Unknown Zone
Planet Equis
Ponyville Outskirts
Julie-Su nervously leaned over the side of the chariot, watching the ground rush by below her and the occasional cloud crossed her vision. She wasn't afraid of heights or flying, living on Angel Island made sure of that, but falling to her death was a different matter. The chariot felt unnatural beneath her feet, swaying in the wind slightly much like a ship would on the open waters, and the open back made her feel like she could slip out at any moment.
Looking slightly above her, and to the right of the chariot, she saw Luna, a Princess she had learned, flying along beside her, opting not to ride with the Mobians so they would have a comfortable amount of room. Her sister, Celestia flew alongside them as well, above and to the left, but a but more distant, giving the echidna the impression that she still wasn't completely trusted.
"So, how exactly are we not falling?" The echidna asked the navy blue alicorn, deciding to scratch the itch in her brain. "You know, seeing how this thing doesn't even have wings."
"Wings?" Luna looked at the mobian confused. "Why would it need wings?"
"Well I don't know much about aerodynamics, seeing as I was raised to be a soldier, but I do know that you need to create lift to get something off the ground, be it propellers or wings."
"I do not know what ‘Propellers’ are, but I can assure you that chariots do not require wings of their own while they are attached to a pegasus." Luna explained, gesturing to the duo of armor clad pegasai pulling the chariot. "A pegasai's magic makes itself lighter than a feather, which is passively passed on to whatever they are touching, allowing them to fly with objects that normally have to stay on the ground."
"So that's how they can get off the ground." A familiar purple chameleon spoke up from the other side of the chariot, sitting at its back end meditating, and drew the attention of both the females. "I had assumed that the pegasai had hollow bones like birds, but I see that I was wrong."
"So he can speak?" Luna lightheartedly joked.
"Yeah, he tends to stay quiet on most occasions. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with him being a ninja."
"A Ninja?" The alicorn looked at Espio in surprise.
"Shinobi is the proper term," The Chameleon corrected, opening his sharp yellow eyes for a moment to look at the princess. "but yes, I am a ninja."
"Fascinating." Luna said as she flew a little closer to the chariot. "I read about the ninjas of our own world rise during my thousand years on the moon, but I never thought I would meet any, and certainly never one from another world."
"Wait, a thousand years on the moon?" Julie looked at Luna, shock and surprise on her face. "What were you… How?"
"It is not something I like to converse about." Luna replied Somberly.
"But a Thousand years. How old are you?"
"A few millennia at least. I lost track after…
The dark alicorn was interrupted as she gasped and banked hard to the right, narrowly avoiding an energy bolt that shot through the air where her previous flight path would have taken her. All the pegasai and the two alicorns stopped mid air, except for the two who were connected to the chariot, who banked sharply and began to fly in a small circle to prevent their passengers from falling out. The ponies began to frantically search their surroundings, examining the sky as the tried to find who would dare attack the princess of the night. One of the guards, a dark pegasus with what appeared to be bat wings called out first.
"Contacts! Twelve O'clock low!" The batpony shouted, pointing in the direction it had indicated. "About Thirty of them and their heading straight for us!"
"Good eye Lieutenant." Luna praised the Bat pony before turning to face the enemy. She was not expecting what she saw. Two an a half dozen metallic creatures were making their way towards the company of ponies, firing beams of deadly energy which got more accurate the closer they got, and almost clipped the alicorns wings a few times.
Unwilling to take any casualties to this ambush, the dark alicorn lit her horn up in a blue aura, forming a shield in front of the group that absorbed the shots. Meanwhile, Celestia's own horn was glowing a brilliant gold, and magic shards began to materialize around her, forming a curtain of golden razors.
"Luna, drop the shield!" Celestia commanded. In an instant the shield dissipated into a blue fog that obscured each party from from the other. The moment the barrier was gone, Celestia rose her horn and swept it downwards quickly in a striking motion, sending the magic shards around her towards the machines at a blinding speed.
Each shard hit its mark, effectively ripping through the dense metal of the robots, and tearing them apart. What remained of the machines plummeted to the ground far below, where they would likely shatter on impact, leaving little to no evidence of what they might have been.
"What were those creatures?" Luna asked, bemused at the machines appearance.
"E-1002 Egg Flappers." Julie replied from her spot in the chariot, which was still circling the group in tight loops. "There the main aerial troops in Eggman's army. But how did they get here? Did they follow us somehow?"
