//------------------------------// // New Jacket! // Story: My Little Pony: Sonic Gen. Underground // by Jake Witt //------------------------------// Brony Shadow stepped out of the mirror, "Thanks Twilight!" "Your... um... Welcome Shadow?" Twilight replied. Nobody ever saw this coming, a defected clone that's nice. The Shadow army tends to have one or two defected clones with mental, physical, or power impairment, but a personality and color defect? Unheard of! Its weird looking at a black and pink Shadow with a pink Black Arms symbol on his shoulder that's great at "party warfare" and above all... nice! In his arms were two black leather jackets, one was bedazzled and another one had orange lines on them. "I cant understand why Sunset would throw away, kickin' jackets!" "Um... 'kickin''?" Twilight asked, the weird feeling in her returning. The feeling wasn't as bad as when she first met Maud, but it was still that creeping feeling of unease. "Rainbow has "20% cooler", little Sonic has "juicin'", Sonata has "for realzies", and the other Shadows don't have any catch phrase besides "ultimate life form" and calling Sonic "faker" constantly." He took out a fake- harmony emerald?! "Don't worry! Its not real, but its as durable as the fake chaos emeralds we have. By the way, they're powered by magic!" "...Nice to know?" He shrugged, "King Shadow will be on my case for it, but how angry can he be?" "All Hail Shadow!" B.S. slumped his shoulders as his eye twitched, "That's not good..." He held up his copy of Pinkie's emerald, "Harmony Control!" He disappeared in perfect sync with King Shadow's materializing inside. He looked over to a bedazzled jacket on the ground then Twilight with a tired look and a sigh before he followed suit with his army filling the castle with blinding teleportation light. "Teacher!" B.S. bowed, gaining an audible groan from him and Nichole in their Avatars. "Stop. Bowing." He did so, "What's the problem?" "I think King Shadow is watching me!" He said, waving his new jacket around. Noticing this, he put it on quickly. Nichole scratched her head, "Why do you have Sunset jacket on?" "If you throw your jacket in the wind, its free to those who want it!" He pointed to the orange lines, "I'll fix these later to fit my color scheme." Metal scanned the area as he spoke, "Hey, I've been meaning to ask: why are your red quills pink?" He shrugged, "I don't know... How does that solve my problem?!" "Depends: is he following you and why?" "I told Twilight our secret of our indestructible fake emeralds. I think I lost him." He said looking around for signs of his King. Metal facepalmed and started chirping. His eyes made contact B.S., "Our lesson for today: responsibility and promise. How they work together. Your time begins now, good luck." Metal and Nichole's eyes flashed as they flew off. Before Shadow could respond, he felt tapping on his shoulder. Slowly turning, his eyes made contact with... Oh, Faust! Not him! he thought as the angriest Shadow in the army stood in front of him. He doesn't have a nickname like the others, but Brony gave him a name: Wrath. Wrath Shadow punched Brony Shadow, popping his head. He pushed his head out of the neck hole of his body, "Hey! I worked hard on that balloon!" He swung his leg, caught by Wrath as he was smacking around by the ground and the a** holding his leg. Brony tossed some chaos spears and ran away once his leg was free. Too bad Wrath was powered by his hatred for everything made him faster and stronger. "Get back here, ya Sega damn faker!" "Faker? We're clones, you idiot!" "What happened to wuv an towerate?" "Its love and tolerate. Hello? Shadow clone? I'll start to love when you can answer 2+2!" "Its four." "I'll start to love when... uh... when Maria returns!" We both stopped as I mentally kicked myself, I had to bring up Maria! Dang! Next to Brony, "Wrath" Shadow started glowing red as he made loud breathing noises with his eyes closed. At this point, every Shadow could be seen with either a pained grimace, the emotionless glare of the robots, or the anger of both clones and emotion simulated robots. Even