"Pathetic"
Solaria's eyes opened to the sound of the insult.
"If you keep this loosing streak up, then maybe its time I take over this body" The voice had a edge to it that Solaria recognized all too well.
"We both know that will not happen, I took on the responsibility of sealing your essence in myself for however long it took for your energy to burn out" the hedgehog said. She stood, or floated since there wasn't technically ground, and scanned the vast expanse of her mind's realm.
"That white horse overpowered your will with a simple message, not a direct take over, it probably wasn't even intended for you to receive it," the voice whispered to her from everywhere, "your growing weaker admit it Solares Novalia, it's time for you to give up!"
Solaria hated to admit defeat, and her adversary's argument was fully true. She had been feeling weaker ever since that creature had sealed her in the realm of shadow. But she didn't care in the least.
"I don't care, even if you're right my duty is to keep you sealed," Solaria growled, working her mental lock to consciousness, "And Im not about to fail that duty"
With that said she opened the lock, and returned to reality.
***
If Unknown had to pick the worst point in his time in this journey, it would have been now. The group consisting of Shadow, Tails, Amy, Pinkie, and himself were facing off with one of the weirdest creatures created.
It was a translucent semi-liquid being with a constantly changing body. It had four eyes, two glowing lime green that rested below two yellow ones, on its head. It's head looked like a serpent's with an alligator's jaws, lined with almost cartoon like teeth that curled at random angles.
It's arms also looked like a fusion, with the liquid body surrounding a mechanical upper arm, a lion's arm and paw on the right with each digit displaying a different claw, and a over-sized mechanical talon on it's left arm.
Its legs were a reverse design of the arms, the lower legs and feet were mechanical and had a blue liquid "skin", and the upper legs consisted of one covered in scales, and the other covered in brown fur.
Whenever any of them took a stab at doing any kind of damage the creature just unleashed hell on them in the form of a rain of energy bolts, or the ground underneath them becoming as slippery as wet ice.
"Who or what is that thing?" Unknown said as he was pelted by what appeared to be a frozen chocolate milk hailstorm.
"I don't know," came the reply from Shadow, "but whatever it is they are, without a doubt stronger than all of us!"
"Guys, Amy and Pinkie are hurt!" Tails cried over a torrent of sticky pink clouds. The two hedgehogs looked over at the two girls; Amy had a gash on her forehead and Pinkie had various cuts on her body from the onslaught of attacks.
"Well we cant seem to do much to this thing anyways, the best plan would be to hide, recover, and plan," Unknown conceded, turning around to pick up Pinkie Pie. Shadow scooped up Amy in his arms and glared at the others.
"If anyone tells Sonic about this I swear they are as good as dead" he growled. If there was one thing he didn't need; it was sonic making fun of this example of his 'caring' for Amy.
***
"You left her there!?"
Luna winced as her sister pointed out the tactical error of leaving the girl in the remains of the cell, instead of having her contained again for further questioning.
They were in a a hospital room, it was separate from the others and allowed Luna to work her basic healing magic in peace.
"We were worried about our big sister," Luna responded softly "the act of our sister's recovery was of the utmost importance at the time"
"Luna that girl is dangerous she went from completely calm to deadly insane in an instant," Celestia stopped to try and compose herself before continuing "and her power, she was careless, but it was overwhelming. Sonic managed to beat me, but he needed help to bring me down. This girl is a whole n---"
The two were interrupted by the doors to the room flying open and a earth pony guard rushing in. He wore a worried expression and it looked as if he had been running quite a while.
"Your highnesses," he said while giving a quick bow "The girl has managed to evade our pegasi's pursuit and is now running through the city, we are currently working on finding her but there has been nothing reported yet."
"Keep up the search, I will not allow that monster to hurt anypony else," Celestia said before adding in, "My sister and I will also help the search effort"
The guard gave a surprised expression, once he composed himself he asked "A-are you sure princess?"
"That thing is powerful and fast, there is no telling what she will do, and I don't want her hurting my subjects!" And with that Celestia exited the room making her way towards the hospital's exit.
***
'man, these ponies are annoying' Solaria raced from street to alley to rooftop and back to street. Trying to evade the pony's following was turning out to be harder than she thought. Her biggest problem was the number of ponies and carridges on the streets. and the not-so-stable roofs of the buildings.
