by The Pighead
Well, this chapter was surprinsingly easy to write, I'll say. Just a bunch of plot points that continue and... probably new ones that are slowly introduced? You'll see. But for now, let's get directly into it!
Look at yourself in the mirror.
Your name is Tony. At this moment, you're not really sure of what is real or not around you because you just started being alive again, since the last four days. You were mostly known for being part of a group of killers known as « The Fans ». Inspired by the actions of a previous killer named « Jacket », you spent the nights driving your van in Miami and killing people who possibly might have done some bad things. Possibly. You didn't knew and, quite frankly, you didn't really care. The others were more preoccupied about all this hero schtick (and even that was a stretch), you just wanted to make some motherfuckers bleed and punch them.
Recently, you got killed. You were still angry about it. You told that goddamn cop you weren't about to attack. After all, this Russian mafia boss slaughtered all your friends and, even if you never told them, you didn't want to fight without them. But he didn't listen and shot you. Something about fifteen minutes of fame. You didn't listen. Seconds after, there was nothing but black.
At least, until you suddenly woke up screaming. You were on a stretcher, visually assaulted by bright lights and when you lifted your head, a robot woman was looking at you, telling you in a firm tone that you needed to calm down and to take it easy. There was a weird device strapped to your neck, who looked like a fusion between a ball and a watch. The others were with you. The woman moved to Corey, keeping her calm demeanor, and pressed some buttons on the device. Immediately, it activated and the dead body of your friend slowly started to shake and twist like it was possessed by some kind of… thing ? Like in The Exorcist or something.
And then, she woke up screaming too. The same with Alex, Ash & Mark.
At this point, you started losing track of what she had to say. You wanted to puke and to go to sleep and did your hair actually grew back ?
This was too much for you. You were a bloodthirsty guy but you had your limits. And even now, as you look at the mirror, you're not sure you want to go back to business because there's still this voice in the back of your mind that asks you if you possibly dug way, way deeper than you should have.
« Hey, Tony ? »
You turn your head to see Alex. If it wasn't for the dark circles under her eyes, you would have thought she was 100% reloaded and ready to take on everyone. She was only 75% that.
« Yeah ? »
« You finished ? Everyone is ready. Better if we do this job right now and then, we're out of here. »
You raise an eyebrow.
« She told you that ? »
« No, she responds. It's just that I'm hoping it will happen this way. I'm not sure of anything anymore, man, honestly. Plus, judging how she looks high out of her mind, safe to say that none of us can guess what will happen. »
You can't help yourself but chuckle a bit. The boss of this robot woman was at least kind of funny, especially her fast speech and her multicoloured eyes.
« I guess… man, that fucking stinks. I'm starting to think these assholes in the party weren't that bad, all things considered. »
Alex just nods her head in approbation.
« Yeah. I mean, if it's something quick like we used to do, that'll be fine but still, that's fucking weird. Plus, stopping being dead and all that. »
At this mention, you can't help but shiver. Yeah, you intend to never remember that ever again.
« I know. You can tell the others I'm coming shortly. Just putting the mask on and I'll be good. »
She responds with a thumbs up before leaving. You spend some more seconds looking at yourself before doing what you said you'll do and leaving your small, little room. The others are waiting for you, looking at their shoes. The ambiance was quite uncomfortable.
The Fans : Get up and go do what you were told to do.
You do exactly that. Seconds later, you are on your good ol' van (the weird girl give it back to you, at least, that was a nice thing to do). Ash is driving, as usual. You have all your masks on. It takes you two minutes to find the bank, one other minute to park the vehicle and take the weapons and thirty seconds to enter the place.
You don't even need to say anything in order to make your presences known. The clicks of the weapons were enough.
Music time !
« Yeah, you got that yuuuuumy-yuuuumy, yuuuumy-yuuuumy, yuuuuuumy-yuuuuuumy… hey, c'mon, sing with me, guys, it's so much fun ! Especially you, William, that will make you happy. Look at you, it looks like you've seen a ghost. »
In response to what the Wild Card said, William Afton, child murderer and ghost, kept on screaming as he was dragged by a gigantic blob-like being while the Freddy Fazbear' Mega PizzaPlex was still engulfed in flames.
