FoxFire Studios Present A Sonic the Hedgehog: Blood and Metal Story Haunted Fantasies Installment 6 By David Gonterman Sonic the Hedgehog by Sega of America Blood and Metal, Haunted Fantasies, Davey Crockett and Pippkin by David Gonterman [E-Mail: dgonterman@aol.com WWW: http://users.aol.com/dgonterman] MechTail by Paul Lapansee [butcher@iaw.on.ca] Kickaha by Edward Becerra [edward@genesis.org] Sonia Hedgehog by Emily Smith [soniadah@aol.com] Vixie Lametta by Holly Kraft [vixiel@aol.com] ____________________________________________ Sonia Hedgehog could only blink as she holds a marionette version of her desceased love, a squirrel named Brent Packbell, in her arms. The past hour was much like a dream, with Brent back from the dead. What happened in the past five seconds was more like a nightmare, as David Kintobor barges in, quite uncharistically may I add, and proptly gets belted by Brent. What happened next could be the gutziest move she has ever seen or experience. David blasted the floor around him, allowing it and everybody on that floor, including him, her, and this puppet, to fall down one level. Into Pippkin's control room. "YOU'RE STEW MEAT, RABBIT!! How could you tempt the phracking fates and kidnap Mickey Mouse?! That was copyright infridgement in the highest order!!" "Oh, really? What do you think that the author will do to him with his Firestorm--" "THAT'S NOT THE POINT AT ALL, CRAMNIT!!" "And what exactly *is* the point? It's not about any copyrights now, is it?" "Damn right." David calmed down some. "I've seen this story before, cotton tail. Seeing the world at it's worst, feeling that you have no place in it, so you're best hiding inside some Never Never Land while the world passes you by." "Well, excuse this overglorified holloween costume is he sees a whole planetfull of people that want that! You wanted it too, if I know right." "You don't get it do you. You don't have a clue--take a good look outside these four walls. You'll see *my* world. A world that took me in; a world that *needs* me. A world where I have--" CHOOM!! The lock of the cage is bloon off, freeing MechTail and Kickaha. "friends! And a world where I have found--" He picks up his semi-sobbing, simi-snarling at Pippkin, Sonia. "A love. That's more than I got from you, just curled up in my rabbit hole afraid of the entire world and anything in it; from my own shadow, to my on mother, to the punks in my school . . . need I go on?" "You forgot something." "What? Politics?" "Funny you should ask." At that point, fifty dark-skinned humans dived in from the hole at the ceiling. From the looks of their clothing and what they held in their hands, they resembled too much like the crowds at the night the Piasa Bird showed up. (Was it *that* long ago?) -Phrack Alive!! [Davey activates a bubble shield as the lynch mob crawls over it] When will I learn to keep my big mouth shut? I only hope that Tails taped up that Incinerator bomb.- det-det-deet-det-deet-deet "Unca Davey! You there? I've got the bomb taped to the broom, like you said. It wasn't easy. It squirms." "That's great kid. Now, get out of here. I mean this entire mansion. Once I set that bomb off . . ." Tails' mind raced back to that spell Mickey casted at that broom. He said that if it was chopped up by the axe he left, each scrap of wood left will turn into a full-size broom all it's own--with its own pair of buckets to flood a mansion by. David thought about it for a while after returning Mickey to his world, he asked for the firebomb. Why? 'Think about it, Big Guy. After it burns the broom'll be reduced to ashes. The actual number'll be in the billions, maybe trillions. Now imagine the spell kicking in at this point.' Tails gets the point. It'll destroy this mansion and Pippkin once and for all; if the fire doesn't do it, the billions of brooms flooding the place will. Everybody'll just have to get outside before this happens. How much time will they have. Davey's left arm did some number crunching: 3:00 for the spell to run its course (In Minutes and Seconds) 0:30 for that spell to kick in after the bomb goes off 1:00 for the brooms to start kicking the door in. That makes 4:30--four minutes, thirty seconds--from the bomb going off to a combined attack of a flash flood and a backdraft flashover. 'I'm not going to wait til Big Daddy starts the clock,' Tails thought to himself as he rounded a corner. And saw Bunnie. Dressed up like a Playboy Bunny. "Hello there, Tails." Her voice was soft. Wispy. Just like that night he was with her in the lagoon. "I'm so glad you're here." Tails was taken over by the rabbit wearing only a tight-fitting swimsuit, collars, and high-heeled shoes. "Bunnie? What're you doin?" "Oh, nothing." She moved closer, up next to him. "I just want you to know," The usual Girl Waves she gives off are in overdrive. "that I'm very drawn to you." Tails backed away a bit, but Bunnie pulled up closer and covered him up against a wall. He could see the fire in her eyes, the hot breath coming down his mussle. "I want to know." The hormones in his blood were fizzing like soda