Sonic.exe

This is a remake of SONIC.exe

Original Creepypasta
The oriiginal post was removed for being really bad and considered these days to be a troll pasta, I hope to make it better by taking the original, changing parts to make it modern and lot less cliche.

SONIC.EXE 2014
I'm a self-proclaimed hardcore Sonic the Hedgehog fan much like many others, I like the newer games, but I don't mind playing the classics. I don't think I've ever played glitchy or hacked games before, though I don't think I want to play any after the experience I had...

It started on a nice summer afternoon many years ago, I was playing Sonic Unleashed, I liked how you get to explore the towns in it, that super speed in the daytime stages and the beautiful layout, until I noticed out of my peripheral vision, that the postman had arrived and put something through the letter box, probably another parcel for my brother since he was always ordering stuff, or maybe it was another comic my other brother had ordered, I paused my game to go see what I got in the mail...

The only thing on the floor was a white letter, you know those that have the bubble wrap inside, but it was addressed to me, funny I didn't order anything so I opened it up thinking I had won some competition and maybe it was a cash prize since money was tight, but instead it was a CD case for a computer and a note.

I looked at the note first and realized it was from my friend Matty (Let's just call him that), whom I hadn't heard from in 2 weeks, which was odd but he was busy working or something else, we did

have seperate lives. but I knew it was from him because I noticed the name at the bottom of the note before reading it properly, though what was weird is how it looked; it looked badly written and scratchy and somewhat difficult to read, as if Matty was having a hard time writing it down and did it in a hurry.

This is what he wrote...

"Jay,

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, I feel 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 Jay, destroy this fucking disc before it's too late, I feel it's too late for me.

Destroy the disc, and you'll destroy him, I tried to but after playing the game I found myself unable to, I can't explain, so don't even play the game, just destroy it.

Please...

Matty"

Well, that was certainly weird, I mean why me?, why not a family member or someone who lived close? but then I realised, it's Matty, he was probably trying to fuck with me, stupid sense of humor that borders on that of an internet troll which I despise, Even though we have known each other for a very long time, I thought he wanted my curiosity to come into play and see what was on the disk, anyway Even though Matty IS my best friend and I haven't seen him in 2 weeks, I didn't do what he asked me. I didn't think that a simple computer disc would do anything bad to him, after all it's just a disc right? ...

I looked at the disc and it looks like any ordinary computer CD-R disc, except it had black marker on it written "SONIC.EXE", and it was much unlike his handwriting, meaning that he must've gotten it from someone else, like a pawn shop, eBay, car boot sale or knowing him, probably just a rushed jot down, the disk itself probably full of memes and troll GIFs, possibly a nasty virus or something. When I saw "SONIC" on the writing of the CD, I was actually excited and couldn't wait to play it, even though Matty was a jerk sometimes, he was good at finding Mods, and modding emulators, since I'm a hardcore Sonic fan my curiosity grew, what was he up to?

I went up to my room, turned on the computer, put the disc in, installed it and seen what was on there, went through the files, checked it for viruses and malware, nothing showed up so it was fine, checked the files and just one thing was there, well 2, one was "SONIC.EXE" and the other was just some random file, didn't think much of it, so I right clicked the mouse on "SONIC.EXE" and hit play, looking forward to see what was in store. When the title screen popped up I noticed that it was the first Sonic game from Sega Master System, I was like "Awesome!", I liked the classics, possibly the best before it went "downhill" in many fans, critics and, honestly, mine too, The first thing I noticed that was out of place was when I pressed start, there was a split second when I saw the title image turned into something much different, something that I now consider horrifying, before cutting to black.

I remember what the image looked like in that split second before the game cut to black; The sky started to darken from the beautiful shade of blue, the title emblem slowly turned to rust and ruin, the SEGA 1991 in the bottom right hand disappeared, and the water had went from the same sky blue into red in a sweeping motion from left hand side of the screen to the right.

