//------------------------------// // Bring on the Bad Guys // Story: When Dimensions Unite // by Turbo the Brony //------------------------------// Rosalina and Luma join the Fight! Oz, Wicked Witch’s Castle: Present Day Sonic guessed that Pooh, Dougal and their friends, and Fluttershy were relieved on the perfect timing on Rosalina’s entrance, a few seconds late, and the Wicked Witch would have fried them to a crisp. But a growing concern started to appear on his face, as the Witch seemed to have gained a bit of power from the Chaos Emerald, and it was their responsibilities to get it back before the witch could do more damage to this world. “Guards!” he heard the Wicked Witch cry out to her troops, “Take care of these pests! I refuse to have them interfere with my work!”   As she ran back to her courters, she mumbled to herself, “I cannot believe that this new good witch had to come, if my sister were to join those fools, then, once again, my good-for-nothing sister will ruin everything as always!” After the witch left, the fight against the castle guards continued, as the Winkie guards approached the heroes, spears pointing to them.   Rosalina then turned to the Luma as she said, “Are you ready, my child?” The Luma then chirped as a response, as it then did several twirls as it somersaulted over the guards, getting their attention, until Rosalina did some combat fight skills on the guards one side, while the Luma mirrored her moves on the other. The princess then used her Luma shot at another bunch of guards who were coming at them, allowing the star creature to do serious damage with moves that impressed most of the group.   “Whoa,” Rainbow Dash said, “that was awesome!” “I know,” Pinkie agreed, “that cute little star is one sweet fighting star! If you get what I’m saying!”   “Who’s your new friend?” Vert asked.   Sonic turned to her as he explained to the others, “Introductions later, right now, we need to focus on getting back the emerald!”   “Right,” Pit said, as he went on ahead while the others followed him, “come on guys!” Mikey then started up the car, as he and Gandalf drove along the group, “Wait up you guys!” he said, “Space Buggy coming through!”   Supergirl, meanwhile, noticed several guards coming from behind them, as she stopped, she turned to the others as she called out, “Go ahead! I’ll cover you!”   As the guards closed in, Supergirl said, “Time to huff and puff and…” before taking a deep breath and letting out a super blow, sending the guards tumbling back like wind against leaves.   She then used her laser vision to bring down parts of the ceiling, blocking the way between her and the guards, until Supergirl rushed back to the others.   As the group rushed off to catch the witch, Sonic and Mario looked to Rosalina as the latter asked, “How did you get here, anyway?”   Rosalina looked to him as she said, “I had been sensing some strange disturbances… even visions of what may or may not come upon the fabric of space and time. Most of this info was shared with me from… some personal Intel, the same Intel that helped me get started on tracking you down.”   “And this personal Intel?” Shadow asked as he stepped into the conversation.   “That… I’m afraid to say is sorry, but it is personal beyond yours.” Rosalina said in an apologetic tone, as she looked away before looking forward towards where the Wicked Witch would be, leaving Sonic and the Mario Bros with a mixture of concern, curiosity and worry for the princess of the stars. The witch succeeded in reaching her tower chambers before the others could catch her, as she closed the doors to her chamber room, she took a good look at the emerald in her hand.   “I have no idea who that was that dared interfered with that demonstration,” the Witch grumbled, “but she won’t deny my might once I gain full control of this jewel. What do you little sweeties think of that?” She turned to where the caged kids were as she asked the question… however, her face turned to shock, as the prisoners were suddenly gone! “What?!” she cried, as she searched around the room, “Where are they?!” She looked high and low, to make sure if they were hiding around, but no luck. “Drat it all!” the witch grumbled, but shrugged it off as she said, “No matter, by the time they find the ones rescuing them, it will be too late.”   Just then, the door to her chamber burst open, revealing the heroes had arrived, Sonic standing in front in a dramatic pose of heroicness.   “Room Service!” he cried, “Did anyone order a serving of butt whooping?”   The Witch smirked as she turned to her uninvited guests, Chaos Emerald in hand, and then raised her free hand to bring forth her broom. “So, you’ve come to steal my new little treasure, have you?” she asked, as she sat in her broom, as it raised up, then she began summoning up the emerald’s power in the palm of her hands.   “And you think you’ll escape with it, do you?” the witch then asked, before cackling, “You won’t even escape with your lives! Hahahahahahahahahaha!!”   The others were a little shocked on seeing this, until Knuckles turned to Gandalf, “Why can’t you do that kind of magic?” “I’m pretty sure that he can,” Spider-Man said to the guardian of Angel Island, “she’s just doing it quite faster and power fuller,” the web-crawler looked to Gandalf, who was looking at him with a small frown, as he quickly said, “no offence.”   “Well, let’s find a way to stop her!” Amy said, Piko Piko hammer at the ready. Witch Fight! The witch cackled some more, as she then used the emerald’s power to conjure up powerful lightning, which in turn, struck several gargoyle statues nearby, following being hit by them, the statues instantly came to live, before turning to the heroes with sinister eyes. “Interesting,” the witch grinned before calling out, “GUARDS!!!” Soon, more flying monkeys and Winkie guards, weapons at the ready, blocked the door to the witch’s chamber and the heroes knew that they had to fight they way once more to get the emerald.   