Video Game Village

By: Metal Sonic EX

Disclaimer: I still don't own anything but the storyline. What I do own is a pencil, some paper, all of my assignments from the last year and three-fourths of school… You know, the usual stuff.

Okay, in this chapter, Shadow gets Sonic back (BIG SURPRISE!), Sephiroth takes sanctuary in a most unusual place, and the baddies lower themselves to a REALLY low level. Enjoy chapter eight!

Chapter VIII

Time For Plan B…

Sonic got up early, which was odd for him, and went downstairs. He found Rouge and Tails watching Beethoven reruns. Shadow walked in the front door and stopped in front of Sonic. "I'm happy to inform you that our rivalry is coming to an end today." Sonic raised an eyebrow. "I hired a bounty hunter to come and kill you." Sonic scoffed. "Yeah, right! What's this bounty hunter's name?"

Suddenly, the door was kicked in and One Winged Angel started playing as Sephiroth stood in the doorway, partially silhouetted due to the light behind him. Sonic's eyes bugged out and he fainted. Sephiroth reached down and pressed the pause button on his walkman, causing One Winged Angel to stop playing. "Um, I got kicked out because of a restraining order, so, I was wondering if I could stay here for a while." Shadow looked down at Sonic's unconscious body, then looked back at him. "Sephiroth, due to your oddly great timing, I'll do anything for you." Sephiroth raised an eyebrow. "Really? You'd do anything?" Shadow sweatdropped. "Not that kind of anything."

Vectorman then poked his head over Sephiroth's shoulder. "Hey, Shadow. You said you needed a bounty hunter for something?" Shadow pointed to Sonic's body. "Sorry, already taken care of." Vectorman looked at Sonic, then looked at Sephiroth, who was looking at him. "I see… Ah, well. Later!" Vectorman walked off and Sephiroth stepped in. He then pointed to what was the door. "Oh, and I do plan on fixing that."

Later, when Sonic had regained consciousness, seen Sephiroth, and ran out of the door screaming bloody murder, Sephiroth was sipping some coffee at the table. "Look, I know I don't say this often, but thanks guys. This means a lot." Shadow shrugged. "No prob." Meanwhile, after their brief Bingo incident, they got back to planning their next attack.

"I think I know why our last plan didn't work."

"Really now?"

"Yeah. This dumbass was high. I found a joint in his room."

Ansem turned his head as people gasped and started. "It's not my fault that the pink bunnies speak Dutch while juggling chainsaws." He chuckled at the thought and everyone moved away from him. "So, where is this joint now, Warhead?" Warhead chuckled. "I gave it to someone to shut him up." Elsewhere, in one of the houses in the bad side of town, Wily was giggling like a madman. Well, he kind of is already one, but… "He he he. Pink Dutch chainsaw bunnies funny." Back at the group, everyone was trying to figure out what Warhead meant when Eggman snapped them back to reality.

"We need a better plan. One where that new guy is used to our advantage." Teasel Bonne from Megaman Legends scoffed. "So, what do we do? Waltz in there and kidnap him?" Warhead was about to throw an insult at him when Greedy spoke up. "I say that we forget the new guy and we just bomb the whole place." Eggman waved a hand in the air. No no no. We'll gas the whole good side of town! That way, we'll be able to use their side of Video Game Village for our evil doing!" Warhead smacked Eggman upside the head. "Moron! How much do you think it will cost to buy these chemical bombs? I mean, look at the current price of gas!" An odd chuckle arose from the crowd and an unmistakable voice rang out. "Did someone say they needed… Money?"

Everyone turned and saw the driver of the Misadventures of Tron Bonne final boss, Lex Loath. "Yes, we need money. No, we don't need yours." Eggman was well aware that one time, he had forced Tron to pay three million Zenny to get her brothers back. After that, he said that she owed interest on her interest. So, they weren't about to start that again. "Go away you creep! This doesn't concern you!" Tron spat at him. "Come now! Come now! I'm just trying to help…" Tron's face grew red. "Call me little missie and I'm shoving my foot where the sun don't shine!" Loath backed up a step and raised his arms defensively. "Okay, here's the deal: I'll lend you all you need, and I'll give you a year to pay it back." Everyone thought this over for a sec. "Okay, fine. What's the catch?" Loath smirked. "Catch? All you have to do is pay me back." Eggman sighed. "Fine, when this plan works, like I know it will, you can have the entire good side of Video Game Village." Loath thought for a second. "Hmmm. I don't know. I'm not sure that that will be enough to cover the cost." Eggman sighed again.

