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//  CHAPTER III: CHAOTIC HEARTS  
// Story: Ponyville's Crossroad Crisis. 
// by skytail 
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PART I
Sonic looked over the destruction of the pony town, fury burned inside of him at the sight of the familiar Attackers. “Egg pawns.” He muttered out loud. Tails, who was standing next to him, put his hand on Sonic’s Shoulder; Rainbow Dash did likewise with her hoof. “c’mon Tails.” He said, putting on a face of determination. “Let’s go kick some Robot butt.”
Sonic, Tails, and Rainbow Dash accelerated towered the town. “How do we beat these guys?” Dash asked when they made it in to the town. Round Black and red Robots were all over the place, breaking into stores and houses and abducting any pony they could catch.
Sonic stared at the Chaos in pure rage. He shook his head clear of the anger. “Like this!” he shouted over his shoulder to Dash as he rushed at one robot. Sonic tuned in to a ball and smashed right in to the Robot. The Robot fell over damaged badly, then, just as Sonic suspected, it disappeared with a WORP Noise.
When Sonic returned to his two waiting friends he saw that Rainbow’s mouth hung open in shock. “What…what did you just do?” she stuttered out.
Sonic smirked. “One good hit to one of Eggman’s Robots send them back to where they came from.” Sonic told the Blue Pegasus. Dash looked confused at the blue hedgehog’s explanation.
“Whenever one of Eggman’s Egg-bots is damaged badly, they are teleported back to Eggman’s base, were they are welted down and reused to make more Egg-bots.” Tails re-explained in better detail. Rainbow looked a lot less confused now.
“So one good quick thrashing sends those things packing?” Rainbow asked as she leaped into the air, ready to attack the Robots. “This is going to be fun.” She said, rubbing her front hoofs together.
“Let’s trash these—.” Sonic began but stopped as he saw a small could of black mist formed were he destroyed that Egg-pawn a moment ago. A new Egg-pawn appeared and went on to help in the destruction of the town.
“Sonic, what just happened?” Dash asked.
“I—I don’t know. I have never seen them do that before.” Sonic answered still staring on after the robot, until it turn a corner and disappeared from view. Sonic, Tails and Dash leaped in to action, bashing any robot they saw.
“We are gonna need some help, Sonic” Tails called over to Sonic. “This just isn’t working.” Sonic knew Tails was Right, if they did not get help soon they would eventually run out of steam and get over taken.
Sonic took out the Chaos Emerald he had and clenched it tight in his hand. He leaned down and whispered to it. “Please, someone, anyone, help us.”
A small air-craft floated high in the sky, overlooking Equestria. The equine Eggman and the Draconequus, Discord, were seated in the cockpit, looking over the handy work of their attack on the land. “Eggman, I fail to see how sitting up here is going to get us any closer to capturing the kingdom.” Discord stated, getting fidgety. “I am missing perfectly good Chaos out there and I am not the cause of it.” Discord frowned deeply.
“I never said you couldn’t.” Eggman said flatly, not really paying any attention to his partner.
Discord smiled, beginning to hatch his first ideas of Chaos. “I think I will take some Heartless and see what kind of “Fun” they can create.” He lifted his taloned arm and a black aura resonated from it. Suddenly Heartless appeared from a black wisp.
“Just don’t get into any trouble.” Eggman warned, frowning at Discord. “I don’t want to delay any plans because you messed up.”
Discord was unmoved by Eggman’s harshness. “Me? The God of Chaos itself?” He asked sarcastically. “How could I possibly get into any trouble?” Discord popped a Pie into existence from nowhere. He squeezed the Pie and it turned into juice that he poured in to a cup he conjured up.
“Just go and do whatever it is you do. I must monitor the forces in the major cities.” Eggman told Discord, looking intensely at the small monitor. “I need to know if any dramatic changes occur.” Discord Drank the Pie juice and then proceeded to swallow the glass that he tuned into cheese.
“What kind of changes?” Discord asked.
“I can’t take the risk of the Heartless Egg-pawns raising up and tuning on me.” Eggman explained. “Or have the ponies rise up and take out a large number of my, Ahem, our forces.” Eggman corrected himself. “Right now it looks like the only dramatic change is in Ponyville.” He told Discord. “I’ve found you now hedgehog.” Eggman muttered to himself then laughed.
“Eggman, how could you know that, that hedgehog is there?” Discord challenged.
“Trust me, he’s there alright.” Eggman simply said. Discord shrugged. “Perhaps there is something you can do for me while you’re out.” Eggman stopped Discord before he left.
“And what is that?” Discord asked.
“Could you distract Sonic for me?” Eggman, more ordered, then asked.
Discord flashed out leaving only his floating head. “I’ll see what I can do.” He said. And with that Discord’s disembodied head flashed away in a white light.


Part II
Sora sat in the driver’s chair of his Gummi Ship. The Gummi ship was just lazily floating through space, with Sora just waiting for something, anything to happen. Now that his mark of mastery exam has ended and his best friend, Riku has been named a Keyblade master, Sora has decided that he will go out and see all the many different wonders of all the many different worlds. But right now nothing exciting was happening: he just sat there, waiting for the onboard computer to alert him of an adventure. “There has to be some world out there that has a new adventure waiting for me.” He wined, sliding to the floor of the ship, convinced that he has died of boredom.
Sora was just about to give up on waiting for an adventure when he heard the beep, beep, beep. of the world alert radar. “OH BOY!” he exclaimed jumping up off the floor. “What is it, Nobodies, Heartless, Maleficent, master Xehanort?” he asked the computer. The computer did not respond back, instead, Sora pushed the button that stops the alarm and shows him what’s wrong with what world. “What’s this, Unknown world conversion link?” Sora has never come across a problem like that before in the past. “What does that mean?” he read on. “Heartless too, Alright!” he jumped in the air excitedly.
Back at the wheel, Sora punched in the coordinates, and locked on to the world. He put the Gummi ship in orbit with the world and walked over to the Transporter to teleport down to the world. He pushed a button to activate the transporter saying “Beam me down scotty” as he did so. There was a bright flash, a moment of weightlessness, and then Sora felt solid ground under his feet once again. When his vision cleared he was almost knocked back. He was in the middle of what could be considered to be a war.
Strange round metal creatures ran around, breaking the buildings and caring off, “Ponies?” Sora asked when he noticed. He looked down at himself and noticed that he was also a pony. His coat was dark gray, almost black, and his hair had turned a slightly darker brown then normal which matched his tail. “Is this what I think it is?” he asked out loud. He looked to his flank. Right there was a picture of his Keyblade, with a crown behind it, adorned on his flank. “I’m back in Equestria!” he straightened back up when he re-noticed the pony town was still under attack by those metal clad…things.
As Sora looked on, he saw the familiar Heartless symbol on the chest of the creatures. “These things are heartle—HEY!” one of the Heartless monsters had taken hold of Sora.
Sora screamed at what happened next. The Heartless spoke to him. “YOU SHALL COME WITH ME. YOU WILL BE ROBOTISIZED AND PLACE IN THE ARMY FOR THE EGGMAN EMPIRE.” It said in a very monotone and robot like voice.
“The Hell I am! And how are you even talking? I thought only very strong Heartless could speak.” Sora asked in pure fright. Before he even got an answer he summoned his Keyblade, which he held firm in his teeth, and gave it a very strong and powerful swing at his captor. The Heartless thing disappeared with a POOF and Sora ran off to find the friends he knew could help, he had to find Twilight Sparkle.


Part III
Twilight was very sad that she had to say goodbye to her friends, Sonic, Tails, the Doctor, Amy, and Rory, possible forever but they were probably gone by now and she had to be strong like Sonic said. She, very slowly, walked back to her library tree home, wanting to send a letter to her Mentor and teacher, Princess Celestia. She was about half a block away from her house, when, “AAAHHH!” the screams of many ponies was heard throughout the whole town. “There are more of them?” she heard a pony yell.
She turned her head, and all along the streets she saw that there were monsters that looked like the one that attacked in the middle of the race from that very afternoon, only much smaller, red and had only two arms instead of four.
Rainbow, who was flying overhead getting a better view of this attack, swooped down next to the fleeing Twilight. “What are these things?” she asked Twilight. “They look sort of like the big guy we destroyed earlier today.”
