Ever since Sonic and the others had set off to take down and capture Solar Dusk, Cream the Rabbit was lamenting up in her room at her Mother’s house after having a verbal argument with Fluttershy. Cheese the Chao and Angel Bunny were up there with her to help comfort her; and Cream’s Mother, Vanilla did her best to make her feel better. She even tried to make some of Cream’s favorite carrot cream cookies. But Cream wasn’t hungry, not even for those. Cream eventually lamented herself to sleep, and Cheese and Angel fell asleep with her soon afterwards.
A few hours had passed, and Cream was finally waking up from her slumber. As she yawned and was stretching out her arms, she said to herself, “H-how long… did I sleep? What was going on again.” But then she thought about it and remembered, “Oh yeah, the others went off to stop Eggman and… Solar Dusk.” Cream then remembered the verbal argument that she had with Fluttershy and it was beginning to drag her down again; but then she couldn’t help but smile a bit when she looked down beside her and saw Angel and Cheese laying beside each other fast asleep. “Aw, they’re asleep too. They look so cute sleeping together like that.”
Cream then quietly hovered off her bed so she wouldn’t wake up her two friends; and then she walked over to her nearby window and was leaning against it while looking outside of it longley. She was thinking over what she he did and was starting to regret her actions.
“Maybe I did overreact a bit towards Miss Shy,” she said to herself, “I know that he was only worried about me, but… all I thought was that she might’ve thought that I couldn’t protect myself; that I was… too weak. However, I knew what she really meant. ‘sigh’ Maybe I’ll apologize to her when she and the others get back.”
Cream continued to look out the window towards the direction that she knew her friends went thinking of the time that had passed by already.
“Where are they anyway? I figured they’d be back by now. I hope everything is okay.”
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Unaware that her daughter was awake, Vanilla was downstairs just doing her usual chore work while a covered pan of carrot cream cookies was sitting on the counter in the kitchen. She was a bit worried for her daughter, but she knew that she would get over her funk sooner or later. Also, she too realized how much time had passed since Sonic and the others left on their mission.
“Sonic and the others are definitely taking their time,” she said to herself, “It’s times like this that I get awfully worried; but… I shouldn’t be. The other have this, and my daughter is here safe and sound.. I have nothing to worry about.”
Knowing that it has been at least an hour since she last checked on Cream, she was hoping that something had changed with her since then.
“Perhaps… I should check on her again to see if she’s alright.”
But just when she was about to make her way to Cream’s room, Vanilla suddenly heard a little knock on her house door. She became quite shocked that she was just thinking about Cream’s friends.
“Oh my, that must be them now. I guess I was right to not worry after all.”
Vanilla placed on a smile as she made her way to the door, and then opened it to greet Sonic and his friends back.
“Hello there; nice to see that you’re all back.” But as she suddenly looked in front of her, what she saw instead was completely unexpected. “Wait a minute, you’re not Sonic… or any of the others. Wh-who are you?”
Suddenly, her eyes went wide with fright as she began to back away slowly from the doorway.
“Oh no, y-you’re not…”
Vanilla then tripped over her own feet and fell on her back. She was then stretching out her arm in a pleadful manner shouting…
“No… n-no, please don’t!”
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Back upstairs, Cream had began reading one of her book in her room to pass the time while she continued to wait for her friends. But pretty soon, Cheese and Angel had woke up and went over to her feeling happy that she was emotionally feeling better.
“Hey, Angel! Hey, Cheese!” said Cream with a smile, “You’re both finally awake, huh?”
‘Chao chao!’
Angel responded by hopping on her shoulder and gave her a hug around her neck.
“Don’t worry about me, I’m feeling better now. Although, I’m afraid Sonic and the others haven’t come back yet; and it’s been awhile since they left. But I wouldn’t worry, they will beat Solar Dusk; they have to. And… when Miss Shy comes back, I’m going to apologize to her and tell her that I’m sorry for blowing up at her. I’m going to give it to her tenfold!”
Both Cheese and Angel were quite glad that she came to that decision and nodded in agreement. Cream then stood up straight and dusted off her dress feeling better in her mood.
