Maurice's p.o.v.

I don't believe it. I can't believe it. All this time I was asleep, I was awake but not at all. Some other hedgehog that calls himself 'Sonic' was using my body for his own selfish needs. I searched through his memories again and saw everything that he did. How could I let this happen? I should've never touched the gem in the first place. Then I wouldn't be in this spot. I looked through the Life-forms memories and saw everything he did. 'Sonic' would always bug Life-form and 'save' the planet from someone he calls 'Eggman'. I tried looking for the person but what I found only left me speechless.

'Eggman' was Ivo.

I opened my eyes and looked around the base. No one but me and the Life-form were here and he was asleep. I leaned against the wall and sighed. 'That explains why he was active and how I got back to the forest.' I sat up straight and looked at the entrance then at Life-form, sleeping away without a care in the world. 'He wouldn't mind if I get my thoughts all straightened out.' I stood up and jumped down to the ground then walked to the entrance and was immediately meet with the sun in my face. I jumped back from the light and gave a light growl. 'Outside... pesky humans.' I thought about Ivo again and shook my head. 'Whatever he was doing before must have been for a good reason...' I sighed then turned to see the Life-form still fast asleep.

I turned back to the light and squinted my eyes as I walked into the bright light. I have only ever been outside a few times. 1 for my escape, 1 for my return and 1 for the Life-form's request. The other planet doesn't count cause Ivo was the only human there and I felt safe around him. Honestly, when he said he wanted to come outside, I didn't want to but I felt bad for keeping him in the dark so I agreed. Once my eyes adjusted, I took in all the scenery I could. Everything was so bright and colourful, I can see why the other me would like the wildlife. I walked past multiple trees, looking up to the tops. I sighed then decided to look through all the memories again. I skipped mine cause I already know everything by heart.

I looked through Life-forms and came across a human that he told me before. He described her just I saw her and they looked to be happy together. I felt my mouth curl into a smile and I sighed. I looked at Ivo and, I think her name was Maria. They are almost the same person. Both caring for us and teaching us not to be hurtful. I opened my eyes and sighed at the two memories. I looked around and found a tree that was able to hold my weight. I jumped up and laid down on a branch closing my eyes again. I looked through the other me's memories and came upon a fight he was in. I cringed when Ivo's robot was damaged and he flew away saying he will continue world dom-e-nah-shy-on.

'What is that anyway?' I shifted through my memories and came across the words he said to me on the day of my escape. 'Of course! It's his revenge! That explains the robot and why he was scaring the other humans.' I chuckled at his smarts. 'He was the smart one, I was the tough one.' I continued to look through his memories and came across one were it had a picture of me in my chains and he looked to be angry. 'So Life-form was right about him not knowing about me. We were always two separate beings.'

I sighed and opened my eyes. 'But what were those human-lovers talking about? Getting him back... It couldn't mean that they were going to force me away, right? I mean they look weak and couldn't possibly make me fall asleep. But... what if they could?' I kept my eyes open as to make sure no danger was around and looked through the memories again. I saw multiple ones with him touching the strange gems and looking happy. I looked through more and came across a talk they did without me noticing. I closed my eyes again and decided to let myself drift into the memory so I could listen to there conversation.

"Maurice's raw chaos abilities had a reaction with the chaos emeralds and infused together to become Sonic!" the orange one spoke "His energy wore off and that's why we're in this problem."

"So we can get the hedgehog back?" Life-form was looking at me and I was just watching him. I didn't care that he was talking and didn't listen to there words. I only watched so I could keep an eye on him.

"Yeah, once we find a chaos emerald first."

I snapped my eyes open and banged the back of my head against the tree. 'I'm such a fool not to listen to there talking.' I sighed then let out a pained yell and clutched my head in frustration. I let my hands slide into my lap and I groaned. 'The Life-form really was going to get rid of me and bring back him. That must be why he willing stayed with me and tried to get my mind off other things. But... then why did he show me fun?' I looked through my memories and saw his reaction when I said we could go out. I paid no attention to it at first but now, I'm confused. He looked happy when I said we could go out and he had to stay close to me. When we ran, he looked like this was something that he couldn't live without. 'That's odd. Why is he happy?' I remembered the question he asked me before and I didn't know what to make of it before.

"Maurice, how much do you care?" I only tilted my head to the side wondering why he said care.

