Video Game Village

By: Metal Sonic EX

Disclaimer: Still don't anything but the storyline. I'm still depressed. Why am I depressed? Because I don't own anything but the storyline. That's why.

In this chapter, the three new baddies return to Video Game Village, Shadow gets Sonic back, Spot begins having more weird premonitions, and the good side of town is faced with a group of not-to-happy final bosses.

Also, this chapter is going to have a few flashbacks in it. I'd like to remind you that I have not played Cool Spot. As a matter of fact, the only Cool Spot game that I've played is Spot Goes to Hollywood. Most of the flashbacks, if not all of them, are made up. But, it should still go along with the storyline, which I own. Anyway, enjoy chapter ten!

Chapter X

Taking Video Game Village By Force

Spot slept in very late the next morning. He hadn't been able to fall asleep after he'd had that dream. It was so horrible, he won't have been surprised if he'd wet the bed.

-Flashback-

(Spot's Dream)

(Spot's POV)

Fire. Everywhere I look, it's all I see. Fire is destroying everything, everyone's that left. I look to my left and… MY GOD! I see Junior, near death, hugging his dad, who is also almost dead. I run up to them and kneel down. I don't realize it at first, but I'm crying. Almost worse than Junior is too.

"Pac-Man. Junior. I'm sorry. I should have never come here! I… I sealed the village's…" Pac-Man cuts me off. He has trouble speaking, probably due to the gash near his throat. 'It's not your fault. You had every right to come here. You were a great friend, Spot. Don't say for a second that you…" I shake my head and interrupt him. "No. It is my fault. If I hadn't come here, than you'd of gone living your lives like you should have."

I look down. I start crying harder when I see that Junior's not moving. We were so close… So close to finishing it… Why… Why'd he have to do this?

I clench my fists and I walk a few steps away from Pac-Man. "COME ON, YOU BASTARD! I KNOW YOU WANT ME! COME AND KILL ME THEN!" I hear his voice. I turn around and see him. The one responsible for all of this. I throw a glance in Pac-Man's direction. Oh God! He's gone too! I turn back to him and he starts chuckling. "I swore that I'd destroy everything precise to you if I ever got my hands on you." He smirked that evil smirk. I clenched my fists so hard, blood starts running down my palm. But I don't care anymore.

"You'll pay for this…" He laughed. "You can't even hurt me!" He lifts his bazooka slightly. "Why don't you just hold still so I can kill you?" I look straight into those glowing red eyes. "Because…" Nothing's important to me anymore. He's destroyed everything. I'll make him pay for this. I lunged forward and reach my fist backwards. "YOU'LL DIE FIRST!" He smirked and aimed my bazooka at me. I already know that it's inevitable. "So eager to die. Such a shame…" He fires. And then…

-End Flashback-

(Normal POV)

Spot woke with a start again, this time in a cold sweat. Hell… I can't get five minutes worth of sleep anymore. He got up and got something to eat. He glanced at the clock. 3: 35 PM… And I'm still dead tired… He glanced into his secret room and his prized possession was still there. If this really is going to happen, I'll need this sooner than I'd hoped. Spot shook the thought from his head. Come on, Spot! Get a hold of yourself! It's just a bad memory gone worse…

-Flashback-

(After the taping of the Post Nuclear level in Spot Goes to Hollywood)

"I'LL KILL YOU! YOU HEAR ME! NEXT TIME I SEE YOU, YOU'RE A DEAD MAN!" Spot hid behind his agent while the creep was dragged away by security. His agent and the director of the game both looked at Spot. "Spot, I'm terribly sorry about this! None of this was supposed to happen! I never would've guessed that he'd end up doing this!" Spot raised an eyebrow. "What did I do?" The security guards returned. "I'm not positive. I think that he either doesn't like you or he disagreed with the script so much that he went overboard."

