Sonic's Hell Nightmare/Sonic Almost Runs Away in Fear and Comforted

*(Later that same night, as the group was asleep, Sonic, still asleep, began to calmly toss and turn in concern. Suddenly, his Watch of Life opened by itself and began ticking, as if ready to explode. As it ticked, Nayru's voice was heard)*

Nayru: (Voice-over) Remember, Sonic. If you fail, you will never go back. You will never go....

*(Suddenly, Sonic's Watch of Life exploded, sending him flying through the air into an abyss and passing by black clouds with green illuminating lights. Then, after the clouds vanished, he landed right on the ground in another Great Hall of Judgement, except it's a more menacing cavern instead, surrounded by green electricity. After the electricity vanished, Sonic felt an earthquake hit and quickly got up and started to run with his speed towards the exit in the form of a white light. But the earthquake exploded out in the center of the cavern, forming a smoky fiery tornado, and began pulling Sonic towards it. Despite struggling to get away by grabbing onto a stalactite, Sonic finally slipped from its grip when the stalactite broke, and he was tossed and turned in the air inside the tornado until he dropped down towards another realm filled with a huge sea of lava. Down in the lava, a boat made of skeletons emerged, and sitting on the rear of the boat is a small male goblin with light green skin, pointed ears, white nail claws on his fingers, black pupiled-eyes with the left eye having a brown iris, sharp yellowed teeth, and wearing a purple cowl and a brown kilt. He is the Creeper, the boat-rower who guides the dead's souls through Hell. Then Sonic landed in the boat, and upon recovering and noticing the Creeper, the little goblin slowly looked at Sonic, gave a creepy slasher grin, and hissed at him, making Sonic gasp in shock and disgust and run towards the front of the boat. Then he heard an unearthly growl coming from within the sea of lava up ahead. Then the source of the growling revealed itself to be, to Sonic's calm horror as the boat slowly moved towards it, an entity emerging from within the sea of lava within a cocoon of fiery brimstone of energy. Then the energy exploded, and the entity was revealed to be a giant male eagle with huge wings, an entire body made out of lava, and glowing yellow eyes. That is the Firebird. Then the Firebird, with a scary wicked grin, slowly lowered his head towards the boat in front of Sonic, who stumbled backwards on the boat's floor, his lower beak submerged in lava)*

Firebird: Now you are mine!

*(The Firebird then made the lava bubble around the boat and slowly rocked the boat violently as Sonic tried to crawl backwards in fear to get away from the monster. Then Sonic tumbled near the edge of the boat, only to grab on to stop himself from falling into the lava. Then another huge bubble from the sea of lava emerged in front of Sonic, forming into a demonic head shape and it then exploded, making Sonic jump back in fear, avoiding getting hit by lava residue. The Firebird then lets out a god-awful evil, demonic laugh and then fired his fire breath at the boat. Sonic saw the blast strike near the Creeper, revealing, to his horror, little black demon imps, dancing with evil delight, ready to attack him. Sonic ran to the front of the boat to escape upon noticing a nearby cliffside, only for another fire blast to strike in front of him, conjuring more demon imps. Then the demon imps jumped on Sonic and began to take pleasure in clawing, biting, and attacking the poor blue hedgehog. Then Sonic, upon noticing the Firebird and Creeper slowly sinking the boat from rear down into the sea of lava, with the Firebird disappearing into the lava, immediately screamed and ran to the skullhead at the front of the boat towards the cliffside, but the boat started to sink faster)*

Firebird: (Voice-over) You can never go back!

*(Helpless due to failing to grab the cliffside and the boat sinking fast, Sonic screamed a bit in pain as the demon imps continued to bite and claw at him while he hung onto the skullhead for dear life. Then finally, the Firebird menacingly calls out to him)*

Firebird: (Voice-over) Sonic…!

*(Then Sonic lets out one last scream, and then it was immediately crossfaded back in the church, now daytime, and the "Demon imps" and "Skeleton boat's skullhead" were actually, and respectively, Cheese and the rabbit children, shaking him awake like mad in concern, trying to snap him out of his nightmare, and a broomstick he was hanging on for dear life, for he was, apparently, having a nightmare. Even Vector, Rabbit, and Vanilla are watching this in concern. But the rest of Sonic's group and even Kairi are not in the church now for some reason)*

Rebecca: Sonic!

Joanna: Sonic!

Marty: Wake up!

JC: Snap out of it!

Cream and Mimi: Sonic, wake up!

Cheese: Chao, chao!

Cody: Sonic!

Toby: Can you hear us?