"The energy wave that hit us was quite large," Espio said, sliding a kunai that he had taken out back under his arm brace. "Its not unreasonable to assume that it brought some of Eggman's robots across the multiverse as well."
"I guess." The Echidna said thoughtfully, holstering her pistol. "If that's the case, then there may be more badniks elsewhere, and maybe even some of the civilians from Knothole came through too."
"Then we should hurry," Espio agreed, "there,s no telling how many of Eggmans robots and Knothole civilians got through. The question is where do we start looking."
"If I may intervene?" Celestia said, drawing their attention. "I think we might have an idea of where to go."
"Really?"
"Yes, if I'm not mistaken those ‘Egg Flappers’ came from the direction we were headed, from a small town that goes by the name of Ponyville." Celestia explained, scanning the horizon.
"Is that where we were going before we were attacked?" Julie-Su asked.
"Yes." The white alicorn turned back to them. "I had a feeling that there might be some answers to how you arrived in our world there."
"What, why?"
"Because there were reports of a bright flash coming from over the town, and Luna and I can feel a large magical distortion coming from that direction as well."
"In any case, If Eggman's robots are in that town then its inhabitants are in danger." Espio said, his voice filled with a sense of urgency. "We should get moving as fast as we can."
"Agreed." Celestia nodded. "Luna, take two of your guards and head back to Canterlot. Organize the guard and send a detachment to Ponyville as quickly as possible. And send Discord as well."
"Wait, What, Discord!" Luna looked shocked. "Why in the world would you possibly want him there? "
"Yes, I have a feeling we might need his help." Celestia nodded again.
"Help?" The lunar alicorn said in disbelief. "Sister, that foul cretin can not be trusted! Especially after the torture he put us though the last few weeks."
"Luna, those were harmless pranks."
"That he pulled off during public affairs!" Luna argued. "And what about the giant gummy arachnid he let loose in the castle during they diplomatic meeting with the griffons?"
"Wait, What?" Julie-Su looked at the sisters for an explanation to what she had just heard, though she did not receive one as Luna continued.
"That was hardly harmless! He sent thirteen guards to the infirmary and almost single-handedly ruined relations between Equestria and Gryf!" Luna recounted the events that had occurred a few weeks prior.
"And he was properly punished for it." Celestia said, not letting Lunas reminders get to her.
"I still don't think spending thirty seconds inside the core of the sun wasn't sever enough."
"Luna, please," The solar princess sighed. "I don't trust him either but we may need him."
"But sister…" Luna begged, but was stopped by her sister.
"No Luna." Celestia said with finality in her voice. "Now get back to the Castle."
"Fine!" Luna reluctantly obeyed, knowing that she could not change her sisters mind. "But when he stabs you in the back and pushes you into a vat of molten licorice filled with pony-eating Parana's, don't come crying to me!"
"So what was that about a giant gummy spider?" Julie asked, extremely curious.
"Trust me, the less you know about that abomination the better." Celestia told the Echidna, as she tried to block out that horrible memory. "We should get going. I'm worried about the condition of Ponyville."
…
Unknown Zone
Planet Equis
Canterlot Castle
10 minutes after Egg Flapper ambush
"We cannot believe our sister would want the help of that foul draconaquis over our self!" Luna ranted as she landed on the balcony that led to her quarters. Pushing the glass pane doors open she stomped into her bedroom before turning around to see the two bat pony guards she had brought with her land as well.
"Silver Wing! Black Wind!" The lunar princess called to them, probably a little louder than she should have, because the two flinched away from her as she did so.
"Yes your majesty?" The two bat ponies said as they bowed.
"Silver, head down to the barracks and put the guard on high alert." Luna ordered the mare to her left. "Anypony on leave is to return to duty immediately. Go."
"As you wish Princess." The mare replied. The bat pony then turned around and jumped out the balconies open doors, spreading her wings to glide away. Once the mare was gone Luna turned her attention towards the remaining Bat Pony Stallion.
"Black Wind," Luna began, her voice still exceptionally loud. "Thou are to retrieve Captains Gadget Bolt, Flame Spinner, and Aquamarine. Once thou find them, bring them here post-haste."
"As you wish." The stallion replied before he too left through the balcony door.
With the two lunar guards gone to do their tasks, Luna bit her lower lip. What she needed to do next she was against, for it would mean she would have to let a creature she didn't and never would fully trust aid in a situation that was already going to be filled with enough chaos. Going against all her better judgement, the lunar mare inhaled, and then let it out.
