Sonic the Hedgehog is getting fed up with boredom... Until Time Eater returned and drops him and his friends into Equestria. Guess who crashes the party? (Unlock friends, foes, vehicles, and items by request or interest.)
2021 Update. New Sonic writing project. ---------- Sonic has nothing to do, Doctor Eggman is in jail, everything is like yesterday, heck, the canyons he trains at are nothing new! Well, good thing a hole in space-time sweeps Sonic into a new adventure in a pony land! Unlock friends, foes, vehicles, and items! See here for characters. See here for gear. Meet the Mane Six! Meet Sonic the Hedgehog... twice! And help him rescued himself! Meet Sonic's friends and rivals! ... and siblings?! Discover secret factions Sonic will probably not learn about! Discover secret groups Amy will find! And who is the villain behind Time Eater?
Explore Equestria to save it from being erased and colorless with the help of the Elements of Harmony ponies.
Explore Canterlot High as you try to stop three teenage girls from ruling the world with the power of music! Why does that sound familiar?
This story has canon and past canon characters. i.e. Sonic's siblings from Sonic Underground. All OCs are slightly altered versions of regular characters and are altered for plot convenience... or just because of Shadow.
WARNING: VILLAINS MIGHT NOT BE KID FRIENDLY. THAT IS WHY "TEEN" IS ON THERE. I am not consistent in these things above. There's also secret chapters you can access with the code: Shard the Metal Sonic.
"I don't know... last thing I remember, the Squad Bots found our hideout... but how?" a young male voice replied. "And where are we?!"
A closet door opens, shining light on two hedgehogs, holding on to each other. "Don't you mean 'when' are you?"
"Sonic?" a yellow humanoid fox asked. He is born with two tails gaining the nickname "Tails", has been best friends / sidekick of Sonic, and has a knack for machines thus he dons orange goggles and a tool belt.
A blue, also humanoid, hedgehog is hopping on the couch on two hands. He wears a brown scarf and bandages for reasons unknown and has gained many titles over the years like "blue blur", "the fastest thing alive", and is rumored to be King Aurthur... for some reason. "Yes Tails, what's up?"
"What are you doing?" Tails asked, worrying for his friend's sanity.
"Obviously not melting in Iblis fire, that's for sure!" Sonic hopped onto the counter in the kitchen of their beach hut home, almost acting like their friend Sticks the Badger.
Somewhere else...
I walked around the Castle of the Two Sister, now a museum... or it would be if the path there wasn't dangerous. I continued my trot, hoping to find what I was looking for, another magic mirror. The Crystal Empire gave me one (for reasons not involving a crush. nope.), and my castle had one in it until somepony refused to use a door and broke it! Anyway, I digress, Canterlot Castle locked theirs up so by ancient castle magic with twisted logic: there should be one here.
Just as I stood at a fork in the path with two choices, it was then I heard a familiar voice. I couldn't make out whom spoke nor did I know where it came from. Turn left...
Just then Amy walked inside to discover her beloved Sonic, to put it bluntly, stinks. Being his "girl friend" she has done a lot to try to get his attention: absorbing the power of an acorn ring to be close to his age, learning how to fight in order to help him, fixed her quills, and so on. She is a cute pink hedgehog in a hot pink, magenta dress who wields a giant hammer and has only needed to be rescued once... or twice... or- Let's not be full of ourselves.
It has been three weeks since Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnic has finally lost and was sent to jail for his crimes, more specifically animal cruelty. Since that you'd think Sonic would be happy, but he wasn't after week two and slowly became depressed even ending his letters to his chao garden.
"Sonic, get up!" Amy exclaimed as she shook the sleeping Sonic that reeked of stale chilidogs and chocolate.
"Is Eggman threatening to destroy the dam, again?" he asked in a raspy whisper.
"No... But Shadow is here."
There was a gust of wind and she was standing outside with Knuckles, their top heavy and not-so-bright echidna friend.
"So is he not playing Tennis or what?" he asked, despite the look Amy gave him.
"What's a draconequus?" a girl's voice asked.
Discord? Well, duh, Twilight, who else? But who is with him?
"Oh, way past cool!" another voice, a rough sounding young colt, exclaimed in excitement. Who does Discord have with him and who are they?! Just then I spot a light reflecting of something out the corner of my eye: the mirror I was looking for!
"Oh my god! Thank you Discord... just thank you!" an older voice, approximately male in his late teens, said with joy and held back tears. What is going on?!
"Sonic you open this door right now, or I swear to the voodoo dolls under my bed I will come in there myself!!!" Sticks calmed her breathing a listened patiently.
"I swear to all that rings, GO AWAY. I-I just want to sleep in peace..."
Amy softly knocked on the door, beckoning Sonic to open it, "Please, why are you even doing this?! Ever since that jerk went to jail, you went from very happy to depressed. If we talk this out maybe-"
The door swings open and Sonic glares at the people at his door, "C'mon in, sorry about the place is a mess..." Before closing he looks up to see something resembling a black hole in the distance, closing in on his position.
"AMY! STICKS! WHERE'S TAILS?!" Sonic called to them.
Shocked by his sudden reaction they ran up to see what ticked him off- Amy took a step back at the revelation before her, "Why is Time Eater here?!"
Before Sticks could ask, Sonic sped towards the smoky black monster with gears adorned its body only to be smacked down just like last time, except Sonic the Hedgehog would not go down so easily this time!
-Meanwhile-
In the land of Equestria, all was peaceful... besides the chunk of town that turned white, colorless, and devoid of life. That wasn't going to stop Discord, lord of chaos and future fifth alicorn princess from causing chaos nor would he stand to let a shift in reality have all the fun! Next to him was a brown stallion also studying the anomaly, but not for chaotic reasons he can assure you.
He took a step in the white area, despite those around him warning him not to do so.
I could've saved them! I would've saved my family and friends if- if I wasn't so slow!
Thought? Why am I hearing thought? Normally I'm hearing thoughts, but this is one pony's thought.
I'm supposed to be the fastest thing alive and I failed them! I- I'm a failure...
Failure? "Fastest thing alive" sounds like Skittles-go-so-fast blue mare, Butterfly's friend... this isn't a mare. I felt something fluffy rub against my lizard leg when I noticed: it was my tail, telling me to go somewhere. "So you still work, my fuzzy buddy? Well let's juice it!"
My tail led me to the castle in the Everfree forest and through maze-like hallways only to stop at a closet. Why a closet? Ever heard of 'seven minutes in heaven'? Add a renewed ancient castle with moi and you have instant fun and crazy chaos! I then heard voices from within, nothing romantic or too interesting.
"How are we not dead?" a feminine voice asked from within the small space.
"I don't know... last thing I remember, the Squad Bots found our hideout... but how?" a young male voice replied. "And where are we?!"
Squad Bots? Isn't that an interesting tidbit. If I know my chaos history, a Dr. Robotnic took over a continent turning animals into robot slaves. The impact was so devastating that it split that timeline into two alternate time lines, one with a queen hedgehog whores abandoning two of her children with strangers and the third with her poor brother. The other actually had class, instead of a few rebels and a discount "the Beatles" band, they had an actual fighting force led by a hot squirl princess to rebel against him! Which had its own split timeline after Snively Robotnic turned on his uncle.
As I open door with some great force, a lot light shined on a pink and green hedgehog, holding on to each other. "Don't you mean at what time period are you?" I said wearing my fez, bow tie, and orange vest. "Well, Great Scott! Anthro Hedgehogs!"
The hedgehogs didn't know what to expect. Together, in a closet, and with Sonic's necklace in their grasp, but no blue hedgehog. A castle with a creature making references they don't understand and replacing their "where are we?" with "when are we?" Plus his out burst about "anthro hedgehogs" made things, if it wasn't already, weird. He was a long brown... thing, with a lion paw and eagle talon for hands, a one fanged grin, long and slender with one deer hoof and green lizard leg hanging from his seat in mid air, and he stank of cheese with crumbs of paper on his chest... for some reason. What else could we add describe how weird he is? The bat and bird wings on his back too small for his body or two horns from a ram and antelope? Even his red lizard tail with a hare's tail at the end was odder than his yellow eyes being two different sizes with red irises that would give us nightmares if the huge, white eyebrows and donkey mane didn't draw our attention.
"Hello, my little time travelers!" he greeted, gesturing us out of the closet with a sign from out of nowhere, mind you, literally saying "GET OUT!" in flashing letters. He started to question our sanity as we were ushered into a library... actually a HUGE library. There was a ring of chairs with our colors and a few more. Pink, green, a brown-black throne, a purple pillow on a small plastic toilet for babies, a slightly bigger blue and smaller light blue rocking chairs.
He pushed us along with a paw and extended a talon to the circle, "Take a seat, I'm expecting guests soon and I assume we all have questions! Unless I'm wrong then I'm the ass out of u and me."
The green hedgehog was the only one to laugh while pink was lost, looking at a guitar medallion in her grasp. They take their seat in what their host calls "the better castle friendship circle than the other one in the castle that should not be named" or in our case, couldn't be named, not knowing what he was rambling about.
"Enough," he said to himself. "Let's start with names. Hello, my name is Discord, Lord of Chaos and Disharmony... reformed."
The green hedgehog with the drum set medallion, two ringed ear, crazy quills pointed forward in an unorganized mess with two shark-fin like quills in the back, who wore red and black shoes and an orange-tan vest was signaled to speak, "I'm Manic. I don't have any far out titles, but I can cause earth quakes and play in a band with my sis and lost bro."
The pink hedgehog, unlike her brother Manic, wasn't a slob. She had some class with her and pants, her light pink quills had two spikes in the back and matching fluffy hair extensions, giving her a ball of puff in the front. The rest of her body that could be seen is a darker shade of pink. She donned a piano styled medallion around her neck, purple high heels with matching arm gloves, and a pink and purple yet elegant almost skin tight 80's or 90's, give or take, rock outfit made from the finest of silks. "My name is Sonia the Hedgehog, it is a pleasure to meet you Mr. Discord," she said with a bow of her head.
Manic didn't spare much time for silence asking, "What are you? I mean, we're hedgehogs and you're... something!"
"I'm a draconequus," he replied with pride, only for it to shatter some by the next question. "What's a draconequus?"
"Manic! You're looking at one!" Sonia scolded.
Manic raised his white gloved hands in defense, "Woah! Let me be more clear, sis! Geez! I mean, is there more of you and what can your kind do?"
Discord was suddenly orange with black stripes, bouncing on his tail for the duration of his statement, "The wonderful thing about Dissy, is I'm the only one!" he then reverted back, wearing glasses as he read a paper that had "script" written all over it, literally there's hardly any white to be seen on it. "Well I can turn reality as my own personal playground, anything is my toy, I grant wishes, eat books like I'm friggin' Pac Man seriously?, and I have so many amazing tricks I put the circus out of business! He exclaims with a paw in the air, getting looks from the hedgehogs- oops!" he exclaims with a paw in the air getting looks from the hedgehogs, then says 'oops!' for his error.
Sonia stayed quiet as Manic stood shouting, "Way past cool!"
Just then some weird pegacorn thing entered the room with a mirror on wheels pointing a hoof at our host, "Discord, what is the meaning of this?!"
Discord crossed his arms and looked away, "Stuff it Twiley, it was my turn for questions! You may also get your turn as soon as you enter-"
"The friendship circle!" Manic finished, gaining a glare from Sonia. "What? If he was going to call it by the long name speech-thing, I'd might as well save him the trouble."
"Have a seat," Discord offered the purple baby toilet with the cushion.
"No thanks, I'd rather stand," she turns to us, "My name is Twilight Sparkle, former student of princess Celestia, princess of friendship, bearer of the element of magic, and leader of my friends the other bearers of the currently unusable elements of harmony."
Not long after Time Eater arrived, the land was plunged in black and purple smoke. By a force of some sort, Sonic was stuck inside his home surrounded by the disaster and when you'd think you've seen it all, two younger versions of himself in their super form retaliated against the monster. Sonic could almost feel the power of the chaos emeralds when a sudden turn of events happened. The emeralds disappeared and his more recent past self vanished in a flash of light and the smaller started to fall to the Earth.
With a hop, skip, and a jump he was free and dashed across the white limbo to himself. This time, if he wasn't fast enough he would fail more people then he had ever let down... His purpose in life wasn't to stop Dr. Robotnic, his destiny was to be the greatest hero in history and avoid taking full credit! It doesn't matter what he did, he had friends that he watched out for as they did for him and he will honor the lost in his own actions. I mean seriously? Does binge eating and sleeping sound like honoring the memories of your long gone loved ones?
"Wait. Discord, so what you're saying is that they are from the far past as we are in their far future divided by centuries evolution and reconstruction?" Twilight said, sitting on her toilet. A tiny little flush sound and a "I went poopy" was a real mood breaker, but made the lord of chaos and prince of... (music?) laugh their butts off and receiving a glare from the princesses.
In a slightly serious tone, he replied simply, "Yes, exactly."
I will not give in! I am Sonic the Hedgehog, fastest thing alive, sole survivor of Mobius, King Arthur, tamer of genies and world rings as well wisp aliens, controller of the Chaos Emeralds, and former Freedom fighter prince under the leadership of Princess Sally Acorn, the blue blur, and nothing can stop me now!!!
Everyone in the circle grabbed their heads, besides Discord who chunked his head at a wall, as the thought was heard loud and clear within their minds.
"It seems, I'm not the only one who heard that," mused Discord as he cleaned himself up.
"We heard Sonic in our head!" exclaimed Sonia to Manic.
"He sounded different though and... What's with everybody and ginormous titles?!"
Just then two blue balls were tosses from the mirror, across the room and landed in the blue rockers. As the balls unrolled to reveal two more of these hedgehog things as referee Discord raised both arms commenting, "Its good!"
"I... I did it..." said the bigger hedgehog woozily.
Wait, that was the extra voice from earlier... but he arrived after me. Who are these creature, really...
Entering Ponyville seemed to be a simple task: just walk right in and OH MY GOD PINK PONY! As a random pink pony appeared out of hammer space to group hug the air from our lungs we were greeted by Pinkie Pie, master party pony! Yeah interesting title. Lord of Chaos, Princess that was a former student of a god, King Arthur alien tamer and survivor of a dead civilization, heirs to the Mobius throne, and... party planner. Yes. Fear me. I bake cakes.
She finally let us go, only to fire her party cannon at Sonia, pelting her with confetti, "What was that for?!"
"Yes. Fear me. I own about a dozen knifes, I know where you're at at all times, and you are not safe," Pinkie said in a dead serious tone only to finish with a cheerfully bubbly, "I bake cakes!"
She hops away, leaving the hedgehog family afraid... except for older Sonic, who accepted the hug without hugging her back as if saying 'yep. same stuff as always.' He wasn't even fazed about the fact she could stab us at any moment. This would've been the best day ever if he was at home-
"Twitchy tail! Twitchy tail!" Pinkie screamed as she lobbed Manic behind the surprised Twilight. "Hit the deck!"
"What do I look like? A football?!" Manic screamed, when he got where he once stood was an island hut.
"Hey, my house is here!" big Sonic exclaimed running inside. "And there's no fall damage, either!"
Everyone entered the house, to find... it was a mess. Then with a speed unlike anything the hedgehogs have seen, but the other three were used to "King Arthur" cleaned his home with such speed and ease that when he stopped they were ushered outside so that he could mop.
"Adagio?" a purple girl asked her orange friend.
"Yeah Aria?"
"What is Sonata doing?" she asked, pointing a blue girl standing on the couch.
"Sonata said she was and I quote, 'avoiding Iblis hell fire' or something stupid involving lava."
"At least I'm not the one without a face!" Sonata exclaimed, hopping to the kitchen counter in their apartment with the grace of a clawless cat falling to the floor. "Nooo! I'm melting! No fake equestrian magic light show can save me!!"
"AGAIN! It wasn't a light show, it was real! I even our necklaces even glimmered in it presents," Adagio stated.
"Yeah, its called 'reflection' or in your case: maaagic ooooh~!" Sonata waved her arms as she lied flat on the floor. "I'm bored."
"Hey, Sonic?" Manic planned to ask the question nobody would. Both Sonics turned to him as the older one made an audible response. "How come older you can talk and the one from me and Sonia's time can't?"
The two hedgehogs huddled in a silent vs whisper debate before they broke up to respond. Little Sonic was trying to stop older Sonic from talking, but failed to stop him. "Well... um... There was this time period when Robotnic's ideas went from brilliant evil to flat out garbage. He created his first set of stupid side kicks Scratch and Grounder. Those two made the struggle look like a cat and mouse cartoon, no joke! They used things that range from wooden mallets and glue to an easy to hop over death trap. One evening they got a lucky shot at me. I was out celebrating with Tails and a few sheep after destroying another Robotnic Casino and being in a crowded place meant I couldn't run."
Little Sonic ran off to get somebody to stop bigger Sonic, his footsteps echoing throughout the Friendship Castle. The castle was a giant crystal tree that seemed to be bigger on the inside, and according to his future self 'this reminds me of a TARDIS' whatever that meant.
In the kitchen Spike was making lunch for everyone when he noticed something tugging on his tail, "Oh, its you. Came back to roll over me a second time? ... What are you doing? I think you're trying to tell me something! Maybe you should use your words."
Little Sonic face palmed and ran into another hallway to find Twilight...
- Meanwhile -
"I was out celebrating with Tails and a few sheep after destroying another Robotnic Casino and being in a crowded place meant I couldn't run. Grounder tossed Scratch like a spear, getting me kicked in the throat-"
"Who's Tails?" Manic asked. "And you never described the Squad Bots."
"Miles Prower is my yellow fox friend who was abandoned for having two tails at birth. With those tails he can fly around for a limited amount of time gaining the nickname 'Tails'. He was the one that gave me support when everything was wrong. When I thought you two died to the years without my voice, he is smart, talented, and my best... friend..." Sonic paused for a moment, realizing he had no idea where his friends are. He was caught up in the moment of his long dead family not actually being dead, but sent to the far future. "Anyway, he stopped robotisizing and building Squad Bots, instead he made Badnics. Scratch is a tall chicken and Grounder just looks too dumb to describe."
"So you were kicked in the throat by a chicken-"
"And I tapped into my inner power, regaining my voice and becoming a lock-on projectile. One who needs to find his friends!" Sonic was about to go, before a pinkish aura held him in the air.
Twilight walked in, her wings flaring, "According to... uh... you. You had said too much and plus, I have to agree. I mean, you could cause a time paradox!"
Big Sonic shrugged, "Didn't happen last... time..." he then gained a look as if he'd seen a ghost. "Mini me! Have you been to past me's party?!"
Manic looked confused, "Um... Dude, Isn't he your past self?"
"Yeah, but the last time I traveled through time and met this me we defeated a creature named the Time Eater."
"So?" Manic asked, clearly lost.
"Outside my window earlier I saw both mes from that fight. We lost. My more recent past self disappeared and I rescued farther past me!"
Little Sonic made a home alone scream face, realizing what I'm saying. "If that me is gone, then how am I here to recollect the victory side of the battle?! I should also be remembering what he's seeing and hearing like last time!" I said, pointing at younger me.
Before we can end, Discord brings Disappeared Sonic's Tails to the group while reading the script and disappears instantly, "Before we can end, Discord brings Disappeared Sonic's Tails to the group while reading the script and disappears later."