pop. "Are you drawn to me." She caressed her lipsticked lips over his. Tails slowly grew slack, allowing Bunnie to hold his smaller body in place with her arms, inviting her toungue into his mouth. He felt her breasts brush up against his standing on end fur, then her torso. His entire being was locked into the sensasions Bunnie was giving him. At the first time, they seemed bizarre. Now, he wanted them. He wanted *her*. He let out a deep growl that he couldn't figure out that it came from him. She felt seduced by the low rumbling in his voice. She lifted her lips off his, to listen to him lick at the cereal taste in his mouth she gave him. Turning to one side, she set her powdered nose into her ear. Her hot breath rushing into it shot through Tails like lightling. His bowels and legs were turning to water, he knows it. His arms wrapped themselves around her furry body, running up and down the small of her back. Bunnie moved her left arm down his back, as well, pausing just enough to scratch where his twin tails meet, she reached for his thigh, and pulled it up against hers. "Yeeessssss. You are drawn to me." Tails struggled to speak. "I-I-I . . ." his voice was lower then he ever knew, and deep breathed. His eyes flew open, but he couldn't see anything but her. His brain was on fire, he couldn't think of anything but a thick black smoke, with fiery angels dancing around them. "I can tell." "I . . . I want you, Bunnie." He can't control himself. "Yes, my little man. Come, to my room." "I want to *have* you." -Sex is nothing for you to be afraid of, Tails,- David's voice. "I want to t . . . take you . . . I--" - . . . but you shouldn't let it control you.- His mind snapped, like a blinding flash of light-- _________________________________ The next thing Bunnie knew, she was outside of the mansion. Tails dropped her off en route to the nearest creek to cool off. She felt dizzy. She could vaguely remember what happened or what she was doing. She tried to shake off the cobwebs. "uhhhh . . . what the hoo-haa happened . . . where *am* I? What am I doing, *here?* Why am I . . . in *this*? Tails? TAILS?! . . . tails? . . . oh . . . oh, no . . . ohhhh, noooo." She fell back to the ground, sobbing, as she heard some frantic splashing nearby. "Taaaails . . . i'm sorry . . . i'm so sorry . . ." _______________________________ The sheer weight of the mass of humanity that was David Kintobor's past was nearly crushing him. His Bubble shield was way past the breaking point, and is struggling to keep from giving way at places. Nevertheless, the force was driving him to his unbuckling knees before the bunny suit that at one time enslaved him in his own imagination. He could hear the constant criticisms ring at full volume in his ears. Feel the pennies and rocks bounce off his back, arms, and legs. Feel the bright headlights of tailgating cars that feels that he's driving too slow glaring from his rear-view mirror. He can sense his mind slowing down, withdrawing himself into the darkness as once before, the light fading in his eyes. A black-skinned arm--that Multi-Culturist again, accusing him of being a racist he isn't because of his own culture--grabbed him by the hair and pulled his head back, as a bully club--by the White Supremacist demanding that he become the racist the Multi-Culturist accuses him to be--took out the knees from under him. He sank to the floor with a thud on each bone-rattled knee. His teary eyes were fixed onto the Pippkin, who looked like he was pitying David, but he sensed that the Bunny suit was enjoying this as well, behind the mask. "I know that you don't want to be in *this* reality. I know that *this* world gets dragged with you wherever you go. It's *in*there*." Pippkin taps David's forehead with his foam rubber index finger. The contact made David shudder. "It nags at you when you're doing nothing. It holds you back whenever you try to do *anything* worthwhile. It's keeping you from your happiness." Pippkin's paws rested on the groaning fox's shoulders. A soft pink Bunny nose touches a cold, wet, black fox nose. Pink Bunny eyes were staring right at red Cyborg Fox eyes, seeing them sink into a blank, mindless, haze. "I can take you away from this world, Davey Crockett. I will assure you, once when you're in the safe arms of my spell again . . ." Pippkin reaches for his head and slowly begins to remove it. ". . . you will be free of this pain for the rest of your life." Through the fogginess of Pippkin's trance-hold, David could just see the Bunny Suit's head lift from the shoulders, revealing a gray neck. Elizabeth Raccoon's neck. N N OOO W W ! NN N O O W W W ! N N N O O W W W ! N NN O O W W W N N OOO WWW ! A light flashed in David Kintobor's mind, driving away the clouds like a fox in a hen house. The HUD comes on with such a glow that it bathes David's body in crimson: >COMMAND INCINERATOR DETONATE >4:30 TIMER START [4:29.9] Off in a closed room, a squirming magic broom was tied to a post with an incinerary bomb duct taped to the handle. Near by was an overflowing sink spilling water into a drain underneath. [4:29.8] The incinerary bomb explodes in a flower of fire. [4:28.5] The shock wave rocks the control room and everybody in it. [3:57.6] David regains consciousness in a pile of wooden puppet parts. He breaks through the salvage and kicks his way out. [3:50.1] "Is everyone Okay?!" Suni, Kickaha, and MechTail were getting their senses back as well. "Yeah!" Vixie in her clown costume was slower in waking up from what seemed to be an eternal dream. [3:47.5] "Get everybody out of her *now!!