Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.
"Bravo, nice rescue you've got. And creative solution, too." The hedgehog laughed.
"Shatter... you turned me into your evil friend!" Archie!Knuckles objected. "You even repeated the roboticization for my Sonic!"
"What have you done to Roll and Tron!?" Volnutt questioned.
"You fused us and let us be tortured, like a maniac you are!" Numahime called the hedgehog out.
"You too, Nightmare Rose!" Amy called Nightmare Rose. "Dragon Quarter blood and your... affinity for nightmares! Disgusting!"
"You remind me of my misuse. Except you also did it to make all of us suffer!" Nine objected. "'Shatter', explain yourself!"
Elise, Nightmare Rose and Miles besides the hedgehog, and looked down.
"President Miles... You're brainwashed!" Classic Tails realized.
"It took while for us all to figure out you're turned into Shatter's friend!" Prime!Shadow growls.
"I simply perfected and fixed them. They're my great friends. Helping me with leading my own empire." The hedgehog scoffed. "And you are just spanner in the works. One that I must correct."
"I saw you about to die to Shatter... How you survived and turned?" Tails is terrified.
"Damn you!" Shirou sprung his right hand. "Ellie! That monster's gotta go!"
Ellie Strife materialized, in casual clothes and a sword of Sukuna's imagination. Ellie's in front and holding the right with her right one.
"Oh, that hedgehog sure is prickly. Especially with all that glitters." Ellie giggled. "Oh, Shirou? Oh, did we have any extras?"
"What the actual fuck are you joking me with?" The hedgehog is baffled.
Ellie shifted to his left, and both pulled and pointed their hand cannons: The Observers' left hand with the Desert Eagle .50AE semi-auto pistol, and Ellie's right with .500 S&W Magnum revolver.
"Because of the magnum proximity, I got the Dream Orb to weave out the noise." Ariem exaseperatedly took out a Dream Orb to plug out the incoming noise.
-*sync gunshot* But Shatter just phased through without even visibly moving.
"Huh? You're too fast." Shirou is baffled.
"Too bad. Seriously?" Ellie is disappointed.
"Crap!" Sukuna is frustrated.
"Nope. I'm too fast to be purely physical all the time." The hedgehog scoffed.
Cue the dual magnum shot again. And suddenly, the hedgehog is on their behind, and kick both on ass.
"Ahhh!" Ellie tumbles down.
"I'm too fast!" Niko prepared to speed blitz. "Wolfgang, Teirei... go!"
Teirei laughed like a psycho Wolfgang has been, and the Schreiber duo blitzed off.
"You're too slow!" *whacks*
The duo crashed down on the ground, while the hedgehog smirked.
"Ahhh! Please... oh no..." Niko tumbled down. "You touched us violently."
"You're t-" Then the hedgehog got hit by by all sort of time stop the Masters have had, powered by both Dream Orbs and Double Gear.
It's as if the hedgehog himself is paused literally... at first. Then he quickly regained momentum and back to normal movement but in time freeze. "-ooooo... slow!"
Cue a brief beatdown to all the Robot Masters involved in the freeze.
"Double-" Then Mega Man is whacked by the hedgehog as well, causing him to crash off X and Volnutt.
"Ugh!" Volnutt dropped the Longinuslanze.
"You're way too fast!" Rindou picked up the holy lance, and threw it into transcending distance and time itself.
But the hedgehog was able to catch it with his own bare hand, much to Rindou's horror.
"Yes, you are too slow." The hedgehog threw the holy lance back. "Not even this immeasurable-acceleration stuff can keep up with my casual flow."
Elise, Nightmare Rose and Miles just laughed at the unified army.
"Your empire's nuts!" Xander and JP together.
"You're fucking petty!" Shadow yelled. "How can you be so smug about your own life!?"
"And who are you, Shatter!?" Archie!Sonic called the hedgehog. "You look like me and sound like me, then don't tell me that you're... another version of me, Sonic the Hedgehog!"
"Who the fuck are you?" Scourge threatened the hedgehog. "We're gotta kill you sooner or later!"
The hedgehog just laughed.
"What's so funny about all of this? And the time machine too!" Kado is pissed. "WHO ARE YOU!?"
"Good question. Good question." The hedgehog clapped. "Although you'll have to die afterwards."
"We'll die kill you, just like Miles' real Sonic killed that world's Eggman!" The Machina called. "Also, where's our comrade? He did nothing wrong to you! Also, he's to win against the likes of you! I believe in him."