Twilight ran into her library, followed by Dash. She then used her magic to put a magical shield around the tree. She turned back to Dash in a panic. “These things came from Sonic’s world.” She told the Pegasus. Twilight raced around the room, looking for a quill and some paper.
“But I thought Tails said that once they left, the Chaos Emerald would pull anything that it dropped in our world would be sent back.” Rainbow said to Twilight, watching her friend look for a quill.
Twilight found a quill and rushed to her desk, which held a jar of ink. “I think these things were sent here. I need to warn the Princess.” she explained as she began to write out her letter, repeating the words she wrote out loud.
“Dear Princess Celestia,” she began. “I am writing to you about an attack here in Ponyville.” She dipped the quill in the ink again and then continued on. “I am Don not know if this attack is happening anywhere else in Equestria, but I feel that I must warn you, that they may invade Cantorlot. I will update you on the events that will transpire here in a later time.” She scribbled this all down franticly, ending with, “Your faithful student Twilight Sparkle.”
There was no time to try and find Spike, so Twilight just used her Teleportation magic to send it instead. She turned to face Dash. “Dash, go and see if Sonic is still here. We may have a better chance to save Ponyville with him.” Twilight ordered her friend.
“I’m on it!” she responded, giving a salute with her hoof before speeding off out of the library and out of the force field.
Twilight had to find the rest of her friends, to make sure they were all okay. She raced out of the library and towered Rarity’s boutique, keeping the force field up so that those monsters don’t try to ruin the library. She had to be extra sneaky so she would not get caught by those monsters, but eventually she made it to Rarity’s boutique. Surprisingly it was relatively unguarded; say for a few round red and green flying monsters lingering around. Twilight didn’t know how she was going to get in there, find Rarity, get her to Come out of hiding, and then get to the others without being spotted. Then she had an idea. “I could just teleport in there.” She thought.
Twilight closed her eyes, focused magic into her horn, and then began to conjure up the short range teleportation spell. A purple orb of light engulfed her and with a POOF She was inside the boutique. “Oh Twilight, darling it’s only you.” The voice of Rarity called out from somewere. Twilight turned around and saw her white unicorn friend crouching behind a fort of fabric, boxes, and mannequins. “For a moment I thought that those horrid, and might I add unbelievably tacky Monsters, had broken into my boutique.” Rarity sighed then walked out from her fort.
“How come the monsters aren’t attacking this place?” Twilight asked Rarity.
Rarity smiled, flipped her hair and 1ooked proud of her self. “It was something really simple really.” She bragged. “I just used an undesirable spell on the boutique. It seem to have worked since those monsters have yet to take any real notice of it.” Twilight had to admit it that was clever thinking. “Now why are you here, Twilight?” Rarity asked as she checked the structure of her fort.
“We need to get all the girls together.” She said quickly. “Please help me, Rarity. I need you.” Twilight was almost trying to pull Rarity with her.
“I suppose, if you have a plan.” Rarity said.
“Okay, I am going to teleport us out of here.” Twilight warned Rarity, in advanced. She repeated the process she used to get in to the boutique, but this time taking in account for Rarity. There was a flash of light and the next thing Twilight knew she was outside the boutique, Rarity standing beside her.
“Oh my word,” Rarity said as she staggered around. “I’m still not used to your teleportation spell.”
“Sorry about that Rarity.” Twilight apologized. “Ponies who aren’t used to teleportation can get a bit woozy.”
Rarity nodded her head, no longer dizzy. “It’s quite alright.” She reassured Twilight. “Lead on.”
Twilight and Rarity ran to go find Pinkie Pie. They were only a block away from Sugar Cube Corner, when Twilight saw what looked like the epicenter of the invasion. There were monster crawling all over and around Sugar Cube Corner. Twilight was worried that Pinkie had been captured by those things, but she had to at least try and hope that Pinkie was alright. “Oh, I hope Pinkie is alright.” Twilight said.
BOOM an explosion nocked back a whole bunch of the monsters blocking the way to the entrance of bakery. In the gap that was made stood Pinkie Pie with a blue cannon, which she had used to blow away the monsters. Twilight was not sure how Pinkie had managed to knock over a large amount of the monster using only her Party cannon, but yet, Pinkie Pie is Pinkie Pie, and that’s all the explaining that is needed. “Pinkie, come with us!” Twilight shouted over to her pink friend, who was somehow shooting round after round from her Party cannon without reloading it. “We need you’re…” Twilight’s voice trailed away at what was running towered her, bushing the monsters on the way. Twilight was then forced from her hiding spot when several of the monsters spotted her and Rarity giving chase to them. Twilight and Rarity ran towered Pinkie who was still blowing up as many monsters as possible but the three ponies were surrounded. “This is the end.” Twilight thought to herself, closing her eyes so she couldn’t see the attack coming. She waited for a good several second then she opened her eyes again. The monsters had vanished replaced by a young colt panting, but still scanning the area in a defensive stance, in case the monsters showed up. The new pony turned his head and Twilight got a glimpse of the weapon. She had seen that weapon only once before. She took a glance at the colt cutie mark, a picture of the same weapon, with a crown behind it. Twilight opened her mouth to speak. “Sora?”


Part IV
Sonic was tired. It did not matter how many Egg-bots her smashed they just kept coming back. Sonic only had one option left. “Retreat!” he Shouted over to Tails and Dash. They two looked worn out beyond belief.
Rainbow looked shocked. “Retreat, and leave Ponyville in danger?” dash yelled back over to Sonic.
“We are not leaving the town; we just need to regroup is all.” Sonic explained. Tails and Dash both grunted in understanding. They broke away from the Bots they were wrestling with and followed Sonic away from the fight.
After the three were sure they were safe, Tails piped up. “What do we do now, Sonic?” He asked, weary.
Sonic thought for a moment, then an Idea formed in his head. “Let go find Twilight.” He concluded. The other two look satisfied with that plan and the group made their way carefully to Twilight’s house. A Barrier was protecting the whole tree.
Tails went up to it and tapped in with his finger. It was solid and glass like. “What is this?” he asked Dash.
“It’s Twilight’s force field.” She answered.
Sonic frowned. “How do we get past it?” Sonic asked.
Rainbow Dash shrugged. “I think Twilight has to take it down for us to pass through.” She guessed.
“Then let’s go find her.” Sonic said running off in a random direction.
He was stopped by Rainbow calling after him. “Do you even know were she is?” she asked him. Sonic hadn’t thought of that. He just shrugged and went back over to his friends.
“Where do you think they are?” Sonic asked.
Rainbow put her hoof to her chin and looked at the ground in thought. “Well, I think she said she was going to go find the Elements of Harmony.”
Sonic and Tails groaned simultaneously. Sonic knew what to expect now after doing a similar thing time and time again. “We have to go on another hunt for mystic charms?” Sonic wined.
Rainbow was taken aback in surprise. “Hunt, what are you talking about?” She asked in deep confusion.”
“Mystic charms, that have a lot of power, which could help us save the day, Sonic and I do that all the time with the Chaos Emeralds.” Tails explained.
Rainbow shook her head and waved her hooves. “Wait. Wait. Wait. The Elements Harmony Aren’t Things.” Rainbow explained quickly.
“Oh then what are they” Tails asked.
“The Elements of Harmony are: Kindness, Generosity, Laughter, Honesty, Loyalty, and Magic,” Dash said, counting each one off on imaginary fingers. “And they resided in Ponies who genially represent them.”
“Well who are they then?” Sonic asked, starting to get panicked. He then realized something, he looked around. “And what happened to all the Egg-bots?” he asked not seeing any. Tails and Rainbow looked around, just now noticing that there were no Egg-bots around.
Dash seemed to fix her gaze on something. “I see one.” She exclaimed. “Over there.” She pointed her hoof. Sonic and Tails looked to where she was pointing. Sure enough there was stubby Egg-pawn waddling quickly away. “Let’s get it.” Rainbow said.
Tails put his hands up to stop her. “Wait. Let’s fallow it; maybe it can lead us to Twilight.” He explained.
“That’s a bit of a farfetched assumption there buddy.” Sonic said, cracking a small smile. “But I trust you always know what you doing.”
Tails smiled, embarrassed and rubbed the back of his head with his hand. “Thanks Sonic.”