"DISCORD!!" Luna yelled out, using the royal canterlot voice so that the draqconuis would be able to hear her no matter where he was in the castle. It took only seconds for him to make his appearance.
"Why hello Loony." Discords voice came from behind Luna's right ear, causing the dark alicorn to flinch away as she looked back. The draconiquis was lazily hanging off of Luna, his griffon like arm wrapped loosely around her neck as the rest of his body swayed in the wind that came from the open balcony. "So what can I do for you on this fine day?"
"Keep thy talons off us Discord, or thou shall regret it." Luna threatened as she pushed the chaotic mixture of creatures away with her wing.
"Well, someponies in a foul mood." The Draconaquis teased as he floated away, pulling out a banana that had a looped straw in it that he began drinking from. "It's not often you slip into your old speech patterns. That usually only happens when I'm to blame, or when your woken up too early."
"We have plenty reason to be furious Discord," Luna glared at him. "with Ponyville possibly being under attack and our sisters complete disregard for…"
"Wait, Ponyvilles being attacked?" Discord questioned, with what seemed to be genuine surprise in his voice.
"Correct." Luna confirmed. "Celestia has requested thy assistance on the matter while we are to remain here and rally the guard."
"Celestia want's my help?"
"Unbelievable as it may sound, yes, she does."
"Hmm…" Discord hummed, scratching his beard like he was deep in thought. "Well, I'll have to reschedule my little get-together with Blue Blood, but sure, why not? Might be the most fun I've had since I was released."
"Thou had plans to socialize with Prince Blue Blood?" Luna cocked an eyebrow, bemused.
"If by socialize you mean drop him in the middle of the royal garden's maze and watch him try to find his way out while being hunted by vicious chocolate rabbits, then yes, we're socializing." Discord explained.
"Why thou little…" Luna started, flaring her wings outward in a threatening manner. While Prince Blueblood wasn't her favorite of ponies, she couldn't stand any of her subjects becoming Discords playthings.
"Ta-Ta." The draconiquis tittered before disappearing in a bright flash of light. As he did, a bucket of something warm and green was dropped on the lunar princesses head, leaving her wet and miserable.
"We hate him so much."
…
Zone Unknown
Planet Equis
Ponyville
25 Minutes after Egg Flapper ambush
"Crap!" Julie-su cursed as she ducked behind a fallen Egg Pawn, letting a missle fly overhead and harmlessly explode as it hit the ground somewhere behind her. Fifteen minutes she had been fighting alongside Espio and the Royal Guard ponies against the Egg Pawns, and for the last seven of those minutes they had been pinned down, forced to play defensivly as at least a hundred of the robotic troopers poured from a nearby forest. "That was too close."
"Julie-su, are you alright?!" The echidna heard Celestia call from a building she was hiding behind. The alicorn mare had a few burn marks across her wings from nearly getting shot a half dozen times, while her crown was missing, blasted off after saving her from what should have been a killing shot to the head. Shortly after that the echidna had told her to hide, saying that she was too large of a target to be out in the open.
"I'm fine Princess." Julie answered, wincing as another bolt glanced off of her makeshift Egg Pawn cover. "What about you?"
"I'll be alright for the time being." The mare asked, glancing over to the chameleon who had taken refuge on one of the roofs. "How is your friend doing?"
"I think he'll be okay." Julie called back as she took some pot shots from behind her cover. "Are your guards in position yet?"
"Almost." Celestia said, blasting an Egg Flapper that was diving on her with a bolt of magic. Julie could see that she was exhausted. "Its taking them longer than expected to collect enough storm clouds. Apparently there was a fire in the forest that the local pegasai were trying to contain and they had to use most of the… Julie-Su Watch Out!"
The echidna reacted instantly, rolling out of the way just as a large hammer came down on where she was, crushing the Egg Pawn beneath it. Julie came out of her roll in a standing position, aiming her pistol at the large robot holding the hammer and began to unload on it. Unfortunately the shots bounced harmlessly off of the Egg Hammers armor. The robot swung its hammer sideways, catching Julie-su's torso with the long handle before she could react, and sent her flying into the wall of a house, bounced off of it, and fell to the ground, her pistol flying from her grip in the process.