*(Finally snapping awake, Sonic then loses his balance on the broomstick he held onto and collapsed on the floor, much to his friends' concern)*

Mimi: Are you alright?

*(Sonic groaned a bit, rubbing his rear in pain from falling on the floor after letting go of the broomstick he formally held onto)*

Marty: Did you have a bad dream?

Toby: Were there monsters?

Cream: Did they bite?

Cheese: Chao?

*(Sonic, finally recovered, sighed in relief upon hearing their questions and even looking at his Watch of Life, which, to his relief, is still working and ticking away)*

Sonic: (Sighs in relief) It was only a dream.

*(But then he got calmly concerned after staring at his Watch of Life. Then immediately, after he tucked his Watch of Life in his fur, he then, with a calm panicked, concerned look, immediately raced out of the church, much to Rabbit's group's concern and confusion)*

Rabbit's group: (Confused) Sonic?

*(But no response, for Sonic had already left in concern. Outside by the port near the church at the river, the rest of Sonic's group were sitting around in a jetboat, waiting for Sonic when they heard footsteps approaching quickly. They looked, and saw, to their relief, it's Sonic, yet they are completely unaware of his concerned reaction at first)*

Tails: Hey, Sonic.

Fred: About time.

*(Then Sonic scrambled into the boat as Shaggy was untying the boat's rope anchor from the dock)*

Shaggy: Okay, now.

*(As soon as the rope is untied, Sonic quickly seated at the boat's wheel and began to drive off from the docks in a fast pace, much to the rest of his group's shock, surprise, and confusion)*

Sonic's group except Sonic: Whoooooaaaa!

Shaggy: What the...?!

Knuckles: What's going on?!

Sonic: Don't talk!

Shaggy: Like, what's going on?!

*(Then they went up to Sonic carefully as the latter continued to drive away on the river in a concerned panic)*

Tails: You mind telling us what is going on?

*(Sonic ignored them at first)*

Knuckles: Sonic?

*(But Sonic continued to ignore them at first, looking scared and concerned still, scrambling his thoughts over his nightmare the night before. Finally, the rest of his group shouted to get his attention)*

Sonic's group except Sonic: Sonic?!

*(Sonic finally spoke, still feeling scared and concerned)*

Sonic: I forgot, there I said it!

Tails: You forgot what?

Shaggy: The casino, Fearsome Four, and Popple?

*(Sonic finally belted out in emotion and fear in frustration)*

Sonic: No! I forgot what it's like to have loving family and friends, and how wonderful life is! Ever since we became orphans, I forgot what it's like to have said family and true friends since becoming a gambler! Let alone forgetting what it's like to spend quality time, having pizza parties, charity runs, going shopping, et cetera, or maybe even a "Hey, let's go visit your place!"

*(The rest of Sonic's group, somewhat getting what Sonic is saying, tried to calm him)*

Tails: We understand, but we agreed to do this vengeance mission, remember?!

Sonic: But what if it doesn't work?!

Fred: Of course it'll work!

Sonic: Why?! What makes you say that?!

Knuckles: Because you said so yourself!

Fred: We even said that in agreement!

*(Getting freaked out, Sonic lets go of the wheel and begins to have a panic attack, ranting and raving about the nightmare he had. Seeing the wheel being let go, Knuckles immediately rushed over to it and grabbed it to steer the boat in place. During all of this, Sonic is freaking out as he said this next line)*

Sonic: But what if our Watches of Life stops working, let alone explode?! We might go to Hell if we die again! And then we might land in a boat made of skeletons and then a cloaked green goblin will greet us and take us to that Firebird who will say "Now you are mine!" and then blast demon imps on us to claw and bite us!

Knuckles: (During Sonic's breakdown above line) Hey, the wheel!

Tails: (During Sonic's breakdown above line) You let go of the wheel!

Shaggy: (During Sonic's breakdown above line) Hey, like, get a hold of yourself!

*(Shaggy and Fred suddenly noticed something ahead of them and pointed it out quickly in a panic)*

Shaggy and Fred: Buoy!

*(Then noticing a nearby buoy coming up while Sonic finished his breakdown raving, Knuckles immediately turned the wheel, jerking the boat away from the buoy, but he and the rest of Sonic's group didn't notice Sonic falling overboard from the turn. Then Knuckles began to shout at Sonic, still unaware at first)*

Knuckles: None of us think that you hijacking a boat and running away will solve our problems, especially yours!

