02x01 - Avoid the Void

[bunniefuu]

- [Shadow] What did you do?
- [Tails] Be careful. Sonic, wait!

[screaming, expl*si*n]

Sonic.

[Tails] As long as I'm around,
you'll always have a wingman.

[Amy] The forest is the most
beautiful place on Earth.

[Knuckles] I don't need the details,
just tell me who to smash.

[Rouge] You may not like the way
I do things but I get things done.

[Amy] I may be the one
who can bring everyone together,

but there's only one hedgehog
they'll follow into battle.

[Shadow groaning]

[Shadow grunts]

The Chaos Emerald!

[groans]

My shoes.

Attach these.

[Nine] This energy is still a mystery.

[foreboding music]

[Sonic groaning]

Sonic, it's broken.

It's all broken.

[Sonic yelling]

Sonic!

Huh? What's going on?

Sonic! Keep running! Do not stop!

[Sonic yelling]

Ugh!

[Sonic groans]

Shadow?

[theme music plays]

I don't have time
to deal with whoever you are.

I just wanna go home.

Home? Home doesn't exist anymore,

because of you!

[Sonic gasps, groans]

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa! Ooh! Ooh! Ahh!

[sighs] Can't you just leave me alone.

[yells]

[growls]

Alright, gonna get back to New Yoke City.
Find Nine.

Heh, maybe Nine will pass through
and I can catch a ride.

Ugh, you again. Let me guess,
you're Grumpy Shadow.

Although that would be redundant.

Shadow who needs a shower.

Sheriff Shadow of floating rock world!

[booster rocket roars]

[Sonic yelps]

[Sonic yelps]

I'm stuck in here
and it's all your fault, Sonic!

Yeah, yeah, what else is new?

Wait, how do you know my name?

Unless... [gasps] Shadow, you're you!

- The real you!
- The only me.

[Shadow groans]

You just don't listen.

What part of
"our home doesn't exist anymore"

are you not understanding?

What did you just say?

What do you think
I've been trying to tell you?

When you broke the Paradox Prism,
you broke our reality.

Green Hill is gone.

It doesn't exist anymore.

I know I caused this.

It just keeps getting worse.

- [sombre music]
- [Shadow sighs]

Follow me.

How did you end up in here?

I chased you up the Temple Mountain
and into the cave

just as you shattered the Prism.

So I used the Chaos Emerald
to teleport out.

But when I reappeared, I was here.

Stuck between the Shatter spaces.

[ethereal music]

Yeah. The Void.

[Sonic]
So that must be the New Yoke City Gateway.

Have you been able to see me
this whole time?

Not exactly.

When you get going fast
you kick up Prism energy

and it thins the veil to the Void.

It's like it's opening a portal

through the Gateway.

So that must be how
I teleported into No Place.

I was looking for Nine,
I started running fast

and then suddenly
I portalled out of New Yoke.

I've tracked you
as you've gone from Gateway to Gateway.

No Place.

Boscage Maze.

What's down there?

[Shadow groaning]

[Shadow] Not sure.

From what I can tell,
it's an eternity of darkness.

That decays all life.

[sighs] Game over.

Why didn't you just follow me in?

You can get into those places,
but I can't.

With one exception.

When you unleashed a shockwave
from New Yoke

it blew me back to the outer reaches
of the Void.

And lead me here.

And for reasons I haven't figured out yet

this Gateway let me in.

Maybe it's because the shatter space
isn't fully formed,

or maybe it's decaying, I'm not sure.

But it's not whole.

Like a ghost.

So, then... what is this place?

Come see for yourself.

[forboding music]

[cosmic whirring]

[Sonic yelping]

[Sonic groans]

Whoa, this one looks like home!

The loop de loop!

Hedgehog's Pass.

Tails' lab!

Palm trees!

Mmm, just like home.

[Tails] As long as I'm around,
you'll always have a wingman!

Tails!

[Tails] As long as I'm around,
you'll always have a wingman!

Oh, Tails, you have no idea
how much I've missed hearing that.

The forest is the most beautiful
place on Earth.

Amy!

I don't need the details,
just tell me who to smash.

Ah! Boy, have I missed you guys!
Even you, Knuckles.

You may not like the way I do things
but I get things done.

Nah, no complaints from me, Rouge.

As long as I'm around,
you'll always have a wingman.

Huh? Yeah, you just said that.

Buddy, I'm right here.

The forest is the most
beautiful place on Earth.

I don't need the details,
just tell me who to smash.

You may not like the way I do things
but I get things done.

As long as I'm around, you'll always...

What's wrong with them?

It's a Shatter space, Sonic,
just like the others.

A cruel version to make us suffer.

[Amy] The forest is the most
beautiful place on Earth.

I don't need the details,
just tell me who to smash.

You may not like the way I do things
but I get things done.

