Tails could hear the echoing laugh of the executable file in the hallways. He tried to keep his short breath inaudible to his ears so he could find the parts he needed to get the gadget in his hands working. He had gathered the pieces he needed in the wrecked lab of Metropolis,- the stage in Sonic Chronicles, post Angel Island crash, but different. It was as if before the crash, the floating island had caught fire and exploded as it hit the city, looking a bit like Crisis City sans lava and Iblis monsters. But the heat wasn't the thing making him pant and sweat as he fumbled with the wires of his handheld.
AHA hahahaha
AHA hahahaha
It was like hearing him walk down the halls with steps as loud as thunder, though some thunder would be a welcome change to the little fox; his watch indicated that he'd spent at least five days in this awful game. He regretted ignoring Sonic's, not this Sonic, good old Sonic, confusion when he'd shown him the disc he'd found.
"Whaddya need that for?" he said. "If you wanna play that, I can hook up my Genesis in here and-"
"Aw, Sonic, this is more accessible!" Tails pleaded. "Besides, I've never. played a PC version of your old games."
"That's cause I've got a perfectly good Genesis you can play 'em on."
"I'll just play it at my house," Tails said, letting himself out.
His heart sank at how he'd been thinking before the Sonic-exe sucked him inside the game. Pressing "Escape" hadn't stopped that gruesome thing from grabbing him up. A simple Word doc couldn't save him, what with the little time he had before Sonic snatched him up and into this nightmare.
AHA hahaHAHAHA
He was getting closer- the little fox's heart pounded. If that Sonic caught him, would he be trapped like his other self, inside a TV with no eyes and blackened fur?
A spark bounced up from the connecting parts, and hope with it. The genius flipped the other side over and turned the dial as the Sonic laughed once more.
AHA HAHA- Ack!
A high pitched ringing filled the air, and the stage flashed momentarily. He could hear the hedgehog outside wince as if a rock had hit him on the head. "Ah..." the Sonic let out, sounding a little unnerved.
It'd worked, but it wasn't strong as Tails'd hoped. The initial burst didn't hold out, and it wasn't paralyzing. It was too broad. Why was that-
That's it! Sonic was everywhere! He controlled the game, so the device must've been attacking the environment too! The fox turned the dial back to zero and began making the modifications...
"Ow!" Sonic exclaimed, swatting the side of his felt like he just got hit by a rock... a really sharp one. He grumbled as he rubbed it.
"What's wrong, Sonic? Are you hurt?" Amy wondered, approaching were in a dark jungle area now, but with the sudden pain Sonic couldn't figure it out.
"I'm fine," he insisted, opening his eyes to see if-
Blood. Blood all over his gloves.
Dead animals everywhere.
He heard laughter, but it wasn't his, or that other Sonic, Sonic had never heard it before.
He was covered in blood, all of it-
"Sonic?" Amy's voice. Amy? Where was she?
Behind, on her side... she had a gaping hole in her chest. Sonic screamed.
"Sonic!" Amy hissed, shaking him. "Don't do that! He'll hear us!" Jungle. Amy was okay... no blood anywhere.
"Wha...what just happened?" he said, rubbing his head, then tentatively looked at his hand. No red... Had he just imagined it?
"I'm YOU..."
"...and you're me," Sonic whispered to himself, covering his mouth. Amy gave a "huh" before they were interrupted by a shrill scream.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! Somebody help meeeeeee!"
"Charmy!" both hedgehogs yelled as they tore through the thick foliage. Vines lashed at the hedgehog's skin with their thorns. But the dark was soon brightened as orange sunlight glared from the water's surface below. The level of the water was lower than that of the ground, and a giant spider web connected the sides of the lake together.
Tied down in the center of the web was Charmy Bee. He was crying and wriggling, and his wings fluttered together, but the sound they made was different from the usual buzzing.
"Charmy!" Amy yelped at the bee. He opened his eyes and turned his head towards them, almost screaming at Sonic.
"AAAAAAAAHHH! Somebody help me!"
"Charmy!" Amy snapped. "This is the real Sonic! Did you think I'd fall for that fake one?!"
Before the bee opened his mouth to disagree, the web started to wiggle as a dark shape began to waddle its way towards the dying sun's light. It was a hideously twisted and gigantic spider, red saliva dripping from its interlocking fangs and teeth, which it opened slightly and then closed. Its big black eyes fixated at the two hedgehogs at the end of its web, then followed their gaze to a sweating, wide-eyed insect stuck on it.
