//------------------------------// // Big Adventure, Small Heroes Part 2 // Story: When Dimensions Unite // by Turbo the Brony //------------------------------// Talking Toys Toy Story Universe: Present Day The group were quite baffled when Woody asked if they were toys until the  doll spoke up. “Well, yeah,” Dolly stated, “I mean, it’s pretty obvious. You’re something to be played by children. Take it from me, I mean, my name is even called Dolly!” The group looked to each other, then back to the group who were surrounding them, until Woody spoke. “You all sure did a number on those intruders.” he said. “Heh, it was nothing,” Sonic said with a smirk, rubbing his nose with his finger, “besides, those intruders we helped rangle up are called Badniks.” “Badniks?” Buzz asked. “Yep, and of course, they’re the bad guys, hence their name.” Sonic smirked, “I’ve dealt with them for a long time, and they’re always good for a whoopin!” “So you’re all good guys?” Rex asked. “The main Protagonists?” Mr. Pricklepants added. “You kidding? Of course we’re heroes!” Rainbow Dash said, proudly, “Me, AJ and Rarity have been saving our home with our friends many times. There's too many to count!” “Heh, that she’s right a bit there.” Applejack said. “I knew it!” Rex cried. “We were right!” Trixie added, as Hamm chuckled in agreement. Woody had a bit of thought on this, until Buzz approached him. “What do you think, Woody?” Buzz asked. Woody had a good look on the newcomers, before looking to Buzz and replied, “Well, they did help deal with those… Badniks… so I suppose they’re alright in my books,” he then looked to Applejack as he added, “call me crazy, but I got this vibe that we can trust the orange pony there too.” “Well, my sister has been known as ‘Honest Applejack’, right sis?” Apple Bloom said proudly, earning a small blush from her older sibling. Buzz had a bit of thought on this, then let out a small sigh and a smile as he looked to Woody and said, “Alright, I suppose we can trust them.” Woody stepped forward to introduce himself, “My name’s Woody. Put ‘er there.” As the cowboy offered his hand, Sonic gladly shook it. “I’m Buzz Lightyear.” Buzz introduced himself. “Great to meet you, Spaceman.” Sonic said, giving him a finger salute before introducing himself, “My name is Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog.” He then gestured to the others, and introduced them one by one, “This is Hiccup and his girl, Astrid,” Hiccup and Astrid gave them a small wave hello. “Here is Hiccup’s dragon buddy, Toothless,” Toothless approached the Toy group, though Rex and Trixie looked amazed. “Wow, a dragon!” Rex said, “I’ve seen many dinosaur toys, but I was wondering what it would be like to meet a dragon toy!” “Over here is Batman and this is Gandalf,” Batman nodded as a greeting, while Gandlaf bowed his head as a sign of hello as well. When the ponies stepped up, Applejack approached Woody. “Howdy there, Sherif.” Applejack said, happily. “Nice to meet you… Applejack, isn’t it?” Woody said, giving her a nice handshake… or, uh, hoofshake, either way. “That’s right,” Applejack replied, as her sister joined her, “and this here’s mah sister, Apple Bloom.” “Pleasure to ya.” Apple Bloom said, cheerfully. “Same.” said Woody, tipping his hat in greeting. “I am Rarity, and this my sister, Sweetie Belle.” Rarity introduced herself and her sister. “A pleasure,” Mr. Pricklepants said, holding her hoof like a gentleman as he said, “and I am Mr. Pricklepants, M’lady.” “My, quite the gentleman.” Rarity said, pleased to meet such a toy with proud manners. Rainbow Dash flew up to Buzz, “So, you’re a Spaceman, right?” “Space Ranger, actually.” Buzz stated. “Awesome!” replied Rainbow, “I’m Rainbow Dash, and this here’s Scootaloo.” “Nice to meet you.” Scootaloo waved hello. “Call me Hamm,” Hamm introduced himself, “it’s an honor.” “And I’m Rex and this is Trixie!” Rex said as he introduced himself and Trixie. Shadow, however, just looked to the group and shrugged with a humph. Buzz eyed him for a moment, though Sonic saw this and explained, “Don’t