Harmony of Heroes: Ultimate Multiverse Explorers

by Lucar

Chapter 47: The Screw Attack

"What. The hell. Was that?" Samus asked.

Sweetie Belle gave a sheepish smile. "Just me when I stop holding back. I wasn't kidding when I said that if I wanted, I could just destroy the Leviathans from the start."

"No shit. The Federation will probably wonder where that giant beam came from."

"Anyway. At least, Dark Samus won't come back. I can now try to destroy the Seed in Ghor and take all the time I need. Can you...?" she finished while signing to Samus to get up from Ghor.

Samus did so, and Sweetie Belle immediately grabbed Ghor in her magic before he could try to escape. She turned him so he was now on his back and kept him totally immobile before she approached and sat beside him. She then lowered her horn until it was just above a seemingly random spot of the chestplate that served as the torso.

"Reassure me Samus, there's nothing vital at this emplacement?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Let me scan him to verify," the Hunter replied before she activated the scanner. "Give me a minute. This scan will take longer than the usual ones."

"What's the difference?"

"The usual scans only give me what I need to know and the interesting stuff. To know absolutely everything about the subject, such as the emplacement of whatever makes them work if it is not relevant, I need to run deeper, longer scans such as this one."

"Wait, you mean that you could have gotten the schematic of the Steamlord without having to repair the Aurora Unit first?"

"If I had gotten enough time, yes. But I never get the time and I generally don't need the info since I get all relevant info with the simpler scan so I never bother... Ok, got it. Nothing vital here, just a power reserve. Ghor will just feel permanently tired once you're done with him. Should be easily repaired once he's brought back to the Federation. Be careful, his power core is not far to the right."

"Got it. Now, hold still you stubborn tin can..." She placed her horn against the chestplate and fired a small beam of Phazon. Ghor screeched in pain.

The Seed was not fully destroyed.

Frowning, Sweetie Belle shrunk herself until she was small enough to pass the hole her beam had created in the chestplate and entered the power reserve where the Seed was. Most of it was gone, but there was still a small piece as well as the roots.

She cleansed all of it easily with Phazon-fueled fire.

Almost immediately, she felt all the Phazon inside Ghor's body disappear.

She hoped that it was enough to turn him back to normal like cleansing the Phazon in Aurora Unit 217 had been enough.

She got out of Ghor's body and returned to her normal size. While flying above Ghor, she looked down at him, ready to act if he was still hostile. Samus also had her cannon pointed at him.

Slowly, Ghor sat up, putting a hand on his head as he groaned because of an obvious headache.

"You can lower your cannon, Samus. I'm... myself again," Ghor then said after a few seconds, his words supported by a hand sign from his other hand.

Sweetie Belle flew to face him eye to eye. "You aren't trying to pull a fast one on us, right?"

Ghor chuckled. "My corrupted-self wasn't that smart. Or trust me, you wouldn't even have reached the Aurora Unit in the first place. If my corrupted-self had thought of it, he could have simply merged himself with the network of SkyTown and dropped the pod with the docking bay into the clouds below while you were in it. Or to better the chances of you not escaping, he could have done it with the barrack pod while you were busy fighting the Steamlord in it. Or better yet, he could have reactivated the Aurora Unit while he was still corrupted by the Phazon virus. I will let you imagine how bad this would have gotten if it had happened."

...

"Shit. He's right," Samus said. "We got lucky."

"Probably would have forced me to take matters into my own hooves," Sweetie Belle agreed as she moved away from Ghor who was getting up.

Samus quickly went to help him. "Slowly. One of your power reserves had to be damaged to destroy the Phazon Seed in you."

"I can feel that... Anyway, my corrupted-self really was just a beast wearing my skin, acting under the influence of that doppelganger of you. It's no wonder that he was so stupid."

"And we are thankful for that," Samus said.

Ghor turned to face Sweetie Belle. "I am in your debt little one. Thank you."

"You can repay it by staying alive. And right now, it would be easy for a simple Tinbot to kill you. So don't try anything foolish until you are repaired. By the way, my name is Sweetie Belle."

"It's nice to meet you, Sweetie Belle. And I must say, you impressed me. For someone so small to manage to lift my armor so effortlessly! And the speed you reached when you began to cut it to piece! I'm wondering if you are really made of flesh under your skin."

