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// Chapter 8: Fluttershy and Maria vs. Snively Robotnik 
// Story: Back to the Past 
// by Mister E-Nonymous 
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Chapter 8: Fluttershy and Maria vs. Snively Robotnik







(Third Person Point of View)


Fluttershy and Maria were walking down a tunnel, looking for something to stop Eggman's plan. They came into a room where a bunch of robotic animals were being upgraded with weapons. And saw some animals being turned into robots.

"What's going on?" Fluttershy asked.

"That's the Roboticizer," said Maria. "It's a machine that turns organic life into machines. It was originally created by Sir Charles Hedgehog to prevent man from aging. Immortality is hard to get."

"But why?" asked Fluttershy. "It looks like they're good and healthy."

"Well, Julien plans on making all life forms his own robotic soldiers with no will power," said Maria. "My cousin cares more about himself being the ruler of the world than the people."

"How dare he," Fluttershy said, getting angry.

Then they looked over and saw a short man wearing a suit similar to Eggman's, but it was green instead of red.

"Colin?" asked Maria.

"Who?" asked Fluttershy.

"Colin Kintobor Jr, my first cousin once removed," said Maria. "He's actually Julien's nephew, and he's been following Julien's words for years."

Then they snuck into the room and tried to sneak past the short guy. Then a screen came up with Eggman's face and said, "Snively! We need more of those Roboticized Animals to take down Sonic!"

"Yes, Doctor," said Snively. "It's going as best as it can!"

"You better hurry!" said Dr. Eggman on the screen. "Or else, you're going to be the one to be on my next Roboticized Army!"

"Y-Y-Yes sir, Doctor," said Snively. He then sent another pack of Roboticized animals to the battle field.

"Those animals are gonna die out there," said Maria. "We have to stop them."

Fluttershy nodded, and followed the animals. They then came in front of the robot animals and stopped them. They started charging up their weapons, but they stopped when they saw Fluttershy using her stare on them. They were afraid of what Fluttershy was doing.

"What did you do to them?" Maria asked.

"I'm using 'The Stare' on them," said Fluttershy. "This makes all the animals calm down and do whatever I want. I use it to make sure they don't do anything bad."

"Good," said Maria. "It's a good thing that Alex worked on a De-Roboticizer Ray. And he just finished it." She then pulled a small gun out of the Robot Animals, and all of the animals there went back to organic animals."

Fluttershy then stopped her Stare and all of the animals came up to her and Maria, and snuggled with them. Fluttershy then said, "Oh, you're welcome!"

"Now, let's get out of..." Maria started, but was interrupted.

"WHAT?!" came Snively's voice. "How did those robots go offline?!" Then Snively ran into the hall and saw Maria and Fluttershy. "Maria?!"

"Hello, Colin," said Maria. "I see you have been doing rotten things lately."

"Maria, I hate to alarm you," said Snively, "but Doctor Eggman does not like it when there are pesky people trying to interfere with his latest projects."

Maria and Fluttershy looked at each other, and smirked.






Flashback...


Alex was explaining the plan to the group.

"Step one," Alex said, "Sonic and Tails go in and causes a major distraction while the rest of us go in through a secret maze of tunnels underneath the entrance. Step two, Fluttershy and Maria take out the process of making the animals into living weapons."






Present time...


Maria and Fluttershy had Snively tied up and gagged. Then they locked him up in the closet. Then Maria walked over to the computer. She then started shutting down the Roboticizer.

"How do you know how to use this?" asked Fluttershy.

"I've lived most my human life on a Space Colony orbiting the planet, surrounded by scientists," said Maria. "I learned a lot while I was up there."

Fluttershy nodded. And then all of the progress on the machines went from red to blue.

"Okay," said Maria. "Everything's blocked, and can only be opened by this computer. Now, I gotta destroy it." Then Maria put on an explosive that looks like mashed potatoes, and there was a timer on it that counted down from 30 seconds.

The two of them came out of the room, and the little explosive blew up, making Fluttershy flinch. "Okay, so how do we get to the others?"

"Well, Alex says to meet them at the core of the base," said Maria. "I have no idea how to get to the core."

Then a little squirrel scurried up to them, and he was speaking to Fluttershy, in squirrel. "Oh," Fluttershy said in response. "Why thank you." Then she looked at Maria and said, "This squirrel is willing to help us get to the core of the base."

"Perfect," said Maria. Then the two of them started following the squirrel.

To pass the time, Fluttershy decided to get a conversation with Maria. "So, Maria, were you really in space for most of your life as a human?"

"Yeah," said Maria. "I was hoping to come back down to the ground. I was meant to be down here, but because of my condition, I wasn't able to come down. I was really lonely. That was until Shadow came to existence. He was basically my best friend on the Space Colony Ark. He wasn't meant for friendship, he was meant for the destruction of the planet because of Black Doom. But when the government was shutting us down, I had to get Shadow down to Earth. I was hoping that Shadow would give them a chance to be happy. He didn't at first, but he remembered his promise, and saved the world from it's destruction. He then lost his memory before I came around, but he got his memory back. Shadow... he's like family to me."

"Wow," said Fluttershy. "Hearing how you described him, Shadow's story sounds a lot like Nyx's story. She wasn't born like any normal pony either. She was meant to rule Equestria under an eternal night, but that ritual didn't start off right, and she ended up a filly. She might have not gotten the form of a grown mare, and tried to take Equestria immediately. In fact, when Twilight found her, she didn't have any memory of anything before but the memory of being in that thorn bush. Nyx actually loved being a filly more than being that wicked mare she was meant to be."

"But things got complicated?" Maria asked.

"Yes," said Fluttershy. "That cult that created her tried making her who she was supposed to be. But her memories as Nyx said otherwise. Nyx was merciful, and didn't kill us, or the Princesses, or even three of her best friends. But when she started raising the sun, and let go of her three friends, the cult leader got angry, and tried forcing Twilight to hurt Nyx. But later, she discovered that Twilight was under the same mind control the cult was under and she rescued her before Twilight was hung."

"Well, I heard this on TV. Family is the greatest strength of all," said Maria. "Nyx wouldn't want anything majorly bad to happen to her mother."

"Yeah," said Fluttershy. "You're right. Twilight sure did love Nyx enough to be her mother before she officially adopted her." They then saw the end of the tunnel, and ran towards it.