//------------------------------// // The Place That Was Found // Story: My Little Pony: Sonic Gen. Underground // by Jake Witt //------------------------------// Six figures dashed in the night. Sonic (BOOM!) the Hedgehog in a black suit, black hoodies wearing Tails and Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie in a spy outfit with orange goggles and utility belt, and Twilight Sparkle with messed up mane, tail, and wings wearing a scratched up, black spandex body suit and an eye patch above a scratch on her cheek. Silver was somewhere, but I forgot where. "How did I let this happen again?!" Twilight grumbled softly as she fixed her patch. "Well, I warned you about Spike's cold." Tails replied dryly. Sonic snickered, "The little guy almost sneezed you bald!" He regained his composure and stopped the group when Eggman's base was in view. "It's ok, he's asleep," Pinkie said, holding an egg shaped plate of multicolored cookies. Sonic quickly grabbed the plate and chunked it at a nearby tree, Pinkie frowned, "What was that all about?!" "I don't know how you got in there, but don't eat anything. Unless you want to be evil with a brown mustache on your face," the group looked at Sonic, but shrugged off his odd behavior. Sonic put on a red scouter (you know from Dragon Ball Z, but for some reason in the first or second episode of Sonic X when he was doing something like this) and switched it on. "Caliburn, can you hear me?" "Loud and clear, sire." said a sword wearing a headset in Sonic's hut in front of a monitor. Behind him were some ponies and mobians watching the screen, seeing what Sonic saw. And what Sonic was looking at is a vast desert with a tall white metal building surrounded by changelings, looking a bit shocked. The screen's feed became blurry as Sonic glowed yellow, drilling into the ground. All they saw was darkness and sand as they tunneled underground and back to the surface, looking at the passing bugs that didn't notice him. He looked to his left, now showing the wall in the shadows, showing Twilight give a nod before vanishing. From our hiding spot on the warm, metal wall, Twilight flared her horn, activating our stealth mode Tails created. I didn't see how a brightly glowing purple pony, glowing blue hedgehog, shining gold fox, sparkling pink pony, and OMG SHIELD YOUR EYES IF YOU EASILY GET SEIZURES!! Rainbow kept changing colors in rapid succession, a later known side effect due to her mane and tail. Silver teleported to us, suddenly shimmering as a bright white hedgehog. "Stay together, the only reason this works is because Twilight's suit is sending magic feedback to the rest of us from her horn," Tails informed in a hushed tone. We all nodded as we snuck to the nearest air vent. Silver unscrewed the screws as Pinkie slid through. Rainbow tried that only for friction to stop her as she entered. Pinkie slid herself with a push of her tail while everyone else crawled or scooted behind her. Tails gave a quick 'beep bop' to signal our stop. Blue and crazy colors tilted their head in confusion as the gold fox pointed down to a vent for Silver to open. "I'll be back, my suit as a ten minute magic battery. I need to access this computer." He touched a button, turning a glowing purple like Twilight. The group left him to his musings. Suddenly Rainbow stopped the group a minute later. In a whisper, "Why does he have a battery and we don't?" "You and Sonic are fast, Pinkie is Pinkie," she said as Pinkie crossed the intersection of the vents, sliding on her side with her hind legs crossed, a hoof to her head, and a yawn. "And Silver is sticking with me as my body guard and magic substitute, now keep moving." From below, some metal on metal clacking sounded as burnbots passed the vents... with flame paint jobs on their bodies. Sonic thought, Awww. He actually learns that he isn't smart enough. "Are you sure we're seeing what Sonic is seeing?" Jet asked, eating some popcorn. "All I see is air vents, random stopping, and more air vent." "Well, I'm sure it's him," the sword reassured his audience. "They seem to be whispering too-" He heard a metallic clang as the scouter looks down at something through a hole. Caliburn turned the speakers back on as robots were hit by an unseen force that made Rainbows. One of the robots overloaded as it's head blew up. Now two ponies blinked into existence as Rainbow turned to, a knocked out, Princess Twilight. "This gone be good!" Scourge exclaimed in his hedgehog shaped cage, looking through a slit for his eyes to look through. His cage wore one of those soda hats that fed through a hole on the left of the slit. You could hear the gurgle of an empty bottle as Sir Lancelot refilled the bottles on the side of the hat. "Thanks sir knight." Lancelot kept his calm composure as he replied, "I will keep your skull to grow a maggot farm, rat." "That's cold! Don't you have any honor?" Scourge replied. "The only honor is proper burial," Lance smirked. "Where would you like your headless body buried?" Both Knuckles shushed them, Big Knuckles wearing 3D glasses for some reason. Don't ask. Next to them, Little Sonic was jabbing at his caged counterpart. Especially when we saw some action. Silver broke out of the air vent, holding all robots away from alarms as Rainbow