User:Fairfieldfencer/Sonic Thriller

This is Sonic horror fan-fiction set in the Archie series. Characters copyright to SEGA, Sonic Team, 4Kids Entertainment, Archie and Dic. Plot belongs to me.

Metallic Grey Zombie
Eggman was in his main control room with his adopted nephew, Snively. Eggman had been having trouble finding new power sources for his robots recently. Sure the ones he used got the robots up and running, but the power sources barely lasted a week. He had to think of new ones that could run for a life time.

"Would Chaos Drives work, sir?" Said Snively.

"No! They are my grandfather's creation. I want to do something original!" Said Eggman. "Stealing my own grandfather's ideas, how shallow do you think I am?"

Snively opened his mouth to reply.

"Answer that question and you're a dead lackey!" Said Eggman. "The life sources of Mobians worked well, but there's no way I could capture enough to fuel my army without the Freedom Fighters interfering."

Eggman smiled. The spark of an idea had entered his mind. "Maybe if we used Mobians that are already dead. Their ghosts. Still full with life force energy that lets them stay in this world. There are plenty of them in my bases. Snively, pull the security recordings from the Egg Pyramid, Cryptic Castle, Haunted Mansion and Hang Castle. I want to see what the ghosts usual routines are. That'll make it easier to capture them."

After two hours of searching, Snively saw what the ghosts usual habits were. There always seemed to be more of them from midnight to three in the morning.

" The Witching hour. " Thought Snively. " Uncle is entering the world of the unknown here. This could be very interesting indeed. "

Snively walked up to Eggman with his news.

"There are always more ghosts at midnight in all areas and they are there for three hours."

"Three hours. Plenty of time for my robots to suck them up." Said Eggman. "They can use my Egg Vacuums."

Eggman held up what appeared to be a gun with a large chicken's head and egg like body with blue spots.

"I based these on the Black Arms weapons known as vacuum pods." Continued Eggman. "They can suck up anything, including gasses and liquids. They'll easily capture those ghosts. I'll have to develop some special containment equipment though. If these ghosts can walk through walls, my usual holding devices will be insufficient. I'll insert my new power sources into my robot army. Then I'll launch an attack on New Mobotopolis with them to see if they're up to the challenge. It should all be ready to go by the three hundredth and fourth day of the year. Snively, ready my Egg Pawns with Egg Vacuums and deploy them to all three locations. The Freedom Fighters won't know what hit them. Muhahahahahahaha!"

It had been two months since Eggman had set his plan into action, and the people of New Mobotopolis were making as much of the peace and quiet as they could, though the Knothole Freedom Fighters still had their guard up should anything happen.

In the mean time, they had decided to throw a Halloween party. NICOLE had been researching Humans and she found out that on the three hundredth and fourth day of a human year, (Humans called it October thirty first), they celebrated an ancient holiday previous called All Hallows Eve, now known as Halloween, believed to be the day the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved. In more modern times however, it was were people dressed up as scary monsters, ghosts and other mythical creatures and characters. They thought it would be good fun, so the people of New Mobotropplis were busy getting everything set. They'd organized trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, carving Jack-o'-lanterns and making scary stories to tell the children.

Everyone was excited about it except Shadow the Hedgehog. He wasn't all interested in it. Which made his girlfriend Rouge upset, because she'd never gone to a party before without a date, and she wasn't about to start any time soon.

"Come on, Shadow. It'll be fun." She said while looking for a costume in one of Station Square's many stores.

"No. You can go, but I'm not!" Said Shadow. "I hate parties, especially if it means being around Sonic."

Rouge giggled at a thought she just had.

"What?" Said Shadow.

"Well, I thought if you dyed your hair blue you could go as Sonic to the party."

"Congratulations. You just blew any chance of me going to the party."

"Don't be like that. I swear you'll have a good time."

Shadow let out a sigh.

"I'll be at the party, but I've got some work to do for G.U.N. so I'll probably be late."

Rouge kissed him on the cheek.

"Thank you. But I didn't have a doubt you wouldn't go. I always get what I want."

Shadow raised an eyebrow at the comment, but decided not to counter it.

"I think Omega should be done at that costume store." He said.

Shadow walked over to a particularly large costume shop called "Dress Up, Dress Good," while Rouge kept looking for her outfit. The store was the only place in the city that made custom made fancy dress costumes. Omega was walking out just as Shadow was about to go in.

