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// Chapter 3: Evil meets Evil 
// Story: Mobius and Equestria: Worlds Collide 
// by AngelShy24 
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Earlier during the night…


Metal Sonic escorted the scientific criminal from Equestria, Solar Dusk, to the lair fortress of its creator, Dr. Eggman. The sight of the fortress astounded Solar alone; admiring the metal structure, the hi-tech security and numerous robot minions. Solar Dusk was really starting to like this genius’ tastes. 
“We are here,” said Metal Sonic as they approached the main entrance.
Solar curiously watched as Metal Sonic placed its robotic claw on a scanning pad and then heard a computer confirmation.
‘Metal Sonic, acknowledged.’
The door opened and Metal Sonic went forward.
“This way.”
Being cautious of his surroundings, Solar Dusk went forward tailing after the robotic hedgehog. But when he stepped through the door way, he set off an alarm that caused him to be surrounded by security weapons preparing to fire.
‘Intruder alert! Unauthorized subject has entered the stronghold! Prepare to neutralize; repeat, prepare to neutralize!’
Solar Dusk was on guard with his horn glowing preparing to defend himself. But suddenly, Metal Sonic stopped and spoke…
“Security override code; eggruler01557.”
After that, all of the security disappeared.
‘Override code accepted, cancelling neutralizing process; have a nice day.’
“Your creator sure doesn’t mess around with his security, does he?” questioned Solar Dusk catching his breath.
“It is the necessary precaution for the one who threatens the master’s plan.”
“Who are you talking about?” asked Solar Dusk.
But Metal Sonic just continued on forward and said, “Come, my creator awaits for you.”
The way the robot was acting was freaking Solar out a bit, but it was a robot after all. And after that last little mishaps, he made sure to watch his footing.
Metal Sonic led him down a series of corridors until they finally got to the main control room. The doors opened, and they walked inside where all of the main central actions took place. There also was a chair that was facing away from them, and one that sat in it spoke in an unusual chipper tone.
“Well, Metal Sonic, you’re finally back! I can guess that you’ve been successful in fetching our new… friend?”
“The subject known as Solar Dusk has been apprehended and brought to you as requested, Dr. Eggman.”
“Splendid, splendid!” The evil scientist then spun around in his chair, “Now then, let’s take a look at…” but then he became awkwardly silent as he saw who was suddenly in front of him; he didn’t seem too impressed at first.
“Whoa, so I guess the rumors are true; you really are a… pony.”
“And what does that supposed to mean?” Solar scoffed.
“Oh nothing, nothing; it’s just that… well, looking like… that just doesn’t make you look so… intimidating.”
Suddenly, Solar Dusk’s eyes glowed with power as it surged through his body. Eggman got startled as he suddenly saw some of his robot henchmen (not counting Metal Sonic) malfunctioning and then becoming defenseless.
“Is this intimidating enough for you?”
As Solar Dusk ceased his power, Eggman sat back up straight in his chair and was applauding the powerful stallion. “Bravo, my friend, bravo; you really are more powerful than you look! Sorry if I ever doubted you.”
“So, you’re Doctor Eggman,” said Solar coyly, “the greatest evil genius mind in this world. You’re definitely not like anything I’ve ever seen before. What are you, some kind of hybrid or something?”
Eggman suddenly felt a little insulted, “No, I’m a human! Are you saying that you’ve never seen a human before?”
“No, can’t say that I have.”
“W-w-w-well… never mind that; forget about me. As much as it pains me to say it, let’s talk about you. I’ve heard that you’re capable of great talent; you’ve created a tool that can control one’s mind just by using your own magic. That’s very impressive. And you also came close to overpowering your world’s supreme ruler; isn’t that right?”
Solar Dusk was very skeptical of how someone that he didn’t eve know somehow knew about him and what he’s done in the past. “How do you know about all of this, Doctor?” 
“Why, a little birdie told me.”
Solar Dusk looked at Eggman and arched his eyebrow.
“No, seriously; one of my robotic egg birds told me; well… technically showed me”
(Imagine Flashback)
"I was just relaxing one day after dealing with some rather… major annoyances and one of my egg birds spies came back and showed me a video feed of something rather interesting. It was someone telling my nemesis and all of his friends of a huge adventure she had in another world when she was sucked in a portal here in our world. She mentioned of a power hungry megalomaniac who tried to use a frightening power to control others’ minds and rule their world, which I’m guessing is you. She said that she teamed up with some… ponies and helped defeated you and put you in slammer. I thought it was a little farfetched, but I’ve seen weirder things.”
