Chapter 2
Nokia sat in her chair and sighed. She'd rather be doing a lot more other interesting things tonight then be at work, signing papers and waiting for Team Dark to hurry up and show. She looked outside and noticed that it was raining.
"Maybe I should call Maria to make sure the windows are shut, Nokia thought. She reached for the phone when the three that made up Team Dark showed up. Nokia grabbed the paper work and skimmed over it briefly.
"…You were spotted?" groaned Nokia. The ivory bat rolled her eyes.
"Well we wouldn't have been spotted if we didn't have Omega to slow us down," complained the bat.
"I object to any slander that Rouge the Bat is saying about this mission. It was her incompetents as leader that made the team get spotted," argued the robot, Omega, against the bat, Rouge. Their bickering went on for another five minutes when the ebony coloured hedgehog appeared from the shadows, as if not noticed in the room at all, and placed an object down on the table.
"Look," he snapped, causing the other two's pitiful argument to stop dead in its tracks, "We got the stupid thing that we need to get and brought it back unharmed okay? So what if those two are yelling about who screwed up the mission more, we got the item back and that's what counts."
"Alright everyone," Nokia sighed, "It's late. How about we go to bed and get some well-deserved sleep. Oh and Shadow, we're having a private meeting tomorrow at 01300hr. Got it?" She said sternly over the fact that Shadow did have an attitude problem. The hedgehog rolled his eyes and walked out of the room. The other two fallowed quickly after him. Nokia just sighed and collected her things so she could head home.
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Nokia reached home and was making herself a cup of tea before she had went to bed. She was sitting at the kitchen table watching the lightening dance across the sky. The storm had just brought in lightening but no thunder. Nokia looked down to see a piece of paper on the table. She picked it up and read it…
…the sound of glass breaking could be heard from every corner of the house as the coffee cup fell to the floor.
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Maria slipped and fell face first into the mud again. She was becoming very familiar with it since it was her fourth time slipping. She sighed.
"Smooth Robotnik," the girl spoke to herself, as she lifted herself up and started walking again, "You chose tonight when a freak storm was going to roll in to run away from home. I'm soaked, cold, and don't know where I am…WAHH!" She slipped for her fifth time and slid down a hill.
"I'm really starting to hate the mud," Maria groaned. She observed her surroundings. The woods seemed to be getting less thick as she kept walking until she reached a clearing. The cliffs were high and it looked like a vast sea of green from the grass. The sound of actual wave crashing on to the rocks a few feet away was an unwelcoming thing to hear.
"The ocean," Maria stated as she walked and looked over the cliff, "I found the ocean. Well this is great. Where do I go to now? The ocean, just great. I can sail across the world…OH maybe Shadow's there…yeah that's great. Then what do I do. Be stuck at sea? UGH," She looked at the water again.
"Stupid Ocean," she muttered, "Well can't do much about that right now. HEY a Train Station!" Maria ran over to the little building. It wasn't much but it was shelter from the rain. She dropped her backpack off on one of the three benches and looked over the sign, reading where the train goes.
"So the train goes to…Station Square. Are you kidding me?" The girl sighed, "Okay let's calm down Maria and collect on what we've done today. So far I past Science, found out that Shadow's alive, and ran away from home. I found shelter in the form of a train station with a train that goes to Station Square which just leaves me in a big circle." She groaned, "Okay…let's just try to get some sleep. I'll re-group and get back on track in the morning." She walked over to the bench where backpack was and laid down, using her backpack as a pillow. Maria looked up at the sky.
"I wonder where you are tonight," Were the last thoughts of Maria before she closed her eyes and sleep took over.
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A couple hours had past as a hedgehog ran around making sure everything was safe and sound when he went into the train station and spot Maria. She was asleep, knees up to her chest, trying to keep warm.
"Poor thing," the hedgehog said looking at the girl, smile came over his lips. He picked the girl and carried her back to his place.
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AN: What will happen to Maria? And who is this mysterious hedgehog…honestly if you played the games…you can pretty much guess and be right. Anyways sorry for the long wait. Chapter 3 should be out in the next day or two since it is 95% written out and all it needs is to be type.
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