"Discord? Where are we and why does my sonic have a scarf and blue arms?" Tails asked with the look of confusion on his face.
Discord giggled and patted Tails's head, "Oh, my boy! That's not your Sonic... not yet."
As the music ended, little Sonic put away his magic guitar and bowed as Twilight and Tails looked to each other and older Sonic fell asleep. Pinkie on the other hoof was cheering her butt off with Discord clapping slowly.
"Did he really sleep through that?" Sonia asked the PO'd Manic.
"Maybe he thinks he's too good?"
Classic Sonic tried to reply, but lowered his head as nothing left his mouth besides silent air.
Tails nudged Sonic awake who started clapping, "Yeah, that was... uh... Great! How about I try something to update your genre."
The two hedgehogs looked at each other, "Update?"
"Though I also want Pinkie and Discord to help me out," he said winking at the two that brought speakers and a CD player. "May I have our guitar, little me?" His smaller self handed the medallion, only to create a second one somehow.
Manic and Sonia were blown away, it was if they were hearing the music of GODS playing! He was shredding it with no end in sight and the feeling was glorious! It was quite literally, the music of the future. Manic sat, frozen like a statue in Celestia's royal garden while Sonia soaked it in like a spa bath, the music caused Twilight to drop her notes and Tails bob his head slightly. The volume of the music attracted the local Wonderbolt private and fabulous dare devil, Rainbow Dash.
"Twilight, who and what are these people?!" Rainbow asked over the music.
Twilight fell out of seat from the sudden appearance of the pony, "What did you say?"
Rainbow gained an idea, since her friend can't her, "You're an Egghead!"
"What?" Twilight responded, then the music stopped and older Sonic was at Rainbow's face, eyes locked with anger.
"What about Eggheads?!"
Tails was the first to react, getting in between them. Little Sonic let out a breath he was unaware the he possessed as Sonia aimed her key-tar at the two.
Manic leaned in and whispered, "When did you get a key-tar?"
"I don't know, but for some reason it might be a gun."
Twilight stood to defuse the situation, may Celestia protect her. dIScorD LeT iN A BreatH aNd eXCLaiMeD, "HA! She's going to need all three alicorns to save her!"
Every head turned their attention to Discord and his random outburst. He twiddled his thumbs and innocently asked with a half grin, "Did I say that out load? My, how embarrassing! Where were we?"
Sonic looked a Rainbow then Tails, "I don't remember. Wasn't Tails going to tell us about that devise in his hand?"
Tails looked over to the 3DS in his grasp, "I was until Discord... Anyway, I made a tracker with Princess Twilight's help."
"So what does it track?" Sonia asked getting closer to the blue-black devise.
Tails pulled up a seat as some serious exposition was taking place, "Our friends and hopefully gems of great power called Chaos Emeralds-"
"I'm already loving this story!" Discord gushed as he ate pickled lemons.
"- they were guarded by a race of echidnas, long history lesson later, with all seven emeralds Sonic becomes a DBZ knock off."
"Huh. I never thought of you watching anime," Sonic said, rocking on a nearby stool.
"It was the only thing Chris was useful for besides being rich."
Twilight tilted her head in confusion, "What is a 'Chris'?"
"Chris Thorndike. He is a human boy is seems to cause destruction in his wake. We were stranded in his world for... a year? Along the lines on that. He was a whiny little kid that wouldn't let Sonic go, even if our world and his was going to create a time lock!" Tails's head met the ceiling as he realized he was flying in his anger. "That's new..."
Spike shrugged, "Probably corresponds to all flying nerds?"
Discord anchored Tails to the ground, "Anyway! Enough chit-chat. Have any of you noticed the white limbo outside?"
The white limbo grew emmencly, stretching from towards Canterlot to near Friendship Castle, but missing parts of the town. We were so caught up in music and he-who-must-not-be-named to notice a blank, white landscape with frozen pony bodies all over at their hooves and feet. The 3DS started a series of beeping, [Amy Rose is nearby.]
"It actually works!" Manic exclaimed as the brother and sister looked at it in wonder.
"Of course it works! Me and Twilight made it with two sciences and her strange electricity," Tails bragged. "Now, let's see if this will work like last time, but how Sonic remembers it."
"Sweet! Now to run like there's no tomarrow, or there won't be a tommarow for this part of horse land!"Sonic almost ran off until little him blocked his launched and pointed to their siblings, "Um.. sure, but does anyone have a wagon? I'm pretty sure my family want a bit of the action, right?"
"You know it, bro!" Manic shouted with a thumb up.
Dash turned her attention to the five nonponies, "What about us?"
"Rainbow Dash! Check us out!" a shrill voice call out, followed by a louder "CUTIEMARK CRUSADER STUNT TEAM, YAY!!!" screaming trouble. Three tiny ponies, an orange pegasus on a blue scooter, a normal yellow one with about a dozen helmets on her head, and a white unicorn wearing a costume that shouts... whatever country has red, blue, and white stars.
They push off, going down the biggest ramp we've ever seen (unless you went to Eggman Land with free tickets), probably going to die. Sonic turned to his friend, "Tails! Carry me!"
As they did the usual air routine, Tails made a comment while gaining speed, "Did you lose weight?"
"No, I trained with one of those Kai guys. Double time, Tails!"
Just then a colorful blur raced past them as Rainbow Dash caught the fillies and let the scooter explode below her. Sorry what? What the heck did those children have on that scooter, C4?! Luckily, the wagon survived, stopping at Sonia's feet. The group watch as Sonic returned in a walk of shame as Rainbow trotted towards them with a cocky smirk.
"Well, you tried. Sonic was it?" Rainbow puffed her chest and continued, "But you could never get to them in time, unlike me!"
Sonic, looking a mix of bumed and ticked asked, "And why is that?"
"Because, I'm Rainbow Dash the fastest thing alive!"
Both Sonics looked pissed while everyone familiar with the blue dudes took a step back away from them. Manic looked to Twilight Sparkle, "Now she's done it!" Hearing that, a pink platform lifted the scared group off the ground. Nobody knew what was said or where they ran/flew off to, but it looked like trouble.
Tails was the first to break the silence, "Well, want to go ahead and find Amy?"
Sonia decided to ask, "Who's Amy?"
"This'll take a while."
Twilight guided the group into the limbo, "Well, we do have time at the moment..."
Rainbow Dash narrowly avoided a few statued ponies as a song starts playing, she looks back to see the little blue hedgehog riding on a skateboard while holding a boom box over his shoulder, probably being Sonic's hype mare or something. Where is that guy any-
Her thoughts were cut off a shadow overhead belonging to a blue monkey-like hedgehog on a hoverboard, wearing a brown scarf and green shades. There was a few times he would actually ride it, partially to show off. He was nimble and quick, hopping over and rolling under frozen ponies and bouncing off what used to be Everfree Forest trees. No! I will chose where we go!
Rainbow raced upwards and dived towards the two hedgehogs, hearing the words 'live and learn' when her added speed sent her soaring ahead of them. Besides the blank white landscape something seemed off about the forest, there was these colorful glows that would appear and disappear as if she was a predator hunting prey.
"Laser!" exclaimed a male voice, seemingly from everywhere. Just then some sort of spiky cyan thing with yellow eyes zoomed pasted me, bouncing off everything! "Eagle!" the voice boomed, turning the cyan creature into a crimson bird-like creature! I should lay off the cider for a while... It soared pretty high, but probably can't out fly me!
Twilight strained a bit, but somehow had the energy to argue with as to if the ground was safe to stand on. "But what if it petrifies the wagon just like the trees?"
Tails was rubbing his temples, "Rainbow started her flight with a galloping start on the white ground!"
"That's because she's moving-"
"No. From what evidence you claim to have against my facts, if we were to stay still so by that logic: if we move, we are fine."
Sonia is whispering with Manic. Then he got towards the nerds, "WILL YOU JUST SHUDDUP?! You two have been arguing ever since we let Sonic race Rainbow Something!" He climbed into the wagon and let it roll off as Pinkie and Sonia hopped in after him, the party pony screaming in joy as if she was on a roller coaster.
"Twilight stop! We just passed her," Tails motioned to the green dot on his radar. They flew down, looking at a small hamanoid hedgehog in a dress. "Little Sonic isn't going to like-"
"Tails, quiet! Do you hear something?" Twilight asked as familiar music was heard on the horizon. Two blue blurs were led by a third on a skateboard shredding on a rainbow, playing the music from a big blue box. The box had a blue jewel lodged in one of the speakers, the music shifted as the gem glowed brighter and brighter.
The trio sped out of control toward the group, but something stopped them. Pinkie anchored Rainbow as another pink blur slammed a spiked, green hammer on the ground. "Two Sonics?! Well, this must be Christmas! I will destroy you!"
Tails looked at the crazed look and hammer of little Amy, "Oh my god..."
Sonia and Manic took their gear out, trying to slow down Amy. Sonia turned back, "Are you sure she's a friend?!"
"That's not Amy... sort of. An alternate dimension discovered us and their Sonic turned corrupt, became Scourge. That is Amy from his world: Rosy the Rascal, destroyer of anything connected to Sonic!"
Little Sonic left the Chaos Emerald embedded boom box with Tails with a song appropriate with this situation. He nodded his head and spun towards Rosy, rolling off a rock and colliding with her back. He dodged a spike as he donkey kicked her toward older Sonic.
Big Sonic caught Rosy in a blue stream of light, brutally tossing her all around before releasing her and homed in on her as 'see me dominate' sounded. He then drop kicked her on 'powerful and great' sending Rosy on her way, "Had enough? I'm just getting warmed up!" Both Sonics hopped in place readying for another attack.
"I WILL SEND YOU YOUR GRAVES! I don't care how many of you there are, because I will crush your bones beneath my feet and wear you skulls as my crown!!!" she ran towards them, her mouth foaming as she readied a running start swing only to be side swiped by a cyan hoof.
Sonic looked over to their music source, he waved to get Tails's attention. "Your radio?" he called back, receiving a nod. Tails found the emerald, still in the speaker, breaking the devise as the gem was freed and tossed to Little Sonic... who didn't receive it due to Miles's lack of a good pitching arm. Didn't matter though because Sonia picked up the slack by running to him at Sonic speeds.
"I can run fast?!" she responded, replied with her brother pointing at the emerald then her then bowed his head. He was then punted by Rosy, who knocked Sonia off her feet with the handle of her hammer. "Is this how I die?"
Twilight soared above, her horn rested up to start helping her friends. As Rosy slammed her weapon of judgement near Sonia, Twilight rose the pink menace in the air, having it hang below the girl. "You will not hurt these hedgehogs!"
"Let go of me, bitch!" Rosy screamed, tossing several hammers at the unimpressed alicorn, non touching her. She made sure the group was out of range before she used a sleeping spell to quiet the monster. They group acted as one, returning to the Friendship Castle when everything was over.
The dragon burped magical green flames that became a solid scroll. He unrolls it, reading the letter,
"Hey Sis! Sorry about Princess Celestia not responding, but there is a serious meeting going down and she wishes for me to reply. Its one of those meetings, even I, can't join without proper papers. I digress. I will inform the Princesses ASAP. And these 'hedgehogs' you mentioned, are you sure you can trust them? And on the note of this "hedgehog from an alternate dimension", are you saying we might have time, space, and the multiverse theory on our doorstep, preparing for war? I wish you the best of luck. Your BBBFF, Prince Shining Armor."
Manic took out a notepad with pages of scribbles, stopping at a page with names starting with themselves and ending with Twilight, "So can we include four more to the list of royal connections? Or should I assume everybody and everypony is royalty in one form or another?"
Spike lets out a small chuckle, "I know! Its sort of like what Open Words said," pointing around with the scroll, "'you get a crown, you get a crown, everybody gets a crown!'"
Next to the duo, in a crystal cell Rosy starts cursing and hammering at bars that shimmer with the Tree of Harmony's defense spell. The whole situation would get worse if she sees a hedgehog or blue in general. As Manic and Spike leave her diner and ran up the steps, to relay the message to Twilight, a small shadow appears in the Rascal's cell. It engulfs Rosy in its darkness, leaving an empty cell in a silent dungeon...
In the home of Sonic the hedgehog, moved to the spot Golden Oaks used to reside...
Tails went to work in the new basement lab, making repairs to Classic Sonic's radio. Manic and Sonia on the other hand, were next door doing some music experiments with a Vynal Scratch and Octavia. Sonic was lounging on the couch, wrapping his arm in sports tape when all Dark Gaia's realm broke lose.
At the door Twilight kept knocking, trying to get someone to open the door as Rainbow Dash slammed through the window, landing on her hooves. "Sonic! The pink wacko is gone! Your friend's devise said she was your friend and that means, if she harms a pony: it is your responsibility!"
The room was silent, not even the famous DJ PON3 next door made a single sound. Twilight let herself in, seeing that it was pointless to wait now that Rainbow made a second door. Sonic took a deep breath, holding up a fist, "One: She is not my friend, but an enemy with the same DNA," he had one finger out about to be two, "Second: How did she get out?"
Twilight took a step closer, "We don't know. When you left, we believed she hammered the energy out of herself or had the sanity to know when to stop."
Tails and other Sonic stood in the doorway, "Doubt it."
Sonic then continued, "Three: Can you use a door next time? Or is it because I beat you?"
Twilight face-palmed (face-hooved?) with a groan, "I tried ever since I arrived in town from day one. She even goes through the windows of my supposed "well fortified" castle." Her head shot up, "Don't change the subject, this is serious!"
Rainbow crossed her hooves while hovering, "Only because you cheated with that flying skateboard and weird transformations!" Twilight without warning took out a notepad and recorded the conversation as Dash continued, "Where did you get the gear and how did you do that?!"
"I own hoverboards, the one I used, wind powered and solar/electric." He pointed at the corner of the room with a board collection. He direction Rainbow's attention towards the Everfree as they looked out the not broken window. "There are little aliens called Wisps that are made of energy or in our current case, their own type of magic. That magic in contact with someone trusted to not abuse that power can transform for a limited time. If you use too much they either die or become corrupt. They seem to be drawn to the forest."
Tails ushered Twilight into his lab, probably to swap notes and stories before she gains a migraine or whatever. Little Sonic grabs the friend tracker off the kitchen table, turning it on. Around his blue dot and friend's green dots were pink dots (meaning ponies) and two yellow dots (meaning petrified friends). Maybe waking one up wont hurt... hopefully.
Not worth it. Sonic woke them both and all he got was a talking sword with a metal glove (magic glove that fits all sizes) and a yellow pegasus, that won't stop mommying him.
"Knave! I demand you name at once!" "Does he even have a name?" "He must have one! He looks intelligent enough, so he must have one! I shall call him Knave for the time being." "Where are you going? Are you lost?"
Boy, did I hit the friend jackpot! Should I blame Archie, Chip, or Celestia? I think I'll blame the one who wont smite me in an instant.
"I like that name. Knave." "Well... um... I'm not so sure-" "Nonsense! I bet he's taking me to the nearest blacksmith or maybe a wise seer!"
Yeah, like that one seer that said I would see my mom again or that I would die with my siblings. Never. Again. As I'm passing the market place a second time today, ponies are backing up. A few whispering about 'slavery laws in Ponyville' and cowering a bit. According to a mare at our welcome party, last night, a hooded zebra or a rabbit herd will scare the town folk into hiding. I'm surprised nobody has panicked so far.
I opened the door to the hut to find an argument going on. I pointed to the sword and tried to give my best "shut them up" signal. He huffed, "Why should I silence them? You're nothing, but a-"
Butterfly butt whispered something in the sword's... ear? How does this thing even hear? Anyway he rose my right arm with the blade pointed downward. "THE KNAVE HEDGEHOG REQUESTS SILENCE, IMMEDIATELY!"
The room was once again silent, but there was no tension in the air.
Twilight looked to me with a slack jaw, "Di- Did younger Sonic use a t- the Royal Canterlot Voice?!"
I shook my head, pointing to the sword who continued, "Sorry about that, the young knave requested silence immediately."
Bigger me looked over to the sword with a smirk, "And when have you ever listened to knaves Caliburn?"
"Since I don't want the yellow Dovakiin behind us to leave me in a rock, my King." the yellow pony blushed before hiding in her long pink mane as Twilight and Rainbow Dash slack jawed at her.
Rainbow looked to Caliburn, "Dovakiin? As in 'the Dragon Born'?"
"Well, yes, and I'm not taking a chance to see if she is one!" he grimaced, probably having bad memories or something. "Anyway- Hey, its that guy from the forge!" the blade shifted in my grasp to point at Tails.
Everyone looked to Tails, looking just as confused as them, except for older Sonic. "Now you know how I feel. By the way, what's the last thing you remember?"
Caliburn thought hard for a bit, "If memory serves me right. While waiting for your return, Lancelot brought me a wizard who requested an audience. With you gone, I was placed as your co-ruler so it wasn't new that a Knave, Squire, or that of a simple peasant would want a word with me. I even had to sound a 'royal we' in their presents. I digress, forgive me. The wizard called himself Starswirl, the true Merlin."
Twilight's ear twitched and her interest increased. "You mean Starswirl the Bearded was there?!"
"Well, if you are inquiring whether he has facial hair- yes. He was a strange humanoid horse with speech and magic beyond recognition that came from a horn and both his hands. He wore a blue robe with a matching hat with bells and indeed, has a long beard. So he was bearded. He became my wielder for a while and he embedded runes on me so that the gauntlet you wore to hold me will appear to fit all sizes and allow you flight, truly making you the knight of the wind. The rest of these runes, I still have yet to use."
Sonic did his usual thumbs up, "Sweet! Oh, yeah! Introductions!"
"They have the sword... That isn't very good. Is it nephew?" A man in his metal throne of his dark room asked, his red eyes glowing.
"N- No sir." the small, weak man's gulp echoed through the lair, "Orbot! Cubot! Where is the master's lunch?!"
Orbot rolls in with a depressed look on him, "I though you told Decoe and Bocoe to do that!"
Bocoe follows behind, "Its actually Scratch and Grounder-"
"I don't care which duo does it nor do I care which Robotnic or Eggman commands you," the big man with the gritty voice with authority shit-in-pants worthy, petting his metallic crow. "I will melt you all into scrap until I have a robot servant who I can give a damn about! Snively!"
The little man turns to his uncle, "Y-Yes sir?"
"Call the council. I want to have a word with them."
"Y-Yes uncle!! You fat bas-"
"What was that?"
"C-calling the council s-sir!!"
From above a little black bot with a box TV and a jetpack enters the room, its shrill voice so much higher than Snively's, enters the room. "Message from Dr. Robotnic in your near future... again. He requests either the return of his minions or a spot in the council!"
"Bokkun, you go tell that worthless bastard to man up and stop being so inferior!" Bokkun leaves as Robotnic let out a groan. "How did I become that fool?"
Its a crisp, cold night and the other are almost ready for... What did they say they were doing? Meh. Hi, my name is-
"Sonata, how many times do I have to tell you?" Donut Joe asked from behind the counter, crossing his arms.
"Tell me, what?" I asked, again, forgetting what he's always instructed me.
"We don't serve Tacos!" He points to the door, "But my cousin Taco Juan does. And if you call it a Toca in front of him... wear a helmet."
