A/n: Ok, now after that last intense chapter we're gonna start to slow it down a bit. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Only own my OCs and the storyline. Everything else belongs to their rightful owners. And stuff.

Chapter 6: Time to get some answers

"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord." –Anonymous

Previously on ProjectEnzo, The icy-blue hedgehog named Enzo had a few flashbacks, got the living crap beat out of him, and some how stopped a missile.
Now what happens next?

Bee-beep...bee-beep...bee-beep. This sound played over and over again. It was all I could hear inside of my clouded head. I was feeling some pain all over but not as intensely as before at Sonic and Tails house. I was cold still, but the feeling was starting to get familiar to me now. As though it was natural.

'What is that beeping noise anyway?' That thought made my brain click and realize that it was my heartbeat connected to a heart monitor.

The beeping got a little faster.

'Wait I don't remember Tails having a heart monitor in the lab.'

The beeping got faster.

'So where am I? I can't be at the house. A hospital maybe?'

The beeping slowed drastically.

'Ok, I'm safe then. I hope.' Then I remembered something in a flashback.

It was dark everywhere so I couldn't see anything. But I could hear everything fine. I felt wet and there was something attached to my arms and legs and some metal thing was attached to my mouth. There was the sound of gunfire and screaming all around me. Thumps hitting the ground. A man was screaming words at someone.

"Why are you doing this! We are just a research group for Project Shadow!"

There was a reply followed by gunfire in the direction of the first voice.

"Because Project Shadow is getting terminated."

Then my flashback stopped and I was in the dark cloudiness that was my thoughts.

'Wait if I'm part of Project Shadow, and I'm his prototype, doesn't that mean they would have terminated me as well?'

The beeping rapidly got faster.

My mind was just a jumble of random thoughts and assumptions now. 'I just need someone to tell me what's going on.'

The beeping kept going at a high speed.

I heard something by the right of me shift a little. Then I heard it move out of the room.

A few seconds later two somethings walked in (or maybe one awkward something) one went to where the beeping was.

The beeping went really fast.

"How are you honey?" said a deep female voice that came from the something that was by the monitor "Feelin' better? We're just gonna let you sleep some more ok?"

I wanted to respond but I realized I couldn't move anything. I heard a small ting by the thing with a female voice. Then I suddenly felt really tired. I fell asleep almost instantly.

The beeping slowed down.

When I awoke I felt better and a little less sore. The beeping kept going strong but at an average rate.

I then realized that I had feeling in my hands and my head. Everything else was sore.

I weakly opened both eyes to see a giant, foggy mesh of white, silver, and brightness. I blinked a couple of times trying to focus my eyes then moaned out of soreness. I heard a small sound to the right of me and then something yellow passed in front of my view of sight and some where to my left.

My eyes started to adjust a little and I saw the shape of tile and a florescent light bulb.

'Oh. That's the ceiling' I thought to myself. I moaned again.

My refocusing eyes saw a yellow humanoid-ish shape pass by, then out of my line of vision. A large pinkish purple blob appeared in front of me.

"Finally wake up eh?" said the thing in front of me with a female voice. "You feelin' any better yet?"

When my eyes refocused enough so I could see, I saw a large purple hippo staring at me. She was wearing a spotless white coat with a badge that said 'Nurse Nunnally' and had a nurse hat on top of her head.

"I'll just take your vitals and be on my way." She walked to my left and out of sight, stopped for a while, then walked out the opened door on the left and closed it.

I slowly looked to my right. There sitting in a little chair was...

"Tails..." I said weakly looking at the yellow two tailed fox. He gave me a small smile.

"How're doing Enzo?" It was good to see someone I knew.

"Actually..." I started, "it's... Epsi-" I was cut off by my own haggled cough. "I feel... sore." I could barely talk.

He frowned a little.

"Well you got Shadow to blame for that." That reminded me of something.

"Tails..." I said "why... did he... attack me like that... for asking... about Maria?"

I coughed into my strengthening hand.

