#metalvirus

The Night dawns at midnight…

Its spooky month so I'm doing viruses/parasites glossary kind of thing for fun to celebrate, giving a little depiction of the virus and explanation with it

Starting off with an easy one since it's established in IDW already.

Sonic: Metal Apocalypse (Archie Comics idea)

Nocturnal Nights--VAMPBOT SAGA Part I

A clock ticks in the background, following a heartbeat in a dark abyss as the ticking increases faster as the beating goes fast. Distorted noises are echoed in the distance as all sounds go insanely quick until…

TWO HOURS AGO.

“I just vanted to keep you safe…”

“”Keep me safe?” Well, guess what? I wanted to safe too! But you made it more difficult than it already is! And yet, I’m not anymore…I don’t need to go further in this conversation…”

Silver levitates away with his psychokinesis leaving Von Schlemmer leaves a distraught look.

Silver floats across the hallway, furiously as Blaze sees him with a concern look on her face.

“Silver, are you alright?” the princess said

“NO, no I am not alright!” The silver hedgehog replied sourly.

“What seems to be the problem?” Blaze said to her other dimension “companion”

“Oh, I dunno my so-called friend/scientist brought back the—the—flipping METAL VIRUS!!” Silver spazzed in rage.

“The Metal Virus? You told me about that; it was quite a terrifying experience…” Blaze curiously said.

“No, Blaze it was a hellhole. The future was lifeless and covered in metal. Everyone was getting infected one-by-one. It took us a whole month to deal with it. Friends, families, loved ones were lost to that thing…the final moments were me and Sonic throwing that parasite to the sun—WHICH I REALIZE THAT WE THROWN IT TOWARD THE FUTURE. GOT SMART AND GOT A BODY!”

Silver slams a wall, making a dent.

“Silver, Silver calm down! Try to be specific…what happened afterwards…” Blaze places a hand on his shoulder.

Silver sighs.

“Turns out everything we planned didn’t really work out. Professor Von Schlemmer kept the remaining virus in a jar and tried his best to make it’s still dead. Despite his high IQ—

Silver scoffs

“I bet it dropped when doing that experiment—anyway, we’re getting off topic here. Used chemicals on it and then—get this, it woke up with full-fledged human body and you’re not going to believe this, unlike the Zombots. The virus evolved into something that craves on blood…”

“Like what?” Blaze who tilted her cat head.

“Vampires…”

Blazes stares blankly.

“V-vampires?”

“You know, haters of garlic, burn at sunlight, scared of the cross, killed with stakes, all that…” Silver spoon-feed the princess of the Sol-Dimension.

“That seems pretty odd…”

“Well, don’t ask me! Von Schlemmer brought back that virus and know has abilities to drink people’s blood! Like your average vampire would do!” Silver spouted back

“Yet, Von told me they are more than just vampires we know…they seem to copy and scrape your blood to create cheap knockoff versions of ourselves…Sonic and the others experience…whatever these things are. I’m pretty some of them are still out there…” Silver who looked at the mid-day sun from the glass window.

“So, basically a metallic virus somehow evolved into a vampiric entity and somehow roaming around, around here…”

“I’m quite sure…we stopped it once and we will stop it again…Luckily, there’s only one Topaz left from Starline…the downside, the Emeralds are shattered everywhere and it’s going impossible to find them!” Silver said with dread in this voice.

“After my experiences travelling through time, I experienced Enerjack, Iblis, the Time Eater, Ixis, Infinite, the Zombots, and now VAMPIRES!!!” Silver slumped down behind a wall.

“Silver, I was once in your shoes, me and Marine dealt with an opposite version of Eggman and robot pirates…” Blaze awkwardly grinned.

“Please, like robot pirates will face vampire-looking freakazoids. At least their made of metal compared to these bloodsuckers!” Silver spat back.

“Well, we still don’t know what or who these things are, but we can handle them more than you and Sonic handled um…Zombots…minus the vampirism and the intolerance towards garlic…” Blaze grinned.

“Let’s hope…for right now, the Deadly Six are attacking downtown and I have to be there. Blaze, how about you scout the area for something unnatural…”

“Okay, if I encounter one of these “vampires”—

“You won’t, they are not like the Zombots, just given a scarier touch on them. If this goes to another epidemic until the Metal Virus did—now, with one Topaz left and the Emeralds shattered around. I fear we are not as prepared as we were before…” Silver said with a minimal bit of fear in his voice

“Don’t be so worked up about it…if we encounter these things than we’ll be ready. Now, come on you got a city to defend…” Blaze encouragingly said to her time-travelling companion.

Silver smiles.

“Right…I got a city to defend…”

Silver teleports away leaving Blaze with a concerned look.

In a park, Blaze the Cat walks across the sun-filled area of it and walks by a bridge by the pond.

“Mommy, look! A superhero!” A little girl pointed at the Sol-Dimension

“That’s great, sweetie! We don’t have to bother her! Sorry about that she gets curious around Restoration members” The mother said.