flew through them. Tails still had a full battery as he hacked the computer he sat at. It was too easy, especially since all of the passwords were Shard the Metal Sonic. Why would that be his password anyway? Welcome to the Robotnik Council Net Guilty Pleasure Metal Sonic timeline found Grumpy Gamers beating up Sonic (Returning from your choice) My battery is now half empty... Or half full. There's some noise from down the hallway as damaged robots flew at a nearby wall. One of them had full mobility and was dragged back into the fight by a cyan aura, giving off a screech as it was pulled back while clawing the ground. I flew over to find a pile of red, silver, and flame styled metal in a pile as Sonic, Rainbow, and Silver defeated waves of robots. I made myself known, surprising Twilight awake then back out cold. Over Twilight, Pinkie whined, "Tails! We were trying to wake up Twilight." She then gave a weak smile, "Good one though!" I used a fraction of my magic reserves to "jump start" our lavender operation leader, making her leap awake. It was a good sign at first, then she started shaking and talking fast like she had twelve days worth of coffee or sugar... or both. From what I could tell: we had two Pinkie Pies, and one could fly and use magic. She flew through the air with no coordination, kicking at robots and throwing magic grenades with a crazed look in her eye as she hopped down the hallway. We followed her as she destroyed ten robots in a purple blur and a flash of magenta or two. After the eleventh robot she calmed down, blushing a bit from her loss of control. Sonic's radio chirped, "Sire, hide the evidence! Something is sure to-" BEEP BEEP BEEP ZAP BEEP BEEP BEEP ZAP The lights turned a pattern of red and green as Rainbow flew through- RAINBOW?! The rainbow with us turned out to be a robot changeling with a broadcasting antennas in its ears. It twitched as it died... I think. Robots have no pulse so I assume the head still works and the body is dead. Suddenly a wave of robot changelings turned into robot Rainbow Dashes. The got up on their hind legs and activated arm canons, chanting,"Crush. Kill. Destroy. Swag. LOL. Crush. Kill. Destroy. Swag. GTFO." I dodged the first wave of fire as Silver and Twilight covered the other in shields and counter fire in the form of magic bursts and psychokinesis blades. Silver gave Twilight a nod as she held up the shield. He teleported behind the robots, and using the burnbot remains, shouts, "Hold Smash!" The pieces glowed brighter and brighter a cyan color as they launched one by one as rapid canon fire. Whenever Silver missed, it was meant for Twilight to catch and rebound the attack, destroying the robots that didn't change their focus away from him. "Run Sonic, Run!" Just like he was told, he took Tails with him as Pinkie and Rainbow stayed behind to cover them. For some reason Pinkie had a pink shot gun that fired confetti, with that she shot stray robots while Rainbow attempted her own version of a spin dash. The elevator final y stopped spinning as Tails dragged me in a "I told you so!" montage. As the fifty Miles Prowers slowly became one, we looked to my left to see Eggman asleep on his couch in his pajamas... with a wingless Twilight Sparkle plushie in his arms. Yeah, that's not creepy at all. He obviously didn't expect us here, so we burned his tiny Twilight and left marks all around the room and his head. As we turned to leave, a gun was pointed at my nose. "You're gonna pay for that," Eggman said in his usual suit, but slightly messed up like he was in a hurry. Behind us, a big changeling sat up from the couch with our blue markings all over her. "Was the marker necessary?" Chrysalis asked dryly, tossing the singed unicorn away from her as she got in a battle stance. "What matters is that you two are here. Why?" His gun's started to glow red on the end, "I didn't tell you where I live. Why and how did you find me?" I raised my arms above my head with Tails, "Drop the act Egghead, we know you set this trap up." "Yes, but not for you. Now your last memory is dying in a trap set for Metal," he almost fired when Tails started to hum. "Do do do dodo dododa da de~..." Tails loudly hummed, getting Eggman to slowly join him. The guns slowly lowered as Chrysalis looked at Tails, a bit stunned and aiming her horn at him. Big mistake. I kicked Eggman off his feet and used the blue setting on his gun to stun him before tossing the gun at the changeling's horn, stalling the magic long enough for Tails to spin dash her face. That attack was followed by Sonic homing onto her back and grabbing the gun with his enerbeam, allowing him to stun her in three shots. Sonic kicked open the air vent on the floor, allowing him and Tails to fall inside and crawl away. When they found Rainbow, the two hopped out and escaped the base. Pinkie screamed at Silver, "Hurry up! The base is about to self destruct!" That the group to scream 'WHAT?!' at her. When they made it out, a loud 'poof' sounded. Behind us, the base filled with a white foam, "I think I put too much whipped cream in the sundae nuke! Do you think he will like this?" Sonic looked back at her, "Umm... Sure Pinkie." "Good! He must be sick of always eating eggs! Or does he lay eggs? Why is he called Dr. Eggman?"