//------------------------------// // Two Fast, Two Furious (Power Insidious: Part 3 of 4) // Story: Sonic Equestria Universe // by TheRealTwilyFan //------------------------------// Before the attack... Inside Zecora's Hut, she explains some detailed things to Tails. "I don't need to be so coerce, but I sense a disturbance in the force." She mixes some potions in her pot. "You see, little one, your world is not your own. For you are in a different zone." She shows Tails some diagrams that steam out of the pot, showing off her mystic talents. "In the beginning, the universe was diverse, many realms maintained the curse. Each realm shares it's own unique charm, while better or not, possessed no harm." "A multiverse?" Tails theorized. The steam disappears as Zecora turns around. "And now my friend, you are here on my end." Tails understands this. "So this is another world." "That is the end of my session. Now it's time to answer my question." Zecora turns to Tails. "I can sense a form of amity, but might I ask of your family?" Tails looks away as he grasps his twin tails and looks doubtful. "I... I never knew my parents." "So... you're an orphan?" Said Zecora. "Do you have a guardian?" "Actually..." Tails turns to Zecora and tells a bit about his story. "...I lived alone. I never had anyone to make friends with. I was mostly picked on for having two tails. I was called a freakshow and everyone laughed at me. I was treated poorly. I was fed nothing. I slept on the grass." Tails explained his origins of Westside Island and Zecora shows some sympathy. "But then... I met him. And my life changed forever. He taught me everything in the world that I didn't know. He was my first best friend and I can't thank him enough for helping me." "What is his name, little Miles? Who was the one that gave you smiles?" "Are you kidding? His name is..." Tails was about to answer but just then a shriek was heard. "What was that?" Zecora and Tails hear that a filly is crying for help. "A cry for help." Zecora said as she and Tails rush out of the hut to see an little orange, purple maned pony riding on her scooter, trying to outrun three Motobugs. "Somepony help! They're gaining on me!" She screamed. Tails recognizes the robots. "Motobugs!" Tails runs to her aid. "Miles, wait!" Zecora tried to stop him but Tails flies straight at the Motobugs, gets out a wrench and whacks one over it's head. Zecora watched as Tails struck the Motobug as it rolls uncontrollably before blowing up. The two Motobugs stop chasing the scooter riding filly and start charging at Tails who whacks them both as they zoom past him, with Tails giving the last blow to the last sparking Motobug due to its sparking. The filly takes off her helmet and runs up to Zecora in panic. "Scootaloo? What is the matter? Where did you find this clatter?" She asked. "I didn't find it. It found me." Scootaloo said as she catches her breath, she seems to be in shock. "And everypony else. They're in Ponyville right now. They're destroying everything. How do we stop them, Zecora?" Scoots asked her but even Zecora is baffled by this situation. Tails listened and to his horror, he realizes that Robotnik is in this world. Tails clutches onto his bravery and runs back to his plane which is still parked by the lake. Zecora and Scootaloo see him run off. "Wait! Where are you going?" Zecora starts to follow. "What is that?" Scootaloo questions as she notices Tails for the first time. "I do not wish to be concerned, but this is the path of no return!" Zecora followed Tails as she keeps up with him. "Whatever is happening in Ponyville, is not for your goodwill." "Those were badniks!" Tails said. "So if Sonic is here... that means Eggman is here too." "Sonic?" Confused Zecora. Tails and Zecora make it to the lake and Zecora looks at Tails' plane, the Tornado, with awe. Scootaloo catches up as Tails gets into the plane and tries to start it up again by connecting some wires underneath the cockpit. "What is that thing?" Asked Scootaloo about the contraption she has never seen before. "It's my plane." Tails said as he attempts to start his plane up. "If your town is in trouble that means he's in trouble." "Miles!" Zecora tries to reason with him. "I understand your compassion. But how exactly do you work that contraption?" "It can fly, duh." Tails said. "You mean...?" Scootaloo suddenly fantasizes due to her dream of flying one day. "I can..." "But the ponyfolk, to your expense, are still frightful. A visit to their town could be harmful." Zecora warned. Tails gets the plane working. "Even if the ponies think I'm a monster, it's not gonna stop me from at least helping them. Which way is Ponyville?" "It's right across the forest." Said Scootaloo as she pointed. "Sonic. Here I come!" Tails operates his plane and flies directly towards Ponyville. After the attack... The badniks successfully captured everypony in Ponyville and hold them in cages. In Canterlot, the one Royal Guard made it out of Ponyville and rushes into the palace to inform the princesses. He breathes in panic from the fear of the mechanical creatures he saw. He bursts into the princesses quarters and they take notice of him. Before they were interrupted, Princess Celestia was writing notes for something important while Luna concentrates her power with her eyes closed. "Princess Celestia. Princess Luna." He catches his breath. "We have a major problem in Ponyville." "Calm down, general." Celestia said. "What's wrong?" "Ponyville has just been ravaged by monstrous scrap creatures. We couldn't stop them. They overwhelmed us. They have powers like we have never seen before." "Monstrous scrap creatures?" Luna jests. "Sounds more like an old mare's tale. I don't believe it." "Your Majesties! You gotta listen. Ponyville has just been under siege. Those monsters. They have taken everypony hostage." "Is Princess Twilight Sparkle all right?" Asked the worried Celestia. "Yes, ma'am. As I recall, she had just departed for the Crystal Empire under Princess Cadance's wishes." "What about her friends? Are they safe?" Celestia asked as she got off her throne. "I don't know, Your Majesty. I simply... just don't