The three fallowed the Egg-bot, making sure not to get to close but not too far to lose sight of it either. Sonic again noticed that all the Egg-bots seemed to have just disappeared. “It’s taking us to Sugar Cube Corner.” Dash whispered. Dash was Right, Sonic Realized. This rout was going to take them right to the Pastry shop.
“Why would it take…us…there?” Sonic trailed off his sentence as he saw a large mass of Egg-bots congregating around the Store. Sonic noticed that they were surrounding Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, And a Forth Pony Sonic did not recognized.
Sonic looked back to the two friends behind him, but only saw Tails. Rainbow Dash was missing. He looked back over to the mass of Egg-bots in time to see a blur of blue Rush at the Egg-bots. It was Rainbow Dash. Sonic instinctively leapt to his feet and rushed out to help Dash, Tails fallowed suit. “Are you Okay, guys?” Sonic called over to the four Ponies that were surrounded. “Get out of here, we can distract them.” Sonic commanded. He jumped in to the air, curled into a ball and bounced off several Egg-bots. They fell over and disappeared only to reappear a moment later. “Not this again.” Sonic grumbled to himself. Sonic placed his palm to his face, thinking that this was never going to end.
Bang, clang, crunch, Poof Sonic looked up to see the source of the noise. The Brown Pony Sonic did not recognize had joined him and had bashed the Egg-bot with…a Key? Sonic now recognized the pony. “Hey there, Sonic. Need some help?” the Pony asked.
Sonic did not answer, he was too shocked. After seeing this pony, he suddenly was able to put two and two together. “S-Sora?” Sonic stuttered out. Sonic looked down in defeat. “It’s all over” Sonic thought to himself “The whole world is doomed.”


Part V
Sora ran around Heartless after Heartless, bashing his Keyblade into them to get rid of them, but they just kept coming at him. “I just have to make it to Sugar Cube Corner.” He thought. “But how am I going to do that when they won’t let off my back.” Then Sora got an idea, he jumped high up into the air and glided over all the Heartless attacking.
That escape plan was short lived when one of the Heartless lifted its arm and pointed it at Sora. A ball of electricity shot out of its wrist and headed straight for Sora. It hit Sora square in the chest. This Knocked Sora out of the air and he fell to the ground with Thud “Ouch, since when did Heartless start using weapons?” Sora asked out loud to no…pony in particular. Sora did not have time to try to figure that out. He scrambled to his feet…hooves, and ran as fast as he could in the direction he remembered Sugar Cube Corner was supposed to be.
He was not sure if the Heartless were following him but he dare not look back, he just stared straight ahead, bashing Heartless out of the way every now and then, he just had to find Twilight. He saw the familiar building, where he first met the lavender Unicorn, in the distance. He also saw a very large group of Heartless surrounding the building and more coming to join.
Thinking fast, Sora Jumped up on to a balcony but stumbled a bit not quite used to his hooves and how they work. When he regained his balance Sora Peered over to the group, no, crowd of Heartless. In the middle of the crowd were three ponies, a pink pony, a white pony, and a purple pony. Sora recognized Twilight and Pinkie Pie, but had never seen the third pony before. From where Sora was, he could see that the Heartless were trying to force them in one spot. “NO! Twilight!” he yelled.
He jumped from his perch and ran over to the Army of Heartless, Bashing away at them until he cut a clean gap in the group. Sora saw that Twilight had her eyes shut tight, but after a moment she opened them and stared straight at him. She opened her mouth to speak. “Sora?” Twilight asked. “But why are you here?”
Sora was about to answer when he remembered the army of Heartless. “I’ll explain later, right now we got to fight.” Sora said. He summoned the Keyblade and when to a defensive stance, well at least the best he could manage in his Pony form, as he Army of Heartless closed in on all four ponies, forcing theme in to a tight group. Sora knew he and his friends would never be able to take on this many Heartless.
Right as the Heartless were about to attack, two blue blurs smashed into some of the Heartless in the back of the crowed. He heard a familiar voice call out to them. “Are you Okay, guys?” The voice called out. Sora watched as a blue ball bounced around the Heartless, knocking them over, but as soon as they disappeared they reappeared. Sora couldn’t just stand there. He rushed over to hero, who was trying to save him and his friends. He got over just in time. He smashed the Heartless with his Keyblade, saving his old friend just in time. “Thank goodness I got to him in time.” Sora thought, wanting the pounding terror of his heart to stop. . “Hey there, Sonic. Need some help?”
Sonic removed his hands from his face and stared at Sora. “S-Sora?” He stuttered out. Sonic looked down as if in defeat.
“What’s wrong, Sonic?” Sora asked.
Sonic looked up, a new found fire in his eyes. “No time to explain. We have to get out of here!” he ordered. “Fall back. We need to get out of here!” He shouted to the rest of the group, who were doing their best to dodge the Heartless.
“We’re bit tied up right now, Sonic.” A voice answered back, a bit annoyed. Sora remembered the voice belonging to the blue Pegasus, Rainbow Dash.
Sora looked over to where Rainbow had called back to Sonic. He saw that she was flying around the Heartless and getting them to shoot each other with their wrist canons. Boom Sora turned to see what had made the big explosion. He saw Pinkie Pie, the incredibly pink Pony, shooting at the Heartless with a canon that seemed to cover the Heartless in streamers, confetti, and, Balloons. Sora would have looked around to see what the others were doing but he decided to jump into the action instead.
Sora bashed one Heartless after another, swinging his Keyblade with his mouth in excellent marksmanship, for being a Pony at least. He danced around his foes, dodging there attacks. He saw another Heartless just a couple feet in front of him, he pointed the Keyblade at the Heartless and yelled out, “Fire!” and a ball of fire shot from his Keyblade and ignited the Heartless. The Heartless flailed around; trying to put itself out but eventually toppled over and disappeared.
“How did you do that?” Sora heard Twilight ask from behind him. Sora turned around to face the Unicorn but before he could answer her question, he jumped and swung the Keyblade at her. The Keyblade hit the Heartless that had made a jump towered Twilight. “You saved me.” Twilight pointed out when she realized that she was not the target of his swing.
“They just keep coming!” Sora heard Sonic call out. “We need to retreat, NOW!” He shouted to everyone.
“I’ll clear a path for you guys.” Sora offered as he began to mow-down a path through the Heartless. He made a nice open clearing from were Tails, the white unicorn, and Pinkie Pie were trapped, to the edge of the hoard. “Go now!” He shouted and the three ran as fast as they could out of the battle.
“Head for Sweet AppleAcres, we can hide there.” Twilight Shouted. “We’ll be right behind you.”
“Let’s make a brake for it.” Rainbow suggested. Sora, Sonic, Twilight, and Dash were cornered, back to back with each other.
“I have a better plan.” Sonic said. He pulled out that strange gem Sora had seen last time he was here, but could not quite place the name of it. Sonic held it above his head and shouted, “CHAOS CONTROLE!”
Everything went white and Sora felt as if he had been lifted up by some sort of gentle breeze. He felt like he was nowhere and yet everywhere all at the same time floating in complete peace. This last for only a few second, though, and then reality brightened into existence, but instead of the Chaos of the battle, they were on an abandoned street on what looked like the other side of town. Sora remembered that this was the path that led up to Sweet AppleAcers.
“Why aren’t there any of those monsters here?” Rainbow Dash asked. Sora assumed she was talking about the Heartless.
“Those Egg-bots were Heartless, weren’t they Sora?” Sonic asked Sora, sounding defeated.
“Yes they were,” Sora answered. “And they have come back stronger than ever before.”


Part VI
Away from Ponyville, away from the fighting and away from the monsters, doing this made Twilight feel guilty. How could she just leave Ponyville to be destroyed and did it really matter? All her friends and neighbors had been captured and taken away by those…those demons from the deepest pits of Tartarus itself. “I hope Fluttershy and AppleJack are ok.” She kept thinking to herself as she, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Sonic, Tails, and Sora ran down the path that led to Sweet AppleAcres.
“I hope the Heartless aren’t attacking AppleJacks Farm.” Tails huffed out as the Apple family’s big red barn came in to view.
