Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.
"You'll regret this, as I did." Nine declared. "Shatter. You've become an anomaly unto itself. Not yourself... itself."
"Oh, really?" Shatter pssst. "You know what? Get ready for... shattering."
Suddenly, rainbow-multi-colored hue set in the surroundings, and distorted mandalas spread throughout.
"The Phantom Ruby effect has evolved." Boom!Sonic noticed. "Without the dream powers from Ms. Ariem and thus Laws, we would be toast!"
"Ugh... no...!" Volnutt suddenly malfunctioned. "Argh!"
-*flashback*
"Roll Casket and Tron Bonne, you're next!" Nightmare Rose had Volnutt's two fellows get to the machine to corrupt Ariem.
At the time, Volnutt was on the run, evading capture by the Roboticized Masters.
"ARRRGH!" Roll Casket got electrocuted.
This Roll was destroyed, and thus killed, as another attempt to corrupt Ariem. It failed. The sight horrified Tron, who used her Servbots to attack the false Amy, so the girl herself can escape.
"Fuck off!" Nightmare Rose D-Dived and annihilated the Servbots. "Tron, get over here!"
The false Amy Spin-Dashed to Tron's back, breaking it and causing her to collapse.
"Urgh..." Tron missed Volnutt and Roll so much now. "I'm sorry..."
Cue Nightmare Rose hacking her head with the axe.
-*flashback ends*
"No... No... No!" Volnutt broke down.
"My god... this is...!" Shiori got a flash...
-*flashback*
"I can't... clip myself out..." Shiori in the engineering lab owned by Shatter empire. "How..."
"Marici, you're next." Enerjak hacking the Phantom Ruby effect locally with his Chaos energy.
The process twisted her own being, as a part to convert her into a Tenma. And because the Phantom Ruby powers are suppressing the emanation, Shiori couldn't escape with her own mirages. The mirages were forcibly fused into her, helping the conversion into a brainwashed Tenma.
-*flashback ends*
"He's trying to break us! He want us to suffer while he go..." Shahra covered herself out inside Sonic's magic Ring.
"Ariem, Zarathustra, now!" Sonic shouted.
"Vast is the sea, its waves reaching horizons far and wide; Eternal is the radiance of its azure womb." Ren chanted. "And so let us ride this moment and dash forth, swift as light, quick as a star eternal."
"Nonononono-" Shadow resisted, as he's being forced into insanity through the recollection of his true past.
"Hear my plea, and grant this one wish: The world longs for an era of peace; days that know not strife." Ren continued. "In a world where only peace is lord, and men join hands in liberty…"
Ariem went to Dreamweaver to boost Ren up.
"Allow me to sing this: Halt. O time, for thou art fair beyond measure I wish upon your unending star – guide me to heights unknown!" Ren shouted. "AZTILUTH! RES NOVAE! ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA!"
The power of stagnation, amplified by the screaming rage that appeals to Mithra's Commandment, casting a whole ass time armor which automatically fended off the wave of insanity, saving the entire unified army.
"Setsuna!" (Super) Silver noticed.
"Mr. Fujii!?" Elise noticed.
"Ren?" Marguerite noticed the effect. "What's up?"
"Wo-wo-woah, did you just... blocked off the wave of insanity that twists out our events or something?" Luke is confused.
"Ren, now where do I aim?" Shirou noticed.
"So you have blocked out the torture from earlier." Shatter is surprised.
"Are you serious?" Manic shrugged off.
"What the fuck are you doing now!?" Julie-Su called Shatter out.
"Can't believe you would resort to dirty tricks. Abusing a device that not even the majority of its natives can properly use." Reala scoffed.
"The hell do you want?" Ax Battler is pissed.
"Show up, already, monster!" Alex Kids shouted.
A black hole showed up in front of the army.
"Why?" Fina can't yet see Shatter.
"Actually, that's him." Elise pointed the black hole. "Dark Queen?"
"Yes?" Merlina replied.
"It blooms. That's the Throne dumped... uh, can't describe it, not even through Solaris. No, no, no, what."
"I understand. It's rising above our comprehension-" Merlina then heard a crack.
The black hole bloomed into the Throne, cobbled up from it's original editions. A patchwork hardware, with a creature with Shatter as the head, sitting on it.
"Nanomachine, Storm, Eikon." Shatter, but only his head and crystalline quills remained.
"Arrr different body. Quills became hair!" Sails noticed.
"That's body... must be an Ultima!" Boom!Sticks recognized it, even though she didn't seem to know about the source material. "Wait, what?"
"Crossover body!" Boom!Sonic panicked. "He locked the fuck in!"
A red war vehicle arrived on the scene, ridden by some... cross-dimensional warriors.
"Look! It's the Dragonturtle!" Boom!Sonic spotted the vehicle.
