Sonic

Info: Sonic_The_Hedgehog.exe, better known amongst fans as Pendrive, is the main antagonist of the spanish creepypasta El Pendrive Azul, created and written by Sinuois roughly around March 20th, 2011. Being a computer program who lies on what's seemingly a modified copy of Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), he is responsible for the tragedies that Gonzalo and others deal with in the creepypasta itself. Despite the story on him, much of the entity itself, and his goals, and whether or not it is even an entity at all in the first place are left unknown, being more of an enigma. He notably predates the original Sonic.exe, leading towards later claims of plagiarism when the pasta was rediscovered in late 2023 by the EXE community. He is currently set up for a remake being made of his story.

The Enigma: Much of the knowledge around Pendrive is ambiguous in many aspects, from not being even sure if the entity is supernatural, or just entirely technological in nature. What is known, is that Pendrive comes from a game that is stored on a blue pendrive which is the central item in the creepypasta of the same name, and being the implied cause of the death of Gonzalo's friend, and is the one responsible for the horrors that Gonzalo experienced afterward in the events of the pasta itself. What Pendrive is can be summed up as an enigma, but one thing that everyone can be sure of is that its actions lean towards being malicious due to fact that he has victimized both known viewers of the game itself.

The Tale (Will be following for the story): The tale of Pendrive begins with the main protagonist, Gonzalo Guzmán Caamaño, being visited by his best friend. Something is off, considering how he seems terrified, is shaking, and was visibly pale. In his state he pushed a blue pendrive into Gonzalo's hand, and urged him to take it, the clear intensity of his state shocking Gonzalo, as his friend would break down, before his cries turned into screams, as he began to seize, quickly dying moments later to the horror, greatly disturbing Gonzalo, as memories of that night afterwards was left ambigious. The story picks up after his friend's funeral, with Gonzalo going to his room, holding in tears as he's going through the events of the night in his head, before he would remember about the one little thing that had happened that night, the pendrive.

After finding the pendrive, he plugged it into his PC to figure out what was on it, finding a file named something in a garbled text, and an exe file that didn't work, not until he renamed it to Sonic_The_Hedgehog.exe. Opening it revealed that it was a surprising sight, it was a Sonic game! Feeling curious, Gonzalo began to start to play the game, the first level being Act 1 of Green Hill Zone, which was entirely accurate, and seemed to be like how it was on the Genesis, except, after making a mistake and getting damaged, Gonzalo felt unnerved seeing red squares spread from Sonic's body as oppossed to the expected rings, unsettling him, but he kept going on despite a sense of unease. He completes the level, and that's when the last bit of normalcy for the game leaves, and the rest of what he sees is just disturbing.

Green Hill Act 2, or what was garbled text in the same manner as the file from before, started immediately off, the background had changed, into a slowly shifting mass that resembled the color of blood, filling Gonzalo with dread. To his horror, when he tried to leave the game nothing seemed to work, he tried all of the keys that he could, nothing was able to do it, growing in desperation before the screen began to distort, a warning that was followed by a flash flickering on the screen, causing Gonzalo paralysis, forcing him to watch the screen as female screams began to come from his speakers, the screen changing to a close up of Sonic's face, eyes crying blood, before text saying "R.I.P" started rapidly filling the screen, the screams getting louder, terrifying Gonzalo as he was unable to move, as the screen was filled with the text.

After a moment the text faded back to black, the screaming fading away as well, as in his paralysis, Gonzalo realized that he was going to end up like his deceased friend if he didn't do something. This fear was accentuated as a large countdown filled up the screen, a large 10 filling the now black screen, as Gonzalo struggled in his paralysis to break free. Ten... nine... eight... the countdown continued as his struggles seemed to slowly work, as he gained control of his body, dropping to the ground just as the countdown reached two, a bloodcurdling scream scaring him to pull his PC's power cord off, shutting the computer down, before he pulled the pendrive out, which Gonzalo promptly smashed into pieces, stopping whatever had happened, as he slowly calmed down, still shaking from the experience. It is revealed that he wasn't sure if he wanted to talk about it for some time, but there was one thing that he was sure about; he didn't want to know what was waiting at the end of that countdown.