FINAL DESTINATION: SONIC STYLE
Hello again. Sorry for the delay again. Some issues have cropped up on my GCSE options. And I've been talking to Bloodrayne666 and reading her stories.
And I've been downloading demos onto my Xbox.
But, I'm back with the first death. This chapter may be slightly short, but enjoy...
CHAPTER 3
A SHOCKING TEST RUN
Tails was sitting down at his kitchen table contemplating over what had happened to Anna yesterday.
He couldn't get the images and memories out of his head; the looks on Anna's face, the screams and the deaths of all those innocent fun-seekers.
Finally, Tails had no choice but to do one thing.
"I'll call Anna over and see if she can tell me what she saw." he decided, flipping out his Nokia and scrolling down his contact list until he found who he was looking for.
He positioned the device to his ear and waited for Anna to pick up.
Meanwhile, Anna's phone began to vibrate and sing the ringtone. The song was Stronger by Lazee, which featured Dead By April.
The bottom line is,
I know you bad for me but I find it complicated,
Seems where my mind is,
On a mission to be where you are,
I know where you are.
Carlos walked up to the phone and picked it up, the phone reading, 'Tails'. He tried to remember when she gave him his number yesterday, but the vibrating of the phone was distracting him.
Eventually, Carlos placed the phone by his ear. "Hello?"
"Carlos?" Tails' voice spoke from the other end.
"Yeah. Anna's still shaken up from yesterday; who wouldn't be?"
"I guess. Anyway. Listen. I need you both to come round in about a day or two. I want to speak to Anna about what her premonition was."
Carlos thought for a few moments. Anna will still in pretty bad shape. "Why?" he asked curiously.
Tails sweat dropped. What he had actually planned was to make a machine that played memories and premonitions. "Well, if I can make an extraction machine, then we might be able to view her premonition."
Again, Carlos tampered with his thoughts, his brow scrunched up in concern. 'I know Tails was an amazing scientist and inventor, but what if something goes wrong?' he thought with concern
He sighed. "Okay. I'll text you if Anna wants to go."
Tails smiled. "Terrific. You can tell her that she doesn't need to watch."
Carlos nodded in acknowledgement. "Okay." he said as he hung up the phone and looked towards the stairs that led up to where Anna was most likely to be sleeping.
DING! DONG!
Tails rushed open to allow his guests in. Outside, Carlos stood confidently with Anna in his arms.
"Come on in." Tails welcomed. Carlos and Anna stepped inside. "Sorry for the state of me. Go to the kitchen and press the entire tap down. The floor will sink on a platform. This'll be normal. Wait once you get down there, I gotta go clean myself off." Tails explained before rushing off to shower off the multiple grease marks dotted around him.
Carlos walked to the tap that was located in the kitchen. He was about to access the workshop when he realised Anna wasn't by him. He turned to see Anna standing nervously at the entrance to the kitchen.
"You coming?" he asked as he held out his hand. Anna shuffled slightly before walking up to Carlos, taking his hand.
He looked at the tap. It was a futuristic looking tap; it had two separate nozzles, one hot, one cold, that spiralled and coiled around each other beautifully.
Carlos placed his hand on the coiling nozzles and took a deep breath. He pressed his hand down gently.
The whole room seem to rise as the platform began to sink at around 5mph. Lights and cameras that were implanted into the wall passed Carlos and Anna as they sunk lower and lower and lower and lower.
With 20 seconds, the platform jolted to a halt, marking the end of the trip down. Carlos and Anna stepped off and gazed around. It wasn't much; the whole room was covered in chrome plates and a small keypad sat underneath a black, blank screen. They were next to a colossal door that opened outwards, judging by the way that the hinges were visible.
A whir snapped Carlos and Anna out of their mini trances. They looked back to find the platform the descended on rise back up to wait for Tails.
"What do we do now?" Anna spoke up from her seemingly endless silence.
Carlos walked around the room and shrugged. They both sighed and sat down together to wait for Tails.
Meanwhile, Tails was just approaching the tap just in time to see the platform come into view.
"Ah. They're down there. Best not keep them waiting." Tails hopped onto the platform and pressed the tap, making the platform descend once again.
But just as Tails' head vanished from view, he made a miraculous leap out of the hole.
"I love this next part." he chuckled. (A/N: Query: Is Tails saying that, or the author, SB-420?) He ran back into his living room and crouched in front of the empty fire place. He pushed in one of the bricks, which opened up to reveal a long, winding tunnel that ran presumably to where Carlos and Anna were waiting.
Tails chuckled in excitement as a cannon descended from the ceiling, automatically adjusting its trajectory so that the muzzle was in-line with the hole.
Using his twin tails, Tails made it to the back of the cannon where a door was already open. He popped himself inside it and shut the door as a countdown was heard over the blaring of a siren.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero." At the end, Tails was detonated into the hole, his body fitting perfectly, as he travelled down the long, spiralling, looping, barrel rolling tunnel.
"Oh my fucking God! Where is he? He better not have ditched us and left us to rot in hell." Carlos was getting rather agitated at Tails' absence, unaware that he was travelling down towards them at 70mph.
"We'll give it 2 more minutes. If he's not here by then, we'll call the platform down again." Anna suggested, attempting to calm Carlos down, who grunted in annoyance, as he wasn't the most patient guy on Mobius, which was ironic as lions were supposed to be patient.
A whir from the ceiling noted that Tails was coming down. The plates opened and the platform descended from the tunnel, but with no Tails.
Just then, 16 of the chrome plates opened up, releasing 16 bouncy cushions that packed themselves together and extended whilst 9 plates opened up, revealing a long tunnel.
Anna and Carlos were separated by the cushions, but assuming by the increasing rumble, something was coming down the tunnel... Fast!
