(Note: This story takes place in the Starved Eggman universe, it is a what if story about Sonic surviving and getting help from an unlikely source to stop Starved Eggman once and for all).
~Live to See the Daylight~
Pain...utter pain and agony.
That was what Sonic the Hedgehog was feeling as he laid all alone on the floor of an empty room in Dr. Robotnik's base. Well, the room wasn't exactly empty, but the half eaten and mutilated corpses of Mobians he didn't recognize didn't make for good company.
In fact, it only served to traumatize the poor hedgehog even more than he already was.
When he had encountered Dr. Robotnik again after their last confrontation, Sonic was taken aback by the drastic change in the doctor's appearance and mannerisms. He suddenly started calling himself "Starved", he looked almost identical to Robotnik himself, except he was heavily shadowed, with red skin, and red buttons on his pants. He had hollow black eyes, with red teeth. His mustache had also completely fallen off.
It was a little off-putting but being his cocky and overconfident self, Sonic didn't think much of it and challenged the mad doctor. That was when Starved unleashed his latest creation, a robot resembling Metal Sonic called Furnace; this robotic hedgehog seemed to have an oven built into his torso.
He challenged Sonic to race type battle, and Sonic had an advantage to him with his speed. He was able to outpace the metal incarnation of himself as he went through the track. Starved soon caught up to the hedgehog, only for Sonic to taunt him and continue forward. Little did Sonic know his time was running short, Furnace was making it swiftly to the ending.
As Sonic saw the doctor slow down, he thought he made it out home free, but he was unfortunately wrong. The slam could be heard across the entirety of Little Planet; Starved was over-joyous to finally getting that hedgehog, and thus kept him as a prized collection, to only eat on special occasions.
At first, Sonic didn't believe that Robotnik would eat him and thought he was just trying to scare him, but that thought was quickly and gruesomely stamped out when Starved tied him down and pulled out his right eye, eating it right in front of him.
Sonic could remember how his screams of pain echoed throughout the entire base, how his heart started racing from the panic and fear, and how he could barely get out the words to ask why Robotnik was doing this between his sobs of agony.
That was when Starved explained to him why he was doing what he was doing. After their last confrontation, Dr. Robotnik was left with an entire base of operations, destroyed by the blue blur. The doctor went about cleaning the mess that was left in Sonic's wake when he stumbled across a charred, dead Flicky that had been burnt by a Badnik.
The doctor's curiosity was at first off-put from the sight, but at that same time however, the aroma coming from the corpse intrigued him. He took a careful bite from the burnt portion of the Flicky. Something about the way that long dead bird tasted clicked with Robotnik that day, the taste was overwhelming to a euphoric degree. He savored the meat and allowed it to sit on his palette over many, many days.
No longer had Robotnik wanted to go after the Chaos Emeralds, rather his new interest was with having sustainability through the food he desired, both wildlife and soon after, Mobians. Quickly after this encounter, he began to refurbish his Badniks in order for them to capture the animal inhabitants of the South and Christmas Islands.
He also began work on a new creation: Furnace, a Metal Sonic that would be able to keep up in par with Sonic himself, and outpace him in many more aspects. Over time however, the doctor suffered the consequences of his newfound diet. His hair fell out, a rotting smell emitted from him over time, and his skin was reddening as he consumed more Mobian flesh over time.
His desires grew further with having Sonic trying to counter him again. As time went on, Furnace did as Robotnik asked, he captured a poor hedgehog girl named Amy Rose and little did Sonic know at that time, she had already been eaten by the doctor when he had arrived to Stardust Speedway.
When Starved finished explaining, he gestured to the other side of the room. Sonic slowly turned and screamed in abject horror at the sight of the mutilated and half decayed remains of Amy Rose, her empty eye sockets held an expression of sorrow and fear.
After that, Starved left Sonic bound and alone in that room, occasionally dumping the remains of other Mobians he had consumed inside the room to further traumatize the hedgehog. Every now and then, he would return with a hacksaw and start cutting off pieces of Sonic's body to devour.
It started with his left leg. Starved had first taken his foot, then slowly moved up along his leg. Now, everything below Sonic's left knee was gone; the mad doctor had gone to the trouble of bandaging up the stump and giving him an eye patch to cover his empty right eye socket, but that wasn't done out of kindness.
