Spoilers from included and/or represented works abound. Please read this fiction carefully.
One day, Sonic the Hedgehog is rushing around the Green Hill zone, as usual. Right now... nothing out of ordinary. But Sonic, while dashing, he has some thoughts...
"Shatter the Hedgehog... Originally Hot Shot, Wild Blur, and Tidal Wave... from the Shatterspaces. In an alternative timeline, I accidentally erased them from existence. Breaking the Paradox Prism, and then some mayhem later, culminating the Grim incident which prevented him, then, from existence..." Sonic thought. "He caused the Hyper Genesis Wave by bringing on several inter-dimensional setups, which shattered my multiverses and shoved many others into a single, unified world..."
Sonic went loop-a-loop. The only thing unusual is Sonic remembering some crossed stuffs...
"Mega Man, overclocked Ruby, Merlina, the gods..." Sonic sighed. "I remember everything. Everything that stopped happening because it's... cleaned? I... fused with Shadow and destroyed Shatter-" *brakes* "Woah!"
Some spliced terrain stood in his way. Calcified, marbleized slices pastiched from the Green Zone platforms. A forcibly patterned parody of the homeworld of the hedgehog, in front of him himself.
"It looks like both order and chaos sandwiched together!" Sonic complained. "What's this effect? Never seen that one before."
The Flash of the ruined finally arrived, stopping in front of Sonic.
"Barry Allen of Flashpoint. You see..." The Flash looked back at the calcified lump. "This is the Final Shape, thrown to this world of yours."
"What!?" Sonic is shocked.
"Sonic the Hedgehog, we learned how you and your unified army destroy Shatter the Hedgehog. The CXA knows what happened now." Barry Allen of Flashpoint explained. "It's been 3 days since the end of Shatter. We also got to learn about everything that happened. The Hyper Genesis Wave. And the... rumor. That rumor indeed, as confirmed by the CXA-"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Sonic is confused. "Also, why would outside forces would leave this effect to ruin my home?"
"It's complicated. There's a lot of things happening all at once." The Flashpoint continued. "Let me recall your unified incident while we go."
The two then dashed off, using the Speed Force to leave the Green Zone. Meanwhile...
"Uotan! Look! Prismatic spiking of powers... everywhere!" A Canon Bringer reported to Nix Uotan, the Superjudge.
"What is this?" The Superjudge checked in. "Lyla, do you have any info on the... Prismatic?"
"I don't know that existed." Lyla Michaels, the Harbinger, have no idea about the 'Prismatic'.
"The paracausal surge of power spread through several worlds and timestreams already." The Canon Bringer reported. "Earth-1610 has been overrun with Light corruption. The Kanai Ward has been calcified!"
"Call the Earth-6160 reinforcement, please." Kyon is frustrated. "Do it!"
"We tried, but there's too much continuum noise. Must be the swearing from the Zero Point." The Canon Bringer then checked out. "Crackshot Cabin... calcified!"
"What about the Anti-Imagine?" Ms. Continuum checked in.
"It's going rampant again, just as we feared." The Canon Bringer confirmed. "It's driving victims across realities insane. No better than when the Order of the Pariah had its hand on it."
"Superboy-Prime of Infinite Crisis, how's your raid- I mean, you're expedition?" Welcome, Crisis-Prime. "Glad you survived."
"Some of the OG people got infected with the corrupted Equation in front of my eyes. I saw them... going batshit nuts." Crisis-Prime reported. "Still far more insane than I ever was."
Sonic and Flashpoint arrived.
"It's Sonic the Hedgehog. What's up?" Sonic quipped.
"Sonic! So much's wrong!" Ms. Continuum complained. "Just look at the visuals!"
Sonic saw the holograms and got suspicious as well. How did Shatter get the benefactor like one behind the sudden corrupted blight.
"That's so suspicious. Who's that benefactor? And why connect Shatter with the so-called Prismatic?" Sonic questioned. "Also..." *points at Kyon* "Who're you?"
"Kyon. Kamen Rider Next Decade." Kyon revealed. "But I'm not a main timeline Kyon. In fact, my timeline's completely purged."
"Huh. Did someone splice the platforms and blocks?" Sonic recalled.
"Violence wherever the Anti-Imagine infects." The Canon Bringers reported. "Also, we have datas-"
Suddenly, all the lights, even the holograms, in the mothership all turned off.
"Damnit! Pitch black!" The employees complained.