The gargoyles pounced towards the group, as those who couldn’t fight darted for shelter, while the others who can fight battled both guards and the statues.   Sonic, Amy, Shadow, Jinx, Spider-Man, Mario, Toothless, Pinkie, Pit, Shade, Twilight and Supergirl did their best on breaking the gargoyles, but the trouble was that everytime they took one or two down, the witch’s magic kept brining them back together.   “Oh, come on!” Jinx groaned, “They’re just as bad as those Timberwolves!” “I’ll try and get to emerald!” Supergirl said, as she flew towards the witch. But the Witch saw her coming, and combined the emerald’s power with her own, making powerful wave on magic energy that struck her down hard! “You okay, sugar?” Applejack asked, as she and Pit helped the girl of steel up.   “I’m fine,” Supergirl said, trying to get her focus back a bit, while a little annoyed, “but of coarse, it had to be a magical witch.”  “What’s wrong about that?” asked Applejack.   “Well, hate to break it to you,” Supergirl said as she looked to the apple farmer pony, “but, while Kryptonians may be faster than a bullet, powerful than a locomotive and able to leap the tallest building, we have a bad rep with magic.”   Pit looked to the witch as he asked Palutena, “Any info you got on beating this lady?”   “I’m afraid not,” Palutena stated, “The only info I seem to know at the moment is that from our world back during your adventures and from our fighting days during the ‘Super Bash Sisters’ series.”   Pit looked deadpanned as he said, “Yeah, still not the name…” “Really?” Palutena asked, “I felt sure that it was…”   “Just focus on that hag right now, Palutena!” Viridi spoke up.   Meanwhile, while helping Dylan, Hiccup, Astrid, Rarity, Kid Flash, Knuckles, Dark Pit, Luigi, Batman, Gandalf, the Turtles, Rainbow and the Goddesses take on the monkeys, guards and few of the other gargoyles, Deadpool stepped in a bit.   “Mind if I join?” he asked. “We’re a little busy at the moment, Deadpool.” Pit grumbled, still a little peeved from him trying to seduce Palutena in a creepy way (especially since he can speak to the goddesses for some reason as he and Dark Pit can), “Shouldn’t you be helping the others?”.   “I like to continue my little sword fights,” Deadpool explained, “but it’s seems odd that everytime I strike on of those troops, I don’t see a single bit of blood and all that, I mean, I’ve killed them for pitty’s sake! Shouldn’t there be a sign that that says ‘Hey, I’m dead!’?”   “Well, it is a fanfic,” Pit stated, “and besides, there could be young readers reading this, they probably don’t want to read a bit of gore on this story! The author does want to make this a rated E for Everyone.”   “If you say so,” Deadpool shrugged, “’sides, I was just coming by to give you a tip beating the witch.”   “You know how to?” Applejack asked.   “Of course,” Deadpool said as he explained, “if this is the Lnad of Oz, and if my knowledge is correct (which it is), we need to take her down wi-”   “ENOUGH!” the witch shouted out, as she blasted the Merc with a mouth away with a magical blast, sending him flying into a bookshelf.   “Deadpool!” cried out Pit.   Deadpool got sat up a little, dusting off the books that fell on him when he crashed into the bookshelf, as he said in a little dizzy state, “I’m fine, but could you tell me why there are two of you I’m looking at?”   “Darn it!” said Applejack, “And he was just about to tell us how to beat her!”   “You might as well give up,” the witch spoke, “with this gem, you are no match for!”   “The try me on for size!” Twilight spoke up, as she flew in, horn glowing with magic at the ready. Soon the two soared across the room, blasting beams of magic at each other, while dodging the other’s attacks, but as the witch’s broom flew, it left behind black smog, which tried to blind Twilight’s flight path.   “Try and catch what you can’t see, my dear.” The witch cackled, only to be struck by a wave of magic (though stayed her ground on the broom while holding a firm grip on the emerald), as she looked to see Jinx responsible for it.   “Mind if I tagged in, Twilight?” she asked with a smirk.   Rosalina landed next to her as she added, “Room for one more?”   Twilight, getting rid of the smoke that blinded her a little, smiled as she said, “More the merrier!”   “We see about that, my pretties!” the witch snarled, as the magic fest continued. While the witch was distracted a little, Sonic’s group were able to make several dents (and chips) on the gargoyle statues, as witch was occupied on fighting the three girls, she couldn’t be able to have time resurrected more than one of the statues.   “Keep it up, you girls!” Knuckles called out, as he and Shade gave another guard a good punch down.   Jinx fired another wave of energy at the witch, who tried blocking it with a shield she conjured up, only to be blasted by another wave of magic casted by Rosalina.   “Incoming!” Mikey called out, as he used the buggy to finish off the gargoyles, and Raph, now riding with his brother, used several throwing stars at a chandelier, breaking the rope and sending it down, crashing onto the remaining guards, knocking them out cold.   Pinkie, meanwhile, used her party cannon to fire some odd pink ooze on the monkeys, causing most of them to get stuck, and others to retreat in fear of getting in the crossfire of the cannon.   “The bubblegum cake frosting is always in handy for big battles!” Pinkie said with a smile, as she fired another shot. “Come back here, you cowards!” the witch snarled at the fleeing monkeys, while protecting herself from several more attacks from the magic trio.   “Time to finish this!” Dark Pit shouted, as he swooped up and kicked the witch in stomach, causing her to drop the emerald and fall off her broom.   Sonic then did a spin dash jump, catching the emerald in his hand as he landed and said, “We’ll be taking that thank you.” Pit looked to his dark double as he said, “Must you always have to give the bosses a good kick to beat them?”   “Yeah,” Dark Pit smirked, “it’s also to speed things up when we’re wasting time.” “But where’s the fun in an epic battle for the fans to read?” Neptune asked as she stepped into the conversation.   However, the conversation was cut off as they heard the witch speak, “Curses! Curses! My new found powers, gone!”   She looked to the group as she snarled; “You shall pay dearly for this, fools!”   “Not until you give back our little ones, you repulsive fiend!” Rarity huffed. “They are not here at the moment anyway,” the witch said darkly as she let out a sinister grin, and then she summoned up balls of fire from the palm of her hand as she said, “even if they escaped, when they find you it would be too late, and they would spend the rest of their lives in my dungeons, while you will be gone from my site forever!”   “Don’t count on that just yet!”   The voice of Scootaloo caught everyone’s attention, as she and others, followed by Lumpy with what looked like a swelled up trunk, rushed into the room.   “Apple Bloom! You’re alright!” Applejack said, bit relived. “You bet, sis!” Apple Bloom replied. “And we’re here to take that mean witch down!” Roo spoke up.   Kanga grew a little nervous at what her son said, until the witch chuckled at that.   “And how,” she asked, “are you little pipsqueaks suppose t-?”   “Now, Lumpy! Fire!” Sweetie Belle shouted, as Lumpy used his trunk to shoot out a gallon of water.   Seeing this a little too late, the wicked witch realized what was happening and reacted. “NO! Don’t yo-!” she cried, before screaming as the water guzzled over her. “You accursed brats!!” she shouted to the kids, before the group was surprised to see her suddenly… beginning to melt!   “Whoa… what the heck?” Sonic asked. “Nooo!” the witch cried out in agony, as her skin started dripping, like she was an ice cream lolly, “I’m melting!! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world!”   Even as she continued melting, she looked to the group as she said, “How could your miserable brats found out the one thing to defeat me?!”   “Just lucky, I guess.” Scootaloo shrugged.   “Way a go, squirt.” Rainbow said, as she wrapped her little sister figure with her wing for a hug.   “Well, that is her weakness,” Deadpool explained, “as I tried to tell you before she interrupted. Rude!” “You will regret this fools! You will regret on defeating me!” the witch angrily said, as she was finally melted to a puddle of green and black goop, with her black witch hat remaining and her last words echoed a little in the room.   “Man, with water as her weakness, how do you suppose she took a bath?” Noire asked.   Astrid then smelt something, and then had a look of disgust as she stated, “Sure, maybe it’s not monkeys you smell?” Just then, Donnie’s device buzzed to life, getting the techie turtle’s attention.   “Guys,” he said, “I think another rift’s opening up!”   Sure enough, the said rift opened up above where the witch melted, as it sucked the hat into it (followed by a few furniture like the witch’s chair).   “Whoa, where do you think this will lead?” Spider-Man asked.   “My guess would be probably back to Vorton.” Donnie explained. “Or maybe somewhere less dangerous and scary than this place?” Fluttershy suggested. Sonic looked to the timid pegasus as he said, “I’m sorry to say that I wouldn’t be to sure about that last part.”   “Vorton?” Dougal asked, “What’s that?” “Maybe their base of operations.” Pit stated. “That’s right,” said Blanc, “we’ll tell you everything when we get back there.”   The group then heard some groans behind them, as the Winkie guards were slowly coming around from under the chandelier, “Then we better hurry!” Brain said, “I’m sure we don’t all want to be here when find out what’s happened.”   “The snail’s right,” Dark Pit said, “C’mon!” As most of the group jumped into the rift, most of the newbies were a little nervous about it.   “Are you certain it’s safe?” Dougal asked.   “Don’t-a worry.” Mario explained, “It’s not-a so bad once you get use to it.”   “That’s right.” Luigi nodded in agreement, as the brothers jumped in, Dougal and his friends following afterwards. “Dudes!” Mikey cried out, pointing to the space buggy, “We can’t leave our ride here!” “I got it!” Supergirl said, as she used her strengh to lift the buggy, and flew into the rift, and Mikey followed behind. “Cannonball!!” shouted Deadpool, as he dived in, while Pit and Dark Pit were the last to jump into the rift, just in time as it closed before the guards spotted them. As they traveled through the rift once more, Sonic got a little worried and concerend about the young girl, gone by the name Dorothy, and her friends that Fluttershy mentioned about, before they too vanished by the randomly popped up rifts.   