POV: Third Person

Location: Hotel Room

Time: 4:30

A small dark room laid motionless, accompanied with loud snores. Said room had two beds with two people on each bed. All of them were sleeping peacefully. That is until one of their phones started to blare a loud alarm.

POV: Allen Smith

I was having the best dream ever. I was surrounded by hot women wearing bikinis on a beach where it was hot and sunny. I hope if I had a boner it poking my friend, Jake. The reason wasn’t because he would call me a gay nigger faggot, it’s because he would act . . . Strange. That’s an understatement. More like act like a fricking frick. He could be so gay at times though.

Anyways, I got side tracked.The LOUDEST FUCKING alarm awoke me from my dream. Thankfully my boner wasn’t poking him as I was quite far from him to the point I was on the edge. The constant siren, that I call my phone’s alarm, continued to rape my ears and wake the others up with a startle. I grabbed my phone and turned off the alarm. I got up and started to stretch. My other friends besides Jake, looked at me. Günter and Jack.

I invited all three of them because they were my closest friends. Jack was smart and a logical thinker, Jack was funny and weird but loyal to his friends, and Günter was mostly quiet but had quite a few tricks up his sleeves. They all were different and had their own quirks. I was done stretching, with my joints making a series of pops in the process.

“Get ready guys, the lines are usually filled and I don’t want to get there waiting ten hours to get in, so hurry up and get dressed.” I commanded them. Groggily and slowly, they got up and went into the restroom. I enter the restroom to see them brushing their teeth and combing their hair. Thank god this room has 2 restrooms. I had made them go to one restroom and the other one was completely for me.

I opened the door and turn on the lights to see a new pair of clothes and socks prepared the day before. A white undershirt, black underwear and black shorts. I take off my clothes and enter the shower. I turn the knob for the shower. Cold water rains over me as I start to lather the water into my scalp. Soon after, I grab my shampoo. I brought my own shampoo, conditioner and body wash mainly because I didn’t like to use the hotel’s supplies. I pop open the cap and squirt shampoo onto the palm of my right hand. Quickly closing the cap and placing it back on its holder, I throughly madssage my fingers onto my scalp to get the shampoo to do its magic. I let it soak for about 2 minutes before washing it off. The same process happens with the conditioner. I grab the body wash and pop the cap open, then I squirt the cold slime-like fluid and start rubbing it all over my body. I washed it after 3 minutes of it soaking and cleaning my skin. I turn the knob off and step out of the shower with a large towel on the floor to prevent the floor from becoming a watery mess. I grabbed a thick, red towel and began to rub it all over my body. Soon I’m as dry as can be.

I grab the white undershirt and put it on along with my other clothing. I was about to exit if I hadn’t noticed my keys and the room’s card. I quickly got tiny keys and card, exit the bathroom and turned off the lights. I walked into the room and see my friends ready.

“What took you so long? Did you beat your meat? Are you ’Captian Quick Bust’?” Jake said. God, this guy can never act normal.

“No I didn’t. Besides, I can last twenty minutes longer than you without breaking a sweat.” Confidence is a good thing to have.

“Twenty minutes longer my nuts. More like twenty minutes less.” Jake said with a shit eating grin. Ok I’m not even gonna argue any more since I don’t want to be waiting ten hours for a line.

I’ve went to Comic Con a few times but I have never cosplayed. I decided to change that. Since I am a huge Sonic The Hedgehog fan and have been for quite a while, despite the criticism it gets nowadays, I’ll be cosplaying as Infinite from Sonic Forces before he got the Phantom Ruby powers and made his mask.

Sure Sonic Forces was a mediocre game at best and had many plot holes but I always liked Infinite and the Phantom Ruby. Sure Infinite may seemed to have a shitty backstory but only because of shitty presentation in the game.

It seemed Infinite only became how strong he was in the game was because Shadow knocked Infinite around a little and called him weak. I however actually looked at his past deeper and never realized how dark it was.

So here goes his backstory in my eyes. Infinite and his squad surprised Eggman and were about raid his base. Thanks to the Phantom Ruby, Eggman was saved and decided to recruit Infinite and his squad after seeing them easily destroy his bots. One day, Shadow killed Infinite’s entire squad without a single thought. Enraged, Infinite set out to enact his revenge on shadow for killing his only family. However, Infinite wasn’t aware of his Chaos Abilities and because of this, got his ass handed to him. Then to add salt to the injury, Shadow then insulted him, called him weak and left him as a reminder to not mess with him. He was too weak to protect his squad and failed his mission. Feeling as if he’s been played, he is enraged with the world for allowing this to happen. Due to this rage, he allowed himself to be experimented on to become stronger.

