IF someone was writing a sonic AU/reboot fanfiction that loosely adapted the stories from the games but also took ideas from Archie and IDW's take on the story, what arcs and storylines would you want to see adapted?
Even if you would never read such a thing, think of this as a thought experiment for if there was an OFFICIAL sonic reboot that did this. I'm not yet too familiar with Archie or IDW sonic, only having read a stray issue or had a few plotlines told to me by friends. While I will be reading parts of both while working on this side project, (starting points welcome, I've seen much debate over how much of Archie is utterly unreadable) I would like to know what people find to be iconic and necessary.
For the record, this is more of a "writing practice" thing for me than a "passion for the franchise" thing, and so canon-compliance is not at all important. Not to say I have no such passion, just to say it's my take, not "how it should have been." As such I'm asking for pointers on what people would want to see, not your idea of what a better story would have been.