“Come on, you two; lets go see if Mommy still has those cookies on hold for me.”
But before she could take a step, Cream suddenly heard her Mother scream from downstairs. It caused her, as well as Angel and Cheese to freeze in shock, and Cream lightly said under her breath, “M-M-Mom…” But after the scream, it was suddenly silent again. Cream suddenly started to panic, “Mommy!” Then she ran out of her room and began to head towards where her Mother was; and Angel and Cheese were following close behind her.
‘What happened? Why did she scream like that?’ Cream thought to herself as she was heading downstairs while sweating constantly.
By the time Cream and her two friend got to the bottom of the stairs, they were looking all around to see where Cream’s Mom was. But when Cream looked in the main room from the kitchen, her eyes went wide seeing a terrifying sight.
“Oh no… MOM!!!”
Her Mother, Vanilla was out cold on her front in front of the entrance door; and after Cream ran frantically to her, she didn’t appear to be moving. Cheese and Angel came to Cream’s aid when they heard her scream; and they were shocked when they saw what Cream saw as well.
“Mom! Mommy, please say something!” Cream sobbed as she was continuously shaking her Mother, “You have to be okay! Please… wake up!”
But then Cream used all of her strength to roll her Mother over on her back. She still didn’t wake up, but she didn’t appear to look hurt at all. But then she noticed some kind of neck ring wrapped around her Mother’s neck; and it seemed kind of familiar to her when she saw a small gem embedded in it.
“W-w-wait, isn’t that…”
Suddenly, Cream jumped in fright when her Mother reached out and grabbed on of her arms tightly. Then her eyes opened up, but they were glowing with a dark purple color. Cream was suddenly getting nervous.
“M-M-M-Mommy?”
Then in the blink of an eye, Vanilla rose up and then picked up and slammed Cream against the door by her neck. Cheese and Angel gasped upon seeing the sight in front of them and were almost too frightened to move.
“M-M-Mom… M-Mom, what are y-you doing?!” Cream cried as she looked at her Mother, “Why are you acting like this?! Its me, Cream; y-y-your daughter!” Just then, the worst possible outcome just came to her, “No… i-i-it can’t be…”
“Seems like you two are having quite the Mother/ Daughter bonding moment. How touching.”
Cream, Cheese and Angel all gasped from suddenly hearing someone else speak up in the house with them. They looked over at a chair in the main room, and sitting in it was the worst possible being to be there alone with them.
“Hello, Cream,” the intruder said with a malicious smile, “its so nice to see you again.”
As her body was still being pressed again the door by her controlled Mother, Cream was shaking in slight fear seeing who the intruder was, “N-no… its y-you… Solar Dusk.”
“In the flesh.”
Solar Dusk got up from the chair and was slowly walking towards the frighten young rabbit. Surprisingly, he walked by Cheese and Angel who were glaring and lightly growling at him. He ignored them as he got near to Cream; and he was truly enjoying the terrifyingly shocked expression on her face.
“Th-this can’t be possible; I-I-I don’t understand,” Cream sobbed, “Why are you here… right now?!”
“Oh don’t look so shocked, my dear Cream,” Solar Dusk responded, “You do recall you and your little chao friend had humiliated me in the past and kept me from fulfilling my goals, don’t you? I’m just here to return the favor as I promised. I’m about to take everything you care about away from you and then finally gain my revenge.”
Being angered of Solar Dusk being here and what he was doing to Cream, both Cheese and Angel charged at him in an attempt slam him down. But Solar Dusk sensed them coming as he smirked and said, “Speaking of which…”
He quickly turned around and launched two more of his gem collars at Cheese and Angel. It was too late for them to react, and the collars slammed on around their necks as they fell on the ground.
Cream cried out to them seeing what happened. “NO! Not them too!”
After a few seconds, both of them rose up in a trance-like state. Their eyes suddenly glowing a purplish color and they came up beside Solar Dusk.
“That’s right,” he chuckled, “be good little pets and stand down.”
