Invader Teen14 presents…
Maria Robotnik's return!
Chapter 13: A date, a fight and a dancing Shadow? Part 3.
(Note: This chapter takes place during my other story, A Jurassic trip to Mobius!)
"Are we there yet Shadow?" Maria asked Shadow as he covered Maria's eyes with his hands and led her to a party for her.
"Almost" Shadow said, he was leading her though the mystic ruins towards the party "we won't be late Maria".
"I'm just so excited Shadow!" Maria said as she jumped up and down with anticipation "I just can't wait to see the surprise you and grandfather made for me!" Shadow didn't want Maria's spirit to be broken if he told her to wait more or she would feel down.
"I know you'll like to see the surprise" Shadow said "but it wouldn't be one if you found out!"
"Okay Shadow" Maria said "I won't try to find out what it is anymore".
"Anymore? You haven't even asked what it is!" Shadow said as he chuckled, the two were only meters away from the party while Sonic and Amy were giving out last minutes details and instructions on how to make the party look like it should have when Shadow planned it.
"Knuckles and Rouge, place the banner between those trees" Sonic said "Tails and Cream, put the plates around the table!"
"We're here!" Shadow said as he and Maria came near the group, he still had his hands around her eyes.
"Are we? That was quick!" Maria said "can I see now?"
"Yes Maria" Shadow said as he lifted his hands to reveal balloons everywhere, party games, lots of delicious food, presents and even a banner that read: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIA!
"Surprise!" Sonic, Amy, Tails, Cream, Knuckles, Rouge, Vector, Charmy, Espio, Gerald, E-123 Omega, Gemerl, Cheese, Big, Sally, Rotor, Bunny, Antoine, Shade, Silver, Blaze, Shard, Marine, Mighty, Jet, Storm, Wave, Molly, Manic, Sonia, Ray, Fiona and even Scourge shouted for the hedgehog "Happy Birthday Maria!"
"For me? Oh guys, you shouldn't have!" Maria said with a smile "how did you all even know it was my birthday?"
"Shadow told us" Sonic said, Maria turned to the dark hedgehog as he smiled.
"I never forgot" he simply said, Maria gave a squeal and hugged him tightly, Shadow didn't pull away but instead hugged her back as tears came to his and her eyes.
"Thank you Shadow!" Maria said.
"You're welcome" Shadow said as the hug ended.
"Can ve eat ze cake now?" Antoine asked the two.
"Cake! Cake! I love cake!" Charmy chanted.
"Of course!" Maria said as she went over to the giant cake and grabbed a knife to cut it.
"Hey faker, where did you find a cake that big?" Shadow asked Sonic.
"I didn't" Sonic said "someone left it on my doorstep and I brought it here!" Maria carefully cut into the cake and…
"YEOWW!" Eggman yelled as he jumped out of the cake and held his bottom, the old doctor fell to the ground and began to rub his bottom while everyone went into a fighting stance.
"Eggman! What are you doing here?" Sonic asked him.
"And you better have a good explanation" Knuckles said as he pounded his fists together.
"Indeed I do" Eggman said as he turned around "you see, I recently discovered it was Maria's birthday today and I…Um… was wondering if…" he started to bit his lip and twirl his fingers together nervously "I can spend the day with her?"
"Eggman!" Shadow said as he and Maria got into fighting stances, Eggman quickly covered himself.
"Please don't hurt me!" he pleaded "I promise I'll behave, just this once!"
"We were going to say yes!" Maria said, Eggman quickly looked at her and went to her and hugged her.
"Oh thank you! Thank you!" Eggman said before turning to the cake "Bocoe! Docoe! Orbot! Cubot! Bukkon! Come out!"
"Yes doctor!" the five robots said as they jumped out of the cake and landed before the doctor.
"It seems as though we have been invited to Maria's birthday" Eggman said "now listen up! Docoe and Bocoe, give Maria her present!"
"Yes doctor!" the two said as they walked over to her and handed her a present from behind Bocoe's back.
"For me?" Maria asked them as she grabbed the present.
