Volume III - Chapter 7: Rooftop Confrontation
The gang stood in shock as soon as Robotnik revealed himself to them in his egg-shaped flying machine. No one expected to face the doctor personally in Manehatten, let alone on the roof of the Crystaller Building. Terrified of that man since last time, Spike quickly hid behind Twilight’s leg. The doctor chuckled evilly at their stunned expressions.
"Welcome to Manehatten girls!" Robotnik greeted in a condescending tone. "Are you enjoying the sights?"
"Robotnik!" Sunset shrieked in an alarmed expression. "How'd you find us?"
Robotnik grinned. "Why I overheard that little birdie with an obnoxiously loud voice mentioning that you all were here to the cops with my fancy tech."
With a deep frown, Rainbow leaned to Pinkie’s ear. "If we ever make it out of this, remind me to put super glue on Spoiled’s chair."
Pinkie nodded.
Rarity took a good look at Robotnik and cringed from his new attire. “Ugh! What exactly are you wearing!?”
Robotnik glanced at his suit and frowned at the young fashionista with an offending expression. “It's a flight suit! It was designed to modulate my body temperature and reduce drag!”
Tempest scoffed. “And even after all these years, you still are one!”
“Oooooh, good one! Says the rogue agent who’s currently assisting criminals!” Robotnik sneered before cocking an eyebrow. “Speaking of which, I'm sort of surprised that you're still alive despite my robot running you off the road. But then again, I should’ve known that I can’t get rid of you so easily, eh Fizzy?”
As Tempest cringed at that nickname, others looked at Tempest in confusion and interest.
“Fizzy?” Sunset asked.
Tempest sighed, starting to feel a migraine due to her dread and embarrassment. “He’s… referring to my real name... Fizzlepop Berrytwist.”
Pinkie let out a loud gasp with excitement and delight on her face and stars in her eyes. “That is. The most. Awesome name. EVER!”
As Tempest groaned from that, Robotnik continued.
“And I also see that you also took out Agent Stone– no surprise there, and taken Miss Sparkle out of my lab!” Robotnik then turned to Twilight with a frown as if he was scolding her. “That was very rude of you to leave, Twilight! I thought our family bonding we had earlier was special!”
“Family!?” The Equestria Girls exclaimed, minus Twilight.
As Twilight widened her eyes in alarm, the girls stared at her with bewildered expressions.
“Twilight… what was he talking about?” Sunset pressed nervously, perplexed at what she was hearing.
“You mean she didn’t tell you?” Robotnik asked while mocking in a sad tone. “Wow… I’m hurt, Twilight! I thought you'd be honored to mention to your friends that you and I are related!”
“No way!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed in disbelief. “Don’t tell me that you’re her father!”
“No, of course not!" Robotnik scoffed, before grinning. “I’m her long-lost cousin!”
As everyone was processing this latest bombshell with dumbfounded expressions, Sunset stood in front of Twilight with a look of rage.
“You’re lying!” she screamed, pointing accusingly at the doctor. “You were trying to mess with us!"
"I can assure you, Miss Shimmer, that I'm not lying!" Robotnik smirked before glancing at Twilight. "And Miss Sparkle knows it too, right Twily?"
Sunset turned to Twilight who was looking away with her hair hidden in her eyes, refusing to look her friend in the eye.
"Twilight…” Sunset grasped Twilight’s shoulders gently with a pleading expression. “Please tell me that this clown is lying!"
Twilight said nothing for a while, scaring Sunset and the girls further.
"No… he wasn't," she croaked, before finally looking at Sunset with teary eyes. "While I was captured, he took some of my hair and ran a DNA scanner test with his own hair." Tears then leaked from Twilight’s eyes. "...and we matched!"
As Sunset was taking this all in, Robotnik chuckled evilly. "Matching her DNA with mine was the final confirmation for me that the two of us were indeed related… just as I predicted!"
As everyone turned their attention to Robotnik, he elaborated.
"During my younger days, I've done some digging about my past life. Most of them were either dead or missing in action while they conveniently worked for the government. But to my surprise, I found out there were two people in my family who are still alive. And Miss Sparkle here is one of them.
"Of course, her name is never mentioned. But my biggest clue in identifying her was the parents who adopted her… Twilight Velvet and Night Light. Before they were well-known as a famous author and a college professor, they were once scientists for the government and they were truly brilliant… but not as brilliant as me of course. They were working on a top-secret project until one day, they just up and left… and took little Twili with them!"
"Where does Twilight fit in all of this!?" Sunset demanded with narrowed eyes. "And where are her real parents?"
Robotnik tsked, wagging his finer at her. "Now where's the fun in telling you all the answers?” He teased. "But I will say that after they left, they tried to keep their lives private in hopes that the government would leave them alone… until the news broke out of their accident, mentioning their 'orphaned' kids as well. Since Mr. Armor was born before their sudden resignation leads me to suspect that Twilight is their adopted child. So I've been secretly keeping track of her whereabouts since… including the time she hacked into my files, which I let her for the fun of it.
"Part of me was hoping that after knowing our past and offering her the benefits of being the best in the world, I thought she'll join me… and be part of our world ruling family. But I guess it was for the best that you were adopted since you’re nothing but a failure at Crystal Prep, especially after being turned into a monster that one time at the Friendship Games.” He then smirked. “Perhaps she’s better suited if she enrolled in ‘Monster High’?”