"Greetings." Said the large automaton. "I have just recieved my costume. I also brought yours."

"How did you know I was going to go?" The hedgehog said, a tad suspicious.

"I did not. Rouge the Bat instructed me to aquire it for you."

"How in Aurora's name does she do that?"

"I asked a similar question, and she stated that it was her 'woman's intuition.'"

"Which costume did she tell you to get for me?"

Omega handed him the bag that Shadow's costume was kept in. The hedgehog's face wore a frown even worse than his trademark one.

"She doesn't honestly expect me to wear this? If anything she should be wearing it."

"That was my account. But she stated that it was too unimaginitive."

"So what is your costume?"

"Mine is Frankenstein's monster from The Modern Prometheus. The tailor stated that I 'would suit it quite nicely.' But he used the depiction from the film in the human year 1931 instead of from the actual book."

"They're different?"

"Affirmative. We should head back to G.U.N. headquarters. Topaz recently stated that we 'would be needed back at base' in an e-mail she sent to me."

"Oh, that's right. I forgot you can recieve e-mail? Anything for me?"

"There is one addressed to all of us from Princess Sally stating that she's 'delighted' we 'could all make it.'"

"How did she know I was going?"

"Women's intuition?"

Shadow let out a frown at the comment, but something told him it was probably true.

"How are the new ghost power sources handling, Snively?" Said Eggman on the flagship of his Egg Fleet on the way to New Mobotropolis.

"They're fully compatable with the robots, sir. They're power has even increased to more than usual today for some reason."

"Who cares what the reason is? If the ghosts are more powerful today, then it must be destiny we're to destroy the Freedom Fighters today. Hahaha!"

"Since when do you believe in destiny?"

"It's a joke!"

"Oh! Sorry. But usually all your jokes are somehow related to eggs."

"A crack-up, you mean?"

"Exactly what I'm talking about."

Eggman noticed the little gleam of triumph in Snively's eyes as he thought himself victorious, which he was.

"Quiet, nephew! Get back to work! There's no time for talking when there's Freedom Fighters to crush!"

Rotor was outside his house in a Dr. Eggman costume. He had managed to put on an extra special display by decorating his home with anything scary he could find. He had put up Jack-o'-lanterns with sweets inside, plastic skeletons hanging from various parts of the house, and buckets of water ready for apple bobbing. Sally and Tails had just come across his house. Sally was dressed as a sorceross. She would have gone as a witch, but she'd had a bad expierience while dressed as one before. Tails was dressed as a scientist in a white lab coat complete with lense-free glasses.

"Hey, guys. What do you think?" Rotor asked.

"Impressive, Rotor. The kids will love it. What's that thing hovering there?" Said Sally, pointing to an orange puppet.

"Hmm? Oh, that's Tails. It was supposed to be a puppet of Tails for the kids at the school. I do little puppet shows of your adventures some times. Anyway, I made this flying one of Tails, but I thought it looked too scary for the kids, so I put it in my closet and made a new one."

"I can see why. That thing is creeeeeepy. I can't believe it's supposed to be me." Said Tails

Not too far away, Sonic was dressed up as a knight with Knuckles who was wearing a karate outfit. They saw Amy sitting at a table not too far away in a gypsy costume with her tarot cards.

"What's all this?" Sonic asked.

"I decided to dress up as a gypsy and then I went the whole nine yards by doing tarot card readings." Said Amy. "You know I read them."

"I didn't, actually."

"What? I read your tarot cards for you a couple of years ago."

"You mean that entire deck of tarot cards that all said I would find a new love?"

Amy just smiled sheepishly before changing the subject. "Well are you gonna have me read the cards or not?"

"Alright. Lay 'em on me."

Sonic drew a card from the top of the deck and on it was a skeleton with a sythe.

"Try choosing another." Amy said. He did so and pulled the same card out again.

"And another." Said Amy. It was the same card still.

"That must be pretty unusal." Said Knuckles.

"I'll say. There's only supposed to be one in the pack." Said Amy.

Sonic looked genuinely panic stricken by this.

"Wait a minute... This is the trick deck I used on Rob during my last visit to Mercia. The only cards in here are death cards. Fancy having a real go this time?" Said Amy.

"I think I'll pass. See ya!" Said Sonic.

"May the spirits watch over you."

