Sonic and co.

Episode 7

Welcome to my hedgemare

March 1, 2013

Shadow walked down a long, and dark corridor. He heard a dark and morbid laughter come from behind him. "Who's there?" Shadow asked looking around. He then saw a figure floating towards him. Shadow began to ran from the figure, down the never ending hallway. Then the figure appeared right in front of him, Shadow tried to summon a chaos spear but it didn't work. The figure raised a claw and said "Fun is infinite." "NOOOOOOOOO!" Shadow screamed waking up in his bed. He looked around, "Just a dream." he said. He then walked downstairs to the kitchen, getting the usual 'good morning' from SARAH, the AI. Sonic was in the kitchen eating a chili dog, and Silver was watching the news.

"Morning Shadow." Sonic said. "Whoa what happened to your chest?" Sonic asked, Shadow looked down and on his chest were three claw marks that went diagonally the whole length of his chest. "Man those look deep, should we get you to the hospital?" Sonic asked. "No it's fine." Shadow said. "Hey guys look at this!" Silver said. They all sat down on the sofa and saw the news. The title said 'Kid murdered, no marks or wounds' they listened to the story, it talked about a kid who just died, no marks or anything. After the story, Shadow's blood ran cold. "Some story eh?" Sonic said. After that, the day went on as usual, Sonic doing his usual run and Silver practicing his psychic powers. Shadow walked through the house, still thinking about what he saw on the news. He then heard a noise coming from his room. He approached his room noise and the sound got bigger, it sounded like "Singing?" Shadow said. He opened the door to his room and saw, five Sonic like figures singing in front of his bed. "Never go to sleep again" they chanted. They turned around, their faces were contorted in a smile, they had no nose, and seemed human, they were the same ones they saw in the background of that message. Shadow summoned chaos spears and launched them through the Sonic's chests. They then dissapeared into a blue smoke. Shadow sat on his bed, traumatized by what he saw.

THAT NIGHT...

Shadow looked at his wall, 5 marks caused from the earlier incident. He breathed and went to bed. Shadow was in the same corridor, "Not this place again!" Shadow said. He walked down the hallway and heard screaming. "HELP!" the voice cried. "That sounds like Sonic!" Shadow said, he followed the voice to a large room. He looked up and saw Sonic and Silver, hanging from the ceiling upside down, wrapped in chains. "Shadow! Boy are we glad to see you!" Sonic said. Shadow used two chaos spears to slash the chains, the two fell to the ground. "Ouch! You couldn't use your powers Silver?" Sonic asked. "I tried but for some reason my powers don't work." Silver said. "Where are we?" Silver asked. "We must be dreaming." Sonic said. "If were dreaming, then how come it seems so real?" Shadow asked. "Hey I know!" Sonic said. "If were dreaming, then that means we can't get hurt!" Sonic said. He walked over and found a pin. "What are you doing?" Shadow asked. Sonic stuck the pin in his arm. "I don't feel a thing!" Sonic said. "And no blood." "Well that's good to hear!" Silver said. "Well I'm outta here!" Sonic said, he tried to wake up, but couldn't. "I can't wake up!" Sonic said. "S-so were trapped?" Silver asked. "Exactly!" a low voice said. "That voice!" Shadow said. The room dimmed and black mist began to form in front of the trio.

It swirled and formed into an all to familiar form "Mephiles!" Shadow hissed. "In the flesh!" he said appearing in his Shadow state. "But how did you survive, we defeated you!" Silver said. "Oh yes, you thought you defeated me." Mephiles started. "When you blasted me, I managed to sap some of your power and escape into a video game, however, I was trapped, that is until you played that game, I was unleashed and so I fled to the dream realm, where I began killing people, in their sleep!" Mephiles said. "You sick monster!" Silver said. Mephiles chortled "Yes but I did have help." he snapped his fingers and a circle of those human faced sonics appeared around the four. "So then." Mephiles said turning into his crystalline form. "Let the reaping begin. The room turned into a black void, they all stood together. "Show your self!" Silver screamed, charging in a direction. "Silver stop!" Sonic shouted, but it was too late. Silver ran until he was blinded by a red light. He found himself in a burnt city, the sky was red and there were burned buildings all around him. He walked around and then came to a horrifying site, all of his friend's heads were on poles, their bodies were in a big pile. Silver tried to look away, all the heads turned to him, "It's all your fault." they chanted. "No!" Silver said clutching the ground. He began to weep silently. Sonic and Shadow watched from a distance.

