Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.

Awaumi has just shrunk back into Valeria Trifa. Gladsheimr has arrived, and the unified army were commanded to get back. Sonic, Ariem (and thus, the Rosei), Nicole, Sally, Silver, Shadow, Cream, Habaki, Rindou and the LDYa (shortened name lol) remained in space.

"Mr. Valerian Trifa. Mr. Trifa! Why are you losing your mind?" Sonic checked on Christoff Lohengrin. "You're having your fellow LDO worried there! They may be pseudo-Nazis, but they wants their multiverse back, just like mine do!"

"Children... salvation... my..." Trifa nearly lashed out.

Teirei shot Trifa in the stomach, which merely stunned the vessel.

"HOW!?" Trifa is still out of mind.

"You've been tortured by brainwashed princess, and we're to be conditioned into... a living weapon." Silver responded.

"Yeah... right...!" The children let out a spectral laugh.

"Snap out of it." Shadow bluntly called Trifa out. "You're only hurting everything. Stop it and join us."

Cream twitched, and grinned while floating. But Sonic dragged her off.

"Cream, why are you laughing like that? Why?" Sonic blocked Cream.

"Oh, sorry... Mr. Sonic." Cream lapsed back to her innocent self. "Uh... I can't help it but..."

"Christoff, you may be scumbag of a priest, but we need you." Eleonore called. "Snap out of it, and get back to us. Don't go wild against us again."

"My... my... my-my-" Trifa trembles under his own torture-induced insanity.

"Seems like the torture through seal have had a big impact." Shadow commented.

"Agreed. Poor priest." Niko agreed and droops.

"Use the reincarnation power on this guy." Sonic suggested. "Cream? Cream!"

Cream didn't respond yet. Sonic went Spin Dash to make her.

"Ouch!" Cream is knocked off.

"What's up with you? Why don't you use reincarnation power?" Sonic is worried.

"Uh... I'm sorry... My bad." Cream then hugged Trifa. "Amantes, amentes - Omnia vincit Amor!"

Cream glowed up, illuminating Trifa with a glowing bright flash. The Marguerite factor fixed his mind, but erased his memories in the process. Ariem fixed that thanks to Yoshiya using Akira's healing.

"There, fixed a bug in your sanity. Did require an inverted factory reset of sorts, though." Yoshiya sighed.

"What... what happened?" Trifa came back to his own sense. "Why did I..."

Sonic recapped how Trifa got there, got fused and got sealed in Elise. He also told him about how the emanators were doing all these days.

"Yep, that's what happened." Rindou confirmed.

"My... my god..." Trifa is horrified. "Where's... that man?"

"Who?" Ariem have no idea.

"Reinhard... Heydrich..." Trifa revealed. "He... I saw him through... her... watching him..."

"I knew. The Hegemony Gods were under the mercy of Metal Virus. I even spoke to one of them." Sally confirmed.

"By this time... Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich has succumbed." Nicole noted.

"You were spot on..." Trifa confirmed. "All of them."

Turns out Elise has checked on the vault a few times before she left to fight the unified army.

-*flashback*

"Dad... Mom... I'm scared..." Hirume is about to succumb to the Metal Virus. "Why... won't... you-"

"Your parents will never help you." Elise laughed at the Sensory-body of the Dawn, not knowing that Trifa using the last of his remaining sanity to overhear from the mind. "You're Zombot. You're a machine. Ours to program."

Hajun, who has been turned into a bronze-bodied Zombot, didn't even react. He only breathed like Vader breath. Hirume is horrified at her eventual fate: like the other Hegemony Gods captured, she's going to be turned into Zombot.

"Nice fix." Elise watches Hirume finally getting turned into metallic being, while Trifa watches through.

Hirume got melted into rose-gold metal, completing the infection.

-*flashback ends*

"Hirume... No..." Rindou slumps down in despair.

"Rindou... We lost her... and Brother!" Habaki frustrated and feeling bad. "What have they done!?"

Later, everyone's back at Gladsheim. They're horrified at the fate of the Hegemony Gods.

"Amaterasu..." Yakou mourned.

The Eastern Expedition mourned the fall of Amaterasu, and immediately put the blame on the Shatter Empire.

"No choice. We must cure them." Shadow cut to the chase. "And we must kill Shatter and take back the multiverses."

"Unacceptable fools who turn even gods into corrupted monsters, far beyond reason!" Eggman declared. "An empire made entirely to shatter all! Why wouldn't we get revenge?"

"They're heartless, devious and brutal." Shiori replied in a demonic tone, finishing mourning already. "They took away the Dawn... our light of creation..."

"They turned us into false Tenma, brainwashed into living weapons..." Ryuusui growls, echoing the Tenma accents.

"You know what? We take the fight up to wherever that floating land ends up in." Sukuna then patted Ellie. "Ellie, what snark do you have?"

