*sighs* I HAD intended to completely remake this fic three years ago when I posted it. The problem was that I'd put a hell of a lot of work into the second chapter to make it longer and more engaging only for the entire thing to somehow end up going bye-bye. I can't even remember what happened to it at this point. I think either it somehow got lost or deleted (can't even remember if I wrote it via my laptop or if it was handwritten) or that might have been around when I got my virus. That discouraged me and I completely lost interest in continuing this fic.

What made me come back to it after three years of abandonment? Silent Hill 1, bitches! I bought it off of PSN and finally got to play it! This put me in a mood to write things like this and because I'm now more familiar with the first game than I was three years ago, I decided that I'm going to take chapter 2 in a completely different direction than I did the first time I wrote this. The weirdness in this one regarding the Larval Stalker is intentional. I wrote it this way in retaliation at all the feel-good kiddie movies my little sister makes me watch...

Also, looking back at this fic now, I can't help but laugh at how Barricade and Blackout's personalities flip-flopped in my characterization since I wrote the original fic with Blackout being the more serious one and Barricade being the one causing all the problems with his impulsiveness now. I'll probably end up re-writing the first chapter to reflect this (if I feel like it, anyway) since I think I'm going to stick with my later characterization of them in my future rewrites.

EDIT: I added a monster guide to the bottom of this page since I realized that some of the people reading this apparently read for the Transformers and never actually played Silent Hill before. I also fixed a few things that I missed in the editing stage.


They were back out onto the streets again. The Straight-Jacket monsters had strangely disappeared and had been replaced with Groaners and Air Screamers. Neither of them seemed to be much of a threat to the two robots. Every once in a while one of the rotting dogs would decide they wanted to chase the pretty transforming car, but they were easily subdued with a kick to the face. Blackout seemed to make a pretty attractive perch as a swarm of Air Screamers all decided to roost on his head.

"Great. This is just like the day Laserbeak and Buzzsaw invited their extended family over for a reunion," Blackout grumbled. He was beginning to know how the scarecrows in Hell must feel.

Barricade thought he saw a figure running ahead through the fog. "Blackout, did you see that?" he asked.

"How could I?" Blackout mumbled. One of the Air Screamers was clinging firmly to his face and obscuring his vision.

Barricade barely seemed to hear him. "I think it's that bitch who ran me off the road!" he said angrily. "Hey you! Get back here!" The figure took off through the fog. Barricade chased off after her.

"Barricade, wait!" Blackout shouted. He narrowly avoided running into a pole in his blindness and felt one of the Groaners squish underfoot. "Aw man, I just stepped in something!"

Barricade chased the little girl through the fog. She led them straight to Midwich Elementary School. The police cruiser searched around for her, but she seemed to have vanished. Perhaps she went inside the school? "Alright Blackout, into the school!" Barricade ordered.

"Hold on!" Blackout replied. He was using a fence to scrape off the rancid and squished blood and organs on his foot. "Barricade, wait!" he shouted when his companion went inside without him. He froze and looked around. Was it getting darker or was it just him?

Barricade picked up a map from a nearby bench at the entrance. Once through the doors and into the actual school, he looking around for a sign that the girl had been there. Straight ahead was the courtyard. Guess that was a good place to start. He heard the door slam behind him and saw Blackout standing there, the Air Screamers still clinging to him.

"Get off me, you ugly pigeons!" Blackout shouted, shaking himself off. The Pteranodon-like things fluttered every which way and disappeared into the dark hallways. "Barricade, it just got really dark all of a sudden..."

"Shh..." Barricade replied. "I think I hear something." He pushed the courtyard doors open and the two went out.

Immediately they heard a weird sound, like children's laughter, only more demented. A pair of what they could only guess were rejected Muppets that looked like teddy bears with claws and a gouged-out hole where the face should be came forward out of the black. Blackout looked confused. "Claw Fingers? Where are the Grey Children?" he asked.

Barricade shrugged. "We must be in the PAL version of Silent Hill," he guessed. The Mumblers/Claw Fingers advanced on them slowly. The wide openness of the courtyard allowed both the Decepticons to just sidestep them and walk around to the other side. They both reentered the school.

The first thing they heard upon reentering was a squeak. "Did you hear that?" Blackout asked. They both heard it again. "Air Screamer?" he guessed. He hadn't seen where they went after he shook them off.

"No...the Air Screamers sounded more like a shriek..." Barricade replied. "This is a squeak. Maybe Silent Hill has a rat problem?" They both looked around for the source of the squeaking noise. Barricade's flashlight settled on a teensy shadow child staring straight at him. It squeaked again and turned around to run away, tripping over itself and getting back up again to flee from the scary light. "Aww, it's adorable!" Barricade said as he watched the Larval Stalker run into the dark part of the hallway.

"Let's keep it!" Blackout agreed as they followed it.

The Larval Stalker did her best to get away. You see, Larval Stalkers were a shy and timid creature. Never knowing the kindness of others and always being bullied by the cruel Grey Children (or Mumblers since Blackout and Barricade seemed to be in the PAL version), they could only sit back in the shadows, lonely together with other Larval Stalkers, and wait for the day they grew up into full-sized Stalkers and stabbed their tormentors to death with a wicked glee in their soul and a smile on their semi-invisible little faces. Seeing new faces like the two robots that showed up for some reason inside the school or that man looking for a little girl (short, black hair, seven years old) was a scary experience for her. She noticed that they were following her and squeaked in fear, tripping and falling to the ground, before getting up again and disappearing just as they got close.

"Aw, I almost had it..." Barricade sighed.

"Maybe it went this way? Let's check it out," Blackout suggested. He pushed the door in front of them open.