All was quiet but why would the Heartless only attack the town and not here? Twilight couldn’t figure it out. “Well howdy Twi’. How’re y’all doin’?” Twilight heard her friend, AppleJack, greet them. Twilight looked to her left to see the orange pony came trotting up to them. “What ‘appen to ya?” She asked. “It looks like you got yer-‘selves in a tassel whit a pack of bulls.” Her gaze then shifted to Sora. “Hey I ‘member you. Yer’ the pony that fought alongside Sonic to save mah farm.”
Sora blushed a bit. “Ya. Oh hey have you seen any monsters of lately?” Sora asked.
“Other than the one that attacked earlier today?” Twilight added.
AppleJack put a hoof to her chin. “Eynope, can’t say that I have.” AppleJack answered. “Why, is somethin’ up?
“So the Heartless are just attacking the town.” Twilight heard Sora mutter under his breath.
Pinkie Pie began hopping around, answering AJ’s question. “You bet something up. These super scary monsters just appeared all over town. They look like that big monster thing we fought earlier today but they were much smaller and no matter how many we destroyed they just kept coming back. But then Sonic came back to help us and that helped a little but then Sora appeared and saved us just in time with his key sword. And now we need to find all the elements of harmony and then get to the source of the problem.” Pinkie stopped, somehow managing to say all that without taking a single breath.
“AppleJack, is Fluttershy still with you?” Twilight asked hopeful.
“Why yes she is.” AppleJack reassured her. “Fluttershy is inside Helpin’ out granny Smith.”
“I’ll go get her.” Tails offered and then ran towered the house without a response.
Twilight looked at Sonic, happy that he was still here, but the look of defeat on his face worried her. “Sonic, are you okay?” She asked. “You’ve been like this ever since the battle at Sugar Cube Corner.”
“ I've figured it all out, I think.” Sonic said flatly.
“Figured what out, darling?” Rarity asked.
“The attack, the strange Egg-bots. It all clicked when I saw Sora.” He pointed his finger to Sora.
Sora was surprised. “Me?” he asked. “What do I have to do with anything?”
“Let start from the beginning.” He said. He waited a moment as Tails and Fluttershy, the Yellow Pegasus, rejoined the group. “Last time Sora was here he said that they wouldn't return unless something really bad happens. Well something really bad must have happened.” Sonic frowned.
“Eggman!” Tails exclaimed.
“Eggman, who in the Hoof is that?” Twilight asked.
“We told you about him, remember?” Sonic answered.
“You mean that big old meanie face that keeps trying to do bad stuff in your world?” Pinkie piped up.
“Yes him. Those thing we fought were his Egg-bots.” Sonic continued.
“I thought they were Heartless.” Sora interrupted.
Sonic nodded to Sora. “They are. They’re like Heartless Egg-bots. At first I thought that it was just an attack from Eggman but when I saw you I knew that they couldn't be just robots.” Sonic explained. “You said it, yourself that you would return if the Heartless ever did. I put two and two together and that math adds up to something really bad.”
“But how did Eggman get here?” Tails wondered.
“That’s what I can’t figure out.” Sonic admitted.
“Perhaps I can shed some light on your little…Mystery.” A voice said, coming from nowhere. Twilight knew that voice. She thought that she would never have to hear that voice again. A bright light flashed and the figure of evil itself appeared from within it. The Pony head, the dragon, snake like body, and the various other mish-mash of animal body parts stood there in suspended in the air. “Hello everypony, it is so “good” to see all of you again.” it greeted with fake Kindness in its voice.
“Who are you?” Sora asked summoning his Keyblade and getting ready to attack if need be.
“Who am I? I am the controller of Chaos, the bringer of unbalance, the very image of disharmony. I am Discord.” Discord smiled maliciously. “And I’m here to give you your first quest.”
“Quest, Sonic what does he mean?” Tails asked Sonic.
Discord answered before Sonic could say anything. “It means just that, my little fox friend.” He turned to face Twilight. “And Twilight, please Close your mouth, you never know what could “Fly” in to it.” Twilight hadn't noticed that her shocked face included a dropped mouth. She tried to close it, but before she could a Pineapple with wings appeared and flew into Twilight open mouth. She spat it out Coughing and sputtering. Discord gave a small chuckle. “Now, like I was saying,” Discord went on. “Your “quest”. All you need to do is find your precious Chaos Emeralds.”


Part VII
Who was this guy? Why does he look so weird? What has he done with the Chaos Emeralds? Question like these and many more flew through Sonic’s mind. The whole situation seemed a bit overwhelming but Sonic stood firm. “What have you done with the Chaos Emeralds?” Sonic finally asked. Discord glared down at him wonder and scrutiny in his gaze. The way Discord stared at him, as if staring into his very being, was creeping Sonic out.
“Me?” Discord asked sarcastically. “Why, I haven’t done anything to them. All I want from you is to gather them. That’s all.” Discord put on a face pout. Sonic rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.
“And why would we do that?” Tails asked.
Discord frowned down at Tails. “If you don’t then not only will I set the Heartless to tear apart this world, but I will set them to destroy your world as well. That’s why.” The Fire in Discord’s eyes meant that he wasn't joking.
“You would just let the Heartless destroy you’re world?” Sora gasped in horror.
“I can always build a new one, or just take over an already existing world.” Discord waved Sora’s question off. Discord’s hand glowed a mucky black and he waved it a little in the air. Suddenly the Heartless creatures, Sonic saw last time he was here, appeared around Discord, creating a barrier.
“Heartless!” Twilight yelled. “Those are the ones from last time.” They were indeed similar to the ones they fought during the last encounter with them.
The Heartless seemed to consist of: giant, almost cute, flies; several small humanoid robed Heartless, riding on large floating books; large lion like beasts with dangerous looking Tails; small pink blobs with large eyes and mouth, stubby legs and a stripped sleeping cap; sacks that seemed to be alive themselves; and very big light blue Titans with large wood clubs. These were creatures of night mares themselves.
Discord put his hand up to Stop Sora who looked like he was ready to attack. “Now, Now,” Discord reassured. “There is no need for violence, I promise, in this game I will not send my Heartless after you.”
“What’s the catch?” Rainbow flew up right into Discords face.
“No catch.” He said calmly. Rainbow kept her eyes on Discord in a angry stare as she floated back to the group. When Dash landed back near her friends, Discord piped up again. “Oh that’s right. I won’t send Heartless after you, but that’s not to say my “associate” will.”
Dash got angry all over again. “Why you dirty no good—LET ME AT HIM, LET ME AT HIM!” She cried as she struggle away from AppleJack who grabbed her tail before she flew off to pummel Discord.
“Simmer down there, Sally.” AppleJack said through her teeth. Rainbow glared at AppleJack then sat back down. AppleJack put her hoof on Rainbow’s shoulder just in-case she tried to fly away once she was free.
“Wait, who is your “associate?” Twilight asked in confusion.
What Discord said next confirmed all of Sonic’s suspicions “Why Don’t you ask you dear friends Sonic and Tails. He has had personal experience with after all.”
“Eggman! I knew it.” Sonic blurted out.
Discord grinned. “GOOD LUCK, EVERYONE!” he shouted then he and the Heartless disappeared in flash of light.
“Sonic, what are we gonna do?” Tails asked, very worried.
“The only thing we can.” Sonic answered. “We have to find the Chaos Emeralds.”
“But where do we start looking?” Sora asked.
“I have a gem finding spell.” Rarity offered. “And I know Twilight can duplicate it.”
“Are ya suggestin’ we split up and look for them?” AppleJack asked.
“It may be our best bet.” Twilight said. “But even with two teams, we might not make it.”
“My Keyblade can guide me to where the Emeralds are.” Sora put in.
Tails got a hopeful look on his face. “If we split up in to teams of three, we can each look for two Emeralds.” Tails said.
“Plus the one we already have. We might just make it in time to save Equestria!” Twilight cheered.
“And Mobius!” Sonic added.
After a few minutes of discussion, the teams were set. Team one had Sora, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie. Team two had Sonic, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash. The final team had Twilight, AppleJack, and Tails.
Pinkie was once again bouncing around. “This is going to be super awesome. I can’t wait to go. Are we going yet? Do we get a bathroom break?” Her nonstop rambling was actually making Sora laugh hysterically. “I wonder if we will run into any of those Heartless monsters, I hope so. I’m ready to kick some butt. OOOooo, I wonder how this Story is going to end? I sure hope he gets it done on time.” {The author cringes as Pinkie starts to break the 4th wall}  “Oops, Sorry I was told not to do that, at least not in this form of media.”