Robotnik laughed as if he told a joke, making Twilight cry again. Enraged by this, Sunset snarled at the laughing doctor.
“Hey, you watch your mouth and leave my friend alone you flankhole!” Sunset threatened. “Unless you want another punch to the face from me like last time!”
As Robotnik scowled at Sunset’s threat, Tempest turned to Sunset with a surprised expression.
“Wait, you punched him in the face?” Tempest inquired.
“Oh, she totally punched him right in the face!” Sonic answered with a grin.
“Yeah, it was awesome!” Rainbow Dash agreed with a laugh.
“Normally, I would disapprove of violence no matter the circumstance,” Rarity stated before glaring daggers at Robotnik. “But in this case, that brute deserved it!”
“Oh, yeah!” Fluttershy agreed with a frown.
“Fer sure!” Applejack nodded.
“You said it!” Pinkie Pie added.
"Yeah, I’ll take your word for it since you gave me one earlier," Tempest remarked before smirking. "Though I would pay a million bucks to actually see you punch this clown!"
“Enough!” Robotnik retorted angrily while clenching his teeth. “The time for talking is over! It's time to push buttons!”
“Your flying eggs are pretty impressive, Mr. Eggman!” Sonic taunted with a cocky smirk. “But let's face it, you'll never catch me!”
“Eggman?” Applejack muttered with a confused expression.
“He called him that because of his egg-shaped robots and his aircraft, duh!” Pinkie answered with a smile. “Even I get that!”
Applejack gave Pinkie an odd look.
“Confidence…” Robotnik said with an impressed grin before frowning. “A fool's substitute for intelligence!”
"Don't forget about us!" Rainbow Dash remarked with a determined glare. "We also have powers of our own! So it's eight of us against one!"
The girls nodded in unison.
"Make that nine if you include me!" Tempest added as she took out her stun gun before narrowing her eyes at the doctor. "Speaking of which, I have a bone to pick with you, Robotnik! What is your game tricking me like that?"
"Now whatever do ya mean, Fizzy?" Robotnik asked in a friendly tone.
"Don't play dumb!" Tempest spat. "I heard that you 'framed' me of going rouge after I punched you back at the house!"
"Ha! He got punched again!" Rainbow laughed, pointing at Robotnik much to the doctor’s annoyance.
"Wow, he must really have a punch-able face!" Pinkie commented, angering the doctor further.
"Quiet you!" The doctor spat.
"I was told that G.U.N. is after me too,” Tempest continued, frowning. “But Celestia informed me that my father had no idea what she was talking about!"
"Oh my, Celestia is with Walters?” said Robotnik with some genuine surprise. “Never thought that the washed-up former Commander is with that old fool again."
"Don't dodge the topic you freak!" Tempest shouted, pointing her gun at the doctor. "You lied to me! G.U.N. never ordered to hunt me down to begin with! Just… why? Why the false game of cat and mouse?"
"Well for one thing, by tricking you to think you're a wanted criminal, you didn't think of contacting G.U.N. or even your daddy since you always prefer to go solo and your relationship with him is rather strained,” Robotnik explained before smirking. “And the second reason… it's just simply fun to watch you squirm!”
As Tempest growled in anger, Robotnik raised his finger. "You are wrong about one thing though… lying to you wasn’t my idea!"
Before Tempest could even ask what the doctor was talking about, she suddenly felt an extreme energy force surrounding her body. She grunted in pain as she felt like being crushed, forcing her to drop her gun and fall to her knees. The gang was both alarmed and confused as they watched Tempest groaning in agony.
"Agent Tempest! What's wrong!?" Sunset exclaimed.
"I… can't move!" Tempest grunted, gritting her teeth.
The girls tried helping Tempest, but they were unable to pull her back up as if she was glued to the ground.
"What's causing this!?" Rainbow remarked, grunting as she kept trying to pull Tempest up.
As the girls continued to help Tempest, Sunset paused as she looked carefully at Tempest, especially at the mysterious aura surrounding Tempest. Sunset blinked when she felt a familiar force coming from Tempest.
Is this… Equestrian Magic? Sunset thought.
Sunset stood a few more seconds, trying to fully analyze the magic as it felt super familiar to her, but couldn’t put a finger on it. Suddenly, her eyes became as wide as saucers.
Wait! This magic belongs to–
"Look!" Fluttershy interrupted, pointing up in the sky with a frightened expression.
Everyone turned to where Fluttershy was pointing and was shocked to see that same giant robot who kidnapped Twilight from the highway, floating right next to Robotnik.
"It's the Eggrobo!" Pinkie screeched.
"What's it doing here!?” Rarity exclaimed in terror.
"Look! It's opening its hatchet!" Applejack shouted.
Indeed, the hatchet where the robot’s “head” was slowly opening up backward. As it continued to open, smoke comes out of the body, obscuring their vision for a few seconds. As soon as the smoke cleared up and the “head” completely opened, it was revealed to be…
Nothing.
Everyone was confused for a brief moment, wondering why the cockpit of the robot appeared to be empty. Their unspoken question was soon answered when they heard an annoyed grunt, followed but some mutterings about hating being “too short”. Seconds later, a head popped out, revealing a man with blue eyes and spiky white hair, at which Tempest instantly realized who that person is.
