Quantum Collision

### Outcome

The Rift is distorted, sending "particles" from several Rift Worlds into Mario's World.

The **Quantum Collision** is an event that occured at the very start of the series. The event was orchestrated and caused by Dimentio, who used the Jeweled Scepter to manipulate Eggman's Genesis Wave Machine and N. Tropy's Rift Generator.

## Prelude

### Sonic's World

At some point in time, Eggman had managed to build a Chaos Emerald-powered machine known as the Genesis Wave Machine, which could manipulate the chaotic powers of the Chaos Emeralds to bend the fabric of reality. He sent his robot enforcer Metal Sonic to gather the emeralds, but his scheme was leaked by Rouge.

Sonic immediately began searching for the Emeralds, managing to acquire three, while Metal Sonic had managed to collect the same amount. They encountered each other at the site of the purple Chaos Emerald, and battled for it. Sonic defeated Metal Sonic by spin dashing into the emerald, which slammed it into Metal's head. While seemingly innocuous at first, the Chaos Emerald's properties had managed to warp his programming. Both delirious and damaged, Metal fled.

Later, Sonic, along with Tails, Knuckles and Amy managed to find Eggman in the Final Egg, intent on collecting the remaining three emeralds. Eggman had previously figured out that Sonic would come to stop him, so he abducted Cream in secret, in order to keep her hostage in order to get Sonic's emeralds.

Meanwhile, Metal Sonic was in the midst of being repaired by Eggman's machines. Within his mind, something had resurfaced - Neo Metal Sonic. Metal broke free from the repair machines, intent of recovering in his own way. Metal broke into the EggNet's main chamber, hacking into it and reacquiring the data he had once lost. In the same stroke, Metal summoned five old Sonic robot models to the chamber. Metal entered a semi-liquid state, encompassing the other five robots and the EggNet computer, and fusing with them, emerging in a brand new form, and once again calling himself Neo Metal Sonic.

Sonic, meanwhile, was fighting Eggman in his Egg Viper. Predictably, Sonic defeated him, trashing the Egg Viper and leaving Eggman trapped in his non-functioning Egg Mobile. Sonic demanded Eggman hand over the Chaos Emeralds, but the Doctor had other plans. Seeing that Metal had left the repair ward, Eggman decided to summon Metal to him, but Metal, receiving the order, decided to ignore them, heading for the chamber for another purpose - the Chaos Emeralds.

Metal arrived into the chamber from beneath the floor. Sonic acknowledged Metal's new appearance and idealistically dramatic entrance, while Eggman recognized that Metal had disobeyed him, threatening to decommission him if he did not defeat Sonic. Once again ignoring Eggman, Metal attacked, managing to defeat Sonic.

Eggman ordered Metal Sonic to finish off Sonic, but Metal Sonic disobeyed and took the Chaos Emeralds all for himself. He began to power up with them, but was met with a Chaos Spear to the chest from Shadow, who had also been tipped off by Rouge, in the event that things went south. Shadow and Metal fought.

Eggman, meanwhile, put all of the Chaos Emeralds into his Genesis Wave machine, but before he could activate the machine, Sonic tackled him to the ground. Eggman accused Sonic of denying his legacy. Both got up off of the ground and began arguing, Sonic stating how Eggman had been given many chances to turn over a new leaf, and Eggman stating how Sonic always ruins his schemes, for better or for worse. Metal noticed that their bickering had left the Chaos Emeralds unguarded, and gunned for the Genesis Wave machine, but was brought down by Shadow. Shadow grabbed ahold of Sonic's wrist, telling him to focus on the situation and not get carried away with Eggman, just as Metal recovered from the attack. Suddenly, the Genesis Wave Machine was struck by a mysterious beam, consuming the occupants in the room, before a tornado of energy spread across the land. Sonic and Shadow were sucked into the vortex.

### Crash's World

At some point in time, Cortex, Uka Uka and their minions, N. Gin and Tiny, had returned from the rifts and time points they had been trapped in, thanks to Uka Uka's manipulations to the Rift. The four reconvened at Castle Cortex, taking control of it once again, attracting the attention of Crash, Coco and Aku Aku. The trio headed to Cortex Island to combat their adversaries, where Cortex revealed he had once again found the Master Crystal. Using it to power his Cortex Command Center machine, Cortex attempted to destroy his opponents once and for all, before building a new army of Cortex Commandos, led by his new General, Tiny.

Cortex's plans were suddenly foiled when a Rift suddenly opened. An object flew out and disabled Cortex's deadly machine, as N. Tropy stepped out of the Rift. Tropy taunted Team Bandicoot, pointing out that, though they only merely *stopped* his plans, he didn't necessarily *ruin* them, before summoning his tuning fork back to his hand, the Master Crystal lodged in between the prongs. He offered Team Bandicoot the opportunity to stop him, goading them into following him through his Rift, leading them to his Rift Generator lair, which had appeared near the Wumpa Islands. Cortex and his minions were left behind to process the severity of the situation.