It was only so Starved could make sure Sonic's flesh wasn't tainted by the wounds getting infected with bacteria.
Sonic laid on that cold metal floor, his eyes had been red from the endless crying he had done for what felt like hours. Every time he down at the stump of his left leg, wrapped in bloody bandages, it made him feel sick to his stomach.
But he had to fight hard to keep from vomiting at the sight, Starved had been feeding him but that was simply to fatten him up so he'd taste even more delicious. At first, Sonic had tried to vomit up all his meals in an attempt to get the doctor to release him; he figured if he reached the point of starvation and looked like a haggard corpse, Starve would no longer find him appetizing.
Sadly, it didn't work because the doctor simply held him down and force fed him. Then, he threatened to paralyze Sonic and keep him in a meat locker if he ever tried to vomit up his food again. So, the poor hedgehog had no other choice but to eat.
Sonic curled up into a fetal position, shivering from the cold as he cried once again. He was alone, terrified, exhausted since he didn't dare fall asleep while being at Starved's mercy, and his body ached with the pain of his halfheartedly treated injuries.
He wanted nothing more than to go back outside, to breathe the fresh air, to feel the wind blowing through his quills, to feel the grass under his feet...
"Help me...someone, anyone...please help me...", he whimpered softly.
Sonic laid there, hoping and praying for a miracle to come and save him or at the very least end his life quickly so that his suffering would stop. He had no clue that his wishes would soon be granted in the most unlikely way possible.
[Time Skip]
It was just after midnight, a full moon hung low in the sky surrounded by thousands of twinkling stars.
A mysterious being leapt across the grassy plains of Green Hill Zone, sprinting from tree to tree. When the figure stopped to catch their breath, a cloud moved away from the moon, Illuminating them and revealing their appearance.
It was a male Mobian dog with reddish brown fur, white chest fur and red eyes. He was wearing a dark green jacket, blue shorts, dark brown boots and a single black fingerless glove on his right hand. His left hand, along with the whole arm, was completely robotic.
The dog stood in the moonlight, breathing in the cool night air, when he spotted something out of the corner of his eyes. He turned to see that it was Starved's base, he stared at it curiously for some time.
His nose twitched a bit, "Smells like it belongs to a human...pfft, I don't have time to waste with some loathsome creatures", he muttered under his breath. The dog was about to walk away when his ear suddenly twitched, he was picking up a sound from within the base.
It was faint but it sounded like someone begging for help. The dog leapt over to the base, now feeling a sense of dread in the pit of his stomach; he sprinted towards the base and ripped the grating off of a nearby air vent. He slipped inside and crawled along the vent until he came across another grating.
The dog peered into it to see a dark room, but he was able to easily make out shapes in the dark. That was when he spotted Sonic, curled up and shivering while still crying and begging for someone to help him. Feeling like something was seriously wrong, the dog kicked the grating off and dropped down into the room.
Sonic gasped in shock at the sight of the unexpected intruder, and the dog also gasped at the horrific state Sonic was in. Then, he recoiled in disgust at the putrid smell of the room, it smelled like decayed flesh mixed with the stench of someone living in their own filth for weeks.
Not surprising, the room didn't have a bathroom so Sonic was forced to either urinate or defecate in the corners of the room.
"By Gaia below, what has happened here? How long have you been in this sorry state, hedgehog?", asked the dog.
Sonic didn't answer, he simply stared up at the dog whilst holding his arms out as if he was asking this stranger for a hug or to lift him up. "Help me...please...help me...", he muttered pitifully.
The dog's face softened into a sympathetic expression, he slowly took off his jacket and wrapped in around Sonic's shoulders before picking him up into his arms. "You poor thing, I don't know what has happened to you but I will get you out of here. You can tell me who you are later, for now, allow me to introduce myself: my name is Alador", he said.
A sense of relief washed over Sonic and he was finally able to let himself fall unconscious in this stranger's arms. The dog, Alador, looked around to see if there was any other way to exit the room since he couldn't crawl back through the air vents with an unconscious hedgehog in his arms.
That was when he spotted the door, "I suppose I could kick it down but then his kidnapper might hear it and come after us. Maybe I should break through the wall instead...", he whispered. He then gently laid Sonic down on the floor and cracked his knuckles, then he pulled back his left arm and delivered a swift punch to the wall.
