Episode 4-The Past

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My Name is Shadow the Hedgehog, I Cross through Warpzones, Vidgames to this place, The Vidzone, My new home

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Where should I begin? I guess I should just start from the begining. My story began about sixty-six years ago, around the time I was created. Maria was ten years old and Dr. Gerald Robotnik was nearly finished creating me. Some of you may have guessed that I was created in my sixteen-year-old form, if you believe that then you couldn't be more wrong. I was in the form of a simple newborn hedgehog, I was desined to grow as any hedgehog child would until my sixteenth birthday, then I would stop aging and would keep my young appearence.

On June twenty-third, my birthday, I was finally complete. Maria was sitting in a chair and reading a book when Dr. Gerald left his laboratory, in his arms was a small black hedgehog whom was lying ontop of a thin, white blanket and slightly crying. Maria put down her book and gaised down at me, I continued to cry.

"May I hold him?" Maria asked.

"Of course." Dr. Gerald said, handing me to Maria.

I still continued to cry, Maria spoke to me in a soft voice and then sang a lulaby to me. I couldn't understand the words to the song. She continued to sing to me, I was gripping her index finger tightly. When she was halfway through the song, I had fallen into a deep sleep, Maria wraped the blanket around my body and then the song ended.

"I call him Shadow." Dr. Gerald said.

"Then I will too." Maria replied.

Dr. Gerald went to get himself something to eat, Maria took me to her bedroom. The room was rather large and there were two identical beds with the same bedding, a metalic looking blue comforter and a large, white pillow and there was a window that looked like a sliding glass door. There was a beautiful veiw of the earth, I always enjoyed that view. Maria sat down on the bed closest to the window and continued to gaise at my sleeping form.

Fifteen minutes later, I woke up from my nap and looked up at Maria. I blushed a little bit when she looked right back. After awhile, I yawned and was about to go back to sleep when I heard my stomach growling. Almost instantly, I began to cry, Maria gently set me down on the bed and left the room. A few minutes later, she returned with a bottle.

I realy enjoyed the taste of cow's milk that had been warmed using a microwave, the taste was was very satisfying. When I was finished, Maria stroked my spines.

I spent most of the day sleeping but when I was awake, Maria was normally reading a book. I found it very strange that she could understand the symbols in the book just by looking at them. Little did I know, she would teach me how to read someday.

As the weeks went by, I got bigger and stronger. Once I was about five months old, I was able to crawl about on the floor. One day, I became extreamly curious about my suroundings, I somehow managed to get onto the sofa and get to the lamp that was turned on and touched the eighty watt bulb.I screamed in pain and began to cry, tears flowing down my face. Maria sprang out of the hallway and picked me up off of the sofa, she examined my gloveless and bleeding hand. I coninued to scream and cry.

Maria took me to the bathroom and washed the blood off of my hand, then she took something from the medecine cabinet and sprayed my hand with it. It really stung, causing me to scream even louder.

"It's okay, Shadow." Maria cooed.

Those words soothed me a little bit. Maria wraped a bandage around my hand and brought me to the living room where I had burnt my hand and told me not to touch light bulbs when they are on. For many weeks, my burnt hand itched like crazy, I hated it. When my hand was completely healed, Maria gave me a small pair of gloves to put over my hands and told me that the gloves would protect my hands form hot objects. The gloves were fairly light and they could stand up to any heat temperature but I wasn't taking any chances.

My first birthday was coming up. Maria and Dr. Gerald were all acting strange. Maria had started reading a book to me at night, the story was called Among the Hidden. She had finished the book the night before my birthday. When I went to sleep that night, I wondered if they had forgotten about my birthday.

It was June twenty-third again, three-hundred-sixty-five days ago had been the day I was created. At the end of my bed were two items, a simple book and a rather large box that was as tall as the Master emerald. Inside the box were multi-colored building blocks. I looked to my left were Maria was on her bed still asleep. I wanted to say thank you to her but I still couldn't talk so I decided to wait until she was awake and show my gratitude in some other way. Until then, I spent my time trying to figure out how to read the book that I had recieved, there was a tag on it wich had writing on it. Both words were names, I could tell and one of them were obviously mine.