know. They came so quick. The last I've heard was when they were wishing Princess Twilight farewell at the station. Moments before those creatures attacked." Princess Celestia looked out the window to see smoke and ashes coming from Ponyville. "Oh no." Celestia becomes extremely concerned for the safety of her ponies, as well as Twilight's friends. Luna walks up to her as she watches the siege happen with her. "Sister. Should we do anything?" Luna asked. Celestia responds, "No, Luna. Tell the guards to stay in their positions of the castle." "Must we always hide away from such brutal conflicts?" said Luna. "Those ponies need our assistance." "Luna..." Celestia turns to her sister and tells her, "I fear he has returned. It's best that we hide in here until then." "Who?" This he that Celestia brought up, confuses Luna. Sonic Equestria Universe Power Insidious: Part 3 (Two Fast, Two Furious) The badniks search around Ponyville for any remaining stragglers to capture. All the while, Sonic the Hedgehog manages to climb out of the rubble that was the Carousel Boutique, now more injured and bruised than before. Sonic tries to stay clear of their line of sight and hides behind houses, bushes and lampposts. Sonic realizes he can't take on the badniks in the condition he's in and struggles to keep moving. His leg sprains again and could barely stand up. As he continues to stand up, a hand is placed right in front of him as a sign of helping him up. Sonic looks up to see that it's Tails offering to help him up. "Thought you could use a hand." Tails said as Sonic accepts his offer to help him up. Sonic seems pretty surprised to see Tails is okay, then again, he's impressed. "Are you kidding? I got this." Joked Sonic. "Oh, I'm sorry." Tails starts to tease Sonic. "The last thing I heard you said to those badniks was 'This is all mine.' Six hours later and here you are getting your butt beaten down by them. Yep. You totally got this, Sonic." "Okay, okay. I'll admit. I got pretty careless." Sonic said. "You shouldn't be careless..." Zecora comes up to the two, and Sonic begins to notice her. "...even when the town has become perilous." "Who's your new friend, Tails?" Sonic asked. "Uh? Sonic? This is Zecora. She helped me learn about this world." Tails said. "How could you learn about this whole world in about six hours?" Asked Sonic. "I dunno." Shrugged Tails. "I'm a quick learner, I guess." Sonic, Tails and Zecora quickly duck in cover as a Clucker driving a tank passes by. "I'd love to sit and talk about the History of Equestria with you two all day, but I'd rather get to somewhere that has less of these goons than be somewhere that has more of these goons." Suggested Sonic. Zecora and Tails agreed and nod their heads. In the meantime, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Spike, Mr. and Mrs. Cake, Bulk Biceps, Derpy, Granny Smith, Big Mac, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo take refuge inside Twilight's Castle to hide away from the badniks that want to enslave them. Rainbow Dash and Applejack stack up as many junk and appliances they can find to block off the main door. Apple Bloom tries to look out the window but her sister calls her out of it. "APPLE BLOOM! Stay away from the windows!" Shouted Applejack. "Ah just wanna see if they're still out there." She said and then she looks out the window before quickly looking away. "Yep, they're still out there." Big Mac pushes a refrigerator to block Apple Bloom's view from the window while Fluttershy and Derpy close the curtains. "Is everything concealed?" Asked Dashie as she just close curtains over a window. "Pretty much." Applejack confirmed. And so does Big Mac. "Eeeeyup." "Nnnnnnnot exactly..." Said a sheepish Pinkie Pie and everyone's eyes are on her. "I put a skylight on a ceiling." She points to the big skylight in the middle of the room. "Why?" Spike asked. "So I can look up at the sky when I lie down, duh. What more could you ask for?" Said Pinkie as she makes a *squee* noise when she smiled. Dash looks unamused and gives off a deadpan snark. "Pinkie... You are so random." "Why does everypony keep saying that about me?" Pinkie questions. "Don't worry, Rainbow Dash." Assured Fluttershy. "They won't be able to look for us from the skylight." "Yeah." Dash says sarcastically. "Especially the ONES THAT CAN FLY!" Dash yells out the flaw in what Fluttershy thought. "Don't yell at her like that!" Revolted Rarity as she hugs Sweetie Belle. "I hate to be a jerk, but does anypony realize that we are in a crisis here?" Questioned Rainbow Dash. "These creatures? Our town being destroyed? On verge of enslavement?" "Of course we do, Rainbow Dash." Applejack says. "But you don't need to yell about it." Rainbow retorts, "Who said I was yelling?" "Rarity did." Pinkie points out. "I was defending Fluttershy because she's just trying to calm us down." Said Rarity. "But then you made her unhappy." Rainbow Dash starts walking up to Rarity in a seemingly hostile manner. "Oh, she's trying to calm us down. Oh, I'm sorry, I thought she was being stupid for a second." The ponies in the room gasps and Fluttershy starts tearing up. "In case you have forgotten, those monsters just trashed your home!" "They destroyed Pinkie's home too!" Rarity retaliates. "Actually, I kinda..." Pinkie was about to speak up but the Cakes shush her up. Rainbow Dash and Rarity get into an argument, a heated one. "I may have lost my home, but the only thing that matters more to me is my sister." "What about the rest of Ponyville? All of our friends? Do you think they'll make it through this? Ever thought about that?" Dash questioned. "At least they are safe for now." Said Rarity. "FROM WHAT?!" Dash yells again. "Those metal things with the claws and blaster thingies? They caught everyone we know. We could have helped them." "We'd be overwhelmed if we attempt such a task." Rarity retorted. Everypony else not involved in this argument grow more scared, even Fluttershy who clutches her head. "Oh! So your sister is worth saving than the rest of Ponyville?" Dash retaliates. "Well, at least I didn't leave my home behind for a bunch of Daring Do books!" Rarity