Cream was still trying to get out from her Mother’s grasp on her, but she still couldn’t budge. Glaring at Solar Dusk, she began to wonder of what had become of her friends as she said, “Wh-where are my friends? What have you done to them?!”
“Well I could tell you, but why don’t you see for yourself.”
The door that Cream was held up against suddenly opened up thanks to Solar Dusk’s magic. Cream’s then took her and threw her outside sending her tumbling across the dirt. Once she got her bearings together and looked up, Cream saw the most uncomfortable sight she’s ever seen.
“Oh no… no no no no no no no no no! This can’t be happening!”
Her front view was filled with a whole army of Eggman’s robots. But what made her shiver the most… was her friends. All of them, even Twilight and her friends. They all stood there amongst the robots staring back at her with glowing purple eyes, and each of them sported one of Solar Dusk’s gem collars around their necks. They were all under his magic now, their eyes sporting the same purple glow, and their right minds completely gone.
“Salutations, Cream!” said Eggman as he suddenly came up to Cream’s view, “Please, don’t take any of this matter personal, this is just business. Well… okay, maybe it's a bit personal.”
“Why, Eggman?” Cream cried as she glared at him, “Why... why would you do such a thing?! How could you go so low as to letting that monster do all of this?!”
“I have my reasons,” said Eggman, “not that it's any of your business. I’ll do almost anything to get what I want, even if it means helping out a pony dictator to take over his own world! I mean hello, I’m evil… or did you suddenly forget that?”
Cream then suddenly noticed another shocking sight. She saw some other robots show up on the scene. However, these robots looked very familiar; they resembled her pony friends by a lot.
“What the… r-r-robot clones? Is this for real?”
“Yes; they’re marvelous, don’t you think?” said Solar Dusk as he approached from the house, “It’s all thanks to these creations that I finally achieved victory against the Element bearers.”
“What? What do you mean by that?” Cream questioned.
“While that inferior hedgehog and his crew were taking on Eggman’s robots that were powered by my gems, your pony friends did their best to outshine their look-a-likes. But in the end, it was all futile. And once they were weakened, I took over their minds with my gems and used them to help subdue the rest.”
Cream truly wished that she was still asleep in her house and was just having a nightmare; but that wasn’t the case. The worst possible thing that she thought could happen has happened, and it was too late for her to prevent it.
“Its a real shame that Fluttershy convinced you to not come with them; you missed out on such an amazing spectacle.”
Cream got up on her two feet and faced Solar Dusk while still having tears flowing from her eyes and said, “You… y-y-you’ve gone too far this time, Solar Dusk. You’re not going to get away with this!”
Solar Dusk then used his Magic to pick Cream up and brought her right in front of him. Lightly smirking, he responded, “I believe that I already have, little Cream. This is the exact moment that I have been waiting for; the moment of finally getting my revenge on those who’ve wronged me. That pathetic look on your face is like sweet, tasty pudding to my dark soul. And the ironic thing is that even if you figured out a way to break your friends away from my spell it still wouldn’t change a thing; not that it's going to happen anyway.”
Cream was getting really mad from the way Solar Dusk was taunting her. She wanted to wipe that stupid smirk off his face
“All of Equestria will finally bow down to my whim; and no pony or anyone will ever be able to stop… UGH!”
Right when she was close enough, Cream caught Solar Dusk off-guard as she struggled against his hold and kicked him right against his chin. He grunted in slight pain and it caused him to drop Cream on the ground as he rubbed his bruised chin with his hoof. He he glared strongly down at Cream lightly growling, and Cream was glaring back at him not feeling sorry for what she did.
“You haven’t won yet, Solar Dusk. You were stopped before and… a-and it will happen again. No matter how strong or powerful you think you are… s-someone… will stop you!”
“You... ungrateful brat!” Solar Dusk shouted as he immediately picked Cream up with his magic again, “You dare to humiliate me again?!” Then with all his might, he threw her down hard sending her tumbling across the ground leaving a visible trail in the dirt. The only thing that stopped her was her house once she slammed into it.
