[Storm] just Sonic sucking at survival horror real good

[spinsandneedles]

WHO: Sonic! Whoever feels like saving Sonic from monsters!
WHERE: Anywhere in Temba babyyyy
WHAT: It's storm time and Sonic is dealing with basic hedgehog stats
WHEN: Early storm, before powers start coming back. because i am cruel
WARNINGS: blood, mouth related body horror, sentient vines/tentacles, choking, 'animal' attacks - all of the above are possible depending on how threads go!

Look, it's not like Sonic didn't want to take Tommy's advice and not go out in a storm. He very much didn't want to be out here! He had no speed and no way to call anyone short of literally yelling at the top of his lungs (not the best strategy when you're trying not to be noticed), so why would he go outside? Out in that creepy fog, with that screwed up sky and all the horrible animal noises?

It might have something to do with the broken window in the building he'd been hiding out in letting in a creepy bat, which quickly became ten creepy bats, which soon became ten creepy bats and a pack of terrible dogs. Long story short, he'd been forced right back outside because he didn't want to be a snack. He managed to get a bit of a head start on the murder bats and yikes puppies by slamming the door on them on his way out, but there's still the matter of the broken window of course, so it only helps for so long.

Dumb slow Sonic comes in four horrible flavors:

HOOFIN' IT-
Sonic's actively in the middle of running for his life as fast as he currently can. It's not fast, but so far he's been agile enough to at least be able to dodge some dogs around buildings and whatever rubble remains from the volcano. He's losing steam, though, and he looks equal parts terrified and annoyed. Well, leaning maybe a little more into terrified as the freaky critters gain on him. He's used to robots, okay. Not things that want to eat him.

SONIC SPINBALL (minus the spin)-
Having been cornered and unable to do his usual dope stunts, Sonic's in a bit of a pickle. Go Fast instincts are not currently viable, but normal hedgehog instincts totally are. He's shouting for an assist of course, and anyone daring enough to try to help will come upon kind of a weird scene. Sonic's curled up in a perfect little spike ball, a few quills already caught in one of the Demodog's mouths while a remaining two circle Sonic, trying to decide how best to chomp the danger snack without getting a mouthful of stab.

"Yo, anyone out there? Little help, maybe?"

He doesn't sound nearly as concerned as he actually is. That won't last.

THIS IS THE ONE WITH THE BLOOD (cw: the aforementioned blood + 'animal' attacks)-
Hedgehog spikeball can't work forever, and Sonic's luck and stamina have all but run out. He'd managed to evade getting chomped for a while, even found himself a nice hidey hole in some rubble while waiting for a small pack of Demodoggos to pass, but a couple of those shitty recon bats gave his location away. Very uncool.

A Demodog's managed to snag him by the foot. Or, well, most of the leg. He's not very big, which makes him easy to drag around, naturally. With no cool powers or abilities at his disposal, Sonic has to make due with what he's got, which in this case is a chunk of rubble that he snagged while trying to keep the screwed up monster from dragging him out into the open. He is bashing that thing in the head as hard as he can, which isn't too impressive given his current state, but his constant thrashing about has kept him from being eaten so far. It's probably also just made his wounds worse, though, if the trail of blood left in his wake is any indication.

Even Sonic isn't cool enough to not panic at this point. He's got a full panic going, but it's one of those adrenaline fuled pissed off panics which is kind of helping him with the monster bashing. He's not so much screaming for help as he is screaming at the Demodog to spit him out, but it can most certainly be assumed that he needs some damn help plz?? Before he attracts additional doggos, or even something worse. He is kind of bleeding a lot.

HERE LET ME HELP WITH MY NORMAL HEDGEHOG STATS-
He can't do much at the moment, but being one of those big dumb hero types, Sonic is always going to choose helping someone in need over keeping his own ass out of trouble. Too bad he's terrible at planning ahead. Maybe he's spotted someone being cornered by some Demodogs or getting divebombed by Demobats. Whatever the case, Sonic's usual method of charging in and bouncing off if in spikeball form isn't going to work, but what he can do is try to get their attention. Usually by throwing stuff. This will go well.

