Eh, screw my self-ishness. I can't make nice people like Fuy wait because you silly people (excluding Quarma, Promonance Flare, Nio and Istas) can't seem to review after you read a story xP I'd really appreiciate it if you reviewed. It's a good way to get on my good side. anyway, I got incredibly bored by the end of this chapter, so it may be a bit sloppy. Also I didn't bother to edit or proffread (too tired) so there may be a few typos here and there. I Feel bad for making shadow listen to the silly dream xP Anywho, Please please please please please please please REVIEW!111111
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Shmeeko closed her eyes just as the rock was about to fall on top of her. A second later, she expected to be squished. She edged any eye open and heard a grunt. A red armadillo was standing beside her, holding up the piece of debris as a shield from the rest of the rubble. When the building began to quiet down, the armadillo heaved back and threw the rock away. He turned and glared at the mischievous lemur
"Shmee is great full, she is!" the ring-tail said quickly. Mighty frowned and kicked the boulder off of her tail. As soon as she was free, she bolted for the door. But a purple chameleon appeared in front of her exit. He paused, leaned forward and frowned.
"Don't even think about it" He hissed, before Mighty snuck up behind her and whacked the lemur in the back of the head. Shmeeko fell to the floor like a sandbag. Espio looked from the unconscious Lemur body to Mighty
"Ha-ha, take that, sucker!" he said to the lemur, even though she would not have heard him. Espio blinked and narrowed his eyes at the armadillo
"Wasn't that a bit harsh?" he asked his companion, turning to scan for more survivors.
"No." Espio rolled his eyes, he thought differently.
Shadow's Point of View
I frowned, scanning the rubble for any signs of commotion. I kicked away small pieces of debris and went around the larger ones. I turned my head, twitching my ears, trying to pick up any sounds. I could hear voices, but those voices belonged to the others. As I walked, I began to hear what I was looking for. Quiet, frightened, hurt sobs. I quickened my pace, but slowing enough to be able to weave through the boulders and search the ground at the same time. I began to follow the quiet sobs.
"Amy?" I asked out loud, peering around the remains of what had once been a stone wall. Sure enough, I saw the little pink hedgehog sitting against the wall. She was hugging her knees and her head was low, but when she heard me call her name, she looked up
"Shadow?" I stepped into the room and before I could blink was hugged. I patiently waited for Amy to let go. After a while, she didn't, I took her shoulders and gently pushed her away. Scanning her face for any injuries.
"Are you okay Amy?" I asked quietly "Are you hurt?" I regretted asking two questions that could have two possible answers. But she shook her head.
"No, I'm not Okay…But I'm not hurt…Physically" She said. Then she began to cry and hugged me again. This time, when she clung onto me, I waited the full time before she let go. I frowned down at her
"We have to go Amy" I told her, shaking my head slowly. Amy nodded weakly and sniffed. Before I took her hand and guided her out of the building. As soon as she was out, Tail, Blaze and Istas came to try and comfort the heartbroken hedgehog. I turned back inside to find Sonic. When I did stumble upon the hedgehog, the survivor he carried with him was all too familiar.
Maria!
I shook my head, No not Maria, just the girl who looked like her.
"Hey Shadow, there's a woman trapped behind some rocks, can you help this girl to the hospital? The phone lines are dead, so we can't call. The little girl has a broken ankle." He said. I nodded and wordlessly took the girl and headed towards the door, taking my time to avoid debris and stones on the ground.
"S-Shadow?" I looked down at the girl; she was staring up at me with wide, frightened eyes. I frowned and continued to travel slowly through the building. Eventually, I could hold my curiosity in no longer
"May I ask you something?" I said, without taking my eyes away from my destination, the back door. The girl nodded, a tight frown on her lips
"How did you know my name, and what is yours?" I said quickly, just to get the question out of my system. She was silent for a while, before she looked up to me, trying to catch my gaze.
"My name is Mary" She said, looked down and frowning "and…this may sound strange, but I've dreamed about you before."
Well, this was odd. I frowned and glanced disapprovingly at her.
"Explain" I suggested. She nodded and looked towards the door.
"I once had a very brave great aunt. Well, that's what my dad wanted me to call her. She spent her entire life up in space. She was my dad's cousin, and he often wrote to her… At least he did before she died…" I perked my ears as my interest rose. "I often have dreams about what I think happened to her. My dad named me after her, because he said I looked so much like her." I looked down at Mary; she did indeed look very much like Maria.
