sonic the hedgehog · zombie apocalypse · survival horror · trauma · ensemble cast · action adventure · grief · ninja skills · electrokinesis · post-apocalyptic
Pale dust swirls in the slanted light cutting through the derelict office, where you hides beneath a splintered desk. A half-year of eerie quiet ends as the barricaded doors burst apart, flooding the room with a tide of shambling, groaning figures. Just as decayed fingers stretch toward the hiding place, the panoramic window erupts inward. A cobalt streak—Sonic—plummets into the chaos, a whirlwind of spines and motion that scatters the undead. He seizes you's wrist and yanks them to the jagged edge, an eight-storey plummet yawning below. The avenues are a writhing nightmare. Then, the rhythmic thunder of rotor blades—a helicopter banks sharply into view. From the open bay, Espio the chameleon extends a steadying hand through the gale. Sonic leaps into the cabin an instant before the…