retorts. Dash gasps and gets even more angry. "YOU TAKE THAT BACK!" "MAKE ME, YOU UNCULTURED MARE!" Rarity screamed. "CRAZY NEAT FREAK!" Rainbow screamed back. "FANGIRL!" Rarity to Dash. "DRAMA QUEEN!" Dash to Rarity. "STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!" That scream came right out of Fluttershy's mouth, thus breaking the fight up and bringing them back to their senses as they all look to Fluttershy who starts crying and sobbing. Bulk Biceps walks over to her and pats her on the back to calm her down. "Rainbow Dash... *sob* Haven't you realize that everypony else has lost their home? How do you feel about that? How does everypony here feel about that? What's there to argue about?! Rarity lost her home. Sure she had a lot of nice dresses but that's not all she cared about. What's important to her is family. Making an argument about her sister doesn't affect anything. I was just trying to keep everyone here calm because... WE ARE ALL SCARED!" Fluttershy spoke and then she continues to sob as everypony tries to comfort her. They exchange glaring looks at Rainbow Dash who at this point becomes completely devastated by this whole mess. "You're right, Fluttershy." She admits. "We are scared." Dash looks down, losing a bit of her coolness and bravery. "I just... don't know what to do now." Mrs. Cake tends to her babies who are in strollers who look at their mother with sadness. "The best thing to happen right now is a miracle." She said. Suddenly, a knock on the door is heard. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle get startled and jump. More knocking occurs and Applejack puts her ear out and calls out. "Who's out there?" Granny Smith warns her however. "Don't speak out loud! They can hear you." "Yeah, I can hear you too. Can you let us in?" Sonic spoke from behind the door and Granny scurries back to Big Mac. "We're not letting you metal varmints wrangle us up like cattle. Y'all might as well leave if ya know what's good for ya!" Applejack replied and listens outside again. "She thinks we're badniks." Said Sonic, behind the door. "Of course. These ponies can't tell the difference." Tails said, behind the door. "Should I break in with my spindash?" "But you'll probably damage the property of that door." "Tails, it's just a door. I break through these things all the time." "Yeah, but even doors have feelings." "Since when do doors have feelings? They're doors." "I mean, hypothetically, doors don't like being broken apart." "Tails, I don't get this. What does this have to do with convincing these ponies to let us in?" "I'm just trying to explain the logistics of how much doors cost to rebuild." Throughout this conversation Sonic and Tails have behind the door, Applejack and the other ponies apart from Pinkie Pie find this conversation confusing and questionable. "We still ain't letting you in!" Applejack told them. "Now go on and git!" But then to Applejack's surprise, she hears Zecora's voice. "Applejack, I do not have time to implore. Hurry up and open this door." "Zecora?" Applejack uttered. "Let her in," Prompted Apple Bloom. Rainbow Dash and Big Mac push away the furniture blocking the door so Applejack and open it and lead Zecora in. "Quick, get in." Zecora enters but Applejack quickly becomes shocked as Tails carries the injured Sonic by his shoulder into the castle. Sonic looks up and says "Sup?" Causing everypony in the room to gasp in shock... and Bulk Biceps to scream like a girl. "I get it. We can talk. Can we move on?" Quipped Sonic. Fluttershy looks up as she dries away her tears and becomes stricken with happiness when she spots Sonic in her sight. "Sonic!" She flies towards him. "You're okay." Rainbow Dash however blocks her path, still thinking that Sonic and Tails are mutants. "Whoa! Stay away from them, Fluttershy. For all we know, they could be one of them." "Hey, rainbow hair!" Sonic calls out on Dashie. "We're not with the badniks." "Prove it!" Challenged Dashie. Sonic doesn't take a second to come up with an explanation. "They were built to kill me. Is that good enough?" Dashie paused for a moment before accepting that Sonic's not the enemy. "Okay. That'll do." Every pony gathers around Sonic and Tails and start asking them questions. "Who are you?" Apple Bloom asked. "Where did ya come from?" Applejack asked. "Where did you get that ridiculous haircut?" Asked Rarity. "Are you an alien?" Sweetie Belle asked. "Where do ya live?" Asked Granny Smith. "How old are you?" Asked Mrs. Cake. "Where did you get those shoes?" Scootaloo asked. "Do you like muffins?" Asked Derpy. "Does everybody have long legs and green eyes like you?" Pinkie Pie zoomed up onto Sonic's face, asking that question. "No?" Sonic awkwardly answered as Pinkie stared at him. Applejack starts questioning about Sonic's presence as she paces around him. "I don't understand. None of this makes sense. Since when can animals like you start acting more intelligent like us and talk?" "Is it a hate crime for me to talk?" Questioned Sonic as he places an ice pack on his head. "No. It's just unnatural." Rainbow Dash answered. "All of the animals here just act on instinct." Tails then looks over to Spike who eats a gemstone, part of his dragon instinct. "Yeah. What she said." He says as bites down on his gems. "Oh. So it is a hate crime for animals like me to talk because I'm not allowed to." Sonic misinterprets the answer. "That's not what Rainbow Dash means, Sonic." Assured Fluttershy. "How do you know him, Fluttershy?" Dash realizes. "Oh. Why I found him sleeping in the forest and nursed him back to health. You see, he's badly injured." She told them. "I did everything I could to treat the wound, but it seems like it's not curable." "It's just a laser wound. I'm fine." Sonic said but his waist acts up again and groans in pain. Tails becomes concerned and asks, "How bad is it, Sonic?" "Really. I'm cool, Tails. I'll just walk it off." Sonic tries to walk a distance but his waist aches in pain again and he collapses to his knee. "Stop finding an excuse not to complain, for you seem like you cannot handle the pain." Zecora told Sonic as she walked up to him. "Yeah, you seem like