Previously in the last chapter: My name is Michael the Hedgehog and I'm a human who's full of surprises. We all decided to take a trip to Everfree in order to see if my powers are in any way related to the girls' geodes. Eggman tried to stop us from reaching there, but thanks to me and my friends, we made that didn't happen. Now it's time to see what this ring is and how it's connected to me.
At Camp Everfree
We all finally arrived at Everfree as Applejack parked the broken up van to the side and we all got out.
"Is this the place?" I asked.
"Eeyup. This here place is where we first discovered our geodes." Applejack said.
"So now we're here, we just need to find the cave." Sunset said.
"It's actually been awhile since we've been here. Camp Everfree is beautiful as ever." Fluttershy said.
"Yay! Nostalgia!" Pinkie said as she jumped up and down.
"Hmm. If there are two people, well one specifically here, then we just need to ask where that same cave is and we'll find the secret of this ring in no time." Twilight said.
'She's thinking of Timber. I know she is.' Sunset thought as she rolled her eyes with a smile.
We all walked up ahead to see a large cabin next to a large lake as well. I have to say that this is indeed beautiful just like Tropical Jungle in the city of Soleanna back in my world. We all walked up to the cabin to knock on it and out came two people. One was a tall guy that was just slightly taller than me with dark tan skin, green eyes and aquamarine hair with a beanie on his head. He was also wearing a red Camp Everfree shirt with jade shorts and some brown boots. Twilight had told me that this was her boyfriend, Timber Spruce. The second person was a girl who was smaller than Timber who had dark pink skin, green eyes, and she had raspberry hair with a daisy crown on it. She was also wearing a light yellow dress with green details and some cyan shorts. This was Timber's older sister, Gloriosa Daisy.
"Huh. Oh, it's you girls." Gloriosa said which they all nodded.
"It's great to see all of you again. . . and I see you all brought a guest." Timber said as he noticed me.
"Yeah, this is our best friend Michael." Sunset said.
"It's nice to meet you two. Twilight told me about you two." I said as I shook hands with them.
"It's odd for you all to just come visit at a random time of the year. Is this a special occasion or something?" Gloriosa asked.
"Well, that's the thing. We actually came because we need your help to guide us to the cave where Gloriosa discovered our magic geodes." Sunset replied.
"The cave? What for?" Timber asked.
Twilight pulled out the crystal ring as it glowed which surprised both Timber and Gloriosa.
"Whoa! What is that?" Timber asked surprised.
"This ring is connected to Michael someone, and were trying to see how." Rainbow Dash said.
"Well in that case, follow us." Gloriosa said. "It should be near the rock quarry like it always is."
"Thanks you two. You just saved many lives for us." I said.
"Hey, don't sweat it." Timber said giving me a thumbs up. "Any friend of Twilight is a friend of mine."
We all then walked into the forest following both Timber and Gloriosa to see where this cave is. As we were walking, I noticed Timber and Twilight talking with other as they seemed to be having a good conversation. I looked towards Sunset and got a thought in my head. 'I hope that's you and me one day.'
We eventually got across to the rock quarry where the cave was, but soon Timber, Twilight, and Gloriosa let out a gasp.
"What's wrong?" Rarity asked.
We all caught up to see that the entrance to the cave was blocked off by some boulders giving us shocked looks.
"These boulders weren't here the last time I came over here." Timber said. "I guess we won't be able to get in."
Twilight giggled which confused Timber. "You probably may have forgotten, but we all have powers." Twilight said pointing to her geode on her neck.
"Oh, oops." Timber said as he let out a sheepish laugh while blushing.
"Don't worry, just like the last time Sunset and I were here, I'll just use my magic to-" Twilight said as she was trying to pull the boulders from the cave, but it wasn't working as she grunted a couple times. She tried many attempts of it before getting on to her knees before kneeling down to the ground tired. Timber went to her and patted Twilight's back to ease her exhaustion.
"Don't worry y'all." Applejack said. "What we need here is some muscle." Applejack cracked her knuckles as she went over to the boulder and tried to lift it up, but to our surprise, her powers couldn't do the trick either. "Okay! This thing's really jammed in there."
"How are we supposed to get inside of cave now?" Sunset asked.
I thought for a moment until I noticed a small piece of stone nearby and I picked it up and looked at it before getting an idea. "Leave this to me." I said as everyone looked at me with a confused face. "I can absorb any natural element and stone is part of nature, if I absorb this, then my body will become hard enough to break that boulder down."
"What exactly are you going to do?" Gloriosa asked as I smirked.
