Hey guys! This Halloween story is about to get interesting. I would like to thank Ember the Flame Guardian for his support. He and I have more or less become friends. Also, an update on my Sonic High School story: I've decided to accept anyone who wants their OC in it, but you have to PM me before the I upload the first chapter, which will be after I finish this story. But enough of that. Let's get back to Sonic Howl-oween!
Chapter 3
Silver was bopping his head to the beat of the DJ. This was a lot harder to do than it sounds when you're wrapped head-to-toe in gauze. Maybe the mummy costume wasn't the best choice... he thought absentmindedly.
Tails really had gone all-out for the party. Live DJ, great realistic decorations, all the food Knuckles could shove down his throat- it was all impressive.
Silver walked to the punch bowl to join the others, who were sort of gathered in that area. Tails, in his skeleton costume, was handing out cups of "blood", which tasted remarkably like fruit punch. Amy, in her wedding dress, was talking to Cream, who was dressed as a princess.
Knuckles, in his all-to-fitting Frankenstein's monster costume, was munching on a brownie and was engaged in a conversation with Blaze and Rouge, trying desperately to ignore the fact that Rouge had gone as Frankenstein's bride, and failing. Miserably.
Blaze... Silver thought. As it was, he had heard Amy right; Blaze was dressed as an Egyptian princess. Silver couldn't remember Blaze having ever worn a skirt before, or make-up, for that matter. Silver was sort of glad his costume covered most of his face, which was reddening as he realized how pretty Blaze looked. Silver walked stiffly (another downside to his costume) over to the group.
"Hey, Silver," Knuckles greeted him with a mouth full of brownie, "What's up?"
"Nothing much," Silver replied, "I'm just wondering where Sonic and Shadow are."
"I was wondering that, too," Blaze put in. "They seemed pretty excited about the party before. Well, Sonic was, anyway," She corrected herself with a small smile. Silver found himself smiling, too.
Rouge laughed. "Yeah, Shad's never really been one to be 'excited' about anything. Someone probably should try to find them, though, or at least call them."
"I'll go look for them," Silver offered, "This costume is killing me."
"I think you make a great mummy," Blaze said, "Especially when you're part of the great, undead army of Cleopatra!" She did a small twirl in her outfit, indicating she was Cleopatra.
"Still," Silver said, "I'll look for them, I need to get out of this costume. It's so stiff."
As Silver was walking off, Knuckles chuckled and whispered into Rouge's ear, "That's what she said!"
Rouge tried to hide her laughter by putting a look of mock-offense on her face, to no anvil. The two started cracking up while Blaze looked at them as if she was looking at two immature three-year-olds. "You guys!"
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Silver was muttering to himself as he tried to walk down the sidewalk from Tails' house while simultaneously trying to unwrap the gauze from his fur. This wasn't working so well; he had barely made it tt the next block from the house and he had already fallen flat on his face. Twice.
As he pulling the last pieces of gauze from around his boot ( turns out gauze is kind of sticky), he turned a corner and saw something no one ever wants to see: two of your friends, unconscious, in the hands of a killer robot. Sure, that's oddly specific, but when Eggman lives only a few doors down from you, that kind of thing becomes more likely to happen.
The Dr. in question was thoroughly enjoying his victory. "Finally, I have captured you annoying hedgehogs, and..." blah, blah, blah, evil mastermind ramble. Let's fast-forwand a little.
"-ho ho! Now, to have my revenge!" Eggman finished dramatically. His Egg Mobile rose a few feet in the air and took off in the direction of the forest. His robotic minion, still clutching Sonic and Shadow, sprouted a jet-pack and followed him.
Silver stepped out from around the last house on the block. He had to help Sonic and Shadow. Better stay hidden for the time being, though, he thought, It won't do them any good to be unconcious with them.
He silently levitated into the air, and shot off after Eggman and his robot.
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Silver had lost track of Eggman in the dense foilidge in the forest, but he kept going in the general direction Eggman was headed, and soon came across a rock face. Fortunately, Eggman has never been good at keeping his secret lair secret, and Silver found the entrance easily.
He hid behind some barrels with Eggman's trademark on them, and surveyed the scene in front of him. Shadow and Sonic were coming to in a seemingly open space of the room. Eggman was standing in a separate room where part of the wall was made out of glass, so he could see everything that was going on. Fortunately, Silver was out of his range of vision.
Eggman tapped on a microphone connected to the panel of buttons and levers in his little "office". Loud booms echoed in the other room, telling the Dr. his mic was working.
"Sonic and Shadow," he said through the microphone, "The fastest thing alive and the ultimate life form, captured by none other than me!" he shouted with glee.
Sonic, regaining some strength, slowly managed to get to his feet. "Quit gloating, Eggman. No matter what you do to us, we always-"
"-kick your ass in the end." Shadow finished with a scowl.
The Dr. only laughed. And for some reason, that unnerved Silver, like he knew something they didn't.
"Now," the Dr. said with anticipation, "Let's get this party started!" He pulled a lever with an evil and triumphant smile.
Immediately, blue lightning shot out from an unidentifyable source. Bolt after bolt struck Sonic and Shadow, forcing them to their hands and knees. Both were in extreme pain.
A stray lightning bolt shot out and hit Silver's hand, which he'd carelessly left exposed. It stung like crazy, and he quickly snatched his hand back from the open. He looked back to the torture Eggman was putting the other two hedgehogs through, while flexing his hand.
Suddenly, Sonic pounded the ground in pain. As Silver looked, he saw Sonic had left cracks in the cement floor where he fists had hit.
Sonic slammed the floor again, and then something began to happen to him. His quills got darker. His shoulders broadened. His teeth sharpened themselves into fangs. His hands broke out of his gloves, revealing claws that shouldn't be there.
Shadow's quills also darkened. His shoulders broadened as well. His teeth also became razor-sharp fangs. His hands broke out of his gloves, revealing claws, though his inhibitor rings remained intact on his wrists.
The two werehogs let out long howls of anger.