>>542510876
>Chapter 3: THE MONSTER
>Tom brought the disk to his college, he decided to show it to his friend Michael, Mike was always a paranormal enthusiast, Tom felt like this game was more than a game and thought he needed to show Mike.
Michael? I don't remember this guy from JC lore. This is getting dangerously distant from the Sonic.EXE continuity
>Tom: I might sound crazy but this disk is haunted!
>Mike: Don't worry, I have seen stuff like this, after everything you've told me, there is no way this is just a game.
>They connected Mike's laptop to the projector screen, the disk was inserted, the first thing they saw when they opened the game was Amy, her neck was tied to rope, they could hear whimpers in the background. "Tom, It's Me!" a voice said, it was Tom's mother's voice, it's been so long since Tom heard her voice, more voices played in the background, as those voices played, more characters would appear on the screen hanging, the words "Help Me!" was repeating multiple times, it all stopped as Knuckles appeared on the screen, "Tom, please help us!", it was Kyle's voice, Tom and Mike were scared, something started coming out of the screen, that creature was a demon, created in the image of Sonic.
So the dead mother appeared again but the missing father never appears after the initial mention. Maybe he's for the sequel!
>The creature started to hunt Tom and Mike down, " Where are you?" the creature said, Tom asked "Who are you?" X responded "I AM GOD! Xanthos would slowly hunt them down, Tom and Mike were trying to hide, as they thought they were safe, X bursted through a window, Xanthos devoured Michael, all Tom could see was Michael's body, Tom had a dark thought, if Xanthos was the reason all these souls were trapped then the only way to escape to take his own life, Tom held a piece of broken glass to his neck, X tried to stop him.
All of these events are identical to the 2017 remake except depicted in a 100x more incompetent way