Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ Darkened Thunder ❯ Memories ( Chapter 2 )
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By: Zero-Sama 
A look into the past..and then some.
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 12.04.2005 | Updated On: 12.04.2005 | Pages: 5 | Words: 5.8K | Visits: 250 | Status: Completed
A look into the past..and then some.
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 12.04.2005 | Updated On: 12.04.2005 | Pages: 5 | Words: 5.8K | Visits: 250 | Status: Completed
And here i am, with another chapter! Whooo! Go me?! Oh, one more thing. The beginning of this chapter is more or less, going to be a glimpse of the past for Akima, Kurramo, and Megumi, or the basic idea of what their pasts were. I know some of you are probably going to be a bit upset with how i portray Maria, but, hey, she was a little kid, little kids often do things without very much reason or logic at all. At least the ones -i- know do.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic and Co. Though i wish i owned Shadow and Knuckles. I do however, own Akima The Hedgehog, Kurramo the Rabbit, and Megumi the Fox, and a new character that will be revieled in the next chapter.
Key: "Talking", 'Thinking', Flashback/Past, )( Scene Change )(, and ((Author's Comments)).
)( Space Colony Ark, 55 Years Ago. )(
Professor Gerald 'Hmm'ed' a moment as he looked over the data pertaining to his three newest test subjects. "Perhapse i should've used a younger specimen.." he muttered to himself. Looking over the file about Kurramo. He was young, but not young enough, he was perhapse about eight, or nine human years old, and he was a difficult Mobian to handle.
However, Gerald figured he was still young enough to learn. He didn't particularly get along with the younger two, and he was a bit neutralish towards his granddaughter, Maria, even against her attempts at friendship. Megumi, however, was just about as young as a toddler, easily enough to handle and to get her to do things easily, she loved Maria as if his granddaughter were her own mother.
There was one odd thing about Megumi, she had three extra tails, instead of the customary one. He frowned a moment, concluding that it was just a side effect of the experimentation with her genetics when they were creating her from two donator foxes who had offered to let their dna be used for science.
'Akima', he thought, 'is a perfect specimen. She always does what she is told, and hardly ever complains about it.' Akima was a lively young hedgehog, she was unusually fast, and the scientists had focused on that, boosting it and training her how to use it without hardly getting tired after long periods of time running. 'That's it!' Gerald exclaimed in his mind, quickly rummaging through papers and such. "Akima would be a -perfect- candidate for the Supreme Lifeform project experimentations."
"She is a hedgehog, like Shadow, and she has speed like he does, perhaps a little faster..She'll need work to get her to use chaos powers, and when joined by Shadow, the Ultimate Lifeform project, they could bring balance to the earth." He said to himself, and nodded. "Hedgehogs are better adaptable to chaos energy than almost any other species with the exception of Echidnas. I wish i could have one of -them-, but, i have the next best things." He muttered to himself.
)( Sometime later, after several monthes and experimentations. )(
Akima sighed as she watched Maria play with Megumi, and not her. 'I wanna play with Maria too! Megumi gets to play with her, but not me!' She thought sourly in her mind, watching as a scientist came and took Megumi away for some more experiments. 'Now's my chance!' Akima thought happily as she took her little doll and wandered over to Maria.
"Maria? Can i play with you, please?" Akima asked with big hopeful eyes. Maria looked down at Akima and frowned, grabbing her own doll and shaking her head. "No! I don't like you! And i'll NEVER play with you!" The young human said, whirling around and stomping away, as best she could do in her condition.
Akima blinked back tears, before running after Maria, standing in her way. "Why? I didn't do anything bad! You always play with Megumi, and Kurramo too if he feels like it. Why not me too?!" She demanded, fists on her hips. "Because. I don't like you. I hate you! You're going to take -MY- Shadow away from me! I heard grandfather say so. Now leave me alone!" Maria said, pushing Akima out of the way, making the young hedgehog fall on the floor.
Akima sat up, hugging her small doll to her before silent tears began to fall onto her doll, only to be asorbed by the plush material. She faintly heard a "Kurramo. Wanna play with me?", making her cry harder. All she wanted was to be Maria's friend, why was she so mean to her? She blinked away tears, looking up at dark green eyes and blue fur as Kurramo picked her up.
"Don't worry, Imouto. Maria didn't mean to be mean like that, she's just, jealous. Because Doctor Gerald said he was making Shadow to be her friend, and then heard that you were going to be his friend too. She's just afraid that you'll steal Shadow away from being her friend." Kurramo said with a small smile, carrying the younger girl back into her own room.
Akima frowned a moment, hugging the older boy. "But, i'm not going to steal him away. Why can't he have more than one friend?" She asked, holding her doll in one arm, and trailing her fingers through Kurramo's long pretty hair. "You have pretty hair, i wish mine was as long as yours is." She said with a pout, poking at her own shoulder length spikey red hair.
Kurramo laughed and set her down on her bed, or tried to, but only ended up hefting her onto it. "Good thing i'm strong, or you would've flattened me!" He teased playfully, dodging her swat. "Oniisan! I'm not fat!" She huffed, crossing her arms, and thwapping him with her doll, grinning.
"Hey! No fair! I wasn't ready for that one!" He yelled, before laughing as she tossed away her doll and tackled him onto the ground, in which they proceeded to wrestle around upon the floor for a good while. It felt all too soon before one of the scientists, with Professor Gerald came, to take Akima and Kurramo for their daily check up and experiments.
)( About a year or two later. )(
It was some time later, and Akima had grown considerably, she no longer had her childish personality, but a silent and uncaring one. She no longer cared that Maria didn't like her, or that Maria was jealous of her. The only ones she showed any signs of anything other than emotionlessness, was around Kurramo and Megumi, who were like an older brother and younger sister to her.
Often, she would go missing, only to be found in one of the labs, curled up against the pod that Shadow was contained in, wrapped up in a blanket, and sometimes a book. She did this so often, that when she went missing, they knew where exactly to find her, and many joked that perhaps she should just move into the lab to be closer to Shadow.
She didn't care what they said, she only knew that something inside of her pulled her towards the black and red hedgehog, and she wished she knew what it was. It was all too soon before she herself, and her siblings were put asleep in one of the pods like Shadow had been in, and hidden away, and that Shadow had been awoken.
Maria was happy, yet saddened by this. She missed Megumi, but was glad that she could have Shadow all to herself, and not share him with Akima. Shadow was his normal quiet self, and had many questions about things. "Maria, i don't know why, but, in my dreams, i see this red hedgehog, with black stripes, and i try to go to her, but she disappears, and i fall into a hole of some sort."