"Okie dokie, sir!" I left the Krispy Kreme, looked both way like Adagio told me to, walk when there's no cars around or else Aria will slap me again at home. I arrive at the Taco Bell and looked back to Joe, who made a "shoo shoo"... um thing with his hands, you know? How they move in a... Where's Adagio when I... um... need her? Yes, Need! Maybe I don't need her.
Inside the place a heavenly aroma meets my... not snout. Take that, Adagio! Also there is a long line on people so I just stood behind the cute couple. There was a pink haired girl hugging on this cool guy with a guitar box-thingy, with spiked blue hair, and a black jacket. He didn't seem to like the girl... brother and sister? Maybe?
The pink haired girl looked up to him, "So Sonic, what're we getting?"
"Lady, my name is Flash Sentry. And I'm getting Doritos Locos Tacos and since you're staying with me, against my will, would you like something?"
"I don't care Soniku! "
Meanwhile in Equestria, both Sonics awoke from their sleep with a terrible sensation. Older Sonic looked to little Sonic, "For some reason, I think somebody somewhere has found Amy. And she might have dropped her contacts..."
The other Sonic tilted his head and shrugged, rubbing his belly. Big Sonic let out a muffled chuckle, "I guess you don't have the Chaos, Sonic, and Amy senses yet. One day you will, and it may suck. I wont spoil it. Enjoy your snack, I'm going back to bed."
I'm almost here! Wait, Adagio?
"Welcome to Taco... hell. Sonata, what're you doing here? And where is Aria?"
I took a step back, out of her pain range. "Aria took her usual noon nap and I wanted to go outside... I was also hungry, but that snack bar place has been closed for months so I came here for a Taco!"
"Why don't you just sing? I mean seriously, I work here and sing for this job with raise so that we don't spend money on trivial things..." Oh no, she's gritting her teeth. "Now what is your order or should I take this like your usual screw ups and show you out?"
"Adagio, what is the hold up?!" a man in an odd accent asked.
"Sorry Mr. Juan, I'll get right to it!" Adagio requested the money, "I put you up for a nice taco. Have a nice day."
Pinkie's butt had a weird tickling sensation as she walked Boulder and Gummy. "There's a meenie nearby..."
A blue girl in a purple hood smacked the doors with a bag in hand, a taco in the other with a slight grin. "I don't care about weird door physics... but it was still worth it!"
Pinkie recognized the look. It was the look of a person who just found their favorite food. The girl slid down the door, grin still on her face. Next to me, a purple fat guy with a frog looked over to his pet in his hands, "What's wrong with her Froggie?" The frog responded with a hop, starting the big guy to chase it.
I looked down to Gummy, "You wouldn't leave me... would you?"
"nhnnn... What is it Caliburn?" Sonic asked waking as he noticed to bewildered weapon. It has taken a week for everyone to process alternate identities, timeline displacement, and the fact that they live in a time filled with magic ponies.
Sonic jumped out of his haze when the sword spoke up again, "A green flame was forced out of my mouth and formed a scroll! That is not normal, sire!"
"Well, Twilight's dragon can do that... Maybe that Starswirl guy made a rune like that? He is a legendary historical figure of many magical feats here."
"I hope that's not the case, my lord!" Caliburn said, turning away. "Anyway, it feels so important that it left my mouth. Might be urgent."
Sonic opened the scroll.
Dear King Sonic, My former student Twilight has mentioned you in her recent letters and she mentioned you unleashing a crazed pink hedgehog with a hammer and having a sword. Including these "Chaos Emeralds" don't sit well with me. I promise you, if you bring any harm to my ponies yourself: I will hunt you down, turn you to stone and send you to the moon to prevent you from continuing that harm. Have a nice day and watch yourself. Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria and goddess of the Sun.
As soon as I finished reading, Caliburn and Tails reentered my room with another scroll. "Sire! I don't like this feeling!"
"Don't worry Caliburn, either we'll figure an alternate mailing system or you'll get used to it." Tails said, trying to calm the angry butter knife in his grasp. They hand me the scroll as I read aloud:
Sonic, Can you and your friends come over quick? I need to show you something. Bring the friend tracker and maybe Caliburn. Princess Twilight Sparkle, princess of friendship.
Without much word between us, both mes got ready in ten seconds flat and took the crew with us.
In the foyer of Friendship Castle, "Fluttershy? How come you're the only one of us who got petrified?" Rarity asked, followed by a blue, pink, and green blur.
"So not cool, bro!" Manic exclaimed from his position on the floor next to his sister, "I was about to drop a bass!"
Rarity fainted as Fluttershy ran up to the group, "There's more of you?!" The two brushed themselves off as they got up, "You're sooo cute!"
Sonia smirked, "Thank you, likewise."
Manic scowled, "Thank you, though tough is better."
Rarity look up from the ground, "My Celestia, you look horrendous!"
Manic crossed him arms, "That's better..." He looks to his sister, who face palmed and groaned, "What does it mean?"
Before Sonia could respond, Rarity outfit swapped in a black leather jacket with green details and matching shades and his shoes were slightly newer with back in the place of red. The crazy mare looked to Sonia, "What is your style, darling?"
Sonia stepped back, "Um... I actually like the way I look."
"What if I gave you a purple dress and pink boots with a piano design to match your jewelry?"
"Or nah! Sorry, but it seems odd that a fashionista pony exists..." As Sonia stepped away, Rarity stepped toward her, "Please stay back!"
Sonic took a step between them as Caliburn rolled his eyes from his sheath. "That's enough... Ms. Unicorn?"
"Miss Rarity, owner of Carousel Boutique. You look like you could use a-"
Sonic held his hand, "Sonic the Hedgehog. I have a list of titles regarding speed and being royalty, these are my sibs, Prince Manic and Princess Sonia. The little me over there is a prince. I hear you take royalty to a high regard here."
Rarity stood there slack-jawed. Caliburn decided to introduce, "King Sonic the Hedgehog, knight of the wind and a time traveler from the past. I am his blade, Caliburn, known by all as Excalibur. We have business with a Princess Twilight."
Sonic unsheathed Caliburn from his belt to discuss a few things with him. Twilight entered with an old book with a sun on the cover, "I'm glad you came Sonic! You see this book?"
"Yes I do. What's so important about it?"
"In my throne room is a mirror to another world that needs my help. I'm missing an efficient energy generator to force it open, so I was hoping your emerald would help out."
Before Sonic could reply, Tails took out their blue emerald. Said emerald was then noticed by the unicorn on the ground, looking like she might pull a Rouge the Bat on us and take it. Her eyes were huge and pleading. Next to her was a hungry dragon, not figuratively, holding his tongue. She got closer, "Where did you find such a marvelous gem?!"
"A bit of long winded lore from the 'Knight of the Wind', there are seven of these and a big green one. The big one keeps an island in the sky and contains a being of water and chaos. Think of these seven emeralds of power as its babies and my responsibility, you harm them: I will end you before we're all dead." Sonic let his words sink in, "But not to be rude, I just don't want one of these to become a fashion statement. Funny story, the purple one became a giant ring for a rich person."
Rarity takes a step away as we entered the throne room, a purple framed mirror was hooked up to a bronze and copper frame with a red emerald and a spot for the blue. Tails was the first to notice, "When did you get that chaos emerald?!"
Twilight looked to it, "Arrived this morning with the shipment of books. Seems too lucky that we get a magic communicator book and one of your emeralds in one shipment..."
Gathered in the room was a southern pony, Rainbow, Fluttershy the Dovakiin, Rarity, and Pinkie with a huge suit case. "Woo! Va-ca-tion!"
The southern pony walked up to little Sonic, "Well, aren't ya an interestin' varmint."
Sonia stepped between her angry brother, "Please don't call us that, especially my brother here."
"Oh... um... sorry 'bout that. Mah names Apple Jack," her iron grip on Sonic's hand as she shook, "Co-owner of the partially gone Sweet Apple Acres and element of honesty."
After everything was said and done, simultaneously Twilight and Sonic placed the emerald and book into place. The portal started to glow, unknown to Sonic who thought it was busted. He placed both hands on the emerald, "CHAOS! CONTROL!!" He triggered a small worm hole, creating a permanent portal to the human world.
Rarity looked to the mirror then to Sonic, "Isn't that taking it too far?!"
"I don't know what you mean?"
(From here on out, I won't fully repeat Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks. This will work like HISHE with a crossover.)
The group eagerly awaited for their alternate world friend to return as Twilight fell through the mirror statue base. They came together in a group hug, then a worm hole ripped open over the statue's head. From the hole two blue, one pink and green, and yellow humans fell out, two of them donning snowboards as they landed.
The big one high-fived his lookalike with some hype in his voice, "That was awesome, little me!"
Sonia brushed herself off... then proceeded to scream on her knees after looking everyone over. Spike popped out of the mirror, carrying dog treats in his dog paw. He then looked to the screaming human girl, "Is everybody going to do that? I wonder if losing my dog hearing will hinder my dragon hearing..."
A gold microphone on big Sonic's belt groans, "Oh, joy..."
<Fast Forward>
In a decorated gym, the group is enjoying snacks as Twilight starts smack-talking three teens with red gems.
Manic looked away from the punch bowel to the awkward moment, "Tails? Why are they holding hands?"
"I don't know. Maybe those three girls are the enemy and that's their defense strategy."
"Clever girl..."
<Fast Forward>
Today is day one of Canterlot High's battle of the bands. The groups have trained... two egos and an internal conflict turning "the Sonic Rainbooms" into "The Rainbooms" and the return of "Sonic Underground". Sonic Underground vs the Ditzy Can Doos... this will hurt.
Sonia looked to the blonde they would play against, "But that poor girl!"
"She has bad eyes, we have a mute. It will be years before he can speak again and also, saving the world... I guess that's it? Saving this world will create scars. Maybe we can pay them back?"
<Day 2>
Manic summoned his drums, "A muffin? They forfeit for a muffin?"
Sonia nods, "Yeah... Well now we have to go up against a... Bulk "Snowflake" Bisepts." She stole a glance at a pale human lunk with muscles on his muscles holding a small violin that should've been destroyed by his beefy hands.
"I think we can take 'em."
<Fast Forward>
"Watch where you're going!" Flash barked at the broken Twilight.
A pink girl at his arm tried to calm him, "Sonic-"
"Damn it lady! I don't know who you are or why I should care-" Flash was cut off by a tapping on his shoulder and a slap across the face.
With his back hand extended, our hero quiets the slightly shorter orange teen, "Hi, the names his Sonic the Hedgehog and that was my first bitch slap. You can be nice or we can settle this like men, outside."
Midnight in Pinkie Pie's kitchen. Twilight and Sunset just finished a touching conversation when they heard a spraying sound. They looked over to see Little Sonic carrying about nine whipped cream cans and spraying a tenth in his mouth. He closed the fridge and left the kitchen with a shrug.
Sunset looked to Twilight, "Um... Are we sure he should be having all those cans?"
"I'm not sure, to be honest. He's the weird one in the group..."
<Fast Forward. Regain Timeline>
Flash Sentry and Human Modern Sonic ended their fight to be in a forced stalemate. Amy left Flash for Sonic as she glared menacingly at Twilight, challenging her. The groups parted, to return to the semi-finals. Sonic Underground were kicked for the muffin incident and only stayed as a halftime show by the request of the Dazzlings, three sirens that are mind controlling everyone... forgot to mention that.
On stage, the group prepped the halftime show with Tails and Amy at the sound board.
Sonic hyped the crowd with a good ol' greeting, "Hello CHS! 3! 2! 1! GO!!"
The group joined the audience, being immune to the Dazzling's spell. Then the Rainbooms ran onto the stage, singing that song Classic Sonic found on his boom box. It was a disaster. Rarity was being flung around by big red magnets like a rag doll, Fluttershy was dodging stage lights as if it was a weapon. Pinkie shot confetti everywhere, choking Twilight as Rainbow exercised her ego beyond allowed limits. Then Sunset flung herself at Rainbow, gaining love-hate from the students.
Manic gripped his head, "What is Rarity doing?!"
Little Sonic face-palmed as I flung my hands towards the stage, "Seriously?! Is everyone blind to giant red magnets?"
Sonia pulled us to the stage, "We need to stall the mob!"
I decided to ask, "What mob?"
Caliburn groaned his usual annoyance, "Sire, they will want Ms. Shimmer and her new friends executed. Since its illegal now... they will bring pain."
The four of us hopped on stage, beginning our next song. "Tails! Crisis track, stat!" From offstage Tails messed around with some switches, starting the music with a thumbs up.
The people rocked out to our music as the judges discussed the results in another room, returning at the end of our makeshift concert.
Later... The Rainbooms are still in for some reason and they're up against our overlords, the Dazzlings.
<Fast Forward>
We were too busy chasing a Rosy lookalike in town when the night sky turned red. We turned from our chase and followed the sound of poor rock music. What's going on, now?
When we got close, we saw three bat winged girls, pony eared friends, dragon-pony spirits, and decided to add our music to the mix as both Sonics joined with a winged Dash, shredding their guitars.
As our song ended and theirs ending, a giant rainbow engulfed our enemies in a fabulous blaze that broke the siren's rubies, breaking their magic. The trio ran off, not being seen from again.
"Snively?"
"Yes Dr. Eggman?" the weak man-child responded.
Stopping his work, Dr. Eggman looked to his relative, "I feel like we're a bit distant-"
"Sir, I looked at the history. My takeover of the empire followed by my death was inevitable, being a fixed point and all. In honesty, I like this you personally. Though far future Eggman- oh wait. I can only gossip about the past you's."
"I know right? That one me is all 'pingas!' and 'promotion!' The rolling 'R' in Robotnik was completely unnecessary and might've decreased our overall I.Q." He restarted his construction on a robot arm, chuckling all the while, "By the way, what's the status of the Sirens?"
"Sadly, they were too late to be recruit worthy. Their gems were destroyed."
"That's unfortunate. They weren't a serious boon anyhow, the real prize is Metal Sonic. Have we located him, yet?"
"No. But we did secure a line with Scourge the Hedgehog and found a Shadow."
"Sweet. I'd like to call far past Robotnic and see if he can send some SWATbots up here."
Snivley smirked, "Will do, boss."
Three low metallic beeps follower by a high beep sounded, Snively screamed in his terror as multiple screens displayed the council. The leader of the group being the terrified man's Robotnik "Big Mouth". Others there, a round Robotnik with all of his limbs and started the glasses trend "Beach Ball". There's an Eggman wearing a red suit with a yellow flap, minus his gauntlet "Hard Boiled" the one serving jail time.
"Ah, hello Fuhrer Big Mouth! How's the weather?" our Eggman bowed.
"Fuhrer? Yes..." Big Mouth gave a pleased look, "That is good, Loki. Back to business, I'm about to bomb Knothole Village, Yea or Nay?"
Beach Ball messed with his screen, "Repeat that, sir. You said Knothole, right?"
Big Mouth frowned, smashing the arm on his chair as he rose, "Do you have a problem, Dr. Beach Ball?" Dude, nobody can make beach ball sound menacing. Not even to Snivley, hiding under a work bench.
Hard Boiled rose from his rusty bench, "Hey fat ass, look outside! Nobody has their usual outside. Mine is just a cage in a hive of Changelings, a hive of bug drones that shape shift."
"Actually, with the displacement of time in this world, the planet has grown and contain landmark with myself being in one. I've located Knothole and Hard Boiled..." He sat back in his seat, "I could destroy either one... or two. Don't force the hand of judgement, fat ass."
Loki noticed a phone ring and answered, looking to a screen. Dr. Eggman Nega. "Dr. Eggman, its Nega. My dimension seems to be merging with yours, forcefully. I also heard you made a council of you's willing to rule the world, is it not?"
Big Mouth didn't look to pleased, "Loki? Who is that?"
Nega let out a hearty laugh, "Loki? Seriously? Also I'd like to join, I'm guessing your leader is the us with the giant mouth? That guy could probably eat Sonic let alone, hit him with a projectile!"
"I will not repeat myself, again. Loki, who are you talking to?"
Loki remade eye contact with his Fuhrer, "Dr. Eggman Nega is a me from an alternate dimension. He is requesting a spot at our round table."
Nega had a laugh that left him, again, "Who told you that I'm from an alternate dimension? That's rich!"
Loki look to Nega's screen, "You did genius."
Nega caught his breath, "200 years, your future... Give or take. I out lived Sonic's youth and killed him and his wife and kids, other family and friends to make sure the job was done. Ironically I wasn't killing the right people, because some Pyro Cat and a Telekinetic White Hedgehog is beating me."
On Big Mouth's screen, Bokkun arrives with a message. "Dr. Robotnik, we have a request from a disturbing looking Dr. Eggman." The TV displayed a realistic version of them. "And a fabulous Dr. Eggman." "The last one is a biker."
"Bokkun accept them and tell the fruit loop that he'll be our spokesman for the ponies," Big Mouths reclines into the shadows. His glare returns to the screens, "How are we on Chaos Emeralds and World Rings?"
Beach Ball read a list, "We have three Chaos Emeralds out of seven. Hard Boiled found the green envy World Ring, explaining the fat ass comment. I have yellow and my joy has increased to a slight lack of fear and owning a garden. I sent Rouge out to grab the cyan one... she hasn't returned in days."
Nega joined the group, laughing his ass off, "She's probably abusing it! I do miss her, though."
Loki looked to Snively, "I gave our nephew the blue one, his hope not rising... but he is constantly praying."
Beach Ball returned to reading, "Three, possibly four, out of the seven confirmed."
Nega tapped his screen, "Don't forget, I have six of my seven Sol Emeralds... By the way, what's the plan?"
Beach Ball waved his hand in a circle motion, "Oh, we're going to create a genesis wave. Nothing much."
"Nothing much? That's a timeline reset!"
"And part of this world has no time. We plan to revive the concept of time here, and kill Princess Celestia in the process."
Loki let out a soft chuckle, "Or Roboticise her. She could actually be a great robot, if you think about it. Solar power! No power rings!"
Nega clears his throat to grab attention, "Yeah, give the goddess of the sun an indestructible robot body and let's hope she doesn't regain free will. Now if we were to do that: we target Luna. She is faster, smaller, and has about- what?- two minds fighting each other?"
Hard Boiled tapped his screen, "I like you already, Nega!"
"Wish I could say the same to you."
"Why's that?" Hard Boiled got up at the camera's lens. "Why am I hated?"
"Not hated, I can assure you! But, you've gone soft. I mean, c'mon! Who calls their enemy to invite them to an ambush? It's like Loki calling his Sonic, 'Yo buddy! I'm going to release a dark being and crack to planet open like an egg! Bring your emeralds, it'll be a blast!' Hell nah! Plus, you're in a jail cell. I pretty much replaced you, but I request we keep you... Prisons always did increase my I.Q. somehow."
Hard Boiled. Those guys... Nega especially. But how can I ruin him? Time will turn me into that fat lard with the epic suit...
A distorted voice speaks from behind me, "Who was that, love?"
I turn my head from Bokkun's extra TV, to see a black humanoid insect lady with a horn and wings, holes on her limbs, horn, and hair. Ever since my cell materialized in her hive she kept me as her crush/slave, doing her best to get me to like her. She even attempted to upgrade Metal Sonic, now whenever he attempts to talk seven minutes of random music will play resulting in a remix.
