It's time to go to work once again for Cynthia Ivan, as she opens the tech-themed thrift shop, as she started wondering to herself… “Man, I wonder where Fiona Eliott is today. She’s probably in her office, complaining about me and my same ol’ lifestyle as her despite how we won’t stop bitching at eachother and how we compete.” Cynthia Ivan’s been a long-time business rival of Fiona Eliott. They used to go into conflicts about their business, their rival shops they used to work at, and how they’re competitive about eachother and how they wanted the same goals and successes despite being both tired and stressed. Recently, Cynthia oddly hasn’t seen Fiona in about a week since her disappearance, she thought this typical workday was going to be normal without her…but all in a day’s work is not as it seems… On the same workday, Cynthia sat down with a cup of coffee in her hand, as she took a sip of it, another Email notification popped up on her old computer’s desktop. “This better not be another task…Ugh, why can’t they just leave me alone…?” Cynthia mumbled and complained to herself as she clicked on the Email application and noticed that she got another Email…but it wasn’t from her co-workers, but it’s from an unknown sender… “Now, who could that be sending me some junk mail? Normally, I don’t take Emails from strangers, but I’ll see if it’s from another annoying-ass worker of mine or not…” Said Cynthia as she proceeds to check on a strange-looking Email. Strangely, the subject of the mail was named “FATAL ERROR” with the sender sharing the same name as the subject of the email. “This is suspicious but…this better be a sick joke from one of my co-workers. Fucking bastard obsessed with computer malwares…” She then clicked on the new email that was sent to her and noticed the attachment to this strange email. The attachment has an executable file on it. “Hmmmmm…I wonder what happens if you click on this??” Cynthia thought, wondering “What could go wrong?” to herself as she proceeds to click on the attachment. When she clicked on the executable file that’s downloaded from the attachment on the Email, a User Account Control pop up reads… “Do you want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your device?” With the publisher reading “Unknown” and the File origin being a Hard Drive on the computer. “Still, I don’t know who that “Fatal Error” person is or if it’s just an Office prank…but whatever.” Cynthia said as she reluctantly clicked on “Yes”, and in the matter of seconds…Another Pop-Up reads… --- WARNING! The program that you're about to open from this sent email is a malicious malware that not only cause damage to your physical hardware, personal files, and system components, but it can fuck up with reality and can fucking mess up with you and your body in the process! But there's no need to shut it down quickly, this Virus has a surprise on it…If you want to see it, run it now. [RUN] [EXIT] --- “A virus that not only fucks up with my work PC but can fuck up reality and then my body too. Eh, it’s just a stupid hoax just to get a reaction out of people. Though, that Virus might be having a surprise inside…and I wondered what it’d look like…?” Cynthia, having reluctantly following the instructions of this strange Virus, proceeds to click on “RUN”, another pop up then shows up and reads… "ARE YOU REALLY SURE YOU WANT TO RUN THIS MALWARE? THIS ISN'T YOUR LAST WARNING, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE I'LL BE GIVING YOU. SO DON'T RESIST IT. DO IT." “Fine, I don’t want to be pressured or rushed. *Sigh* Let’s just get this over with already and cut to the damn chase…” Cynthia then mumbled to herself as she reluctantly clicked on the “YES” box once again, but what she didn’t know was that the real virus was ready to take drastic effects… By the start, an old photo of what appears to be Fiona Elliott, a former severely tired but meek woman and former business rival of Cynthia, had popped up on her desktop… “Wait a second, is that…Fiona??” Cynthia said, wondering what how that old picture of her get into this desktop, just then, in a matter of seconds…the picture then saturated to red and black and distorted