The figures were attempting to summon The Dead Hedgehog, a powerful and malevolent force that had been 🍌 dormant for many years. Sonic was able to disrupt the ritual and prevent The Dead Hedgehog from fully manifesting, but 🍌 in doing so, he was cursed and transformed into Sonic. EXE.

Sonic. EXE is an eldritch entity taking on the form of Sonic 🍌 the Hedgehog that sends out a haunted game disc featuring the creature killing the main Sonic characters, eventually leading him 🍌 to rip out the soul of his victim and making them his slave.