The impact created a large hole in the wall. Not wasting any more time, Alador picked up Sonic and took off into the night, leaping away from the base at great speeds.
The loud noise alerted Starved as he came running to the room, but when he got there, Sonic was gone and there was a massive hole in the wall. Seeing this, he began screaming angrily, the screams echoing throughout the entire base.
[Time Skip]
When Sonic woke up, he found himself laying in bed wrapped in a thick, warm blanket. He slowly sat up and saw that he was in an old but well furnished room, it almost looked like a room in a castle.
At first, he wanted to believe that it was all a dream but he knew this wasn't his home and when he lifted the blanket, he saw that he was still missing half of his left leg. In fact, he closed his left eye and found he couldn't see anything, so his right eye was still gone too.
Sonic looked down at his left leg again and saw that it was wrapped in clean bandages, his fur was also combed and smelled like lavender.
"Did someone change my bandages and give me a bath?", he asked himself.
"Yes I did, your bandages were dirty and you reeked of filth and death"
Sonic jumped in surprise at the voice, he looked around but saw no one else in the room.
"I am up here, my blue friend"
Sonic looked up at the ceiling to see Alador hanging upside down from the ceiling like a bat. He then started walking down the wall until he landed on the ground, "Glad to see you're awake. You were unconscious for four days, so I was worried you might've died", he said.
Sonic stared at him with awe and disbelief, "How did you do that? Hanging on the ceiling? Walking on the wall?", he asked.
Alador sighed, "I guess I should explain that. I am a vampire, but don't be alarmed, I will not hurt you. I was born a thousand years ago, but my people were hunted near to extinction by humans because we were viewed as evil monsters, even though only a few of us were.
"To protect me, my father placed me into an enchanted slumber until a thousand years had passed. I had lost my arm back then but thanks to your modern technology, I was able to learn about robotics and give myself a new arm.
"I wondered around until I found this abandoned castle and made it my new home. Despite what you might've been told about my kind, a lot of those claims are wrong such as the thing about garlic. I only need to drink blood on occasion, but I eat normal food like you.
"The sun also cannot kill me, it simply weakens me. Everything else you know is true, though: I possess supernatural strength, speed, stamina, durability and agility. I can also teleport, shapeshift and I can do hypnosis.
"Like I said before, I won't hurt you. I would never hurt or drink from another living being without their consent. When I get the blood craving, I either go out hunting for woodland critters or...I steal from blood banks or hospitals.
"I am ashamed to say that but I often have to steal out of desperation, if I don't feed on blood I'll go into a frenzy and will kill anything I see. That's why I live here, isolated in this castle and only ever go out to get blood and food.
"I was actually out for a late night stroll when I came across that metal building, I was going to walk away but then I heard you calling for help and so I came to rescue you. What happened to you in that place? How did you end up like this", he said.
Sonic sighed as he told Alador everything, he had to pause several times because reliving the painful memories were too much and he started crying, but somehow he managed to explain everything.
When he was finally done, he looked up at Alador who was snarling angrily. "As if it wasn't enough that humans made my species extinct, now one of them has done something so horrible to innocent mortal Mobians...and he wasn't even a good person to begin with! He deserves to die!", he growled.
Alador heard a sniffle and looked over to Sonic who was still crying, "That girl...Amy Rose, I didn't even know her and yet I couldn't save her... she's dead because of me!", he said as his sobs intensified. Alador looked at him with sympathy, he walked over and sat down on the bed, pulling Sonic into a gentle hug.
"I'm sorry you had to go through all that, I can tell just by looking at you that you are a kindhearted soul who cares for others. I can't imagine the pain you've endured up until now, but perhaps I have a way to help you", he said.
Sonic looked up at him, tears falling from his remaining eye. "What do you mean?", he asked.
Alador pulled away and looked down at the floor awkwardly, "My people have regenerative abilities, but while regrowing small things like eyes or fingers is easy, something like an entire arm or leg isn't so easy to regrow, if at all. If you want I could...", he trailed off.
Sonic's eye widened as he realized what Alador was talking about, "Are you saying what I think you're saying?", he asked.
