A/N: Woohoo! Chapter 4 is here!
We now pick up where Maria the Hedgehog was last seen, the Robot Factory. Will she make it out alive? I hope so!
Maria breaths heavily as she leans against one of the walls. "Whew! I've been here for at least a day or so and still no exit in sight." She sighs heavily, "how am I suppose to get out of here?"
She thinks in deep thought and then heard heavy footprints. The blonde hedgehog panicked and hides behind some wooden crates. The footprints belonged to a group of manufactured robots with red parts and black stripes and had Eggman's logo.
She peeks out of her hiding place. 'What were those robots and that fat man with red and black clothes doing?' Maria asked. 'Maybe I should follow them? Well, I have no other choice, if I wanted to find the exit. So I should.'
She hides behind walls and crates so the robots and the man would not spot her.
Finally she saw them exit an open door that lead outside. 'Finally!" Maria mentally cried. She manages to get out before the door shuts. "Phew!" Maria said, "now where were they all going?"
The female blue and purple striped chao flies all over the village, and then stops to sniff some lavender flowers due to her curosity. Crystal, Pyro and Mark just came back from shopping, Crystal spotted the chao sniffing the lavender flowers. "Oh, what a cute creature!" she said. The chao turned away and cried out in surprise as she was easily spotted. She then dashed away in fear. "Oh wait!" Crystal cried. "Oh you must've spotted Sadie," Mark said. "Sadie?" Pyro said confused. "That's right, that's Sadie the Chao," Mark replied. "She is very shy around many people."
"So does she have any friends?" Crystal asked. "Of course," Mark said, "but they all live in a town, that is about a hour away by foot." "I see," Pyro said, "but it would be nice to make friends with her." "Good luck with that," Mark said, "Sadie only appears if she wants to. Meaning she only chooses people that she thinks would be her best friends." "So it's gut instinct, meaning that Sadie believes she can trust these people?" Pyro asked. "Of course," Mark said, "Sadie seems to be around lately ever since you and Crystal have started staying here in Aero Village."
"Boy, I hope I become her friend soon," Crystal said clasping her hands in enjoyment.
Sadie pops out from a nearby alley and secretly smiled, as she wanted to be friends with both Crystal and Pyro as well.
Maria pushes back tall grass as she ventures deeper in the depths of the mysteriously forest, that was full of colorful crystals. They were glowing brightly do to the powerful mysterious source inside of them.
"Man, this forest seem to go on forever." she said with disappointment, "I hope there is civilization nearby. Like a village, town or city." To her sheer luck, she found a village, Aero Village. "Aero Village," Maria said looking at the wooden sign that was in front of her, "this place looks nice and peaceful, alright. This would be a great place to get away from it all. I hope there is some people that will help me find a place to live."
She slowly walks down the dirt road with small pebbles.
After about a few hours, the sun was about to set on the horizon. "Man, still haven't find a place to stay." Maria said with disappointment. She then felt someone bump her from the back. "I'm so sorry!" cried a female azure and blue rabbit. She was carrying some shopping bags that mostly contained clothes. "Oh, it's okay," Maria said, "I didn't hurt so don't be too worried." "Oh are you also a traveler?" Mark asked. "Well, um yes, I am," Maria said, "I need a place to stay." "Well don't you worry about that," Mark said, "I have a lot of tree houses in the backyard that fit for living in." "Really thank you!" Maria said, "you are such a kind fox." "Hehe...thank's," Mark said scratching the back of his head and his cheeks were tinted pink due to embrassment.
Maria was amazed by Mark's home. "Wow, the inside of the house looks, real nice," she said. "Well I better get dinner ready, tonight is spaghetti, you can choose whether or not to add meat balls." Mark then walks to the kitchen and gets the noodles ready.
Crystal, Pyro and the blonde hair hedgehog were sitting on the couch in the living room and were talking with each other. "So are you a human?" Crystal asked. Maria was startled how did this rabbit know. "Well we were once humans as well," Pyro said. Crystal looked back at Mark, who was making the tomato sause. She was trying to see if he is eavesdropping, but she wasn't too sure.
She turned her attention back to Pyro and Maria. "Listen, Maria, you need a new alias, because I believe we were all sent here for a reason," Pyro said, "if someone found out we were humans, it's going to be very hectic." "Alright, I understand," Maria said nodding her head in her agreement.
"So what name are you going to choose?" Pyro asked. "How about Mariah Angel?" Maria suggested. "Really? Why choose Mariah as your first name? It sounds similar to your real, human name." Crystal said who was confounded about the blonde hedgehog's name choice. "Well there was nothing good to think of," Mariah said sweatdropping.
"Dinner's ready!" Mark cried. Everyone get off the couch and goes to the kitchen to get their plates of spaghetti.
After eating, Maria had chosen her tree house interior, the inside had a white tile floor, sky blue walls and blue ceiling. There was a white bed with a lunar theme to it. The funiture consisted a sky blue wooden desk with a big mirror, two white dressers and a white cabient attached to the wall. "Wow this place is cute," Mariah said. "I can't wait for tommorow!"
That night, Sonic yawns as he was sitting a couple feet from the camp fire. Three tents were set up around the camp fire. The blue one was Sonic's, the yellow one was Tails's and the pink one was Amy's.
Sonic then picks up a small branch and uses it to poke through a hot dog and held it near the camp fire.
Inside of Tails's tent, the yellow kitsune was analyzing the mysterious force shield around Eggman's base. "Hmmmm... this force field is made up some sort of negative energy," Tails analyzed, "what ever energy it is it can't be good." "Hey Tails!" Sonic cried. Tails jumped and whirled around to see his friend eating a chili dog in his right hand. "S-sonic don't scare me like that!" the yellow fox stuttered. "Hehe, sorry buddy," Sonic said. "So do you find out how to break the force field?" "No I haven't," Tails said, "I try to find the weakness, but everytime I do that. I get this message."
Sonic bends over to see Tails's computer montior to see a message in a wierd and strange language. "What kind of language is that?" Sonic pointed out. "I don't know, but I don't have any language translater that can dechiper this." Tails said, "this is going to take longer to decode." "Well that's just great," Sonic said swinging his arm in frustration. He then finishes the last piece of his chili dog. "So now what?" Sonic asked. "If we find someone or something to translate this strange language then we'll crack this message and find the weakness." Tails answered, "only problem is that it's going to very difficult finding a translator that know this language."
Sonic rubbed his chin in deep thought trying to find someone that could help them. A light bulb goes off in his head. "Knuckles, he might understand this language!"
"You sure about that Sonic?" Tails said, "Knuckles is a treasure hunter, but I'm not sure if he can understand this language." "We won't know if we tried!" Sonic said, "Tails try to contact Knuckles." "Sure thing Sonic," Tails said. He types up a letter and writes his signature on it. He folds it up, prints it, puts it in a yellow envelope, wrote the red enchidna's name on it and sends it.
A/N: Phew! It's done. Sorry about that, College work has gotten in the way. Next time, Crystal and the others try to befriend Sadie the Chao, while Knuckles discovers a wierd triangle shaped gem.