Without cutting off what she was filming, the young women started singing the hook of the song again. At least, she would have some fun before retrieving all the dead animatronics.
"Infinity Crisis" Reader : Act like you're not that surprised by this type of transitions anymore.
Glad to see that you're accustomed to it. Let's move, now.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
You are now Sarah. You come from Earth-2012. You were a normal human girl doing all the things that humans generally do : hang out with friends, eating, drinking, sleeping, having a healthy relationship with someone, playing video games… until you got killed by someone during a bar fight, with your body hidden by your supposed friends. Then, your spirit got trapped, fuck-knows-how, in a beta disk containing a compilation of the first three Sonic the Hedgehog games after SEGA built its workplace over the lake your body was thrown on.
…
Look, don't think too much about the logistics of it, we're not in the real world, remember ? Just go with it because it happened. It just did.
Anyway. You spent 30 years inside the disk, your psyche slowly deteriorating and your desire for vengeance and retribution silently growing. However, a little event that we all start to know very well disturbed your plans. In fact, it happened very fast : you just remember that you were in your little world, inside the games, and one second after… you just disappeared. After that, it was the blackout and after that, you just woke up in a very cold and dark street while strong rain was pouring. Also, you looked like a hand-drawn Sonic made by a child with pastel-coloured pencils, which you only realized after looking at your shoes.
It took 3 days before you managed to find a place to live. Of course, you couldn't come back to your girlfriend' home (even if it was what you wanted the most) because of your new appearance and you were pretty sure that most people here wouldn't let you in. So, you slept on the streets and you ate garbage to survive. You would have done that for far longer if you didn't met this guy who was smoking a cigarette outside of a bar.
It was an anthropomorphic mouse (or, at least, it looked like one) wearing red shorts and yellow shoes. And it had the most fucked-up face you ever saw in your life. Just seeing his eyes in the bottom of his chin and a smile who was going upward was enough to make you unsettled. But surprisingly, when you explained to the guy your situation, he laughed, gave you a pat in the back and told you that hey, no problem, he knew a place where you could live, you were not the first person in this situation.
You weren't sure if you could just go in the house of total strangers, even in the situation you were, but he told you there was no problem, most of the people in this place faced the same problems so one more, who was about to throw a fuss about that ?
And so, you accepted. The guy (his name was Mickey, but everyone nicknamed him « Suicide Mouse », as you would learn later) brought you to a gigantic manor owned by an entity called the Slenderman. Most of the people here were, as he put it, « retired nightmares ». One decade ago, all the people living here were busy terrorizing people, killing them, hurting them by all means possible and making them wish they would be dead (which they ended up being, anyway). For years, they were the most scariest things out there.
Then, the times started to change and, slowly, the reactions stopped being ones of fear. They were starting to joke about them, mock them, openly question their background and their reasons for doing what they do. They reacted to that in different ways. Some of them didn't take it well and doubled down, so people would stop it. Others took it at heart and started thinking about their lives and how it ended up here (and got some existential crises for a while). Others decided to joke in turn about themselves and humans (not everyone was a master at comedy, however).
It was when several luminaries in this field disappeared from the public eye without any announcement that everyone saw that their time passed for good and that they would be better off doing something else. So, everyone, one after the other, followed their example.
Of course, trying to fit with people that they attacked before was a no-no for obvious reasons, so they all ended up in Slenderman' manor. He was an interesting case among all these anomalies, in the sense that his actions brought him an immense amount of fame fueled by morbid curiosity. He didn't want to talk about it, these days, except for rants about how celebrity culture can easily destroy you and how you should never try to be on the headlines or on breaking news.
For the rest, since the day Mouse brought you here, you just… lived the most normal life you could live. Chatting with others, fulfilling your basic needs (eating, drinking, sleeping, that sort of jazz), playing video games… that was an enjoyable life. When you didn't think too much about what you left behind, it was.
Sarah : What are you doing, right now ?
She can't respond to you directly but I can tell you, it's my job, remember ?