Sonic was now completely confused at what Pinkie had just said, but all the other Ponies didn't seem surprised in the least, and Sora was too busy laughing to notice. “…Never mind. Next order of business: Team names.”
“Why do we need team names?” Twilight asked.
“It’s a lot more fun.” Tails answered her.
“We’ll be called Speed of Magic.” Dash piped up. “Get it? Because we are both super-fast and we have the best gem hunter in all of Equestria.” Sonic nodded. It was a cool name but Sonic wished that Rouge was here. A treasure hunt between two self-proclaimed “best Treasure hunters of…” would be an interesting competition.
Sonic was snapped out of his thoughts when Sora spoke up. “Hey, Fluttershy, right? why don’t you pick our team name?” Sora asked the timid yellow Pegasus, who had stayed quite this whole time.
“Um…okay.” Fluttershy agreed her voice barley a whisper. She stayed quite for a moment in thought, “How about the Hearts of Laughter?” She asked. She then recoiled. “I mean if you want to, if you don’t like it you can change it.”
“That’s a great name, why wouldn't I like it?” Sora asked.
Finally it was Twilight’s groups turn to choose a name. She thought about it for a minute. “How about…”
“The egg heads?” Rainbow finished.
“What? NO!” Twilight tuned on Dash. “I know, how about Honest Magic?” she asked AppleJack and Tails.
“I like it.” Tails confirmed.
“It’s mighty kind of ya, tuh name this here group after my Element, Twi.” AppleJack blushed. She tipped her hat with her hoof.
Now with the teams set and names taken care of it was time to find the Emeralds. Sonic smiled, knowing that they could make it in time and beat Eggman and this Discord guy. “Alight everyone lets show those creeps what teamwork can really do.” Sonic and Tails put their hands the middle of the group. The others stacked there hooves on top of Sonic’s and Tails’s. “LET’S DO IT, TO IT!”


PART VIII
TEAM: HEARTS OF LAUGHTER.
“How are we going to find the Chaos Emeralds?” Pinkie asked. “You’re not a Unicorn. You’re just an earth pony. Well not just any earth pony, you can make that super key-sword thing appear out of thin air.”
Pinkie was right; he didn't know how he was going to find the Emeralds. He thought for a moment then an idea formed in his head. He summoned his Keyblade, placing it on the ground in front of him. He placed his hoof on the Keyblade and shut his eyes tightly. He focused his thoughts on reaching out to the power of the Keyblade. A blurry image started fading in to his vision. The scene got clearer and clearer until he could see perfectly; Two Chaos Emeralds where in the hoof of a statue, but the statue seemed…off. The vision faded out of his sight and he opened his eyes.
He saw that both Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie were staring at him in silence. Fluttershy was the first to speak. “So, um, were do we go?” She squeaked out.
“I saw the Emerald in a vision.” Sora responded. “It’s in the hoof of a statue it looked like that the statue was in some sort of park.”
“I know were that is, I've seen that statue a whole bunch of times.” Pinkie blurted out. “I think that the statue you saw was the statue of Christhoofer Columbia. I'v Seen it a bunch of times, lots of little foals like to play on it. It’s also by a very beautiful garden, planted by Roseluck. She is very good at planting flower—.” Sora put his hoof up to stop the Pink Pony from going into some random story that would most likely not make any since.
Sora tuned to Fluttershy. “Do you know were it is?” he asked her.
Fluttershy, who looked like she was trying to hind behind her incredibly long pink mane, looked at Sora for a moment. “Yes. But, it’s just…we would need to go back into Ponyville, where those monsters are.” She said softly, giving a worried side glance to the direction of the town.
Sora looked in the direction of the town and saw its sky line. From here the town looked peaceful but he knew the destruction that lay inside. “We have to do this.” He said to the two other ponies.
Pinkie nodded her head. “Your right, we need to do this.” She stretched her hoof in the air. “FOR EQUESTRIA!” She shouted and then began to make her way back to the town. Sora and Fluttershy fallowed behind Pinkie, Fluttershy looked uneasy about going, though.
The short hike back to Ponyville was uneventful; it was when they got back into the town that things took a turn for the strange. The Town was in ruin, Heartless egg-bots patrolled the streets. Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Sora hid in a bush, the whole town looked abandoned.
“We need to get in to the park.” Sora whispered to the other two. “Where is it?”
Pinkie stuck her hoof out of the bush to point. “That way.” She answered.
“Let’s make a run for it.” Sora said, deciding that that was the best plan. “Stay behind me, and be on the look out.”
“Are you sure that’s a good idea?” Fluttershy asked. Fluttershy’s eyes then got a shocked expression on them. “I’m sorry; your plan is a good one, never mind.”
Sora looked at the yellow Pegasus. “Don’t be Sorry. You’re my friend, you have a right to question my plan if you want, I don’t mind.”
Fluttershy looked down at her hooves and lightly kicked the dirt. “We could just make a distraction.” She finally said, but looking like she wished she hadn't.
“That’s actually a good idea.” Sora told her. He turned to Pinkie Pie. “Do you mind making a distraction?” he asked the pink pony.
Pinkies smile got big…well, bigger than her normal smile. “Distraction is my middle name: “Pinkie Distraction Pie” at your service.” She giggled. Before Sora could even say anything back, she was gone.
“Okay, on my mark, we dash to the park, okay?” Sora asked Fluttershy. Fluttershy timidly nodded.
A few moments pasted until the silence was broken by a loud Boom. Sora looked out from his hiding spot. He saw Pinkie Pie with a large light blue canon shooting it out at the Heartless, making them fall over and disappear. The other Heartless Egg-bots ran to see what caused the disturbance. This was his chance. “GO!” he commanded Fluttershy, and the two sprinted toward the park.
Sora was in the lead closely followed by Fluttershy. Sora could see the entrance to the park and the statue he saw from his Keyblade vision. As Sora and Fluttershy approached the park, Heartless Egg-bots appeared out of thin air, blocking the entrance. Sora heard Fluttershy give a small “EEP!”
Sora got his Keyblade ready but just as he got close, Pinkie Pie fell from the sky, hitting the Heartless in the face with Pie on her way down. The Heartless ran around in confusion until they ran into each other, fell down and disappeared. The whole scene was quite comical and Sora couldn't help but laugh. “Thanks Pinkie, but where did you come from?” Sora asked when he stopped laughing.
Pinkie put on large grin. “Sora, did your parents never give you the “Special” talk?” Pinkie asked.
Sora blushed and turned toward the direction of the statue. “Never mind. Come on lets go get that Emerald.” He said as he walked to the statue of the Pony in an old captain’s hat.
“Look at that,” Pinkie exclaimed, “Two Emeralds.” Sora saw a red and a yellow gem in the hoof of the statue, but just like in the vision the statue seemed not like a statue.
“I’ll get it.” Fluttershy offered, flying up to grab the Emeralds. Just as she was about to pick the Emeralds up the statue turned a deep black and began to morph.
Sora watched as the statue grew in size. “It’s a Heartless, watch out.” He said to Fluttershy who had already turned away in fright. The statue turned into the shape of a large dragon and as the blackness faded, that is what indeed the statue had morphed into.
Sora summoned his Keyblade about to attack when he heard Fluttershy yell out, “WAIT!” Sora stopped and watched as Fluttershy slowly flew up to the dragon Heartless.
“Fluttershy, what are you doing? Get away from there, it’s not safe.” Sora warned the Pegasus.
“I know what I’m doing.” She reassured Sora.
Sora nodded and stepped back, having faith in Fluttershy. She was now floating in front of the beast speaking in a soft voice. “Now, now, No need to get all angry.” She reassured the Heartless. “We aren't going to hurt you; we just need those Emeralds you took from us, please.” The Heartless glared at Fluttershy but instead of running away, to Sora’s amazement, Fluttershy glared right back. This seemed to shock the Heartless a bit but it stood its ground.
Sora was certain that the Heartless was going to attack Fluttershy any second but before the Heartless would have had time to, Fluttershy opened her Eyes wide in a frown and her eyes grew big. The Heartless faltered backwards and with a WALF noise disintegrated into the air. Sora was Speechless, he had never seen anyone stair a Heartless to death.
