Episodes 01

“Shattered”

While engaging in a fight with his arch-nemesis, Dr. Eggman, Sonic the Hedgehog destroys the Paradox Prism, an ancient artifact with immense power. This causes a ripple in the space-time continuum, separating Sonic from his friends and sending him to New Yoke City, a dystopian version of Green Hills in a parallel universe ruled by the Chaos Council, a group made up of five Eggman variants (Dr. Babble, Dr. Done It, Dr. Deep, Dr. Don’t and Mr. Dr. Eggman). Traveling through his new surroundings, Sonic discovers he has absorbed the Paradox Prism’s energies, which causes him to trip and slide around, due to his equipment being unable to handle the power. He encounters Nine, a variant of his best friend Tails who constructed mechanized tails as weapons against his childhood bullies, not having Sonic to help him. Sonic earns Nine’s trust, and the young genius modifies Sonic’s shoes and gloves to attune to his newfound powers. However, Sonic and Nine are captured, and Sonic is taken for tests run by Rusty Rose, a variant of Amy Rose turned into a subservient cyborg. When the Council threatens Nine, Sonic pushes his powers to the max, causing him to generate a massive amount of energy. However, he notices what seems to be a hallucination of his rival Shadow the Hedgehog during the surge and flashbacks to an earlier confrontation with him.

Episodes 02

“The Yoke’s On You”

In a flashback, Shadow receives a vision of Sonic causing the world to shatter while feeling the impact Sonic causes when he attacked Eggman’s badnik. Shadow questions Sonic’s action and attempts to stop him from reaching Eggman’s place to prevent the impending catastrophe. However, his hostile tactics and cryptic warnings make Sonic misunderstand his intention, and both fight each other before Sonic slows him down enough to reach Eggman. Back in the present, Sonic’s energy surge creates an electromagnetic pulse that causes New Yoke City to temporarily black out, cluing the Council to a new source of power, coming to the decision to dissect Sonic and strip him of his powers. However, resistance fighters Rebel Rouge and Renegade Knucks arrive and rescue him and Nine, but are cornered by Rusty Rose and Badinks.

Episodes 03

“Escape From New Yoke”

After destroying most of the Badniks, Sonic, Nine, and the Resistance decide to take the opportunity to steal the “Crystal” that gives the Council supreme power. Nine successfully takes over Rusty Rose’s programming, making her fight alongside them. When closing in on the power source’s location, Sonic and Nine are separated from Rebel, Knucks, and Rusty who buys them time, fighting against the enemy while Sonic and Nine get the power source. It turns out that the Crystal is a shard of Paradox Prism. This makes Sonic realize that he has caused the world to change after he destroyed the Paradox Prism during the attempt to stop Eggman. Sonic refrains from touching the shard, but does so at Nine’s insistence, sending him to another universe.

Episodes 04

“Unwelcome to the Jungle”

Sonic is sent to the jungle world of Boscage Maze, where he meets Prim, Hangry, Gnarly, and Mangey (feral versions of Rouge, Big, Knuckles, and Tails) who live on trees in fear of a “monster” down below. Sonic also discovers Nine’s enhanced gear grants him new powers whenever he enters a new dimension. They decide to use Sonic’s speed to distract the monster long enough to get food and falsely promise Sonic to help him find a shard of Paradox Prism in exchange. While looking for food, the monster drives them away, leaving Sonic to face it alone, who is revealed to be Thorn Rose, a variant of Amy, and her giant bird, Birdie. Thorn explains that Prim and the others are scavengers who have ravaged the jungle, so she’s fighting them to protect it. During the fight, Thorn notices the light from Sonic’s shoes is similar to “The Great Green”. Believing it to be a shard of the prism, Sonic convinces Thorn to escort him to it by promising he will leave afterward. The Great Green that Thorn refers to is actually a coconut tree that Sonic knows from his original world, empowered by the Prism Shard. Sonic finds the Shard beneath the tree, but when he tries to take it, Thorn deems Sonic as another scavenger and claims it.

