You hop through the ring portals, barely escaping Eggman's forces and making it through (mostly) unscathed. On the plus side, you're all here - in fact, you'll find Tails and Vakama nearby, with the fox having brought your pal here too.
But unfortunately, "here" is not exactly the best place to be.
"Back here again...? Sheesh, I really can't catch a break.
"What is this place, Sonic?"
"This is the space between worlds. The void, I guess you could call it."
Everywhere you look there's a whole lot of nothing. Gemstone-like shards litter this reality in all sorts of shapes and sizes, serving as obstacles or platforms; they're sturdy enough to walk and stand on, but this world's rules are a little different from what you're used to. For one, gravity doesn't really work properly - you may find yourself floating or walking upside-down on a shard you didn't mean to end up on, and it's going to take some getting used to.
There's not really much to do or see here either - at least, not for now. You're welcome to explore this strange place, but you won't find anything particularly interesting... with one notable exception as seen in the comment below.
No matter where you go, no matter what you do, you'll feel like you're being watched.
Oh! That's really cool! I was a lab assistant for half a semester in college before my professor told me I "wasn't cut out for it" and so I had to stop. What sort of lab work are you helping with?
The invention of the Professor's time machine. And studying the Paradox Pokemon that come through it, of course. But I haven't been doing it since his death.
Oh, I bet we can find it in the rec room! It's a movie where some scientists manage to recreate Dinosaurs, like how some people can resurrect fossil Pokemon. And they made it into a whole tourist attraction. But then things go terribly wrong.
Right, there's not like a whole bunch of the fossil Pokemon running around in the wild or anything.
But Dinosaurs are animals, which can't be trained or caught in the same way as Pokemon so it's worse, probably. Imagine a bunch of Aerodactyl and Tyrantrum running around but you can't put them in a pokeball, and you don't even have any other pokemon to defend against them.
That does sound terrible! Yes, we would have at least had other Pokemon to help even if he had gotten his way, though I imagine it would still have been catastrophic.
[Though it sounds a little like he's trying to be nice there.]
But yes, they do not seem to be...very helpful. I cannot promise that Pokemon would have been any more immune to Dr. Robotnik's power than the animals, but I'm sure that they would have put up a greater fight against him achieving it to begin with.
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Oh! That's really cool! I was a lab assistant for half a semester in college before my professor told me I "wasn't cut out for it" and so I had to stop. What sort of lab work are you helping with?
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Paradox pokemon? What's that?
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[As a worst case scenario.]
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[Because, you know, people don't want a horde of them escaping and wrecking things...]
I suppose it is a lot like that.
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But Dinosaurs are animals, which can't be trained or caught in the same way as Pokemon so it's worse, probably. Imagine a bunch of Aerodactyl and Tyrantrum running around but you can't put them in a pokeball, and you don't even have any other pokemon to defend against them.
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That's one of many reasons Pokemon are cooler than regular animals. Not that I don't also like animals.
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[Though it sounds a little like he's trying to be nice there.]
But yes, they do not seem to be...very helpful. I cannot promise that Pokemon would have been any more immune to Dr. Robotnik's power than the animals, but I'm sure that they would have put up a greater fight against him achieving it to begin with.