Shattered World Crisis

The Shattered World Crisis is an event that occurred in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-off comics published by Archie Comics. Taking place directly after the events of When Worlds Collide, this event consists of several minor story arcs, such as Countdown to Chaos and Shadow Fall. This is the first major event to occur in the Post-Super Genesis Wave World, taking place at Sonic's World.

The conflict of Shattered World Crisis revolves around Dark Gaia awakening from his ten thousand year slumber to inflict the Time of Awakening on Sonic's World. By doing this, a catastrophic event splits the planet into multiple pieces, but seven giant pieces of the planet each have a Gaia Temple that can resort the planet back to normal if holding a Chaos Emerald. With this information, the Freedom Fighters must go on a world-wide quest to restore the planet back to normal.

Prelude
At the Skull Egg Zone, Dr. Eggman and Dr. Wily were preparing to set off the Super Genesis Wave after obtaining all seven Chaos Emeralds, while Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man, both trapped inside capsules, were set free by Knuckles the Echidna, Proto Man, Rush, and Dr. Light, as the three had attempted to stall the activation of the Genesis Wave. Sonic and Mega Man (who combined with Rush to create the Super Adaptor) went to the chamber with the seven Chaos Emeralds, and had absorbed the Chaos Energy to transform themselves into their respective super states. And thus, Super Sonic and Super Armor Mega Man were ready to end the diabolical schemes of the mad scientists' once and for all. With multiple attacks that damaged the Egg-Wily Machine X (a machine built by both Eggman and Wily) brutally, a super-Sonic Shot was used to penetrate the machine, ultimately destroying it. With their nemeses defeated, Super Sonic and Super Armor Mega Man had charged up their Chaos Energy to create a Chaos Control that could return both of their worlds back to normal. Meanwhile, Wily decides to give up the plan, but Eggman, set on messing with Sonic's Chaos Control, takes what remains of the Egg-Wily Machine X and interrupts Sonic while charging up Chaos Energy. Sonic tells Mega Man to restore the latter's world, and the Blue Bomber is successful at doing so. However, Eggman, not wanting Sonic to return the world to normal, shoots a laser while Sonic launches his Chaos Energy to perform Chaos Control. With the dark abyss of the Skull Egg Zone fading into a white world, both Sonic and Eggman realize that their world is not the same.

Prelude - A New Lease on Life
With the world of Sonic being mixed with events that didn't occur (otherwise known as the majority of the mainstream Sonic the Hedgehog video games, minus several ) and events that did occur (i.e. Eggman's overthrow on the Kingdom of Acorn) previously on Mobius, Sonic is transported back to Mobotropolis, seemingly hit in the head by a nearby mutated-Tails Doll and remembering both the old and the "new" events of the world. Miles "Tails" Prower comes nearby to check up on Sonic, telling him to hurry and help stop the Tails Doll monster. Sonic, having memories from the old world, remembers their mission to save Sally Acorn (who was roboticizted into Mecha Sally) at the Death Egg Mark 2 with the Arctic Freedom Fighters before the Genesis Wave had strike, but Tails, confused on this, thinks Sonic was hit on the head too hard, the reason he is thinking these things that apparently didn't happen. Sonic even mentions that Silver was with them, but Tails brushes it off, as the last time they had seen Silver was when they were saving the Wisps. Outraged at the fact that no one is getting what's going on, Sonic decides to settle the problem with Tails Doll first, then dealing with the memories. Meanwhile, at Castle Acorn located by Mobotropolis, Ixis Naugus commands NICOLE the Holo-Lynx (who is in her handheld device) to make a Super Ring so Naugus can have his magic restored (how he lost his magic is unconfirmed) to destroy the Tails Doll monster. NICOLE cannot promise a Super Ring immediately, telling Naugus to wait patiently. However, Naugus grabs NICOLE's handheld device to order NICOLE to make a Super Ring now. Suddenly, Naugus receives a plethora of images of his past life prior to the Super Genesis Wave, which startles him. Naugus, confused, throws NICOLE out into a window, but the memories unfortunately give him disturbing images. This causes the wizard to panic and run outside, wanting to escape the memories. Naugus runs away from Mobotropolis, attempting to get rid of his memories, while Sonic and Tails continue to fight the Tails Doll monster.

The two heroes realize their regular Spin Dashing isn't doing the trick to cut through the armor, therefore they use the Rolling Combo to penetrate the armor, which somewhat does the job. However, the Tails Doll monster absorbs city remains to regrow its limbs. This confuses Sonic, as he remembers the city being made of Nanites, but, to much of his dismay, Tails asks "what Nanites" to the hedgehog. Aside from that, Tails also states that the red gem is the control gem of the Tails Doll monster, or the "weak spot" of it. As the two find and try to grab the control gem, they are both slammed by the Tails Doll monster. Tails is thrown to a spot where NICOLE's handheld device sits, and the fox grabs a hold of NICOLE. NICOLE attempts to tell Tails not to grab her device, but it is too late, as Tails is given visions of both the old world. Startle, Tails is speechless on how to react, but unbeknownst to him, Tails Doll is about to smash Tails. Sonic, performing the Super Peel Out trick, saves Tails and NICOLE's handheld device. Tails understands everything Sonic mentioned earlier and tries to comprehend everything he learned briefly of the old world, but Sonic calms the fox down, as he states that they should deal with one problem at a time. The two decide to finish the Tails Doll monster, but they begin to wonder what about the person who apparently brought Tails Doll here in the first place–Dr. Eggman. At the Efrikan Plains, the remains of the Egg-Wily Machine X has crashed at the middle of the plains. Eggman, Orbot, and Cubot realize that they are in the middle of nowhere, as well as that their world has changed drastically. Since all three of the villains have both old and new memories intact, they begin to head the the Death Egg Mark 2 to see what all has changed. With this, Eggman, Orbot, and Cubot begin to push an intact-Egg Mobile towards the Death Egg.