A/N: Hey again guys, looks like this story will be finished in an extended period of time so bust out the wine and give some cheers! Also I want to mention that if you don't know this, Blaze's fear and dislike is of heights. Now where's those drinks!?

Working on it! Hey why not you tell them the big surprise while you're at it!?

Oh no Shadow, I may have agreed to your terms on that but we promised I wouldn't reveal it until the final chapter.

Pssh, spoil sport! Well I'll just tell them! We've beenmphmmm!

SHUSH IT SHADOW! START THE STORY, BEFORE HE GETS OUT!

Did you just stop me from speaking!

O_O. Uh-oh...SEE YOU ALL SOON! AHHHHH!

Get back here or I'll smile!

Chapter 9: Pranked to Death (figuratively or literally!) also video mentioned is "Love, love Shadow" By back2s0ul.

Knuckles woke up with a shock as he groaned in pain holding his head . "Oh man! That's the last time I use one of Tails crazy contraptions." As he did this, he found himself to be in a dark area with only one source of light focused on him. He also took notice of the chains that seemed to have come onto his wrists and ankles without him even knowing.

"The hell!? Where am I? Tails, Sonic, Silver, Blaze, anyone their!?" He yelled as he began walking forward only for the chains to unnaturally pull him back and cling him into what he immediately distinguished as the cold tiled wall. He began to struggle and growl so as to get out of his trap.

"You should quit doing that, you'll only hurt yourself." A soft voice resounded through the dark.

"Hey who is that!? Eggman I swear if you're behind this I'm gonna crack that giant belly of yours!"

"Eww gross! Why would you compare me to a slob like him!?" The voice literally choked as if it was about to throw up from Knuckle's comment. After hearing the voice again, Knuckles noticed that the voice didn't really sound nasally and old. It actually sounded more...feminish.

Lights began to come on and Knuckles was finally able to take in the room he was in. It looked dirty as if it hadn't been cleaned in who knows how long. Their where a couple more fluorescent light bulbs around the small, dingy room and Knuckles soon caught sight of who his occupant was.

"Looks like someone needs to use their brain more." Death grinned as she stood act least a foot away from Knuckles, arms behind her back.

"Who the hell are you?"

Death grinned as she began walking up to Knuckles in a shy looking demeanor but with a face that Knuckles seemed to recognize, but he just couldn't put his finger on it.

"You shouldn't talk like that ya know, a lot of people find it rude."

"Yeah and people find it rude when you just chain them up to a wall! Without permission I might add!" Knuckles hissed.

"Shesh, you don't need to get into such a hissy fit Knuckie, I was just playing." She stood in front of him now as Knuckles was now forced to look into those deviant red eyes. Those eyes that held the look of only one person he knew...

"Your eyes...they look just like...

The girl grinned before skipping back to where she was and pressing her palm against the wall as it seemed to press some sort of secret lever as the wall opened up and she disappeared through the passage way.

Knuckles watched her leave and immediately went back to his struggling, as he ignored the girl's warnings. As he kept struggling, he was unaware of small little rods coming out of the wall and touching the chains connected to his legs and arms.

"Stupid ass chain, stupid ass girl, stupid ass Tails, stupid ass AHHHHH!"

Knuckles went crazy as a great amount of electricity shot through the poles and into Knuckles as he hung limp and useless with his eyes spinning.

"I promise to wash the Master Emerald like you told me mommy." He soon recovered and shook his head to wake out of his stupor. He looked up and noticed the poles now coursing with electricity as a screen began to float down in front of him, with Death laughing like a maniac.

"Oh man, sorry Knucks didn't mean to 'Shock' you." She continued laughing, as Knuckles growled at her.

"Come on Knuckles it's not my fault you 'Shocked' yourself with that one."

Knuckles eye twitched as he stared at Death who was now starting to make puns on him. "Are you going to sit their making stupid puns!?"

"This may come as a 'Shock' to you Knuckles, but that's what I'm here for." She grinned as she leaned back in a chair.