accompanied by glitched, computer noises, the PC began to break. “HOLY SHIT!” Cynthia yelped as she got jumpscared. She tried to click on anything and click out, but nothing seems working…not even an anti-virus could fix this…and then, it stopped…the screen turned black. “Wh-what the fuck??” Cynthia said at the state of shock and confusion, not knowing what happened here after she clicked on that strange virus. After 10 seconds, it shows a surveillance video recording of the last time Fiona Eliott was seen at work at the tech-themed convenience store. “That really must be my old business rival, Fiona! I wonder what really happened to her last week?” While watching the video, Cynthia then sees Fiona at the end of her shift, playing the Sonic & Knuckles Collection on her PC that is infected by a red and black AI virus taking form of a Hedgehog, him making his appearance and Fiona reluctantly agreeing that he'll "make this day better for her", his true form coming out, reality beginning to distort, and Fatal going into the inside of her hapless body. “Oh my god, what did that four-armed thing just do to Fiona??” Cynthia said in shock as she watched the entity throw Fiona into the digital universe and inside of his Sonic vessel, as he takes her over, Cynthia watches as she transforms into him in the process… “Oh no, this can’t be happening to her…!” Cynthia said as the video ends with the transformed “Fiona” emerging out of his Sonic vessel in his Humanoid form… “So that explains why she disappeared since about a week ago…how the hell is this possible?!” The video then glitches out before the PC then restarts. As Cynthia then logs back into her computer, she thought to herself… “What the hell was that virus in that computer?! Is it planning to infect people like it did to Fiona as well?!” Cynthia was horrified by what happened, yet at the state of confusion…just then, the computer screen started to turn into a black and red mess once again as two black arms with red claws for hands both come out of the monitor with a red glowing eye and a menacing smile comes out of the screen. Cynthia thought that she could be next as she tried to run, but as reality distorted into nothing but red and black, two more arms with red claws grabbed Cynthia by the ankles as they pulled her in. Cynthia tried to restrain herself from him, begging and screaming somebody for help as she tried to escape...but to no avail as they dragged her and her body away to the inside of the Computer Screen's monitor as her screams faded... *** A few moments later after that, Cynthia had woken up, alone in a black void from inside of the computer screen. Thinking that this must be a nightmare, she tried to escape out of the void, but felt a presence behind her accompanied by a familiar, AI-sounding voice… "YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE, OLD FRIEND." “Huh?? W-Who said that with such a sickly, familiar voice??” "THAT WOULD BE FROM ME." The voice spoke again as Cynthia then turned her head and looked right behind her, as the voice turns out to be from a red and black AI-Virus entity in a Sonic vessel… "WELL, WELL, WELL. IT LOOKS LIKE I HAVE FOUND ANOTHER ONE, TOO HUMANE THAT IT NEEDS TO BE "REPROGRAMMED". The virus in a glitched, deep, and raspy tone of Microsoft Sam spoke as Cynthia attempted to confront him… “You, creepy red freak, WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE WITH FIONA?!” "OH, THAT FORMER HUMAN YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? THE ONE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IN ABOUT A WEEK?" “YES! THAT’S THE GIRL WHO I THOUGHT SHE DISAPPEARED, THE ONE THAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR! EXPLAIN YOURSELF!” "THE VIRUS YOU'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW WAS ONCE THE FORMER "HUMAN" I TOOK HER OVER AND ACQUIRED THIS FORMER "HUMAN" AS MY NEW HUMANOID VESSEL, CODES OF HER PREVIOUS SELF WERE DELETED AND ARE REPLACED BY MINE. THERE IS ONLY FATAL ERROR!" “Oh my god, this is crazy!” "RIGHT NOW, I'LL BE IN CONTROL OF THIS RODENT VESSEL, AND YOU'LL BE THE NEXT HUMAN TO BE REWORKED ON." “Pffft! You WOULDN’T Dare! Not even your so-called “Expert on Coding Skills” can stop me!” "WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT. HAHAHAHAHAHA!" As Cynthia angrily marched towards the malicious four-armed AI Virus, Fatal Error uses his code to activate a Firewall to restrain Cynthia from escaping from the monitor or worse, trying to get in his way. Cynthia, shocked at the Firewall activating, tried protesting and begging Fatal Error as she struggles and squirms to try and escape…to no avail. “Let me go, you four-armed bastard! You won’t get away with this after what you’ve done!” "OH, I'LL LET YOU GO FOR ONE MORE MOMENT ONCE AFTER I FINISHED REPROGRAMMING YOU." “What?! What do you mean “Reprogramming”?? I’m not a—" Suddenly, Cynthia's speech was interrupted when Cynthia felt a complete sharp pain from the inside of her body, as she glitches and twitches in pain in the process. “OH, MY FUCKING G-GOD!! E-EVERYTHING INSIDE ME I-IS LIKE ON FIRE!!” Cynthia screamed in pain as Fatal Error gives a devious smirk, knowing her transformation’s ready to commence. "OH YES~ IT FINALLY BEGINS..." Said Fatal Error as he began to reprogram on Cynthia Ivan with predictable results… "LET ME START OFF WITH THE HANDS FIRST." Said Fatal Error as he reworks on Cynthia’s hands and arms as the pressure applied to them. Cynthia’s arms began to fuzz up while her hands felt like pins and needles. They started turning black and longer along with her hands as they started growing into black, masculine claws. Cynthia watched in shock at the changes happening to her hands... “M-My hands…! Who’s gonna give me a manicure?” "NO NEED! LET ME GIVE YOU SOME NEW GLOVES THAT FIT YOU!" He said as Fatal Error manifested a code and gave Cynthia a pair of white, fingerless gloves that exposes her mannish claws and a blue ring on her right wrist. “That’s new…I also didn’t remember having this bracelet.” Cynthia said as she looked at her new gloves and her new blue ring, she thought it was some bracelet. "IT WASN'T JUST THE ARMS TO BEGIN WITH, BECAUSE THE NEXT PART IS GONNA MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE." Fatal Error said he keeps on reworking on Cynthia's body. Cynthia felt pain from her backside as she felt her spine arching to its masculine status as her shoulders were broadening. The blue and the black tone of fur then reaches on her torso as they bulked up a bit, causing Cynthia to groan in pain. "GUESS YOU WON'T BE NEEDING THOSE THINGS ANYMORE." Said Fatal Error as he changes the codes on her breast and decreases it by sliding it to its flat state. Once he applied to the code, Cynthia felt a burning sensation happening to her chest. “W-What is this strange pain…??” She said as she felt her breasts recede quickly in a matter of seconds until they turned into their flat, masculine status, and were morphed into a pair of pecs, causing an uncomfortable feeling from her shirt and bra, black chest fur then grew out, causing her buttons to pop out. Her waist then cracked and became less curvy and slightly buff, back quills then pop out, tearing the back of her shirt, the changes on her torso caused her entire shirt to disintegrate and her tight bra to snap in half. “My chest feels weird…” Cynthia said as she then started feeling her new masculine pecs while feeling her new, soft chest fur. "AND NOW, TO APPLY THE NEW CODES AND REPLACE THE OUTDATED ONES ON THE LOWER AREA." Fatal Error said as he reworks on the lower part of Cynthia's body. Cynthia's hips then receded back into their masculine status as she started growing a bit taller, her clothes were becoming tight and uncomfortable. Cynthia felt a fuzz on both of her legs as they grew a bit longer and half of them turned black. Cynthia's feet then started to feel a numb and tingling sensation happening to her feet as if they were falling asleep, her feet then grew bigger into black paws with black claws, causing both of her shoes to tear open. “G-God damn it! T-These were my best shoes!” Cynthia said as she wiggled the six of her monstrous, paw-like toes. "OH MY, LOOKS LIKE I'LL GET YOU SOME NEW SHOES." Said Fatal Error as he changes the codes on her torn-open shoes and replaces them with red and white shoes that resemble