User:Tali64³/Sonic.exe: The True Story

You know Sonic.exe, the story about a haunted Sonic game, right? Well, what you may not know is that its final form wasn't by Tom (the main protagonist). The truth is that it was warped by Sonic.exe. Here is the real story:



Tom was a total Sonic the Hedgehog fan much like everyone else. He liked the newer games, but he didn't mind playing the classics. He hadn't played glitchy or hacked games before, though he didn't want to play any after the experience he had...

It started on a nice summer afternoon. Tom was playing Sonic Unleashed (he liked how you get to explore the towns in it) until he noticed, out of his peripheral vision, that the mailman had arrived and put something in his mailbox as usual and left. Tom paused his game to see what he got in the mail. The only thing in the Mailbox was a CD case for computers and a note. He took it inside.

Tom looked at the note first and realized it was from his dear friend Kyle (he called him that), whom Tom hadn't heard from in 2 weeks. Tom knew that because he recognized Kyle's handwriting, though what was weird is how it looked; it looked badly written and scratchy and somewhat difficult to read, as if Kyle was having a hard time writing it down and did it in a hurry.

This is what Kyle wrote:

"Tom,

I can't take it anymore, I had to get rid of this thing somehow before it was too late, and I was hoping you'd do it for me. I can't do it, he’s after me, and if you don't destroy this CD, he'll come after you too, he's too fast for me....

Please Tom, destroy this god-forsaken disc before he comes after you too, it's too late for me.

Destroy the disc, and you'll destroy him, but do it quick otherwise he'll catch you. Don't even play the game, it's what he wants, just destroy it.

Please...

Kyle"

Tom took the disc outside and smashed it like the note said to, but the disc reassembled itself. He kept smashing it, and it kept reappearing. Eventally, he gave up and took it back inside.

After taking it inside, Tom looked at the disc. It looked like any ordinary computer CD-R disc, except it had black marker on it written "SONIC.EXE", and it was much unlike Kyle's handwriting, meaning that he must've gotten it from someone else, like a pawn shop or eBay. When Tom saw "SONIC" on the writing of the CD, he was actually excited and wanted to play it.

Tom went up to his room, turned on his computer, put the disc in, and installed the game. When the title screen popped up, Tom noticed that it was the first Sonic game. The first thing that he noticed that was out of place was when he pressed start, there was a split second when he saw the title image turned into something much different, something that he now considers horrifying, before cutting to black.

Tom remembers what the image looked like in that split second before the game cut to black; The sky had darkened, the title emblem was rusted and ruined, the SEGA 1991 was now instead SEGA 666, and the water had turned red, like blood, except it looked hyper-realistic.

But the freakiest thing that was in that split second frame was Sonic. His eyes were pitch black and bleeding with two glowing red dots staring at him, and his smile had stretched wider up to the edge of his face. Tom was rather disturbed about that image when he saw it. However, he figured that it was just a glitch and forgot about it. It stayed black for about 10 seconds or so. Then, another weird thing happened. The save file select from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 popped up. Tom was confused that that was in Sonic 1, but he noticed something off. The background was the dark cloudy sky of the Bad Stardust Speedway level from Sonic CD, and there were only three save files. The music was that creepy Caverns of Winter music from Earthbound, only it was extended and seemed to have been in reverse. The image for the save file where you see a preview of the level you're on was just red static for all three files.