I was driving down a dirt road as the wind blew across my face and the sun was shining down on my path. There were grassy knolls to my left and right as I was going about 80 miles an hour in my black convertible, enjoying the speed, the sights, and how cool I looked. The engine made a great "vroom vroom" noise as I sped across the land, the dust flying behind me.
I suddenly saw a yellow speck coming at me, and it was getting more noticeable quickly. I floored the brakes, the car turning to a screeching halt. I hoped that I wouldn't run over this thing, or that I would fly out of the car when it came to a full stop (Ed. Note: Shadow still thinks he's too cool for seat belts.).
As the dust settled, the yellow thing became visible: it was a duck with many small ducklings following it. They stared at me for a while, then continued towards the other side.
"Quack quack quack! You really need to watch where you're going, Shadow! Quack quack quack!" Silver imitated the duck's sound as he bounced it up and down.
I was annoyed that Silver interrupted my pretend time with the convertible, by putting the duck right in front of it. If he cared so much about the precious duck, he should've not done that.
I soon forgot all about it as I started the car again and began to gradually pick up my speed. Maybe I wouldn't go as fast as 80 in case another damn duck got in my way, but I was once again speeding across the country, the engine making that delightful vrooming. I wasn't sure what this path would lead me, but I was curious to travel the world, maybe even finding the end of this dirt road.
It was until that I heard what sounded like a siren. I looked in the mirror to see that a police car was quickly approaching, brightly flashing its red and blue lights. I wondered how the hell the police found me in the middle of nowhere, but I knew I wasn't going to get a ticket from this doughnut-eating clichéd pig. I pressed harder on the gas pedal, going about maybe 90-100 mph.
The car began to speed up as well, knowing that this was now a pursuit. The dirt road seemed to be endless as I saw nothing but fields and maybe a few houses. I was wondering if soon I would arrive at an intersection or this road just went on for an eternity. It was as if I was going around in a circle, seeing the same sights and repeating this again and again. As I was wondering why it seemed to repeat, the police car somehow got ahead of me by going a little off the road and it was now blocking my way, stopping me from reiterating the road again.
The officer got out of the car, revealing that he was a blue hedgehog with green eyes: Sonic. He approached me while looking at me sternly.
"Sir, do you know how fast you were going?" he said.
"Yes. About 90 miles per hour," I stated to him in a matter of fact voice. It was useless to lie to him now.
"Yes, and the speed limit here is 10 miles per houwr. You were going…a lot over that limit."
"Can I just enjoy going down this road? There's nobody here anyways."
"Nope, you bweaking the rules. I have to give you a ticket."
"You might not want to do that," I warned.
"Why not? If you don't get a ticket you go to jail."
"Because, believe it or not…" My car suddenly began to rise above the air, above the officer's head, going higher up in the sky. "My car can fly!" I began to push the gas pedal again, my car speeding across the sky.
"Darn it, Shadow! I might not want to play with you anymore…" he mumbled.
I raced across the blue skies as I went through the clouds, eating a few (I thought they were cotton candy back then) as I saw a large orange cliff that was at the end of the dirt road. The cliff was completely rectangular, and had a very large chasm ahead of it. Curious, I drove my car down to the earth again, wanting to see this sight for myself.
The sun was just now setting as I reached this cliff. There, I read a sign that was on the cliff, saying that this was "the end of the world". Quite literally, it was. After this large chasm, there was nothing. Where the world ended. It was eerie to me, now that I was at a place that was between something and nothing at all. To me, it was like time stood still. The sun didn't even seem to move after it was at the same position for what seemed to be hours.
I sat in my convertible, admiring this sight. It was a little scary and sad, but yet it was also beautiful, to be so high up in this world. Even though I was a child, I symbolized this with life. Was this cliff like the end of your journey? Ahead of it, was death. Blackness. Behind it were the things you accomplished, your past, everyone you ever met…a concept like that I didn't totally understand just yet, but yet when I was here, I seemed to have a glimpse of what it was all about.
Suddenly, my car began to move quickly towards the cliff. I couldn't stop it. I wasn't fast enough to put on the brakes. I fell off this cliff and began to tumble towards the great black chasm.
Another child knocked my car off the table. It fell onto the floor, a few pieces of it scattering across it.
I tried very hard to hold back my tears. Not only my favorite car out of the ones in the box was broken, but what I just saw in my mind was a very frightening experience. To go into a world where nothing existed, not even time, leaving behind your memories, your experiences, everything…I sniffled, rubbing my eyes so no one could see my tears. As soon as I stopped attempting to hide my tears, I saw the blue hedgehog pick the car back up.
"Let's give this car to the teecha. She can fix it…what's wrong, Shadow?"
I guess he saw maybe a tear slide down my face. I only sniffed, my nose still stuffy, saying nothing.
Suddenly, I felt warm. Despite that probably the next day Sonic would also have that damned Snot Fairy, he hugged me. Hugged me, out of all the nerve! But I was upset and I didn't seem to care. As soon as he stopped embracing me, he looked back at the car. "Let's show this to her. I'm sure she'll fix it."
I stood there for a bit, probably wondering why the bloody hell he did that. However, I followed him, as he gave my favorite car to The Lady.