At the Rift Generator, Tropy revealed that he had constructed a device that would siphon all the Slave Crystals to him, so it could power his repaired machine, known as the Crystal Harmonizer. Slotting the Master Crystal into his machine, N. Tropy watched in awe as all twenty-five crystals emerged from different rifts, organizing themselves into special slots on the machine, as a big switch revealed itself to Tropy.

As Coco worked around getting the forcefield on the machine to shut down, Crash attempted to combat N. Tropy himself, who scoffed at the idea that he could be stopped now. Aku Aku suddenly made an attack himself, distracting N. Tropy long enough so that Crash could land a perfect hit on him. Coco managed to finally shut down the forcefield, allowing Crash the opportunity of destroying the machine. Despite protests from N. Tropy, Crash charged for the machine. Before Crash could reach the machine, it was struck by a mysterious beam, consuming the Rift Generator in its entirety, before a tornado of energy spread across the land. Crash, Coco and Aku Aku were sucked into the vortex.

### Mario's World

In Mario's World, those who observed the event described it as seeing a series of purple meteor-like blasts of pure energy which fell to the planet. Smaller blasts transported individuals, while larger ones transported entire buildings, and in some cases, cities. The impact sites were also discovered to have warped entirely, making structures appear as though they had always been there.

## Effects

The energies of the Jeweled Scepter, Chaos Emeralds and Power Crystals, coupled with the warping effects of the Rift Generator and Genesis Wave Machine, caused the Riftspace between Mario's, Sonic's and Crash's worlds to warp and distort.

As Sonic's World and Earth were at the event horizon, the worlds themselves phased into each other, and also Mario's World, which, with the Jeweled Scepter being used there, acted as a magnet. Effectively, "particles" from the two worlds completed a full phase into Mario's World, trapping them there.

As the Quantum Collision was both spatial *and* temporal, particles did not appear simultaneously in real-time. This is noted when Metal Sonic and N. Tropy are known to have arrived in the Mushroom Kingdom at the same time, while Eggman and Cortex arrived earlier, and Sonic, Shadow and Team Bandicoot arriving later. According to both N. Tropy and Dimentio, the event would only distance one fragment at least a week or two from another.

In Sonic's World, as they were in close proximity to each other, Sonic and Shadow were transported to the Mushroom Kingdom. Similarly, Amy and Tails were warped to the Beanbean Kingdom. As they were in no proximity by any means whatsoever, Knuckles, Eggman and Metal Sonic were transported to different locations.

In Crash's World, Team Bandicoot's close proximity sent them to the Mushroom Kingdom, while N. Tropy was displaced elsewhere. Cortex, Uka Uka, N. Gin and Tiny were transported to the Gritzy Desert, where they met Eggman.

A side effect of the Quantum Collision caused Silver to become displaced from his own surroundings due to the acausality created by a paradox fixing itself, effectively placing him in the future of Mario's World instead of the future of Sonic's World.

The Quantum Collision also had the side effect of creating several wormholes spanning not only Crash's and Sonic's worlds, but also Blaze's and Smithy's as well, due to having previously entangled themselves with the flux of Sonic's and Mario's worlds.

## Repercussions

The aftermath of the storm caused panic for both the citizens of Mario's world, and those transported by the storm, who had been displaced. This essentially caused a housing crisis, xenophobia and a political upset, things that would not go solved for at least two years, especially in part due to villains such as Bowser, Metallix and Antasma running rampant.

As a new United Federation was built, the Black Ops conspired to take control of the situation by becoming the secret leaders to found their own ordely government.

## Aftermath

Dimentio's space-time disruption had several knock-on effects, causing Metal Sonic, N. Tropy, Nitros Oxide, Pir'oth Ix and an array of others to wreak havoc and chaos in Mario's World.

Dimentio later handed the Jeweled Scepter to Oxide, who later used it to bring an assortment of planets together by force, and using it as a tether aboard Oxide Station.

Blaze would later recognize Dimentio as the thief who stole the Jeweled Scepter. Dimentio himself then admitted to his crimes, detailing how he was able to return, and how he caused the event.

## Alternative Collisions

Quantum Collisions have seemingly occured in other Rifts. Rifts such as the Prototype Rift and Ruined Rift have also experienced Quantum Collisions that saw variants of Mario, Sonic and Crash teaming up. The event is also colloquially referred to as a "Crossover Event", and is often categorized as a Nexus Event by the Rift Variance Authority.

Kupuna-Wa informed Blaze that the event that saw her meeting Sonic for the first time was a smaller, reversible Quantum Collision, and mentioned that other Rifts had such events happening simultaneously.

Dark Silver later attempted to cause a Quantum Collision of his own, secretly taking control of the Council of N. Tropys in order to do so.

The G-Man is aware of the effects of Quantum Collisions, and states he has kept count over the amount that he has seen throughout his lifetime.