Chapter 2: Maria and Gerald gone
Note to self: update shadow fanfic, get more reviews... Oh, and thanks for the reviews, I don't think I've gotten so much with one chapter! Anyway, here it is.
"Come on, Shadow! I'll show you my room!" Maria took Shadow by the wrist and ran down the hall. They both came to a metal door 4 times their size. Shadow noticed Maria was putting in numbers on a keypad next to the door. 6...1...7...3...1. The giant door opened to one side.
Inside was a giant, light-bluish room. A big, red bed was in the corner, with a few assorted stuffed animals and dolls. A few white cabinets sat on the other side of the room. But the most dazzling spectacle of it all was the colossal glass window that took up half of the wall in the back.
Maria ran over to the other side of the room, next to the window. "Come on, Shadow!" she shouted across the room. "I want you to come and look at this!"
Shadow just stood there. "Could you help me?"
Maria was confused. "What do you mean?" she asked. "Just come over here!"
Shadow looked down at the ground. He tried lifting a foot, but almost immediately lost his balance and fell flat on the floor.
Maria giggled as she walked across the room. "You're pretty funny, Shadow." She finally got to him and helped lift him up to his feet. "Do you know how to walk?"
Shadow shook his head. "Not really." He finally said. "Could you help me?"
Maria gave him steps and tips on how to keep his balance while moving, and finally, Shadow had made it to the other side of the room.
"Good job, Shadow!" Maria said. "Now like I was saying earlier, here's my window. Shadow turned to the window and stared out.
It was an amazing sight. There were billions of stars and rocks floating in the darkness of space. Thousands and thousands of tiny white lights lit up the dark. But the most spectacular sight of the picture was the view of a giant, blue planet with little, white clouds covering it. It took up a quarter of the window, but it looked magnificent.
"Maria, this view..." said Shadow, staring into the stars. "It's... its beautiful..."
Maria turned to Shadow "What do you think it's like down there?" questioned Maria.
Shadow kept staring at the planet. "People.... children... play... happy..."
"Shadow!!" called Gerald Robotnik, who was still in his lab. "I need you for a few minutes!"
"You should go." She said. "Grandfather needs you. I'll see you later, okay?"
"But... Maria..." Shadow stammered.
"Shadow!" the professor called again.
Shadow sighed. "Okay, I'll go." He tried his best to walk to the door. Once he had finally made it there, he turned around. "Maria... promise me you won't leave me..."
Maria nodded. "You have my word."
He nodded back, turned around, and continued walking to Gerald's lab.
He finally came back into the doorway of the professor's lab. "I'm back." He said. "I think I've gotten this walking thing."
"That's nice, Shadow," said Gerald, with his voice not showing much interest. "But I need you for a while. Please step into this chamber." He pointed to the cylinder-like container that was just big enough to fit Shadow.
Shadow stepped into the odd-looking device Gerald was talking about. It puzzled him what it did.
"This chamber," Gerald said, as if he was reading Shadow's thoughts. "will put you to sleep for a few hours. It is for adding the last feature to your design- heart."
He pressed a few buttons at his control table. "You were created as a weapon, Shadow. I was told to. I may not usually create weapons, but I must. It's my job." The door to the room Shadow was in slowly closed. "Remember this, Shadow. You are unique. You are a weapon with heart and free will." The door was closed, and the chamber immediately filled with a blue smoke.
Before his sight was completely lost, and before he fell asleep, the last thing he saw were flashing red lights. He soon fell asleep after that.
A few hours passed, and Shadow woke up. The smoke was gone, and his container was opened. He walked out of his capsule and looked around in astonishment. The lab had broken, metal pieces on the ground. The control panel was fried, and Gerald & Maria were nowhere to be found. He ran outside the door to the hall.
"Gerald!" he shouted. "Maria!" No answer came. He ran to Maria's room. Maria was staring out the window again, but breathing heavily. Shadow ran across the room again, and accompanied Maria. "Maria," he said. "I'm so glad I found you! The lab is a mess; the siren was going off..."
Maria fell to her knees. "Shadow..." she managed to get out. 'Find... grandfather..." she fell to the floor and laid there motionless. Shadow picked her up, but she wouldn't wake up. He carried her over his shoulder and ran back to the lab entrance. Gerald wasn't there. He kept running down the hall, until he found a giant room where Gerald, too, was lying motionless on the floor.
Shadow put Maria down and ran over to Gerald. "Doctor!" he shouted. "Doctor, are you all right?"
The doctor stood up. "Where's Maria?" he asked.
"She's over there," turning to where he put her. However, she wasn't there. "Maria?" he asked.
An odd sound surprised Shadow and he turned to see what it was. The doctor was in a glass container. Maria was over by another control panel. "Grandfather," she said, weakly. "Please... bring hope... to humanity..." she pushed a button, and in a blinding flash, the capsule, with Gerald, disappeared.
Shadow started running toward Maria. "Maria!" he shouted. "Don't!" He stopped. Something was blocking him from going to her. He looked around, and noticed that he was in a glass capsule. "Maria!" he shouted. "What are you doing?"
'I'm... trying to save you..." she said. She got her hand ready to push a button.
"Wait!" Shadow said. "You go! You take this capsule!"
"Shadow..." she said. "Please, do it for me... and all the people... on that planet..."
"Maria..." Shadow said, sadly.
"Please," she said. "Give them a chance... to be happy..."
She pressed the button on the console. The capsule dropped at an incredible speed. The last thing Shadow could hear was Maria's voice.
"Shadow... please... bring hope... to humanity."
After that, Shadow fainted, and couldn't feel the impact of the capsule exploding.
Is this the end for Shadow? Are Maria & Gerald going to die? Where is Shadow headed to? Will Sonic Hero ever feel like updating his fanfics? Tune in next time forrrr...
CHAPTAH 3: Shadow's new home.