"Do you want a glass of water?" Tails asked shifting a little. I merely nodded as he stood up. He walked out of the room.

I sat there and tried to remember how the missile was froze. I had closed my eyes, lifted my arms and thought about how useless it was to try, then I felt all the energy drain out of me. I then got tired and saw the frozen missile. So the thing that must have been frozen by me. 'But that doesn't make sense!' I thought 'The Doctor never gave me freezing powers. After I found out about Project Shadow,' I thought remembering a lot 'The Doctor said I was just a test to see if making a living life form from scratch that's ageless was possible. So why would h-'

Tails walked in with a cup in his hand. He handed it to me.

"Thanks." I said taking a huge sip from the cup.

Tails tried make small talk. "So, uh... remember anything yet?"

I replied looking down into glass that had no ice in it. "A little bit. It's hard to explain, but it's kind of like sewing stitches to make a piece of cloth. I'm starting to get the basic shape down, but there's still a lot to be put together."

'Speaking of putting memories together...' I thought as I turned to Tails. "Ok now my question from before. Why would Shadow beat me up over Maria? And also I just had a flashback and someone said Project Shadow was being eliminated. What's that all about?"

There was a long period of science as I looked at Tails.

He sighed. "Ok, let me start from the beginning..."

"... And then she sent him to earth by launching him in a pod while she got shot at by GUN troops. Shadow got captured and sent into a cryo-freezing chamber and frozen for over fifty years. Gerald Robotnik got sent to a high-security facility and was eventually assassinated." Tails finished closing his eyes.

I just stared at him. So Project Shadow was eliminated, Maria and the Doctor were assassinated, and Shadow was sent to the surface and taken to be frozen for fifty years. That's a lot to take in over the course of twenty minutes.

"That still doesn't explain how I froze the missile though. I mean the Doctor never gave me any powers." I said.

Tails looked down at the ground. "Uhh... well you see, there's something we forgot to tell you..." The fox started twirling his tails.

"Do you remember when I said I'd have to test you for something else? Well it turns out that when Sonic and I were done patching you up when we first found you, one of my prototype inventions, the E Combiner, glitched out for some reason and fired at you. What it does is combine a certain element with the DNA of whatever it fires at and apparently combined liquid nitrogen with your molecules and into your blood stream."

I looked at him with a raised brow. "I'm not sure if I should be freaked out or really excited."

"Maybe that's a good thing." said Tails giving a slight smile.

I then quickly turned toward him. "Wait, why do you even have machine like that!"

"Well, actually I was making that for Sonic. One day he wanted to try the hottest chilidog in the world. So I made that machine and not only added the hottest flavor I could find along with some other elements. Then I tested it on a pig which I would later turn into the chilidog."

"What happened?"

"Let's just say that it was a little too spicy and...uh...completely disintegrated it."

Something clicked in my head and I realized something.

"Wait, if Project Shadow was terminated, then why didn't GUN come to capture me when you signed me in here? I mean a hedgehog named Epsilon seems a little suspicious." I took another sip of my icy water which seemed to have gotten colder and now had an ice cube in it, then turned back to Tails.

Tails looked out of the doorway then back at me. "We already thought of that. So we signed you in as Enzo. If anybody around here asks, you're Enzo. Besides, Enzo doesn't sound as cold and heartless as EPSILON if you know what I mean."

I nodded noticing his point. "Yeah I have to agree with you, Enzo does sound better..."

Tails continued. "Also I did some scanning while doctors and nurses weren't here and you appear to be... ageless. Well actually, not exactly ageless."

I looked at him intently. "What do you mean?"

"if my calculations are correct, you should age until you are about into your late twenties, to your early thirties and then you will stop aging."

"So for reference what age would I be right now?"

Tails thought then said "I don't actually know your age, but if I were to make an assumption I would say about fourteen or fifteen based upon the medical facts that the doctors were saying."

"Sweet! So I'll never age? That's awesome!" I said with a smile. That is, until Shadow walked in from the door on my left, frowning as usual.