"You meant that time-stop schoolboy, but whatever. He's just a stepping stone to my empire." The hedgehog shrugged. "Instead, fine! I'm telling you about me!"
The hedgehog recalled about the Paradox Prism incident.
"Once upon a time, Sonic the Hedgehog and friends embarked to locate the Paradox Prism, a crystal that can manipulate space-time and dimensions altogether. That was just Eggman's ploy, and that and not heeding the friends, Sonic accidentally charged to the Prism, shattering it and breaking the Green Hills down. I was to be born... but instead, I died. We died." The hedgehog explained. "I used to be Hot Shot from New Yoke City, defeated by the Eggmen - the Chaos Council - who turned me into cyborg. I used to be Wild Blur, isolated in the darker sides of Boscage Maze with fear and primality, clawing for any hope for survival, all by myself. I used to be Tidal Wave, No Place's best second-in-command, a swimmer loyal to that Angel crew, and because of a freakin' injury messing with my limbs, I almost drowned."
The flashback showing Hot Shot hiding after being dumped by the Chaos Council, Wild Blur going by himself for the same kinds of food the Scavengers have had been finding, and Tidal Wave drowning while Dread pretty much ignores his old crew.
"And because Sonic was the one shattering the whole reality, he absorbed me. My selves. My selfs. I ceased to exist because he absorbed too much Prismatic energy. Shadow was also spared but only because of Chaos Control, so my Shadow stopped existing as well. A glimmer of hope came because Sonic was extracted of Prismatic to fix the Prism, filling back my existence... only for Shadow and my old friends to take it away by homecoming!" The hedgehog continued. "I was erased from existence, and Shadow took the Prism away. This could've been the end of me. Nine, where were you?"
"I took occasional visits from the Grim to the New Yoke to I could catch up to the news. One visit in particular led me to what would become our unified army." Nine replied. "I visited by myself and my ships. I was left alone, with no intentional disturbance. My paradise is at least appreciative of Sonic. The Sonic with Prismatic energy. Nobody messed with me ever since the incident ended. Nothing more."
"So you were mostly hiding in the Grim, well? I was technically hiding inside the Prism. My existence was null until one day..."
A flashback shows Prime!Shadow finding the overclocked Phantom Ruby from another future. The Ruby reacted, and the scene was greeted with... *shatter the scene*
"The Phantom Ruby freed me. I grabbed the illusion-turned-real, as Shadow became mine, shattered into my equivalents. I became a shattered ghost, and to complete myself for the first time, I instinctively flew to that Sonic, eventually turning him into my interdimensional vessel. That blue storm proved to be an effective cover." The hedgehog continued. "That's how my body became fused like you saw quite a while prior. All the cybernetics and growth and appendages ended up merging with that original, prime self. I became complete, but confused. So I solved my identity crisis by killing the Chaos Council and assimilate their intellect, thus taking Hot Shot vengeance of those Eggmen. The Shatterspaces became isolated because of the new shattering, and that's when..."
-*flashback continues*
"Who am I? How are the Shatterspaces isolating themselves?" The fused Sonic then absorbed the Chaos Council's bloodied corpses.
With the remote help from the overclocked Ruby, the hedgehog got the intelligence. Now he's as smart and a genius as Eggman himself. The Ruby brought the Shards circling around the fused body.
"Huh?" The hedgehog touched the Ruby in curiosity.
Cue a flood of memories of the the Shatter-variants of Sonic. This overwhelmed the hedgehog, who previously could only remember vague things about his existence. And ultimately...
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
-*flashback subsides*
"The whole revelation broke me. I only existed because of a freak coincidence. I existed way too late. As if I was too slow. And as a bonus, the ruby and the Prism bonded with me, fusing with my body and completing my fusion. I became a freak. I never asked for this. So I came to the Grim first, to ask Tails Nine." The hedgehog continued. "I disguised as Hot Shot, but Nine doesn't remember at all. That same guise on new Yoke, nobody properly recognized me. I disguised as Wild Blur using the Ruby's power, but neither Thorn nor the Scavenger friends accepted me. My guise as Tidal Wave didn't even give any pirates any hint. I realized... to them, I don't exist."
"So you concluded that we effectively denied your existence." Prime!Shadow dismissed. "I'm only listening to your toxic words for exposition. Nothing else, murderer of multiverses."
