Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.
"Ah am not evil!" IDW!Bunnie shielded her past's burst.
"DIE!" Bunnie punched her rebooted self.
Meanwhile, the unified army rushed across the hallway, catching the mooks leaving for the outside genocide.
"Not so far!" Sonic knocked a Badnik out of the way.
"Hot Shot, Wild Blur and Tidal Wave were Sonics of Shatterspaces. But because my Sonic accidentally absorbed them, the history of the Shatterverse were subtly rewritten. And at the time, nobody even knew that. Not even me." Ghost Shadow continued. "When I as myself met Sonic again, I only knew that home doesn't exist anymore. So did not the three hedgehogs."
"I remember somberly and horrifically that the so-called 'Shatter' said that he wanted revenge on us all for denying his own existence, when we never knew anything about him." Amy recalled.
"Ye'arrr implying that the 'Tidal Wave' was part of my old crew before his erasure." Dread mentioned.
"I didn't know there could be a 'Wild Blur'." Hangry shrugged.
"Exactly. They've been erased from existence." Ghost Shadow affirmed. "I think that thanks to the Phantom Ruby, they might have been brought back... and fused into Shatter. Because... look at him. Hot Shot's cybernetic implants, Wild Blur's claws, and lack of organic right leg, just like Tidal Wave. And if you ask, the Paradox Prism-"
Cue an electric shock frying off the Gemerl copy. "Aargh!"
"Shadow!" Prime!Rouge stopped.
"What!? You've figured out what I'm made of!?" The hedgehog is furious.
"You... Shot... Blur... Tidal..." Amy is shocked.
"Shut up... shut up! SHUT UP!" The hedgehog lashed out.
"Logging off!" Ghost Shadow escaped, leaving the Gemerl copy to explode.
"Oh shit!" Team Superstars are shocked.
"What the hell!?" Sukuna gasped.
"Crap!" Habaki facepalmed.
Cue some Roboticized Masters ambushing the army, but Numahime/Malleus simply casted her shadow and crushed them.
"Pssst, Taikyoku." Numahime/Malleus released the animal friends from the EWNs.
Soon enough, the army was able to get to the locked gates.
"Nicole, do your magic. Put prime's Shadow." Sonic phased by.
In the meantime, a version of Shadow rugged and shaggy, wearing leaves for clothes, has approached the longcoat.
"Grrr, you Doom-duel sure seem to work!" He smirked.
"Right." The longcoat just chuckled.
"You have been turning mah uncle into a killer... Ah'll kill you instead!" Bunnie clashed with her rebooted self.
"Stop! Stop! STOP!" The rebooted Bunnie punched her past in self-defense. "You can't do this!" *shoots* "No no no no no-"
The three 'Shadow's chuckled at the sight, and a robot resembling Chaos Sonic walks by. It has the inhibitor rings just like Shadow's.
"It's going perfectly. All according to plans our Sonic laid to."
The gate way opened, and Sally and Nicole is active through Cyber Dream.
"So the three Sonic variants of Shatterverse got fused into the villainous monster we've to kill?" Sally gasped.
"This is the 24th floor, and it's not afternoon yet. Anyways, once we told the names..." Sonic reported. "Let's just say the so-called Shatter lost his mind for a while."
A coyote with a side cape (Aramis, worn by French nobility and musketeers) and a sword, crashed on Gemerl copy.
"Hey! Watch your steps!" Ghost Shadow quipped.
"No! No! Zat's not what I meant!" The coyote panicked. "There's ze brawl... Ma wife's killing herself... or rather... oh no..."
"Who are you?" Sage doesn't have him in her database.
"Holy crap, your skin's... part metal." Eggman squinted.
"Please, just-" Then he's touched by Gemerl copy. "Huh?"
"That's... Antoine D'Coolette! The noble coyote! Still fighting for freedom!" Nicole came into the play.
Cue all the original post-SGW memories flooding Antoine.
"Oh my god... Argh!"
"Antoine! Are you ok?" Amy and Sally in unison, though Antoine can only hear the former.
"Zis... I remember things so differently." Antoine realized. "Zis... was supposed to be... ma lives...?"
"Antoine? From Archie stuff?" Boom!Sonic squinted. "Yikes. So you were bombed into full-body and near-death, instead of just continuing as a pseudo-scaredy-cat. Oh, and said version got the old world's memories back, instead of the other way around like you just did... huh."
"Zat's not good!" Antoine rushed to the arena in front. "You need to see zis!"
The unified army followed the coyote, and saw the brutal and somewhat bloody scene of the two rabbits killing each other, albeit reluctantly in the newer one's case.