*(No response, then the rest of Sonic's group, except Knuckles at first, finally noticed Sonic in the water, struggling to stay afloat at the surface in a panic)*

Knuckles: (Unaware at first) Oh, now you're gonna be quiet, S...?

Tails, Shaggy, and Fred: Knuckles!

*(Knuckles finally looked and saw in shock and concern Sonic panicking and flailing in the water and even holding up his Watch of Life to keep it from getting wet and/or falling into the river water)*

Sonic: (Coughing a bit, panicking) Guys! Help!

*(The rest of Sonic's group immediately turned the boat to the buoy and Tails shouted out while pointing at the said buoy)*

Tails: Sonic! The buoy!

Sonic: (Coughs a bit, hearing him) What?!

Sonic's group except Sonic: The buoy!

Fred: Head for the buoy!

*(Seeing the buoy, Sonic immediately swam over to it with his Watch of Life held safely away from the water and grabbed onto the buoy. The rest of his group parked the boat near him and the buoy and Tails reached his hand out)*

Tails: Sonic, come on!

Knuckles: Take Tails' hand!

Shaggy and Fred: Now!

*(Calming down a bit while panting a bit, Sonic then took Tails' hand and he, with his Watch of Life in tow, was pulled on board, all soaking wet. After shivering a bit, Fred pulled a nearby towel out of the boat's cushion seat and blanketed Sonic to dry him off)*

Fred: Sonic, calm down.

Sonic: (Shivering a bit) I can't believe you made me fall overboard.

Knuckles: Well, you let go the wheel, Ahab.

Shaggy: And you could've drowned.

Sonic: (Getting what Shaggy's saying) Sorry, Shaggy.

*(He exhaled and shivered one last time. Later, back at the church, Sonic and his shoes and gloves are all dried off and he is now sipping some tea Cream, Cheese, and Vanilla made for him to calm him down. And he also confessed to Rabbit's group about his and the rest of his group's trip to Heaven and how they were given their Watches of Life by permission from Heaven)*

Vanilla: I see.

Rabbit: So, basically, you need to perform a good deed to become completely alive again.

Vector: Which, in other words, is somewhat considered a near-death experience for you.

Cream: That's right.

Sonic: (Shrugs) Yeah, well....

Toby: But are you sure getting revenge against Fat Cat is a good deed?

Mimi: I mean, you could do other bigger good deeds than that.

Cheese: (Agreeing) Chao, chao.

Sonic: I don't know any other bigger good deeds to do at all.

Vector: I'm pretty sure you will eventually.

Marty: And you did a minimal good deed before.

Vanilla: Like how you helped Kairi escape from Fat Cat's casino on the night you temporally died.

*(Hearing them say that, Sonic's group contemplated a bit. And then Sonic gently puts his teacup down and got up)*

Sonic: You're right.

Shaggy: He and us'll figure it out somehow.

Rabbit's group: That's the spirit. (Yes!)

*(Then remembering Kairi, Sonic got curious and confused)*

Sonic: And speaking of that girl, where is she?

Tails: You mean you don't know?

Sonic: Don't know what?

Tails: She left ahead of us.

Knuckles: Agreeing with us to meet up with her there.

Sonic: "There?"

Sonic's group except Sonic: Yeah.

Sonic: But where's "There?"

Cream: She went to return the wallet to her aunt and uncle at their house on 402 Maple Street.

Sonic: She's what?

Rabbit: Returning the wallet.

Vanilla: And rest assured, that wallet was only full of pictures.

Vector: And Kairi found out the address from that note they wrote to her.

*(After thinking over what they said, Sonic's group realized and remembered)*

Fred: Oh, yeah, that's right.

Sonic: They gave her their address on that note.

Vector: And at least you didn't completely do a bad deed by stealing that wallet.

*(Feeling a twinge of guilt over that deed, Sonic then spoke up)*

Sonic: Well, we're gonna go to that 402 Maple Street house and visit.

Rabbit's group: Yes, go on. (Have fun.)

Sonic's group: Yeah.

*(Then with that, Sonic's group, after Sonic puts his Watch of Life back on and tucking it under his neck section's fur, left for this 402 Maple Street to meet up with Kairi and even Dimitri and Anastasia, the two latters who live at that address)*

***Coming up: Upon visiting 402 Maple Street and reuniting with Kairi, Sonic's group was forgiven of the wallet theft by Dimitri and Anastasia and was allowed to take Kairi out on the town while Dimitri and Anastasia go to a nearby social services office to adopt Kairi. Then while out on the town's marketplace, Sonic's group and Kairi were almost ambushed by Fat Cat and his goons with Wart's new gun.***