Sonic Hill 2: DX
Ending V: Alien
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Dust shot up through the cracks in the wooden boards, which barely supported Miles's weight. He was extremely weary, but the end was in sight. Before him, the two steel double doors stood erect, their rusty handles beckoning for him to turn them. They moved easily enough, opening wide into the surprisingly bright area outside.
The chill that ran through his damp fur was stunning, but he managed to shake it off and keep moving. Standing still would only make things worse anyway. The metallic catwalk he stood on led about ten yards forward before it mutated into a long, steep, strangely crafted staircase. About a minute of ascending later, the stairs would switch direction and go downwards, only to head back up soon afterwards. It confused and boggled him, but his mind accepted it much easier than it would any normal, sane male of his stature. In Sonic Hill, things like that didn't have to make sense, so it was no use for him to bother trying to understand it. At least, that's what he wanted to believe at this point.
Too bad for him the place the stairs led to had been much different than he expected. The concrete platform had a chain-link fence around its perimeter, and held within it the rather peaceful looking ruins of a building. But it wasn't its strange features which surprised him.
It was the fact that it was empty.
As the foggy gate opened, Miles stepped in with a feeling of horrified confusion. There were no doors, no signs of an exit, and no life or death within the arena's confines. Deadly, chagrin silence swam around him.
"But…I thought…"
He stared down at the floor and felt that tingling sensation of tears growing within his skull. There was nowhere else to go…
-Vrrrrrrmmmm…
His ears perked up in surprise—which held hands with a small bit of hope—when a strange foreign noise emitted from somewhere. It took him a while to realize where it was coming from, but eventually he looked up into the sky.
'Oh my god…'
His jaw dropped to the floor cartoonishly as he saw it: A giant, disk-shaped metallic object hovered about twenty feet above and in front of him. Multicolored lights that seemed to blink for no real reason surrounded the perimeter of the object, only adding to the confusion he felt staring upon it. It was just like in the old movie's he'd seen: a big surreal-looking disc-shaped UFO. A strange, white-ish light was shining on the front of the ship as it moved backwards a bit until it reached the far wall.
"What the—" Miles wasn't even able to finish his sentence as a laser beam shot out from the space ship and hit the chain-link fencing, obliterating it and sending chunks of metal flying at him along with an insanely loud noise. "—FUUUUUCK!!"
Shielding his face, Miles managed to avoid the chunks of brick and fencing flying towards him, allowing him to stare, astonished, at what followed. The ship landed on the now empty space where the edge of the platform had been. Another metallic noise, and a huge chunk of the front of the ship slowly opened up, forming a slope for its carriers to walk on. From within the spacecraft, he only saw bright white light, until the shadow of a figure came into view.
"…Sonic!?" Miles couldn't believe his eyes.
There on the platform, his blue angel stood, looking like a complete mess. Cuts and scrapes—all of which were scabbed and beginning to heal over—along with a fair share of bruises and even a little blood covered his body. The spots of skin on his chest and belly was just as scratched up and worn as his fur was, and there were even a handful of bandages covering him to top if off. If he didn't know any better, Miles could have sworn the hedgehog had fought for his life just as much as he had.
Of course, that didn't stop him from running joyfully towards the hedgehog. The confusion was placed behind the wall of excitement for the time being, and for a few short seconds, everything was okay.
"I've been looking for you!" Miles cried ecstatically. "I missed you so much!"
"Tails?" Sonic raised an eyebrow, seemingly just as surprised but not quite as happy to see his love as Miles was. He moved forward for a second, but then abruptly stopped and placed his hand on his ear, a look of concentration drawn on his face. "Oh…"
The disappointment Sonic expressed surprised Miles even more, and he finally stopped for a moment, allowing the misunderstanding of the situation to catch up to him. Sonic frowned, sighed, and looked at something to his side Miles couldn't see.
"I was afraid of that…" Sonic whispered. "I guess this town has more screwed up dimensions than I thought."
Two strange looking tall green creatures slid into view, adding more to Miles's bafflement. They wore thick reddish pink suits, which didn't quite match well with their obscenely large light green heads. Their eyes were an interesting dark red, and showed no signs of any sort of pupils or life on them at all. On their backs were strange looking gray packs that he couldn't see very well. And in their hands were ray guns, which did match with their heads, when it comes to the humorous largeness of them. Sonic didn't seem to be bothered at all by their presence as they stood on both sides of him, gazing upon the weary fox.
