Video Game Village

By: Metal Sonic EX

Disclaimer: I still don't own anything but the storyline. You know what? I think I'll break into musical song and dance just to get this through your heads!

In this chapter, Spot tries escaping the bad side of town while trying not to get killed and Shadow gets Sonic back. As you can probably tell, this is mostly going to revolve around Spot and the baddies. There'll be humor! There'll be something like suspense! There'll even be a problem with a plugged-up toilet! Ah, the sweet smell of another well-written chapter.

For those of you who don't think that I write well, screw you all! However, for those of you who do think that I write well, then here is chapter eleven!

Chapter XI

Escaping From The Bad Side of Town

"Aw crap!" Spot looked around nervously. Everything looked the same to him. Everything except one odd detail. "What the…" Spot paused when he saw a field of flowers, complete with bright blue sky, pink bunnies jumping around, and even a brightly colored rainbow. Everything was the way it should be until the bunnies stood erect, spoke something in Dutch, and began juggling chainsaws.

It was about now that Spot became aware of a sickening smell. He coughed and ran out of the field of smog. He looked behind him and saw Wily and Ansem laughing like Beavis and Butthead while watching the bunnies. Those guys must be high or something. But I'm not high! So, how did… Wonderful. I think that I'm starting to have hallucinations.

Spot quickly whipped around the corner of a nearby building and looked around. From his surroundings, Spot figured that he was smack dab on the middle of the bad side of town. It was an almost exact replica of the good side of town, save the sinister looking buildings and thunderstorms, complete with dark clouds. Speaking of clouds, I almost forgot. Back at the Kingdom Hearts mansion, Cloud and Tifa were conversing again.

"Alright Cloud. How much for Sephiroth's sword?"

"It's been sold!"

"Really? How much?"

"150,000 Zenny, 2500 Gil, and 3 cents!"

"We're gonna live like kings!"

While Cloud joined Tifa in a victory dance, Spot was still trying to figure out how to get out of the bad side of town. He finally decided that he'd just go straight forward until he got outside. If he saw that yellow line by his house, he'd make a run for it. So, he set off on his quest to escape the bad side of town. While he does that, let's check up on the baddies, shall we not?

"Reapermon!"

"What?"

"Did you flush when you went to the bathroom?"

"Of course I flushed!"

"Well, in the case, explain to me why the bathroom smells like shit!"

"Oh, for the love of… Coming!"

When Reapermon walked up to Greedy, he had a clothespin on his nose and he gave the Death wannabe a can of Lysol. "You're doing it." Reapermon looked at the can. "Fine." Reapermon removed the clothespin from Greedy's nose and he started gasping for air. "It's not that bad." Greedy suddenly stopped and fainted. "Okay. Maybe it is." Reapermon entered the bathroom and what he saw was to graphic to show, even in an M- rated fanfic.

"NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!"

All of the bad side of town heard this. Even the residents of the Sonic manor heard this. Speaking of which, it's about time that you saw what Shadow is going to do to Sonic. Sonic was watching, you guessed it, Beethoven's 4th reruns with Rouge. Shadow walked through the front door with his hands behind his back. "Oh, Sonic." Sonic glanced over, saw Shadow's hands behind his back, and ran over to his wiffle bat. "Whatever you've got, I'm ready for it!" Shadow smirked. "Oh, are you?" Shadow revealed his hands and everyone gasped. In his hands, he held Sephiroth's sword.

Sephiroth, who'd been drinking coffee, ran up and snatched the sword from Shadow. "My sword!" Shadow raised a hand. "Actually, it's mine. I had to pay a fortune to get it." Sephiroth reluctantly handed the sword back. "So, where'd you get it?" Shadow smirked. "Ebay." Sephiroth cringed when he heard this and Sonic backed up. "So, what are you going to do with it?" Shadow smirked and removed the blade. "I'm going to kill you."

In an instant, Sonic ran off with his wiffle bat and Shadow took off after him. "Sephiroth! Could you sing the lyrics to One Winged Angel for me?" Sephiroth sat down and picked his coffee. "Maybe later."

They was a knock at the door and Tails answered it. "Pac-Man?" Pac-Man was panting and he lifted his head. "Where's Sonic?" There was a crash from the second story and Sonic landed in the bushes near Pac-Man. "You called?" Pac-Man finally regained his composure. "Spot's gone! And his bedroom window's been broken in!" Sonic gasped and Shadow ran down the stairs. He saw Sonic and raised the sword. "Sorry, Shadow! I'll take a rain check! Let's go!"