At this point I didn't know what to feel, I thought it was pretty cool but then he appeared in that split second frame, Sonic, his eyes were pitch black, no pupils, not at first, but they seeped blood like tears, suddenly two glowing red dots appeared, staring not intently but looking eyes forward, his smile had what seemed like, stretched larger, wider up to the edge of his face, and in that moment the thought of "this was pretty cool" turned to, "What the fuck?" I was rather disturbed about that image of Sonic when It happened, though I figured that it was probably the glitch goblin or a side effect of Matty's "mod", no doubt it had to be for what I saw at the title screen, just messing with the game and pushed it to the back of my mind, yet not forgetting about it, who could?, then I proceeded to push start.

After it cut to black, it stayed like that for mere seconds.



And then another weird thing happened, the save file select from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 popped up, "What the fuck?" I said, "What's this doing in the first Sonic game?", I thought just go with it, then I notice something else that seemed off, the background was the dark cloudy sky of the 'Bad Stardust Speedway' level from Sonic CD, and there were only three "TV screen" save files, not that it mattered for I only tend to use one really, The background music came on, yet seemed familiar, it was that creepy 'Caverns of Winter' music from Earthbound, only it seemed to have been extended or on repeat and in reverse, the images for the save file where you see a preview of the level you're on is just red static for all three files.

Then I saw yet again something that was weird, as if I had not seen enough already, was the character select, it showed only Tails, Knuckles and to my surprise, Dr. Robotnik! what the hell?, I mean, how can you play as Robotnik in a classic Sonic game?, more to the point where was Sonic?, why can't I play as Sonic?

That's when I remembered that this wasn't any game, it was a hacked/modded game.it had to be, Matty must have done it, suppose it was cool I could play as other characters instead of Sonic but little disappointed.

Screw it, it was really creepy, but as a smart gamer, I wasn't that scared (or at least I tried not to be), I told myself that it was just a game and there's nothing wrong with that.

Anyways, shaking off that feeling in my stomach, I picked File 1, chose Tails and got started. The game froze for about 5 seconds and I heard a creepy distorted laugh that sounded an awful lot like that Kefka guy from Final Fantasy before cutting to black, I admit that scared me as it was sudden and unexpected.

The screen stayed black for about 10 seconds or more, then it showed the typical level title thing, except the simplistic shapes were different shades of red, ranging from bright to dark and everything in between, the text showed only "H..LL, ACT 1". The screen faded in and the level title vanished revealing Tails in the Green Hill Zone from Sonic 1, the music was different though, it sounded like a peaceful melody, but, again in reverse.

Anyway I started playing and had Tails start running like you would in any of the classic Sonic games, it just felt so different as you aren't going as fast as you normally would with Sonic, running for about 20 seconds and odd things started to happen in the level, Tails was running along the level, usual layout jumping on boxes and springs as you normally would in the game, but the enemies, they would either not attack or just simply run away from you in a sort of panic, some would go to attack tails but I swear I saw a flash like you would get in a lightening storm, and in that split second the enemies would appear dead on the ground, not falling off the screen or into dust but on the ground in a mess, err...ok..I thought, carrying on further into the level, that was when the peaceful music started to lower down into slow deep tones very slowly as I kept going, I was expecting some kind of boss battle.

I suddenly saw something and I stopped to see what it was; it was one of the small animals that you rescue after defeating Robotnik, laying unconscious on the ground, possibly dead?, it was the same state the enemies appeared in after the random flashes, That was when the music started to slow to a crawl, Tails had a shocked and saddened look on his face that I never saw him have before, so I had him move along, and he kept that worried look on his face,

As he kept moving forward, I saw more "dead" animals as Tails moved past them looking more and more worried as the music lowers, he doesn't run anymore, just a slow walking speed, as if hesitant to continue, I was starting to feel uneasy, especially seeing or assuming how they all were killed in disturbing ways; a squirrel was at the base of a palm tree with splatter half way up the tree looked like it was thrown or knocked at some speed and force before hitting the ground, a rabbit had been decapitated and something, I could not make it out looked like roadkill, I felt sick to my stomach when I saw this, carrying on more animals laying motionless on the ground and the capsule containing them was in ruins and a blaze, charred animal corpses slumped over the ruined parts as if they frantically tried and failed to escape the burning wreckage,

After a few more seconds there were no more animals and the music seemed to have stopped..