"Hello… boss!" the man greeted, giving Tempest his wicked grin.
"G-Grubber!?" Tempest exclaimed, shock written all over her face.
"Didn't expect to see me, eh Tempest?" Grubber mocked with a chuckle. "But then again, you never expected anything of me despite working with you for so many years!"
Confused by a sudden appearance of a stranger she never met, Rainbow turned to the group.
"Who is this guy?" she whispered.
"That's Tempest’s partner," Sunset answered quietly, not leaving her eyes off of Grubber. "He was with her when they confronted me near the school’s lockers the other day."
"Oh yeah, I’ve seen him too!" said Pinkie with her confused expression. “But I thought he was a young grade student because of how short he is!”
Sunset quickly shushed Pinkie, hoping that the short man to not hear her.
Despite struggling with the unknown magic, Tempest simply stared at Grubber, feeling betrayed by her partner. "You… you worked for Robotnik all this time?"
"Indeed I am!" Grubber confirmed with a toothy grin. "Despite that I'm working 'with' you, I'm actually working for the doctor as his double agent. He wanted me to report everything you've been 'investigating' as long as he paid me a handsome amount. My yesterday's task wasn't any different: Reporting everything you investigate back to the doctor that you're trying to hide about CHS. He even had me call you over to one of the girls' houses to catch you in the act!"
Grubber frowned. "Of course… that blue talkin' porcupine derailed that plan. Robotnik wanted me to keep track of you as you chased the girls and I knew that you'll steal my ride again, so I placed a tracker on my car. I've been tracking you with this awesome machine after you left me. But after you were missing from my abandoned car, I panicked and went straight for the gas station up ahead to catch up with you. It was by coincidence that there was an incident caused by that hedgehog and those girls across from the station.
"With the Arcade getting all the buzz relating to those girls, it was only a matter of time before G.U.N. involved. By that point, Robotnik filled me in on a plan to have those girls placed on the most wanted list on the news while lying to the Commander that you're in on this. We also do not want you to report the truth to your father or other agents, so I came up with a plan to lie to you that you were framed as a traitor so that you would focus on catching up with the girls as predicted.
"After that, my next plan is to track you down, which I also tracked you with my bike that you "stole" from me, and to take you out of the picture for good! After that, kidnapping the pony girl and then deliver her to the boss. But that nerdy girl with the glasses threw a wrench in our plans! We were going to use her as a bargaining chip for the pony girl, but our plans were yet again foiled when someone took out Stone and rescued the girl.
Grubber narrowed his eyes at Tempest and growled. "I didn't realize that the rescuer was you! But then again, I should’ve known that you wouldn't be taken out so easily. But the silver lining was, we were tipped off that you are here and I can finally achieve my goal!" He then had the robot point his big robotic gun at Tempest. "Getting rid of you!"
Tempest shook her head in disbelief. "But I don't understand… why!?"
"Why?" Grubber scoffed with a look of hatred. "It is because you are a cold, heartless, inconsiderate, jerkface!"
The gang winced at Grubber’s choice of words towards the G.U.N. agent.
"Ouch…" Sonic muttered quietly while Spike wordlessly nodded in agreement.
"I tried to generally befriend you and put up with everything you threw at me,” Grubber berated at Tempest. “But not only you've been treating me like dirt, you just don't care or appreciate all the things I sacrificed for you! And on top of that… you keep stealing and wrecking my vehicles!” Grubber banged on his console with his fist in anger. “Seriously, do you have any idea how much I have to pay my car insurance out of my own pocket for this year alone!?" He then breathed through his nose to calm himself down. "Oh, and money! With Robotnik on my side, I can finally pay off all of my car bills and then set for life with sponge cakes for the rest of my days!"
"But… we've been partners for years!” Tempest cried. “Does none of that mean anything to you!?"
"We were never partners!" Grubber stated coldly. "It's just as you said: We were never friends. We are nothing more than associates. Well… former associates now!"
At Tempest’s crushed look, Robotnik then laughed at her misery. "This is all too rich! And people say that I'm cruel… but you have it coming, Tempest! You've been such a thorn to my side as much as that former Wonderbolt fighter years back!”
“Wait, hang on!" Rainbow Dash spoke suddenly, staring up at Robotnik with wide eyes. "That Wonderbolt you mentioned… who do you mean!? And what are you talking about!?”
Annoyed for being interrupted, Robotnik answered in a nonchalant tone. “Well, not that you could understand it, but back when I was ‘training’ under the government, I was involved with the war against a former tyrant, the Storm King. What they don’t know was that I secretly manipulated that tyrant and our government so that I can get into power in the G.U.N.’s chair much quicker than anticipated. Because of my genius, no one knew my plans.” He frowned. “Except for that meddling air fighter with his rainbow hair who was suspicious of me from the beginning!”
Rainbow Dash nearly gasped. “Uncle Rainbow Blaze!?”
“Oh? That man was your uncle?” Robotnik asked with some interest. “Well, that would explain why I detested you as soon as I saw you. Your hair reminds me a lot like him too!” He then shrugged. “But I guess stubbornness runs in the family since he was trying to catch me in the act so that he can prove to the higher-up of my real agenda. He even overheard my conversation with the former tyrant himself. I didn’t want him to foil my plans as soon as our ‘battle’ with the Storm King was over, so… I have one of my drones to shoot his plane from the back!”