Back in the bad side of town, Reapermon was currently using the plunger on the toilet. "I don't think that that'll work. You'll probably need a pretty big vacuum." Reapermon stopped and looked at Eggman, who had nose plugs on. "Bite me!" Reapermon chucked the crappy plunger at Eggman and he moved out of the way. The plunger hit Juno in the head. "This toiletry appears to be emitting a foul odor. I shall dispose of it immediately." He threw it in the air and shot it with the lasers on the reverse end of his arms. "I was still going to use that."

Elsewhere, Spot was walking down the street when he heard a couple of the final bosses conversing. He ran into a nearby alley and peeked his head out a little bit. The final bosses were Omega, Warhead, and Wily.

"You were getting high again, weren't you?"

"How do you know?"

"I can smell it."

"Oh…"

"Guys? If you don't mind, I'd like to return to the matter at hand."

"Fine. Whatever."

"Okay. So, anyone have any plans for Operation Final Strike?"

Spot gasped when he heard this. They must be planning an attack on the good side of town! This is just another reason why I've got to get out of here! He waited until the baddies were ahead of the alley, then he dashed down the street and another corner. Omega stopped and turned around. "What's with you?" Omega stared behind him. "I thought that there was someone following us." Wily and Warhead looked at each other. "Right. If someone was following us, we'd kill him!"

Spot, who'd been eavesdropping, tensed up when he heard this. And one more reason to make like a banana and split… Spot walked forwards for a few miles and he soon grew tired again, but he quickly shook off the effects when Reapermon passed by with a bucket of something smelly. Spot ducked into another alley just as Reapermon turned the corner.

"Stupid, lousy, rotten, good-for-nothing teammates! Making me throw this crap out! I didn't mean for the toilet to get clogged!" Spot raised an eyebrow at this spectacle and he poked his head out a little ways. Reapermon walked to a large wall that Spot didn't notice before and hurled the bucket over it. "The real world can deal with this." Spot started. The real world!

Meanwhile, in the real world, another store manager was getting a serious beating. "I'll ask you one more time. Where is he?" The manager cowered in fear. "I swear I don't know!" The stranger shrugged. "Your funeral." He began charging the bazooka and the store manager blurted something out that made him retract the charge. "Wait! There's a legend I've heard about!" The stranger lowered his weapons. "Well, out with it."

The manager gulped. "You're a video game character, right?" The stranger narrowed his eyes. "Do I look like I'm from anywhere near here?" The manager shook his head and continued. "There's a legend of a village where only video game characters lived. I thought that it was just a rumor until you appeared." The stranger raised his weapon slightly. "I thought you said that it was just a legend?"

The manager quickly blurted out a response. "It is a legend! However, it's entrance is a rumor!" The stranger looked at the manager weird. "Entrance?" The manager nodded. "In the legend, there's mention of an entrance to this village that we can access. The rumor that I've heard says that it's in a forest not to far from here." The stranger's weapon disappeared in a flash. "Where do I go to find this forest?" The manager pointed in an eastern direction. "I thank you for your time."

The stranger turned and stopped before he exited through the window. "If I find out that you've mislead me, you'll wish that you'd died here!" The manager became frantic again. "I assure you that you go east! You can see it from outside!" The stranger nodded and hopped out of the window. The police arrived and told him to freeze. He didn't, of course. To him, anyone who was weaker than him was inferior. A police force could do nothing to him.

The stranger turned his head and saw a forest in the distance, just as the manager told him. The police opened fire and the bullets deflected off of his back. He sighed, took his bazooka, pointed it over his shoulder, and fired as huge blast that destroyed the entire area that the police were in. "Pathetic. Well, I guess I'd better get going." He began to walk towards the forest as fire trucks, ambulances, and Good Samaritans rushed to help the wounded police force.

The stranger then smiled a most evil smile. "I'll see you soon, Spot!" He started laughing, but he was cut off when a bucket of fecal matter appeared in the sky and fell on his head. "I'll kill whomever is responsible for this." He removed the bucket and continued towards the forest.

Back at Video Game Village, Reapermon turned and saw Omega and Eggman run up to him. "What's with you?" After a few deep breaths, Eggman regained his composure. "The good guys are demanding that we return their friend, the newbie, to them!" Reapermon raised an eyebrow. "We didn't kidnap anyone." Omega turned his head. "I know. We told them that and they didn't believe us." Reapermon looked at the two. "So, you're here telling me this why?" Eggman smirked. "You're Death, aren't you?" Reapermon started when he realized what he meant. "You're sending to negotiate, aren't you?" They both smirked.

Meanwhile, Spot heard this and decided to follow them to that yellow line. So, when they walked away, Spot began moving down the alley after them. They walked for a half hour before Spot came upon his first obstacle. A large wall was in front of him and he didn't know how to scale it until the fire escape came to mind. He looked around and found one. It was extremely rusty, but it was still a fire escape.

