Shattered

**Shattered** is the first episode in season 1 of Sonic Prime. It premiered on 10 December 2022 in *Sonic Speed Simulator*, then on Netflix on 15 December 2022.

## Plot

Sonic dashes across Green Hill, giving a recap about his friends, Shadow, and Dr. Eggman. He runs over to an open cave where he meets up with Tails, Amy, Rouge and Knuckles, who all complain that he arrived late for a fight against Eggman.

Eggman explains his plan to take the Paradox Prism out of the ground, and sends his Badniks out to stall Sonic and his friends. Sonic dashes towards Eggman to stop him from stealing the crystal, but inadvertently shatters it, sending him into the Shatterverse.

Sonic briefly floats there until he lands into New Yoke City, an alternate world where Eggman won. He expresses brief short-term amnesia before being put in danger by the ongoing traffic, resulting in him nearly being killed.

He escapes traffic, and sees his shoes are overloaded with power. He asks the people nearby where he is, though they all ignore him. He then spots alternate versions of Big the Cat and Froggy, and he asks them where he is, though they don't recognize him.

A Badnik spots Sonic as an unidentified person, and flies towards him, scaring away Big and Froggy. Sonic struggles to fight the Badniks, since his shoes keep making him go at super speed, though he eventually beats them. He is confused at the fact that there are no Flickies inside. He is then chased down by Dr. Babble inside a Mech suit, though he is able to narrowly escape.

He then goes up to the high ground, where he sees several locations from Green Hill, and realizes that this is Green Hill.

He has a flashback to a previous battle, where he is fighting against one of Eggman's robots alongside his friends. Tails realizes that the fight is a trick, and warns Sonic, who ignores Tails after Eggman insults Tails for his mutation. Sonic attacks the robot, triggering a massive explosion beyond Sonic’s capabilities, releasing a huge earthquake upon a nearby mountain.

Sonic opens up the cockpit to find it empty, but that there is a small device inside. He later brings the device to Tails, who is in his lab. Tails identifies it as a power amplifier, explaining that large blast, though wondering why Eggman would want Sonic's powers enhanced.

Rouge enters through the open door and explains that she believes a crystal called the Paradox Prism to be nearby, and that the earthquake may have been a way for Eggman to unearth it. They head to tell Amy and Knuckles.

Flash forward to present time, Sonic sees who he believes is Tails in an alleyway, and follows him. Unbeknownst to him, Renegade Knucks and Rebel Rouge watch from atop a building, musing on how he could help the Resistance. He finds a door with a digital lock over it, and enters the code "1992" to open it, which was the code to Tails' Lab.

Sonic opens the door and greets the fox, who takes offense to the name Tails, and starts to fight Sonic, believing he is a threat. Sonic tries to reason with the fox, who calls himself "Nine," as he has nine tails due to the addition of several mechanical ones. In their fight, Nine is almost hit by a train, though Sonic saves him, and they sit down.

Sonic explains the day he met Tails, saving him from a group of bullies and that they became fast friends. Nine explains that while he was always being picked on, Sonic simply wasn’t there, and he was beaten up for years, and never had any friends, until he built a set of mechanical tails to fight back.

Nine slowly warms to Sonic's kindness, but Sonic's shoes start to smolder, and eventually burn the soles and the bottom edge of the red material. Nine takes him to his lab, where he fixes Sonic's shoes, stabilizing them. Sonic takes them for a test run, but runs into Dr. Babble, who captures Sonic and Nine. Knucks and Rebel watch, and decide to try and help the two.

When Sonic wakes up to a bright light, causing his eyes to water, he sees Rusty Rose, who he believes to be Amy. She introduces him to the Chaos Council, who decide to test him and figure out what he is. After a series of easy tests, Nine finds out that Sonic's abilities matches what powers the city till Sonic pushed his powers more, supercharge their systems and formed a blinding light.

Sonic begins to hallucinate, and sees a sequence of flashbacks before he fought Eggman in the cave, ending with a memory of him locked in a battle with his rival: Shadow the Hedgehog.