"You'll see." I said as I then glowed green, indicating that I absorbed nature, I then walked back a few feet and get into a starting run position. "Okay! Everyone stand back!" I warned as everyone moved out of the way of what I was going to do. I then charge up a spin dash by rolling into a ball and after a couple of seconds, I launched myself towards the boulder while spin attacking and sure enough, my deduction was correct as the boulder broke into small pieces when I launched myself at it. I was then inside of the cave and I landed on the ground feet first. Timber and Gloriosa had their jaws dropped at what they just saw as I just took a bow down to them.
"Dude! That was amazing!" Timber said surprised.
"He really does have powers like you girls." Gloriosa said back.
"Yep, that's Michael for ya." Rainbow Dash said.
"Well, let's go inside of the cave shall we?" Rarity asked as everyone nodded and followed me inside of it.
Meanwhile, Inside of Doctor Eggman's Fortress
Doctor Eggman was inside his laboratory, trying to analyze the Chaos Emerald he stole from me in the last chapter. He then place in a small container and pressed some buttons as a screen popped and said 'Now analyzing, 1%.'
"Orbot!" Doctor Eggman said calling his robot henchman.
Orbot came just as he was told and went beside Eggman.
"Yes, doctor." He said.
"How's the new weapon coming along?" Eggman asked.
"It's almost done. The robots are just now putting the last minute paint on it." Orbot replied.
"Well, in that case, play my favorite song while this Emerald transfers it's energy." Eggman said as Orbot nodded and went to the doctor's radio and picked the exact song he was tasked for. As soon as the music turns on, Eggman started to dance and sing.
(Play Song - Where Evil Grows)
Lyrics:
I like the way you smile at me
I felt the heat that enveloped me
And what I saw I liked to see
I never knew where evil grew
I should have steered away from you
My friend told me to keep clear of you
But something drew me near to you
I never knew where evil grew
Evil grows in the dark
Where the sun it never shines
Evil grows in cracks and holes
And lives in people's minds
Evil grew, it's part of you
And now it seems to be
That every time I look at you
Evil grows in me
If I could build a wall around you
I could control the thing that you do
But I couldn't kill the will within you
And it never shows
The place where evil grows
Evil grows in the dark
Where the sun it never shines
Evil grows in cracks and holes
And lives in people's minds
Evil grew, it's part of you
And now it seems to be
That every time I look at you
Evil grows in me
As the song was still going on, Eggman didn't notice Orbot appearing behind him carrying a drink. When he did turn around however, he got startled by Orbot and let out a scream which muted the song.
"I just thought you'd might like a latte with steamed Austrian goat milk." Orbot said with the latte in his hand.
"What do I look like, an imbecile? Of course I want a latte. I LOVE THE WAY YOU MAKE 'EM!" Doctor Eggman yelled as he snatched the latte from Orbot's hands. A small alarm was heard as Eggman perked up at hearing that as he went to see the Chaos Emerald's power was finally analyzed.
"Behold, the extraordinary power source to our machines." Eggman said as he let out an evil cackle. "Orbot. . . ready the Big Arm. With this machine, I'll be able to show those humans, starting with their school, who exactly their messing with."
Back with the Rainbooms in the Everfree cave
We walked for about five minutes through the cave until something caught our eyes. We saw up ahead a tall, shiny crystallized pedestal with seven holes in it.
"Huh. This is the last place where we discovered where our geodes came from." Sunset said.
"Well, what now? We've reached the same place to where our powers originated from. Shouldn't the ring have to do something with it as well?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Hmm. Apparently not." Twilight answered. "This ring is way to round to fit on that one spot that surrounds the holes. But if we just take a huge amount of molten magma, and then put this ring in it, plus measuring the area, circumference, and-"
Twilight smart explanation was interrupted as she just now realized that everyone was giving her confused looks.
"Yeah. . . probably ain't doing that." Applejack said.
"We've reached a dead end though. I guess the ring is not connected to our geodes after all." Fluttershy stated.
We all shrugged our shoulders and sighed, but as we were about to go back out from the cave, I saw a small glow that looked to be the color of gold nearby on a crack of a wall.
"Hey everyone. I think I found something." I said as everyone turned back to me and they noticed the small glow as well.
"Oooh. Sparkly." Pinkie said trying to take a peek throw the wall. Pinkie then gasped at what she saw next and rushed up to me. "Didn't you say that there were these golden rings layed everywhere in your world?!" Pinkie exclaimed as I nodded up and down quickly. "I see a ton of them in there!" She said.
My eyes went wide at Pinkie's claim as I went to the crack of the wall to take a took and sure enough, she was correct. There were dozens of golden rings inside of the wall plus I saw a blue pedestal this time that looked to have a hole shaped exactly like the crystal ring.
