//------------------------------// // Big Adventure, Small Heroes Part 1 // Story: When Dimensions Unite // by Turbo the Brony //------------------------------// Foundation Prime: Inner Sections of Lord Vortech’s temple Setting Up Preparations Bowser Jr. had just came by to see his dad along with those he was working with, and couldn’t help but look in interest at the Sailor Scouts that were currently in stasis, letting out a small sigh. “These girls look so cute…” he said. His father, who gave him grin and an apologetic look, snapped him out of his trance by a tap on his head as he said, “Sorry, junior. They’re a bit too old for you.” “Aww.” Bowser Jr. sighed, but understood. Meanwhile, Doctors Eggman and Wily were speaking to Lord Vortech about their plans for the captured girls, alongside with Silver and Blaze. “These six will make perfect minions for you, your lordship!” said Eggman, “They will stomp anyone who gets in their way, as well as seek out any Foundation Elements you may need!!” “Until they’re transformed, though,” Wily spoke up, “we’ve got to keep them in stasis. Makes a boring work, but better safe than sorry…” “Very well,” Lord Vortech said, “I expect them to be finished and ready ASAP.” Eggman then spoke up as he said, “Also, Lord Vortech, I’ve been doing some research and I may have a small suggestion to your condition.” “Speak now, Doctor.” Vortech said, looking to the egg-shaped mad man. Eggman brought out a handheld device as he explained, “Since we know of your ability to control the rifts in reality, I take it that most of the energies from the rift is what gives you a good amount of power, alongside the energies of each reality you once travelled too, correct?” Lord Vortech nodded at this in reply. “For you see,” Eggman said as he pressed the button on the device, revealing three holographic screens, one on the right showing a rift, an image of a planet shown on the left screen, while what looked like some sort of energy generator engine on the centre screen, “Alongside Dr. Wily, as some other top engineers we could, eh, ‘recruit’, we can build some special devices that will have the ability to collect rift energy, as well as bit of energy from any world the engines are stationed in.” “Go on.” Vortech said, feeling quite interested. “With this, until you can gain power from the Foundation Elements, this will be your substitute energy,” Eggman continued, “other ways to collect the world energy, the small engines can help you, with your powers, can perhaps unify any number of worlds to increase the energy harvest. While this happens, our little Brain Trust, in our special base of operations, will use our said base to transfer a bit of the energy into the rift sample you gave me earlier, allowing us to help you control more powerful abilities to increase you rift powers ten fold!” Behind his helmet, Vortech let out a grin, followed by a small chuckle of interest as Dr. Eggman and the others saw this as a good sign. While all this was happening, hidden away from the villains, Ant-Man, Wasp and the Atom were overhearing on what was going on. “Gaining energy from different realities?” Atom asked. “That is definitely not a good sign.” Ant-Man said with worry, before muttering to Wasp, “And we thought Galactus was a dangerous threat!” “Excellent,” they heard Vortech speak as he began to make his leave, “make sure your work projects go uninterrupted, and I’ll see to it you get a bit more help on your new base. Keep up with the work while I see to my growing army.” “But of course, Lord Vortech!” Dr. Wily said. “We’re happy to oblige!” Dr. Eggman added. By the time Lord Vortech, along with the Deadly Six, left the room, the Doctors let out a sigh of relief, before looking to the Bowser and the others as Wily spoke. “Still can’t believe that we have to work for him,” Wily said, feeling a little annoyed, “How long until we’re done doing his work?” “Until all these Foundation Elements that he’s keen on are brought here.” Bowser replied. “Still, once all these Foundation Elements are gathered and the secrets of this realm is revealed, we can dispose of Vortech and take the power for ourselves!” Eggman said with a grin. “Yes, that’s a plan I enjoy so much!” Dr. Wily said with a smile, before he and the others looked back to where Vortech and the Zeti exited and nervously said, “…but we’ll need to move cautiously first in order to do so.” “Indeed,” Eggman replied cautiously, “Vortech probably might have us backed