"What is this dream?" I asked coldly as we exited the building and began our way to the hospital. She smiled weakly and took in a breath to explain
Mary's Dream
I sat on the windowsill of a very large window, looking down at the startling beauty of earth. A black hedgehog came to sit beside me, smiling down on the planet
"I'd like to go there one day Maria" he said
"Me too Shadow." I replied. Suddenly, the vision of earth shattered and my grandfather's frightened face appeared on the screen
"Maria, Shadow, G.U.N. are here, they're going to take our research, they're going to take YOU Shadow!" he proclaimed desperately, before a commanding voice barked into the communicator, sounding muffled, as if it was coming from behind a door
"Let us in, old man!" the communicator began to break up. "Hurry my children, hurry to the escape pod, I will launch the pods as soon as you get there, but you must be fa-" A loud bang was heard and the fire of a gun went off. Then, the screen vanished and the windows turned back to normal.
"Come on Maria, we must hurry!" Shadow said, looking frightened. We began to run as we heard shouts come from the other side of the hall. Shadow easily out ran me, but he would not leave my side. "Come on!" He grabbed my wrist and picked up speed. We rocketed through the hallways, going faster and faster until we came to a sealed door
"I'll get it Shadow!" I said, I rushed forward and typed in a pass code I couldn't really understand. We hurried through the door as it shut behind us.
"Hurry Maria, we haven't much time!" The hedgehog rushed to the communicator "Doctor Gerald, Doctor Gerald!" He called. No response. He frowned and smashed his head against the console "No!" I could hear the footsteps of the G.U.N. soldiers as they rushed through the hall.
BANG
A large dent appeared in the door, followed by several cheers and grunts.
"Only one of us can go Shadow…" I said quietly. He turned to me
BANG
"What do you mean?" He asked me, looking frightened now, even more.
"You know what I mean, only one of us can go into the pod, the other will have to launch it." I smiled and before he could protest, I pushed a button and a capsule shot up behind him. I quickly pushed him in with both hands and locked the door
BANG
"Maria! What're you doing!" he demanded, I didn't answer. I began to punch codes into the machine.
BANG
"Maria!" I put both hands on the eject button and smiled to my friend, my companion, my adopted brother…
"Shadow…All those humans…" I said slowly
BANG
"Maria, please!"
"They should be happy…"
BANG
"Listen to me Maria!"
"Give them that chance Shadow…Give them the chance…to be happy"
BANG
I closed my eyes and quietly began to cry. As the G.U.N. soldiers finally broke down the door, I twisted and pushed down the button.
"Happy…Like us…"
"MARIA!"
Gunfire sounded into the air, followed by a quiet, pain filled scream and a hiss of air as the capsule launched down to earth.
I stared blankly ahead, grief stricken as I remembered everything so clearly now. I frowned as she continued, sounding tired and shaky.
"That was you right; you're Shadow…Shadow the Hedgehog?" I nodded slowly.
"I am, and I was there with your great aunt that gruesome day." She looked away, we were nearing the hospital now, the lights could be seen and the doctors were rushing out to help me with Mary.
"Shadow?" I looked down at her and tried to smile, but it came out as a smirk
"Hmm?"
"Come and visit me sometime, okay?" I didn't say anything as she was taken from me and put on a stretcher, then rushed inside. As soon as she was out of earshot, and the doctors had her safely inside, I turned around and smiled
"Okay."
Sonic's Point of View
"Hang on!" I yelled, pulling on a large boulder that encaged a woman who was shrieking in fear. I'd tried everything. I couldn't get in from up top; most of the boulders were bigger than me. And Mighty just laughed at me when I asked for his help
"They're all Bastards" I muttered darkly. I felt someone watching me as I pushed the rock this way and that. I turned around, prepared to snarl, but it was only the hooded figure that had arrived at the party. His voice was high-pitched and childish.
"May I try?" I smirked, I couldn't move it so what could he do?" He stood in front of the boulder and began to sway. After a few seconds of swaying, he spun around violently, smashing the rock into dust with his long, heavy spiked tail. I gaped at the tail and flinched, imagining that tails digging into a human, me, or even worse…Amy. I shook my head; I was getting all mushy again. The kid tore though the next boulder with his tail like paper. Finally, the Woman could squeeze through.