They searched several rooms and two floors of Mumblers with no luck. They were about to give up when they heard a banging sound from one of the rooms. "You heard that, right?" Barricade asked. He looked over at the larger Decepticon, who was silently nodding. Good. That meant he wasn't going crazy.

They slowly opened the door and found they were standing in a locker room. There was a banging from the other side of the row of lockers in front of them. "You first, Barri," Blackout said, giving Barricade a persuasive shove forward.

"Maybe it's just our little squeaking friend?" Barricade suggested.

"Yeah...or maybe someone got sick of the Mumblers' shit and stuffed one of them in a locker?" Blackout nodded.

"Or it could be one of the Air Screamers we accidentally brought in." Barricade stepped around the corner cautiously. Blackout walked around after him. One of the lockers ahead was shaking as something banged on it from within. "I don't wanna go," Barricade squeaked. Blackout shoved him forward, moving at a snail's pace behind him.

"It's okay. Just reach out and open the locker," Blackout said in a shaky voice.

Barricade reached out to unlatch the lock. Slowly he lifted it up, releasing it with a rusty click. Suddenly, a great force of pressure from within caused the locker door to burst open and out lept a cat, scaring them both. "It was just a cat?" Barricade laughed when he realized what they were afraid of.

"It's a little meow-meow," Blackout snickered. The cat took off around the corner, intent on fleeing the room. They both heard the door open and close, followed by a wet slashing sound and the cat shrieking in agonizing pain.

Both Blackout and Barricade stood there in stunned silence. "Oh my god..." Barricade finally blurted out. Blackout garbled a barely intelligible response. "That cat knows how to open doors!" Barricade finally added in shock. Blackout stared at him and his total-missing-the-pointedness.


Two hours of walking around. Two hours of searching relentlessly. Barricade and Blackout completely forgot what it was they were even doing in the school. All they could remember was their frightened little squeaking friend that they'd been tearing the school apart looking for. They found many others, but not the one they were looking for in particular. They knew they weren't her. They could easily tell. She was special!

"Barricade, let's just go," Blackout sighed. He was tired of walking in circles and wanted to get out of this monster school.

"Fine," Barricade gave in. "Just give me a second..." He reached into his pocket (because robots totally have pockets now) and pulled out a chocolate bar, setting it on the bench near where they'd first seen her. "Hopefully she'll find it first," he said with a heavy sigh. They turned around to go back through the courtyard and leave the school.

The Larval Stalker poked her head around a locker. She saw the candy that Barricade had left for her. A shadowy little tear fell down her ghostly cheek. No one had given her chocolate before...in fact, the Mumblers and Grey Children usually sat on her and ate candy in front of her. She quickly ran over to the bench and retrieved her tasty little treat.

"So what about that girl we came in here looking for?" Blackout asked once they were outside.

Barricade suddenly remembered the reason why they ran into the building in the first place. "Oh yeah, her..." He considered his question a moment and then shrugged. "I'll send her a bill."

They were walking away from the school when they heard an adorable little squeak and turned around. The Larval Stalker they'd been searching for stood in front of one of the doors. She clutched the candy bar in both hands and gnawed on it. When she was done with it, she twisted the wrapper up into a little bow tie and stumbled forward towards them, latching onto Barricade's ankle with a squeak.

"I think she wants to come with us!" Barricade said when she squeaked again.

"Aww, look at her adorable little candy wrapper bow tie!" Blackout squeed.

"Let's call her Squeakums!" Barricade suggested.

Blackout was silent for about an hour. "This is why you shouldn't be allowed to name anything ever."


Monster Guide! For those of you who have never played Silent Hill. :)

From the previous chapter (Silent Hill: Origins)

Straight-Jacket: A variation of the Patient Demon/Lying Figure monster from Silent Hill 2, the Straight-Jacket is a faceless, humanoid abomination that is trapped in a straightjacket made of its own skin. It represents the mental turmoil of the main character in the games it appears in.

Faceless Nurse: A variation of the iconic nurse monster that appears in almost every Silent Hill game to date. They typically represent a fear of hospitals and institutionalization, though the different variations throughout the games can carry multiple meanings depending on the context of the game.

From this chapter (Silent Hill 1)

Groaner: Your typical zombie Hellhound, possibly only added to the game as a homage/direct copy of the Cerberus/Zombie Dogs from the Resident Evil series that the first Silent Hill was supposedly a clone of before survival horror was considered a genre. They're basically just an annoyance while you're exploring the town and represent Alessa's fear of dogs. (Alessa is the young girl that Barricade chases into the school and is a major character in the first and third Silent Hill games)

Air Screamer: Like the Groaners, they're just an annoyance. They look like Pteranodons with humanoid features and represent Alessa's love of the book "The Lost World". I'm not kidding. That's literally the entire symbolism behind them.

Grey Child: A small, almost reptilian creature that vaguely resembles a child. Represents the children that made fun of Alessa as a child. They were censored in the PAL version of the game due to laws about killing anything even remotely resembling a small child.

Mumbler: Also called a Claw Finger by some fans (including me...it's my preferred name for it), it looks exactly as described in the fic. In the American version of the game it only appears late in the game, but in the PAL version of the game it replaces the Grey Children. I prefer them over the Grey Children, which is why I decided to use them instead. They represent fairy tale monsters. No, really.

Larval Stalker/Stalker: Larval Stalkers are little shadow children that you can find in the school and I think at least one or two other parts in the game. They're completely harmless and just squeak and run from you when you come too close. Eventually they get an upgrade in the form of Stalkers, which are basically just a spectre or ghost-like Grey Child that aren't as harmless. They symbolize the bullying that Alessa went through as a child. I personally find them adorable and wanted to add one to my story. :/