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Characters: Shadow the Hedgehog, anyone who crosses his path.
Setting: His room [ 03-14 ] upon awakening and beyond.
Format: Staaartin' off as prose, but I will switch about to whatever makes you comfortable.
Summary: One little hedgehog is grumpy and bumbling about the tower, looking for a way out, hoping to get back to Earth (someone's in disbelief, see). Oh, honey, no.
Warnings: Very, very mild cursing from him, should the moment arise that it would happen. (It's a rarity, though~~, unlike a certain namesake game he has~~.) Other than that, it really depends on who bothers him!

He honestly thought he was going to die.

Instead, he woke, his brain fizzing like a freshly-opened soda pop, his body numb for a brief moment. At first, it jolted him, the feeling of being unable to move coursing through his nerves, but soon, his fingers began to twitch, toes wiggling and curling within his hover shoes. Shadow was alive and well, no worse for wear beyond some burn marks, some bruising, and some nasty cuts along his arms and sides. Not only that, but he was in a bed, and he was lying on top of two very, very crumpled pieces of paper.

He rose, grunting and groaning over the aches all along his flesh. The letters were dabbed lightly in his own blood, something that made him wince. Disgusting. He didn't want to make a mess. Oh, and the fact that he was bleeding kind of sucked, too.

The first letter was an explanation of where he was expected to reside in this tower here, where to gain food, how to accommodate, etcetera. He scoffed, nonchalantly tossing it onto the nearby nightstand, before tearing into the other one.

That was the one that made his heart stop. His planet was destroyed.

He'd...

He'd failed?

No, this couldn't be. Someone had to be messing with his mind, and he was not about to have any more of it. He was going to confront the owner of this tower right now, settle this, and get back to his planet, saved from the clutches of the Biolizard and the plummeting ARK. His planet was fine. It had to be, or else he'd...

He'd failed her.

[ okay so! shadow can be wandering just about... anywhere and everywhere possible, basically lurking about and examining things as he tries to locate someone of authority. along with that, his roomies are free to find him in his room after having opened his letters. be careful, though: he might be just a bit more of a grumpypants than usual! u_u welp. ]

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"Oh..." Romeo looked confused for a moment, because he had only ever heard of one kind of hedgehog. "And what kind of hedgehog are you sir?"

"I am simply a fully sentient, humanoid, communicating hedgehog," Shadow told him, huffing softly as he spoke. "We are vastly different from the domestics you are used to. We are capable of plenty more than they would ever dream."

Namely, he was, but that's just his ego talking there.

Well Romeo had never heard of one of those hedgehog's before, nor did he know what sentient meant but he grinned because he understood that he was like a hedgehog but better.

"So you are like a super hedgehog right?"

Super... hedgehog. This kid probably read far too many comic books than he should have. Shadow gave an incredibly subtle shrug of the shoulders, looking more like he was rolling the joints a tad than anything.

"In layman's terms, yes. I am the strongest hedgehog created by man, Shadow the Hedgehog, the Ultimate Life..." He trailed off, a small hint of a smirk playing on his lips. "'Super' is an apt description."

Actually he has never read a comic book in his life, but his first friend in the tower had been a superhero so it is something he knows about. He grinned happily, "I've never met a super hedgehog before? Are you the only one?"

Heh, oh, Shadow knew the answer to that one. A soft laugh flowed from him, a very quiet, yet smug one.

"Of course. There are others much like me," he spoke, one very certain blue hedgehog coming to mind, "but they are not as powerful as I. On the contrary, they are quite ordinary." No matter how much Sonic asserted otherwise.

"Oh!" Romeo nodded, so he was the most powerful super hedgehog. He nodded. "So do you get to help lots of people?"

Ah. What a question, that one. He knew that he did, yet it was moreso for Maria, for keeping her promise. He had to protect that planet for her, not out of just generosity from his heart.

Shadow's voice softened, his gaze averting Romeo's.

"... I suppose you could say that."

Romeo blinked, wondering why he was sad. Maybe he had tried to save everyone... maybe he was sad that the world had ended when he was supposed to protect it. "Don't worry sir I am sure the bad people are lying..."

It's funny how such a young, innocent child was capable of reading Shadow like a book, much like his Maria did back in the day. She always understood him, and if she couldn't, she was patient with him as she attempted to learn. She was an angel with the patience of a saint.

Children...

Children like this one, they were endearing. He couldn't deny that, not after having grown up with a girl as sweet and flawless as his Maria.