"Julie!" Espio yelled as his camouflage faltered, fearing the worst for his teammate. His panic however allowed an Egg Pawn to spot him and fire off a shot which struck the chameleon in the leg. Espio let out a cry of pain and fell to the ground, helpless as egg pawns moved in on him.
Celestia watched in horror as the two Mobians went down one after the other, and was about to rush out and help them when two things happened almost instantaneously.
First a blue blur blasted past the Solar Princess and slammed into the towering Egg Hammer, knocking it off balance, bounced off, and landed, revealing itself to be a blue, spikey Mobian, before jumping at the robot again, spinning like a ball, and shooting through its chest and out the other side.
On the other side of the battle, the Egg Pawns that were moving in on Espio suddenly began to get shot down, as out from one of the side streets came two more Mobians, Twilight, and three of her friends. Twilight and one of the Mobians, who had what appeared to be three metallic limbs, began firing off beams of energy at the robots, keeping them away from Espio, while Rainbow and the other Mobian, who was somehow flying with its tails, rushed in head first, ramming into the robots, removing there limbs and heads from their bodies.
"Julie, you okay?!" The blue Mobian asked the injured echidna as he rushed over to her side.
"Sonic?" Julie asked in disbelief as the blue Mobian helped her off the ground. She winced as he picked her up, placing her arm around his neck as she stood up.
"Take it easy Julie, are you hurt?"
"A few cracked ribs I think, but I should be fine." She said, looking around the battlefield. "What about Espio? I saw him go down."
"Espio's fine, I think. Tails has him." Sonic as he began to lead her to cover.
"Tails is here?" Julie asked.
"Yeah, Bunnie too." Sonic confirmed. "And it looks like they made some friends. Now lets get you somewhere safe."
"Two buildings back that way there should be a large white pony hiding behind it." Julie pointed to her side, wincing a bit as a sharp pain shot through her. "Take me there."
When the two Mobians made it there moment later, Celestia was waiting.
"Julie-Su, are you okay?" The Alicorn asked, worry faintly apparent on her face.
"I'll live."
"So who's your friend?" Sonic asked
"This is Celestia." Julie introduced the Princess to the hedgehog. "Shes one of the monarchs in this zone."
"Really?" Sonic turned to the Princess and did a little half bow out of respect. "Well, Its a honer to meet you your Majesty. I'm Sonic."
"It's a pleasure to meet you as well, though I wish it were under better circumstances."
"Yeah, it looks like you got an Egg infestation on your hands." Sonic joked.
"Now's not the time for jokes Sonic." Julie gave the hedgehog a disapproving look.
"Oh don't worry," Tonic said, as he dismissed her glare and got ready to run back out into battle. "just let me round up Bunnie and Tails and we'll have this place robot free before lunchtime."
"No Sonic," the Echidna stopped him. "we already have a plan in motion."
"Okay, care to fill me in."
"The first part of the plan is already underway." Celestia started , gaining the hedgehogs attention. "as my guards collect as many storm clouds in the surrounding area as possible, while Espio, Julie-Su, and I were to…"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Sonic put his hands up in front of him and cut the alicorn off. "How do you collect storm clouds? Aren't they made out of evaporated water or something? Wouldn't you just pass right through them."
"Apparently in this world a species called pegasai can control the weather because of some type of magic that runs through their hooves and wings." Julie explained.
"Makes enough sense I guess."
"Anyways," Celestia continued. "like I was saying before, the three of us were to stay here and keep these Egg Pawns focused on us and prevent them from entering the town while my guards collected the clouds. Once they've collected enough they are going to move them above the Egg pawns as one large system and set off a chain of lightning to electrocute them…"
"Causing them to short circuit all at once." Sonic said as he caught on. "Smart plan. How much longer do you need to pull it off?"
"Well my guards have been having difficulties collecting enough clouds for the plan since Ponyville's supply is rather low at the moment because of a forest fire earlier in the day." "But I would say about fifteen more minutes and they should have enough enough."
"Too long." Julie said.
"Pardon me?"
"I said that's too long of a time to wait." The echidna repeated. "With how hard their coming at us we won't be able to hold our ground for longer than another eight."
"Then what should we do?" Celestia looked to the two Mobians for Ideas.
"Hey don't look at me, I'm a doer not a thinker." Sonic backed up, giving the two some space to re-plan their strategy. However as he did so he bumped into something behind him.
"Maybe I can be of assistance." That something said.
