Episode 10: Welcome to the Jungle
everything a blur, the crackles of fire give sound to the clouds of smoke. Sonic, injured and confused, slouches his way to an undefined goal. His steps make the terrain below him croak and scream, sounding less and less sturdy with each step. His next step would be his last, the floor gives way and breaks apart, making him fall into glimmers of light. Sonic lands, particles fly into the air and Sonic's eyes force themselves to stay open.
"Sonic?"
"SONIC!"
Sonic's eyes open and he sees Shadow above him, both of them lay under the first class floor of the plane, they sit in the coach floor, torn apart and flooded with sand.
"Sonic, are you alright?" Shadow asks.
"Yeah, I think so" Sonic rises his hands and is lift to his feet by Shadow.
"What's happened?" Sonic asks.
"By the looks of it the plane has crashed into an uncharted island" Shadow answers.
"So were not in Italy?"
"No Sonic, we're not in Italy"
"Damn it! Now I can't call myself Ezio Auditore Da Firenze"
"Wait, I don't even…"
Suddenly the two turn when they hear a rumbling from above, the escape door from above comes landing on the beach outside, it clashes against the sand and the sand flicks into the air and is brushed away by the gentle winds. Suddenly Knuckles unconscious body flies into the ground and Espio jumping down follows. Espio grabs Knuckles and begins to try and lift Knuckles heavy body over his shoulder. Sonic and Shadow begin to slowly approach Espio, Sonic takes lead. Sonic then moves through one of the gaping holes in the wall and on the way knocks over a pole and it lands, the tang of metal echoes and Espio is alarmed. Espio turns to see Sonic.
"Don't worry, it's just me" Sonic explains.
Espio continues to look at Sonic and then kicks him in the balls and grabs Sonic by the hairs and smashes his head against the wall of the plane. Espio proceeds to stand back.
"I'm sorry Sonic, you surprised!" Espio exclaims.
"Bull fucking shit!" Sonic replies, clenching his bruises.
Shadow proceeds to step out of the plane and not one eyelash is bashed.
"What happened to Knuckles?" Shadow asks.
"Got knocked out cold" Espio replies.
"Guys, I think I see Vector!" Sonic informs the others.
Espio, Shadow and Sonic begin to approach what seems to be Vector. A mere 10 feet now stand from them and the body, they stand in shocked. Vector had been in the front seat and the shards ripped the wall open and sent Vector into the turbines, his mangled corpse was what was left. His lower jaw is nowhere to be found and what was left of his ribcage ejected from his chest, blood covered everything. Espio turns away and falls to his knees, vomiting.
"Well, Shadow. I guess you'll have to eat the penis" Sonic says before leaping at the body.
"Wait, what!? YOU'RE NOT EATING THE BODY!" Shadow exclaims, grabbing Sonic and holding him back.
Sonic wrestles the restraints and continues to try and devour Vector.
"You're dead and I'm alive! I'm higher in the food chain than you so get in my belly!" Sonic screams at Vector's corpse.
"There's plenty of fresh food in the plane!" Shadow exclaims, trying to convince Sonic.
Suddenly screams are heard from the plane and from the First Class level Tails comes falling down, he lands into the sand injuring himself, but he continues to scream and roll around.
"What's the problem!?" Espio asks.
"I was taking a piss and the plane had turbulence and threw the piss into my mouth!" Tails screams.
"Teaches you right!" Sonic says.
"For what!?" Tails asks.
"For being born!" Sonic replies.
"Everyone calm down! Okay, I've got a plan! Tails and I will be trying to help Knuckles out, you and Shadow will collect supplies for survival" Espio orders.
Sonic and Shadow walk through the dark jungle, slowly and also bored.
"So what would we need first?" Sonic asks.
"Fresh water" Shadow replies.
"Why not drink our own piss?"
"No, no Man VS Wild references "
"Drink each other's piss?"
"I don't even want to know where you got that from"
"Shush, did you hear that?" Sonic whispers.
"Hear what?"
"The drop bears"
"Wha…what the fuck is a drop bear?"
"They're these bears that are native to Australia and hide in the trees…"
"So you mean koalas?"
"No! This ones are different, because they drop and bite your head off"
"You said they're only native to Australia"
"But they could've gotten out here"
"For Christ sake, just shut the fuck up and come with me"
Sonic and Shadow walk through the deep swampy parts of the jungle, the brown swampy water is up to their shins and the trees hide them in darkness.
"So will need to find fresh water" Shadow states.
"This water is stagnate" Sonic replies.
"I know this water is stagnate"
"we need fresh water"
"I know we need fresh water"
"Then let's get fresh water instead of drinking your stagnate crap"
"Sonic! Snake!" Shadow yells pointing out a spot in the water.
Sonic begins to scream and shout and jump around and then after a while notices there is no snake.
"Fuck you Shadow" Sonic says.
Then the two notice a cardboard box by a tree.
"Fuck!" Solid Snake says from within the box.
Sonic and Shadow's throats were dry and their movement was slow, Sonic saw the sparkling of water up ahead, the kind of sparkle stagnant water could not give off.
"I found it!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Found what!?" Shadow asks.
"Water!"
The two begin to rush ahead with all their speed when they stop at the fresh water flowing through the rocks.
"This is my water, and you know what I'm going to call it? I'm going to call it Fuck You Shadow" Sonic states.
