The Great Video Game Mystery!

Who is Trying to Kill Sonic?

By Sonic2nd

Author's Notes: This is a real mystery story. The culprit is a REAL platforming video game character from the 90's. I will leave clues in each chapter. See if you can figure out who it is!

Sonic the hedgehog (along with Shadow & Silver) are at Sega Headquarters. They stand and wait as Sonic sorts through the mail.

Sonic smiles proudly. "I have 87 letters. Beat that, Shadow!"

"Well, I happen to have 64 letters." The black hedgehog replies.

Silver looks at both of them. "Umm.. I have 46 letters. Does that mean anything?"

"Of course it does. It means that I am still the most popular character out of everyone here." Sonic answers.

Silver notices a letter on the ground. "I think you dropped one."

Shadow picks the letter up inspecting the envelope carefully. "It appears to be a letter for Sonic but there's no return address."

Sonic yanks the letter from Shadow and begins to open it. "It just looks like another typed out fan letter."

"What does it say?" Silver asks.

"Why Silver, do you really need to ask? It's another letter from one of my many many fans telling me how great I am. Which I already know of course."

"Do you know how irritating you can be to others then?" Shadow asks sending Sonic an annoyed glance.

"Quit being so negative, Shadow. It's quite unbecoming."

Before Shadow can reply to that remark Sonic begins reading from the letter.

Sonic,

For far too long you been allowed to exist. Appearing in many video games & in other media. My own success might have been small. But it is I who should be Sega's mascot. Instead, I have been forgotten & abandoned over for quite some time. No more I say! I will kill you! Once you are gone I shall get the fame & glory that I truly deserve! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Sincerely Anonymous,

"That's certainly unusual, isn't it?" Sonic asks.

Silver leans over to examine the letter. "This appears to be printed on recyclable paper…"

Shadow ignores Silver as he stares at Sonic with a serious look on his face.

"Sonic, You do realize that someone is trying to kill you."

"There's no need to worry. It's just an empty threat." His wristwatch starts beeping. "Time's up. I have a important meeting to go to. See ya!" He waves to them before running off.

"What if this person really means it?! What if he tries to kill Sonic? What if he's watching us right now?" Silver worries.

"Sonic can't die. He's the one thing that's keeps us all together. Besides, he won't be able to succeed because I'm going to stop him." Shadow says as he walks away.

"How are you going to catch him?" Silver asks.

"I'm going to figure out who this mysterious person is."

"I want to help." Silver starts to follow before Shadow to abruptly turns around.

"I don't need any help. I can do this on my own."

"You'll be able to find this person much quicker if you'll let me work with you. Besides I have as much of a right to help Sonic as you do." Silver stares back at Shadow with a look of fierce determination on his face.

Shadow sighs in a rather frustrated manner. "Fine, you can tag along but only if you promise not to get in my way."

Silver perks up. With a smile on his face he begins to run ahead of Shadow. "I promise. Now let's get going!"

"That's no way to travel. Follow me." Shadow commands.

A few minutes later Silver finds himself in a buggy with Shadow at the wheel.

"Are we heading to anywhere in particular?" Silver asks.

"Yes, I already know who is behind all of this.." In his mind Shadow pictures a small frightened Sonic pleading on his knees while a menacing figure looms from above.

"Please don't kill me!" A scared Sonic begs.

HA HA HA! Look at how pathetic you've become! You should be thanking me for putting you out of your misery!!"

An enraged Shadow snaps out of his own thoughts as he quickly steers the buggy around a tight corner. "It's Mario! Mario the plumber!!"

"What?! How can that be?!"

"No one can be that nice & cheerful all of the time! Don't you see?! It's all part of his devious ploy!" Shadow pulls into a parking lot and shuts the engine off. He leaps out of his buggy & begins to run towards the entrance of the official Nintendo Gym!

Silver jumps out of the buggy following Shadow. "Wait, Shadow! You don't even have any proof!"

"This letter.." Shadow says as he holds it up in the air. "..is all of the proof that I need!" He slams open the door & begins to shout. "Everyone, stop what you're doing!!" The people stop & stare at Shadow as Silver sheepishly hides behind him. Shadow turns his head slightly towards Silver. "Don't just stand there like a idiot!"

"Umm.. okay." Silver uses his psychokinesis power to freeze a punching bag in it's place.