"Girls, I think our answers to where this ring originated from is through this wall!" I said.
"That's nice darling, but how are we supposed to break that giant wall down." Rarity asked.
"Don't worry Rarity." I said as I got down to the ground and absorbed some more stone to increase by durabilty. "It worked the first time, so I bet it will work a second time."
I spindashed at the wall and tried to break it down with enough force by charging at it. . . but instead I was knocked back and fell on my back with a dizzy look on my face as I was trying to stand up.
"Hey sugarcube, you alright?" Applejack asked.
I swayed back and forth to the side trying not to fall down. "Ugh. Guess I had three extra lives." I said while I still dizzy. I eventually came back to reality and saw that the wall was not broken. I got a conflicted look as I tapped my foot. "That's weird, wasn't that suppose to break?"
"It must be a very thick wall of stone." Twilight said as she put her hand on her chin and started to think before she got an idea in her head. "I have an idea, but it's going involve some of us having to use our geodes."
Everyone including me turned to Twilight's attention as she had a determined look on her face.
(Five Minutes Later)
"Twilight. . ." I said with a conflicted look. "Are you sure this is going to work?"
All of us were in different positions as Rarity was using some of the diamonds she created with her magic to use them like pickaxes on the wall. Rarity looks at the wall as the small crack as now turned into a bigger crack. She then turns around towards Twilight also with a conflicted look.
"I have to second Michael's question Twilight." Rarity said.
"Ha! Science never lies." Twilight said with a proud look on her face.
"Well, all we can do now is hope that this works." Applejack said.
"Okay, everyone ready?" Twilight asked as everyone nodded. "3. . . 2. . . 1. . . GO!"
Sunset shoots a fireball at me which I absorbed to give me increased attack power. I then turn into a ball as Applejack picks me up. Outside, Rainbow Dash was in a starting running position and Fluttershy got all of the animals to clear her path of any twigs, rocks, or any other obstacles in the way.
"Now, Rainbow Dash!" Twilight called out to her as Rainbow ran full speed into the cave. Applejack throws me with her super strength at Rainbow Dash as she was closing in on me. She then kicks me like a soccer ball towards the wall and Pinkie had a bag of candy which she used as a bomb due to her powers and she throws it at the stone wall. As I made impact with both the bomb and the wall, a huge explosion happens which covered everyone's vision. As the smoke from the large explosion clears, everyone now sees that the stone wall is now destroyed into just large rocks. Everyone, looks at Twilight as she has a smug look on her face. "Given that fire is hotter than stone and hitting Michael with enough force without causing too much inertia. The velocity of the-"
"Okay! Okay! We get it!" Rainbow Dash interrupted. "Geez, now your turning into that Egghead."
"What?! I am not" Twilight retorted.
"Um, how about we just all go and see 1. if Michael's okay and 2. what's inside that wall." Sunset said as everyone nodded.
Inside of the wall, everyone had mesmerized looks, especially Rarity as to what they saw was exactly inside. I was on the floor knocked out from the impact I made to the wall. Rainbow Dash ran over to me and checked to see if I was okay.
"I think Michael got a concussion." Rainbow said. "Does anyone have anything that can wake him up?"
At that point, everyone turned to Fluttershy as she flinched from everyone looking at her.
"Um. . . I may have some smelling salts." Fluttershy said.
"Well, come on get to it Fluttershy." Applejack demanded as Fluttershy went up to me and pulled out a piece of human smelling salts and she put it up to my nose.
"Come on, buddy wake up." Rainbow said. As soon as Fluttershy put the smelling salt close to my nose, I woke up instantly.
"Gotta go fast!" I yelled as I rushed all over the place at high speed before returning to where Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were while breathing heavily. "Where am I!? What year is it!? Is the rock president!?"
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! You're okay dude, calm down!" Rainbow Dash said shocked at my instant outburst.
I then turned around and saw the rings and remembered was we were doing. "Oh, that's right. Girls, these are all rings from my world."
"I must say that are absolutely fabulous!" Rarity said as she picked a ring up and held it in her hands with her eyes sparkling.
"So, what exactly do these rings do exactly?" Sunset asked.
"They can be used for many purposes back in my world. They can used to protect you from death, they can be used as currency, and if you collect 50 of them they can be used as portals to travel between worlds." I explained.
Twilight was busy counting them in the area until she had a shocked look on her face. "Uh, counting the one Rarity has in her hand. . . there's 500 of them here."
"I believe for the most part, our biggest tool for these would be to travel." I said.