"Man, you looked really spooked when she said there was only supposed to be one. I didn't think you to be the supersticious type." Said Knuckles.

"Are you kidding me? After all I've been through with the great unknown of the world? Magic, ghosts and the fabled Chaos Emeralds. All that stuff would make anyone a believer." Said Sonic.

"Hey guys. Been trick-or-treating yet?" Said Julie-Su in a mummy costume with a bag full of sweets.

"Aren't you a little old for that? It's meant to be for kids." Said Sonic.

"Teenagers count as kids."

"Looks like Omega and I won't be getting any sweets then." Said Rouge dressed in a witch costume along with Omega dressed as Frankenstein's Monster.

"Well, you could always steal some from a blind kid, couldn't you?" Said Julie-Su.

"Break it up ladies, break it up. This is the kids' very first-" Sonic was interrupted by a huge rumbling. He turned his head towards the shields guarding New Mobotropolis and saw an army of robots outside. All of them were armed to the gearbox and were firing everything they could at the shield.

"On second thought, use it on them!" Sonic said, jokingly with his trademark smirk. The smile was soon wiped off his face as the main doors to New Mobotropolis exploded and legions of Egg Pawns came in, but thankfully, NICOLE closed the hole using her power over the nanites.

"Greetings, citizens of New Mobotropolis. As you well know, I am Dr. Eggman. Dictator, genius, and master of all things mechanical, not to mention on this world." Said Eggman through the speakers on his ship. "You shall surrender to the Eggman Empire or be crushed by my new and more powerful Egg Pawns. You have until sunset to decide. Which will be in thirty seconds. So think fast!"

"We will never surrender to the likes of you, Eggman." Said King Elias in a skeleton costume.

"My, my, King Elias. You look rather skinny as of late. The little lady been too busy with her obnoxious brat to feed you? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!"

Elias's anger at his step-child being called a brat was made obvious by his clenched teeth and tightened fists.

"Do't let him get to you, dear. That's what he wants." Said Megan Acorn in a witch's costume.

"While I found your support of your husband very touching, you're thirty seconds are up and you haven't surrendered. Prepare to be blasted into oblivion!" Said Eggman.

"Alright, guys. Get ready to take these junkpiles down!" Said Sonic to the others.

"Egg Pawns! Open fire!" Commanded Eggman just as the sun set. The Egg Pawns remained still. "What are you waiting for!?!? I SAID FIRE!!!" They did not move. "Work you useless pieces of junk!"

Suddenly, a laugh like nails on a chalkboard echoed throughout the area. The eyes of the Egg Pawns began to glow, and when they stopped, the eyes were no longer white, they were red and yellow with black lines around them, with irises in the centre. The imitations of mouths had changed from white metal to black razor sharp teeth. An Egg Hammer Pawn with a Roman centaurian helmet then let out a high-pitched scream saying "Boom boo! Boom boo!" and in doing so, revealed a set of yellow sharp teeth like that of a wild beast. The Egg Hammer Pawn then began to use its hammer to send shockwaves of blue energy throughout the city and then belched out blue ectoplasm from its mouth.

The citizens ran for their lives to find somewhere to hide as the "Zombots" began destroying the city. King Elias led his subjects into Castle Acorn to hide in a secret room as the heroes of Mobius took care of the Zombots.

"Alright, guys. let's get going." Said Sonic. "Knuckles and Omega, take out that huge one with the hammer. Ladies, defend the castle. Tails, you're with me. We'll take care of the rest of Robuttnik's scrap-heaps and buy Knux and Omega some time."

Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Omega went off to their tasks leaving Sally, Amy, Juli and Rouge to defend Castle Acorn, and the citizens inside.

"What's happening here!?! Why are my robots going out on an uncontrollable rampage and destroying everything in sight? Including my glorious Egg Fleet." Eggman asked Snively.

"The increased amounts of power the ghosts gained have enabled them to take over the robots. We can't stop them."

"In that case, we had better make a tactical retreat. The ghosts will take care of Sonic and those pesky animals for me, anyway. Egg Fleet, head back to New Megaopolis. Leave the robots in New Mobotropolis to take care of Sonic."

With the order given, the Egg Fleet swung swung around and headed back to the Eggman Empire's capital, where they would be greeted by a troop of ghost-powered Egg Pawns Eggman had left behind and forgot about.