What? Broken Glass is back? That's right, I'm releasing an updated, uncut, better version. This changes a lot of things from the original and will be the canon version going forward. Before I do any more work on my Broken Glass Sequel, I'm redoing the classic. This is gonna be fun.

There was a simple question on everyone's mind.

What was going on?

About a month ago, an unauthorized scientist named Mons had created a device that would open portals from Mobius, Sonic the Hedgehog's home universe, to others. Mons's machine had been drawing on the energy of other universes to open portals, which had involuntarily been pulling the inhabitants of these universes to Mobius. Mons's actions had occurred suddenly, devastating large chunks of landscape. The Mobian government was rocked to the core, and partially destroyed by riots from mysterious new visitors from other worlds. Naturally, it turned to it's hero for hope.

Sonic the Hedgehog had also been breezing through places he'd never seen before on his daily runs. These places were definitely not from Sonic's world. Though we wasn't exactly the genius Tails was, it didn't take him long to realize that the combination of universes must be causing locations from those universes to show up here. Sonic made up his mind to explore more of these locations after he visited Tails to pick up his new invention, The Cross-Universe Detector. By targeting specific energy signatures, it had a high likelihood of determining when people, places and things were from other universes. That way, Sonic would always know when something was out of the ordinary.

Tails, characteristically, was busy in his workshop when a knock at the door disturbed his work. "Hello?" he called, walking towards the door. He looked through the peephole on his front door and saw Sonic waving at him.

"Yo, Tails! This door isn't gonna open itself!" Sonic said teasingly to Tails. "Hold on, Sonic!" Tails said as he opened the door. Sonic stepped in and nearly hit his head on the low ceiling. "Ow! You can build mech suits but you can't raise your ceiling?" Tails chuckled. "Given the fact that we're dealing with a universal fusion crisis, the ceiling hasn't exactly been in the budget." Sonic sighed and shook his head. "Anyway, is your fancy-pants detector ready yet?" Tails nodded excitedly. "Yep! I upgraded it with lots of extra features, since you've been away and haven't found the time to pick it up."

Sonic grinned. "Well, I have been doing a lot of exploring. I heard a headline about a crazy modern city called Zootropolis. Or was it Zootopia? Maybe Zootown. Anyhow, I've never seen it before, so my suspicion is, it's not from this world. That city probably warped here from one of those portals that Mons guy opened." Tails tipped his head slightly in agreement and said "I can't believe Mons would act so irrationally. His actions were unauthorized, and he's torn apart parts of the world so that these new locations have a- well, location! If he wanted to do something for the people he should have followed his brother's example and joined the Freedom Fighters!"

Mons's brother, Joe the Pug, had been subjugated to a terrible experiment years ago with a serum that gave him super-strength, heightened speed and agility, and a extremely strong immune system, making him extremely hard to be put out of action. He had joined the Freedom Fighters just 3 weeks ago, and was already a respected member, known under the codename Bulli. Sonic sighed and turned to Tails. "Everyone with good intentions in their heart just wants to help, to make the world a better, safer place. Maybe Mons opened up the world to so much more beauty and opportunity. What if we can get everyone back? Maybe they'll like the new Mobius. Every action has a consequence, Tails. It's hard to call so early if some of them are worth it."

"And some obviously aren't." Tails retorted as Sonic grabbed the CUD and walked out the door, ducking to avoid the low ceiling. Sonic turned on the mini-GPS he wore on his wrist and typed in 'Zootopia', fairly certain that was the name. The GPS found a match, and Sonic sped off towards the location.

ZOOTOPIA- A CITY FROM ANOTHER WORLD- 2:04 PM

Zootopia Police Department Officer Judy Hopps was easily having her worst day on the job.

The entire city of Zootopia, including many of it's outskirts such as Bunnyburrow, Judy's hometown, where her parents and many, many relatives lived, had warped into another universe, on another world. So much had been brought to Mobius that to some of Zootopia's inhabitants, they were barely affected, but Judy still knew it wasn't really her home, even if her home was still there. She wanted to explore the world- her world. She decided then and now whoever sent her here was going to send her back, though she knew full well she didn't have a plan. Her close friend Nick Wilde agreed with her, and though it was one hell of a lightshow, it was time to start working on getting back- somehow. The rest of the Zootopia Police Department, or ZPD, had surprisingly minimal concern with the matter at the moment because they were a police force assigned to Zootopia alone as it was. But even they were aware of a rising issue. Animals from all over the world had come to visit Zootopia. It was one of their world's great staples. And now it was just-gone. Something was coming. There had been strange tremors in whatever universe they were in now, and they were worried their world might be experiencing the same. Zootopia's inhabitants didn't know much. All they knew was something about a guy named Mons and a blue hedgehog... maybe he was Mons?