This seems like a dark backstory right? Sega could have easily went for this backstory but they knew kids would be playing this game, despite many adults like myself still play game sfrom the franchise, so they watered down the dark tone to this story. Not only that but they didn’t want it to come out like Shadow The Hedgehog game came out to be. Oh god, don’t remind me of the plot holes. Illusions that can hurt you? BULLSHIT! It’s not a illusion if it’s real. This also makes me question Infinite’s power with the Phantom Ruby. He might as well be a reality warp-

“ALLEN!” This made me jump in surprise. I look at source of the voice. It was Jack.

“You’ve been standing there for an hour! It’s time to put on your suit or whatever it is.” I looked to one of the beds and saw my cosplaying costume. It was the size of a regular person but it didn’t look bad. It’s limbs weren’t oversized and it its body proportion looked okay compared to what it looks in the actual game. The hardest part to make of it was actually the area around his neck. It wasn’t that it was hard to make, in the game it looked like a scarf but in the prequel comics it looked like fur. I chose the fur because it looked better than some scarf.

“You gonna put it on?” A long silence followed. I was kinda nervous to be honest. This character was a let down to fans in many ways. Many claimed he was wasted potential and the only redeemable feature on him was his design and his voice actor.

“Yeah,” I grab my card and keys and toss them to Günter. Thankfully he caught them, “you can start the car and wait in there.” They just nodded and exited the room. I turned my attention back onto the suit. Why was I doubting myself? Of course it’ll go well. Nothing to worry about. I shouldn’t be nervous, HA, the other cosplayers should be worried that I’m gonna blow them out of the water. Today will go smooth. Without a second to spare, I started to put on the suit.

Time: 8:30

It had taken a while for us to get into the the convention because of the line but we still made it. After that, I separated from them just so I could look at a couple things for myself for a few minutes. They did bring their own money so I shouldn’t have to worry . . . for now. I walked for a while and even saw a few well known youtubers but kept my cool. I kept walking aimlessly until I saw something that caught my eye. A merchant selling items from different video game franchises. He had a large table containing many items. These items didn’t look like shit either, they looked as if they had been made with exact measurements from the games themselves. The main thing that caught my eye was Infinite’s Sword and The Phantom Ruby. It was a bundle with a small poster. The poster itself had the crudely written words of ’Buy this and get a possible prize’ with a price tag of . . . $20? The replicas looked like they had a huge amout of detail as if they were real. I walk up to the merchant, barely noticing his attire.

He was rather short, about 5 feet 6 inches and had a tan skin tone. Under his jacket, he had a green, long sleeve shirt with the words ’FUCK YOU!’ proudly printed in white bold letters and wore black jeans with a large torn hole on his right knee and was wearing boots. His hair was completely shaved from his sides and behind his head but he had a long, green spiky Mohawk.

“Can I buy that?” I said pointing at bundle. Without any further words, he brought the mask and the ruby up to the table and brought his hand out for the money. Thankfully I made a few pocket on the right side of the thigh so I could hold valuables in there. I quickly grabbed my wallet and pulled out $20. I couldn’t even react before the guy grabbed the money and shoved the items into my hands.

“What gives?!” I looked at the guy. He stared back with a smile revealing small, sharp teeth. I stumbled back as I heard an all too familiar sound.

A purple vortex pops out of nowhere, looking similar to the one in Sonic Mania. It started to try suck me in but I’m able to stand my ground. However, with more power, it sucks me in as go through the portal along with the sword and ruby.

A Few Hours Later

Pain courses through my body, especially my head. I couldn’t feel some parts of my body and most of my senses numbed as well. I slowly opened my eyes, only revealing some kind of white snout with a small black nose that seemed blurred and two blurry black objects infront of me where my hands should be. After a few seconds, my vision returned and infront of my eyes were . . . large gloved hands with sharp claws?! I start to slowly gain feeling in my limbs started from my arms to legs. I moved my arm only to see the hand move with . . . A THIN BLACK ARM?! With a surprising amount of energy, I jump into a crouch position and launch backwards. Sudden pain spreads through my back as I hit something hard, presumably wood. I stay stuck on the tree till I start roughly sliding down. I hit the ground with a thud and slightly dazed. My senses slowly start to come back to me. I could smell dirt, grass and water. I could hear birds flapping their wings and water flowing. I could feel the gloves on my hands and oversized shoes. My vision was at peak performance. Hell, all of my senses felt as if they been boosted. I slowly got up and noticed somethings ’different’ I didn’t notice. It was on my ass and neck. With my new weird limbs, I touched my neck only to feel something soft . . . like fur. I slowly looked down and saw white fur.

“The fuck?”

I proceeded to look behind me to see a large black tail with white spiked fur at the end. Somehow I could move this tail independently. It’s like moving a muscle but you don’t know how to move it, you just kinda do it.

Something clicked inside of me. I started running towards a stream nearby. I dropped to my knees to see my reflection. Lo and behold, I was Infinite. The scar, Heterochromia eyes and the hair was enough to prove it. I was truly shocked and my best guess was that this was a dream. Unfortunately, that was already debunked with the pain.

