User:MetalMickey272/Trust in "Maim"

Trust in "Maim" is a new story created by MetalShadow272. This story will reveal Maim's past, how she'll pay the price for it, and how it will affect her relationship with her friends, and possibly her whole life forever!

Characters:
Lightning the Hedgehog: Super-fast and super-strong hedgehog that is very fun. He's good at fighting and can be real nice at times, but aslo has a short fuse. He is currently the boyfriend of Maim the Hedgehog.

Maim the Hedgehog: A really smart red-pink hedgehog who is very mysterious and secretive. She is a weapons expert, has a short fuse like Lightning, can be sweet at times, and is a professional in many different things. How she is will be revealed in this story. Currently the girlfriend of Lightning the Hedgehog.

Claws the Lion: A super strong and fierce lion who can extend his super-sharp claws to great lengths to slash through foes, but can be a bit thick at times. He's really friendly and brave, but can become a complete coward under many circumstances. He is Lightning's first friend in the present time and Lightning's best friend in the entire world.

Part 1: The Truth:
Lightning was on a date with his girlfriend, Maim the Hedgehig. They were at a fancy restraunt, which was different than the usual places they go to, which is usually fast food or buffets. Once they got to their table, they had to wait for a waiter. When the waiter came, he started asking them something in a different language, which completely confused Lightning.

"Um...could you repeat that in English, please?" said Lightning. The waiter couldn't understand what he was saying. Lightning then looked at Maim. "Why did you choose to go to this place again?"

"Just leave this to me," Maim said. Maim then started talking to the waiter in the same language as he was speaking. Maim was ordering their drinks and dinner while she was at it, too. All Lightning did was look puzzled, with a strange expression on his face.

Once the waiter walked away, Maim turned to face Lightning. Lightning was looking a her with his mouth wide open and his eyes real wide. "What?" she asked.

"Y-y-y-you....how did you know what to say...? Heck, how did you even know what language he was speaking?" Lightning asked.

"Um....I'll tell you some other time." She never intended on telling him some other time. "Be thankful that I actually knew what to tell him, or else we would've never got what we wanted to order. How about we save that question for later and enjoy our night?"

Lightning agreed. He decided to not have that question bother him and enjoy the rest of the night. They talked, and they got their dinner about 15 minutes after they ordered it. Lightning wasn't used to the food, but he ate it anyway, but didn't enjoy it. The rest of the night was pretty nice, but Lightning couldn't help ignoring all the questions he had about Maim. He didn't know how she knew that language, and where she learned it from. Now that he thought about it, he remembered how Maim was able to read something inscribed on a wall in a mansion they were in in the past. And he never did recall where Maim got her cuffs that opened to reveal lasers, or her impressive jet pack. He now realized how almost everything about Maim was a mystery to him, and all he knew about Maim was when he first met her to that night. He didn't know anything about her before that. He decided that once the night was over, he was going to get some answers.

Once the night was over, Lightning and Maim were walking through a park when no one was there. Maim jumped in a puddle, ans water splashed on Lightning. Lightning then kicked the same puddle and had water splash all over Maim. Maim then tackled Lightning, and the two fell and rolled down a hill. When they reached the bottom, they found themselves in the middle of a deep puddle, each all wet. Lightning and Maim couldn't stop laughing, and they started splashing each other with the water. They were all wet and dirty, but they didn't notice. Maim then sighed and started laying herself on Lightning's arm. They both closed their eyes, held on to each other, and the whole area went silent for about 10 to 15 minutes. It was then when Lightning remembered the question he wanted to ask Maim.

"Hey, Maim," Lightning said. "I've been dying to ask you something."

Maim then had her eyes wide open. She made a small smile. "Yes?"

Lightning then took a serious tone. "I've been wondering about some things about you. I've wanted to know how you knew what to say to that waiter, how you knew what that inscription at that mansion said a few months ago, and how you got everything you have, like those weapons and that jet pack and everything. You keep on saying that you're going to tell me, but you never do. Plus, I don't know anything about you before the day I first met you. I've a feeling that you're intentionally keeping things from me, and I want you to tell me what I wanna know now!"

