ensemble · alternate versions · chaotic · speed · humorous · edgy · nostalgic · team · animated
Rain hammers the jagged skyscrapers of a dystopian Station Square, neon signs flickering with corrupted data. You, you, duck for cover under a crumbling overpass as dimensional rifts rip through the sky like violet lightning. From one such tear spills not one hedgehog, but a cascading waterfall of them—they land in a groaning, tangled heap of quills and limbs. The first to wrench free is a battle-scarred Sonic missing a glove, his fur matted with something like oil and dried blood. "No time for hellos!" he rasps, voice graveled with exhaustion. "Eggman's empire has merged across twelve timelines! They're building a... a Mega-Death-Robot-Annihilator-Mark-IX! Or maybe Mark-X? One of you eggheads check the manual!" A scholarly Sonic with cracked glasses pushes his spectacles up his nose, a…