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I had almost died because I was too busy focusing on a game I shouldn't even have. Yet this game kept making me try to play it again and again. I couldn't even move the character on the screen for the life of me. At least it hasn't killed me like the others.

Could it be that this game actually tried to save me? That was crazy. Yet I still lived, all because that game caused me to stop in my tracks with one loud noise. None of this made sense for a game meant to KILL people. I finally took time to think it over a bit longer. Considering the only differences between these games, that I know of so far, were the spelling error and the gaming platforms they use.

I had to search the internet for more answers. Luckily for me, information was always available so readily this way, and people didn't stop gossiping about big events like Sonic.EXE. I learned that each victim was found in the same state: mouths agape, eyes glazed or empty looking, and brain functions brought down to near zero.

This was, honestly, creepily detailed. I wished there was more I could work with though. I had to re-think my situation for now. First, there were murders taking place that were connected to Sonic.EXE. Second, there was a cult dedicated to the worship of Sonic.EXE. Finally, I ended up with a cursed Sega Game Gear with the cartridge game Sonic.EX3.

At first I thought it was bad writing when it popped up out of nowhere. Then I thought it was going to kill me if I played it. After that, I wasn't so sure. So far, I managed to figure out that this thing was matching my movements, moving Charmy whenever I moved.

My thoughts were interrupted by the game as the screen flashed. I hurried to grab it, worrying it might signal my demise, only to see it was flashing in a given direction instead. The direction on the screen seemed to change its course whenever I moved it around. I managed to single out the direction, wishing that I didn't.

From the direction it was flashing, it pointed at Kyle's home abode next door. To be honest, I really wished it was pointing somewhere else other than there. I didn't want to end up having to go there just to run into something worse. But this game wouldn't shut up unless I did. God it was worse than an annoying fairy.

It took me about an hour to muster up the courage for this. When I did, I went up to the family's front door to knock away at it a bit. I managed to get by saying I was one of Kyle's friends wanting to pick up a game. The problem was that the mother looked quite gaunt where she stood. Considering she lost her only son three months ago, I couldn't blame her. I'd probably break down myself if... I did not dare utter the words 'if it happened to me'. Those words got me stuck with a haunted Sega System.

Perhaps she was too distraught over his death to really think hard on that excuse I used. There was only her in the house. But I considered myself lucky somehow for this predicament. All I knew was that I had to check out that room. I walked along each step; my feet felt the floorboards creak underneath me. The door to Kyle's room was right there in front of me to enter. My hand quivered as I lifted it to the doorknob. Just one small turn and I'd have made my first step to solving this insanity.

I pulled my hand away slightly, stepping away slowly from the door. I couldn't risk even taking a breath at this point. However, I took a look at my Game Gear to see Charmy standing in front of a cavern like background. The silent white noise of wind in the game system echoed with a foreboding sense of danger. But much as I didn't want to go in ... I had to.

My hand reached to the knob in grasping it - turning it - and I entered the room.

The room itself was quite sparse for a kid my age that played video games. Then again, his mother must have given away his things to try and get over her son's passing. I could still see the broken computer that was left behind. It must have been the only thing the police wouldn't let her get rid of. Considering its status as evidence, I was rather confused why it was still here in this room.

I didn't have much time to ask myself more questions at the moment. I took a gaze to the Game Gear in hand to notice the scenery represented a dank tomb like cavern. There were small white etchings in pixels on the walls around it. But the one etching that was red pointed to a strange gem at an altar.

I took a look at the computer again. I couldn't believe it but I had to try. I went over to the broken screen, tapping it here and there. I then tried to look at where the CD slot was to see if I could pull anything out. There didn't seem to be anything inside. The police might have already taken the CD inside of it. But then I noticed that something was still there.

The game made a flashing motion to get my attention. I pulled the Game Gear up to look on at the screen again. The screen started to glow as I held it up towards the computer. I could see Charmy reaching to the gem, rubbing at it, and grabbing what was there before the glow faded. When I looked up to the computer, I almost fell back in shock.

The computer had vanished.

It was then that the room felt as empty as I would've expected. The bed felt barely used, the walls were still bare, and the computer was the only other thing that furnished this room. Now that the computer vanished, there wasn't anything left to relate to Kyle. The game seemed to act as normal from here, following my movements as I exited the room and down the stairs.

