Kicking off this new thread with a request from the last one. I don't actually know these characters, I never had more than a passing exposure to Sonic. so I decided to wing it with something silly :)



Gotta Go Fast


To the residents of Sonic Town, it was a Tuesday morning like any other. They wandered the streets, popping in and out of shops, going about their normal lives, never imagining the show that was about to take place. A few minutes before noon, they heard a rumbling, which quickly turned into a dull roar, growing louder still. Sonic and his friend Tails had been having a friendly competition to see who was faster. They had gone from feet to skates to bikes, and by the time they had gone to Mario and borrowed Karts, it had become decidedly less friendly, both wanted to win, engaging in an arms race, doing more and more ridiculous things to go ever faster.


Today, Tails was taking a test run with his new Nuclear Engine, powered by flames of Olympus supplied by Kratos. It was so fast, Tails was sure Sonic would NEVER be able to beat this. And to be fair, he wasn’t wrong. This had not been cheap, he was scraping together every gold ring he could go to keep his apartment, but it would be worth it to see the look on Sonic’s face when….


As Tails was celebrating his new speed, yelling “Gotta go fast? How’s THIS for fast? You slow moving blue freaEEKKK!!!” The steering wheel broke off in his hands, just as his craft came to the last hill before town. Tails screamed as his Kart shot up, jumping from the hill. 100 meter, 200, 300 meters, and then plummeted back to the surface, pointing directly at the town.


The crash was enormous, the blast even more. Tails HAD done one thing right, and that was the safety harness. He was not thrown from the kart, he wasn’t even shattered. That harness was a miracle of modern engineering. Tails was safe in his seat, and if the buckle hadn’t been bent in the crash, he would have walked away with a valuable lesson. Unfortunately for him, the buckle HAD bent, and he was stuck. Much worse, the Flames of Olympus containment unit by the engine had rupture, and the fire spilled out. It spread across the Kart, so instead of being killed in any of the hundred ways physics should have dictated on impact if Tails hadn’t set his machine to video game physics, Tails got to burn alive.


The furry little monster screamed and struggled to get free as the flames approached. Then they jumped across the floorboard and touched Tails, igniting his fur. His screams turned to shrieks as it raced across him, the magical fire not responding to his attempts to slap it out. His fur went up it a quick flash, accompanied by that stench of burning hair. Then it hit his flesh, burning through meat and scorching bone. It was awful, truly Hell to endure, and gruesome to watch, but it didn’t last long. It filled his lungs, then flame shot out his eyes, the unrecognizable corpse of Tails slumped in his seat, watched by the townsfolk who were just glad this obnoxious contest was over.

Nobody seemed to notice or care about the only other casualty. Chris Thorndyke had been standing to close to the impact zone, and now the young boy had a foot long shard of road sticking out of his belly. He pulled it out, then screamed in horror as his insides spilled out with it. He blubbered and begged for help, trying to get everything back where it belonged, until the cold hand of Death came for him. One of the residents of the town walked over and claimed the boy’s body for whatever unspeakable purposes he had. Nobody cared, everybody hated Chris.


Off in a side alley, Sonic watched with satisfaction. He had questioned Doctor Eggman when the mad genius had only taken one bolt out of the steering wheel, but as Sonic payed up, Eggman had assured him that it would do the trick. Well, Soic figured, if you are going to pay someone to kill your rival, you should trust them to get the job done. Sonic was the fastest thing in town again, everything was back to the way it should be.