Cream was slightly whimpering from her pain while trying to get back up; but Solar Dusk got close to her again with his horn glowing and his eyes glaring down at her intensely.
“Since it seems that you haven’t learned anything yet, then how about I give you a painful lesson… in DISCIPLINE!!!”
He fired a powerful beam at Cream, and there was no way that she could get away in time. She knew it was going to hurt badly even though she was shielding herself with her arms. But at the last second when Cream heard the beam make contact, she looked up and saw one of Eggman’s robots in front of her shielding the blast and then fell apart to pieces.
“I think that’s enough, Mister Solar Dusk,” Eggman lighty retorted, “You had your fun, so lets get going already!”
Solar Dusk straightened himself up, and then glared back at Eggman feeling annoyed, “Why… did you do that, Doctor? Have you suddenly gone soft?”
“No! Of course I haven’t gone soft!” Eggman shouted, “I just wish to continue the plan to help you take over your world instead of letting you waste your time here to continuously beat up a 6 year old!”
Cream knew that Eggman was a really bad guy, so it was a bit surprising to her that he shielded Solar Dusk’s blast like that.
“You got your revenge, alright?! Just leave her here to mope in her sorrows. There’s nothing she can do to stop you now anyway.”
Solar Dusk looked back at Cream who was still slightly glaring at him but was still shaking a bit from fright. He sighed realizing that he was wasting time and said, “Fine. Once again, you’ve given a decent, reasonable point. Lets go.”
As he was walking away from Cream, the young rabbit was trying to go after him despite her injuries and spouted, “Hey, wh-wh-wh-where… are y-you going? A-aren’t you g-going to get what you wanted from before a-and put one of your g-gems on me? C-control me l-like one of your p-p-puppets?!”
“Oh, that option is very tempting; believe me,” said Solar Dusk as he stopped and turned back around to face her, “However, I feel that it's more rewarding to me seeing you look so helpless and feeling so weak and pitiful. Having you eat your words against me, seeing that you know that you’re finally beat… that is my revenge against you. Oh, and just to make sure that you won’t try to be stupid to try and stop me now, how about I let them stay here to keep you company.”
With a sinister smile, Solar Dusk commanded Cream’s Mother and Cheese to grab Cream by her arms and held her in place.
“No; please don’t!” Cream cried.
Cream looked at the crowd once again seeing all of her friends just standing under Solar Dusk’s control. But she thought that she could still try and speak out to them. “Guys… guys, snap out of it! You’re all stronger than this! You can’t allow this jerk to control you like this! Please, listen to me!” However, nothing she was saying was getting through to any of them. Solar’s magic had already taken full effect.
“Ugh, enough of your constant whining,” Solar Dusk retorted, “You’ve lost, get over it and accept your defeat.” He then looked at Vanilla and Cheese who had a hold of Cream and commanded them, “You two, take her inside and make her feel at home. Make her some… cookies or something to keep her content.” He then chuckled lowly as he walked by the others shouting in a commanding tone, “Come, my new minions, my true destiny awaits!”
Cream watched as the huge crowd of robots and all of her controlled friends were following right behind the evil pony. And Eggman… he just looked back at Cream who was looking at him with teary eyes. He groaned trying to not be affected by her sad face and just turned away while telling her this.
“So long, Cream! Just remember, once we’re done taking over Equestria, this world will be next. Enjoy your freedom while it lasts.”
And with that, the huge crowd went away from the area and towards the direction of the cave that led to the gateway to Equestria. Cram was at a slump and felt totally depressed as her Mother and Cheese followed orders and was carrying her inside the house where they would keep an eye on her every move. But it didn’t matter to her anymore. She knew that she couldn’t stop Solar Dusk now; it seemed impossible. With no one on her side any more, what else could she do?
‘This can’t be happening. Solar Dusk won? All of my friends are now his puppets? This is all suddenly becoming a huge nightmare. I want to wake up… I-I-I want to wake up now!’
