after the events of the exe, Metal Sonic grabs a ahold of a powerful artifact which he uses to recreate their entire universe

*Silver, Shadow, Tails, Espio, Metal, and Cream remembering

at Vanilla's place

Cream: gasps and sits up in bed wha- where am I?

Vanilla: peeks through the door way are you okay, dear?

Cream: looks at Vanilla, her eyes tearing up remembering when Sonic.exe killed her mother in front of her, she quickly got up and hugs her with tears streaming down her eyes

Vanilla: Cream? What happened? hugs her back

at the Lab

Tails: groans as he gets up from his work bench huh?.. did I fall asleep?..

Amy: yup!~

Knuckles: you were too focused on your inventions all night...

Tails: sees his dead friends who were killed by Sonic.exe alive again wha- hey what's going on where's that demon!?!

Amy: Demon?..

Cosmo: are you okay tails? she tilts her head in confusion

Tails: he sees Cosmo, how is she alive, she died way before the Sonic.exe event

in the woods

Shadow: ngh... What happened... gets up

Sonic: heh~ you were asleep under a tree, Shads~

Rouge: giggles yeah, this is unusual behaviors, when ever someone enters your radius you wake up instantly~

Shadow: seeing his dead friends alive again is a shock to him hm... I need to go check on something... gets up and skates off

Maria: from the distance where you heading off to Shadow?..

Shadow: quickly brakes and turns to her with wide eyes M-Maria?..