(End Flashback)
“This someone,” said Solar Dusk, “it wouldn't happen to be one named Cream, would it?”
“Ah yes, Cream the Rabbit, and her little Chao friend, Cheese. I have to admit, after seeing what you’re capable of now, I’m quite surprised that you were beaten by them and a bunch of pansy ponies.”
Solar gritted his teeth and slightly glared at the doctor for saying that, “I doubt it’s any different for you, Doctor. And besides, the ones that she teamed up with are not your normal everyday pansy ponies. They have strong abilities that you wouldn’t expect.”
“Well, it definitely wouldn’t surprise me,” Eggman responded.
“So cut to the chase,” Solar asked, “what is your reason for sending your freakish robot lackey into my world and bringing me here; and how did you do it?”
“Heh heh, excellent question. You and I both strive for the same thing, world domination. I’m always at work of fulfilling my plans of conquering this world and ruling over all with an iron fist! However, no matter how diabolical my schemes are, they’re always oiled and ruined thanks to a bunch of foolish troublemakers; especially my number one nemesis, Sonic the Hedgehog!”
“Your main enemy who ruins your plans… is a hedgehog?” said Solar Dusk unsurely.
“It does sound rather silly at first, does it? But make no mistake, he’s not to be trifled with!” Eggman then brought up a screen showing a picture of who he was talking about. “Despite his size, he’s cunning, cocky, and would do anything to put my plans to a halt. Plus, he runs very fast; so fast in fact that he could possibly run faster than the speed of sound! That my friend is what makes him so formidable; aside from the fact that he never seems to give up.”
“A hedgehog who can run faster than the speed of sound?” Solar Dusk curiously wondered, “And I thought that annoying rabbit girl in a dress was a freak of nature.”
Eggman then continued his explanation, “But once I heard Cream’s story of her time in your world and the huge you almost accomplished, it brought a wonderful idea to my brilliant mind! If I could find and use the power of that portal to somehow gain access into your world and successfully break you out, you could lend your expertise to me to finally defeat Sonic and conquer this world; and in return, I could help you conquer your world and gain revenge on those who locked you away! It’s such an irresistible deal, is it?”
Solar Dusk had already made up his mind. After seeing what Eggman was capable of and what he had to offer, he knew that he would be almost invincible with this scientist.
“Doctor Eggman,” he said with a smirk and holding out his hoof, “you have yourself a deal.”
“Excellent,” said Eggman as he shook Solar’s hoof sealing the deal, “I knew there was a chance that you wouldn’t want to miss an opportunity like this.”
“You have no idea of how right you are.”
“Now then,” Eggman continued, “For your question of how I gained access into your world, it was quite easy.”

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Presently…

After appearing in this world and meeting with a… unusual character, Twilight and her friends ventured onward in the huge forest looking for any signs of other life forms. All of them looking around and observing the new world they were in, they were not too surprised of what they could see. In fact, it reminded them a little of their forest back home. Eventually, they found their way out and were welcomed to a very beautiful sight of green hills and wide pastures; it was unlike anything any of them have ever seen.
“Wow, look at this place,” said Fluttershy, “it’s so beautiful! I wonder if this is Green Hill Zone.”
“If it is,” said Twilight, “then our friend, Cream should be around here somewhere. Now it’s just a matter of finding her, or at least someone who can lead us to her.”
“Time to play ‘where’s Cream!’” shouted Pinkie.
Suddenly, Rainbow Dash came flying down from the sky and responded, “More like finding Cream in a hay stack! I just flew up hundreds of feet in the air, and this place is huuuuuge! How the hay are we going to find her?!”
Suddenly, Fluttershy felt Angel tugging on her fur trying to get her attention, “What is it, Angel?”
He was pointing at a garage building that was straight ahead of them down a little hill. They all saw it and knew that it was someone’s… especially since there was a double seated plane parked right beside it.
“Ooh, that seems like a good place to start looking for little Creamy,” Pinkie stated.
“What’s a garage doing in the middle of a huge, grassy pasture?” said Spike, “Not saying it’s weird, just… unusual.”
“Let’s check it out,” said Twilight, “maybe someone is there.”
They all made their way to the warehouse in the middle of the grassy plains and cautiously walked to the entrance to look inside. What they saw was a bunch of garage tools and many mechanical parts sat all around; almost like this was some sort of manufacturing plant. But then, they heard someone talking to itself.  Whoever it was sounded like they were working on something.
“Alright, tractor beam, work your magic.”
It was another giant animal just like their friend Cream was; although it didn’t seem to be wearing much clothes.
