Search of the dark one
story of random sonic fan-ness from my charas point of view.
It was dark. Almost pitch black. I sat there trying to go through with my plan to run away from Eggman Nega and search for my father. Security is very high at this base, so many of my attempted escapes have failed. Today, however, my plan has been... tweaked a bit. I'm beginning to become more wise in using my dark and chaos powers.
I fire a dark energy blast at the door, literally turning it into scrap metal as I do so. I run as fast as I can down the hall turning many times in the maze like area. I didn't get lost, for I had the area mapped out for this day.
I picked up the pace since I knew that if I lingered, Nega would find me, and I'd be back in that cage where he experiments on me. I was to be... the next generation ultimate lifeform. But I didn't want it. Power was overflowing my mind and body already, and I didn't want to live like a puppet on strings. I wanted to find my father... to make him tell me who I truly was and why I was being created.
I flew out the door and searched for away out of the large 100 foot gate that imprisoned me from the outside. I don't notice the searchlight, and get myself spotted. Many robots appear in front of me, blocking my way out. I throw a punch at one, fire a chaos turret at another and run at full speed past the other small ones using my hedgehog attributes. I leap for the wall and begin to climb for my life I had to get out of this base so I could chaos control out of there... I climbed faster... faster... getting closer to the exit. My heart racing. I take one final leap over the wall and fall into the darkness. But one thing never occured to me. The fall... it could damage me. I fall faster and land hard on my back. A yelp of pain escaping my mouth. I sat there clutching my arm, dislocated from the fall. I get up, slowly pull out my red chaos emerald that I stole from Nega and say, weakly,
" Ch-Chaos.... Control..." And I'm out of there. I appear some where in a lush, green forest. " Huh? W-where am I?" I feel something run past me an spin to grab it with my powers. " STOP!" I scream.
The person stops, his silhouette moving, trying to escape.. I turn him to face me, his yellow eyes staring into my light green ones.
"Release me!" He yells.
" Tell me... who you are... and I'll think about it."He scowls at me and closes his eyes in defeat.
" Espio... Espio the chameleon." He turns away from me. " I thought you were someone else... an enemy. My apologies."
" Fine." I release him. He stands there gasping for air.
" Who are you, then?" he asks. I turn away and stay quiet. " What's your name?"
"Fuschia the Dark." I turn and try to climb the tree and get away from this chameleon but a huge pain in my side stops me. "Aghhh!!" scream, clutching my side in pain.
" Are you alright?"He asks, moving closer to me, slowly. He attempts to lay a hand on my shoulder but I turn and grab his wrist.
" D-don't... touch me..." I growl at him.
" You're hurt."
" Well, I don't need the likes of you to assist me in any way." I snap. I pull away from him and see blood on my hand. and look to my stomach. It was bleeding. I grab it, trying to hide it from him.
" Youre hurt. Allow me to carry you."
" I don't need your help!" I yell, frustrated. I try to get up again but fail, falling again, he catches me this time and says.
" You can't walk. Im carrying you."
And with that he runs with me in his arms. I feel the wind blowing through my fur and quills and soon fall asleep.
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I opened my eyes, slowly and see that I'm not in Espio's arms anymore. I sit up, rubbing my head, exhausted, for some reason.
" Ugh, where am I?" I mumble to myself.
" Oh! She's awake!" Someone from behind me says. I spin around abruptly and see a blue green porcupine, maybe 12 years old, at the most. I looked around, uneasy because I was in unfamiliar surroundings. I didn't like it. Not at all. I wanted out. I spot an exit and speed towards it but I'm grabbed before I can dash away.
" Where do you think you're going?" I turn my head and see a red echidna with strange spikes on his gloves and deep purple eyes.
" Lemme go! Now!" I snarl at him, I fire dark energy at him, and he responds with a growl.
" You're gonna be sorry that you just did that!!!" He screams, lunging at me, full force. I teleport behind him and deliver a kick to his back. "AGHH!!!!!" He cries, falling to the floor. He sits up, rubbing his head.
" Hmmm.... strong... but slow." I say. I take a step back and turn around, walking away from him. He jumps up without warning, punching me in the back. I gasp, falling to the floor, and trying to resist crying out.
" I"M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET!!!" he screams, enraged. The porcupine girl yells,
" GO KNUXIE!!! GO KNUXIE!!"
" SHUT UP ALICE!!!" Knuckles screams.
" Oh... Okay Knuxie." She giggles, Knuckle simply mumbles something and turns back to me.
" Heh, fast... but inexperienced." he says.He's about to punck me in the face again when I jump up, landing behind him. I throw a chaos turret at him and it comes close to knocking him out. He runs to grab me gain, but I teleport out of the way once more. I kick him in the side, teleporting away again. I run in a circle around him, trying to create a whirlwind, but, unfortunately, he reaches his hand in and grabs me. he grips my arm and kicks me in the legs, making me fall onto my back.I lay there, bleeding from almost everywhere, waiting for his next attack. He emits a battle cry and comes at me again. I close my eyes, ready to die. But, suddenly something grabs him and tosses him to the other side of the room. I open my eyes a little to see what happened, I see a white hedgehog running up to me,
"Are you alright?" he asks.