Episodes 05

“Barking Up The Wrong Tree”

Sonic tries to grab the shard from Thorn who uses its powers to make the jungle impenetrable for the scavengers. Sonic tries to persuade the scavengers to make peace with Thorn, but the scavengers reveal that they and Thorn were friends until she became disgusted by how they kept abusing the natural resources and become obsessed with protecting the forest which drove them away. Sonic arranges for both sides to meet up and talk, but the scavengers seize the opportunity and attack her instead. Realizing that Thorn has only done further harm to the jungle after noticing that the coconut tree (which is a tree that Sonic, Amy, and friends used to hang out around it) has withered due to lack of sunlight, Sonic tricks Thorn into throwing her hammer and the shard through the branches, revealing the condition of the tree and healing it. This helps Thorn realize the error of her ways and reveal her side of the scavengers’ story; she tried out of concern to warn them about their abuse but they kept ignoring her, causing her to eventually snap and attack them, a misunderstanding she came to regret. This leads her to reconcile with the scavengers, who also agree to help conserve. Sonic goes to get the shard but comes into contact with it and warps to another dimension.

Episodes 06

“Situation: Grim”

Sonic is rocketed back to the war-torn New Yoke and learns that weeks have passed in the dimension since his departure. It turns out that right after he vanished, Nine fled with the shard, leaving Knucks and Rebel at the Badnik’s mercy with Rusty returning to her original programming. As the result, Rebel and the Resistance are distrustful of Sonic. Taken to the Resistance’s hideout, Rebel shows Sonic their version of the coconut tree, the only natural tree left and the symbol of the life they deserve. The Chaos Council tracks down Sonic’s position through the traces of the shard’s energy from him and attacks the Resistance’s hideout. Nine appears in an airship powered by the Shatter Drive, a machine that allows him to use the stolen shard’s powers to open portals between the Shatterverse, the void between the worlds, which he calls Shatterspaces. Nine takes Sonic with him to a barren Shatterspace called the Grim, where he intends to rebuild the world and their lives for both of them. But Sonic refuses to abandon the rebels and Nine reluctantly sends him back to New Yoke, but has a change of heart and joins Sonic and the Resistance. While Sonic and the Resistance successfully defeat the Eggforcers attacking them, the Chaos Council unleashes their flying fortress, the Mothership, and captures Nine.

Episodes 07

“It Takes One to No Place”

While looking for Nine, Sonic sees an apparent apparition of Shadow, who has managed to escape the universe’s shatter using Chaos Control but is now trapped in the void, telling him to keep going, which causes his Shatter-boosted powers to kick in and teleport him into another Shatterspace, the deep seas of No Place, where he meets Batten, Sails, Black Rose, and Catfish (pirate versions of Rouge, Tails, Amy, and Big), led by legendary pirate Knuckles the Dread. They welcome Sonic into their crew as they find his speed useful and he helps them defeat Dread’s former crew. Dread explains how he was a feared pirate who with his former crew aimed for a treasure called the Devil’s Lighthouse which is actually a shard of Paradox Prism, only for them to end up shipwrecked and Dread’s former crew deserting him. Sonic insists on getting the shard, so Dread makes him the captain. Unexpectedly, Rusty Rose and a group of Eggforcers arrive on a submarine and attack the pirates.

Episodes 08

“There’s No ARRGH In “Team””

After capturing Nine, the Chaos Council seizes his Shatter Drive Technology to use it and conquer the entire Shatterverse, but Nine conveniences them to keep Sonic alive to learn of his unique ability to travel across the Shatterverse, which they reluctantly agree on. Meanwhile, in No Place, Sonic and the pirates attempt in vain to fight back against Rusty Rose. After replicating the Shard navigation mod on Sonic’s sneakers to find the Prism, Rusty prepares to destroy them, but hesitates and leaves after seeing her Pirate counterpart. As the ship begins to sink, Sonic convinces the runaway Dread to return, who after realizing that succeeding where he failed would restore his reputation, resumes command and has his crew use buoyancy materials to keep the ship afloat and Sonic’s super speed and newfound power to float above water to give them some power. They sail to The Devil’s Lighthouse at full speed. While Sonic and the pirates defeat and capture Rusty, Dread, who is obsessed with getting the Shard, is ambushed by Badniks and is knocked off of the mountain. Sonic saves him, but touches the Shard and disappears back into the Void, where he is confronted by a furious Shadow, who informs him that because of his actions, their original universe no longer exists.