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anyone want to give me the cliff notes version of the events of 25YL?

While I'm likely forgetting a ton of detail...

First time around, Knuckles is refusing to let Lara-Su become Guardian despite her protests. The two and Julie-Su have a fancy house (complete with weird maid) in Portal, a new major city on Angel Island. King Sonic and Queen Sally show up with their kids Sonia and Manic. I think Sonic was on rough terms with Knuckles (whose eye he blew out stopping him from going Green Knuckles again) and Tails (who's married to Mina in Downunda). Lien-Da has a son named Rutan who's dating Espio's daughter Salma. She's on surprisingly friendly terms with Julie/Lara/Sally despite apparently wanting to know whatever Knuckles might be doing or something. Sonic is basically immature and unhappy about having to settle down as king. They have pool parties and slumber parties and talk about the weather being weird. Lara-Su has an equivalent of a debutante ball and after locking herself in a bathroom Knuckles agrees to let her become Guardian. Rotor and Cobor (an old echidna) eventually reveal to Sonic and Knuckles that the strange weather is caused by the universe falling apart thanks to Sonic's reality hopping in the past, and that if they don't do anything, the planet will be destroyed. They decide to send Sonic back in time to attempt to fix the damage. Lara-Su sneaks off with them and the whole thing ends with her evaporating as the timeline is changed.

Second time around, Portal is still a prosperous city only it's littered with people worshiping statues of Maria. Because of whatever Sonic did to fix the past, events change and King Shadow is in charge with Knuckles as his chief enforcer and Lien-Da working behind the shadows. Tails and Lien-Da (with Cobor's help - before he apparently was killed) protected themselves from the temporal changes with technology so they weren't affected it, while the people close to the "ground zero" affect of the time change have vague memories of the alternate timeline (for instance, Lara-Su sorta remembers Sonia and Manic from the previous timeline). While Shadow believes he is doing good things, he's pretty much become a violent tyrant and despite that Sally married him in an effort to rein him in, he's still pretty vicious to anything he thinks threatens his "utopia." Since Tails remembers the previous version of events, he tries to convince Knuckles that Shadow's actions are wrong, but gets brushed off. He then tries with Lara-Su, and she agrees that things aren't "right" this way and they both set off to find Sonic. As it turns out, because of the change of events he basically ended up a hobo, miserable that his kids no longer exist and he lost his wife and regretting that he took it all for granted before. Tails and Lara convince him to help down Shadow and fix things, but almost instantly Knuckles shows up to arrest them all for treason. Lara-Su is initially enraged at her father, but then he reveals the arrest was all a ploy to get them all into the castle hassle-free. He tells her to get Rotor (who had been imprisoned and beaten) to a hospital and when she protests that she wants to help, he says that Guardians have to protect others. Tails goes off to disable security while Knuckles plans to hold off any guards and Sonic goes after Shadow. Knuckles gets Sally out of the way (Shadow knows she doesn't have any feelings for him anyway) while the hedgehogs confront each other. Shadow, who also knows about the changed timeline (due to the whole Chaos Control/time-space thing), doesn't exactly plan on stepping down because he doesn't want what he created to be ruined. Unfortunately, Shadow is immortal while Sonic has aged, so the latter gets his butt kicked in a matter of seconds. However, Lara-Su bursts back in and after a short fight, she manages to induce a Chaos Control freeze of sorts on Shadow. With Shadow defeated, Lara-Su is proud of herself, Knuckles frets over her, and Sonic goes to Sally and talks about getting back together.

Yay wall'o text!

The first timeline was spread out over... a ton of issues. Started in the #130s or so?

The second was #166-167.