He turned and looked me in the eyes. "It's not as great as you think it is."

I looked at him with a face of curiosity. "What do you mean by that?"

Shadow's expression didn't change. "You'll know what I mean in due time."

I tried to say I was sorry I mentioned Maria earlier, but when I looked into his eyes I could tell what his answer would be: no apology needed or accepted.

"I have to run," said Shadow "a certain blue hedgehog needs punishment for getting on my nerves this morning."

"How'd he do that?" I inquired looking at him. He sighed and pulled of his left glove to reveal his shining pink finger nails.

I grinned trying to suppress a laugh as Tails silently giggled.

Shadow just rolled his eyes while sliding his glove back on. He quietly mumbled something along the lines of "Him and his childish pranks" or "That unlucky son of a hedgehog", I couldn't tell, but at least both statements fit the situation.

Then Shadow walked out of the room saying "He's gonna be in for a real shock..."

That made me remember something. "Wait, how exactly did you and the others get paralyzed when Eggman came? Because all I saw was you and everyone else lying there like slugs."

Tails scratched his head. "I'm not exactly sure either. We saw Eggman smash through the roof then Sonic got ready to fight, Shadow walked in, they got ready to attack, and then there was a flash of light. After that, I remember him saying something, then you froze the missile, and he left. I think he might have used some sort of device to knock us out, but beyond that I have no idea. I'm almost positive he's trying to kill Sonic and take most of us out with him instead of taking over Station Square like he usually does. If he was he would have started an invasion by now."

"So basically you have to stop him." I said

"Yep." Tails replied. He then looked at the floor. "Uhh Enzo? There's a 'favor' we want to ask you..."

I felt like I owed these guys, since they did save me from death, patch me up, and pay money to bring me to this hospital. So I said, "Sure I'll help you any way I can!"

Tails looked back at me "... Do you have any combat training?"

4 days later

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I yelled running away from hundreds of thousands of plastic bullets that were being shot from ten auto firing training turrets. I ran for my life inside the 75x75 square meter room while behind four inches of bullet proof glass Tails put one hand up to his face and sighed.

"ENZO!" he yelled over the loud sound of plastic hitting concrete hundreds of times a second. "YOU CAN EVADE THOSE BULLETS BETTER IF YOU ROLL!"

I completely ignored him as I ran back and forth flailing my arms in the air. Every ten seconds or so I would get hit by at least one plastic pellet.

He yelled again, "THOSE BULLETS ARE GONNA HURT A LOT HARDER WHEN EGGMAN IS SHOOTING THEM AT YOU! TRY USING YOUR POWER TO STOP THEM!"

I yelled back, "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO IF DON'T KNOW HOW I DID IT LAST TIME!"

Tails sighed again, then walked a little to the left and pulled a large lever. The sound of shooting bullets slowly shut off as I hit the ground panting. Tails walked in with his hands behind his back.

"Maaaaaybe we should have tried testing out your power, BEFORE sending you on to the live fire course..." said Tails taking one of his gloved paws and putting it on his chin.

I limply looked up at him. "YA THINK!" I was sooo tired. "How the HECK does Sonic run so fast for so long?"

Then a black-eyed Sonic walked in holding a half eaten chili dog, which he promptly threw into his mouth. "Practice." he said "Practice and natural born ability."

Tails showed a confused face as he turned to Sonic "Where did you get that black eye! It's huge!"

Sonic just quietly mumbled "Shadow" under his breath.

He smirked and pulled me up. "We gotta get you on a treadmill."

I glared at him then turned to Tails. "So let's try testing out my power."

Tails nodded and we all started walking down the long hallway and into the large elevator at the end of it and pressed the button for the surface which had 54 buttons beneath it and 23 buttons above it, all with the corresponding numbers on them. We were currently at floor B47 and soon to be 1. When we reached our desired floor we walked out then down another hallway into the main lobby. On the main desk was a little sign that said 'WELCOME TO THE GUN TRAINING FACILITY' which I read as I passed by it. We walked down another hallway until we reached a door with tiny print on it which said 'GUN Shooting Range'.