Fluttershy gently flew back to Sora and Pinkie, whose mouth was open so far Sora was sure his jaw was just grazing the ground. She handed the Emeralds to Sora. “Two down four to go. Now let’s go meet the others”

TEAM: SPEED OF MAGIC
The rolling green hills of the moorlands reminded Sonic so much of the green moorlands back on Mobius and It felt good to feel the soft grass as he raced by. She stopped at the top of a hill looking back to where Rarity and Rainbow were. He had asked if he could run ahead to make sure there were no Heartless which indeed there wasn't.
Sonic looked down at the Chaos Emerald in his hand. It was glowing still which meant they were getting close but they still need to go a bit further. “Once the Emerald stops glowing then we will know that we are literally right on top of it.” He had explained to Rainbow Dash and Rarity before they headed away from AppleJack's farm.
Sonic turned to face away from the two Ponies, to make sure there weren't any Heartless up ahead. In front of him the grass gave wait to soft dirt. “The Emerald has to be somewhere near here.” Sonic thought. He scanned the Dirt clearing but saw nothing.
A little while later Rainbow Dash and Rarity had finally made their way to Sonic. “Thank you ever so much for waiting for us, darling.” Rarity Thanked Sonic when she walked up to him. Sonic blushed and tuned away.
Rainbow Dash, who was hovering in the air, landed next to Sonic. “Are we close?” She asked. “Did your Emerald Stop glowing?” She cocked her head to look at the Emerald in Sonic hand.
“The Emerald hasn't stopped yet, but I have a feeling we’re getting close.” Sonic Answered. And with that the three walked into the clearing.
“Despite everything that has trance spired within the last hour, I would just like to say that it is a lovely day.” Rarity commented after a while of walking.
Sonic thought back and couldn't believe it, Had It really only been an hour since the attack on Ponyville? Sure enough, it had really only been an hour and yet so much happened. The attack on Ponyville, saving his friends at Sugar Cube Corner, Sora, Discord, and now the hunt for the Emerald had all somehow been crammed into one hour.
Sonic looked down at the Emerald and was surprised to see it had stopped glowing. “Rarity, looks like the Emerald has stopped glowing. Can you use you spell to find them?” Sonic asked the white Unicorn.
“I think so.” She responded.
“Try and focus on the power of the Emeralds” Sonic encouraged.
Rarity nodded and her horn began to glow, a soft light blue. “This way” she commanded, leading the way to a pile of boulders in the distance.
“It’s not my fault that pretty rocks starts glowing.” Sonic heard a gravelly voice cry out as they approached the rock pile. The group quickened there pace to see what the commotion was.
Sonic rounded one of the boulders to find a group of three upright walking…Dogs? One, who looked like the leader, was tall and gray. He was wearing a red vest Jacket and a collar, with a single yellow stone, hanging from his neck. The second was short and tan with a gray vest Jacket with a thick collar around his neck decked out in small whit gems. That last was buff, blue gray, and was also wearing the same gray Jacket and thick collar.
He saw that the short one was holding the two Chaos Emeralds. Sonic was about to get their attention when Rarity Spoke up instead. “Well hello there, Darlings. It has been sometime since I have seen you three.” The three Dogs turned to face the newcomers, but when they spotted Rarity they shrank back in fear.
“Who are these guys?” Sonic whispered to Dash.
“They’re just some punks who forced Rarity to find jewels for them once. They're called Diamond Dogs.” She whispered back.
“Miss Rarity, it is so…um, Good to see you?”  The Diamond Dog leader greeted with fear.
“What have you got there?” Rarity sweetly asked the short Dog.
He held out his hand to show Rarity, shielding his face with his other arm. “It’s just some precious we found fall from the sky. It Sparkles pretty, Miss Rarity.”
“Sonic, are these those Emeralds you were talking about?” Rarity asked, stepping aside to let Sonic get a closer look.
Sonic looked down at the gems: One was green and the other was silver. “Yup, those are definitely the Emeralds.” Sonic confirmed.
Rarity looked back at the leader of the group of Dogs. “Would you please let us have these gems?” she asked the tall leader.
The leader frowned slightly. “Why should we give precious to you?” he asked, slight anger in his voice.
Rarity put on a pout. “Because if you don’t then that would be just     HORRIBLE!” she screeched out. “WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BE SO MEAN? THESE WERE ARES FIRST! GIVE THEM BACK!” she complained.
The Diamond Dogs were cringing now, covering their ears to try and block out the complaints. “OKAY, OKAY. JUST SHUT-UP PONY.” The leader yelled over Rarity.
Rarity stopped and smiled. “Thank you ever so much.” Rarity said as she used her magic to levitate the Emeralds over to Sonic.
Sonic grabbed the Emeralds and stared at them. “I hope the others find the rest.” Sonic thought as the group turned around and walked back to AppleJack's farm.

TEAM: HONEST MAGIC
When Twilight used her magic to search for the Emerald, it led her team near the base of the mountain, which Twilight remembered was the sleeping place of a dragon whose smoke snoring threatened to clog the skies of Equestria. It was only by the bravery of Fluttershy that the Dragon went to find a safer place to nap. Twilight looked up the mountain, luckily she could sense that the Emeralds were only near the mountain not on it.
“How are we gonna’ fine’ these here gems?” AppleJack asked Tails when the group finally stopped to take a break.
“They are much larger and more defined to be random gems. Trust me, you will know when you see it.” Tails answered.
AppleJack seemed contain on that answer and ambled about, peeking under bushes and around trees. Twilight eased off the spell to give herself a break from the strange power she felt when she reached out to the Emeralds. She sighed and looked up at the sky. Something caught her attention: it looked like something was shining in the sky, but just as quick as she saw it, whet ever it was had disappeared. “Great, now I’m seeing things.” She thought to herself.
“I have a feeling we are really close.” Tails announced as he motioned her and AppleJack to continue on.
Twilight reactivated her spell and followed where she felt her magic was taking her. “I think your right.” Twilight said as she walked. “The feeling is getting stronger. I think we’re right on top of them.” She turned off the path and into the tall thick grass.
Twilight stopped when she heard an “Ouch, what in tarnation?” come from AppleJack.
“What’s wrong?” Twilight asked when she turned to her friend.
“, somepony left their fancy-shmancy Diamond in th’ tall grass here.” AppleJack responded. She lifted up what she stepped on, it was a large dark blue Gem. “An’ looky here, another one.” She bent down to pick something else up, another identical gem but was Purple instead.
Tails’ eyes grew wide. “Those are the Chaos Emeralds!” he exclaimed. “We found them! We did it!”
“Congratulations, you have found all the Emeralds.” The voice of Discord rang in the air. There was a flash of light and Twilight’s surroundings tuned from the pre-mountain trail to AppleJack's farm.

TEAM: ALL
She looked around and saw that everyone was back, confused as well about the sudden transportation. Discord was in front of the whole group. “Well, well. It looks like you have finished the first quest.” Discord congratulated sarcastically.
“I thought you said you didn't know where the Emeralds were.” Twilight asked, confused and annoyed.
Discord grinned. “I never said I didn't know where they where, I just needed a distraction to keep you all busy.” He told them. “Now on to your second “quest” of the day.”
“Second? I thought all we had ta do was get th’ gems fer ya.” AppleJack questioned.
“I never said that either, I specifically said “first” quest.” He Answered the Orange pony.
“Fine, what is it?” Sonic asked impatiently.
Discord put on an evil grin. “It’s rather simple really,” he began. “All you have to do is…”
“Surrender the Chaos Emeralds over to me and then do the same for your selves.” A deep gruff voice finished discords sentience.
Twilight saw a Sparkle in the sky, just like the one from earlier, only much bigger. A small flying metal thing appeared in the sky. A Rather large red stallion, with small round sunglasses, was inside it. He had a bald head, and a large red-brown mustache and tail. Twilight guessed he must be the one driving it.
“Doctor Eggman!” Sonic exclaimed. “So, you finally decided to show you’re self.”
“Oh Sonic, how long this day, without you, has felt.” Eggman greeted.
“Still ugly as ever I see. Even as a pony.” Sonic taunted.
Twilight gasped. “Sonic, that’s rude.” She scolded Sonic.
