FlatOut Creepypasta - Skull

I used to love this game called FlatOut, amazingly fun, was extremely
addicted to it for 13 years, but after what happened i just quit and
didn't even wanna look at the game anymore.
I started playing this when i was 3 on my cousin's ps2, i used to play
this game with my family constantly, i loved this game more than anything!
for me it was eat, flatout, sleep. One day i was browsing through the
vehicles and i saw a completely glitchy heaven-like pink car that looked
like it had grinder's body, but when i saw that, i quickly, cancelled from
the menu and it was gone, at the time i didn't know what it was but i wou-
ld find out much later down the line.
It's been some long years since i played the game, i now own it on PC,
and spent 100 registered hours on it, i started replaying it this year,
which would mark it's 13th anniversary of me playing this game, then i
try going into my "Cheater" profile to screw around, then when i was
browsing the car list in time trial, there was a pink car on a new spot
on the browsing list.
It was titled "Unknown" and the circle icon below it had a shadowy figure
of a car, on the car info there was nothing more than this:
To unlock this car:
Beat the game on Normal and Professional Handling with the Male and Female
Drivers.
So i did just that, it took me 75 hours of playtime, with so much
nostalgia and recorded moments of gloriousness.
After i beat the game one last time... After the credits finished
they closed itself and a new cinematic started:
It looked like FlatOut guy driving in a purple chevelle around Whattatoo
Town in circles for what seemed like forever (whilst showing flashbacks
of my journey), until he went to the bank, then it cut to a scene of him 
driving into an certain honest john's used car dealership, from there he 
left his car and proceeded to walk (which looked kinda cursed considering 
he isn't supposed to be walking) then the cutscene ended.
I was now controlling him and i could roam around the place, i saw the
main menu cars and their original positions and then there was an isolated
spot with a trail of what seemed like slick oil flowing into the dirt, it
caught my attention so i went over there in a hurry, i subconsciously 
held the "Shift" key and he started running. Once i went to the trail of 
it, the game faded to black and a cutscene started again, it was FlatOut
dude looking at a car, surprised with something... It panned onto his eyes
i saw the front of the car on his eye, and he looked frightened, it was an
pickup truck with an menancing front with a large ass bull-skull on it
with a lot of flame vinyls.
Then it shifted into two hands where one was giving some money and the
other taking it, and the hand which got the money gave back some car
keys which were colored blue with a sign written "FlatOut" with the game's
logo.
After that weird cutscene, i was back in control, the game told me to
go to some forest and into an garage of sorts, so i went through an new
map with a new car, which felt extremely responsive and fast, i had to
touch my brakes and handbrakes constantly!
i also had to go through an area which reminded me of the 
main menu with the fucked-up trasher, and when i remembered that, 
i went into an corner where that car was there and an mangled body 
torn up with a lot of blood on the dirt revealed itself inside the car, 
and it was in the game's graphics, it kinda shocked me considering that 
this is supposed to be a teen-rated game, this didn't stop me and actually
captivated my curiosity, so i continued onwards, until i reached the 
garage.
After i reached it, it showed a cutscene of him entering the garage and
closing it in a hurry before the sunset into an dark night.
In the darkness, i could hear FlatOut guy panicking, whilst i could barely
see him sitting in a fetal position, frightened to all hell, i couldn't
blame the guy for doing that, something in that accident must've 
remembered him of a trauma.
Then out of nowhere, one light lit from inside the garage, an car 
headlight and there was a slight silhouette of that car again but
on it's front, properly showing it's full appearance, that mechanical
monster let out a engine roar and an pickup truck horn which was so
aggressive and loud that FlatOut guy started screaming like he normally
does but i could feel more fear in his voice, and he started extending
his scream in a natural way, and hearing that new voiceclip, certainly
got me spooked and then that horrible scene cut.
Then the game threw me back onto the main menu, so i naturally went into
time trial and selected the new car, it only had one option of coloring,
that bizarre paintwork, and i looked at it's car info:
Skull
...
Power
> > 500hp
Weight
> > 1850 kg
Price
> > $18000 
after i looked at it, the guy singing the Supply Chain - FlatOut song
started getting audibly worried at something and stopped singing but
the instrumental kept going, this got me a bit weirded out...
I started questioning what the fuck was going on with my game, was it a
mod? No way i'm playing on my clean installation. Was it a hack? no,
it can't be. Is this some kind of hidden easter egg or secret unlockable?
Maybe...
Regardless, i picked the car without hesitation, and then when i went
to the select track thingy, there was a new class:
"Trauma"
I picked it out of curiosity and there was only one stage:
"Little chad's Nightmarish Highway Jam Accident"
I picked it and the game started loading...