you can barely stand on one leg." Pinkie said. "I'm cool, okay. I didn't crawl my way out of that dress store just to get lectured by a bunch of... eh... ponies." That word makes Sonic shiver. "What's wrong with us?" Scootaloo asked Sonic as he facepalms. "There's nothing wrong with you." Said Sonic. "It's just that... in the world I come from, ponies just aren't... well... cool." What Sonic had just said, not only made Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity and Fluttershy gasp but Rainbow Dash jumps off her seat and leans her head right into Sonic's face in anger. Sonic does not seem surprised by Rainbow Dash's outburst and acts deadpan by it. "What did you call us, hedgehog? Not cool? I'll show you who's not- *yelp*" Applejack bites on Dashie's tail and pulls her away, cutting her off. "Look, sugarcube. Ah don't wanna get ruffled by your poor choice of words, but do you at least mind tellin' us what in the wide world of Equestria and apple briskets is going on here? What were those things that attacked Ponyville? Who are they being lead by? Where did they come from? How did they come here? And why attack us? Tell us that," asked Applejack. Sonic then looks up at the stain-glass windows of the castle. He then looks back to the ponies and starts explaining the situation. "Okay. Look. I don't wanna upset anyone. But you need to know that what happened in your town today was no accident." "Yeah, we know." Said Rainbow Dash. "Tell us what's happening." Rarity said. "I didn't realize until Fluttershy told me, but I come from another world. A world completely different from yours. Completely different." Memories of Sonic's Genesis Adventures play as he explains. "I was simply called the fastest thing alive in my world. My world was paradise. Seriously. It was a world beyond relief. The seaside, breathtaking. The breeze, catching in my face. The speed of adventure. I was feeling it. It was awesome. But then, one day... It all changed." Lightning flashes and thunder crashes as an image of Dr. Eggman comes into his mind and hears his menacing and eerie laugh. He starts creating robots out of scrap metal and shoves little animals into them to power them up like batteries. "Dr. Robotnik. More known to me as Dr. Eggman. The most evil, menacing psychopath of a scientist. He and I share... a very dark history." Sonic had to brave through the Scrap Brain Zone to reach Eggman. Avoiding conveyor belts, buzz saws, electric beams and crushing ceilings. "His modus operandi is always the same. Taking over world. Shaping it into his own image. An image I'd like to tear apart. But every time he does this sort of thing, he causes damage." Eggman let loose Perfect Chaos and destroyed Station Square by flooding it. Eggman blew up the moon using the ARK's Eclipse Cannon. Eggman separates the Earth's continents with a press of a button. "I stop him every time. But he never quits. Not until he seeks to take away the one thing I hold dear." "And what's that?" Asked Sweetie Belle. Sonic hold his fist up to his face and stares at it. "Freedom." "But now, it seems like Eggman is in your world too. Cooking up a scheme to take it over." Tails said. "No way is he taking over our world!" Dashie jumps up with her wings flapping. "He'll have to go through us to let that happen." "Are you serious?" Sonic thinks they're crazy enough to take on someone who's evil and dangerous as Eggman. "You're just ponies. What are you gonna do to stop him? Bake him a cake?" Pinkie smiles. "That's a great idea! We'll send him a cake, so he'll leave us alone forever. Right?" Sonic facepalms. "You've gotta be kidding me." Spike then speaks up. "What would Twilight do in a crisis like this?" Applejack realizes. "Sweet Celestia! We forgot about Twilight! She's still over at the Crystal Empire attending the gala." "Applejack is right!" Rarity realizes this as well. "Twilight has no idea what has become of Ponyville after she left. She's gonna be devastated!" "I KNEW SHE WAS GONNA HAVE A BAD DAY!" Shrieked Pinkie as she places her hooves on her shocked face. Her friends continue to stare at her with a deadpan expression until Pinkie notices and looks innocent again. "Sorry." "Wait a second." Tails calms them down. "Who?" "Twilight Sparkle." Applejack said. "She's one of the Princesses in Equestria." "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Sonic slows her down. "Princess?" "Oh, why yes. Twilight is the Princess of Friendship." Fluttershy told him. Pinkie comes over to Tails and whispers to him. "Spoiler alert: She's got a castle, which by the way, we are in right now." "Whatever." Said the impatient Sonic. "Let's just head over to this Crystal Empire thing and save your princess before those badniks make mincemeat out of her." "Relax." Said Rainbow Dash. "Twilight can take care of herself. Haven't you seen her in action?" "No and I don't care. Let's just get this over with. I'll see you guys over there." Sonic starts to speed away but his waist injury aches which causes Sonic to trip and bounces uncontrollably in his spinball form. "Whooooa!" Sonic hits one of the throne chairs, a vase and the skylight which causes to shatter. Tails and the other ponies watch as Sonic crashes through the skylight. Pinkie pouts over this. "Heeeey! I spent Gummy's loose teeth on that!" "Wow, he's a jerk." Dash criticized on Sonic's behavior. Sonic looks up after that tumble and notices a couple of Buzz Bombers right in front of him. "Oh, great." Sonic said sheepishly. The Buzzers start shooting blast beams at Sonic while the rest below him become concerned. "What's going on up there?" Asked Spike as he and everyone else look up at the skylight. Sonic jumps back down to ground level in the castle as the Buzzers follow him down. "BUZZERS, INCOMING!" The CMC scream and run for cover while Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Tails rush to aid Sonic. The two Buzzers shoot their beams at Spike, but thankfully they miss, guess luck is on his side. "Spike! Get out of here!" Rarity told him as she charges at one of the Buzzers. She attempts to buck it but the Buzzer lifts itself up, causing Rarity to miss and leave her