Speak of the devil. Metal also seems to have intelligence equivalent to Orbot, resulting in me staying behind bars as he spies or lounges around. His shell is reinforced with changeling magic giving him a green-blue color to him and he sprout green spiked wings. Hopefully he doesn't become like his older model or Neo Metal Sonic, yeesh that was the worst month of my life... which is the best day of my life, because Loki has to be such a showoff.
"Chryssy? Are you here to let me out?" I asked hopefully, grasping the bars of my cell.
"Not a chance, Eggy!" She said. I noticed her maid outfit and shrugged it off, sitting down I gained frown from her. "Seriously? That was only a shot!"
Eggman got up, pacing and rubbing the sides of his head, "Oh my Archie, I really am soft..."
Chrysalis gave a sigh, "Who is this Archie guy you keep talking about? Archie damn it! Oh my Archie! Archie hates me! Who is he?"
Hard Boiled starts his boring workout routine, "You might want to sit." She pulls up a smaller version of her throne and while Metal Sonic lied on the top of the cell. "I'm a bit rusty on the details. It was told that a celestrial being before your Fausticorn-thing became a god through a domino effects, leading up to creating the world and its inhabitants. His name was Sega Archie, the Dreamcaster."
"And you think you're not in his favor?"
"I do not think, I know! He's one those gods that either treats his work like a game or a dramatic story." He then starts some complex yoga poises while bones popped, "So do you know if your god likes you?"
"[]Nope. She loves us. That's why we're creepy bug ponies that can only consume love! Its not as if my whole hive is starving![/] What do you think?"
Eggman stops his stretching and grabs the iron bars, "You can consume love? That's fantastic! How does it work?"
Her head jumps up from her hands, "You really aren't from around here. Um... I assume, its magic? There IS love magic..."
Music starts blaring then a scratch, broken voice surface over the music, "sIR ThEse BuGZ hAv a HIVmind. thEY WoUld maKe A LOYal aRMY. nEEd LuvVvv? tHEre'S A PinKk heDgEhoG iNnN TtOooWnn." He continues to strain his voice, "SHeeEe iz FoOLiShlY In lovE WId sANac. if we CanN AVOid hER hamMEr... MEr... MEr..." He swan dives to the ground and smashed his head, "You can absorb her love FOr tHe BLuE OnNnE."
"Well, that's actually a good plan," he paused. "Let's hope history doesn't repeat itself."
Chrisalis tilts her head, "Foolishly in love? How so?"
"Ifff A HEdGEhoG, No MAtTeRrr WHaT cOlOR, is WIThin a MiIiILE oF heR She wIlL asSuME Its HiM." Discord's laugh escapes from the song he plays as he continued, "thAT GirL nEEDZ ConTActZ. I wILl noT fail you, master... Oh, and I would let you OUT iF tHIs qUEEnNN DidD NNnoTtT OutRaNK yOU." He flew off, leaving the two alone.
Eggman lied on his bench and sighed, "Hey, let's make a bet."
"If it involves you leaving... no."
"You suck. I hope Archie burns you issues..."
[CONNECTING]... .. ... . ... ..... .....[SUCCESS] Once my connection is established, somebody should answer. I only have a minute and it cant be in vain, "Sally?"
A sweet voice responded on the scratchy connection, "Nichole? Thank Faust, you're okay-"
"I don't have time! What I do have is important information."
I heard a screech, either from the connection or a chair. "What is it, Nichole?"
"Every Eggman and Robitnik are contacting each other for some reason, world rings are involved, the changelings might be a problem, and Sonic has returned."
"Sonic is priority one. Where is he?"
"He is in the small town of Ponyville. The location of said town is unknown."
"I know where it is. Well, crap. Its too far away. Do you know if we can send him a message?"
"I don't know. Bye Sally."
[CONNECTION LOST]
Well, this will be awhile. I access the eyes, my initial shock gone as I remember I cant die... wait. Never mind, the point is: Metal Sonic is flying over a desert.
"Metal... are you sure you want to do this?"
A smooth sounding male voice responds, "Lord Eggman bids me to do this Nicky... I must do it."
"He also bids you to kill Sonic's friends, but I'm still here."
"What he doesn't know wont hurt him... or me, mostly." We make a dive under the tree line of a jungle, Metal showing off his flying skills. "Besides, you render my programming dull instead of null. You gave me my free will... my wings. Without you and discovering friendship magic I would be grounded... I want to be free."
"Then come with me to New Knothole!" I placed my holographic body next to him, flying with him. I'm a Lynx, but my purple dress is replaced by an identical blue one, my black details replaced with green to match my feathery green wings. I look like this because of my stay with Metal Sonic... feels a bit forced. I found myself flying ahead as his avatar appears next to me, looking like a slightly altered Sonic. Can you guess what's different?
"I can't! I cant leave him just yet. He's my father and... he hasn't deserved my rebellion... not now." Our "bodies" return to Metal's real body, flying in silence.
Its morning in the town of Ponyville! Well, it would be if somebody in the royal garden didn't find Lancelot and Jet. I'd rather get a running start then take the train like mini me and the others. I would've had time for cereal, but no- Wait, was that Mighty back there? Probably not. Where was I?
Oh yeah. Lancelot. Everybody remembers Shadow, right? I wouldn't either for how old he is. He looks like me, but with tan skin and black quills with red highlights. Heh. And he calls me a faker, he might be wearing a wig. Anyway, imagine him in some bad ass armor. Now turn the clock back to medieval times and you get Lancelot.
Jet is a green Hawk on a hover board with an ancient ring on his wrist, giving him gravity powers. He part of that race, called the Babylon Rougues and claims to be the "Legendary Wind Master". Get ready, you're about to witness Knight of the Wind vs Legendary Wind Master! Prepare your bits and gold rings, I'm betting my win!
"My lord, I must inform you that I am ready for battle." Caliburn then followed the statement with little pause before, "Though, on the contrary, diplomacy comes first!"
I was too focused on Caliburn to see a frozen body trip me. From the ground, the statue woke up and standing before us with his leg out and crossed arms was non other than Silver the future Hedgehog... or is it past? I mean Equestria is the far future, farther than Silver's time.
Silver is a white hedgehog with telekinesis and quills styled to look like a star, but instead it looks like pot. There's a rumor circling that he grows the stuff, but I doubt you can plant anything on a burning planet... No! No! Get that thought out, Sonic!
Caliburn jumped in his sheath, "Oh my god, its Sir Galahad!"
Silver smirked, "Nah man. He's my ancestor! Anyway, back to the Iblis Trigger..."
"Oh, Archie, not this again!" Sonic's eyes suddenly widened, "How do I even remember that adventure?!"
"You cant deny it," he gave Sonic a glare. "Its no use!"
"Ah! Ah! He said it! Oh, wait," I noticed my feet levitating off the ground as he tossed my into an oncoming train, I got up to see the gang looking out the window. Deus Ex Machina, anyone? Amy ran over to check on me, noticing no glass in me... nor was there a shard on the ground, but the window is still broken. I looked up from my spot, "Hey guys! If you remember Silver... he's here."
From above a voice called to Sonic, "You cant hide forever! Its no use!"
Pinkie held her head in her hooves, "Dude, we get the reference! Stop drilling that, Luna awful, game into our heads!!!"
Before my family could ask, everypony on the train responded in near perfect unison, "It's Pinkie Pie, don't question it." Well, sounds like she gets around. Silver flew through the window I destroyed, landing at my feet as civilians ran to other train cars. Twilight's horn was ingulfed in a blue aura as Silver's hands had a pink aura covering them.
Silver shook his hands, "Let me go!"
Twilight smirked, "I doubt you would do the same, but if either of us tried to escape..."
"Its no use..."
Twilight clapped her hooves together, "Exactly! Now talk this out or else non of us can use our magic."
"What magic?"
A little later. When we arrived in the garden Jet held Lancelot in the air. In his shrill bird voice he said, "It no use trying to break free Sir Lancelot or whatever you call yourself!"
"Dang it Jet! We just stopped Silver from saying that!" Pinkie complained with crossed hooves and a pout.
Apple Jack and Fluttershy slowly closed in on the bird with the farmer replying, "Don't question how she knows your name."
"Why? Because I read Celestia's letter?" Pinkie asked innocently. "Wait, how does she know their names? Plot holes... Also where's Amy?"
AJ lifted her hoof to her face. Rainbow and the Hedgehogs (OMG! Band name!) got in a fighting stance with Caliburn in hand and Silver on their side. Twilight readied her magic as gems and rocks surrounded Rarity and the Little Rex staring at her... Little Rex?
"OMG its one of Dark Gaia's minions!" Pinkie exclaimed as Caliburn impaled the dark creature. Following the appearance of that Rex, an army of Little Rexes and the bigger and stronger Red Rexes leaped from a cloud of dark magic. From above Tails looked at both the army and a familiar fighter jet in the distance. Is that the X Tornado?! I may hate that world, but not that plane.
As Sonic homed and stabbed the minions, he had air for small talk, "How are these guys even here? Its day time and the emeralds have power!"
Pinkie was stuffing a few Rexs in her party canon, "The author's explanation is dark magic and 'a no robots yet rule'. Also its because they're cool."
"If you're talking about Sega Archie, then we're slightly screwed over." Sonic commented, tornado slashing the Rexes tossed by the telekinetics and Jet's gravity ring.
"No. I mean Jake Witt!" she replied, stuffing a Rex Sir Lancelot was chasing into her canon.
"Who?" Sonic asked, his words hurting a boy in an alien world.
Pinkie tilted her head with a frown, "Who's who?"
Caliburn piped up from his third Rex beheading, "No questions, sire!" Just he said that, Pink's canon fired a beam of energy, far too big for the canon. When most of the Rex minions died, Nightmares appeared (not the bad dream kind) with one getting a free punch at Apple Jack and Little Sonic. The ground shook as Manic opened the ground below their feet, causing the minions to fall into the abyss. Twilight flew over to the dark magic cloud and destroyed it, revealing Luna within, gasping for air.
As the ground closed Luna fell to the ground and had to be held up, "I thank thee..." she looked around, noting more than just ponies were here. There were antro Hedgehogs, knight hedgehog, fox, and bird with colors that could be odd, if she wasn't used to the modern pony color pallet.
Twilight took out a clipboard, "OK everyone! Roll call!"
Manic kicked a patch of grass, "Don't do it! I'm already hurting grass!"
"Manic, Sonia, Sonic 1 raise your hand. Good. Sonic 2 and Caliburn, Tails -who has a huge metal thing with metal legs- anyway," as she called names by chronological order as we responded, she stopped to add three names to the list, "Back to business. Amy! Amy! Amy?"
Pinkie shrugged, "I didn't see bestie number 50143 get off the train with us." She then started flapping her front legs, "I saw a shiny Sonic with green wings, though! He looked nice and gave me a sugar cube!"
Apple Jack looked to her cousin, "Are ya serious?!"
"Darling, out of all the stories we've heard last night... um... are you sure that wasn't-"
"Pinkie Pie! You just let one of our enemies take Amy!"
[That was easier than I thought!] Metal bleeped. Amy wouldn't awaken nor understand our language, even if she tried. Bleeping was the only way I could talk to Nichole without spies listening in.
[Look, we promised the pony that we would return her. How long would it take?]
[Meh. About a month give or take.]
[Give or take?] Nichole parroted, almost setting off a car alarm sound.
[She gives her love to the bugs before I take her home in a month. Or else I will serve Sonic for how long I delay.]
Its been two days since Amy was kidnapped. We finally got to meet the princesses, they sent out their rookie guards with their usual rescue missions to find -my friend that's a girl and we are totally not a couple. (Especially since she is the red dress Amy and not the pink suit one that isn't hugging stranger hedgehogs nor stalks me at night.)
Ever since I met Celestia these two figures keep following me. They're paper white like the other except... they have paint on them. I have this red fat guy in blue overalls and a green-clad elf boy following me, which is odd, because normal statues are time-locked with the souls of their captives in a black limbo, meaning they can't move like these two! They don't just follow me. An orange robot is following Manic, a pink princess is following Sonia, and we can tell something is following mini me, but he wont tell.
Tonight, seeing as I woke up at midnight to see the happy red guy next to my friggin' face, I thought enough was enough. Its day three and every-not-pony is on edge. Silver has been followed by some little kid with an evil vibe to him as Sir Lancelot woke his pursuers.
The later got down on one knee, "My king, I have awoken a "Mew Two" who awoke a "Lucario". They're requesting we release their allies so that their king may challenge to a "Smash Brother Tournament"... a game of sorts."
"Is there a meeting place where I can talk to them?"
"No, my lord. The only foe who wishes audience is a... Mario Jumpman? I'm unsure if we should follow their request."
Sonic held up his hand, "Rise. May I remind you that you don't have to kneel or anything similar. Caliburn doesn't do that."
He rose to his feet, "But Sir Caliburn-"
"Has no knees," Sonic finished with a smirk. "We will see what Mario wants, be done with it, then he'll leave us alone... hopefully. The plan might have holes."
"Of course, sire. Shall I be your champion or brother in arms?"
I drew out my sleeping sword and held it high, "The second one."
"I shall defeat thee in your name and as the ultimate knight, besides my King!" he exclaimed, repeating my motion with our blades making an 'X' above our heads. We were lifted off the ground as Jet hovered by.
"That's nice Lance, but I'm not a knight," he said casually drifting by on his board.
"Sire, if Jet abuse his power then can we feast?"
Little Sonic stoped by, sharing a look with his older self, "Why would we feast?"
"The lack of fall will give us a plump, feast-worthy bird by Autum." Mini me laughed at that while my brain was trying to wrap around his words.
A little later we made an agreement and released only Mario. Unlike the normal release, his statue was covered in a colored mist as his whole body, in no order, starts moving while soaking in the color, "Hello Sonic, remember me?" he gave a response of 'no', gaining a bit of anger from the Italian Plumber. "Oh, come on! Its-a me, Mario!"
Lancelot pushed Mario against the nearest wall, "The king said nay. Thou shalt not drive us to anger." Mario's response to his sudden protectiveness came in the form of a fireball setting my knight on fire. The fat guy then proceeded to release his friends, joined by the two psychics from earlier.
"Sonic the Hedgehog, I will-a not be delayed another year! You forgot-a who I am and I will-a not-a allow it!"
"Dude, we get it! You're Italian and you have a grudge on a look-a-like!" He twirled Caliburn and caught him, "It's happened before with a guy named Mega Man. Anyway, if you came so far just to fight me, then bring it!" Mario and thin mint Mario took out hammers as Tails donned a silver arm cannon.
Before anything happened, Sonia stood up and exclaimed, "Hey, take this outside! I don't want a destroyed home, because of a fight."
Rainbow Dash was enjoying her nap in her cloud when a foul smell reached her snout. Smoke. Jumping awake, she found her tail set ablaze with a rainbow fire. It was cool, beautiful, and roasting her buns leaving her the choice to put out the fire. A few fire balls were shot around her, alarming the weather pony.
Down below Silver was tossing rocks and carriages at a purple, white thing that blocked and countered his attacks. Jet at a black and blue were having a fist fight with a few cheap shots and biting. A pink ball was trying to eat Fluttershy as Tails hid behind a boulder, avoiding gunshots from a fox and blue bird as an orange and red thing charged a magic blast in its arm.
Rainbow dived down, colliding with the orange, metal thing with a green visor. Behind her, a gorilla and AJ were squaring off with each other as Manic and Sonia teamed up against a yellow animal with electricity magic. The orange robot grabbed Rainbow by her singed tail, tossing her near a sword fight between a thing wearing a pointy green hat and Sir Lancelot.
Pinkie Pie tried to help her friends, but another hairless Sonic-like creature wearing a white dress became a ninja, striking Pinkie with a squeaking noise. A radish tripped Dash's take off run, causing the robot to gain the upper hoof. Said radish came from their enemies' pink princess, who is currently blocking and countering Rarity's gems with the veggie and creepy umbrella.
Nearby, both Sonics teamed up against a duo of brothers with hammers. When Little Sonic would roll at one of them he was greeted with a variety of items from hammers, a turtle shell (Tank?!), or fire and he would either take the hit, dodge and bounce off a head or two, or counter as Big Sonic assisted him. He would fly in the air, rolled up in a ball with his sword in a position that would meet with the red one's hammer, causing sparks to fly then returned with a swipe that almost caught the person off guard.
"You remember-a Mega Man, but not-a me?!"
"Dude, just shut up!"
"We were in two Olympics together and we raced cars! Our companies even made-a fun of each-a other before your system failed! I own-a you."
Little Sonic tossed Luigi over his head, "Mario! Is this fighting necessary?!" Mario looked over his shoulder at his speaking brother, "This is a terrible first impression of us! And I don't think it's the Sonic we know."
"How-a is it a-not him?"
"Has he even heard of Nintendo?"
Both Sonics took this advantage to knock Mario off his feet as the Plummer parried the blow aimed at him. Sonic looked to Luigi was a calm tone of voice, "Nope. But that sounds interesting."
Luigi responded while his brother struggled with the blue rodent, "Does Sega sound familiar?"
"We have a god named Sega Archie. Why?"
Flutter Kirby gave Samus a stare that removed the armor, revealing Solid Snake who would've attacked if he didn't notice everyone staring at him then Sonic then back at him.
Mario stopped his struggling and started tapping his finger on the ground, "Oh, you're that Sonic. Well, this-a sucks."
Peach and Shiek walks up to the group with Fox beginning to speak, "Isn't anybody confused as to why Snake is here and wearing Samus' armor?!"
The gritty voice of the muscular spy known as Snake smirked, replying, "I'm not in Smash this year and Samus wasn't in her suit sooo-" He let the sentence end in the air as he now wears a frown, "She didn't want to come here anyway!"
Kirby shot a star, reverting to his normal self, and from that star a scared butter pony sat, curled up in a ball of fear. Captain Falcon parked his Ganondorf drawn carriage, "Did I miss the fight?" Mario makes a few hand gestures, signaling his party. "Got it, boss! Hey, can there also be another F-Zero game or may be Star Fox?"
Mario shook his head, "No. Pokemon and-a Hyrule Warriors are the-a thing now." Cap shrugged as he tossed a top at Kirby, who then wore a top hat and started spinning. When the big pink top tipped over-
I woke up in a cold sweat with little me breathing as hard as me. "You had a bad dream, too?"
From next to Sonic in his bed Rainbow Dash replied, "That wasn't a dream." If the shock of a mare in his bed didn't shock him, Lancelot's shout would.
"The council chat is open, sir." Julian reports. As the chat room connects King and Racer ( Sonic Riders ) are fighting over who is the real Eggman out of the two and moaning could be heard behind a neutral faced Loki ( Sonic games ) as Beach Ball ( original game Robotnic ) and Orbot play chess against each other. Real Man ( Sonic '06 ) had a proud stance that faltered as faces turned red.
Hard Boiled joins in time to be the first to ask, "What's Rouge doing?!" From behind him a distorted voice made happy responses to the sound, making everything more awkward. Hard Boiled responds to the voice, "Yeah, eat that up. It will be gone soon." The voice panicked, calling for 'Changelings' to join her in 'feeding'.
Loki place two fingers on the bridge of his nose, sighing, "She won't give us the cyan world ring."
"King, report." Big Mouth ordered through grinding teeth.
"Are you prepared for a long story, boss?" the colorful blonde Eggman said, fixing the crown of his disguise.
