Sonic.exe: Alice

Sonic.EXE: Alice is a fanmade Sonic.exe story by ASTRANOMICON (at the time known as DeadMaster1317 on FurAffinity) as a way to express Alice Sonata's story in a style told in the same way of JC's original Sonic.exe stories.

## **The Story:**

**Part 1**

I was walking in the rainy city, and I was carrying a case. I was heading to a meeting for a group that is known as the Cult of X. I went inside their headquarters, and before I knew it...

"Hey, Alice! I'm glad you're leg's feeling better," greeted Ms. Goldman.

"Thank you, Ms. Goldman," I replied.

"I see you brought your violin with you."

"I certainly did, ma'am."

"Can you play us a song?"

I took out my violin, my bow, and some sheet music. "Sure; as a matter of fact, I can play you guys a new song I wrote. I call it 'Kind and Fair Overture.'"

I started playing the song. Its happy notes drew everyone into smiles as I played it, swaying the bow onto the strings, making perfectly executed notes. When I finished the song, I saw a man rushing inside.

"Sorry I'm late, everyone," mumbled Johnny.

Johnny Lazarus was another member of the Cult. There was also Shey, JC, and me, the youngest member of the Cult. I'm Alice Sonata, and I'm 14 years old. I'm a big Sonic fan, and my favorite Sonic character is Cream the Rabbit. My mother died after she gave birth to me, and my dad was murdered several months ago. At the funeral, I met the Father, the leader of the Cult of X, and he offered me if I wanted to live with him. I didn't mind living with him; after all, he was nice to me, unlike my other relatives. As soon as I accepted living with him, my new life began as a member of the Cult of X.

"Can we start the meeting now?" asked Father.

I was usually not allowed to be in the meetings because I was too young, but today, the Father said I could join the meeting this time. At the meeting, the members were talking about stagnated souls and how X saved those souls by having them play... a Sonic game?

"I don't get it," I said, "How does a Sonic game save stagnated souls?"

"The game is a gateway, sweetie," said JC. "When you finish the levels, He'll come out of the computer, take your soul, and you will be in a land of paradise. It may not look like paradise, but it is paradise."

"Ohh, I get it!" I replied.

Several days later, we were at another funeral. A detective named Chelsea Green was murdered. Her brother, Derek Green, approached Ms. Goldman, who was next to me.

"I'm sorry for your loss, Derek. I'm sure your sister is in a happier place now."

"Thanks, ma'am."

"My name is Shannon Goldman, and I am a representative of the Cult of X. Now, I hope that X will wish you a happier year, Derek."

"...X?"

"Yes. Soon enough, X will make things better for this world."

"Okay..."

Derek walked away with a face that tells me that he's weirded out somehow.

After the funeral, we went back to the headquarters. For the next two weeks, we were spreading X's influence, and we even managed to have new members in the Cult. One of those people was Cole. Cole was always on the computers and stuff, and he was on Skype all the time. However, he did go to every meeting and was always on time. Maybe he's on Skype because he misses his family or something. I'm not exactly sure.

**Part 2**

I decided to sneak around that night, and I found Cole's room. He was logged on to Skype, so I took out my binoculars to see what he was up to. He was talking to another man, but I couldn't see his face very well. Maybe it was his cousin? But then I heard the other man's voice. It sounded awfully familiar, but I couldn't remember where it was from.

"There's a reason why all the victims had Sonic.exe in their computers, Derek," said Cole.

Wait-Derek? DEREK?! Why would Cole be calling Derek?! Is he insane?! I have got to report this to the Father! But I decided not to, and no, it's not because he's sleeping. Or maybe he is. I don't know. The Father's always wearing sunglasses, and no one can tell if he's asleep sometimes or not. Anyway, I decided to keep hearing the conversation.

"The Cult of X is involved," Cole continued, "After someone's killed, a member steals the disc the victim had, and they hide it for a while until they sell it. They'll sell it at GameStop, eBay, Amazon... basically anywhere, really, Mr. Green. When the next victim finds it, he or she will become the new owner of the Sonic.exe game until X comes to kill them, and then another Cult member comes to steal the disc again, and the cycle starts anew."

"Why would X do such a thing?"

"X is supposed to be a holy figure of some sort to the Cult, and its members want to do as much as they can to get him on his good side."

"It's getting late, maybe we'll chat again tomorrow night?"

"Sure thing."

"Okay, then. Good night."

The call ended, and I crept back into my room. I wanted to explain everything to the Father, but I didn't want to get him into trouble. So I decided to wait for him to be caught by someone else.

Day by day, I kept sneaking into Cole's room to see what he's talking about. He said that X was really Sonic.exe, and he said that he's been around for an even longer time than the game has. I became suspicious about X, and I dunno if I should stay here in the Cult or if I should ask them if I can quit.

