PINKPANTHER.EXE

**Based on SEGA's SONIC.EXE**

## Cast

* The Pink Panther as Sonic the Hedgehog
* Porky Pig as Tails the Fox
* Foghorn Leghorn as Knuckles the Echidna
* Inspector Clouseau as Dr. Eggman

## Story

I'm a total Looney Tunes fan much like everyone else, I also like Tom and Jerry, but I don't mind playing the Pink Panther. I remember many people. Including Mel Blanc, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Henry Mancini, Robert McKimson, Tex Avery and many more.

It started on a nice spring afternoon, I was playing Maplestory until I noticed, out of my peripheral vision, that the mailman had arrived and put something in my mailbox as usual and left. I paused my game to go see what I got in the mail... The only thing in the mailbox was a CD case for computers and a note. I took it inside.

I looked at the note first and realized it was from my dear friend Stanley, whom I hadn't heard from in 2 weeks. I know that because I recognized his handwriting, though what was weird is how it looked; it looked badly written and scratchy and somewhat difficult to read, as if Stan was having a hard time writing it down and did it in a hurry.

This is what he wrote...

*"Robert,*

*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 Robert, 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...*

*Stanley"*

Well, that was certainly weird. Even though Stanley IS my best friend and I haven't seen him in 2 weeks. I didn't think that a simple gaming disc would do anything bad to him, after all it's just a game right? Boy, was I wrong about that...

ANY way, I looked at the disc and it looks like any ordinary computer CD-R disc, except it had black marker on it written "PINKPANTHER.EXE", and it was much unlike Stanley's handwriting, meaning that he must've gotten it from someone else, like a pawn shop or eBay. When I saw "Pink Panther" on the writing of the CD, I was actually proud and wanted to play it, since I loved The Pink Panther.

I went up to my room and turned on my computer and put the disc in and installed the game. When the title screen popped up I saw the Pink Panther cartoon intro, I was like "Awesome!" Because like I said earlier I liked the Pink Cartoons. The first thing I noticed that was out of place was when I pressed start, there's 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 screen was black, the title was crimson and the words on the bottom "666" was shown.

But the freakiest thing that was in that split second frame was The Pink Panther, his toenails have sharpened, his eyes were pitch black and bleeding with two glowing red dots staring RIGHT AT ME, and his smile had stretched wider up to the edge of his face. I was rather disturbed about that image when I saw it, though I figured that it was just a glitch and forgot about it. After it cut to black it stayed like that for about 10 seconds or so. And then another weird thing happened, the save file select from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 popped up, and I said "What's this doing here?", anyway, then I notice 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. And the image for the save file where I see a preview of the level I'm on is just red static for all three files.

What freaked me out more was the character select, it showed only Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn and to my surprise, The Inspector! Now I was sure that something was up, I mean, how was this possible, for crying out loud?

That's when I realized that this was a horror game.

Yeah it definitely looked horrible, it was really creepy, I told myself that it was just a side-scrolling game and there's nothing wrong with that. Anyways, shaking off the creeped out feeling I picked File 1 and chose Porky and when I selected and got started. The game froze for about 5 seconds and I heard a creepy pixelated laugh that sounded an awful lot like that Kefka guy from Final Fantasy before cutting to black.

The screen stayed black for about 10 seconds or more, then it showed the typical level title thing.

**World 1, Porky Pig X 1**

The level revealed Porky in World 1-1 from Super Mario Bros. 1, the music was different though, it sounded like a organ was playing. Anyway I started playing and had Porky start running like I would in any of the classic Super Mario games, what was odd was that as Porky was running along the level there was nothing but flat ground and a few bushes for 5 minutes, that was when the peaceful music started to lower down into slow deep tones very slowly as I kept going.