"I don't know why i keep having these dreams, i get there strange feelings in my chest too, like i'm being tugged somewhere, but i don't know where to go. And, i have memories of someone reading and talking to me when i was still in the pod. What does that mean?" He asked, watching a quiet Maria.
"I don't really know, it might be a nightmare? And the thing with your chest, maybe it's something Grandfather had put in you, and the reading and talking, i guess, that could be one of the scientists from here, or another dream." Maria said sweetly, reaching out and hugging the young hedgehog.
Everything had been fine, years passed, and then, the accident happened. The one that claimed Maria's life, and Shadow had been put inside another pod, unaware that Akima and the others were found, and brought down to Earth, and sepperated, mostly. Akima and Megumi had been left together for some unknown reason, none that we would find out any time soon, or at all...
)( Present )(
Akima blinked as she looked up at Kurramo and Megumi, who were frowning at her. "Thinking about him again?" Megumi asked, grinning. Akima shook her head, moving from her seat. "Nah, just the past in general. It just got me thinking, you know? Why was she always like that to me? Ah well, she's long gone now, no use in thinking about it. What's done is done." Akima said, pulling off her purple headband and tossing it into the trash.
"It just feels too weird without my hair in my face." Akima explained at their questioning looks, before pulling off her gloves and doing the same. She walked over to her closet, looking around in it before pulling off her sneakers, and replacing them with boots, still having the hovering ability with them.
"I figure, if i wear boots, people'll notice i was a girl..." She said, running her bare left hand through her hair. "Or you could just wear clothes like the rest of us females!" Megumi said with a grin, causing Akima to frown. "Clothes only slow me down, you know that." Kurramo grinned a moment, looking at her, "Why not get some spandex type of clothing? Their lightweight, skintight, and-"
"And people'll think i was some weirdo super hero wanna be or something." Akima finished with a roll of her golden gaze. "Nah, only if you get the colorful and flashy stuff." He said with a shrug, watching Akima pace around her room in a bored like fashion. "He's here, i know he is, alive. I can FEEL it. It's like it was back on the Ark. It's like a weird pulling in my chest. I have a hunch on who it is.."
Megumi and Kurramo watched Akima walk around and talk aloud. "I bet it -is- him, how can someone look like another person so much unless he is a clone, or a twin? I need to see him..ask him..I -need- to know." She muttered, raking her fingers through her spikey hair. "That's it! I'm going to go find him, and ask him. If he is him, great, if not, i wasted my time." She said sarcastically to herself.
Akima stopped pacing around, and ran out the door, off to find 'Shadow'. Kurramo looked up from his magazine, looking at Megumi. "How long do you think it'd take her to find him?" Megumi looked at him, with a smirk. "Oh, i say an hour!" She said with a nod. "An hour? You're on! I bet you 50 bucks that it takes her the entire day!" He said with a grin.
"A day? Yeah right! She runs fast enough to find him in an hour." She said, flipping some of her hair behind her shoulders. "Ah, but you forgot, Akima's going 'slow' because she doesn't want to be discovered..thus..an entire day. Give or take an hour or two." He said with a shrug, smiling at Megumi who was pouting because she -had- forgotten that little fact.
)( About Eight Hours Later )(
Akima was beginning to get a bit impatient in her search. Because, even though she was pretending to be a slowish hedgehog, she couldn't yet go full speed untill she was sure that it was safe to do so. She didn't wanna get caught and sealed back up again. Everytime she got near to where the tug was pulling her, Shadow would speed off somewhere, and even a few times felt him suddenly jump to another place instantly. It was annoying.
Akima was currently making her way up a mountain. Or trying to. God how she hated snow. It was white. It was cold. And it seemed to melt and then refreeze on her. Was it her imagination, or was it getting harder to see? She sighed, it was just her luck, that a snowstorm had blown in her way.
Akima continued on, untill she had finally had enough of it. She had slipped on a hidden patch of ice and smacked her head against a rock, causing a cut to form across her forehead. Growling and cursing she turned around, hand held to her head, while her other arm was used as a shield against the wind and ice that was blowing around.
She made it about three fourths of the way back down, before something else had happened. She didn't know who, or what, but she found herself lifted up and tossed like a child's doll, before smacking into something hard, and the same thing continued on untill she felt she didn't have an unbruised spot on her body, what was she, a pinball?!
She yelled as the ground met her face. Her form standing up, allthough a bit shaky, and glared around, finding..nothing?! "Am i going crazy?!" She asked herself, before a painfilled scream tore through her throat before she could do anything about it. She huffed a moment, crouching on the ground as she realized what caused her harm. Something had hit her in the back with something electric.
She tensed as her golden gaze narrowed, looking around, her form staying low to the ground. 'I hate snow! I hate it! I hate it! I. HATE. IT!' She growled in her mind, before a laser went past her, burning fur and scratching her shoulder into a bloody mess. She whirled around to where the shot came from, but still saw nothing!
There was a faint sparkle of energy, before another laser came at her, Akima's form jumping to the side, only to be hit in the leg by another one! How many where there?! Why couldn't she see them?! She jumped away from another set of lasers that seemed to come out of thin air, and right into about three more, one powerful enough to go through her side.
She layed on the ground, unable to get up at that particular moment. It was then that she realized that the ground was shaking, and there was a rumble that was getting louder. She shakily stood up, looking around, and up, before the wall of snow and rocks came down on the area, and sweeping her along for the ride.
)( Five Minutes Later )(
A staticy voice was heard, before a mecha appeared standing up out of the snow, about four more did the same, the mechs sparking a moment. "Damn avalanche! Messed up our Chemeleon shields." A man said, looking around the cleanswept area. "No matter, we achieved what Command wanted. It is apparant that the female hedgehog is NOT the one we're looking for." A woman said, hand raising up to shield her eyes from the sun.
"Yeah, i'll have to agree with you there. We've been trailing her all day. She didn't run any faster than an average Hedgehog. She was weak, didn't even notice us, and then that fight? Pitiful. That was defanantly NOT the late Professor Gerald's Supreme Lifeform Project."
"Today was just a wasted day. I doubt she'd even survived that avalance. Swept her right down that cliff." Another man said. "I'll radio command to bring a carrier to take us back." Someone else said, before they made use of their radio and did just that. "A transport will be here in about five minutes to pick us up, make sure you have everything, we'll be leaving shortly."
)( Base Of Mountain )(
A fist punched up through the snow, startling some wildlife, and a red bloodied figure emerged. "FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUUUCCCKK!!!" Akima yelled out into the air, pissed off that she had been caught offguard so easily, from the pain, and the horrible snow that seemed to freeze on her bloodied form.