"One hundred percent made of flesh and bones, with one little zero point zero zero zero whatever-how-many-zeros one percent that is actually a nanobot in my brain translating every language, oral and written, I come across so I can understand them immediately."

"Even the languages that weren't encountered before the creation of that nanobot?"

"Every single ones. I can't explain how this work however. That's not my specialty. You will have to ask the ones who made it once you encounter them."

"Ancient tech?" Samus wondered.

"Related. I have two friends who are a wonderful duo. One studied Ancient technology all her life. The other is one of the descendants of the Ancients who survived the civil war, of the Magic Clan to be exact. Together and with the help of other descendants of the Ancients and with the fact that they now live in a ruined Ancient city that they are rebuilding, they can pull out real technological miracles like that nanobot."

"I take it that what you call "The Ancients" are an ancient civilization very technologically advanced not unlike the Chozo?" Ghor asked.

"Yup. Exactly."

"If this is not a problem, I would like to learn more about these Ancients, and meet your friends."

"Not while we still have a planet to save. Gosh, you remind me of Twilight. You should meet her too."

"Speaking of saving the planet, we need your Plasma Beam to repair the circuit boards you damaged earlier," Samus reminded.

"Oh, of course." Ghor disengaged from his right arm a component that immediately encased itself in a capsule for protection like all the other upgrades. "Here it is, my Plasma Beam."

Samus took it, immediately testing her new Plasma Beam to the side.

"Thank you Ghor."

"It's the least I could do after everything I did. It will be a huge help on this planet. You probably already know about this, but many of the robots here are very vulnerable to heat. This will make your fights against them much easier. Now I should go to get repaired. That constant feeling of tiredness is getting annoying." Ghor eyed the remains of his armor against the wall. "But I don't know how I will leave the planet without my armor..."

Sweetie Belle got thoughtful. "Mmmh...... I have an idea. Wait for me. If I remember my calculations right, I should be back in a few dozens of minutes."

Without waiting, she opened a rift and passed through it before the rift closed.

...

"Did she open a rift in the fabric of space with her bare hooves?" Ghor asked.

"And I thought she had shown everything earlier..." Samus groaned.

"Where did you find her?"

"On Bryyo," Samus answered before she sighed sadly. "Rundas is dead. We weren't able to save him."

Ghor stared silently at Samus for a few seconds, then lowered his head, mourning his fellow bounty hunter.

At this moment, Samus decided to recall her ship which landed on the pad a few seconds later.

She then proceeded to recount to Ghor what happened since she began that mission while waiting for Sweetie Belle to return, keeping an eye around in case Elysian drones or pirates came.

Then, just as she started to talk about her trek through Bryyo's jungle, a star-shaped portal appeared among the clouds and out of it came the Lor Starcutter. The ship placed itself beside the edge of the bay before the entrance and the ramp appeared, letting Sweetie Belle out to face the amazed hunters.

"I present to you... the Lor Starcutter!" she shouted in her best representation of Trixie before she looked at Ghor. "The Lor will be able to get you out of planet and to lead you to the Federation to be repaired. As I told Samus not long ago, the Lor has a near sapient AI and will have no problem following your instructions without even you needing to touch the controls. Just tell her where to go and she will do the rest. And don't worry if you encounter any pirate on the way, she can perfectly take care of them. She doesn't look like it, but she's armed from the bow to the stern, passing by the oars and the mast. A real warship in disguise."

She could tell that Samus, and especially Ghor, had many questions, probably like "Why oars?" or "Why a mast?" or "Where did the ramp come from?" But before they could ask any, she signed for them to follow her before she returned inside the ship.

Samus and Ghor entered after her, letting them see the inside of the ship.

Yep, bigger inside. Being told about this was one thing, but seeing this was another.

Ghor was like a foal in their birthday.

"You will be okay from here, Ghor?" Sweetie Belle asked.

This put Ghor out of his amazement at everything and he nodded. "Thank you again."

"You can explore around if you want, but watch out with some of the technology here, especially the Matter Generator. Ask the Lor if you want to know."

"Very well."

"Okay. Lory, once Samus and I are gone, you know what to do. And be ready to use your weapons against anything that Ghor will present as hostile."

"YES, SWEETIE BELLE."

After that, Sweetie Belle left the ship followed by Samus. Once they were back on the bay, the ramp and the entrance disappeared like they appeared and the ship flew away with Ghor.

"That was one heck of a ship," Samus commented.

