//------------------------------// // Chapter 8 // Story: Mobians and Equestria Girls 4: The Next Generation // by DarkMaster0224 //------------------------------// The Truth Revealed (Heroes' POV) They walked into the leaves of the willow tree, staring at the crystal case with the young unicorn. "How is this possible?" Ace asked, "We all saw Pure Darkness kill her." "Who is she?" Agatha asked, "She looks just like…" "Lilac." Dark said, "That is your aunt Lilac." "But she looks so young still. How is that possible?" Silver said. "I don't know." Dark said, then his aura grew. He spun around quickly and jumped at Artemis, "Makes me wonder what you know!" "What! Gah!" Artemis shouted as he was tackled to the ground. He rolled over and kicked Dark off him, "What the hell man?" "Why is my sister here? How is she even alive?!" Dark growled. "How should I know, I've never seen this mare before in my life. Now back off, I told you I don't want to fight." Artemis glaring at Dark. "Dark stop this." Ace said putting a hoof on Dark. But Dark only swept it away, "And how do we know all you've told us is true?" He growled as his aura grew darker. "You think I'm lying?" Artemis asked, "Now why would I do that?" "You may be a spy for Dr. Eggman, or even the Dazzlings." Dark said. "Dark you need to calm down." Sonic said feeling the darkness in Dark going crazy, "You're starting to lose it." While they were arguing, neither noticed a glowing rune on the side of stone table. However, the kids did. "Hey, look here." Ronald said looking at the rune. "What is it?" Sophie asked. "Its some kind of rune. But its not even that old." Ronald explained running his hoof over the carving, "Maybe about 20 years old." "Can you translate it?" Aric asked. "I'm already working on it." Ronald said, "Truth be told, everything shall unfold." Suddenly the rune began to glow midnight blue. (Elsewhere) (Luna's POV) Princess Luna was pacing back and forth in her prison cell, waiting for the signal, "What could be taking the so long? Did I perhaps chose the wrong guard for the job?" Suddenly her horn glowed midnight blue. "Nevermind then." She said. She closed her eyes and began casting a spell. (Heroes' POV) A blue mist began to come out of the hanging leaves of the willow tree. "What is this stuff?" Jasmine asked as the mist began to cover the ponies. "I don't know but… yawn… I'm getting really tired." Ronald said rubbing his eyes. Soon all the kids had fallen asleep within the mist. "What just happened, Why did they all fall asleep?" Artemis asked. unaffected by the mist. The mist began to affect the heroes as well, making them tired. All of them fell asleep, all except two. Artemis and Dark. However, Dark's giant aura suddenly disappeared in an instant and he stopped breathing, looking down at the ground. "Dark?" Artemis asked the dark blue Pegasus. Suddenly his aura reformed, but it was red. "Heh heh. I'm back again." He looked up at Artemis with blood red eyes, "But I'm never leaving again." Artemis back up slowly, "What the?" "Nehahaha." Pure Darkness charged at Artemis. (Unknown) (Heroes' POV) "Uhg, what happened?" Sonic asked getting up off the floor. Then he noticed he was a hedgehog again, "Sweet. Blue and true again." "What happened to us?" Jasmine said looking her new form. She was a purple hedgehog like her mother, but she had two purple fox tails. She still had her normal clothing, except her tails made the back of her skirt lift up, causing her face to burn. "Ahh!" Sophie screamed, "I'm a rodent." She was a white hedgehog with curly silver hair. She had her normal dress, but now it seemed a little thinner, showing her hourglass figure more. Her shoes had been replaced by a pair of purple low heeled boots. Lily was also a white hedgehog. Her long purple hair locks now almost reached her heels. She wore her purple short sleave and jeans, but she now had the same boots and gloves as her father, "So am I." Liz was a hedgehog with light brown hair. She wore her red short sleeve, a blue Public Police Call Box sweatshirt; blue jeans, metal necklace, black and white shoes, and her glasses. Her hair was put up in a single ponytail. "I have spikes on my hands!" Ronald said. He was an orange echidna. He donned a red cowboy hat on his head. His hands were covered by gloves, but the tops where spiked with three spikes on each hand. Aric was a black hedgehog like his father, but his highlights were pink instead of red. His inhibitor rings rested on his wrists. He now had his hover shoes again, "Why are they still pink?" He asked looking at his highlights. Agatha was a dark blue hedgehog. Her hair styled like her mom's. She had on her grey hoodie and blue jeans. Her father's old rings had been replaced by purple rings. And she now wore the same boots as her mother's, "Well this is a change." She said putting her hoodie on. Spark was a blue cat with blue fur and yellow lightning bolt highlights. His red jacket and blue jeans were still covered in oil and grease. He once again had his multi-tool rings, glowing gold, signalling they were still charged with electricity. Alex and Evan were both hedgehogs, the only difference was they're hair styles and clothes. Lilac was a dark blue hedgehog like her aunt, except for the one yellow and red streak in her hair. Swift was a cyan blue hedgehog. His quills were styled like his dad's. He had his rainbow ring over his white gloves. And he had red and white buckle shoes like his dad. "What's going on?" Shadow asked. They were on a hilltop in the middle of the night. "Welcome heroes." A voice called. The heroes turned and saw Luna the Night Hedgehog walking towards the heroes. Sunset's eyes widened, "Princess Luna!" She ran over hugged her. "It is good to see you too, Sunset Shimmer." Luna said, "But I fear time is of the essence." Luna waved her hand and Lilac's crystal case appeared, "You may all be wondering how this one is still alive." "Yeah we were." Sonic said, "We watched her disappear after being stabbed." "Yes, well she wasn't stabbed. I saved her from her death." Luna