The loading screen looked different, it looked like the Skull
powering through a forest, brutally destroying the trees with it's
ramming power. It looked badass!
When it finished, i was sent to a forest and the car was revving,
it was loud and powerful, i kinda felt like a god. 
whilst it was playing "Amplifire - Heartless" but slowed and with a 
sadder and heavier tone. After it was done revving, it went out and i 
could feel it's responsive handling, it's powerful acceleration and
top speed and as well as it strength, i plowed through a tree thinking
i was gonna crash but the car handled it just fine, more than fine 
actually like it just took down a standing paper sheet with a mere finger.
i followed a dirt trail which lead into an highway, from there i started
driving through it and i felt a lot of ghost cars surround me, like some
sort of ghost traffic, and then they went through me and normally, until
they all suddenly crashed and an ghost trucker crashed and caused an
explosion, whilst i went through it, i heard what seemed like a speed
junkie laughing uncontrollably but in some sort of flashback-like voice
and then those hallucinations that my character felt, vanished.
Then the game randomly made me win, with a "Finish!" on my screen, with
the ranking showing my time, and another message under the record,
"Maybe it's time i show you the truth", i pressed enter, and it played
a cutscene, where it a little kid resembling FlatOut Guy was playing
with his toys in the back of the car, and what seemed like his parents,
driving the car, when suddenly the traffic crashed like the ghosts i saw
and that guy sped through the traffic in a pickup truck that looked just
like the "skull" with that exact same scream of enjoyment but more better
in terms of quality, the screen faded to white and the kid was on the
ground, close to a flipped car, with his family inside, most of them dead
with only the father surviving but with several broken bones clawing
through his skin with tons of injuries. The screen quickly showed
a real-life accident on a highway with a lot of mayhem and dead people
as well as several cars destroyed. 
That image broke me somehow, my eyes
were burning, and to top it all off, that fucking car was there too.
and inside it was a man with a creepy smily face with pitch black eyes.
I wasn't gonna let that shit stand, i had to make that fucked up monster
pay for what he had done to those people, so i kept watching, it then cut
to FlatOut guy dodging the car from that first scary cutscene and the car
running off into the wilderness but not before he threw some sort of
atennae onto the car, afterwards he got into his purple chevelle and
chased after it. I had a new objective: "Total the demon who took away
your family"
" - With pleasure", i said. There i was chasing that disfigured man
across what seemed like the estate where this game took place, he took
me everywhere, practically across every single course in the game, and
when he went through that last sand dune level and exited the stadiums
where the stunt events and Destruction Derbies took place, our last 
destination was a city, densed and packed full of people and cars, the
demon without hesitation, ran over every single pedestrian, every single
one of them turning into ragdoll whose realism resembled euphoria physics,
and full of blood and organs splattering across the car's body paint, that
same junkie's laughter but more hellish, as in more stronger and darker
tone of voice that resembled evil i mean, that's what i meant with hellish.
So anyways, i had to damage that fuck somehow and i had to get some
nitrous so i went through an construction site with a fuck ton of objects
i went through as many as i could without losing sight of that prick.
I felt my car getting faster and faster with more angrier engine roaring
by the second, "Central Supply Chain - The Ever Lasting" started playing
but the vocals sounded like FlatOut guy's voice actor and the song sounded
more aggressive, and after every takedown i heard that disgraceful man
let out blood-curling screams of fear, of which i started smiling like a
psycho, then when the last takedown was made, the truck flipped itself
in an uncontrollable frenzy, and then it made a last thump on the ground
so strong in fact that the ground got damaged textures out of that and the
man let out a scream so loud i had to fucking lower the volume of my TV.
After that was done, a cutscene played of FlatOut guy leaving his chevelle
looking at the corpse of what seemed like a drug addict turn into an
demon, that crap freaked me out, so the game wasn't playing with me.
Afterwards, my game showed me that demon's face screaming into my screen
and i'll never forget that fucking horrible face. after that was done,
a message popped up: "Thanks for playing but you angered him, your steam
copy has been stained with malicious aura, if you play it again, your
soul will be taken into the game and will replace the demon, and you'll
forever roam the land in search of another player who has done the exact
same feat as you, and if he beats you, you will die for good, but won't
go to any place, you'll look through darkness in all of eternity.
If you want to undo the curse, beat the game again on the ps2, to cast
out an counteraction to cast away the curse."
