I think this is my favorite chapter. Silent Hill 3 is my favorite game in the series, and the Amusement Park is just so freaking awesome. This chapter actually makes a lot of mention of monsters from the game and even has some dialog taken exactly as it is in the game for realism.
P.S. Scrapers are also my favorite Silent Hill monster of all time. That's another thing this game does right.
I don't own Transformers or Silent Hill.
"Turn on your light, and they'll see you.
Make a sound, and they'll hear you.
If you think it's scary being lost,
just wait til you're found."
-Silent Hill 3 TV advert
Leggy led Blackout and Barricade throughout Silent Hill on the leash Blackout had tied around her waist.
"Why are we letting her guide us?" Barricade mumbled.
"She's lived here longer. She probably knows where we're going."
"She doesn't have eyes! Hell, she doesn't even have a head! She can't see! Look, she's been walking in a circle for the past fifteen minutes!"
Blackout let go of the leash and watched as the Mannequin walked in a circle around them before crashing into a tree.
"Aww… Poor Leggy's far-sighted!" Blackout sympathized.
"Far-sighted? She's fragging blind, Blackout! She gets along by recognizing sounds!"
"So, where are we now?"
"Slag if I know." Barricade slammed his head on a lamppost. "Great, now we're lost again! We wouldn't be in this situation if you'd have just asked that guy with the big sword and triangular, red helmet for directions instead of relying on Leggy!"
"Leggy was scared of him! Besides, you didn't want to ask him for directions yourself, hypocrite!" Blackout defended.
"How do we find out where we are now? The only one here is Leggy, and she's chasing that moth/butterfly thing!"
They both watched as Leggy ran in loops, trying to catch the damned thing, until finally she ran into a lamppost and knocked herself out cold.
"Ooh! I know! There's a little green arrow on the map that shows us where we are and which way we're facing!" Blackout said, pulling out the map.
"Wow, that's weird!" Barricade said.
"Hey look, there's a smaller yellow arrow running towards Lakeside Amusement Park. Wonder who that is?"
"Hey Blackout, where's Leggy?"
Blackout arrived at Lakeside Amusement Park with Barricade clinging to his rotor mount. "I still say I could have walked," he grumbled.
"Quit whining, Barricade! You sound like Starscream!" Blackout growled, pulling him off.
"Why do we even have to come here? You already have a pet! What about Scorponok?"
"I love my Scorpy, yes. But Leggy is my pet too, and I'm not leaving her to die!"
"What, think she'll get raped by that Pyramid Guy or something? She'll be fine, Blackout! She lives here, she should know how to survive in this environment! Now let's… SWEET MOTHER FRAGGER, WHAT IS THAT?!" Barricade jumped, pointing to something pink and stained with red.
Blackout nudged it with his foot. "It looks like a dead guy in a bunny suit. Why?"
"And that doesn't bother you?!"
"Well, the smell is a bit unbearable. Why do organics always have to smell horrible when they stop functioning?"
"Ugh, let's just find Leggy and get the frag out of here," Barricade grumbled.
"This place looks weird, doesn't it? It's completely black out, except for where the street lamps are, instead of floors there's rusty metal grating that separates us from a black, endless void, and there's burnt, decomposing corpses shoved in cages everywhere," Blackout observed. "Are you sure we're not just in Aunt Vertigo's basement?"
"Of course not. Your Aunt Vertigo's basement also has a Guillotine and a crematorium."
"Oh right, I forgot."
They both wandered around looking for Leggy. "Leggy! Leggy, dear! Where are you?!" Blackout called. "Follow my voice, sweetie!"
"Blackout, watch out!" Barricade panicked, grabbing his rotor blades and pulling him back before he fell through a hole in the grating.
"Woah! Thanks, Cade! That would have been embarrassing if I fell off!"
"Yes… Embarrassing…" Barricade sighed.
Blackout tensed. "Leggy's blind! She won't be able to see the holes! She could fall and get killed!" He grabbed Barricade and dragged him along behind him. "We gotta find my baby before it's too late!"
-Five minutes later-
"Barry-Cade, I wanna ride the roller coaster!" Blackout begged, tugging on Barricade's arm.
"What about Leggy?" Barricade asked.
"She can wait! Take me on the roller coaster!"
Barricade sighed, then pushed a baby Closer down and stole his tickets. They both ran for the roller coaster while his angry parents rushed over to investigate why their son was crying.
There was a short line, two wee Closers, a Slurper, and an Insane Cancer waited in line ahead of them, while a Scraper collected their tickets. When their turn finally came, Barricade realized he had two choices if he wanted to ride this turn: Either he sat in the back and had to sit with the horrendously disgusting Insane Cancer, or he sat in Blackout's lap up front. He quickly tried to get in the back, but Blackout grabbed his arm and dragged him into the front and onto his lap. Before he could get free, the Scraper closed the lap bar on them.
"Isn't this fun?!" Blackout said excitedly.
"The joy overwhelms me," Barricade grumbled.
They almost ran over some teenaged girl in a vest and a skirt, who for some reason was walking along the tracks. She "thankfully" jumped in time.