As they traveled he hoped that somehow they would be alright as Tails and the others were… where (and/or when) ether they are now. Eggman Log Foundation Prime Dr. Eggman’s Log of Glorious Conquest Entry: A113 What was believed to have been another failed effort in beating Sonic and his do-gooder friends turned out to be quite a number of mixed results. When attempting to escape with the Chaos Emeralds and Master Emerald, my robot minions, Orbot and Cubot, Metal Sonic and I were frisked into an unexpected portal that popped up out of nowhere. As we traveled across the vortex to who knows where, an unexpected interference a cured, as a small group of robots crossed our path, and during which the Emeralds in the capsule suddenly began to fight back the hold of the vortex, resulting in a big flash. The next thing I knew, my minions and I somehow ended up in another dimension of sorts… and to my surprise, so was my old partner in crime, Bowser, his son, and several of his minions too! While figuring out where we were, we were confronted by the one responsible for bringing us here (against our will, no doubt probably), a being who went by the name of Lord Vortech, who explained that we were in a universe at the centre of the entire Multiverse, known as Foundation Prime, the so-called source dimension. During that time, and that to follow, my comrade and I learned much from him, a few key things. First, aside from the dimension we were currently on, Bowser and I had come to learn that the Chaos Emeralds, the Master Emerald and even the magical artifacts and power items from Bowser’s world are mealy few of several important items that Vortech calls… “Foundation Elements”, basically important items that were created through the power of imagination and whatnot along with our respective worlds at the beginning of Life, the Multiverse and everything. Unfortunately, as we were brought here, it seemed that the Chaos Emeralds and another bunch elements, these so called ‘Elements of Harmony’, almost have a mind of their own, as it seemed like they were trying to fight back being brought to Vortech, resulting the six emeralds and the five elements of harmony to be scattered, but at least we managed to bag hold of one of each, as well as the Master Emerald, so we’ll find the others when we do so. Second, Lord Vortech himself is from an alternate reality of his own, of far superior technology and magic of sorts, which we’d love to steal for our own… though he seems to not mention anything else about his home dimension… probably the best not to ask. He even has several robotic minions to help him on a mission of his as they travel across the Multiverse, though there is small number on them a bit, but with, perhaps, a little help of yours truelly, I’m sure there will be enough for a huge army of them to attack all worlds. Third, he has the master ability to controlling rifts as he pleases, as the dimensional rifts open between the universes, sending and bring forth anything… and anyone beyond time and space. More research I’d like for myself, which Vortech generously accepted, opening up a rift for me to study on in his castle, until a base of operations is prepared. Fourth, Foundation Prime is basically out of sync from everything else, as a second here could be minutes in another dimension, hours in another, and days, weeks, months or years in the other universes, the workings are the same for most of rifts that open up, explaining how me and my associates were brought here, followed by our… new guests. Tails was the first to arrive, followed by Peach (who was brought here by one of Vortech’s robots), several young kids, a boy by the name of Christopher Robin, and four girls by the name of Florence, April, Starfire and Compa, and interestingly a young dragon by the name of Spike. Interesting enough, most of our… captured guests had unwittingly brought several of the Foundation Elements to us, such as odd little lad with pointy ears dropped in, holding a ring, young miss April had in her hands a canister of mutagen and a young super hero boy arrived with an odd crystal, calls it ‘Kryptonite’, such an odd name. Heck, even that friend of Blaze, Marine, had popped up along with the Sol Emeralds and the Jeweled Scepter, been a while since I last saw them. We would later on place our guests in their ‘special guest’ cells, maybe, perhaps, in Vortech’s fortress or our special base of operations sometime in future, a perfect place for them… and any other future guests who might pop up here or brought here by our troops as punishment for getting in our way, either way works. For the fifth, Vortech has been recruiting others to help him on his quest on finding the Foundation Elements, such as me and Bowser, and in return, we are all allowed any number of worlds for us to rule, conquer and study over to our hearts’ desire. Besides Bowser and I, we have been introduced to others, such as an otherworldly virus going by the name of Sigma, who introduced himself through my Metal Sonic (though I’m not sure Metal was happy to be possessed by him as I am having him control my creation), until a new body was done for him. I was also introduced to another fascinating scientist, known as Dr. Albert W. Wily, whom Bowser surprisingly knows of since he went toe-to-toe with Wily’s arch enemy, Mega Man, during his Smash battles that I’ve heard so much about. I really took a liking of Dr. Wily, despite being from different worlds – different timelines, even – we both have something in common, besides Bowser: we both have visions on world conquest, only to be stopped by meddlesome blue bozos who dare get in our way. I believe that Wily and I will be sorting out a brain trust group of intelligent villains for Vortech to help him and other baddies we’ll be meeting in our ultimate conquest. Though some of those Vortech has recruited I am not sure of, the first example being a former Changeling Queen, gone by the name of Chrysalis, that while we’ll be working with her, it would be the element of trust that would be a bit difficult to hold around her, especially around my cohorts since she can take form of others. And the second is that, of most of those I team up with, he had to pick the Deadly Six, the very Zeti that want a piece of me, dead or alive, and I very well hope that Vortech knows what he is doing. And sixth, Lord Vortech’s staggeringly egotistical. I’ll have to use that to our advantage, after all, from being double crossed for sometime, I know that he may be up to something big here, after letting Bowser and Wily know about this during our discussions, we’ll stick to our client’s good side for now… then take the Multiverse for our own, once we have enough data on the ultimate power that Vortech seeks. Vortech's Palace At Lord Vortech’s castle, as it continues to expand, the tyrant was watching over his work from his newly constructed throne.   