I suddenly saw something and I stopped to see what it was; it was one of the characters lying dead on the ground bleeding, Porky 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 I saw more dead animals as Porky moved past them looking more and more worried as the music lowers and he moves past more dead animals, I was shocked to see how they all died, they looked like somebody killed them in rather gruesome ways; Tom was hanged on a tree with what appeared to be his entrails hanging out, Bugs Bunny had all four of his limbs torn off and Daffy Duck had his eyes gouged out and his throat slit. I felt sick to my stomach when I saw this massacre and apparently so did Porky. After a few more seconds there were no more animals and the music seemed to have stopped, I still kept Porky to continue.

After a minute passed after the music stopped, Porky was running up a hill and then he stopped, it wasn't until I saw why; The Pink Panther was there on the other side of the screen with his back against Porky with his eyes closed. Porky looked happy to see The Pink Panther but then his smile faltered, obviously noticing that The Pink Panther wasn't responding to him, if not acting as if he was totally oblivious of Porky' presence. Porky walked slowly toward The Pink Panther, and I noticed that I wasn't even moving my keyboard to make him move, so this had to have been a cut scene.

Suddenly I began to have a growing feel of dread as Porky walked closer to The Pink Panther to get his attention, I felt that Porky was in danger and something bad was going to happen. I heard faint static growing louder as Porky was but inches away from The Pink Panther and stopped and stuck his hand out to touch him. That foreboding feeling in my gut was growing stronger and I felt the urge to tell Porky to get away from The Pink Panther as the static grew louder.

Suddenly in a split second I saw The Pink Panther's eyes open and they were black with those red glowing dots, just like that title image, thought there wasn't a smile. When that happened the screen turned black and the static sound was off.

It stayed black for about 7 seconds and then white text appeared forming a message, saying, "Hello. Do you want to play with me?"

At this point I was creeped out, 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 level title now saying "HIDE AND SEEK".

This time I was in Desert Hill from Super Mario Bros. 3 and it looked like everything was on fire.

Porky looked as though he was scared out of his wits this time. He actually looked at me and made 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 freaked out by this...I mean Porky was actually breaking the fourth wall, trying to tell me to get him out of there.

So I pressed down on the arrow key as hard as I could and made him run as fast as he could, a pixelated version of that creepy theme from Ghost Valley from Super Mario Kart was playing as I made Porky trek through the desolate desert, trying to help him escape from whatever he was trying to run from.

Suddenly I heard that creepy laugh again... that awful, Kefka laugh... right after 10 seconds have passed as I helped Porky run through the forest, and then I started seeing flashes of The Pink Panther popping everywhere on the screen, again with those black and red eyes.

The music changed to that suspenseful drowning jingle as I see The Pink Panther behind Porky slowly gaining up on him FLYING; The Pink Panther wasn't running, he was actually FLYING! The flying pose his sprite was making looked very similar to his flying from Jet Pink, except it was just The Pink Panther and he had the black and red eyes again, only 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 pig as he gained up on him.

Suddenly when Porky tripped, the music stopped and The Pink Panther vanished. Porky laid there and started crying for 15 seconds. The scene was rather upsetting to watch. But then The Pink Panther appeared right in front of Porky and Porky looked up in horror.

Blood started to come down those blackened eyes of The Pink Panther's as a grin slowly grew from his face as he looked down at the horrified pig, I could do nothing but watch.

Just in a split second Porky Screamed as The Pink Panther lunged at him right before the screen went black, there was a loud screeching noise that only lasted 5 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 The Pink Panther murder Porky? No, he couldn't have... Pigs are slaughtered to Meat, right? Why did The Pink Panther do that to him?

I shook the shock off as I was brought back to the character select, the save file that had Porky was different; Porky was no longer in the box itself but in the TV screen itself, which was flickering with that red static, Porky' expression was horrifying, his eyes were black and bleeding, his skin had gone black and he had an expression of anguish on his face, Trying to ignore it I picked Foghorn next.

The laugh came again and the screen cut to black again and stayed there for another 10 seconds, this time the level said "YOU CAN'T RUN".

I was really freaked out by now, I couldn't really tell if this was a glitch, or a hack, or some kind of sick twisted joke... or anything really. But despite what happened next, I kept playing.