"Thanks. I really wish that I could see more Ancient ships but it seems they were all destroyed in the civil war. The descendants' ships are still impressive, but they are very basic compared to the Lor."

The two of them advanced to the entrance of the pod, beginning their trek to return to the Aurora Unit.

"You aren't from this universe, are you?" Samus eventually asked Sweetie Belle.

"You are right, I'm not."

...

"What? That's all?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"After everything I saw, yes. And frankly, I suspected this the instant I saw you and you told me that you came out of a rift. You were just too... not in your place here. And by 'here' I don't mean just Bryyo or Elysia. You opening a rift finished to convince me. It was either that or you came from billions of light years away."

"And being from another universe was more believable than coming from billions of light years away?"

"It was the craziest, and everything about you is crazy."

Sweetie Belle laughed.

The path back to the Aurora Unit was without incidents. Better, thanks to the upgrades Samus got, she was able to get some stuff, starting with a Missile Expansion hidden in a small alcove behind one of these alloys weak to heat (before returning to the hallway with the chasm that led to the exit of the bay pod. Then, once they reached the second pod, Samus was able to activate the cannon to reach that out-of-the-way satellite she couldn't reach before. However, it led to nothing but an Energy Tank. Finally, at the third pod, Samus was able to melt the alloy that blocked the cannon at the end, and the cannon fired her directly at the Aurora Unit's pod.

Back in the Unit's chamber, the hatch to the lower area still being open, they directly entered the tunnel, knowing what to do.

Once in the lower area, it was just a matter of Samus using the Plasma Beam to solder the circuit boards and fix them. A total of three of them had to be repaired. Sweetie Belle helped fixing one of them by firing a beam of plasma from her horn, carefully following the damage the board took from Ghor's beam.

Once they were done, they returned on the upper level and Samus activated the communication terminal to let the Aurora Unit talk to them and tell them what to do next.

"Thank you. We have restored our connection to SkyTown's network. Now, we can execute our plan to destroy the Leviathan."

Sweetie Belle and Samus both sighed in relief. Finally!

"We must first disable the Leviathan's protective shield. Unfortunately, the generator for this shield is hidden beneath the dense clouds of Elysia and so is impossible to reach directly. As an alternative to destroying the generator, we have calculated that a massive thermonuclear explosion would likely destroy the shield itself. This facility possesses the components to create such a device. We would like you to build this device and drop it on the Leviathan's shield."

So, create a big bomb and drop it on the shield? I guess that the simpler plans are sometime the most effective, Sweetie Belle thought.

"Unfortunately, the components are too large for you to lift unaided. You will need assistance to move and assemble them. There is a Federation landing site far to the east of SkyTown. You will be able to find something to help you there. We will upload the current map data of this area to your suit, Samus. This should help you get started."

"What about the Elysians?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Thanks to our restored connection to SkyTown's network, we were able to discover what happened to them. It turns out that the Space Pirates invaded the facility not long after I was corrupted by the virus, and many Elysians were destroyed as they attempted to push them back. As for the survivors, they sadly succumbed to the same virus than us and they are now working for the pirates. We will work on a vaccine starting from the one you gave us to save them, but the destruction of the Leviathan is currently a more pressing matter."

"We understand," Samus said. "Then I guess that we will have no choice but to fight them until then. We will use the schematics you gave us to try to avoid the worst."

Sweetie Belle agreed with a nod.

"You have our thanks. Good luck, you two," Aurora Unit 217 finished.

Samus then received the data of the map like the supercomputer said, and they had a better grasp of what they hadn't explored yet.

So they left the chamber, left the pod, and went to the big pod with the circular open area to take the path they hadn't explored yet here, at the left. After a short zipline ride, they then entered the pod only to find themselves face to face with an Orange Door in the first room that was actually another curvaceous hallway with a chasm. There were also some pipework accessed by Morph Ball, one of which was by melting a metal plate while the other was by getting on a small lift. From these pipework, they were able to find a Missile Expansion of the ship and two Blue Doors, but the two led to dead ends that weren't their objective. Still, one of the dead ends was a Landing Site that could be used so they will be able to land the ship here instead of all the way back where they fought Ghor.

Here, before a lift, they found a Databot that recounted the Chozo's departure from SkyTown, 400 years after its creation. There was another mention of that mysterious sentient planet, the Chozo Searcher who first discovered about it asking the Elysians to continue to search for it. But they failed to find anything about it.

