Bwa bwa bwa lor- When Sonic.exe was popular, a lot of Scratch exe projects were being made. And a lot of them had to be removed by Scratch team for gore and stuff. Projects deleted directly by ST are sent to the Nullcode, where they're consumed. Eventually, after years and years of eating code, the Nullcode gained it's own sense of sentience, and took an interest in the exe projects that it was given. Thus, playing with them and creating it's own project to experiment with sprites. It would later take the form of the original Scratch.exe, taking the sprites body and leaving it's code behind to fester. This was the time it called itself "Scratch.sb2". It'd go through many stages, using different names each time. Scratch.sb3 Scratch.Rar Gratch, for a brief moment. And then, it had finished its project. Eden. And with that, came its final transformation into The Author. The Nullcode that once was, taken shape into a monster that would take souls into his realm to play with for all eternity. He'd create guardians, two of which he deemed his children, to stand and fight any vessels that attempted escape from his wonderful garden. He's not necessarily an AI, but code with will and "life". There are those souls who escape his game, but they always come back to play again.
To be clear, The Author is not Gratch, but took his appearance when he was making his rounds. I wonder, whatever happened to the original Scratch.exe...