When we walked inside it was empty and dark. Tails went over and flipped on a light switch in the corner which turned on twelve floodlights suspended from the celling.

Tails turned to me. "Ok so how do you remember doing it last time?"

I walked up to a humanoid shape of a target. I was about fifteen feet away from it.

I pondered a moment, then put my hands up, palm facing the target. I focused on it, then a cold substance just shot out of my hand at high velocity and completely missed the shape and hit the wall behind it.

The substance looked like an azure liquid of sorts. It then swiftly hardened and sharpened a little so it looked like a chunk of ice.

I turned back to look at Tails to see he had the same expression as me on his face. A wide open mouth with large eyes that made us look shocked.

Now I believed Tails when he said my molecules got combined with liquid nitrogen, but I didn't know it was gonna be this dang awesome!

Sonic looked slightly shocked but was mainly calm about it. "You missed the target..."

I looked back at him smiling. "Who cares! I just shot ice out of my hands! I say that's pretty dang awesome!"

Tails put up a finger. "Not exactly ice. More like liquid nitrogen that froze into ice."

"That's still wicked awesome!" I said pointing to the frozen spot on the wall. "I can freeze stuff!"

Sonic just lifted an eyebrow and smirked. "Yeah, but only if you can hit it." he said as I turned around and looked at the unscathed target.

I focused on it once more, this time using my left hand to hold my right wrist in order to get a more accurate shot.

A shot of the substance came out of my gloved hand at a high velocity once again and still hit wall behind the target.

'This might take some time' I gloomily thought to myself as I raised my hand up again.

I was panting hard. 'This power sure does take a lot out of you' I thought as I slowly walked over to the two folding chairs by the door, one of which had Sonic sitting in it.

As I sat down Tails started reading off the results.

"Let's see... out of the one-hundred and fifty times you shot, you hit the target... seven times. Your accuracy was a 0.0035 hit rate." he finished frowning.

Sonic started chuckling as I faced him with stern eyes. Before I could say anything, Tails cut in.

"I think I might have an idea how to give you a better accuracy." he said running out of the room, then coming back.

He held a small, black...thing in his paws. At the time, I didn't know what it was. Then Tails started to explain. "This is a brace. It's usually used to protect a broken limb after the cast has been removed."

I made an objection standing up. "But wait... I didn't need a cast or this thing when my when I broke my arm, remember? It healed up in a few days."

Tails put the brace under his arm and put up one wagging finger as he spoke "I was referring to humans. Their bodies take longer to recover and recuperate than us Mobians."

That sentence brought up a nagging question that was at the back of my mind. "How exactly did the humans get here in the first place? I mean, it's pretty obvious that Mobians were here first."

Tail put his hand to his chin obviously deep in thought. "I don't know much, since they did arrive several hundred years ago," he said "but from the data I gathered they arrived on an advanced spaceship, in their standards anyway, apparently the last of their kind from their home planet that they call Earth. The government of their planet commissioned them to find a suitable planet to thrive and repopulate on while they tried to save their own planet from some sort of threat. I nor the humans here know what the fate of their home world is since the space ship they arrived in crash landed and broke all equipment they had aboard. But ever since they came they've been trying to create a government system here, that they're calling 'GUN', to mimic the one they have at their home that. And so far they've done pretty dang well at achieving that."

I look at him strangely. "Why is it I can tell that them creating a government here isn't a good thing?"

Sonic replied for Tails. "Before they came here, Mobius was a carefree, relaxed place. We had no government because we didn't need one. There was no fighting or anything until the humans showed up. It's not like they enslaved us, the laws are kinda loose and flexible if ya know what I mean, but... there's still a large lack of full freedom."

I looked to Tails again. "Ok all that makes sense. But what did you mean before by saying that the humans had arrived here in an advanced space ship 'in their standards'?"

