//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 // Story: Mobains and Equestria Girls 2: Return of the Equestria Girls // by DarkMaster0224 //------------------------------// Chapter 4 Beginning of a Nightmare (Heroes POV) (Green Hill Zone) Our heroes were gathered at Green Hill Zone, due to Dark requesting everyone meet there for something very important. "So, what was so important, that we all needed to be here? Sonic and I were about to have a race, but had to cancel." Rainbow said a little irritated. "Lilac is gone." Dark said clenching his fist. "So why do you need us all? Just locate her." Rainbow said. "That's not it." Dark growled. Everyone was puzzled. "Lilac has been..." Dark began, but couldn't finish. "Taken over by Nightmare Moon." Sunset finished. Everyone gasped. "How? Nightmare Moon was destroyed during the Dark Chaos War." Sonic said. "Or so we thought." Ace said. "Poor, Lilac." Rarity said hugging Silver. "We must find her." Dark said. "But how?" Ace asked. "With this." Tails said pulling out his hand-held. "Huh? Your hand-held? How is that going to help us?" Silver asked. "Oh trust me on this, Silver. Tails has made that thing into many different devices." Sonic said, "Examples, Translator, Chaos Emerald Locator, etc." "Whoa." Silver said. "And now, Twilight and I have turned it into a DNA locator." Tails said, "I just need a DNA sample of Lilac, and we'll find her." "Got this from her, when I gave her a hug yesterday." Sunset said giving Tails a purple and black quill. Tails took it and placed onto the scanner, "Huh? That's weird." "What?" Shadow asked. "It says... she's... right... behind... us." Tails hesitantly said. Everyone slowly turned around and gasped. In front of them, stood Lilac, but she looked different. Her clothes were semi torn in the back; her nails had been sharpened; where her feet touched the ground, dark energy was entering her body; and her eyes were cyan dragon daggers, "Hello, heroes. Remember me?" Her voice half Lilac's and half Nightmare Moon's. "Nightmare Moon, please. Let my sister go." Dark asked. Lilac only snarled, "I will never let her go. Especially for you, Dark Steele." She then threw a nightmare energy beam at the group. "Chaos Shield!" Ace shouted, raising a chaos barrier. The beam hit the shield, but then passed through it, hitting Ace. "Gah!" Ace shouted, falling down to one knee. His eyes began to glow with a yellow aura, and then widened with fear, "No. NO! Dark! Fluttershy!" "What have you done to him?" Shadow asked. "He's now in a nightmare. But that's not all I can do now." Night Lilac snickered. She formed an energy ball and threw it towards the Mobians. "Guys look out!" Silver shouted, pushing everyone out of the way. He was hit by the ball, "Ahg!" His eyes began to glow like Ace's, "Iblis!? No, it's not possible! I destroyed you! NO!" "Now he's thinking he's actually in the nightmare." Night Lilac sneered. "Enough of this." Dark said summoning a dark sword, "Nightmare Moon, you're going down." The rest of the Mobians joined Dark's side. (Play Skillet - Circus For A Psycho) "It's twelve against one." Sonic said. Night Lilac smiled and snapped her fingers. Fifteen clones appeared next to her Shadow walked up behind Sonic and whacked the back of his head, "You just had to open your big mouth didn't you?" "Sorry." Sonic said getting into a crouching position, and charged a spin dash. "Let's go." Knuckles said pounding his fists. The Night Lilacs charged at the heroes, each wielding a dark rapier. Sonic and Rainbow dealt with three of them with homing attacks. Shadow, Pinkie, and Fluttershy shot two of them with chaos spears, destroying them. Knuckles and Applejack punched and kicked several of them, reducing them to puffs of purple smoke. When all but one Night Lilac was standing, Dark charged at the real Night Lilac. The two then sword clashed, parrying each others' blades, cutting each other. They then sword locked. "Rrrr. Release Lilac, Nightmare Moon. Or suffer the consequences." Dark