"Isn't 'shattering' count as property destruction sometimes." Ellie lokked up at the vast space. "Well, I won't bring it up. You probably think he thought that's cool."

"Of course he thinks so." Shirou pointed at the blink of a spark - the floating land from afar approaching light speed. "I'm pretty sure he thinks destroying hapless worlds are alway cool forever."

"There you being weird yet again." Ellie giggles.

Meanwhile...

"Elise! Elise!" Shatter calling in vain. "Where are you?!"

"I think... she's gone." Miles boost up. "Next destination: Reality Zero, number X."

"No! We must find her!" Shatter panicked. "She's my right hand! She-"

"Sorry, but she took too long. She didn't even teleport!" Miles reluctantly dismissed. "Sonic... it's only us, doomsday weapons and mooks now. Much of our empire were either left behind, converted or destroyed."

"Then what should..." Sonic just couldn't handle the M.I.A.

"Sonic, we get to Reality Zero and bring the Throne to there." Miles kept. "And also, I will-"

"Both of you have a point." THE END called. "Our next destination is still Reality Zero, but it's too risky to leave our staff behind."

"Knuckles betrayed me. Shadow is no more. Amy is dead." Shatter about Archie!Knuckles, Team Shadow and Nightmare Rose. "Now... Elise... she's missing."

"How about a Genesis Portal to check?" THE END suggested.

The floating land phased by the In-Between, nexus of all existence. This nets the rift straight to Reality Zero at the right time, on the moment of paradox Miles have bookmarked. Welcome to Athena.

"We've arrived. We can use the Genesis Portals to tune the unstable orb and see what happened." Miles went outside. "The sky is blue. The grass is green."

Shatter and Miles teleported to the Island and went to the Loot Lake, where Zero Point floats.

"What's this... no." Shatter plucked out a glitched sign.

It says: "Phantom Ruby and Paradox Prism may have been involved; Continuum Exploitation Authority is investigating the matter. If you see any irregularities beside this note, contact CXA"

And suddenly, the sign then turned into an explosion of thin air, knocking the duo away. A fae huntress emerged.

"What?" Shatter is confused.

"Got you. I finally spotted you!" In a dark attire.

"Look! Shimmerdusk spotted us!" Miles pointed it out.

"Kado Thorne may be a quarry done, but even he doesn't like reality monsters like you." The huntress aimed at Shatter. "You are... Shatter the Hedgehog?"

"Who are you? How did you get to Kado? You're supposed to be hunting that revenant- nevermind." Shatter smirked. "Tell me how did you get here."

"Prop Disguise goes a long way. While the time machine put me on the right spot." The huntress holds. "He even told me about that sign... you saw. And my name is Shimmerdusk. The fae huntress of all reality. You destroyed my homeworld using your own mass-produced trashes!"

"You mean the Unity Engines?" Shatter scoffed. "Shame."

"I was stuck in a void!" Shimmerdusk shot the evil hedgehog.

The bullets went through him, much to her disgust.

"Too bad, I'm invincible!" Shatter blitzed and kicked to side. "With Phantom Ruby and Paradox Prism, there's nothing I can't do!"

Shatter choked Shimmerdusk, and held her to the ground. "Tails, hack the orb!"

A rift sparking on space, broken by light speed.

"Full speed ahead!" Chip roared.

The Gladsheim boost up while the rift widens from the stress. Elise is still unconscious, but Ariem cures her with Dreamweaving.

"It get brighter and bigger." Tails navigates the space. "Chip, keep the target on the rift. Must be where the empire used the speed."

"We just crash the rift, and break into Reality Zero." Knuckles sighted. "My shatters, let's row up!"

"I... I can see a Hegemony." Trifa looked up. "Mandala... And is that the man..."

"Lord Heydrich... I can't..." Eleonore is horrified.

"Oh, I see. That castle's chasing us." Miles spotted it. "Go, Hegemonies. You Zombots."

"Nooo!" Shimmerdusk screamed.

The vault exploded, blasting off a chunk of floating land because the vault was attached.

"We can see through the rift. Must be... that." Kado recognized what's inside. "The Island!"

"What!?" The Heroes of Tomorrow checked.

"Tengu-dou has arrived." Habaki recognized something. "Everyone, dream!"

A dark light quickly approached the castle, filled with solipstic aura and destructive hues.

"Hajun!?" Rindou is shocked.

Ryuusui suddenly got stabbed by another Longinuslanze again. "Urgh!"

Cream just cracked a giggle, but Sonic patted her.

"Glowing eyes... No..." Shirou recognized them all.

"Here they are..." Nicole spotted. "The Hegemony Gods. Now the Zombots."

A bunch of Zombots - no, the Hegemony Gods - floated down, approaching the unified army and the Gladsheimr castle.

"Ariem, do it." Fan suggested. "Cure those zombies."