The director nodded. "Perhaps. Luckily, we've completed the taping of Post Nuclear. You should just ignore him. If you still think that he's after you, I'll get a restraining order set up." Spot nodded. 'Thanks. So, what's next?" The director smiled. "That's the spirit! Next, we'll be taping Virtual World. You'll be needing this though." He pointed to what was now Spot's most prized possession. "Wow!" The security guards were called back outside, so they hurried past the three. "Yeah. And, the best part is that you can keep it afterwards as a sort of apology for all of this." Spot stared at the director. "Are you serious?" He nodded. "SWEET!"

-End Flashback-

Spot pulled an old piece of paper out of a drawer he had. He started when he saw what he was looking for. It expired last night! CRAP! I've got to talk to my lawyer! As in now! He put the paper back into the drawer and he was almost to the phone when someone knocked at the door. He answered and Pac-Man stood there. "Hey, Spot. Listen, Junior was wondering if you wanted to…" He noticed the wild look in Spot's eyes, as well as the dark rings below them.

"Come over. Is now a good time? I mean, I could come back." Spot started, then shook his head. "No no! Now's fine!" He locked the door and they both started walked towards Pac-Man's abode. "I just didn't sleep that well last night." Pac-Man raised an eyebrow. "Really? It looks more like you didn't get any sleep at all." Spot chuckled. "It's a long story. One which I'd prefer not to get into." Pac-Man nodded knowingly.

Meanwhile, at the Sonic manor, Rouge was watching Beethoven's 3rd reruns. Tails, Amy, and Sephiroth were watching as well when Sonic came bursting through the door. "What's with you?" Sonic was panting heavily. "It's Shadow! He's framed me!" Sephiroth raised an eyebrow. "Really? How?"

-Flashback-

Sonic stirred and began to wake up. He looked around and found out that he was at the local jail. "What the…" He looked behind him and saw Bass in a jail cell using a file on the jail cell bars. "Bass?" Bass tensed up and Sonic heard a stirring noise behind him. He whirled around to see the police chief wake up. He looked at Bass, the nail file, and Sonic. "Hey, what the…"

Moments later…

Sonic is running down the street with half of the police force on his tail. "I JUST WOKE UP THERE! I SWEAR!

-End Flashback-

"And you expect us to help how exactly?" Sonic narrowed his eyes. "Kill Shadow for me." With that, he whirled out of the door and continued down the street, just as the police drove by the window. "Um, okay?"

Back at the Pac-Man household, Spot stared off into space and Junior tried to snap him out of it. He snapped his fingers and Spot started. "Huh? Oh, sorry." Junior looked at him worriedly. "Are you okay?" Spot smirked. "Yeah, Junior. I'm…"

-Flash-

(Spot's New Dream)

Spot is standing on some kind of virtual, wire-frame pattern platform. Above him, a giant floating blob with miscellaneous arms protruding from it was looking at him. You cannot defeat me, Spot! Face it, I swore revenge and I'll get it! One way or another! "I don't even know why you hate me!" FOOL! Don't play stupid with me! You know perfectly well! I should have been the fourth world's boss and they gave me that crappy part in the game! All I did was walk around, shooting missiles randomly! I deserved better! I held you responsible and I will continue to!

"What are you talking about! I think that you should have gotten that part in the game too!" LIAR! You will pay dearly for this insult! The blob began shaking and all of the arms shot stuff at Spot. There was no way he could outrun the explosion and there was no way that he'd survive the collision either. So, he braced for the imminent collision. Vectorman's ship was flying not too far away. Junior called out from it. "SPOT!" The collision came and, when it did, he…

-Flash-

When Spot began trembling and sweating like there was no tomorrow, Junior quickly packed his stuff, then called for his dad. When he came, he ran up to Spot and placed a hand on his shoulder just as the collision hit him.

"Spot! Snap out of…"

"PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!"

Pac-Man and Junior jumped at this outburst, but, thankfully, it looked like Spot was back in reality. "Spot, are you…" Spot began breathing heavily. "I'm fine." He stood up and turned for the gate. "I just need to get home and get some sleep. I'll see you later, guys." He exited the yard and Pac-Man called out to him. "See ya!" He then turned to Mrs. Pac-Man, who'd come running when Spot cried out. "I think we should tell Sonic about this." She looked at him and nodded.