[Tails] As long as I'm around,
you'll always have a wingman.

[Amy] The forest is the most
beautiful place on Earth.

[Knuckles] I don't need the details,
just tell me who to smash.

It was cool the first couple of times.

[sighs]

[Amy] The forest is the most
beautiful place on Earth.

How do I fix this?

[sighs] Come with me.

[Tails] As long as I'm around,
you'll always have a wingman.

- No problem, Sonic.
- [frog croaks]

- No problem, Sonic.
- [frog croaks]

[exciting music]

Sonic.

[electronic whirring]

[Sonic sighs]

I guess that's a ghost, too.

[ethereal music]

[Tails] We don't know
what the Prism's capable of.

[Amy] If Eggman wants it,
it can't be good.

[Sonic] Step away from the rock, egghead.

[Tails] Sonic, wait!

[all] Sonic, no!

[expl*si*n]

I would do anything to be back...

Home.

There is a chance.

Every Shatter space contains a shard,

creates a distorted version
of our reality.

That means this one...

Has to be real!

[pulsating]

Exactly.

Don't!

I wasn't going to touch it.

I was just pointing at it
to tell you not to touch it.

Here's the plan.

The Ghost Prism shows us how the other
shards need to be placed together.

If we bring them back here
and connect them to this one,

this real one, then maybe...

Yeah. Yeah, that could work.
It has to work!

We gotta show Nine.
He's, like, super smart!

- He knows a ton about Prism energy. He...
- No.

- No? Why no?
- No.

I just said he's, like, super smart.

He can't be trusted.

What are you talking about?
Of course he can!

He's just like Tails.

He's just a little angsty, that's all.

No. He's not Tails, he's Nine.

And they're not your real friends.

Dude, he's real. This is his reality.

And you know what else is real?

Nine's tech on my kicks
and punching sticks.

So back up off Nine.

- [groans]
- [sighs] Okay, look.

What matters right now
is that I get the shards.

I'll bring them back here and then we...

That's not the plan.

Wait, dude, not the plan?

I'm totally confused.
I thought a moment ago you said...

Sonic, you literally broke our world.

Why would I trust you to do anything?

Okay, I can see how you might think that.

- But...
- [angry grunt]

- [Sonic groans]
- [intense electronic music playing]

Your turn is over.

I'm taking the tech
and I'm going after the shards myself.

No way, Shadow!

I know what you're capable of,
and that's not gonna happen!

Nine and all the rest of them are real!

So the only way you're taking my tech
is over my dead...

[Sonic groans]

[heavy sigh]

You could've at least let me finish
what I was going to say!

[Sonic grunts]

[Shadow] Ugh!

That's one.

Three to go.

Want it back? Come and get it.

[fight music playing]

[Tails] As long as I'm around,
you'll always have a wingman.

Two and three.

[Sonic spluttering]

[Sonic heavy panting, spluttering]

That's it, I got them all.

Now I can enter the Gateways,
just like you.

You sure about that?

[energetic music playing]

- No problem, Sonic.
- [frog croaks]

[music continues]

[sighs] One left. Come at me, bro!

- Nah, I'm good.
- [tech shimmers]

Huh? No!

So long, Sonic. See ya back home.

No, no, no, no!

What? Ah!

[whirring]

Rrrah! Rrrr!

[groans]

[Shadow] When you get going fast

you kick up Prism energy
and it thins the veil to the Void.

It's like it's opening a portal
through the Gateway.

[music intensifies]

[Sonic groans]

[expl*si*n]

[tense music]

Give me back my te... Aah!

[crashing, shattering]

[loud whirring]

Come at me, bro.

Huh?

[ominous music]

The Chaos Council?

Oh, no.

They're headed to the Boscage!

[Shadow groans]

[Shadows yells]

Shadow!

No!

No, no, no, no!

Shadow!

Shadow!

[thrilling music]

[panting] Wooo!

I am exhausted!

[Shadow groans]

You're not dead. You're welcome.

On the bright side,
I'll get to hold this over you forever.

Oh, and, er, I'll take my tech back.

[grumbles]

[electronic zapping]

Ha-ha, got ya!

Rrr, I don't understand.

I thought the tech would
get me through the Gateways.

Why didn't it work?

I saw Nine give you the tech.

In the lab,

you kicked up the prismatic energy
when you ran fast

and crossed over into the Void.

I just assumed it was the tech.

But it's something else... it's you.

I guess that makes me
kind of special, right?

[grumbles]

The only way to fix
the reality you shattered

is if we... work...

- together.
- Together?

[groans]

Wow. Coming from you that's, well,

not like you at all.

Man, you must really hate
having to admit you need me.

You need me.

Sure, I'm big enough to admit that.

But, not as much as you need me.

Oh, no.

I won't let you down, Shadow.

Together, we're gonna fix this.

[uplifting music]

[theme music plays]