I closed my eyes and wished for more answers. I looked through the words I've learned over the years until I came to two that I'm still trying to figure out. Desires and Kindness. From the way Ivo described them, desires is something you didn't know you needed until you can't live without it and kindness was doing something nice to others and it makes you happy as well as them.

'Why did he ask me that question anyway? Does he desire me? And what about saying 'care'? Was that kindness?' I shook my head 'He couldn't but he was up close to me and I felt like I wanted to be closer to him.' I sighed and opened my eyes again. 'This is all too confusing.' I perked my ears when I heard voices come from afar so I jumped on the branches to see who was talking. When I got there, I saw the human-lovers talking with Green and Yellow.

"Should we really be doing this?" Pink asked Yellow and Green who looked at each other and then back at her.

"If this is bad, then what were you thinking?"

"I can see where Amy's going with this." Red interrupted "Shadow said that they were getting along just fine, so, should we bring Sonic back or not?"

"You would rather stay with Maurice over Sonic?" Yellow asked and they looked at each other.

"I get where this is going but if Maurice makes Shadow happy, then maybe it is a good idea to keep him around." Orange said while rubbing his arm and looking away. Green sighed then put his hands on his hips.

"So, what your saying is that it's best to keep a living weapon alive and not put him back to sleep? But you said you wanted to get rid of him before." I was shocked. 'They were trying to get rid of me! If they try to make one move on me, I'll end there pathetic lives!' I inwardly growled and moved my ears to an outward position.

"Lets keep the emerald in hand and if Maurice does try to do something, then we can bring Sonic back. Agreed?" they all nodded at Pinks words and continued to walk away. 'Wait a minute... what was that?' I stopped my growl and jumped down to the ground, standing on my legs. 'Is this a joke? Are they actually going to let me stay awake?' I looked down and went through all the memories I had. I saw multiple ones were the other me and Life-form would do something for someone and it would make them happy. I stopped at one with the other me saying something so I closed my eyes to listen to it.

"Why are you helping me?" Life-form asked the other me and he smiled at him.

"I was just being kind and I thought it was the right thing to do."

I opened my eyes then looked up at the sky. 'Kind? Is that what they were doing? Being kind to me... Life-form asked why I cared and I said that he was my responsibility. Just like Ivo. I feel like I need to look out for him and care. Is that what kindness is? To care for someone but not like a desire where you can't live without them?' I sighed then started to walk back to the base. 'Maybe Life-form might be able to answer my questions.' I walked through the trees and stopped, looking around. I twisted my ears around cause I swore I heard something move. I looked around and my ears perked when I heard it again coming from a bush. I looked at it and gave a low growl as a warning not to mess with me.

"Come out! I know your there!" I moved my ears again when I caught another sound and looked at it. "I mean it, I will attack!" I growled louder when the thing wasn't moving anymore and I glared at the two bush's. I slowly stepped towards the first bush and when I got there, I pounced on it. I looked around confused as to what I was going to get and didn't see anything. I sighed and stood up straight looking around again. 'The outside must be getting to me...' I perked my ears one last time to see if there was any sound and when I didn't find any, I turned back around and walked back to the base. Once I got there I was surprised to see the Life-form looking around as if something was terribly wrong he kept muttering something under his breath and had his back turned to me. I went up to him and as soon as I touched his shoulder, he jumped up ten feet in the air and looked like his body was going to explode.

"Maurice!? Where were you!? I was so worried!" I was surprised and confused 'Worried, for me?' he shook his head then grabbed my hand and pulled me back inside. "I was starting to think that G.U.N. had found you and taken you away." I moved my ears to an outward position and huffed.

"If your scared, then maybe you can answer a question." he turned to me but didn't let go of my hands.

"I'm not scared, just worried. And what are you talking about?" I huffed and ripped my hand out of his and put them on my hips.

"Explain." he looked at me confused then sighed

"Your not making any sense." I huffed and looked at the entrance

"Neither are you." I didn't hear any movement so I turned back around and was meet with his face in front of mine.

"I was worried about you and you don't care?" he said in a slow voice and I gave a low growl.

"I do care..."

"Then..."

"MAYBE IF YOU CAN EXPLAIN MY EXISTENCE THEN MAYBE YOU WOULD KNOW WHY EVERYTHING IS SO CONFUSING!" I interrupted something he was going to say and yelled in instead making him take a step back. "I don't know why you would even care for something like me." I felt something wet come to my eyes and I looked at the ground. I felt his hand touch my shoulder but I shrugged it off and went into the base. I went up to the level and curled up not even giving Life-form any attention.