"W-what's going on…?" Miles whispered as he took a step backwards, suddenly fearing his life.
"Sorry, there's been a misunderstanding." Sonic stated that frown still on his lips. "We're a bit lost. Have you seen a little girl? Red dress, light brown eyes, floppy ears?"
"A little girl?" Miles echoed questionably.
"Yeah. She's my daughter. I've been looking for her."
"Daughter!?"
"Yeah." the blue hedgehog nodded patiently, seeming to acknowledge how confused the poor furry was. "Have you seen her?"
Shaking his head, the two-tailed kitsune replied. "No…I did see a pink hedgehog though…you're not really Sonic, are you?"
"Oh, yeah, that's me." Sonic laughed nervously and scratched the spikes on the back of his head. "But I'm probably not who you're looking for. Strange coincidence, eh?"
Sadly, Miles looked down at the floor. "Yeah…"
The aliens on both sides of the young hedgehog spoke in an unknown high-pitched language, looking up at the supposed Sonic while doing so. After the one on his right finished talking, he too began to speak in the same tone and dialect as them, though he showed a small bit of strain like he was trying to think of how to word it correctly along the way.
Miles just gawked at them, not believing what he was actually seeing. Out of all the things he'd expected to find here, someone who looks just like his deceased boyfriend communicating with space aliens wasn't one of them. Wasn't even anywhere close to one of them, but it really was happening. The insanity Sonic Hill contained seemed to have tripled to unbelievable proportions.
"So you haven't see her?" Sonic asked again after his conversation with the aliens ceased. He seemed almost distressed when asking it.
"No, I haven't…" the twin-tailed fox shook his head sadly a second time.
Sighing distantly, Sonic continued. "Sorry man, but they won't take no for an answer."
Miles raised an eyebrow. "Wha?"
To his extreme horror, both aliens raised their rayguns and pointed it directly at him, making it pretty apparent at what they intended to do. He tried to jump out of the way, but it was far too late – the creatures opened fire and a big orange wave of agony encompassed itself around him. His muscles and his eyesight went haywire, not knowing in the least bit how to react to the sudden jolt. He fell, spazming slightly on the way down. Head laid out on the floor, he could see little more than a dizzy sideways view of the spaceship, and the moving feet of the three carriers inside it. Sonic's red and white-stripped shoes casually stopped a few inches away from his face. He tried desperately to move, but his efforts were futile – Sonic and the two aliens grabbed onto his arm and began to drag him up the slope into the UFO.
What seemed almost like hours later, he was finally inside the ship, and they laid him out on a big bright table. His vision was still screwed up, but he could partially grasp what the interior looked like. Whiteness filled the place, aside from a large big screen TV broadcasting a news program about something he couldn't hear from where he lay. Now even if he weren't paralyzed anymore, he wouldn't be able to escape, for the metal bars on the side of the table clunked together over his twists and ankles, holding him in place. Beside him, Sonic had a friendly but genuinely guilty smile on his lips.
"Don't worry Mr. Fox." The blue hedgehog said cracked a half smile Miles had known Sonic so well for. "The food sucks, but you'll get used to it."
Miles opened his mouth wide to scream, but no sound came out. The metal door of the ship slammed shut as it lifted back into the air with its new prisoner. And before he knew it, it had already blasted off at light-speed into outer space…
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Lose my head to the chemical freeway
Coming up on overload
In a mystic new dimension, purify and sanctify me
What, so I'm in no endgame
Move my piece right off the board
Losing sure is easy, so I am no more
But I'm not broken
In my dream, I win
But here, I'm nothing
A cosmic castaway
In my head I'm a chemical dreamer
Speed up to burnout mode
Coming up in the fifth dimension
Beautify, don't crucify me
Yeah, so I need no mind game poisoning my lonely soul
Losing sure is easy, so I am no more
But I'm not broken
In my dream, I win
And I take over, because I'm no loser
And I'm in and you're not
Bad dreams don't stop
And I'm all screwed up
A cosmic castaway, yeah
A cosmic castaway, yeah
The cosmic castaway…
And I want, but have not…
Bad dreams, lust thoughts…
In here with no pain…
You hurt me again…
And I want, but have none…
I should beat the alien…
But here, I'm no one…
A cosmic castaway, yeah!
A cosmic castaway, yeah!
A cosmic castaway, yeah!
A cosmic castaway!!
"Cosmic Castaway" - Electrasy