"Yes, you denied me! You denied my EXISTENCE! You and all your people shunned me! They thought I never existed! That was the last straw. I became insane afterwards. I have had enough. That was IT!" The hedgehog continued. "So I swore to myself and the reality, that you'll all suffer. I'd shatter the entire multiverse... which I did over fortnight ago. But coming so far and knowing so much... there's alway to risk of you working with other multiverses. So Hyper Genesis Wave pulling them into the unified world was an advantage like no other at the time. Thta's right: EVERYONE denies my existence, so I must make EVERY SINGLE fucking opposition SUFFER! Nobody that I come are SAFE!"
"So the Hyper Genesis Wave... it was to get back on existence itself!?" Zavok is disgusted. "You're an asshole. My words, oh no, aren't even scathing enough."
"O petty one, why would you want all reality to break down just because of O Shatterspaces?" Ellie mocked the hedgehog.
"FUCK OFF AND LISTEN!" The hedgehog yelled. "My mental health is long gone! And you, Shatter-guys, and Sonic are responsible for erasing my existence! And you too, that Shadow the Hedgehog!"
"Nobody should have the power of the Prism by themselves. You know what Nine did while you were languishing." Prime!Shadow refuted. "I know your name. Shatter-"
"An alias, yeah? His name is Sonic the Hedgehog. He's an evil... me?" Movie!Sonic squinted. "Most versions of me look cartoonish. Kinda."
"I was Sonic the Hedgehog!" The hedgehog responded. "But I have transcended. There's nothing I can't do, so it would be fitting to grow beyond. I'm a god now. I'm about to evolve even further."
"Was? Why the past tense?" Habaki is baffled.
"Then what's your real name?" X questioned.
-*chuckles* "Oh, right... this body... the prime world's Sonic is my vessel. My name is Shatter. No, really." The hedgehog floats down from the throne high up. "Shatter the Hedgehog."
'Shatter'... so that's not just an alias, huh...
"Your... real name!?" Sonic is shocked.
"We call him Shatter." Zavok wagged. "Make sense. He's a shattered being."
"Shatter the Hedgehog..." Prime!Shadow groaned. "How dare you take away my Sonic!"
"Everyone deserves it for denying my existence. So I'm going to put all of you out of misery!" Shatter went back to his throne. "Evacuate!"
The remaining of the empire's leaders, including Shatter himself, teleported out using Phantom Ruby effects, thus taking the contents of floor 33B with them.
"They escaped! Where did they go!?" Judas looked around.
"I think I need something to fly with." Soujirou shrugged. "HEY! I need a flying board!"
"Maybe you can fix this one." Swallow gave the swordman an Extreme Gear.
Soujirou took the Gear, and suddenly it became a massive odachi for him to stand on top of.
"Oh! You're a god blade that cuts all! I name this board now: Futsunushi Accelerant!" Swallow is wooed by the transformation. "Seems like you-"
"Huh!?" Soujirou is baffled.
"What's this? Why is this bord... shaking?" Shiori felt the mirage passing through the Extreme Gear she's holding.
"Maricide is accepting your own images! It has the same stuffs as your emanation!" Swallow came by to check.
"Ellie, want some?" A copy of the Observers' Extreme Gear, the Magic Bullet, a skateboard whose burst depowers the opponents. "An Extreme Gear. It's fast, floaty and fun."
"A skateboard that can float? Isn't that just a skateboard?" Ellie chuckled.
"Skateboard, not just hoverboard, because it can ride on the ground as well as mid-air." Shirou steps on.
"Lyngvi Vanagandr!" Niko, excited over, summoned that Zundapp KS 750 as the Schreiber's personal Extreme Gear.
"You already have a motorcycle!?" Storm gasped.
Niko herself to the driver's seat. Teirei chuckled, and went to the backseat.
"I can feel some disasters..." Antoine got a vision. "We should get out. Of zis place, 'cause it's going to collapse!"
Suddenly, an earthquake hit the castle, leading to the rooms shaking.
"See? An earthquake! Ze time is nigh!" Antoine took an Extreme Gear and fled.
"I can feel it. The world's shattering." Chip felt something. "Everyone, if any of you can't fly and don't have any flight stuffs for you, take the Extreme Gears!"
Several cracks appeared on the outside ground, some of which started to get the whole collapsing.
"Oh, right!" Kado got an idea. "As I've noticed, they've left my time machine right here. They must have used it to connect the Genesis Portals to the center of the omniverse for the first time. Let me see..."
To be continued...