"Discord!" The Princess jumped a bit, but looked pleasantly surprised that the draqoniquis had actually come.
"Where the heck did he come from?!" Julie looked at the newcomer with wide eyes.
"Well Tia, it looks like you've made some new friends." The draqoniquis smiled as he suddenly vanished and reappeared next to Julie, causing her to flinch. "Care to introduce me?"
"Nows not the time for that." Celestia gave him a hard look. "Were in the middle of a crisis at the moment."
"Yes, Yes, of course, the whole invading army of machines, Skynet, and whatnot. Though that didn't seem to stop your self from introducing yourself." Discord stated, floating over to the large Alicorn. "Tell me, What exactly do you plan on doing about that?"
"We're were going to use one giant storm system to hit them with lightning all at once." Celestia explained.
"Thats it?" Discord looked dissapointed. "Well where's the fun in that. I mean I'm always up for a good dose of shock therapy, but there's just not enough Chaos in it for my tastes. Why don't you let me take care of this?"
"What?" Celestia's eyes widened.
"Let me do it." Discord repeated.
"I'm not sure that's the best Idea."
"Oh come now Tia," Discord said as he placed his paw on Celestias wing. "I get to have some fun that you've been reluctant to let me have, and You get your pest problem taken care of. Its a Win-Win, And I'll even stop harassing you and your sister for a while. What do you say."
"I-I guess it would be fine…" Celestia reluctantly agreed. Discord was never clear on what his real intentions were when he proposed some type of deal, and that always worried her.
"Its settled then. I'll just take the rest of whatever is left and I'll be out of your mane." Discord said as he snapped his fingers. All of the remaining Egg Pawns immediately turned into card board cutouts that began to topple over like dominoes. Discord watched his work play out with a smile before turning back to the alicorn Princess. "If you need me for anything else just holler. Have fun."
"Who was that?" Sonic asked, feeling uncomfortable around the odd creature. It actually reminded him of Nagus a bit.
"His name is Discord, the spirit of chaos and disharmony." Celestia said, looking over the destruction that had happened to the town. Luckily they had suffered no casualties in the battle. "He might be a bit unorthodox and hard to understand, but he's a powerful ally. I just hope it stays that way."
"Sonic, Julie-Su!" A young voice caught the trios attention, and found Tails flying over to them.
"Yo, Tails!" Sonic smiled at the young fox and gave him a quick high five as he landed.
"Are you two all right?" The young Mobian asked, looking over the two.
"I'm fine but I think Julie here is gonna need a doctor." Sonic replied, looking behind the fox at the group of ponies approaching them. "What about Espio?"
"He's fine, His wounds are only superficial so he joined the fight again after we arrived." Tails explained before his face became troubled. "What I'm worried about though is what happened to Eggman's robots."
"Some Discord guy took them off somewhere." Sonic told the fox.
"Who?" Tails asked.
"I'll explain later. Right now we need to get Julie-Su to the hospital."
"Right, let's go"
…
Unknown Zone
Planet Equis
Ponyville Hospital
"So the doctor says that your friend should be fine." Twilight said, making her way back from the desk the nurses had called her to, and sat next to Celestia. The party of Mobians and ponies had arrived a half hour earlier, running into Fluttershy, Rarity, and Spike on the way, and had been waiting for the doctors to finish their physical of the pink echidna in silence. "Her ribs were fractured when that big thing hit her, but other than that there weren't any other injuries. She should be out in a few minutes."
The mobians all released a collective sigh of relief. While they all knew that the injury that Julie had been afflicted with was not life threatening, it was never a bad thing to get it checked out.
"Well that's a load off mah shoulders." Bunnie smiled at the knowledge that her friend and ally would be alright. "Ah don't think ah could take another loss so quickly."
"Another loss?" Fluttershy asked, not liking how that sounded.
"Let's just say we've had quite a bit of bad luck in the last little while and leave it at that." Sonic said somberly, the pain of losing Tommy still relatively fresh in his mind.
And the ponies did leave it at that, silencing the waiting room once more until Julie-Su came out from the exam room.
"So, how are you feeling?" Espio asked his teammate, who was zipping up her jacket.
"Like I got hit by a truck." The Echidna replied, gently rubbing her sides as she approached the group. "The doctor gave me some meds that should help dull the pain and gave me strict orders not to do anything to strain myself for at least the next week."