"Doctor Eggman made it himself" Bocoe said, Maria got a little nervous but opened the present to reveal something she wouldn't expect.
"For Maria" a TV recording with Eggman on the screen said "I'm sorry that I kidnapped you and that I tried to rule a world you loved but I cannot control myself of my greed and evil will, so I have decided to put aside my evil self for your special day, I wish you many happy days to come and I wish that you, grandfather and Shadow have a great future, with love from your cousin Ivo Robotnik" Maria's eyes began to form tears, she quickly ran over to him and hugged him with all her might, Eggman hugged her back with tears forming in his eyes while everyone's mouths hung open with surprise!
"I don't believe it" Amy said.
"I know" Sonic replied "Eggman has a heart!"
"And not the weird creepy doctor guy who wants to rule the world one!" Knuckles said "we thought we never saw this coming!"
"I know" Tails said "it's the end of Mobius!" he, Marine, Charmy, Bokkun, Cream, Ray, Cheese and Gemerl began to run around crazy and scream for their lives!
"Mobius?" Maria asked as she ended her and her cousin's hug and turned to Shadow "what is Mobius? Shadow, were you hiding something else from me?" Shadow bit his lip and nervously looked at Sonic and Silver as if to let them answer it.
"Go ahead, tell her Shadow" Rouge told him.
"Okay" Shadow said as he looked down "Maria, Mobius is an alternative planet that is similar to Earth, me and Sonic teleported the ARK to here so I could come down to this planet but I always kept my promise to you to protect earth from any threat, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you sooner".
"Shadow the hedgehog" Maria began "of all the things you didn't tell me, this has to be the greatest secret of all!"
"Greatest secret of all?" Shadow asked, his eyes widened a bit.
"Of course! I always did try to find your secrets! Remember the one when I promised not to tell anyone about the secret of you singing in the shower back on the ARK?" Maria asked "it was the one called 'fever' by Little Willie John and-"
"Maria! You promised not to tell about it!" Shadow said, there were a lot of giggles and snickers from the others while Sonic and Silver straight out laughed their heads off!
"Oops, sorry Shadow" Maria said as she nervously smiled.
"Shadow sings in the shower?!" Sonic said as he gasped for air from all his laughing, it wasn't long before Eggman began to laugh too and soon everyone began to laugh except Shadow and Maria, the dark hedgehog glared at her while she shrugged and smiled nervously.
"Look at me! I'm shadow and I sing in the shower!" Knuckles said as he grabbed an air microphone and pretended to sing.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Shadow yelled at him "chaos spears!" he created a whole mess of chaos spears and threw them at the echidna but he missed and hit Omega in the chest.
"It is on" Omega said as he pointed his hand gun at Shadow and began to fire, the dark hedgehog jumped out of the way and sent another wave of chaos spears at Omega. Eggman carefully tip toed to the table where the drinks were and grabbed a canister of a strange substance he created and carefully poured it in each drink.
"They won't even remember what happened at this party when they drink this!" he said as he grabbed the tray of drinks and turned back to everyone to see that Omega and Shadow were now in arm-to-arm combat, Shadow was winning so far because he was using a chaos orb "sodas! Anyone want a soda?" he asked.
"I'll take one Ivo!" Maria said as she grabbed a drink.
"I could use one" Shadow said as he let go of Omega's arms and walked to Eggman and grabbed a drink.
"Me too!" Charmy said as he flew over and grabbed soda, he quickly gulped it down. Soon, everyone had grabbed a soda while Eggman smiled wickedly.
"This is going to be hilarious!" he said.
"What is?" Maria asked him.
"Nothing!" Egggman quickly said.
The next day…
"Ugh, my head" Shadow said as he rubbed his head as he woke up to suddenly see he was in a tree! He looked around to see he was on Angel Island where Knuckles and Rouge were tied up together, Sonic, Tails and Amy were sleeping on the master emerald, Maria was sleeping on another branch on the tree he was in, and Omega was clearly passed out while everyone else was sleeping in strange and bizarre ways like on the side of a pond or wearing a weird hat "what happened here?" he asked himself.