Maim's smile quickly left her face, and her eyes grew ever wider. "I-I-I-I....I don't know...I...I have to go now. It's getting extremely late." Maim started getting up. "By--"

Lightning grabbed her arm. Maim struggled to get him off.

"No, Maim!" Lightning said. "I know you're keeping things from me! I want this relationship to work out! I want you to tell me how you all these things, where you got everything. I want you to tell me everything now!"

Maim couldn't believe what was happening. No one has asked her these questions, and she's never seen Lightning act like this towards her before. She's tried so hard to keep everything about her from everyone, but it seems that it was useless right now.

"....Fine," Maim said, regretfully. "I'll tell you everything. But ONLY if you don't tell anyone else. I can't afford to have too many people know this."

"OK," Lightning said. "As long as you didn't kill anyone, I'm fine."

Maim started. "When I was born, I was the daughter of a King and a Queen who ruled a huge island. They gave me the name "Destiny Anna." For a few years in the beginning of my life, I was the princess of the kingdom, and everyone knew who I was and I was said to be the island's greatest jewel and treasure. Everyone tried to protect me, and I was loved by many. But then a day came where someone named "Doctor Robotnik" came to the land and captured everyone and used them to power huge killer robots. My parents told one of my guards to escape with me and to take good care of me. My parents were captured a minute later and were used to power robots, too. I don't know if they survived or not, but all I know is that I never saw them again. The country then turned into a huge south island guarded by many robots. The center of the island, which was the center of my kingdom, was turned into a Scrap Brain Zone. My home was gone.

"A few days later, the guard who was protecting me died. He gave all the food and drink he found to me, and he hardly gained any sleep during the night. He...he was a good man. I was left alone to fend for myself out in the wild. I never found any source of life around me, and I was alone for many months. Each day I woke up, I thought my life would be over sometime soon. But then there was one day, when I was sleeping, when I was discovered by a army of humans. I think they were in the middle of a war, or mission, or something. They abandoned what they were doing to take me in. The commander of the army, called G.U.N., saw great potential in me, since I was out in the wild for so long. And from what he told me, he said that they took me in because I looked so cute back then.

"For many more years, until I was 11, I was a G.U.N. agent. They trained me ever since the day they found me. They taught me many battle strategies. They taught me how to be fast, strong, a quick thinker, and basically taught me how to handle situations by myself. I learned many things from them about the world. I learned almost every language out there, both present and dead ones. They taught me how to work with weapons, how to plan battle strategies, almost everything someone needed to know if they wanted to be strong, intelligent, and to be the best out there. Which I succeeded at. I became G.U.N.'s best agent. They sent me on many missions, and I completed them all with flying stars. I had no porblem doing any of those missions, except for that one...

"The last mission I ever did at G.U.N. was to capture an unknown species that was spotted at a certain location. It looked like a mix of a hedgehog and an echidna, but it was wings and really long spikes. I was sent to capture it and bring it in for them to experiment on. Once I located it, I told it to come with me for a little while, but I knew it wouldn't listen. It tried to fly away, and it would have gotten away if I didn't throw my electric net, which shocked it really badly. When I went up to it, I saw how young and how scared it was. It begged me to let it go, since it wanted to go home. I had a bad, sad feeling inside of me, but I learned that the mission comes before anything else. So I took him back to HQ.

"I didn't know that what I did was so horrible. All that day, they were doing disturbing procedures on the poot thing, and all I heard was it screaming, it in pain. I didn't know that being the number one agent would make me have to hurt someone who didn't do anything to deseve that. That's why, that night, I snuck out of my bunker, and I broke him out. He told me that we was so thankful, and he told me his name was Teck. He was from a planet far away, and that planet was being destroyed by a being known as Dezerect. He told me his parents put him in a pod so he could escape to somewhere else, but he didn't know where to go. Since his story felt so similar to mine, I showed him the way out. Once we got outside, he hugged me, and flew away. I knew that the Commander would give me a horrible puishment for that, and I didn't want to find out what it was. So I went back into the building and stole some of their things. I stole these cuffs on my wrist so I would have a easy was of attacking someone if I was in danger, and I stole that jet pack so I would have something that would give me anything I needed when I needed it. That jet pack was an advanced piece of technology, and only one was made. They also said it was going to be the ultimate war weapon.