into a bit of a corner.” “For now, though, we better continue with our work. Bass! Copyman! Let’s go!” Dr. Wily said as he then gave orders to the two robots. “Aren’t you going to work on sorting out these heroes?” Bowser Jr. asked. “Oh, we will.” Dr. Wily replied, as he, Copyman, Bass and Treble headed off, “We just have a little side project to do first that would be a good asset to you, Dr. Eggman.” “Funny, I was just about to do something for you too, Wily!” Eggman said with a grin, as he made his leave too. “What about us?” Bowser Jr. then asked his dad. “Don’t worry, Junior,” Bowser said, as he picked up his son and carried him over his shoulders and walked out, “we’ll be sorting out a bit of work of our own. Firstly, we’ll need to get the Koopalings in order, as well as the Koopa Bros. too. They’ve got an interesting scavenger hunt to do.” Secret Small Spies As soon as the close was clear, the tiny heroes stepped out of the shadows, growing back to normal size, and approached the capsules containing the captured heroes that were in stasis. “This is truly not good.” Ant-Man spoke, “If what those bozos said is true, then we’ve got no time to waste.” Atom nodded as he added, “We’ll have to continue keeping a low profile, see what we can use against, find out what else they’re up to, and then finally contact our guys to help us stop them!” “Hope that this dimension has good phone reception…” Ant-Man thought aloud. “What do you think are these ‘Foundation Elements’ that they were talking about earlier?” Wasp asked, “We did hear them mention them a few times.” “We gonna need to find out more on these Elements that they’re looking for,” Ant-Man suggested, “if we try and find anything that can give us a clue on what they are, then that can give us an easy trick on getting them all before they do.” Wasp nodded, before looking to the captured heroes, “Which brings us back to them. How are we going to save them?” Atom approached the control deck that was in charge of the capsules and had a good look on the info, “It says hear that these devices are some sort of… um… ‘robotifaction’ machines, no doubt once ready, those mad men would try and transform them somehow into their own henchmen!” “There may be a way.” Ant-Man said as he explained, “If we could, we could try and sabotage the robotifaction processes, have some way for them to be restored back to normal!” “That could work if we can do a little tinkering on the coding of these devices!” Wasp said, as she and Atom both agreed on the idea. Shrinking back down to small size, the heroes ventured into the controls as they began work on sabotaging the coding. “We better hurry now,” Ant-Man said, “who knows when those mad doctors are going to come back!” “And these heroes will be lucky to have a bit of inside help too!” Wasp added. Vorton Gathering the Group Upon leaving the world of Oz, the heroes had returned to their special base on Vorton. While they didn’t found another Keystone or even a shard of one, they managed to find one of the Chaos Emeralds that were (possibly) scattered across the cosmos. Soon, later after returning, the team were brought together (while Donnie was busy back in the control room), catching up to speed on what was happening with the newcomers, until they were all caught up on what was going on. “So, you’re saying that we need to find these Keystones in order to get the rift gateway back up at full power?” Dougal asked. Sonic was about to reply when Rosalina beat him to the punch. “That’s right,” she said, “while it may not look like much, but that machine is the only way of figuring out more this situation. As well as finding your missing friends and allies, whom are no doubt in grave danger. Once all the Keystones are in place, the more all of this will soon be solved.” “Not to mention having to find these Chaos Emeralds that Sonic and his allies were talking about,” said Gandalf, “though it be best to keep them in a secure place, no doubt of their nature.” Sonic looked to the wizard as he said, “I don’t think that would be necessary, Gandalf. These Emeralds are not dangerous (unless they’re in the wrong hands, of course).” “So, then why are they called Chaos Emeralds?” Twilight asked. “Well, I suppose now is a good time to explain.” Sonic said, before getting the Chaos Emerald and showed to everyone. “This here is a Chaos Emerald, one of the 7 Emeralds that come from my universe.” Sonic explained. “Forgive me,” Rarity spoke up, “but it looks more