Tails had stopped also, it wasn't until I saw why; Sonic was there on the other side of the screen with his back to him, eyes closed and foot tapping in his usual "I'm waiting" idle pose. Tails looked happy to see Sonic but then his smile faltered, obviously noticing that Sonic wasn't responding to him, if not acting as if he was totally oblivious of Tails' presence, he walked slowly toward Sonic, I noticed that I wasn't even moving my keyboard to make him move, so this had to have been a cut scene.

Tails walked closer to Sonic to get his attention, I heard faint static growing louder as Tails was inches away from him, as he closed the distance the static got louder, Sonic started to smile, the closer tails got the louder the static and bigger the grin had got, That foreboding feeling in my gut was growing stronger, what was going to happen?

Suddenly Sonic's eyes opened, and they were black as night with those red glowing dots, just like that title image, the static stopped, the grin disappeared.

It stayed black for about 3 seconds and then white text appeared forming a message, saying, "Do you want to play with me?"

I didn't want to continue with the game, but my curiosity got the better of me when I was taken to a different level with the title now saying "HIDE AND SEEK",

This time I was in the Angel Island level from Sonic 3 and everything looked....fine, But Tails looked as though he was scared out of his wits this time, understandable. He seemed to look at me and started making frantic gestures to me as if he wanted to get out of the area he was in as fast as possible. I was starting to get unnerved out by this, WasTails actually breaking the fourth wall, trying to tell me to get him out of there?.

So I pressed right on the arrow key as hard as I could and made him run as fast as possible, a retro version of that creepy theme when you meet Shadow at the ARK as Robotnik from Sonic Adventures 2 was playing as I made Tails trek through the forest, evading enemies, not caring about taking them out, just get him to the end, to help him escape from whatever he was trying to run from.

Suddenly I heard that creepy laugh again, that awful disturbing Kefka laugh after 10 seconds passed, the island appear to grow distorted in the background, black clouds formed in the sky as Tails ran through the forest, and then I started seeing flashes of Sonic popping everywhere on the screen like lightening flashes from earlier.

The music changed as I see Sonic behind Tails slowly gaining up on him, doing what he does best, running, This time he had the most deranged looking grin on his face, he looked as though he was enjoying the torment he was giving the poor little fox as he gained up on him, as Tails tripped in another cut scene, the music stopped and Sonic vanished. Tails laid there looking around in panic, The scene was rather uncomfortable to watch. But then Sonic appeared right in front of him.

Tails looked up in horror as a grin slowly grew across Sonic's face, looking down at the horrified fox, I could do nothing but watch.

In a split second he lunged at Tails right before the screen went black, there was a loud screeching noise that lasted only seconds. The text returned only this time it said "You're too slow, want to try again?" and then that god-awful laugh came with it.

I was so shocked by what had happened, did Sonic murder Tails? No, he couldn't have.

I shook the shock off as I was brought back to the character select, the save file that had Tails was different; Tails was no longer in the box but in the "TV screen" itself, which was flickering with that red static, Tails' expression made be feel uneasy, his eyes staring blankly while a black X marked his torso, his orange fur had patches of maroon with an expression of anguish on his face, Trying to ignore it I picked Knuckles next.

The laugh came again, the screen cut to black and this time the level was titled "YOU CAN'T RUN".

The next level looked much different, it had the ground of the Scrap Brain zone, but the sky background looked like the main menu; it had the darkened cloudy sky, the music was creeping me out the most: It sounded like Giygas' theme right after you beat Pokey in Earthbound. I also noticed that Knuckles looked afraid just like Tails did, though not as scared, more rather he looked a little unnerved at best, like he wasn't sure about going on, but I made him move anyway.