“There’s no need! Take care!” Blaze waved back and continued her walk.

Blaze stops by the river and looks up at the gorgeous sun reminding herself her times at the Sol-Dimension, sailing with Marine the Raccoon and getting into trouble with robotic pirates or dealing with Marine’s antics. Blaze enjoys the moment until she sees a flying creature flapping its wings.

“Huh?”

Blaze looks at the creature flying toward a forest as it gets to the dark part of the forest as it’s shades show it’s brown fur and wings, a bat.

“A bat?” Blaze questioned the nocturnal creature and gets concern and follows it toward the forest as the creature disappears into the darkness…

Blazes walks through the haunting-theme of the forest, crickets chirp in the distance, birds squawk in the distance, owls hoot in the darkness. Fireflies fly around the bushes making the theme more nocturnal.

Blaze looks around the forest, without looking glowing eyes appear behind the oak trees. Blaze continues to look around as the cricket chirp louder and birds hoot in the distance with fireflies continue to glow the area.

““Don’t be so worked up about it…if we encounter these things than we’ll be ready.”” Blaze’s voice echoed as she gets determined on what might pop out from the dark.

A twig snap is heard making Blaze turn around and gets ready to fight and looks at the dark abyss of the forest. Blaze breathes heavily as sweat leaves her face. A minimal bits of fire pop up on her fingers

Blaze’s breathing distorts and her heart begins to beat as Blaze has a determined/terrified look on her face. The sounds stop except for her breathing, behind her a silhouette of a Mobian with red eyes breathes next to her neck and snarls showing sharp teeth with drool leaving its mouth.

Blaze slowly turns her head toward the Vampbot with the look of fear. The Vampbot growls and jumped toward her.

Back with the aftermath of Silver beating Zomom in Sunset Heights with Tails and Tangle, Silver’s telepathy is activated on his head.

“I know, wait…” Silver stopped mid-sentence as his telepathy kicks in.

“It’s Blaze…”

“Blaze, what is she—” Tails responded as Silver points a hand point to stop him.

“Tails, handle the last of the Six. I need to go and help Blaze, understand?” Silver said sternly.

“But Silver there are two—

Tangle looks at the trapped Zomom.

“I mean three Zeti left and we need enough firepower in this!” Tangle pleaded toward her Diamond Cutter partner/friend.

“I’ll call Whisper and Surge. You and Tails and the others handle the Six…I’m going to find Blaze!”

“But Silver!—”

Silver teleports away leaving Tangle and Tails alone as Zomom slumps on the ground.

“Uh…you guys got something I can eat?” Zomom told the Mobians as Tangle’s tail smacks Zomom’s face and falls down.

“OW!”

Silver teleports to a quiet forest as he runs across the shady forest with the sun reflecting from the wet leaves as the silver hedgehog continues to look for the princess of the Sol Dimension.

“Blaze! I’m here! Where are you?!”

Without Silver looking, a Vampbot Mobian stares him down from a tree branch and growls with drool leaving its mouth and lounges at the time-travelling hedgehog.

The Vampbot snarls showing its sharp teeth ready to eat the hedgehog alive and drink his blood. Silver quickly uses his psychokinesis and throws the creature on the ground as it backflips as other Vampbots appear from the shadows.

“Oh man, guess I was right…”

Vampbots charge toward the silver hedgehog. Silver uses his psychokinesis to throw, punch, kick every vampire Mobian to find Blaze. A bat flies behind him and transforms into a Vampbot and clocks the hedgehog on the bottom jaw and knocks down on the ground and gets back up.

Two werewolves run across Silver from left to right in high speeds and grab the hedgehog and put him down. From the dark a dog-like Mobian Vampire walks up and laughs at Silver.

“Well now, look what we have here…” The dog said in a Romanian accent.

Silver struggles to get out from the werewolves’ grasps.

“So, the rumors were true. The master told us about some time-travelling boy who threw him out, no?” The dog said.

Silver grunts angrily.

“This is the first time we’ve met, no. Well, allow us to introduce ourselves, my name is Szgany the Hellhound, and these are the children of the night…”

“Cut the crap, mongrel…I already know you guys are vampires and I see you brought some werewolves into this too, huh?” Silver eyed the wolves holding him down.

Szgany laughs.

“Please, little boy we are more than just your standard vampires. We walk in the sun, we’re not frightened by stakes, and we’re perfectly fine with garlic! We are very different on you see in your movies and TV shows!”

Silver gives the Hellhound a death glare.

“Where’s Blaze?”

“Who?” Szgany responded.

“Blaze, what the hell did you do to her???”

“Hmm…let’s see the cat girl where one of my man found her into this forest. Hmmm…let’s see, was she carrying THIS?”

Szgany shows a purple Sol Emerald making Silver gasp.

“She has a fine piece of jewelry, no? She might be some princess!”

“YOU BASTARD.”

