[Open] there goes the neighborhood

[spinsandneedles]

WHO: Sonic & Knuckles YOU
WHERE: Temba, The Warrens
WHAT: That Time a Volcano Happened
WHEN: All Over August
WARNINGS: None, will update if needed



1. Lava Reef City Zone Act 1: August 10th, early morning

With one guy giving kinda vague instructions and another guy TYPING AS LOUD AS HE COULD (???) on the network, and the alien lady hopping on the network giving equally vague and harder to understand instructions, all saying to get everyone underground (instead of evacuating which would have made more sense to Sonic but hey, not his clown, not his circus), the hedgehog springs into action pretty much immediately. Well actually, he was just woken up in the middle of the night by his communicator screeching at him, so he's less springing into action and more groaning and rolling his eyes at the clock and stumbling out of bed into action, but hey, he's still quick about it. Either way, he's up and hitting the streets, peeking into places he knows some people to hang out if he doesn't already see them up and about, knocking on doors and windows and stuff, y'know just being as annoying as he can be since this is kind of an emergency.

"Helloooo, you awake in there? It's kinda Doomsday, you might wanna get up."

He doesn't sound too urgent, but that's just because he has a pretty skewed sense of danger. They have ten whole hours! It's not even a big deal. (It's a pretty big deal.)

2. Lava Reef City Zone Act 2: August 10th, too close to explode time lol

Oookay actually, it turns out they don't have quite as much time to prepare and get to where they need to be as Sonic thought. Just because he doesn't own anything that he's attached to enough to want to move to the mines doesn't mean nobody else does, and as far as he can tell, that's what seems to be slowing people down the most. The earthquakes aren't really helping. As stupid as being out here is, Sonic's still out and about looking for stragglers, and he's not shy at all about running right up on anyone he finds.

"Hey, we're kind of about to die? Do you need help moving anything? I can carry a lot more than I look like I can, load me up!"

3. Sonic Underground (no not that one): The remainder of August, wooo hooo

3a: This is weird and cramped and it sucks and Sonic's always hungry and he hates it, but he tries not to complain too much. They are, after all, alive, and Sonic is of course grateful for the little fungus dudes and the creepy looking little berry guys. Since he's cut off from the outside and is thus pretty much incapable of moving around like he's used to, he spends a pretty significant amount of his time just watching them do their thing and trying to find ways to help them out. Which would be easier if he could, y'know, communicate with them? Maybe someone can try to help him figure out what these little dudes are saying so he can actually be helpful.

3b: The rest of the time he's on the look out for people to hang out with or drag into exploring with him, but a lot of the time he just vanishes and heads deeper into The Warrens to explore by himself. Which is probably not the smartest thing to do, seeing as this place is basically a maze. It's probably fine, though.

Except that he's completely lost. Not bothered by it, though. It's just an excuse to explore further in, right? (How has he survived LIFE for this long?) Anyone else that's out this way for whatever reason may run into Sonic following pipes, standing on machinery (why???), creeping around in dark rooms looking for anything he might be able to bring back with him, or checking out the big, mysterious blast doors. And by 'checking out', I mean spin dashing into and bouncing off of, to no avail. Weird that they're here, right?

Comments

[newmemorywhodis]

Sheikah slates that just...sit in your house? Doing nothing?

What a bizarre idea.

"...Then how do you take the pictures?"

[spinsandneedles]

Oh boy, what has Sonic gotten himself into...

"Oh, no, the big ones aren't for taking photos. Those are just for watching movies and playing videogames and stuff."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link's eyebrows furrow together. Just for watching?

"...What takes the pictures?" If the giant Sheikah Slates don't take them, how do they even get the pictures in there in the first place?

[spinsandneedles]

"Well... DVDs used to be a big thing, but they're kinda going the way of VHS now that's streaming has gotten so big."

He's about 98% sure that Link has no idea what he's talking about, but that's okay! Sonic's not a tech guy, he can't explain this shit.