Alador sighed, "Vampires can pass the "Dark Gift" to mortals via exchange of blood. A single vampire must bite and feed on a mortal to the point of near-death. At the right moment the vampire tears or bites his or her own flesh and offers his or her own vampire blood to the dying mortal, who then must willingly drink the vampire's blood.
"After an amount of blood is consumed, the vampire frees him/herself from the victim's grasp just as the mortal begins the painful transition of physical death. While the victim's natural bodily functions cease, the vampire's blood in his or her veins infuses him or her with the magic which reanimates him or her as a newborn vampire.
"If I do this, you'll die and come back as a vampire like me. You'll have all my same abilities and you may even regrow your right eye, though I don't think your leg can be saved but I can always give you a robotic one like I did with my arm.
"Then, once I've helped you get used to your new leg and vampirism, we can go find this Robotnik cretin and destroy him! We can make sure he'll never harm or kill anyone ever again! That is...if you want this, of course. I won't force you, Sonic.
"It'll be your choice, and I will respect whichever decision you make. I can understand if you might have reservations, especially since you'll become immortal too. You'll live forever, but I wouldn't want you to have eternal life if you don't want it", he said.
Sonic looked down as he thought about what Alador told him, he gently placed a hand over his eye patch as he stared down at his missing leg. He couldn't deny that deep down, he was beyond angry at Robotnik for everything he did.
Hunting down and devouring woodland critters, killing that innocent Amy girl along with other Mobians, keeping him as a living snack plate and taking bits and pieces from him...
Even though Sonic was against killing, he wanted nothing more than to see the mad doctor dead so that no one else would have to suffer such a horrible fate at his hands.
Quickly making a decision, Sonic turned to face Alador. "I'll do it, I want you to make me a vampire! I have suffered a lot but this isn't just about me, if I don't stop Robotnik, more innocent lives will be lost! I don't want anyone to have to die the way that poor girl did or suffer like I did.
"So yes, Alador. I want to become a vampire, even if it means I'll live forever. Maybe if I did, I'll be able to save more people from monsters like Robotnik. Please Alador, give me this "Dark Gift", I beg you!", he pleaded.
Alador was taken aback by Sonic's conviction, but he could tell that the hedgehog was absolutely serious and wasn't going to change his mind. He wanted this, and the vampiric dog was the only one who can give this to him.
So, he nodded and approached Sonic. He took him by the shoulders and laid him down, easing his head to the side to fully expose his neck. "Alright. I'm going to bite down on your neck and drain your blood, this'll hurt but I promise to try to do it gently", he said.
Then, he slowly lowered his face to Sonic's neck as his fangs elongated. Alador gently and carefully sunk his fangs into Sonic's throat and began drinking his blood; Sonic flinched at the feeling but, true to his word, Alador was being as gentle as possible so it didn't really feel painful at all.
As the minutes passed by, Sonic began to feel weak and dizzy. His vision started distorting, his limbs subtly shook and he could almost hear his slowing heart beat in his ears. Alador pulled away as he could tell that Sonic was now on the brink of death, so he rolled up the sleeve on his right arm and bit into his wrist.
He bit down hard enough to tear open a cut and draw blood, he carefully lifted up Sonic with his left arm and placed his wrist to his lips. "Here, Sonic. You must drink, otherwise the transformation won't take effect", said Alador.
Despite being weak and dying, Sonic pushed himself to wrap his lips around Alador's wrist and began drinking the blood. He guzzled it down almost greedily considering he was suffering from dehydration while he was held captive, despite its metallic taste, the blood was just as refreshing as water.
After five minutes of drinking, Sonic suddenly pulled away and started convulsing as if he were having a seizure. Alador watched with sympathy, he knew this was supposed to happen but it didn't make it enjoyable to watch.
Sonic's body shook and spasmed for nearly fifteen minutes before he suddenly stopped and fell still, his only eye closed as if he were asleep. Alador reached over and draped the blanket over his body before standing up and leaving the room.
He's going to have the craving when he wakes up so I'll need to prepare a blood bag, he thought.
[Time Skip: One week later]
Sonic let out a soft groan as he woke up, he looked around in confusion before realizing he was still in Alador's castle. The eye patch was still on his face, so he reached up to take it off; when he did, he gasped when he realized he could see from the right side.