Knuckles immediately went back to his struggling as he began to cry out pleads of help to noone in particular. Death did a small giggle and pressed a red button as she watched Knuckles make faces and movements as he was jolted to cease his efforts.

"Shocking! Isn't it."

Knuckles glared at the laughing girl, picking his head up from his position. "This couldn't possibly get any worse."

"Oh yeah, and to make this even more fun!"

The walls immediately turned into a solid red and began to spin around with Knuckles still attached to the chains that bonded him. They abruptly stopped and the chains came off as Knuckles slumped to the floor gripping his head and holding his stomach.

"Thank Chaos." He muttered to himself.

"Enjoy the freedom, because it won't last long." As she said that, two poles rose out of the floor surrounded by electricity as a shield and a large tube came out of the ceiling.

"What is this?" Knuckles wondered as he picked himself off the ground and slowly made his way to the wall as the screen began to float beside him.

Death grinned from within the screen as she leaned forward resting on her hands. "You see in order to escape, you have to find the wall in which I hit the switch. But to make the game more challenging, I've not only covered all the walls, but every time you press the wrong wall then that tube will drop an inch of water which once it touches the poles..Well you get the idea."

Knuckles sweat dropped and growled before punching the floating screen as it powered down and Death's laughing was the last thing heard.

'Alright Knuckles, you can do this, you've dug yourself out of bigger holes than this.' He went to a random part on a wall and gave a smirk.

'She thinks she can cage me like an animal? Well she should have read up on her facts, that I'm stronger than most people.'

He punched the wall as it made a sickening crunch sound. He remained in that position before bringing his fist back and sucking on his hand in pain. "The hell is that stuff made out of!?"

A humming sound was made and Knuckles looked up to see that water was poring out of the tube and it rose to where it was an inch above the edge of his feet. He looked down at the water, over to the electricity rods, and then at the wall before twitching.

"DAMMIT!"

-Scene Break-

"Blaze!?" Silver shot up as he frantically looked around to find his vixen love to no avail. He began rising and began adjusting to his environment, he was in a large, quiet field seemingly peaceful and tranquil.

A place one would come to escape the worries and dangers of society. But Silver wasn't here for any peace. He let his powers float him in the air so he could get a better view of where he was but found that to be pointless as he was only able to see miles and miles of green.

It was really making him kinda sick.

"Silver!"

Silver immediately snapped his head backwards as he tried to focus on something as he tilted his head. "Blaze?"

"Silver...help!"

"I'm coming Blaze!" Silver cried out, his worries increasing as he used every inch of power to force himself in her direction. Her voice sounded so far, and the scenery just seemed to stay the same to him.

"Silver hurry!"

"I'm coming Blaze!" His teeth where gritted as he held a look of pure determination upon his face. As he was doing all of this, he was unaware of the gigantic pair of red eyes watching him from within the sky.

"Fly little Silver as fast as you can, you better find Blaze before she hits the land."

It laughed before disappearing and going out of sight.

-Scene Break-

Tails made his way to his knees with a groan escaping his lips, as he staggeringly began to push himself up. "What happened, where am I?"

"You've finally awaken Tails." Tails turned around and found Cream waving with a comforting smile on her face. "You've been out for some time now."

Tails looked around to see them in a box shaped room with a large screen overtaking each side of the walls and the ceiling. "How did we get here?"

"I'm not sure, when I awoke I found myself in this room and you still unconscious so I decided to wait until you awoke." She replied as she walked closer to Tails also looking around in the place they where in. He went to one of the walls and knocked on it and found the screen to be unusually thick.

"Strange, I've never seen a screen with such durability."

Cream walked beside him and knocked on it as it resonated the sound of knocking on a wall. "Yes and their isn't anything in this room that we can use to get out of here."

As they began to contemplate one of the Tv's turned on and went completely to static. Tails and Cream turned to it an looked at it questioningly before another one came on and did the same thing as the other screen. Soon all of them where turning on and each and everyone made the static sound as both Cream and Tails held their ears in pain.