"Somehow with how our weeks been going I highly doubt that you'll be able to just rest and recuperate." Tails said, fiddling around with some of the electronics he had recovered from the destroyed Egg Pawns.
"I know." Julie agreed, taking a seat next to Bunnie. "Not that I would be looking forward to a week of doing absolutely nothing either."
"Well, now that we know your friend is alright, I think it's a good time to introduce ourselves properly." Celestia proposed, grabbing the groups attention. She once again was wearing her Tiara, and her wings were clean thanks to a pair of nurses who offered to preen them, though she told them it would have been alright if they hadn't. "As Julie-Su and Espio here know, my name is Celestia, and I rule the country of Equestria along with my sister, Luna, who isn't here at the moment."
"It's just you and your sister?" Sonic asked, his eyebrow raised. "That must have caused some issues?"
"Oh, there were issues, trust me." Celestia recalled the events that happened so long ago. "It took a while, but we managed to get through them, thanks to Twilight and her friends. Speaking of whom, Twilight would you like to introduce yourself and the rest of the girls."
"Of course." Twilight smiled. "We'll as you might have guessed, I'm Twilight Sparkle. I run the Golden Oaks Library here in Ponyville and I'm Princess Celestia's personal student."
"The orange earth pony over there is Applejack." Twilight pointed out the Cowpony. "She runs Sweet Apple Acres with her family just outside town."
"Howdy." Applejack said with a tip of her hat.
"The cyan pegasus is Rainbow Dash." Twilight moved down the line, her hoof now pointed in the rainbow maned pony. "She's Head of the Ponyville weather team and the greatest young flier in Equestria."
"Don't forget I'm also the fastest as well. I am the only pegasus who's been able to pull off the Sonic Rainboom before." The cyan pegasus bragged, causing the rest of the mares to smile and roll their eyes. Sonic however let an eyebrow rise with interest.
"The yellow pegasus beside Rainbow is Fluttershy." Twilight continued. "She runs an animal shelter on the edge of town. She's shy, but she has the kindest heart I know."
"H-hello…" Fluttershy stuttered, hiding from the attention that had been drawn to her behind her mane.
"The white unicorns name Is Rarity. She owns a boutique in town and she even makes dresses for celebrities around Equestria."
"Its a pleasure to meet you all." Rarity smiled.
"The dragon beside Rarity is Spike. He's my assistant at the library and he's been like my little brother ever since I hatched him."
"Whats up." Spike gave the Mobians a short little wave with his paw.
"And last but certainly not least is…" Twilight paused, looking around the hospital waiting room as if searching for something "Uh, where did Pinkie go?"
All the mares body postures immediately changed from relaxed to on edge in an instant. Not being able to see Pinkie when you knew she was there was never a good sign. Even Bunnie and Tails looked a bit cautious, both remembering how the mare was seemingly able to appear out of nowhere.
Sonic, curious why all the ponies looked so sketched out, began looking around the room as well, searching for the missing party member. For about ten seconds he looked, until he found her right in front of him with only millimeters between him and the pink mare.
"Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie!" The earth pony beamed with an impossibly large smile across her muzzle.
"Whoa!" The hedgehog cried in surprise, jumping back out of his chair and clear across the room to get away from the uncomfortably close mare. Everyone's attention snapped to the source of the cry, finding the pink mare, front hooves on the chair, staring at the hedgehog with an incredibly large smile.
"Wow, your really fast." The earth pony beamed. "You might even be able to give Dashie a run for her money."
"How did she…?" Sonic ,
"Don't ask." Twilight interrupted the hedgehog. "We've all learned that its just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie."
Sonic wanted to hear a better explanation than that but the look on Twilight's face said to drop the subject. He took the hint and began making his way back to the group, taking another chair next to Tails away from the pink pony, who's eyes he could feel following him.
"This is Pinkie." Twilight tried to suppress a laugh as she watched Sonic."Pinkie works at the Sugercube Corner bakery and shes Ponyville's resident party pony. Nopony can throw a party like Pinkie can."
"Well, It's nice ta meet you and your friends Twilight." Bunnie smiled to each of the ponies, tipping her hat in respect. "Ya'know, after all we've been through these last few days It's nice ta meet some friendly faces."
"You got that right." Tails agreed, chuckling a little. "I'm Miles Prower by the way, but everyone just calls me Tails."
"Why do they call you that?" Pinkie asked.