After taking the lift, they reached the landing pad where a cover (apparently named a Chozebo) would stop any attempt from the ship to land. Aurora Unit 217 unlocked it, Samus having to finish the process with a bomb slot. With the Chozebot unlocked, the landing pad could be used. Samus immediately called the ship here, the ship having repaired itself by then.

The other dead ends revealed to just be an escape pod bay after another lift.

Back in the hallway, Samus used a lock to move a gear that blocked the access to the area with the Blue Doors from the main part so they won't have to use the pipework again.

Finally, using the Plasma Beam, they opened the Orange Door only to enter a vertical shaft with two green-colored surfaces that, after a scan, could apparently be used to wall jump with something called the Screw Attack.

Samus groaned.

She then received a call from AU 217 and, once he finished, she groaned again.

"So, I understand that you have to find this Screw Attack upgrade, which will force us to backtrack a bit, but what is the bad news that made you groan a second time?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Their is apparently no Screw Attack upgrade on Elysia. We will have to search on another planet," Samus answered.

Sweetie Belle groaned. "Where?"

"Mmh... There was an area on Norion that I hadn't been able to explore because the door was sealed shut. I remember that there was a circuit board that needed to be repaired to open it. If the engineers haven't repaired it yet, I should be able to do it now that I have the Plasma Beam, but I don't think that we will find any upgrades behind it. The door just leads to a generator. So this leaves Bryyo."

"I remember. There was an orange door at the hangar where we equipped your ship with the missiles."

Samus nodded. "And from what I could see on my map, there was another Orange Door on an upper ledge at that place with the giant golem that had been restrained by vines. And then, there was the fiery region which had three Orange Doors, and one of them led somewhere unknown. I think this one if our better chance."

"Well, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't mind exploring all these other areas. We may find interesting stuff in them. Missile Expansions and Energy Tanks comes to mind but who knows what else there will be that could be useful later."

"True. But I prefer to wait until I have pretty much all my upgrades before exploring. It's nice to be able to go further in certain places thanks to the Boost Ball and the Plasma Beam, but we will take the risk of losing time if we end up blocked anyway because I don't have yet something else, like the Screw Attack. And in this mission, losing time is something that I want to avoid."

"Right... So we go directly to the fiery region of Bryyo?"

Samus confirmed with a nod.

So they returned to the Landing Site and entered the ship before taking off, direction Bryyo.

---

It wasn't long before they reached the planet and landed in the fiery region.

After looking sorrowfully at Rundas' ship which was still present, they entered the building and returned to the big room that served as a gel refinery. Instead of continuing, Samus decided that, since they were here, they should as well go see where the Orange Door in this room led to. But first, to reach it, after dealing with some Reptilicus, they had to melt Rundas' ice that still blocked some parts of a Morph Ball Tunnel, and once at the end of said tunnel, Samus had to use a bomb to break a pipe and use it as a ramp.

The Orange Door was behind ice which they melted. The door led to a hallway where there was a mural behind one of these locks where they had to fire on slabs. The mural told about how the last Lord of Science grew old and searched for a successor. He found a young female Primal that he saved, and the Primal revealed to be a prophetess who warned the Lord of Science about "a starborne death coming to Bryyo," which was obviously the Leviathan. The Lord of Science and the Primal then worked together to prepare a defense to save the world from that future threat.

Beside the mural, there was nothing here. The hallway led to another Orange Door which led to an upper section of the entrance hallway of the building. from here, Samus would have been able to reach the Missile Expansion at the end but Sweetie Belle had already taken it.

So they returned to the refinery site and opened the Blue Door that led to tunnels passing by a cliffside area. They then reached the room with the lift to that pool of Phazon where Samus got her first Phazon Overload, but instead of taking it, they face a statue that was actually the entrance of another tunnel blocked by more ice that they melted. At the other end of the tunnel was a small room with the Orange Door.

After it was a single circular room with a golem sitting inactivated, what seemed to be a giant gong, and some ice covering something on the ceiling. They melted the ice, freeing what was clearly a giant battering ram, and Samus used the golem to smash it into the gong. This activated a Spinner, and Samus used the Boost Ball in it to rotate some structure surrounding them along with the gong until there was an opening where the gong previously was, uncovering a cracked part of the wall. Rather than waiting for Samus to reactivate the golem to smash the battering ram on the wall, Sweetie Belle decided to do it herself, having no problem using the battering ram despite its size. She thus revealed a small chamber covered in ice and sow with a pedestal emitting some vortex of energy. A scan revealed it to be a portal to teleport somewhere apparently very cold.

