It all started with a stabbing pain and a bright light when I opened my eyes for the first time. I let out an inaudible gasp, looking around and trying to figure out where I was desperately. After a few seconds the light faded slowly, and revealed a giant room in front of me. I blinked. Everything in the room was metallic. The desk and all the machinery on it, the bed in the right hand corner of the room, the cupboard next to it, the shelves with all the little bottles on it, and the frame of the window taking up the upper quarter of the pure white wall in front of me. You couldn´t see anything through it but darkness.
I was lying in some sort of capsule, apparently. It wasn´t exactly a comfortable feeling, I couldn´t move at all and the light blue liquid that was surrounding me hurt my eyes. Then I suddenly noticed something in front of the capsule. I could feel my heart throbbing against my ribs when I turned to see what it was.
A big man wearing a white lab coat, black pants, and blue glasses had stepped in front of me. He was bald and had a long, light grey mustache, and even though his expressions were really hard to tell I could see, almost feel his excitement and relief when his eyes met mine. He turned to the left quickly, doing something on the capsule. The next thing I felt was the light blue liquid slowly draining… and the air I needed to breathe went with it! Even though it was only a second before the capsule opened with a loud, hiss like sound, I was still shaking all over.
The man came closer and carefully pulled out the wire-like things that were connected to my body and put some viscous stuff on the wounds, before raising me out of the capsule and putting me on the bed. “Welcome to life, Shadow the Hedgehog.”, he greeted me. He had an airy, friendly voice, that made me feel a little less anxious, though my heart was still racing. “Who… who are you?”, I asked, surprised about my own voice. It was almost impossible to hear because it was very low, dark and airy. Noticing my scared expressions, the man chuckled. “Your voice chords aren´t working right. But they will in due time, don´t worry.” He walked over to the cupboard. “My name´s Professor Gerald Robotnik. I´m your creator.”, he explained proudly. He then started rummaging through the cuboard. “You´re my greatest creation ever.” he added. “And from now on, I´ll help you discover your skills and grow strong.” He took a needle out of the cupboard. I stared at it aghast and backed off as much as I could, which wasn´t much since I could hardly control my legs. The man smirked. “You´re the ultimate life form, you´re not supposed to be afraid of needles.” I gave him a glare. “Does “ultimate life form” mean to be immune to pain?” I couldn´t remember to have ever gotten a needle before but for some reason I knew exactly how it felt… which surprised me a lot. “Don´t tell me you´re gonna start arguing with me ten minutes after your birth.”, the man said, coming closer. “I must check your condition.” I didn´t want to annoy him, so I had no choice but to wait untill he was done with giving me that needle, testing my blood pressure, heart-rhythm, and other stuff I can´t clearly remember. When that was over I was all-in. “Now to a more agreeable part…”, the man said comfortingly. “I will show you your room. You will spend most of your time there untill you can fully control your body.” I lifted up my ears when he picked me up. “How long will it take?”, I asked, feeling a little uncomfortable about being picked up. “Only a few days.”, he assured me, pressing a button next to the giant, metallic door, which opened with a loud “Swoosh”.
I couldn´t believe how huge the hallway we entered was. It was silver-ish, and one of the walls were completely out of glass. It was lit up by a few round lights on the wall. It was an amazing sight. I even forgot to shut my mouth when we entered it, and only realized it when the Professor suddely started laughing.
I then turned to the glass-wall and looked out of it. Once again, you could see nothing but darkness through it, and heaps of little, white spots. “This is space.”, the Professor explained, following my eyes. “It´s awesome…”, I said, when I noticed something else: A reflection of the Professor and a little, animal-like creature… which, I realized, was me. I was only about 80 centimeters tall, my small, thin body was covered by black fur, with a red streak on each of my arms, legs, and the six huge spikes on my head. I had a white fuzz on my chest, blood red eyes and pointy ears. I kept staring at the reflection of my own body, until the Professor turned to the right, and the glass-wall ended. He approached another, giant door, this time there was a sign next to it, saying “Robotnik”. He inserted a password, and the door opened, leading to another hallway with several doors on each side. “This is my private sector.”, he told me. “You´ll stay here for now, it´s safer for you if you stay where I can keep an eye on you.” He passed a few rooms, then turned to the left, entered another room, turned to the right, and approached a room he said was mine. The door opened, and revealed a rather empty, silver-ish room. There was a bed, books, a lamp and a giant window. The blue-ish light coming from the lamp gave the room a soothing atmosphere, and when the Professor put me on the bed I noticed something else: A huge, blue and white orb floating out there in space. “Do you like it?”, the man asked, watching me explore the room with my eyes. “Yes... Yes I do.”, I answered, looking at the Professor who had taken out a walkie talkie from his pocket. “Use this if you need anything.”, he said, crawling my ear. “I´ll see you later.” I nodded, watching him leave the room. When the door was shut, I turned around once more, to watch the blue orb. It was beautiful and even though I had no idea what it was, I felt a strong connection……
