapped them shortly afterwards.

While on the ark we discovered Xipho, another prototype of Shadow that looked exactly like him except instead of red streaks he had orange tiger stripes. We also discovered odd powers called Elements. I have the element of Fire, Shadow's is Darkness (Big shocker, isn't it?), Breeze's is Water, Sonic's is Weather, Knux's is love (It should have been black-mailing. That's what he used it for anyway.), Tikal's is wind, Cream's is light, Amy's is earth, Rouge's is mist, Tails is sky, Haley, Tikal's niece, is unity, Jwan, a new member, is life, Tiavinah, you'll hear more about her later, is Gravity, and Stella, Again, you'll hear more later, is death.

Eventually we took down Dee and restored order to the space colony.

Sonic, being the annoying little brother he is, went and blabbed to mom about how dangerous the mission was. Mom, psycho and totally insane mom, pulled me out of the team and dragged me home like I was a 3 year old.

On my seventeenth birthday there was a knock at my door. Shadow had come to see me. Mom didn't like Shadow. On her "How to be a good mom" instructional videos it must have said to hate all of your daughter's guy friends. Mom was a bigger jerk to Shadow than she was to me. I'm telling you, if there's one way to ruin your kid's birthday it's by telling her best friend to get lost and telling him you ran off and married Espio. One word, Ew.

Shadow is loaded, I don't know how, 'cause he's in a non-profit organization, but the guy's freakin' loaded. Anyhoo, after giving me a miniature spaceship while I was on the team, he gave me a garnet ring shaped like fire with my name engraved on it for my birthday.

So maybe I was a bit overly thankful when I kissed him on the cheek but it was in front of mom, so expect me to be a bit extreme. Well, after that mom kicked him out and I ran away.

Then Breeze and I started a new team, of bounty hunters. While I was gone Shadow sent me letters. My first letter arrived on my eighteenth birthday.

It read:

Dear Maria,

You're 18. Congrats, we can officially get married. Okay, okay, kidding. As you've probably already figured out I sent your presents with the letter. A dress that I had designed by Chloe Dao, a necklace to match your ring, and a plasma screen TV. I couldn't choose between the three so I got you all of them. Sonic's now leaning over my shoulder to see what I'm writing. "Don't put that! Don't even bring up the subject of marriage when you're talking to my sister!" "I'll bring up whatever subject I want! Buzz off!" I honestly don't know how you live knowing he's actually related to you when you wake up in the morning. "HI! Are you talking to Maria, Shadow? Lemme see! Wow! Your dress is really pretty, Maria." "Could I get a moment alone with my writing, Amy?"

"Technically you're speaking into a microphone and the computer's writing it down" "I don't care! Go away!" sigh. So as I was saying, Happy B-day. I miss you. 

Love,

Shadow Ultimate Lifeform

P.S. "Love! Don't put LOVE when you're writing my sister!" "Shut up!"

I laughed as I lay in my bed. I picked up a photo from my bed side table. I smiled. Slowly tears made their way down my freckled face. I put Shadow's picture back down and went to my computer. I began my reply immediately.

That year I recruited Tiavinah. Tiavinah was fourteen at the time. She asked a truckload of questions. Shadow came to my ship and told the Black Hearts, our bounty hunter group, the Sonic Team needed our help. Kami, a monk from the future, who was supposed to make sure my future doesn't go awry, gone bad, was planning on blowing up a good part of the universe. While we were trying to stop her Shadow picked up a little girlfriend, Laurie.

Laurie is a prissy little teen who has no respect for any one. She planned on keeping Shadow all to herself. Meaning, no playing video games with shadow, no beating bad guys with Shadow and no laughing and having an all around good time with Shadow. Shadow still encouraged me to do my best and stay myself and eventually unlocking Breeze and my ability to use all of the Elements.

In the end Kami, who had killed Carlos, the leader of the Dawgz Team, told Jwan she had the power over Life. Thus that was solved.

Shortly afterward I met Stella, a wolverine who had been abused by private schooling. Although she is probably the second nicest person I had ever met, she was labeled highly dangerous by her whole planet.

Breeze and I didn't feel she was being given a chance to work to her full potential so we took her in. As it turns out she wasn't using her full potential, later on we found out she had the power over death. Stella kills the people and Jwan brings them back to life.

Now I am 21 years old. I have just gotten a call from Shadow saying that there is a horrible attack taking place on earth and they need our help. It's always odd to hear the Emperor of Darkness, Shadow, asking for help.

My name is Maria. I am a Hedgechidna. I am Sonic's sister. I am Born of Fire.

I am the Empress of Darkness.