mind Shadow, he’s usually like that.” Following the introductions, Buzz turned to Sonic, “So, I need to ask, Sonic. You said that you’ve dealt with those ‘Badniks’ before. Tell us where and why.” Sonic rubbed his nose as he explained, “Well you see, Buzz, as you said, these Badniks aren’t from around here, they came from my world, created by a mad genius named Dr. Eggman.” “Eggman?” Buzz asked. Rainbow overheard the name and snorted with laughter, “Ok, that’s a pretty silly name to call someone.” “His real name is actually Ivo Robotnik,” Sonic stated, “but after sometime, the name ‘Eggman’ eventually stuck with him.” “Whoa, wait a minute,” Rex cut in, “are you saying you’re from another world?!” “Yep,” Sonic nodded, then gestured to his team with his thumb, “same can be said for my friends here, too.” “Well, I’m just as baffled as you are,” Woody said to his friends before turning to Sonic’s group and said, “but what matters is that they got those ‘Badniks’ out of our way… for, at least, a little while.” “Woody’s right, guys,” Dolly added, “but with one problem down, the other remains on where our friends are?” Gandalf stepped forward as he then asked, “Excuse me, Woody, was it? But have those ‘Badniks’ been some problem around here?” “No,” Woody replied, “they just showed up a little while ago.” “In fact,” Buzz said, beginning to piece something together, “those Badniks appeared… right after all our friends up and vanished.” Astrid began to see what Buzz meant, then looked to Sonic, “Sonic, you don’t think…” “I know, Astrid,” Sonic replied, “and it sure can’’t be a coincidence.” Woody had a good look around Bonnie’s room ass he stated, “It wasn’t always this lonely. One day we woke up, and we were the only toys left here. Nobody’s heard from Bonnie, her parents or anyone…” Woody then sat down on a toy block, and lifted up his boot, showing Bonnie’s name on it, as he added, “We’ve been waiting for her to come home.” “You must have cared about her, didn’t you?” Apple Bloom asked. “Yeah,” Woody nodded in reply, “of course, she wasn’t the first kid we cared much about, too.” He then got up and came up to his friends, as they looked at Sonic's group with smiles as Woody added, “A child is the best friend a toy could ever have.” The others looked to Woody, Buzz and their friends, feeling supportive and understanding of close friendship is, especially with Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack and the Crusaders, until suddenly Sonic spoke up, “Alright then, let’s get to searching!” Both parties were surprised to hear this until Sonic explained, “Woody, we understand how much a strong bonding friendship is to you, Buzz and the others, we all have strong bonds to all our friends.” “Just like me with Toothless.” Hiccup said, gesturing to his dragon. “And us!” Scootaloo added, coming together with her friends. “Right now, some of our friends have up and vanished too,” said Applejack, “so perhaps, we might help ya out on what’s going on and hopefully find a clue ta find your friends.” “Splendid idea, Applejack,” Rarity said, “it would be like another mystery case, much like Shadow Spade.” “Come again?” Applejack raised an eyebrow. “Yeah, long story…” Rainbow Dash explained. Sonic turned to Woody as he asked, “Do you guys happen to have any clues we can go on? Any strange things that happened?” Woody poundered on that for a minute, until he said, “There is one thing…” “One big thing.” Hamm added. “A huge thing.” Mr. Pricklepants also added. “What thing?” Rex a little bit bluntly asked. Buzz stepped forward as he explained, “After everyone went MIA, the intruders didn’t come alone. They arrived with several other fellows, some looking like turtles, and a bunch of clowns…” “As a matter of fact, they were the only other toys we’ve seen, outside your lot.” Buzz added. Batman began to suspect who the ‘clowns’ Buzz mentioned could be, but to avoid the same mistake from back at Oz, he decided to pace the situation. “I may have a possible idea of who these ‘clowns’ are.” Batman spoke up. “You know who they are?” Woody