A blue blur raced across the wastes of Equestrian country side.
“Oh yeah finally free to run after so long.” Sonic said as he raced in the vast wilds. A black blur came up to his side. “Hey Shadow what's up?” Sonic asked.
Shadow rolled his eyes at his brother, who came floating up to their side. “Hey Silver. So what have you two been up to since we got freed?” Sonic asked.
Shadow was the first to answer. “I decided to join the Royal Guard. Of course, I kinda put the instructor in the hospital.” Shadow remembered him, an earth pony who laughed at Shadow when he said he didn’t need training. Shadow challenged him to a fight to prove him wrong.
Shadow sure proved him wrong. On the downside, he was yelled at by the Royal Guard Captain, Shining Armor. On the bright side, he was not the instructor.
Silver was next to speak. “I went back to school. I’m currently at college and an assistant teaching telekinesis.”
As they raced Sonic saw something in the ground. As he put the breaks, on the other two did as well. Sonic dusted off the dirt on a strange playing die on the ground. A voice was soon heard coming from it.
This is for anyone who needs help or just wants a friend. Summon the Dungeon Master of Equestria if you’re ever in need.
“Cool! I wonder how it works?” Sonic asked the other two hedgehogs ran/flew at him.
Sonic decided to roll it like a playing die.
“Wait Sonic!” They said and yet a portal opened up right in front of the three of them.
Out of the portal came tumbling a bipedal creature. It was tall, and had pointy ears. It wore a black hoodie, black denim pants, and strange black leather shoes. Its right arm appeared to be made of metal, and the sleeve on its left arm appeared to have a computer on it.
“Ow.” Said the bipedal creature. “Alright, whoever summoned me this time had horrible timing.”
Standing in front of him was three anthropomorphic hedgehogs. One was Blue with a bare chest and red shoes on, as well as white gloves. Next was Black with red streaks, white chest hair. His gloves had rings on them. The final one was Silver with a unique hairstyle and the biggest chest hair. Also, unlike the other two, he was floating. They each stood at around over four foot six.
“Sup.” The blue one asked.
“Uh, hi.” The black hooded creature said. “Who are you guys? And which one of you summoned me?”
“I’m Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog and these are my bros, Silver and Shadow.” The blueone, Sonic answered the Silver one who was floating was Silver and, the other was Shadow. “I summoned you.” Sonic answered.
“Okay, thanks.” The creature said. “My name’s Dox Ad Finem. And you sir just pulled me from a nice day of exploration through a different plane of existence back in my universe.” Dox pulled out a strange orb with a ton of runes on it. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I’d like to get back to that.” A portal opened in front of Dox.
As he walked back though, Sonic had a smile. “Lets go.” He grabbed both his bros arms and took off for the portal going through as it closed.
On the other side the sound of a few extra feet caught Dox’s attention.
“The hell?” Dox said as he turned around, only to find that the three hedgehogs had followed him back to his world. “What the hell you three?!”
“We’re going along with you, I haven’t had any action since Discord.” Sonic said. Shadow and Silver facepalmed at him.
“What the actual hell.” Dox said, facepalming. “Do you even know where I’m heading?”
“Not a clue but I’m tagging along.” Sonic said with a cocky smile.
“Fine, I might as well.” Shadow said with his eyes closed.
“Can’t we just Chaos Control home?” Silver whispered to himself unfortunately no one heard him.
“Listen, I’m heading to a place called Mechanus.” Dox said. “It’s gonna be dangerous, and if you mess with too much stuff, I’m sending you back. I don’t want something in there exploding just because a hyperactive hedgehog decided to have fun. So, don’t screw up, because this is probably my last free day before I have to deal with the stress of setting up a wedding.”
Sonic gave a nod. “What’s the worst that could happen a Robot uprising?” Sonic asked, “Or a civil war?” He finished.
“More like a ton of sentient machines that could probably kill us.” Dox said. “So, like I said. Try not to screw anything up.” Dox held out the device he used to open a portal from earlier, and opened another one. “Well, let’s get going. Mechanus awaits!”
When the four stepped through the portal, they looked around to see a place literally made of machines. It was like everything was made of metal, from the random structures to the floor they walked on.
“Wow this is awesome.” Sonic said. “So do you know where the nearest inhabited place is?” Sonic asked. The hedgehog was stretching as if he was getting ready for something.
“No, not a clue.” Dox said. “Like I said. There’s a lot of things here that can kill us.” Just as Dox said that, a strange creature with one giant eye and a body of metal and carrying a spear went walking by. “Like that thing. Forgot what it’s called, though.”
Sonic, however, had a smile. “It doesn’t look so tough.”
However, the machine had its spear at them. “Stop intruders.” It said, charging at them with the spear.
