Author's notes: Happy late Halloween! Anyways, sorry for taking so long, but it is finally here. I will try to update the next chapter quicker. The next chapter will be based on November and will be the only chapter based on that month. Anyways, please enjoy the new chapter.
"Just, what the f*** is that thing?"
Knokles and Sunrise were looking at Sunrise's latest creation. In front of them seemed to be a scarecrow, as it could be described as a scarecrow wearing dark purple clothing, had a jack-o-lantern head, white gloves, and Sonic like quills that stuck from its head. Sunrise turned towards his lackey to say something on his mind; in a dark and damp room with not much contained inside it.
"It's my latest creation, Pumpkin the Hedgehog! He will be the warning that we will give, telling them all that we will be there to destroy them all once June comes by!"
"No really, what is that thing?" Knokles asked again.
"I SAID that this is my LATEST creation! Don't make me send you back to one of the prison cells!" Sunrise told him.
Knokles shook his head in disappointment. If he had any leadership skills, he would have disposed Sunrise right there and now. However, he couldn't afford it at the moment. He started to regret working for this guy. Deciding to ignore the echidna, Sunrise turned back to his creation.
"Pumpkin, arise and awaken!" Sunrise shouted.
Hearing his command, the thing came to life and began to light up its carved in eyes. Now that it was in the mood, it began to sing and dance.
"I will go to Crystal Wave Boarding School and give them the warning! They will cry and scream in fear of my scariness! They don't stand a chance against your brilliance and power!" it sang.
Knokles groaned, deciding to leave the place and go back to his room. Once he disappeared from view, Sunrise watched as Pumpkin disappeared into an aura of darkness; keeping up its act. Sunrise smiled in anticipation, believing that his creation would actually succeed.
"Now, go and do your job!" Sunrise shouted.
Over at the school, Sonic and his friend ere in the cafeteria; eating lunch as usual. Now that Vector was the gym teacher, experiences at the gym were not nearly as bad as they were; when Blockzar was in charge. However, Vector still gave them exercises that would indeed make some of the students sweat heavily. Anyways, the cafeteria was full of Halloween decorations; as both the lunch servers and most of the students were wearing costumes. Sonic himself wasn't wearing a costume; but he was busy biting into a chilidog. As he was about to finish the last one, the entrance doors to the area, flung open. In front of the door was Pumpkin the Hedgehog himself. Everyone stopped eating, as they turned around to see the monstrosity.
"I am Pumpkin the Hedgehog! I am here to give you the warning!" it sang, pointing at everyone.
Sonic scratched his head, wondering what that thing was supposed to be.
"I am here to tell you all that I was created by Sunrise the Hedgehog!"
"Who is Sunrise?" Sonic asked.
"Sunrise is my leader. He will come to destroy you on June!"
"Really? Then, go tell your 'leader' that it's a bad idea to let your opponent grow stronger over time!" Sonic said.
"Sure thing, but first…I need to show you all my power!" Pumpkin responded.
Then, Pumpkin began to dance into the cafeteria and sing. Considering the thing to nothing more than an annoyance, Shadow removed himself from his seat; as he began to walk towards Pumpkin. As it was paying no attention to the dark hedgehog, Shadow stopped right in front of him. Just when Pumpkin took a moment to see what Shadow was up to, Shadow's fist flew right through the jack-o-lantern head. Creating a hole that went through both sides of the head, the creation became still and fell onto the floor.
"Hmpth! Such patheticness!" Shadow said, shaking off the bits of the pumpkin; and then crossed his arms.
Finished with the job, Shadow went to go back to his seat. Before the black hedgehog could make it, though, the once lifeless being suddenly began to hover back onto its feet. The ruined head fell off, as ghostly energy began to swirl in place of its former head. Once the energy finished, the new head had a similar shape to its old head, but very devilish look to its face. Next to occur was it limbs beginning to be slowly covered by its new artificial skin; which resembled that of a zombie's. Watching this, a few students were on the verge of throwing up. Once that had passed by, nasty claws began to form through the feet and hands; as they slowly grew to length. Finished with the transformation, Pumpkin was ready once again. Except, this time, it was no longer playing games.
"Do you all believe that everything is simple? Such foolish thoughts will bring you your very demise you are all about to witness. Not even my foolish creator; who has under looked me, can stop the pain and sorrow I am about to unleash!" Pumpkin said, bringing its hands up.
Before anyone could react to prevent such a mysterious event from occurring, everything around them began to distort and warp around. All sources of light began to fade and demonic laughter slowly filled the air. No one knew what was happening; but, one by one, everyone experiencing it all began to faint. The last thing Sonic saw was the immensely terrifying being slowly walking towards him; as he felt some sort of tingling feeling in his brain intensify.