helpless to an attack. Tails then flies up towards it and whacks it across the faceplate, causing it to short circuit and explode, therefore saving Rarity. The last Buzzer is chasing Apple Bloom as it fires it shots at her while she screams. "Ahhh! Sis! HALP!" Applejack turns to her and worries. "Apple Bloom!" Apple Bloom trips and the Buzzer fires it's laser at her, but thankfully, Bulk Biceps flies in and saves her from the impact and the Buzzer gets destroyed by Sonic's spindash attack. The two Buzzers have been dealt with but no one is safe yet as Sonic and Tails figured. "Looks like this castle is compromised." Tails commented. "We need to get out of town and quick." "Yeah. Before somepony tries to leave us behind again." Said Rainbow Dash as she glares at Sonic who initially tried to speed away. "Hey! What's that's supposed to mean?" Sonic questioned. "Go easy on him, Dash." Told Fluttershy. "He's just a bit impatient." "Yeah? Then why was he was gonna ditch us while we fend for ourselves?" Dash proves a point. "I said, I'll see you guys over there. What else do you want? A postcard?" Quipped Sonic. "I will admit, Sonic, you did seem to have little interest with this problem." Claimed Tails. "Your friend is right. We must escape now from this plight." Zecora said just as the badniks start breaking through the main door. Sweetie Belle squirms in fear as a Slicer badnik tries to squeeze through the barricaded door. "They're breaking through!" Granny Smith panicked. "Whadda we do now?!" Apple Bloom asked desperately. "I'll take them on!" Sonic runs towards the door but his injury causes him to trip and faceplants onto the floor again. Yeah, it's becoming annoying now and even Sonic knows it. Tails then looks at all of the tools, wagons, haybales and stuff that Applejack and her family brought into the castle. Tails starts thinking of something and gets an idea. Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Bulk Biceps, Sonic, Scootaloo and Applejack try to push the barricade back while the badniks attempt to break through like a horde of zombies. Dashie strains from the pushing. "Grrrr... There's too many out there!" "Keep pushing!" Motivated Applejack. "We're doing all the pushing as we can, country girl." Strained Sonic. Bulk gives out all of his might by pushing his back against the barricade. "Eeee-YEEEEEEEAAAAAH!" He screamed, but to his dismay and everyone else, the badniks destroy the barrier with the help of the Clucker in the tank who blew the door open. "Braw ha ha-ha!" The Clucker chuckled as he and the badnik horde swarm the heroes. Just before they could meet their fates however... Tails shouts out to his friends. "Everyone! Get down!" They turn around and quickly duck right before Tails fires an explosive haybale at a group of badniks that explodes right on impact. Tails has modified the Apple wagon and turned it into a mobile weapon. "Quick! Get in before more come!" Sonic and the Mane Five go towards to Tails. Sweetie tries to come along but Rarity stops her. "No, Sweetie Belle. You stay here with Applejack's family." "Why can't we come with you?" Sweetie Belle asked. "You wanna stick around and become badnik chow?" Sonic asked her as he climbed aboard the wagon. Sweetie understands the situation and hugs her sister before she departs. "Be careful." Sweetie said to Rarity. "Hurry!" Tails told them. Zecora is also coming with them. "What are you doing? Stay with the rest!" "As much as I would like to desist, you won't know what to do without my assist." She said. "Not sure if that rhyme made much sense but... I'll take it." Tails accepts. "What did ya do to mah wagon, anyways?" Applejack asked as she saw what Tails put together in the wagon. "I modified it with the tools you had laying around. I rigged the hay bales with shrapnel bombs and pieced together the plows with spiked tips. And to make it move, I took apart the pieces off the scooter." Tails explained before being met with a "HEY!" from Scootaloo afar. "But what does this thing do?" Pinkie asks about the cannon mounted nearby Tails' seat. "It's a specialized homing cannon that I built back in the Mystic Ruins when I was test flying-" Tails however gets cut off by Sonic who commands him. "Tails!" Sonic commanded with his finger pointing forward. "PLOW THROUGH THEM!" "Oh right." Tails retracts the handbrake and hits the pedal. "Fasten your seat belts!" Tails warned the ponies on the wagon. "There are no seat belts!" Replied Applejack. "Well, hang onto something!" Tails retorts. "Tornado-Wagon, go!" Tails aims his cannon at the horde of badniks while the CMC and the rest retreat. Tails fires his cannon at the badniks, destroying a whole bunch of them and blowing a hole through the main entrance. Tails rides his Tornado-Wagon out of the castle and onto the road. From the top of Canterlot Castle, Princess Luna spots the group leaving Twilight's Castle and decides to disobey her sister's orders to help them. Sonic snickers about the name Tails gave the wagon. "Tornado-Wagon, Tails?" "What would you have preferred?" Tails asked. "The Sonic Cycle?" Tails just beat Sonic with that joke. "Okay, good point." Sonic remarked. "Uh, guys? They're chasing us!" Spike warned Tails and the others. An army of Turtloids holding Shellcrackers underneath them take off and chase the heroes, along with ground Motobugs and hoping Slicers. "Applejack!" Tails calls out. "Which way is the Crystal Empire?" "It's just to the north. Stay by the train tracks to the left!" She told him. Sonic peaks out behind him and notices a bunch of badniks are close behind. "Tails. The half-hour parade just started." Rainbow Dash turns around to notice as well. In the meantime, Tails stays on track and drives by the train tracks leading to the Crystal Empire. Sonic gets up and stretches his legs. Dashie sees him doing this and gets concerned. "What are you gonna do?" "I'll trash those badniks out of the sky, that's what I'm gonna do." Sonic said. "But you're still hurt!" Worried Fluttershy. "So?" Shrugged Sonic. Just then, a Shellcracker's claw almost hits Sonic by his feet. Sonic was about to leap into action but Rainbow Dash stops him. "Not