Everyone stood there in shock at the revelation, especially Sonic, Sunset, and Rainbow Dash. For Sonic and Sunset, they couldn’t believe that someone would pull off such a heinous act just for his own selfish act and cruelty. Rainbow Dash, however, felt her mind shattered after hearing what happened to her uncle and that he was gone all because of this man. Sadness, as well as anger, began to swirl within the athletic teen as she openly wept while glaring intensely at the doctor with gritted teeth.
Seeing Rainbow’s emotional suffering, Robotnik continued to slowly twist the knife.
“Of course, that ended up setting me back for a while when Celestia took over as a commander, but I eventually took care of that too! But it was well worth shooting down that pest like an annoying bug that he was!” He then gave Rainbow Dash his cruel smile. “I only wished to see the look on his face as he suffered before his demise, wouldn’t you agree, Skittles!”
This has finally pushed Rainbow Dash to her breaking point as she let out a loud scream of rage, scaring everyone in the process.
“I’m gonna kill you!” Rainbow Dash roared before she shot herself toward Robotnik with her speed.
“Rainbow Dash, wait!” Sunset warned, but it fell on deaf ears.
At that moment, Rainbow Dash doesn't care about anything except taking this evil smug monster down and avenging her uncle by any means necessary. She was just seconds away from striking him across the face and hopefully knocking him off his flying vehicle to the ground below.
Suddenly, as if the doctor was expecting this, Grubber's machine glowed in a magical aura and then lifted something in front of the Robotnik, which was hidden from beneath the doctor. Rainbow Dash's rage quickly vanished and instantly stopped herself just as she spotted someone that she knew as soon as they appeared in front of Robotnik as a shield.
“Scootaloo!?” Rainbow Dash cried in shock.
This allowed Grubber to appear in front of her, knocking her back into her friends and crash to the ground. As Rainbow Dash was slowly getting back up with Fluttershy’s help, grunting in pain, everyone stared at Robotnik in shock.
"Oh no! He got Scootaloo!" Twilight exclaimed.
“She’s not the only one!” Robotnik cackled before nodding to Grubber.
Getting the message, Grubber activated the magic from his console, causing his robot body to glow again. Then, one by one, more of Robotnik’s victims raised up in front of him, much to everyone’s horror.
"Cadance!" Twilight shouted in alarm as soon as she spotted her sister-in-law.
"Apple Bloom!" Applejack screamed when she spotted her terrified younger sister.
"Sweetie Belle!" Rarity screeched in fear after seeing her sobbing little sister.
"And Diamond Tiara too!" Sunset exclaimed as soon as her eyes landed on a struggling young rich girl.
Robotnik looked down on the group with glee before his expression became serious.
“Now that I got your attention,” Robotnik spoke in a low, dangerous tone. “If either of you takes another step closer, these ladies are goners!"
As soon as Robotnik made his threat, he snapped his fingers to demonstrate his point. In response, Grubber adjusted the magic holding their hostages, including Tempest from the robot, and squeezed them tightly. This caused the five of them to scream out loudly in pain, further terrifying and upsetting the gang especially the older sisters and sister-in-law to the hostages.
“Stop! Stop hurting them!” Twilight begged, tears streaming down her face. “These are just children, and Cadance is pregnant!”
“Oh, agent Cadance is expecting? I suppose a congratulation is in order,” Robotnik grinned wickedly. “Let me be the honor of delivering the baby by popping them out of her after dropping them a thousand feet below!”
“You monster!” Twilight screamed angrily despite her crying.
“Eh, I’ve been called worse,” Robotnik stated casually with a shrug before becoming serious again. “Now that I got all of your attention, hand over your geodes… or else you all say goodbye to the people you love!”
The girls gasped at his ultimatum.
"Our geodes!? No way!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, clenching her necklace tightly.
"Yeah, we'll never hand them over to you!" Sunset growled, glaring daggers at Robotnik.
"I don't think you have any position to refuse with me, especially since I got your friends in my grasp!" Robotnik stated coolly.
“Coward!” Sonic remarked, but Robotnik ignored him.
"Besides, the power from your geodes has great potential! Which is why I managed to harness its power to Grubber's machine with Twily's necklace."
Sunset took a good look at Grubber’s robot in question. It was then she finally noticed a new addition on the robot, specifically, on its chest. There, appeared on the upper top left corner of its chest was a purple geode from Twilight's necklace, which was glowing behind bulletproof glass.
"So, that's it!" Sunset exclaimed with a scowl. "I thought that magic felt familiar! You stole it from Twilight's necklace and used it against our friends!"
Robotnik cocked an eyebrow. "Stole it? I'm merely channeling it for better use, but that's just from one geode! Imagine using all seven geodes for greater power!" He then frowned in disgust. "If only they weren't wasted on some dumb teenagers for fun and other pointless acts!" He clenched his fist. "And once they’re in our possession, we’ll take over this world and your home world, pony girl!”
As Sunset stared at Robotnik in anger, Rainbow Dash stepped forward.
"If you think that we'll actually give them to you, we–"
"If we give them to ya, you promise you will release 'em?" Applejack interjected, much to Rainbow’s shock.
“Applejack!?” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “Why would you–”
“He has mah sister, Rainbow Dash!" Applejack croaked, tears leaking from her eyes. "Ah can’t let anythang happen to her and ah’ll do anythang to save her… even if I have to sacrifice mah geode!”