"But how can we carry 50 rings in one hand and make a portal, I think at most we can carry 7 rings in one hand." Fluttershy asked.
I then get an idea as I looked to Pinkie and she noticed. "Pinkie, do you have your party cannon with you."
Pinkie smiled as she then pulled it out of nowhere and nodded.
"What are you plannin' on doing." Applejack asked.
"Let me show you how it's done." I said as I ran all over the section of the cave and grabbed all of the rings around the cave including the one Rarity had which made her pout. I put 50 of them each in the party cannon as Pinkie blasted the cannon when I put each 50 of them inside. When that happened, 10 slightly larger rings were made as I picked them all up. "Ahh, good times."
"Great, so now we know how the golden rings work, but we still don't know anything about the crystal ring." Sunset said.
Twilight pulled the ring out from her pocket and it was still glowing. "Maybe we have to put it on that hole right there."
Twilight went up to the pedestal and she placed the crystal ring in it, and when she did something unexpected happened. The crystal ring glowed immensely and hovered into the air surprising all of us.
"What's happening!?" Rainbow asked confused.
The crystal ring then shot 7 beams directed at the girl's geodes giving us shocked looks.
"I don't know, but let's just hope it's a good thing!" Twilight replied.
Soon enough, the beams were gone and the crystal ring fell to the ground and stopped glowing. Twilight went over and picked it up with a surprised look on her face.
"That. . ." I said as Twilight finished my sentence for me.
". . .was weird!" She finished.
"Hey, everyone. Check out our geodes!" Rainbow said as the Rainbooms were looking at their geodes to see something unusual. They each had about 1/7 of there geode covered by something blue and a another picture was also trying to form, but they couldn't make out what it was.
"That's definitely weird." Sunset said.
"So what now?" I asked.
"Hmm. . . I don't know? We've been here for hours and it's almost nighttime. We can we do?" Applejack asked.
"We should spend the night here!" Pinkie said.
"What?!" Sunset said surprised. "We can't, we have school tomorrow and how are we supposed to get there on time?"
"Ahem." I cleared my throat as Sunset turned around to see me spinning one of the now 6 rings on my fingers.
"Oh, they can do that?" She asked again.
"Yeah, you just picture where you want to go and the ring will take you there." I replied.
"Well, in that case. Timber and Gloriosa probably won't mind us using some of the tents." Twilight said.
"We done everything we could, but still. . . there's some things we still don't now about the crystal ring and especially why it turned our geodes partly blue." Sunset said.
"Well, let's get some shut eye then." I suggested as everyone nodded.
When we all exited the cave, we explained to both Timber and Gloriosa about our situation and they were more than happy to offer us tents to sleep in for the night. These days just keep getting more interesting as they progress. However, little did we know that tomorrow was the start of mayhem for Canterlot High.
The Next Morning at Canterlot High
We see Principal Celestia in her office apparently preparing to give the morning announcements to the school. Vice Principal Luna also walks in to see her sister.
"Sister, have you noticed anything unusual about today or something that's. . . missing?" Vice Principal Luna asked.
"Not that I know of." Principal Celestia replied. "Why do you ask?"
"I don't know. It's probably just a gut feeling." Vice Principal Luna said shrugging her shoulders.
"Well, don't worry sister, if anything does happen, we all know that either us or the girls can take care of it." Principal Celestia said with a smile.
"I sure you are right sister." Vice Principal Luna said as she exited the office.
Principal Celestia then grabbed her microphone in order to make the morning announcements to school. "Good morning students. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. If any students didn't know, today is Canterlot High's 5th anniversary of when it was first built. Canterlot High has been a wonderful school and we plan to keep it that way for as long as possible. Have a wonderful Monday, everyone." Principal Celestia then put her microphone to the side and she stood up to go and grab some files from a drawer under her desk. When she sits back she notices something indeed unusual. When she looks a coffee mug that was beside her, the coffee inside the mug was making seismic vibrations confusing her. She then noticed that a couple more objects were starting to shake and eventually the entire school started to feel the tremor. Vice Principal Luna rushed back to Principal Celestia with a worried look on her face.
"Luna. What is happening!?" Principal Celestia asked with a worried look.
"I think you might want to look outside!" Vice Principal Luna replied pointing to the window.
(Play Sonic The Hedgehog - Dr. Robotnik)
Principal Celestia took a look outside of her window to see a bunch of Egg-Bots flying down toward the school, estimating about over a hundred of them. What caught her eyes next however, was a giant, heavily armored, egg-shaped robot hovering in the sky that had two gigantic hands and spikes on it's head.