growled, his rage beginning to rise. "What could you possibly do? You wouldn't hurt your sister." Night Lilac sneered, "That's your greatest weakness." Suddenly, a beam of dark blue energy shot the ground near them, causing them to be blasted away from each other. Dark was sent towards his friends, who caught him. Night Lilac however, was sent into a tree, hitting her head on the trunk, making her senses go dizzy. "Uhg. What was that?" Dark groaned. Tirek and Metal Sonic then landed between the two teams. Eggman floated nearby in his Eggmobile. "Metal!?" The heroes shouted. "Tirek!?" Twilight shouted, "You're supposed to be in Torturous." "Metal Sonic helped me escape. And he, along with Dr. Eggman, gave me a new ability." Tirek said, his horns began to glow, "Allow me to demonstrate." Sonic suddenly felt a familiar dark energy, 'Oh no.' Tirek shot Dark Gaia energy at Twilight. Sonic ran over to Twilight and pushed her out of the way, getting hit in the process, "Gah!" "Sonic!" Rainbow said running over to Sonic. "He'll live." Tirek said. "GAH! Tirek! You fool!" Eggman shouted, pulling his mustache. "What?" Tirek asked. "Sonic has been corrupted by Dark Gaia energy before. And he used it to defeat me." Eggman said, "Luckily it's daytime now. So we don't have to worry right now." Night Lilac managed to get up and walk towards the villains, "Good to see you again, Metal Sonic and Eggman." Metal turned towards Night Lilac, and his eyes flashed red. He then dashed towards her and grabbed her throat. "AHCK! What... are... you... doing!?" Night Lilac asked. "You are a failure to us. You were so obsessed with getting Lilac Steele's body, you were destroyed by the weakling, Dark Steele." Metal said tightening his grip. Night Lilac slowly began to black out, "Ahck." Suddenly Metal's arm was sliced off by a blade. He dropped Night Lilac and began to turn, "Bzzt! What happened?" "I happened." Dark said kicking Metal towards Tirek and Eggman. Tirek went to charge his Dark Gaia energy, but then a better idea popped into his head. He opened his mouth and began to suck in. Twilight's eyes widened, "Dark, RUN!" Too late, dark blue energy began to come out of Dark's body, and into Tirek. "Nhg. What is happening to me?" Dark said shaking. When Tirek completely drained Dark's powers, Dark collapsed down to one knee, panting heavily. Sunset ran over to Dark and knelt down next to him, "Dark? What wrong?" Then she looked at Tirek, "What did you do to him? You... You MONSTER!" "I drained him of his dark and shadow powers. Now he is nothing more than a normal hedgehog. No more Dark, the Master of Darkness." Tirek laughed, "Now it's your turn, Sunset Shimmer." "Sunset... R-run." Dark said weekly. Sunset wouldn't leave Dark's side, instead she just clung to him. Tirek opened his mouth. "NO!" Someone yelled. Tirek turned and received a dark beam to the face, "Gah!" Everyone turned and saw Lilac, no longer under the control of Nightmare Moon, glaring at Tirek. Her hands were alit with dark purple flames, "You leave my family alone." "Tirek, we must retreat for now." Eggman said, "We've weakened a major threat in their team. We'll get more later." (Stop Skillet - Circus For A Psycho) Tirek, Metal, and Eggman all flew off to Eggman's flagship. Lilac's hands returned back to normal, and then she ran over to her brother, "Dark? Are you ok?" "Lilac?" Dark asked. Lilac nodded and hugged her brother, "Thank the shadows, you're ok." "Not exactly." Twilight said. "What do you mean?" Lilac asked. "Dark, try using your dark powers." Twilight said. Dark got up and went to fire a dark beam, but nothing happened, "What the?" Then he tried to summon a dark sword, but nothing happened, "What's happen to me?" "Lord Tirek. He is a centaur with the ability to absorb other creatures' abilities. And use them to his advantage." Twilight said, "He now has Dark's dark and shadow powers, leaving Dark with none." "What!? But that means that I'm..." Dark began, then looked down at the ground sadly, "Useless."