"Are you alright Miss?" I asked. She nodded violently then briskly walked out of the crumbled building. I turned to the child, his hood had come off. He had a chameleon-shaped head, but spikes ran from his forehead all the way down to his back and under the cloak where I could not see. "Awesome job kid." I said, giving him the thumbs up sign. The child beamed proudly, but I was called away by Espio
"Sonic!"
Sonic walked outside to stand with Espio, Spike and Mikey. Mikey look bored, and tired, but both Spike and Espio looked concerned
"What?" He asked as he stepped outside.
"It's Cream" Espio hissed quietly. He grabbed Sonic's wrist and dragged him back into the building. Spike followed.
"What about Cream? Is she okay?" Sonic asked, looking from the hedgehog to the chameleon. Spike shook his head
"We don't know, she's missing." He admitted. Sonic looked strangely from Espio to Spike
"So why are we whispering?" He asked again. Espio looked to Spike
"It's Canon. He swore an oath to Cream, and I'm not exactly sure how far he'll go to keep it." Spike nodded as Espio spoke.
"But if we keep this a secret form him, he may go back to working for Egg-butt." Spike said. Sonic shook his head slowly
"So why are you telling me?"
"Because, you need to come with us." Spike grabbed the hedgehog's wrist and dragged him outside. Espio looked around, but couldn't see the hedgehog anywhere. Spike let go of Sonic and called out
"Canon!" The once robotic hedgehog dropped in front of him
"Ding dong." He said, quite randomly. Spike flinched as the hedgehog stood, straight backs, barely a finger's length away from him. Espio frowned and rolled his eyes as Spike backed away.
"Canon." He said, deciding to get right to the point "Cream's missing." Canon was silent for a while. Spike and Espio exchanged a glance. Canon quickly smacked his boots together and shot into the air. Spike reached up and grabbed his foot, then pulled him back down to the earth.
"Whoa there, hold your horses Skipper. We need to think logically. You're good at that." He said, imitating a western accent. Canon shot a glare at the hedgehog-clone and turned to Tails, who was helping the Chaotix, Stacey, Blaze and Istas clear the rubble off the street.
"Fox boy!" Tails turned his head.
"Do you have a Thermo-scanner?" Tails looked at him strangely before nodding
"Yeah I have one in my cabin its-"He was cut off and Canon tore into the air, heading towards Tails's cabin.
"That was odd…" Sonic said out loud. Tails shrugged and resumed his work. A few minutes later Canon returned, sounding tired and out of breath. It must take energy to work those boots. Canon was wearing a metal headband that had a red panel hanging down over his right eye. He began to scan the ground. He stopped a few feet away and called the hedgehogs and Chameleon over.
"Here" He said coldly. Sonic frowned and snatched the headband from Canon, putting it on himself and looking down. The road was blue, but yellowish red trail of footsteps jumped out at Sonic. Sonic pointed down at the footprints
"Look, there are footsteps!" he said. Canon rolled his eyes and snatched back the thermo scanner.
"Yes, those footsteps show signs of struggle, which means who ever attacked the building took Cream." He said as he began to follow the footprints.
"Sourpuss" Sonic whispered to Spike as they walked. Spike rolled his eyes and nearly bumped into Canon, who'd stopped.
"They went into the sewers" Canon said dryly,
"Looks like we'll have to climb down." Mikey said, peering into the open manhole.
"No, you'll have to climb down." Canon activated his jets and floated down underground. Spike frowned and helped Mikey down the Ladder, when both hedgehogs had safely reached the bottom, Espio leaped into the hole, gracefully landing on his feet without a noise.
"Show off" Spike mumbled to Espio. Espio smirked. Sonic looked down and grabbed the top ladder rung, swinging himself over the side and beginning the climb down. Halfway to the bottom, Sonic's foot slipped and he crashed to the slimy floor. Spike burst out laughing and Canon smirked
"Smooth move, Sonic" Spike said as he tried to stop laughing. Sonic growled at him as he tried to brush the slime off. Suddenly, a piercing scream of pain and fear echoed through the sewers. Both Sonic and Canon turned at the same time
"Cream!"