I thanked his mother for letting me check out his room and computer. But the look on her face was of confusion. I tried to explain again why I was here ... but what she said after that was what gave me goosebumps.

'That can't be right... the police confiscated everything at the time of investigation last year ...'

I started to go slightly pale at that. All of it confiscated? Even the computer I thought I saw?

But then ... what was it that I was looking at to begin with?

I managed to get back home and spend a few days away from playing that god damn game. I had been worrying about falling behind in my academics and I managed to keep up. With how exhausting everything has been, I was able to finish my homework for the day, though there were times when that damn Game Gear appeared on me in my backpack at school giving off its noises; it seemed to only do so whenever something similar to a Badnik appeared in the screen. When it did, I got adjusted to comparing in game movements to real life movements.

As before, this game had not led me to my death today. I couldn't get rid of it - no matter what I try - so I was forced to keep it around me at times. Much to my dismay, some of my friends ended up getting curious. One of them, Rick, nabbed at it once before I had to yank it back. A female friend, Annie, slapped it out of my hand once at the lunch room. She was always been the attention grabbing type but she didn't have to hit so hard.

It was then that I saw the games graphics slightly change. Instead of small animals, I ended up noticing two new characters. One of them was Amy Rose. The other looked like Ray the Squirrel.

I couldn't deny that it was a surprise. But I could only wonder what these characters represent. There was a menu that appeared later as it highlights itself. I took a moment to fiddle with the controls until I saw that I could actually interact. I opened the character select screen, revealing three characters available. I had to sate this stupid curiosity somehow.

When I selected Amy Rose, I saw that she was in a backdrop similar to a blend of Scrap Brain and Casino Zone. The makeshift backdrop sprites resembled a room or something as she moved about.

The other character, Ray, looked like he was in the Green Hill zone with a leafy wood background blend. He was hiking through the woods by himself; obviously I couldn't control either of these characters. But I started to make another connection.

These characters weren't part of this game before. They suddenly appeared when Rick and Annie touched the game itself.

I felt my heartbeat hasten, but I pulled myself together when I compared this to what's happened before. This game ended up watching and reading my movements. Then it depicted them through Charmy. Was the game telling me that Annie and Rick are going to be involved somehow?

I thought it all impossible. Yet what was happening so far was becoming harder to deny. I had to test something out when I went back to Amy Rose's character. I then look in my cell phone for Annie's number. When the character on the screen moved to the right, it made a posture like she had picked something up to her ear.

At that moment, Annie picked up her phone. It felt like a long time before I spoke up.

"Annie? Are you there?"

"Huh? What're you calling for?" came Annie's reply, "I was busy fixing up my room."

"Just wondering," I hastily replied, "You mind moving to the left a bit?"

"What?"

"Just asking."

"Are you okay? This is just really weird to ask."

"Sorry, Annie. Just... just humor me if you can."

I waited with baited breath.

Obviously the character of Amy on the screen started to tap her foot with the idle animation showing annoyance. But she ended up moving to the left.

"There," Annie finally answered, "So... was there something about this?"

Silence filled the room as I stared at the screen with Amy's movements. Her sprite animations emulated Annie's mindset with perfect accuracy.

"Hello?"

"Sorry, Annie, I gotta go!"

After hanging up, I noticed the sprite animation of Amy looking quite put off before marching off to the left off screen. I took that as a sign to switch to Rick and test again...

Rick was easier to work with when I tried this on him. I switched to Ray to notice him still out at the woodland Green Hill area. If I had a hunch ... I'd compare this to the park at the south of here in town.

Obviously, the Ray animation took pause with a ringing noise akin to a beeper. The character sprite doing an idle animation of confusion before Rick answered.

"Hey, what's going on?"

"Hey, Rick, I'm just checking up on you a bit. I'm still working on my algebra right now."

"Eh, I hear ya," Rick replied "I can't seem to keep my mind on homework so I took a walk."

"You're at Constable Park right?"

The animation on Ray made a surprise look before facing right.

"Hey bro," Rick nervously answered, "Are you spying on me?"

I had to hang up then and there as the Ray animation made the same shocked expression. His sprite ended up going around as if checking out the background before it made another idle animation.

My phone ringing was enough to make me shiver as I dropped the game and phone at the same time.

...Things just got seriously worse ...