"Dinner's served!" Sonic's voice cackled around all four of them. The spider gave a hissing squeal as it raised its head to the sky. Amy yanked on Sonic's shoulder as she ran towards the web, and then dived into the water.
"Amy!- What are you doing?!" Sonic called after her when she surfaced. She just kept swimming under the web towards Charmy's wriggling body. Sonic sprang onto the string of web and began to dart towards Charmy's direction.
The silk made the hedgehog whiplash back towards the wall, but to his horror the string stretched out, making him fall towards the water, his head suddenly submerged-
WATER! His lungs were immediately filled with it- As the silk bounced back, Sonic thrashed about as he spat the water out of his mouth. After Sonic noticed he was falling back towards the water, he grabbed at the bank and clawed himself back onto solid ground.
"Aw... it's okay," his voice came to him. "I know that you can't swim, buddy. Tell ya what... When you and I get together, I'll give ya swimming lessons."
His panting sharply stopped as he met eyes with his doppelganger. The red-against-black eyed Sonic gave him a wide smile.
Aha hahaha
The wet hedgehog backed away from the gruesome figure, and he stopped dead when the dirt gave way under his toes. Trapped. Trapped-
"C'mon, now. You're being a bit chicken, aren't you?"
Eheheheheh
Sonic-exe flashed away as Charmy screamed out. Sonic whirled around to find the pink hedgehog furiously hanging on to the bee's hands as the arachnid's mandibles clamped around the boy's torso. The spider eased its head away from the water where Amy was, and swiped at her face with one of its legs, and red spots appeared on the black shiny eyes.
Before Sonic could blink he was curled up and hurdling towards the spider. As Sonic started to uncurl he could hear the beast squeal in agony. The hedgehog landed on the other side of the lake-pit and turned to see Amy holding Charmy and swimming out of the spider's reach. Instead of going after the projectile, the spider hissed in rage at the two in the water, and rushed towards them.
No-! Sonic eyed the web over the pit, trying to find a way to stop the spider from getting to them without the risk of w-
Water! Spiders couldn't swim, could they? Ev-even if they could, if the web dropped down into the water, the spider would be stunned for a bit and Amy and Charmy could get out!
Sonic slapped at the anchor point of one of the main "arms", and as his hand pulled away the anchor came with it too, so as fast as he could, he swatted the anchors one-by-one.
Amy screamed as the spider, entangled in its collapsing web, and Sonic, whose right hand had all the stuck-together threads, fell into the water.
Two boys walked in the darkening tall woods, woods that reminded Tom of that game Slender, and then he sighed with relief as he remembered the Slenderman wasn't real like the nightmarish Sonic-exe, and the only thing they heard was grass crunching underneath their feet.
"I just hope that thing doesn't make us go into that castle from Amnesia," the other boy, Kyle, said. He had brown hair and his bloodshot eyes weren't the bright hazel Tom remembered he had. Tom was a blonde with deep green eyes, but due to their entrapment, they weren't what they used to be.
"I doubt he'll use that," Tom said. "That game's too complicated; too many instructions, too many meters and too much complexity."
"But it's a creepy game like this one," Kyle argued.
"I know, but in Slender, there's only a few controls and objectives, right? You only have a flashlight and you have to find the eight pages before Slendy gets you. Amnesia was so creepy and confusing that I stopped playing after a while."
Silent sunset. Then, as the last of the light burned out, Kyle whimpered, "I wanna go home, man."
Tom sighed and shook his head. Kyle just didn't understand; Sonic was never gonna let his toys go. He was evil, just, satanic. Kyle, Kris and he were trapped here forever and there was nothing they could do about it.
"I wanna go home, too, Kyle," Tom mumbled back as they walked through the darkness.
Bubbles floated in front of Sonic's face as the circle of light began to shrink There was no way he'd be able to last for much longer.
In his head he could hear the executable file humming the drowning theme to himself. It propelled the hedgehog to swim up, up up. Why was it so far away?! Exe-Sonic was eagerly speeding up the tempo, and his lungs were shriveling. Just a little longer, come on!
"Dununununununununununununun...
"BUH-DANT!"