"Mario!" Shadow calls out. "I know you're in here! Come out where I can see you!"

Mario steps out of the swimming pool while another figure ducks into the water.

"Silver, apprehend whoever is hiding down there!"

Silver dashes over to the pool while Mario casually strolls up to a rather angry looking Shadow.

"Why hello there. Would you like to join our exercise program?" Mario smiles at Shadow, which infuriates him even more.

"Can the friendly act! I know that you're after Sonic!"

"Sonic? Why he's.." Mario stops trying to think of what to say. The two are interrupted as Silver uses his power to lift the figure up from out of the pool.

Silver gasps when sees that the figure is Sonic himself!

"Aha! You were trying to drown Sonic. That's low, plumber. Real low.." Shadow narrows his eyes as he looks at everyone else in the room. "And none of you even tried to stop him! I knew it! That nice friendly image at Nintendo is all a façade! All of you are accomplishes to this attempted murder! You're all under arrest!"

Silver gently lowers Sonic to ground. He gets up then quickly dashes over to Shadow and covers his mouth.

"MMMPPH! MMM HMPP!!"

"Sorry about that, Mario. My friend has a habit of going overboard." He says casually trying to cover up his embarrassment.

Mario stares at the angry black hedgehog as he backs away a little. "That's alright, Sonic. But your friend he's not going to hurt anyone is he?"

"He won't hurt you guys. I'll make sure of it." Sonic answers as he lets go of Shadow.

"Well Sonic, can you tell us why you're here then?" Silver asks.

"It was suppose to be a surprise…" Sonic voices trails off.

"Sonic & I are going to be in a official Olympic video game!" Mario blurts out happily.

"Really?!" Silver eyes widen in excitement. "That's amazing!"

"Since it is such an important event, we decided to help each other." Sonic tells him.

" Was Mario trying to help you learn how to swim?"

"Yes and in exchange Sonic will help me improve my running skills." Mario answers.

"Wow! The companionship between you two is so inspiring!" Silver says with a star struck look in his eyes.

"As long as you remember that I won't hold anything back when the real games begin." Sonic smiles at Mario.

"Of course not. It's always good to do your best when completing in anything. That's how I won all of those parties." Mario says proudly.

Sonic looks at Mario aghast. "What kind of parties are you talking about?!"

"The ones where my friends & I run around on a different series of board games." Mario explains.

"Oh those.." Sonic breathes a sigh of relief before continuing to talk with Mario.

Shadow scowls yet again as he takes out a small notepad. He flips the notepad open to a list of possible suspects and crosses out Mario's name with a pen. "I can't believe I was wrong.." He mutters to himself.

"Excuse me?"

Shadow looks up and sees Princess Peach looking at him sadly.

"How could you accuse Mario of such a horrible act?!"

"It all added up! It makes perfect sense once you think about it!" Shadow snaps at her.

Silver steps in between the two. "Hi, Miss Princess. I'm terribly sorry for how my friend has acted towards you. He won't do it again. Isn't that right, Shadow?" Silver asks giving Shadow a rather deadly glare.

Why is everyone against me today? "Fine fine. I won't yell at you again. I promise." Shadow grumbles.

Peach smiles at Silver. "Thank you for helping. You don't need to apologize though. You didn't do anything wrong."

Silver turns away blushing.

"What's your problem?" Shadow asks.

"I'm.. a little shy around girls…"

"We're wasting our time here. Let's go. There's someone else I want to question." Shadow tells him.

Moments later Silver & Shadow are in the buggy as they begin to exit the Nintendo Gym Parking Lot.

Silver wistfully stares at the terrain ahead. "I hope you're not going to overreact again."

"Hmmph. I never overreact."

"Of course you don't."

Shadow glares back at Silver. "I can let you walk to our next location."

"I'll be quiet…"

"Shadow?"

He sighs. "What is it now, Silver?"

"Where are we going?"

"We're going to visit the next suspect, Bubsy Bobcat!"

To Be Continued…

Author Notes: This story is based a rough draft written around Spring 2007. It's a little outdated by now. I find it rather ironic that Shadow actually did end up in the Mario & Sonic Olympic game. I certainly didn't expect that when I first wrote this story many months ago…Anyway I hope you enjoy the story. Bye for now!