"That noise, it's so annoying!" Tails growled as he tried to talk over it.

"Make it stop Tails!" Cream whined as Tails noticed her please and covered her up with his body as he took to taking the noise full force. It soon stopped and Tails got off of Cream as he sighed in relief.

"I think it's over." Cream indicated as Tails jumped back with a blush and cleared his throat.

"Err...yeah...that's nice." He nervously laughed almost tripping as Cream giggled at his antics as she looked around at the screens that were now completely white.

"I've got a bad feeling about this." Tails looked around at the screens as everything became deathly quiet.

"HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE SHADOW!?" A voice boomed as it bounced around the room before slowly dying down.

"What?" Tails asked confused.

A face popped up immediately on the screens as Tails jumped back while Cream clung to him for safety.

"How much do you love Shadow!?" It asked again.

"Why are you asking that." Cream looked up from Tails fur to the face in the screen as it began to laugh and stand up before moving into some light to reveal someone wearing Shadow's face for a mask.

"Because today everyone will love him!"

A piano piece began playing as stars began to float out continuously in an almost hypnotic type way. "What's going on?" Tails closed his eyes to try and keep himself from looking at the screens. He took a peek and instantly regretted it as he stared at the black and white hypnosis spirals that went on over and over again as Shadow's head lied in the middle grinning at them.

"Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today, gonna love today!"

Clap!

"Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today!

Clap!

"Anyway you want to!, Anyway you've got to!, Love Love ME Love Love ME, LOVE LOVE!"

Once it all stopped Tails and Cream looked off with a forlorn expression as the person wearing the Shadow mask returned on the screen. "Once again...how much...do you love Shadow?"

"To Death." Both Cream and Tails drawled out as the person with the Shadow mask began laughing insanely as he ut his hand to the mask and began taking it off. "Good! Because if you do not love Shadow...

Once they removed it, the person was revealed to be the insane Shadow the hedgehog fan who should have been in the mental hospital. "Then what point is their in loving! HAHA...AHAH...HAHAHAHA!"

His voice echoed throughout the room as all of the screens went dark and a door opened as both the shadow zombies of Cream and Tails began to walk in while the fan continued to laugh maniacally.

-Scene Break-

Sonic awoke with a start and immediately freaked out when he couldn't feel his arms or legs moving. He surveyed his are to find him in a dimly lit room and noticed his legs and arms were bounding him to a chair.

"Where am I? Hey! Tails, Knuckles, somebody...help!"

"Screaming is pointless, they can't hear you."

Sonic looked up with a start and saw Death walking up to him with a blank expression.

"Thank god! Hey little girl, you may not know me but I'm Sonic the Hedgehog, you know, master of speed, the blue blur, everyone's lovable...

"Oh my gosh will you hush!? Shesh I barely said anything to you and you automatically start going on a rant."

"Someone's being a little cranky, you need a hug?" Sonic trembled his lip in a sad like expression as he used his hands in a 'bring it in' motion.

"...I am going to enjoy this more than I should."

Sonic quirked an eyebrow as he looked at her in thought. "Uhmm...I don't know how someone enjoys helping someone out, but I guess since you're helping me then I can see why you would enjoy it."

Death sighed heavily and walked to the side of Sonic where she gripped a lever and pulled it with no hesitance. Sonic was about to ask what she was doing until he yelped in surprise as he was suddenly sent leaning back with the chair, forced to have his attention look up at the brightly, glowing fluorescent light.

"Uggh, now I can see why they say don't go to the light, that thing will blind you."

Death hovered over him as she flicked his nose in anger and he yelped again as he moved a glare at her.

"Shesh, I don't know what your problem is missy, but you should know I'm not scheduled for another of my weekly fan girl hostage situations. Try me on tomorrow though and I can probably squeeze you in." He playfully continued to mess with Death who was becoming very annoyed with him. She went over to a table and Sonic heard the sound of tape being torn off.

