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The blackness that had washed over everything was fading away like ink washed away, and Nicole looked around, finding her surroundings to be made of coding and data... This was the digital realm, but it resembled a city she suddenly remembered. Her head hurt as it was flooded with memories of a world she'd once lived in, where things were so different from the world she'd been in for the past few months... This place...it was home.

She got to her feet, seeing a giant chess board set up nearby, some of the pieces still in play. Had she been playing before? She couldn't remember... But she remembered a friend she'd lost... A dear friend that was like her... Not organic, but alive just the same. She missed him... He didn't deserve that kind of death, to be wiped out of existence with a single wave of the hand.

"Hey Nicole."

Nicole whipped around at the voice, her eyes falling on a familiar figure standing behind her. His robotic form had been replaced by one looking truly organic, like her form was, and the way he'd always wanted to be... "Shard...!?" she whispered. "I-I'm sorry I left, Shard! It was Eggman! He rewrote the world, and-"

Shard winked. "Eh, I'm not mad. How could I be mad at a face like yours?" He was silent for a moment, then smacked his forehead with a frustrated groan, his form glitching out a little with the movement. "DANG IT! I practiced it and it still came out awful!...I suck...!"

Nicole ran over and placed her hands on his cheeks, smiling softly as tears threatened to fall down her own cheeks. "Shard...! B-But I thought you were destroyed by the Genesis Wave...!"

Shard shrugged. "Maybe I was... I know my body is scrap, because I can't feel it. I'm a wandering program in this system, some might consider me a virus, if you think about it."

Nicole grinned. "We'll build you a new body! I'll make sure of it! You'll be free to travel in the real world again..."

Shard sighed. "The real world... It still might not accept me."

"But I will, Shard... I'll accept you, no matter what anyone else thinks!"

Shard smiled, putting a hand on the back of her head and pulling her close. "Then that's all that I need..."
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A contest entry for 's Shardicole Contest over on .

I had so many ideas on what to do, but the one I loved the most was just Nicole coming home to the digital realm she knew, and finding Shard still alive within it. His body was destroyed in the fight with Metal Sonic, but he was transferred into the mainframe of the computer to save him, and he reformatted himself to look more organic, like Nicole did, and waited for her.

AAAAAAAAAAAND once again, Nicole looks nothing like any other time I've ever drawn her. I need to make a sheet and draw just her until I can get something consistent...

Characters belong to Archie.

Art belongs to me.

Description
The blackness that had washed over everything was fading away like ink washed away, and Nicole looked around, finding her surroundings to be made of coding and data... This was the digital realm, but it resembled a city she suddenly remembered. Her head hurt as it was flooded with memories of a world she'd once lived in, where things were so different from the world she'd been in for the past few months... This place...it was home.

She got to her feet, seeing a giant chess board set up nearby, some of the pieces still in play. Had she been playing before? She couldn't remember... But she remembered a friend she'd lost... A dear friend that was like her... Not organic, but alive just the same. She missed him... He didn't deserve that kind of death, to be wiped out of existence with a single wave of the hand.

"Hey Nicole."

Nicole whipped around at the voice, her eyes falling on a familiar figure standing behind her. His robotic form had been replaced by one looking truly organic, like her form was, and the way he'd always wanted to be... "Shard...!?" she whispered. "I-I'm sorry I left, Shard! It was Eggman! He rewrote the world, and-"

Shard winked. "Eh, I'm not mad. How could I be mad at a face like yours?" He was silent for a moment, then smacked his forehead with a frustrated groan, his form glitching out a little with the movement. "DANG IT! I practiced it and it still came out awful!...I suck...!"

Nicole ran over and placed her hands on his cheeks, smiling softly as tears threatened to fall down her own cheeks. "Shard...! B-But I thought you were destroyed by the Genesis Wave...!"

Shard shrugged. "Maybe I was... I know my body is scrap, because I can't feel it. I'm a wandering program in this system, some might consider me a virus, if you think about it."

Nicole grinned. "We'll build you a new body! I'll make sure of it! You'll be free to travel in the real world again..."

Shard sighed. "The real world... It still might not accept me."

"But I will, Shard... I'll accept you, no matter what anyone else thinks!"

Shard smiled, putting a hand on the back of her head and pulling her close. "Then that's all that I need..."
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A contest entry for 's Shardicole Contest over on .

I had so many ideas on what to do, but the one I loved the most was just Nicole coming home to the digital realm she knew, and finding Shard still alive within it. His body was destroyed in the fight with Metal Sonic, but he was transferred into the mainframe of the computer to save him, and he reformatted himself to look more organic, like Nicole did, and waited for her.

AAAAAAAAAAAND once again, Nicole looks nothing like any other time I've ever drawn her. I need to make a sheet and draw just her until I can get something consistent...

Characters belong to Archie.

Art belongs to me.