Judy's frantic hopes were answered when the televisions in the police station all suddenly switched to emergency footage of the aforementioned hedgehog tearing through the city. Judy gasped. If she could catch him, she could get answers.

Sonic ran through Zootopia, free as the wind. "Yo Tails, this place is G-REAT! I haven't bothered to break out the CUD yet- Tails? you there?" Tails's voice came over the comm-link on Sonic's wrist. "I'm here, Sonic, but someone is trying to jam the communications! Sonic, do you copy-" Sonic's signal cut out, and he came to a halt. He felt eyes on him and turned around.

"Hello?" He turned around again and came face to face with Judy Hopps. "Well, aren't you the cutest little bunny-" Sonic began. "Don't. Call. Me. Cute." Judy snapped at him. "As it is, you're wanted for questioning by the ZPD." A puzzled look crossed Sonic's face. "Me? What did I do? And who are the ZPD?" Judy sighed impatiently. "What did you do? You tore my world apart, Mons!" Sonic laughed exasperatedly. "You've got to be kidding me. Mons? The scientist? I'm not him! I'm Sonic the Hedgehog, first-class hero, chili-dog eating champion and all-around good guy!" Sonic said pridefully. Judy's face turned red as a beet.

"Dammit- I thought you were the Sonic I kept hearing about but Nick just HAD to convince me you were Mons." Sonic sighed. "Listen. This crisis is going on over the whole world, and as much as I love this place, I'm really only here to gather more intel. So, why don't you ask you ZPD friends to help you out? Zootopia Police Department, right? They can help you!" Judy gave Sonic an exasperated look. "They're not concerned about it. Their job is to protect Zootopia, and that's still here, so- they don't care. And, as far as I can tell, you were just taking a leisure walk- run, through the city." Sonic sighed again. "Ok, ok you got me there. Look, the truth is, I don't think I can get you back to wherever you came from, and I didn't want to let you down. I mean, how could I hurt someone as cute as you?"

"DON'T CALL ME CUTE!"

2:31 PM- LOCATION UNKNOWN

Rival and friend of Sonic, Shadow the Hedgehog, stood on the edge of a cliff where Sonic had asked to meet him yesterday to talk about 'the portals'. He noticed that for someone with such heightened speed, Sonic was quite late. Shadow turned around to leave just as he saw a blue blur racing across the hills. Sonic saw Shadow and ran towards him. "Took you long enough." Shadow said coldly. He expected a retort, but was surprised to see Sonic simply nodding in agreement. Shadow knew something had happened. "What the Hell happened while you were out there?" Sonic caught his breath and said "Oh, just another person who wants me to send them back home. I don't think there's much I can do for her." Shadow looked up to the sky, not fond of direct eye contact with an exasperated Sonic, and remained silent for a moment. "You don't sound convinced. What's going on?" Sonic was surprised by Shadow's question and turned his head away. "Well, I think I can do it. I'll need help, mostly from Tails, but it should be possible. There's just one problem with sending her back home." Shadow looked inquisitively at Sonic. "And what is that?" Sonic blushed and said:

"I kinda- like something about her."

Shadow paused a moment and said "You want my advice? Block it out. It'll end easier knowing that she'll never feel that way towards you. She just wants you to send her home, then she'll return to her life." Sonic sighed. "Listen, I'm a little low on motivational speeches, but, I saw this one in a paper recently. 'When the whole world comes crashing down, that's when you have to be strongest. That's when you have to stand up and show the world you won't be deterred.'" Shadow looked at Sonic and shook his head in amusement. "You really are determined, aren't you?"

Sonic grinned. "You know I am. I'm SONIC THE HE-"

"Cut that out." Shadow spat.

"Ugh! Fine."

The Story Begins! Again!

Like I said, this is the new canon version. Feel free to prefer the original, but this is the full version of the story.