"Over here, gnarly! There's plenty more rocks where that came fro- Oh. Crap. Ohh, I didn't think this through. Oh crap. Crapcrapcrap..."

As far as rescues go, this one kind of sucks, huh.

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SONIC SPINBALL

[newmemorywhodis]

The first sign of help is the arrow that strikes the demodog trying to get it's teeth into Sonic.

The second sign of help is the sound of Link yelling "Hyah!", as he launches himself off of the top of a nearby building. The Sword that Seals the Darkness swings forth in a downward strike, the blade carving through the flesh of a second demodog. The force of the strike knocks it off it's feet, as Link hands on his.

He looks towards Sonic - is he okay?

[spinsandneedles]

Sonic's super, thanks for asking!

Actually he's not super at all, he's actually doing very poorly. At least he was before Link showed up with his big, badass sword. Sonic unballs in time to see the first demodog take an arrow to the face, but he's not at all prepared for Link dropping out of the sky screaming and chopping up a second dog. The startled sound that Sonic makes in response is anything but dignified, but he quickly realizes that help has arrived and wastes no time scrambling to his feet and diving behind Link. There's no shame in stepping aside and letting the guy that clearly knows what he's doing take a swing at some bad dogs.

Sonic will be sure to pay respects to Link's badass, dramatic entrance once the danger has passed.

[newmemorywhodis]

As Sonic moves behind Link, he brings forward his shield - keeping it and himself in-between Sonic and the demodogs. It's a defensive maneuver that's smooth and practiced.

Sonic isn't the first person Link's protected this way.

The two remaining demodogs keep circling, looking for an easy way to get past Link's defenses. He doesn't give it to them. For the moment, it's a stand-off - although probably not one that will last long.

[spinsandneedles]

"OhmyGoddudethatwassogross--!"

Sonic makes the decision to stay close to Link, half because ditching him feels like it would be a bitch move and half because running off might just get him eaten by something else. He manages to stay out from under Link's feet though, and keeps an eye out behind them just in case.

[newmemorywhodis]

What? Hasn't Sonic ever seen an unholy monster sliced in two before? And Link hasn't even started harvesting it for monster parts yet.

But Link dosn't have any more time to ponder what counts as gross - because at this moment, the demodog with an arrow in it's back takes the oppotunity to leap forward. It's terrible mouth gapes open, teeth aiming to piece Link's skin.

His shield! He raises it up, pushing back at the creatre just at the very moment it would have struck. But he has no moment to rest, because no the second one is coming around the side - trying to get past Link, to get to Sonic.

[spinsandneedles]

NO, HE HASN'T, surprisingly!! Normally he's just sawing robots in half with his own butt!

Oh boy doggy two sure is lunging right at him, huh? Sonic lets out a startled yelp, unable to dodge in his current condition, but he's not without his natural defenses. He curls up in a little hedgehog ball again, just in time for the demodog's weird flappy flower lookin' mouth to try to close around him. It's caught completely off guard by getting all stabbed up in the mouth by pointy quills and backs off, but it's still slinking around.

It's fine, Sonic's totally got this one!

[newmemorywhodis]

There's a moment of panic, as Link realises - while Link was trying to deal with the first, the second one got past him.

No. That's not acceptable.

So as Link kicks the first one away, he brings his sword around in a vicious swing towards the one that just tried to take a bite out of Sonic. Nevermind that all it got was a mouth full of pointy quills. Link's going to make sure it can never bite anything again, ever.

BLUD

[thepurpleone]

There's a sudden wham and a vague ringing of metal, which one can only assume something had been applied to the enterprising demodog because suddenly the opening is clear of the slavering creature. It's not gone far, but it's apparent that it's not the only thing out there either.

Donnie swings his tech-bō at the beast, keeping it effectively at bay, and even without the tech part of it functioning, he still proves to be pretty formidable with the titanium staff. He hops back, just out of reach of its jaws before spinning his weapon and striking back, taking advantage of the bō's length with a vicious upsweep to the demodog's head before snapping it back down just as sharply that the creature's strange face bounces back off the ground before its whole body goes still.