like an amethyst than an emerald.” “Ooo! Maybe it was originally green, then it turned into a different colour!” Pinkie popped up. “I don’t think so, Pinkie.” Sonic said as he sweat dropped, “They were kinda already that colour when they were first discovered. Though good possibility.” Sonic then brought the emerald onto Twilight’s hoof, “Here, have a good feel of it.” Twilight was a little worried at first as the gem laid on her hoof, but soon, minutes later, all the worry slowly began to fade, as she felt a warm calmness from within the gem, the power from it filled with warmth, kindness, hope and determination. Sonic looked with a smile, seeing Twilight feeling calm and amazed at the emerald as the others looked at what was happening. Twilight looked to the hedgehog, who guessed what she was about to ask and spoke up instantly. “The Chaos Emeralds’ power works in many ways,” he explained, as everyone else listened, “the energies and feelings others can unleash the power of the Emeralds, if negative, you know bad things will happen, but if the emotions are positive, miracles can happen for those of pure heart.” “Extraordinary.” Gandalf spoke, hearing this, “If you are familiar with this power… then we’re all ears on what you say.” As the others agreed on what the wizard said, Donnie arrived. “Alright, everyone,” he said, “May I have your attention.” The others looked to Donnie as he continued, “As you all, I have been doing a few tweaks and updates on the gateway at the moment.” “What kind, Donnie?” Batman asked. “For one, thanks to Mikey on discovering that buggie, we now have a way for most of us to get around some of the dimensions quicker and (hopefully) faster.” Donnie explained. “Told you that ride would come in handy!” Mikey spoke up. “If I may continue?” Donnie said, eyeing his younger brother before looking back to the others, “All of us can be able to get around on the buggie with these wristbands. Donnie then brought out four wristbands as he said, “These will be able to help you call up the transport to you so that way it can help those who need to pick up the pace.” “Good thinking, Donnie,” Batman said, as the turtle handed one to him, Gandalf and Amy Rose. “What about me, I found the buggie so I-” Mikey spoke up as he wanted a wristband, only to be given a serious look from Donnie as the techie turtle put a wristband on his arm. “I’ll be in charge of this,” he said, “Because one thing I remember what you said you were right about that I can’t trust with some of the stuff I give you.” “Aw.” Mikey groaned. “What about me?” Deadpool asked, trying to act innocent. “You… I’m uncertain but I figure you could be worse than Mikey.” Donnie explained. “Aw.” Deadpool groaned, as Mikey gave Donnie an annoying eye for being described being worse choice. “With that done, how about we all get to finding more of these so called ‘Chaos’ Emeralds as well as these Keystones?” Spider-Man asked. “That’s another thing I should speak to you all about,” Donnie explained, “as good as we get of having others joining us on our journey, we may need to shrink our group down a little.” “Meaning?” Fluttershy asked. “Meaning that since we’ve now got several more teammates on our side, it may get a bit difficult to keep track of everyone like if it was a school field trip.” Donnie explained, “So, if we are to go to a new dimension, we may need to take turns or something, such as having a group of 7 to 8 or something.” “That does make sense,” said Sonic, “we are getting a bit crowded.” “I see,” Twilight said, understanding what Donnie and Sonic said, “and, perhaps, while we search in one dimension, another group could look in another.” “Exactly,” Donnie said, “so this way, we can be able to do the mentioned tasks faster and quicker, especially thanks to what I made with all the other bits and pieces lying around.” Donnie then held out in his hand, a portable device that featured two screens, one on the top and one on the bottom, with several control buttons on the bottom part of both sides on the screen. “Ooh, nice goober!” Deadpool said with keen admiration, “Gimme!” Donnie raised an eyebrow at this, “Uh, excuse me? Goober?” “Yeah, a goober!” Deadpool explained. “Sorry but I think you’re supposed to say gizmo, not a goober.” Donnie stated, “This is basically a handheld interdimensional scanner, loosely based off the one I had, so that way each of us could have one and be capable of learning and researching which universe and/or dimension