"Please, stop!" The rebooted Bunnie forced to trade blow with her now-crazed old self. "This isn't mah calling!"
The old Bunnie attempted a beatdown on her rebooted self, but is interrupted by gunshots from Six Shooter plucked from the phone.
"Stop!" Kado just throws the now-empty revolver away.
"Hey! You just wasted six medium bullets!" Classic Tails complained.
Both Bunnies saw Antoine, and recognized him right away: the old one for him looking like her Antoine, and the rebooted for... well, he's the same not-so-rebooted husband she met at New Mobotropolis earlier.
"T'wan!" Both called Antoine.
"Oh... there's two of them." Antoine added. "Honey... please stop! Stop killing each other!"
Both are scared by not only what's going on, but the presence of so many people, old and new.
"Holy crap! This is getting crazy!" Vector circling around.
"Uh... hello... I'm Sonic the Hedgehog from another timeline, but hey, we need your help!" Sonic called. "Join us and help kill the fused Shatter-variants! He and his 'Team Shatter' is pulling the strings to get you both killed!"
"What!? They've interfered!?" The drowned pirate is shocked.
The wild one just roared, and everyone can hear it.
"Found you, variants!" Ghost Shadow spotted the 'Shadow's. "Are you killing to get both killed!?"
The old Bunnie could no longer bring herself to kill her rebooted self anymore. She is horrified at what's happening to both both and Antoine... well, the no-reboot Antoine.
"Sugah... I feel like... Because mah uncle tried to bring me back... that's kill mah reboot there..." Bunnie (OG, Archie) realized what's going on. "Somebody used that fact and her crimes to... drive me into killing her in the first place."
"I just wanted to pay off debts and survive. Oh, and I started to lean this... Sugah..." The rebooted (IDW) Bunnie wiped the blood from her mouth. "Is that... ya husband?"
"Ok ok, we can explain." Nicole using the Gemerl copy.
"ENOUGH!" The drowned pirate yelled.
"Black Chaos. The Wild. Deep Doom. Grim Shadow." Ghost Shadow recognized the voices. "Oh, I know the first three's real names."
The four variants landed down to the arena. "Team Shadow."
"Agent Phantom, affectionately known as Shad. Cybernetic double-agent from New Yoke City." The Gemerl copy pointed at the one with the longcoat. "Oh, and he's not artificially made, but rather cybernetically enhanced by the Chaos Council, if you ask me."
"Well well well, you've ruined our plan. You interfered with literal death match." Shad voiced in disdain.
"The Savage of Boscage Maze, the most feral out there. So feral in fact, he works alone and kills brutally and in bloody fashions." The Gemerl copy pointed at the wild one, who's growling. "He and Thorn'd both be keeping a fair distance away, though he seeks to change that."
"Thorn? Finally... I prey you!" The Savage saw Thorn with her Birdie and her hammer. "And your bird too!"
"Jones the Syren, sunken captain who opposes the crew of Angel." The Gemerl copy pointed at the pirate. "He came back from the dead, harboring an ironic hatred to the crew of Dread. He himself treated his own crew torturously, much worse than the old Angel crew.
Jones just laughed at the opporunity to take revenge at Dread and crew, who have no idea who he really is until now."
"So ye are the one I would have had killed in my past sail?" Dread gets suspicious.
"And finally... Grim Shadow... he looks like me and Chaos Sonic. All at once." The Gemerl copy gazed at the visor, with the visuals of the Eyes of Doom projected in it.
"You have ruined our plan utterly." Grim Shadow called the unified army out, and kicked IDW!Bunnie off to the sides. "You interfered!"
"Shad! You're siding with the corrupted variants!?" Renegade Knucks called Agent Phantom out. "Are you nuts!?"
"No, you are!" Shad refuted.
"You are a wrench onto our rule! The Shatter Empire! You defaced Sonic's legacy!" Jones called the unified army out.
"Oh, you mean Shatter's." Zavok refuted. "He won't get his ways ever. We're killing him."
"Black Chaos, throw the Metal Virus onto the old one!" Jones pointed at Archie!Bunnie.
"Got it." Shad threw a vial containing the Metal Virus onto Archie!Bunnie, who's too shocked and scared to dodge.
Suddenly, Antoine had a vision of the next moment, where Archie!Bunnie gets caught in Metal Virus and becomes a cybernetically-enhanced Zombot. Then a brief flashback of Archie!Bunnie getting infected, leaving her now-sentient cybernetic-half to fend off before Bunnie's melted again and then cured.
"Bunnie, NOOO!" Antoine threw his sword, knocking the vial off course, barely saving Archie!Bunnie.
The scared old bunny evaded reflexitively.
"Bruh, what? Why'd you have to ruin our ways?" Shad complained.