Spot managed to make it to the second floor before it started straining. He scrambled up three more stories and it started to fall down. He made a jump for the wall and he barely managed to land on it. As the fire escape fell, Spot tensed up and waited to see if the final bosses heard him. When there was no noise, Spot jumped down from the wall and he ran down the rest of the alley. As a matter of fact, he ran out of the alley and straight in front of the final bosses, who'd had to retrace their step after taking a useless shortcut Reapermon had told them about.

"I TOLD you that he ran in here of his own free will!" Spot suddenly grew nervous. "Um… He he… Hey guys." Omega grew a smirk. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Everyone looked at Omega. "THERE HE IS! KILL HIM!"

Back at the border of the two sides of town, Sonic was pacing and Pac-Man, Junior, and Tails were replacing Spot's window. They'd vacuumed up all of the broken glass, replaced the expired restraining order, and started to replace Spot's window when Sephiroth, Shadow, and Mrs. Pac-Man came up. "Well?" Sonic paused momentarily. "Nothing. They still say that he's not in there." Shadow looked behind him. "Well, he isn't here either."

Pac-Man and Tails finished inserting the window and Pac-Man spoke up. "Wait! You don't that he's somehow found a way outside of Video Game Village, do you?" Sonic stopped again. "I doubt it. Besides, with the way his door was, I think he ran for the nearest shelter, not caring what it was. In other words…" Everyone turned their heads. "The bad side of town."

Suddenly, they all heard an explosion and out of it came… "SPOT!" Sure enough, Spot was running for his dear life. There were about eight final bosses after him because Reapermon had used his walkie-talkie to call for backup. This sort of reminded Tails of the book 'Go, Dog, Go!' "Run, Forrest, run!" Everyone looked at Sephiroth. "What? Haven't you ever seen that movie?"

Spot didn't hear what Sephiroth had said, nor did he care. He just wanted to get out of this place. He made a jump for it and he slid over the yellow line. When this happened, the final bosses stopped running. Ansem raised an eyebrow. "What?" Warhead pointed at the line.

"He passed the line."

"So?"

"So, we can't pass that line unless we're going through with a plan."

"Why?"

"That's the rule."

"Oh, for the love of…"

Ansem, followed by Ripto, walked over to the line. The other final bosses tried talking them out of it, but they both jumped over the line anyways. The baddies gasped and nothing happened. "See? Nothing's going to happen." Just as Ansem said that, two lasers shot down and hit both Ripto and Ansem. They danced around for a few seconds, turning to dust shortly thereafter.

Everyone just stared at the ashes. Spooky floated up and poked the ashes. He had to cross the line little bit in order to do this. "Guys?" Another laser came down and turned Spooky to ashes. The baddies just looked at the ashes, then Warhead shouted, "RUN FOR IT!" The baddies began running for it, leaving Omega behind. He turned and shouted to them. "Hey guys!" They stopped and Omega pointed at Sephiroth, who started. "THERE HE IS! KILL HIM!"

Sephiroth turned and began running for his life as the baddies shot all of their attacks at him. Warhead began scribbling something down, then he held so that everyone could see.

Bonnes - Alive

Loath - Eating Doughnuts

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

Warhead - Alive

Greedy - Conscious

Rez - Alive (Unfortunately)

Ansem - Dead (Good Riddance)

Sigma - Dead (Good Riddance)

Spooky - Dead (Good Riddance)

Wily - Annoying, Like Always

Metal Sonic - Still Missing A Head

Venom - Alive

Ripto - Dead

Reapermon - Alive or Dead, either or…

Omega X - Alive

Juno - Still Smiling

Anyways, the good guys left and Pac-Man started talking with Spot. "What happened earlier?" Spot looked at Pac-Man. "I was just having hallucinations." Pac-Man shrugged. "Ah well. Just as long as you get some sleep." Spot nodded. "See ya." Pac-Man waved and Spot returned to his house. He crawled into bed and fell asleep almost instantly. He suddenly woke with a start as he remembered something. "Final Strike!"

If I've guessed this right, which I probably have, I've confused you during the stranger/ store manager conversation. Here's how it goes: there is a planet known as Earth. However, video games and video game characters are only legends. In a certain forest on Earth, there is the secret entrance to Video Game Village. Video Game Village is an entirely different dimension.

In the next chapter, things start to unfold as the baddies finish coming up with Operation Final Strike, Sonic and the others prepare their defenses, and the odd stranger finds the entrance to Video Game Village. Tune in next time when things prove to be A Prelude To Disaster.

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