"Shadow?" Maria asked as she woke up and turned her head up to him "what happened?"
"That's what I would like to know" Shadow said as he got down, Maria jumped down as well and quickly giggled at the sight of Jet, Antoine and Gemerl sleeping in a pile.
"Do you think Ivo had something to do with this?" Maria asked.
"I don't think so" Shadow said "I know so".
"Why else do think Eggman would want all of us to look like we did something embarrassing?" Sonic asked as he got up, the two turned to him as he got up with something that made them laugh "what?"
"Look!" Shadow said as he grabbed a mirror from behind his back and handed it to Sonic, the blue hedgehog screamed, causing everyone to wake up!
"What is ze the meaning of zis?" Antoine asked as he woke up.
"Look at me!" Sonic said as he waved his arms around, everyone looked at him and suddenly laughed, he had the words I LOVE BARBIE written on his chest while his gloves were replaced with oven mittens and his shoes were replaced with pink bunny slippers.
"That's a good look for you!" Vector said as he laughed.
"GAH! Rouge! Get off my back!" Knuckles shouted at the bat as they struggled to get untied from the rope, Big suddenly jumped off what looked like a flatten hedgehog that seemed familiar to Sonic, Shadow and Maria.
"Kevin?" Shadow asked the hedgehog as he got up.
"Hey guys" Kevin said as he got up and stumbled around before standing still "that was a great party last night".
"You know about the party?" Sonic asked, Kevin gave a nod "can you tell us what happen?"
"Sure" Kevin said "it started when-"
The party last night…
"Hey Ivo! Can I have another drink, please?" Maria asked Eggman as she finished her soda while feeling a little dizzy.
"Why of course" Eggman said as he handed Maria a drink.
"Thank you" Maria said as she stumbled back to her friends, everyone was starting to feel a little dizzy from the sodas and they began to say things to each other about how they really felt about each other (I wonder how that will turn out!)
"You know Tails, as an honest friend" Sonic said to the kitsune "I sometimes think that you can be a big nerd!"
"Really? Well sometimes, I think you're a bit of a scared cat near water!" Tails said as the two began to laugh and pat each other on the back.
"Good times, good times" Sonic said.
"Omega, Rouge" Shadow said to his two teammates "you two have to be the best teammates, a hedgehog would have to ask for!" he quickly hugged the two and chuckled "I love you guys!"
"We love you too Shadow" Rouge said as she began to laugh "you know, sometimes the reason I try to steal the master emerald is because I try to see Knuckles and flirt with him!"
"I have to agree with the bat" Omega said "I sometimes find that vending machine at the school to be a little cute" there were two sudden 'Oohs!' from his teammates and Shadow and Rouge began to sing-
"Omega and a vending machine! Sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" the two sang and danced around, Amy and Blaze were both sitting on a bench as they discussed-
"One time, I actually went out with Shadow and I found it enjoyable!" Amy told the purple cat "we went to a Scottish them restaurant".
"Did you two go out a second time?" Blaze asked.
"No, Sonic got jealous" Amy said as she smiled "he is so nice to try and get me back". The Chaotix were with Mighty and Molly near the table, Charmy was busy stuffing his face with sweets while Espio ignored him and grabbed Shade and started to make out with her while Vector talked to the armadillo and hedgehog about their date.
"So, how did the date go?" Vector asked them.
"We had to cancel it when Eggman was about to use his new weapon" Mighty said as he wrapped his arm around Molly "but we managed to bring up the date again with this party".
"Really? I never knew" Vector said as he spun around a bit and held his hands in front of his face "plus, I never knew how big my hands were before until now! Wheeeeee!" he suddenly passed out in front of them and moaned.
"Well, there's why I left the Chaotix!" Mighty said "it was because Vector couldn't keep most of himself balanced after having a soda or two!"
"Really? I thought it was because he didn't have mad skills like he said!" Molly said and the two began to laugh, Scourge had somehow managed to steal a bunch of markers, pink bunny slippers and oven mittens and managed to place him on Sonic, while the green hedgehog ran from Sonic's anger with Amy by his side, Fiona was with the Babylon rogues.
