Innocence (Sonadow)

Prologue

Day 1,395

At least I think that's how long it's been, I've haven't seen the outside in so long I've lost count.

The bad man came in and beat me again yesterday, I think it was yesterday. He came in as always, his giant body blocking the light into my cell. I hate it when he does that. His black silhouette looks so scary. It makes me tremble in fear and sometimes I wet myself because I'm so scared. He laughs when I do that.

He keeps saying that I'm supposed to be some kind of “Ultimate Lifeform” and incapable of fear, but I don't know what he means by that, and it scares me.

He says that he's after my memories. He says he needs them for some reason. He keeps asking about something called the ARK and where it might be, but I keep telling him the same thing. I have no memories left. Nothing at all. I don't remember anything, accept my own name… or rather the name the bad man gave me.

Shadow the Hedgehog.

He gets mad whenever I tell him that, and he beats me and does these horrible experiments on me, claiming he's just trying to “jostle” my memory, but it only makes me scream and cry.

I'm so scared. I don't want to be in this dark cell anymore. I don't like the dark.

I don't want to sit here, trembling in fear as I wait for the bad man to come back. I'm afraid of the bad man.

I want to run away, but I'm so weak from his tests and he hardly ever feeds me. Where would I go anyway?

I'm so scared.

Please… won't someone help me?

Wait… someone's coming!

Oh no!

Please! Not again! I'm still weak from yesterday! Please, no!

Wait a minute…

“You're not the bad man…”