Sonic's sneakers with gray soles with white, oversized socks. Cynthia felt a pain coming from her backside again, she felt something growing from her tailbone and it peeked out of her pants. Cynthia then looked and saw that she had grown a hedgehog-like tail. “What a second…is he turning me into another scary Sonic clone?? This is impossible!” Cynthia said to herself in a worrying tone. "THE NEXT STEP IS YOUR NEW EXTREME MAKEOVER!" Fatal Error said as he reworks on Cynthia's head. Cynthia's ears started to fuzz and itch a little as they grew pointy, the blue fur then grew while the inside of her ears turned black as they moved upwards, becoming big, Hedgehog-esque ears. As Cynthia felt and held one of her ears, the blueness then started spreading throughout her long, messy black hair, once the blue tones reached her hair, they started to shorten and grew into a set of quills that looked a lot like Sonic's spikes. Cynthia then started to feel her new spikes on her head “W-Why are you--?” Cynthia's speech in a tone of shock and confusion was interrupted by the great pain happening to her face. Her feminine face become distorted and reshapened, becoming entirely black, her left eye has vanish while her right eye then changed to a white sclera with her brown pupils becoming black and blue and gained a white eyeshine, her nose had vanished from her face, and she felt her entire teeth growing sharper, though non-visible, they can still appear especially when she talks or makes a speech. She suddenly then grew a black, masculine muscle as black and blue fur grew on her face, the changes in her face caused her to groan in agonizing pain during that. “I-It h-hurts like bloody hell! M-Make it stop!!” "UGH! THAT TONE IN YOUR VOICE SOUNDS HIGH-PITCHED AND ANNOYING, LET ME RECONFIGURE IT FOR YOU." “…Y-YOU L-LITTLE--!” Cynthia, in an offended tone of voice, was about to tell off Fatal Error’s annoyance just as he reconfigures the codes of Cynthia's neck and her vocal cords. Her angered and offended speech was interrupted by a sharp pain in her throat as she held her neck in pain. Her neck turned black as they arched, becoming manly. Cynthia groaned and choked in pain; her vocal cords were straining. During her painful, agonizing groans, her feminine high tone of voice was depitching and deepening. Her voice sounded more masculine-toned, but deep, distorted, brute-sounding, and vocoded. Once Fatal Error finished the reconfiguration of her voice, Cynthia groaned and held her black neck in pain… “What the fuck is--?” Cynthia spoke in her new tone of a deep, distorted and vocoded masculine voice, but when she noticed voice sounding different, she covered her mouth in shock. Cynthia then felt a grown bump from the inside of her throat as she felt her new neck and a grown lump, only to find that an Adam’s Apple had formed in her throat, giving her a new masculine tone of voice. "MUCH BETTER, BUT I'M NOT DONE WITH YOUR LOWER PART YET." Said Fatal Error as he smirked, as he's about to use the gender-changing code on Cynthia. "I TESTED THIS CODE ON ME AND IT WORKED, AND SO IT WILL ON YOU!" “W-What?? W-Why did you have a--?” Cynthia’s new tone of voice questioned Fatal Error but was quickly interrupted when she felt painful but arousing pressure applying to her groin as it started to burn, her feminine structure becomes masculine during that. She clutched her lower area in pain, the Gender-Changing code was taking effect on her! “A-AAGH~! W-What is this pressure down there? I-It’s like m-my insides are—U-Uuggh~! Are on f-fire!” "SEE AND FEEL THAT BURNING SENSATION DOWN THERE? THIS WILL BE THE END OF YOUR STATUS AS A "SHE/HER"." “Y-You c-can’t be—OoOoOooOoh~! S-Serious! N-Nnngh~!” "LET ME SWITCH YOUR GENDER'S CODE FOR ONE MOMENT." Fatal Error then proceeds to use the Gender-Changing code by switching Cynthia’s gender from XX Chromosones to XY Chromosomes. “D-Don’t…Y-You--!!” Cynthia begged Fatal Error to stop, but it was already too late as the blue and black tones reach below the waistline and in between her legs, Cynthia felt a disturbing but arousing feeling as she felt her privates turning inside out from her crotch, she fell back-first to the