WOO BLUD

[spinsandneedles]

One minute there's a dogmonster clamped onto Sonic's leg, and the next minute it's super dead. Thanks to our good buddy adrenaline, Sonic isn't feeling too much by way of pain yet as he scrambles to his feet and backs away from the demodog just in case it tries to get back up, his mostly useless chunk of rubble at the ready.

It doesn't get back up no matter how hard Sonic stares at it, and he eventually drops his chunk of rubble and inches closer to Donnie.

"Dude, you are so good at hitting things with a stick." That compliment would have been better, but Sonic's a little distracted by frantically looking around for more horrible demothingies.

[thepurpleone]

Amazing what a bit of adrenaline can do for a person. Donnie's breathing hard as he stares at the thing, half-expecting it to rise up again. He's so tense he nearly jumps when Sonic comes up beside him, letting out a relieved sigh when he sees his pal there.

"Thanks for notici- blood, you're bleeding- how bad is it? Are you okay??"

Twitchy as he is, Donnie's still able to focus when it comes to an injury, already tucking his staff under an arm so he can route around the bag slung over his shoulder for a first-aid kit.

[spinsandneedles]

"It's bad. I'm not okay." In fact he is practically vibrating, that's how shaken up this whole thing has gotten him. Everything sucks, dude!

"We need to worry about that after we've gotten somewhere safe, though! There's a lot more of those things out there, plus there's little flyin' ones and I saw a real tall one on two legs creepin' around by itself."

[thepurpleone]

Oh it has to be bad if Sonic is being honest with him like that. Donnie's shaking too, but he sets a hand on the hedgehog's shoulder as he is very visibly trying to keep it together himself.

"No, we have to at least bind this up. They're attracted to blood, so hiding won't do us any good if they can track us. Won't take long. Keep an eye out. And hold this."

Donnie hands him his staff, stooping down to set to work as he wills his hands still enough to tend to Sonic's injury.

[spinsandneedles]

"How do you know they're-- ah, stick."

Sonic takes the staff and ends up using it to prop himself up while Donnie tries to make him less bloody. Balance is weird, he's a little dizzy. That's probably not great!

"I don't see anything yet, we're probably okay for a minute?"

The Bloody One

[plate_builder]

There were plenty of reasons Reeve should not be out in the mess of this storm. But he'd found off angry monsters before. Sure he didn't have his magic with him, he didn't have a gun, and he sure didn't have quick motion because his ankle was still hurt, but dammit he wasn't going to let someone get attacked.

He'd been making his way toward the Power Plant, using Mini as a distraction tactic when he could. But seeing things happening, he'd redirected. And in this case he's using his metal crutch to swing out, knocking the demodog back.

"Fuck off," he growls at the thing.

[spinsandneedles]

The demodog is knocked back and Sonic is free!! With the demodog now distracted by the sudden arrival of a new challenger, Sonic takes this opportunity to cram that hunk of rubble into the demodog's face and give it a hard kick (as hard as he could, anyway). With the dog's mouth full of something else for the time being, he scrambles to his feet and quickly hobbles over to Reeve's side.

"Thanks, man! Are you okay?" Dude just fought a dog off with his own crutch, what a badass. And yes Sonic is ignoring his own injuries, clearly he's fine.

[plate_builder]

Yeah, new challenger who is not really capable of protecting himself all that much. At least he has Mini to put himself between Reeve and the creature.

"I'm better than you," Reeve says simply. "And we need to get out of here."

[spinsandneedles]

"Well yeah, we can't stay, but neither of us are gonna be able to outrun these things for long."

That's not to stay that Sonic isn't going to try. As long as Reeves is moving, so is he. He's not gonna be That Guy and just leave this dude to deal with all of this on his own.

"Maybe we can duck in somewhere and barricade the windows?"

[plate_builder]

"No, we aren't," Reeve agrees sadly.

"Ah'll distract it," Mini offers them both. "Just go."

Reeve nods and starts moving, clearly expecting Sonic to follow.

[spinsandneedles]

Unfortunately, Sonic's too distracted by this very ballsy cat (it's the cat right???) squaring up with the murderdogs.

