Mable: This must have been the longest it's taken me to update, I apologize greatly and I hope this chapter makes up for it. It's a little rushed… I hope you still enjoy it.
Bokkun's Mansion
Chapter seven: The horror of the Tails Doll
Bokkun leaned over the hole that resided in the second floor hallway's floor, "There's some stairs down there." He pointed out to the others who stood around the hole too. Sonic sighed, "Tails and Cosmo are probably down there. It's not safe for all of us to go though… Vector, how did you and Espio get inside?" Espio pointed to the poltergust 3000, "Vector used it to break a window." The blue hedgehog nodded, "Then do you think you guys could take Cream, Vanilla, and Bokkun outside?"
As soon as those words came out Bokkun was up, "Hey! I'm in this thing for the long run! I want to fight!" Sonic stared, and then shrugged, "If you really want to, Bokkun. But I'm starting to get scared myself, honestly if Tails and Cosmo weren't lost I'd already be gone. I'm just getting this feeling that I had long ago… Remember Knuckles? The race?" The Echidna in the back slowly nodded, "I'm feeling it too… You don't think he's behind it do you?" They both received confused looks from Josh, "Who? Dr. Eggman?" Vector came back with Espio, they only pointed Vanilla and Cream to the exit and came back.
The two looked back at him before Sonic spoke, "Maybe I should explain. Years ago, Tails, Knuckles, Eggman, and I were in a racing tournament. Amy, you were in it too but you were dropped out." Bokkun glanced at Amy, "Dropped out?" She thought for a second, "You mean that race where they disqualified me from the last races because I was too young?" Sonic nodded, "Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. What we didn't know was that Eggman brought some creations of his, three exactly."
After pausing a few seconds he continued, "One was my copy, Metal Sonic. He was pretty fast and would speak to me with utter hate. 'I didn't know the great Sonic was so pathetic,' something around those words. Then there was," He gestured to Knuckles, "Metal Knuckles. Like Metal Sonic, he hated Knuckles and matched Knuckles' strength." Knuckles smirk, "Tried, Sonic, he tried to match my strength." Sonic ignored the comment, "Anyway, there was another one. A creation of Eggman's, but he wasn't normal." He jumped down into the hole and looked around. Rouge lowered Knuckles and Amy to the lower level, followed by Bokkun who flew Josh down, and Espio and Vector who just jumped.
Sonic looked around, they were in the stairwell that Cosmo and Tails were in only a little while before. He approached a door to the right of the stairs and entered the small storage room, "It was a doll that looked like Tails, the Tails doll, but… It wasn't like the others. It would stare at Tails with its head tilted without an expression; it never had one because it was just cloth and stitches. We thought he was different and was just a lonely creation that was against Eggman. Tails told me he was going to talk to the Tails Doll after the final race was over. He went to see it…. When he didn't come back I went and… The Tails Doll was on top of him, trying to smoother him with his limp cloth arm."
Amy gasped, Josh's eyes widened, and Vector shuttered while muttering "creepy". Bokkun was confused, "I never heard of the Tails Doll." Sonic nodded, "I'm not surprised. The Tails Doll was dangerous and murderous. I think, or thought, that Eggman destroyed him… Maybe I'm wrong… He was just messed up, with the emotionless stitches, and the 'Can you feel the-." "Sunshine?" Josh asked while entering the hallway and walking towards the door at the end, "Right, how do you know?" "I… Guessed?" Vector crossed his arms, "Not convinced, but I guess it doesn't matter now." Past the door was a curvy hallway, then another door. Shadow froze, "I have this bad feeling that we're not going to like what we see beyond this door." Sonic chuckled, "Dully noted."