He ran down the straight pathway in this dark level, and as he did the screen started to flicker red static a couple of times and then that laugh came again.

Seconds after running I noticed smears of enemy bloodstains on the metallic ground, Knuckles slid and hit the ground, I should have jumped but wouldn't of made much of a difference, I felt a growing sense of dread again. He looked nauseated running through the walkway, but no matter, As he ran, Sonic suddenly appeared right in front of him, with those eyes, the grin, Knuckles ran right into him!, the static appeared again and vanished just as quick as it appeared, showing nothing but distorted area screen with text saying "F(O)uNd Y(O)u!", my heart beated faster, Sonic not only found Knuckles already but caught him?! What was going on?!

Knuckles appeared on hands and knees looking like he was panicking, and Sonic was nowhere to be found. this time that high-pitched squealing from the Silent Hill 1's final boss was playing.

Was this some kind of boss battle with Sonic? I hoped to God it wasn't, but a part of me kinda hoped it was, maybe this time I could have a fair fight and do some damage, knuckles was stronger than tails, he had the chance.

Suddenly Sonic appeared right behind Knuckles in what appeared to be black smoke from teleporting, or maybe dust from moving really fast, since Sonic couldn't teleport, I made Knuckles turn and then swipe at Sonic by pressing S on the keyboard, but he vanished in the blackness before I could even land a hit, that terrible laugh was heard, as if taunting. Then Sonic appeared behind Knuckles again, then I made him jump at him this time, but he got away, vanished again laughing, mocking, Knuckles looked pissed, and even I felt like I was getting wound up, Sonic was practically playing with us, he was playing a sick twisted little mind game with me and my character...

Another cut scene played as a flash appeared past Knuckles, he was knocked backwards and fell to his knees, clutching his head, I felt his agony, Sonic was actually driving us BOTH crazy.

He appeared behind the down echidna walking slowly as static returned louder with each footstep until he was directly behind him, the static stopped, the screen went black, no screech, but the sound of bone, breaking, and that damn laugh.

Another message appeared, "Told you so!"

My heart was in my throat, my head pounded, I can't believe this game, it's sick and twisted, like a bad fan fiction from someone who really hated Sonic.

I was brought back to the main menu and this time the second file box had Knuckles in the "TV screen", his red fur had darkened to a reddish grey, his dreadlocks were facing me, but his body, his body was facing forward, the poor echidna's head had been forced 180 degrees, but I couldn't believe it... I didn't want to believe it...it made me feel sick, my stomach hurt from anxiety and disturbia.

I shut off the computer, I couldn't play anymore fuck this game, fuck Matty, not playing anymore, I laid on the bed, trying to put what I experienced out of my mind but ended up dropping off, wish I hadn't though, I then began to have the most disturbing nightmare, I was in pitch black darkness. I could hear that damn kefka laugh, standing there, blinded by the light "You shouldn't have played the game Jay" I heard Matty say, "Destroy the game before it's too late" his voice faded, my vision adjusted to the light, revealing the back of Sonic, I heard "do you want to play with me?" then he turned and lunged at me, jolting me awake, heart pounded away.

I decided to destroy the game, I couldn't carry on with this thing, I snapped the disk in two, finally I was unable to play, I breathed a sigh of relief, with the game destroyed I had no urge to see how it ended, no need to resist the urge to carry on, I decided to email Matty and kick off on him for creating something that bad, I was legitimately tired of his bullshit after that even considered burning bridges with him and his trolling BS, I went back on the computer and woke it up from sleep mode, to my horror...the game was still on, the sight of Tails and Knuckles at the select screen, not only did I forget to shut the computer down properly, I forgot that I installed the game, the disc may be broken but the game was still there, I could easily delete the game and forget it, but then I remembered one more character, Robotnik!, surely this game must have been created so that Robotnik was the hero to stop Sonic, he had the technology this must be the way to stop him, with my urge returning, curiosity spiking and sense of hope I selected Robotnik next.