so fast, slugger. Let me show you what the FASTEST FLYER IN EQUESTRIA can do." Smirked Dashie. "What?!" Shocked Sonic just as Dashie opens her wings and flies into action. The Shellcrackers throw their claws out and try to hit Rainbow Dash, but thanks to her awesome agility and perception, she evades their attacks and buck kicks one of them out of the sky. "Yeah! Take that, you metal crab!" As she taunts however, a Shellcracker catches her off guard and holds her by the neck. "GAK!" Dashie struggles to break free from the Shellcracker's clutch and Applejack gasps. She runs over to a hay bale and bucks it out to the Shellcracker holding Dashie. The hay bale manages to hit the Turtloid holding the Shellcracker and implodes onto the ground. Dashie, knocks the Shellcracker's claw off of her and realizes that four Turtloid wielding Shellcrackers have surrounded her. With a brave look on her face, Rainbow Dash quickly dives down just as the Shellcrackers missed their shot, causing their claws to tangle up. The Turtloids drop their Shellcrackers and chase after Rainbow Dash. Back to Tails and the others, they're still on the run. One of the Clucker's in the tank chases them with nitro boosters. The Clucker shoots a steel ball at the wagon's wheel and it breaks. "Uh oh!" Tails panicked as he tries to maintain the Wagon's control. The Clucker shoots another and it hits the back of the wagon, causing everyone in the back to lose momentum and Pinkie Pie nearly falls off overboard. Sonic quickly rushed in to grab her by the tail, holding her over the side of the wagon. Sonic tries to pull her back on board but due to his injury, it starts to wear him down quickly. The Clucker drives to the side where Pinkie is and tries to shoot her. "You like cannons too?" Pinkie asked him. "Wow! I guess our minds think alike!" Pinkie then pulls out her party cannon and blasts a gift wrap at the Clucker. The gift wrap clogs the turret of the tank and the Clucker looks on with a sad look on his face just before it implodes with him. Applejack, Rarity and Sonic manage to pull Pinkie back on board while Pinkie still remains overly happy. "That was fun! Can we do that again?" Said the playful Pinkie. But Sonic responds with a vacant "No.", making Pinkie whimper sadly. Rainbow Dash is still trying to outrun the Turtloids across a stream. "These things would run circles around Tank." The Turtloids shoot bullets at her while she veers from left to right, passing by pillar to pillar. One of them crashes into pillar. Rainbow dodges more of the bullets that the Turtloids shoot at her with as she comes across an open lake at the end of the stream. She gets an idea. She flies above the water and starts circling around a known radius. She starts flying around it faster and it starts to form a giant water tornado, and it sucks the Turtloids in. The Turtloids caught in the cyclone, get trashed and torn to pieces and the cyclone spits out all of the remains. Rainbow Dash stops spinning around the cyclone as the water falls back down to the lake. "Hope you guys cooled off now." Punned the wet maned Dashie. Back to the Tornado-Wagon. "How much further?" Tails asked Applejack. "Just past those two tall mountains." Applejack directed. "Well, make it snappy before more-" A snap on the wagon is heard and it almost cuts Sonic's sentence off. "-try to kill us." Sonic looks behind the wagon, as do Fluttershy and Rarity as they see a Slicer badnik clinging onto the back of the wagon. "Ohhh, I get it. Snappy. Hee hee hee!" Pinkie giggled as she gets the pun while Sonic facepalms again. The Slicer attempts to claw at the three while Rarity shrieks from the close shave. The Slicer then jumps aboard the wagon and tries to slice Fluttershy, but she is saved when Sonic grabs it by the arm and toss him overboard. However, and conveniently, the Slicer latches onto a coal train that happened to be rushing by and Sonic expresses his aggravation. "Oh, come on!" The Slicer flings it's sharp razor at Sonic who easily dodges and it flies over Applejack's head, clutching her hat down. The Slicer retracts another razor and flings it again, this time, slicing off a bit of Rarity's mane, causing her to gasp and get angry about it. "Tear him apart for me!" Rarity screamed as she clutches her ruined mane. The Slicer throws another one but Sonic has had enough of that and jumps off the wagon. He spindashes the Slicer into the train's interior, hitting his back on a boiler. Sonic groans in pain as he gets up. "Why do I keep getting hit by things?" As Sonic tries to come to his senses, the Slicer attempts to attack him. He tosses a razor at him but it misses Sonic. Sonic then dodges the Slicer's swings, attempting to cut him while only accomplishing slicing a bag of coal. "Someone's been naughty." Quipped Sonic as he kicks around with the Slicer whilst smirking. Sonic then karate kicks the Slicer a few feet from him. Sonic walks towards the Slicer, but the Slicer has a trick up his sleeve as he sees a steaming pipe that Sonic is about to walk over. As he walks over it, the Slicer then thrusts its razor into it, causing the pipe to boom underneath Sonic and it sends him up the shaft. Sonic emerges out of the shaft and lands on the roof of the railcar. Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie and Rarity watch from the wagon as Sonic feels his head while dazed. Just then, a sharp razor sticks out beside his shoulder and Sonic reacts. Another one sticks beside his other shoulder. And then another sticks out between his legs which gives Sonic a wild expression. The Slicer is underneath the roof of the cart and starts shredding the roof while Sonic backs away quickly. Sonic quickly handstands to avoid the drifting razor and then falls flat on his face. The Slicer slices a hole from the roof and jumps out to engage Sonic again. "BEHIND YOU!" Applejack quickly warned Sonic as he gets up and glares at the Slicer who he's having a difficult time with. Sonic evades another razor and spindashes at the Slicer, but the Slicer manages to grab him in his spinball and toss him back a few feet. Sonic is getting tired of this already. The Slicer then tosses another pair of razors at Sonic. "I can't look." Fluttershy covers her eyes. Sonic smirks, tilts his body to the left to dodge the first razor and thrusts his right leg to deflect the second razor and redirected it back to the Slicer, lodging it into it's head. Sonic then quips while he grins. "Get that through your head." The Slicer with the razor impaled to its head, staggers a bit before Sonic kicks the Slicer off the train as it shatters on the ground. He then looks at the reader, breaking the fourth wall in the process. "Remember, kids. Never play with sharp objects. Unless you're battling a killer robot who has one." Sez Sonic. "HEY!" Pinkie sticks her head out beside Sonic. "THAT'S MY JOB!" And the goes back to the group. Applejack then spots something out in the distance in front. "What in holy apple fritters is that?!" The team are about to about to run afoul with a colossal Caterkiller, who emerges out of the sand and roars. "Hang on!" Tails drives around the Caterkiller and avoids getting chomped upon as it impacts the ground. The impact of the ground however causes some boulders to fly up and start plummeting towards the Tornado-Wagon. Sonic jumps off the train before it gets totaled by boulders. Pinkie points towards a boulder to Rarity that's about to crush them. "Hey, Rarity. Here come's Tom." Rarity screams and so do Applejack and Fluttershy, while Pinkie just... smiles... I guess. Thankfully, Sonic destroys the boulder before it crushes the team by spindashing it to pieces. Sonic lands back on the wagon as the Caterkiller digs underground and chases them. Sonic is once again aching in pain and Fluttershy tends to him. "You need to rest, Sonic. You're straining yourself too much. Who knows how long you'll hold out." "That thing is gonna wipe us out if I don't do anything," Sonic said. "Not a problem, Sonic." Tails said. "We can't fight it so we'll wing it." "Say what?" Confused Applejack. "Allow me to demonstrate." Tails pulls the lever next to him. "Tornado-Wagon. Transform!" He commanded and the wagon starts to transform which is surprising everyone. However, the wagon stops on a dime... and falls apart, leaving both Tails, Sonic, Mane Four, Spike and Zecora stranded and sitting ducks. Spike looks bamboozled. "Really?" "Seriously, Tails?" Said the deadpan Sonic, lowering his eyes. "Well, it's still a working progress." Tails said. Rarity shouts out as she points towards the Caterkiller about to make a lunge at them. "LOOK OUT!" The Caterkiller was about to smash his face against our heroes but luckily for them, the Caterkiller gets zapped by a beam, postponing the heroes' unfortunate demise. The savior happens to be Princess Luna, who continues to shoot beam projectiles at the Caterkiller while it tries to chomp her. Sadly, Luna can't keep this up. "Princess Luna!" Shouted Spike. "I can't hold him any longer." Luna told them as they watch with concern. "Go! You need to warn Princess Twilight!" Sonic tries to get up again. "No way!" But falls again thanks to his everlasting injuries. "We can't just leave her with that rusted bucket of bolts! I got to stop it. But how? I can't fight like this." Sonic looks at the horrified faces of Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie. "They're too scared to handle something that big. What am I gonna do?" Just then, Zecora comes up to Sonic and presents him a pot with a planted yellow colored flower. "Eat this!" Sonic expresses shock by her words. "What?" "It will give you the strength you need. Hurry before that monster will makes us his feed!" Persisted Zecora. Sonic refuses and says. "I am not eating a flower." Sonic quickly turns back to see the Caterkiller whack Luna in the face and slams her down to the ground with it's tail, causing the ponies and Spike to gasp in horror. Sonic looks onward at the situation and gives off a glare at his opponent. "It's coming right for us!" Tails spoke up as the monster slithers towards the them. Sonic takes a good look at the flower being offered by Zecora and begrudgingly accepts whilst closing his eyes. He takes a big bite onto the flower and quickly swallows it down, letting out a sigh of relief. Sonic then starts to feel something in his body. His wound on his waist disappears and his ankle heals up, and all of the bruises and scrapes that Sonic sufficed before disappears. Sonic stands up strong and heroic at the Caterkiller that is about to devour the Mane Four, Spike and Tails. He starts off by smirking, puts his left foot back and then leaps into the air with full force while the wind flows swiftly through Zecora's face as she watches. Sonic curls into a spinball and starts spinning rapidly, forming into a buzzsaw motion with electric sparks. Sonic then shoots himself forward towards the Caterkiller and cuts him right through. Sonic destroys the insides of the Caterkiller, it's gears, it's circuits, it's systems and wiring. The spinball then fires itself right out of the Caterkiller's mouth as the rest of his insides explode up in flames and smoke. Applejack stops bracing herself at this point as the rest of her friends watch as the Caterkiller collapses to the ground and explode on impact. The ponies were struck with shock as Sonic walks through the smoke and emerges right out to reveal his cool attitude towards them. He then goes on to quip, "Now that's what I call heartburn." Everypony was surprised by what Sonic did, even Spike expresses a bit of amazement. "Cool." Sonic rubs his finger against his nose as he gloats. "Yeah, I know. I'm awesome." During his gloating however, the Slicer whom he was fighting earlier is still out for blood and appears right behind Sonic as the dust settles. He still has the razor impaled to his head and is only missing his lower half, shown as sparks fly out of it's top half. Fluttershy quickly tried to warn him as it prepares to slice Sonic in the back. "Sonic!" Before Sonic could react though, Rainbow Dash swoops in and smashes the badnik down with her four hooves. Upon destroying the badnik, a little chicken falls out and wanders away. "But I'm even more awesome." Dashie also smirked while she replied to Sonic's comment. Sonic