Well, she is trying to do a dance that she saw people on the Internet doing. With her, there was Maijin Sonic, who was a time-travel connoisseur, Sunky, who loved dancing more than anything, and Luther, the only one of your former friends you managed to get back at for the shit of the past. You fought for a very long time before going back into the real world and he came to the manor one week after you.
You are still very suspicious of each other but, because you're far from being the only ones here, you can do things without trying to kill one another. There was progress.
« c'mon blue scarf it's not like that you're doing it wrong »
Luther looks at Sunky with a facial expression showing that dance is not something he made progress on.
« Man, I wasn't even able to do the Macarena when I was younger, how the fuck can I do things like this ? »
« I have to agree. I still remember the prom night. I knew for sure that you weren't drunk but the way you were dancing, others thought you were ! »
« Oh, fuck you. »
« I'm just saying the truth !, you respond with a sly chuckle. Like, hey, you just admitted it yourself so… »
Sunky looks at you like he really wants to see you stop your little argument because it's far from being the first time you did this. Luther sighs.
« ok so now let's try it again »
He turns on the computer near him.
Everyone : Dance as a trio, cause shit just got GROOVY.
You immediately let yourselves be chained by the infectious rhythm of a dance that you don't know the name of. You spent 4 hours in a row trying to do it, so yeah, you can say that this is quite the distracting dance. Also, you now know that chiptune can be very good. You weren't very convinced by it, previously.
Yeah, that sounds actually great, maybe I will dance with them.
Well, if you wish, I guess. In practice, you would just dance all alone in your room with no music and it sounds ridiculous but hey, go ahead, I'm not stopping you.
So, you (the « Sarah » you) are dancing on a very cool chiptune instrumental, clapping your hands and stomping your feet with the two other guys and everything is cool and good.
But, suddenly, the gigantic doors of the mansion loudly open while inhuman screams are suddenly heard. And what you see automatically gives you chills.
The source of said screams, who is right in front of everyone, is a guy entirely dressed in green and blue with half of his skin burned and a missing nose. You knew him, it was an alternate version of the red plumber' brother, Mario or something like that (hey, you didn't even knew Sonic that well to begin with, why would you know things about Mario ?). He tried to kill his world' iteration of his bro just to have the spotlight but failed. You found him kind of annoying because he couldn't stop talking and whining about it almost every time he opened his mouth.
But right now, he's bleeding in front of everyone and he looks like he saw… well, his brother. Or something he finds equally frightening.
« OH GOD, OH GOD… GOD, I THINK HE'S STILL ON MY ASS… WHAT DOES HE WANT ? WHY DID HE DO THAT ? WHY… WHY… OH SHIT, I'M GONNA FUCKING DIE… »
Immediately, you can hear everyone here asking him with suspicion what just happened to him, who is the « he » he talks about and shit, we need to get you to the bathroom so someone takes care of all this. Others close the doors quickly and everyone is starting to move and speak with each other, breaking the calm which was still reigning supreme 5 minutes ago.
Sarah, Luther & Sunky : Move. Just in case.
You turn to face the two others and you suggest that maybe you should go back to one of their rooms, upstairs. They agree and you get up before walking towards said rooms. It was not too far away so, in case something will hit, you'll be in safety.
Shit : Hit the fan.
Everyone, including you, stops and freezes in place when you hear a punch in the door. It was way too loud and brutal to be just someone who wanted to politely ask for help about something. Then, there's another one. And another one. You definitely start to be afraid when you see a fist breaking the door. You don't look at the others but you know that they are all becoming tense because, in a situation like this, it's synonymous with combat.
So, you walk a little faster (and, by this, I mean « you run »).
Blood : Be spilled.
You are now D.E.L.I.L.A.H. and your day is going pretty well. No one attacked the headquarters and you could spend all your time running your part of the operations while the boss lady is busy watching over the entire Multiverse. It could be a tiring job – listening to what the employees had to say, fixing the problems that could happen, greeting new people and explaining what their job was about to be – but it was no problem for you. In fact, it gave you an actual purpose in life (or, at the very worst, you had an idea of what your life would be) so you were quite happy about it !
If only the Wild Card could be less erratic… she had qualities and was trying her best to be a nice person but her tendancies to deliberately act over-the-top and her weird personality could make her someone very difficult to reach.
