Epic Mickey - Go on (revised)

It had been at least a good three years since I played the first Epic Mickey game on the Nintendo Wii and perhaps a good six months since getting midway through its sequel on the same console. I decided I had time, I wasn't at college at the moment and I just decided to play a bit of the second one so I turned on my Wii and heard a couple of clicking sounds. I checked out the console and made sure it working by fiddling with its settings. It seemed fine and I started up the game, this time I got a lot farther than before but something didn't seem right. The music sounded a bit distorted like if someone had mixed a sound of clattering dishes to the soundtrack, I went straight to the games settings and made some sound tests and everything seemed normal. After an hour or so I finally got to the level where I was to face Gremlin Prescott's mech. But something seemed odd, Prescott stared at the screen as if he was looking at me; his eyes seem cold and frightened. He opened his mouth waning to speak but the game glitched and began the fight, I was stunned. The game never did that and kept me intrigued. Already engaged using paint to stop the mech but Oswald kept crying out in pain "You're making things worse!"

Gremlin Gus on the other hand sounded sickly trying to cry out " It's no use! Stop before it's too late!"

I kept playing on until I heard a shivering faint whisper towards my ear. "Go on..." I turned fast looking around for anyone behind me but nothing was there not even a light from any of the other rooms.

So I just continued to play until it got very dark in my living room; I paused the game and turned on the living room light, There was black ink on the floor in the shape of a splattered heart again that same message "Go on..." was on it. I freaked out and paused the game rushing to get the the pine sol to mop up the mess. After an hour of desperately trying to clean it off, I heard Prescott's voice... How could that be... the game was on pause. I heard it again this time as if he was right behind me, I was becoming to scared to move...."Prescott?" I murmured...

No response came, I went back into the game getting to the cutscence called " The Fall of Prescott" I remembered having listen to the song before on a sample clip but... the song was very different from what I've heard. The lyrics on the screen were distorted gibberish written text and the vocals were muffled and horribly unrecognizable. Prescott looks at the screen again, his eyes were soulless and very heartbreaking to look at. Soon he reached his hand out, it clearly looked like I could reach and touch it. I wanted to. I ended up reaching out feeling the softness of his glove for only one second and I was jerked back into my seat as the game glitched and Prescott was gone.

I shut the game off thinking it was all in my mind and the game was hacked altered by my sister's friend, I decided to get to bed but that night I couldn't sleep, I kept thinking about the ink spatter on the and Prescott staring. I still couldn't believe how managed to feel his hand and the way thee game was acting up, just then I felt a large black inky hand press down on my chest.

This time I heard the voice more clearer. "Go on..."

Quickly I flashed the light from my iPod to see the Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse doll I owned sitting on my chest in the manner of a dog, I was in a state of confusion was it planted there as a joke by one of my family members or was there something more to this, something I would most likely regret?

Two days later I took it to a friend that happened to know a thing or two about hacking the disc data and seeing if it was altered. I waited with him for majority of the day reading that the code seemed normal. Suddenly it clicked there was a file that read. Ink.mpeg

My friend copied it to a DVD-r and sent me on my way in a rude manner. Later on after supper and everyone went to sleep I placed the disc into my laptop and played the video. It opened like a retro cartoon, the title card was just like a 30's Mickey Mouse cartoon. The title of the cartoon was  just called Rainy Day.

I thought to myself. “Was this a scrapped cartoon made for the game?”

The short began with Oswald walking down the streets where there was no one in sight not even a bunny kid was hopping around and as the title indicated it was raining. The camera didn't show his face through out the short  and the audio seemed normal for the music was of a simple string quartet score and the dialogue however sounded faint. The only words I could hear was. “This was all your fault...”

I let the short play till the very end and I noticed Oswald's body was trailing ink and paint almost like if he was hit with thinner and was slowly dying. But then it hit me as the camera finally showed his face, I remembered seeing fanart of the first game back in late 2009 of a demented Oswald similar to what I was seeing on the screen since originally he was set to be the villain until it was changed to him being neutral. The ink was dripping from his ears and pretty much his body, the crimson like smile oozing from cheek to cheek, and the more shocking feature his eyes they were like buttons sown in badly; they looked like almost something out of Coraline.

The short ended with a close up shot of his grinning face saying “This is all your fault..so go on..have fun...” And the short froze on the image of his terrifying face. I tried to exit out of the video player  but the computer had stopped and kept still at the image. I took out the battery and it stayed on. Finally after two minutes it shut off, I rebooted my computer to find my wallpaper was changed in to the image. I opened the disc player to remove the DVD-R but the unthinkable happened. The player was empty as if I never put it in. I went all over the house looking for it asking all my family members if they saw it and none of them claimed to see it.