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 dark reddish cloudy sky. But it was the music that creeped me out the most: It sounded like Giygas' theme right after I beat Pokey in Earthbound. I also noticed that Foghorn looked afraid just like Porky did, though not as much, more rather he looked a little unnerved. He broke the fourth wall just like Porky and looked as if 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 times and then that maddening laugh came again.

Then after a few seconds of running I notice several bloodstains on the metallic ground, I felt a growing sense of fear again thinking something horrible is going to happen to Foghorn. He looked nauseated walking down this blood-stained road, but I still kept him going.

Suddenly as Foghorn ran, The Pink Panther appeared right in front of him with those black and red eyes and then red static appeared again, when the static vanished showing nothing but black screen with text saying "FOuNd YOu!", I was now scared, The Pink Panther found Foghorn already?! What was going on?!

Anyway red static came again and then I was back to the level, Foghorn looked like he was panicking, and The Pink Panther was nowhere to be found. And this time that high-pitched squealing from the Silent Hill 1's final boss was playing.

Was this some kind of boss battle with The Pink Panther? I hoped to God it wasn't, honestly.

Suddenly The Pink Panther appeared right behind Foghorn in what appeared to be pixelated black smoke, I made Foghorn turn and then punch The Pink Panther, but The Pink Panther vanished in black pixelated smoke before I could even land a hit, that terrible laugh went off again. Then The Pink Panther appeared behind Foghorn again and then I made him punch again, and The Pink Panther vanished again laughing. Foghorn was panicking even more, and even I felt like I was going crazy, The Pink Panther was practically playing with us, he was playing a sick twisted little mind game with me and Foghorn...

Another cut scene played as Foghorn fell to his knees and clutched his head sobbing, I felt his agony, The Pink Panther was actually driving us BOTH crazy.

And then in a split second The Pink Panther lunged at Foghorn and the screen went black with another distorted screeching noise that lasted for at least 3 seconds.

Another text message appeared, "So many souls to play with, so little time... would you agree?"

What the heck... Just what is going on? I started to think The Pink Panther was actually trying to talk to me through the game... But I was too afraid to think that.

I was brought back to the main menu and this time the second file box had Foghorn in the TV screen, his body had darkened to a reddish grey, his beak were dripping with blood and his eyes were black and bleeding too, and he had a look of sadness on his face. I began to think that those are the actual characters trapped in those TV screens on the save files, but I couldn't believe it... I didn't want to believe it...

So I shut off the game. That night, I then began to have the most disturbing nightmare, I was in pitch black darkness, though I was under the light given off by a lamp that hung high above my head. I could hear the cries of Foghorn and Porky nearby. They were saying stuff like, "Help us..." and "Why did you give us to him?" and "Run away, before he gets you too..."

Their cries died out as I then heard The Pink Panther laugh, his laugh... it sounded a lot like the distorted Kefka laugh.

*"You're a lot fun to play with kid, just like your friend Stanley, though he didn't last long..."*

I was stunned and looking around for the source of the voice...

*"Won't be long now until you join him and all my other friends..."*

I saw him walking toward me, flickering in and out in several directions...

*"You can't run. You're in my world now. Just like the others..."*

When he grabbed me and I saw his bleeding black and red-eyed, grinning face, I woke up with a fright.

After a couple of hours I decided to continue playing the game. I don’t know why, but I had to know, I had to figure out why this was happening... So I turned on the computer, turned on the game and selected The Inspector next.

I still thought that was funny, playing as The Inspector, but anyway the level title appeared again and this time it said "Stairs", which I found really freaky.

This time I was in some kind of hallway. The floor was shiny and checkered, the walls were a dark greyish purple with animated candlelight’s and a few dark bloodstains here and there, and there was a dark red curtain hanging above on the top part of the screen. Every 12 seconds or so that red curtain sways very slowly, but whenever i'm playing the game I can barely see it move. The music was oddly pleasant, a piano playing a rather sad yet peaceful song, but I knew better, this was the Inspector Clouseau's Theme.

