The Void

**The Void** is a world in-between Shatterspaces, filled with an empty life-consuming pit at the bottom and a couple of crystals floating around. You can also access Shatterspace Gateways from within, if you have Prism Energy.

## Description

### Appearance

The void is a vast expanse of space with purple coloration and thousands of crystal-like shards floating within it. At the bottom of the Void lies a massive black pit, described as "an eternity of darkness". Around the Void are Gateways to Shatterspaces, composed of colored hexes surrounding glowing white energy portals. The red Gateway leads to New Yoke City, the green Gateway leads to Boscage Maze, the blue Gateway leads to No Place, the purple Gateway leads to The Grim, and the yellow Gateway leads to Ghost Hill.

Inside the void are large astral projections of Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Rouge and Eggman, each of which is able to say a single line relating to Sonic.

## History

### TV series

#### Season one

The Void was apparently created along with the Shatterverse as a whole when Sonic accidentally shattered the Paradox Prism. As a result, four shards of the Paradox Prism would go flying off, each landing in a respectively-colored Gateway, while one shard remained in the corrupted version of Green Hill. Chasing the red shard, Sonic would soon be sent careening across the Void into New Yoke City's Gateway as a result, while Shadow found himself in the Void after attempting to teleport away from Green Hill. Shadow attempted to enter the Gateways, but was instead thrown backwards every time, dropping his Chaos Emerald into the blackness below as a result. After repeated attempts, Shadow was able to briefly contact Sonic through the Gateways on multiple occasions.

Following a shockwave Sonic created in New Yoke City, which spread across the Void, Shadow was launched to the outer areas of the Void, and discovered a Gateway to a corrupted version of Green Hill, which found he was able to enter. After exploring the area, Shadow apparently returned to the Void.

A short while after, Sonic would accidentally touch the green Shard in Boscage Maze, sending him back to the void, where he was thrown into the New Yoke City portal again.

Soon, Tails Nine developed the Shatter Drive and integrated it into an aircraft he created. After being forced to leave his lab in New Yoke City under threat of capture, Nine escaped to the Void in his craft, which was subsequently damaged by crashing into a large crystal chunk. Once Nine had regained control of the craft, he noticed the purple Gateway nearby, and out of need to repair a damaged engine, traveled through it to The Grim. Afterwards, Nine would presumably travel back through the void to reach New Yoke City.

Nine would later travel through the void again, returning to the Grim with Sonic, who, although intrigued by the new area, asked to return to New Yoke City, to Nine's chagrin. In response, Nine reluctantly generated a portal, which Sonic entered, drifting through the void to New Yoke City once more. However, Nine would subsequently have second thoughts, however, and traveled through the Void back to New Yoke City, in order to assist Sonic. Sonic would subsequently be teleported to the void again by a combination of his signature speed and the Prism Energy on his shoes, sending him careening into the No Place gateway.

After accidentally touching the blue Prism Shard in No Place, Sonic would be sent back to the Void, where he was ambushed by Shadow, who blamed Sonic for the entire incident regarding the Paradox Prism's shattering.

#### Season two

Sonic initially tried to flee across the Void from Shadow, but after realizing that Shadow was not an alternate counterpart, attempted to reason with him. Shadow reluctantly explained his perspective, and led Sonic to the yellow Gateway in the Void, and traveled through it to Ghost Hill. After a series of escalating debates, Shadow attacked Sonic again, and stole the Regulators from him, which he used to return to the Void. In pursuit, Sonic used his speed to teleport out and follow Shadow. The hedgehogs continued fighting, but were interrupted when the Chaos Council's mothership (powered by the Prism Shard stolen from Nine) emerged from New Yoke City's Gateway, and entered the Boscage Maze Gateway. Shadow attempted to follow it into the Gateway, but found he was still unable to enter. While Sonic took the technology back, Shadow reluctantly agreed to work with Sonic to fix the universe, seeing no other option. Sonic then jumped into the Gateway to Boscage Maze, preparing to fight the Chaos Council.

## Trivia

* Although first seen in the season one beginning episode, "Shattered", the Void was not named until the season two beginning episode, "Avoid the Void".