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Back in Equestria… in the city of Canterlot, the palace grounds were presently being scouted and guarded by many of Celestia’s soldiers on her orders. Many of them forming a perimeter around the gates and near the main tower. Princess Luna was making sure that things were on track for her older sister; however, she was a bit unsure if this was realy necessary.At some point, she flew up to the top of the main tower where Celestia was to notify her.
“The perimeter around the palace is secured as you wanted, dear sister; and the soldiers are at full alert awaiting your orders.”
“Excellent,” said Celestia as she looked over the grounds, “Thanks a lot, Luna. Now all we have to do is wait. We must be ready at all cost.”
“We don’t meant to doubt your words, dear sister,” said Luna as she spoke up again, “but.. are thou sure of what you said earlier… that you sense that a powerful force is coming our way? If so, who could it be?”
“I’m not sure, but… while I hate to even think about it, I have a slight suspicion that... it might be… him.”
Luna knew what her sister was talking about, but she didn’t want to think that she was right. “Surely you can’t be serious; are you? We’ve sent Twilight and the others fully prepared to fight with the Elements of Harmony in their possession. How can they possibly lose to that traitorous fiend?”
“I… can’t be certain if the vision I had earlier of Canterlot under siege was a sign or if it was just the cause of the lack of Sleep I had last night; but something is going to happen, Luna, and we need to be ready for anything.”
“We’ve picked the wrong time to not view you dreams, sister,” Luna sighed, “Right now, we feel so confused.”
Just then, one of the guards shouted out to the princess’, “Your majesties, take a look over there!”
Celestia and Luna looked over at what the guard was pointing at. In the distance, they saw another one of the guards that was coming from a trip to Ponyville coming their way. However, Celestia noticed that his flight pattern was a little off.
“What the…”
“Sister, isn’t that the soldier that you sent earlier to fetch important document papers from the Mayor of that town?” Luna questioned.
When the soldier got close enough, they noticed that he was badly bruised and he had an very feared expression. Once he was over the castle grounds, his wounded body suddenly gave out and some of the other guards had to catch him as he quickly descended down. This was a bad sign to Celestia; something bad must have already happened.
“You there, are you alright?!” Celestia called out, “What happened?!”
The wounded guard looked up and said in a slight trembling tone, “It's… it's terrible. I w-was in the middle of of receiving the p-papers from the Mayor of Ponyville as you requested; but before I left… the next thing I knew… the t-town was under attack!”
Celestia and Luna hearts both lept in shock suddenly hearing this p-piece of news. Celestia then questioned, “Ponyville… attacked… by who?!”
“Its being overrun by a huge army of giant, mechanized, metal machines! There were so many!”
“Metal machines?” said Luna, “You don’t think these creatures are similar to what attacked here the other night, do you?”
Celestia thought that her sister might be right, but what did it mean?
“But that’s… n-not the worst part. Those machines weren't the only ones overrunning the town. At first... I-I-I thought that they had just arrived in time to stop what was happening, but I was wrong; they were helping them. It was… your student, Twilight Sparkle and her friends!”
“What?!!!” both Celestia and Luna shouted in worry.
“They didn’t seem like they were themselves! It's like… they were under some kind of spell! Wait… w-why does that sound so familiar s-somehow?”
There was no doubt about it to Celestia now. She couldn’t believe what the guard said to them. There was no way that this could be happening. Could it be that her student and friends were outmatched by the enemy?
“No… we’re too late,” said Celestia sadly, “It seems that Solar Dusk truly has gotten stronger in his magic. We’ve underestimated him.”
“What should we do, Princess?!” shouted one of the other guards.
Celestia thought about it and felt that this was her responsibility. “It seems we have no choice. I have to get to Ponyville at once to fix this.” Then in a commanding voice, she suddenly shouted, “All of you stay here while I go and stopped this. We can’t let it get any worse than this!”
But before Celestia could do anything, there was a sudden burst of light in the middle of the castle grounds that startled everyone; even the two sisters. Then as the light died down, a giant floating was what remaining; glowing brightly.
“What the… a portal?” said Celestia in shock, “What is going on here?!”
