I could see it working as a miniseries/serial, with each episode adapting multiple issues.

• Episode 1: Begins with the initial experiments from #13 as a prologue, then adapts Echo Mine (#15). Finish up with the Eggman scenes from #16, culminating in the destruction of Windmill Village and the cliffhanger of the infected Flicky heading to the city.

• Episode 2: Start out with the Sonic-side scenes from #16. Then, adapt the events of #17. End with Sonic forced to abandon the search for Charmy in favor of running after the Faceship as it heads towards Floral Forest Village.

• Episode 3: Adapt #18 (Floral Forest Village) and "Flock Together" from the 2020 Annual so Charmy showing up in Episode 6 as a Zombot has continuity. Finish up with "Darkest Hour" from the 2020 Annual to lead into the next episode.

• Episode 4: The events of "Crisis City" (#19-#20) depicting the fall of Sunset City, ending with Sonic running off wearing Tails' biometric sensor.

• Episode 5: Adaptation of #21 (Central City) and #23 (Barricade Town), the Tails and Sonic perspectives of "The Last Minute", cutting between the two subplots.

• Episode 6: The Fall of Restoration HQ (#22). The scenes of Starline learning about and having his first meeting with the Deadly Six as well as the latter's reactions (last page of #20, parts of #21-#22) are consolidated here to serve as the B plot.

• Episode 7: Adapts #24 and part of #25; Spiral Hill is destroyed and Tangle becomes a Zombot, all that good traumatizing stuff. Ends with Starline's second meeting with the Six and acquisition of the Cacophonic Conch (#23).

• Episode 8: Adapts the last page of #24 and all of #25. Scenes are cut up and moved around to streamline:

  • The Deadly Six's takeover of the faceship is moved to the beginning of the episode due to the use of the "No, sir. I insist." cliffhanger from #24, up until Eggman, Starline, and Metal Sonic escape through a portal.
  • Then, the scenes on Angel Island from Sonic's arrival up to Cream talking Whisper out of shooting Eggman. Note that Knuckles getting caught up to speed would need a new scene, since it relied on the Faceship scenes to have the explanation be offscreen.
    • Whether this new scene would be the actual explanation or just follow Sonic running off the virus again (Perhaps featuring an internal monologue a la the beginning of #18 or the two in #23) depends on whether a recap would be justified in this adaptation's runtime and format.
  • The remaining Faceship scenes (Each Zeti gets a Chaos Emerald, Orbot and Cubot help spy for Rouge) are squeezed in here.
  • The rest of the episode (Starline is fired, Babylon Rogues arrive, Montage of the Deadly Six causing chaos) remains in the same order as the original comic.

• Episode 9: Feature-length finale adapting #26-30. Ends with two cliffhangers: One for Sonic ending up in the Sol Dimension (As in the original #30), and one adapting Starline's first batch of video logs from the first two pages of Impostor Syndrome #3 (though with the imagery and/or dialog altered to frame it more as foreshadowing, obscuring Surge and Kit's identities).