"Wow, what a WONDERFUL Supreme Lifeform -i- turned out to be." Akima said bitterly and sarcastically to herself, she pulled herself to her feet, leaning against a tree. "Ha! If only Professor Gerald could see me now. I'd be considered a failure! Grah! All those years in that damned tank must've messed me up or something." She grumbled bitterly to herself, her form straightening and taking a few causious steps away from the tree.
Her form swayed a moment, and she gave a smile, she would make it. "Or maybe, you just got rusty, and need to get back in shape." A deep voice said behind her, startling her and causing her to fall flat on her aching face in the snow that she hated oh so much. She grumbled, sitting up and spitting snow from her mouth, though it left in a dark red mass.
She turned her golden gaze around, before they rested upon the form of the one she had been searching for the entire day, Shadow. "Oh, NOW i find you when i'm not much more than a bloody mess." She said, rolling her eyes and surprisingly found that she could not get back up. She wondered how long the numbness of the snow and cold wind had been masking her pain, or at least, most of it.
"Damn it!" She snarled to herself, unaware of the stare that Shadow was giving her. "I HATE Snow! I HATE Mountains! I HATE snowy mountains!" She yelled out in frusteration, before she felt herself being lifted up and into the arms of Shadow. "I'm not wea-" she started, but stopped herself as she found herself looking into his crimson gaze.
"Ok, maybe a bit..but that doesn't mean i have to like it." She said, her gaze lowering from his and was startled that they had been moving, and she hadn't realized it. "Going too fast? Get used to it. And, the way i see it. If you can survive whatever got you like that and an avalanche, then you're not weak...at least, compared to a normal person." Shadow said, the corners of his mouth quirking up in a small smile.
"No, in fact, you're not going fast enough. If i was able to right now, i'd leave you in the dust." She said, teasing him just a bit. "Is that so? Maybe we'll have to see when you ARE able." He countered with a small smirk. "I'll hold you to that then." She said, her head resting tiredly against his shoulder. "This may sound odd, but you are Shadow right?" She asked, her eyes closed so she was unable to see his amused expression.
"Yes, i'm Shadow." He said, wondering who exactly this girl was, and why did his chest have an odd almost buzzing feel deep inside? Akima also felt the strange feeling, and was certain this was Shadow. Her Shadow. The Shadow she was supposed to steal from Maria. Her heart gave a jolt at a sudden thought.
"So, you're the Ultimate Lifeform Shadow? The one Professor Gerald had up in his Ark Colony?" She asked, and had realized they had stopped, and Shadow was looking at her. "Who are you?" He asked, eyes narrowing slightly. "I, am Akima. Supreme Lifeform, created by Professor Gerald Robotnik." She said with a small shrug. "Shadow? What..What happened to Maria?" She asked, looking up into thinly narrowed eyes.
"How do you know about Maria?!" He growled, his grip tightening painfully around her. "I've lived on the Ark my ENTIRE life. How could i NOT know about Maria? Ask Megumi and Kurramo. THEY knew her alot better than i did." She said sourly, one hand clamped over her side. Shadow's grip loosened untill she could breath better once more, her fingers tightening against her side.
Akima had noticed they were moving once more, though having no idea where they were going, as she didn't know very many places yet. "Wher' 're we goin'?" She slurred a moment, and cursed her tiredness as her vision started to go dark, but not before she heard a "To a friend's house." before she finally left the land of the conscious.
)( Tails' House )(
Tails gasped as he answered the door, only to find Shadow standing there litterally covered in blood, and the figure in his arms didn't look too well either. "Well, can we come in?" Shadow asked, almost annoyed. "Oh! Yeah! What happened?! Are you alright?!" He started off, watching as Shadow took the vaguely familiar figure up to a guest room, the one Shadow always used when he was over visiting.
Amy, who had been watching t.v. came peeking in after hearing Tails' questions, and gasped in shock. "Oh my god! What happened?!" She said, looking over at Shadow and Akima. "Well, it's a good thing you're here Amy, i was going to get Tails to call you and come over. I doubt she'd like some unknown guy messing with her." He said, pointing to Akima, who was slowly staining the bedsheets red.
"Oh! Well, i doubt she would. But, what about you?" Amy asked, concerned as Tails returned with towels and a bucket of hot water. "It's not mine. It's Akima's." He said, watching a moment as Amy nodded, understaning and then shooing them out of the room so she could clean up the bloody girl.
"What happened Shadow?" Tails asked, following the dark Hedgehog as he made his way to the shower. "My best guess is that something beat the hell out of her." He said, stepping into the bathroom and proceeding with the wonderfullness of getting all nice and clean. Good thing blood didn't stain fur.
)( A Day Later )(
"You HAVE to be KIDDING me!" Akima's angry voice rose up over the house, causing Tails to pause in his tinkering before going back to work; Shadow, having been outside, to look up from gazing over the waters at the end of Tails' runway. Sonic, who had just arrived, ran into the house and up the stairs in his usual fast actions and not very much thinkingness, and ran into the room where Amy, Rouge, and some other girl were in there.
There was a shriek and Akima fell on the floor, clutching a pillow and glaring heatedly at Sonic. Amy and Rogue were on their feet, Amy holding a blanket over Akima, and Rouge giving him a dirty look. "Hey blue boy, can't you read?" She asked, pointing to a sign on the door which clearly stated "No Boys Allowed!" in bold print.
"When do i ever take time to read something?" He said, before running out of the room when things were hurtled at him and the door slammed on his back. "Geeze, what's gotten into them. I wonder who that..Wait a minute!" He said, rushing back into the room, causing Akima to yell once more and dive for the floor. "You're that girl from the beach!"
"SSSOOOONNNIIICCC!!!!!!!!" Amy yelled, whipping out her hammer and swinging it at the blue hedgehog, causing him to run from the room a second time, Rouge locking it with a huff. "The nerve! Why i should go out there and.." She trailed off, looking over at Amy who was helping a reluctant Akima back to the bed.
"I can't do it! I won't do it! I don't WEAR clothes!" Akima grumbled, eyes narrowed at the thought. But she would have to, it was inevitable, as jumping around from the lasers yesterday had messed up her fur untill it could regrow properly again. "Would you rather stay cooped up in this room untill it grows back, or run around out there with some of your naughty bits showing?" - "Rouge!" - "What, i'm just saying.." The two started up, making Akima groan.