**Part 3**

I found out that two guys from school were murdered this week. Kyle got the game first, then he passed it to Tom, who tried committing suicide until X got his soul. Now I NEEDED to play the game to see what's going on, but I don't want to; what if X gets ME?

I snuck into Cole's room again, and he said that all the characters you play as in the game are really the souls of those murdered people in the bodies of their favorite Sonic characters. I remember one night, Derek said that Chelsea always liked playing as Rouge the Bat in Sonic Adventure 2, and Derek liked playing as Vector. Does that mean that if there were Rouge in the game... then would I be playing as Chelsea and not Rouge?! This is so messed up...

The next night, Cole was talking about the Seven Guardians. I already knew about them; X created them, after all. There was Kitou (Prayer), Aishu (Sorrow), Gekido (Anger), Kirai (Hatred), Kofuku (Happiness), Kyoufu (Fear), and Yukubo (Desire).

"X plans that one day, he's gonna permanently cross over our world with his, so that way, His reality will mix with ours and make all of mankind his slaves for eternity!"

"Wait, how do you know all of this?"

"I need to tell you a secret, Derek. I'm a member of the Cult of X. Look, I don't like what I'm getting myself into right now. I'm trying to stop the Cult, but please keep the secret."

"Don't worry, Cole, your secret's safe with me."

"Thanks, Derek."

"No problem, Cole. Just you wait until-"

The computer turned to black. I crawled behind the doorway, but the Father was behind me.

"We know what's been going on, Alice."

"But don't worry about HIM anymore..." said Ms. Goldman.

A hand came out of the computer, shattering the glass.

"Oh my gosh," I whispered to myself.

I hid myself behind the Father. X had arrived, and was taking Cole away.

He showed himself, and it was exactly how Cole described it; he looked almost identical to Sonic the Hedgehog, except his quills were a darker color and was unkept. His sclera was black and not white, and had two glowing red dots inside them. There were also tears of blood coming out of his eyes. X took out his hand. Ms. Goldman walked away, and the Father spoke three more words until walking away:

"Align the sacrifice."

I was there alone, stunned by what I was seeing; X was lifting Cole's soul right out of his mouth! I heard a thud on the floor, and Cole was lying there. He was dead. X then looked at me, smiled, and went back inside of the computer.

I went into Cole's room one more time, and I looked at the computer. Skype was back on, but Cole's username was changed to "X", and I looked at the messages.

-X: Cole has been cheating, and he needs to be punished...-

-... HA-

-... HA-

-... HA-

-... HA-

-... HA-

-... HA-

The computer shut itself off.

I knew this madness had to end, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to end it.

**Part 4**

I was going to the headquarters from school. I saw two masked men carrying Derek into the headquarters.

"Oh no..." I whispered to myself.

I followed the men inside, and I found myself in the basement, along with the Father. The masked men unmasked themselves, and before I knew it, Johnny and Shey were the ones beneath them.

"Get your f\*\*\*ing hands off me, you crazy cultist freaks!," shouted Derek.

I heard sounds of high heels walking down the stairs. Ms. Goldman.

"Isn't that what you would call the Christains and the Satanists, Mr. Green?"

"GOLDMAN!!"

Derek was struggling to break free from Johnny and Shey's arms.

"Derek, why do you deny X? Don't you see what he's trying to do for everyone? He only wants to make our world as happy as he is."

"Happy?" Derek mumbled. He shouted, "YOU THINK STEALING SOULS AND TURNING THEM INTO PUPPETS IS BEING HAPPY?! OUR PLANET IS NOT HIS TOYBOX, YOU B\*TCH!!!"

" It's not your place to decide what X wants with humanity, Mr. Green. He is a divine being that wishes to make humanity happy by showing us the paradise that is HIS world, and taking us from the wretched filth of a planet we've been forced to live on."

Derek was struggling to escape again.

"Some of us actually LIKE this planet, Goldman! X's world is nothing more than a PRISON! All X cares about is making us his plaything for all eternity! Can't you see it's not fair?!"

"What do YOU know about what's not fair?!"

"More than YOU do, obviously!"

I never saw Ms. Goldman slap anyone before, but she did this time, and Derek fell to the ground.

"You fool... X chose ME to be his most loyal because HE knew I never liked this planet, he knew I want to be rid of the stupidity humanity is causing! I'm perfectly okay with being X's slave if it means getting away from it all, getting the peace I finally deserve after all this time! And if everyone's gotta go with me then TOO F\*\*\*ING BAD!!!"

Derek chuckled, "Whatever... it doesn't matter anyway, 'cause I'm going to stop you. Once and for all."

"Oh, are you now? With what, I presume?"

Derek pulled something out of his pocket. "With THIS!"

It was the disc! Some of the other members gasped, including myself. Some were talking about it.

Derek continued, "Cole told me that the only way X can enter our world to collect more souls is with this! Well, NO MORE!!"