said waving her hand again. An image of the night were Pure Darkness stabbed Nightmare Lilac appeared, "This is what you all saw." She waved her hand once more, and the image moved to where Luna was laying on the ground. The heroes saw her getting up slowly. "I had saw that the girl..." Luna began. "Lilac." Sunset said. "I saw that Lilac was an innocent soul corrupted by Nightmare Moon's power." Luna explained pointing at herself. The alicorn Luna's horn began to glow. "Using what little energy I had left, I cast a spell that sent her to the moon, where she would sleep and slowly diminish the nightmare power corrupting her." Luna said. "Wow. Your spell was even able to keep her body young." Silver said. "What? My spell cant do that. Her body should still grow and age the normal way." Luna said. "Oh well. All that matters is that she's alive." Sunset said, "Right Dark?" No answer. "Hey, where's dad?" Agatha asked. Luna gasped and facepalmed herself, "How could I've been so foolish to forget the most important reason I summoned you all." "What is it?" Ace asked. "Its our kidnapper! It was..." Luna began. But she suddenly gasped and grabbed for her throat, trying to breath. "Princess! Who was the attacker?" Sunset asked. "It... was..." Luna struggled to say, but then blacked out. Suddenly the scene around them began to disappear. (Real World) Everyone woke with a gasp. "What happened to Luna?" Rainbow asked. "Someone must have been choking her real body." Shadow said. Just then, the heroes hear a groan. They turn and see Artemis lying on the ground, parts of his armor shattered on the ground. "Artemis!" They shouted running over to the Pegasus. "Jug. My whole body aches." Artemis said. "Who did this to you?" Knuckles asked as they lifted him and brought him to Fluttershy, who was pulling medical supplies from her saddle bag. "Dark. Dark did this to me." Artemis said. They all stopped in their tracks. "No. No you're lying. He couldn't have. He would't." Sunset said. "He did. But something was off about him." Artemis groaned, "His aura had suddenly turned blood red. It was like he had become something else." Artemis gasped when Fluttershy dabbed his wounds with alcohol pads, "All I could see in him was..." But he was interrupted. "Pure Darkness." Ace said, "Dark has been overpowered by his anger and darkness." Suddenly the heroes hear a loud thud, "ouch." They all turn and gasp when they see Lilac Steele walk out of the willow tree leaves, "Oh." She rubs her head with her hoof, then she sees everyone else, "Oh hi guys." Everyone just kept staring at Lilac. She noticed this, "What? Do I have something on my face?" "Um, Lilac, what was the last thing you remember?" Ace asked. She began pondering her thoughts, "I cant remember a lot, but I last remember was defeating Tirek by banishing us to the Dark realm." Lilac answered. "How about how old you are?" Rarity asked. "Last I checked, I'm 18 years old." Lilac said. Everyone looked back at each other. After a long explanation, Lilac plopped on the ground. "So you're telling me, I've been asleep, on the moon, for almost over 20 years!?" Lilac asked. They all nodded. "Wow." Lilac said dumbstruck. "We all thought you were poof!" Pinkie said. "Yeah. I thought I was dead too." Lilac said. Then she looked around, "Hey, where's Dark?" Before anyone could answer, a beam hit the ground behind them, causing them to be flung off the willow tree island, and into the shallow water. "What the hell was that?" Shadow asked. The heroes looked up and saw Mecha Lightning and Doctor Eggman in his Egg-Dragoon, which was being powered by the Seven Chaos Emeralds. "Long time no see, heroes." Eggman said. "Sure has been, Baldy Mc. Nosehair." Sonic said. "HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU TO STOP CALLING ME THAT!" Eggman shouted. His Dragoon shot a drill at the heroes. They all moved out of the way, just as the drill hit the ground. Eggman growled at the heroes, but then noticed a change in members, "Hey, where's that Dark fellow?" then he saw Lilac, "You're supposed to be dead." Lilac looked at Eggman and growled, "Those Emeralds aren't yours. You should return them." "Bah, these emeralds are only lowering a small fraction of the Dragoon." Eggman said pushing a button. The center of the Dragoon opened and revealed the Dazzlings in a sphere. But something wasn't right. The Dazzlings were each hooked up with wires and looked like they'd been hurt. "What did you do to them?" Rainbow asked pointing at the Dazzlings. "Oh they absorbed the Master Emerald's power, rendering the hunk of rock useless." Eggman explained, "So I found them weak and helpless. They couldn't withhold the Master Emerald's power, reducing them to crawling o. the ground." Eggman laughed, "I then captured them and used them as my Dragoon's power source. Observe." He push a button causing the wires attach to the three singers to glow. They then began to scream in pain and agony as the machine absorbed energy from them. "Stop it! You hurting them!" Ace shouted, "The more energy you take from them, the more pain you cause them." "I don't care for them. They turned against me anyways." Eggman said, "Their downfall will matter nothing except one less enemy in the way of my Eggmanland plan." "We have to stop him." Rainbow said. "Saving the Dazzlings? After what they did to us? Our kids?" Silver said. While they were arguing, Eggman smirked and pointed hit Dragoon cannon at them, "Fire!" The dragoon fired a beam of electric-like energy at the heroes. The all dodged the beam itself, but were caught in the blast. Each of them were paralyzed on the stop. "Aw fuck." Ace said as he fell over. "Shit, I cant move." Shadow said stuck in place. "Hebe my body feels all tingly." Pinkie giggled. "Say goodbye heroes." Eggman said charging his cannon once more. "This is not what I was hoping my first day back would be like." Lilac said. "Fire!" Eggman shouted pushing a button. The dragoon fired a beam towards the heroes. The beam came at the heroes, and then a bright flash and explosion.