Both of the sisters went outside to see why all of the robots are around the school and even a bunch of students came outside to see what was happening. The giant robot that was in the middle of all of the Egg-Bots opened it's cockpit to reveal Doctor Eggman emerging from it and the robot made steps for him to walk to the ground. Doctor Eggman saw both of the principals and smirked as he walked up to Principal Celestia with an evil grin on his face.
"Are you in charge here?" Doctor Eggman asked.
"Yes I-" Principal Celestia begin to saw, but Eggman interrupted her.
"Nope!" He said to interrupt.
"We-" Vice Principal Luna tried to say, but Eggman interrupted her as well.
"Wrong!" He interrupted again.
"Excuse me, we are-" Principal Celestia tried to finish her sentence quickly, but Eggman interrupted her as well.
"I'm in charge!" Eggman interrupted once more. "Allow me to clarify." Eggman made robot gestures to his left and began to speak. "In a sequentially ranked hierarchy based on the level of critical importance, the disparity between us is to vast to quantify."
Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna gave him weird looks as they have no idea what he just said.
"Of course." Eggman said. "Your feeble human minds can't understand me at all. Orbot. Translate."
"The doctor thinks you're basic." Orbot said to both of the sisters in which they weren't amused at all. The students behind them gasped at the doctors language towards their principals.
"Excuse me, mister, but I don't think you know exactly who you are talking to right now." Principal Celestia said with a serious look on her face.
"Oh sorry for being so insensitive. I'm sorry miss, what was your name?" Eggman asked.
"Principal Cele-" Principal Celestia was about to say her name, but again Eggman interrupted her.
"Nobody cares!" Eggman interrupted giving the sisters offended looks. "Sorry, miss nobody cares, you know why nobody cares who you are? Because nobody cares about your feeble accomplishments, nobody cares that you in authority here, nobody cares that you are even human."
Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna looked at each other with judgemental looks.
"Humans are stupid and unreliable, I care little about them. My machines on the other hand do exactly what their told, they follow their programming, and they don't need time off to do anything. My babies are just diligent and relentless." Eggman said as he was praising all of his robots.
"Okay, mister. . ." Principal Celestia said trying to get his name.
"Doctor Robotnik." Eggman said which I still debate that Eggman is a better name for him.
"Robotnik. I don't care if you really think you are better than us in anyway at all, but I'm going to have to ask you to leave and leave both my school and students be." Principal Celestia said sternly, but Eggman just chuckles.
"Looks like we'll have to do this the hard way after all." Doctor Eggman said as he walks back into the cockpit of the giant robot. "Robots. . . time to do some demolition."
Everyone in the school had worried looks of what was about to happen and even the principals were scared. Eggman commanded his robots to then invade the school and destroy anybody in sight.
(End Song)
At Camp Everfree
Everyone got a single tent they could sleep in from last night since there weren't any campers around. We all woke up to see the morning sun shine in our eyes. Since I bet we still have some time before we got to school, I decided to use my speed to run around all over the camp. The camp itself looks like a small version of Green Hill, which I loved so much. I went up a mountain to get a view of everything and it was indeed beautiful. I inhaled and exhaled the fresh air in the atmosphere.
"Ahhh. So cool." I said. "Canterlot is an amazing place, but still. . . I kinda miss my old home. But what do I do? If I use one of the rings I have in my possession, then I can instantly go back to Mobius, but I'll be abandoning all of my friends here. At the same time though, everywhere I go just gives me a nostalgic feeling to see my old home again."
I get a sad look on my face as I go back down from the mountain and into a forest as I sat down near a pond and looked at my reflection, for a minute I could see my original hedgehog self before it goes back to me seeing my human self.
"Who am I? A supersonic hedgehog that protects the world from crooks like Eggman or a human that goes to a school and has 7 best friends that look out for each other?" I said to myself.
"I think your both, Michael." A voice said from behind me as I turned around to see Sunset who then walks over to me and sits down beside me.
"Hey, Sunset." I said kind of depressed.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
I sighed. "Do you ever get one of those feelings like you have a purpose in life and you just can't decide how you should live your life when you have a choice?"
Sunset was catching on to what I was asking as she then looked towards the pond we were sitting in front of and get's a conflicted look.
"Yeah, I miss Equestria too. Sometimes I do think to myself that I should be what I was meant to be. A pony in Equestria continuing to study with Princess Celestia. . . but, that's not what I think I should be. You know why?" Sunset asked.
"Why?" I asked back.
"Because someone taught me that there's nothing more important than friendship. When the going get's tough, you can always rely on me and our friends back there to help you out on anything." She said with a smile.