“Me too!”
Rainbow Dash turned to Rarity, who was also crying. “I know we’re placing the world at risk, but I can’t let that monster hurt Sweetie Belle!”
“And I don’t want him to hurt Cadance!” Twilight added with a guilty tone. “It’s my fault that they’re in that position!”
“We don’t want that meanie to hurt them!” Pinkie added with her hair becoming less poofy. “You know that he has Scootaloo too, right!?”
“Of course I know!” Rainbow Dash retorted, feeling angry and scared. “I don’t want him to hurt her either but… there has to be another way!”
“I don’t think that there is!” Fluttershy whimpered, feeling despair due to the situation.
“Tick tock, girls!” Robotnik interrupted in an impatient tone. “What’s it gonna be?”
Sunset lingered her sight on their captive friends, feeling useless and trapped. As much as she wanted to give Robotnik what for, she and her friends couldn’t risk letting anything happen to the kids and Cadance. With a redundant sigh, Sunset shifted her gaze on Robotnik.
“You didn’t answer AJ’s question,” Sunset spoke up with narrowed eyes, getting Robotnik’s attention. “Once we hand over our geodes… you’ll let them go, right?”
Robotnik grinned. "As long as you do as I say, I promise that I'll let them go."
“Girls! Don’t listen to him!” Tempest shouted, only to get squeezed by Grubber’s magic.
“Quiet you!” Robotnik scolded before staring intensely at Sunset. “I’m waiting!”
The girls wordlessly stared at one another, having a silent conversation. After a moment of tense silence, everyone but Rainbow Dash nodded at Sunset. Realizing that they have no choice but to comply, Sunset sighed reluctantly.
“I’m sorry, Princess Twilight…” She whispered as she removed her necklace.
One by one, the girls removed their geodes and held them out toward Robotnik. Satisfied with their obedience, Robotnik nodded to Grubbler, permission him to take them. With a huge wicked grin, Grubber pressed one of the buttons, activating a long hose from its chest, and began to suck the geodes.
It first picked up Applejack’s geode and sucked it right into a hose and then appeared inside the chest, causing the robot to glow orange and activated a new feature.
“Oh yeah! Now I’m feeling its super strength!” Grubber cheered.
Next, the hose picked up Fluttershy’s geode and did the same thing as Applejack’s geode as the robot glowed yellow as soon as the geode was installed.
“All right! Now I can detect everyone miles away!” Grubber grinned.
The robot took Pinkie’s geode next, and it glowed pink as soon as the geode was installed.
“Magical energy grenades? Nice!” Grubber purred.
Rarity’s geode was taken next, and the robot glowed white once her geode was in place.
“Oh sweet! A new shield!” Grubber exclaimed excitedly, marveling at his new addiction.
A bit more reluctant at first, but Sunset eventually let go of her geode, watching helplessly as it was sucked into the robot. Once Sunset’s geode appeared in its chest, the robot glowed orange as a result.
“Yes! The endless amount of energy is mine!” Grubber shouted triumphantly, screaming towards the heavens.
“Excellent!” Robotnik crowed before glancing at the last girl. “Just one more!”
Everyone turned towards the last person in question which was Rainbow Dash, who had her back to them. While they couldn’t see Rainbow’s face, they saw that she was holding on to her necklace and stared at it, as if she was debating on handing it over.
“Rainbow Dash!” Sunset called in her pleading voice. “I don’t like this either, but please… do what he said!”
“Yes my prism-haired friend,” Robotnik mocked. “Listen to your friend… unless you don’t care about what happens to your little sister!”
“Rainbow Dash!” Scootaloo shouted, shaking her head. “Don’t do it! Don’t let this egg guy get away with it!”
“You watch your mouth, brat!” Robotnik growled before snapping his fingers.
Grubber activated his magic again to squeeze Scootaloo tightly, causing her to scream loudly in pain.
“Stop!”
With a long sigh, Rainbow Dash slowly turned around to face Robotnik and held out her geode with a sad expression. “I’ll… I’ll do it! Just… please don’t hurt her again!”
With a smirk, Robotnik nodded to Grubber again.
Not wasting any more time, Grubber activated his vacuum and sucked the geode off of Rainbow’s hands and into the robot. Seconds later, the final geode appeared inside the robot’s chest and the robot glowed in various colors as a result.
“Yes! I got some speed, baby!” Grubber laughed in wicked glee before flexing his robot’s arms. “And now, I’m complete!”
“Yes, it is beautiful!” Robotnik said proudly, wiping off his fake tear. “It is exactly as I dreamed!”
Sunset glared at the two angrily, but she kept a cool head for the sake of her captured friends. “Okay doctor, we did as you demanded! Now let them go!”
“Very well then,” said Robotnik. “I am a man of my word!”
Robotnik turned to Grubber and simply nodded. With a smirk, Grubber reached for the button and deactivated the robot’s telekinesis ability. Tempest was immensely freed from their prison.
The hostages, however, were still floating in the air.
As a result, the CMCs, Diamond Tiara, and Cadance began to fall while screaming in terror.
"No!” Sonic shouted as she and the gang tried to reach them.
“Apple Bloom!" Applejack cried.
"Sweetie Belle!" Rarity screamed.
"Scootaloo!" Rainbow Dash hollered.
"Cadance!" Twilight yelled.