" I... I'm.... fine." I reply slowly getting up to a sitting position. He walks up to me offering me his hand, to help me up. I glare at him coldly and get up, without assistance. We shake hands and he says, "I can fix your wounds if you want me to. "
" Yeah!" cries the porcupine girl.
" My name's silver." he says
" Oh... Okay." And with that he leads me into another room.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Silver, the strange white hedgehog, leads me into a room with many assortments of medical equipment. He sits me down on the cold, metal table and grabs some disinfectant and gauze.
"Stay still, okay?" He whispers calmly into my ear her pour some of the disinfectant on me. It burnt, and a lot. I grit my teeth and pull my arm away. " Are you okay?This will hurt a bit..."
"I'm okay. Just get it over with, please." He grabs my arm and rubs it up and down, inspecting it.
" Why is your body so cold?" He asks.
" It.... it's hard to explain." He wraps the gauze around my arm,
"Who are you, anyway?" He grips my arm roughly,
" My name is... Fuschia. Didn't I already tell you that?" I snap. Silver drops the subject and continues his work. He yanks my arm upward, and I hear a crack. I gasp, and grit my teeth, a tear rolling down my cheek.
" Wow, I'm surprised that you didn't scream. It really is painful, you know. Well, it's fixed now, I guess..." He starts to stitch my arm up, still looking at me curiously. "I'm so confused... No one can survive with a body temperature like yours..."
" I'm immortal. That's why." I say quietly.
"What!?" he freezes, staring at me strangely. " T-that's impossible! How's that possible. The data that was eliminated after Shadow was created..."
"Who's Shadow?"
"Well, he's the ultimate life form and-" he stops. "He was created from Professor Gerald Robotnik and black doom."
" Strange. I was created in the same way. Except for by Eggman Nega."
" Who's DNA are you from, then?" He asks, crossing his arms.
" I.... I can't remember...... I think it was..... it was...." I stran harder to think, then my eyes shoot open, " MEPHILES!!!" I scream. "That's what it was!"
I look at Silver, he's staring at me, in shock.
" D-did you say... M-Mephiles? Like Mephiles the Dark?"
" Yes..." I say, "why?"
" He.... he tried to destroy the future!!"
Silence.
" Wh-what? How could he-"
" I thought that we sealed him away!"
" Sealed him away? If you sealed him away, and he was able to help create me, then-"
" That means that he's still out there some where!" Silver growls.
" I must find him." I say, and get up to leave.
" NO!!!!!" Silver yells! He grabs me with his psychokinesis and drags me back to him, " He's too strong, and you're hurt, remember?"
"...... fine....." I mumble, " I won't go..... on one condition......"
" What might that be?"
" That you don't dare harm him... not until I find the truth..."
" But-"
"Thats final, Silver. Now release me, before I do it myself." He sighs, letting me go and fall to the floor.
" Why don't you tell me more about you, since I already know that you're created from Mephiles..."
I sigh, " Alright." And I explained myself to him. To the first person I ever let in on my life.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Silver sits, listening to me attentively, taking in everything as if he were taking notes in his head.
" I.... I get it now," he says suddenly, " You were created to be a female ultimate life form.... to surpass Shadow...."
" I still don't know who Shadow is." I growl under my breath, " I've never met him before, so I don't fully understand his situation...."
" You'll probably understand it better by talking to him later," Silver tells me, " He's a black and crimson striped hedgehog... a bit of a loner. If anyone tries to attack you, or thinks you're an intruder, then tell them to talk to me. I don't see why they would see you as a.....-" he stops and I flash a warning glare at him, " ... threat...." he grins at me and giggles.
" I can very well be seen as a threat, thank you." I turn and walk out the door into the hallway. " I'm not hurt.... just same as ever..." my voice trails off. And I try and reassure myself. " I'm okay... I'm okay... maybe I'll go for a run." I sprint at full speed, feeling a sharp pain in my leg. " Ngh..." I can do this... just walk it off...." and I start to run again, this time running into a bright blue hedgehog. We topple over each other, he lands on top of me, staring at me in fright.
"Who the-"
"GET OFF!" I scream at him. He jumps up immediately, his scared face turning to a sly grin.
"So.... who are you and what are you doing in my base?" he asks.
" Well, apparently, someone named Espio rescued me and took me here."
" Oh.... so another girl saved by team Sonic!" He runs around me a few times.
" I'm not that kind of girl," I say, "I didn't need rescuing." I snap, turning away.
" Oh, really now?" he smirks at me. I clench my fists. " Heh, you look no different than any other of them. Eheh."I run up to him at full speed grabbing his arms and pinning him to the wall and pulling out my gun.
" Don't test me, hedgehog, or I'll pull this trigger, right now." I place my finger on the trigger, he starts sweating nervously,
" Umm.... ehh..... I take it back then.... god. Just don't kill me." I pull back and he stands with his hands up. " Man, I didn't know girls could be such a badass... " I simpy sigh and start walking off. " Wait." I turn around,
" What?"