The Inspector didn't look entirely nervous like Porky and Foghorn did, but he did have a suspicious 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. So I had Inspector continue onward. He ran as we continued going through the hallway.

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

As I led The Inspector down the stairs, I noticed that the walls have gotten darker and more reddish; the red torches are now an eerie blue. Then we landed onto another hallway, this one was longer than the last one and then we headed down another flight of stairs down, this one was much longer, took at least 1 full minute.

And then I heard that horrid Kefka laugh again and then the music slowly faded until it was quiet, as it did the walls turned more dark red and the torches were a black flame now.

When Inspector landed onto the 3rd hallway, I noticed he now looked really creeped out, though he tried to hide it, I couldn't blame him, I was creeped out too.

Suddenly, The Pink Panther popped right in front of Inspector the same way he did Foghorn and then red static. The red static lasted for about 15 second and then it showed me a most unpleasant image...

The image showed a hyper-realistic of The Pink Panther standing in the darkness where I can only see his face while his head and torso faded into black, and when I say hyper-realistic, I mean like he looked so real I could actually see the lines in his pink fur, as if I could actually feel the fur if I touched the screen.

His face...oh god, he had the most horrifying smile I had ever seen.

And that's saying something considering I saw that image at the start of the game.

His eyes are wide and black and once again crying blood and there were two small glowing red dots in those black eyes staring RIGHT AT ME, as if staring into my mind. His grin was wide and demonic, it literally stretched to the sides of his face like a Cheshire Cat except The Pink Panther had fangs, VERY SHARP fangs, much like a Wolf's teeth except more vicious-looking, somewhat yellowish and from the look of it, he had stains of blood and small bits of flesh on his lips and fangs as if he ate some animal.

I stared at that gruesome image for a good 30 seconds, never taking my eyes off it, I felt as if he was actually looking at me, smiling at me...that face, it just took 10 seconds for it to etch itself into my brain for good.

Then the screen flickered with red static again 3 times, and on the 3rd time I heard the Kefka laugh, except this time it sounded distorted, demonic even...

It went back to the image again except this time there was the text again though it was messed up, but it was pretty much one of the most horrifying things I looked at since I had this game...

**"I AM GOD."**

It was when I read that message while looking at The Pink Panther when it hit me, I realized right there and then.

This Pink Panther was a monster, a pure evil, sadistic, all-powerful, nightmarish, demented monster... and all of his victims, including Porky, Foghorn, Inspector and possibly Stanley, are just his little toys, and the game is the very gateway into his chaotic, nightmarish world and the very Hell his victims are trapped in.

Suddenly in an actual split second The Pink Panther lunged at the screen screeching loudly with his mouth wide open to an unnatural length revealing nothing but a literally spiraling abyss of pure darkness before the red static came again, this time much louder and distorted, so loud that it hurt my ears, I yelled and grabbed my ears as the red static screeched for a good 7 seconds.

Then it stopped and showed nothing but black screen.

As I sat there staring at the black screen, one last text came up.

**"Ready for Round 2?"**

The Kefka laugh, now sounding more clear as if The Pink Panther was right behind me, played again 3 times as I looked at that text in shock and confusion.

Then I got booted back to the main menu and this time the third save file had a TV image of The Inspector in the same, tormented state as Porky and Foghorn; Inspector's skin turned a dull grey, his clothes had blackened and blood is coming from them and he had a mere dead like expression on his face.

I looked at Porky, Foghorn and Inspector, I pitied them for the agony they're going through, they were forever trapped within the game, forever tormented by that horrid panther, and always will be.

Then the computer shut itself off, I couldn't turn it back on no matter what I did.

I sat there for maybe 25 seconds, horrified by what had just happened...

I turned the computer back on, took the disc out my computer, broke it into pieces and put it in the trash. After I sat there for 25 seconds I heard a voice right behind me, like a whisper...

**"Try to keep this interesting for me, Robert."**

I turned around to see where the voice came from, and what I saw made me shocked...

Sitting on my bed... staring right at me...

... Was a Pink Panther plushie, smiling.

**That's All Folks!**