"Oh really?" Shadow asks.
"Yeah really, and you're not allowed to drink from the Fuck You Shadow"
Sonic then drops to his hands and knees and cups him palms. He grabs water from the rocks and slurps it up rapidly. Shadow then notices a dead animal corpse up the river.
"Uh, Sonic?" Shadow asks.
"Shut up" Sonic replies.
"Sonic"
"Shadow! Shut the fuck up" Sonic says looking up and turning to Shadow.
Sonic then looks back down to see the water now flowing red.
"Sonic, look!" Shadow points out the mutilated animal corpse and Sonic turns to see it.
"Give me a minute" Sonic says, shooting up and turning to vomit on the ground.
"You kind of deserved that" Shadow states.
"Oh just shut up" Sonic replies, panting.
Suddenly Sonic and Shadow hear the cry of another animal.
"What's going on?" Sonic asks.
"I don't want to find out" Shadow replies.
Suddenly an echidna with tribal marks on herself runs out of the bushes with a makeshift spear.
"Food!" She screams out.
She tackles Sonic down and Sonic holds back the spear as he pushes towards his neck.
"Food, now!" She screams again.
"Shadow, help!" Sonic exclaims looking at Shadow.
Shadow then runs off and Sonic looks back at the echidna.
"Fuck you Shadow!" Sonic exclaims.
Suddenly a large rock is smashed over the echidna's head and she falls to the ground to reveal Shadow. Shadow stands there with the bloodied rock in his hands, panting. He rises the rock over the echidna's head and then drops it where it then falls and breaks the echidna's head like a water melon.
"Holy shit!" Sonic exclaims.
"Come on, there's probably more natives" Shadow commands, helping up Sonic.
Sonic gets onto his feet and dusts himself off to then hear talking.
Sonic and Shadow walk out onto the coast to track down the source of talking, they come out of the bushes and spot Espio, Tails and Knuckles talking. Sonic and Shadow walk down to them.
"Hey, Sonic, Shadow, we found something" Knuckles says lifting up a broken camera.
"Camera? What the hell would that be doing here?" Shadow asks.
Suddenly an orange hedgehog wearing a Hawaiian shirt appears, looking exhausted.
"Hey, you guys had any luck finding Trisha?" The hedgehog asks.
"Trisha?" Sonic ponders, confused.
"You know Trisha, she's a brown echidna, likes to paint herself with tribal markings? She got lost off the set a day ago?"
"Wait, what?" Knuckles asks.
"Shadow, why do you have blood on your hands" Espio asks Shadow.
Suddenly Sonic vaults at the hedgehog, screaming "No witnesses!".
The group now walk on the coastal line, talking.
"I still can't believe Sonic just killed him" Tails states.
"Shut up Tails or I'll kill you" Sonic threatens Tails.
"Guys, I think I know what's going on" Espio states.
"Go on" Shadow suggests.
"I wanted to watch The Walking Zombies but there was an ad between the show of this dumb "reality" TV show called Survivor, Trisha and whoever that guy was were some of the 'survivors'" Espio explains.
"So, the Survivor set is here?" Knuckles asks.
"I think I see it" Sonic says, pointing out tents in the distance.
A kangaroo stands in front of the camera as the host.
"Unfortunately Survivor has some bad news to our viewers, two members of our crew have gone missing and our producers have cut funding. Survivor will now be pulled off the air" The host explains.
Suddenly Sonic comes barrelling down the hill with two sticks enlightened with fire.
"I AM THE GOD OF HELL FIRE!" Sonic screams out.
The cast begins to scatter and panic, the host stands there frightened when Sonic runs up to him and impales him with one of the fire ridden sticks, causing the camera to fall with the sounds of screams and glimpses of blood splatter. The others begin to follow Sonic through the chaos, blood and fire everywhere. Sonic jumps into the driving seat of the boat, search all the draws for the key. Suddenly Omochao appeared, hovering.
"You need a key to start the boat" Omochao informs Sonic.
"I know that, now where is the key?" Sonic asks, rushing.
"You need a key to start the boat"
"I know that Omochao, now where the fuck is the key!?"
"You need a key…"
Sonic snatches Omochao from the air and begins to smash him against the control panel.
"I…I can hotwire it for you" Omochao moans.
"Yeah, do that" Sonic says.
Omochao proceeds to hotwire the boat and the engine starts.
"Come on guys! Let's go" Sonic call out to the others.
The others make it onto the boat and Knuckles grabs a kitchen knife from a table and chops the rope attaching the boat to the harbour. The boat begins to zoom off into the distance leaving behind carnage.
Our "heroes" returned to Sacramento and walked through the streets on their way to the complex.
"I'm glad to be back in Sacramento" Tails then realises what he said and prepares to flinch.
"Yeah, me too" Sonic says.
"Wh…why didn't you hit me?"
"Don't you remember, we played a game of tic tac toe and whoever lost couldn't talk through the entire holiday"
"Oh…oh"
"Why aren't any police trying to arrest us, the show is live" Knuckles states.
"Knuckles, my friend, no one watches Survivor" Sonic explains.
Author's Note: It's been a great Season 1! I hope you're as excited for Season 2 as I am! Updates will be made to Sonic Legacies and maybe Overgrown or even more unlikely a new FF