" How about a race with the blue blur then?" I scoff at him,
" Well, then, "Blue blur", I could beat you any day, but I guess you don't know your... place." I smirk at him,
" Well then, how about I show you your place?"
" Fine." then we both start to count....
" One...."
"Two...."
"THREE!!"
then we both speed off down the long, dimly lit hall.
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Sonic and I sped down the hall, neck and neck, dashing around corners and any other obstacles in our path. We come to a stop at the front door.
"I won.... again as always." he giggles
"I think not, Sonic, I won!"
"No, I WON!"
"I WON!"
"I WON!" I equip my gun again, pushing it to his neck with great force.
"I... win." I growl.
"Okay, okay.... you won. You won." His hands shoot up above his head." Don't kill me! My fans wouldn't live without me!" I pull the gun from his neck.
"Now you know your place..." I smirk, turning away and darting down the hall, on my now healed leg. I don't know why, but I heal very very quickly, despite the few nutrients that I get.
I slow my pace and enter a small, dark room with a bright screened machine playing some kind of gory action movie. I stared at it intently, trying to figure out what this contraption was, since I had never seen a TV before. I poked the screen, and gawked at it, squinting slightly. I began to watch the movie, it was something about zombies trying to kill everyone, or something like that. I sit there, until I feel a strange, yet familiar prescense. I suddenly feel warm breathing on my neck.
" Who are you, and just what are you doing in my room?" the person says quietly. I spin around, equipping my gun, but he grabs my wrists and pins me to the wall, I press my gun to his neck, but I gasp, feeling something push against my stomach. He had a weapon as well. I look up to meet his eyes, a deep, blood red. He was a hedgehog, a black and red one.
" You must be Shadow..." I mumble, he loosens his grip slightly and looks into my eyes, as if he's staring right through them.
" You still haven't answered me..." he pushes the gun against my stomach and I do the same with mine to his neck. "Answer me, or I will pull this trigger!" he threatens.
" As will I Shadow the hedgehog." I smirk at him, giggling.
" Hmph. Fine then," he releases his grip, and so do I. " who are you? And why do you seem so familiar?"
"My name is Fuschia the Dark... I was rescued, and brought here, so I was exploring." I say, looking at him, getting a good mental picture of him. He seemed familiar to me as well.
" Fuschia the Dark....." he mumbles, "dark..."
"Are you onto something, Shadow?"
" A-are you related to... Mephiles?"
" .... in a way, I guess," i say, " I was created from his DNA, so-."
" You're related to him," he growls, glaring at me. He takes a step towards me. " You... could easily DESTROY my world!" He yells picking up his pace.
" Sh-Shadow?" I say nervously. For the first time I felt intimidated my someone. I take a step back.
" I CAN'T LET YOU LIVE!!" He teleports to me and grabs my neck, pushing me to the ground and climbing atop of me. He equips his gun, and pulls the trigger, but discovers that it doesn't have bullets. " Dammit..." he growls. This gave me the chance to kick him where the sun doesn't shine. "AGHHH!!!!!!" He reels away crouching and squinting in pain.
I get up and run for my life, afraid for the very first time. I thought about how much I didn't want to die... but, then again, one of us had to die either way, so it was either me, or him.
Someone had to die.
I didn't want it to be me.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My feet pounded on the metal floor of the hallway, my heart thumping in my chest. I never imagined myself cowering away from something. Let alone Shadow the hedgehog. I could hear his own feet as he approached.
"Damn, why is he so much faster than me...." I say to myself. I feel him closing in on me. "No, not now! I can't die here!" I say. I dash around a corner, trying to confuse Shadow. But he was smarter than he looked. He followed, still right on my tail. I pushed a button on my gadget wristband, equipping my mechanical wings and lifting off. Hah! There wasn't a way for him to get me now! He smirks at me.
"Stupid female..." he mutters, " you honestly think I can't get up there?"
" W-well, It's not like you can... f-fly...." I stutter nervously.
"Wanna bet?" the smirk on his face becomes more evident.
"Not really." I smile, slightly, before flying down the hall, then I jump to the wall and run on that. He chases me again, on the wall just as I was, firing his chaos spears at me. We dashed from wall to roof to other wall and back again. I was more powerful than he was, but he had a lot more speed, experience, and control. That's why I feared him more than the others I had met. He had an advantage that I didn't.
"Chaos.... control!" he yells, then appearing in front of me in a flash and throwing a chaos spear at me once more.
"Ngh!" I cry, feeling a sudden surge of chaos energy run through my body, and my knees buckle, causing me to fall from the roof to the metal floor. I hear a quiet giggle from Shadow as he jumps from the ceiling to the floor besides me. He kneels down, turning me over to face him.
" I and ONLY I, am the ultimate life form, I just wanted to make sure you knew that." he giggles. He lifts me to my feet, " Silver spoke to me about you." he says, looking at me up and down as if he were eying some kind of prey.
" You mean the white, telepathic one?" I ask.