"We'll throw in a year supply of doughnuts."

"What kind?"

"Krispy Kreme."

"HOT DOG! I'LL DO IT!"

A couple of hours later, Loath was sitting in the corner scarfing down doughnut after doughnut. Eggman and the others were building some huge horse-shaped robot. "So, just so I know, what are you making anyways?" Loath managed between doughnuts. "Unfortunately, we're going through with Spooky's earlier plan." Loath raised an eyebrow. "Which is?" Greedy walked over and whispered it in Loath's ear. "You borrowed a million and a half Zenny to build a TROJAN HORSE!" Greedy shrugged. "It was all we could come up with for Plan B."

Loath threw the doughnut he was holding back into the container. "That's it! I'm helping you work on this! To hell with the Trojan horse!" Spooky raised a hand. "It's name is Silver." Loath just looked at Spooky. "Okay. You know what? Forget paying me back. I'm helping you with this. Everyone stopped working. "Are you serious?" Loath chuckled. "Nope. You still have to pay me. But I am helping build a new robot."

Elsewhere, Sonic had returned and was watching more Beethoven reruns and occasionally glanced over his shoulder at Sephiroth, who was busy counting the different ways he could kill Tifa and the others without violating the restraining order's distance requirement. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. "Hey, Sonic. Has Sephiroth come by here? We kind of need to kill him." Sephiroth dove under the table.

"Don't tell them I'm here!"

"Why? It's just the Zeros. And why are you whispering?"

"Two words: Kingdom Hearts!"

"Oh…"

Sonic opened the door and the Zeros were currently unfolding a tent. They paused when Sonic answered. "Um, guys. Sephiroth did come by here." Sephiroth clenched his fists. "Really, when?" Sonic shrugged. "I don't know maybe about five minutes ago. He was heading for the bad side of town." The Zeros looked in that direction, then quickly folded their tent back up. "Thanks, Sonic. Which reminds me. Did you want any of Sephiroth's body parts? You know, an arm, a leg, maybe a lung or two?" Sephiroth tensed up when he heard this. ""Um… No thanks… We're good." MMX Zero shrugged. "Suit yourself. More for us!" They ran off and Sonic shut the door.

"Great. Now those psychopaths are out for my body parts! Wonderful!" Rouge looked over at Sephiroth, then remembered something. "Hey, Sephiroth? Is it true that you killed Wakka?" Sephiroth beamed. "Yup, sure did! Greatest moment of my… Hey, what's wrong with your eye?" Rouge's eye began twitching when he said this. She got up and walked to the door. Shadow looked at Sephiroth. "Run! Now!" Sephiroth raised an eyebrow and his question was soon answered. "HEY, GUYS! HE'S IN HERE!" Sephiroth jumped through the doorway and started running down the street. "Stupid bat!" The Zeros ran after him, pausing briefly to thank Rouge for her services.

After a while, they caught up with him. "This is the end of the line for you. Any last words?" Sephiroth raised a hand. "Just a few: Don't sell my body parts on Ebay." He then cowered and prepared for the inevitable. "Take this!" BOP! BOP! Sephiroth opened his eyes and saw the Zeros holding wiffle bats. "What's with you? Did you think we'd actually kill you? You the coolest video game character we know of! Except for us, that is." The Zeros gave each other a high five and Sephiroth stood straight up. "You mean you chased me all over Video Game Village just to hit me with a wiffle bat?" The Zeros nodded.

Seconds later, Rouge popped her head out of the window and saw the Zeros running towards her.

"Oh, look. The Zeros. They must have…"

"DON'T KILL US!"

The Zeros ran by and Sephiroth followed shortly after, singing the lyrics to One Winged Angel. "What the…" Shadow looked over to her. "Let me guess." Rouge shook her head. "It's not that Sephiroth's gone mad again. It's what's heading straight for us! Everyone scrambled out of the door and saw the Colossus (Misadventures of Tron Bonne final boss) stomping towards the good side of town. Inside the Colossus, Eggman and the others were throwing a party. "And here's to Loath, for rebuilding this robot, ensuring our victory!" Cheers of 'Here, here!' rang out and Loath smirked. "Don't count your chickens before they hatch. We're not even starting yet. What the…"

Loath and the others looked out of the Colossus's head and saw Sephiroth chasing the Zeros. They were running in front of the head, as in on the Colossus itself. "How did they get up here?" Meanwhile, Sephiroth had gotten his hands on the wiffle bats and was about to beat the Zeros to a pulp with it, when the Colossus's head turned and charged a shot that was aimed at them. "How 'bout this? We beat this thing and we call it even." Sephiroth nodded and the three dodged the shot as it was fired.