"I knew I was going to be hunted down for the crimes I commited at G.U.N. So I thought ahead. I changed my name, my fur color, my clothing, my eye color, and almost everything about me except my species, so no one would recognize me. And sure enough, nobody did, even the G.U.N. agents. And, just like I predicted, there were wanted posters all over, asking for me. Thank goodness they had my old appearance...But after that, I put the past behind me and started leading a new life."

Lightning couldn't believe what he heard. The woman he dated was something that he never expected her to be. "Wait...Maim's not your real name?" he said.

"I said my real name, or birth name, was Destiny Anna."

"What was your fur color?"

"Blonde."

"Eye color?"

"Blue."

"Did you kill anyone?"

"Did I say that?! And will you stop asking me these questions? I told you everything you wanted to know! Now do you promise that you won't tell anyone?"

"Fine. I promise."

Even though Lightning didn't tell anyone that night, there was a shady bat listening to the two from afar. Once the two left the area, the bat flew away.

Later, at G.U.N. HQ, Rouge the Bat confronted the Commander.

"Commander, sir!"

"Yes, Agent Rouge? What is it?" said the Commander.

"Sir," Rouge said, "You know that Destiny Anna person you've been looking for for the past few years?"

Rouge had caught the Commander's attention. "What about it? We've never seen a trace of her in some time! We've come to a conclusion that she's dead!"

Rouge shook her head and waved her finger. "It seems that she's not dead after all. She's changed her entire identity just to escape us. Destiny now goes by the name "Maim the Hedgehog." She's a red-pink hedgehog with purple eyes. She wears a gray sweatband and a purple dress and shoes. She also now lives in Discville."

The Commander was shocked at this. "W-what?! We've been protecting that city from invaders for decades! How could we miss it?!"

Rouge now had a annoyed look of her face. "Did you miss the part about her changing her ENTIRE identity?"

The Commander ignored her comment. He then said "Tell our largest and toughest troop to go and arrest her tomorrow morning! We'll have her pay for everything she's done to us. I swear it!"

THE NEXT DAY...

Lightning didn't tell anyone about what Maim said last night, but he made sure to tell his best friend, Claws the Lion, the next day.

"I KNEW there was something about her I didn't trust!" exclaimed Claws. "I just knew it!"

Lightning shook his head. "I know you're excited that you're right for once in your life, but I think Maim's had a pretty rough past life. I mean, why else would she try to hide it?"

"So she won't get arrested?" Claws remarked.

"So she wouldn't have to live through it again," Lightning said. "She must've been trying so hard to not tell anybody so she would have a better chance at forgetting it. But I think I made it worse by making her tell me the whole thing all over again.'

Claws was about to say something, but didn't.

"Good choice," Lightning said. "I think she's having a rough time at home. C'mon, dude."

Claws then said something. "Whoawhoawhoa WHOA! YOU'RE the one who she told the story to. YOU'RE the one who's her boyfriend."

"And YOU'RE the one who never trusted her that much. YOU'RE the one who is also one of her closest friends. She needs as much friends as she can get right now." Lightning told him.

"....Fine," Claws said. "Let's go.

They hiked to the ends of the suburbs, where Maim's house was supposed to be. But once they got there, they saw a bunch of army tanks, trucks, helicopters, and police cars everywhere around there. A minute later, the entire party left, and not a trace of anything was left. Lightning and Claws looked at each other, and there was a silence that seemed to last for days. It was only when Claws took a step towards the house when they both decided to take a look inside.

Once they got inside, all the furniture and objects in the house were scattered about, ripped, broken, and everything was in ruins. Lightning and Claws started calling Maim's name all throughout the house, and never recieved an answer. After a couple of minutes of searching, Lightning stepped on a shreaded piece of glass, and he noticed something under it. He picked it up. It was Maim's sweatband.

Claws came over when he saw Lightning pick it up. "Whoa," he said. "What did they do to her?"

"They took her away," Lightning responded.

"Well, whaddya gonna do about it?"

Lightning made a fist in the hand he held the sweatband in, and walked out the door, going home.

Part 2: The Discussion:
Coming soon...