" Yes. Him. He told me that he was unable to manipulate your mind."
" I'm a telepath as well, maybe that's why."
"Perhaps."he says, his voice drifting off, as he looks at me curiously.
" Something wrong, Shadow?" I ask, crossing my arms.
" You look familiar for some reason....."
" You look exactly like the hedgehog that I see in my flashbacks...."
" Flashbacks?" he asks, looking me straight in the eye now.
" Yes... many of which were on a certain place that I escaped to in order to escape from Eggman Nega. I befriended another hedgehog that looked much like you... but he died when we were attacked, and I was taken by the soldiers right back to that hellhole of a prison."
" Where was this, may I ask?"
"Space colony...... ARK, I think." he stares at me, in total shock.
" The ARK!?!?" he says, surprised. " That's where I was created!"
" What? There's no way! The hedgehog I knew was killed. I heard gun shots and screaming, so I ran as far away as I could.... but I couldn't get off the ARK, so I was captured once more, and I was in Nega's base for many years, even decades, if I recall."
" You.... were that girl that was there to be friends with Maria and I... so I wouldn't be the only hedgehog, and I could meet someone of my own kind...."
" You really are him.... that hedgehog-"
" It wasn't me that was screaming.... it was.... Maria. She died...." I give him a peculiar look.
" Dead? I sacrificed my own escape in order to make sure that SHE got out safely. But I couldn't find you before they caught me, but Maria did escape...." I say, staring curiously.
He stares, silently before saying, " You mean.... Maria's alive?"
"Well, she lived because I found her, dying, then healed her and took her to an escape pod. the only way for us to escape was to have someone operating the controls, so I stayed behind and let her go. The G.U.N soldiers found me shortly afterwards, and I failed at escaping from them," I say, " Back in that experimenting lab of Nega's for many more years...."
" I understand now... do you believe she landed on the planet okay? Or if she's even alive now?"
"I made contact with her during one of my brief escapes, she seemed fine. But apparently went missing a short time ago."
Shadow looked surprised.... and yet.... happy that she had survived after all.
" I must find Maria."
" I will help you search while I look for Mephiles." he smiles.
" Sure. I was planning on killing that jerk anyway...."
" Shadow,"
"Yes?"
" I-I'm the only one who can kill him, Shadow. That's the other reason why I was created. But the thing is.... I can't do it alone...."
" Huh?"
" I was created to destroy him, because Nega wanted me all to himself.... because he knew that once he was done experimenting, Mephiles would return to take me as his evil apprentice so we could take over the world. Nega's plan was for me to kill him upon arrival, but-" I look down, afraid to continue,
" Something wrong?" he says,
" I'm not sure I'm ready to kill the only one of my family... the only other of my dark species..... and he's much stronger and more experienced.... he could kill me easily, and have no regret doing so. He wouldn't care.... even though I am basically his offspring."
" I see."
" He's probably looking for me as we speak... I don't remember much about him... only him staring at me through the glass capsule I was in with his snake-like eyes and that sadistic laugh..."
"Mephiles is evil. We have to destroy him before he destroys you."
" I want answers, Shadow! You don't seem to get that! I need that first!" I growl, furiously, turning my back on him and walking off. He grabs my shoulders and spins me around to face him.
" But then you risk your own life!" he says, "You're my only chance at finding Maria, Fuschia!"
" I need to know the truth! I don't care about Maria, Shadow!!" his grip in my shoulders tightens and he grits his teeth.
" I NEED YOUR HELP!" his eyes teemed with rage, still holding me in a deadly, bone-breaking grip that would harm anyone else. My eyes squeeze shut, trying to contain my anger. I was really mad now. I felt something dark taking over my mind... my dark self was taking over. No! Not now! I still don't know, but the form that I'm in reflects on my emotions, such as, I go into a dark form when I'm angry. My eyes went black, and my colors inverted... I fought it, for I didn't want to harm anyone..
" Let me go...." no response.
"Let me go!!" he stares at my changing form,
" What the-"
" LET ME GO!!" My dark form takes over me for a split second, just enough for me to send him flying across the room, " oh no...." I say... running over to Shadow, he gives me an evil glare and says,
" What the heck was that for?"
" I'm really triggered by emotions.... sorry."
"Well, then."
" Just try not to make me mad."
" Touche."
" You were always closer to Maria, Shadow. I didn't really much care for her as you did..... I'm sorry."
His grips on me loosens and I wriggle away from him, clutching my sore arm. I didn't put it against him that he harmed me because he wanted to help, he cared for Maria very much, and she's the only one he can really remember. I would feel the same way too. He looked at me apologetically, and inspected me to make sure no real damage was done, besides the bruises.
" I'm sorry." he whispers " I shouldn't force you to help me.... you're right. What's done.... is done."
" Th-that doesn't mean we can't look for her....."
he looks back at me, a slight trace of hope gleaming in his eyes.
"I told Silver that he may come with me to destroy Mephiles... but I wanted answers first, before I even THOUGHT about killing him."
" We can gather a team then go search of Maria and Mephiles."
a smirk spread across my face," Wonderful plan, Shadow the hedgehog."