"Uhmm...what are you doing? You know I was just messing around with you, right?" Sonic sweat-dropped as she stalked to him with a malicious grin.

"Look whatever I did to you, I'm sorry, but if you want a picture with me all you had to do was ask like the othmphmmm!"

His words became muffled as Death smacked the tape over his mouth to keep him from talking anymore.

"Finally, I was getting tired of hearing your nonsensical words. I mean seriously I thought I heard of girls who couldn't get enough about talking about themselves but now I'm starting to think I judged to quickly."

Sonic tried to say something but his words continued to come out muffled.

"I'm not sure what you said, but it may have been 'what am I going to do with you?" Sonic tried to say something again but once again his muffled words fell to 'deaf ears'.(get it because it's deaf and she's Death...it's funny, LAUGH ALREADY!)

She walked over to his other side and pulled another lever which opened up a trap hole in the floor as an object rose out of it. When it came out Death grinned and grabbed it as she waved it in Sonic's face.

"Come on Sonic, don't you want a fresh, hot, and delicious chili dog. It's right out of the batch."

Sonic twitched as he began to start struggling to break from his confines. Death set the dog on top of his chest and watched as his squirming ceased to a minimum style as he tried to grab the delicacy without moving it off his chest.

"Squirming like the worm you are, well you're about to squirm even more." She moved over to a wall and pressed a button hidden behind one of the tiles as a gun popped out of the wall and was directed towards Sonic.

Sonic didn't seem to waver as he continued to try and reach for the food upon his chest. Death made a grin as the gun cocked and the trigger snapped, but nothing came out. Sonic stopped his moving to look at the gun and seemed like he was laughing in a 'was that for nothing' kind of notion.

She shook her head in pity before Sonic noticed something coming out of the gun. He tried to adjust his eyes to see what it was but the light continued to evoke his vision. He felt a wet drop soon touch his head and immediately recognized what was going on.

He quickly began to move his head in an effort to move from the slow torture machine. Another drop hit his head and he felt a slight pain from it this time. He also felt his stomach burning for some strange reason, he looked to the chili dog and found it eating away at his stomach. His eyes widened as he looked over at Death who was laughing insanely as her face began to contort and twist.

He began to think to himself what the heck was going on when he began to feel the pain as if someone was drilling a hole into his head. He began to freak out and began moving and struggling but all he did was make his wrists and legs bleed from the pressure he was applying.

This was not going well. He looked up in time to see Death hovering over him with a dark grin covering her face. He made an audible gulp before she pulled the chili dog of his stomach and ripped the tape from his mouth making him scream in pain.

"Eat up dog boy!" While his mouth was open she plopped the chili dog into his mouth as he choked on it for a moment before swallowing it. He opened his mouth to respond but she threw another one in.

"Don't be shy have as much as you like." She then continuously continued to stuff his mouth with chili dogs as he began squirm and try to move his head away only to get hit in the eye by the corrosive water.

"C'mon didn't you say you could never tire of this food, then show me you can." She began to laugh maniacally as she continued to stuff the chili dogs into Sonic where he couldn't even breath. As he felt his last breath being taken he couldn't help to think one thing to himself.

'Killed by my own love...ironic really.'

And everything went black.

-Scene Break-

Blaze was upon the last little pieces of the building as she was hyperventilating as she could see the birds flying below her. She continued to cry out for help even for Silver but it seemed that noone was going to be able to save her. Their was another sound and Blaze knew that the last piece of the building was about to go away.

She closed her eyes and made one last prayer before the platform she once stood on disappeared and she found herself plunging to her death. She could feel her life flashing before her eyes and instantly regretted that the last thing she wasn't able to do was reveal her most deepest feelings for Silver.

"Blaze!"

It was almost as if he was with her in her last moments.

"Blaze!"