Ariem did the Dreamweaver, but it didn't work. The metallic tech from Metal Virus stayed put.

"What the!?"

"Oh yeah, these are resistant to Dreamweaving, because we've known you'd betray us when you got-"

"Cream! Do something!" Vector yelled.

Cream just smirked, and... "Metsujin Messo!"/"滅尽滅相!"

Cue a burst of dark wave, covering the vast space and shifting away the very beings of those inside, except the Hegemonies. Ariem is forced to freeze the Law. Cream only responded with a psychotic laugh, while the Zombots didn't budge.

"She's cyberpsycho!" Archie!Knuckles pointed out. "I worked on her! They called her Xemerl, and she-"

"Fire: Amaterasu!"/"火遁:天照!" Cream casted a black flame onto Archie!Knuckles.

"Stop it!" Archie!Knuckles tried to outrun the flame.

"No!" IDW!Bunnie rammed the flame, getting her on fire. "Argh... Help mah... help!"

"T'wan!" Re!Antoine is horrified.

The flame melting away the cyber-bunny is thankfully extinguished by Yoshiya, who used Akira's power to heal her. But Cream, in a foot of insanity, grew blood branches like ones from Wilhelm.

"Rosenkavalier Schwarzwald!"

The castle shakes due to the power drain. The army is getting less and less protection due to draining both the dream powers from Ariem and the emanations. And even worse, the Zombots Hegemony are immune to all this.

"Argh..." Kessenka-bro (Wilhelm/Keishirou) puked blood. "It's backfiring... forcefully! Forcibly so!"

"Nonononono-" Sakuya/Helga panicked.

"She's draining us! Someone stop her!" Habaki is in (literal) soul pain.

"My Chaos... It's being drained!" Archie!Knuckles couldn't do anything about it.

"Our life force..." The Golden Axe suddenly rapid-aged, and quickly died.

Elise at the while is automatically set aflame, and it reconstructed her dress back to before the battle prior. Her wounds healed, and...

"We're... disappearing!" Kriemhild found herself and the Rosei slowly fading out.

Solaris, red sclerae, plasma-glowing white irises. Open.

"Cream!" Sonic go Spin Dash. "Stop!"

Cream blocked Sonic off, diverting half of the remaining rings he had.

"Chaos Control!" Shadow tore off his Inhibitor Rings while in Super form, and engulfed himself into Chaos.

The anti-hero tackled the cyberpsycho, and bursted off. White flash mitigated the darkness from the Rosenkavalier, and it briefly stunned her.

"Urgh..." Shadow struggled.

"No." Elise muttered.

Cue a blast on the castle.

"Huh?" Theresia looked back. "Flame? It's..."

"Fuck off!" Cream kicked Shadow off the sides, knocking away most of the rings of his.

Then the cyberpsycho for blasted by a pure flame.

"Princess?" Silver noticed. "SOLARIS!?"

Cream clashed with none other than Elise of Soleanna herself, who doesn't seem insane or corrupt anymore. The Laws casted were interrupted as such, and everyone's back to power.

"That was close." Ariem sighed, and phew.

"Elise? How did you..." Sonic noticed.

"Urgh..." Shadow is fuzzy.

"I was... brainwashed!" Elise cut to the chase. "Shatter hijacked Solaris, tagged me and-"

"Solaris was edited?" Kasuga and co. noticed.

"What?" Cream is knocked off.

"Shatter reprogrammed Solaris, turning me into that hedgehog's slave." Elise revealed herself with Solaris flame. "That hedgehog's gonna pay!"

"What about cyberpsychosis?" Boom!Sonic asked. "How do Cream get cured of it?"

"Not exactly. You see, there's treatments of it, but it's works doesn't yet have any real cure. For India like those from slavery, by the way." Elise then littered Spiked Orbs. "Some baloperidol can keep cyberpsychosis at bay, though it won't cure her. Not even close."

"I'm gonna get it so we can keep Cream at bay." Kado took up a Rift-to-Go. "Gods, block these Zombots!"

Kado rifted out and into the Island. While the unified army keeps with the threats in space, the revenant sneakily went to the floating land that recently landed.

"Time to take the drugs for a rabbit child." Kado sneaked in. "The storage room might help."

Kado quickly ran to the storage room, which was originally the main storage from the basement. There, he located a supply of baloperidol. The revenant quickly stored the drugs on his inventory, and quickly fled. But a few Eggforcers was around to guard the storage, and one of them briefly sighted the revenant running off.

"No... someone just... stole."

That Eggforcer immediately called other ones about the sight, and they immediately deduced...

"Phew! That was close!" Kado escaped the storage.

The revenant immediately went for Rift-to-Go, and got out. The Eggforcers arrived, but couldn't catch him. Kado Thorne has escaped.

"Report to our lord!" The Eggforcers then went down to the Island.

Shimmerdusk is still there, lying down in mercy...

To be continued...