I smiled back at Sunset as I hugged her and she hugged me back. What would I ever do if I never had such an empathetic friend? After we both broke from the hug, I feel a vibration from my pocket as it was my phone and I took it out to see a text from Flash and what I saw next made my eyes widen with shock.
HEY DUDE! IF YOU'RE READING THIS RIGHT NOW, WE NEED YOU AND THE GIRLS' HELP!!! THERE'S SOME MANIAC ATTACKING THE SCHOOL!
Sunset looked at the text too and her eyes widen as well. We both looked at each other and can only spell out that Eggman was behind this.
"Oh no! Eggman is attacking the school!" I said shocked.
"We need to go and tell the others now then!" Sunset said.
I nodded as I both of us ran back to the campsite to see everyone was out of their tents and fully dressed.
"Michael? Sunset? What's wrong with you two?" Fluttershy asked.
"Girls, we have an emergency! Doctor Robotnik is attacking our school!" Sunset said with worry as everyone gasped.
"Uh Oh, Apple Bloom is there!" Applejack said.
"Sweetie Belle is there at this time as well!" Rarity said.
"Scootaloo must be in trouble as well!" Rainbow Dash said.
"Flash told me that Eggman is attacking the school. He and probably Sandalwood and Zephyr are trying to defend themselves as we speak!" I said.
"Well, what are we waiting for? We to save everyone from that insane Egghead!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
"I've already got us covered!" I said as I pulled out one of the golden rings I made.
"Alright, Michael we'll get the van and you get us to Canterlot." Applejack said.
I nodded as the Rainbooms got in the van and Applejack turned the van towards where I was.
"Y'all ready?" Applejack asked as everyone including myself nodded. Timber and Gloriosa waved at us as we had to go and we waved back at them. Applejack stepped on the gas pedal and the van drove at a high speed and I followed it as I threw the ring where it was going and it made a portal showing Canterlot High was in fire and partly destroyed. All of us went through the portal and we arrived at Canterlot High to see a bunch of Egg-Bots launching missiles everywhere and trying to demolish the place.
"Oh, no! We need to find everyone and save them before someone get's seriously hurt!" Sunset said as everyone got out of the van and rushed towards the entrance of the school. As we were about to be at the steps, a large robot was in front of us and it showed to be the exact one from earlier with giant hands. Fluttershy was very scared and she was shivering a little in fear.
"Hey, Doctor Nosehair!" I called mocking Eggman. "You're toast!. . . or, on toast. . . like an Egg. . . man?"
Everyone facepalmed and groaned at my bad joke as Eggman showed himself in the cockpit of the robot.
"Welcome, children." He said. "Behold, as this will be the start of the glorious Robotnik Empire. This school and it's people will tremble before me. You are already too late to save them."
"Your giant flying Egg robots are not bad Mister Eggman!" Rainbow Dash said. "But you forget that we all have magic as well, so you'll never beat us."
"Confidence." Doctor Eggman said before frowning. "A fool substitute for intelligence. You all have 15 minutes left before I detonate this school into oblivion. Don't keep me waiting on the roof."
We all gasped as we had a limited time to save everyone inside of the school and Eggman laughs evilly as he flies back up to the sky and over the school.
"Okay, we need a plan." Twilight said. "Um. . . let's see. . . Michael and Rainbow Dash has the super speed and all, Applejack is the strongest out of all of us, Rarity has projectiles, Pinkie has some explosives on her, Fluttershy's one with nature, Sunset's our leading person, and I'm the one with the brains. So, anyone got any bright ideas for 15 minutes. . . which we just lost 30 seconds, but still. . . anything?"
Sunset snapped her fingers as everyone looked at her with a curious look. "Here's the plan; Michael and Rainbow Dash can take care of all of the robots inside of the school and save everyone, Applejack can clear any debris that get's in our way, Rarity and Pinkie can take care of the robots outside, Fluttershy can get some animals to make a safe place for everyone to be at, and finally me and Twilight will try and stall Robotnik."
Everyone looked at each other before looking back at Sunset giving a determined look and nodding.
"Okay, everyone let's save our school!" Sunset said as everyone scattered to go into the positions that they were assigned to.
Rainbow Dash and I ran into the school to see a bunch of people running and trying to hide as Egg-Bots were chasing them and trying to shoot everyone with missiles. I can't believe Eggman wants to do something this extreme, I'm not going to forgive him for this.
"Uh Oh." Rainbow Dash said as a bunch of Egg-Bots fly in front of us and were getting ready to fire missiles at us and as they shot at us, they all of a sudden slowed down to a stop in front of our faces. This was due to us using our super speed to make everything seem slow.
"Really?" Rainbow and I said we both gave smug looks to each other as we know what we're about to do.