Once at home, he grabbed the phone and he called his agent. After several rings, he answered. "Hello?" Spot gulped and took a breath. "Spot?" Spot started and his agent continued. "It's called caller ID. Anyways, what's with you? You sound like you're going insane." Spot chuckled nervously.

"I think that I just might be."

"Well, what's up?"

"Remember Post Nuclear?"

"Damn, Spot! Are you serious?"

"It's not that! I began having weird dreams last night."

"I'm not a therapist."

"I know. But do you remember the restraining order I got?"

"Yeah."

Spot took a deep breath, then let the words fall from his mouth. "It expired last night." There was a long silence before his agent responded.

"I see… Where are you now?"

"I can't tell you."

"Why not?"

"Because he might be listening."

"Hell, Spot. You're becoming paranoid."

"I know. But I've got a family that I care about now and I couldn't live with myself if they winded up…"

"Okay. Stay were you are and try to get some help. I'll try getting the restraining order renewed. Do you still have the old one?"

Spot began walking to the drawer with the restraining order in it. "Of course." Spot heard something like a foot brushing outside of his window and he darted into the room to see that the window was open. He poked his head out, but he didn't see anything. "Good. I need to now what it says so that I can tell the judge." Spot nodded and opened the drawer. He just stood there, flabbergasted, when he saw that it was gone.

"Oh, shit."

"What?"

"It's gone!"

"What! Well, you'll have to find it. I can't get it renewed if you don't have the original."

"It was here! I left it in this drawer! But it's gone now!"

"Well, find it!"

Meanwhile, outside of Spot's window, Junior stealthily made his way through a couple of yards and soon found his dad and Sonic. "I got it. But I don't think that this is…" Pac-Man took the paper from his and cut his son off. "I know it's not right. But the more we know about what's going on, the better we can help Spot." Junior nodded and they made their way to Sonic's manor. Shadow wouldn't be there, due to the fact that Sephiroth had worked a miracle for Sonic.

-Flashback-

Sephiroth had walked into Shadow's room, concealing a tape recorder. He pressed Record as he started talking. "Hey, Shadow." He paused the game which he was playing. "Yeah?" Sephiroth made a motion with his head to point out of the window. "Are you the one who got Sonic framed for trying to let Bass out?" Shadow smirked. "Yeah." Sephiroth pushed Stop and began walking to the window. "That's all I wanted to know." He revealed the tape recorder and Shadow started. "You wouldn't!"

Sephiroth shrugged. "When I moved in, you said you'd do anything for me, right?" Shadow narrowed his eyes. "Yes." Sephiroth smirked. "Well, I'd like you to reveal the truth to the police yourself." Shadow stood up. "Never!" Sephiroth began waving the tape recorder around. "They'll find out, one way or another." Shadow just stood there, gaping. "You're blackmailing me!" Sephiroth nodded. "For righteous reasons, of course."

Moments later, Shadow was detained by the police and he began grumbling something about blackmail. Sonic walked up to Sephiroth and began groveling. Sephiroth smirked. "I could get used to this."

-End Flashback-

At the Sonic manor, the Pac-family and Sonic's housemates began looking at the paper. "What is it?" Pac-Man's eyes grew wider. 'It's a restraining order!" Sonic started. "A restraining order? For who?" Pac-Man read half of the page before stopping. "I don't know. The name's been covered up. It looks like White-Out." Sephiroth looked at the paper and began reading it. "And it is stated that ? is not to come with a thousand yards of Cool Spot or drastic measures will be taken." He lowered the paper and raised an eyebrow. "A thousand yards? Even I can get closer than that to Tifa. Spot must be paranoid or…" Sonic cut him off. "Or Spot's trying to hide something from us."

Elsewhere, Omega, Juno, and Reapermon walked out of the airport and was met by Eggman and Greedy. Eggman threw his arms back and Omega held up a hand. "We've been great. We're here to kill Sephiroth, then we're outta here." Greedy shrugged and opened the limo door. Omega and Juno got in, no sweat. But, when Reapermon tried getting in, he found that he was too tall.