"So, do you think your rogue material?" Jet asked her.
"Of course I'm rogue material! Why else wouldn't be a thief like myself not join people like you guys?" Fiona asked them.
"Because you would probably steal all our stuff by the end of a job!" Wave said.
"Not to mention, you would sell it all for even more stuff!" Storm said, not even making the least bit sense of what he said.
"Okay, that makes zero sense!" Fiona said "you know what? Sign me up now!"
"We'll talk about it" Jet said.
"Fine" Fiona said as she walked away and growled.
"Foxes" Jet said as he rolled his eyes.
"Indeed" Wave said.
"They're complete furballs!" Storm said, not knowing that Tails was listening. The freedom fighters gang were sitting near some trees as they talked about good times before Sonic joined the Mobius heroes.
"Remember the time me and Sonic took on all those swat bots?" Sally asked them.
"Yeah, there was probably 200 or 300 of them!" Rotor said.
"I still have bits of mechanical parts in my hair" Sally said as she picked a screw from her hair and tossed it on the ground.
"I thought you did wonderfully" Antoine said to her.
"Thank you Antoine" Sally said as she took a sip of her soda "why do you guys think Robotnik gave us drinks?"
"Maybe to show he's cheap!" Bunny said.
"I am not cheap!" Eggman shouted "I'm just…Under budget this week! Do you know how much it takes to buy the supplies for a robot?"
"Whatever!" Bunny shouted as the freedom fighters laughed and Eggman silently complained, Silver was floating in the air and did tricks while Marine and Cream watched.
"And now, a triple back slide fippero!" Silver said as he did three back flips while sliding in midair, the two children clapped and cheered for him.
"Hey everyone! Kevin is here!" Kevin shouted as he entered the party and managed to hide his shyness and walk up to all the other sonic heroes.
"Hey Shads look! It's Kevin!" Sonic said as he pointed to the hedgehog, the black and red hedgehog looked at Kevin and laughed.
"Hey Sonic! Remember when he used to be nervous?" Shadow asked the blue blur and Sonic joined in Shadow's laughing, making Kevin a little mad.
"I learn to be not so nervous" Kevin said as he walked towards the group, something didn't seem right to him but he barely even knew half of these people! He suddenly saw Shadow began to dance!
"Hey look! Shadow is dancing!" Sonic shouted, everyone suddenly turned their attention to him and began to cheer for him! Shadow started to polka dance, did the twist and even walked like the Egyptian!
"Woo yeah! Go Shads!" Knuckles said as the dark hedgehog began to dance.
"Hey Kev! Why don't you have a drink? Ivo is serving them!" Maria said as she pointed to Eggman as he held the tray of drinks up, Kevin knew Eggman had something to do with this.
"Okay Ivo, what did you do?" Kevin asked him, Eggman started to sweat nervously and grabbed the hedgehog by the collar of his shirt.
"Listen here" he said in a threatening tone "I placed Egg-O-Nium into the sodas so they all can become drunk and do stupid things for my amusement! It's all part of master plan for humiliating Sonic and his friends!"
"But why? You'll be humiliating Maria too!" Kevin said.
"She won't remember what happened" Eggman said "in fact, no one will! They'll be so passed out that their memories of the party will fade!"
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Kevin said.
"That won't happen!" Eggman said as Big walked past him "hey Big, you look like you need a-" the purple cat passed out on the hedgehog "nap, well that's taken care of!"
"Hey guys! I'm going to jump!" Manic said as he and Sonia stood atop of a tree, the two gave a thumbs up and jumped onto a pile of spiky thorns, the two came up and screamed their heads off!
"AAAHH! THE PAIN! OH WHY DID WE DO THAT?!" Manic and Sonia said together as they ran around while flapping their arms up and down.
"Woo! That's my bro and sis!" Sonic said as he clapped his hands together, Maria was busy talking to Shadow on what to do for their future.