"That's it!" The Savage roared.
The four Shadow variants attacked the unified army, quickly incaptitating the Gemerl copy and forcing the army to go for the numerical advantage and skills to fend off. Antoine and IDW!Bunnie both went to the Archie!Bunnie.
"Ah'm scared..." Archie!Bunnie hugged her rebooted self.
"Don't worry, fellow mah." IDW!Bunnie repriocated.
"I love you. You're both as one. Me husband, you wive." Antoine comforted both. "Ze love of ours... zat help us and save ze day-"
Grim Shadow tripped Antoine down, but both Bunnies kicked it in the visor.
-*sigh* "Ah'll take that back, reboot." Archie!Bunnie stretched her cybernetics.
IDW!Bunnie picked up the sword, and threw to Antoine. "Take this, Sugah!"
Antoine took it, and bounced back up. The nanite keeping his body allowed acrobatics which surprised Grim Shadow.
"Let's see the Southern blast in stereo." IDW!Bunnie the Hooligan reloads.
"Alright. Now let's get bravo!" Antoine attacked the Grim one.
Meanwhile, humans outside the castle is brutally killed by the Roboticized Masters. This included some Loopers trapped in the unified world - Shattered Mobius - stuck in this world due to the Hyper Genesis wave flashing the Reality Zero at many timelines.
"Sis! I'm crippled! Help me!" Kavel, the guardian of the Fencing Fields, got brutally paralyzed by a Knuckles Man.
"Shit! I need to diamond the ammo! I'm out of it!" Montague, the founder and thief, ran out of ammo. He put his Nemesis AR aside to find some leftover medium rounds.
Team Society is dying to the Roboticized Masters, and the Badniks are already devouring Oscar the tiger.
"Valeria... She shouldn't have left us!" Oscar gets eliminated.
"C'mon..." Nisha ate a Flowberry. "We're surrounded!"
A Silver Man took her Striker AR away, and a Blaze Woman choked the fencer.
"Goodbye... Flow." Blaze Woman incinerated her.
The hedgehog watches the collective carnage afar, and is amused by all of it.
"Sonic! We're on the right track, but the resistance's still going strong! They got three more!" Enerjak reported. "I think it's time to unleash our humans. The royalty needs to listen!"
"Alright, my lords, what's going on?" Elise came by.
Enerjak used Chaos projection to show what's happening at the 24th floor.
"Shadow's dealing with them. But the resistance's doing pretty well. Unacceptable!" The hedgehog is disappointed. "We have to push our paces. Do the Dreamweaver and the Taikyoku."
"Tenma Kassenka, right?" Enerjak is excited.
"Not just that. All of them." The hedgehog commanded.
"Roger that." Enerjak bowed down, and then left.
"Elise, I'm thinking about asking my lord what's next." The hedgehog suggested. "He's very supportive of us. He gave me free reign so long I toy with dimensions. It's safe to say that I'm doing pretty well."
"We will fall you down!" Sally objected from her cage.
"Oh, Princess Acorn. Foolish as ever." The hedgehog mocked the robian. "I can't believe that I have to say it again, but your laser blade cannot do anything against the reinforced cage I and Tails designed."
"President Miles did nothing wrong until you brainwashed him!" Sally objected.
"Agreed." Nicole manifested. "I'm a god and a loving daughter in one. You cannot beat us in the long run!"
"Chained by paradoxes, and yet you still stand against me." The hedgehog clapped. "I'm impressive of how tenacious and determined you are. But you're objecting a LITERAL GOD."
"I remember having to deal with an eldritch god, so what gives?" Nicole refuted.
"That god that you and the Ancient took? They're just my little friend!" The hedgehog laughed. "Mutt, these two low-lifes have the guts to mock you indirectly just to save their faces!"
"Foolish as always." THE END affirmed.
"We have a whole multi-multiversal army." Sally declared. "They'll free us and kill you all!"
"In your dreams." The hedgehog used the power of the red and blue Shards to electrocute both, while Elise giggles at.
Nicole dissipated, and the PDA overloaded. Sally, being robotic, is stunned by the electric.
"O benefactor, let's talk about my state!" The hedgehog called.
"What's up, hedgehog? Any updates?" A mysterious voice rang in the castle.
The hedgehog recapped everything of the past 17 days.
"You're doing pretty good, but watch out for the gods and paradoxes." The voice warned the hedgehog. "Keep it up while being undefeated, and you'll be able to help me get revenge on all."
"I'll be in a jiffy, but you wait!" The hedgehog reassured. "I'll try my best to finish off all oppositions!"
"Good. Go ahead." The voice disappeared.
To be continued...