"Fine! I'll...wear clothes.." She submitted with a grumble, wincing as Amy squealed in happiness. "I know JUST the dress that would go GREAT with your coloring!" She said, causing Akima to nearly choak. "NO DRESSES!" She yelled, twitching. "I may have to wear clothes, but i don't have to like it. And i'll only wear what i like." She said, crossing her arms over her chest. "Oh, well now honey. I know just the PERFECT leather outfit for you! You'd make it work!"
Akima groaned at Rouge, and looked around the room, moving from the bed over to a dresser and a closet, peeking through them. "Hey now, what're you doing?" Rouge asked, watching the red and black hedgehog. "Finding something i like to wear." Akima said, as she dug through some of Shadow's clothes that he, surprise, never seemed to wear.
She pulled out a black muscle shirt and slipped that on over her head, grumbling because it just felt weird to have clothing on. She continued to dig around, untill she found a pair of black thin shorts that seemed to fit nicely, and was nice and soft too. Amy was giggling and Rouge was grinning as she blinked over at them. "What? Their shorts, and a shirt..Clothes!" Akima said as she slowly and pain stakingly made her way to and out the door.
"Do you think we should tell her?" Amy asked Rouge who just grinned. "No, i say she learns on her own..Lets go see what happens!" Rouge said with a smirk, the two sneaking down slowly and silently to spy on Akima as she walked around in a pair of -snicker- boxers!
)( Downstairs )(
As Akima made her way down the stairs, she noticed that the blue hedgehog was talking to a red echidna, and the fox child was emerging from another area of the house. She blinked as she made it down to the bottom of the stairs, noticing their stairs. "What? What is it?" She said, eyes narrowing as Knuckles just gave her an odd look, Tails was blinking at her, and Sonic was grinning and snickering.
"Pfft, you all are weird." She said as Shadow came inside, only to freeze and stare at her. "...Are you..wearing boxers?" He asked, calmly like. "What about the boxers, it's just a damned shirt and shorts!" She said with a growl. "Are you wearing..-my- boxers..?" Shadow asked, causing Sonic to snort and fall over laughing.
Akima snarled and grabbed the nearest thing, a wrench, and chunking it at Sonic's head, which connected, causing Shadow and Knuckles to snort a moment as Sonic "Hey!"ed. "Wait, these are -your- clothes?" Akima asked, eyeing Shadow, and then the clothes. "Pfft, anything's better than the things Amy and Rouge wanted me to wear!" She said, grumbling.
"Here's and easier question. Do you have any idea, what boxers are?" Shadow asked, arching an eyeridge at her. "Damn it, what the hell is with the questions?!" She snarled, glaring at them, causing Knuckles to give a small smirk, and Tails to giggle. Sonic was still nursing his head from where the wrench struck it, but he also gave a small snicker.
Akima's ears twitched, and she would've swore she heard faint muffled giggling from above her. "Akima. Those shorts you're wearing, are a type called boxers." Shadow said, almost amusedly. "I -know- what boxers are." Akima said in an annoyed voice. "You do?" Knuckles asked, looking at her.
"Yes, i have a brother, who wears them all the time. I STILL say their better than dresses and leather!" Akima said with a twitch, causing Sonic to snicker again. "You have a brother?" Rouge asked, watching as Akima made her way over to the couch and flopped down on it. "Hey! Be careful! You might open up that wound again!" Amy called from the stairs.
"Yes, well, we're not blood related, but he's like an older brother who sorta adopted me back...back when we were little children. He and our little sister grew up together. They were at the beach the otherday." Akima said with a shrug, a hand presing against her side a moment, where the laser had blasted a hole there.
"Oh, you mean the cute blue rabbit?" Amy asked, leaning forwards a bit with a dazed smile. "Yeah, that's him." She said, cringing a moment as she remembered she hadn't been home in over a day, and that Kurramo and Megumi were going to livid. "What's the matter, your side hurting you?" Amy asked, her form instantly down the stairs and pulling at the hem of the shirt to look at the bandaged wound.
Akima swatted at the pink hedgehog's hands with a grumble. "No. I'm fine. I'll be fine. I just..need to get home..I haven't been there in a while, and their going to wanna know what happened." Akima said, getting up and making her way to the door. "You can't go! You're hardly in any shape to do anything!" Amy said, running after her.
"I'll be fine, i don't live to far away." Akima said with a small smirk. "Really?" Rouge asked, Akima nodding. "Yeah, it's just a jump, skip.." she said, continuing on for a few minutes, "And a a short hop and a long drop away!" She said with a smirk, her form out the door before anyone could stop her. By the time they got to the door, her form was nowhere to be seen.
"Well how do you like that, she bailed on us! Speaking of which, i have some work i've got to go do..See you later!" Rouge said, taking flight and disappearing. "Yeah, i need to go back to the master emerald." Knuckles said, leaving as well. "As much as i'd love to stay and chat, but the last bus to Station Square is leaving soon." Amy said, waving to Tails, Sonic, and Shadow as she went to the platform and boarded the train.
"Oh yeah! Tv's all mine now!" Sonic said as he ran inside, Tails following after him. Shadow made his way down the steps, and over towards the trolly going towards the jungle. "You know, that was rather foolish what you just did. You could've opened up that hole in your side." He said, looking down at Akima who was laying in the cart.
"You know, i was totally serious about how far i lived away, i just live in the jungle..care to join me? I'm sure you'd have fun with Megumi and Kurramo, swapping Maria stories and everything." Akima said, nearly yelling in surprise as Shadow took her in his arms once more. "What are you do-" - "Which way? It's faster if we do this, besides, i'm sure you miss your siblings." Shadow said as they entered into the forest area.
)( End Chapter )(
Whoo! Yeah! Another chapter! Go me! Sorry if things seem a bit rushed or anything, i had a rare bout of inspiration and i needed to get it out before i lost it. Then you all would be sending me more threatening reviews to hurry up and get this chapter out. That's all for now, the next chapter is in the works up in my head and stuff. I'll try to get it out and posted as soon as i can.
Boy, Akima sure did pull one over those G.U.N. didn't she? I know there're going to be questions about it, probably. Maybe. Not sure. But i'm going to list reasons why anyways. To why they actually caught her..attention. So to speak. Akima had been running at a moderate average speed, which is a good thing, for now, they think she's not the one they want.
Also, the reason why they caught her off guard and was able to hit her, was because she was frankly caught unprepared, she -is- a bit rusty, and, all that snow and ice and coldness was effecting her too. Not even Supreme Lifeforms are immune to high cold temperatures such as on mountains.