Shocked, Sonic reached up and poked himself in the eye. He cried out in pain, which meant that there was an eyeball there! His right eye had actually grown back!
Sonic threw off the blanket and looked down, his left leg from the knee down had been replaced by a new robotic version. It was blue, and the foot was made to resemble his trademark red sneakers. Sonic slowly stood up and tried to balance himself on his new leg, he was a little wobbly but he found he could walk again.
"Oh good, you're already starting to walk"
Sonic looked up to see Alador walking into the room, holding something on a silver platter beneath a dome. "It feels a little weird, but I think I can manage. I'm just glad my right eye is back, a lack of depth perception wouldn't be ideal", he said.
Alador nodded in agreement as he set the silver platter down on the bedside table, he removed the dome lid, revealing a plate with a chilidog and a blood bag. Sonic stared at both, his mouth beginning to salivate as he suddenly felt like he was starving.
"I knew it, I knew you'd have the blood craving when you woke up. All newly turned vampires have it upon reanimation, so I brought you a blood bag from my personal blood fridge.
"I also made you some actual food since I figured you would be hungry. The blood is O- in case you're wondering, I personally prefer AB blood but this is best for your first time. You'll get to try other types and pick your favorite later", said Alador.
Sonic reached over and grabbed the blood bag, a pair of fangs stretching down from his upper jaw; he sunk his new fangs into the blood bag and started drinking, he let out a soft moan at the delicious taste of the blood. It was so rich, sweet and spicy, like a glass of fine red wine.
Soon, Sonic pulled away after he finished off the blood bag, sighing in satisfaction. "Wow, that was awesome! It tasted so good!", he said.
Alador chuckled, "Yeah. I thought you'd find it weird at first, I was born as a vampire so I've drank this stuff since I was an infant. Newly turned vampires always find the taste weird the first time around, but I guess everyone's different", he said.
Sonic picked up the chilidog and took a bite, relishing in the tender and juicy meat. "Even though I was forced to eat during my imprisonment, I tried to puke several times. Not to mention that the food I was forced to eat was trash! This is the first decent meal I've had in a long time!", he said.
"Let's talk about that. Now that you've turned and I've made you a new leg, I need to train you. I need to help you learn to walk and run with this leg, and how to control your vampire abilities. You'll need to know if we'll have any chance of eliminating Robotnik!", said Alador.
Sonic licked his fingers as he finished eating, "Yeah, about that...how long will that take? The sooner I get rid of that monster, the better!", he said.
"You need to train if you want to face him again, going into a fight unprepared like this is a death sentence. I know you want to stop him, I do too but we need to be cautious about this and prepare ourselves", explained Alador.
Sonic sighed, he really wanted to stop Robotnik from killing and eating any more Mobians but he knew Alador was right. Rushing into a fight without learning how to control his new vampire powers or how to run with his new robot leg would be stupid and reckless.
The suffering he had endured had hardened Sonic's resolve and taught him to stop being so cocky and overconfident, this was a serious situation so he needed to take it seriously.
"Okay, I understand. Let's do this then", he said.
So for the next three months, Alador helped Sonic with his rehabilitation in using his new leg and training him to use his vampire abilities. The former was easier than the latter, the leg was made of durable metal and alloy so it was able to withstand everything Sonic did from running to spin dashing to perform Homing Attacks.
As for the vampire abilities, Sonic struggled a bit to get the hang of them. The super strength, speed and agility was fine but the shapeshifting was very difficult since he sometimes couldn't change back after shifting his form. The teleportation was difficult to master as well because he couldn't see where he was going and often got lost.
Thankfully, Alador was very patient and understanding. He took his time to let Sonic adjust to his new abilities and gave him words of encouragement to motivate him to keep working on his training.
In time, Sonic was able to get a handle on his new powers. He quickly adjusted to drinking blood every now and then, but he refused to hunt any woodland critters after what Robotnik did, so Alador provided him with blood bags.
On the final night of his training, Sonic sat on the roof of the castle with Alador, drinking from a blood bag.
"It's been three whole months, I think I've finally got the hang of my new powers now. Drinking blood is still a bit weird and I don't want to hunt critters, so I think it would be best if I live with you so I can get blood bags", said Sonic.