The level title appeared again and this time it said "...", I ignored it, and carried on..

This time I was in some kind of hallway, didn't really look like it was from any of the classic Sonic games, though it had that retro style; the floor was shiny and checkered, the walls were a dark greyish purple with animated candlelight’s here and there flickering with orange flame, and there was a dark red curtain hanging above the top part of the screen, like a frame, fitting as this could be a referance to Sonic's curtain call, his end, The music though oddly pleasant, is was a rather sad yet peaceful song, this was the song that played in Hill act 1, only this time, it wasn't in reverse and played on a piano, beautiful.

Robotnik didn't look nervous like Tails and Knuckles did, but he did have a skeptical look on his face as if he was just a bit paranoid. He did a little animation when I just left him standing, he turns his head to the left and then to the right at least twice and then shrugs at me, as if he has no idea where he was or what was going on.

Even though I was on edge about what was going to happen, I had Robotnik continue onward. He did his usual running animation (You know, when you've beaten him at the end of a classic Sonic game and you chase him) as we continued going through the hallway.

Then I stop at a long flight of stairs leading downward, now I was nervous, even Robotnik seemed unsure of himself, though I pressed onward.

Leading Robotnik down the stairs, I noticed that the walls have gotten darker and more brownish, putrid; the once orange flames of the torches are now an eerie blue, Then we reached the bottom step onto another hallway, this one was shorter than the last one and then we headed down yet another flight of stairs.

The Kefka laugh was heard again. the music slowly faded and then nothing but quiet as he continued on, the framerate dropped a bit, stupid computer I thought, not now.

Sonic appeared right in front of Robotnik the same way he did Knuckles, sudden, and then static, growling, then black, only a faint humming sound, suddenly it showed me a most unpleasant image...

The image showed close up of Sonic's demented face in the dark where his torso faded into the obscurity, His face...oh god, he had the most horrifying smile I had ever seen, His eyes are wide and black, once again seeping red, there were two small glowing red dots in those black eyes staring right at me, burning, His grin was wide and demonic, it literally stretched to the sides of his face like a Cheshire Cat except Sonic bared his teeth, like some kind of unhinged animal..

Static distorted the picture, that image of his face, as it settled, the static wore off, the words "I Am God" appeared in the same style as the SEGA logo, the screen flickered, distorted into all the songs in the game playing in reverse, screwed up for 10 seconds like some bad dubstep remix, the image settled again with new words "Fun Is Infinite"

Suddenly I was knocked off my chair as I recoiled from the sight of Sonic lunging at the screen, making himself heard through the speakers in a deafening scream of static and screeching..

Then it stopped, I got booted back to the main menu and this time the third save file had a TV image of Robotnik in the same, tormented state as Tails and Knuckles; Robotnik's skin turned a dull grey, his mustache drooped and had blackened, dribble of red from the corner of his frowning mouth, his glasses broken and he had a mere dead like expression on his face.

As the Game Over screen popped up, a message appeared underneath, "Makes you mad doesn't it?"

The computer seemed to have crashed, frozen at the "Game Over" screen, I restarted it, hoping to send this out, not as much warning people about this game but what I had witnessed, who wouldn't?

The file wasn't on the desktop, there was no sight or memory of the game, the file or anything on the computer, the hardrive, was this the intention once the game was finished?, was it the intention if the computer was shut down?.

I sat there, wondering what the hell did I just play?, feeling stupid and angry I destroyed the disk, the only claim and solid proof I had, then I remembered, Matty, son of a bitch, creating a game like that to fuck with me, I bet he is happy, fapping away over my discomfort.

Fuck the email. I grabbed the phone and rang up, the phone was answered, and in no time at all, I gave him an earful, how he is a piece of shit making that game for me, sending it to me knowing I am a big fan of the series, what kind of sick twisted mind did he have to create such a mean spirited game?, i didn't let him even say hello as soon as he answered, then I heard sobbing on the end, great he is crying, fucking pussy I thought, a voice spoke, "Matthew died last week" his mother said......