Sonic Frontiers Xci -

"Hey, circuit-breath!" Sonic shouted, skidding to a halt. "I've fought reality-warping gods before. You're just a glitch."

He hit the screen. Glass shattered. Code dissolved. Sonic woke up on a beach. The real beach. The sun was warm. His rings were back. sonic frontiers xci

"Nowhere, buddy," he said, stretching. "Just a reminder that some things are better left digital." "Hey, circuit-breath

"XCI," it boomed, the word echoing like a corrupted audio file. "The Unclaimed. The Form That Was Never Released." Glass shattered

It gestured with its controller-fingers. The frozen ghosts of Shadow, Knuckles, and Amy began to crumble into dust.

Sonic struggled. The grey plastic of the shelves began to crawl up his legs. He was being turned into a cartridge. A Frontiers cartridge. A physical object.

The XCI tilted its head. "I am not a glitch. I am the consequence. The physical form denied. The cartridge that was planned, promised, then… unmade. While your world ran on digital ghosts, I was left in the dark. Incomplete."