Silver reacted first with his power. He unleashed a psychic wave tearing the machine apart with his mind.
“That. Was stupid.” Dox said. “Do you even know how those guys work?! The best idea there would have been to retreat! Now there’s gonna be a ton more coming our way!”
“So let them come.” Sonic said and true to that dozens of others came running towards them. Sonic had a smile. “I got this.” Sonic said. Sonic took off at great speeds, racing around them and breaking a few of them before one of the machines had the bright idea to trip him up, sending Sonic tumbling to the ground.
Just as another was about to bring its spear down on Sonic, he went sliding back towards Dox and the other hedgehogs.
“Next time, listen to me.” Dox said. “They’re more powerful than you think, and they’re not as stupid as you think.”
However, as they came at them, Shadow gave a Sigh. Holding up two gems one green, the other blue he said two words. “Chaos Control.” Time seemed to slow to a crawl around them.
“Wow, forgot you hedgehogs could do that.” Dox said. “So yeah, now would be a good time for us to get moving, unless you want to be killed by one of them.”
They nodded as Silver used his powers to move stuff in their way. Time started to slowly move forward as the machines found themselves boxed in. After a while, they stopped over in an alley. “Well good going Silver I expected this sort of thing from Sonic.” Shadow answered.
“Hey.” They both screamed.
“Can you three get along and be quiet?” Dox asked. “I think I heard something.”
Sure enough, once the three hedgehogs quieted down, they could all hear a distant clanging sound. When they poked their heads around the corner, they saw what was making the clanging sound.
It was a giant metal door that kept slamming down, only going up to pop out a large machine that looked strangely humanoid and armed to the teeth with weapons. When the four were able to see inside the structure that produced the huge machines, they were able to see small people with large arms.
“Hey, do you guys see what I see?” Dox asked.
“Yeah.” Silver said. Sonic got ready for a fight if there was going to be one.
‘I think I may need to go Super Sonic if these go bad.’ Sonic thought as the large machines looked around.
Shadow himself reached for his rings just in case.
“Calm down guys.” Dox said. “Hold off on the hostilities until we get inside. We don’t know what’s up in there. As far as we know, the people inside aren’t hostile.
At that moment, one of the large humanoid machines looked over at the four heads poking around the corner and started heading towards them.
“Those things probably are, though.” Dox said. “RUN!”
Sonic was the first to bolt down as was Shadow and Silver. The robot went after them while ignoring Dox for some reason. Sonic, Shadow, and Silver looked back behind them. “Oh great its following us.” Silver said.
“I have a idea. We use our speed to destroy this thing.” Sonic said.
Just then, the metal giant’s arm exploded. Everyone looked back to see Dox holding his arm out and bits of smoke coming off of his right arm.
“Guys, get back!” Dox yelled before extending out his left arm.
The giant seemed to halt its movement. It struggled for a bit before dents started to appear in its structure. All of a sudden, the metal goliath collapsed in on itself.
“There.” Dox said as he walked up to the stunned hedgehogs. “A little magnetism goes a long way. Now, I have an idea. How’s about we go stop whatever’s making these things?”
“Sure, why not.” Sonic said.
The way over to the structure wasn’t that hard, the four just needed to avoid the metal behemoths that were all around it. Getting inside wasn’t hard either. There were a couple of smaller versions of the metal giants, which Dox magnetised together before sending them into the ground.
The inside was sweltering hot. There were giant pools of metal, and many, many of the little humanoids running around. Most of them were in chains, being forced to work by metal men.
“I think they’re Dwarves.” Dox said.
“This almost looks like they are being forced to make them.” Sonic said.
“Then let’s free them.” Dox said. “I’m pretty sure we need keys to do that, though.”
As they sneaked around the structure, they saw something in armor with the keys on him. The being seemed to be one of the automatons in heavy armor made of the same material it was made of, as well as some strange blue metal. There were some keys on a small hook on the lower part of its armor.
“Ok how are we going to get it off without revealing ourselves?” Sonic asked. Shadow went over how he could stop time to get it but the effect would be felt. He turned to Siver. “You think you can get them?” He asked.
Silver gave a nod. With his hand outstretched he focused his powers on the keys. They glowed and floated to his hands. With the key in hand, Shadow handed Sonic the blue and the white Chaos emerald.
“You’re the fastest of us.” Shadow said. Sonic took the gems and the keys.
“Chaos Control.” Sonic said as time slowed to crawl. He took off unlocking as many as he could across the whole building.
The effect of Chaos Control didn’t last much longer, though, and the automaton was able to notice the blue blur running around. It took out a sword with a bright blue edge that was hidden on its back before swinging it in the direction of the hedgehog. A wave of energy came flying from the sword and struck Sonic. He was knocked off of his feet, barely harmed by the wave of energy that struck him.