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I fire a dark energy blast at the door, literally turning it into scrap metal as I do so. I run as fast as I can down the hall turning many times in the maze like area. I didn't get lost, for I had the area mapped out for this day.
I picked up the pace since I knew that if I lingered, Nega would find me, and I'd be back in that cage where he experiments on me. I was to be... the next generation ultimate lifeform. But I didn't want it. Power was overflowing my mind and body already, and I didn't want to live like a puppet on strings. I wanted to find my father... to make him tell me who I truly was and why I was being created.
I flew out the door and searched for away out of the large 100 foot gate that imprisoned me from the outside. I don't notice the searchlight, and get myself spotted. Many robots appear in front of me, blocking my way out. I throw a punch at one, fire a chaos turret at another and run at full speed past the other small ones using my hedgehog attributes. I leap for the wall and begin to climb for my life I had to get out of this base so I could chaos control out of there... I climbed faster... faster... getting closer to the exit. My heart racing. I take one final leap over the wall and fall into the darkness. But one thing never occured to me. The fall... it could damage me. I fall faster and land hard on my back. A yelp of pain escaping my mouth. I sat there clutching my arm, dislocated from the fall. I get up, slowly pull out my red chaos emerald that I stole from Nega and say, weakly,
" Ch-Chaos.... Control..." And I'm out of there. I appear some where in a lush, green forest. " Huh? W-where am I?" I feel something run past me an spin to grab it with my powers. " STOP!" I scream.
The person stops, his silhouette moving, trying to escape.. I turn him to face me, his yellow eyes staring into my light green ones.
"Release me!" He yells.
" Tell me... who you are... and I'll think about it."He scowls at me and closes his eyes in defeat.
" Espio... Espio the chameleon." He turns away from me. " I thought you were someone else... an enemy. My apologies."
" Fine." I release him. He stands there gasping for air.
" Who are you, then?" he asks. I turn away and stay quiet. " What's your name?"
"Fuschia the Dark." I turn and try to climb the tree and get away from this chameleon but a huge pain in my side stops me. "Aghhh!!" scream, clutching my side in pain.
" Are you alright?"He asks, moving closer to me, slowly. He attempts to lay a hand on my shoulder but I turn and grab his wrist.
" D-don't... touch me..." I growl at him.
" You're hurt."
" Well, I don't need the likes of you to assist me in any way." I snap. I pull away from him and see blood on my hand. and look to my stomach. It was bleeding. I grab it, trying to hide it from him.
" Youre hurt. Allow me to carry you."
" I don't need your help!" I yell, frustrated. I try to get up again but fail, falling again, he catches me this time and says.
" You can't walk. Im carrying you."
And with that he runs with me in his arms. I feel the wind blowing through my fur and quills and soon fall asleep.
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I opened my eyes, slowly and see that I'm not in Espio's arms anymore. I sit up, rubbing my head, exhausted, for some reason.
" Ugh, where am I?" I mumble to myself.
" Oh! She's awake!" Someone from behind me says. I spin around abruptly and see a blue green porcupine, maybe 12 years old, at the most. I looked around, uneasy because I was in unfamiliar surroundings. I didn't like it. Not at all. I wanted out. I spot an exit and speed towards it but I'm grabbed before I can dash away.
" Where do you think you're going?" I turn my head and see a red echidna with strange spikes on his gloves and deep purple eyes.
" Lemme go! Now!" I snarl at him, I fire dark energy at him, and he responds with a growl.
" You're gonna be sorry that you just did that!!!" He screams, lunging at me, full force. I teleport behind him and deliver a kick to his back. "AGHH!!!!!" He cries, falling to the floor. He sits up, rubbing his head.
" Hmmm.... strong... but slow." I say. I take a step back and turn around, walking away from him. He jumps up without warning, punching me in the back. I gasp, falling to the floor, and trying to resist crying out.
" I"M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET!!!" he screams, enraged. The porcupine girl yells,
" GO KNUXIE!!! GO KNUXIE!!"
" SHUT UP ALICE!!!" Knuckles screams.
" Oh... Okay Knuxie." She giggles, Knuckle simply mumbles something and turns back to me.
" Heh, fast... but inexperienced." he says.He's about to punck me in the face again when I jump up, landing behind him. I throw a chaos turret at him and it comes close to knocking him out. He runs to grab me gain, but I teleport out of the way once more. I kick him in the side, teleporting away again. I run in a circle around him, trying to create a whirlwind, but, unfortunately, he reaches his hand in and grabs me. he grips my arm and kicks me in the legs, making me fall onto my back.I lay there, bleeding from almost everywhere, waiting for his next attack. He emits a battle cry and comes at me again. I close my eyes, ready to die. But, suddenly something grabs him and tosses him to the other side of the room. I open my eyes a little to see what happened, I see a white hedgehog running up to me,
"Are you alright?" he asks.
" I... I'm.... fine." I reply slowly getting up to a sitting position. He walks up to me offering me his hand, to help me up. I glare at him coldly and get up, without assistance. We shake hands and he says, "I can fix your wounds if you want me to. "
" Yeah!" cries the porcupine girl.