"I would have thought that'd be obvious, considering that I do have two tails." Tails explained.
"Oh, I see."
"How 'bout the rest of ya." Applejack said as looked over the rest of the Mobians.
"My name is Espio." The chameleon sitting in the corner, eyes closed and legs crossed, spoke first. "I am a shinobi and a Chaotix Freedom Fighter of Angel Island."
"A shinobi?" Twilight asked, remembering that word from a book she had read a while back. "You mean like a ninja?"
"Yes."
"OH. MY. GOSH!" Pinkie cried out in excitement, and started bouncing around Espio. "Yourreallyaninja?! Does that mean that you can disappear stick to walls carry cool weapons and sense things before they happen?"
"Yes, I can do all of those things, though my arsenal is depleted at the moment due to the battle we just had." The chameleon confirmed for the pink pony.
"This is super!" Pinkie beamed. "I can't believe I get to meet a real life ninja. I have so many questions."
"Calm down Pinkie, I'm sure you can learn more about Espio later." Twilight told the hyperactive pony.
"But Twilight…"
"No buts Pinkie, now go sit back down so we can continue."
"Fine, meanie pants…"
"So now that we've got that dealt with, what about you." Twilight said as she turned to the pink Echidna.
"My names Julie-Su." Julie introduced herself. "I work with the Chaotix just like Espio as the communications Specialist. I'm also quite a capable fighter, when I'm not getting knocked around by an Egg Hammer."
"Your making jokes about that already?" Rarity asked, appalled. "What if you had been seriously injured?"
"We kind of have to make light of these things." Julie Explained, her expression turning a little dark. "We deal with it so much that if we didn't, we'd probably have lost our minds already."
"Well, 'cept when things get real bad." Bunnie added somberly.
"Yeah." The Echida agreed before turning to the half roboticized rabbit beside her. "Your turn Bunnie."
"Alright." Bunnie looked towards the ponies. "I'm Bunnie D'coolette. I work with Tails an sugarhog here as part of the Knothole Freedom Fighters, tho ah guess we're gonna have ta call ourselves the New Mobotropolis FF now huh?"
"Don't worry Bunnie, we'll find a way back home." Julie said placing here hand on the half-robians shoulder. "We won't let what happened to Knothole happen ever again."
"Julie's right Bunnie." Sonic agreed. "All we have to do is find the entrance to the Cosmic Interstate and we can get home from there."
"And you are?" Rainbow piped up, staring down the hedgehog. His display of speed during the battle earlier had been replaying in her mind over and over again since she saw it. She was int
"My names Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog." Sonic cockily grinned at the mare. And then something about the mare clicked. "Wait, aren't you one of the pegasai who helped me out in the forest?"
"What?" Rainbow cocked an eyebrow, recalling the events that had taken place in the Everfree. "Hey, your right. I'd completely forgot about that because of those machine things. Hows your other friend doing?"
"Other friend?" Tails looked at the hedgehog.
"Nack ended up getting transported here with us." Sonic told the fox while keeping his attention focused on the multicolored pegasus. "And he's not a friend."
"Nack is here too?" Bunnie asked, not exactly pleased with this news. "Where is he?"
"He's here in the hospital." Sonic answered. "I found him in the forest I woke up in underneath a collapsed tree that was on fire. When I tried to get him out from under it, another tree fell on him and he passed out on the spot. The only reason I was able to get him out was because Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy here showed up with some other pegasai and helped me."
"So if this Nack character ain't your friend, then who is he?" Applejack asked.
"He's a criminal who we had literally just locked up right before we got sent here." Tails explained.
"A criminal? What did he do?" Celestia asked, genuinely surprised.
"Kidnapping, attempted assassination, Thievery, Treason, shooting me," Sonic listed, counting off with his fingers. "and those are just the ones at the top of the list. I can keep going if you want."
"No, that's alright, I think we get the Idea." Celestia frowned.
"Why would anypony willingly do things like that?" Fluttershy questioned, unsure of why anypony would act like that.
"For Nack, it's all about the money." Sonic said as he rubbed his index finger and thumb together, imitating rubbing coins. "He's a mercenary for hire. As long as he gets paid, he'll do just about anything."
"That's horrible!" Rarity gasped.
"Tell me about it. The last time he shot me I was able to feel it for… hold that thought." Sonic stopped to listen for a second, his ears picking up some sort of commotion deeper in the building. "Well speak of the snaggle-toothed devil."