Whatever. What was important, right now, was the man just in front of you. He was tall and pudgy, with green eyes and his hair and his beard being long, black and messy. On top of that, he was wearing a tuxedo and looked kind of nervous. You had a briefing on the history of this guy and, with that, it wasn't hard to see why.
« So, Mr. Brown, I hope I managed to give you a good idea of what we are doing. As I was saying, we are doing our best to avoid accidents on set and, with that, I'm pretty sure what sadly happened to your body double years ago will not reoccur. »
« T-Thanks, said Martin Brown in response. It was all I wanted to k-know… »
« I saw that. Actually, you're the first person I've met who doesn't seem too phased about the fact that the Multiverse exists, you tell him with a smile.
« Oh, you see, I think that… i-infinite worlds are a more reassuring thing that killers in a-animal masks and… s-seeing someone dying, you know, I nearly quit acting after that… when I think of this, i-it was such a bad idea to act on TV like I was my character… but a-anyway ! You say it's some comedy show you're doing ? »
« Skits, if we want to be more technical, but you can call this a comedy show, yes ! From what I saw, your filmography, you don't seem to have too much prior experiences with this sort of things. »
« Yes. In fact, I wanted to do a-another projects because my career was becoming very, uh… stale. Always these auteur films with not much happening in it. It's good, but after doing only t-that, you start being tired of it. »
You nod your head in approbation.
« I guessed it, Mr. Brown. And I want to emphasize the fact that our team is made of people who are very serious when it comes to the craft. In order to show people that the Multiverse is a land for new opportunities, we have to show them that people coming from different worlds, with different experiences… can not only collaborate, but be able to create entertaining content for everyone. And professional actors like you is something we are in need of. In fact, the man that will be your superior is one too and you're about to meet him. Follow me, please. »
He nods his head in return and you two start walking in direction of Lab 3. It was the one that got turned into a film set and, thanks to a bunch of portals, going from lab to lab was fast. It takes you two minutes to reach it.
« And so, this man you're talking about, he's the one who runs the place ?, Martin asks.
« Oh, no ! He already tried his hands to running something but… let's say it wasn't his place and he was less in charge than what he thought he was. The boss lady… well, you will not need to go meet her, generally, she is the one who comes to meet you- »
« HEEEEEEEY ! Deli', my girl, I wasn't expecting to see you that early ! »
You and Martin stop when you hear the familiar voice talking. Of course, it was the boss lady, looking and sounding as jolly and happy as she usually was. Which would be a comforting vision if she wasn't covered in blood, holding the severed head of what seemed to be a green alien with long, pointy ears and having another one of these aliens on his knees, naked & with his face wounded (not to mention that he's looking at you like he's about to scream at the top of his lungs).
You look at the Wild Card with the exact look you have when you don't understand what is going on (which was quite frequent with her).
« What is this ? »
« Oh, that ? You know about Skrulls, right ? The shapeshifting guys ? Well, some of the assholes from Paibok' team just came out of a portal and tried to attack me. One of those thought he could trick me by transforming into you but he underestimated me. They all underestimated me. I was wondering if some of these guys would ever try to go on this Earth… and let's say it was a mistake ! »
You turn your head to face Martin. His eyes were now wide and you can swear that he turned a little bit pale. Great, just what you needed.
« You… know that it was the worst moment possible for you to show up, right ? »
« There's no bad moment for me to show up, absolutely not ! I mean, c'mon, it's a good way to show to Mr. Brown that if assholes from other realities show up, there will be no problem, everyone will be protected ! »
You look at Martin again. He tries to look somewhere else.
« And… what will you do with that ? Especially the naked one ? »
« Oh, him ? I'll sent him back to the others and he'll give them a little message I wrote for them. Nothing too aggressive, just a friendly reminder to not mess with me if they want to stay alive. And for the rest… well, this gave me an idea for a new adventure. So, I'll be out for a few hours. I'm not telling you what it is, because there's a lot of people out there reading and we need to think about their entertainment ! »
Both of you decided to say nothing, Martin because he's trying to convince himself to not drop everything and run away, you because you want this uncomfortable moment to stop right now. Eventually, she notices and starts walking out.