“I don’t like this, Sister,” said Luna, “Who knows what or who is going to come from that opening.”
“Form a perimeter around that portal,” shouted Celestia to the guards nearest to the portal, “but don’t go anywhere near it! We don’t know what it might do yet!”
The soldiers did as they were ordered and surrounded the portal completely without getting too close. They were all on guard preparing to face whatever came out. Sure enough, someone did come through; but it was someone that was unfamiliar to them. A strange male being in a egg-shaped metal pod slowly floated onto the scene; and as he stayed there in place, he looked around at his surrounding feeling impressed.
“So… this is the world of Equestria. And what a delightful looking castle; quite an impressive design.” He then suddenly noticed the surrounding stallion guards all at attention and pointing their horns and spears at him. “Ooh, and this must be the welcoming committee! I feel welcomed already.”
“You there, who are you?!” Celestia shouted from the top of the tower, “Explain your reason of being here?!”
The being grinned and chuckled lowly before answering, “Ah, where are my manners? Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Eggman, the most brilliant scientific mind of my world! Why am I here, you ask? Well, to put it simply… I’m here to help take over your kingdom!”
That last comment from him was enough for both Princess’ to confirm him as a threat and were planning to take action.
“I’m afraid that will not be happening!” said Celestia, “We don’t know who you may be, but you are way over head here to think you can just waltz in here and do a huge feat like that!”
“Oh I wouldn’t be so sure of that, Princess. After all, from what I heard… my ingenious creation succeeded in making quite a huge mess of your palace here. Isn’t that right, Metal Sonic?”
Suddenly, a second figure came from the portal behind Eggman. All of the guards slightly hesitated seeing what it was. A blue mechanical body, sharp metal claws, and glowing red eyes; it were the same features that they witness on the night of the attack.
“M-Metal Sonic?!” said Luna as she figured it out, “Sister; I think that’s the same creature that attacked the palace last night; I’m sure of it!”
Celestia now had a good look of who had laid waste to her palace and felt very distraught. “So… he’s the creator behind that monstrosity. Who could’ve thought that something so small in size could create such havoc.”
“Today, I have achieved a glorious feat,” Eggman continued, “and it was all thanks to my newest partner in crime! His type of brilliance impressed even me; although, I’m sure he needs no introduction here.”
Then it happened; Solar Dusk himself came out of the portal before it finally closed. To the sisters, he still looked the same, except for a huge purple crystal that he and hanging from his neck and a short black and red cape that he wore just for flare.
“Its him…” said Celestia in a lowly tone, “Solar Dusk. Just as evil and menacing-looking the day he first escape from my hooves.”
“He could’ve done without the cape though,” said Luna, “It seems a bit tacky.”
Solar Dusk smirked as he inhaled deeply into his nose to sniff the air, and then released a satisfying sigh while staring at the Canterlot Palace. “It feels so good to be back home; especially since it will soon be all mine for the taking.”
“Solar Dusk,” Celestia shouted in anger, “you have some nerve bringing yourself back here in our presence! You don’t really think that you have any chance of getting your way here, do you?!”
Solar Dusk lightly glared up at the two royal sister remembering them being as charming as ever. But then, he just chuckled out of amusement knowing what he had planned.
“What is so funny?!” Luna questioned strongly, “Our sister’s comment was not meant to be such a laughing matter!
“Oh, Celestia… Luna... you elegant, simple-minded fools;” said Solar Dusk, “I don’t think I can have my way here… I know I can. Thanks to your pitiful little soldier over there, I’m pretty sure you already know what has happened in that precious town of Ponyville, have you not?”
All Celestia could do was lightly grunt in an angry manner realizing that her theory was right all along. She was too distraught to say anything.
“What’s the matter, too baffled to answer a simple question? Perhaps now you understand the consequences of underestimating my power; my brilliance that can could’ve change world! You feared it, called a monstrosity and then destroyed all of my hard work! I would’ve finally taken my revenge three months ago if it weren't for the interference of that stupid rabbit girl and her little flying blue pest. But this time… heh, things will be much different.”