"Wait, dude, are you sure? Those things don't mess around!"

Sorry, Reeve. Sonic's kind of a dumbass sometimes.

→ normal hedgehog stats

[ephemerios]

At some point, her luck of trying to avoid large gatherings of the creatures runs out, and she meets a small pack of demodogs. The main problem is she doesn't have any real skill in fighting, and largely is relying on her agility (from athletics) to use as much time as she can sliding and rolling out of the way. It won't work forever, but maybe long enough.

It definitely stops working when one of the animal's claws swipe at her side. She's going to feel that in the morning (and a lot of mornings after). But then she notices stuff being thrown in their general direction, then yelling at the demodogs (she finally looks over and sees the newer arrival - a blue hedgehog? awesome, but in a non-sarcastic way), which distracts the demodogs enough that she has time to grab the nearest sturdy looking stick she can find for her own makeshift weapon. Yep, what could go wrong here? They totally got this.

[spinsandneedles]

They totally got this.

Now that she has a weapon, he feels a little better about their odds... but not a ton because it's just two people against a bunch of crazy monster dogs. Ah well, he's just going to try to keep their attention on him, maybe it'll give her a chance to sneak attack one or something? He's gonna whip one more rock at one and start stepping back, prompting the demodogs to begin slowly approaching him.

"That's right creeps, keep comin'! Come get the pointy blue snack!"

[ephemerios]

“Hear me out: What if no one becomes a tasty snack? I like that idea.” She's just saying. (Says the person closest to being one right now.) Please do not become a demodog snack.

The creature that's least focused on her, she quietly and slowly moves closer to it, before giving it a solid smack with her weapon. “Maybe if you draw some over there, I keep some back here, and then — smaller pack of them.” Better than keeping everyone bunched up.

[spinsandneedles]

"Don't worry about it! If they try to chomp this butt, it's gonna hurt them more than it hurts me!"

The quills aren't just for show, after all. Anyway, he kicks another rock into one of the demodogs who'd been turning to back to see what happened to it's buddy, aaaand that seems to have done the trick! Now the dogs have two targets actively fighting them, so some of them stay where they are while the rest break off and charge at the little blue menace. He may not have access to his speed, but he's still pretty agile and manages to keep out of chomping range as the first couple charge past him while trying to catch him in their weird flower faces. The last one does manage to chomp him... mostly. Sonic's rolled into a perfect little stab ball, and as soon as the demodog closes it's wacky face on him, it spits him right back out because that's a Bad Snack.

"I totally got this, it's fine!"

lmao, a bad snack - I love it

[ephemerios]

She would really love to know why their faces have to open up in a giant mouth that looks like fucked up Venus Flytraps, but that is an answer for later-her to try to find out. Once he's safely back out of the thing's mouth, she does have to breathe out a small laugh, because yeah, fair point. Also creative.

“I'm going to question your definition of ‘fine’, but other than that, sure. Maybe I should have rolled in a pile of jalapenos before this.” You know, because they might also spit out something spicy. But also she's joking. Mostly.

When the demodog she attacked is now focused on her, she (ungracefully) goes to the ground, aiming for the creatures legs with her weapon and as hard a kick she can manage to the legs. If she can injure the legs enough, that would slow them down.

“Uhh, do you have a bigger rock nearby, by chance?”

do not bite sharp snackboys

[spinsandneedles]

"Sure do!"

There's all kinds of rubble still sitting around, rocks are plentiful. He uncurls from his spikeball, kicking one of the demodogs in it's weird petal shaped chops before ducking a lunge from another and making a run for a pile of rubble. Unfortunately he's out of sight for a moment behind said pile, but on the plus side a couple demodogs chase after him. Well, 'plus' side.

He reappears on top of the pile, scooping up a bigger rock (but not too big because he has little baby weak noodle arms right now hahaaa), and pitches it in her general direction. He's at least sure it won't hit her, he'd aimed it at a dog. Or at least tried to. He can't really watch where it lands because he's got a couple dogs on his tail and needs to start whipping rocks at them. We'll see how it goes.