#no-zone

The Genesis Wave happened right after the escape of Scourge the Hedgehog, the Anti-Sonic, from the No Zone Prison. The No Zone is a “perpendicular” universe to Sonic Prime’s, and it tends to take a totalitarian authority to the multiverse and travelers. Scourge had jumped between Moebius and Mobius Prime to conquer both, hence his imprisonment. When the Wave happened, Prime was entirely cut off from the multiverse; no one knew what happened. Scourge, Fiona, and his Destructix team were stuck on Moebius. Zonic, the No Zone’s top agent, was sent to maintain order in the other Zones, to try to mitigate the effects of the Wave. With the Wave wreaking havok on Prime’s timeline, and Prime being the center of their multiverse, the other timelines were rippling, too.

Zobotnik, Zonic’s boss, was supposed to be helping calm things down. Severing paths where he needed to, sending individuals to repair timelines, stuff like that. Eggman Nega, a separate version of Eggman, had been attacking the No Zone for a while, but the Genesis Wave wiped him out. This gave Zobotnik an idea. Wouldn’t it be so much easier to keep order in the multiverse if the other Zones simply... didn’t exist?

This causes a decade-long series of events. Zonic is too busy slowing the effects of the ripple to notice what Zobotnik is doing. Scourge and the Destructix discover it and, not wanting to cease existing, start a rebellion, attacking Zobotnik themselves. Anti-Maria becomes a key element in this fight. On the old Moebius, Marilyn Robotnik had NIDS just like Maria did, but when Anti-Shadow tried to save her, he died. Marilyn was the one captured, and she was experimented on for the next 50 years, becoming an immortal human, the only human who could absorb and use Chaos Energy. This also means she can affect the No Zone portals, and the Destructix use her to repair and fight their way to the No Zone. Zonic initially doesn’t believe them about Zobotnik, until Zobotnik directly attacks Marilyn; Zonic has to sacrifice himself to save her. 

This is the catalyst in the final battle, and unfortunately, the group is too late to stop Zobotnik’s Genesis Wave. Scourge, in Super Scourge form, is at the epicenter of the Wave alongside Marilyn, and the most they can do is create pocket-ripples to protect everyone about to be erased. This means that those people are still lost, but that they can be found, and their existence keeps the timelines from completely collapsing; the multiverse is streamlined, but the edges are frayed, like dangling threads.

This is where my story would actually start, whenever I get around to writing it. All ten years of that fight have been erased. Scourge and the Destructix are back where they started, as teens on Moebius, although this Moebius is not the one they remember. Scourge remembers all ten years that are gone, and his team is only just familiar enough to trust his decisions, but they can’t remember why. Zonic is baffled by his jumbled memories, which are cut off due to his previous death, and pursuing the Destructix, as well as trying to find out why the No Zone’s Highway is ripped to shreds and missing whole chunks--chunks that should be worlds. Scourge gets to Marilyn early, who doesn’t remember him, but is extremely enthusiastic to join the gang and escape her imprisonment.

She’s in a baggy sweater and sweatpants when they find her, because her captors don’t care that much. Fiona gets her disguised in dramatic, punk-y clothes, and Marilyn insists on having a neat scar like Scourge’s. She says it’s to disguise herself, but really, she’s just a cheesy dork who wants to look cool. Flying Frog is happy to assist on (carefully) scarring her face. The two of them are best buddies, honestly--he tosses her off buildings, she teleports back and begs him to do it again, they both laugh hysterically, it’s great. Marilyn might be a little nuts. 

Zobotnik still wants to erase the multiverse, so it’s Scourge’s goal to get a headstart on fighting him, training Marilyn and convincing Zonic to join their side. This will eventually form a very large fighting force that jumps between the Zones and hides in the cracks, breaking down Zobotnik’s supports until the ground collapses from under him. Eventually, the Destructix will get their memories back, and Scourge won’t be so alone in remembering. Fiona will cry upon remembering that she’d been pregnant before the ten years were erased. Zonic will have an identity crisis at remembering his own death. The lost people will be found in the forgotten Zones--like Geoffrey St. John and Dr. Finitevus. But, for now, for the story’s beginning, it’s an on-the-run Marilyn, a confused Zonic, and a bunch of crazy criminals in the Destructix who don’t really know how to parent an immortal human child.