you are in, as well as finding and detecting any anomalies.” “Yeah, well I know that there is always a scanner device, tracking device, research device, as well as override keys, bypass keys, virus keys and any other dohickeys, devices and whatnots that there are, so I basically just call them ‘goobers’. Gimme.” said Deadpool, holding out his hand. Donnie groaned in small annoyance of this, “Okay, going to ignore this chat with you.” Donnie soon got out six of the same device he had as he continued, “I was able to find the time to make several more of my little creation, so that way, everyone can have one on their journey.” Donnie then took one of them and handed it to Sonic, “You can be the first to use one if you wish to travel to the next dimension, Sonic.” “Thanks, Donnie,” Sonic replied as he then looked to the others, “Anyone ready to join me?” “I’m in.” Batman stepped forward. “So shall I.” Gandalf added. Rainbow Dash flew up to Sonic with a grin, “Count me in too!” “Ah’m in too!” Applejack volunteered. “Hear, hear!” Rarity added. Shadow then stepped forward as he said, “I shall come with you as well.” Hiccup and Astrid looked at each other and nodded in agreement, as they and Toothless approached them as Hiccup spoke, “We’ll go as well.” “We’re coming too!” Scootaloo cried as she and the other Crusaders ran up to the group. “Hold it, y’all!” Applejack turned to the three fillies, “You shouldn’t tag along after what that Witch did by fillieknapping y’all.” “Indeed,” Rarity agreed, “that horrible lady had no right to do that, so it would be wise.” “I quite agree as well,” Kanga stepped in as she spoke, “There’s no telling what danger that may come to them!” Sonic had a small thought then looked to both the older mares and the young fillies as he spoke. “It is true that there could be trouble they might get into,” he stated, “but I think that they could handle things well, and don’t forget that they were no doubt able to escape being captured then found a way to beat the witch as well.”   Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash looked to each other with thought, then looked back to the three fillies, who had now each gave them the cute pleading eyes, as well as remembered how well they’ve come so far, especially after earning their cutie marks. After some thought, Applejack turned back to Sonic, “Well, alright, I suppose they can come with.” “Just know that if things get dangerous for you, let us know and we’ll bring you back home.” Rarity instructed the Crusaders, who all nodded in agreement. “Ugh… Babysitting…” Shadow groaned in a mutter. “Alright, this way, please.” Donnie said, gesturing to the control room where the gateway was. Soon the team, along with Twilight, followed Donnie into the control room and to the gateway, before long, Donnie looked to Sonic, “Sonic, mind if I have the Chaos Emerald?” Sonic nodded and gave the emerald to the techie turtle as Batman asked, “Why do you need the Chaos Emerald for?” “As we all know,” Donnie explained, “that the gateway’s power is limited, but from what I’ve learned that the Chaos Emeralds are quite powerful, correct?” “Indeed, in fact the power of even one of the 7 are limitless.” Sonic stated. “Which would make perfect sense to use this to give the gateway’s power a good little boost.” Donnie said, as he then placed the emerald onto a hand-made container he made, then connected it to the power generator. Upon connected, the generator began to hum highly as the machine was functioning to its fullest. “Hey, power systems growing high at over 150%!” the robotic voice spoke up, “Whatever you just did, good thinking!” “Aw, ya welcome, stranger.” Applebloom said. Donnie soon gave special earpiece communicators to most of the group as he explained, “You’ll each have these communicators so we can stay in contact with you at any time, if you have any trouble or if you’ve found either a keystone, shard or even a Chaos Emerald.” Sonic gave Donnie the thumbs up, “Thanks again, Donnie.” “You be careful and stay safe.” said Twilight. “We will. Don’t sweat, Twilight.” Rainbow Dash winked. “Let’s move.” Batman said as he and Sonic rushed into the rift of the gateway, followed by the others. As they journeyed through the vortex, Rarity looked to Sonic, “Do you have any idea where we could ending up, darling?” “Can’t say for sure, Rarity,” replied Sonic, “but arriving in these new unknown worlds seem to remind me of when we went to the Twilight Cage.” Before anyone