Rainbow Dash and I were running at a steady pace as everything around us was almost not moving at all. We first saw the Cutie Mark Crusaders cornered by Egg-Bots and we went over to them and we both took a selfie in front of them before we both bashed the Egg-Bots with our bare hands. After that we headed to the cafeteria and boy was it chaos in there. I first saw Flash, Zephyr, and Sandalwood about to get shot and we both instantly went over to them. I grabbed some missiles and used them like drumsticks on the Egg-Bots around those three. Rainbow Dash had a marker and drew some silly faces and both Zephyr and Sandalwood. She was about to do Flash next, but I motioned her not to. I then saw some food flying in the air, and rushed to it because I was starving too. They looked like hot dogs with a topping of chili. . . I think it was called a. . . chili dog? I ate all of them and burped before we both rushed out of the cafeteria and we saw more Egg-Bots trying to shoots some students like Lyra Heartstrings, Sweetie Drops, Micro Chips, and Bulk Biceps in the hall. I decided to play with some of the missiles and play with them like they were fireworks and Rainbow Dash redirected all of the missiles to aim at the robots instead. We then headed for the principals office and along the way I saw Trixie carrying her magic hat and decided to take a dig into it. I then pulled out an extremely long rope of cloth she had in different colors and I got an idea to tie it up on a fan and run off with it. When we got to the principal's office we saw Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna trying to hide and we both saw a ton of Egg-Bots in their room. I use the rope to tie all of the Egg-Bots up and Rainbow positioned Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna so they were sitting in their offices just going by their normal day. Finally, we went back to our original position and Rainbow Dash and I nodded as we just stood there before everything went back to normal speed.
(End Song)
It all went just like we planned as all of the Egg-Bots around exploded into tiny pieces and with the fan, the Egg-Bots that were in the principal's office were dragged out of the room and were smashed into lockers. Everyone saw the sudden turn of events and were dumbfounded by what just happened. Soon some students stared at both Rainbow Dash and I as the then summed up all of what happened.
"So. . . should we get of here?" Rainbow asked me smirking.
"Yeah. . . time to go." I said smirking back.
We both exited the school so that way we go and check to see how everyone else and it was just what I expected. Rarity and Pinkie were fighting off a ton of Egg-Bots with Pinkie throwing explosive candies at them and Rarity skewering the robots with diamond shards. Applejack made a gigantic ball of large robot parts and she threw it off to the side to clear the sidewalk. Fluttershy is also seen guiding people who we previously saved near and animal shelter that she and some woodland creatures made. That meant that Twilight and Sunset had already gone up to the roof to face Eggman.
"Rainbow, stay here with the rest of them and try to get as many civilians as you can out of here. I'm going to help Sunset and Twilight fight Eggman." I said as Rainbow nods and goes to help out the rest of her friends.
I then quickly ran up to the roof and I already saw both Sunset and Twilight in their Crystal Guardian forms facing Eggman. They noticed my presence and turned towards me.
"Michael, what are you doing? You should be helping the students in the school?" Twilight asked worriedly.
"Don't worry Twilight, I already got it done with Dash." I said shrugging my shoulders. Twilight was about to ask how before Sunset puts her hand on Twilight's shoulder and just shakes her head.
"Anyways, putting that aside, Eggman it's time that you pay for ruining our school." I said.
"The school is not just what I'm targeting you know. The entire city of Canterlot with bow down to Doctor Robotnik and I will build a glorious empire made of metal!" Eggman said cackling.
"We'll see about that!" Sunset said with a determined look.
(Play Sonic Generations - Big Arms)
The Big Arms then rushed and slammed it's fist down at the three of us which we all dodged. I then curl up and try to do a spin attack on the robot, but it grabbed me and threw me up into the air sending me flying. Twilight used her telekinesis to break my fall so that I landed back safely on the ground.
"Ha ha ha, you all won't be able to penetrate this polymer alloy." Eggman said as he then used the Big Arm to try and punch me and I held it back as best as I could. It was definitely strong as I couldn't hold on for much longer. . . until a certain Apple themed girl came in and punch the hand knocking the robot back.
"Applejack!" I said surprised with a smile.
"Don't worry sugarcube, we've got your back." She said as she cracking her knuckles and goes into her Crystal Guardian form.
"We?" I said confused until I turned around to see the other Rainbooms in their Crystal Guardian attire and I smiled that they've got their tasks done and came to help us out.
"Alright, then." I said as I turned to Eggman smirking. "Hey, Eggman. You've messed with the wrong heroes today."
My eyes then glowed blue a little and I had blue aura around me that I didn't notice.
