//------------------------------// // The Forbidden Mountain // Story: Lego World Adventures // by markzilla6895 //------------------------------// The Lego Team and Team Sonic gazed at the large castle atop the tall foreboding mountain surrounded by dark fog. "As if it couldn't be more obvious this place belonged to a bad guy," Rainbow Dash deadpanned. "You're the Castle Region expert, Twilight," Sunset asked. "You know this place?" "Only vaguely..." Twilight replied. "This place was called the Forbidden Mountain for a reason." "Perfect place for a witch to make her hideout," Rarity finished as they proceeded up the mountain path. Halfway to Maleficent's castle, a small army of shot pig men and bird men stopped them. "Heh, looks like the welcoming committee has arrived," Sonic rolled up into a ball and charged through Maleficent's goons, sending them all flying in different directions. The others quickly ran up to the castle gates. Applejack and Knuckles both punched the portcullis, sending it into the wall, shattering it to pieces. "Knock, knock," Applejack straightened her hat as they began to fight through the courtyard. Rarity used her shields to deflect arrows shot by the bird men from the upper stories of the castle. Tails tossed a few fake ring bombs that brought down the weaker supports. Finally, they reached the main entrance. For some reason, the doors were already open. "This is obviously a trap," Twilight stated as they progressed through the hall, Tails using a flashlight to illuminate their way. "Well, you got any better ideas?" Sonic asked, irritated by the small space limiting his running. "...no," the bespectacled girl replied after a minute. "Oh, that reminds me, Tails has been working on a portable version of the Jump-Gate." "It's still a prototype and I only had time to make ones for myself, Twilight and Spike." Tails showed he now wore a small watch on his wrist. "If I can perfect it, it'll make traveling much easier." "Unless you can teleport," a familiar voice interrupted. The Lego Team saw the hall's walls had vanished, revealing them to just be an illusion. Standing at the end of the large room was Loki. "YOU!" Rarity snorted angrily. "You're the ruffian who impersonated Fluttershy!" "Guilty as charged," the minifig in the horned helmet bowed in mock courtesy. "And thank you for bringing the rest of the Chaos Emeralds to us." "Loki, you can't use the Emeralds," Knuckles stepped forward. "They're too dangerous!" "Oh, so am I, Guardian. I intend to get my revenge on my brother, on Earth AND on Asgard!" "What is Maleficent planning, Loki?" Sunset asked. "You can't make me tell~!" Loki tauntingly sang. "You're not the god of me." Rainbow Dash growled in frustration. "Let's just take this guy down already!" Loki raised his scepter as she flew at him. "Ah, ah, ah. First, let's have you play with my little friend." He fired a bolt of blue energy at the wall. The metal pieces in one part of the wall began to assemble themselves into a large mechanical being. Its eyes glowed orange before Loki unleashed a steady green beam at its head, allowing him complete control over its functions. The armor fired a large beam of fire from its face as a demonstration of its might. "That's the Destroyer Armor!" Pinkie pointed dramatically. "That thing is supposed to be indestructible according to the comics!" The Destroyer fired another beam at the group. Rarity put up her shield, redirecting the beam onto Loki. "Gah! You mortal pest!" The god of mischief shouted as his control over the Destroyer stopped for the moment, allowing Knuckles to rush up to the motionless armor and punched through its chest. He quickly leapt out of the way as Loki placed his control beam over the Destroyer. "Begone! Asgard and Earth belong to me!" The Destroyer began to threaten them with its beam again, though this time, Tails put up a holographic barrier and once again re-aimed it at Loki. Knuckles and Applejack nodded to each other before tearing off the Destroyer's head. The powerless armor collapsed while Loki hovered towards them. Landing nearby, he quickly generated copies of himself, each one laughing in a taunting manner. "Lookalikes!" Sonic shouted. "Or should that be Loki-likes?" Sunset narrowed her eyes as she noticed one of the Lokis was acting differently from the others. She quickly ran up and punched the real Loki, sending him flying across the room. Knowing he had been beaten, Loki quickly warped himself away. "We beat him!" Fluttershy cheered. "Now all that's left is Maleficent," Twilight stated before her communicator watch started beeping. "Celestia?" She asked, answering it. "Twilight, we need you and the others back here now! Dr. Eggman has launched a missile into the city!" "WHAT?!" Everyone else shouted in shock. "We can't leave now!" Sonic interrupted. "Not when we're so close!" "Then we split up," Tail suggested. "I can disable the missile easily." "Then we can't fly out of here," Rarity noted. "I can fly that plane," Rainbow Dash grinned. "I'll go with Tails," Twilight agreed. "He may need some backup." "And where Twilight goes, I go," Spike added. The two geniuses nodded to each other before opening a portable Jump-Gate with Tails' new invention. "It works!" Tails shouted with glee before he and Twilight entered the energy gate, Spike following closely behind. The Jump-Gate then closed itself as soon as Spike was through. "Now let's head to the throne room!" Sunset led the remaining Lego Team members up the castle's stairs. Meanwhile Tails, Twilight and Spike were near Canterlot City's main highway. In the distance was the large shape of a missile. "Well, at least we know where it is," Spike quipped as Tails and Twilight tried to activate their Jump-Gates again, but the devices had already shorted