Silver glows in a teal aurora as the werewolves’ continue to hold him down as the Vampbots laugh sadistically at him.

“Now, now don’t get your quills in a twist, little boy. We played with her once or twice; she was a fighter; the girl is. Unfortunately, she had a flaw of facing us creatures of the night…” Szgany the Hellhound snaps his fingers as more werewolves carry a battered Blaze and plop her down.

“Silver…” Blaze said, very injured.

“YOU SON OF A, ONCE BREAK OUT OF HERE I AM GONNA—” Silver threatened the Hellhound.

“Gonna what? Tell your friends? Oh, that wouldn’t be necessary, little boy…you see we carry the DNA of the victims of Metal Virus and have same abilities of said friends. If you tell them now. It’ll make scared then before because you know. We all remember your blue companion running away from us and threw our master toward your time with the Warp Topaz…”

Szgany puts his face in front of Silver with menacing smile with red eyes.

“But enough of the word salad aside, it’s time for your execution…bring the girl…” Szgany commanded the werewolves.

The werewolves bring in Blaze and throw her down on the ground making Silver more furious.

“BASTARDS, I AM GOING TO—”

“Ah! One step forward, we’ll gut her and use her head as a gauntlet…” Szgany pointed his finger at the time-travelling hedgehog and walks up toward the cat with an axe.

“Time to die, don’t worry the master is hungry right now…while we’re waiting on your death. Let’s say we use your boyfriend’s head as a mount piece for our master, no?”

Szgany laughs as he raises up his axe above Blaze as sweat leaves Silver’s face and breathes heavily and grunts and gets louder as he glows in a full-blown teal color and yells at the top of his lungs and unleashes an all-powerful Psycho Shock, knocking every enemy minus Blaze as Szgany tries to keep his balance as they all see the silver hedgehog standing up with glowing golden eyes.

“GET THE BOY!” Szgany

Werewolves charge toward the fully-powered psychokinesis teenager. Silver summons five Psycho Knives as fly over the charging enemies as they slice, decapitate every werewolf as they all disintegrate into ash as heads and limbs fall over and dissolve. Blaze smirks and conjures up fire on her fists and burns the wolves into a crisp. Surprising Szagany and the other Vampbots.

Blaze runs toward the Hellhound and kicks him in the face and grabs the Sol Emerald on her paw.

“Thank you…now about your word salad comment?” Blaze smirked at the Hellhound.

Vampbots surround Silver and Blaze.

“Now you believe me?” Silver said.

“Indeed, I now understand…” Blaze replied back.

“Let’s say this is going to be a first in upcoming events, right?” Silver said toward the princess.

“Let’s make it the only one…”

A Vampbot growls as it runs up and jumps to maim Blaze, Blaze grabs it’s wrists and ignites her pyrokinesis as the Vampbot looks in dread as it gets burned alive and dissolves from the flames.

Silver and Blaze use their psychokinesis and pyrokinesis toward every Vampbot as each and every one gets sliced, diced, maimed, decapitated, crushed, and burned alive. A giant looking one charges toward the two.

“BLAZE!” Silver yelled.

Blaze sees the giant Vampbot. Blaze slides underneath and twirls and does a Spinning Claw as the giant one screams in agony being burned alive and runs away. A Vampbot surprise attacks Silver nearly clawing his cheek. Silver unleashes his psychokinesis and makes a ball made of dirt and throws at the Vampbot as the bot gets knocked down.

“I bet you Vampires do your pizza deliveries without the garlic bread!” Silver jokingly said.

The Vampbot sinisterly smiles and turns into a bat and flies away surprising Silver.

“SILVER, BEHIND YOU!!”

The burning Vampbot charges at Silver as Silver creates a Psychic Knife as he throws it at the screaming demon as it gets sliced apart and falls into tiny pieces as the bat, Silver faced flies away.

“The little one escaped!” Blaze ran next to Silver.

“Don’t worry, there’ll be more than that…where in god’s name is the hellhound guy?” Silver angrily said as he examines the area.

“He’s gone…” Blaze said looking around the ash covered forest.

“Dammit! I was this close on kicking his ass!!” Silver clenched his fists.

“Calm down, Silver! This was just the first of these moments! Sol knows what might come afterwards…with these vampires…”

“Uh, the appropriate word is, Vampbots…” Silver corrected Blaze.

“Right, Vampbots…” Blaze said with smile.

They hear humming as they see Big the Cat with his trusty fishing rod walking in the forest.

“Oh, hi Silver! Hi Blaze! I just got back fishing with my friend, Froggy! What did I miss? Was there a fire here?” Big said optimistically.

Silver and Blaze look at each other and back at Big blankly.

“What?” Big questioned

The bat flies across the background of the setting sun behind Sunset Heights as it turns into night with the building’s lights glow.

“You may have escaped, hedgehog and cat…but we’ll find your precious partners for the glory of our master…it will be a bloodbath…” Szgany said as his red eyes glow in the dark along with every Vampbot in the distance.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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