As soon as the door opened the group was in awe at the lit room in front of them. Candles were on the chandelier with flickered across the room, gargoyle like architecture was on the walls, and across the room Cosmo was laying unconscious on an alter. "Cosmo!" cried Bokkun as he ran towards her, then stopped at what he saw rising on the other side of the alter. It was the Tails Doll; the empty eyes, the rough stitches, and the dragging movement. "Bokkun… Get back behind me." Sonic said this slowly with upmost seriousness. The small messenger obeyed and almost hid behind Sonic, this wasn't like fighting Charmy, this was something even more horrifying
The Doll dragged itself closer, "Welcome Sonic, the answer to your question is no." Sonic was confused, "No?" Tails Doll's legs hung limp as he lifted up, looking like he was being hung, "No, Cosmo is not dead. No, Tails is not here. Finally, no, you will NOT leave this mansion alive." The blue Hedgehog growled, "Where is Tails? What did you do to him?" The Tails Doll's head rolled so it was facing Josh, "Underneath the workbench, underneath the workbench." It was a monotone line sung twice by the Doll. Then it turned towards the group as a whole, its eyes unfocused, "This…" The room turned dark, "Is the end of your foolish, pathetic existence."
When Bokkun's eyes opened he made a small cry as he noticed he was suddenly on the roof near the edge, he started to tilt a little in shock, Espio immediately grabbed him by the jetpack and pulled him back, "Careful Bokkun-kun, it is a far fall." They both turned around with the others, facing the Tails Doll whose jewel glowed brightly, "Can you feel the sunshine?" With that the jewel flickered and suddenly cloth and furniture from the mansion came through the floor and grouped around the Doll.
A structure made itself out of the legs of tables and chairs, cloth pulled it together and stitched its self, butcher knives lined up as make shift teeth. In less then a minute they were facing a bigger Doll, the Tails Doll could be seen stitched into the chest, "Can you feel the sunshine?" It repeated, and the battle began. Sonic ran forward, "Guys, stay back! I can handle this!" he leaped and spin dashed towards the cloth titan's head, it dented in a little but did nothing. Sonic was grabbed and thrown into the knife filled mouth, was practically chewed, and dropped out. Amy shrieked as she saw her hero covered in cuts, small and only bleeding lightly.
He ran back to where the others were standing, "It didn't do anything!" Shadow chaos controlled himself to the right of the titan, "CHAOS SPEAR!" The shard of light hit it with force, not looking like it did anything but break a few stitches on the shoulder. Sonic ran back around and did another spin dash on the opposite side to distract the giant doll. The distraction worked and it grabbed him and threw him into a pillar on the other side of the roof. Now Amy jumped into action and ran towards the doll, only to be grabbed by Shadow who practically dragged her back to the safer side of the roof. The pink Hedgehog only got one attack, throwing the Piko Piko hammer which hit the right shoulder. More stitches broke loose but other then that it did nothing.
Shadow dropped Amy and ran over to Sonic, hoisting him onto his feet, "Come on Faker, don't fail on me now." As soon as the blue Hedgehog stood he was ready to fight and sped quickly towards the doll and ran around it. Once it noticed Sonic going behind it, it turned around, leaving it's it back open for Knuckles who was now anxious to start his part. Knuckles uppercutted up between the legs, gripped onto the cloth, and scaled the back of the doll. Amy ran over and grabbed her hammer, "I'm not going to just stand in the back ground." She leaped and hit the doll over the head, the doll finally responded, "This ends now!"
The titan doll grabbed Amy and threw her a few feet away, there was a cracking noise on impact followed by her whimpers. "Amy!" Rouge ran over to her, "Are you alright?" "My ankle…" Sonic and Shadow became distracted and were both backhanded by the large cloth hand and the two were knocked close to the edge of the mansion. The doll quickly turned around, knocking Knuckles off. The Echidna was thrown close to Sonic and Shadow, hanging off the edge but quickly being pulled up by the two. The doll titan turned towards the two females, Amy who was on the ground because of her hurt angle and Rouge who was trying to help Amy up. Josh ran up in front of the two and stood between them and the doll who growled in a menacing voice, "Just a waste." Then shot five of its knife teeth at the three.