Next to him, on his left of the castle, were several cages, each one containing a different number of prisoners, who were the friends that Sonic and the others were looking for.   Around the room, several minions, celestial like bodies like his own, but without the extra details like eyes, mouths or other features, were bringing to the centre several of the Foundation Elements together, while nearby, Eggman, Bowser and Wily were minding their own business a bit. “And you say that he could fly with those tails?” Dr. Wily asked Dr. Eggman, as he was looking with fascination at Tails.   “Indubitably.” Dr. Eggman replied.   “Fascinating.” Wily stated, intrigued about the evolved animal species that lived in Eggman’s world. Eggman looked back to the stuff that were on the floor at the moment, and then looked to the Jeweled Scepter, as he then looked to Vortech. “Tell me, Lord Vortech,” he said, getting the latter’s attention, “why is it you need the Jeweled Scepter when you’ve got a staff of your own, especially if the Scepter is a Foundation Element.” “That is for me to know and you to find out, Doctor.” Vortech said, earning a raised eyebrow from Eggman. Just then, a rift opened up, catching everyone’s attention. “Oh, here comes another one.” A small gargoyle said, who was standing next to Vortech. It was then that the rift spit out four unlikely visitors (five including the dog) as Dorothy and her friends landed in front of Vortech with a tumble, as her friends regain a bit site, feeling dizzy and all, Dorothy was the first to see the evil lord, as Toto growled a little as she picked her up. “Ah, hello,” Lord Vortech said with a sniff as he looked to the group as he then asked, “Good Guys?” “I might be a villain?” Scarecrow said, a little confused following what Rainbow Dash described him.   “Just ignore him.” Tin Man groaned. “Thank you – to the left please,” Lord Vortech said, as his Vortech minions took hold of the new prisoners, taking them to the cages, as he then looked to Dorothy while one of the minions took off her slippers (much to the girl’s shock, as she was told no one, not even the witch could take them off) as he said with an evil chuckle, “Oh, and you won’t be needing those lovely ruby slippers anymore, my dear.”   Soon, Dorothy and her friends were locked up in the cages, along side with Tails, Spike and the others.   “You okay there, miss?” Tails asked, as he helped Dorothy up.   “I’m fine,” Dorothy said, as she looked to the young fox, “Goodness, I wish it was a nice surprise to see you.”   “Yeah, me too.” Tails replied, until Robin spoke up from one of the cages.   “Hey there, have you got any idea on where we are or what’s going on?” he asked.   “I don’t know, but I know it’s not Kansas.” Dorothy replied, as she let out a sad sigh as she added, “They took my slippers.”   “They took my ring, too.” Frodo stated.   “And the Kryptonite I was holding.” Robin added.   “I was holding on to that canister of mutagen until those guys snatch it.” April explained, as she was not at all happy being a damsel in distress, before turning to look at the mad doctors as she asked, “What do you need those things for anyway?”   “Well you see, my dear,” a voice came up from above, revealing to be a mischievous jester with a creepy, twisted grin, he had a red and yellow striped jester’s outfit that was a bit tattered, with his jester hat flairs pointing up to resemble horns, he also had yellow eyes, a skull necklace, and even had a bit of lipstick on his twisted lips, looking to the girl from up on the cage, hanging upside down, “it is basically for a surprise that Master Vortech has planned.” “Would you mind telling us?” April asked with a glare.   “And ruin the surprise? Where’s the fun in that?” the jester said.   “So, Presto, that canister of mutagen is basically a Foundation Element also?” Dr. Wily asked the jester by his name. “But of course,” Presto stated, as he got off the cage and landed back to the ground, “as the master said, anything could be important to any world, much like the slippers…”   He then looked back to April, as he then eyed the crystal necklace that was around her neck, “maybe even this lovely piece of jewelry could be quite a good Foundation-”   “Don’t touch it!” April said, as she back away, hands on the crystal, “It’s mine!”   Presto looked at April, and grinned seeing something in her, something that was sure to grow in time…   “If you say so…” Presto said walking away.   “Excellent,” Vortech said, as he then looked to one of the Vortech minions, who was holding on to the slippers, “place them with the other elements.”   The minion nodded and did what it was told, placing the ruby slippers with the others that were in the centre, before Vortech used his powers to levitate them.   For while the elements were on the floor, the floor was quite transparent, as it showed the floored tapestry that Vortech found when he arrived on Foundation Prime, and using his powers, he placed each element to it’s matching picture, such as the slippers on the picture that matched it’s description (it even clicked it’s heels three times).   