“That’s a… fox,” said Twilight.
But there was still something else about it that was unusual to them. 
“A fox with… 2 tails?!” shouted Spike.
To them, seeing a normal animal like a fox that has twin tails was something out of the ordinary to them; and they thought Cream looked a little unusual.
“Darn it,” said the creature while wiping some sweat from its forehead, “I guess I still need more time to iron out some bugs; and I don’t know if time is on our side.”
Suddenly, Fluttershy finally recognized who the fox was, “I think that’s… Tails.”
“Yes, it has Tails,” said Rainbow sarcastically, “isn’t it that obvious?”
“No, his name is Tails; a bit ironic, I know, but it is.”
“That fox is a boy?” Pinkie questioned.
Twilight knew they couldn’t continue to ponder on things, so she told the others, “Come on, let’s just talk to him?”
They carefully walked in and Fluttershy quietly said to the fox, “Um, excuse me; can we uh… talk to you for a second?”
But luckily, he heard her and responded, “Sure, just give me a sec…” But when he turned around, “sweet, sparkling gems!” he almost stumbled being caught off guard at what he saw.
“Hi there!” shouted Pinkie.
He just stood there staring at them and studying there appearance trying to figure out who they were. But then, a light bulb went off in his head as said, “Wait a minute… have I… seen you guys somewhere before?”
“That all depends;” said Rarity, “maybe a friend of yours told you about us.”
“Huh, are you guys…” Tails started to wonder.
Fluttershy came a little closer showing a friendly smile and said, “My name’s Fluttershy and these are my friends. We’ve come from another world on an urgent mission.”
The young fox suddenly gasped as his eyes grew wide in astonishment; he couldn’t believe it. “Oh my gosh; you guys are… Cream’s pony friends from that other world that she mysteriously got transported to!”
“He’s finally catching on;” said Rainbow Dash, “smart fox.”
“Th-t-this is such an honor!” he shouted excitedly, “Cream said many awesome things about you guys; especially you, um… Fluttershy! I can’t believe that… you’re all actually here!”
Twilight and her friends were actually amused seeing a creature such as this one being all excited to be in their presence. 
“You’re quite enthusiastic about seeing a bunch of colorful ponies, aren’t you?” asked Twilight.
The fox suddenly calmed down and blushed a bit out of embarrassment; he had to get himself together. “S-sorry, how rude of me; my name is Miles Prower, but all my main friends call me by my nickname, Tails. D-d-did you say that you were here on an important mission?”
“Um… yes, we did,” said Fluttershy, “It’s really important that we speak with your friend Cream. Do you know where she is right now?” 
Tails shook his head, “Not in particular, but… you could try her house where she lives with her mother, Miss Vanilla. Those fields of flowers over there will lead you straight to it; you can’t miss it.”
“Wow, that really helps a lot; thank you,” said Fluttershy.
“No worries; Cream is really special to me and well… her story about being in your world impressed me even more. I… I do anything for her.”
Angel, who was sitting on Fluttershy’s shoulder noticed how Tails was acting thinking about Cream; the one he loved. He was blushing slightly and he sighed a bit; that was proof enough for him to see what was going on.
Tails suddenly saw him climb on top of Fluttershy’s head and was scowling and chattering angrily at him while shaking his curled up paw. Seeing that it was directed at him, Tails became concerned.
“What’s up with the bunny?”
“Oh, d-don’t mind Angel,” Fluttershy said nervously as she pulled Angel off her head and away from Tails, “he was just… um, showing off his tough exterior is all.”
Tails just shrugged his shoulders, “Whatever you say.”
Twilight and her friends were about to leave out, but then Twilight looked back over to the young fox and said, “You know, Tails, maybe you should try and contact some of your other friends to come to us, including yourself. I have a big feeling that this matter might get all of you involved.”
“Say no more,” Tails responded, “I’ll get right on it! And uh… by the way, are you ponies really filled with magical powers?”
“Oh, I say that they are as much as you are a mechanical genius here,” said Spike seeing all of the mechanical equipment around them.
“Huh? O-o-oh, ha ha, I get it; thanks. See you guys later!”
After walking out of the warehouse, they were on the trail again going toward their directed route to find their old friend, Cream.
“Cute kid,” said Applejack, “though it’s hard to believe that he’s as smart as he is at his young age. He’s like, wut, 8?”
“And he really seemed to like Cream a lot,” said Pinkie as she was smiling and bouncing along, “Looks like someone has competition; or is it the other way around?”