"Sure, I don't mind. It gets lonely here in this castle, and you're the first friend I've had in a thousand years. I don't mind letting you live here so you can have access to blood without killing anything.
"Speaking of which, I think you're ready to face Robotnik now. You've made exactly progress with mastering your abilities, and you've grown strong. While you still have your trauma, you've managed to move past it. You're ready", said Alador.
Sonic looked down at the half empty blood bag in his hands, the fear he once had for Robotnik was now replaced with absolute anger and hatred. He was once terrified of the mad doctor, but now he wanted nothing more than to snuff him out and end his evil forever.
With determination in his heart, Sonic guzzled down the last of the blood and tossed away the empty bag. "We'll go tonight! I don't want to wait any longer because every second I do, an innocent Mobian will kidnapped, killed and eaten! We're going to attack tonight!", he said.
Alador nodded in agreement since he was just as adamant of eliminating Robotnik as Sonic was, after all it was humans who had hunted his people to extinction and while he didn't believe all humans were evil, Robotnik definitely was and he needed to be stopped.
"I agree, let's go now before he gets himself a new meal", he said.
[Time Skip]
The two of them hid behind a tree just outside of Robotnik's base, they were watching and waiting for the right opportunity to strike.
Just then, they saw Furnace suddenly fly down towards the entrance of the base. In one hand, he was holding an unconscious male Mobian fox; his fur was white and bright yellow, and he had two tails.
Sonic stared as he felt his anger boil over, the fox looked even younger than that Amy girl. Alador noticed this and placed a hand on Sonic's shoulder, "Calm down. When I give the signal, we rush in. Got it?", he said.
Sonic nodded as he took a deep breath to calm himself, then Alador made a hand gesture that indicated it was time to attack.
Meanwhile inside the base, the young fox had awoken to find himself tied down to an operating table. As Robotnik walked into the room, the fox screamed in horror at the sight of his face.
"Hmm, a two tailed fox? I wonder how delectable you will taste...go ahead and scream all you want, no one will save you but it'll increase my appetite", said Robotnik as he pulled out a hacksaw.
"Help me! Please! Someone, anyone! Help me!", screamed the young fox as he started crying.
Before Robotnik could begin by cutting off the fox's tails, there was a loud crash as the wall of the room burst open. Robotnik looked up to see Sonic and Alador standing in the hole they made in the wall, the mad doctor was shocked to see the blue hedgehog still alive and outfitted with a robotic leg.
"Robotnik...this ends now! No more Mobians are going to die because of you, I will make sure of that! But since I swore never to kill, I'll give you a choice: you can either give up now and go quietly, we'll have you locked up forever, or you can resist and I will kill you!", shouted Sonic.
Robotnik was quiet for a few seconds before he let out an angry yell and summoned all his Badniks, including Furnace. Sonic turned to Alador, "I'll save the kid and deal with Robotnik if you take care of those rust buckets", he said.
"Deal!", said Alador as he leapt up and tackled Furnace to the ground.
Meanwhile, Sonic leapt up and kicked Robotnik in the stomach, causing him to fly across the room. While he was incapacitated, Sonic turned his attention to the young fox.
"Hey there, my name is Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog, you okay? What's your name?", he said.
"Miles Prower, but you can call me Tails. Thank you so much for saving me, Sonic. You and your friend", said the fox. Sonic smiled as he untied Tails and helped him off of the table.
He's such a sweet kid...I wonder if he'll want to be my friend, he thought.
"Tails, do me a favor. Get out of here and hide somewhere, things are going to get ugly and I don't want you to see it", said Sonic.
Tails nodded as he flew with his tails over to the nearest window, opened it and left the base. Once he was outside, he ran away from the base as far as he could and hid in a hole in the ground.
Back in the base, Sonic turned around to see Robotnik charging at him with the hacksaw.
"You blasted hedgehog! I should've killed you when I had the chance!", he screamed as he swung the hacksaw around.
Sonic effortlessly dodged the swings as he punched, kicked and slashed at Robotnik with his long claws. "You're a monster! First you ate a dead Flicky, then you had your robots capture and cook more Flickies and other critters, and then you hunt down Mobians to eat them?!
"Like that Amy Rose girl! She was just a kid, she wasn't any older than me! And then, you held me captive and started eating me piece by piece like I was your own personal snack stash?! I've hated you ever since I was rescued, you're a sick and disgusting freak and you deserve to die!", Sonic shouted.