"Aww… I wanted to run her over!" Blackout groaned.
"You're going to the Pit," Barricade replied.
They pulled back in and got out. "Let's find Leggy now," Blackout said.
"Can't we just look at the map and find the yellow arrow?" Barricade asked.
"I don't have a map of this area," he shook his head.
"Can't you just draw one?"
"Nope. The strategy guide says I can't."
"Mazal Tov," the Mustang said sardonically and in a slightly pissed-off tone. "So now we don't know where to go."
Blackout pointed. "Why don't we try the Borley Haunted Mansion? I'm sure she'd at least pass through there. She likes scary places."
"Shocker."
"It's better than standing here doing nothing. Come on, let's give it a shot!"
They stood in the Mansion's "yard". "Eh… It kinda looks like Megatron's summer home," Blackout shrugged. They both entered.
"Welcome to the Borley Haunted Mansion!" a voice said from somewhere. They both glanced around. "We're so glad you came."
"Who's this "we" that you speak of?" Barricade asked.
"Please come inside and look around. When you feel you're ready, then go through the door." They both glanced at each other before entering.
The first room was covered in copious amounts of blood. The coppery, metallic smell of blood filled the room.
"Hmm… Kinda looks like the time last Christmas when Starscream pissed off Megatron by giving him socks," Barricade pointed out.
The voice started up again. "Help… Help… Do you hear those voices?"
"You mean the ones that keep telling me to hurt Barricade? Yeah, I hear 'em all the time," Blackout answered. Barricade backed away from him.
"A family of four was sliced into bloody pieces in this room."
"Cool!" Blackout and Barricade exclaimed in unison.
"Ah, the cries of the children… The murderer was caught."
"The butler in the dining room with the knife, right?" Barricade asked.
"Do you know why he said he killed his family? "Because I felt I had to.""
"Seems like a reasonable excuse to me," Blackout shrugged. Barricade nodded in agreement.
"Anyway, I'm lying. It's all just a joke. I wanted to scare you, that's all."
"Hey Blackout, are you scared?" Barricade asked.
"Nope," Blackout responded.
"The truth is only one person died by suicide." A bolt of lightening flashed, revealing a corpse hanging from a noose outside the window. Then all grew silent.
"Whoo! Do it again!" Blackout cheered.
Barricade reached into the display and wiped some of the blood off a chair. He brought it closer to his face. "It looks real…"
"It sure smells real," Blackout added, sniffing the air.
Barricade put his claw to his mouth and licked the blood off. "Hey, it is real!"
"Ooh… Spooky!"
They both went through the door into the next room. There was a dummy rocking in a chair to their left. The first door they came to was locked, so they walked towards the next one. A tied up corpse fell from the ceiling and dangled upside down in front of them.
The voice began to speak again. "That's Danny."
"Hi, Danny!" Blackout said.
"A quiet young man, but quite friendly as you can see. He was so eager to meet you."
"Aww, how sweet!" Blackout smiled.
"His hometown is New Orleans."
"Where's that? Canada?" Blackout asked. Barricade sighed.
"But he came here after first losing his way. Oh, maybe you might know?"
"Unlikely. We don't have a map for this area," Barricade said.
"Where is the path to heaven?"
Blackout pointed upwards. "Just keep going that way, buddy."
"Bye, Danny," Barricade said as they turned around and left out the newly unlocked door.
They both paused and were surprised when the voice didn't start up again. They shrugged and continued to walk through. Halfway through, the spiked ceiling dropped down rapidly and stopped before pulling back up again. Barricade was short enough that he didn't have to move, but Blackout had to quickly crouch down to avoid getting hit. He clung to Barricade and shivered.
"I just lubricated myself…" Blackout whimpered.
"Scared now, Blackout?" the voice laughed maliciously.
"Go to Hell!" he screamed.
"We're already in it, Blackout," the voice said. Blackout and Barricade were both deeply disturbed by this comment.
They both (carefully) continued on their way. Blackout refused to let go of Barricade's hand. They found Leggy cowering in the next hallway over.
"Leggy!" Blackout cheered, picking her up and hugging her. "Don't ever run from me again!"
"Alright, we found Leggy. Now let's…" He turned around to face them and noticed they were gone. "God dammit! Not again!"
He eventually found them both riding the carousel. "Hey Barricade, look! The horses are alive!" Blackout said, pointing to his horse.
It was wrapped in "bandages" of rotting flesh, had burned skin that seemed to crawl on its own, and breathed a bloody mist. Its head was twitching violently.
"Lovely…" Barricade said in disgust. "Why'd you run away from me again?"
"Leggy and I wanted to ride the ponies!" he explained.
"Oh, you wanted to ride the ponies? How stupid of me for not being able to read your mind!" Barricade said sarcastically.
"Yeah, you must feel like an idiot," Blackout responded as he and Leggy got off. "Soundwave can do that, why can't you?"
"Alright, let's go," Barricade grabbed Blackout's hand before he could run away again and led him off to the park entrance.
They all heard a growl and took off running and screaming when they noticed two angry parental Closers chasing after them.
