Third Person (Before the explosion)
Brown eyes stared at light blue ones and vice-versa. The Human and Mobian stared at each other, one in disbelief and the other taking in the appearance of his long-lost friend. Ivo bent down to Maurice's eye level.
"I can't believe this..." he looked the brown hedgehog up and down before looking directly into his eyes. "Is that really you Maurice?" said hedgehog nodded.
"Yes, its me, Ivo."
"How could this be? I thought you died in the explosion." Shadow cleared his throat to gain their attention.
"Actually, you were fighting him for the past 8 years." Ivo blinked
"What?"
"Yeah. Apparently, the Chaos Emerald that you found had a reaction with Maurice's raw Chaos abilities when he touched it before that test." Ivo looked at the brown hedgehog with wide eyes.
"Is this true?" Maurice nodded and the Human sighed. "Oh, Maurice." he shook his head then looked into brown eyes. "I told you not to touch it." he lowered his head and got caught off guard as Ivo hugged him. "For 8 years I was fighting you and I didn't know... I can't believe it." Maurice slowly put his arms around the human's neck and closed his eyes.
"The other me didn't respect you, either." Maurice said and the two pulled away from the hug.
"Other you?" Shadow cleared his throat again.
"I believe you would call him annoying blue pincushion, blue pineapple, rodent and many more." he waved his hand out then crossed them over his chest. Ivo looked at Maurice then back at Shadow.
"Maurice was Sonic all this time?" he asked out of disbelief and Shadow nodded.
"Even Sonic doesn't know about this." Maurice started to play with one of his gloves as Ivo ran a hand over his head.
"Sonic was Maurice... wow... I would have never expected that... not in a million years."
"No one would have if it wasn't for Tails finding that old newspaper."
"That little fox that is able to keep up with my work?" Shadow nodded. "How did that happen?"
"He found the newspaper flying around with a picture of Maurice and thought it was Sonic. They got in a fight because Sonic said that he was born and not created but we found his room with the red writing, went to find Sonic but found Maurice instead and here we are." He waved both of his arms out in emphasis then put them to his sides. "We did other stuff but I'm sure we can talk about that some other time." the Human stood up and walked around.
"After everything I did to try and get rid of the pest, I was actually very close to losing my friend." He stopped walking and looked at the two hedgehogs. "How long have you've known this Shadow?"
"Roughly 4 days now. Maurice only came up with the idea to visit you today." Ivo hummed then rubbed his chin.
"Hmm... what made you want to see me Maurice?" he looked at the brown hedgehog.
"I was worried about you Ivo." all of a sudden, a grenade smashed through one of the windows of the base and exploded causing smoke to go everywhere and the human and two hedgehogs fell to the ground from the shaking. G.U.N. soldiers stormed in and seized a hold on the disoriented brown hedgehog.
"Maurice the Weapon, you will be brought back to Commander Towers under strict orders from the Commander himself." one soldier said as he and some others placed a collar around his neck and stashed him into his cage. Shadow shook his head and saw that some soldiers were also surrounding him and Ivo. He managed to get away from the soldiers and use a bunch of Chaos spears to chase them away. When all the smoke cleared, all that was left was a heaving Shadow and a very much confused Ivo who rubbed his head.
"What happened?" just as he said that, Scourge, Fleetway and the gang came bursting through the still open doors of the Human's base.
"What happened? Did that explosion come from here?" Tails asked as they came to a stop in front of a growling Shadow.
"Yes, the explosion came from here." he walked towards the open doors and glared at nothing in particular. "And G.U.N. took Maurice."