Josh closed his eyes and waited for impact, instead he felt his body twitch and a weird throb in his head. His eyes slowly opened as he waited… No impact. When the eyes slowly raised upwards then widened when he saw the knives. The knives were only a foot from his body standing still in mid-air. Another weird throb hit and he put his hand to his head, suddenly the knives dropped to the ground with a few clangs. Amy's voice piped up, "Josh… What was that?" The green fox stared at his hands, "I'm not sure…" Then focused on a knife. It slowly lifted up and hovered before he twitched, and the knife flew forward at alarming speeds.
The knife passed the titan's arms and hit the chest where the Tails Doll was sewn in, the titan let out a horrible scream. Shadow snapped to attention, "That's it! Its weak point is the Tails Doll itself!" Knuckles growled out in frustration, "Well how do you plan to hit it? The arms guard everything and nobody can get in a decent hit." At this point Espio had picked up one of the sharp knives, "Josh, keep throwing them like that, maybe this battle will be over sooner then I thought." Then he disappeared with a small smirk aimed towards the doll and holding the knife. Josh looked at his hands, "I can't let the others down." And raised another knife using only his mind.
Sonic had made a small gasp when the knife from Josh almost hit him, but then watched in horror as the knife hit to the right of the Tails Doll. Quickly he ran up and did another spin dash which almost hit until one of the titan doll's legs kicked out and knocked him away. As soon as Sonic was knocked away Shadow ran in, "CHAOS SPEAR!" This attack was blocked by one of the large cloth arms, it swung towards Shadow, "CHAOS CONTROL!" He disappeared and reappeared behind the doll where he ran between his legs and punched the Tails Doll, he received a small angst cry as the Tails Doll was hit. Suddenly the same arm hit Shadow and he was knocked on opposite side from Sonic, "Punching and kicking are not going to stop him! We need a new plan, we need more then one Chaos Emerald and a few knives."
"You forgot about the Poltergust 3000! It does more then just suck!" Espio mumbled in his invisible state, "And it does suck." "It shoots out fire. Give me a second." He started to work on the vacuum cleaner only to receive a few strange looks. The fight continued and Bokkun watched as every attack did little or no damage, "I have to do something… I know!" He climbed on a pillar, "Hey! Over here!" The desperate attempt to make a distraction he decided to do something that could either help or cause him to get killed, "Can you feel the sunshine! Does it brighten up our day? Don't you feel like sometimes you just need to run away!" The Titan Doll turned towards Bokkun and he almost lost his courage, but he stood his ground. Shadow turned towards Vector, "We could really use that fire now!"
The Titan turned its attention to Shadow and was about to hit him when Bokkun started singing again, Reach out for the sunshine. "Reach out for the sunshine!" Forget about the rain. "Forget about the rain!" Bokkun heard the soft voice giving him the lyrics and kept singing, "Just think about the good times, and they will come back again!" Suddenly something came out that he couldn't control, "Don't do this Tails Doll! Hurting us won't give you your sunshine!" The Titan Doll turned and swung at the small Messenger who gasped and closed his eyes, "Cream I love you!" Suddenly time seemed to stop. The blow never came and Bokkun let his eyes open up.
There stood the Titan Doll, not moving. Espio had one of the knives in his hand and had slashed it across the Tails Doll's neck, severing it from the body. The cotton stuffing was red like blood and burned where it got on the Chameleon's hand. At this moment Vector finally got the Poltergust working and fire shot out and engulfed the Titan Doll. Suddenly they were all warped back into the alter room, which was slowly filling with flames, "Vector the mansion is going to burn down!" Espio cried out holding his burning hand, "Can't you put it out?" The Croc shook his head, "No. All this thing does is shoot out flames and suck, and the sucking won't stop flames this thick!"
Sonic leaped up, "We've got to get out of here! I'll carry Amy!" Shadow stepped up, "No, I'll carry Amy." Josh face palmed, "I'll carry Amy, Sonic can grab Cosmo, and Shadow can do something." Bokkun followed Josh who was running out the door and down the hall. Sonic picked up the unconscious Cosmo and followed suite. The group got outside safely and the mansion started to go up in flames, smoke pouring out from every crevice and crack. That was when Sonic realized the horrible truth, "Tails… Tails isn't here!"
Mable: I hope you enjoyed, it was a little rushed.