And, lasers hurt, i mean, in games they tend to evaporate stuff..or..insta-kill people..or something. So she would've had that effect her too, with the cold slowing her down than she already was and all, and she isn't superman who just has bullets and lasers and stuff bounce off of him.
Anyways, that's enough of that, if you have anyquestions about anything, don't hesitate to ask! Leave me some nice reviews please. Or reviews that help out, but flames will only be used to fuel my pyromaniac tendancies.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic and Co. Though i wish i owned Shadow and Knuckles. I do however, own Akima The Hedgehog, Kurramo the Rabbit, and Megumi the Fox, and a new character that will be revieled in the next chapter.
Key: "Talking", 'Thinking', Flashback/Past, )( Scene Change )(, and ((Author's Comments)).
)( Space Colony Ark, 55 Years Ago. )(
Professor Gerald 'Hmm'ed' a moment as he looked over the data pertaining to his three newest test subjects. "Perhapse i should've used a younger specimen.." he muttered to himself. Looking over the file about Kurramo. He was young, but not young enough, he was perhapse about eight, or nine human years old, and he was a difficult Mobian to handle.
However, Gerald figured he was still young enough to learn. He didn't particularly get along with the younger two, and he was a bit neutralish towards his granddaughter, Maria, even against her attempts at friendship. Megumi, however, was just about as young as a toddler, easily enough to handle and to get her to do things easily, she loved Maria as if his granddaughter were her own mother.
There was one odd thing about Megumi, she had three extra tails, instead of the customary one. He frowned a moment, concluding that it was just a side effect of the experimentation with her genetics when they were creating her from two donator foxes who had offered to let their dna be used for science.
'Akima', he thought, 'is a perfect specimen. She always does what she is told, and hardly ever complains about it.' Akima was a lively young hedgehog, she was unusually fast, and the scientists had focused on that, boosting it and training her how to use it without hardly getting tired after long periods of time running. 'That's it!' Gerald exclaimed in his mind, quickly rummaging through papers and such. "Akima would be a -perfect- candidate for the Supreme Lifeform project experimentations."
"She is a hedgehog, like Shadow, and she has speed like he does, perhaps a little faster..She'll need work to get her to use chaos powers, and when joined by Shadow, the Ultimate Lifeform project, they could bring balance to the earth." He said to himself, and nodded. "Hedgehogs are better adaptable to chaos energy than almost any other species with the exception of Echidnas. I wish i could have one of -them-, but, i have the next best things." He muttered to himself.
)( Sometime later, after several monthes and experimentations. )(
Akima sighed as she watched Maria play with Megumi, and not her. 'I wanna play with Maria too! Megumi gets to play with her, but not me!' She thought sourly in her mind, watching as a scientist came and took Megumi away for some more experiments. 'Now's my chance!' Akima thought happily as she took her little doll and wandered over to Maria.
"Maria? Can i play with you, please?" Akima asked with big hopeful eyes. Maria looked down at Akima and frowned, grabbing her own doll and shaking her head. "No! I don't like you! And i'll NEVER play with you!" The young human said, whirling around and stomping away, as best she could do in her condition.
Akima blinked back tears, before running after Maria, standing in her way. "Why? I didn't do anything bad! You always play with Megumi, and Kurramo too if he feels like it. Why not me too?!" She demanded, fists on her hips. "Because. I don't like you. I hate you! You're going to take -MY- Shadow away from me! I heard grandfather say so. Now leave me alone!" Maria said, pushing Akima out of the way, making the young hedgehog fall on the floor.
Akima sat up, hugging her small doll to her before silent tears began to fall onto her doll, only to be asorbed by the plush material. She faintly heard a "Kurramo. Wanna play with me?", making her cry harder. All she wanted was to be Maria's friend, why was she so mean to her? She blinked away tears, looking up at dark green eyes and blue fur as Kurramo picked her up.
"Don't worry, Imouto. Maria didn't mean to be mean like that, she's just, jealous. Because Doctor Gerald said he was making Shadow to be her friend, and then heard that you were going to be his friend too. She's just afraid that you'll steal Shadow away from being her friend." Kurramo said with a small smile, carrying the younger girl back into her own room.
Akima frowned a moment, hugging the older boy. "But, i'm not going to steal him away. Why can't he have more than one friend?" She asked, holding her doll in one arm, and trailing her fingers through Kurramo's long pretty hair. "You have pretty hair, i wish mine was as long as yours is." She said with a pout, poking at her own shoulder length spikey red hair.
Kurramo laughed and set her down on her bed, or tried to, but only ended up hefting her onto it. "Good thing i'm strong, or you would've flattened me!" He teased playfully, dodging her swat. "Oniisan! I'm not fat!" She huffed, crossing her arms, and thwapping him with her doll, grinning.
"Hey! No fair! I wasn't ready for that one!" He yelled, before laughing as she tossed away her doll and tackled him onto the ground, in which they proceeded to wrestle around upon the floor for a good while. It felt all too soon before one of the scientists, with Professor Gerald came, to take Akima and Kurramo for their daily check up and experiments.
)( About a year or two later. )(
It was some time later, and Akima had grown considerably, she no longer had her childish personality, but a silent and uncaring one. She no longer cared that Maria didn't like her, or that Maria was jealous of her. The only ones she showed any signs of anything other than emotionlessness, was around Kurramo and Megumi, who were like an older brother and younger sister to her.
Often, she would go missing, only to be found in one of the labs, curled up against the pod that Shadow was contained in, wrapped up in a blanket, and sometimes a book. She did this so often, that when she went missing, they knew where exactly to find her, and many joked that perhaps she should just move into the lab to be closer to Shadow.
She didn't care what they said, she only knew that something inside of her pulled her towards the black and red hedgehog, and she wished she knew what it was. It was all too soon before she herself, and her siblings were put asleep in one of the pods like Shadow had been in, and hidden away, and that Shadow had been awoken.
Maria was happy, yet saddened by this. She missed Megumi, but was glad that she could have Shadow all to herself, and not share him with Akima. Shadow was his normal quiet self, and had many questions about things. "Maria, i don't know why, but, in my dreams, i see this red hedgehog, with black stripes, and i try to go to her, but she disappears, and i fall into a hole of some sort."
"I don't know why i keep having these dreams, i get there strange feelings in my chest too, like i'm being tugged somewhere, but i don't know where to go. And, i have memories of someone reading and talking to me when i was still in the pod. What does that mean?" He asked, watching a quiet Maria.