Greedy began joking around. "I guess you can't come with us." Reapermon raised the scythe that was his left arm. "Of course I can." With lightning-quick motions, Reapermon cut the top of the limo off. "Look. Now we've got a sunroof." He sat down next to Juno, who scooted away. "What? I don't use this unless I'm provoked or someone's gotten on my death list." Greedy also scooted away. "So, who is one this death list?" Reapermon looked at them. "If you don't stop scooting away, it's going to be Sephiroth and you guys."

When they arrived, the three just looked at the new hideout. "Sigma turned the Colossus into a Kaiser Body and fell on top of our old one." Reapermon looked Eggman. "So you replace it with a cardboard box? You're all stupider than I thought. Once inside, they were greeted by Spooky. He looked at Juno and began screaming.

"STOP IT! STOP SMILING! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE!" Reapermon knocked him upside the head with his scythe, knocking him out. "Neither can we." Omega gave an 'Ahem', then he began twiddling his fingers. Reapermon sighed and pulled out fifty bucks. He handed it to Omega, who started doing a victory dance, and Juno raised an eyebrow. "He bet me fifty bucks that you'd drive someone insane by smiling all the time." Juno formed an 'O' with his mouth and Loath came up.

"Well, well. The veteran final bosses. How have you been?" Reapermon raised an eyebrow. "We're not veterans. I've been in one game, Juno's been in one, and Omega's been in three, soon to be four." Loath waved arms around. "Not you. Them." They turned around and saw Wily, Eggman, and Ripto standing there. "Hey, when did Ripto get here?" He began waving his arms around. "I got here while you were busy cutting a limo to pieces!"

Reapermon chuckled and lowered his scythe to Ripto's head. "Would you like to see what I used to cut the limo to pieces?" Ripto shook his head. "THEN DON'T DO THE ARM THING AGAIN!" Wily raised his hand. "No, Wily! You cannot do the eyebrow thing!" Wily snapped his fingers.

After a while of planning, the four new additions to the final boss army came up an agreeable plan. "So, it's settled. We'll leave tonight." The group cheered and Warhead came in, carrying the overhead. "Yes?" Warhead set the overhead up and put a paper on it. It looked like this:

Bonnes - Alive

Loath - Eating Doughnuts

Eggman - Alive (Unfortunately) P.S. Wiseass…

Warhead - Alive

Greedy - Conscious

Rez - Alive (Unfortunately)

Ansem - Probably High Again

Sigma - Dead (Good Riddance)

Spooky - Alive (Unfortunately)

Wily - Annoying, Like Always

Metal Sonic - Still Missing A Head

Venom - Alive

Ripto - Alive

Reapermon - Alive or Dead, either or…

Omega X - Alive

Juno - Still Smiling

Omega looked at this and raised an eyebrow. "Um, Warhead? It's…" Warhead raised his fist menacingly. "FINISH THAT SENTENCE AND YOU'RE A DEAD MAN!" Reapermon rolled his eyebrows. "It would make more sense if…" Warhead spun to look at Reapermon. "FINISH THAT SENTENCE AND YOU'LL BE MORE DEAD THAN YOU ALREADY ARE!" Juno smiled. "Yes, I like to smile. I don't see anything wrong with that." Warhead spun to look at Juno. "FINISH THAT SENTENCE AND…" Juno interrupted. "I've already finished my sentence." Warhead lowered his arm and thought about this. "Oh, right. Um, okay. You're fine. I guess."

Meanwhile, Spot woke up after getting some well-needed sleep. Of course, he had fallen asleep in an unnatural way, but it was still sleep.

-Flashback-

Spot was pacing nervously. "I know I left it in the drawer. Oh God. Look at me. I really do need some sleep." He knew he couldn't do it the natural way. So, he did it another way. THUNK! Spot fell to the floor unconscious after beating his head into the counter.