He then lunged forward and bit down onto Robotnik's right arm, the mad doctor screamed in pain as he swung the hacksaw and slashed Sonic across the brow. The blue hedgehog flinched but he didn't pull away, he sunk his teeth deep into Robotnik's arm as he tore the flesh.
In one swift motion, he tore the arm clean off. Robotnik screamed in agony as he stared at where his arm once was, then he looked at Sonic who had an expression of feral rage on his face as he spat out the arm. He was also stunned as the cut on Sonic's brow slowly closed up and healed.
"Wha...what in the Hell are you?!", Robotnik shouted in confusion and fear.
Sonic laughed, "Well my friend over there gave me a new leg and a new life. I had to die for that to happen and I have to drink blood every once and a while, but it was worth it. Thanks to him, I can finish you!", he said as he gestured to Alador.
The vampiric dog had just got done decapitating Furnace and was now tearing his way through every Badnik that crosses his path. Robotnik held his arm stump in disbelief as he looked at Sonic who slowly stalked towards him.
"I don't know how long it was...days, weeks...but you kept me in a dark room with the corpses of your victims! You force fed me to fatten me up, I was forced to sit in my own filth! You ate pieces off of me like I was a pizza!", shouted Sonic.
He grabbed the hacksaw from Robotnik's other hand and threw it to the side, "I may be undead now, but I feel more alive than I was when you held me captive! I am a vampire, people may see me as a monster, but the real monster is you!"
Sonic then used his super strength to lift Robotnik above his head, his right grabbing his torso while his left hand grabbed his waist. Sonic growled in anger as he dug his sharp claws into Robotnik's flesh, drawing blood.
"I had to go through absolute Hell because of you, but I will personally send you straight down to Hell. I hope when you get down there, you'll experience torture ten times worse than what you put me through!"
With that, Sonic used his strength to pull on either side of Robotnik's body. The mad doctor screamed in pain as he could feel his flesh tearing and ripping; then, in one swift motion, his body was torn in half completely. Blood flew everywhere as his entrails spilled out onto the floor from within his abdominal cavity.
Sonic breathed heavily as he dropped the two halves of the lifeless corpse on the floor, he shook like a wet dog to get all the blood of his body before turning to face Alador, who had destroyed every Badnik in the base.
Sonic was about to walk over to him when he suddenly collapsed, Alador rushed over to him.
"Why am I suddenly so tired?", asked Sonic.
"Seems your body hasn't fully adjusted to the change in stamina, you need some blood", said Alador.
He reached into his jacket and pulled out a blood bag, he gave it Sonic who immediately guzzled it down like a bottle of water. Once he finished, he sighed and stood up, his strength finally returning.
Sonic turned around and looked at Robotnik's mutilated corpse, "Let's burn this place to the ground so the memory of this monster can fade away forever, but first let's get his victims' remains. The least we can do is give what's left of them a proper burial", he said.
Alador nodded as they walked towards the room Sonic was once held captive in, they took the dead bodies and wrapped them in black tarps. Sonic looked at the tarp holding the body of Amy Rose and place a gentle hand on it.
"I'm so sorry I couldn't save you, but now I can make sure you rest in peace. I didn't know you but I feel like we could've been friends...", he said solemnly.
Sonic then picked up the tarp as Alador carried the others, he also held a can of gasoline and was spilling it all over the floor. They both walked outside as Alador put down the tarps, picked up two rocks and struck them against each other.
This created a spark that set the whole base on fire, Sonic and Alador watched as the building crackled and burned, parts of it falling to pieces and to the ground. They watched it for a while just to make sure the base burned down and the fire didn't spread.
After almost an hour, the base was nothing more than a pile of smoldering ash and rubble. Just then, Tails came out of his hiding spot and walked over to the two vampiric Mobians.
"Is it over? What exactly happened here?", he asked.
Sonic smiled as he ruffled the young fox's head, "That's a long and rather upsetting story, little buddy. What do you say we leave this place and go somewhere nicer so we can tell you?", he said.
"I think that would be best too", said Alador.
[Time Skip]
They went back to Alador's castle, where he and Sonic buried the tarps in the empty field behind the castle, using large rocks as grave markers.
