The checkered flooring of these halls have become something that you have gotten all too acquainted with. You and your ragtag team of survivors, who are all familiar to you, yet are from timelines entirely different to the other. Sonic, who doesn't even know who Cream the Rabbit, Blaze the Cat, or Silver the Hedgehog were at his early point in time, still assisted and fought with them regardless. The same could be said for even others like Dr. Eggman and Metal Sonic, who, despite their differences with the rest of the cast, had to push aside those strained relationships to focus on maintaining survival.

Everyone fights for their lives again, and again, and again. Even the giant green rings that appeared at at the final 80 of a round, those lustrous sanctuaries that lie just beyond the portal, were all temporary escapes. The "you" that escapes may go on to escape, but the real you, you were forced to stay within this realm, continuously dragged back into this never-ending purgatory. There's been talks amongst Tails the Fox and Dr. Eggman about possibly building some machine to help get everyone out permanently, but resources, are always scarce, progress always reset whenever the rounds are over. Hope for escape, at least permanent, is all but lost. Now, the only focus is to survive.

Which...is always easier said than done.

Blood stained the halls of this dungeon-esque castle. Once owned by Eggman, it had quickly become X's own domain in his own universe...through some wild turn of events, it appears as though this realm plucked that domain and made it the main setting for the "game." Dried and fresh splotches of red run along the purple brick walls, the torches illuminating what little left of the madness was going on.

Everyone was falling one by one. Tails went first, his arm cannon too slow to charge before X appeared and snapped his neck. Amy's hammer wasn't enough to deter the being. Knuckles held out strong until the end after he punched into X's counter stance, his last sight being a gleeful, yellow toothed grin as clenched fists came upon his skull. Metal Sonic self destructed as he grabbed X and charged away into some other room in an effort to save Cream, though this only temporarily staved off the executioner who quickly found his way back to the young rabbit and slew her true. Dr. Eggman, with nobody to distract X from his cowardly and cocky escapes, fell quick once exhausted. Blaze's flames dwindled as she ran out of energy. Silver's time bending didn't bend X.

Just you and Sonic left.

Yet, even then, before your very eyes, you watched as Sonic crumbled before the guilt of his own conscious, the life being crushed from his eyes as his clenched skull was snapped under X's once white gloves, stained with red.

Just you and it, now.

"Well, isn't this an ironic twist of fate." X drops Sonic's head and turned to you, crossing his arms with a gleeful grin. "Oh, why the long face? Don't look so down. After all, you got this far now. Shouldn't you feel...proud of yourself?" X laughed mockingly at your situation. "I'm impressed."

"Don't tell me you really think you can make it out now, though." X chuckled darkly. "I want you to know one thing. You and your "friends" only hurt me because I let you. Those "stuns" only stunned me because Iet you. I'm pretending to be weak. This is just a game. My game. No matter how many times you hit me, I will never break, or die. Even if you escaped now, don't you ever forget..."

X steps closer.

"I."

His grin widens sickeningly.

"AM."

His jaw unhinged to massive proportions. You could see swirling shadows within his mouth before it closed again.

"GOD."

X proceeded to fade into the air, before you feel his presence appear in front of you as he kicked your chest in, knocking the wind out of your lungs and sending you laying on your back.

He prepared to follow up by teleporting over your head and lifting both his hands over your skull, though you managed to roll out of the way.

Can't lay down and die like that, right? Show him what you're made of.