« Anyway, I'll return soon. I trust you for the rest, girl, I know you'll do a stellar job, as always ! Also, sorry that I can't shake your hand, Martin. Big fan of your work and Midnight Animal was a big inspiration to me, I hope you'll enjoy working with us ! »
She then blow you a kiss and disappear. You stand still for 5 seconds after that before facepalming. Sometimes, you swore that everything wanted to make your life more difficult than it was supposed to be.
« OK… listen, Martin, when I told you she is the type of person to go to the others and not the other way around, I swear this wasn't what I meant. The boss lady is a weird person, but I promise that it was a real job offer. »
« …you know, a-as long as I d-don't puke on the floor, t-that should… be a-alright. Just, c-can we move on to s-something else ? »
« We can both agree that we must do that, yes ! »
You start walking again, but a little bit faster (just to be sure that you will not have to see something like that again). A lot of the Fazbear animatronics were here, scribbling things on some paper or discussing about all sorts of topics. They salute you and Martin and you're glad they're here because since they were brought back and had these new personalities, courtesy of Doug, their weird looks didn't stop them from being friendly.
After two minutes, you end up finding the man you are searching for. He's a bald man with a long beard, wearing a Shakespearian-like outfit and sunglasses and drinking some tea. You can also see that he has less bandages around his neck than before, when the boss recruited him. When the man turns his head to face you, he greets you with an enthusiastic smile and a hand wave.
« So, Martin, you respond with your own smile, I would like you to meet one of our main writers and someone who had to face a lot of tribulations before being here… Mr. Trevor Slattery. »
Come back to where we were before.
Hm. I thought you would have wanted to know more about Mr. Slattery' return, but hey. You decide what we do.
You are now Sarah again. You, Luther & Sunky are under your bed and you swear that if these footsteps don't stop, you will do an acrobatic fucking pirouette off the handle and call the mayor of the nearest city or something like that because you're very much convinced that you're screwed up.
For the last ten minutes, you just heard screams and roars, whether it was people in pain, afraid or who were still fighting and not willing to die. And then, at one point, it stopped. All you could hear was slow footsteps. Surely the one who attacked. You didn't knew what to do, if you still were inside the cartridge, you… would probably spent more time attacking Luther but if the attacker was also here, you could beat them easily ! Here, nothing !
You wonder if they know where you are. At one point, you will have to go out of your room and see what is happening but you need to not be seen by… whoever this was and you're not sure you could do that. Seriously, why don't you just escape, go to Lily' home and tell her everything, so you would be able to live a sort of normal life, even with your new form-
« hey sar' i don't hear the footsteps you think they're gone »
When you hear Sunky whispering this, you realize that indeed, you have stopped hearing the footsteps.
Sarah : Go check that out, this is probably your chance !
Yeah. This is. Slowly, you crawl out of under your bed, get up and start tiptoeing towards the door. There's still no noise.
Open the door.
You do that and try to stay silent. Of course, your door creaks a little. You always hated that noise and it was even worse now. After some seconds, you look at both sides of the corridor. There's some pieces of decoration who are destroyed, laying on the floor, but you can easily guess that this is not where the (likely) carnage is. You turn to Luther & Sunky to tell them that the way is safe and they join you by tiptoeing, too.
Slowly, you walk across the corridor. There's a growing feeling inside of you that you will not like what you will see but if there's a slight chance you could help in anything, you would take it. After all, they were still people that allowed you to live a decent life and you liked them quite a bit, so you wouldn't leave them to rot !
Sarah : Look from up here.
You manage to reach the stairs and you don't need to go further to see what happened.
There's blood spilled everywhere and dead bodies laying down. And that's when said bodies don't have parts of them that are cut (you swear you can see several hands and one head who are missing). It already starts to smell bad and there's even more destroyed things than there was upstairs. The state the entrance door is in alone shows you that.
« Yo, Luther asks, you think we can still help ? »
You keep looking at it the best you can.