asked. “Yes, and they’re bad news, but we’re gonna need to be sure they are who I think they are first.” Batman stated. “A little uncertain about the turtles, though,” Sonic pointed out, “but we’ll see.” “Seems like you have a lot of enemies.” said Buzz. “Yeah,” Sonic nodded, “and with your friends disappeared and these Badniks around, like Batman said, we may have a hunch on what’s going on. You mind if we handle this?” “I’m sorry,” Woody spoke up, “but we’re not gonna leave this to you.” Sonic’s group were about to speak until Woody added, “If whoever it is is also responsible for our friends having vanished, then they’re our problem too. We’ve got to work together.” Sonic and the others smiled as the blue blur and Woody shook hands as the former said, “Right with ya, cowboy!” “So, where do we start?” Rainbow Dash asked, “And where do we find our culprits?” “We have one clue that we can start on.” Buzz stated, “the mysterious intruders mentioned about some sort of anomaly at the newly opened toy store, ‘Galaxy Toys’.” “Alright, then Galaxy Toys is where we’re going!” Sonic said with determination. “It’s out the window, down the roof and down the road.” Woody expalined. “What about Bonnie?” Trixie asked. “Trixie has a point,” Buzz pointed out, “I know that we should try going to the store to get to the bottom of this, but should we continue to stay and wait for Bonnie?” Woody had a sad thought about that, “Well… you and Trixie have got a point, but we’ve tried waiting. So, maybe if we go with them, like they said, we might find a clue.” Woody then looked determined as he asked, “So, are you with me Buzz?” Buzz thought about it for a second, then grinned as he replied, “Always will, partner.” “Oh mah gosh!” Apple Bloom said, “I can’t believe we’re going to a toy store! I’m so excited!” “Settle down, sis,” said Applejack, “we’re on a mission to find our friends, not play.” “Aww, pony feathers…” Apple Bloom grumbled a little. “Ok then,” Hiccup said, “Galaxy Toys, here we come!” “Race ya to the top!” Rainbow said as she got her wings prepped to fly. “Whoa there, Rainbow Dash!” Buzz said, “You may have wings, but you’re still a toy. You can’t actually fly. Trust me, I know!” “Oh yeah, spaceman?” Rainbow smirked, and instatnly took off, much to the surprise of Woody, Buzz and the other toys. Rainbow instantly landed on the window ledge, and Hiccup and Astrid got on Toothless, who also took off to the window ledge, surprising the toys even further. “Whoa… guess there are toys that… could fly?” Woody said, as he and Buzz looked to each other. “Maybe that’s part of the strange things happening like with your laser, Buzz.” Rex suggested. “Perhaps,” said Buzz, “but we’ll see. Now, though, we better move.” Soon, both groups headed on up to the window ledge to head to the toy store. Toys, Toys Everywhere Toy Story Universe, Galaxy Toys toy store: Present Day After a bit of a long journey, the group finally arrived at Galaxy Toys. Once inside, the group had a good look around the store, seeing there were billions of toys on every shelf as far as the eye can see. All around, there were space toys, girl toys, action toys, plush toys, dinosaur toys, video games, toy trains, toy cars, toy planes, western toys, viking toys and many other toys you could imagine. The Crusaders, on the other hand, were feeling quite giddy, as they enjoyed every minute looking around the toy store, sure they had a mission, but it would be nice to stop and look, perhaps even play, with the toys around the shop. “Haven’t seen a toy store like this since Al’s Toy Barn.” Buzz said, remembering about when he and the others journeyed to Al’s Toy Barn in an attempt to save Woody from Al a long while back. “You’re right, Buzz,” Woody nodded, “This place makes Al’s look like a charity shop.” Sonic had a good look around as he thought to himself, ‘Haven’t been to a place with so many toys since Toy Kingdom.’ “Look at this place!” Rex said, “It’s huge!!” “Bet kids are gonna need bigger piggy banks for this place!” Hamm chuckled. The group looked from left to right as they soon reached the center of the toy store, where the check out point was at, where people would come to buy the toys for their kids. “Hold up, everyone,” Batman caught everyone’s attention as he soon said, “the scanner is picking up something.” Most of the group gathered around Batman as they looked at the scanner, as it was beeping like crazy, until Rainbow asked, “Are you getting this, Twilight?” “We are, Rainbow Dash,” Twilight replied via commlink, “whatever the scanner picked up, the readings are big, and it seems like it’s coming from upstairs.” Hiccup looked up to the top floor of the toy store then thought aloud, “It could be another Keystone here!” “What’s a Keystone?” Buzz asked. “A Keystone is one of the pieces of a dimensional gateway device that we’re looking for, along with our missing friends, we find a keystone, we help fix up the gateway.” Sonic explained. “Dimensional gateway?” Buzz muttered aloud, then thought about what the others said earlier. “If there is another Keystone here, then we must hurry and seek it out.” Gandalf suggested. As they were talking, the Crusaders were looking to one of the mech toys that was standing motionlessly. “Hey, Woody?” Scootaloo spoke up, getting the cowboy’s attention, “How come this toy isn’t moving like you guys?” Woody had a good look at the mech, then suggested, “I guess it hasn’t figured it out yet? “Figure what out?” Sweetie Belle asked. “We can make it move for you, kids.” Koopaling Trouble! A voice caught everyone off guard, though Sonic and Shadow seemed to recognize, as stepping out from the top of the checkout point, was a young male koopa, who was about the age of Bowser Jr., but had a blue spiked shell, blue stylish hair and a lone-fanged tooth. “Ludwig von Koopa!” Sonic exclaimed. “You know this… koopa?” Woody asked. “Sure do,” Sonic replied, “Buzz got the turtle part right a little bit. This guy is part of a turtle-like race known as Koopas, and this creep is one of the bad ones!” “Quite right, Sonic,” Ludwig said wickedly, “and it’s so nice to see you again.” “Been a while since our Smash Battles with the other Koopalings and Bowser Jr.” Sonic said. “Indeed, my blue pincushion,” Ludwig smiled, before smirking as he stared at Shadow, “Nice seeing you too, Shadow, still being in the sidelines instead of the actual fight like always?” Shadow growled with annoyance at that. “Leave Shadow alone on that,” Sonic defended the Ultimate Lifeform, “What are you doing here?” “If you must know, my dear blue pincushion,” Ludwig smirked, “me and a few friends of mine are scavenging around the multiverse seeking out the Chaos Emeralds that were scattered, and I believed that one of them could have been here. But alias, there wasn’t one, but we did find this!” Ludwig then got something out, revealing it to be a gem in the shape of a balloon. “Hey, that’s one of the Elements of Harmony!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “Not to mention it’s Pinkie Pie’s element,” Applejack added, “the Element of Laughter!” “An Element of Harmony?” Astrid asked. “It’s sort of like Sonic’s Chaos Emeralds,” Rainbow Dash explained, “six of them representing harmony in our home of Equestria: Kindness, Laughter, Honesty, Generosity, Loyalty and Magic.” “We each represent the six elements, and together use the power of harmony to protect Equestria.” Rarity added. “All the reason this… koopa… can’t misuse that power.” Gandalf stated. “You heard the wizard,” Sonic said, “let’s take him down!” “Like to see you try,” Ludwig smirked before calling out, “Iggy! Lemmy! Time to play!” Double Trouble Koopa Kids! Upon that call, two more koopalings appear alongside Ludwig, one was a small koopaling with an orange shell and mohawk of different colors, being yellow, light red and light blue, and the other had a yellow-green shell, with matching colour hair taking the shape of an up straight palm tree. “Oh boy, is that one of Mario’s buddies?” Lemmy asked with a mischievous grin. Iggy had a good look at Sonic and grinned, “I think his name was Sanic.” “Hey, it’s pronounced ‘Sonic’, you little troublemakers!” Sonic fumed. “Whatever,” Iggy said as he rolled his eyes, then he spotted the mech that the Crusaders were looking at, then had an idea, “Hey, Lemmy! Let’s see if these robots could be good for squashing bugs!” Lemmy saw what he meant and giggled, “Alright! Dibs on the orange one!” The two koopalings rushed and jumped to the mech toys, as Lemmy hopped into the cockpit of the orange one, while Iggy charged into the cockpit of the yellow one. Activating the mechs, the koopalings began to move them towards the group. “Oh no! They can move!” Woody said, as he saw the mechs moving towards them. “Not exactly, Woody,” Sonic said, as he looked to Woody and Buzz, “those Koopalings were the real puppet masters behind those mechs moving around!” “Still, they look pretty cool!” Hamm pointed out. The koopa-controlled mechs approached the group as Iggy said, while looking at Sonic and Shadow, “It’s time to make some hedgehog hamburgers!” Iggy and Lemmy charged their mechs after the group, just as the former realized what was going on as the mechs tried to attack with their fists, causing the group to scatter. “Hope you don’t mind if I bring a few more friends to play with you.” Ludwig smiled, before shouting out, “Eggrobos! Hammer Bros! Attack!” At that, the Eggrobos and Hammer Bros. soon arrived to attack the heroes, resulting in Rex, Hamm, and most of the other toys to scatter, while Batman, Gandalf, Rainbow, Hiccup, Astrid, Sonic, Shadow and Applejack had to fight back, while the others had to help protect those who couldn’t fight. “So these guys weren’t switched to attack mode by accident?” Buzz asked about the mechs, using his blaster to take down the Eggrobos. “‘Fraid not, Buzz!” Applejack said, as she bucked one of the Hammer Bros. Lemmy caught eye on Hamm as he cried out, “Hey, piggy! Say hello to my little friend!” Pressing a button, Lemmy’s mech fired actual blasts, causing Hamm to try and get away, but was luckily saved by Gandalf with a magic shield. “Quite amazing how these anomalies could do so much.” Ludwig said, as he looked at what was going on, “how these shifts in reality would not only make rifts, but even cause the barriers to bend and warp in many possibilities, like along war toys like these mechs to be actual lethal weapons and making copies of already existing worlds being one of them.” “Did he just say copies of existing worlds?” Woody asked, as he looked at Sonic. “I think he did,” Sonic replied, as he was slowly putting 2 and 2 together. “But what does that mean?” Buzz asked. Donnie did the exact same thing, and beat Sonic as he said, “I think what that Koopaling is saying is that somehow… this world may have got split into two due to the dimensional anomalies!” Sonic got what Donnie was saying, as he looked to both Woody and Buzz as he said, “Which means your friends must be in one world, and us in this one! Both alike but different!” “Though it could be possible one is the real one and the other one might be fake.” Donnie added. “Splitting worlds, that sounds a bit crazy!” Buzz stated, “Sorry if I doubt this, but after going through what I’ve been through, this almost sounds like something from a story or even a video game!” “But say that we did cross into an alternate reality,” Woody pointed out, “that would explain why your laser is working!” Buzz looked back to his laser, and poundered aloud, “Perhaps so…” The conversation was cut as they heard Rex and Trixie scream in panic as Iggy was trying to attack them. Luckily, Shadow used his Chaos Sphere to strike the mech’s arm before it could reach the two dino toys. “Hey, no fair!” Iggy complained, before trying to attack Shadow, who was able to avoid getting hit with his teleportation. “We have to focus on stopping those Koopa kids from getting in our way if we have to get that Element of Harmony jewel they got!” Astrid stated, taking down another of the Eggrobos. Sonic had a quick look, then spotted something which gave him an idea. “Well if the Koopalings know how to do it, there’s no reason you or any of us