"We should probably get back there." Tails suggested. "It sounds like he causing the nurses some problems."
"Yeah, lets go."
The group got up and began to make its way down the halls at a quick pace and soon arrived at the room the weasel had been placed in. Upon reaching the door, the Mobians and ponies saw that the room was a disaster. The monitors and IVs had been knocked over and smashed while the curtain had been forcefully ripped down and tied around a pony, who was frantically kicking her legs in an attempt to free herself while another was trying to undo the knot. At the back of the room was Nack, backed into a corner and holding the large stand that usually held IV bags, swinging around threateningly to keep the other nurses at bay.
"Stay back you freaks, or I'll brain all of ya!" Nack yelled, thrusting the stand at on of the ponies who got to close to him.
"Sir, please calm down. Your injuries are too sever to be moving around like this." One of the nurses pleaded, obviously not used to this type of violent behavior.
"And let you freaky aliens have your way with me? No friggin way!"
"We'll he's just a bowl of sunshine, ain't he?" Applejack smirked, slightly amused at the sight.
"We should try and calm him down before he does any more damage." Julie Said, getting a unanimous agreement from the rest of the group.
"Yeah, and if that doesn't work we can always go the old fashioned way and stick him with something to make him go night-night." Sonic joked. Unfortunately he got an ‘are you serious’ look from the ponies. "What? I was joking… kinda."
"Well hopefully it does not come to that." Celestia turned back to the scene. "If you all don't mind, I would like to talk to him first."
"Why would ya wan't ta do that?" Bunnie asked, not really sure if that was the best Idea.
"I just wan't to see if we can reach dome type of agreement where he won't try to harm my little ponies during your stay." The alicorn explained.
"Sure, go ahead. But if he try's anything funny I'm stepping in." Sonic warned.
"Why would being funny be a bad thing?" Pinkie gave the hedgehog a puzzled look.
"It's a figure of speech Pinkie."
Walking into the room, Celestia grabbed all of its occupants attention immediately. Lighting up her horn she untied the nurse that had been bound and cleaned up the mess, reorganizing the room to what it had been like before she had arrived.
"Nurses, would you both be so kind as to step away from our guest here for a moment. I would like to talk to him." The princess politely asked and the two orderly's stepped away. "Thank you."
"Great, another one." Nack groaned. "Listen toots, if you don't want to end up on the sharp side of this pole then you better…"
"Your name is Nack correct?" The alicorn inquired, taking the purple Mobian off guard.
"Wha… How do you know that?!" The weasel looked dumbstruck.
"Your acquaintance Sonic told me who you were." Celestia said motioning to the hedgehog and the rest of the group behind her.
"Yo." Sonic waved.
"…Crap." The weasel swore as his situation dawned on him.
"Now why don't you put the stand down and we can talk through this calmly." The princess suggested.
"Fine, not like I have a choice with half the stupid Freedom Fighters standing right there." Nack complied dropping his makeshift weapon.
"Exellent." Celestia smiled.. "Now, lets start with what to do with you…"
…
Zone Unknown
Planet Equis
Egg Fleet Flagship
"What! They wiped out an entire platoon?!" Eggman yelled through the speakers after hearing the news his nephew had just given him.
"Yes Uncle." Snively confirmed continuing with his report. "Apparently several Freedom Fighters, including Sonic, showed up and started to fight the Egg Pawns that had been sent to collect specimens from a nearby village. Our forces were quickly overrun and and then spontaneously disappeared in a large fluctuation of Chaos Energy."
"Of all the…" Eggman grunted in frustration. "Did you at least get readings on whatever caused that energy spike?"
"No sir, whatever it was it didn't only just take the remaining Egg Pawns, but it took all of the probes in the area as well." The pointy nosed Overlander explained.
"Blast it all…" Eggman threw his fist down on his console. A few seconds passed before he realized something his nephew told him. "Wait, did you say Sonic is in the same world that your in now? Are you sure It's not just some local version of him?"
"I'm positive sir." Snively nodded.
"Heh… heh heh," Eggman began to chuckle to himself before it grew into full blown maniacal laughter. "HA ha ha ha ha ha ha. Finally that pest is out of the way! Snivley!"
"Yes Sir."
"Make sure that rodent can't find his way back to Mobius." Eggman ordered, an evil, twisted grin growing on his face. "I've got plans for his little friends and their new city."
"Of course sir."