Unfortunately for them, they couldn’t reach them on time, not even Sonic. And without their powers, they have no way of saving them. While half of the girls were crying out to their sisters and sister-in-law, Sunset looked up at the doctor with a burning hatred.
"Why?!” She screamed while tears streamed from her eyes. “You said you’ll let them go!"
Robotnik smirked. "I did… I let them go."
Tempest growled and pulled out her gun. “You’ll pay for this, Robotnik!”
Before Tempest could fire her weapon, one of the drones shot the gun out of her hand and zoomed closer to her.
“Well ladies, it’s been fun!” Robotnik gloated before snapping his fingers. "Now… time to get vaporized!"
As the drones surrounded and aimed their weapons at them, the Equestria Girls, Tempest, and Sonic stood nervously.
"That's not good!" Sonic stated.
“Ya think!” Spike retorted despite feeling scared for his life.
“I’m sorry, girls,” Tempest said guiltily. “I wished I could’ve prevented this!”
“Don’t blame yourself, Tempest! It’s not your fault!” Sunset responded.
"What are we going to do now!" Fluttershy cried.
Twilight shook her head. “I don’t know! I can’t think of anything!”
As the girls watched the drones with dread, Sonic quickly glanced at the wall where the roof door was then towards the edge of the roof where their friends have fallen. He suddenly had an idea to not only save the kids and Cadance but also get themselves out of this situation.
“Don't worry, gang!” Sonic spoke up with confidence, getting their attention. “I know exactly what to do!”
Before either of them could ask, Sonic suddenly used his super speed to run back towards the roof’s door, jump on the surface of the door, and then launch himself towards the gang. This resulted in the girls, Spike, and Tempest being shoved by the blue hedgehog and then flying off the roof, screaming as they started falling towards the streets below.
“What the–” Grubber remarked as he and Robotnik peered over their seats, surprised at what the hedgehog had done to his friends.
With his jaw hanging, Robotnik slowly sat back in his seat.
"I was not expecting that!" Robotnik whispered in a shocked tone. Seconds later, he shrugged acting casual again. "But I was expecting not to expect something, so it doesn't count."
As soon as Robotnik finished his sentence, his drones begin to fire many bullets and missiles at the blue hedgehog, who was calmly standing in place. Just as the missiles and bullets seemed like they were about to hit him, including the one missile close to his face, they all stopped in place as if they are suddenly frozen in time. Seeing this, Sonic smirked.
While the bullets and missiles froze in place, the Equestria Girls, Spike, the CMCs, Diamond Tiara, Cadence, and Tempest were still falling but at a snail's place. Sonic wasn’t concerned about this though as he mockingly checked out his “watch” on his wrist while tapping his foot as if he was impatiently waiting to get hit. After enjoying his quick jest, Sonic casually swiped the missiles and bullets away from him with his arm. He then took two of the missiles and started hitting those stray bullets away like he was playing the xylophone. He then jumped off the roof, grabbing another missile along the way, and then he slammed the missile on top of one of the drones and destroyed it before he did the same thing with the second drone next to it. He then jumped off the second drone while grabbing two missiles this time and then he shoved two missiles beneath the third drone as he was “power sliding” on the building on his knees, exploding it in the process.
Unbeknownst to Sonic, Robotnik had already anticipated this as he was slowly reaching for the red button to push, where one of Sonic’s quills was stored as a power source for his vehicle. Each second as Sonic destroyed his machines, he gets closer and closer to the red button until finally, he pressed it. As the red button changed to blue, one of Sonic’s quills is powering up Robotnik’s vehicle with blue sparks overriding the vehicle. Seconds later, Robotnik’s flying machine comes to life and it is now moving as fast as Sonic as it began to fly up the sky.
Not noticing Robotnik’s sudden movement, Sonic ran down the building and lightly pushed the two drones in the process so they can shoot each other in real-time. Sonic then turned around and faced the two drones, making some gun sound effects as he was playfully shooting his gun fingers at them.
"Pew-pew-pew! Pew-pew-pew-pew!"
Unfortunately in the process, Sonic wasn’t paying attention to the sky above him as Robotnik did an about-face downward towards him, taking out his laser gun from his vehicle in the process. By the time Sonic had finally noticed him, he was too late to dodge as Robotnik shot his laser, hitting right where Sonic was standing and knocking him away.
For a brief moment, Sonic was in a state of delirium, groaning from the pain as his eyes were all blurry. As soon as he fully opened his eyes, his senses immediately recovered and then panicked when he saw himself and his friends falling to the Manhattan street below. He realized that if he doesn't save his friends soon, they'll all become pancakes, including himself.
Sonic quickly reached into his satchel to grab one of his rings, but to his horror, his satchel was completely empty. As he frantically surveyed around him, it was then that he noticed that all the rings scattered around him, falling alongside him and out of reach. He then saw one ring right in front of him and tried to reach out toward it.
"C'mon!" He cried out urgently, unable to grab the ring. "C-C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon!"
He tried to bring himself closer to the ring, even tried air swimming towards it, but he wasn't anywhere closer to the ring. As they were dangerously getting closer to the ground, Sonic's brain went into overdrive as he tried desperately to think of a way to snap the ring. He then suddenly came up with an idea before plucking one of his quills out of him and then using it to snag the ring with the curl of his quill.