could ask, they saw the light at the end of the vortex, as they got ready for what was going to be on the other side this time… Bonnie’s room, Toy Story universe: Present Day “Prepare yourselves for the groundbreaking adventure of a lifetime, based off the action pack TV series, play your favourite characters from Babylon 7 on your game consoles and hand-held devices. Babylon 7, available now a-” Click. Small-sized Heroes The voice of the TV announcer was cut off as the screen switched off. “Hey, I was just watching that.” Rex said, a little upset. “Oh, sorry, Rex,” Woody apologized, having accidentally stepped on the power button on the TV remote as he carried a toy block, “but I’m afraid that now’s not the time for television.” “I gotta say, those graphics on that Babylon 7 game look quite dashing!” Hamm proudly say to the toy tyrannosaurus. “Really? I very much enjoy Mighty Mice myself.” Rex replied. As the two were discussing their different interests, Woody looked down from Bonnie’s bed that they were on, before spotting something beginning to appear on the bedroom floor. Dropping the block, Woody tackled Rex and Hamm to the ground of the bed, much to their startlement. “Hey, what’s the big idea?” Hamm asked, only to shushed by the cowboy. Soon, someone else joined in, as Buzz looked to Woody and quietly asked, “Are they back?” Woody nodded in reply while bringing his finger to his lips as a way to say be quiet. Crawling up to the side of the bed, the four toys looked down to the bedroom floor, spotting several unknown things wandering the room. Nine of them looked like egg-shaped humanoid robots with thin robotic arms and legs, round shoulders, white gloves and black shoes with white straps, hovering around with rocket packs and carrying guns. The rest of them seemingly looked alot like insects, from caterpillars to beetles, from slugs to wasps, there were even several of them that looked like crabs as well. “All right, guys, today we show these metal intruders whose boss!” Woody said determinedly, “Is everyone in possition?” “Wait, I don’t think I’m emotionally prepared!” Rex worried. “Would you calm down!” Hamm exclaimed quitely to Rex, “Don’t worry, I got ya covered.” Woody looked to the other side of the room, on one of the draws, three of Bonnie’s toys, Mr. Pricklepants, Trixie and Dolly were standing on top of the draws, ready to jump the intruders, as the gave Woody a wave to say they were ready. Woody and Buzz nodded in agreement, as the latter said to the cowboy, “It’s go time.” “What the heck? Where are we?” Sonic asked as they came out of the portal, only for the group to be unsure of where they were. Sweetie Belle looked around, seeing several giant toys and seeing a leg of the bed, “I’m not sure… but I think this looks like we’re under somepony’s bed.” “Let’s head out and look around.” Batman suggested as they walked out from under the bed. As the group looked around their surroundings, they suddenly heard Rarity yelp. “Oh stars, darlings!” she cried, “Did we just shrink?! And just look at us! Look at me!” The group looked to each and realized what she meant, as they did shrunk down to size of dolls, and what weirded them further was that some of them even LOOKED like dolls, with the movable limbs to boot! “Okay, this is really weird.” Hiccup said, as he and Astrid looked to each other and Toothless, who was observing himself. “What is going on, Donnie? Twilight?” Batman asked, speaking to Donnie through the earpiece. “I’m not so sure,” Twilight replied, “but I think I know what’s going on.” “You do? Then spill.” said Sonic. “I remember having the same experience when I first travelled to another world.” Twilight started to explain. “You mean the world where Sunset and the others who look like us live?” asked Rainbow. “That’s right!” replied Twilight, “When I traveled to their world, I took on a… well… human form, having to walk on two and had to carry stuff with hands. So it must be possible that there might be important rules and order that we have to follow when in some of these worlds.” “‘Spose that makes a small lick of sense.” Applejack said, looking at her hooves, “Still odd that we have to look like toys, though.” “Perhaps we could ask them?” Scootaloo suggested as she pointed to a group a figures not far from the group. As the group looked, Sonic’s eyes widened as he recognized them, “Wait… those aren’t toys… they’re Badniks!!” Tiny Takedown “Badniks?” the Crusaders asked in union. “Let me