WARNING: Celestia's vault section can be read the wrong way. Blame the MLP:FiM Season 2 Discord episode... Actually blame Discord. The section could be seen as an innuendo, though its not meant to be one. Also stupid references. You have been warned. Enjoy.
I lowered her hoof and pocket the red world ring, "I need those rings."
In my right hand Caliburn responded in equal worry and shock as Celestia, "Sonic, what're you doing?!"
"I need those rings. Time to fight on equal terms: power and magic."
Celestia got in front of Sonic now, "I cant let you do that. The power will drive you mad."
I just walked around her as she held me in her magic. I tapped Caliburn's blade to her horn, extinguishing the aura, "It drove little me crazy, it turned your sister evil, and I used the powers at a time when powers like that was second nature to me. Painful to use, but did the job."
"And what was that job?"
"Well, I defeated Erazor Djinn and saved the land of the Arabian Nights. With the power of sadness, anger, and hatred. Sadness, he was going to destroy everyone who lived in the land and beyond. For that, he gained my anger," I swiped Caliburn across, "Let out my hatred. Then when all was said and done, I used those powers to remove the rings." I laughed at the memory, "Used his genie powers to give another genie a mountain of tissues. I wonder how she's doing?"
I made many decisions in my life. Some I regret and some I forget. One thing is for sure: I'm the richest being in the Arabian Nights! Tissue sales lady! I used my mountain of tissues to rise in financial success! Thanks Sonic! Stupid Hedgehog...
"And you think this is right?"
"Its my Plan B." I started to walk when a golden wall stopped me, "Not going to let 'em out?"
"Nope." And I sheathed Caliburn and rolled, rolling on the wall around her as I revved for a full spin dash. I released, rolling through the halls with Celestia giving chase and coincidentally I found a Pink Wisp giving me the pink spike power. "Spikes!" Now that I spun on the high walls to ceiling, I was seriously driving her crazy.
I eventually found the vault, the only problem was opening it. I tried sticking a spike in the hole, luckily Celestia ran up to the now normal me with her hammer and head pointed forward. "Sorry about this princess! But this is an act of treason on both our parts!" She smashed the ground with a mighty thud.
"Oh, how?" She asked, tossing her hammer.
"We're both royalty giving each others orders and commands," I slid under her, hopping to my feet on the other side. As she turned her head, I redirected her horn into the hole and homed in on her flank while tossing a yellow wisp at her. "Drill!" Her horn turned yellow with a gold aura, drilling into the hole. When the door cracked open, Discord slapped a cyan wisp at my back. "Laser!" I shot at a wall, bouncing into the vault.
I bounced back out, returning to my normal form while wearing a green tunic and pointed hat, holding the purple and green world rings above my head in gloved hands. "Why am I dressed like Link?" I took off the outfit, "Fastest thing alive princess. Hammers are not that fast... Unless you're Amy." And absorbed the three rings in hand, a burning pain shot from my hand to my whole body...
Orbot was watching as Loki played with his long distance controls, fighting with Egg Dragoon when an alarm flashed on screen, "Doctor, a huge ball of focused energy is coming your way."
"What?!" Just then a purple face filled the screen, it's skin was whiter than white, lacked a mouth and pupils, and it's quills were a royal purple with two white stripes stretching on the forehead. Its bare hands don glowing gold ring bracelets that matched the gold bracelets on it's ankles. It has sole-less purple shoes with a thick white stripe on the middle.
It is covered in a red aura as he is punching the Alicorn Amulet Egg Dragoon, damaging it with little effort with his white scarf flapping in the wind, he kept going screaming, "Leave the ponies alone!" He sets his hands on fire as his strikes increase in speed.
This was intense! Here we are, wondering where Sonic and Celestia are at while the Dragoon is raising the dead and making us younger. To be exact, only Luna was reverted to a younger age. I'm ready to launch more drills, but noticed that the wisps are too tired to fight.
"Guys we have to fall back!" I commanded, "Its no u-"
BOOM!!!!
A flying purple blur speeds from the castle towards the Egg Dragoon, creating a crater in the armor with one punch! Dragoon repaired itself in a red aura as it focused its laser at the purple Sonic. Sonia and Manic got behind me when Celestia gave an order nearby, "Ready your spears at Darkspine as soon as the battle ends. I will not let a darker being than Nightmare Moon harm my people."
Discord leaned on Celestia with a tiger arm wraped around the base of her horn, "What about weaker than NM? I mean, you just gave me the GO for world domination," Luna turned her gaze to him, "But being reformed will gunk up the works! I was just looking for confirmation."
Sonic made a "U-Turn" towards us saying, despite the lack of mouth, "I say nay to that, Dissy." He then proceeded to boost head first into the top section, creating a bigger crater as he pulled on the Alicorn Amulet. He then looped again, taking out Dragoon's laser gun only to meet two walls that broke trying to crush him.
The council was going nuts at this battle as "Loki" Eggman and the others tried to find data and a weakness to this unknown form. Big Mouth is mad, Hard Boiled is sad, and every idea was just that bad! King was ripping the hair out of his bear skin rug (he wanted a fine line between stressed and fabulous) as Racer beats the ground with a fist.
"Every Sonic records were useless. Even ice couldn't phase him!"
"Whoes idea was it to use Dragoon so soon?"
"Why did we attach a relic of dark magic to it?!"
It broke. Darkspine form Sonic the flippin' Hedgehog, broke the legendary, cursed Alicorn Amulet. A black alicorn with a ruby cutie mark and flowing red mane and tail flew out of the now useless object.
"Go on, child. You are finally free to rest." Sonic said in the middle of a sparkling, red area of broken, shredded, and/or dented chunks of metal and glass. The alicorn look around then back at a now, not scarey, blue hedgehog smiling at her. She knew that it was time, and left with the image of his caring, emerald green eyes imbedded in her soul.
The ponies looked to this junk hill in awe as the unnamed alicorn rose into the air and faded away. Metal clanked and hooves clomped as ponies both flesh and steel, earth pony and not earth pony applaud our hero. The news going around from the medical staff mentioned no fatalities from civilians and soldiers, calling for a party/gala.
There Sonic sent Twilight an update via fire mail. As the gala continued it wasn't just a few reunions, it was mass reunion between foalnapped, roboticized ponies and their loved ones. What was more touching and painful were the children reuniting with robot parents and vise versa.
Though, it slowly became less of a party as time went on. Either some were scared, unexcepting, or grieving over the situations they were in. The idea that some will out live, might still be dangerous, will need matenace only Tails or Robotnik could provide, can not be called ponies, etc. is spreading.
This new race of pony might thrive or die. It depends on those who welcome them and those who reject them. Just like Celestia and me right now on the Darkspine matter.