They just saw Silver crying in front of a black void. "Silver, this isn't real!" Sonic tried to move but found himself trapped in an invisible box. "Hey I cant move!" Sonic said pounding on the glass. His feet began to feel wet, he looked down and saw water, slowly seeping through the floor. "This can't be happening!" Sonic said. Shadow looked at his friends, now taken hostage by their own nightmares. He turned and saw Mephiles laughing at him, despite being mouth-less. "You may have fooled my friends but you won't fool me!" Shadow said charging at his crystal foe. Mephiles thing dissapeared, Shadow then found himself running through the ark. He then punched Mephiles, who had turned into a blonde girl with a blue dress. The girl toppled over, "Mariah!" Shadow said kneeling over to her. She then faced Shadow and smacked his hand away from her. "Get away from me you, you monster!" she cried. The ark then crumbled and Shadow found himself toppling towards the earth. He landed in a burnt city, much like Silver, he saw Sonic, who looked at the ground.

"Are you happy now?" Sonic asked, still staring at the charred pavement. "What are you talking about?" Shadow asked. "All the humans are dead, you finally killed them, just like you wanted. Sonic pointed to a mountain of bones that was taller than anything he'd seen. Then, the tower crumbled and formed into a fresh corpse which looked like Mariah. Shadow then stared. "I never asked for this." Shadow said kneeling down to the corpse. Sonic then smiled and turned into Mephiles. Mephiles then stood over Shadow and raised a claw. "Fun is infinite." just as he was about to swipe, he missed, Shadow then appeared behind him. "You can't fool me!" Shadow said, he then punched Mephiles into a building, the city then imploded and they were in a void again. "But how?" Mephiles asked. Shadow then smiled. "Rrrrgh, it doesn't matter, I can still harvest your friends. Mephiles then dissapeared. "Oh no you won't." Shadow said, then he was gone.

WITH SONIC...

Sonic was up to his neck in water, and was holding his head up to get what air he could. Mephiles then appeared next to the near drowning Sonic. He raised his claw but was tackled by Shadow, who sent him into a hole he created. He then tried to talk with Sonic, "Sonic listen, this isn't real, this is just a dream! Snap out of it!" Shadow said. "Easy for to say, it feels so real!" Sonic said. "Remember, in a dream you can do anything!" Shadow said.

Sonic took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and concentrated. Suddenly, glass shattered all around Sonic and the water disapeared. "Hey, this is a dream." Sonic said. Shadow *face palm* "Alright, now to get to Siler before..." they were too late Shadow and Sonic looked to their left and saw Mephiles standing over Silver, claw raised high. "Silver NOOOOOOOO!" Sonic cried. Mephiles slashed his claw through Silver. The hedgehogs body dissipated into a white mist. Mephiles put the mist in a little vile and scratched "Victim 66." Mephiles turned to Shadow and Sonic, a twisted grin grew on his mouthless face. "Now...how to tend with you two." Mephiles pondered, "But first, a snack." he raised the vile containing Silver's soul, he unscrewed the cork and lifted the vile to his grotesque mouth and began to tilt it.

"Chaos, SPEAR!" a spear of energy knocked the vile out of Mephiles's hands, it shattered on the floor and turned back into Silver. "Whoa, hey I'm still alive!" Silver teleported over to Sonic and Shadow. "It was so awful in there, it smelled like dirty socks!" Silver said. "BLASTED!" Mephiles hissed. His mouth dissapeared. "Fools, you can't face my wrath!" Four human Sonics appeared behind them, two groped Shadow and one got Sonic while the other got Silver. "Fools, no matter how hard you try you cant escape, I guess I'll just have to devour you raw." Mephiles began to float towards the three. Then, Sonic Shadow and Silver phased out of the henchmen's grasp. They turned behind them and kicked them into Mephiles. The hedgehogs stood and looked at the shadowy demon.