"I believe I can delay Sombra's return for this," he reclines in his seat. "It better be worth my time... LOKI, TELL THAT BITCH TO SHUT UP?!"
A week ago, after Sonic and friends left for the train station in the wake of morning. I drove from my hideout to Canterlot Castle by motorcycle, holding my crown as I did so. When I parked my bike at the gate I used my hand mirror to fix my fabulous robes and comb my beautiful hair, placing my crown neatly on my head.
Once I finished a guard pony came up to me with a spear in hoof, "Halt! What is your business here?"
"My, you're a cute creature. I am King Eggman or maybe former king, as of recently my whole kingdom was taken from me. I would very much enjoy meeting the local royalty! If you don't mind?" I used my amazing will to allow tears in my eyes, "Also I have an enemy that is forcing me to talk on their behalf so I may end a war before it starts. They have a civilian in their grasp, claiming she's one of mine."
I was quickly led into the castle by three guards, meeting a blue unicorn with wings. I entered as she got off her throne and a bigger white one with a wavy mane entered the room. I made my attention known with a simple greeting, "Hello! Can you two lead me to the princesses?"
My left guard gave me a look, "That is the princesses, your highness."
I lifted my hand and kneeled, "My apologies, Princess Sun."
The royal stopped her sister's departure, "Princess Celestia, goddess of the Sun and co-ruler of Equestria. This is my sister Luna, goddess of the Moon and co-ruler. Who might we be speaking with?" "Damn you, Tia! We need our rest!"
"King Eggman, ruler of Mobius and fabulous inventor with an IQ of 300." I told them everything I've already told the guards and giving them a warning of Lord Robotnic's empire surviving time travel and giving him an envelope to give to them, requesting a peace treaty consisting of simple rules. We gain more land to rule, nobody fights nor cross each other's border unless allowed to, allowance to find emeralds and magic rings, and the banishment of Sonic the Hedgehog with the release of Cream the Rabbit.
"Sorry sir, but we cannot accept your terms." Celestia responds, looking up from the paper, "He is requesting earned land, banishment from a land that isn't his, and mining of our lands!"
"I don't like it either, but you don't know his power. He has metal creatures called robots. They do not eat," I got real close, "they don't sleep. They won't stop until Robotnic has claimed another royal's head! He has done this time and time again, even after his death. Think about how flesh and blood Robotnic would do to your ponies? No mercy, I tell you!
"They've never been stopped before nor will they start! You think magic will stop him? He has harnessed so many magics, enchanting his army and being a master of black magic." This got their full attention, meaning Luna now cared. "He rose ponies from the dead so that he can change them into robots like he has done forcefully to living griffons and dragons. Only you two would survive his wrath, because he sees you as future robots for him to control!"
They looked to each other with worry in their eyes. Luna took a step towards me, "Tell him this: change your rules or we go to war."
A guard rushed in with a scroll in his magic, "Sorry princesses, you have an urgent letter from the Changelings."
"He actually did it!" I exclaimed. The princesses looked at their hole-filled scroll, reading.
"Did you know about this?!" Luna questioned.
"Hey, I doubted the bugs would be of use to him... Unless. He. Used. Them. For. Robots." My hands fell to my hands, "I've failed!"
"I played those two like a racing game!" King boasted. Big Mouth tapped his finger on his seat grumbling then he sat up.
"Your interesting story actually had something useful in it," he smirked when King's ego shattered a bit. "These changeling you've mentioned, what are they?"
"They're bug ponies with a hive mind that can use magic and disguise themselves into the exact look-a-like of anybody. For all we know Hard Boiled could be one, being stuck in their most famous and known hive under Queen Chrysalis and all. They feed on love, killing their victims from the inside-out." King regained a prideful smirk.
Then Hard Boiled decided to ruin it, "I assure you, I'm not a changeling. Amazing they are, after the adaption of ponies over the years they've grown weak. They starve from the lack of love, actually savoring every ounce of Rouge's... addiction. They're also not so bright as their lack of intelligence is rubbing off their Queen." From behind him, the creatures are trying to attack him. "The roaches can't even fire at point blank, I know because I should be burned by magic by now!" He reclines on his bench, "Though if they were more healthy they would be perfect robot... well, even flesh minions."
Big Mouth frowned, "You wont find love here, though the idea is good. Very good. I want Rouge sent to these creatures-" Hard Boiled Eggman's monitor was ingulfed in a green aura, closing in on a black chitinous face.
"Excuse me, is this conversation about my children in my hive? How about we make this treaty true," Chrysalis brought the screen to her throne. "You give me this Rouge character and whatever is possessing her. I also want weapons and the destruction of enemy hives that get in my way or block common our goals."
Big Mouth smirked, "Well, looks like we might have a deal. But, I require any and all dark magic books in your possession."
Suddenly my theme starts playing from my iPod... I can feel my hand! I move my jaw and start stretching as a twinkling light returns to my vision- Please tell me those tiny horses are not there.
There's a voice next to me that exclaim, "Amy was right, they're real! Ponies!"
Don't look. Don't look. Don't look. I looked. Next to me was... me. Or actually a top heavy lunk that looks similar to me. He looks down at me with a dumb look at me, opening his mouth, "I knew this day would come," WHAT?! "MY OWN SIDEKICK! I will name you Knuckles Jr..." I think I just entered hell. Well, maybe Sega Archie DOES exist-
The guy is lifting me. Off the ground. In a hug. "Let me go!! Drop me now, you dim meat head!"
"Nope." This guy's arms are so strong that they crush the air out of me like a couple of pythons!
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADER FRIEND FINDERS, YAY!!!" The fillies cheered before checking their butts.
The big guy dropped me, "Amy was right, they're real! Ponies!" Oh my Master Emerald, make this stop!
"Well, this is something I wasn't expecting," Sonic commented as the 'cutie mark crusaders friend retrievers' left the hut sad and blank flanked as my Knuckles antagonized his thinner counterpart.
Caliburn levitated up to Sonic's ears whispering, "Whatch your lovers around these two. I still don't trust Gawain..."
It took a few days to get the two caught up... days because of big Knuckles. Then we had to over simplify everything. - Time Eater is eating time. - Thought to be dead sibling were sent here and are now learning new music. - Pony world is the far future. - No idea how the hut got here. - Magic. - My medieval friends are here, too. - Rainbows hurt. - Mirror Portal to a High School. - Pony music is common. - My sword can talk and his name is Caliburn. - No. That's not Shadow. The list goes on from there. Seriously, Spike had to write two full scrolls and explain that he's not "Barney's son" or something like that.
He 'ahhh'ed and his response, "Oh, so we're in the far future. But can you explain the people staring at us?" The lunk one asked.
Pinkie bounced in, "Its the viewers Knuxie!" She then proceeded to twirl so fast the room was engulfed in pink. When everything was back to normal, we were surrounded by a huge army of Deep Knightmares and ten Titans in the middle of town.
I took out Caliburn as big Knuckles chucked thin Knuckles at one of Titans, proceeding to attack the nearest one.
I watched as the toothpick one glided towards the big monster's face. He attached his shovel claws and went to town on its face causing it to try to clobber him with its club. As I slashed through Nightmares, large Knuckle Head punched one of the Titan's wooden clubs into splinters then broke its shin as he dug into its face with the strength of ten piko hammers.
Little me appeared from seemingly nowhere, using his skateboard as a weapon as he bounced and smacked every nearby enemy. Even the harmless Dark Bats that just floated in the air, which I used in chain homing to guide me to a Titan behind the weaker Knuckles. Caliburn met the back of its head as we slid down its back, cutting it open.
I hopped away and twirl slashed at some more small enemies as Jet sped into battle, "A skateboard?! How could I let him beat me?" He Darth Vader choked many of them and the survivors became his projectiles against some Titans.
Sir Lancelot was in his usual morning walking, noticing the fight he rushed into the hut to retrieved his armor and weapons. He landed a few clean cuts with his sacred sword Arondight. The brave ponies watching the fight cheered as he rose his weapon as sped of to stab and slice minions. He looked to the Titan Sonic hopped off of and finished it off, seeing his king leave it.
Tails flew overhead with Twilight riding in the copilot seat and Dash standing on the wing, they swooped down firing at two Titans. He then crushed a third under his plane's mech feet. The Tornado 2 transformed and became a pair of hovering robot fist that smashed some Deep Nightmares, only to freeze in place as a few Dark Masters paralyzed them in ice and lightning magic.
Sir Lancelot spin slashed them, freeing the plane. Rainbow Dash broke her hooves free from the ice and proceeded to kick some enemies as both Knuckles tossed near boulder sized rocks around, more Dark Masters appeared sending flames to the group. Nearby Little Sonic held a red ring, getting enraged by the World Ring he found, he ran into the Everfree Forest, "BURST!"returning as a over powered Red Burst. He flew around burning the enemies in his path... nearly all of them, before returning to normal and punched the living Tartarus out of a surviving Dark Master that dropped his staff in the fire assault.
"He's got a World Ring!" I exclaimed pointing. Lancelot and Caliburn recognized my concern as everyone pretended to know what I was talking about.
Rage... Fire... Yeah, the world must burn. I see that now. Sonia should die. Manic should stay grounded. Robotnik will pay for his crimes with his life... Wait, why am I thinking this stuff?
"I can't believe how easy that was! Besides the beating. And the laser eyes. And attempt at flesh eating." Big Knuckles sat in silence in the hospital room I realized I was in, "Never mind, that sucked."
Other Knuckles leaned on a wall with his arms crossed, "How are you even me?"
"He's waking up!" Dash exclaimed as my family and future/current friends gathered around my bed minus Jet, Lancelot, thin Knuckles, and big me... The tough guy group, I guess. Everyone had an injury in one form or another and Manic was covered in dirt... seems normal on his part. Even those three little fillies was there bowing to the giant pony- I remember her!
"Of course I am Twilight. My messages had been screened so I couldn't send even a letter. I'm serious, I sent you an "A" just to see if it would go through."
"I had nothing to do with it!" Spike responded instantly.
"Thank you, Spike. But, I fear that a new threat besides this time distortion has been spying on us." She said, taking out a plastic card. A hologram of Dr. Robotnik (Note to Readers: Big Mouth).
He begins his message with an echoing, tamed laugh that ends as soon as it starts. The glare from his black, red eyes sent shivers down everyone's spine. Especially Sonic's siblings and the ponies. His voice is cold like a metallic antarctic, as he speaks his robotic arm is stroking the head of a robot crow-chicken thing on his shoulder, "Greeting Princess Celestia. I heard you had problems with my treaty." He lets a tense pause fill the air, "You wont have to worry any longer. I offered peace, now I'm bringing war. If you look for love and mercy, you will not find it within me." His head seemed to know where Boom Sonic was at making the message more real, "Hedgehog. I have all of the Sol Emeralds and five Chaos Emeralds, try to stop me again."
"I will defeat you." Big me responded. A loading bar replaced the fat man. [Live Feed Loading]
This time my everyday Robotnik appears over the card, "What?! That's not him! ... I'm sure of it! ... I don't know, but now we have three Sonics to worry about! ... Don't kill the mail man, sir! ... Wait I'm LIVE? ... Are you sure? !!! Fine! *ahem* In case this reply is LIVE, we have Canterlot surrounded... And by your reaction I am LIVE. Princess Celestia, you have about one hour to surrender."
From my right ear, Nichole replied, [You're not blind, metal! Its an email.]
[Well, get this "email" thing out of the way!] The black box moved towards the top of my left eye, in the form of a message, [Its a message!]
I heard a sigh, [That's what an email is.] I then felt my data being accessed, looking for an explanation, [It seems somebody used me to install this capability, though it isn't Sally. Why give you something I have?]
I shrugged and read the message,
I got my eye on you. - Anon
The box was deleted, [Waste of time-] *bing* A new email formed in its place.
No. I'm not a waste of time. Call me your guardian and warden in one neat package. - Anon
Nichole was the first to ask, [It can understand us?] *bing*
Yes. - Anon
[Who and where are you Anon?!] I shouted, sounding like a blender to outsiders. In the distance I heard a distorted 'shut up' reminding me that I'm in the hive. *bing*
Call me whatever you want, I'm not giving you a true name. As to where: come outside. - Anon
I took about a minute to leave the hive when Anon sent me a map. Las Pegasus? [From the look of things, Anon might be a gambler or just hiding. I can't go in public yet, Nichole!]
[Is that worry I sense?]
[I'm serious! I need to look... Not me.] I waved my gray, clawed hand to remind her who I am.
[Well, I've thought about it. Why not cover yourself with your avatar?] *bing*
Yeah, your world's kind is common here. - Anon
Well, sure. Have something that almost resembles flesh and when my hologram short circuits 'Sonic 5 is alive' or I grab the nearest gun. I'm glad Nichole cant read thoughts.
[I can tell you have negative thoughts, Metal.] Coils. You know, since I don't crap. [Try to think positive!]
[For you, I'll try.] *bing*
Awww. Love you, too sunshine! Move it, I don't have all night! - SAnon
*bing*
* Anon. Not SAnon. Though again, call me whatever you want. - Anon.
I landed near the dam and covered myself with my Avatar. The usual red eyed Sonic knock off with feathery green wings and stripes. I have to hand it to magic changeling goo and a self sustaining core with chaos energy mixing, flying is better. I digress. I have a green suit with a white dress shirt and blue tie that match my shoes. Nichole's Avatar is still stuck in its altered state so she added a wig and sparkling dress. What? I want to look legit in front of this guy and loner will not do.
"Testing. Testing. One. Two. Three." We kept an ear open for music or distortions. Nothing. "We're good."
We flew to nearby alley and walked the streets to Casino night. When we entered, the guy wasn't kidding. Fat pigs passed us with empty pockets, lambs and ponies fought, there was awkward silence between my world's ponies and this world's ponies, and so on. *bing* I lifted up a holographic PDA as if I got the message there.
I'm at the bar. Nice look by the way. - Anon
I walk Nichole over to the bar, there sat a man in all black. Upon closer examination, its a hedgehog roughly my size wearing a navy blue suit with gold details, shades, and a face hidden behind the flaps of his jacket. "You want to guess who I am?" He asked in a robotically distorted voice, "I have a job for you. Ms. Sonata Dusk?"
From the bar, a blue Mobian pony (odd because Mobian ponies and horses aren't pastel colored) in a casual magenta, pink outfit walks up. She has three tone blue mane and tail with a smile that could warm my heart... if I had one. She sits next to Anon, "Yes Mr. S?"
"By logic. I know who you are." I was about to point out his obvious identity when he revealed his face. Well, there's an error. He is a blue skinned creature with fangs, green eyes, and blue fur with white, gray tips. "Never mind." He gave a smirk. Like one of those smirks you give when you know you've fooled someone or know something they don't (and might wish to) know. He downs the last of his drink with a clawed hand.
He hides his face behind jacket flaps and a tilted hat, "Its not safe here." Getting up on his pointed does, "Follow me, robot." We all did so, leaving Casino Night Zone and to an apartment in the real Las Pegasus nearby.
The place wasn't too bad, but not good either. Instead of iron floor, a cream colored -carpet. The walls had a not evil -homey- look, with lights on the walls in curved fixtures pointing up instead of on the ceiling. I don't need Nichole's data banks to know that he had a huge couch. That things was curved and very cushioned.
Nichole bumped my arm, which would look creepy to those who didn't know, "Metal!"
"Huh, what?"
"He's talking to you."
I turn my focus to the blue wolf-like thing, giving me a glare of annoyance, "I wasn't going to say this twice... I'm being hunted by Fang the Sniper aka Nack the Weasel. He wants me captured and sent to the Robotniks, who will execute me. I need to to stop him, but if you kill him I will not take blood on my hands. I also need the the tip of a unicorn horn."
Fang the Sniper? Wait, according to Nichole he's real. A purple bounty hunter with a record of being a clumsy, "Seems easy enough."
"Its not. This world turned his gun into a death ray and for other unknown reason, he knows magic. How do you trip on a root if your flying?"
"Look out for that tree, George- Nichole, remind me not to make any movie references." I appeared to rub my head. We sat on his couch, "Does he have anything else worth mentioning?"
I slightly high pitch voice came from the bed behind us, "Well, I can turn invisible."
As if he never heard the voice, Mr. S continued while scratching his chin, "I'm not too sure, ran into him once." I turned on my thermal lens- Fang is right behind him. I shot myself towards the invisible weasel with the knife, both of us struggling on the ground as he became visible. "He found me!"
I kept my hold on Fang, "You didn't hear him say," I played recording, "Well, I can turn invisible. I can hear it like your heart beat!"
"Well, excuse me prince! I cant hear a heart beat, being real and all." Fang grabbed his gun (Are you kidding me?!) and fired, sending a blast that was too powerful for its own good. When it was over, Fang, Mr. S, and Sonata left no traces of their being... except for the destroyed room and a burnt taco on my head.
I flew out the window when I heard voices, which started instantly so I needed no witnesses.
[That could have been better,] Nichole stated flatly. I flew above the hive back to my usual self, getting a good view of the sun rise.
[Well, at least we didn't get jumped by thieves or mafia,] I was placed in thought, [Though, he didn't give me a reason to work for him nor do I think I should,] I thought about it, [Though he still didn't answer any questions. For all we know he could answer us now.]
[Maybe somebody is spying on him besides Fang.]
[Its likely.] I replied, crossing my arms and lowering a bit.
[I wonder when we'll meet him again.]
[I don't know...] I turned from the sun, [Come to think of it, what does he want with a unicorn horn anyway?]
Friendship. - Mr. S
[Well, that was cryptic...] Nichole commented. Just then my beacon called for me. What does he want, now?
"Spike are you down there?" I woke from my bed one night, tired of miniature Sonic's 'Welcome Home! Glad you're not a raged cannibal!' party. They held it at the castle because 'bigger is better' and that the hut is losing space.
I follow my emerald trail on the ground, holding a candle as I walked, "Spike?" From around the corner, a small purple dragon and a slightly bigger sky blue hedgehog. "Sonic?!" They ran up and shut my mouth, Sonic giving a thumbs up.
"Twilight, can you keep quiet?" Spike asked. I don't see why, since the two of us should be the only ones here. "There is a water creature raiding our fridge and he doesn't stop at our food," either Sonic taught him how to be an actor... or he's serious.
Now whispering as gloves and claws release my mouth, "What?"
"Well, me and Sonic were having the slumber party you agreed to," I agreed to that? "Plus Tails needs time to secure the red ring," I remember that. "We got hungry and went to take the left overs. When this water thing with green eyes and a brain beat us, eating my rubies and some sandwiches!" Sonic covered Spikes mouth, a gurgling sounded in the kitchen.
"I'll go check it out." They tried to stop me, but met a wall of magic, the two followed her from behind the barrier. In the sink, a watery blue thing waved its hand before going down the drain. Opening the fridge, we found nothing but salads and flowers were left.
Spike took out his empty gem bowl, about to scream, but instead he burped a scroll.
Hey Twilight, Here's an update on the invasion of Canterlot: 1.) Luna's wing of the castle is destroyed. 2.) We used chaos control, returning free will to the robotisized ponies. 3.) There are robot ponies, specifically unicorns and pegasi. 4.) Epic robot battle between robot unicorns and E-Series robots. 5.) Happy ending involving poor families and orphans reunited with their lost parents and family. Sorry for the delay, the invasion started off with Cow Bots... Yeah, Cow Robots. Not robotisized cows, just dangerous, slow robots. Worst. Invasion. Ever. Little me might raid your fridge, so please watch him.