" My name's silver." he says
" Oh... Okay." And with that he leads me into another room.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Silver, the strange white hedgehog, leads me into a room with many assortments of medical equipment. He sits me down on the cold, metal table and grabs some disinfectant and gauze.
"Stay still, okay?" He whispers calmly into my ear her pour some of the disinfectant on me. It burnt, and a lot. I grit my teeth and pull my arm away. " Are you okay?This will hurt a bit..."
"I'm okay. Just get it over with, please." He grabs my arm and rubs it up and down, inspecting it.
" Why is your body so cold?" He asks.
" It.... it's hard to explain." He wraps the gauze around my arm,
"Who are you, anyway?" He grips my arm roughly,
" My name is... Fuschia. Didn't I already tell you that?" I snap. Silver drops the subject and continues his work. He yanks my arm upward, and I hear a crack. I gasp, and grit my teeth, a tear rolling down my cheek.
" Wow, I'm surprised that you didn't scream. It really is painful, you know. Well, it's fixed now, I guess..." He starts to stitch my arm up, still looking at me curiously. "I'm so confused... No one can survive with a body temperature like yours..."
" I'm immortal. That's why." I say quietly.
"What!?" he freezes, staring at me strangely. " T-that's impossible! How's that possible. The data that was eliminated after Shadow was created..."
"Who's Shadow?"
"Well, he's the ultimate life form and-" he stops. "He was created from Professor Gerald Robotnik and black doom."
" Strange. I was created in the same way. Except for by Eggman Nega."
" Who's DNA are you from, then?" He asks, crossing his arms.
" I.... I can't remember...... I think it was..... it was...." I stran harder to think, then my eyes shoot open, " MEPHILES!!!" I scream. "That's what it was!"
I look at Silver, he's staring at me, in shock.
" D-did you say... M-Mephiles? Like Mephiles the Dark?"
" Yes..." I say, "why?"
" He.... he tried to destroy the future!!"
Silence.
" Wh-what? How could he-"
" I thought that we sealed him away!"
" Sealed him away? If you sealed him away, and he was able to help create me, then-"
" That means that he's still out there some where!" Silver growls.
" I must find him." I say, and get up to leave.
" NO!!!!!" Silver yells! He grabs me with his psychokinesis and drags me back to him, " He's too strong, and you're hurt, remember?"
"...... fine....." I mumble, " I won't go..... on one condition......"
" What might that be?"
" That you don't dare harm him... not until I find the truth..."
" But-"
"Thats final, Silver. Now release me, before I do it myself." He sighs, letting me go and fall to the floor.
" Why don't you tell me more about you, since I already know that you're created from Mephiles..."
I sigh, " Alright." And I explained myself to him. To the first person I ever let in on my life.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Silver sits, listening to me attentively, taking in everything as if he were taking notes in his head.
" I.... I get it now," he says suddenly, " You were created to be a female ultimate life form.... to surpass Shadow...."
" I still don't know who Shadow is." I growl under my breath, " I've never met him before, so I don't fully understand his situation...."
" You'll probably understand it better by talking to him later," Silver tells me, " He's a black and crimson striped hedgehog... a bit of a loner. If anyone tries to attack you, or thinks you're an intruder, then tell them to talk to me. I don't see why they would see you as a.....-" he stops and I flash a warning glare at him, " ... threat...." he grins at me and giggles.
" I can very well be seen as a threat, thank you." I turn and walk out the door into the hallway. " I'm not hurt.... just same as ever..." my voice trails off. And I try and reassure myself. " I'm okay... I'm okay... maybe I'll go for a run." I sprint at full speed, feeling a sharp pain in my leg. " Ngh..." I can do this... just walk it off...." and I start to run again, this time running into a bright blue hedgehog. We topple over each other, he lands on top of me, staring at me in fright.
"Who the-"
"GET OFF!" I scream at him. He jumps up immediately, his scared face turning to a sly grin.
"So.... who are you and what are you doing in my base?" he asks.
" Well, apparently, someone named Espio rescued me and took me here."
" Oh.... so another girl saved by team Sonic!" He runs around me a few times.
" I'm not that kind of girl," I say, "I didn't need rescuing." I snap, turning away.
" Oh, really now?" he smirks at me. I clench my fists. " Heh, you look no different than any other of them. Eheh."I run up to him at full speed grabbing his arms and pinning him to the wall and pulling out my gun.
" Don't test me, hedgehog, or I'll pull this trigger, right now." I place my finger on the trigger, he starts sweating nervously,
" Umm.... ehh..... I take it back then.... god. Just don't kill me." I pull back and he stands with his hands up. " Man, I didn't know girls could be such a badass... " I simpy sigh and start walking off. " Wait." I turn around,
" What?"
" How about a race with the blue blur then?" I scoff at him,
" Well, then, "Blue blur", I could beat you any day, but I guess you don't know your... place." I smirk at him,
" Well then, how about I show you your place?"
" Fine." then we both start to count....
