Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2055856-20160516212015/@comment-679780-20160628184609

Well shard was the very first Metal Sonic introduced in the Sonic CD story. Over time he became a legit nice guy, perhaps going as far as something with Nicole sparking.

Now mandates say there has always been the one version of Metal Sonic, so that means Shard would of never had his Power Gem installed, never learned beyond his programming and never became Shard, just remained the Metal Sonic with the primary function to kill Sonic and his fellow mobians.