Sonic shrugged it off. “What’s you plan Eggman?” Sonic turned his attention back to the new pony.
He smiled maliciously. “Simply this.” He said then looked at Discord, “would you like to do the honors?”
“I would be delighted” Discord answered. He threw his hands in the air and thousands and thousands of Heartless and Heartless Egg-bots appeared, then everything began to fade around the whole group until everything was dark.


Part IX
The darkness began to fade as some sort of reality began to take shape around Sonic and the group. Eggman and Discord had vanished. The sky was a deep icky red-orange color, and large chunks of land floated infinitely everywhere. Strangest of all, Sonic felt that all the known laws of physics had been completely twisted and shattered as space bent reality in a chaotic manner.
“Welcome to what will soon be known as Discordia, home of the Eggman Empire.” The Voice of Discord rang out from everywhere.
Sonic looked up, or was it down, or possible he was looking to the side? There was no real way to tell. Sonic looked, in his perspective, up and saw a much larger and more round chunk of land and metal floating overhead. “Do you like my new Death-egg, Sonic?” Sonic heard Eggman’s voice ask over a loud speaker. “It’s now the Dark-egg.” He informed. A large metal arm extended out from the huge chunk of land and grabbed AppleJack, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie. “I will be taking your friends now.” Eggman said as the arm retracted back in to the flying fortress.
Sonic growled in anger as he heard the screams of his friend disappear. Another arm came at Sonic and the rest, but Sonic was ready he grabbed Twilight, and Sora then ran as fast as he could away, Rainbow Dash doing the same with Tails.
“ We've got to hide!” Dash called to Sonic as they sped away.
Sonic looked for some cover and saw a small cave in the distance. “Over there.” He shouted.
Once the rest of the group was safe in the cave Sonic finally asked the question that had been on his mind since he got here. “Where are we?”
“I would say some sort of void between realities.” Tails answered.
“We’re in space.” Sora corrected flatly.
Sonic was puzzled, he had been in space many times before and it had never looked like this. “That’s not possible.” He told Sora. “ I've been in space, it looks nothing like this.”
“That’s because the space you see is still just part of your world.” Sora informed. “And this is the ruins of a world that must have been destroyed by the Heartless.”
“So this Eggman guy or whatever is building a new world from Pieces of old worlds?” Dash asked confused.
Sonic scowled. “No. He said that this Discordia place was also called the Dark-egg.” Sonic paused to think. He snapped his fingers when he figured it out. “he’s making a fortress.”
“But why would he do that?” Tails asked. “Why make one so big?”
Sora was the one to answer Tails. “To take over other worlds.”
“Hello?” Twilight piped up. “What about Equestria, guys?”
“Ya, what happened to Equestria?” Dash asked.
“The Heartless are probably attacking it right now as we speak.” Sora answered.
“But if we beat Eggman then perhaps the Heartless and Heartless Egg-bot will disappear.” Tails guessed.
Sonic put on his game face. “Then let’s stop him and that Discord guy.” He declared.
“But how?” Sora asked.
“With these.” Sonic pulled out the seven Chaos Emeralds. “Old baldy Mc. Nose-hairs forgot to take these.”
“How will they help?” Sora asked.
Sonic had already begun to place the Emeralds around himself. “The Emeralds power isn't limited to just manipulating power, It can also be absorbed.” Sonic explained.
“How?” Twilight asked.
Sonic said nothing but instead just closed his eyes and focused, he started saying the Emerald’s poem.  “The servers are the seven Chaos. Chaos is Power. Power, enriched by the heart. The controller is the one that unifies the Chaos.” He said. “Chaos Emeralds, please, SAVE US!” Sonic yelled as he felt pure Chaos power coerce through him. Anger, greed, sadness, lust, pride, and Darkness all consumed his brain but then was washed away and replaced by happiness, joy, knowledge, gratitude, humility, and Light.
Sonic opened his eyes to see that he was now floating above the ground, his fur now gold and his spikes, spiked up. “Sonic, are you Okay?” he heard dash ask.
He nodded his head. “Yes I am.” He responded. “It’s time to stop that madman.” Sonic turned to fly away when he was stopped by someone grabbing his hand.
He turned to see Sora, his hoof grabbing on to his wrist. “Wait,” Sora said. “Take this.” He summoned his Keyblade and set it on the ground.
“Your—Your Keyblade?” Sonic asked dumbfounded.
“Yes, with your power and strength of heart, it should work for you.” Sora told him.
When Sonic reached down to pick it up it began to change in his hand. The handle and shaft of the weapon turned to a complex and beautiful crisscross pattern, while the end changed to a crown. “The Ultimate Weapon.” Sora said under his breath.
With that Sonic flew out of the cave at high speeds towered the huge flying fortress, ready for the final fight.


Part X
“Eggman!” Sonic yelled as loud as he could at the large chunk of land and machine.
Eggman’s voice came on over the loud speaker. “Sonic, it is so good of you to finally join us. But sadly you will not be fighting me.”
“What do you mean?” Sonic yelled back, glaring and summoning his new weapon.
A hatch opened up and Discord was standing in the open door way. “Just watch and see, you stupid filthy Rat.” Discord insulted Sonic.
Darkness surrounded Discord and engulfed him, his silhouette the only clue that something was there. The silhouette grew and morphed, until it was easily much larger than even the Dark-egg. Sonic stared in horror and anger.
“MWAHAHAHAHA!”  The large beast that had once been Discord laughed. Discord was now a large dark red bipedal Dragon-like creature with spiked crystal wings and bone arms. “I am no longer just the God of Chaos; I am now the Creator of Darkness itself.” He Declared.
In the back of Sonic’s mind, he was thinking that it was all over, but he pushed those thoughts away, knowing that he could pull through. “Sonic, can you hear me?” Sonic heard the voice of Tails in his head. “I have used some of Twilight's magic so we can speak to you. Listen, Discord has technically turned in to a Heartless, use the Keyblade and blast away the Darkness.”
“Roger that good buddy.” Sonic said, then gave a two fingered salute and flew off towered Discord.
Discord must have noticed Sonic flying toward him because he flapped out his wings and large spiked chunks of crystal flew, at high speed, toward Sonic. Sonic did a Quick spinning dodge around them all. Just as the last of the projectiles were passing Sonic summoned power and released a small burst that deflected the crystals back at Perfect Discord. Discord was momentarily stunned, this was Sonic’s chance to attack, he boosted to a large pulsing blob on the shoulder of Discord.
“This ought to do the trick.” Sonic said as he powered up a supper fast spin-dash, holding the Keyblade out to whack the blob of Darkness repeatedly. After a moment of that the Blob burst in to light and disappeared, it reappeared just behind Discords Left leg. Before Sonic could boost toward it, Discord threw Sonic away.
Sonic was slightly dazed but did not lose his stride. “Sonic that did the Trick keep hitting that blob of darkness, and release the light trapped inside.” Sonic heard Twilight’s Voice in his head. Sonic nodded and dashed to Discord again. This time however Discord summoned large orbs of Darkness around Sonic to attack.
“Watch out, those things will home in on you, deflect them away at the right time” Sora informed Sonic. Sonic nodded and watched the orbs, deflecting them away at the right time, the orbs were deflected right at Discord's Eyes. Discord Doubled Over In pain putting his hands up to his eyes.
Sonic once again took this time of distraction to go in and attack. He flew behind Discord to the blob on his leg, and repeated the process as before, again the blob popped in a burst of light. It reappeared, really large, on Discord back. Yet again before Sonic could react he was knocked backwards by discord.
“I don’t think I can Get him anymore he's too powerful.” Sonic informed out loud, convinced that his friends could hear him.
“If only we had more Power.” Tails said.
“Maybe we do?” Twilight’s voice responded to Tails.
“What do you mean?” Sonic asked.
“The Elements of Harmony.” Dash exclaimed.
“You can use one big blast to stop discord once and for all.” Twilight told him.
Sonic scratched his head and shrugged. “How do I do that?” he asked. Before he got an answer Sonic had to dash out of the way of a large laser attack that discord fired.
“You really are a bothersome pest.” Discord complained. Sonic rolled his eyes.
“Use the Power in your heart, Sonic.” Sonic heard Sora Command. “With it you could summon the Power of those Elements.”