" One...."
"Two...."
"THREE!!"
then we both speed off down the long, dimly lit hall.
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Sonic and I sped down the hall, neck and neck, dashing around corners and any other obstacles in our path. We come to a stop at the front door.
"I won.... again as always." he giggles
"I think not, Sonic, I won!"
"No, I WON!"
"I WON!"
"I WON!" I equip my gun again, pushing it to his neck with great force.
"I... win." I growl.
"Okay, okay.... you won. You won." His hands shoot up above his head." Don't kill me! My fans wouldn't live without me!" I pull the gun from his neck.
"Now you know your place..." I smirk, turning away and darting down the hall, on my now healed leg. I don't know why, but I heal very very quickly, despite the few nutrients that I get.
I slow my pace and enter a small, dark room with a bright screened machine playing some kind of gory action movie. I stared at it intently, trying to figure out what this contraption was, since I had never seen a TV before. I poked the screen, and gawked at it, squinting slightly. I began to watch the movie, it was something about zombies trying to kill everyone, or something like that. I sit there, until I feel a strange, yet familiar prescense. I suddenly feel warm breathing on my neck.
" Who are you, and just what are you doing in my room?" the person says quietly. I spin around, equipping my gun, but he grabs my wrists and pins me to the wall, I press my gun to his neck, but I gasp, feeling something push against my stomach. He had a weapon as well. I look up to meet his eyes, a deep, blood red. He was a hedgehog, a black and red one.
" You must be Shadow..." I mumble, he loosens his grip slightly and looks into my eyes, as if he's staring right through them.
" You still haven't answered me..." he pushes the gun against my stomach and I do the same with mine to his neck. "Answer me, or I will pull this trigger!" he threatens.
" As will I Shadow the hedgehog." I smirk at him, giggling.
" Hmph. Fine then," he releases his grip, and so do I. " who are you? And why do you seem so familiar?"
"My name is Fuschia the Dark... I was rescued, and brought here, so I was exploring." I say, looking at him, getting a good mental picture of him. He seemed familiar to me as well.
" Fuschia the Dark....." he mumbles, "dark..."
"Are you onto something, Shadow?"
" A-are you related to... Mephiles?"
" .... in a way, I guess," i say, " I was created from his DNA, so-."
" You're related to him," he growls, glaring at me. He takes a step towards me. " You... could easily DESTROY my world!" He yells picking up his pace.
" Sh-Shadow?" I say nervously. For the first time I felt intimidated my someone. I take a step back.
" I CAN'T LET YOU LIVE!!" He teleports to me and grabs my neck, pushing me to the ground and climbing atop of me. He equips his gun, and pulls the trigger, but discovers that it doesn't have bullets. " Dammit..." he growls. This gave me the chance to kick him where the sun doesn't shine. "AGHHH!!!!!!" He reels away crouching and squinting in pain.
I get up and run for my life, afraid for the very first time. I thought about how much I didn't want to die... but, then again, one of us had to die either way, so it was either me, or him.
Someone had to die.
I didn't want it to be me.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My feet pounded on the metal floor of the hallway, my heart thumping in my chest. I never imagined myself cowering away from something. Let alone Shadow the hedgehog. I could hear his own feet as he approached.
"Damn, why is he so much faster than me...." I say to myself. I feel him closing in on me. "No, not now! I can't die here!" I say. I dash around a corner, trying to confuse Shadow. But he was smarter than he looked. He followed, still right on my tail. I pushed a button on my gadget wristband, equipping my mechanical wings and lifting off. Hah! There wasn't a way for him to get me now! He smirks at me.
"Stupid female..." he mutters, " you honestly think I can't get up there?"
" W-well, It's not like you can... f-fly...." I stutter nervously.
"Wanna bet?" the smirk on his face becomes more evident.
"Not really." I smile, slightly, before flying down the hall, then I jump to the wall and run on that. He chases me again, on the wall just as I was, firing his chaos spears at me. We dashed from wall to roof to other wall and back again. I was more powerful than he was, but he had a lot more speed, experience, and control. That's why I feared him more than the others I had met. He had an advantage that I didn't.
"Chaos.... control!" he yells, then appearing in front of me in a flash and throwing a chaos spear at me once more.
"Ngh!" I cry, feeling a sudden surge of chaos energy run through my body, and my knees buckle, causing me to fall from the roof to the metal floor. I hear a quiet giggle from Shadow as he jumps from the ceiling to the floor besides me. He kneels down, turning me over to face him.
" I and ONLY I, am the ultimate life form, I just wanted to make sure you knew that." he giggles. He lifts me to my feet, " Silver spoke to me about you." he says, looking at me up and down as if he were eying some kind of prey.
" You mean the white, telepathic one?" I ask.
" Yes. Him. He told me that he was unable to manipulate your mind."
" I'm a telepath as well, maybe that's why."
"Perhaps."he says, his voice drifting off, as he looks at me curiously.
" Something wrong, Shadow?" I ask, crossing my arms.
" You look familiar for some reason....."
" You look exactly like the hedgehog that I see in my flashbacks...."