"So I was wondering" Shadow said as he rubbed the back of his head "by any standards or definition…"
"Shadow, what are you trying to ask me?" Maria giggled, Shadow looked around for something until he settled on a bent nail, he got down on one knee and…
"Maria, why you become Mrs. Maria the Ultimate Lifeform?" Shadow asked her, Maria wrapped her arms around him and said-
"Yes! Shadow! Yes!" she said to him.
"Wait!" Shadow said as he brought the audience back to the present "I asked Maria to marry me?" he asked, a little nervous.
"Yep! And the wedding was great!" Kevin said, making the ebony and golden hedgehogs very nervous
Flashback…Again….
"Do you Shadow the hedgehog take Maria to be your lawfully wedded wife?" Vector asked the two hedgehogs as they stood before him.
"I do" Shadow said.
"And do you Maria take Shadow to be your lawfully wedded husband?" Vector asked Maria.
"I do" Maria said as she held a bouquet.
"Then by the power invested in me" Vector said "I pronounce you husband and wife, you may kiss the bride" the two turned to each other and kissed passionately and everyone cheered while Eggman and his robots watched.
"It seems as though they are all showing clear delusional signs" Orbot said to Cubot and Bokkun.
"Yeah! But the wedding is great!" Cubot said, after a couple of hours, things started to get really crazy.
"Hey…Guys! I'm gonna tie us up!" Knuckles said as he held a rope and stood back to back with Rouge, Marine and Charmy grabbed a sleeping Antoine and placed him in the pond, Sally and Shade played a game of crazy eights and it was real crazy! They were saying crazy things about the number eight! Shadow and Maria were chasing each other up a tree until eventually they were tired out and fell asleep on branches but Shadow was still awake.
"Maria? You awake?" he asked in a drowsy voice.
"Barely" she replied as she turned her head to him "what is it?"
"I just want to say" Shadow began "you're the best friend and wife I could ask for".
"Thank you Shadow" she replied before passing out along with everyone else except Eggman and his robots.
"Now let's get out of here boys!" he said "I got pictures for all to see!"
End of flashback…
"And that's what happened" Kevin said, everyone stood opened mouth at the whole story until Sonic broke the silence with laughing.
"Shadow and Maria are married! I can't wait to see their kids!" Sonic said as he fell backwards and laughed some more but Shadow towered over him and that laughing became fearful crying.
"Run…Faker…Run" Shadow said under his breath, Sonic got up and started to run for his life while Shadow chased the blue blur with a gun in his hands "stand still I can kill you! You're only making it worst! I promise I won't hurt you!" he yelled as he and Sonic whizzed past everyone, Maria suddenly stepped in front of Shadow and stopped him.
"Shadow the hedgehog, please stop trying to hurt Sonic" Maria said as she showed her puppy dog eyes "please?" the black blur tried hard to look away from his new wives eyes but it became harder and harder when they got bigger.
"Uh…Guys?" someone called out, Shadow turned his attention to a teenage girl walking towards them with something in her hands.
"Hey Hope!" Rouge said "what you got in your hands?"
"Some photos" Hope said when she suddenly began to giggle "they are of all of you acting crazy…And…And…HA HA HA!" she suddenly began to laugh and roll on the side while clutching her stomach to keep it from exploding from laughter, Rouge managed to grab the pictures from her and examined them when she suddenly came across one that made her face go white and her blood run cold…
"Rouge? You okay?" Maria asked the bat, Rouge handed the picture and Maria gasped.
"It's me and Knuckles…" Rouge began as her eye twitched "and we're…Making out".
"WHAT?!" Knuckles yelled, he ran over to Maria and grabbed the photos and felt his mind go blank. The photo was indeed of him and Rouge making out next to a tree, the echidna suddenly grew with nervousness and he and Rouge backed away from each other with Hope still laughing.
"Where did you get those pictures?" Knuckles asked Hope, she was still laughing until Knuckles hit her into a tree.
"Ow! They were from the internet!" Hope said as she rubbed her arm "Eggman posted them on WWW. Funny Mobians . Com!" Shadow was still chasing Sonic until he heard those words and stopped dead in his tracks.