"Of course they are."

His eyes peered back over to him, all irritation in his body language and expression finally gone, blown away by the atmosphere. "You... mustn't call me that. Call me Shadow." 'Sir' just felt a bit strange. It was like if Maria called him 'sir'.

Romeo was used to some adults telling him not to call them sir, so just nodded with a smile."Of course they are Shadow, and we will stop them one day!"

"Mm."

Perhaps this boy wasn't going to be a little nuisance, after all. He... did remind him of her, for sure.

That was besides the point now, regardless. Shadow pointed down at him, his tone stern once more, but once again, it was not out of contempt or annoyance. "You are still a child. Be careful. Just because you have been revived before does not mean it will happen all the time. Other than that..."

He turned away, hands falling limply to his sides.

"Should I discover a way out, I will let you know."

"I'm not so much of a child! I'm twelve!" That was perfectly grown up in Romeo's terms, but he nodded. He was careful; though he would never let his friends get hurt if he could help them.

"... Twelve."

Wow, really?

Really.

"Until you are above eighteen, you are a child. To the world, namely to a fifty-year-old hedgehog," holy shit, yes, he did mean himself, "you are but a child."

Read: Shadow is a grumpy old man.

Romeo nodded, twelve and twelve was big. He scowled at Shadow's words but his annoyance at being called a child (again) was dwarfed by his surprise at his age. "You're fifty! That's so old!"

He stared at him in shock... In Romeo's defence the life expectancy of a early nineteenth centuary peasent wasn't really that high.

Well, Shadow didn't necessarily like being called an 'old man', really, given that it brought a sense of demeaning with the terminology. Despite that, the reality of the matter was that he was old, namely compared to most mortals.

"I am well-aware of that."

What else could he say to that, really?

"Well... twelve might be really little when you're fifty... but in Italy I'm practically an adult. That's where I come from. It's eighteen on other worlds but not in mine."

At least that was what Romeo had deduced, since at home people were always telling him he should act more grown up, and how he was working and so was an adult. And here everyone treated him like he was still a baby.

"In... Italy."

How odd. Italy... It sounded kind of familiar to him, yet he knew he had no idea what the place was. Ah, well, he's blaming it on deja vu.

"I cannot believe or deny your claim as we both cannot gather proof. Very well then," he conceded, one hand raising up to nurse at his own headache. He was beat, sick and tired of having to deal with this place already. "You are an adult. ... 'Practically' an adult."

Whatever.

Romeo nodded, he was and he was glad that Shadow had accepted it instead of arguing. He smiled at him, "Do you want me to show you around mister Shadow? I know all the places!"

"Shadow. Simply Shadow."

Mister just felt a bit... uncomfortable. At least he had to agree with the idea of looking around and knowing the tower intimately. It would likely be of help if he wanted to bust out of here.

"I would not mind," was his curt response, accompanied by a short nod. Shadow was giving him the go ahead to lead the way.

"Okay Shadow!" Romeo grinned at him and set off, "So this floor is where all the people sleep, there are five floors like this..."

"Five floors to accommodate... and how many rooms are there per floor?"

Shadow had to wonder how many people had been dragged into this situation. Maybe the number would give him more of an idea about what was going on. Were they seeking a small number of victims to lie to, or was it really such a large number to indicate the amount of worlds 'decimated'?

"Twenty!" Romeo grinned at him. It was the highest number Romeo could count up to, mostly because they were labled with numbers so it helped him! "But not all the rooms are full! There was only two floors when I got here though!"

"So they add on floors to accommodate," he softly spoke, a hint of malice in his tone, yet not directed towards Romeo himself. These people, whoever they were, had five floors worth of people and were still adding more. That meant a hundred people, which, when compared to numerous worlds, is a minuscule number, but if it had to be one to two people per world, that would mean... 50-100 worlds destroyed.

Of course, he still didn't believe them, but this was all hypothetical thinking here.

"I see. What are on the other floors, now?"

Romeo nodded, "They add on other floors as well, the tower grows a lot. When I cam there was four floors and then two floors with bedrooms... which makes six! But now there is more than I can count!"

He was quiet for a moment before he spoke again, "Well there's a cafeteria and a kitchen, there's also a resteraunt but that can sometimes be bad. There's two libraries, one of them is scary. Two forests, one of them is really bad with dangerous creatures so be careful! A swimming pool, a lake... two lakes, a meadow, an infirmary, lots of bad scary floors... And a floor where you can play games, and one with lots of instruments."