Chapter 4: DownTown

So... DownTown... The Police Station, The Bank... The... Hospital... And any number of other random buildings...

Tails wandered aimlessly around the block a few more times. Nobody seemed to want to talk to him, or even notice him. They all glanced over to him, acknowledging his existence, then they'd simply walk right past him...

After a while, Tails' search for nothing was interrupted by a piercing screech.

"Amy?" (AN: I despise the way FF wants us to make our exclaimed questions... )

Tails ran towards the scream, and found himself in front of Hellion Hill Hospital.

The hospital that the first monster had been in.

For around the ninth time that day...

"Shit."

Tails made sure there were still bullets in his SMG. Twenty-nine. Great. Twenty-nine bullets, X-billion monsters. Tails opened the door, turning the flashlight under the SMG's barrel on, while wondering why he didn't do so in the sewers. It was, as he'd remembered, bloody, burnt, and smelled of dead llamas. Tails aimed the SMG left, into and office. Nothing. Right, into a patient room. Nothing again.

crch!

Tails whirled around, pointing the gun at the source of the noise.

A roach.

"Jesus... I'm getting a little too tense..."

Another scream.

"That really IS Amy!"

"Put me down!"

Tails took two steps forward, before some sort of hulking black silhouette burst down the door just ahead of him, and flew into him, knocking him over, the beast landing on top of him. He crawled back some. The thing got up and looked at him. It was tan, bald, obviously genderless, although it's face was feminine. It had two bulking arms, ripped flesh revealing unnaturally large muscles underneath. It advanced towards him, cracking it's knuckles. Tails aimed his SMG at the creature's head...

WHAK!

Amy caved the lady-beast's skull with a well-placed bash from her hammer. She noticed Tails.

"Hey! It's you! I came here looking for you, but when I got there... Sonic... was there... He... stabbed me... "

"Yes... He's 'alive...' Well, sort of. I didn't want to tell you about him... because... you know..."

"Yeah... I know... Why would he do anything to hurt us, you think?"

"I don't know... Maybe he's not really doing it... Well, he is, but he's being controlled by an unseen third party."

"I guess... Mind control, huh? Sounds wierd to me..."

"Amy... Look around you. There's nothing un-wierd about this place. I was almost killed by a purple skeleton squid in a sewer system on the way to this place. A city with unoassable walls."

"... I don't know what we do now, but we better do it..."

"We should get the Hell outta here."

"Yeah."

They left the hospital. Amy looked up.

"You weren't kidding. How do we clear that?"

"Good question... I couldn't fly that high..."

"How do we get up?"

One of the villagers heard them. "To go up, you gotta go down."

"Down? Down is up?" Tails asked. "The sewers?"

"The Sewers? Where you ran from that big squid thing?"

"Yeah... Looks like we gotta go back..."

"Fudge nuggets..."

Tails led Amy back to the manhole. They jumped down...

And came out atop a very, very high dropoff. Tails looked down... They'd cleared DownTown completely... But...

"Why are we here, instead of the sewers, Tails? This is too freaky for words..."

"Yeah... Well... We better get going."

"Where to?"

"I don't know, but down is up. I think this is Hell, which means if we go high enough, we'll eventually ascend from the first tier, to Earth again."

"Great! Lead the way!"

"Uhh... I don't know where we're supposed to go."

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To be continued.