Opening his eyes up, Sonic quickly jumped onto his feet and looked around. No longer was he inside the school, but instead, was in some abandoned bedroom. It looked very much like it came out of a horror movie, especially a lone window covered in dust. Seeing the lone window, he looked outside, to see that the school grounds have been transformed into the land of Halloween. Not just any Halloween, but one filled with eternal inhumane torturing; one that would cause even the most sane people to lead themselves into the darkness. The sky took on a purplish look, the grass was entirely brown and withered, the trees had evil looking faces and braches, and jack-o-lanterns were scattered across the ground. Sonic knew he had to find the thing that had threatened to make this Halloween the worst possible one ever. It didn't take long for Sonic to notice the door behind him. Jumping through it, the door snapped off its hinges and landed with a loud thud. Searching the narrow hallway, he began to check every room to see if the students were okay; not a sign of them were in the rooms. Concerned for the safety of everyone, he ran down the old fashioned creaking wooden stairs and down into the next floor.
Unlike the previous floor, this one had no doors; not even a door was at the end of this hallway. Sonic scratched his head, as a mass of darkness began to form behind him. As he was about to turn around, a long pair of claws ran through his chest, splattering blood across the floor. Being lifted into the air, Sonic was thrown across the hallway and collided face first into the wall. Covering his chest as he coughed, he turned around to see a familiar face. It was no other than Amy Rose, or that was what Sonic believed.
"Amy?" Sonic asked.
However, her eyes were lifeless, as they had no irises. She had a long pair of sharp nails and had signs of rotting flesh. It was then Sonic knew that it was not her, but an imposter. Not expecting what was about to happen, Amy threw up blood; as it twisted its head around. Once it finished, the top of its head was pointing downwards and the chin area was pointing upwards. Suddenly, its flesh began to take bubble up into a goo like look. Having no escape, Sonic could only watch, as the imposter began to dissolve into a pinkish puddle of goo. Next thing the hedgehog knew was that it lunged towards him, beginning to cover him. Sonic knew what was happening; slime corruption. As he tried to pry it off himself, it began to cover more of his body; going as far as to slither across his mouth. Having no choice, Sonic began to spindash. Continuing to spindash, the chunks of slimy goo began to fly everywhere. Taking no chances, Sonic ran out of the place and back up the previous floor. Not knowing when to give up, the Amy imposter reformed and began to chase from behind.
Running down a different set of wooden stairs, Sonic was breathing heavily. The bleeding stopped, but the area around his chest was still healing slowly; as the remains of the wounds were still visible. Thinking he was going to lose the monster, two pair of pink hands then suddenly rose from the floor; grabbing onto his arms. Attempting to spin dash out of yet again, he was rather unsuccessful. Forming in front of him was the Amy imposter.
"Nice use of my powers there, huh?"
Sonic recognized that voice from anywhere.
"Amelia!" Sonic yelled.
Laughing like a witch, the imposter began to shift, until Amelia Violet herself had appeared.
"You have to stop this! The sooner we find Pumpkin and stop him, the better!" Sonic said.
"Why should I? Let's just say that I made a little agreement with Pumpkin," Amelia replied.
"What? Why would you do that?" Sonic asked.
"I want a little more fun, until I destroy you all," Amelia answered.
Caring about the lives of all of the students, teachers; and all who worked at the school, he began to struggle from the captive hands. It was still no use. Then, Amelia told Sonic a big dark secret.
"Oh, it's a shame that my leader is so incompetent. Knokles, one of my friends, believed our leader would have the brains to attack at a good time. I was secretly sent by Knokles to the school; where I would screw around with all of you, till Sunrise, out leader, would be able to find the location and destroy you all at the possible best time. However, it seems like that is not to be the case. Once I am finished with all of you, I will use my powers to destroy Pumpkin and return this place back to normal. Then, I will kill that pathetic wannabe leader and take my place as the rightful leader. I will make Knokles my right hand man."
Sonic was surprised; Sonic knew she was a Mary-Sue up to no good, but he didn't know that she was secretly working for somebody.
"Do you personally know Toko? Is he also working for Sunrise?" Sonic also asked.
"H*** no! I could give a flying c*** about him!" Amelia shouted.
Then, she got an idea; as a wide toothy smile appeared on her face.
"I know! I'll temporally assimilate you, so that I can pretend to be you! I think Shadow will be my next target."
Sonic couldn't do anything, but watch, as she dissolved into a pile of slime and began to cover his entire body.
In a different place of the building, Tails was staring at something right in front of his face. In front of him was an Eggman imposter, who looked like a zombie version of him; except that his head was leaning backwards, a large row of teeth appeared from his stomach, and a large eyeball covered in blood veins was staring at him; from inside the row of teeth. Behind the thing were the remains of a large machine that had appeared to use a large version of a mace for its hands. The thing was feeling terrified, as Tails looked very upset towards it. They were both in a room made of nothing but darkness.
