Hello to All! This was a fanfiction I was planning to make for the Halloween afterward, but because I just couldn't wait, I decided to post it this year. Here's a small poem before we start...
A fox cub alone, on one dreary winter night, Finds a game on his doorstep, Thinking it seemed alright, But as a curse became liberated, It was the start of his plight. Happy Halloween Everyone, ... and to all a good fright!
Enjoy the fic!
"AWW!" Tails whines through the telephone as Sonic gives him the bad news. Their vacation is cancelled due to dangerous weather conditions in the skies. Usually, Tails would not act with this level of childish temperament, but the realization that he would not be able to go to the Aerodynamics convention in Station Square has made him both impatient and obnoxious. Tails would have taken the risk, but Sonic had insisted that they don't fly for Tails's safety. As a precaution, he even took back his keys to the Tornado. He is sometimes annoyed by Sonic's nonchalant attitude in the face of danger, but really dislikes when Sonic's actually responsible. Now, because of Sonic, he is both sad, AND bored.
"I'm sorry little buddy," Sonic starts, "but my decision is final. You're not going to fly today, besides, they already canceled the convention, there's nothing we can do. We're just gonna have to wait out the storm for a while, m'kay?"
"But So- Nic..." Tails whines.
"Tails..." Tails hates when he uses his serious tone; that means that there's no more discussion, and that his decision is final. With no other words to say, Tails sighs sadly and agrees with Sonic's voice.
"O-K... I won't fly..."Tails glances at some of the blueprints he has for various projects on his table, and stares down at his hands. He kicks a soda can at his feet lightly and Sonic can tell that he's distraught.
"Aw, it's not the end of the world Tails." Hearing no change in his tone, Sonic tries once again to cheer him up. "Tell you what," Sonic begins, "I'll head on over after I'm done here, and then we'll watch a movie or somethin'. Sound good?" Tails perks up a little and happily agrees to the offer.
"Alright! Cool." Tails says. Satisfied that he's said all he could say, Sonic goodbyes his friend and hangs up the phone. Tails also hangs up and looks around his house. His house is very large. Connected to his plane hangar, the house is nearly the same size, and has a much decorated living room and kitchen along with many other rooms upstairs. Unfortunately because of its size, he had to build it on the side of a tall mountain for space; he found it easier and less noisy for any neighbors he may have had otherwise. The living room has two couches of the color beige, a cream-colored carpet, and orange walls. Red curtains hang from the windows and one wall has a large hanging TV with a coffee table on a light green rug and a couch facing it.
There are a couple of coffee cans lying around, and he needs to do the dishes, but he instead just groans and slumps down on the couch. He knows that he should probably pick up a little before Sonic gets there, and so he plots his next course of action. He collects cans and garbage around his living room and piles them in a large paper bag. Once the living room is clean and the bag is full, he goes to put them in the recycling bin outside of his house. Just as he turns to go back inside however, he sees a small box on the doorstep that he swears was not there when he went out in the first place. About the size of a shoebox, it's decorated in Christmas tree wrapping paper and garbed with a light blue bow. On the bow is a note that reads "To Tails, From G.U.N". He wonders why GUN would give him a gift; all he does is create technology for them, and he's no top-secret agent like Shadow is. But nevertheless, he brings it inside and sets it on the living room table in front of his T.V. He tugs on one of the strings of the bow and the wrapping paper comes loose. When he peels it off and peers into the box, inside is a SEGA Saturn game that he is not familiarized with.
"Sonic R? Has SEGA started making games without telling us again?" Tails mumbles to himself. He opens the plastic case and finds that there's a disk, but no manual. "Geez, where's the manual? How am I going to know how to play?" But even without the manual, he searches for his barely touched Saturn in a bin amidst other electronic devices. SEGA had gifted it to him for Christmas a couple years back, but they didn't really give him many games, so it kind just faded into obscurity. It takes him a while finding it, but he eventually pulls it out and connects it to his T.V. It takes a while, but he's got nothing better to do anyway.
He slips in Sonic R and waits until it's ready. He goes into the kitchen and puts popcorn in the microwave, then he puts a bunch of other cans and garbage from the kitchen in a plastic bag until the popcorn's ready. He sets the bag aside and pours the popcorn in a bowl, and brings it to his T.V. The game starts up, and he lays the bowl of popcorn next to him on the couch; he scrolls through the screen and selects the first level. He plays as himself.
After flipping on the game, he tries to go through the first lap, but he swerves to the side. When he does however, he notices that there are SOO many shortcuts, and then after the first lap, he laughs at how bad the game was designed. He finishes the race, but before moving onto the next level, he tries something else. Playing as Sonic, he waits until it is time to go, and when the timer reaches zero, he makes an immediate 360 to the starting gate; he goes to and from the gate three times and beats the level in seconds. That was it; Tails is hooked. He plays the level and third time and this time tries to find all the hidden items. He finds a lot as Sonic, and when the race is done, he finds that he is racing against Metal Sonic. Wanting a fair race, he actually circles the course against Metal Sonic, and wins.
After that was done, Tails puts down the remote and goes to the kitchen to put the untouched bowl of popcorn on the table. But as Tails got a rag and wiped down some of the counters, he heard something weird. He didn't know exactly what it was, but he got the general idea. It sounded like the song from the first level, "Can you feel the sunshine?" But...backwards. He went into the living room to see that the T.V was fine, and that the song wasn't even playing. Wondering if the game is bugged, he plays as himself once again and goes to the second level. The games starts as normal, but wanting to check if the game is bugged, Tails circles around the course and collects many items as he goes. But when he gets to the challenge race, the one that unlocks a new character, something is off, and it's really off. There is nobody next to Tails at the starting gate, and that crazy song is playing again.
But even if he is unnerved because of the music and the glitches, he waits until the lady starts the countdown, but her voice is replaced by a deep and evil tone. Tails shivers in his seat.
"Three..." The hairs on Tails's body stand completely stiff, and when he tries to pause, it doesn't work.
"Twoo..." Tails holds the remote in his hand until the countdown goes down all the way so he can pause, but then the screen starts glitching from black to white, and then to deep red, then back to normal.
"O-One..." says the voice. The screen stays the color red, and it looks as it Tails's character model is bleeding from its mouth and eyes. Tails can feel pain in his own body, and his arms go numb. The remote shakes in Tail's quivering hands, and a strange figure flies across the screen slowly; this sends chills down Tails's spine as the last word is said.
"GAHHH!" A face explodes onto the screen, and its red eyes stare straight through Tails's, paralyzing him in fear. A scream is stuck in his throat and his heart is pounding ferociously in his chest. From the screen, two clawed hands shoot forward to grab Tails. They are hideous and impossibly black in color, and they become ever bigger as they rush toward the young pup. Tails screams loudly and the figure screeches its own disturbing shriek. Tails leaps up and scrambles over the couch, but something grabs his tails from behind, and he is enveloped in a black mist. The mist turns him around and he was staring at a horrifyingly dark figure with soulless eyes. He screams once again but then the darkness envelops everything. Then there was silence.
Next Chapter coming soon, read on, if you dare...