"I wasn't expecting a portal," Sweetie Belle said.

Samus shrugged. "The Bryyonians were advanced in both magic and technology so it shouldn't be a surprise that they developed portals."

They entered the portal and as expected they landed in a building invaded by ice, probably in a polar region of Bryyo. It was so bad that they had to break some icicles to reach the exit door, and it was even snowing from the ice covering the ceiling.

The next room wasn't better. It was a large cavern with a shaft going down entirely blocked by several layers of ice. Like on Elysia, the shaft had surfaces for wall jumps with the Screw Attack, so it was a one way trip until they found said upgrade certainly further in the region. After destroying the ice blocking the shaft, they landed at the bottom where there was another door and another mural.

The mural was the last one ever written by the last Lord of Science. Sadly, an incident caused a supply of Fuel Gel to explode, revealing the Lord and the prophetess' location to a Primal war band before they could finish to prepare Bryyo's defense against the Leviathan. The Lord of Science was forced to stand his ground to allow the prophetess to flee with his records.

In his last words, the Lord of Science pleaded whoever would read these records to save Bryyo from the Leviathan and to save his people from the hate that turned them into savages.

Nothing mentioned what happened to the prophetess afterward.

At least, Samus and Sweetie Belle were able to destroy the Leviathan and save Bryyo, fulfilling one of these pleas.

As for saving the Reptilicus from their hate...

With the Phazon having turned them into beasts, it may now be impossible...

The girls remained staring at the mural in sadness for a few seconds before they turned to the door which led to what revealed to be a crypt, tombs lining the walls.

Samus received a communication from someone, probably AU 242, but it turned out that no signals could travel from and to this place so whatever she was saying sounded like gibberish.

The door at the other end of the hall was locked by an Invincible Blast Shield. Thankfully, it turned out that the center of the room had a large chasm that was blocked by ice, and that chasm led to a lower section with a kinetic cannon that could fire Samus back to the top section.

Behind the cannon was another door that led to a very large room with two giant statues depicting a Chozo giving he gift of knowledge to a Reptilicus emperor. Between the two statues was a path above a large chasm that led to a platform in the center of the room, on the hand of the Reptilicus statue.

On the platform was the Screw Attack upgrade.

Samus didn't lose time taking it and testing it, the Hunter somersaulting while emitting energy waves that turned her into a rotating energy blade.

To say the least, Sweetie Belle was impressed. It seemed pretty destructive in addition of being a movement to reach new places.

"Aah... I missed it," Samus said once she finished testing it.

Then, the path at both sides of the platform collapsed, and the Chozo statue's hand that shined blue light on the platform raised. It wasn't a problem for Samus who used her newly acquired upgrade to reach the other end of the room.

It was as if she was flying!

"That's quite the upgrade!" Sweetie Belle said as she joined the Hunter.

"Probably my favorite. And you can see why."

The filly nodded. "No kidding. And you know what?" She then gave a smile worthy of someone who could wait to test a new toy. "Thank you for the inspiration!"

Samus sighed resignedly. "You will somehow be able to reproduce it?"

Sweetie Belle answered with a confident grin that said everything, making the Hunter shake her head. The filly then turned to the door that was beside them.

"So, we continue to explore the area?"

"We should as well while we have the occasion."

They passed the door and entered a cylindrically-shaped room that seemed to be a tower. No stairs or lift however. To reach the top, there were two of these green surfaces for the Screw Attack.

However, Samus spotted at her left something that made her groan.

"What now?" Sweetie Belle asked.

Samus pointed at the reason of her annoyance: a rail system. "You see this? It means that we will have to come back with another upgrade that I haven't yet, the Spider Ball."

Sweetie Belle eyed the rail, then followed it with her eyes, seeing that it climbed to the top of the room.

"What does your map say about these rails? Do they lead to a room?"

"They don't seem to."

"Well then, let me see where they lead to. We don't want to backtrack all the way here just for a Missile Expansion after all. Meanwhile, you should use your Screw Attack and wait me up there."

Samus nodded and jumped toward the first green surface in Screw Attack mode, starting her wall jumps while Sweetie Belle climbed the room by following the rails.

They didn't lead to a Missile Expansion but to an Energy Tank, which was slightly better but would have still been annoying to return here just for that.