Suddenly, the holograms appeared again, only glowing in gradient of cyan, magenta and purple, in a rather jewelry and crystalline shine.
"What?" Ms. Continuum looked around. "What the hell?"
"Hello? Who's behind this... blackout?" Sonic echoed.
"Hello, strangers from other worlds." A menacing voice echoed through the mothership. "On the behalf of our friend... the king from a kingdom far, far away..."
"The voice..." Ms. Continuum recognized that voice.
"We have an offer. To save all realities and all of existence in each and every single one. We have an alliance who would help you." The voice claimed. "But first, we have some takeaway for you to learn."
"What is it?" Crisis-Prime called.
"The so-called rumor is true. Because it's actually a warning to all those who would reject our alliance." The voice continued. "Indeed, this alliance is led by a king from a kingdom far, far away."
"What do you want?" Sonic questioned. "Also, why would Shatter the Hedgehog work with that... king!?"
"Wait... Sonic the Hedgehog..." The voice is surprised. "Damn."
"Huh?" Sonic is confused.
"But back to the matter... the Anti-Imagine Equation." The voice back on track. "We have that Equation that you have buried deep into perpetual discontinuity and forced non-existence. We dug it out. If you want to erase that Equation so much..."
"We wanted to erase the Anti-Imagine, but we would've been corrupted trying." Ms. Continuum dismissed. "Sealing it within Retconnian was our best choice. What do you think would be able to erase it altogether?"
"Just work with us. We would then be able to erase the Anti-Imagine once and for all." The voice suggested. "Only then would our fellow king would spare all of existence."
"That king let Shatter do whatever he needs. This is a trap." Sonic warned Ms. Continuum. "Miss, just deny them. And demand knowing who they really are."
"We cannot reveal our king, but we can reveal ourselves." The voice dismissed. "We are the Second Knife. We are salvation itself."
"What? Salvation? To us all? Itself, just... salvation itself?" Kyon is baffled.
"Yeah... right. That's even more vague." The Flashpoint chuckled.
"This is not a laughing matter. We are salvation itself. No, really." The voice scoffed. "We have been legends for the longest time. To help a powerful king out is one of our upmost pleasures."
"That's too suspicious of you, You-" Ms. Continuum got suspicious.
"SILENCE! You dwell into too much too fast without our consent!" The voice went up, and the holograms flashed. "You only need to know enough about us. We are salvation itself. We are legends. We helps everyone. You must work with us if you wish to erase the dreaded Anti-Imagine Equation."
"We will think about it. Thank you." Ms. Continuum answered. "But do neither eat your words nor betray us. Live up and hold up to your end of the deal."
"Noted." The voice approved. "As for you, Sonic the Hedgehog..."
Suddenly, the holograms each shows a circle streaked with triangular-oriented zones alternating symmetrically and somewhat evenly, with almost-circular base between diameter and bottom, and meeting at the top as a tip slight above the circle's radius.
"You killed one of our collaborators. You destroyed some of our alliance's valued assets." The voice blamed Sonic. "We were going to scavenge existence as a festival!"
"Because he refused to accept that he stopped existing!" Sonic rebutted.
"Fine, we'll give you a chance of mercy and pardon. If you and your fellows and existence... if they work with us. Only then, we would spare everything. Every single one. Including you, Sonic." The voice offered. "If you all work with us, the Anti-Imagine Equation would cease to be forever, and you would all be spared. Any resistance will be cut off, and if the majority is resistance... we go war."
"Why?" Sonic got suspicious.
"We are salvation itself. And we have our own fate to do." The voice claimed. "All you need to do is collaborate with us. All of existence will be spared. If you don't... there will be no mercy."
"Alright, Prismatic." Another voice, similarly menacing but at the same time jovial. "We have work to do. It's their choice to accept us."
"Prismatic... I knew it!" Ms. Continuum noted.
"Call Shocker. They bails- uh, nevermind. Just get back to the work."
Suddenly, the holograms turned back to normal, and all the lights went back to normal.
"Prismatic... what?" Sonic have no idea. "The only thing we truly learned... is that the rumor is 100 percent true!"
"Shatter the Hedgehog works with some king..." Ms. Continuum thought about. "That king leads an alliance opposing us... that alliance has some familiar warriors... They offered us to collaborate with something... in return erasing the Anti-Imagine..."
"But the way the so-called Second Knife claimed... that's suspicious." Kyon facepalmed. "Alright. Gather everyone."