Ren dropped off the time armor to all, and then looked back. It was the Dragonturtle Mark I.
"Shinra has arrived." Kiryu noticed. "Arisu! We have a problem!"
"Alice what?" Sonic eavesdropped. "Mr. Kazuma?"
"Reiji Arisu and the fox Xiaomu. Also a bunch of others." Kiryu noted.
Reiji and Xiaomu left the vehicle, and came to the scene.
"It seems you know about the problem." Kiryu clapped. "Welcome."
"A few uninvited guests came by, crashing into my true domain." Shatter scoffed.
"Are you kidding me?" Xiaomu looked around. "Did someone just..."
"Broke the canon? Ha!" Shatter laughed at the couple.
"What the hell are you doing!?" Zurvan questioned.
"Hegemonies... we meet again. But where's Kouha?" Reiji responded.
"Kouha... She disappeared after the Hyper Genesis Wave." Mithra confirmed.
"Mr. Arisu, I'm going to tell you about..." Kado then had Sage loads the infos.
"Oh." Xiaomu got it.
A disguise in design came to the scene, her vibrant colors soft-glowing the nearby surroundings, slightly discolored the mandalas.
"Fates crossed by a certain... imposter." Boom!Sonic pointed at Shatter.
"So this is the threat that's accompanying a disgraced king..." She recalled...
-*flashback*
"Uh huh." Xiaomu responded. "Miss System, do you have anything else about the so-called Shattered Mobius?"
"All I saw that day was the remains of an expired timeline merged with its counterparts, and then some. Some excessive Genesis Wave stunned me, and my Keystones was in the frits. Cue a few days of outage and maintenance." Cross-dimensional Observation System No. XX, also known as Kousako Kansatsubi (観察美交差子). "Once I woke up, I realized what happened: A hedgehog impersonator tried to kill a crew. The original Blue Blur and co. even lost some lives, and all the survivors were patched up. At the same time, worlds previously connected, and then some, bled out and brought those former potential candidates of mine."
"What did you see in the Shattered?" Reiji asked. "I'll take the hedgehog under consideration. Just tell us what have you seen at the time."
"Reiji Arisu, good question! A bunch of invisible Genesis Portals spawned, and with that the evil hedgehog managed to snatch away multiversal stuffs and begin pissing off his own reality! He even plans to use these holes of reality - as in, false Cross Gates - to invade a bunch of multiverses, some of which I actively checked as a machine. Among the involved are some unified army from connected worlds and co., some Suicide Squad, some spilled emanations and some stuffs straight from voids between worlds! All of them and more, fell down to the poor man's Battleworld!" The machine continued. "And speaking of which, the evil impersonator hedgehog is the one behind all the weirdness I was two weeks ago! He look and sound like the real blue hedgehog you were used to! Now he's abusing his things, especially the Phantom Ruby and the Paradox Prism, to invade a bunch of multiverses as we speak! In one moment, your world will fall victim to his sadism before we even realize it. That's why recently, the Blue Blur brought his allies and co. to the same but extended unified army the lost versions of the former to work together to save the multiverses! Talk about the crossing fates when you least expect the unexpected!"
Both Reiji and Xiaomu nodded. "Is this worthy of allying with our nemesis, the Ouma?"
"Oh, right! Shinra, that's good!" System laughed. "Do you have any allies who would want to fight an evil hedgehog who look and sound just like the real deal, and save all possibilities!"
"Oh, definitely." The fox girl accepted. "Let us call Ouma and Oros Phlox then."
-*flashback ends*
The crew came from Dragonturtle introduced themselves and in turn, the unified army explained everything.
"What a waste of time." Shatter tried to access the Record.
"Uh oh." Mercurius noticed.
"You trash want to mess with my peace... Unacceptable! A bug you are, UNACCEPTABLE!" Hajun is enraged. "Metsujin Messo!"
"Metsujin Messo." Shatter casted a destructive wave.
Both waves immediately collided and cancelled each other out at first, due to their properties.
"He can use the Record of the defeated Gods!?" Mithra is shocked.
"I wish our bullets are like... well, magic bullet." Kasuga prayed.
Ariem go Dreamweave, granting the guns and blasters the properties of the Malignant-Tumor. The human Heroes reloaded theirs, and unloaded like frenzy. the Observers in the singular body and Ellie then pulled out their literal guns, and went bullet hell towards the transcended hedgehog.
"Hmph. Mere bugs." Shatter proved to be immune to this version of Magic Bullet.
"Come and dance, my Einherjar!" Reinhard declared.
"Heydrich!? Behind the Holocaust!?" Hope is baffled.
"Gladsheimr..." Shouted the Golden Beast. "Longinus Dreizhen Orden!"
The involved LDO guys and girls received boosts of power.