Then, they explained the situation to Tails without going into too much gory details. They even told him about them being vampires, but they weren't evil and didn't attack innocent people. Tails was shocked but he was still grateful to Sonic and Alador for saving his life.
"Say, if it's not too much trouble...do you want to be friends? I've never had a friend before, everyone would make fun of me because of my two tails", said Tails.
Sonic smiled as he gave Tails a playful noogie, "Of course, little buddy. I'd love to have you as a friend, maybe even my best friend", he said. Tails smiled happily as he gave Sonic a big hug.
Alador smiled at the display as well, "I liked to have you as a friend as well, Tails. You two are the first friends I've had in a thousand years, and I couldn't have asked for better", he said.
A year had passed since the whole Robotnik situation had occurred. Sonic couldn't to live with Alador in his castle so he could have access to blood, but he would still go over to Tails' home to hang out.
It turned out that Tails was a technical genius and could built a lot of interesting gadgets, such as a plane he called the Tornado. He and Sonic even went for several rides on the Tornado, that was how they accidentally ended up on a place called Angel Island during one of their trips.
It was an island that was floating high up in the sky, this was where Sonic and Tails had met their newest friend: Knuckles the Echidna. He lived on the island and protected something called the Master Emerald, it was a giant gem that neutralized the power of the Chaos Emeralds.
Since Knuckles lived all alone, he was very distrustful and lack social skills, but he slowly warmed up to Sonic and Tails. They had even introduced Alador to him, and it was then they discovered that Knuckles was also the last of his kind as his tribe was wiped out years ago.
Alador was able to sympathize with him and felt comfortable enough to reveal that he was a vampire. He even told Knuckles about his and Sonic's experiences a year ago; at first, Knuckles didn't believe him but after listening to how seriously Sonic spoke about it, he knew it was the truth.
Knuckles was glad that Robotnik was gone for good, and that he had someone to finally talk to, he had always felt lonely being on that island by himself all his life. He never left with them to go hang out somewhere else, but he did give them a tour of the island and introduced them to the Chao.
A few weeks later, Sonic walked out to the field behind Alador's castle holding a bouquet of flowers. He placed one of each of the graves of Robotnik's victims, saving a single rose for Amy Rose's grave.
"I hope you're in a better place now. I'm happy now, too. I've got new friends, Robotnik is gone, and even though I'm undead, I've never felt more alive. Again, I'm sorry I couldn't save you but I want you to know that I am continuing to help others in need", said Sonic.
It was true. Even though Robotnik was dead, there were still threats like natural disasters occuring; Sonic never stopped being a hero and continued to help people, only now because of the trauma he endured, he had become less cocky and overconfident.
He still had his carefree and free spirited nature, but now he knew when to take a situation seriously, especially when lives are in danger.
Being a hero wasn't all fun and games, and even though Sonic had to learn that lesson the hard way, he was determined to help anyone in need.
Tails walked out of the castle and approached Sonic, "Hey, Sonic. Alador and I were thinking about going to Station Square today, wanna come with us?", he asked.
Sonic turned around and smiled, "Sure, buddy. Sounds like fun. Go make sure Al packs enough blood bags for the trip, I'll catch up in a sec", he said. Tails smiled as he ran back into the castle, Sonic turned back around to look at the graves.
"Robotnik is gone, but if someone just as bad as him or worse ever comes along, I promise to do everything I can to stop them. I will not be overconfident, I will not underestimate them and I definitely won't let them get away with hurting anyone. I swear on my new life", he said.
With that, Sonic turned around and walked back into the castle to get ready for his day out with his friends.
A lot had happened in a single year, Sonic had endured horrors no one should ever experience, but he came out of it stronger and wiser than ever before.
Now, he was determined to live his best life with the people he cared about while also being a hero to the world.
Yes, he was immortal now and knew he would eventually outlive Tails and Knuckles and any new friends he made in the future, but who knows?
Maybe they'll want to become vampires like him, just so they wouldn't be separated from each other.
Whatever the case, Sonic was just happy to be alive even though he was technically dead. He was happy to have his friends, he was happy that he could still run at the speed of sound like always.
And most importantly, he was happy that Robotnik will harm anyone else ever again.
[The End]
~Happy Halloween~