I rolled up the scroll and put it away, getting another odd look from Sonic. Its one of those looks you give when you want to ask something, but the mute ask no questions.
The next day wasn't so great either. Tails flew everyone he could bring home as Jet and Silver hovered the others in the wagon so those three were done for the day. While Tails napped in the green hammock, Lancelot and myself wanted to see what the Sonics were doing.
Apparently hedgehogs and echidnas have thick skulls. Big Knuckles tossed scarf Sonic at a pine tree, somehow getting coconuts to fall from it as thin Knuckles prepared his swing of young Sonic, though Lancelot had other plans. "Unhand my King and Prince!"
Caliburn just hovered near by, not amused. "Lance, stop. Its some fools game they made up, heck I bet our King and his Knave cant pick up their partners." Twilight seemed busy so I decided to go see Rarity, like usual. There I found Rarity, Fluttershy, and Sonia having a little conversation in the kitchen. I almost decided to leave when I heard Sonic's name.
"How long do you think Sonic and Amy have been together?"
"I don't know. Tails had a look to him before we knew Rosy was Rosy, like he knew something. From the difference in age and what Tails said, I can assume its years."
"From the three days Amy was around it looked like Sonic was trying to avoid her."
"Maybe he's trying to hide his feelings. She doesn't look like the stalker type and I saw some red-"
From behind me, Manic loudly whispered, "Yo Spike, what's up?" My reaction and his voice triggered a response from the angry girls. We bolted from the Boutique to some place safe... Like the Everfree! I never thought I would say that.
After losing them we sat in an opening. From Twilight and Rainbow's observation skills, its noon time when the Whisps freely dance and play in the closest clearing. Fluttershy would agree, these things are cute. The ones out here were pink and yellow with a few whites here and there, just beautiful.
Just then we heard a few beats before a herd of Magenta Wisps arrived, led by a bald, glowing magenta unicorn head with no mouth, tiny ears, and glowing yellow eyes with a tail resembling a magenta flag mid-air bounced into the clearing. When the music stopped, Twilight fell out of the form as a dizzy wisp flew out of her. "Thank you!" She called out waving, "Oh, hi Spike. Hello, Manic. Rarity sent me over here to find you two. Coincidentally me and my friend Beat decided to start my Wisp research. Now, unless you two have a good reason for eavesdropping I'd like to hear it. Unless you don't want any gems next month..."
When the gold light left our vision, we stood in a lazy Canterlot... no seriously, Luna was playing guard chess with Cadence. Those who weren't lazing around sharpened their spears and knives with one of those old grinding wheels.
Celestia stood next to her sister, "Luna! Are you not aware of the threat-"
"Oh, sister. Have a seat, we have about a week before the invasion gets here," she said, patting the seat next to her.
Tails landed his plane, "Sonic, there's some weird cow-shaped robots with blue eyes in the sky."
"Cow bots?! They're invading with cow bots? I though this was an invasion with the original Robotnik behind it!" I swug my arms over my head then back down with my palms out, "It cant be this easy! Where's the fear, blood, and scrap metal fields that come from his usual invasions!"
Damn it, Hard Boiled! I looked back at my impatient uncle. Don't say it. Don't say it. By all that rings, DON'T SAY IT!!!
"Snively!" For the record I didn't scream. I can actually gave him a peace of my mind!
"eeeAAAAhhh! Y- yes, sir?" I said 'a peace of my mind'. My thoughts are staying in my head out of trouble.
"What. Is. Taking. So. Long?" He asked in a surprisingly nicer tone... followed by a black aura slowly gripping my lungs.
"Hard Boiled said they were dangerous!" I tried to keep my breath to talk, "He never said anything about slow!!!" He dropped me from his grip and sat on the edge of his seat.
"Release my little ponies."
"Aye, sir..."
From my right next to Luna, Celestia asked to the lunar princess to her left, "Sister?"
"hmm?"
"Shouldn't you raise the moon?"
"Oh, yes indeed, Tia." It was amazing watching the moon and sun rise and lower in sync by their power. I got up, walking towards my team as they practiced their swings, punches, kicks, etc. on logs and mannequins.
Over at the edge of the castle, not quite near the gates, Manic and Sonia happily angered some nearby nobles with the song of our people... so to speak.
Heck, even Blue Blood was trying to quiet their little tune... then it began.
"Wake up, sir!" I shook my uncle as he woke, sending me to the nearest wall with his magic.
"What is it, Snively?" He said, obviously awoke from having one of his rare "great" dreams.
"The invasion is starting, uncle!" He dropped me to my feet as he turned on every monitor bots, to survey Canterlot as a mass of robot cows and ponies flew and drove to their destination. Corn downed pegasi guards with their mootonium explosion. Damn it Hard Boiled. Discovering a highly explosive material only to give a pun name.
Unicorns both flesh and bot never stood a chance...
"Fall back! Fall back!" Luna ordered as the flying robots decimated their armies from the air, leaving ground forces weak. Those guards that flew were either grounded by ground troops sniping them or air troops distracting them long enough for a green corn to cripple their wings.
With the pegasi falling, unicorns and those with telekinetic abilities had to catch them. It got so serious, the princesses had to don their armor. Celestia wielded a hammer of vast power as Luna held twin katanas in her magic. Cadence and Shining wore matching armor with different color configurations, his was gold, white, and blue while Cadenza's was two one pink with gold details. Shining had two spears locked on his sides while his wife had two spiked, metal shields with hearts on them and blades on her wings.
I on the other hand, disabled the roboticized ponies and used their flying to my advantage. Like a knight on his forced flying trusty steed, I slashed at the nonpony robots with a satisfying squeal and explosion. Just as I was bumped by a falling Falco robot, my pony started talking. "W- what is going on?! Why is there a sword in my neck?!" So he is still in there. Time for some experiments.
"Sir, do you have control of yourself now?" I asked.
"N-no! Why cant I feel pain?" he replied in his metallic, gruff voice.
"All will be explained. For now, trust me," I gave him a thumbs up, "my name is Sonic the Hedgehog, savior of Equestria!"
We dived towards Silver, who nearly dropped an orange guy with blue hair that seems familiar. "Sonic, don't do that!"
I got off my pony, letting him lay limp on the ground. "Um... I'll be here?" He commented dryly.
I turned to my future friend, "Where's Tails and the princesses?"
"Tails is over there," he pointed to the jet with the massive fists, "What's the plan?"
"If the princesses stop destroying robot ponies and I grab Tails's chaos emerald," I held mine out, the close proximity of the emerald brought the robot I rode back to his hooves with free will, "using chaos control together with some awesome music, we might have a new robot guard!"
Robot pony trotted up to me, "My name is Made Steel, more literal now then ever. Lead me Mr. Hedgehog." I got on his back and flew towards the Tornado X, despite the Falcos carrying Egg Pawns with a better punch than the last few. Some actually carried Egg Pawns with machine guns rather than pistols, dedicated to stopping my mission.
When we landed (Tails had no power for his jet to fly), I found Silver and gave him the blue emerald as we crossed our arms. They we both shouted in sync, "Chaos Control!"
As the wave passed, Manic and Sonia played an appropriate song for the situation at hand. As a large wave of purple energy passed the pony robots, Made Steel directed the new militia to fight back their metal enemies.
Lasers from horns and eyes shot at robots that responded with guns and corn. The fit guards on Celestia's command joined their robotic ponies in their fight. It was epic. Me and Sir Lancelot bounced off ponies, decapitating Falcos and Egg Pawns resulting in explosions. Luna shredded the Cowbots, while containing the mootonium.
Silver tossed fallen robot parts at ground troops while forcing some parts into make-shift swords he used to cut robots into more sword material. He grabbed two machine guns and started firing at Falcos so they would drop their loads, leading up to the orange pawns imploding in range of Silver.
Rainbow Dash flew through the air, lancing some bots when she let out a battle cry, "Friendship is magic!!" She took out the nearest robots in a spearheaded sonic rainboom, causing the biggest metal mass on a stick you would ever see. A few shots from the pawns almost reached her wings, one lucky enough to singe a single feather. She dropped the spear, grabbing one from a ground guard.
Cadence tossed her shields, bouncing off robots as Shining spun and diced robots as they fell. Cadence flew past some Falcos, her wings brushing the robots as her wing-knives dug deep into the steel. She was about to be shot in the flank when Apple Jack bucked pawn heads at the mechs, sending them off guards for the princess to smash their face with a shield. When she turned her head, instead of an orange pony she was greeted by a cyborg rabbit being released from her time prison, standing next to the Apple with a robot head in her grasp.
"Howdy, ah see ya'll have a robot problem?" The rabbit asked, jumping to the air, "Mah names Bunnie D'Coolette."
Apple Jack held the newcomer in her rope, "Hold on, sugarcube! Before ya smash heads, I reckon the metal-ponies are on our side."
"Got it," she flew off with her thrusters, blasting robots out of the air faster than anyone and protecting nearby ponies with her pink bubble shields. She pinned a robot so she could use its gun and destroy it, firing at more bots with amazing accuracy. She dropped the gun, grabbing her lasso she caught and started swinging one of Silver's swords at robots in her area. "Sugah, ya'll better give me a challenge!"
"Send the boss." Uncle's cold voice said. That voice could freeze beer.
"Yes, sir."
Tails flew me to an old friend we haven't seen in years. I was the first to speak, "Bunnie? When did you get here?"
"Hon, Ah was just mining my own business when a huge wave of light hit mah uncle's camp. Now Ah'm here in the middle of a little scruff with mah limbs back in their previous robot form." She flew over, punching a Cowbot towards Luna, who compressed the cow, and flew back, "To be honest, Ah think Ah might be dead and these limbs represent mah sin chains."
"Nope. Time travel," I said as Tails tossed me at a Falco, resulting in a chain spin-swipe at some enemies as I homed in, "I'm also from a far future... In a different dimention from your standpoint."
"That explains the sword an' magic talking ponies, Sugah-hog." Her robot arm became an energy canon as she shot the remaining foes.
Everyone regrouped as Pinkie hopped out of the medical bay with a party in mind, though her tail mentioned otherwise. Bunnie blocked a huge drill with her shield, but couldn't stop the wave of ice that disabled her legs and placed a layer of frost on the ground. In the sky, the source of the attack made itself known.
"Egg Dragoon? Again?" Sonic commented as Tails and Silver prepped the Tornado X for battle.
Inside, Dr. Eggman's voice could be heard over a load speaker, "Alicorn Amulet Egg Dragoon. This is a magic boss~!" The drill pointed at a small black unicorn head amulet with a red gem in it, "Only I can take it off!"
Apple Jack placed Bunnie on her back as she galloped, letting Bunnie fire at the boss with her arm canon and deflect attacks. Tails and Celestia flew at Egg Dragoon striking it with a mech fist and hammer respectively as it countered with a counter spell, making the two suffer with chain lightning striking them, despite the clear skies.
Sir Lancelot and Princess Luna were a little luckier as they redirected the lasers back at Dragoon, but were no match for the drill. Jet redirected the drill, opening up the chance to attack that Sonic and Silver took advantage of. Silver launched his make-shift swords and Sonic at the Egg Dragoon, Sonic with Caliburn in hand stuck himself in the boss's ice wave section in which he left Caliburn and homed on the middle head, grabbing his sword on the way down. "Sire, he's healing himself!" The Dragoon engulfed itself in a red aura as the swords left it.
"Drill! Drill! Drill!" Three yellow spiked drills with yellow eyes were launched in a blue aura towards Egg Dragoon. One had long rabbit ears behind it, another defied physics as it held a small yellow canon in its puffy yellow mane, and the last gave off a rainbow trail behind it. From the garden, a swarm of Yellow Wisps gave ponies and my team their power. They flew up to me, transforming me. From below Jet, Silver, Luna, and Shining Armor tossed the Yellow Drills at Dragoon in rapid succession.
The robot unicorns lent their magic to the cause as robot earth ponies took out hidden rocket launchers, firing at the Dragoon.
Mentioned boss, dodged shot fired, countered and deflected drills, and let out a spiral of lasers that singed the ground and castle walls. He used his drill shot a few times only to have it sent back. He charged his current drill, sending it in a huge wave of magic that short circuited a few robots and weaken the guard.
I popped out of my drill form, caught by Jet. In my scarf, the red world ring started glowing. What? I can handle its influence unlike the other me! Jet lowered me on the ground as Celestia broke the curse on herself, following Sonic. She noticed that he was looking for something and flew up to him.
"Ah, princess! Do you recognize this?" Sonic carefully showed her the ring.
In a shocked expression with a surprised tone, "There's another one?!"
"What colors do you have and where are they?"
"A green ring brought envy and the purple one that started Luna's change into Nightmare Moon. If you want to get rid of that ring, feel free." She then stopped him with a hoof, "This is a bad time to be entering the vault."
"No. This is a great time," I replied, "I need those rings."
WARNING: Celestia's vault section can be read the wrong way. Blame the MLP:FiM Season 2 Discord episode... Actually blame Discord. The section could be seen as an innuendo, though its not meant to be one. Also stupid references. You have been warned. Enjoy.
I lowered her hoof and pocket the red world ring, "I need those rings."
In my right hand Caliburn responded in equal worry and shock as Celestia, "Sonic, what're you doing?!"
"I need those rings. Time to fight on equal terms: power and magic."
Celestia got in front of Sonic now, "I cant let you do that. The power will drive you mad."
I just walked around her as she held me in her magic. I tapped Caliburn's blade to her horn, extinguishing the aura, "It drove little me crazy, it turned your sister evil, and I used the powers at a time when powers like that was second nature to me. Painful to use, but did the job."
"And what was that job?"
"Well, I defeated Erazor Djinn and saved the land of the Arabian Nights. With the power of sadness, anger, and hatred. Sadness, he was going to destroy everyone who lived in the land and beyond. For that, he gained my anger," I swiped Caliburn across, "Let out my hatred. Then when all was said and done, I used those powers to remove the rings." I laughed at the memory, "Used his genie powers to give another genie a mountain of tissues. I wonder how she's doing?"
I made many decisions in my life. Some I regret and some I forget. One thing is for sure: I'm the richest being in the Arabian Nights! Tissue sales lady! I used my mountain of tissues to rise in financial success! Thanks Sonic! Stupid Hedgehog...
"And you think this is right?"
"Its my Plan B." I started to walk when a golden wall stopped me, "Not going to let 'em out?"
"Nope." And I sheathed Caliburn and rolled, rolling on the wall around her as I revved for a full spin dash. I released, rolling through the halls with Celestia giving chase and coincidentally I found a Pink Wisp giving me the pink spike power. "Spikes!" Now that I spun on the high walls to ceiling, I was seriously driving her crazy.
I eventually found the vault, the only problem was opening it. I tried sticking a spike in the hole, luckily Celestia ran up to the now normal me with her hammer and head pointed forward. "Sorry about this princess! But this is an act of treason on both our parts!" She smashed the ground with a mighty thud.
"Oh, how?" She asked, tossing her hammer.
"We're both royalty giving each others orders and commands," I slid under her, hopping to my feet on the other side. As she turned her head, I redirected her horn into the hole and homed in on her flank while tossing a yellow wisp at her. "Drill!" Her horn turned yellow with a gold aura, drilling into the hole. When the door cracked open, Discord slapped a cyan wisp at my back. "Laser!" I shot at a wall, bouncing into the vault.
I bounced back out, returning to my normal form while wearing a green tunic and pointed hat, holding the purple and green world rings above my head in gloved hands. "Why am I dressed like Link?" I took off the outfit, "Fastest thing alive princess. Hammers are not that fast... Unless you're Amy." And absorbed the three rings in hand, a burning pain shot from my hand to my whole body...
Orbot was watching as Loki played with his long distance controls, fighting with Egg Dragoon when an alarm flashed on screen, "Doctor, a huge ball of focused energy is coming your way."
"What?!" Just then a purple face filled the screen, it's skin was whiter than white, lacked a mouth and pupils, and it's quills were a royal purple with two white stripes stretching on the forehead. Its bare hands don glowing gold ring bracelets that matched the gold bracelets on it's ankles. It has sole-less purple shoes with a thick white stripe on the middle.
It is covered in a red aura as he is punching the Alicorn Amulet Egg Dragoon, damaging it with little effort with his white scarf flapping in the wind, he kept going screaming, "Leave the ponies alone!" He sets his hands on fire as his strikes increase in speed.
This was intense! Here we are, wondering where Sonic and Celestia are at while the Dragoon is raising the dead and making us younger. To be exact, only Luna was reverted to a younger age. I'm ready to launch more drills, but noticed that the wisps are too tired to fight.
"Guys we have to fall back!" I commanded, "Its no u-"
BOOM!!!!
A flying purple blur speeds from the castle towards the Egg Dragoon, creating a crater in the armor with one punch! Dragoon repaired itself in a red aura as it focused its laser at the purple Sonic. Sonia and Manic got behind me when Celestia gave an order nearby, "Ready your spears at Darkspine as soon as the battle ends. I will not let a darker being than Nightmare Moon harm my people."
Discord leaned on Celestia with a tiger arm wraped around the base of her horn, "What about weaker than NM? I mean, you just gave me the GO for world domination," Luna turned her gaze to him, "But being reformed will gunk up the works! I was just looking for confirmation."
Sonic made a "U-Turn" towards us saying, despite the lack of mouth, "I say nay to that, Dissy." He then proceeded to boost head first into the top section, creating a bigger crater as he pulled on the Alicorn Amulet. He then looped again, taking out Dragoon's laser gun only to meet two walls that broke trying to crush him.
The council was going nuts at this battle as "Loki" Eggman and the others tried to find data and a weakness to this unknown form. Big Mouth is mad, Hard Boiled is sad, and every idea was just that bad! King was ripping the hair out of his bear skin rug (he wanted a fine line between stressed and fabulous) as Racer beats the ground with a fist.
"Every Sonic records were useless. Even ice couldn't phase him!"
"Whoes idea was it to use Dragoon so soon?"
"Why did we attach a relic of dark magic to it?!"
It broke. Darkspine form Sonic the flippin' Hedgehog, broke the legendary, cursed Alicorn Amulet. A black alicorn with a ruby cutie mark and flowing red mane and tail flew out of the now useless object.
"Go on, child. You are finally free to rest." Sonic said in the middle of a sparkling, red area of broken, shredded, and/or dented chunks of metal and glass. The alicorn look around then back at a now, not scarey, blue hedgehog smiling at her. She knew that it was time, and left with the image of his caring, emerald green eyes imbedded in her soul.
The ponies looked to this junk hill in awe as the unnamed alicorn rose into the air and faded away. Metal clanked and hooves clomped as ponies both flesh and steel, earth pony and not earth pony applaud our hero. The news going around from the medical staff mentioned no fatalities from civilians and soldiers, calling for a party/gala.
There Sonic sent Twilight an update via fire mail. As the gala continued it wasn't just a few reunions, it was mass reunion between foalnapped, roboticized ponies and their loved ones. What was more touching and painful were the children reuniting with robot parents and vise versa.
