Fractured Mirror - Part Three: Shattered- Sonic Universe #27
This issue is mostly one big fight scene, but one very notable thing happens here that raises a lot of questions.
We start off the fight with the Freedom Fighters defeating the core zombies one by one. Then Enerjak steps in and we learn that his main motivation is that he's just bored and looking for entertainment. He's been toying with the FFs for his amusement, but now that Silver is on on hand he decides that he doesn't need them any more.
Therefore he starts to take them out, starting with this zone's version of Bunnie. 
So it's been subtlety hinted through out the arc that this version of Bunnie is in a relationship with this zone's version of Bean the Duck, of all people.
They're seen holding hands and helping each other out in the background of several panels, and here he sacrifices himself to try and save her, while she calls him 'darling'.
Meanwhile this version of Antoine is never shown to really interact with her and doesn't show much reaction to her getting hurt beyond just a general sense of worry for his comrades and the situation.
Of course this just raises thousands of unanswered questions.
If they are alternate timeline versions of our Bunnie and Ant, then why are they not together? Why dump Antoine for fucking Bean? Why wouldn't Antoine have more of reaction to her death, even if they were exes?
It just doesn't make any sense to think of this zone as a divergent timeline from the main story, simply because the characters don't behave in a logical way given the point when the break would have happened.
Antoine and Bunnie were already married by the time Knuckles became Enerjak. They've been through hell and back to find one another again. You're telling me a little o' apocalypse would break them up? You seriously expect me to believe that Bean could woo Bunnie away from Ant?
Bean!?
Yeah, no. I'm not buying it.
Granted, a dedicated fanfic might could do something interesting with that premise, but shoved into the background of a separate arc without any previous set up, it just doesn't work.
The other fan theory is that Scarlett and Cutlass are really alternate versions of Belle and Jacques, Bunnie and Antoine's kids from the future.
Which makes a little more sense, as Jani-ca is a major character, and is there's a lot of references to the Mobius XX Years Later arc.
However this idea does beg the question of why doesn't Cutlass have more of a reaction to his sister's death, and who the hell procreated with Bean?
Which is why I prefer the theory that this is an alternate dimension altogether, more similar to Anti-Moebius than the various future timelines we've come across so far.
In addition to Silver's line above, there are other things to back this theory up. Like everyone having different names, personalities being slightly off (Sally wearing a fancy gown, Bean being sane, ect), and physical differences like Fiona being the cyborg of the group while Bunnie has all of her limbs.
Granted, given the time-skip you could probably come up with headcannons for all of these changes to fit them into the prime-zone timeline, but for me, it's just easier to assume this is a world where Bunnie and Ant never got together and had completely different lives to the ones in the main timeline. (Which means this is yet another AU where I ship Sally & Ant)
Next issue we'll touch upon the origins of the Dark Mobius.
This issue is mostly one big fight scene, but one very notable thing happens here that raises a lot of questions.
We start off the fight with the Freedom Fighters defeating the core zombies one by one. Then Enerjak steps in and we learn that his main motivation is that he's just bored and looking for entertainment. He's been toying with the FFs for his amusement, but now that Silver is on on hand he decides that he doesn't need them any more.
So it's been subtlety hinted through out the arc that this version of Bunnie is in a relationship with this zone's version of Bean the Duck, of all people.
They're seen holding hands and helping each other out in the background of several panels, and here he sacrifices himself to try and save her, while she calls him 'darling'.
Meanwhile this version of Antoine is never shown to really interact with her and doesn't show much reaction to her getting hurt beyond just a general sense of worry for his comrades and the situation.
Of course this just raises thousands of unanswered questions.
If they are alternate timeline versions of our Bunnie and Ant, then why are they not together? Why dump Antoine for fucking Bean? Why wouldn't Antoine have more of reaction to her death, even if they were exes?
It just doesn't make any sense to think of this zone as a divergent timeline from the main story, simply because the characters don't behave in a logical way given the point when the break would have happened.
Antoine and Bunnie were already married by the time Knuckles became Enerjak. They've been through hell and back to find one another again. You're telling me a little o' apocalypse would break them up? You seriously expect me to believe that Bean could woo Bunnie away from Ant?
Bean!?
Yeah, no. I'm not buying it.
Granted, a dedicated fanfic might could do something interesting with that premise, but shoved into the background of a separate arc without any previous set up, it just doesn't work.
The other fan theory is that Scarlett and Cutlass are really alternate versions of Belle and Jacques, Bunnie and Antoine's kids from the future.
Which makes a little more sense, as Jani-ca is a major character, and is there's a lot of references to the Mobius XX Years Later arc.
However this idea does beg the question of why doesn't Cutlass have more of a reaction to his sister's death, and who the hell procreated with Bean?
Which is why I prefer the theory that this is an alternate dimension altogether, more similar to Anti-Moebius than the various future timelines we've come across so far.
In addition to Silver's line above, there are other things to back this theory up. Like everyone having different names, personalities being slightly off (Sally wearing a fancy gown, Bean being sane, ect), and physical differences like Fiona being the cyborg of the group while Bunnie has all of her limbs.
Granted, given the time-skip you could probably come up with headcannons for all of these changes to fit them into the prime-zone timeline, but for me, it's just easier to assume this is a world where Bunnie and Ant never got together and had completely different lives to the ones in the main timeline. (Which means this is yet another AU where I ship Sally & Ant)
Next issue we'll touch upon the origins of the Dark Mobius.
