Rising to his feet, Sonic still felt a severe hunger pain. He hated himself for thinking this but maybe he should find an animal he can eat...
Sonic's facial expression mimicked orgasm as he thought about the chilidogs he'd eaten the day before. His stomach growled and he bit his tongue to snap himself out of his trance.
Clumbsily, Sonic made his way finally to the edge of the forest. The dilapidated industrial buildings were easily within view. The sight gave Sonic goosebumps, as it was a very eerie place. It seemed barren of life - would make sense, he was looking at the radioactive wakepool that remained from the town's disaster. He noticed a bunch of complicated obstacles he would have to cross: long broken telephone poles suspended over pools of glowing radioactive waste, sinkholes with nothing but small stepping stone like platforms in the middle, and a myriad of timed switches he'd have to pull. Sonic walked around it.
Eventually he made it to a clearing. It must be what was left of the downtown plaza before the disaster. The obvious void of life greatly irked Sonic. "Jeez its like "The Bomb" went off out here..." Sonic said to himself. While walking he heard a crunch. Looking down he'd stepped on an abandoned car, his big foot smashed it like a soda can. Upon further inspection, there were cars all over the place, or at least the remains of them. They were all poised in impressionistic poses throughout the street. Sonic continued on until he arrived at what seemed to be the hull of a stop light. Dozens of cars, busses, trucks were parked at it, all waiting for the green light that never came.
Then it dawned on Sonic. He was practically standing in a graveyard; all the cars had the remains of occupants inside them. "They must have had no clue what hit 'em..." Sonic said in reverence.
He looked down at his foot, which had impaled the car he'd stepped on, adhering to his spiked shoe. Suddenly Sonic turned pale and erratically shook his foot to dislodge the car. He lost his balance and stumbled backward until he fell on his butt. He heard another crunch, and discovered he's landed on a bus full of bodies. Panicking, he stomped to his feet and about-faced the bus putting his back to the wall of an office building. The impact of his figure hitting the wall caused the building to sway, and the windows of the first dozen of floors broke free, and the contents of the floors spilled out into the street.
Sonic immediately lost his appetite and scrambled toward the other end of town, disregarding everything in his path and causing the ground to tremmor with each step.
He made it to an abandonned train depot (one that was obviously abandoned long before the disaster) where he sat down in exasperation. "Okay... maybe taking the quick way wasn't the best idea..." Sonic whispered to himself under his breath.
Sonic looked down cautiously in case he saw more death but found a broken down old locomotive. He compared his own size to it and his head was roughly the size of the engine combined with the tender wagon. He picked the engine up and studied it. It was definately heavier than it looked. He sat it back down and tried to regain his composure. He had to find Tails and fast before someone sees him.
Little did Sonic know that he was dripping with radioactive residue from the objects he'd come in contact with; luckily for him though, the half life of the material had rendered it relatively harmless by now. Relatively.
Sonic carefully manuevered himself through the slalom of buildings and minefield of vehicular tombs dotting the streets.
Sonic knew his presence would be obvious, he made footsteps the size of a small parking lot each time he stepped down, so he didn't try to be stealthy.
Deep within the bowels of the planet, a pair of unknown entities were viewing Sonic through a glass. "Tsk tsk tsk tsk, this will never do, that radiation will reverse the effects." One voice said.
"You needn't concern yourself, the effects of his growth will overshadow any relapses. He'll be the required size once he awakens from his slumber..." A deeper voice said and stomped the floor. The two then watched through the glass as a large chunk from a skyscraper fell down and struck Sonic over the head, knocking him unconsious.