Though, it slowly became less of a party as time went on. Either some were scared, unexcepting, or grieving over the situations they were in. The idea that some will out live, might still be dangerous, will need matenace only Tails or Robotnik could provide, can not be called ponies, etc. is spreading.
This new race of pony might thrive or die. It depends on those who welcome them and those who reject them. Just like Celestia and me right now on the Darkspine matter.
I don't like her. I don't like her at all. After Sonic and Friends return home (besides star butt, little ugly, and little fashion reject for some reason) I decided to see my "mistress". My transportation: those colorful things she's keeping now.
Once I arrived, soon getting scolded by Fluttershy, I enjoyed my day. The next day she arrived. It was a fusion between that orange hick, the most beautiful rabbit and ugliest rabbit's child, an iron, and big ugly all mixed into this... thing!
What are you supposed to be? She looked down at me.
"Well, Hon, Ah'm part robot an' part rabbit. Funny. My original last name was Rabbot so I reckon there's some irony there."
You can say that again, you freaky tin can.
She gave me a scowl as she rose to her full height, "Say that again." Next to her, Fluttershy looked over to her.
"Say what again?" She asked, hiding slightly in her mane.
"That lil twerp just called me a 'freaky tin can' just now!" She said pointing to me.
She got out of her hair, "You can understand Angel?"
Took my words, broad! I thought as I thumped my foot.
"Hey! Sugah, tha's no way you treat your care taker!" She grabbed me by my ears with her normal hand, pain felt like fire! "Apologize."
Fluttershy looked to her pet, freaked out, "I don't understand! What're you doing?!"
"Apologize!" She repeated in a colder tone.
I'm sorry... They forgot to hide your stupid hick face! I directed one of those things to me "Laser!" and got away. I thought I was safe "Spike!" until I heard that!
I bounced all over the market place as ponies and other shoppers fell or dropped things. In the middle there was pink spike ball with tiny rabbit ears turning at my direction, following me despite staying in place. I fell out of the form as did she, but I was prepared! "Eagle!" She turned her metal arm into a canon and started firing at me as I flew above surprised heads.
"Beat!" Behind me she bounced, but unlike the others her bounces sped up faster than the others. Though she was still slower than me. I maneuvered through trees and houses as she just bounced around the obstacles I passed with ease, up until I bumped into Derpy. "Eagle!" The form was given to her as I fell and she corkscrewed uncontrollably with freak closing in.
"Drill!" I fell on an unexpected yellow wisp, drilling through the ground. Behind me a pink spike ball followed me in the hole. In a distorted voice it called, "Ya'll betta apologize!"
I'm so, so sorry! We stopped as I revved my drill nose, The country this isn't original, freak-of-nature red neck robot! I drilled up and back to my normal self as I left the hole, dashing away. Behind me a pink, spiked ball twice my size with yellow eyes and small pointed rabbit ears rolled towards me at a crazy speed!
I scurried towards Fluttershy, expecting safety, instead she gave us both the look! Both me and the freak in our normal forms folded under her gaze, like the eyes of Hades showing how we die through hints instead of showing you. You'd think I'd be used to it, but its still hard for this heart-throb to handle. Then her expression softened, she walked over past the one known as Bunnie and we followed her to a hole we made. Inside a statue fell in head first with the little feet sticking out.
As soon as Bunnie took her out, the statue awoke revealing a cream colored rabbit about half the size of Bunnie, wearing an orange dress. On her little head was this blue thing with a cheese colored feet and a red bow tie. Oh, sweet Celestia! Its another freak!
The two rabbits looked down at me, the small one replying, "That wasn't very nice! What did I do to you?"
Big Sonic left at dawn for Celestia's court to decide his fate within Equestria, as Bunnie woke from the couch, cataloging the place. In the backyard is burnt tree Twilight request to keep safe from the road crew. In the vast living room, there's two hammocks.
Sir Lancelot sleeps in the green one while Cream and Cheese sleep in the orange one. Silver sleeps between them on a turquoise mat in the meditation position. Tails moved his lab into his room, giving Jet his own room until the rest of the Babylon Rouges are found. I have a choice of one of the three couches in the room since hung things are out of question.
I sleep on the one near the TV, next to the one with Amy hammers and a blue DVD with Sonic's face. Both Sonics share a room and bed with Manic and Sonia sleeping on a bunk bed next to them. There's only one bathroom and outside an outhouse was installed recently. The kitchen is simple with some things that I've never seen before, a huge bird feeder, a cookie jar with a mini oven and security system, and a fridge filled with fish and chili dogs.
The dining room has a wooden table, neatly cut in a circle shape with corners crudely glued on with a variety of chairs including a crystal throne with a multicolored lightning bolt on the top and a cloud. Drag marks could be seen on the ground around the throne as if to position it. Shadow -oh, sorry- "Sir Lancelot" has his blades were positioned on a nearby wall.
Around the backyard tree, there's four force fields protecting it from the weather and our practice area in the tree's back yard. Yeah, we don't have a big front yard, but there is a walkway to a blackened tree with a backyard. Oddly next to the tree is a sign that reads "aks brary" also destroyed.
In the second backyard, Tails and Silver built a pretty big battle arena with target practice and a sparring section. Recently added for me and Knuckles A and B, a gym has been added to help us loosen our joints or gain muscle. In my case, I don't want my joints locking up.
The nights are peaceful most of the time. Tonight as soon as Sonic left our sight, these huge black/blue creatures holding huge logs appeared causing the emergency sirens to go off in the hut. Instantly everyone was up and Cream cowered with her chao as red light filled the hut.
I flew out the open window while Sonia fired at the closest one, playing chopsticks on her insterment turned weapon. With little skill, I actually took out one of 'em with a single punch and severly injured two with my lasers. I would've kept going, but one blind sided me making my legs slightly crushed and my arm nearly destroyed!
Mail duty. I destroy the alicorn amulet and Egg Dragoon, but because I can weild the world rings into my darkspine form... My sentance is to deliver a package nobody is willing to transport. Well, except for a "Ditzy Doo", though seeing why she was rejected is not hard to tell.
I arrived with a bubble-wraped Caliburn at my side, entering the "Mission Room: S Rank" with my uniform on as a stool broke next to my head on a wall.
A blue pegasus stallion with a pair of red boxing gloves as his mark and a build that nearly exceeded his suit, called to me from the class room like place, "Hedgehog, you're late!" His wings flared as mail carriers backed up, "My names Boxer. Do you know why I'm here despite my talent?"
"Umm... no?" Around the room, bits were being passed from under tables and some ponies shrank in their seat.
"I have a twin brother, same look different race," Boxer kept a calm tone as he sat in his big desk. "I was going to be a wrestler and win belts while Sent Package was going to..." He made a motion with his hoof.
"Send packages?" Silent moans filled my ears as two ponies facehooved.
"Mr. Hedgehog." He flew over his desk and leaned on it, "If you read the company history in the foyer, you would know that my father inhereted this business and so my brother would have the job of running a shipping empire." Boxer got back on his feet before I decided to cutt him off.
With a smirk, "Shipping empire? I thought Sonic Dash was too much."
He walked up to me, "My brother has a phrase before he won his matches. I'll send you packing." He grabbed the broken stool leg, "If you weren't sending the biggest package of my career, I would use this leg on ya."
"Are you sure you're not saying that due to me?" Caliburn asked, unsheathing him self with tiny pops, "Or King Sonic's position?"
"Oh sorry, your royal assness!" He waved his stick around, "Do I care? If you wear the uniform then you and my staff are equal. Dismissed." The room emptied so fast and quiet, a pin drop would be loud. "Oh great Luna. Sorry about that," what tough exterrior he had dissappeared at that moment, "I can now drop the act."
I crossed my arms and frowned, "Act?"
"Yes. Trust me, the I'm my true me at the B-C ranks. You be surprise how lazy my best are!" He claps his hooves together as the room glows with magic, fixing his stool. "Now I need you. We've never delayed a package this important in years, which is crushing my company." He hoofs me an envelope.
"This is it?"
"No. The firt guy wrote down detailed instructions on how to send the package and where its at." Boxer rubbed his leg, "If I'm correct: your speed will make this easy... I am hoping."
We took a seat near his desk, "You're hoping?"
"This job got more dangerous as usual. This is the only company that mails in places most ponies fear to go and the S Rank system moves beyond regular rules. These ponies have the skill and integrety held close and actually will die to make sure their letters or boxes make the trip without injury."
"That's some dedication!"
"Indeed. I'm telling you this because the Robotnik Empire and buildings similar to that is making jobs like yours nigh impossible." He gets a worried look in his eyes as a hoof is placed on my shoulder, "This package warns fellow nations of the current threat. This is so sensitive that dragon fire will harm it beyon repair and could cause a war between Equestria and the combined forces of the Griffin Empire and Saddle Arabia."
"You can count on me," I said with my thumb up.
"I hope so. May Faust watch over you in your journey."
Inside her cottage, Fluttershy is confronted by a bear named Mr. Grizzleyton about a dragon in his cave.
"Did you ask him nicely to leave?" She asked, receiving a nod in return. "What did he look like?" She nodded as he roared her everything. "Oh my! I was hoping it wasn't one of them..."
I ran to my closet and chest, donning my horned helmet and leather/iron armor. I grab one of my extra horned iron helmet and placed it on Mr. Grizzleyton's head.
"Fos Roh Yay!" I shouted at his face, but this wasn't unrelenting shout. I hoofed him a fraction of my power. "For now you are now Dovah Bear. Use your temporary power wisely."
We flew over to the Everfree, thanks to little Sonic's running through some tunnels, life had return to part of the dangerous forest. We were passing the wisp clearing when we heard some rustling in the bushes. Out came Sir Lancelot with a calm look on his face that turned red once our eyes met. "What's with the bear, Lady Shy?" he asked.
"We're about to fight dragons."
He pulls down his face guard as he took out his weapon, "Shall we proceed?"
"We shall, knight. Just... um... don't be in the... um... cross fire."
For some reason small Sonic, Manic, and Vynal Scratch were there too, revving some electric guitars as Manic messed with a sound board on wheels. Their music seemed to follow us, despite our movement away from them. The music was actually glorious, unlike what my past lives heard.
We knocked out some Manticores passing their territory and made some cragogater jerky for when they woke up. We had a problem with Slender Man, but short story short- He isn't fire proof. Felt a little sorry for him, but we had no time when it came to saving Mr. Grizzleyton's mate and cubs from an ancient dragon, hopefully he's not "the world eater" that killed one of me.
We neared a cave... next to a cave. Odd. As we entered some crazy brown girl was fighting the giant ice dragon as it snapped at her. In the back five cubs were cowering behind their mom as she watched the battle.
The girl tossed a wooden boomerang as she exclaimed, "I will not be dest- obli- impa-!" She let out a scream as she climbed its head and shouted, "You cant kill me!"
Lancelot and my Dovah Bear ran over to the dragon, the bear thooming the knight towards the beast's head. I flew over and gave it a stare, stopping everyone, "Why are you here?!"
The feral girl responded, "Well, I was in my cave-house when I heard roar! Grrr! Graahhhh! Roar! Roar! Roar!!! So I walked over to my new neighbor and found a dragon was about to eat some bears!"
"Um... Sorry, but I was talking to the dragon."
The dragon sat down and replied in a Canterlot noble accent, "Well, I awoke in this cave- Being dead here. Nobody will let me leave and that one bear ran off, leaving his family after roaring at me. I thought he understood me!" Everyone quickly got off the dragon as he left the cave, "Besides! I need to wake Alduin! Ta ta!" He left too fast for us to stop him.
I sat back in my seat as I watched the test flight for the new Egg Carrier as it took off. It was going smoothly until something huge came into radar. Decoe, Bocoe, Orbot, and Cubot prepared to fire when a huge explosion destroyed my airship, forcing us to evacuate.
Beach Ball came onto the monitor, "Hey Loki! How's your airship?"
"It died," I flatly replied. "Grounded by a... Dragon. There's dragons here!"
Beach Ball gave a loud laugh, "You didn't know that? And I thought Hard Boiled needed to get out more!"
"Shut up, wrecking ball!"
"Seriously? At least I didn't use it twice! Oh, and can you outrun Sonic?"
"Can you build a successful machine?"
"Robotnik! He can really move!" Beach Ball started to sing, "Robotnik! He has a high IQ! Robotnik! He's the fastest thing alive!"
"Shut up!"
"Well, that just happened." Sticks commented, she turned to her new friends, "Can I have some mead? My head is killing me!"
I looked over to her, "As soon as I make sure the dragon is dead we will have Honeybrew Mead. But only one cup." We ran/flew over to where the massive dragon and flying-thing landed. On the way, some Egg Pawns opened fire on us. "Your not... um... being nice. Can you stop... please." They kept firing at the group, annoying Fluttershy a bit, "Can you please stop! Wait, they're robots... Fos Ro Dah!!!" I sent them flying above trees as we continued our trek.
We found the dragon limping to his master, thankfully not close at all, when I took my enchanted bow out. I shot a flaming arrow, piercing his hide, signaling my group to attack. The dragon fought well, despite his injury, freezing the ground and trying to crush us. I fired some more bows as Dovah Bear sent an unusual shout I'd like to call "the Unrelenting Trout" that sent fish from the sky and onto the dragon. I actually use that shout so I wouldn't feed Nemo to my carnivores.
Sir Lancelot ran up the dragon's back and stabbed the beast's head with a gross crack. As the dragon fell, it became a skeleton as its soul entered me in the form of golden energy. I turned to my friends, "Please don't tell anypony what you saw. This little fight can never be talked about."
"You have my word, fellow warrior." Sir Lancelot said with a small bow.
"Please, you all have to Pinkie promise... Even the band over there," I pointed to some bushes that had a red/blue flashing glow to it.
Lancelot embedded his blade into the ground, "Cross my heart, my friends wont die. I cant let them lose an eye." He said crossing his heart, lifting a fist, and covering an eye.
"Um... That's close enough..." The others did the same while Vynal said the right words with the correct motions.
I held my map of Equestria while sitting on my box and looked back over to what I saw... This isn't good. From my side Caliburn asked, "Sire. This place isn't on the map..."
"Of course not, I know this place. It shouldn't be here," I said, looking at the old Robotnik empire / junk yard. This place even came with the dark clouds as if by magic and besides, brought back memories. Directly attached to Filly Delphia and Baltimare with a tail that almost turns Horseshoe Bay into a lake, Robotnik's domain became a part of the continent. It looked like a tumor on a mostly happy place, but was slowly killing it. It made me sick.
"Sonic? Are you alright?" Caliburn asked, looking up from his sheath with worry in his eyes.
"No. I almost grew up here and it was terrible. I couldn't leave at night and my Uncle Chuck had to mine for that monster," I gave a sigh, remembering Amy's calming techniques. "When we're done, I wonder if time was nice enough to have him frozen some where away from here. I don't want Sonia and Manic to see him like a metal monster like before." I hopped off by box and grabbed it, "Let's go- Is that what I think it is?"
In front of me were a pair of gold light speed shoes in perfect condition! I quickly unwrapped my legs and replaced my shoes, pocketing the old pair inside my dimensional pocket in my scarf. Dang, this thing is bigger on the inside to hold shoes, gum, and about a thousand or so bits and rings! I rewrapped my legs and prepared my run with my package. Just as I hoped, my speed increased allowing me to easily run on water and avoid drowning.
Looks like I'm going to cross enemy territory, this should be fun.
"Come back here!" the voice shouted from below me.
Hi Metal Sonic here, being chased by Sir Lancelot! How did he even find me?!
[Nichole, we need to lose him! Any ideas?!] I pleaded.
[I thought you didn't need my help.]
[Oh, not this again!] My wings locked up as I slowly fell from the sky, [Please don't do this!]
She made my head vibrate as she began to rant, [I keep you sane! I watch your back! I even taught you how email worked! You call me useless? Well, next time Mr. S contacts us I'll keep it in its original spot!] *bing!* Oh, come on!
Bad idea, Nichole. - Mr. S
Great. Before I can delete the message, it covers my eyes. I can hear the sound of me tripping over rocks and colliding with a tree. "Please! Stop this!" Did I just say that in English?
From my left I hear his voice from near my face and somehow feel his breath, "We wont harm thee... If you answer our questions."
"S-s-sure! I think I have time..." I feel for flat ground as I sit, "But, you cant tell your friends about me Shadow- I mean Sir Lancelot."
"There it is again," nearby he lodges his sword in the ground. "We- *sigh* I want to know everything. First off: Who is this Shadow everyone mistakes me for? Every morning my king has to remind himself of who I am for this reason."
"I thought you would want to know why I'm spying on you."
"No. I've been aware of you for awhile, but I'm not so sure if I'm alone in this discovery."
From my left a low rumble could be heard... like a motor. It stops as footsteps across leafy ground are the only sounds. Crisk. Click. Shisk. Shish. Another voice, the same yet deeper than the knight's own- Shadow the Hedgehog! "So, you want to know about us?"
I turn my head towards him, "I heard of this 'royal we' stuff. Can you two be serious?"
"What? You don't see my army?" Shadow replied with a chuckle afterwards.
From around more Shadow voices could be heard chanting, "All hail Shadow! Eliminating everything that's not our friend."
My vision cleared up as Nichole seemed to be as curious as myself at the moment. Standing next to a shocked Lancelot was a crowned Shadow the Hedgehog with a motor cycle at his side with an army of normal Shadows with fake green chaos emeralds. Nichole whispered to me, [I forgive you. Oh, and this is serious! Looks like every Shadow from every storage... times a lot.]
Next to the King Shadow was another Shadow (no surprise), but he looked different. Smaller white fur on his chest, different shoes and gloves, and seemed slightly different in personality. He turned to me and spoke in a voice that sounded older, "Didn't expect to see you. Nice wings."
I pointed at him, "Wait, your that one Shadow current Sonic fights! How come you don't have an army?"
"Call me the Advisor and the other King Shadow." Just as he finished the quick introduction, Lancelot (or who I assume is Lancelot within this vision of black and red) screams a loud scream with his Arondight dropped to the ground and his face guard rises off his face, showing is crazed look.
"King Arthur, prince Sonic, prince Manic, princess Sonia, king Sonic, princess Twilight, princess Celestia, princess Luna, princess Cadence, king Shadow!!!" He drops to the ground in a mad rant, "Are they just handing out crowns to everyone who breaths?!"
Then something came over me as I added more royal names, "There's also Queen Chrysalis, princess Sally Acorn, king Shahryar and king Solomon of the Arabian Knights, king Maximillian Acorn, king Arfur a mobian version of king Arthur..." I driving the poor guy as I mentioned kings and queens while Advisor slowly backed away from the knight. My voice wasn't done sadly as both me and Nichole tried to shut me up, "Princess Elise the third, princess Alicia Acorn- Queen Aleena. Queen Aleena." What just happened?! I stopped at Sonic's mom and... That's not my voice just now!
An audio file opened up as the Shadows watched in awe as that Robotnik's voice played, "Queen Aleena is alive. But where? Nobody knows, but she has become a major threat in space-time. Metal, someday you will become the perfect weapon against Sonic. But first, I'm giving myself a promotion! Scratch, put this unfinished bot in storage."
I regained control of my vocals as I voiced everyone's thoughts, "What the Buy Some Apples! did I just play?!"