And now, i didn't know what to do, should i abandon this game or try to
undo the curse, i didn't wanna play it anymore but then the game told me
something: "look i don't know what happened as well, i'm proud of your
accomplishments as a gaming driver, what happened here will end up being
forgotten as time goes own, but it can be done quicker if you give this
wretched curse some closure, this hurts me as much as it hurts you, i 
don't wanna taint your memories just because of some person's bad wishes
upon you destroying your game entirely"
The game was alive, what in the actual fuck? but now that i think about it
... it was the closest thing i had to a best friend, it always cheered me
up even in my darkest of days, and all those thoughts made me wanna beat
the curse out of it, no matter the cost!
The game said this as well: "You can download it from the internet and
emulate it from your PC, i understand how my last body was destroyed
and why it did, i'm not mad with you, i understand why you did what you
did, and that's ok with me".
It knows i burned all the copies of games i had on my ps2 with my
cousin, when the ps2 reader was malfunctioning and only working on ps1 
games.
"Beat the game, that's all i ask and you can either abandon me or keep playing me until you die after doing so".
"- Alright, i trust you, i'm doing it!"
"- Thank you!"
I downloaded the ps2 version, emulated it on pcsx2 and started beating
it, using the chevelle, which i thought was weird, considering that 
tragedy only happened on my PC Version, but going forth with my mission
i managed to beat the game, instead of the gold medal trophy, i got that
horrible face but it started screaming in pain and exploded, leaving only
a big flash of light on my face, and an hand started extending from it,
leaving my monitor's screen and into my face, i didn't move and let it
touch my face, that hand... Grandpa? 
And then it was gone, all in a flash, the credits started playing like
normally but much more happier than normal, "sixer - the race" was diffe-
rent.
And when i beat the game, an message popped up: "Thank you, Alan"
Wait how did the game know my-- oh right, it probably heard my name being
called constantly in my childhood.
"New car unlocked: Chevelle"
"Skull's negative aura was removed, and so was Trauma class"
"STORY MODE UNLOCKED"
What... the fuck? An Story mode? The game fucking scarred me just to give
me a story mode and an muscle car?
Fuck me.
After i thought of that, a cutscene played, showing everything getting
destroyed, turning into piles of ashes and debree, and all the rest of
worse you can imagine...
"how dare you"
The game showed me a picture of my family, with X'es all over them.
I hurried outside of my house and my grandma's house which was at the side
of my house, was burning, i went back inside of my house and rushed into
my parents's bedroom, i found them dead, mangled up like roadkill,
i left my house to see that demon again, the bastard fooled me!
"Alan, the worst mistake of your life was trying to unlock the Skull"
"It was never real, it was just an idea on the head of your precious
developers"
"I made it a reality on your copy, seeing as you wanted more out of your
game"
"Big mistake, you should've been satisfied with what you had"
"Learn this, idiot, you should've valued your family more than some stupid
game, it could've waited, but no, you chose to give into addiction and now
i'm giving you an painful overdose, just for you to learn what's best for
you"
"The truth is, young man, that you're in your own personal hell, and you
will suffer and no one will believe you"
"This is futile, either you go to an insane asylum or you die, only for me
to punish you forever!"
" - NO! I will RUN OVER YOU!"
"STUPID IMBECILE I'M UNTOUCHABLE, I AM--"
I grabbed my dad's Renault and ran that fucker over, he was dead, i then
fell into the waterfall with my car, reflecting upon my pathetic life,
and then...
I woke up somewhere, it was my bedroom, was it all a dream?
I looked at my computer screen, it said "It was good toying with you,
asshole, now learn to be a better human being, or i'll truly kill your
family"
Shit, it wasn't a dream, whatever that guy was, it was an omniscient
being and it was hellbent on turning me back into the best version of me.
"FlatOut is not leaving but you better stop playing those fucking games
and focus on getting a job you waste of a human being!"
Fuck you man, but shit... you're right, man i've wasted my life with this
nonsense, no more, i'm quitting gaming for good.
"Yes... do that if you don't want to come back here, hahahahahaha"
and then my computer went back to normal, and when i checked inside
FlatOut everything was normal again but i quit it and never played it
again ever since. The demon's advice resonated with me for a long time,
kinda ironic, considering that aren't they supposed to be evil?
Why this one helped me?
So many questions, yet i needed to tell this to someone else, hopefully
i'll forget it after a few months and give this crap some closure.
Also one last thing, try to better your life by being more productive,
and caring for others, as well as more focused on life matters than
fictional and intangible stuff, that's not me that's the guy, he told
me to write it down if i ever posted it anywhere or he would give me an
vasectomy, ughhh.
Category:Trollpasta
Category:Satire
Category:Vidya games
Category:English Class Failure