"Do I have to tell you again? Get me out of here or else I will have to beat common sense into you!" Tails yelled, doing his best to hide his sense of fear.
Knowing that it stood no chance, it snapped its fingers, sending Tails out of the room. The thing then collapsed onto the floor, as it began to slowly dissolve away. It knew it had failed, and hence, there was no reason for it to exist anymore.
Shadow was all alone; as he walked through hallways that seemed to be replicas of the ones on the ARK. A faint reflection on the smooth walls followed every step he was taking. As he continued to move ahead, something quickly appeared from behind. Shadow turned around, to see that it was just the blue hedgehog known as Sonic.
"Hey there, Shadow!" Sonic said.
"What do you want? I'm busy looking for the way out. I have tried to chaos control out of this place, but with no success," Shadow replied.
"That's rather rude! I'm doing the same thing as well!" Sonic yelled.
"Fine. But, if you do anything funny, you will be dead in the next five seconds!" Shadow said, pointing at Sonic.
"Yeah, whatever you say," Sonic said, scratching his head.
Continuing onto their journey, they continued to walk forward, as there were no visible doors at the moment. Just then, Shadow's wish came true, as a door out into the distance began to appear. It was actually an old fashioned wooden one, instead of an automatic one that could be found on the real ARK. It was not as simple as it seemed, though. Behind Shadow, Sonic's arms began to separate into four separate ones. Then, they began to morph into big lobster claws. Unfortunately for the Sonic imposter, Shadow could hear it happening behind him. As the Sonic imposter was about to snap at his arms and legs to disable him, Shadow suddenly disappeared, having pulled out a chaos emerald without getting the imposter's attention. When Shadow appeared from behind, the Sonic imposter felt terrified. With a destructive blow from his fist, the thing was sent flying. Being sent into unconsciousness as it collided with the floor, Sonic returned to normal; as the purple slime oozed out of his body and began to take shape. Amelia reformed with her claws, but this time gained a massive muscular body that rivaled Knokles's.
"I figured it would be you, Amelia Violet," Shadow said, in a calm manner.
"Of course it was me; who else would it be, you idiot! It's such a shame though that I am skipping to wanting to kill you. Nobody ruins my fun like that! If you want to survive so much, then prove to me, you are as good as you claim to be; but I doubt your chaos powers alone will help you win," Amelia replied, moving her arms around.
Shadow smirked; as he had no reason to hold back.
"Bring it on, then."
Over at yet another place of the realm, a brown hyena ran into one of the rooms. It was an abandoned office room. There was the typical equipment, including a radio. Then, the entrance way collapsed, destroying the door in the process.
"No, I must kill Pumpkin's demons!" the hyena yelled.
Suddenly, the radio blared on.
"No John, you are the demons," the radio said.
Then John was a zombie.
You are probably wondering, what's the point of that scene. The truth is that, it has nothing to do with the actual story. I am such an evil person! Oh ho ho ho! Wait, why am I laughing like Eggman? Anyways, I will stop wasting everyone's time and get back to the real story.
Knuckles's fist rested on the last of the zombie like minions, as it fell to the ground in pain. These guys were no challenge for him, as the echidna stood on the piles of bodies. Just then, something phased into the room; who turned out to be no other than Tails.
"Tails, are you okay?" Knuckles asked, walking towards him.
"Yeah but we need to find Sonic and the others." Tails answered.
"Right," Knuckles agreed.
Proceeding to make it out of the room; before the minions woke back up, they began to search for their friends.
Over at what looked like a room filled with traps and lava, Amy was exhausted and sweating. She had clearly ended up at a brick wall dead-end. Many times, she had nearly fallen into the lava or been caught up in one of the traps. The longer she stayed stuck in this place, the more she felt terrified that something bad may have happened to Sonic. As she was about to turn around to look for a potential exit, the dead-end suddenly opened up into a completely differently area. Walking into the ARK replica room, it took her not long to see something else unexpected. The first thing she saw was Sonic's unconscious body.
"Sonic!" Amy cried out, running towards him.
Feeling terrified, she hugged his body and began to leak some tears out of her eyes.
"Looks like I found somebody else."
Amy got up and looked up to see that it was Shadow. Noticing something behind him, she looked around to see Amelia's body. There was only a small amount of blood coming from her injuries. Amelia's eyes were moving all over the place; as she was moaning pain and stars circled her head.
"The power of pancakes will compel you, you possession monster!" Amelia mumbled.
Then, Amy looked back at Shadow.
"Are you okay?" Amy asked.
"Yes, but we need to get out of here and find the monstrosity that got us here in the first place," Shadow said.