Angel growled a bit knowing that what Pinkie said was right. But he wasn’t about to lose this fight.
“Sorry, Angel,” said Fluttershy, “I’m afraid that you’re just going to have to deal with it. Your actions back there were unnecessary.”
Angel crossed arms and made a little ‘hmph’ sound as he was pouting.
“Jealous much?” stated Spike.
“Come on, guys,” said Twilight while leading the way, “we can’t waste any time. Let’s go pay our dear friend a little visit.”
After they left, Tails was all excited about what was suddenly happening and went over to his com link radio and called out to a certain friend of his.
“Sonic, Sonic! Do you read me, Sonic?! Come in, Sonic!”
His friend, Sonic the Hedgehog, had a radio ear piece and could hear anything that he transmitted, “I read ya loud and clear, buddy; what’s going on?”
“Well first of all, have you found Eggman’s base yet?”
“’Fraid not; Eggman sure must be planning something big if he has his base hidden so well that even I can’t spot it.”
“No kidding. But anyway, if you’re not having any luck, you have to come down to Green Hill quick; you won’t believe what just happened!”
“Wanna bet; tell me all the details, Tails.”

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Again, earlier in the day…

Eggman told Solar Dusk all about how he was able to free him from the prison of his world and got him here; and then, he brought some normal gems that he had and gave them to Solar to work with and prove his abilities. Once he was done, and Eggman saw the two little trinkets Solar made infused with his magic, Eggman was blown away yet again.
“That is incredible; such impressive skills tinkering with gems and modifying them for your own use! Something like this I could eventually do even with my genius mind, but you… you did it in mere minutes! It’s truly a work of art!
“Of course it is,” Solar scoffed, “it’s my own personal creation. These gems enriched with the essence of my power will be the very key to our success.”
Excited to see the gems potential use, Eggman stated, “Um, not to sound very doubtful of you, but how can you be sure that they’ll work? B-b-but of course they will work, but, um… I wish to see proof.”
Solar Dusk looked over at Eggman with an unsure scowl, but then agreed, “Very well; do you have any robot lackeys that’ll make good test subjects?”
That was a no brainer for Eggman, “Oh ho, I have just the ones.” And then he shouted out, “Orbot, Cubot; report to me at once!”
Solar suddenly witnessed 2 small robots rushing into the room; both very alert and ready to do anything.
The yellow cube one named Cubot was acting very peculiar, “Orbot and Cubot, ready to serve ya, Dr. E!”
And the red orb one named Orbot was trying to be so polite to Eggman and not get on his bad side, “And may I say that you look rather marvelous today. Did you do something to your mustache?”
“Can it with the kiss-up speeches,” Eggman shouted, “We have a visitor.”
Both bots looked nearby and saw a dark-looking pony creature staring at them in a weird way. But they became highly excited seeing who it was.
“Oh my, you must be Solar Dusk,” said Orbot, “it’s such an honor to meet you!”
“A big honor, yo!” said Cubot, “We heard of your great feats, and they are off the hizzle, dawg!”
All Solar could do was stare awkwardly at the strange yellow robot, and then looked over at Eggman to see if he could give a good explanation for it.
“Ugh… please don’t ask,” stated Eggman, “His voice chip is always getting stuck on… certain settings. It’s best to just go along with it.”
Cubot then continued to give his praise to the evil stallion, “Your specialty with gems is quite fascinating; and with our boss impressed by your skills, I find it real tempting to know more. I am willing to do anything to help assist you in any way possible.”
“Is that so?” said Solar wearing a devious little smile. He then used his magic to float his freshly made gem collars over to the two robot minions, “Well, as thanks why don’t you two try on these; they’re quite the fashion statement.”
“Ooh, quite dazzling,” said Orbot feeling rather intrigued.
Both bots reached out and placed each of the collars around their neck joints. Solar couldn’t believe how gullible these two henchman of this scientist was.
“I’m liking the look of this bling!” Cubot exclaimed.
“Hmm, it doesn’t look half bad on me,” said Orbot, “I like it!”
“Yeah, man; and there is absolutely no downside wearing this…”
All of a sudden, both bots became silent and their eyes began glowing with a dark purple shade of color. Eggman looked over at Solar Dusk and noticed that he was emitting magic from his horn and it was activating the mind-control gems round his minion’s neck joints. A tiny smirk appeared on Solar’s face as he suddenly commanded…
“Now, Orbot and Cubot, fight; dismantle each other!”
Orbot and Cubot looked at each other with a little angered glare in their eyes, and then they went at it full-throttle! Eggman watched with delight as he witnessed both of his bots beating at each other with strong precision strikes.