* This place is going ta blow!!" [3:45.0] David returns to Pippkin/Liz, who's missing the Bunny Suit's head. Liz's body lied limp, and her face was blank and sullen. [3:40.7] "AAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Vixie discovered that she is dressed up as a clown. [3:35.9] Vixie breaks through a window in her mad dash to the same river Tails was in to wash off the makeup. Tails will pitch and moan about another girl at that moment and decide to float back to Knothole. [3:29.3] David succeeds in removing the Bunny Suit from a warm, breathing, but otherwise lifeless Liz, who is handed off to Sonia. "Git her outta here, then come back for me." [3:27.9] "What are you going to do?" [3:27.0] "I'm going to get rid of Pippkin's little fin house for good--Julian, Find that Chaos Emerald." [3:25.7] "I'm on it, son. I'm detecting it's signature several floors below you--" [3:23.5] A buzzsaw rips a circle on the floor around David. Apparently, in their efforts to get everyone to safety, they forgot about Sammi, and her grudge against David Kintobor. [3:20.2] Sammi leaps out of her buzzsaw form and picks up the Bunny Suit. "It ain't enough you have to bring me back into this cold cruel world, but now you have to take away the one friend I have left!! The one who made me fe . . ." [3:16.7] Sammi's voice was drowned out by the sound of a wooden floor giving way. [3:15.4] Vertigo suddenly hit David as he finds himself falling into a dark pit!! [3:13.3] Instinctively, his left arm reaches upward. [3:10.9] PHOOOSH!! [3:07.3] The Data Spear rockets for the ceiling above, reaching for a wooden plank to dig into. [3:01.7] Julian reports: "You might as well fall in, David. That's where the Emerald is." [2.55.4] "Acknowledged." David twists around to face whatever's greeting him from below. A bright green glow in the distance. [2:42.6] THUNK!! [2:42.0] The Data Spear digs deep into the plank. [2:41.5] The bionic arm starts to grab onto the Data Spear, loosely at first, to control the rate the cable is fed out. [2:30.9] The approaching green glow reveals a brighter glowing Chaos Emerald. [2:15.7] The cable goes taught. The left arm is jolted straight up. The strain would've yanked the arm off it's shoulder if it wasn't roboticized. [2:10.8]>DAMAGE REPORT: [2:10.7]>MINIMAL STRESS ON SHOULDER JOINT [2:10.7]>BODY BANK LEVELS AT 89.56% AND RECHARGING [2.10.5]>AMPLIFYING PULSE . . . [2.05.6] He could see the resting place for the Emerald now, resting on a pedestal connected to a power tap. [1:55.9] The world faded into green as he gently landed on the pedestal and scooped up the Emerald. [1:50.4] He made sure that the Emerald is tucked tight into his chest before giving the Data Spear the command to recoil. [1:45.6] He was shooting straight up for the top of the pit. [1:39.4] Suddenly, water begins to spill into the pit, splashing David silly. The brooms have broken down the door earlier than expected. Still counting down as present. [1:29.8] at 90% of his ascent, the wooden plank gives way!! [1:29.5] "NOOOO!!" [1:28.9] David's ascent is halted as gravity takes hold again. [1:28.5] But before his heart can take leave of his throat, David finds himself rising again. [1:10.4] David finally get to the top to find an exhausted Suni greeting him. The ceiling is beginning to fill with a thin layer of black smoke. It wasn't becoming the thick, life-threatening kind, because it is all rising to the spacious Grand Hall outside the room. [1:05.8] "You, OK. " [1:04.1] "Yeah----I had to use a Power Ring to get to you--" [1:00.0]>ALERT!! ONE MINUTE WARNING!! [X:59.7] "Let's get out of here." [X:59.3] "NOT SO FAST, CROCKETT!!" [X:58.9] Sammi has just returned as Pippkin. The Bunny Suit begins to glow a strange pale white. Suddenly, the costume begins to shrink into Sammi's naked figure, hugging her shapely features. Pippkin's face begins to change into a girl's as David figured out what's happening: Apparently, Sammi's assimilation into Pippkin is so thorough, that the Bunny Suit is moleculaly bonding with her. As he relayed this to Suni through their cyber-pathic link, the Pippkin before them is now a girl rabbit. [X:47.5] Pippkin now speaks in a seductively feminine tone: "Sammi didn't want to go on as *her* anymore, so I gave her her wish. And now that you've made a mess of things, we'll be of on our merry way and leave you two to your fate. You can have your little *reality,* David Kintobor. What's left of it that is! HAHAHAHAHA!!" [X:38.2] The Girl Magic Bunny ducks out of the room, through some pitch black smoke, and through an unknown door through another