A while later...
"We have some suspicious threats on the horizon, playing around with the Anti-Imagine and calcifying some resistance." Liu Kang, the Fire God noted.
"The king took away my fellow..." Ingrid recalled.
"A kingdom far far away..." Crisis-Prime thought.
The Justice League Incarnate and the Wonders of the World pondered the potential connection between the rampage of Earth-2 and the suspicious Prismatic party.
"There's a whole lotta conspiracy!" Captain Carrot is baffled.
Meanwhile...
"Ugh..." A blonde-haired girl with golden starry eyes and casual clothes tattered, ended up in a mysterious world. "Where... am... I...?"
She woke up, initially recognizing that world to be the Earth that she knew. But as she started orienting herself and stand up, she felt... something wrong.
"This is... Earth? But..." The girl is confused. "Oh wait!"
A pink staff with some sort of dreamcatcher attached in it with a pair of small angelic wings on that end, appeared besides her.
"Might as well take the wand. I'll need it to survive in this mysterious place." She picked it up.
She then walked down the place, and found a bunch of... scattered skeletons and some long decayed corpses. The sight were as horrifying as it seems. One of them seems to be holding a strange fusion rifle that the girl haven't even seen before.
The girl doesn't even know how to use guns, so she picked the rifle up for potential diagnosis. Meanwhile, some shadows loom...
"I... I feel like I'm being watched." The girl moved forward. "So many... so strange. Never recalled anything I expected from my home. My Earth."
"Alright... time to count up..." One of the shadows smirked. "Hey, girl. We get this naive child down."
The girl ran across a strange version of a place on Earth which she knew. She periodically looked back and went further against the shadows. But the shadows were slowly catching on.
"No," The girl ran as fast as she could. "I need to run away! They're trying to..."
But she isn't exactly used to running so fast for an extended period of time. It also didn't help that the rifle is weighing her down, due to its construction. Even worse, she was a bit worn down by the time she woke up.
"Bad-End Shocker-Zangyack Cross-Alliance, any updates?" A mysterious voice contacted the shadows.
"We found a girl with a dream wand, and who just picked up a Telesto from a dead man." Another shadow reported.
The girl was slowly exhausted. She couldn't keep running much longer and further. "Nonononono-"
Suddenly, the girl gotten a strange vision... of a fallen kingdom, used to be prosperous, but suddenly ruined after some disaster. Cut to a view of some mysterious alliance, led by a robot man in a robe and a glowing cape, and with glowing green eyes and wielding a red-painted SCAR (the assault rifle). Lightning briefly illuminates the dark sky, while the rest of the alliance bowed down to the robot.
"All I really want is just a little respect..." The robot somberly claimed.
The vision ended, and the girl tripped. She fell, dropping the rifle.
"No..." The girl is shocked, as she falls to the ground.
"There you are." A suited man from the shadows, came. "Alright. Get 'em."
The girl found herself caught up by the shadows she tried to run. "No... And what did I just... see?"
The suit's eyes glowed red, while the other - a girl in magical pink frilly - walked out. Others came to surround the girl - these ones are the similar kinds to the two - a bunch of magical girls and another armored suit.
"Who are you!?" The girl is horrified. "And where am I!?"
"You're in our territory." The dark blue one smirked. "Anything to regret?"
"No, no..." The girl held the wand. "Why... No..."
The girl raised the wand up. "Warrior Dreamcatcher..."
"What's she doing?" The golden one is confused.
"Smashing LIGHT!" The girl screamed.
The wand erupted light which blinded the ones surrounding her, much to their shock.
"The light of dreams... it's hindering us!" The suit's complained.
"Return to your darkness!" The girl smashed her wand down the ground.
Cue an explosion of light and a quake, overwhelming the ones targeting her. The light can now barely be seen in the lower space.
-*pants pants* "Oh my star..." The girl is exhausted, though the wand is intact. "What did..."
The light cleared out, and the quake stopped.
"Count up your sins!" The original suit declared.
The hunters rushed to the girl, trying to kill her for the happenstance. However, a mysterious darkly iridescent magical girl flew to the place.
"Die!" The dark blue girl went for a hard punch. "JUST DIE!"
The hunters were suddenly caught off-guard by that mysterious magical girl... by a blast to the ground. This caused them all to turn their attention from the girl with wand to the mysterious one, frustrated and shocked.
THE END?