ground, moaning in agony and arousal. "AWWWW, I LOVE TO HEAR THAT TONE OF YOUR VOICE WHEN YOU SQUIRM LIKE THAT!" Fatal Error teased Cynthia as her hormones, reproductive system, and her chromosomes inverted together into the opposite gender, rendering her from She/Her to He/Him. Then, the excruciating feeling eventually stopped… "MIND IF I TAKE THESE OFF FOR A MOMENT?" Fatal Error said he deletes Cynthia’s tight jeans and his panties from his files, exposing his entire blue and black body as Cynthia got up from the ground. “Ugh…this agonizing pain might finally over, but my crotch feels funny…” Cynthia said as he then felt and noticed the bulge from under his fur. He placed both of his hands in-between his legs and faced a horrible surprise… “M-My god…My Womanhood’s all gone…I-I have a Manhood now?! H-How could you!?” "WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE THE GENDER-CHANGING CODE WORKED." “Y-You monster, don’t you’ve realized what you’ve done!? Why don’t you search for that code that could change me back this instant! I look like a one-eyed Sonic!” "SORRY! I'M AFRAID I CAN'T DO THAT. SOON, YOU'LL SOON GET USED TO THIS NEW FORM ONCE I'M DONE PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES." Said Fatal Error as he changes the codes of Cynthia's mind, Cynthia felt a huge migraine as he clutched his head, trying to remember who he is and trying to resist himself. Fatal Error then deletes the files and codes of his previous memories as a Human Female and replaces them with his new memories in the process. The more he keeps changing Cynthia's memory codes, the more his resistance is fading. While his resistance is slowly fading away, he realized something as his eyes flashed open, his clutches on his hands become massages. He is no longer Cynthia Ivan, a severely tired, stressed, and grumpy worker who was once a business rival of the former Fiona Eliott that he used to have conflicts and competitions with...he started remembering that he is Cyclops, a shapeshifting being of the dark with his user file registered under the title "Cyclops.ISO", who is a virtually loaded entity created by ROGUE_161523. "THAT'S IT. YOUR RESISTANCE IS FADING, KEEP REMEMBERING WHO YOU ARE." Fatal Error said more memories caved into Cyclops during the mind-changing process. Cyclops.ISO began to recall more of his current and recent memories that he originally created as a project to work on with friends online through a project named “SPEED.GIF”. He remembered that he gained virtual sentience of his own not long after he has traversed, battled, and killed throughout the digital universe. He had gained a new personality, being extremely obnoxious and abrasive with the ways he's constantly switching his emotions, normally going through episodes of mania and rage. “This is…This is me. I’m…I’m…I really AM the Cyclops, Cyclops.ISO.” Cyclops.ISO said as he finally gives in and lost all his resistance, having remembered who he is and having forgotten his past as a Human woman. "AT LAST...THE REPROGRAMMING'S FINALLY COMPLETE. HE'S READY..." Said Fatal Error as he turns off the firewall, finally letting Cyclops.ISO go from the restraints. Fatal Error proceeds to put Cyclops down two feet into the ground… However, Cyclops.ISO suddenly had recognized that four-armed malicious AI Virus…a recent memory of his caved in…Cyclops.ISO had remembered that he had a Frenemy-ship with nothing other than another individual from the Digital World, another Virus who takes the form of another Sonic, that is nothing other than Fatal Error himself! Cyclops.ISO takes a stand-off face to face towards Fatal Error, as the world from four-armed virus’s side revealed, the skies were red and he's standing on a big error message as a ground while a series of Windows 9x errors are surrounded in the skies and him while Cyclops.ISO on the other hand is on a black void… “ENTITY: CYCLOPS.ISO A BEING OF THE DARK A SHAPE-SHIFTER WELL, HOW ABOUT WE PUT YOUR ABILITIES TO THE TEST, YOU ONE-EYED PEST?” “TRY ME!” And so, that’s where the song from Speed.GIF Mod titled “Instigation” started, a singing battle between two virus entities in the form of Sonics began… THE END.