Vanellope couldn't believe what was happening right in front of her. Flash lost all his memory. Everything they did, their race at Sugar Rush, the glitching practice, their friendship, all of it was wiped from his code. Looking more closely at him, Flash's fur didn't seem to be as bright as it usually was. His cyan fur seemed to be duller and not as vibrant. Even his eyes were different. They weren't golden amber, but rather dull grey, yet they still had that spark of innocence that he always had.

"Felix, check Flash's memory banks." Tails said.

"O-Of course." Felix complied.

He wasted no time in jumping back into the code room and locating the memory banks of the characters. He found the code with everyone's memory and tapped it twice. The code opened up and listed the memories of all the characters in the game. Tails…Amy…Cream…Silver…Then Flash.

"Here it is!"

Felix opened Flash's memory and the screen showed all his memory files were there, but few of them were actually readable. A window then popped up and revealed the progress of rewriting the illegible files.

1% Complete…

"Hmm…I found the problem!" He called out.

Felix floated through the code back into the bedroom.

"Well? What's wrong with Flash?" Ralph asked.

"Nothing is actually wrong with Flash himself, but I'm guessing that when he crashed, most of his memory files became corrupted. But, the game's system is working to decode the corrupted files so that Flash's code can read it again." Felix explained.

"Then, what do we do?" Nega asked.

"There's nothing to do. All we can do is wait for his memory to come back to him."

"Wait, wait. Hold the phone." Flash said. "Are you saying that I was already active before all this?"

"Of course, Flash. You've been active for a whole year already." Sonic said.

"What!? A whole year!? I've been in this game for a year and I can't remember any of it?"

"Calm down, Flash." Felix assured. "You will be able to remember. It's just gonna take a bit of time."

"How long?" Flash asked.

"A few days. Maybe even a week or two."

Flash looked down at the rug, with his ears drooping downward.

"Uh…Can I get a moment alone?" He asked as he swiftly walked out the door of his room into the Resort.

The others wanted to stop him from leaving, but they all held back. Flash had to get out of there. He wanted some time to think. He walked through the Resort, thinking about the past life that he can't remember.

"How can I not remember? Wouldn't it be as easy as remembering what I had for breakfast yesterday? Why is it that I can't remember?" These thoughts circled around in his head. "Wait a minute. They had the code room open. What were they doing in there? Were they trying to fix something? Wait another minute…The short blue guy with the hammer said that my memories were corrupted when I…crashed. Did he mean that my code crashed?" Flash started to get short of breath. "How did I crash? Did my programming fail? Was there a glitch in my code? Did I catch…a…virus?"

After walking around, caught in a whirlwind of confusion, Flash found himself at the beginning of Act 1 of Tropical Resort. He felt as though he had been here before, even though he has no memory of being here.

"I think…that…I was here before, but…Aw! Come on! Think!" He groaned in a frustrated voice, tapping his fist on his forehead.

"Here we…GO!"

Flash looked in front of him and saw that a transparent version of himself, like a ghost from a racing game, was running off into the level.

"Hey! Wait!" Flash shouted as he ran after his ghost.

Both he and the ghost sped to a spring that launched both of them to a higher platform. Some robots were in their way and the ghost seemed to just boost past them. Flash followed and boosted through the robots, wrecking them. Soon they came across a rail that leads to the next section. Flash continued to follow the ghost and both went grinding to the next section where the ghost just suddenly stopped in his tracks, right in front of a horde of robots and a wisp capsule. Flash screeched to a halt right behind the ghost.

"Hey! Who are you?" He asked.

The ghost didn't respond. He only stared at the robots ahead of him and let out a sad sigh. The ghost began walking back the way he came with his head down, as if disappointed.

"Who am I kidding?" Flash's ghost said. "I'll never be able to be played as."

The ghost walked right through Flash and faded away.

"Was that…one of my memories?" Flash thought.

He turned towards the horde of robots and ran towards them.

LAZER!

Flash transformed into a dull cyan laser and sliced through every one of the robots like a bunch of bowling pins. He jumped the launch ramp over to the next area and jumped up to some suspended platforms hanging in midair. He just stopped there, looking up at the star-filled sky, wondering about whatever happened in the past.

"I'm sure everything will resolve itself when their back." Flash thought.

"Hey. Are you okay?" Someone asked.

Flash turned around and saw that Nega Flash, using the backstory model, was right behind him.

"Oh. Sorry for being in your way. I'll just leave." Flash says in a droll tone as he tries to walk away.

Nega pulls him back by grabbing his hand.

"Hold on. Where you going?" Nega asked.

"Anywhere, but here." Flash answers as he pulls his hand away.

"Hey. What's wrong? I only want to help."

"Why would someone like you wanna help me out?"

"Because were practically twin brothers. We were programmed to be one character and we look mostly the same-"

"WE ARE NOT THE SAME!" Flash yelled.

Nega Flash was surprised by his outburst. It wasn't like him to get angry easily.

"Look. I don't know what your game is, but I don't want anything to do with it, so leave me alone." Flash growled angrily as he began to jog away. "Why don't you go and plot with Eggman or something? Isn't that what bad guys do?"

Flash ran off back to his room while Nega just stood there. That wasn't the same Flash that he watched over for the past year. Losing his memories did something to him.

"Flash…what happened to you?" Nega thought as he walked away in the opposite direction.