Ms. Goldman snapped her fingers and the room became quiet.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! So Cole told you that, huh? Ha! A smart boy, but even geniuses tend to get their information wrong."

"W-what?! What do you mean?"

Ms. Goldman started walking around the room. "It's true that X cannot enter our world unless someone places that disc into a computing system. But I'm curious, Mr. Green..." She pulled out an identical disc out of her pocket. "Whatever made you both think that THAT disk in particular was the original?"

Derek said shakingly, "N... No... No that can't be...!"

"A brilliant theory I might add, but I'm afraid it's your last one, Detective," Ms. Goldman finished. She put the disc into a computer.

Now Derek was struggling. Hard. "NO!! NOO!! LET ME GO!! YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!!"

The Father held me back before I said anything. They can't possibly be doing this! Then I froze when I saw X come out of the screen.

"Hi, Derek..."

I gasped.

"NOOO!!! NOOOOO!!"

"READY FOR ROUND 2?"

Derek was screaming as X was taking his soul. There was a drum-like beat coming out of the computer...

There was finally silence. Derek was lying dead on the floor. I ran to him and cried. I knew I wasn't allowed to, but I couldn't help myself. I saw a shadow come in front of me. I looked up and saw X standing there. I got up and looked at him in shock. Tears were spilling from my eyes. I ran away from the basement and went into my room as quickly as possible. I slammed the door and cried myself to sleep.

**Part 5**

I woke up and found the Father right next to me. I started crying again. He put me on his lap.

"Tell me, my child..."

He took off his glasses, revealing yellow eyes with a pink sclera; there were red lines on them, too. His eyelids seemed to be cut off.

"What horrors lurk within that mind of yours?"

I screamed.

"Y...Your eyes...!!"

I ran away from my room as quickly as possible. I went into Ms. Goldman's office, and I asked her if I was going insane or not.

"You're not insane, Alice, it's just that, well, you're, ya know... young..."

"His... his eyes.... They're-...-and they're-...-and-!!!"

"You discovered his deepest secret, didn't you?"

"Y-Yeah..." I sniffed.

Next week, I had to do what was done; I stole one of the copies of the game, and I destroyed it. I cleaned it up by putting the shards of the disc into Cole's trash bin, so I wouldn't get caught. I went back into my room and turned on Skype. Derek's son, Hayden, was on, so I had to tell him everything.

-Alice\_S\_Wonderland: Hey, Hayden.-

-HayHay132: Hiya, Alice. Whatcha up to?-

-Alice\_S\_Wonderland: I need to tell you a secret...-

I told him everything that Cole told Derek. I told Hayden about the Guardians, and I even told him about his dad.

-Alice\_S\_Wonderland: I'm really sorry about your dad...-

-HayHay132: Yeah, but I already got over it. How 'bout you, huh?-

-Alice\_S\_Wonderland: Yeah, I guess you can say that.-

Ms. Goldman called me for dinner.

-... brb-

I went upstairs to the second floor; that was where the Father lived. Over dinner, we were all talking about how we should keep spreading X's influence. It was time for me to spill the beans...

"I'M SORRY!!"

Murmurs were heard around the room.

"I deny him..."

"Alice, what are you talking about?" asked Ms. Goldman.

"I'm sorry, but it's the truth!!"

Everyone was staring at me.

"Please forgive me...!"

"Wait, WHO exactly do ya deny?" asked Shey.

"I DENY X!!!!!"

Gasps were heard.

"I'M SORRY!! I'M SORRY!! I'M SORRY!! I'M SORRY!!! I'M SORRY!!! I'M SORRY!!!! I'M SORRY!!!! I'M SORRY!!!! I'M SORRY!!!! I'M SORRY! ...I...I'm sorry...!" I ran to my room and started crying again. It wasn't because of Derek; it was because I'm the next to go. I cried myself to sleep that night.

I woke up in the basement. I tried to get out, but I was tied down to a chair. The basement was pitch-black, The lights turned on. No one was in the room. I heard footsteps, and then I heard laughter. X was already here. I started screaming for my life. My life can't end like this!

"I see we have another cheater now, don't we?"

"Please, let me go!!"

"I'll never let you go, Alice... Speaking of... I must say that you've always wanted to go to a Wonderland, now haven't you?" He grinned.

I nodded nervously, and his smile grew.

He took out his hand...

**Part 6**

I woke up in what seemed to be a forest. I started wandering around until I saw a building. In it was a hall with mirrors inside. I found a full one, and I was shocked about what I looked like: I was in the body of a parody of Cream the Rabbit. Most of my fur was purple, some was red, and my muzzle was white. My eyes were a very light shade of grey, and I was wearing a dull-orange dress with a dull-blue ribbon. The shoes I was wearing had dull colors, too. There was also a mark below my left eye. I started to cry, and when I stopped, I went to look around for an exit from this world. Now I shall wander in this never ending Wonderland.