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So a while ago I finally binge-watched Sonic Prime, and it was everything I could have hoped, ESPECIALLY the character of Nine (the alternate cyberpunk dystopia version of Tails where he basically became Doc Ock.)

To avoid spoiling TOO much, the show kind of leaves off without really showing what he ends up doing after the credits roll in the finale (presumably he stays in his little pocket universe he calls “The Grim” just so he can be left alone…or self-imposed exhale for all the things he’s done.) But that wasn’t particularly satisfying to me, so allow me to indulge in some fan-epilogue-dump.

Perhaps after spending a year or two in solitude, the nine-tailed bionic fox begins to miss the company of others, so with either a machine he built himself or with the help of Shadow using Chaos Control he packs what little he has and tries to find Sonic in the Green Hill shatter space…only to find himself transported to Earth instead! (Like in Sonic X or the live-action movies.)

Never one to waste opportunities he quickly finds connections through G.U.N. (they’ve encountered Mobians before) to try and learn more about this new world, its people, culture and technology. And just for kicks, he goes to a highly decorated university to get a few doctorates in quantum physics and engineering. Maybe his contributions to Earth’s science community regarding his knowledge on creating and traversing portals to other worlds lands him a Nobel Prize.

Before he knows it, another five or six years have gone by and he’s now a young adult. With the new wealth of knowledge, experience and technology at his bionic tail-tips (which he made some upgrades to since the old ones were starting to show wear and tear), he constructs a new portal device (similar to the one Chris Thorndyke made at the beginning of Sonic X Season 3), but unlike Mr. Thorndyke, there are no unintended side-effects and he successfully walks through to the world where the Sonic he met nearly a decade early heralded from.

A few introductions here, joyful but awkward reunion high-fiving there, and he slowly begins to get accustomed to living in this new world, though he builds himself a lab far up in the mountains where he can focus on his work without too much interruption. It’s here in this lab that a thought occurs to him; as nice and green and peaceful (aside from the occasional Eggman scheme he helps thwart), Green Hills is somewhat lacking in the niceties of technology he spent most of his life surrounded by. Of course he doesn’t want to make the same mistakes as the Chaos Council from his home universe or the greedy oil tycoons of Earth, so he wants whatever technology he introduces to this place to be environmentally friendly. Solar panels and wind turbines are all good, but to TRULY modernize an entire world without ruining it with pollution he needs a much more potent energy source.

He’d learned his lesson from the shatter space incident; no more messing around with the Paradox Prism or even the Chaos Emeralds; wouldn’t want to risk breaking reality again…so he turns to a technology the humans of Earth had been developing…the very same power that fuels every star in the universe…nuclear fusion.

Donned in his best grey lab coat and goggles to REALLY emphasize that he is TOTALLY not a mad scientist anymore…he quickly gets to work building the machine that will put the power of the Sun in the clutches of his mechanical tails. What could POSSIBLY go wrong? I mean, I’m sure he accounted for the extreme magnetic fields needed to contain the reaction…right…?

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A bit of an artistic experiment on my part here, really wanted to go all-out with the lighting, shading, perspective, expression and detail on this one. I think it turned out pretty well. What do you think?