"I don't really know, it might be a nightmare? And the thing with your chest, maybe it's something Grandfather had put in you, and the reading and talking, i guess, that could be one of the scientists from here, or another dream." Maria said sweetly, reaching out and hugging the young hedgehog.
Everything had been fine, years passed, and then, the accident happened. The one that claimed Maria's life, and Shadow had been put inside another pod, unaware that Akima and the others were found, and brought down to Earth, and sepperated, mostly. Akima and Megumi had been left together for some unknown reason, none that we would find out any time soon, or at all...
)( Present )(
Akima blinked as she looked up at Kurramo and Megumi, who were frowning at her. "Thinking about him again?" Megumi asked, grinning. Akima shook her head, moving from her seat. "Nah, just the past in general. It just got me thinking, you know? Why was she always like that to me? Ah well, she's long gone now, no use in thinking about it. What's done is done." Akima said, pulling off her purple headband and tossing it into the trash.
"It just feels too weird without my hair in my face." Akima explained at their questioning looks, before pulling off her gloves and doing the same. She walked over to her closet, looking around in it before pulling off her sneakers, and replacing them with boots, still having the hovering ability with them.
"I figure, if i wear boots, people'll notice i was a girl..." She said, running her bare left hand through her hair. "Or you could just wear clothes like the rest of us females!" Megumi said with a grin, causing Akima to frown. "Clothes only slow me down, you know that." Kurramo grinned a moment, looking at her, "Why not get some spandex type of clothing? Their lightweight, skintight, and-"
"And people'll think i was some weirdo super hero wanna be or something." Akima finished with a roll of her golden gaze. "Nah, only if you get the colorful and flashy stuff." He said with a shrug, watching Akima pace around her room in a bored like fashion. "He's here, i know he is, alive. I can FEEL it. It's like it was back on the Ark. It's like a weird pulling in my chest. I have a hunch on who it is.."
Megumi and Kurramo watched Akima walk around and talk aloud. "I bet it -is- him, how can someone look like another person so much unless he is a clone, or a twin? I need to see him..ask him..I -need- to know." She muttered, raking her fingers through her spikey hair. "That's it! I'm going to go find him, and ask him. If he is him, great, if not, i wasted my time." She said sarcastically to herself.
Akima stopped pacing around, and ran out the door, off to find 'Shadow'. Kurramo looked up from his magazine, looking at Megumi. "How long do you think it'd take her to find him?" Megumi looked at him, with a smirk. "Oh, i say an hour!" She said with a nod. "An hour? You're on! I bet you 50 bucks that it takes her the entire day!" He said with a grin.
"A day? Yeah right! She runs fast enough to find him in an hour." She said, flipping some of her hair behind her shoulders. "Ah, but you forgot, Akima's going 'slow' because she doesn't want to be discovered..thus..an entire day. Give or take an hour or two." He said with a shrug, smiling at Megumi who was pouting because she -had- forgotten that little fact.
)( About Eight Hours Later )(
Akima was beginning to get a bit impatient in her search. Because, even though she was pretending to be a slowish hedgehog, she couldn't yet go full speed untill she was sure that it was safe to do so. She didn't wanna get caught and sealed back up again. Everytime she got near to where the tug was pulling her, Shadow would speed off somewhere, and even a few times felt him suddenly jump to another place instantly. It was annoying.
Akima was currently making her way up a mountain. Or trying to. God how she hated snow. It was white. It was cold. And it seemed to melt and then refreeze on her. Was it her imagination, or was it getting harder to see? She sighed, it was just her luck, that a snowstorm had blown in her way.
Akima continued on, untill she had finally had enough of it. She had slipped on a hidden patch of ice and smacked her head against a rock, causing a cut to form across her forehead. Growling and cursing she turned around, hand held to her head, while her other arm was used as a shield against the wind and ice that was blowing around.
She made it about three fourths of the way back down, before something else had happened. She didn't know who, or what, but she found herself lifted up and tossed like a child's doll, before smacking into something hard, and the same thing continued on untill she felt she didn't have an unbruised spot on her body, what was she, a pinball?!
She yelled as the ground met her face. Her form standing up, allthough a bit shaky, and glared around, finding..nothing?! "Am i going crazy?!" She asked herself, before a painfilled scream tore through her throat before she could do anything about it. She huffed a moment, crouching on the ground as she realized what caused her harm. Something had hit her in the back with something electric.
She tensed as her golden gaze narrowed, looking around, her form staying low to the ground. 'I hate snow! I hate it! I hate it! I. HATE. IT!' She growled in her mind, before a laser went past her, burning fur and scratching her shoulder into a bloody mess. She whirled around to where the shot came from, but still saw nothing!
There was a faint sparkle of energy, before another laser came at her, Akima's form jumping to the side, only to be hit in the leg by another one! How many where there?! Why couldn't she see them?! She jumped away from another set of lasers that seemed to come out of thin air, and right into about three more, one powerful enough to go through her side.
She layed on the ground, unable to get up at that particular moment. It was then that she realized that the ground was shaking, and there was a rumble that was getting louder. She shakily stood up, looking around, and up, before the wall of snow and rocks came down on the area, and sweeping her along for the ride.
)( Five Minutes Later )(
A staticy voice was heard, before a mecha appeared standing up out of the snow, about four more did the same, the mechs sparking a moment. "Damn avalanche! Messed up our Chemeleon shields." A man said, looking around the cleanswept area. "No matter, we achieved what Command wanted. It is apparant that the female hedgehog is NOT the one we're looking for." A woman said, hand raising up to shield her eyes from the sun.
"Yeah, i'll have to agree with you there. We've been trailing her all day. She didn't run any faster than an average Hedgehog. She was weak, didn't even notice us, and then that fight? Pitiful. That was defanantly NOT the late Professor Gerald's Supreme Lifeform Project."
"Today was just a wasted day. I doubt she'd even survived that avalance. Swept her right down that cliff." Another man said. "I'll radio command to bring a carrier to take us back." Someone else said, before they made use of their radio and did just that. "A transport will be here in about five minutes to pick us up, make sure you have everything, we'll be leaving shortly."
)( Base Of Mountain )(
A fist punched up through the snow, startling some wildlife, and a red bloodied figure emerged. "FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUUUCCCKK!!!" Akima yelled out into the air, pissed off that she had been caught offguard so easily, from the pain, and the horrible snow that seemed to freeze on her bloodied form.
"Wow, what a WONDERFUL Supreme Lifeform -i- turned out to be." Akima said bitterly and sarcastically to herself, she pulled herself to her feet, leaning against a tree. "Ha! If only Professor Gerald could see me now. I'd be considered a failure! Grah! All those years in that damned tank must've messed me up or something." She grumbled bitterly to herself, her form straightening and taking a few causious steps away from the tree.