"Ren, your turn!" Morei turned around Ren, calling for his Aztiluth. "Zarathustra, now!"
Ren did the Res Novae again, reapplying the time armor. Shatter just laughed it off.
"Hegemonies!" Xiaomu called. "We destroy that creature, and save all reality! It's the only way to free CXA from the-"
"Shut up and DIEEE!" Shatter screamed. "Touching with my hands will behead anyone. Thus, I can neither love nor be loved. Oh, just how sinful I must be-"
"You're too slow!" Sonic blitzed out.
"-to be deserving of such punishment. That's why i wish for it. The hope that lies at the end of the afterlife." Shatter chanted. "Because it must be the light that shines upon everyone far and wide. Let us watch over the birth of every new life for all eternity."
"I'm sorry, you silly." Marie giggles.
"Alright... Varuna is counting..." The Observer body mocked the chanting time.
Mithra just cringed at the response, but Shatter didn't care.
"Amantes, amentes..."
"Speed Force in 3, 2, 1..." The Observers called alongside Boomerang, Nimona, Sonia and Mina.
"Omnia vincit amor!" Cue a barrage of gullotine blades blasting.
The unified army just disappeared. Blitzed out, doesn't take.
"What? How could you..." Shatter couldn't locate anyone or anything.
Sonic immediately struck a barrier, followed by a massive ambush.
"Shinra Bansho!" A combo.
"Du sollst - Dies irae!" A massive golden Legion rose up, clashing the patchwork.
NiGHT phased the Throne, stunning the evil. Harley did a home run, blasting dreams unto the barrier. And most importantly, Super States.
"Chaos Control!" Sonic and Shadow purged the barrier.
"FUCKKK!" Shatter had to knock the Supers out of the barrier.
The true-human members jumped out of build boxes and fired all to the creature. With the Apoptosis properties, the barrier ends up absorbing the bullets, as part of the army's overload strategy.
"And here comes the surprise!" Uatu popped up seemingly from thin air: he literally came out of Malleus' shadows.
Cue the Watcher slowly cracking the barrier. Even better, the Hegemony Gods are fully powered, and there's Hegemony Nicole.
"Ara ara-!" Saya of Ouma taunted Shatter.
"Bend like pure white salt. Netsiv Melakh!" Shatter targeted the crew.
Suddenly, the time armor around Saya started freezing in time, just to break the defense down. Same went for the Dragonturtle crew involved.
"Huh?" Was the ninja-for-hire Kogoro Tenzai and the heiress Mii Kouryuuji about to break down into bleached salt.
"Not so fast!" Ariem reverted that.
"Kyudan - So be it, Holy Tetragrammation!"/"――急段・顕象―― 斯く在れかし――聖四文字!" Amakasu triggered his Kyudan, imposing his own Forced Cooperation on Shatter.
"The hell?" Shatter is baffled, as his efforts now incidentally forced a power boost made of sheer willpower and courage, to the army.
Kriemhild and Soujirou replicated the X-Slash double tech from Chrono Trigger at the suggestion of both Sticks. This broke the barrier.
"Eat this!" The versions of Sonics absorbed hundreds of rings and went for Spin Dash barrage.
"Blast!" Mega Man redid the Final Smash, rapid-firing the trick that blasted the Zero Point from earlier.
A rain of Spin n' Blast went down to Shatter, crashing down the Ultima body and finally hurting Shatter despite latter's upgrades. Even his Phantom Ruby was interrupted.
The Throne crashed down, starting malfunctioning. Lara-Su and family, Mina, Sally, both Hopes (pickaxe), the Shinra crew and the Suicide Squad beat the creature down.
"Darling, we have a monster on the run, we must get answers from it and then dispose that-" Due Flabellum suggested.
"I have an idea." Nicole knew what to do.
"Nicole... you actually share this method with me?" System was able to read Nicole. "Alright! Sure thing!"
"You deserved this, Shatter." Nine carrying the body of President Miles. "Your reflect my excessive desire. The Paradise but no matter what. Also, you're like Eggman but worse."
"You wiped out my forest!" Thorn called Shatter out.
"You tortured us just by messing with our existence. Good thing we fought back." Infinite scoffed.
"Gather up!" Robotnik screamed. "All of you!"
The army stopped their act and gathered up with the full crew. Know that Shatter would try to break out...
"Csejte Ungarn Nachtzehrer." Malleus left her shadows to pin Shatter and the Throne down, as amplified by the power of actual Hegemonies powers so they cannot escape. "Mugen Kokujou!"/"無間黒縄!"
Shatter didn't care. He started building up power. The party moving around the distorted mandala and exchanged infos about the Hyper Genesis Wave incident. About time they interrogate inside the Zero Point and expose the Shatter-verse's absolute darkest secret(s).
To be continued...