Amy nodded, as Shadow went to pick up Sonic's body. Turns out that he didn't get the chance, as Sonic began to wake up. Getting up on his feet, Sonic took a look to at first see Amy and then Shadow. Taking a look around, Amelia caught his attention.
"Looks like she caused you plenty of trouble!" Sonic said, slightly joking.
"And Pumpkin will cause more, if we don't find him," Shadow replied, walking to the door to stood in front of them.
When he opened it slowly, they saw something they were not expecting. Pumpkin himself was sitting inside a very fancy looking room. He was at a very clean looking wood table, while watching some Halloween sitcoms on the portal TV right in front of him. Red leather covered the walls and the chairs that were at the large table. Nodding with each other, the tree mobians walked into the room and closed the door behind them. Sonic proceeded to walk up to him and poke his back.
"You can stop with your little games, now," Sonic said.
"Stop bothering me! Can't you see that I'm busy watching TV!" Pumpkin replied, trying to shoo away Sonic; not bothering to look behind.
"You might want to look behind you," Sonic responded.
"What?" Pumpkin asked, getting up from his chair to turn around.
Seeing the three hedgehogs, he was startled and ran into the table.
"How did you three find me?" Pumpkin said.
"That doesn't matter. What does, however, is that if you want to live, I would turn everything back to normal and go away; quietly," Shadow answered.
"I don't want to!" Pumpkin whinnied, like a child.
Seeing Shadow pull out his chaos emerald, Pumpkin changed his mind right on the spot.
"Okay, okay, I'll turn things back to normal and go away! I am such a gutless coward!" the thing replied.
"If you are a coward, then please explain why you threw us into some dangerous traps?" Amy responded.
"Believe it or not, none of the traps were designed to kill you. They will injure you, yes, but they will just simply render you unconscious. Not even the possessed Amelia was ever going to kill you, Sonic," it said, snapping its fingers afterwards.
Suddenly, the entire place began to rumble; as Pumpkin himself began to shed off some eerie light.
"This is the worst Halloween, ever!" Pumpkin shouted, as it began to be engulfed into the light.
Once the light had fully blinded Sonic and his friends, they were knocked unconscious by some invisible force.
Waking up, Sonic and his friends saw that all of the students were back in the cafeteria. The remains of Pumpkin were at the exact spot his body fell; before he thrown them into the Halloween realm. Clearly, his body went back to being that of a scarecrow's and his ghost like head had vanished. Unknown to many of the students, Amelia was rocking at a corner; crying out her eyes.
"I can't believe some monster possessed me and told some lies!" Amelia said, still crying.
Amelia may have never been an actual spy for Sunrise in reality nor did she ever have such destructive intentions, she was still a pathetic Mary-Sue to the very end.
Sonic looked at his chest, to see that any signs of his wounds were gone. Seeing as how everyone was still alive and not missing, it was concluded that it was nothing more than a terrible nightmare they were thrown into; basically, a bad hallucination of some sorts. Suddenly, the bell ranged, making many of the students jump, mentally. Breathing a sigh of relief, Sonic dusted himself and proceeded to go to his next class and forget about everything that happened.
Many hours passed by, as it was night time. For some of the unfortunate students, they were unable to sleep at night, fearing that they would have another nightmare on the same event that had occurred today. Over at Sonic's house, everything was peaceful; as only the occasional car passed by. Just then, a small spy drone floated from behind the house.
At Eggman's base, the dictator was watching everything the spy drone was recording. He smiled, knowing that with Sonic nowhere to be seen, getting the Master Emerald would be easier than it otherwise would be. While he was preoccupied, the sound of a footstep echoed across the dark room. Spinning around in his spinning chair; expecting it to be one of his robots wanting something, a fist suddenly flew into his vision; colliding into his face. The collision was powerful enough to knock Eggman straight out. A pair of yellow eyes peered through the darkness, as it pulled out a pair of glasses and put them on.
Moments later, the principal was in her office, finishing up the last of her paper work. Placing the last paper on top and shoving it all aside, she picked up a picture that rested on her desk. It was a picture of not only her, but her husband and two children as well. One was a boy and the other was a girl. The boy looked a bit older in comparison. As Gelka placed the picture back on the desk and got up to leave, she heard something. Turning around, a long metallic arm covered in darkness grabbed her by the mouth. As she struggled against her enemy; while being lifted high into the air, she saw that it had one glowing yellow eye. Then, it suddenly brought out its other arm; which had a small circular device attached to it and shot out sleeping gas from said device. Feeling woozy, she drifted off into sleep; as the mysterious being vanished into the dark portal with her. Making sure that nobody else could enter the portal, it disappeared without a trace.
Author's notes: What will happen to Eggman? What was the thing that kidnapped the principal? You will have to find out in the next chapter!