-End Flashback-

He glanced at the clock. Holy crap! I've been out for two and a half hours! He paused and thought about this. I'm starting to think I need more sleep… A sudden pain caused him to grab his head. I'm also starting to think that I need some aspirin… He crawled in bed and three minutes later, he woke up. He shook his head, but stopped when his head started hurting again. He checked into the secret room and he got an idea. He crawled onto the seat and soon passed out due to exhaustion.

Meanwhile, the final bosses were carrying out their plan. Omega X and Juno were in their second forms, Wily was in a skull-shaped robot, Eggman was in a large robot with a mace that was called, 'Egg Mace' and Warhead was just creating potholes in the road with his abnormally large feet. "Would you stop that?" Warhead looked at Wily, but continued anyway. "Will you stop being an idiot?" Wily didn't respond and Warhead returned his gaze to the road. "I didn't think so. I mean, after all. Potholes can be VERY annoying and costly."

Juno smiled and looked at Warhead. "Yes. But creating them could give the same results both mentally and… uh… money-wise?" Warhead ignored this comment. "Whatever." Omega looked at Eggman. "So, remind me off what we're doing again?" Eggman chuckled. "We're just going to continue walking through the good side of town, destroying any pathetic soul that dares to cross our path." Omega stared at Eggman. "Do you know how long that will take?" Eggman nodded and Wily suddenly pointed. "LOOK! SOMEONE WHO DARED TO CROSS OUR PATH! KILL HIM!"

Everyone paused and the poor, unsuspecting chicken, who was crossing the road, looked at the final bosses fearfully. Warhead looked at Wily. "Uh, Wily. That's a chicken." Warhead was going to say more, but Wily suddenly began shooting machine guns, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, and anything else that you could think of. When the dust settled, all that remained of the chicken was a few scattered feathers. Omega threw his hands in the air and began to fly around. "What's with you?" Omega stopped and smirked. "I bet Reapermon sixty bucks that Wily would freak out over a chicken!"

Wily pointed again before anyone could respond. "LOOK! ANOTHER PATHETIC SOUL WHO DARED TO CROSS OUR PATH!" Sephiroth, who'd decided to go for a walk, stopped when he heard this outburst and froze when he saw Omega X, Juno, Wily, Warhead, and Eggman. "There he is! Kill him!" Sephiroth whipped around and began running. "Not again!" He ran as fast as he could, because he now had fireballs, missiles, grenades, machine gun bullets, fiery things, lasers and a shockwave heading after him.

After this, the final bosses continued onward and stopped when they came to a giant red X on the ground. "X marks the spot! Money!" Wily and his robot were about to begin digging furiously when Warhead held out an arm. "Wait! Look." He pointed to a sign that read 'Keep off of grass'. Eggman looked at Warhead. "What? I may want to hurt everyone around me most of the time, but even I have smarts not to disobey signs!"

Eggman motioned for Wily to move on it and he did. Nothing happened. Eggman shrugged and joined Wily. Juno and Omega followed shortly thereafter. "Oh, come on!" Warhead turned to leave, but Eggman beckoned. "Come on. What harm will come out of standing on the grass for a minute?" Warhead shrugged and joined them. "You know this isn't half-bad. As a matter of fact, I fell like laughing! I broke the rules!"

Sonic, his friends, and the Pac-family were conversing about the situation with Spot whole going for a walk. They stopped when they saw the final bosses laughing. "You do know that the sign says "Keep off of grass', don't you?" They stopped laughing and looked at Pac-Man. "What's it to you?" Mrs. Pac-Man held Pac-Baby up, causing Eggman, Wily, and Warhead to quickly jump to the left side of the red X shape. Omega looked at them.

"What's that about?" Warhead looked at Omega. "That baby blew us halfway across Video Game Village with a burp!" Omega made an 'O' shape with his mouth and the two quickly joined the others. Suddenly, the platform rose into the air like a springboard and shot the baddies flying back towards their hideout.

Everyone just stared at this. "I guess someone put the X in the wrong spot." The others nodded at Sonic's comment and the baddies began conversing. "Wonderful. There goes another plan down the…" Warhead interrupted Eggman's rant. "Hey, guys! Look!" he pointed and the group saw Team Rocket flying through the air again. "Team Rocket's blasting off again!" Eggman sweatdropped. "That wasn't funny."