« I'm… not really sure, frankly. We… we don't even know who did this ! I could… barely even tell you what to do. »
What you don't tell to your two friends is that, in addition from your lack of knowing what to do, well… all of you, even if you stopped, were supposed to being the unstoppable monsters ! The fact that someone managed to cause such a bloody mess in the first place was something you still had to process (especially with the fact that a bunch of them had powers).
What does Sunky has to say about it ?
You and Luther suddenly realize that your friend stood silent since all this time. And at the second you think about this, you suddenly hear a noise coming from behind, who was similar to the noise a rubber duck makes when you squeeze it. You turn your heads.
The vision that greets you is a bald guy with a concrete-black skin who has one of his hands on Sunky' neck and tries to stab him with a knife on the other hand. The fact that he doesn't seem to understand that he can't even harm the guy because of his toon physics would be hilarious if he wasn't covered in so much blood it was dripping on the floor and if he wasn't, well… the guy who just attacked and slaughtered everyone downstairs, who has two pool balls instead of eyes and who is heavily and quickly breathing like he was about to explode in rage.
JE : Realize that you are being watched.
The guy turns his « eyes » towards you and stops when he sees that you are looking at him. It only takes him two seconds to drop Sunky on the floor and charge towards you, ready to strike. Luther jumps and lands on the top of his head, knocking him. If there was something that you were thankful for, it was the powers that gave you these new forms.
You start looking for anything useful, anything that could serve as a weapon. You're already too slow, as the attacker tackles you and pins you to the ground before raising his weapon. By reflex, you punch him in his right leg, the hardest that you can. He lets out a scream of pain and it gives you enough time to get up and punch him in his torso. He looks at you, his teeth showing and his face reflecting the fact that if he could pop your head, he would do it.
He throws his knife at you but Sunky jumps between you and the object. A new rubber duck-like noise is heard and it seems to have pissed off your attacker a little bit more but it allowed you to run in order to search anything that could help you defend yourself.
Sarah : Find this anything.
You see a vase on a table. Because you don't have time to think, you throw it at the guy. His response is to punch into it and break it. And because he doesn't want you to catch a break, he suddenly unleashes a giant wave of energy. You jump to the right side of the corridor and barely avoid it. At this point, you just want to catch your breath but the fact that this… thing is so hellbent on keeping fighting. In what this guy was even made ?
Fortunately, you are reminded that you're not alone, as Luther, who was still behind your opponent, suddenly grabs him by the foot and starts moving him around to buy everyone some time. He disappears quickly.
« what do we do now »
You turn to Sunky.
« Well, we wait until he comes back. There's already a whole lot of dead people downstairs so we're not going to lose another one. »
For once, Sunky doesn't say anything in response. Generally, he was quick to playfully poke fun at your status as frenemies (sort of) but this time, he seemed to understand that this wasn't the time for it.
Hopefully, Luther reappears quickly. He looks a bit tired, but nothing too worrying.
« I've smashed him against the wall. Didn't knew I was strong enough to do that but hey, I'll take it. But now, we need to go somewhere else. Don't care what is this somewhere, as long as it's not here, it's good ! »
Sarah & Sunky : Yeah, no need to say it two times, let's go !
By the time your friend ends his sentence, you're already running. Using all the energy you still have, you go backwards. Surely, this little tactic gave you extra time but it wouldn't last for long. You just needed something that could save you, right now.
Then, you stop on your tracks when you come back to your room and see something that wasn't there before. A portal. It's white, bright and, judging by its aura, it seems like it was waiting for you since a few minutes, at least.
Everyone : Take a quick decision.
Luther is about to say something when, suddenly, you hear quick footsteps coming from behind. Immediately, you fear that even that wasn't enough to stop him… so it's a surprise for you to see Maijin Sonic coming here, stopping himself, looking at you and the portal for 3 seconds and then jumping into it without thinking.
You follow him into the portal as quickly as you can. At this point, there was no need for anything else.
Go back to the present.
« …aaaaaand, yeah, we jumped into it, floated around for… I don't know how long exactly and we landed up here. »
You and your friends spent the last 5 minutes explaining to Sonic and his gang what you did and why you ended up here. Of course, it wasn't as detailed as what I showed to the persons who followed your POV, but still. They listened to your story the best they can and seem to be thinking about it.