When Maria woke up, I tried walking over to her but I fell down after walking two steps. Maria came over and picked me up off of the floor. She said nothing and then sat down on the bed, when she lifted me high enough, I hugged her lightly around the neck.

"Happy birthday, Shadow." Maria said to me, I hugged her again.

Maria took me to the living room and set me down on the sofa, she sat down as well and stroked my spines over and over again. After awhile, I fell asleep. I woke up about thirty minutes later, Maria was reading a book as usual. When she glanced down at me, she chuckled quietly.

I can remember a garden on the ARK that was seeled in a glass dome. Maria and I always strolled around the garden and it was also the place where I learned how to walk. It had been three weeks since my birthday and my legs began to get stronger. I had been practicing my walking for several days. Maria tried to help me learn how to walk by setting me down and she would go about one foot away then she would call my name and I was supposed to try walking to her instead of crawling. I was doing very well until I stepped on a small peble. I felt my eyes watering and I could feel every last nerve in my foot and it felt like it was going to pop. I screamed at the top of my lungs. Maria rushed over to me an picked me up off of the ground, I grabbed onto her arm and started to cry. She set me down and took a look at my foot, the peble had been driven deep into my foot but it hadn't broken the skin. Maria always kept a pair of tweezers handy, she used them to remove the peble from my foot, it did hurt a little bit though.

Nothing had been seriously hurt in my foot. When Maria was absolutly sure that my foot wasn't injured, she gave me a pair of silver shoes to wear. I realy liked those shoes. As I got used to them, I found that I could use them as roller blades or use them to suspend myself in the air. When my bedtime came, I could now easily tell that she was very proud of me.

"Good night Shadow. I love you." Maria said to me.

"... I l-love you t-t-too." I replied, trying to speak clearly.

Since then, my vocabulary grew and grew. By the time I was four, I could speak very well and I could read. I truly did love living on the ARK. Sometimes when we weren't doing anything in paticular, we would spend our time in the garden. Maria would often read a book and I would sit next to her with my pencle and paper and I would draw different things depending on how I felt. Things continued that way for many years. When I was about eleven, Maria and I would often look through the window in the bedroom at night and wonder what it was like on earth.

My sixteenth birthday had come and we spent our time that night looking at the earth.

"Shadow, what do you think it's like on earth?" Maria asked suddenly.

"The profeser once told me that his life's work was dedicated to all of those who live down there and making people happy through the power of science." I said.

"Shadow..."

"Maria... I just don't know anything anymore. I often wonder why I was created, what my purpose is for being here.

There was a long silence.

Early the next morning, I remember being awakened by Maria. She sounded very tired and scared.

"Shadow, please come with me now!" She said.

Maria quickly picked me up out of my bed and ran down the hall.

"Grandfather! Where are you?!" Maria screamed.

"Maria! Run, get away from here, go now, please!" Dr. Gerald cried.

Maria ran down the long coridors to the launching system. It was only when we came into the room did I notice that she was bleeding, she'd been shot and was dying. She fell down and I flew across the room.

"Maria!" I screamed as I ran to her and helped her sit up.

"Shadow, I beg of you. For all the people on that planet." Maria said

"Maria..." I started.

"I beg of you, give them a chance to be happy."

Maria instructed me to get inside of the space pod to my left, I did as I was told and Maria pressed a sierese of buttons but before she pressed the close button or the launch button, she staggered over to me and hugged me one last time. When Maria got back to the control panel, she closed the space pod and then pressed launch.

"Sianarah, Shadow the hedgehog." Maria said just before she colapsed onto the floor and I was sent to earth.

You know the rest. G.U.N caught me when I landed on earth and put me in a cryogenic sleep and fifty years later, Dr. Eggman releised me. So that's it.