She teleported back beside Samus and gave her the tank. "Here we go. an Energy Tank. Nothing else."

"Thank you."

Samus briefly mentioned that she received another communication attempt that also failed.

They then opened the door at the top of the tower which led back to the huge room where they found the Screw Attack. From the ledge they were on, Samus fired at the hand that raised earlier, her scan telling her that the part that emitted blue light was a control mechanism that could be activated with a blast. This turned the hand so it could be used as a platform to reach the other side of the room with the Screw Attack, and also to reach the head of the Reptilicus statue where there was a Ship Missile Expansion.

The door at the other side of the room was the one leading to the crypt that was locked by an Invincible Blast Shield. Pulling a lever beside it opened it.

They traversed the crypt, climbed the cavern (Samus using the Screw Attack), and left this snowy region through the portal, returning to the fiery region.

There, Samus received a communication from a worried AU 242.

"Sorry. I was in a snowy area where there was no signal."

The AU was relieved and proceeded to reveal that they had finally located a missing flagship named Valhalla which had been attacked by the pirates five months ago. The AU then requested Samus to investigate the Valhalla to find any information about the pirates that she could.

The coordinates of the ship were then uploaded into Samus' Suit.

A few minute later, they left Bryyo.

---

They decided to finish their job on Elysia before attempting anything with the Valhalla, so they returned to the planet, landing on the Landing Site they had unlocked last time.

It saved a lot of time as the shaft with the green surfaces was just a couple of doors away.

After the shaft was a small hallway to a Blue Door which opened to a room blocked by Phazon vines behind a dome. To open the dome, Samus had to enter a slot in her Morph Ball, so she had to destroy the vines with her Hyper Ball while Sweetie Belle simply used Phazon beams.

This freed a tunnel that led to the other exit of the room. The door here led back outside of the pod where a Spinner activated, not a cannon, but a tram that transported them to the rest of SkyTown visible in the distance.

Honestly, the tram's sudden acceleration took them by surprise, and Sweetie Belle ended on her butt. Samus was able to avoid such an embarrassing situation, but barely. This didn't stop her from letting out a small laugh at the filly's expense.

Sweetie Belle glared at Samus. "Not a word!"

Samus mimed sealing her lips, but still let out a last chuckle.

At least, thanks to this speed, they reached their destination in just a few minutes.

Now it was just a matter of finding the Federation Landing Site to upgrade the ship.

But bad news appeared to them upon entering the first pod: one of these flying, shielded pirate drones like they encountered back on Bryyo. As soon as it saw them, the drone flew away into a tunnel.

It meant only one thing.

"Pirates are here," Samus said with a groan.

Sweetie Belle grinned malevolently. "Great! I couldn't wait for round 2 against them! I wonder if they saw my little show of power."

"Certainly. It was hard to miss a beam that huge. And they are probably wondering what fired it, not expecting a dwarf horse."

Sweetie Belle glared at Samus. "You know what the "dwarf horse" says?"

Samus grinned under her helmet. "No. What?"

Sweetie Belle simply made a raspberry.

Samus burst into laughter.

Comments

[Spellflame]

Neat trick

[omegasnowfall]

1: yay, survivor!

2: I just realized sweetie Belle will encounter sonic (and hopefully classic sonic because hard boiled heavies)

3: can sweetie encounter VVVVVV? It’s a pretty good game and has some cool stuff.

[Lucar]

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The Hard Boiled Heavies are destroyed by now. The Phantom Filly, and in consequence UME, happens after Sonic Mania +.

VVVVVV?

[Herald of Opera]

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2: I just realized sweetie Belle will encounter sonic (and hopefully classic sonic because hard boiled heavies)

It's almost certainly going to be the Sonic from The Phantom Filly, who'd already left Classic back in his own world.

[omegasnowfall]

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Hard boils heavies: Well they could come back as reformed (just a suggestion)

VVVVVV: pbs.twimg.com/media/EN7Z4dSWkAAQAaJ.png
VVVVVV is a game where you (Viridian) and your crew of 5 are flying through space when something disrupts your ship and sends your ship crashing into another dimension. During the events of the game you find your crew mates, discover notes by the people who were here before you, and explore (Probably, I don’t remember exactly) 7 areas containing trinkets that, when all collected, get you the good ending.

(Edit: i mean rebuilt as good guys, sorry. I just mainly want heavy magician back.)