Relieved that he caught a ring, Sonic quickly touched his feet on the side of the building and ran down towards his fallen friends. Seeing that the CMCs, Diamond, and Cadance were getting closer to the ground, Sonic threw his arm back as far as he could, picturing a specific location in his mind before throwing the ring toward his friends.
Please work! Sonic prayed desperately.
Like a bullet, the ring shot forward as it passed by the screaming teens, a dog, two adults, and kids before it grew and opened up on the ground right before the kids touched the ground first and went through the portal. Followed up by Cadance, Tempest, Spike, and then the Equestria Girls.
Yes! Thank goodness! Sonic sighed in relief before frowning in worry. Did everyone make it through!? The only one I didn't see going through the portal was–
"Out of my way, hedgehog!"
Sonic barely had time to react as he was suddenly barreled through by Grubber as he flew down at high speed before he entered the portal himself. As Sonic was spinning around, disorientated by getting knocked over, he noticed to his horror that the portal shrunk after Grubber entered the portal before it disappeared completely.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! No, no, no!" Sonic cried as he tried to get himself to stop spinning and to slow down the fall, but he was unable to control himself as he continued to fall faster and faster to the ground. And with the other rings too far for him to grab, he was unable to make another portal for his own escape by being flattened. While he was glad that his friends are safe momentarily, his only regret was not being there with them.
And to say goodbye for real before his demise.
With no way of escaping or breaking his fall, Sonic closed his eyes, embracing the impact…
And cue the credits!
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Just kidding! 
But in all seriousness, this chapter was one heck of a rollercoaster! What will happen next? 
So, notes and references:
While it has been altered somewhat, the credit for Rarity's remarking to Robotnik about his outfit goes to MarioBrony. Thanks for your suggestion! 
Pinkie cheering that "Fizzlepop Berrytwist" is the most awesome name was a callback to a final scene from the MLP:FiM The Movie.
(3:08)
Robotnik mocking Twilight that she should attend to Monster High was a reference to another animated series with the same name. Supposedly, one of the reasons why the Equestria Girls series came to be was Hasbro's answer to Monster High's toy line, which was launched by their major rival company, Mattel.
Perhaps now it was time for a brief history of behind-the-scenes with the Sonic series, specifically, Dr. Robotnik/Eggman. During the development of the very first Sonic game in Japan (the classic series), the name of the character was always planned as "Eggman" due to his egg-shaped body. But when the game got localized in the west, the western team decided to name him "Ivo Robotnik" without consulting the original development team. He has had two different names between Japan and the rest of the world throughout the years, until the Sonic Adventure series. Takashi Iizuka and his team decided to unify the two names and retconned his official name to "Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik" with "Robotnik" as his real name, while "Eggman" is a nickname that Sonic and his friends called him just to mock him, despite that the doctor doesn't seem to mind that nickname.
Now you all might be wondering: what does any of this have to do with anything? Well, if you remember from the beginning of the movie, Sonic has a habit of giving people nicknames due to their actions. For example, he called Tom as the "Donut Lord" because he talks to donuts, and he called Maddie the "Pretzel Lady" because she twisted herself into a pretzel because of her yoga. So when Sonic and Robotnik met on the roof, he called Robotnik "Eggman" because of the egg-shaped robots and vehicle he was riding in.
That was a very clever way to combine and pay homage to the two names in one film. For that, I applaud the writing team on that! 
For the record, I like both of the names. Although, I like to call the "Classic" version, Robotnik and the "Modern" version, Eggman. Just out of curiosity, which of the two names do you like the best? Please share me your answer and the reason why below. 
My inspiration for Grubber riding inside of the Eggrobo was from Archie's Sonic Super Digest Issue #12 when at one point Snively hid from within the Eggrobo.
Robotnik threatening to squeeze their hostages on the roof was based on a scene from an episode of Sonic X, Missile Wrist Rampage.
0:26 - 0:50
Grubber's robot transferring the energy from the power of the girl's geodes was a homage from a Sonic X episode, Countdown to Chaos when Eggman transfers the power of each Chaos Emerald to his robot the Eggsterminator to make it stronger.
For those who are curious, each geode from the girls powers up Grubber's robot with different abilities:
Twilight's > Telekinesis
Fluttershy's > Detecting Life Force & Self Repairing
Applejack's > Super Strength
Pinkie Pie's > Magic Grenades
Rarity's > Diamond Shield
Rainbow Dash's > Super Speed
Sunset Shimmer's > Endless Magic Energy
The song that was used during Sonic's second slowdown during the movie was called "Catch Me I'm Falling" by Kelly Finnigan.
Sonic getting hit by Robotnik's laser and his rings falling all around him in the movie was a subtle callback to when Sonic lost his rings after getting hit by an enemy from all of his games.
Next time, we will be following not our blue hero, but our main girls as they faced Grubber! 
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Oh crap, this isn't good. I hope they kick Grubber's ass
And I had a feeling Robotnik was behind Rainbow Blaze's death.
Whoa, what a twist!!!!
The final chase commences!!
Without their geodes, the girls are at a HUGE disadvantage...Im scared for them!
Eggman is a sadistic monster! He doesn't even care about human life! Also, Twilight is related to him?! I think I'm gonna be sick...
I'm sorry to say this and not sounding mean but you miss a reference.
The phrase 'I'm waiting.' is what Sonic said from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Here's evidence of it.
