Strap in everybody, this is going to be a long one. (Don't mind the book formatting, practicing it.)

They had arrived on the ARK. Shadow quickly made his way to dispose the ermeralds into the cannon's engine. Meanwhile, rouge was watching Chris and pinkie pie start to bicker. They both were sitting down.

"Why did you follow me?" Pinkie asked with salt in her voice.

"Why? Because he was kidnapping you!"

Pinkie scoffed at his reaction. "He wasn't kidnapping me! I wanted him to take me here!"

Chris was already annoyed that her answer wasn't the one he wanted to hear. "Why would you want shadow to take you?! You don't give yourself up to the bad guy."

"Well excuseeee me snowflake, I didn't know you can't understand my simple logic."

Chris stood up. "He kidnapped you!"

"did not!"

"did too!"

"he had no intention to!"

"yes he did!"

"Pinkie's right kid." The two turned their heads to see Shadow enter the room. "I did not kidnapp her."

Chris turned from angry to confused."then why?"

"I just have a few questions to ask her."

Chris turned to pinkie, whom had a smug smile on her face. "Told ya."

Chris rolled his eyes. "Fine."

They soon found themselves looking outside the big glass window, pointing towards the earth. Chris stood next to pinkie, whom stood next to Shadow.

"it's hard to believe that I really traveled into space." Chris was commentating his thoughts out loud. "And we're inside a space station?" S

spoke up. "We call this place Space Colony ARK."

Chris turned his head to Shadow. "Oh. I wonder why I haven't herd of it before."

"it was built 50 years ago by professor Gerald Robotnick. It's been kept, secret."

Pinkie pie looked out onto the earth with wonder. Chris turned back to look at the Earth. "Wow! A secret space colony. I wonder if I'm the only kid that's gone into space."

Shadow smirked, remembering his dearest friend. "You're not."

Chris turned his head again in surprise. "What? Then who was?" Shadow's eyes shifted to the ground. Pinkie noticed, then thought about something.

Then, she realized. Her pupils slightly dilated. Shadow saw this, and the same was for him. 'what? How does she... This...' '

was that girl I saw in my dream.'

Shadow realized he could hear her thoughts. 'how are you in my mind? And- wait, you saw Maria?'

Pinkie also noted that she could hear his thoughts as well. 'i can hear you too... This is so werid.'

'How is this happening?!'

They looked at each other.

'i don't know. This might be part of that connection she told me about.'

'wait, wait connection?'

Chris suddenly intruppted their thoughts. "Hey you know what? You look a lot like my friend sonic! Are the you two related?" Shadow and pinkie stared at him. Pinkie's face was a "really?" Expression, and Shadow stared menacingly at him. Shadow's gaze was enough for Chris to drop the conversation and look outside again. P

pie and Shadow stared at each other through their reflections. something about the other was... Endearing? Mysterious? They both felt their hearts race for a few seconds. It was like someone was trying to light a spark... And it seemed to be working. Not fully yet, but the striking of a match.

'what am I feeling?'

*insert Shadow having a flashback scene here*

Shadow's expression turned angry, catching the attention of pinkie and Chris. Chris was unsettled, while pinkie shook her head in disappointment. She walked away, leaving Chris to slowly back away as well. Shadow stopped looking out the window and turned away.

Shadow and Chris walked into the main control room of the eclipse cannon. Eggman was about to do something big. Something that will ramp up the whole world. "Let me show you the true power of the eggman empire!"

Chris was nervous."what's Eggman going to do?" An evil grin appeared on Shadow's face, frighting Chris. He gulped.

"Now, let's have a blast!" He pushed a big red square button. The ARK'S disguise exploded, revealing a face similar to eggman's. it started to power up. The eclipse cannon was about reach higher.

Pinkie pie was in a separate room, watching the cannon from a small window. She gasped. The cannon fired, and was headed straight to the moon! The impact of the Lazer exploded half the moon into floating rocks. Pinkie pie gasped even louder, and she seemed to have felt the impact in her chest. She fell to the floor.

Back in the control room, both Chris and rouge were a bit overwhelmed from the destruction Eggman just caused. "With that much power, eggman can blow up any planet he wants!"

Rouge was not expecting that. "Eggman wasn't lying about the eclipse cannon. It is the ultimate weapon." Eggman laughed manically.

Back with pinkie...

It felt like someone stabbed her in the chest. 'I've failed her! I failed to save him! It's too late!' she was going to have a panic attack.

'don't say that. You're not too late.' pinkie pie looked up. No one was there. But Maria was there. Talking to her in her thoughts.

'you've already made progress. This doesn't slow you down. It was my cousin's evil intentions acting, not Shadow. Though, I still can't free his thoughts.'

"So, what should I do?"

'keep talking with him. You'll turn him over soon.' pinkie nodded, and stood up shakily.

"I have to help him. For him, for her..." Her chest started thumping. "And... For me..."

Much Later...

Shadow entered the pod room. Pinkie pie was looking out to Earth, ears droopy. She closed her eyes. Shadow felt the need to comfort her.

'What?...' he walked closer to her. Pinkie heard his foot steps.

"Hi Shadow." S

was really sad about something.

"Um, pinkie. What's wrong?" He walked up next to her.

She slumped to the ground. "Nothing." She looked away. shadow was concerned now.

"I've only known you for a little bit, but I feel you aren't usually like this." He sat down beside her. 'why am I being nice?'

"it's just..." She looked to the other side of the room. She sighed and turned to face him. "Being in space for so long brings up bad memories."

"how so?"

She sighed again. "A long time ago, I thought being alone in space would make me more happy than I ever could be. But I was wrong. So wrong." Memories came flooding back. She tried to hold in her tears of sorrow. "I had no one... I could never find my smile. In fact, I lost it." A few tears came from her eyes. Shadow listened with care. "You know," pinkie sniffed. "At first space is great. But then you want to go back to the blue and green planet, so see others, nature, friends. The things that made us full of wonder." Shadow's past thoughts rippled though his mind. This sounded similar to someone. Very familiar. "It was... Not a good emotional time for me." Pinkie was laying down, letting a small, silent, stream of tears flow. Shadow empathized with her. It was clear that this held pain.

Shadow closed his eyes. 'Maria... Have you... sent a weeping Angel to me? Is this something you were trying to tell me? Did I... Just think of pinkie as angel?' he looked at her. shadow crept closer to her. Looking away, he put his arm around her neck. Pinkie's head shot up. That was unexpected. "I... Hope you feel happier soon." Her shock fizzed out slowly, and the two were like that for a while. Even starting to learn in on the other.

Shadow realized what he had just done. He removed his arm and scooted over. He could feel blood rushing to his cheeks. Pinkie looked at him, with blush on her cheeks as he turned away. "If you excuse me, I think I'll leave now." She nodded and watched him get up. Then, She had a thought.

'was one Little girl's wish for destruction?'

Shadow's head whipped back to her. "I think she just wanted happiness. Like I do for others." This sentence left Shadow shocked. He didn't know what to make of it. It... felt like truth. He walked out, and pinkie was left starring at the Earth once again. 'i hope you take the correct path in the end.'

I'm alive! Well kinda. I currently don't have internet at my home, so updates might be scattered. Thank the Lord for school WiFi. I'll write you later! (P.S.: 4everfreebrony is an awesome music artist.)