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Brawling the Night Away [OPEN]

Shadow would admit it - he wasn't a very social person. If he did anything, it was probably because someone dragged him into it or he had something to prove, but for the most part, he tend to shy away from hanging around others. What he wouldn't admit, though, was that he was starting to enjoy some of the company around.

For now, though, he'd find a bit of solace in some training. He didn't have the colorful collection of threats that this Sonic knew, so he preferred to use threats he knew from his world - namely the machines the peace-keeping organization G.U.N. had sent him. And with the sensoriums being the best place to find them (since they could be easily created), Shadow didn't waste any time in starting up a training program.

Flanked from all sides were hovering Beetle-type machines, some of them armed with cannons, and bipedal Hunter series, all armed with cannons and some with shields to boot.

Shadow briefly nodded before the machines kicked alive, firing away and attempting to encircle and trap Shadow. The hedgehog wouldn't let them do so, spinning through them with ease. As some fell, others took their place.

He had to be on his guard, though - not only could they get him good at any time, he was afraid someone was walk in and get caught in the crossfire. He just hope that, if someone did, Stacy would stop the simulation.

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And Alessa was such a person to walk into such a thing, but she didn't see how these things, whatever world they were from, would bother her. They advanced at Shadow, but Alessa gave a look, and a moment later the ground dried up, as if the ground was sucked of everything. And now these beetle machines would break in pieces by unknown forces, falling to pieces. Alessa said nothing, but the machines fell more to pieces until Shadow now was back to back with her.

"This is how you train?" Alessa asked nonchalantly. "It's quite intense."

Shadow came to a stop as he watched the machines crumble and shatter, and not by his hand. He had initially thought that Sonic had came in, but when he heard Alessa's voice, he thought otherwise.

"It is..." he said, waiting to see if another set would spawn up or if Stacy would halt it. "What brings you in here? I would say it's a bit too dangerous, but I don't think that would stop you..." Smirking as another set of Hunter machines appeared, Shadow skated forward and using his spin attack to drop them.

"They wouldn't." Alessa sad it simply, her eyes watching as the robots came to pieces. "They are automatons, easily dispatched. Flesh and bone I am more accustomed to. Nothings."

She walked toward him casually, looking intrigued. "What are these to you, I wonder? I'm curious.:

But not about him. She would not admit that.

"They were from a peace-keeping organization known as G.U.N." Shadow said, landing from his latest attack. "Fifty years ago, they were sent to where I was created to shut everything down. They feared me. Feared what I could do. They killed many of the people there, including..."

He trailed off before recovering.

"...a friend of mine. Maria. They captured me and sealed me away, only to be freed by my creator's grandson. The second I did, they wanted me back. They used these machines to do so."

"So they were deceptive, as humans are prone. Willing to kill everything sacred to stop something greater, and then failed to be redeemable. Nothing particularly out of the ordinary where I am from. This Maria meant something, and in their desperation, they killed her."

Alessa sighed.

"I am not known for understanding huamn interpretation as 'peace.'"

"That's about it..." Shadow said. He motioned to stop the program when he heard Alessa mention the last part. "What do you mean you're not known for it?"

Now HE was curious about HER.

Alessa chuckled. "I mean exactly what I say, Shadow the Hedgehog. Huamns err far more frequently than any in the world, and I am sent forth to crush those that would err against the worse of them."

She smiled. "Are you interested?"

"So, you're pretty much a judge, jury and executioner for those who'd do wrong." Shadow said, crossing his arms. "I was like that, too, when I was freed. It wasn't until I was reminded of the promise I made with Maria that I changed my tune."

A smirk formed on his face. "Interested? How so?"

"Something like that, but the way you describe it makes it sound like I have a choice. I don't. It is in my nature to create things that are unpleasant, to make the parts of a daydream of foolish people come undone. I am not ashamed by what I do, but I also do not get to say that I will and will not do one or the other. With something like me, its really only a matter of time."

Alessa shrugged. "I mean what I say. I am simply giving you the option of telling me to leave. There aren't too many people who like the idea of one like me being around them. It is a scary thing to most. Why aren't you bothered?"

Shadow nodded at what he heard Alessa first said, deciding instead to answer her second statement.

"Because I know how it feels to be something like that. To be feared for what I am and what I can do." Shadow said. "It's also because of my promise to Maria - to give everyone a chance to be happy. And right now, on this ship, that also includes you."

He extended a hand out. "I don't know what I could do to help do that, but... I'm here and I'll do what I can to help make it so."

"Happy." Well, that was probably not something Shadow would like to see. The last time she could remember being happy was when she was dancing under people bleeding everywhere. She was quite certain that Shadow would not like to see something like that. Then again, she was sure most of the crew would not want to see something of that nature.

Not that she really needed to see something like that right now anyway. She wasn't in that mode right now. Why would she need to be, after all? She was more or less satisfied with things at the moment. What was more, Shadow was someone interesting to talk to.