Tails went and took the brace that was still under him arm and put it by a nearby foldable table, then turned to me. "Us Mobians discovered space travel many, many years before the humans arrived. We had and still have highly advanced ships that we can use to go far into space. Many Mobians left their home to explore the stars and other planets out there."

That gave me another question. "Wait, if you have all this high-tech space technology, why don't the humans just ask if they could use some of your guys stuff to contact Earth?"

Sonic's voice got a little stern as he spoke. "Because they're stubborn son of a -"

Tails swiftly cut in. "What Sonic's tryin' to say is that they don't want any of our help with regards to Earth. All they really want help with is with Eggman."

I made a suggestion. "Well if GUN is so bad why don't you just leave? You said earlier that you guys have the tech to do it, so why not?"

Tails just shook his head. "GUN made law prohibiting the use of space ships unless you have a special premission form from them. Of course many people have illegally left the planet for years, mainly gangs, bootleggers, pirates, escaped convicts, and others. It's very hard to get a form as you must have at least 300+ hours of work, either through getting a job there or saving the world or whatever, for GUN. Of course, from all the times we've defeated Eggman we have more than enough time clocked in, but we never get the form."

"Why is that?" I inquired.

"Because Eggman is always here, GUN makes us stay here to counter-act anything he might do. But for example if he were to travel to somewhere else in the galaxy GUN would commission us to follow him and either bring him back, spy on his actions, or take him down."

I interjected. "But that's not my point. My point is that if this is your planet and your life so you should be able to leave when you want."

Tails walked over and put a paw on my shoulder. "Enzo the reason we don't ignore the laws GUN makes is because we try to respect the weak government that they are trying to build for our planet. If we don't respect what people are trying do for us, then we're as bad as Eggman."

I was about to argue, but Tails' logic was sound.

Tails slowly walked over to the table that had the brace on it "Come on now let's stop talking about this... we're supposed to be working on your aim." he said tossing it to me. I caught it and inspected it.

It was obviously designed to be worn on the right hand as shown by the shape and placing of the finger holes. The outside was tough and durably strong.I slid it on with some reasonable difficulty. When it was on my hand it immediately felt more stable. It was a little bit harder to flex my fingers, but it felt much easier to aim.

I walked back to the place I was at before, in front of the humanoid figure. I put my hand up in front of me facing the target, the fired. The liquid-like substance quickly shot out of my hand and (to my satisfaction) hit the cardboard cutout right in the shoulder.

I smirked, turning around to look at Sonic. He merely pointed to the target behind me. "Still 149 left to go, you fat freezer."

I replied smirking "Whatever, you one-eyed speedster."

As I turned back around, Sonic slowly started to massage his Shadow-inflicted wound beneath his eyebrow.

11 days later,
Inside Tails' lab

As I slowly walked by Tails' newly started expansion of his lab which had tools, paint buckets and brushes, metal sheeting, wielders, and other random objects that were sprawled across the floor.

I was walking a little bit faster than I had been almost a week and a half earlier because of the new program Sonic had put me on. It involved running 8 miles each day, then going to Sonic's favorite restaurant and ordering twelve chilidogs, and literally running them back to him.

I could easily see through the cheap ploy that Sonic was doing, but I did it anyways. I mean it is a work out, right?

The small flat belly I had was now becoming flatter. I was starting to be able to see my abs, as well as my legs getting stronger. Of course, all of this was at the back of my mind as I walked through the lab alone.

"Enzo! Get up here!" said Tails with an obvious sense of urgency in his voice. Hearing it, I quickly hurried up the stairs to see what was going on.

A/n:Well, I hope you liked it, because that was LONG to type. At least it was 4000+ words to read. Hopefully, the next chapter will be up soon, as more of the next chapter will be action and is faster for me to type. BTW what genre do you think this story is? Because I'm not sure if my genres are right. Leave a review of what you think it should be! Remember, reviews inspire me, so criticize away! (But please no flaming!) Have a nice day to night cycle!

P.S. Changed the title just to let you know.