I finally called the friend to see if he could make another copy and he kept telling me he never made me a DVD or even find anything unusual with the game. Was I going crazy? I knew what I saw and no one believed me. I went to bed again hoping I could get this all behind me, around four o'clock in the morning I heard a slowed down melody of the It's A Small World theme playing in the dead of the night.

“It's all in my head..” I kept saying to myself. Next thing I knew I felt a claw like finger make a heart shape on my chest. I awoke to see a heart made of ink splatter.

Finally the next day I had the house to myself again, but upon arriving to the living room I caught glimpse of a package. I didn't remember ordering anything  and looked at the return address. The return address had only had three initials written on it.. W.E.D. I tried returning the package to the post office  but they claimed that no one sent a package to my home that day, so I tried FedEx and UPS but the same thing none of them ever delivered it to my home. I tossed the package in a dumpster behind a corner store and took the bus home. After I had got home, the package was right there on my doorstep. “What kind of joke is this!?” I snapped.

I finally gave in and opened the package. I pulled out what seemed like a plush toy of Gremlin Prescott, the clothes on him were lightly tattered, the eyes were crossed out, and there was a hole in the center of doll that was shaped into a heart. I found a note inside the hole, it read:

Go on...There's no turning back...

I held the doll closely, I could hear crying and even feel tears drenching my shirt. I looked at the doll but there was no tear stains and even squeezed the doll gently to see if there was a voice box, there was none.

Just then I heard another voice say in a somber tone. "Let us go.."

I turned around and even searched high and low to find out where the voice was coming from, I kept hearing it until I was lead to my Wii. I turned the game on again erasing the original file and starting a whole new hoping it would go back to normal, the game had quickly jump cut me straight to the diorama level and I made it to the model of Clocktower. It was just like the first game when defeating him with thinner, but his arms didn't shoot out thinner, it was black ink that began to seep out of my television and on to the floor. I got up quickly but I felt that same large hand pull me, I hit my head against the floor and blacked out. An hour or two passed when I came to and I saw in a mirror my head was bleeding from the impact, I looked behind me there some of my Disney plush toys were laying in a circle with the Steamboat Willie doll sitting in the center all with the same heart shaped holes in the chest areas. I looked up and saw the Prescott doll being hung by it's neck on my ceiling, there were four more up there: The Mad Doctor, Ortensia, Gremlin Gus, and Oswald.

I looked at the TV again and saw more cutscenes to which the animation looked as real as the actual 2D animated cutscenes: the first included Prescott with the same soulless eyes, he looked at the screen with tears. "I have to escape..." He said remorsefully as he hung himself hearing the loud snap of his neck. The next cutscenes going on were each of the ones hanging on my ceiling, Mad Doctor had thrown himself into a thinner pool murmuring in fear "So close..." Gus set a machine to self destruct and right before he was wiped out in the explosion he said sickly. "Almost..." The last was Oswald and Ortensia, none of their children were present and both of them stood together. They both leaped from Dark Beauty Castle holding each others hands saying in a heartbreaking tone "Finally free..." cutting to black hearing the sound of their bones shattering.

By this point I was in tears seeing them die in such horrible ways but I wondered where was Mickey, where was he? Did he have something to do with all this? I suddenly felt two hands touch both my shoulders I turned and saw Horace and Clarabelle. Their eyes were covered by white blindfolds with ink splatters staining the cloth, their bodies were scratched and scarred but like the Prescott doll they had a hole you could see through in the shape of a heart.

Both together in unison said. "They were the lucky ones... but you decided to go on and hurt us...”

All I could do was scream. “I'm sorry! I'm sorry!”

There was only one to end all of it was to shut the Wii off and destroy the game,. Their grip got harder as I struggled to unplug the Wii and get rid of the game but the large hand came back revealing itself to be the Shadow Blot himself, this time his hand sank into my chest and into my heart squeezing it tightly. I was struggling in pain, I tried to scream but it was no use I was silence by the other hand as his grip on my heart got tighter and tighter. Horace and Clarabelle at this point finally fell to the floor dead. I tried reaching for the plug and yanked the cord. Finally I felt it, My heart had exploded and I fell to the floor seeing Mickey stare at me with remorse his paintbrush snapped in half. His face and body was just like Oswald's from the short

Finally I heard his voice when my eyes closed. “I'm sorry...”

I woke up in the hospital my mother was right beside me and told me I had a serious mental breakdown when I was home alone, a neighbor said he heard me screaming about my ordeal when in their eyes I was on the floor staring at nothing. She also claimed I was moving like I was having a seizure and eventually collapsed having a heart attack. I didn't know what to make of any of it, was this me finally losing my sanity or did it all happen.  After a couple of days of staying in the hospital I was diagnosed with schizophrenia on the terms of what I had seen and witnessed was all an illusion and was given medication. I knew it was true I felt them, saw them, and was nearly killed by them. Upon returning home another package was sent to me this time the initials were R.D. it was the dolls again this time there was note saying:
Go on...You have another chance.....