Shattered Dimension

## Shattered

- Familiar Faces

The Shattered Dimension is one of the many alternative universes of the Modern Dimension, otherwise known as Mobius. The AU takes place partially during and after *Sonic Forces*. The AU takes a more serious tone than Sonic Forces itself, enhancing the desperativity of the situation and how powerful the Robotnik Empire really is.The AU was created by SpeedyBlues.

## Briefing

Shattered is a Sonic the Hedgehog AU that takes place partially during and after Sonic Forces. The AU takes a more serious tone than Sonic Forces itself, enhancing the desperativity of the situation and how powerful the Robotnik Empire really is.

The AU’s changes happen drastically right after Infinite appears for the first time in Sunset City/Station Square. The encounter still goes as written, however with a few notable changes. Such as there only being Metal, Infinite and Shadow at the scene and Tails trying his best to help Sonic before it’s too late. Sonic eventually gets captured regardless, however, and the Robotnik Empire begins to take over the world. The- -Resistance is formed together by Tails and Amy, having all three of Tails, Amy and Silver in lead. Amy handling strategies, Silver handling commands, and Tails handling electronics. They all plan to get Sonic back so they can take the world back, but with Robotnik’s murderous demeanor, it’s much more difficult than anticipated.

While the resistance was busy planning to get Sonic back, Infinite and Ivo’s original plan for stealing Sonic from the world comes into plan. They attempt to brainwash him into becoming a bioweapon for their own use, seeing how powerful Sonic was by just his supersonic speed. If they gathered the seven Chaos Emeralds and used the Phantom Ruby while at it, they’d be unstoppable. Months and months of unstoppable torture begins, with multiple senses of false security handed to Sonic just to break him even more. With his strong willpower, however, he managed to grasp onto the last thread of sanity he had just to not give in. He still had hope that he’d be bailed out of the prison, even if it had been already 10 months into war.

The resistance eventually lost all hope in freeing Sonic, as Ivo’s troops were far too powerful without the hedgehog. Tails, however, had not lost any sliver of hope- eventually getting into an argument with the rest of the group before finally deciding to free Sonic by himself. He was nearly successful- breaking into the facility without being spotted right before Tails put a timer on the Death Egg for the power to cut out. That would essentially be another timer until the Death Egg exploded, giving Tails some time to find Sonic and escape without having to do much else. However, unfortunately for him, Robotnik found out where he was- sending Infinite out to kill him. Sonic hadn’t known anything until he was forced to watch from an “illusion,” begging and crying for Tails to escape. It didn’t work.

The power eventually cut out, raising the bars of the prison cell. Sonic was able to run as fast as he could to the location where Tails fought Infinite, finding out that it wasn’t an illusion at all. Tails, in his dying moments, handed Sonic the Red Chaos Emerald he brought with him to power his mech, telling him to run before the lights came back on. He didn’t want to leave Tails, however- taking him while he escaped. Sonic was too slow to escape, though. The lights came back on, and shortly after, the place exploded to bits. In a final grasp onto life, Sonic used a massive Chaos Control to get him and Tails out of the area. Right then was when Tails died in his arms, and Sonic died as well.

However, thanks to the Chaos Emerald Tails gave to him, Sonic managed to survive the explosion and live only thanks to Chaos Energy. Tails, however, wasn’t so lucky...dying while being a hero.

Sonic eventually went insane with how the state of the world was, and right on top of that, Tails was dead. He didn’t know what was real or not anymore, feeling as if this was another illusion still. Thanks to Infinite’s brainwashing, Sonic found himself in a state between “kill everybody to escape” and feeling utterly lost and insane. The only remnant of his childhood was gone, and all he could come to was murder. He, respectfully, buried Miles on the ledge next to the workshop, right before racing to the resistance base.

They were all happy to see him! This partially stopped Sonic from killing them for a moment, getting stuck between emotions. Him and Knuckles eventually argued after finding out Tails was dead, however,- -and how much Sonic had changed within 10 months. Out of insanity and finally snapping back into being brainwashed, Knuckles was quickly murdered by being bashed into a wall repeatedly. Sonic quickly regretted it, but out of fear, he couldn’t end it right there.

The rest of the resistance, seeing that he wasn’t the Sonic they all knew anymore, quickly banded up together to stop Sonic before it was too late. They were all murdered with ease- Sonic using his skills that Infinite forced him to learn with Chaos Spears. With every person he killed, the even more bloodlusted and insane he became. The resistance was finished off with Charmy protecting Amy to avenge the Chaotix, and Amy being killed right after. A few minutes of finalized silence passed right before Sonic snapped out of it, eventually breaking down and regretting everything. In his own broken, shambled and insane head, he had nothing else to live for. The entire world was gone to flames, his entire family and childhood was thrown out the window, and his friends- and the world’s only hope- were just now murdered. By Sonic the Hedgehog- this world’s hero that they missed so much. And it was all Infinite’s fault.

Sonic made it his mission to end the world so “nobody had to suffer like he did.” Looking all over the planet for all of the power sources he knew of, nobody seemed to know that this “monster” was still Sonic. Many tried to stop him- G.U.N, Gemerl, Blaze- but they all failed only because Sonic was far too powerful having been merged with a Chaos Emerald, making him lose control over his emotions and powers. This gave him all of the Chaos Emeralds, the Master Emerald, the SOL Emeralds, and potentially the Super Emeralds as well. There was just one last thing he had to do to satisfy himself before ending the world- murdering two people he wouldn’t ever regret killing. Infinite- -was tracked down and eventually assassinated in Miles’s name, having the Phantom Ruby pried away from him. Ivo went down with a fight, but no matter how many robots he had, nothing would’ve saved him from Sonic.

After that, Sonic finally had all he needed to end the world and rid it from suffering. He turned into his Super form, flew out to space, and used all of the gems he collected to Chaos Blast not only Mobius, but the SOL dimension as well, to oblivion. Every single person in the universe was murdered but himself. Eventually crashing back down to Mobius in a flame...he lived. Only because of the Chaos Emerald. His murder-suicide didn’t go as planned, and he was left to suffer as long as the Chaos Emerald was fused into him. He tried multiple things, stabbing himself and attempting to drown...nothing worked. Because of Chaos Energy having corrupted his entire body. Snapping out of his craze, he was left to suffer for eternity. All alone…

At least, he thought. A special obsidian hedgehog would be coming back like a cockroach for a loooong, long time. Working to restore the world.