The rumbling turned into screaming of the joyous type. The cushions were then impacted by a large object that became embedded in the cushions.
Both Carlos and Anna were shocked, even though they knew that something was coming.
After about 10 seconds, the cushions began to retract slowly, until they were completely sealed, leaving an immobilised yellow fox on the floor. (A/N: OMFG! I had no idea that I would actually enjoy writing that section!)
"Tails!" Anna rushed to his side and tried to get him to wake up. Just then, laughter erupted from the kitsune, making Anna jump back in shock.
After about a minute of doing nothing but laughing, Tails found his balance again, despite being thundered down a 2 mile long tunnel. "Oh God. I fucking love that!" The giggling fox thought aloud as his eyesight stop rolling around repeatedly.
"Are you okay?" Carlos asked with a bit of annoyance in his voice.
Tails shook his head to shake off the finishing dizziness. "I'm fine. I just wanted to take the fun route." he chuckled as he walked up to the keypad and screen on the wall.
Carlos and Anna watched as he typed in a ridiculously long password, which appeared as green asterisk's on the screen.
As Tails hit the 'Enter' button, the colossal door beside him hissed and whirred as the catches and locks began to release slowly. The door then made a jolt outwards, startling Anna and Carlos. As 2 rails became visible in a flash of light, the door began to slide upwards, revealing the workshop that Tails had talked about.
It was huge! Planes and weapons lay in rest from the times when they had fought Doctor Eggman. Multiple corridors stretched out to other sections where other inventions were presumably stored. The workshop went 5 storeys high.
Carlos and Anna just gawped at the vast building in which they stood.
"Holy shit! You made all this?" Carlos' voice echoed throughout the many hallways.
Tails just rubbed the back of his neck and chuckled. "Yeah. I hate to brag, but I built this over 4 years ago. This place stretches over 5 kilometres." he admitted, trying not to boast.
There was a long silence between the 3. All anyone would hear would be the breathing of Carlos, Anna and Tails, and the machinery working in some far off distant room.
"Well. This way to reveal all." Tails said in a mockingly spooky and mystical voice, walking off through one of the many corridors, Anna and Carlos close behind.
When they arrived, this extraction machine was just as Carlos had actually imagined; there was a goldeny-brown cubical with a helmet that was 'Taized up' as Tails always described his work. Multi-coloured wires sprung up from the helmet and were sealed into one, big, black wire cover. The wire cover then travelled upwards and into a projector that was in front of a white screen.
"Behold, The Dream Catcher!" Tails shook his hands in the direction of The Dream Catcher to try and add effect, but ended up failing miserably.
"Is this gonna show us what Anna saw?" Carlos asked curiously.
Again, Tails just rubbed the back of his neck and chuckled. "Well, I need to do a quick test run, just to confirm that it works. But, yeah. This is it. Oh, and ignore the name, it catches more than dreams. It catches memories and premonitions and displays them on the screen." Tails admitted sheepishly. "If you go through there," he pointed to a small, simple door that lay next to a huge mirror. "You'll be able to view the test run... Just to see what Anna will have to go through." The fox directed them through the door, unaware that this would be the last time he would see them.
As Tails prepared himself for the test run, Carlos and Anna sat on little, wooden stools behind some one-way glass; both were nervous for Tails' safety, since this was a test run.
As Tails entered the cubicle, he was unaware of a few things; that the cubicle was soundproof, and that a drink on the work table behind him looked as if it were about to fall.
But ever since the accident, not only had Tails become slightly worried, but he also became a bit over confident in the fact that he wouldn't die. So, with the over confident side, Tails was ignorant to the table and the near-to-spilling drink.
Tails flicked a switch on the helmet and the machine began its test run. Lights blipped and the machine beeped as The Dream Catcher started scanning Tails' mighty brain for its location, which was chosen by Tails' mind.
But when The Dream Catcher began to operate, it released a small rupture of wind. The cup on the table caught the wind and spilled, dropping down onto the wires below. Its contents were spilled onto a small opening in the wire.
When the water came to contact with the open wire, electricity surged both ways, blowing the plug from the fuse.
With nowhere to go, the electric current travelled to its new nearest exit, the helmet. The electricity reached the helmet and began to shock Tails!
Tails screamed in agony as 169 volts of electricity pulsated around his body!
Behind the one-way glass, Carlos and Anna watched in horror as The Dream Catcher malfunctioned, killing Tails in the process. They tried to help him, but the door was locked shut, preventing their escape.
Suddenly, Tails' body couldn't take the shock and exploded, blood, guts and other insides sprayed the cubicle blood red! (A/N: Pun intended)
Anna screamed and Carlos just stood there, eyes wide with horror, as Tails' body exploded.
They walked carefully towards the door, which was ironically unlocked and opened with ease...
Wow! That took a while. So, Death has claimed his first Nemesis victim. Who shall die next?
Also, I just wanted to say that my school, Casterton Business & Enterprise College, had a MASSIVE Flash Flood! I am not kidding! Rain flooded the entire school, the steps became waterfalls and even the outside bench area outside of the PE changing rooms became a mini, .5 foot swimming pool!
And all I have to say is... I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT!
And another thing before I forget, this death came to me in a dream. I'll tell you what happened: I was checking my E-mails, when I got 2 E-mails from Bloodrayne666. I opened the first one, and it said that she was moving to Japan. *Shrugs*
I then opened the second one, and it was an animation of Tails' death. It was so perfect in every way that I had to use it. Of course, a few minor tweaks were made to it, but anyways...
So, thanks Bloody?
Song used as Anna's ringtone was Stronger. Sung by Lazee, featuring Dead By April.
SB-420
Date: 8/7/2011 (Just a quick note, if you Americans are complaining that I'm using a British date, the stop complaining and get used to it!)
Time: 16:42