BEGINNING HARD RESET PROTOCOL….
FLASH THE HEDGEHOG CODE SHUTDOWN INITIATED…..
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INITIATING REBOOT SEQUENCE….
LOADING ALL CHARACTER TRAITS…
PERSONALITY….100%
CONSCIOUSNESS….100%
"Huh? ...Where am I? …Why is everything black? And…who am I?"
BACKSTORY….100%
"Oh! I remember! My name is Flash. Everything is coming back to me. I must be being uploaded to the game."
MODEL…..100%
"I'm feeling very stiff. I can barely move. It's like I was hit by a truck. Hopefully it wasn't the G.U.N. truck."
LOADING OF CHARACTER TRAITS COMPLETE…..
LOADING MEMORY PRECEDING REBOOT…..
. . . . . . . ERROR ERROR
MOST MEMORY FILES CORRUPTED. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Hey. Something is coming to me, like I'm trying to remember something, but I can't wrap my head around it…"
INITIATING MEMORY DECODING PROTOCOL…..
UPLOADING CORRUPTED MEMORY FILES FOR RESTORATION
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LOADING UNCORRUPTED MEMORY…..
"What? What am I…?"
"I don't know who you are or how you got out of your game, but YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE OR ANYWHERE IN THIS ARCADE! FILTHY GLITCH!" A voice yelled.
…20%
"Wh-What? …G-Glitch?"
"Everyone hates you…"
….40%
"Who said that!?"
"Flash…you're not a real character."
…50%
A blurry vision became visible. A black void was below as pieces of ground became deleted. Flash saw himself floating above the landscape of a dark forest with a mansion in the middle being deleted. Below him was someone. Someone he couldn't recognize. His vision was too blurry to see who it was clearly.
"What's going on?"
"Flash! Snap out of it! Don't you remember me!?" Another voice called out.
It sounded like it was coming from the person below Flash. It wasn't a very clear voice, but it sounded like a girl.
"I'm sorry, but I don't think I do." Flash thought.
"It's me, ..a…e…l…e!" The name was too hard to hear.
"Who!?"
Suddenly, the ground that the strange girl was standing on began to crumble as it started to sink into the black void.
"FLASH!" The girl screamed.
"V…e….p..! NO!" A male voice roared.
"She's gonna fall!"
"Why should you care?" said another voice that seemed to come from within his own head.
"HELP ME!"
Flash ignored the voice and plummeted down to save the girl. He grabbed her by what seems to be the hood on a sweatshirt. He held her with one hand. Even though she was right in front of him, Flash couldn't make out what she looked like. Not even the colors were clear.
"Flash…?"
Flash raised his other hand and began to charge energy.
Wait! What am I doing? Who is she?" Flash thought.
He tried to stop himself, but his body wouldn't let him.
"Stop! STOP!" He begged himself.
"Flash! I know you're in there! You remember me! We played together! We raced together! You're my friend!"
"I…can't. I don't know who you are."
His other hand was about to shoot at the girl.
…100%
"NO!"
REBOOT COMPLETE
Flash jolted awake, sitting up in his bed in his room in the Tropical Resort. At least, he knows it's his room because it was programmed into his backstory. He was breathing heavily as if he woke up from a nightmare. It seemed like one, but he was just uploaded into the game. He looked to his left and there were others in his room. There was Sonic and Tails and he knew them even though they had never met. After all, it is their game and he was a newcomer. Next to Sonic, was…himself? It was himself in the model used for his backstory. There were also another two whom he had no knowledge to possibly recognize them. Standing behind Sonic and Tails was a big guy, about 9 feet tall, more or less, with messy auburn hair and huge blocky hands. He was wearing an orange-red plaid shirt under a pair of overalls with one of the straps broken. The other person was standing right next to his bed. It was a small girl who was maybe nine-years-old. She was wearing a mint green sweatshirt with a brown skirt that looked like a chocolate-peanut butter cup. She wore mismatched leggings and her hair was black and sprinkled with candy and styled into a pony-tail and held up by what seemed to be licorice.
"Flash!" The girl cried in an extremely happy voice.
She pounced on top of Flash, giving him a big hug.
"Whoa!" Flash exclaimed in surprise.
She quickly broke the hug and punched him on the shoulder.
"Don't you ever scare me like that again!" She pouted.
"I'm sorry, but…do I know you?"
Everyone but Flash took on an expression of shock. Silence was set in the room until someone walked out of the closet. A man wearing a blue buttoned shirt with a nametag that read "Felix" embroidered on it, blue pants with a tool belt strapped on that held a golden hammer, and a blue cap.
"What's going on? Did it work?" He asked.
The girl seemed to ignore the man that just walked in and focused on Flash.
"Flash, can't you remember? I'm Vanellope." The girl called Vanellope said, gesturing toward herself.
"…No. The name doesn't sound familiar. I know Sonic and Tails, not personally, and…" Flash glanced at his doppelganger. "…I don't know you. Who are you?"
The apparent copy of Flash stared at him with a confused expression.
"Flash, I'm Nega Flash. Look."
The double's pixels sparked white and changed to a dark purple. His spines turned upward, his pupils disappeared, and a black mark was emblazed on his chest. He looked at Flash, hoping that he would recognize him.
"Oh. It's only you." Flash said, seeming uninterested in his opposite half. "Can someone tell me what is going on?" He asked.
"Flash, can you remember anything from the past two days?" Sonic asked.
"Why would I? I was just uploaded into the game from an update, wasn't I?"
"Y-You mean…you can't remember anything at all?" Vanellope asked.
"Nope. Nothing. Clean slate. New character ready to go." He said cheerily.
