During the battle with Dr. Eggman, Sonic shattered the Paradox Prism, a crystal artifact with the ability to warp reality, which greatly distorted Sonic's main universe and created the "Shattered Universe", a A multiverse of alternate dimensions called "Shattered Space", each dimension formed inhabited by one of the Prism Shards, inhabits different versions of Sonic's friends (Tales, Knuckles, Amy Rose, Lu Gee and Big Man), but lacks their own version of Sonic.

Sonic first came to New York City