"Ha, even if all eight of you are here, I can still beat you with this super powered mech of mine." Eggman said slightly angry.
We all stared the Big Arm down and Eggman did the same with us. I put a thumbs up and then a thumbs down to taunt Eggman as he got angry and had the Big Arm charge at us as we did the same. Once we collided, it was an all out brawl against the robot as I did a homing attack onto it, Rainbow Dash flew at high speeds around the mech punching or kicking it each time she collided with it, Fluttershy blinded Eggman with some butterfly projectiles that she had, Sunset threw a couple of fireballs at the robot, Applejack uppercutted the Big Arm underneath to send it flying into the air, Rarity pierced the Big Arm with a bunch of diamonds she projected, Twilight got a bunch of debris from the robots and threw them at the Big Arm like a swarm of bees, and Pinkie Pie made a bunch of explosions on it with some sugar bombs.
"Grr! You're tougher than you look. No matter, get a load of this!" Eggman said as he starts his counter attack onto us.
Eggman caught a spin attack I was trying to do and slammed me to the ground which hurt severely. He then proceed to harm the rest of the Rainbooms by first punching Rainbow Dash out of the sky, he flicked Fluttershy away, he then nearly crushed Applejack, but she was able to resist the strength perfectly fine, however while Applejack was defending herself the other hand then punched her in the face knocking her back yards away. He then tried to punch Rarity who put up a shield to defend herself, but Eggman ends up breaking the shield and Rarity was sent flying towards Applejack, Sunset then threw a bunch of fireballs at the Big Arm, but Eggman caught onto it soon enough and he deflected a fireball back at Sunset who falls down to get out of the way of her own large projectile. Eggman then tries to grab Twilight, but she used her telekinesis to resist the grab, but she was struggling to keep it back as she ended up getting grabbed anyway and Eggman threw her at Pinkie in which they both fall to the ground. Everyone was really hurt at this point as I had an angry look in my eyes.
"Hmph. That was more easy than I thought it would be." Eggman said with a smug look on his face. "Now. . . you all are about to die."
Eggman pressed a button on the Big Arm and the same laser cannon that he used to zap me with earlier when he chased came out and he was getting to put me and my friends out of commission for good. I was so angry at this point that I knew that I couldn't just sit here and do nothing and let my only friends be killed.
"Fire!" Eggman said as the laser was finishing charging up the laser and it shot out a large beam.
Everyone gasped and covered their eyes from about to be hit, but after a few seconds they hear a scream to see that I actually was trying to save them from it by standing in front of them. The Rainbooms went wide-eyed at my sacrifice for them, but were even more shocked that somehow, I wasn't getting hurt at all as the energy from the laser went inside of me instead.
"What?! Impossible!" Eggman said shocked.
"You hurt the city I live in, you hurt my school, and now you try to kill my friends." I said growling. "You're going to pay, big time Eggman!"
My hair then goes spiky similar to my hedgehog form and the blue aura around me got bigger surprising everyone that's around as I then curl and charge up a spin dash for a good amount of time before I was covered up in a cyan type energy. I then get into a start running position and breathe before saying one more thing.
"Gotta go. . . FAST!" I yelled as I then go straight through the Big Arm like it was nothing in a split second. That was a move I also had back in my world called Light Speed Attack. The Big Arm was then destroyed as all that was left was Eggman's hovercraft.
(End Song)
"Ha! Don't get too excited boys and girls! Those were the easy ones!" Eggman said as that surprised the Rainbooms, but I just stood glaring at Eggman.
"In just one day, I'll be ready to take all of your powers and conquer the world! Ha, ha, ha!" Eggman said cackling. He then left for me to turn around and the Rainbooms all stared at me with surprised looks. However, I felt kind of guilty that I should've been more prepared for something like this. I then ran off and left the Rainbooms which shocked them.
"Michael, wait!" Sunset called out to me, but the words fell on deaf ears as I was already gone.
"Where is he going?" Fluttershy asked.
"I don't know, but something tells me that it's not good. We should keep an eye on him, in case he's not feeling well." Twilight suggested.
"That ruffian Robotnik, just won't leave any of us alone! Can I please go one day without having to deal with something so crude?!" Rarity said angrily.
"We can complain later, right now. . . " Sunset said before turning to the school. "We should probably fix some of this place up."
The rest of the Rainbooms nodded as they all walked down from the roof. We're all very worried for what is to come from Eggman, but I'm the most worried as I was at my house looking at the rings we got with a serious look.
"I can't risk putting anymore lives in danger. Tomorrow, I'm ending this." I said as I went to my room and closed the door behind me.