Vortech chuckled at how well things were going, and was only going to get better with time. Catching Up “You won’t get away with this, Vortez!” Spike cried out from one of the cages.   “That’s Vortech, to you, my little reptile!” Vortech said, as he eyed Spike with venom, “And while I have one of the Elements of Harmony with me, your little pony pals won’t be able to stop me, especially as those little trinkets are the key to the almighty secret of reality.” “Twilight and the others will stop you!” Spike snarled, “with or without the Elements!”  “Oh, let them try.” A wicked feminine voice said, getting Spike’s attention, as he saw Chrysalis, entering with Drago Bludvist, the Dragon hunter that vanished from Berk by one of the rifts. “But I would have you know, little Spike,” Chrysalis said with a sinister grin, “that it would be too late before they even start to fight back, and soon I will be back to the throne of power and control!”   Spike smirked, as he doubted, “Thorax will always be a better ruler than you were!”   “DO NOT MENTION HIS NAME IN MY PRESENCE!!” Chrysalis shouted, which startled most of the prisoners a bit (the Cowardly Lion even fainted from that shout), “I am 10 times the ruler than he ever will be!!”   Before the argument could continue, another rift opened… revealing the art teacher that came to Canterlot High! “Ah, Rippen, you’re back,” Eggman said with glee, “did you get it?”   “Oh, yes,” Rippen said with a creepy grin, “I have all the blueprints for the device right here.” He handed Sci-Twi’s blueprints and plans to Eggman, who had a good look at them with Wily, as both scientists let out a smile of scheming as they looked back to Rippen.   “Yes, this will do brilliantly!” Dr. Eggman said.   “Just what we need to continue our research on the rifts.” Dr. Wily added as he looked to Rippen, “Brilliant work.”   “Why, thanks.” Rippen said, as he headed off inside. As he left, another rift opened, and several villains stepped out, each of them representing a different world. The first was a wise man with a long grey/white beard dressed in white robes, holding a staff, he was Saruman the White, once an old friend to Gandalf, but now servant to the dark Lord Sauron.   Another had on metal protection wear on his shoulders, front arms and feet, armed with sharp blades, with a metal mask covering his face, aided with him were several mutants, one a skeleton-like dog, a tiger, a warthog, rhino, a human fly and a fish with robotic legs, he was none other than the Shredder, the turtles’ archenemy, along with his minions, Razor, Fishface, Beebop, Rocksteady, Tiger Claw and Baxter Fly.   On Saruman’s right, was a man who was being carried by four robotic arms, he wore a yellow and green outfit, and had red shades that hid his eyes, this was one of the deadliest enemies known from the S.H.E.I.L.D. archives, known as Doctor Otto Octavias, AKA Doctor Octopus.   While on Saruman’s left, were two clowns, one male with green hair and a lovely purple suit, with a sinister grin, while the other was female, wearing a black and red patterned jester’s outfit with white makeup and a black domino mask on her face, they were the Joker and Harley Quinn, who previous being the most dangerous clown criminal of Gotham, along with him was Harley Quinn, the Joker’s love and partner in crime. “Bad guys?” Vortech asked, getting their attention, “Excellent, to the right, please.”   “So, you’re the one who summoned us?” Tiger Claw asked, getting Vortech’s attention.   “Indeed I am.” Vortech replied.   Straightening Out Recruitment “As I explained,” Shredder said to his minions, “that ‘Lord Vortech’ says that he holds the key on defeating the turtles, as long as we co-operate with this being.”   Doc Octopus took a good look at the mutanted henchmen, as he grinned with interest, “I must say, this selection of troops of yours are quite the specimen, Shredder.” “You can feel free to examine them when ether you like, Octavious,” Vortech said the tentacle armed scientice, “right now, my new subjects, you would be so kind to get comfortable, so I may bring you all up to speed on why-” “Just a moment,” Saruman spoke up, sternly, “I want to have you know that I am Saruman the White! And I am no one’s servant.”   “Please…” Joker muttered, rolling his eyes. “If you say so-” Vortech said, only to stop midway, as he suddenly got startled as he said, “Look! It is Lord Sauron!” Turning to realize that Vortech was right, as he saw a giant floating eye appear behind him, Saruman kneeled before it saying, “My Lord Sauron! It’s I, your faithful servant, Saruman. What bidding does thy master wish to be fulfilled?”   The eye of Sauron glared to Saruman with the kind that could strike fear to all to all… until it surprisingly spoke, “Well, since you’ve kindly asked, I would like a Grilled Cheese Deluxe, some of those peanut butter oreos, a Buzz Cola and maybe some fuzzy kitten slippers if that would be alright?” The white wizard was a little stunned and confused about what he just heard, until the eye suddenly shrank, and the black mist that was surrounding it formed into the body of Presto, as the eye shrank back into his face and back to normal, as the jester laughed at the prank he pulled on Saruman, while Joker and Harley laughed along with him.   “That was so funny!” Harley laughed.   “Yeah, ‘eye’ got you good!” Presto chuckled.   “Got you there, didn’t he beardy?” Joker said to Saruman, who turned back to Vortech, who slowly shook his head a little, with a small smirk (even if it was not shown).   