dimension. David will never see Pippkin again on Mobius. [X:34.4] "Forget about him, er, her, ohhhh, WHERE'S THE WAY OUT, SONIA?!!?" [X:32.6] "Over here----through the--OH, NO!! [X:31.5] The passageway leading to safety caves in at the door. [X:30.5] "We've got to Double Spin our way out, David! You got the Emerald? [X:29.6] "Here----I'll get it started . . ." [X:20.1] It'll take David 10 seconds to go through the meditation Sonia taught him back at the Ring Lake, before all this craziness with Pippkin and this Haunted Fantasy mansion. [X:19.6] "Suni, on the count of 3!" [X:19.2] "Call it!" [X:18.6] THREE [X:17.6] TWO [X:16.6] ONE [X:15.6] DOUBLE SONIC SPIN!! . . . A green comet blasts through the debris of the front door as the mansion finally crumbles to the ground. It lands to earth where it disappears, revealing an unconscious red-head hedgehog and her cyber-fox boyfriend on the ground. _______________________________ Aftermath: Elizabeth: "She's in a state of total sensory suppression," Sasha diagnosed as the usually-hyper raccoon lied motionless and unresponsive in the infirmary bed. "She's been so long in that Bunny Suit that she isn't picking up what she's sensing from her own senses. She won't see what she's looking at; feels what she's touching, hears what she's listening to. It's serious, Sal." "Is there anything we can do?" "Well, I have Davey and Rotor hook up a Virtual Reality headset that'll give her senses enough constant stimulation that she'll eventually hook back up to them, but it can't be rushed. Too much input at once, and the shock could prove deadly. . . ." Vixie: She's been putting her clown costume up against her body for the twelfth time since she took it to her hut. She felt the satiny stripes, played with the pompom balls that run down the center, and even tried on the ruffled hat a couple times. At first she was as afraid of what she first saw in the mirror when she woke from Pippkin's hypnotic spell as she was to clowns in general. Now after remembering what she did and how she felt doing the things clowns do, she felt thankful that Pippkin gave her the chance to overcome her fears. She looked at the costume one last time, hugged it, and put it in the back of her wardrobe. Bunnie and Tails: Tails found a somber Bunnie at the Ring Lake, skipping rocks. Much like the time they first met, that day when black moods were plaguing his mind and his hormones were raging out of control. "Bunnie, you there . . . I want to apologize . . . for what I did back there . . . I didn't know what was happening to me" Bunnie just hugged the adolescent fox and sobbed her apologies as well. "I'm sorry too, Tails. I didn't know what I was thinking when I was under his powers. I wanted to take it slow to you; to teach you what being with a girl is like. You understand?" "It's okay, Bunnie. I understand." The two returned to the lake, skipping rocks. Tails tried to find the words. "Bunnie, that costume you had on? Do you still have it?" "Well, yes, I do. I'm keeping it in a safe place as a momento." "Good." "Hmmmm." Bunnie tilted her head. "Do you like that bunnie suit." "Wellllll . . ." He thought about it, but couldn't say yes,' so he shook his head that way. Bunnie smiled. She put her arm around her little man. "Maybe I should put it on again someday, not anytime soon, though; I think you had enough for some time, but soon . . ." David and Sonia: The two are at the lagoon. Their thoughts were heavy on Sammi. Sonia, as do the rest of the Hedgehogs, were morning the loss of one of their own. David, however, only saw Sammi as the one who saw the hand of redemption and threw it away. "I thought I could just waltz into this planet like a bat outta hell and save each and every one," David thought out loud for anyone to hear. "Then along comes one that I couldn't salvage no matter what I do. " "I know, hon." Sonia placed an arm on his shoulder. "For now, just be glad that the ones we *do* save outnumbers the ones that get away." "Yeah, It's why I bother to get out of bed in the morning." The two snuggled close as they watched another Mobian sunset. The forest below them doesn't seem to be as affected as they were by their fight against Robotnik. Maybe the planet is starting to heal now that Robotnik has left. Or maybe that putting it up against the fight against their own pasts made the more real fight against egg-shaped tyrants puts the later in a better light. As the two watched the last sliver of sun disappear over the horizon, David shared a thought that popped in his head that made Sonia do a double take: It was something David didn't count on talking about until after Mobius has been freed: "Er, Suni, do you think we'll make a good couple?" ____________________________________ The End of "Haunted Fantasies" Holly Kraft's "The Return of King Acorn," occurs shortly after, followed not so soon after that by "Blood and Metal Restart." Both stories can be found on the FoxFire Studios Web Page at http://users.aol.com/dgonterman. Thank you for reading, and remember to send me E-Mail at dgonterman@aol.com FoxFire Studios