BAM! My eyes shot open. I looked around confusedly, but there was nothing there. I took a deep breath. I must´ve fallen asleep while I was watching the orb… I rubbed my eyes, my heart was still racing from the shock. BAM! I almost fell off the bed. I didn´t see where the noise came from, but it made me worried. What happened…? I gulped. I had to ask the Professor what that noise was, I was far too frightened to fall asleep at that given moment. I took out the walkie talkie he gave me, and pressed a button. There was no reaction. I tried again, but it was no use. He was probably sound asleep… I gulped again, and pulled myself to the edge of the bed carefully, put my feet on the ground slowly while holding tight to the bed… let go… just to find myself on my knees right after. “Shoot…” I pulled myself up again, made a few steps forward, trying to ignore the weird, sore feeling inside my legs my muscles caused… I don´t know how many times I fell to the ground before I finally reached the door. I clung myself onto it gasping, another BAM! made my heart skip a beat when I looked out for the button to open that thing. It wasn´t as hard to reach as I expected, it was exactly my height, above it there was another button only meant to be used by adult humans, apparently. I pressed the button and fell on my butt when the door switched open. I grit my teeth. “I hope the Professor won´t be hard to find, I don´t know how many more bruises I can take….”, I thought, rubbing my back and stumbling into the hallway.
I could hardly see anything, mos of the lights on the wall were switched off. I approached the first door clumsily, and stretched myself to reach the button. But the Professor wasn´t there. It seemed to be some kinda living room. I sighted and stumbled to the next door. Once again, no Professor. Only a very messy lab. I turned to the right and opened all the doors that weren´t locked… which were many. But I couldn´t find the Professor anywhere.
I sat down on the cold, metallic floor. I was tired, sore and exhausted, lost too. I looked up. Calling for him wouldn´t be good for anything, my voice was too low. I pulled myself up again, forcing myself to move on.
After a few more doors, I suddenly felt a strong presence. I turned to where the feeling came from, and realized it was one of the rooms next to me. I stepped in front of it, and opened it, full of hope. But that wasn´t the Professor´s room! Instead of the Professor, I had found a little girl! She turned around when I opened the door to her room in surprise. She was 6 or 7 years old, and only a little taller than me. She had blond hair, light blue eyes and was wearing a light blue nightie. I stepped back, blushing, before stumbling and landing on my butt once more. “Uh! I-I´m sorry…”, I stammered. The girl, still looking flabbergasted, turned, and following her eyes I realized she was looking at her alarm clock. 6 AM. “Who are you….?”, she asked after a few moments of silence. “My name is Shadow…”, I answered. “Shadow?”, the girl suddenly smiled. “You´re Grandpa´s newest creature, aren´t you?” I looked at her confusedly. “He´s told me a lot about you!”, she continued, walking up to me and helping me up. “My creator is Professor Gerald Robotnik.” “That´s my Grandfather!” I let out a relieved sigh. “I´ve been looking for him. I woke up from an explosion and I wanted to ask him what it was… and got lost in here…” The girl giggled. “This place is a maze, you should never explore it on your own. I know what it´s like to get lost in here. And the explosion you heard was probably a meteor that collided with the colony.” I looked down. “Um, thanks for telling me… but how do I find my room again now?” “In 2 hours the lights will be automatically switched on. You can stay here untill then if you want.” I smiled. “Sure, thank you!” I looked around. Her room resembled mine a lot, only that on the left there was a wardrobe, a seat bag, and a desk. The window, however, showed the exact same thing: Space and that blue orb. The girl followed my eyes. “Isn´t it beautiful?”, she asked. “The orb?” “That´s a planet.” “What´s a planet?”, I asked, feeling a bit stupid. “It´s a star humans live on.”, she explained. “I wished I could go there and find out what it´s like down there!” I took a few steps forward. “What about creatures like me?” “I don´t know…”, she admitted, turning to me. I scratched my ear slightly. “Um… mind telling me your name?” “Oh right, I totally forgot! My name´s Maria Robotnik.”, she answered, still smiling. I blushed a little, realizing I liked that name a lot. She continued watching the planet, and I sat down next to her doing the same. “You know, Grandpa said he wants to help the people who live on that planet with his research.” I blinked. “Do you think I´m supposed to help them?” “ossibly.”, she said. “When the lights are on, do you want me to show you around?” I smiled. “Of course!” I´ll be living here from now on, I thought. Along with you.

Yay I´m finally done! Here´s a pic I´ve been working on for quite a while, along with my first fanfiction ever, I´ll continue it if people like it. Enjoy ~



Shadow, Maria and Gerald belong to Sonic Team/SEGA