Her form swayed a moment, and she gave a smile, she would make it. "Or maybe, you just got rusty, and need to get back in shape." A deep voice said behind her, startling her and causing her to fall flat on her aching face in the snow that she hated oh so much. She grumbled, sitting up and spitting snow from her mouth, though it left in a dark red mass.
She turned her golden gaze around, before they rested upon the form of the one she had been searching for the entire day, Shadow. "Oh, NOW i find you when i'm not much more than a bloody mess." She said, rolling her eyes and surprisingly found that she could not get back up. She wondered how long the numbness of the snow and cold wind had been masking her pain, or at least, most of it.
"Damn it!" She snarled to herself, unaware of the stare that Shadow was giving her. "I HATE Snow! I HATE Mountains! I HATE snowy mountains!" She yelled out in frusteration, before she felt herself being lifted up and into the arms of Shadow. "I'm not wea-" she started, but stopped herself as she found herself looking into his crimson gaze.
"Ok, maybe a bit..but that doesn't mean i have to like it." She said, her gaze lowering from his and was startled that they had been moving, and she hadn't realized it. "Going too fast? Get used to it. And, the way i see it. If you can survive whatever got you like that and an avalanche, then you're not weak...at least, compared to a normal person." Shadow said, the corners of his mouth quirking up in a small smile.
"No, in fact, you're not going fast enough. If i was able to right now, i'd leave you in the dust." She said, teasing him just a bit. "Is that so? Maybe we'll have to see when you ARE able." He countered with a small smirk. "I'll hold you to that then." She said, her head resting tiredly against his shoulder. "This may sound odd, but you are Shadow right?" She asked, her eyes closed so she was unable to see his amused expression.
"Yes, i'm Shadow." He said, wondering who exactly this girl was, and why did his chest have an odd almost buzzing feel deep inside? Akima also felt the strange feeling, and was certain this was Shadow. Her Shadow. The Shadow she was supposed to steal from Maria. Her heart gave a jolt at a sudden thought.
"So, you're the Ultimate Lifeform Shadow? The one Professor Gerald had up in his Ark Colony?" She asked, and had realized they had stopped, and Shadow was looking at her. "Who are you?" He asked, eyes narrowing slightly. "I, am Akima. Supreme Lifeform, created by Professor Gerald Robotnik." She said with a small shrug. "Shadow? What..What happened to Maria?" She asked, looking up into thinly narrowed eyes.
"How do you know about Maria?!" He growled, his grip tightening painfully around her. "I've lived on the Ark my ENTIRE life. How could i NOT know about Maria? Ask Megumi and Kurramo. THEY knew her alot better than i did." She said sourly, one hand clamped over her side. Shadow's grip loosened untill she could breath better once more, her fingers tightening against her side.
Akima had noticed they were moving once more, though having no idea where they were going, as she didn't know very many places yet. "Wher' 're we goin'?" She slurred a moment, and cursed her tiredness as her vision started to go dark, but not before she heard a "To a friend's house." before she finally left the land of the conscious.
)( Tails' House )(
Tails gasped as he answered the door, only to find Shadow standing there litterally covered in blood, and the figure in his arms didn't look too well either. "Well, can we come in?" Shadow asked, almost annoyed. "Oh! Yeah! What happened?! Are you alright?!" He started off, watching as Shadow took the vaguely familiar figure up to a guest room, the one Shadow always used when he was over visiting.
Amy, who had been watching t.v. came peeking in after hearing Tails' questions, and gasped in shock. "Oh my god! What happened?!" She said, looking over at Shadow and Akima. "Well, it's a good thing you're here Amy, i was going to get Tails to call you and come over. I doubt she'd like some unknown guy messing with her." He said, pointing to Akima, who was slowly staining the bedsheets red.
"Oh! Well, i doubt she would. But, what about you?" Amy asked, concerned as Tails returned with towels and a bucket of hot water. "It's not mine. It's Akima's." He said, watching a moment as Amy nodded, understaning and then shooing them out of the room so she could clean up the bloody girl.
"What happened Shadow?" Tails asked, following the dark Hedgehog as he made his way to the shower. "My best guess is that something beat the hell out of her." He said, stepping into the bathroom and proceeding with the wonderfullness of getting all nice and clean. Good thing blood didn't stain fur.
)( A Day Later )(
"You HAVE to be KIDDING me!" Akima's angry voice rose up over the house, causing Tails to pause in his tinkering before going back to work; Shadow, having been outside, to look up from gazing over the waters at the end of Tails' runway. Sonic, who had just arrived, ran into the house and up the stairs in his usual fast actions and not very much thinkingness, and ran into the room where Amy, Rouge, and some other girl were in there.
There was a shriek and Akima fell on the floor, clutching a pillow and glaring heatedly at Sonic. Amy and Rogue were on their feet, Amy holding a blanket over Akima, and Rouge giving him a dirty look. "Hey blue boy, can't you read?" She asked, pointing to a sign on the door which clearly stated "No Boys Allowed!" in bold print.
"When do i ever take time to read something?" He said, before running out of the room when things were hurtled at him and the door slammed on his back. "Geeze, what's gotten into them. I wonder who that..Wait a minute!" He said, rushing back into the room, causing Akima to yell once more and dive for the floor. "You're that girl from the beach!"
"SSSOOOONNNIIICCC!!!!!!!!" Amy yelled, whipping out her hammer and swinging it at the blue hedgehog, causing him to run from the room a second time, Rouge locking it with a huff. "The nerve! Why i should go out there and.." She trailed off, looking over at Amy who was helping a reluctant Akima back to the bed.
"I can't do it! I won't do it! I don't WEAR clothes!" Akima grumbled, eyes narrowed at the thought. But she would have to, it was inevitable, as jumping around from the lasers yesterday had messed up her fur untill it could regrow properly again. "Would you rather stay cooped up in this room untill it grows back, or run around out there with some of your naughty bits showing?" - "Rouge!" - "What, i'm just saying.." The two started up, making Akima groan.
"Fine! I'll...wear clothes.." She submitted with a grumble, wincing as Amy squealed in happiness. "I know JUST the dress that would go GREAT with your coloring!" She said, causing Akima to nearly choak. "NO DRESSES!" She yelled, twitching. "I may have to wear clothes, but i don't have to like it. And i'll only wear what i like." She said, crossing her arms over her chest. "Oh, well now honey. I know just the PERFECT leather outfit for you! You'd make it work!"