« You know, says Tails, if it was someone coming from one universe that we already knew about, like Corneria or Planet PopStar, it would be simpler. We would just have to call some people and they would stop the guy. »
« You can do that ?, Luther asks.
« Yeah, Sonic responds. When I did my first Smash Brothers tournament, I got some phones made by Master Hand, so I could call the other ones who were attending just in case ! »
« But the problem, like we stated, is that this man doesn't come from any universe that we know, Blaze adds. He didn't even stated his name ? »
You shook your head by the negative.
« Nah. He never even talked. »
« Heh. I guess the guy likes to be silent. »
« Yeah, says the fox. But that really gives us very few options. I mean, maybe it's a coincidence but… being attacked by someone and, then, seeing people who came from another universe and were also attacked by the same person looks just too big of a coincidence. It's very strange. »
Sonic raises his shoulders.
« Not as strange as being suddenly turned to dust by Hell-knows-who or have a weird alternative version of yourself who is hellbent on killing people. But yeah, Tails is right. Honestly, I wish I knew what exactly we could do to, at least, help you but everything right now just became so weird, I'm not even sure if- »
« HEEEEEEY ! »
Everyone turn their heads towards the energetic voice and its owner, Tangle, who enters the lab with a triumphant expression on her face.
« So, she begins without skipping a beat, the translator managed to work without any sort of big problems and I could learn more about the guys that saved us and these weird rabbits. In short, their names are Rayman, Globox and the two magicians doesn't seem to have names but they stated being Teensies, they also come from another universe and doesn't know how they found themselves here. They also know the rabbits personally because they kidnapped Globox' children, decades ago, if I'm correct… oh, and while I was talking to them, there's a weird box who appeared, so maybe it can be interesting to check ! »
She pulls said box out of the pocket and gives it to Tails. It's a grey, metallic-looking one. You all come closer to examine it. Tails opens it and finds a weird watch and, below, a piece of paper. He takes it and unfolds it to see what it is. It's a message.
I just realized I didn't sent you your own.
My apologies for the sudden irruption but I thought I could help you.
A person will come very shortly in order to assist you. If someone knocks at your door and says « Does the Black Moon howl ? », you need to respond « Yes, and it's a tapir sneeze ». Don't ask : you don't need to know.
I'm sure you want explanations about what is happening and, in due time, you'll have them. But, for now, I'll suggest you to focus on what you are at, right now. After all, the future is full of surprises (you'll see) and there's very few things people hate more than spoilers.
Long live the Multiverse.
LIL_HEAD
Door : Get knocked.
Before any of you could say a thing, you hear a knock at the door. Immediately, you decide to all go.
« Yes ?, Sonic asks.
« Does the Black Moon howl ? »
The voice who spoke was gruff, cold but undoubtedly feminine. You look at the message one more time before the blue hedgehog formulates an answer.
« …yes, and it's a tapir sneeze. »
Exactly what the message said. Again, you don't know what to make of it because it's very sudden and even weirder than what you can imagine (one of the downsides of just being a creepypasta character).
« I guess you're this Sonic the Hedgehog I'm supposed to meet ?, the woman asks. I believe I've been sent in a mission that also involves you. »
All of you look at each other for some seconds before he decides to open the door. You find yourself looking at a woman wearing a red and gold-coloured costume stylized after a spider (there's even one on the torso) and six mechanical arms in the back.
« Yeah, Sonic responds, that's me ? I… guess that with all the people from other universes I saw these last hours, you're also one, Ma'am ? »
« Yes. I wish to keep my identity private, but you can call me Iron Spider. Apparently, there's a murderer who is loose somewhere and I think I have enough informations to help you find him. »
So, that's it! As you can see, a bunch of things happened. I can't say too much about who this Iron Spider is, of course, but let's just say that, with Trevor' return among the living alone... yes, it was time for the Wild Card' disturbances to be a bit bigger. Plus, the Mandarin is probably still doing his thing with the High Evolutionary, you seriously think he will notice a head stolen by some fucker? Nah, he won't.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, if you have anything to say, please, leave a comment and for the rest, I'll see you very soon!