Sonic took a deep breath and closed his eyes, focusing on all the light in his life: His friends: Tails, Amy, knuckles, and even Shadow; His life: The friends he had, the adventures he went on, and the things he has learned; his new friends: Sora, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, AppleJack, Pinkie Pie, and even the Doctor, Amy, and Rory.
A fuzzy warm feeling spread throughout his whole body, and six points of lights orbited around Sonic. As the lights dimmed he saw that they looked quite familiar. One was the shape of a butterfly, an apple, a lightning bolt, a balloon, a diamond, and a Six point Star. Sonic opened his arms out to the side ready to absorb the power, when one last point of light appeared above Sonic’s head.
Sonic looked up at the new light and as it dimmed he saw it was the shape of a simple ring. “Wow!” Twilight exclaimed. Your power of Faith has temporarily created a new Element, but what is it?”
Sonic knew what it was it was just that: Faith, The one thing that keeps Sonic going in life, Faith in his friends and in himself.
All the other elements absorbed in to the single element in front of Sonic, magic. Sonic absorbed the element and then turned to face discord. Discord just clapped slowly *clap, clap, clap* "that was a wonderful performance.” Discord lied. “It’s too bad you won’t live to do an encore."
Sonic opened his eyes and looked at Discord. Without saying a word he lifted up the Keyblade and pointed it at Discord. “Ooo…what are you going to do? Poke me with that?” Discord mocked.
A ring of Light appeared at the tip of the Keyblade, and Sonic focused on the Target then ever so gently he released the power and a bolt of Rainbow flew out of the Keyblade and Hit Discord Square in the chest.
Discord started to flail in panic his body de-shaping and his power draining and in time, Discord was lying unconscious on the ground, his regular size once again.
Sonic turned to the Dark-egg. “Don’t think I have Forgotten about you.” Sonic shouted. He used Chaos control to warp in to the command cockpit were Eggman was.
Eggman was worried and was cowering in fear. “Please, Sonic, Don’t kill me!” he begged.
“Why would I do a thing like that?” Sonic asked, “That not how I roll.”
Eggman was still on the floor covering his pony head with his hooves. Sonic laughed a little at the sight. “What are you going to do to me?” Eggman asked looking up at Sonic.
Without saying a word, Sonic lightly tapped Eggman forehead, when Sonic lifted his hand a cloud of Darkness drained from Eggman and he started began to morph into his old bipedal human self. “I’m saving your life.” Sonic finally spoke.
Tail’s voice once again spoke in Sonic’s head. “Sonic the whole battle ship is about to break apart, you need to get out of there.”
Sonic kept calm and once again used Chaos Control this time warping him and Eggman to were Fluttershy, Rarity, AppleJack, and Pinkie Pie, Were being held captive, and warped every one out of the base and to safety far away.
Sonic had turned back to his old non-super form when Sora, Tails, Twilight, And Rainbow Dash rushed out to greet and congratulate him. Sonic had noticed that Sora had his Keyblade back.
“Are they going to be okay?” Dash asked indicating the four ponies lying on the ground.
Twilight bent her head down and her horn glowed. She straitened back up a second later. “They’ll be okay, they’re just out cold. Twilight reassured the group.
“How do we get out of here?” Sonic suddenly asked, not knowing how to get back.
“Let me handle this.” Sora Smiled, then gripping the Keyblade in his mouth he pointed it to the sky. A small keyhole shape glowed in the sky just above and in front of everyone. The tip of the Keyblade glowed just like it had for Super Sonic, but instead of a blast of Rainbow, the Keyblade just shot out a small white light that disappeared into the keyhole in the sky.
There was a loud Clu-Chunk noise and the world began to melt away around Sonic. The colors all seemed to blur then change. Sonic rubbed his eyes and he and the others were back on AppleJack's farm.
“We did it, we’re back.” Dash pointed out.
Sonic saw Twilight look around. “What happened to all the Heartless Egg-bots?” She asked.
“I took away the power Eggman used, that allowed him to control the Darkness.” Sonic Answered. “I guess that since he no longer has a tie to the Darkness, his Army and all the Egg-bots that he had Attacking Equestria just disappeared.”
“And I would have taken over everything too, if it weren't for you accursed Hedgehog.” The, now human, Eggman grunted out. “But I guess until next time we meet this is good bye.” Eggman was lifted in to his small Airship and with a WARP, he vanished.
“Were’d he go?” Twilight asked.
Tails, who had been trying to tend to AppleJack and the other three unconscious ponies, turned around to address Twilight. “Back to our world most likely.”
A few yards away the Body of Discord began to stir and get up. “You…cannot…ugh, stop me I—I am Chaos made—you know what forget it,” Discord grunted out between pants, obviously in pain, “, until next time Twilight Sparkle.”
Discord turned to leave, but was Stopped by An angry Twilight. “Stop Discord, do you really think we’re just gonna let you leave?” She turned to Sora. “Sora, Do you happen to know any time Spells.”
Sora smiled, knowing were Twilight was going with this. “You mean like this?” he tilted his head so as to point the Keyblade up. “Stopga!” He yelled and with that Discord froze to his spot.
Twilight smiled, pleased. “Now let’s wake up the others. Discord is in for a rude awakening.


Part XI
Waking up AppleJack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rarity proved easier then Sonic thought it would, it just took a good splash of cold water and they woke right up. Throughout this whole endeavor to wake the four sleeping ponies up, Sora had maintained the stop spell on Discord.
“Hurry up, please.” Sora pleaded starting to sweat.
“Everypony know what to do?” Twilight asked.
They nodded and took their places for the plan Twilight had come up with. “Run the Plan by me again.” Tails asked.
“Simple when we unfreeze Discord, the Elements of harmony and Sonic will use the Chaos Emeralds to imprison Discord in stone once more.” Twilight Explained.
“I much rather prefer our beautiful and stylish necklaces.” Rarity commented looking down at the Purple Emeralds she held.
“They should work just as well as our Element charms do.” Twilight reassured her white unicorn friend. She turned to Sora. “Okay Sora, now.”
Sora dropped his head and Discord began to move again. “What’s going on?” he asked looking at everyone in fright.
“Chaos Control!” Twilight said. the six ponies and Sonic all held up their Emeralds and a band of light shot out of each Emerald and shower Discord in a beautiful rainbow light. He tried to shield it off, but with a goofy expression on his face and his Arms stuck in mid flail, Discord turned to stone and fell to the Ground with a THUD
“Well I guess that takes care of that.” Tails grinned.
“I guess so.” Twilight agreed.
The damage to Ponyville was bad, but nothing that a little hard work wouldn't fix. Sonic had said good bye to everypony, and him, Tails, Twilight, and Sora, walked back to the library. “I guess this is good bye then.” Twilight sighed once they were inside. Now that Sonic and Tails had the Chaos Emeralds, there was no need to stick around any longer. “But you can come visit right?” she asked hopeful.
Tails shook his head sadly. “I’m afraid we can’t, once we leave, the link between our worlds will break and the personal Time stream to our worlds will flow normally again.” Tails explained, downhearted. “We will never see each other again.”
Twilight’s face scrunched up and she covered her eyes with her hooves. “But—but it’s not fair, how can we be friends if we never see each other again?” she bawled.
Sora put his hoof on Twilight’s shoulder. “Hey, c’mon cheer up.” Twilight looked up at Sora. “Just because your far apart doesn't mean you still aren't friends. As long as you keep them in your heart, then they aren't really ever gone.”
Twilight wiped the tears from her eyes. “I guess you right.” She said sounding happier already.
“Goodbye Twilight Sparkle, we will never forget you.” Sonic said as he began to activate the Emeralds power. He gave a thumb up. “Thanks for all the adventures and to all the adventures yet to come.”
Sonic saw Sora’s Keyblade appeared in Sora’s mouth and he aimed it between Himself and Tails who were now floating off the ground. A white light wrapped around him and once again all he could sense was white.
Sonic felt ground beneath him once again and the familiar lab of Tails came into focus. He looked over at Tails who also rubbed his eyes to get them focused again. “We’re—we’re back.” Sonic quietly said.
“My lab, it’s in ruins!” Tails cried as he looked at the mess, that the explosion had caused.
“Well, I guess we better get started on cleaning up.” Sonic tried to say cheerfully. He picked out a broom from the supplies closet and began to sweep up the mess.
THE END!