can’t!” Sonic looked to Astrid. “Do what?” she asked. Sonic pointed to something behind her, causing her to turn around, and there she saw what Sonic meant, as standing on a stand, was another mech, this time a blue one. Now getting what he said, a smirky smile grew on Astrid’s face as she looked back to Sonic, “Right! Got it!” Rock'em, Sock'em Mech Fight! Astrid then turned to Rainbow Dash, “Rainbow, can you help me get a boost?” Rainbow wondered what she meant, until she saw her pointing to the mech and understood, looking back at the viking girl and nodded, “On it!” Rainbow grabbed hold of Astrid by the arms, as she flew up to the mech’s controls, allowing Astrid to land in the cockpit and take control. Once Astrid got her mech online, she jumped off the stand charged at the Koopalings’ mechs head-on, punching Lemmy’s mech with her robotic fist, almost making him lose balance, and then rammed into Iggy’s mech, knocking it over. “Hey, no fair!” shouted Lemmy. “No matter,” growled Iggy, “there’s two of us and only one of her!” Astrid just smirked as he got into a fighting position, “I like those odds.” Astrid soon charged into the Koopalings once more, starting to get the hang of the robot controls pretty fast, from mastering the control sticks to using the blaster gun arm. “Let’s hope Astrid can hold those jokers off.” Sonic said, as he looked to Hiccup. “Don’t worry, Sonic,” Hiccup smiled, “this is Astrid. She can handle anything.” Soon Sonic and the others headed towards Ludwig, as Gandalf stated, “the fiends are on the run! We can now face that troublesome child!” “Oh, I beg to differ.” Ludwig smirked, “Lucky I saved this for myself!” The brainy Koopa kid soon got out a remote with a red button and pressed it. As that happened, several pillars appeared and formed a large ring as they descended. The group saw this and most of them got away, however, Sonic, Rarity, Hiccup, Gandalf, Woody and Buzz were trapped inside the ring, as that happened, the pillars activated, releasing several electrical beams of energy as they connected with one another. “What trickery is this?” Gandalf demanded. “Hold up,” Applejack said, getting ready to buck the pillars “we’ll get you out!” “Wait!” Sonic cried, halting Applejack, “The fences could be electrical.” A beeping sound soon caught the trapped six’s attention, which Sonic realized they were in trouble, “Watch out!” The group moved out of the way, just as a boxing grove shot to the ground where the group was. Looking where the glove came from, it reeled back it’s source, a green, vaguely humanoid robot with a trashcan-like head and black boxing gloves, and two capital Es engraved on both sides of it’s head. “Time for you to deal with my toy, fools!” Ludwig chuckled. “Not you again!” Sonic looked to the robot “Who is that robotic menace, Sonic?” Woody asked. “That’s ZERO,” Sonic explained, “he’s a stupid pain that once tried to capture Amy and a little bird friend of hers longway back, due to the bird had secretly had carried around a Chaos Emerald. Luckily, Amy took it down, though it looks like it’s back for Round 2.” “But how do we beat him?” Rarity asked. “Amy told me the way to defeat it was getting it close to the electric fences, then hit the big, blue core inside it when it’s head opens up!” Sonic pointed out. Gandalf readied his staff, “Then we shall vanquish this metal monstrosity for us to pass!” “That would be good,” Ludwig said innocently, before grinning wickedly, “hope you don’t mind we make it a tag team fight!” Before anyone could ask, another ZERO popped up from behind, looking ready to fight as it’s double. “That can’t be good…” Hiccup readied his flame sword. “Don’t worry,” Sonic said, “three of us take on one, and three to take care of the other.” “Good thinking, Sonic.” Woody said, before looking to Buzz with a smirk, “Ready to blink these guys to death?” Buzz got what he meant and smirked back, “Said it once before, I can say it again. Setting this from stun to kill!” “Alright,” Sonic chuckled, as the two ZEROs approached the six, ready to fight, “Let’s rumble!”