And the chase is on, plus a battle XD
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AH, but that famous phrase is only used by Sonic! So that doesn't count!
...
Just kidding!
That was a great reference from the old Sonic cartoon. It honestly never crossed my mind as I wrote that line for Robotnik.
Oh well, no one's perfect!
Eggman needs to fucking die.
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ive already vomited.
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take away the swear, I agree, he does need to be punished.
I just read the newest chapter and all I can say is HOLY SHIT! I was not expecting what I read just now to be accurate but I think someone in the reviews made a comment about this. Twilight Sparkle and Robotnik are related and are family?!
I seriously didn't think that was possible in anyway. Another thing I didn't expect was for Grubber to betray Tempest like that as I thought they were friends but I was wrong.
But to make matters worst Cadence, the CMC and Diamond Tiara got captured no thanks to that fat mouth Spoiled Rich!
If everyone survives this I would have Sonic shave her head bald before taring it and putting chicken feathers on her head. Then there was the scene with Grubber using Twilight's Geode to crush Tempest and the others which really pissed me off.
If that's not bad enough the Rainbooms had to give up their Geodes in order to save the others but that proved to be a mistake after what that prick Robotnik did just now and this scene comes to mind.
Skip to number 3:44 to see what I mean.
Sonic has managed to save them but Grubber has now followed them through the portal. I really hope The Rainbooms can survive against that little bastard and I hope Sonic can beat Robotnik. This is getting good and I hope to see more soon and before I forget sorry I didn't review the other chapters yet.
Good Luck SonicFan05.
Again, really good job on the exchanges, characterizations, action and future chapter set-up. Definitely appreciate the work you did on this chapter. So, Twilight and Robotnik are related genetically? Yeah, I could see why Twilight might hate thinking of it. And, yeah, while I can understand why Grubber would be frustrated by his treatment, siding with Robotnik REALLY docks sympathy points. And Robotnik made the girls do the sadistic choice of giving up their power sources in exchange for their families. Admittedly, I half expected Robotnik to pull an "I lied." after the girls were powerless to do anything about it, but the "Careful wording" deal works for hatred points too. At least Sonic managed to save the hostages with that ring. So it's the girls against Grubber without their powers. Yeah, might be time for Home Alone tactics (i.e. slapstick boobytraps) since, with the exception of Tempest, none of the girls are trained fighters, which means their wits are their only chance (and a slim one at that).
Anyway, definitely looking forward to more of this.
Once again, Robotnik being an absolute monster of a lad. Good chapter mate. Also...
And it was Worth it
KNEW IT!!!!
Wow, I did not see Grubber's betrayal coming. He is usually portrayed a lot more sympathetically, but I guess he can only take so much abuse. Does this mean he is replacing Agent Stone as Eggman's sidekick, or his "Snively"?
Eggman revealing he was responsible for the death of Rainbow's uncle was even worse though.
For a while I thought Grubber would become 'the Wade' at the end during final battle against Robotnik, protecting Tempest the same way Wade did for Tom. But you keep on surprising me! Which I'm not really mad at! Though I wonder if Tempest will try to sympathize with Grubber before the end?
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You know what they say, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs…but in this case, just make sure the omelette burns in the fire.
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Yes.
Robotnik's not a monster, he's a FUCKING DEMON.
And the final battle's going to be looking a lot more interesting if the girls are powerless.
I love it. I will actually throw money at my screen for you to write how Robotnik and Grubber got torn apart limb by limb in the future.
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YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY! THE MORE THE MERRIER!
I prefer Robotnik over Eggman anyway.
Twilight and Robotnik Related? I find that hard to believe!
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At least at the end of the movie, Eggman will get beaten. But I also hope the girls, especially Rainbow, get a shot at beating the crap out of him before punting him to the Mushroom planet. Preferably with a folding chair.
Speaking of Eggman, not sure what will end up being his end in the sequel part. His fate was ambiguous in the second movie. No body was found.
Okay I know I praised the Grubber betrayal gig, but after thinking about it. It felt kind of out of nowhere. Like it makes sense that Grubber would feel that way and why he would betray Tempest, but at the same time nothing really hinted towards his betrayal. At least nothing from what I remember.
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Me - Old Lady
Sonic and the Rainbooms - Shrek
Robotnik - Homer
Final battles time, people! let’s GOOOOO!
Oooookaaaayyy then!
Robotnik and Twilight are related?! That was a big twist... Sheesh! And wow, what a monster Robotnik is... Or should I say, Eggman. Dropping kids and Cadance with her unborn child?! That's heartless! 
And Grubber... my gosh, what's going to happen now that the girls are powerless? 
Not the best time to be happy Pinkie.
https://m.and took little Twilight with them!"*
Was mentioning that really necessary?
Apart of myself was thinking he'd do something like this from the start so I'm honestly not surprised.
Not surprised there. Though how he made it work is questioning me.
That's gonna be hard to get!
permitting him to take them.*
Welp, he lied, he wasn't a man of his word!
as he and the gang tried to reach them."*
4 years later this is still one of my favorite lines from the whole movie, and from Jim Carrey!!!
I've known the name eggman longer than Robotnik, so I prefer the latter. The original name is still near, but since I grew up hearing sonic and his friends call him that in the games and tv shows they've done, I just can't resist calling him eggman over Robotnik.