"Eggman did what?!" Shadow shouted as he turned to her "that's it! I had it with that fat moron of a doctor! I'm going to give to him this time!" he started up his rocket shoes and went off to find the doctor.
"When will he be back?" was Maria's only question to Sonic.
"Give him a few hours" Sonic said with a smile.
A few hours later…
"So what do you guys think he's doing to Ivo?" Maria asked Sonic, Tails and Knuckles were the only ones on Angel Island as they cleaned up the mess.
"Only guess" Knuckles said "he's beating the snot out of Eggman!" screaming suddenly filled the air with the four looking around to see where it was coming from, Eggman suddenly came falling onto the ground and Shadow jumped on his back and began to pin the doctor's arm behind his back!
"Now take those pictures off the internet!" Shadow yelled, the doctor cried for mercy but Shadow wouldn't release him.
"Please! Release me! Please!" he pleaded.
"First take off the pictures and I'll see if I won't break your arm off!" Shadow said.
"Okay! Okay! I'll take the pictures off!" Eggman wailed, Shadow finally let go of his arm and Eggman got up, he grabbed his IPhone and began to take the pictures off the web before putting his IPhone back in his pocket "there, they're all off!"
"You are free to go" Shadow said, Eggman gave a moan and walked away when suddenly…
"I forgot the island is floating!" Eggman yelled as he fell to earth along with a loud THUD! " I'm okay!" he yelled form the ground.
"That takes care of that!" Shadow said "hopefully, not all of Mobius saw those pictures!"
"Good! Because if there was a picture of me and Amy kissing then we would have a problem!" Sonic said as he, Knuckles, Tails, Maria and even Shadow began to laugh at his remark "seriously though, we could have a huge problem!"
Later on the ARK…
Shadow was walking down the hallways of the ARK and passed Gerald's room, the hedgehog professor was busy working on a secret experiment that could possibly help the betterment of his new home planet.
"What are you working on?" Shadow asked Gerald.
"Just a small device that could end all Mobian hunger" Gerald said.
"It's going to take a lot more than that if you want to end Mobian hunger!" Shadow said "Sonic would probably find it and ask Tails to revert it to make him chili dogs!" the dark hedgehog gave a slight chuckle while Gerald rolled his eyes and laughed, Shadow then walked down the hall towards Maria's and Molly's room.
"Hello Maria" Shadow said to the golden hedgehog.
"Hi Shadow!" Maria said as she got up from her bed "how are you?"
"Fine" Shadow said as he turned his attention to Molly, the brown hedgehog smiled at him and Shadow signaled her so he could talk to Maria, Molly nodded and left the room "sit down Maria" he said as he sat down and patted the bed for her, Maria took a seat next to him.
"What's wrong Shadow?" Maria asked.
"It's about the marriage thing" Shadow said.
"Oh yeah, that" Maria said.
"I had no idea that we got married last night" Shadow said as he rubbed his arm "I thought it was just a little joke, but now that's true…"
"Shadow" Maria said "I feel the same way you do about this and I just want to say that…Well…It's rather nice to be married to the darkest hedgehog I know".
"You really mean that?" Shadow asked her.
"Of course" she replied, Shadow felt himself blushing in his cheeks and Maria blushed also.
"You two okay in there?" Molly asked them as she stuck her head in.
"We're fine" Maria said "why don't you come in and join us?"
"Thanks!" Molly said as she sat on the ground, the three hedgehogs smiled and looked at each other until a door to the ARK opened.
"Shadow! You home?" Sonic called out, Shadow groaned and walked to the door.
"What is it this time Faker?" Shadow asked as he opened the door to see Sonic, Tails and…A lynx?
"Hey Shads" Sonic said "do you mind if someone stays with you, Maria, Molly and Gerald for a while?"
"Hi there" the lynx said as she shook Shadow's hand "you must be Shadow, I'm Jess Harding".
The end… Or is it?
Find out in my other story! A Jurassic trip to Mobius!
(A/N: And done! The story is done! It took me two years and a half years but the story is finally done! How do you like the twist ending? Find out what happens in a Jurassic trip to Mobius!)