"Is he going to be alright?" Blaze asks.
Tails sighs and looks over at her.
"I put him under anesthesia to try to slow his.. uhm.." Tails whispers under his breath for a second before continuing."..his 'Morphing' process."
Blaze rubs her temples.
"How did this even happen..." She sighs.
Tails grabs a remote as he begins to project some information onto the large screen in front of Blaze.
"I believe Shadow and his consciousness collided.."
"Their consciousness..?" She asks.
Tails nods.
"When Silver connected to Shadow's mind to time travel he must have seen Shadow, hence colliding and now they are trying to find their way back to the correct mind and-"
"And that didn't work." Blaze finished.
" -precisely." Tails agrees.
Blaze nods.
"This is starting to be more of an understanding to me. I'm very glad to hear this.."Blaze smiles.
"I don't want to lose him too.." She whispers.
The two take a sigh of relief as a alarm begins.
The Two panic as Knuckles comes in from the other room.
"Yo what's going on??" He asks in panic.
"Something triggered my alarm! Knuckles go see what it is! ASAP!" Tails yells.
Knuckles sprints ahead to the front door his arms becoming what looks like rock.
"I'm ready for you!!!" Knuckles Snarls.
The door opens and a tiny squirrel emerges from it.
Knuckles looks down at the little guy.
"Oh.. hey there little guy.!" He smiles.
He picks him up and brings him back over to Tails.
"Yo Tails! I found this little squirrel!" Knuckles runs over in happiness and shows Tails.
"That's nice Knuckles but who was the intruder.?" He asks.
"Oh this little guy." He says rubbing its nose.
Tails replies with a sigh and a facepalm.
"Blaze did you see anything?" He asks.
She turns around to reply.
She nods no.
Tails sighs.
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Time passes and still no sign of Team Dark or Sonic.
"Blaze? Can you check on Silver for me. Also, can you grab one of his quills?" He asks.
"Uh...sure? May I ask why?" She asks.
"An..experiment.?" He says.
She shrugs and goes on her way.
Knuckles walks over to tails with his new little squirrel buddy on his shoulder.
"Why do you want one of Silver's quills?" He asks.
"I'm going to run tests"
"Tests on what?"
"To see why our enemy is targeting my friends" Tails says.
"I've noticed a pattern. Well it's only Two prototypes right now but it's all the data I have to work with." Tails barks as he flies around grabbing materials.
"So..a test on our friends?" He asks.
"Bingo?"
Knuckles smiles.
"Blaze told me this enemy is Named-"
Tails pauses.
"Ugh I forgot. I'll ask when she gets back." He says.
Knuckles looks over at him.
"You need a coffee?" He asks.
"No no. Coffee stunts your growth. I don't know if I can get any shorter than this."
"I wish to not get any shorter" he laughs.
Knuckles sighs with a slight sense of relief.
"Good to know. I don't drink it. But now I know I'll stay tall forever!" He says with a dorky smile.
"Pft..okay Knuckles"
As Tails works on his Data, Blaze comes back with Silver's Quill.
"Ah Perfect! Now I can run a Scan." Tails smiles.
"For what?" Blaze asks.
"I'm going to see why our enemy is targeting-"
He puts in one final key-bind before showing a picture of a Hedgehogs bone structure and DNA.
"- Hedgehogs. Specifically our friends."
Blaze looks in awe as Knuckles seems to be having a hard time understanding what he's looking at.
"So many pieces... what are you even looking for?" She asks.
"A special code in the DNA" Tails replies.
"Code.. are you looking to see if they are related?" Blaze asks.
Tails nods his head no.
"He's targeting them not just because they are probably the most powerful beings on Mobius at the moment, but because of something else.."
Tails hits a few more keybinds.
"Come on.. I know there's something else.." he whines.
"Are they not already special by being able to control powerful items?" Blaze asks.
"Like the Chaos Emeralds?"
"Well no. We all could tap into the power of the Chaos emeralds if we really wanted to." Tails says.
"But, your giving me evidence to my point"
Tails smashes his enter button.
"Sonic, Shadow and Silver can all hold their Super form FAR longer than any of us could ever dream of." Tails says.
"They have something that protects them.. something different something..."
His computer scans through the DNA as fast as lightning until it finds a code glowing gold.
"LIKE THIS!" Tails yells in excitement.
The three of them look up at the screen.
"This..THIS IS INCREDIBLE!" He screams.
Silver and Sonic both have different DNA other than this one piece of Code.
"What does that mean?" Blaze asks.
He runs a Scan on Amy as well. (Past sample)
The same results.
"AHA! No wonder he's after them!" He spouts.
"Hedgehogs have a Natural ability to have increased stamina and enhanced control over animate objects!!"
"No wonder Zovaal wants control over them..." Blaze begins.
Knuckles looks blankly.
"Did..did you say Zovaal?"
"Zo-Zovaals still alive..?"
"You know Zovaal Knuckles..?" Blaze asks.
Knuckles stares into the distance. His eyes Blank.
"Knuckles..?"
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" Knuckles..Do you know something..?"
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A Shadow of a Rose
FanfictionAmy was different from the rest of her peers in High school. She didn't seem to fit in, didn't seem to have any abilities to prove she belonged. But..Not long after she thought she had no place in this society, two hedgehogs began to fight over her...