In the bad guys hideout, Greedy was currently playing against Reapermon in a game of chess. Greedy moved his bishop and deadlocked Reapermon's king. "Check…" Reapermon raised his scythe. Greedy saw this and he quickly rearranged the board. "Oh, would you look at that! It appears that you've put me in checkmate!" Reapermon lowered his scythe. "That's better." Greedy sighed. "Why don't you ever let anyone else win?" Reapermon stood up and shrugged. "I'm a sore loser, I guess."

Suddenly, the five final bosses fell through the ceiling. "Well, I guess the plan didn't work." Juno shifted his weight. "Yes. And this is just a friendly word of advice. When you see a sign that says 'Keep off of the grass', obey it." Reapermon started, then slapped his face.

That evening, the final bosses tried a different plan. Reapermon was given a large, black cloak and sent into the good side of town. People stopped and stared at him, but he ignored it. Once he arrived at his target, in the middle of the night, he pulled out a walkie-talkie. "I've found him." Some scrambling was heard on the other end. "About time! Why'd it take you about five hours to find him? Didn't you use the map?" Reapermon started. "Map? What…" He heard a rustle come from within his cloak. He reached in and, sure enough, a map of the good side of town was there. "I should kill you for that."

Someone snatched the walkie-talkie away. "Listen up! Do you know what to do?" Reapermon sighed. "Yes, Eggman. I know what to do. But why did I have to get this part?" Eggman chuckled. "Do you know anyone here that looks like Death?" Reapermon growled. "Congratulations. You're on my death list." There was a long silence before a sound like Eggman passing the walkie-talkie to someone else was heard.

"Just hurry up and do it!" Reapermon started grumbling and walked around to the back of the house. Around this time, Spot woke up, this time renewed, and he shut the panel in his closet. He shut the closet and turned around to what looked like Death. 'Death' then shifted his scythe and moved it so that it glinted in the moonlight. "I'm just seeing things." Spot walked out of his bedroom, calm as he could be.

Reapermon fumbled around with the walkie-talkie for a few seconds. "Um, guys. What do I do if he says he seeing things?" There were some mumbles heard on the other side.

"muffle muffle"

"What do you mean that we didn't plan for this?"

"muffle muffle"

"Yeah? Well I say that YOU'RE stupider!"

"muffle muffle"

"Put the lime in the coc-u-nut!"

Reapermon got impatient. "The hell with this! I'll do it my way!" Spot was about to turn the TV on when he heard his bedroom window smashed in. He poked his head into his room and saw that 'Death' had broken in. "I said…" He shifted and made his scythe glint in the moonlight again. "Um… He he… Bye." Spot darted out of the room and into the bathroom. He looked for anything that he could use against 'Death' and he found a pill bottle. "Hey! My aspirin! So that's where it was!"

He popped one in his mouth and swallowed. "Don't you read the instructions? Please take with WATER!" 'Death' began hacking his way through the bathroom door and Spot jumped into tub. "Yes, I do. But don't you ever read the little door hanger things?" 'Death' stopped and looked at Spot. "Huh?" He looked at the door and saw a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on it. "Oh, wow! It's a…" He looked up again and saw that the window above the tub was open. "DAMN IT!"

Spot was currently running at Sonic's average speed away from his house. He was almost a few thousand yards away when he realized that he'd run straight into the bad side of town. "Uh oh."

Dun dun duh! What will happen now that Spot's in the bad side of town? Well, I guess you'll have to read to find out, won't you? Anyways, in the next chapter, Spot tries escaping the bad side of town while trying not to get killed and Shadow gets Sonic back. Tune in next time when Spot begins Escaping From The Bad Side of Town.

Sonic: Well, I admit. I didn't expect this.

Metal Sonic EX: Of course you didn't! That's why they call it a plot twist!

Sonic: Really?

Metal Sonic EX: Yes, really. Now, Read and Review. If you don't, I'll brainwash you and make you Read and Review. You'll do it one way or the other, so make things easier for yourself!