The Darkest Side of You (chapter 7)
"ARK, ARK, ARK….everything about you, Shadow, is all connected to ARK…..and you know nothing of Hatoko?" Tails asked the black hedgehog in an irritated manner, as he prepared a rocket to space.
"….No…I was born, raised and trained on the ARK…..no one informed me of her. I have no idea where they would be able to keep her though. I knew every room in the ARK. I could not have just walked into a room and not have noticed her there…." Shadow said with a strange uneasiness in his voice, which was quite unlike him despite the situation.
"I think….if she is bent on revenge on the world, the first place she would go to is the ARK, so she can fire the Eclipse Canon…." Amy suggested, trying to be of any help she could.
"….that is good…..we should go there anyway. There should be some record of her there. Something to help us understand how we can beat her, or any weaknesses she may have….and that's why I'm getting out the rocket." Tails replied with his hands full, screwing bolts onto the outside of the immense shuttle.
"I worry for you Amy...her anger seemed to be directed to you..." Shadow added in a worried tone.
"Why….was she so angry at me? The way she glared….it's almost like she was sending me to hell by only looking at me….it was terrifying…..her eyes….she seems so distant…..and the tone of her voice….as if Sonic were very important to her….someone she didn't want to loose. It's almost as if……she loves him…" Amy said sadly, lowering her head down, her emerald eyes holding a dismayed feeling.
Aboard the ARK, Eclipse Canon Central Control Unit
"Finally……the world shall see this confining darkness…..the end of their lives….despair beyond what their meaningless minds can even comprehend….." Hatoko whispered with an evil smile upon her face, her red eyes focusing on the illuminated screen of the canon's main targeting system.
Sonic stood behind, watching her in sad silence, his eyes fixated on her back.
"Why must it….be like this?" he muttered softly to himself as she typed in the system's main password with a happy smile.
"Why? Still….you don't understand this? The records…..I will show them to you….so you can see why, and finally understand the pain…..all the things I was forced to endure. You will see why I hate everything…..why it makes me sick." Hatoko said with a hate filled tone as she typed in commands onto the system.
"Records for SHADOW PROJECT 01 and SHADOW PROJECT ZERO" the computer replied as Hatoko clicked enter onto the command keyboard.
Two windows formed onto the screen. One read: "Shadow Project 01". The other read: "Shadow Project Zero."
On the 01 screen, Sonic saw Shadow sitting with a cute human girl with soft blond hair that graced her shoulders, and a blue dress that covered her knees. She had beautiful blue eyes, and she stared at Shadow sweetly. Shadow smiled warmly in return.
What Sonic saw on the zero screen shocked him. His eyes widened, he stepped back.
On the Zero screen, Hatoko lay on the ground covered in tiny scratches and open wounds that continued to bleed. She was unhealthily thin, and covered in dust. Her eyes were bloodshot, those of an untamed beast. She wore a shredded black dress that was too big and too long for her.
The room she lay in was dark, dirty, and she was held back by huge shackles on her wrists, held by large chains bolted into the walls.
"Do you see? Human kind created Shadow and I as the ultimate weapons for human use. Experimental beings….as part of the Shadow project, Shadow was never told of my existence. The experiment was to see what kind of life would best suit us. To cultivate better living weapons in a tortured environment? Or to give them love? Shadow and I were given free will. We were originally only supposed to be a single being, however, there was no possible way to contain immense power in one body, so they decided to do this to us. Shadow lived happily with Maria, while I was treated as a lab rat, a tester for sedatives, poisons, energy formulas. Before they injected anything into Shadow, it was always tested on me. I was their simply their plaything, a scapegoat that was created to benefit mankind!! But they don't know…."
Hatoko's red eyes burned furiously into Sonic's green ones. "What was created to serve man shall bring his death!" she exclaimed as she began to laugh maniacally. "Such is irony is it not?! It is too pitiful!! So much that it makes me laugh! So pitiful! The irony of it all!"
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