The Zeros drew out their sabers and Sephiroth reached for his sword. "What? Where is it?" Meanwhile…

""Hey, Tifa! We've got our first bidder for Sephiroth's sword!"

"Really, how much?"

"$1,200 Zenny!"

"IS THAT IT!"

"AAAAAHHHHH!

Sephiroth screamed out a curse as he realized that Tifa was already selling it on Ebay. "I'll kill her for that!" Inside the Colossus, Greedy was asking questions. "What do we do about them?" Rez chuckled. "Leave this to me." He exited the head and Sephiroth stood ready. He flipped his walkman on and One Winged Angel started again. "Where's your sword, butt-munch?" Sephiroth chuckled. "Who says I need it?"

"Sin Harvest!"

Gasps and cries of alarm came from the Zeros and the Colossus's head as Rez became the next victim of the world's cheapest video game attack. Rez was taken from full health to one health when Sephiroth waved his hand. MMX Zero just stared at him and then finally snapped out of it. "I could've done that!" Sephiroth walked up to a terrified Rez and did what no one expected. He pushed Rez and he fell twenty stories to the ground, blowing to pieces when he hit it.

"YES! HE'S FINALLY GONE!" Warhead started dancing around over Rez's destruction. Loath started controlling the Colossus and it's hand came crashing down on the platform in front of the its head. Sephiroth dodged it and the Zeros got to work slashing at the hand. This caused Loath to temporarily stop Colossus, allowing Sonic and his recently assembled team to get close enough to the Colossus' foot that they could start climbing up it. "Vectorman! Ristar! You two get up there! We'll be there in a sec!" Vectorman gave a thumbs-up and flew up to the top with Ristar. Spot called up to Sonic. "What about everyone else?" Sonic pointed and Spot saw Billy calling out 'Assume your battle stations!' in the distance.

Up on top, The two arrived and joined in attacking the hands. Sephiroth was just standing there. "I'm waiting…" Loath raised an eyebrow. "Waiting for what?" A 'thud' followed and Sephiroth grabbed the Colossus' recently chopped off hand. "Waiting for that." Sephiroth took the hand and slapped the head so hard, everyone inside was either thrown out of it or fell to the floor. The only ones who were still inside were Loath, Greedy, and Sigma. Everyone else fell to the ground below. The robots landed first and people like Eggman and Wily landed on top of them.

Sephiroth threw the hand at the head and this time, all but Sigma were knocked out. Sigma stood up, pushed a few buttons, and began cackling. "You fools! I've just reprogrammed the Colossus! Behold! My new Kaiser Body!

(A.N. Just a note. Sigma's Colossus Kaiser Body is mine. I came up with it and thus, it's mine. Don't use it without my permission.)

The Colossus started shaking severely just as Sonic and the others reached the top. The Colossus' arm began transforming. Parts of it unlatched themselves, entered the upper arm, and was replaced by a solid blue armored arm. The legs got the same treatment and the Colossus' other hand fell to the ground, soon replaced with a giant blue hand that had huge, thin spikes protruding from each of its three knuckles. The body began changing to a complex system of armor and wires. Sigma disappeared from the head, which reattached itself to its neck, and Sigma's head soon replaced the Colossus'.

"No one said anything about new Kaiser Bodies! What a rip off! I'm talking to my agent about this one!" MMX Zero shouted and Sigma began laughing like an idiot when a spinning ball of something hit Sigma in the eye. "OW! What the…" Sigma looked at Spot and he threw his hands in the air. "MY ATTACK SUCKS!" Sigma reached a hand up and placed it on the same platform that everyone was standing on. His needle knuckles bent over and aimed themselves at the group. One by one, they fired and one by one, Sephiroth and the Zeros caught them and redirected them at his head. "AH! DAMN IT!"