" Flashbacks?" he asks, looking me straight in the eye now.
" Yes... many of which were on a certain place that I escaped to in order to escape from Eggman Nega. I befriended another hedgehog that looked much like you... but he died when we were attacked, and I was taken by the soldiers right back to that hellhole of a prison."
" Where was this, may I ask?"
"Space colony...... ARK, I think." he stares at me, in total shock.
" The ARK!?!?" he says, surprised. " That's where I was created!"
" What? There's no way! The hedgehog I knew was killed. I heard gun shots and screaming, so I ran as far away as I could.... but I couldn't get off the ARK, so I was captured once more, and I was in Nega's base for many years, even decades, if I recall."
" You.... were that girl that was there to be friends with Maria and I... so I wouldn't be the only hedgehog, and I could meet someone of my own kind...."
" You really are him.... that hedgehog-"
" It wasn't me that was screaming.... it was.... Maria. She died...." I give him a peculiar look.
" Dead? I sacrificed my own escape in order to make sure that SHE got out safely. But I couldn't find you before they caught me, but Maria did escape...." I say, staring curiously.
He stares, silently before saying, " You mean.... Maria's alive?"
"Well, she lived because I found her, dying, then healed her and took her to an escape pod. the only way for us to escape was to have someone operating the controls, so I stayed behind and let her go. The G.U.N soldiers found me shortly afterwards, and I failed at escaping from them," I say, " Back in that experimenting lab of Nega's for many more years...."
" I understand now... do you believe she landed on the planet okay? Or if she's even alive now?"
"I made contact with her during one of my brief escapes, she seemed fine. But apparently went missing a short time ago."
Shadow looked surprised.... and yet.... happy that she had survived after all.
" I must find Maria."
" I will help you search while I look for Mephiles." he smiles.
" Sure. I was planning on killing that jerk anyway...."
" Shadow,"
"Yes?"
" I-I'm the only one who can kill him, Shadow. That's the other reason why I was created. But the thing is.... I can't do it alone...."
" Huh?"
" I was created to destroy him, because Nega wanted me all to himself.... because he knew that once he was done experimenting, Mephiles would return to take me as his evil apprentice so we could take over the world. Nega's plan was for me to kill him upon arrival, but-" I look down, afraid to continue,
" Something wrong?" he says,
" I'm not sure I'm ready to kill the only one of my family... the only other of my dark species..... and he's much stronger and more experienced.... he could kill me easily, and have no regret doing so. He wouldn't care.... even though I am basically his offspring."
" I see."
" He's probably looking for me as we speak... I don't remember much about him... only him staring at me through the glass capsule I was in with his snake-like eyes and that sadistic laugh..."
"Mephiles is evil. We have to destroy him before he destroys you."
" I want answers, Shadow! You don't seem to get that! I need that first!" I growl, furiously, turning my back on him and walking off. He grabs my shoulders and spins me around to face him.
" But then you risk your own life!" he says, "You're my only chance at finding Maria, Fuschia!"
" I need to know the truth! I don't care about Maria, Shadow!!" his grip in my shoulders tightens and he grits his teeth.
" I NEED YOUR HELP!" his eyes teemed with rage, still holding me in a deadly, bone-breaking grip that would harm anyone else. My eyes squeeze shut, trying to contain my anger. I was really mad now. I felt something dark taking over my mind... my dark self was taking over. No! Not now! I still don't know, but the form that I'm in reflects on my emotions, such as, I go into a dark form when I'm angry. My eyes went black, and my colors inverted... I fought it, for I didn't want to harm anyone..
" Let me go...." no response.
"Let me go!!" he stares at my changing form,
" What the-"
" LET ME GO!!" My dark form takes over me for a split second, just enough for me to send him flying across the room, " oh no...." I say... running over to Shadow, he gives me an evil glare and says,
" What the heck was that for?"
" I'm really triggered by emotions.... sorry."
"Well, then."
" Just try not to make me mad."
" Touche."
" You were always closer to Maria, Shadow. I didn't really much care for her as you did..... I'm sorry."
His grips on me loosens and I wriggle away from him, clutching my sore arm. I didn't put it against him that he harmed me because he wanted to help, he cared for Maria very much, and she's the only one he can really remember. I would feel the same way too. He looked at me apologetically, and inspected me to make sure no real damage was done, besides the bruises.
" I'm sorry." he whispers " I shouldn't force you to help me.... you're right. What's done.... is done."
" Th-that doesn't mean we can't look for her....."
he looks back at me, a slight trace of hope gleaming in his eyes.
"I told Silver that he may come with me to destroy Mephiles... but I wanted answers first, before I even THOUGHT about killing him."
" We can gather a team then go search of Maria and Mephiles."
a smirk spread across my face," Wonderful plan, Shadow the hedgehog."
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This is so good =D plz make more!
Im working on it on my deviantART. If you'd like to visit me there, I'm Alicetheporcupine :) Once I get enough, I'll upload more here. There is like, 6 chapters in one here. I'm working on chapter 8. glad you enjoyed it! :)