[newmemorywhodis]

Going by the blank, uncomprehending stare Sonic gets in return...yup, Link has absolutely no idea what a 'deeveedee' or 'veehaychess' is.

Or 'streaming', for that matter.

[spinsandneedles]

Yeaaaaah, that's kind of what he'd been expecting. It's fine.

"Heh, sorry. Those are just ways to get movies to play on the big screens since they don't take pictures or anything themselves."

[newmemorywhodis]

Yup, that blank expression is still on Link's face. Maybe if he were Zelda, he would be able to better understand exactly what Sonic was talking about.

"...Complicated," is all he ends up saying.

[spinsandneedles]

"Yeah, it kind of is. I'm real good at breaking machines, not so much explaining how they work."

Maybe if he were Tails, he could better explain what he's talking about.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link hums in agreement. He's much the same, really.

"Zelda understands better," he admits.

[spinsandneedles]

Destructive idiots unite!

"She seems really smart! I've got a buddy back home she'd probably get along really well with."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link nods his head, repeatedly. Zelda is smart. So much smarter than her father and her position allowed her to be.

"A scientist?" Link asks. Zelda did always get along very well with scientists. Perhaps Sonic's friend was one.

[spinsandneedles]

"Heh, not like officially, all of his skills are self taught. He specializes in mechanical stuff more so than with like, sciency chemical stuff? But I bet he could figure that stuff out pretty easily, too."

Tails is a genius and Sonic is so proud of him!! He could brag about his little bro forever!

[newmemorywhodis]

Link tilts his head to one side. Really, that just sounded like a scientist to Link. And what about chemicals made them...more science?

"Do scientists need to be official?" he asks.

[spinsandneedles]

Sonic is not a scientist at all, can you tell? He's just as likely to chalk something weird up to magic as he is to science.

"Some people are probably big on whether you've been to school for it or not? Personally, I don't think it's that important. As long as you have the skills, that's what matters!"

Is it tho???

[newmemorywhodis]

Link frowns, faintly.

"School?" It's not that Link doesn't know what a school is. He does. But in the Hyrule he knows, they're not really common. Perhaps there were more of them before the Calamity, but after...after, there's really only one he knows.

"...Like 'Voe and you' classes?" he says.

[spinsandneedles]

"I... Have no idea what that is. If they teach you science and math and stuff, then sure?"

It's fine man Sonic doesn't even go to school, even though he probably should. Who needs an edumacation when you're good at sports?

[newmemorywhodis]

Science and math and stuff? That wasn't exactly Voe and You classes.

"Not those," he says. "More...dating? For Gerudo."

[spinsandneedles]

"Dating? What?"

Well that wasn't what Sonic had been expecting at all. Isn't school supposed to be for nerd stuff? Dude.

"So wait, you're tellin' me that school where you're from just teaches people how to go on dates?"

[newmemorywhodis]

"Just Gerudo." Because even if Link can't remember what, if any, schooling he had - he's very confident he was never enrolled in Voe and You classes. "Voe aren't allowed in Gerudo town. So they have a class."

[spinsandneedles]

"This might make more sense if I knew what a Voe and a Gerudo were?"

He can't track this at all, man. His brain is becoming pretzel.

[newmemorywhodis]

"Voe are men." Though using the word men when talking about the Gerudo always felt a bit weird, somehow. "The Gerudo are a people. But they're all vai."

Link pauses, realising that this word too is in need of explanation. "Women."

[spinsandneedles]

"Wait. All Gerudo are women? Then... what are the men? Voe? They're not the same as... wait..."

Sorry Link you're throwing all kinds of weird words at him today???

[newmemorywhodis]

Link nods. Yes, all Gerudo.

“They date Hylian men,” he explains. Perhaps this would seem stranger to Link, if he was from a different world. Or had any understanding of how biology was meant to work. As it was, though, he’d never had any reason to question it.