However before it could get another attack in a shadow jumped behind it. “Chaos Spear!” Shadow said as he launched a surprise attack, tossing the spear right at it. The robot put up its sword to block it but Shadow had a smile. A hammer covered in Silver powers struck its exposed mid section. Sonic who was up on his feet delivered a kick to it while Shadow with a smile delivered a kick right to its head as it broke under his Alien strength.
As the broken robot’s body fell to the ground, an alarm sounded in the building. Immediately, another door opened, guards started to pour out, and robot production stopped. The giants that were in line started moving about, trying to stop the intruders.
“Guys, we might have a problem.” Dox said. “Get everyone else unlocked and then get out of the building. I don’t want any of you guys getting hurt. I’ll help Sonic and hold off the guards, now go!”
They nodded has the two of them helped the Dwarves out. As this went on Sonic looked around the giants. “Hey I have a question…” Sonic asked. Dox turned to him. Sonic closed his eyes as he summoned the seven Chaos emeralds. “How much damage could I make in a minute?” Sonic asked.
“Do as much as you need to.” Dox said. “We need to keep them occupied so Shadow and Silver can get everyone else out. So, take your pick. Guards or giants?”
Sonic gave a smile. “Giants.” With that the emeralds came to Sonic in a flash of gold light. His fur was now gold his eyes red and an aura of positive energy surrounded him. It was Super Sonic time. “Now I’ll show You!” The nearest giant was rammed right though as Super Sonic flew through him and part of the building. The others moved to defend against him.
“Alright then, go Sonic.” Dox said before turning to the guards that were coming towards him. Dox tried to use his magnetism on them, but found that he couldn’t. After finding out that that wouldn’t work, he turned to his other powers. “It’s gravity time bitch! Have fun in orbit!” And with that, the guards went shooting off, out of the building, and far out of anyone’s reach.
As the factory seemed to be coming down Dox and everyone else moved outside as an army was there to greet them. However SuperSonic came right of of the roof. “I’ll give you one chance to stand down.” Sonic said. With the Chaos Emeralds he had the powers of a god. Of course his time limit was almost up but he wanted to see if they would. However they didn’t take heed.
“Fine then everyone, Chaos Control!” With that, everyone not protected by the effect was trapped standing still in time.
“Nice, but we need to hurry.” Dox said. “I don’t know how long your super form lasts, but as I’ve seen, Chaos Control lasts even less. Move everyone! Move!”
After what seemed to be an hour of solid running, everyone had made it to an alley way about a mile away from the huge metal robot factory. A few questions were asked of the former captives. Turned out, most of them were dwarves. What they hadn’t noticed was that there were also some other humanoids that were about Dox’s size. They were, as it so happened to be, Low Elves that had been making the ‘batteries’ that ran the metal behemoths.
The four-now-thirty-six had decided that it was best not to stay for much longer, and Dox promptly used his portal device, explained to the hedgehogs as a Runic Portal Matrix, to open a portal back to Equestria, specifically Canterlot Gardens.
“Great.” Dox said. “Now what am I going to do with all of these Dwarves and Elves?!”
“Well we have no idea.” Silver answered.
“Hey mind me asking you something?” Sonic pullled out the die from a pocket dimension. “What is this?” Sonic asked.
“Well, it’s a token.” Dox said. “It’s used to summon me, or another being like me, called a Displaced. Some are good, some are bad. Just listen to the words that come from the token. I’m guessing you don’t have one. You can make one by using an item that sort of represents you, then saying a phrase that gives people a general idea of who you are.”
“Oh I see. Let me see.” Sonic pulled out a gold ring. “Shadow Silver mind helping me out?” The two grabbed it as will.
We are the hedgehog trio. If you fight for freedom, friendship, and good or, want some friends and hugging out, you can count of Sonic, Shadow and Silver!
The token glowed as it was sent into the multiverse with one appearing for Dox.
“Coolio.” Dox said. “I guess I should be sending you guys home, since I kinda brought you guys to mine. Normally, you’d just say that ‘our contract is done’ but I’ll have to send you guys home another way.” Dox pulled his Runic Portal Device back out. “If you guys will put your hands on this, I should be able to acquire your universe and send you home.” The three hedgehogs put their hands on the Runic Portal Device before a portal opened behind Dox. “Alright, that should be it. I’ll see you later guys.”
“We hope so.” Sonic said with that they were gone sent back to the fields of Equestria.
“That was actually fun.” Sonic said.
"Hey race yeah back to Canterlot!" Sonic said with a smile as he took off in a blue blur.