Sonic gasped as he broke the surface. He was barely able to keep afloat, but Charmy buzzed around his head and grabbed his arm to pull him to shore. "Hiya Sonic! Thanks for drowning that spider! I'm sorry I screamed at you! Man, you're so cool Sonic! But that other Sonic's not cool at all! He's scary and bad and all kinds of creepy!"
"Hi... Charmy..." Sonic managed as he clamored up the bank, filling his lungs with air just to have them squeezed out by Amy.
"Sonic!" she squealed, but she shook afterwards. In the real world, she would've been going on and on about how worried she was and that somehow she knew that he'd be okay, but, all she said was, "Don't ever do that again..."
"Hey Sonic," Charmy wondered, "where's everybody else? Did you find them, too? Cuz I got sucked into the computer like WHOOSH! and then I thought maybe that bad Sonic was behind this, and he was sucking people up into the computer or something, so maybe Tails and Dr. Eggman are stuck in here, too. Did you get sucked up too?"
"Sonic jumped in here to save us," Amy said to the bee. "He found out how to do that all by himself, Charmy."
"Wow! So you know how to do that too?! I know Shadow could do it but I didn't think you'd ever need to do that since Tails always helps you with that sort of thing."
"Actually," Sonic said, finally able to breathe, "Shadow and I came in here together. But he ran off to find somebody else..."
Charmy shut up with an "ohhhh" as Amy raised an eyebrow. "Sonic, are there more people in here than just Charmy, Eggman, Tails and me?"
Sonic started to explain what started to happen, from how their neighborhood soon depopulated after Eggman and Tails went missing to up until Sonic found Amy, or rather, Amy found Sonic. The dawn began to recolor the sky when Sonic finished with, "So, to recap, including Eggman, Rouge, Knuckles, inside here is Blaze, Espio, Vector, Tails, Shadow and whoever he's looking for."
"That girl down the street?" Amy wondered. "I think her name's Selene or something like that."
"Yeah yeah! Shadow goes to her house a looot. I think he like likes her or something like that."
"Besides the point," Sonic interrupted, "we gotta find all of them, and then we can get a chance of getting out of here."
They all got up and started to walk through the jungle. Charmy offered to go ahead and scout but Sonic urged him not to. He didn't want the group to be split up even further. They had to find the other group first, and Sonic guessed that might take awhile too.
Ehehehehehe
You could've just asked, ya know.
Red static enveloped the three and soon the world faded to black, and then faded into another stage. "Sonic..." Amy whimpered clinging on to her hero. Charmy also cowered behind Sonic, shaking with fear.
"Don't worry," he assured both of his friends. "We're gonna be okay. Just stay close."
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Manic was gasping for breath as he groped his way around in the dark, face bruised from ramming into a wall running away from Sonic- no, man, no, that's not my brother!- and he'd never ran so much before.
Ahahahahahahaha
"Aw, man, just go away!" he shrieked as he kept going. Pawing his way around the dark, he started to try and calm down. Okay, okay, so who got sucked up in here again? Um, uh, Tails, and Robotnik, Knuckles, Rouge, and-uh, Amy, Blaze and Team Chaotix. So, he was bound to run into somebody, right? Aw, man, he hoped so.
"It's gonna be okay, man," he told himself as he felt his way around. "Cuz Sonic's gonna come and save the day like always, and he'll come cuz he saw me got sucked into here and everything's gonna be okay. He's not gonna forget his brother."
A shiver ran through Manic's spine when Sonic-exe chuckled from behind him.
"Of course I won't, Manic. Why do you think you're stuck here when everybody else is out there?"
"Cause you're a sick monster," he grumbled.
"Nu-uh. Cause you're my brother, and I'm not gonna leave without you."
EHeheheheheheheh
"Wanna know a secret, Manic?"
"No I don't!" he hissed, blindly swinging in the darkness. "Bug off, you sad excuse for a Sonic!"
No chuckling this time; just a low repeating grumble.
RRR-rrr-rrr-rrr-rrr...
"What.."-this time, the computer thing sounded darkly angry before going back to sounding like a serious Sonic, "...what did you say?"
"Just go away, man! Leave me alone!"
Rrr-Rrr-Rrr-rrr-rrr
Two red dots appeared in the darkness, but no silhouette of the blue hedgehog.
"I'll show you a sad excuse for a hedgehog," Sonic-exe growled as he lunged at Manic with a horrendous, guttural scream.
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