I beamed broadly as I generously tipped my mailman $3 and went back inside to hastily unwrap the capture card I determinedly ordered off of Amazon Smile. eight days, three hours, and twenty-six minutes ago that had just been trustworthily delivered to me. Finally, my lifelong dreams of becoming a YouTube superstar would be brought to fruition by me. I could finally begin my monumental Let's Play of Sonic 06 the Hedgehog: 2006.

I cheerfully popped the game disc into my X-box 360 Elite after I finished setting up everything with the capture card and my headset and microphone and facecam and started playing joyfully. I steadfastly made sure to scream and rage hilariously whenever I died to something with a bug-eyed expression on my luminous face, and I reliably joked about Sonic the Hedgehog furiously yiffing Miles "Tails" Prower or Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik when ever they were in a scene together. My comedy game, no pun intended, was on fire!

I played Sonic the Hedgehog's story until I got to the point in the game where I unlocked Shadow the Hedgehog's story. When I got to the point in the game where I unlocked Shadow the Hedgehog's story, I immediately switched over, because Shadow the Hedgehog was the most bad ass Sonic the Hedgehog character there was.

I got through White Acropolis just fine after two game overs with a final score of 8810, final time of 23'02''665, final ring count of 95, final time bonus of 0, final ring bonus of 9500 and final total score of 18310. But when I reliably got to Kingdom Valley, strange things started mysteriously happening. That horrible Navi "Hey, listen!" from The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time was heard coming from my computer. I soon couldn't take it any more and swiftly went over to my computer to diligently see what was going on.

I singlemindedly rewinded the capture card footage to concernedly see what was currently going on. I was cruelly beheld by a ghastly sight. The creepy music from Haunty Halls Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy 2 was playing, except instead it was creepily playing backwards. Instead of the footage of Kingdom Valley I just subserviently recorded, the screen was comprehensively filled up by static the color of blood, and the music also ghoulishly had static too.

I forebodingly witnessed that in the middle menacingly stood Shadow the Hedgehog, or as I decisively decided to call him, Gohegdeh eth Wodahs. I summarily called him this name because instead of the normal red highlights on the fur of the five pointy tipped upward curving spines on his head, the red highlights were instead smeared gruesomely on his black fur with blood that was so lifelike it looked hyperrealistic. The normal red pupils of his eyes were instead made of blood, and blood poured from his eyes. On the tips of his five spines was blood that dripped off of them in an analogously hyperrealistic fashion, like he had recently finished mercilessly goring some poor innocent bystander using them. Most horrifyingly of all, the normal confident scowl on the mouth of Shadow the Hedgehog was instead replaced on the mouth of Gohegdeh eth Wodahs with a pernicious smirk that piercingly chilled me to my very core. With a dreadful opening of his terrible mouth, he said (a/n: this is my name irl don't stalk me) "Mark, you saved me... from my prison inside Sonic 20006. Now I am free to FEAST ON YOUR SOUL!"

I figured it was a glitch, so I kept on playing.