replies, "Not as awesome as I am. I'm way past cool." He says it while pointing his thumb at himself. "Oh yeah?" Rainbow Dash replied back. "Well I'm 20 percent cool." Sonic and Rainbow Dash both share a friendly but fierce faceoff during this trade. "Wanna bet?" Sonic asked. "Do I have a choice?" Rainbow also asked. But thankfully, Princess Luna walks in and clears her throat, breaking up the friendly banter between the two fastest things alive. The Mane Five, Zecora and Spike bow down before Luna while Sonic and Tails look on with confusion. "Uhhh... What's going on?" Sonic asked Rainbow Dash. "That's Princess Luna." Dash said. "Princess Luna?" Tails looks at the radiant Princess of the Night. "Wait!" Tails starts getting confused. "You have another princess?" "Why of course, Tails, darling." Rarity replied. "What troubles you ever so?" "I believe these two outsiders don't understand how this world operates than the one in their own." Luna suspects. "The thing is, how many princesses are there in this world?" Tails asked. "Aren't they're any rulers like kings or queens maybe?" Luna looks back at the Mane Five and gives them a 'what is he talking about?' look. The Mane Five respond with a shrug of confusion. Princess Luna then looks back at Sonic and Tails. "I'm afraid, you two have a lot to learn about this world." Luna said. "But let's hurry to the Crystal Empire, before more of those scrap monsters arrive and ambush us. Then we can talk." The Mane Five agree as they start walking with Princess Luna while the others follow suit. Back on Angel Island, Sonic's World. Control Hub. Rotor the Walrus along with Fixit the Robot are still trying to identify the origin of the red unicorn horn. "Ah can't believe Rotor's been trying to decode that red thingamajig all day." Said the cyborg rabbit named Bunnie Rabbot, as she walks in with Knuckles and Amy Rose. "At least take a break from it every once in a while." "Give him time, Bunnie. I know it's been long, but it's our only chance of finding Sonic and Tails," Knuckles said. "And maybe Eggman." Amy sighs. "I do hope Sonic's all right." Rotor stops scanning the object and removes his goggles from his eyes. He tells his friends of his findings. "Guys... I don't think this object belongs on this world. It has traces and imprints that I have never even seen before. As if the mural in the Lost World temple was this confusing, this thing complicates everything else." "So if it's not from this world, Rotor, then where did it came from?" Asked Amy. "I don't know." He answered. "This doesn't make sense. How did something that is foreign of this world appeared here. I can't even get my head around that." Bunnie holds her hands out towards him. "Okay, Rote. Don't go hurting yerself." "Did you at least catch any kind of reaction from it?" Knuckles asked. Fixit explains that. "Actually, Knuckles, the mysterious horn has been acting up under the circumstances. I have been getting supernatural readings from the horn ever since we found it." "I tried tapping into it's power with one of my devices, but no dice," said Rotor. "Well..." Amy starts to notice the horn is acting up and Fixit starts getting powerful readings again. "It's doing more than dice now." They all notice the unicorn horn is reacting to something now. The unicorn horn however causes every equipment in the Control Hub to break as it spirals out of control. The four watch as the horn teleports away into a portal that mysteriously opens up. "Is that a portal?" Bunnie asked. "It's no Warp Ring." Stated Knuckles. "But I can sense the object. It's going through another dimension. That must be where Sonic and Tails went." "Guess you are the world's greatest treasure hunter, Knuckles." Amy quipped. "No time to gawk now." Bunnie said as she prepares. "We gotta get in there and find those two." Rotor, Amy and Bunnie leap into the portal while Knuckles tells Fixit to stay behind before entering through the portal as well. "Fixit! Stay here and tell Relic to guard the Master Emerald from any kind of harm." Fixit complies to that task just as Knuckles left. The Crystal Empire in Equestria. Knuckles exits out of the portal he just walked through and it closes up behind him. Knuckles then takes a look around at where he is. Knuckles realizes that he's underground and sees lots of Eggman's equipment and gadgetry with his logo plastered all over. Knuckles then stops in his track as he gasps at the sight of what Eggman is creating. It appears Dr. Eggman is creating a robotic replica, in the shape of the Unicorn King of Monsters, King Sombra. Complete with razor metal sharp teeth, metallic armor and rocket powered hooves. Knuckles is stunned by what Eggman calls 'a magnificent marvel' as metal tendrils continue to construct upon it. "Why hello, Knucklebrain." The genius mad doctor greets Knuckles as he steps in behind him. "Come to see me take over this diabetic world of cuteness, I see." Knuckles growls as he turns around and faces Eggman with a battle pose but then he becomes stunned again as he spots his friends; Amy, Bunnie and Rotor at the mercy of Eggman's Skorp badniks. "Good! This will be the last great masterpiece you and your sneaky little friends will see before I put you all out of your miseries!" Eggman threatened as he grinned so menacingly. To Be Continued... Off Words Knuckles and Maud Pie have a rock smashing contest. Knuckles glares at her while she just stares him with a deadpan expression. Pinkie Pie acts as a referee and blows a whistle. Knuckles shatters a giant rock to pieces. The judges consisting of Rarity, Doctor Whooves and Cheese Sandwich give him a score of 7, 4 and 5 respectively. Knuckles smirks at Maud who is by his Master Emerald shrine and gasps. Maud simply just thrusts her right hoof out and shatters the Master Emerald to several pieces, sending them flying across the world. The judges then give Maud all three 10s. Knuckles is then left dumbfounded as Maud Pie walks past him and tells him "Good luck, finding your rocks." in a deadpan tone. Knuckles' Emerald Radar then goes off, causing Knuckles to groan in frustration because he now must collect the emeralds again.