Meanwhile, the baddies had grabbed what remained of Rez, much to Warhead's disliking, and retreated back to their 'base'. Actually, it was just a small building assembled in the middle of the bad side of town. Greedy was trying to figure out how to rebuild him when Rez's head was stuck next to his face. "Hi. I'm Rez. And I'm a dick because I think that I'm so much better than WARHEAD!" Warhead then slammed Rez's head to the ground, stood up, and walked off. "I'm going to go and see how fast Sigma loses." Greedy shrugged and continued. "Suit yourself."

Back at the Colossus Kaiser Body, Sephiroth and the others where beating Sigma face in. Literally. You could see all the dents that they had made. "I'm growing tired of this!" Vectorman nodded and several sparkles began spinning around him. Sonic motioned everyone else to leave and Spot hesitantly followed. When they had started climbing down, all that remained was Vectorman and Sephiroth.

"What about you?"

"I want a body part when you're done with this loser, got it?"

"Sure, whatever."

Sephiroth began climbing down and Vectorman looked at Sigma. "Initiate Overkill!" Sigma raised an eyebrow. "Overkill?" Vectorman released the charged explosion and it caused Sigma's head to disappear in a bright flash. When it dimmed, the regular Sigma, or what remained of him, stood where his head was. Vectorman transformed into his tank mode and charged a final shot. "Asta la vista. Baby." With that, he blew Sigma to pieces. He transformed back to normal and got an idea. "Sure. Why not? After all, we have no use for this."

Back at the baddies hideout, Greedy, with Inonsis' help, reactivated Rez. "It's alive! It's alive!" Rez sweatdropped and looked at Greedy. "Of course I'm alive. Thanks to you, that is." Warhead came out of nowhere and pelted Greedy in the back of the head. "That's for rebuilding him!" Eggman, who was busy recording the Sigma fight with Ansem, cried out, "Um. Guys. We've got a problem." Those who were still conscious walked over and gasped when they looked out of the window. They had a problem, all right. As far as they knew, Sigma had malfunctioned and was stomping his way towards their base. "Should we run?" Everyone stood still for a second, then they began making a break for the door.

"IT'S LOCKED!"

"YEAH! FROM THE INSIDE!"

"WHAT ABOUT GREEDY?"

"LEAVE HIM!"

"But…

"I SAID LEAVE HIM!"

By the time they got the door open, Vectorman had abandoned ship and watched as the useless Kaiser Body tripped over a building and landed on the baddies base. "Hehehe. Serves them right." He flew back to the group and was cheered when he landed. Junior ran up to Spot and began bouncing around. "THAT WAS THE COOLEST, SPOT!" Spot chuckled. "All I did was make him mad." Pac-Man was about to say something when Sonic held up a hand. "Hold it! Take a look." An almost exact replica of the Trojan horse slowed as it approached the group and it eventually stopped. "So, what do we do with it?"

Sonic snapped his fingers. "The only thing that it's useful for. I was going to save these for you, Shadow, but, hey, I think we'll all get a laugh out of this." He whipped out a lighter and a Marltov Cocktail. He took a few steps forward and lit it. "Bombs away!" He hurled it at the horse and it instantly began burning. Shadow raised an eyebrow and said, "How's this supposed to be funny?" Sonic held up three fingers, then two , then one, and then…

"OUCH! THE FLAMES! THEY BURN!" A burning Spooky jumped out of the horse's stomach and began running back to the bad side of town, while everyone started laughing. "And stay out!" Sonic shouted after him. Shadow gave him a high-five and said, "Well, I have to admit, that was funny. But where'd you get that thing in the first place?" Sonic chuckled. "You don't want to know."

Back at the baddies base, or what was left of it, the final bosses where planning on what to do next when a smoldering Spooky tripped in front of them. "You actually tried your stupid plan? Spooky nodded the best that he could. "Moron." Spooky was in pain, but he managed to lift his arm high enough to give Eggman the finger. "Screw you…"

Well, I think that this is one of my best battle scenes so far. I'm not sure what you think, but I'm happy. Anyways, In the next chapter, Sonic gets Shadow back, the bad guys start regrouping, and Spot continues his project with Junior. Tune in next time when the baddies go Back To The Drawing Board.
Sonic: I'll pay you if you don't kill me.

Metal Sonic EX: I already have all of the money I could ever want.

Sonic: Really? How much?

Metal Sonic EX: About three bucks. -sweatdrop-

Sonic: -slaps face-

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