With a grumble of anger and humiliation, Saruman asked, “To the right, you say?” “If you don’t mind.” Vortech said, as he gestured to villains to where he was pointing, showing a large pile of various weapons, some basically slapstick like a frying pan and both a boxer glove and plunger gun, to the lethal like laser swords, crossbows, laser guns and even medieval weaponry, as well as various robotic creatures, like the badniks, and other weapons of destruction, as the vortech minions were giving out small demonstrations on them, “You’ll find lots of fun weapons and we can offer you some excellent opportunities to use them.”   “Well, well,” Joker said, intrigued, as he looked back to Vortech, “We have to be crazy to refuse that offer!”   Vortech looked to him a little oddly as the clown prince of crime hold the smiling pose he had on… until the Joker stated, “That means we’re in.”   “Dibs on one of that crossbow!” Bebop said, as he and some of the others approached the weapons, the Joker making a dive into them.   “That will keep them occupied for the moment,” Vortech said, as he summoned another rift as he said, “While I call up on our next recruit.” Spike managed to have a good small at the image that was popping up, only to gasp horror that Vortech was opening a rift to Tartarus, and the one face that he and his wished to never see again: Lord Tirek.   ‘Tell me he’s not crazy?’ though Spike and, surprisingly, an alarmed Chrysalis, as she too knew a lot about what Tirek can do. Lord Tirek Equestria, the Realms of Tartarus: At that moment… Tartarus, the very mention of that name would bring anypony a shiver down their spine. It was the dark prison realm, also at times known as the Underworld, where, while the heavens would be where all good souls of the departed go, anypony who had darkness in their hearts, with records of crimes against all of Equestria, their souls would be punished here.   It is also the prison of the most dangerous beings in Equestria, as they share the prison realm with the dark souls of those who died, as these monsters were sentenced for attempts to rule of Equestria, and the whole world if possible. One of the inmates was the centaur Tirek, who originated from the Bad Lands, and was one of the sons of King Norak and Queen Haydon, despite the two being different species, and were a family. The other son was Scorpan, Tirek’s brother who feared about his older brother’s actions, which lead to consequences.   For long ago, the centaur sage, Sendak, who was Tirek’s teacher in the Dark Arts, returned from the land of Equestria with a captive pony in secrecy, and explained to his student that if they were able to absorb the magic of any pony, be it Earth Pony, Pegasus, Unicorn or even an Alicorn, they would become powerful. Tirek, in his thirst for power, tried to take the magic from the struggling pony, but it resulted in an explosion that would later on result Sendak being exiled to the mines and Tirek to be sentenced to his room, while the pony would brought back to his home.   Sometime later, he would venture off to Equestria with his brother, in hopes to steal the magic that flourished there, but Scorpan would then see the beauty of the Pony society and even befriend them, along with Star Swirl the Bearded.   Scorpan would try to reason with his brother, but it fell on deaf ears, and he had no choice but to warn Princesses Celestia and Luna of the crisis on what was about to happen. Soon Tirek was banished to Tartarus for his crimes, and Scorpan returned to the Bad Lands, but not before Scorpan gave his brothe his medallion, hoping that his brother would see the error of his ways… but sadly, it never came to be, and Tirek was trapped forever… Until Cerberus left his post… It seemed that the three headed dog got distracted by a butterfly that accidentally flew into the realm, getting the creature’s attention and chased it off to who knows where.   That was the sign for Tirek to make his escape. Tirek would journey through Equestria to regain his power, as being in Tartarus for so long weakened him, he started slow and absorbed the magic of any creature, be it a lost breezie to even a small group of puppy Timberwolves, before going big on absorbing the magic of the ponies of Equestria.   He tricked Discord, who had befriended them like his brother did, in giving him freedom to doing his true nature, in exchange on helping him grow stronger. After absorbing just about almost everypony, he planned to go after Alicorn magic, as he learned in his travels that there were three Alicorns ruling over, but once arriving in Canterlot, not only did the princesses didn’t have the Alicon magic, but there was a FOURTH princess, Twilight Sparkle, whom the other princesses gave her their magic for safety.   Tirek then betrayed Discord and, after a powerful battle, stole the magic from Twilight, but his victory was short-lived, as Twiligth was able to defeat him with the help of her friends, and taking back the magic he stole and returning them to their rightful owners and sending him back to Tartarus.   And now, there he was, withered once more, powerless and caged, planning revenge once more from his prison. “Those fools will pay for this,” he muttered, as he looked to see Cerbarus keeping an eye on him from his post, growling as he did so, “if only for a miracle to free me from this infernal prison once more…” Suddenly, the sound of dog growls stopped, catching the centaur’s attention, as he looked to see that the three-headed dog was frozen in place.   “Odd…” he said to himself, “what is this?” Just then a rift opened up outside of his cage, as he looked to see Vortech on his throne, looking to him with glee as he said, “I believe it is your one-way ticket to freedom.”   Tirek looked to the being as he asked, “Who are you?”   “I am Lord Vortech,” the inter-dimensional being said, “and I am here to give you a proposal.”   “Of what kind?” Tirek asked, a little suspicious with a raised eyebrow.   “One that will give you power beyond your wildest dreams,” Vortech explained, “for if you were to help me out on a… little scavenger hunt, I will allow you the freedom you so dearly wish, for you to rule over all with unlimited power.”   Tirek looked a little interested on that last part, “Freedom…” he said, “and all the magic know in Equestria.”   “If you like.” Vortech shrugged, “But what if I tell you that you can even gain other kinds of magic from other worlds?”   “Really?” Tirek asked.   “Indeed, once you’ve joined us.” Vortech nodded, “So… care to come over to join the team.” “Well, I think I might,” Tirek said, seemingly cheerful, “I’ll just trot along over and-oh what’s this?”   He gestured to his chained hooves that were made in the cage, even if he were to step out, he still wouldn’t go anywhere, as he then said as he voice started to grow loud and angry, “Good gracious, look… I’m BOLTED TO THE FLOOR!!”   Still calm, Vortech looked to Tirek as he said, “I think I could sort that.”   Before the centaur could ask how, Vortech used his power to bring up the cage and through the portal to Foundation Prime, before time in Tartarus started back up. Cerbarus looked to the empty spot where Tirek was, then did a double take as he looked again, wided eyed.   He then let out a worried groan, wondering where the prisoner go… again? The Syndicate Expanding Foundation Prime Tirek looked astonished as his cage was brought out of Tartarus, he then looked to see Vortech use his power to do something to the cage, until it suddenly ripped apart, molecule-by-molecule, along with the chains to his hooves. He then landed on the floor, and then looked to his savior, who smugly asked, “Better?”   Tirek grinned as he replied, “Much better. Though I could maybe perhaps… have a few ponies to feed off they magic later on, and we’ll see how it goes.”   “Perhaps,” Vortech said, “to the right, if you please, and then I will get you up to speed.” Tirek did just that, and while he headed off, Vortech began to think to himself, “Now, to find out the whereabouts on the Storm King…”   Soon, one of the Deadly Six, Zavok, approached him. Zavok had on him a special suit of armor, which was designed to increase the abilities of him and the other Deadly Six members, however, his eyes were a little different as they showed a sign of purple, which was part of how the suit works when powering up the six Zeti.   “Doctors, Lord Vortech,” he said to Vortech, as well as Eggman and Wily, “your ‘guests’ are all set up and ready for you.”   “Perfect!” Wily said, as he and Eggman smiled with wicked glee, before looking to Vortech “Lord Vortech, would you kindly follow us this way, please?”   Vortech nodded in reply, got up from his thrown and followed the two doctors and the Zeti, along with Bowser, to where they were taking them, which was one of the main engineering rooms, used for Eggman and Wily’s soon to form Brain Trust while the work on the special base of operations for them was made.   Inside were the other members of the Six, and much like Zavok, they too had their own power suits, and their eyes matching Zavok’s current purpleness. Also inside, was the scarf-wearing robot, next to him, another robot who looked like him, but black with gold fins on his head, with a robotic wolf by his side.   Future Planning Soon the arriving group came to a stop (Zavok joining up with his group), as Vortech had a good at the six testing tubes standing in front of them, three on the left and three on the right, with the ‘guests’ as mentioned inside.   “I must say, I am quite intrigued,” Lord Vortech said to the two scientists, “and now, I’m rather excited for this to work, doctors. Are our subjects all set?”   Inside the test tubes, were six unconscious prisoners held in stasis, four of them were grown teen girls, each of them wearing the same sort of sailor fuku, in a different color for each girl, being blue (for the blue haired teen), red (for the raven haired), green (for the brown haired girl) and orange (for the blonde). The test tubes revealed their names as ‘Sailor Mercury’, ‘Sailor Mars’ (for the girls in the left tubes), ‘Sailor Jupiter’ and ‘Sailor Venus’ (for the girls in the tubes on the right). And in between the two girls on each side, were two animal heroes, also unconscious and in stasis, one a purple cat on the left, while a white hedgehog was held on the right.   They were none other than Silver and Blaze, who had vanished during the attack by the Balrog. The two mad doctors turned to Vortech, as Wily spoke up first, “Oh, they’re ready, and preparations are nearly complete.”   “Just wait until you see what we turn them into!” Eggman added.   As the villains continued talking, unaware to them that there were ears listening in… very small ears.   Not far from the entrance of the maintenance chambers, three small heroes were listening into the conversation, upon having entered one of the rifts back in New York and succeeded in arriving to where they were undetected, and they were looking a little uneasy at what they were hearing.   “This doesn’t look good, guys.” Wasp said, a little nervous.   “I know, Wasp.” Atom said, before turning to look at his new comrades, “I hope you two have idea on how to help, cause whatever’s going on sure won’t be good for our pals back home.”   Ant-Man and Wasp looked to each other for the moment, a little unsure on what to do, before looking back with Atom to what was going.   So all they had to do is to find a way safe those that were captured, find out what that Vortech character is up to, safe the ones who were about to become guinea pigs for… what kind of thing the scientists were planning, get back home, warn their friends and find a way to stop the bad guys.   If only it was that easy.