Luna was about to take action and go at him, but Celestia held out her hoof to stop her and shook head. She then looked back at Solar Dusk and said, “I’m sorry you felt that I ruined a special project that you had kept secret from me for who knows how long, really I do; but I’m afraid my opinion on it hasn’t changed. If I had allowed such magic to be made and used, Equestria would be in complete chaos. You may think I was a fool, but you are the fool if you think that your special gems would change the world.”
“Oh… I’m the fool, am I?” said Solar Dusk in a pissed manner, “Well I’m afraid that it was foolish of you sending your precious followers after me not knowing what may have lied ahead. You thought that with their precious Elements of Harmony they would be able to stop me, but you were too careless. But now, they’re my followers along with their miscreant friends from the other world; and pretty soon… so will you.”
Being angered of having their Princess insulted, one of the unicorn guards lit up his horn and began to charge towards Solar Dusk shouting, “That’s enough out of you, you scum!”
But suddenly, Metal Sonic disappeared from beside Eggman and then appeared right above the charging guard, smashing him down on the ground below and holding him in place.
The other guards held their weapons in place and were about to attack as well, but then Eggman said, “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” They all suddenly halted. “I’m pretty sure you all know what happened last time you tried to go against him, right? I created Metal Sonic to have the exact same skills and speed as my #1 nemesis; Sonic the Hedgehog, the fastest thing alive. Only he can rival my glorious creation!”
As the sole guard was struggling under Metal Sonic’s claws, Solar Dusk calmly walked over to him sporting an amused smirk, “Since you were foolish enough to try and attack me, shall I start things with you?”
Before the guard knew it, Solar Dusk slapped on one of his gem collars around his neck, and his mind suddenly went blank. He then rose to his hooves with his eyes glowing a purplish color and facing the others.
“Now then… attack!!!” Solar Dusk suddenly demanded.
With no control over himself, the sole guard followed orders and began to charge towards the rest of the guards. Normally, they could have stopped him easily with no sweat, but they underestimated the added power and were easily beaten back. The controlled guard’s magic was much stronger than before and began knocking out his teammates with powerful blasts with his horn. Celestia and Luna watched as the horror unfolded right before their eyes. For each guard that was knocked out, Solar Dusk took control of with his gems; and each of them kept doing the same thing.
“Ah, such a wonderful display; wouldn’t you say, Princesses?!” said Eggman, “I’d say you’re in trouble.”
“Luna," Celestia shouted, "now!"
“Right!”
Celestia and Luna wasted no time and were about to stop Solar Dusk before things got worse. They combined their powers as a bright light shone over the entire area. Solar Dusk squinted his eyes and covered them up with his hoof so he wouldn't go blind. Then, the sisters fired a powerful spell that was aimed right at the dark pony and landed spot on.
“That should do it." said Celestia.
However, both sisters suddenly noticed Eggman slightly chuckling; not feeling threatened by them.
“Why is that Eggman character chuckling under his breath like that?” Luna wondered.
Both sisters were then in for a big, unfortunate surprise, when they saw Solar Dusk still standing with no scratch on him. He aimed a sinister grin at the two sisters and the huge gem around his was pulsating with energy from the effect of being hit.
"No way;” said Celestia in slight horror, “he… h-h-he blocked it... with that gem around his neck! That’s impossible! What kind of gem is that?!”
Eggman was quite impressed himself even though he knew what Solar Dusk did with it. "My my; now that was some serious power!"
“Its useless, Royal Sisters,” said Solar Dusk, “As of now, you will bow down to me.”
Eggman then push a button on his metal pod that caused a whole bunch of mini portals to appear around them; and from them came huge numbers of Eggman’s robots all ranging in different sizes and were quickly covering ground. Celestia and Luna could see that they were all sporting the same powerful crystals proving that things just got worse. They even noticed the metal clones of Twilight and the others appear which made them even more angry.
“What hath that monster done?!” Luna shouted, “He has taken this way out of control!”
“This is my kingdom now,” said Solar Dusk in a cynical matter, “and no pony or any creature for that matter can stop me!”