She opened her eyes and looked up in surprise to see Silver flying with blinding speed towards her as he left a green hue of energy in his wake. She reached out her hand for him as he did for her but both were unaware of the eyes opening below Blaze. Soon flames poured from it to and melded it into Iblis. He made a roar and began to open his mouth for Blaze to fall into.

"BLAZE!" Silver cried out as he poured in every reserve to reach for her as she continued to hold out her hand for him feeling tears coming to her eyes. Their hands where just a fingertip away but Iblis chomped his mouth shut as he caught Blaze into his mouth in Silver's utter horror.

"BLAZE!"

-Scene Break-

Knuckles was neck deep in the water as he screamed in agony from the volts of electricity shooting through his body. 'Dammit, if this keeps up, I'm gonna drown.' Knuckles thought to himself.

Using what strength he had left, he moved to the last wall he hadn't punched and observed two parts on it he hadn't punched, meaning only one of them could be his way out.

'Here we go!' He punched the one on the right side and closed his eyes thinking the worst but was greeted by the hum of electricity stopping. He cracked open an eye and saw no water had poured out and the rods had finally stopped.

"Oh thak god." He breathed in relief.

As he relished in his victory the whole room was bathed in a red light as Death's laughing echoed off the walls. His eyes widened and he slipped into the water in shock as the tube widened in size and a sea of red came pouring out, drowning the whole room in it's blood.

Knuckles was thrown into a wall and by mistake absorbed water into his lungs as he gripped his throat feeling his air leaving him. He could see little splotches of black clouding his vision as his eyes began to glaze over.

'Is this how I'm actually going to die, this can't be it.'

His eyes widened and he absorbed one last intake of water before his eyes slowly closed and he began to sink to the depths of the water as everything went silent.

-Scene Break(last break, now I can go on my break)

"AHHHH!" Sonic shot up with a shock as he gripped his face and stomach frantically looking around. He was in a field where he could outlook Central City and all of it's glory. He looked around him and found that all of his friends where with him to his relief. Tails, Cream, Blaze, Silver, Knuckles. Amy was still missing with Eggman and Rouge as well.

He moved towards his friends as all of them woke up the same way he did, gasping or clutching their heads and stomachs as they adjusted to the world.

"I'm guessing you all had a nightmare to?" Sonic looked to all of them as they noticed his presence and nodded.

"Their was...so much water." Knuckles shivered.

Silver just held Blaze as she shook in his arms gripping him as if she would never want to let go.

"He just wouldn't stop with the videos, so much about Shadow Shadow Shadow." Tails cringed as he remembered the man hypnotizing them to look at Shadow related videos.

"Same here, I don't think I'll ever be able to touch a chili dog for a while." Sonic looked away as everyone looked at him in shock, never expecting those words to be said out of Sonic's mouth.

"So you've all waken up, that's good...

They all turned their heads behind them and saw the one person they had been meaning to see ever since this hellish nightmare began.

because the finale is just about to begin." The figure stepped off the tree to reveal his blood red eyes. Everyone glared at him and they all muttered the name that haunted their thoughts seemingly leaving them on edge.

"Shadow."

"In the flesh and bone."

There's only one thing I can say for this chapter which I know all of you are thinking...Dark.

So yes, one of the final ultimate pranks wasn't even a real one at all. Now how many of you actually thought I killed them off huh huh? That's right I'm looking at you, you know who you are, the one who's pressing back space on that 'HOW CAN YOU KILL SONIC' quote.

I really didn't find much amusement from this chap except in a few points but I promise next chap you are going to be wanting me to make an epilogue, second part, a...Shadow Gets Sega'd.

Like that'll ever happen.

Oh yes and to the Guest who asked about TwilighttheWolf, this one is actually from another fic writer she let me use.

QUESTIONING TIME! What will Shadow do now that he has the group where he wants them? Where is Rouge in all of this? What is Prank X? Will Eggman ever get the butter? All will be answered next chapter in the final installment of PRANKING GAMES!

;D Thanks for all the help guys.