out. "So the prototype suffers from a large energy drain..." Twilight said to herself. "Kinda not the issue right now, Twilight," Tails shouted as he began to run towards the missile. "I don't think so, fox boy!" Dr. Eggman shouted as his Egg Mobile began to follow the young genius. "You denied me the right to conquer this city, so I'm making sure you won't have a city!" Twilight quickly built a car for herself and Spike out of the nearby buildings and street. They immediately sped after the racing duo. Back in Maleficent's castle "So you made this far," the evil fairy stood in front of her throne, clutching her staff with confidence. "Yeah, there's nothing that can stop us!" Rainbow Dash smirked as a wall of green fire erupted from behind, trapping them inside. Maleficent quickly teleported herself to another end of the room. "THUNDER!" She shouted before firing three bolts of lightning at the group, sending them to opposite corners. Rainbow Dash took advantage of her pause after firing the spell to attack her, causing her to move to another part of the room. "Thunder's light and lightning strike!" The fairy summoned several bolts of lightning to rain from the ceiling. Sonic easily weaved his way through the attack and scored another hit to her, this time knocking her off-balance. Knuckles began punching as fast as he could before she managed to warp away again. "Now fall forever!" She began charging another spell in the center of the room, aiming for Fluttershy. Rarity got in the way and put up her shields, deflecting it back at its caster, causing the fairy to fall asleep. Sunset gave a swift kick to Maleficent, delivering the final blow. In Canterlot City Tails had managed to reach the missile first and was now disabling it. Twilight and Spike arrived shortly after, but strangely, Eggman was nowhere to be seen. "I don't like it," Spike muttered. "It's too quiet." "I know, Spike," Twilight replied. "That's why we're guarding Tails to make sure he's not interrupted by anything." "You mean like this?!" Eggman shouted as a large four-legged mecha dropped down in front of them, with the fat man at the controls. "Get out of my way or face the wrath of my Egg Walker!" "I'm not scared of that!" Spike yelled defiantly as he and Twilight charged at the approaching mech. "GET A LOAD OF THIS!" Eggman shouted as he stamped the walker's front left foot down, releasing a shockwave that the duo leapt over. Spike punched the foot, causing it to spark and shut down. "Nice job, Spike!" Twilight grinned. "You found its weak spot!" She dodged another foot stomp and attacked the remaining three feet at once, causing the Egg Walker to collapse. "I'll be back!" Eggman shouted as his Egg Mobile flew off from the exploding mecha. Twilight and Spike ran to Tails, who was wiping his hands smugly. "All done," the 8-year old fox smiled before his friends hugged him tightly. "Disabling that thing was child's play." Before Twilight could reply, she was interrupted by the cheers of the citizens down below. "Looks like we got a few fans," Spike chuckled as Tails flew him and Twilight down to street level. In Maleficent's throne room Maleficent panted as she slowly made her way back up to her throne. Sunset had taken the green Chaos Emerald from her robes after she was defeated. "Give it up, Maleficent," Applejack stated. "You've lost." "I... won't give up yet!" The evil fairy stood upright and raised her staff. "For you shall now face me and all the powers of Hell!" A large column of fire surrounded her and rose up to the sky as she began to grow, laughing manically all the way. When the fire died down, Maleficent had transformed herself into a large black and purple dragon. The dragon stood on its hind legs and roared, destroying the throne room in the process. "Aim for her head!" Sunset shouted. "It may be enough to stun her!" The others nodded and began to focus on the dragon's skull. The yellow-and-red haired minifig picked up a sword from a fallen skeleton and aimed towards Maleficent's chest. "Fly swift and sure, that evil die and good endure!" She muttered to herself before throwing the blade, scoring a direct hit to the dragon's Creation Spark. The beast clutched her chest in agony before twisting around and falling off the cliff's edge and into the chasm. As the dragon vanished from sight, the Lego Team began chuckle in relief and victory. "We did it!" Pinkie bounced around the others excitedly. "Yeah, we did," Sunset panted in exhaustion. "How about we... head back home now? I'm sure Tails and Twilight have had their own victory as well." "So that's the end?" Human Twilight asked as Fluttershy moved the minifigs of herself and her friends down the Forbidden Mountain's path. "Oh, there's only one last thing left for this story," Fluttershy smiled softly. "Yeah, the final FINAL battle!" Pinkie added before directing her attention to Canterlot City. As soon as Rainbow Dash landed the Tornado near Tails' Workshop, they saw what appeared to be a living creature made entirely of water. It had glowing yellow eyes, and the only solid thing of its body was its brain. "Th-That's Chaos!" Knuckles trembled with fear. "The God of Destruction!" "What?!" Applejack shook the echidna Guardian in rage. "Don't tell me we gotta fight HIM now!" Before Knuckles could reply, Chaos had already attacked and knocked out the others, five of the Chaos Emeralds floating behind it. It quickly rushed over to and knocked both of them out as well. Soon When the Lego Team came to, Chaos was already gone, along with... "The Chaos Emeralds!" Sunset was panicking now. "They're gone!" "And after all the trouble we went through to get 'em!" Rainbow Dash complained as they headed to the train station. "But what does Chaos plan to do with them..." Knuckles pondered.