Frontiers Xci - Sonic

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."

Sonic the Hedgehog was used to cyberspace glitches, the weird in-between of Starfall Islands. But this was different. The usual grid of light splintered into jagged, physical shards, and the air smelled less of ozone and more of… copper and old plastic. sonic frontiers xci

The XCI screamed. Light—warm, yellow, real light—pierced the ceiling of the tomb. It wasn't cyberspace logic; it was a bedroom lamp. It was a kid's face peering at a TV screen. The XCI tilted its head