Hey! You! What do you see?
Something beautiful,
Something free?

Hey! You! Are you trying to be mean?

Tails ran through the horde, never stopping, staying as low to the ground as possible. The beasts were actually clearing a path for him. This was great! He didn't have to fight them, or mess with them, or even look at them. He just had to make sure that there was ground in front of him, and he could keep running, and running, and running, and running forever and ever, never stopping, always running--

He fell down an open manhole. He looked up to see that they'd covered the entrance.

"Shit."

Tails noticed something. There were... Things... in the water.

And the water was rising. Slowly but surely, it crept upwards.

"Double shit."

Tails ran for it. He couldn't see, but he knew he had to get to a safe place. He turned to see if They were still in pursuit.

They turned out to be one life-form. It looked like a giant purple squid with bone tentacles, each tentacle having some manner of blade at the end. It chased after him with no relent, gaining at least three feet every second.

He was only 36 feet away.

"Triple shit!" Tails yelled as he started running again, faster than ever. He noticed a faint light coming from up ahead. He ran towards it faster than he'd ever run before in his life...

And fell on his ass when he hit a pair of steel bars.

He looked at the bars, then the monster that was only seconds away from him.

"Shitacular!"

Tails pried at the bars. No good. The thing was right behind him. It swung; he ducked. The tentacle blade sliced through the bars. Tails kicked them down and kept running. The beast smashed at the bars until they gave enough for the collosal squid to squeeze through. Tails ran for the light.

An open manhole. Tails jumped up, skipping three rungs at a time on the ladder, scrambling for freedom, and jumped from the top of the manhole, shoving the cover on the open portal.

He was in a pit of some sort. There were buildings--Hell, there were PEOPLE, although they seemed a bit depressed, but the walls looked too high to climb, or even see past. They went up as high as the eye could see, so much so that the sky seemed only as a dot to these folks.

Tails noticed a signpost...

It said "Welcome to Downtown Station Square"

Tails would have laughed if he hadn't been so tense from the squid. "Real funny, Sonic. You're a frickin' riot."

He looked around the town a bit.

No monsters, at least... Maybe he could buy some food here... Or get to a bathroom, he was holding in a piss that could kill a beetle. He pulled out his wallet and checked his funds.

Thirty-two dollars, sixty-seven cents, an I.D. card, and... A cookie?

Tails ate the cookie and entered the closest building: "Wall-2-Wall Greens"

Celery, Beets, Fruits, Veggies. Tails was more of a steak man, himself, but hey, whatever. The interior of this building seemed oddly clean compared to the bloody, burnt motif of the rest of this Hellish place... Tails asked where the bathroom is, relieved himself, and left.

... So... Now what?

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To be continued...