"We can see through your tricks, it's over." Shadow said. "Oh, but the fun has just begun." the demon said summoning up more human Sonics (lets just call them humics), "I'll go after Mephiles!" Shadow said, "And we'll take care of those humics!" Silver said. Sonic charged at a horde of the humics. "If this is the dream world, then anything I think of becomes a reality, then mabye..." Sonic concentrated. A boulder then dropped on to Sonic. Sonic lifted the massive boulder and launched it at the humics. The humics screamed and ran in place as the boulder squashed them into pancakes. Sonic then became surrounded by a whole mass of the humics, they shot lasers from their eyes. Sonic summoned mirrors which surrounded him and reflected the lasers back to the humics, disintegrating them.

Meanwhile, Silver used his psychic powers to deflect Mephiles's henchmen. "I need to get rid of them permenatly!" Silver fought, then he got an idea. The humics then found themselves wearing head phones. They turned and saw the chords of their headphones leading to a CD player with Silver holding it. Silver pressed play and then the headphones began to play a copy of Justin Beiber's "Baby". Upon hearing the song, their heads blew up and the bodies turned into dust.

Sonic came up to Silver and they high fived eachother. "Good job, now we have to help Shadow!" Sonic said. The two ran towards Shadow who was locked in hand to hand combat. "Shadow were here to help!" Silver and Sonic were stopped by an invisible wall. Shadow turned to him "Stay out of this, this is my fight!" he said. "Don't be so headstrong Shad-" Sonic put his hand on Silver's shoulder and knodded to him." They watched as Shadow and Mephiles clashed.

"You can never beat me, besides, youre just a heartless monster." Mephiles showed an image of Shadow turning into Dark Shadow and wiping out a group of G.U.N soldiers. "Death to all who oppose me!" the screen Shadow said. The real Shadow looked away and summoned an RPG to blast the screen and hit Mephiles. "Youre just a genetic experiment!" the demon summoned another moniter which showed Shadow being brought out of a tube. Shadow dashed through the screen and approached Mephiles, Mephiles kept floating away. "Your just a self absorbed nobody!"

Mephiles summoned another screen of Shadow standing over a building "I am the ultimate life form!" the screen said. Shadow kept dashing, Mephiles began to become nervous as Shadow closed in on him! "Why do you persist? You will never be a hero, you are not a life form, you are just an experiment gone horribly wrong, I am an experiment gone horribly right!" The shadow demon said. Shadow jumped up and faced Mephiles "At least I have friends!" he punched him once "At least I have allies!" he punched him again, "At least I decided to be a hero, and you just remained a heartless monster!" Shadow knocked Mephiles to the ground "chaos BLAST!" Shadow unleashed a wave of energy, shattering the demon into glass.

Shadow, Sonic and Silver each awoke in their beds. They met out in the hall, "Man, I just had the most realistic dream!" Sonic said. "Me too, hey Shadow, your cuts gone!". Silver pointed to Shadow's chest, and the large cut from earlier was gone, as though it was never there. "Hey the sun is rising!" Sonic said pointing out a window to the golden sun just beginning to rise. "I call the shower!" Sonic said dashing down the hall, "Oh no you don't!" Silver said chasing him. Shadow stood and looked at a picture of him, Sonic, and Silver, and he smiled.

IN SOME WHITE VOID...

Mephiles walked down a white void of nothing. He mumbled about how his plan had failed when he got a tap on the back. He turned and saw what looked like Sonic, only his fur was jagged and messed up and his eyes were pitch black with red dots for pupils. "Who are you?" Mephiles asked. The Sonic replied by tilting his head and unnatural 90 degrees. "Not much of a talker are you?" Mephiles asked, no reply. "Good, it's gonna be a long eternity."