“Marvelous; absolutely marvelous!” he shouted, “This is just perfect! This is the kind of power I need to conquer this world; and it’s quite impressive that you can control more than one with your magic at once!”
“You underestimate me yet again, Doctor Eggman,” said Solar Dusk with a light scowl, “With my magic potential, I could control a whole army of mindless soldiers. And even better, these gems of mine can make others stronger than they were before.”
Eggman could definitely see that point. Orbot and Cubot weren’t exactly built for battle, but yet he was now witnessing them clobbering the bolts out of each other; it was truly a great spectacle for him.
“Now I like the sound of that!”
Eventually, the two bots’ bodies were completely worn out, and their heads were on the ground completely unattached from their own bodies. Afterwards, Solar Dusk floated the collars off of them and their power levels went back to normal.
“Ooooo… what in the world just happened?” wondered Orbot.
“Ah dang,” shouted Cubot, “I can’t feel my body! Oh, wait, there it is; heh heh.”
“Did this have something to do with those trinkets?” said Orbot, “I should have known that we were just being used as guinea pigs. Don’t we mean more to you than that, boss?”
“Quit your whining, Orbot; I’ll get a service bot to come and fix you two up later. But first… Metal Sonic, go fetch some more gems in the Egg-treasure trove for our brilliant friend here! The more, the better!”
“As you command, Master,” it replied as it floated out of the room.
After Metal Sonic left the room, Solar Dusk noticed something from the corner of his eye. He turned around and noticed a familiar looking gem that was shimmering in a highly secure case. He wasn’t quite sure of what it was, but he did remember hearing something about a powerful gem.
“Wait, is that…”
Eggman saw him eyeing the gem and calmly walked over to it, “Ah, I see that you have a keen eye.” He then unlocked the case and then held up the gem firmly in his hand, “This is a Chaos Emerald; one of seven others actually. They are magical gem that exist here in our world and each one are undeniably powerful alone! They say that whoever possess and can control all 7 will become indestructible with powers beyond your comprehension!”
A small grin appeared on Solar’s face as he floated the gem in front of him; analyzing it thoroughly and witnessing its sure brilliance.
“Yes… yes, this could work perfectly. Imagine what I could do with a gem as powerful as this.”
But when he sat it near his two freshly made controlling gems, a huge power surge emitted in front of Solar; the powers of his gems and the Chaos Emerald was canceling against each other.
“Ahhhhhh!!!”
When the surge was over, Solar saw that his two gems that he just created were blown to smithereens all of the table in front of him, “No, my crafted gems; they’re completely destroyed!”
“Oh dear, such a shame,” said Orbot.
“Tough luck, homie,” added Cubot.
Eggman saw everything too and was feeling quite embarrassed, “Well, um… I guess your magic is uh… not exactly compatible with the power of the Chaos Emeralds.”
Solar was huffing and puffing out of frustration; feeling quite upset of the fact that he couldn’t even use one of this world’s most powerful resources. But he then soon calmed down and decided to not let it get to him.
“No matter, even without that, my gems will be too strong for anyone to stop. Just make sure to keep that threat away from my work.”
“Heh heh, fu-fully noted,” said nervously Eggman as he carefully placed the emerald back in his secured case. “So, um… getting off of this awkward moment, why don’t you tell me more about this all powerful ruler in your world that imprisoned you.”
“Princess Celestia,” said Solar with some anger in his tone, “Her powers are unbelievable. She has the power to raise the sun every day; and her sister, Luna raises the moon every night. One might think that their powers match as close to that of a god.”
To Eggman, someone like that remind him too much of overly powerful creatures that he tried to control over in the past, but it had always backfired on him somehow. But with another creature from that other world on his side already confidant of doing it himself, he figured… how could this go wrong?
“Sound like these two princesses of yours will be tough to conquer. With powers like that, I’m guessing that you have a plan?”
“Oh you bet I do,” said Solar; floating a dozen gems in front of him and analyzing them, “I have been planning my revenge ever since that wretched, royal spoiler locked my powers away and sentenced me to chore work for the rest of my life.” Then another smile came on to his face, “But once her and her sister’s power is under my control, that will all change. No one is going to stop me this time; no one.”
“Yo, can someone like scratch my metallic bum;” Cubot suddenly shouted out, “it itches so badly.”
Both Eggman and Solar Dusk groaned while covering their faces with their hand/hoof.
“Ugh, I’ve seen newborn foals smarter than these useless dumb-bots,” Solar thought to himself.