Kind Shadow was being held back by his Adviser, not sure what is happening. B.S. grasped his emerald in the air, "Harmony Control!" Just as he said that, the army sensed his position, speeding towards him. Brony reappeared in the Canterlot Archieves, wishing he still had his emerald. But he stumbled across the scroll he looked for in the Starswirl wing- "I found it! The time scroll Twilight used." He took out Wrath's unique red emerald he grabbed when he was punched, "Hope this works!" He rose his hand up an jumped, swiging the emerald down, "Chaos Control!" He fell inside a vortex, gone. Instead of teleporting into the past, Brony Shadow found himself in an endless white limbo. He sighed, "Don't tell me I'm alone..." "alone" a female voice said. "alone" a gravely voice said. "alone" batman said. He looked around, "Well, this sucks..." "What?! Whose there?!" "What are you talking about? Its me!" "No, you idiot-" "You're the idiot! You thought I was as smart as you? HA! I only came along to watch Sonic suffer!" Brony Shadow followed the voices, seeing two red things in the distance. "Why you...!" "Also, I'm sticking with Dr. Robotnik. Eggman sounds like a Denny's mascot." "Denny's doesn't even have a mascot!" "Because they have the Eggman! Thank you! I'll be here all... No clue! No time here!" "Hey, its Shadow!" "Isn't he your enemy?" Brony stopped when he saw that he was directly in front off Dr. Eggman and his past self Dr. Robotnik, clearly not friends. "Doctor Eggman?!" He walked up, holding his own hands together in a pleading fashion, "Have you come here to save... What happened to you?!" Brony Shadow sighed, "Long story. Basically, I'm from the far future and I'm not the Shadow you know." "Well, you're probably stuck here. I guess I can enjoy long stories." "Well, at least I'm not being hunted by a thousand or so Shadows..." Eggman looked surprised, "You know about the androids?!" "Oh, those things died years ago. I'm a defected flesh clone of Shadow, who just recently p.o.'ed the whole army at the mention of Maria." Eggman grimaced as Robotnik sat back down, pretending to roast marshmallows. Robotnik rolled his eyes, "So hows the future?" "Eggman Land and/or Empire lasted a whole year, you die, and then evolution turns the mobians and humans into magical ponies and mythological creatures with occasional demons. I'm serious about the last part. The mobinis either evolve more or evolve less, becoming other mythical creatures and usually harmless animals." Eggman smirked, "That future sounds gay." Shadow smirked at him, "They don't even have high tech and Luna's secret New Lunar Empire existed longer than your pathetic attempt at permanent control. In fact, she wasn't even around to rule it for 1000 years! Leave your robots alone and they rust or turn on you." Robotnik laughed then got serious as it included him. "You two cant even beat a hedgehog that slows down his top speed to save his environment!" Shadow circled in from Eggman to Robotnik, "Or is it to go easy on you?" "Hey, I can beat him in a foot race!" "Okay, then race me! Over there and back!" Shadow pointed with a smile. "Over where? There's no landmark!" "!kramdnal on s'erehT ?erehw revO" Brony Shadow said with a thumbs up, "I win!" Eggman and Robotnik shared a look before a near sync, "What?" "He said 'over' and 'there' and my challenge also said 'and back', thus I spoke backwards, winning!" They gave each other a look, Eggman spoke, "I don't understand your logic." "How do you even have a 300 IQ?!" "300 IQ" "300IQ" "300 IQ" Suddenly an army of (BOOM!)Eggmen trampled Shadow, rambling about reliving the same day. Brony Shadow woke up standing in front of Twilight and her human world mirror holding two jackets that belonged to Sunset Shimmer. "Your... um... Welcome Shadow?" Twilight said in a nervous tone. "Your welcome for what?" "Um... You just thanked me for... um... letting you use my portal. Your welcome is a... um..." Realizing he just restarted his day, Brony Shadow stopped the princess and prevented the emerald subject, "Oh, sorry. I'm just out of it today. So, which looks better?"