She heard a guard call out something, but she didn't pay any attention to it. Though a moment later she wished she had as 4 blue walls of shimmering energy encased her.
"got you now you spiky haired freak," came the taunt of the guard who had trapped her.
Solaria screamed as her body was suddenly shot through with arcane energy. She could the guard chuckling to himself quietly as he watched her misery.
"That is enough private!" An older guard snapped, but to everyone's surprise the private ignored him and kept taunting his prisoner.
"How do you feel now you freak of nature? Not so hot now that you're bei--"
"ENOUGH!" Solaria's eye flashed white and then filled with a dark shade of violet. Her fur went from a its normal silver to a shade as dark as a black hole. Arcane energy absorbed from the private's trap coursed around her body, creating a suit of armor held together by sheer will. She glared at the private, but her gaze seemed to go through him and directly to his heart.
She didn't attack, she didn't move, and she didn't say anything. She stood only a few feet away from the terrified pony, the arcane energy crackling and snapping like a whip.
There was a sudden flash, as a large arc of energy surged through her body. In that split second the guard could've sworn that the girl had a pair of ghostly, golden wings on her back and was holding a lance of some sort. He dismissed them as a trick of the eye, because; as quickly as they had appeared the disappeared leaving behind only the angry beast from before.
The private whimpered in fear, as the girl's angered expression changed to a feral grin. And it was this that scared the guard more than anything else. For it was the expression of a savage, it was the expression of someone who wanted their enemy to die in the slowest and most painful manner right before their own eyes.
There was a sudden flash of light so bright that made the sun look dark, and then the beast was gone. The only indication that anything had been there was a burn mark on the street, and a thoroughly scared young guard.
***
"Chaos Spear!" Shadow yelled as a tentacle came to smack him. His attack blasted the appendage apart, but it was a hollow victory as three more tentacles took the place of the one. Shadow didn't have the energy to launch a counter to the attack.
"Sonic wind!" several blue arrows of energy flew past the group and went on to sever the writhing tentacles. Shadow looked to his left to see Sonic, Knuckles, and Rouge.
"Where's Cream?" Shadow asked noticing the young girl's absence.
"She's with Twilight and her friends at the hospital" Sonic answered as he dodged another tentacle.
"Twilight as in Twilight Sparkle?" Shadow asked as he struck another tentacle with a chaos spear.
"Yeah that's right, how'd you know?"
"She told me about twilight and her friends" Shadow said gesturing towards Pinkie Pie.
The two leapt out of the way as another tentacle smashed into the space where they had been standing.
"What is this thing anyways?" Rouge asked, avoiding the tentacles that tried to grab her as she flew.
"Does it look like anyone here knows?" Knuckles retorted, punching through one of the writhing tendrils.
"Can we just focus on whats going on here?!" Tails interjected, flying up to the pair before they started a fight of their own
At first the group held their ground against the creature, with Sonic and Shadow preforming fast dashes and disorienting maneuvers and the others doing what they could to try and bring the monstrosity down. But soon they were all starting to reach their personal limits.
Sonic and Shadow started to slow down, and when the creature attacked them they couldn't get out of the way. Rouge, Knuckles, and Tails were forced to land as they to grew tired. The lack of air attacks meant that the creature could attack the group without splitting between targets in the air and targets on the ground. Amy and even Pinkie Pie started to loose energy, winding up hitting each other most of the time.
Only Unknown was left to defend the group from the full force of the creatures attacks. He unleashed bolts of chaos energy to sever limbs, and he delivered quick strikes when he could. But for all his power, he knew he couldn't keep this thing at bay forever.
There was a loud bang, and then an explosion which made the monster stumble. Shadow smiled as E-123 Omega stomped into view.
"Annihilate!" The robot said, unleashing a torrent of bullets and missiles at the beast.
Even though this beast was strong even it didn't seem to be able to brush off omega's virtually unending barrage. The beast collapsed into a kneeling position weakened by the robot's attack.
'time to end this' unknown unleashed a concentrated ball of power right at the head of the foe. The mixed up creature crumpled under the the attack, and fell defeated.
But before anyone could celebrate the monster suddenly dissolved into a cyan liquid mass and disappeared in a flash of white light.
"Please tell me that that thing was defeated" Rouge said, worry in her voice.
"For now at least," Unknown answered, "For now..."