guess,” said Batman, “they’re bad news that you’ve dealt before?” Sonic nodded, “Old robots that Eggman used to make during the ol’days when we first met.” “But how are these metal creatures here?” Gandalf asked. “Don’t know, don’t care!” Rainbow exclaimed, as she started to charge to them, “If Sonic says they’re trouble then let’s give them their own medicine!” “Alright, just like old times!” Sonic said as he and the others followed. Back with Woody and the other toys on the bed, they were getting ready to jump on the intruders, “Okay, we go on three. Ready?” “One…” “Two…” As Woody counted and the others were getting ready, Buzz to a good look down on the floor again and then suddenly spotted the others charging at the intruders. “Thre-” “Wait!” cried Buzz, setting off his wings to stop the others on their tracks, which caught the attention and confusion of the others on the draws. “Buzz, what are doing?” Woody asked, before looking down to the direction that Buzz was looking and saw what was happening, “Who are those guys?” “Hey, chrome-domes!” they heard Sonic cry as the Badniks turned their attention to the heroes, “Come get some!” “Priority 1 targeted!” one of the Eggrobos spoke as it spotted Sonic, “Attack!” Sonic sped forward and spin dashed the Eggrobo as the others charged at the other badniks.  The other Eggrobos and Buzz Bombers began attacking with their laser attacks, causing the group to split up as Batman called out, “Take the hard utility!” Batman used his batrangs to attack, while Rainbow wizzed through and bashed two to three Buzz Bombers. Hiccup and Astrid used their weapons to seperate the guns from the Eggrobos, while Toothless used his plasma blasts while the Crusaders got behind him. During this, Woody, Buzz and the others were amazed and surprised at what they saw (Rex and Hamm even more intrigued). The fight continued until the last Badnik finally fell, Sonic looked around the remains of each of the Badniks that got creamed. “That was so cool!” Apple Bloom happily said as she approached Sonic. Sonic was in a bit of thought when she looked to him, “Is something wrong?” “Nothing’s wrong, Apple Bloom,” Sonic replied, “I was looking around to see if there were any little animals in these Badniks that need help as it was back in the old days, since Eggman was not good at animal care.” Apple Bloom gasped at that, “How could that Eggman fella do such a thing, that’s terrible!” ‘So glad that Fluttershy isn’t here to hear that,’ she thought ‘she would be so upset about that.’ New Toys? “Are they new?” A new voice caught the group’s attention, as they looked to see several toys approach them, both from the bed and from the draws nearby. Most of the group recognized a few of them looking like a cowboy, a spaceman, two dinosaurs and a pig. “Oh wow!” the T-Rex cried out with excitement, as he rushed up towards Sonic, “That was so cool how you did those moves!” “I know,” the other dinosaur, a female Triceratops, added, “and did you see some of the gadgets they used to take down those creeps?” “Uh… thanks?” Astrid said in confusion, only for her and Hiccup to notice a red dot on them, as Buzz had his laser on stand by. “Stand back.” he said, “For all we know that the intruders may have sent them.” “I highly doubt that those guys who tried to attack me and my friends would have brought us here to kill us.” Sonic shrugged. “Look at that cloaked guy!” Rex pointed to Batman, “I think he could be a superhero!” “Maybe he’s Eclipse or Darkman of the Justice Team of Supers!” Trixie suggested. “Calm down, you two.” Woody cut in, “We don’t know them…” “But we can trust them, can’t we?” Rex asked, “That guy is one of the no.1 selling toys in the country!” Hamm nodded in agreement, “Yeah, Bonnie’s mom must’ve bought him with the others.” “Hamm’s right!” Trixie added, “Did you see how easy they took care of the intruders. They could even be here to help figure why most of our friends are missing.” “And why’s Buzz’s laser started actually laser-ing,” Rex stated, as Buzz looked to his right wrist which featured his laser segment of his arm, “and all the other weird stuff going, I mean, that’s what heroes do, right?” “Let’s not jump to conclusions.” Buzz stated as he then looked to Woody, “Got to be smart, Woody.” “Got it, Buzz.” Woody nodded before acting calm as he asked the strangers, “So, are you Bonnie’s new toys?” The traveling group looked to each other for a second then back to the cowboy as they asked simultaniasly, “Toys?”