"This Maria...what was she to you?"

"Maria?" Shadow asked. "She... she was my best friend." Shadow's outstretched hand closed into a fist and pulled it back. "She was the reason I was created. She was a sickly child, but at the same time, she was so full of hope. Heh, sometimes I have to wonder what things could have been if they didn't go the way it did..."

"So you were created for her then?" Alessa asked, looking interested. "Did she need your protection then? Why else would you be created for the purpose of her? Though you say she is your best friend, so I may be wrong. I wonder."

She paused. "How DID it go?"

"I was created to help her survive a disease she had contracted. At the time, no, she didn't need my protection, but..." Shadow said, trailing off before answering her other question.

"...things changed that day. The governments found out about me and my purpose. They feared what I was and wanted everything shut down. They invaded my home, the space station ARK. Those who resisted were killed. I tried to get myself and Maria out of there, but as we got to one of the pods, some soldiers found us. Maria shoved me into the pod just as they fired and with the last of her life... released me..."

Shadow shook his head, getting himself back together. That was years ago. This was now.

"A disease." What a life, to be handled with a thing like that. So in a sense, he was create to ease that pain. Well. Humans were certainly capable of acts of pure goodness, what else would have brought Rose to Silent Hill for Sharon, after all? Even that police officer that had been burned alive for simply allowing Rose to find out the truth...

And her head clicked, and now she could experience all of the pain Alessa had seen. After all, there was still a part of her distinctly Alessa, one that had been scared and felt fear until they burned her, and then the fear was gone, the little girl was gone and in her place was a practically burned corpse child, writhing in anger, wanting her revenge on those that wronged her. She that embodied Alessa was without emotion, but she was not incapable of knowing the anguish of her host, of seeing what was taken from her.

"They killed her," Alessa said duly. "Just as they tried to do with Alessa."

"They did. But, despite all of that... she had no regrets. When she was killed, she had a smile on her face. All she wanted me to do... was to make everyone happy. And for a while, I had forgotten it, shoved it away in favor of vengeance." Shadow said.

As he finished, a thought crossed his mind. "...what about this Alessa, though?"

"Your Maria was a remarkable one then," Alessa replied. "I worked through the host of a girl named Alessa. She was a quiet, scared little girl who had no father, and for that reason she was seen as a product of sin. She was molested, ostracized, feared and finally burned in an attempt to 'purify' her. It was only through their own folly and cruelty that she did not die, that dark forces worked in her favor and I went to her to exact revenge. Those that would call me cruel need only see the state that Alessa was after all of the things they did: she was barely recognizable, and overcome with hate. That is what they did to her."

She gestured to herself. "What you see is a distorted version of that girl, but one that chose to serve her purpose and create a truth in that world, and that truth became Silent Hill."

"All of that... because of their simple-minded and idiotic views..."

Shadow's expression turned a bit grim upon hearing that. "So, we're pretty much two sides of a coin. I was created to protect and help and you were brought about to destroy and punish." A smirk formed on his face. "And yet, here we are, on board this craft. Our purposes are the same, but our targets are different. Funny how things work out..."

"It's the way of many bull headed humans," Alessa replied. "A policewoman with good intentions also had to lose her life to protect the last innocent part of Alessa, and then those fools stabbed the woman who tried to speak sense to them. But they were unaware in doing that, their hate would release me into their sanctum. That was the end of their running from me: they paid dearly and forever that day."

Alessa smiled. "I am not sure what I will do on this craft yet. My future is uncertain, only that I know I am drawn to recreating Silent Hill again. It is the only home that I feel comfortable now."

"We all don't know what to do as of yet. But, for now, I think it's best we try to make the best of what we have." Shadow said.

"Though I must ask something - it seems that every time I do something, you're there. When I was relaxing, when I was training just now, the..." his face turned red. "...mistletoe incident. Am I really that interesting? Most people wouldn't care to hang around someone like me. Not a good conversation holder." He blinked a bit before adding, "At times."

"A wise judgement," Alessa said. "I'm doing just that: sitting and waiting. I don't know what I'll find in this place."

Alessa gave him a raised eyebrow, with just the hint of a smile. "I don't necessarily equate a lot of speaking with having something to say. I happen to be perfectly fine with your company. I prefer it."

Shadow blinked in surprise hearing what she had said.

"You prefer... my company?" Shadow said. A small smile formed on his face before he continued. "Well, then... I wouldn't mind being with yours, either."

"I do," Alessa said. "You must have assumed by the first time we met that I was looking through the ship, watching people. It is my nature. Coming to you again was my indulgence, something I decided to do because I chose it."

And she knew that was all that needed to be said. She and he were of few words.

"You might regret that," Alessa warned. "Though if you haven't run screaming from me now, I'd say yo have a fair chance."

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