Akima groaned at Rouge, and looked around the room, moving from the bed over to a dresser and a closet, peeking through them. "Hey now, what're you doing?" Rouge asked, watching the red and black hedgehog. "Finding something i like to wear." Akima said, as she dug through some of Shadow's clothes that he, surprise, never seemed to wear.
She pulled out a black muscle shirt and slipped that on over her head, grumbling because it just felt weird to have clothing on. She continued to dig around, untill she found a pair of black thin shorts that seemed to fit nicely, and was nice and soft too. Amy was giggling and Rouge was grinning as she blinked over at them. "What? Their shorts, and a shirt..Clothes!" Akima said as she slowly and pain stakingly made her way to and out the door.
"Do you think we should tell her?" Amy asked Rouge who just grinned. "No, i say she learns on her own..Lets go see what happens!" Rouge said with a smirk, the two sneaking down slowly and silently to spy on Akima as she walked around in a pair of -snicker- boxers!
)( Downstairs )(
As Akima made her way down the stairs, she noticed that the blue hedgehog was talking to a red echidna, and the fox child was emerging from another area of the house. She blinked as she made it down to the bottom of the stairs, noticing their stairs. "What? What is it?" She said, eyes narrowing as Knuckles just gave her an odd look, Tails was blinking at her, and Sonic was grinning and snickering.
"Pfft, you all are weird." She said as Shadow came inside, only to freeze and stare at her. "...Are you..wearing boxers?" He asked, calmly like. "What about the boxers, it's just a damned shirt and shorts!" She said with a growl. "Are you wearing..-my- boxers..?" Shadow asked, causing Sonic to snort and fall over laughing.
Akima snarled and grabbed the nearest thing, a wrench, and chunking it at Sonic's head, which connected, causing Shadow and Knuckles to snort a moment as Sonic "Hey!"ed. "Wait, these are -your- clothes?" Akima asked, eyeing Shadow, and then the clothes. "Pfft, anything's better than the things Amy and Rouge wanted me to wear!" She said, grumbling.
"Here's and easier question. Do you have any idea, what boxers are?" Shadow asked, arching an eyeridge at her. "Damn it, what the hell is with the questions?!" She snarled, glaring at them, causing Knuckles to give a small smirk, and Tails to giggle. Sonic was still nursing his head from where the wrench struck it, but he also gave a small snicker.
Akima's ears twitched, and she would've swore she heard faint muffled giggling from above her. "Akima. Those shorts you're wearing, are a type called boxers." Shadow said, almost amusedly. "I -know- what boxers are." Akima said in an annoyed voice. "You do?" Knuckles asked, looking at her.
"Yes, i have a brother, who wears them all the time. I STILL say their better than dresses and leather!" Akima said with a twitch, causing Sonic to snicker again. "You have a brother?" Rouge asked, watching as Akima made her way over to the couch and flopped down on it. "Hey! Be careful! You might open up that wound again!" Amy called from the stairs.
"Yes, well, we're not blood related, but he's like an older brother who sorta adopted me back...back when we were little children. He and our little sister grew up together. They were at the beach the otherday." Akima said with a shrug, a hand presing against her side a moment, where the laser had blasted a hole there.
"Oh, you mean the cute blue rabbit?" Amy asked, leaning forwards a bit with a dazed smile. "Yeah, that's him." She said, cringing a moment as she remembered she hadn't been home in over a day, and that Kurramo and Megumi were going to livid. "What's the matter, your side hurting you?" Amy asked, her form instantly down the stairs and pulling at the hem of the shirt to look at the bandaged wound.
Akima swatted at the pink hedgehog's hands with a grumble. "No. I'm fine. I'll be fine. I just..need to get home..I haven't been there in a while, and their going to wanna know what happened." Akima said, getting up and making her way to the door. "You can't go! You're hardly in any shape to do anything!" Amy said, running after her.
"I'll be fine, i don't live to far away." Akima said with a small smirk. "Really?" Rouge asked, Akima nodding. "Yeah, it's just a jump, skip.." she said, continuing on for a few minutes, "And a a short hop and a long drop away!" She said with a smirk, her form out the door before anyone could stop her. By the time they got to the door, her form was nowhere to be seen.
"Well how do you like that, she bailed on us! Speaking of which, i have some work i've got to go do..See you later!" Rouge said, taking flight and disappearing. "Yeah, i need to go back to the master emerald." Knuckles said, leaving as well. "As much as i'd love to stay and chat, but the last bus to Station Square is leaving soon." Amy said, waving to Tails, Sonic, and Shadow as she went to the platform and boarded the train.
"Oh yeah! Tv's all mine now!" Sonic said as he ran inside, Tails following after him. Shadow made his way down the steps, and over towards the trolly going towards the jungle. "You know, that was rather foolish what you just did. You could've opened up that hole in your side." He said, looking down at Akima who was laying in the cart.
"You know, i was totally serious about how far i lived away, i just live in the jungle..care to join me? I'm sure you'd have fun with Megumi and Kurramo, swapping Maria stories and everything." Akima said, nearly yelling in surprise as Shadow took her in his arms once more. "What are you do-" - "Which way? It's faster if we do this, besides, i'm sure you miss your siblings." Shadow said as they entered into the forest area.
)( End Chapter )(
Whoo! Yeah! Another chapter! Go me! Sorry if things seem a bit rushed or anything, i had a rare bout of inspiration and i needed to get it out before i lost it. Then you all would be sending me more threatening reviews to hurry up and get this chapter out. That's all for now, the next chapter is in the works up in my head and stuff. I'll try to get it out and posted as soon as i can.
Boy, Akima sure did pull one over those G.U.N. didn't she? I know there're going to be questions about it, probably. Maybe. Not sure. But i'm going to list reasons why anyways. To why they actually caught her..attention. So to speak. Akima had been running at a moderate average speed, which is a good thing, for now, they think she's not the one they want.
Also, the reason why they caught her off guard and was able to hit her, was because she was frankly caught unprepared, she -is- a bit rusty, and, all that snow and ice and coldness was effecting her too. Not even Supreme Lifeforms are immune to high cold temperatures such as on mountains.
And, lasers hurt, i mean, in games they tend to evaporate stuff..or..insta-kill people..or something. So she would've had that effect her too, with the cold slowing her down than she already was and all, and she isn't superman who just has bullets and lasers and stuff bounce off of him.
Anyways, that's enough of that, if you have anyquestions about anything, don't hesitate to ask! Leave me some nice reviews please. Or reviews that help out, but flames will only be used to fuel my pyromaniac tendancies.