How did this happen? Why did this happen? My friends . . . and family. Anger started to boil deep within my core.

“THAT DAMN LITTLE SHIT! EVERY SINGLE FUCKING THING I WORKED HARD FOR IS GONE AND I’LL NEVER SEE IT AGAIN.” It’s true. I was pretty successful financially, only achieved by hard work. Anger subsided as I started to look at the bright side of things. New opportunities for a new life. I can handle this no problem. At least my voice sounded like Liam O’Brien’s voice for Infinite.

“No need to worry dude,” An adult male voice said. I turned quickly and saw the same guy that I bought the sword and Phantom Ruby from. “ I made a clone with the exact memories as you and will proceed with your daily life, don’t forget this.” Out of nowhere, the Phantom Ruby and Infinite’s sword appear out of nowhere on the ground.

“You probably won’t ever see me again so I might as well say bye to you.” He grinned, exposing his sharp teeth and vanished with a flash. This garnered attention of some wild life as birds started to scatter in the air from nearby trees. I look at the sword and ruby with curiosity.

That sound? Is this the real deal? If it is, this could be dangerous. It keeps glowing brighter as I get closer. Should I? This could be very dangerous but if I can control it and not get harmed, I’m practically unstoppable. Without any more hesitation, I grab it with my left hand and it stops glowing and making the sound.

I was analyzing the ruby and confused. If this was was more powerful and the Chaos Emeralds and Master Emerald, why didn’t I feel any power coming off of it? I switched my attention on the sword. It was long, red, curved and had a blue ball on the hilt. It looked just like it did in the comic. I picked up the sword with my right hand and examined it as I did with the ruby.

A rustling sound caught my attention. The sound was soon followed by a horrid smell.

“God fuck! What is that?! Did something die?!” I was soon answered by wooden wolf jumping at me. With quick reflexes, I managed to do a quick roundhouse kick to its jaw.

“Take that mutt!” It was sent tumbling on the grass and into a tree, making it burst into twigs, leaves and branches.

“Trying to take me on? Alone? Damn, I’m liking this change so far!” I was surprised at how easily that fight went. It looked as if it could do some real damage. It was kinda funny. Yet after a bit, I started to feel bad. Wait! Why am I feeling bad? Survival of the fittest is the only rule in nature! Something weird happened shortly. The twigs and branches started to glow green and float in the air, making the form . . . of a wolf. It finished repairing itself rather quickly. It looked at me with anger and was about to jump at me. However it took a sniff in the air and quickly ran off. What was that about? Maybe I was too much for it. Damn right!

“Hahahaha . . . HAHAHAHAHA! Ok my laugh does sound badass. Note taken.”

As if fate wanted to test me, I heard low growling behind me. Honestly I sounded like a lion. I mean come on, it couldn’t be one if wooden wolfs exist . . . right? I turn around see the scariest shit I’ve seen in my entire life. It was a . . . Lion with a scorpion’s stinger and bat wings.

“Well shit. Me and my big mouth.” It let out a loud roar and tried to pounce me. The key word is tried. I swiftly dodged it. I was about to strike its tail but something in me stopped this from happening. Instead I opted to use my momentum and launch myself above the tree line. I landed on a tree’s top and started jumping from tree to tree, careful with the ruby and sword. Why didn’t I just kill it? It was trying to kill me. I guess I don’t have it in me to kill unless necessary. I felt bad for thinking of killing it or cripple it. I ended the thoughts and continued my travel.

4 Minutes Later

For being sent to possibly a different universe and being physically changed, I’m taking this well. Despite jumping from tree to tree for several minutes, I don’t feel my muscles aching or out of breath. It was truly a weird feeling really. Being able to go your best and somehow not getting tired is something I really can’t explain it. It’s just so FUCKING AWSOME!

I increase my pace and power, still not feeling any exhaustion. Adrenaline starts to fill my veins as I go even faster, everything is just a blur now but I can still see everything perfectly. I slow down as the adrenaline goes away. I can see some sort of village somewhere between one to two miles away from me. I’m surprised I’m able to see a village about one mile away. It’s inhabitants are . . . small colorful horses? What the fuck? They seem to be doing things that humans do. Like having conversations and many other things. Not just regular horses, their are pegasi and unicorns as well. Interesting.

10 seconds pass as I’m on the edge of the forest. A cottage was nearby but I didn’t go as to not risk getting noticed. I view the village for a bit, noticing it’s peacefulness and positive vibe it had going on. Looks like a nice place but I’ll stay in the fores-

”AHHHHHHH!!!” A loud female shriek was heard. It sounded near the cottage.

“I guess staying unnoticed won’t be happening.”

With quick speed, I blasted towards the scream with my sword and the Phantom Ruby clutched tightly in my hands.

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