Sir Lancelot looked up from the ground, "I must return to prince Sonic. I worry for his safety and my current sanity." He grabs Arondight and bows, "I don't think I want to know anything about you... yet."
King Shadow got on his bike as his army teleports away and Advisor getting on with him, "I understand. If you ever want to learn or be my champion, find a robot head. I'm everywhere!" He drives off as Lancelot runs off.
Oh Sega Archie and Lady Faust, I just dodged a bullet bigger than the Egg Carrier!
What just happened?! I confront our enemy to find out about this "Shadow" character and I find an army of the guy! Next thing I know, I'm introduced to the names of royalty I never heard of leading to a mystery about a Queen Aleena... I walk back into town as the Knuckles ran up to me, "Hey Lance! What's up?" Asked the big one.
"Um... Well, nothing of interest..." I reply.
Little Knuckles rubbed his head, "Are you OK? You don't sound too good."
"I wont tell you much," I start, getting a look from both echidnas: one of suspicion and one of giddy curiosity, as if I found a fair maiden or something. "Do any of you know who Queen Aleena is?" Why are they looking at me like that?
The two Knuckles huddled to each other, in conflict to respond. It was then Little Knuckles spoke with a growl and venom in his tone, "How do you know that name?!"
"I admit it! I found a metal Sonic with green wings, followed him to ask who is Shadow the Hedgehog. Suddenly I meet him, an exact copy of me wearing a crown and cape, calling himself King Shadow!" I pulled in air as I calmed myself, "All around us was an army of non royal hims. It was the craziest thing ever..."
Big Knuckles had a blank expression on his face as little Knuckles punched a nearby boulder, "Are you sure there's an army of that creep?!"
"My vision was filled with blank and red wearing my glorious face. And I know how many it takes to make an decent sized army!" I put it bluntly, enraging the two.
Soon after a meeting was called about what I had witnessed and luckily they didn't care about the robot Sonic I was with or my loyalty. What did receive their attention was this possible threat. We have Time Eater, a missing Rosey the Rascal, Dark Gaia minions, the Robotnik / Changeling alliance, and now the Shadow army!
Sadly I didn't learn anything about Shadow the Hedgehog or this Queen Aleena person, but I guess its something to know when my king returns.
I push a boat I stole from Robotnik onto a beach, my package riding with me. Once the small boat is all the way on the beach, I plop on my back with my sword Caliburn next to me. Hi my name is Sonic the Hedgehog and I'm being humiliated by Celestia.
Recap: We won a battle that might start a war, I ignored the Sun goddess and became Darkspine Sonic to stop the Egg Dragoon, and destroyed the Alicorn Amulet. Instead of a reward for destroying two evil things, I'm being punished for taking the World Rings that corrupted her little sister Luna.
The pink fluffy unicorns song I've been hearing since arrival is starting to get on my nerves by this point.
"What color are the unicorns?" asked a radio that played the song. As the other voices said 'pink!', the owner of the radio replied 'froggie!'... Oh, no. Not him!
"Oh, hello! Have you seen froggie? He ate another gem and flew away in a ball of fire and... and I miss my froggie!" He started crying a bit, making me feel sorry again. Before I could reply, a crimson eagle pony flew out of nowhere dropping out of form to reveal the Ditzy Doo mare holding a red frog in her mail bag.
"Um... Hello! Fwoaggiey? This frog for a Big Cat!" She said, holding the frog in her hooves away from her face.
"Yay! Froggie!" In all that rings, I need to move before he sees me! Suddenly my attempt to run away was slowed by Big and Ditzy group hugging me, forcing two Sol Emeralds out of the frog. Wait, what?!
A hologram of Dr. Robotnik (Note to Readers: Big Mouth). He begins his message with an echoing, tamed laugh that ends as soon as it starts. The glare from his black, red eyes sent shivers down everyone's spine. Especially Sonic's siblings and the ponies. His voice is cold like a metallic antarctic, as he speaks his robotic arm is stroking the head of a robot crow-chicken thing on his shoulder, "Greeting Princess Celestia. I heard you had problems with my treaty." He lets a tense pause fill the air, "You wont have to worry any longer. I offered peace, now I'm bringing war. If you look for love and mercy, you will not find it within me." His head seemed to know where Boom Sonic was at making the message more real, "Hedgehog. I have all of the Sol Emeralds and five Chaos Emeralds, try to stop me again."
Didn't Robotnik say he had all of the Sol Emeralds?!
Meanwhile another council chat started, but oddly enough Eggman Nega was late. He's second in command, how's he late?! Hard Boiled thought within his cell, protecting him from an angry Amy Rose.
Our leader, Big Mouth (who was murdered by his coward nephew before the Genesis Wave revived him as that dork and yet, he's our leader) spoke, "Nega, report? What's taking Sombra's revival so long?"
Nega looked like a mess as he tried to fix his 'stache and replied, "We need all the Sol Emeralds to complete the process."
THUMP!!! "What do you mean by that?"
"I only have two Sol Emeralds..."
Beach Ball hoped in on this, "I thought the we had them all!"
"If I explained how I lost it, it would sound like a fucking acid trip..."
This time I commented, "Try me. I made cookies that turned Sonic's friends into mini me's as he turned me blue Sonic-Robotnik."
"Sega shit... Well, that explains the purple cookie at my door and my prancing in a super form. I seriously became "Burning Blaze Nega" and when I returned to normal they scattered. I found four, but then a frog ate two of them followed by a big cat chasing it."
Loki and myself actually laughed our asses off, I was able to respond, "Big the Cat's frogs ate your gems? There's training to avoid that frog!"
Big Mouth got up, flipping his TV tray as he yelled at Nega. I wished I knew what he said, but the sound of a screaming girl and hammers bashing metal bars designed to keep her in or out, took the air. Nice try girl!
Five songs. This hug lasted five long songs on a radio plus commercials. Within the third song, I began rolling the group with the pegasus ignoring the heavy weight that was placed on her when we rolled and Big laughing joyfully. Soon things got out of hand as we rolled down a slope with a launch pad, which fired us at three loops and a twist followed by a trail of springs that shot us throughout the air.
"Why are there springs and loops in the desert?!" I scream out over the cheers from my fellow huggers.
"Sire, look!" Caliburn exclaimed, motioning towards something, "That place reminds me of the Arabian Nights, so it must be Saddle Arabia!"
"You're right, thanks!" I force Big's weight to my left as we rolled towards the sandy town. Behind us, a huge boulder came out of nowhere rolling after us in faster speeds. I force the power of my light speed shoes onto the group, allowing the biggest spin dash ever as we countered the boulder and sent us both flying like two exercise balls-
You know? I can stay in the air and somehow push on an invisible wall to destroy robots in a homing attack, despite my non lethal quills. Either Eggman's robots are weak or physics is derped... no offence to Ditzy.
I was finally free of the hug, but not my companions as we cantered the sandy streets. All around horses (not ponies) and mobians in desert wear watched as an unlikely trio walked amoung them.
A grumpy blue hedgehog in uniform, a brown scarf, and gold shoes carrying a box as big as a child with a bubblewraped sword with eyes. A grey pegasus with a mail bag, blonde mane and tail, and staring at a crushed muffin with gold eyes that looks at the muffing and you sadly... Like she's judging your very soul! And a big, fat cat holding a frog. Nobody could tell if they were mail carriers, unintelligent, or rich.
I sat my package down and used it as my soap box as I called for their attention, "Hello Saddle Arabia, I'm Sonic the Hedgehog of Equestria!" From everywhere knives were taken out, reflecting sun light as my eyes. I held up Caliburn as I countered their light, "Take me to your leaders, this is urgent!"
Caliburn smirked as he Canterlot voiced a translation, "STOP THIS FOOLISHNESS! MY WIELDER IS SIR SONIC, SON OF QUEEN ALEENA OF MOBIUS, KNIGHT OF THE WIND, KING OF THE MEDIEVAL REALM, SAVIOR OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, AND MANY MORE TITLES! He has crushed gods and defeated djinn. We bring peace and warnings of war."
Everything stopped as knives and produce littered the ground and slack jaws were all around.
We were escorted into a palace and to a throne room filled with gold, pillows, tigers, and a few Mobian belly dancers as I brought in my box. In the low thrones sat a brown horse with a short tan mane and long tail with a beautiful pink and deep purple horse in the other throne. They stare at me as I pushed the box across their marble floor towards them.
I wait a bit to catch my breath as I held Caliburn to them, getting weapons pointed at me. He rolled his eyes before he spoke for me, "Hail, Saddle Arabian royals! We would wish an audience, but this is urgent. My name is Caliburn the ancient sword Excalibur and this is King Sonic, savior of the Arabian Nights blah blah blah. He has a list of titles that I don't feel like repeating."
I regain my composure as I sheathed my bragger. My hand directs their attention on the box, "I speak on Equestria's behalf. I have no clue what is in this box, but I know its evidence of Equestria's innocents and an upcoming threat incase my first hand encounter means nothing."
Once they open the box, a blue robot chao flies out, "Hi I'm Omochao! You opened the box! It contails Omochao and the remains of a roboticized pony and a piece of the destroyed Alicorn Amulet."
"Oh no. I cant survive year without meeting ONE Omochao!"
"Press A to Jump and B to ground pound! You got the light speed shoes! They help you ru-!" I grabbed the metal pony head in front of Omochao, who turned one the pony's projector eye.
It showed images as Omochao narrated. Gerald Kintobor became Robotnik in the original timeline all the way to now, only describing what was necissary. From the seer warning my mom to smores with Eggman as we wait for his Cow Bot. Nostalgia and pain flew by as time kept restarting. My sibling replaced by the Freedom Fighters. Robotnik evolved to Eggman and Metal Sally was his greatest weapon. Mega man helped me save our restarting, separate worlds. The Freedom Fighters and the world I knew, gone. The new outfits and bodies, made to stop Lyric. And now all the timelines are merged with this world.
The royals looked to me, speachless as the most recent images showed me releasing the Alicorn Amulet spirit. After the show, nighttime revealed itself as Omochao and the head fell back into the box.
I wipe my tears as I regain my composure, "Well, don't we have a story for the griffons, eh?"
"But Blarg, your not done with your shift! Can't you get one of the Anotos or Maxxons to take your shift?" Blarg 20 asked, "We need to harvest her love before the Rouge's love pool runs out!"
There's been some distress within the Changling hive for weeks and the month is nearing an end as Metal Sonic is contemplating whether or not to return Amy to her friends. Then again, the changelings fighting over who gets snuggle shifts is pretty funny.
"But her legs feel like a hedgehog!" Blarg 69 conplained.
"She is a hedgehog..." Blarg 20 replied with an unimpressed look.
Suddenly an order from the queen invade their minds, Can somepony snuggle with Amy Rose?! Seriously, her love for Sonic is like Neighagra Falls, making her more valuable than Rouge, yet none of you will volunteer! Her arms are bound so no hammers, but you keep excusing yourself because of her legs!
[Metal? How are we hearing Chrysalis?] Nichole asked, pausing her movie.
[My theory: The goo that gave me my wings.] I replied, flaring my wings to their full length.
[OK. Oh, why don't you have any romantic comedies?]
[I was built to kill Sonic. If the good Doctor downloaded romantic comedies I'd bet my only success would be to defeat Amy for Sonic's love. By the way, I don't have a heart and I'd rather fight Amy to better myself.] I turned my arm into a piko hammer, [Besides that adventure with the Dr. Wiley alliance improved me anyway.] I turned my arm back t normal.
[How do you have their abilities? Scratch that, how do you still have their abilities?]
[Magic.]
[I'm serious!]
[If I had an explanation, I'd give it to you,] I said with a shrug. [Amyway we have a week before we can return Amy.]
"Hey robot!" I looked down to a tiny scarf Sonic- a changeling. "Can you help us out?"
In my new deep voice I downloaded, "What is it, bug?" He took a step back before shaking his fear off.
"Nopony wants to be with the Amy Rose," I was wondering how I was supposed to get near her, "So can you disguise yourself as the hedgehog?"
"Does it look like I have changeling magic?"
He kicked a nearby rock with his arms behind his back, "Well you could. The goo in you just need a -what do you call it? A jump-start?"
I searched my options, landing on the new advantage, "Sure. Its not like I have anything better to do."
Nichole gave me a look, [What are you doing?]
[Trust me. If I have magic and Rose, we can bust out of here with little casualties.] We walked into a hallway where we could hear... um... those sounds flesh and blood creatures don't make out in the open. Let's leave it as that.
Did he just wipe my memory? I wake up in the throne room turned war zone as two arms give me a death grip hug and girly giggle could be heard from on my back.
[Metal? Oh, thank Archie!] Nichole exclaimed in relief, [Once you activated the changing magic, your memory stopped recording and you became Amy's dream Sonic!]
[What happened?!]
[Long story short: You entered her chamber, you two had a sudden make out session, she broke us out in a failed escape attempt all the while Queen Chrysalis was forcing everyone to feed off Amy, successfully suppressing her. Now we're stuck any nobody is doing anything... Oh and she has us wrapped in both your new scarf and a death-grip cuddle.]
[How did I get a scarf?!] I asked struggling in her cobra grasp.
[Magic,] she stated. [No seriously, the changeling magic made you that accessory. On the topic, don't change back. She's more dangerous heart-broken than in love. And as you can see,] moving my eyes at the sun light coming through the ceiling, the craters all around, and the unmovable throne on the other side of the room. [We best keep calm and let her snuggle us. Besides, best case scenario: We can escape with her on us and luckily she will cling onto the real Sonic.]
[Tell me, how do we escape if I have no wings?]
[Um... Run?] That would be an obvious answer, but I have a scarf binding my legs. [You can always use your robot strength to break the scarf. It's not like its titanium or material like that!]
[Are you sure you're not suppressing my intelligence?]
In an innocent voice she replied with a simple, [No... I'm not...]
Throughout the past days I was able to get into a running ready position... Which appeared to be torso flat on the ground with my feet free and arranging Amy in a position to where she's nibbling on my ear. No. I don't know why they do that, but it doesn't bother me.
Doctor Eggman looked at us, probably bored in his cage. All he has in there is chess and board games that he never wins, Cubot and Orbot styled checkers, and a set of burnt cards from various card games. So it would be logical that his lack of his television would lead to his constant watch on us.
"Metal, I've noticed there's something... Different about you." He said, rubbing his mustache. Wait. He's rubbing his 'stache. This can't be good... "Every scan I make shows no defect, actually some improvements." And that's bad?
"Doctor, is there something wrong?"
He takes a seat on his bench, facing me as continued to twirl the tip of his mustache, "You show serious improvement, yet beyond scan you show signs of defect or deterioration. Can't distinguish which. You make a beeping and buzzing noise, despite having your voice." He gave me this glare, "Also you choose to be lazy, despite your programming for full loyalty-"
"And I'm supposed to adapt to Sonic in every way possible. Subject Amy here," who is sleeping and still holding on, "Is making the adaption a little more real. How do I kill somebody if I have no idea how they act. Please, forgive me of my outburst. It's not in my place."
He gave a smile as his hands clasped behind his back, "It's fine. But that doesn't explain the noise."
"Would you rather have a faithful servant or Orbot?" I said smugly. He seemed to consider my words, but noticed that my new face had an unsure look afterwards.
"Metal, what's wrong?" He said, holding the bars of his cell.
I forced myself back to normal, flipping Amy in front of me, "It is time. I'm sorry to do this Doctor." I stood up as a shocked look meets his face.
"W- what do you mean?!"
"I'm not joining Sonic, but I'm returning the girl. I will return to you when the time comes." I held up a red chaos emerald.
"An emerald! How did you get one?!" He said, holding two iron bars as he stepped forward out of his cell. He looked down at the split bars in his hands before tossing them away.
"I'm joining a guy named Mr. S on his mission through time. Please forgive me, but if Sonic doesn't get this emerald a paradox will open," I looked over to a portal with Sonic the Werehog ushering me over to him as human Sonata cheered me on. "If you want this emerald, go to Saddle Arabia. He should be there with more than just an emerald."
As I hopped through the portal, Werehog smacked my shoulder, "Why would you tell him that?!"
"Well, he's my creator and you told me to do it!" My voice echoed in the abandoned warehouse we stood in.
Sonic let out a low growl, "Great. Did I at least tell you how we're going to get out of the human world and who gets to keep that emerald?"
I checked my memory as emails in my read box flew by my eyes, "Sorry, no. Though, how did you know that I was on your side?"
He held out a letter with a smirk, "I got a letter from Sally Acorn of Knothole High. Last time I checked, there's not a school anywhere here by that name. Not in the world."
Sonata pointed at the pink human girl on my back, "Hey, I saw her at Taco Bell yesterday!"
Sonic smashed a crate from a distance with his stretching arm, "Great! Now we got this paradox to worry about!"
My clock setting was switched on for me to distinguish the new time frame. As my focus returned to the freak, he starts glowing a bright yellow. Becoming a blue haired human with green eyes, same blue suit I saw at Casino Night Zone but with an athletic difference. His tie and jacket disappeared and his white dress shirt became a muscle shirt, showing his tan arms, and soap shoes. Along his dress pants were three gold rings on the side, like a pony's destiny mark.
I noticed some slight shift in weight as Amy slowly woke up. Seeing a blue girl, human Sonic, a brown girl in a purple dress with black hair, and me.
I quickly changed my appearance to a green human with blue spiked hair, similar to Sonic, wearing jeans and a blue leather jacket with some white-red Nikes to break the trend. I had a chain that came across from my front pocket to my back pocket, passing over a mark of a wrench with green-blue wings.
"Where am I?" Amy Rose asked in her daze.
Let's end it here. We could send a letter about the moral. You can be loyal and still be a back stabber. Nope, let's not.
In case you're wondering: yes. Big is still with me despite my negative opinion... though I still couldn't just leave him. Maybe Flutterfly can take him in or something.
"Where are we?" Big asked in his usual deep voice. I looked around and back on the map. All I know is that we're back in Equestria after escaping the Griffon Empire.
A Week Ago...
"Big, I think Omochao just got us in trouble..." I said, backing up inside the throne room of the second most powerful kingdom on the planet with the very powerful griffon king glaring death at me.
Big scratched his head, "Didn't you toss Omochao at that Nightmare-thingie?"
"Hey, if you find an Omochao canon it needs to be used!" I explained with a nervous shrug.
From under the griffon king's talon Omochao raised an arm and said the dumbest thing ever, "XXBABA UP DOWN DOWN XBBABXXY LEFT to kill the griffon king!"
Yeah, we got out of there, explained the situation to the Royal Adviser in the safety of his room, and hopped out of the window with Derpy barely struggling to fly us back to Equestria.
"Next time I see an Omochao, I am going to destroy it then have my friend Tails rebuild it so that the bot can be destroyed again!" I said from behind a boulder. Behind the boulder was a town that I couldn't find on the map. It looked dull and everyone had the same butt mark and creepy smile, but I'd rather be home then here.
My ear twitched as music started playing from a distance... Its not the town nor is it Big's radio... Ditzy flew home so its definitely not her.
"Sonic? What're you doing over there?" Big asked from my left. I looked over the huge rock to see- Looks like little me, black jacket, boots, and vintage shades, and Rosy the Rascal exists in this world. My best bet is either little gone bad or Anti-Sonic. The towns people started running, yet keeping their smiles as they ran from a green ball-
"Hey, retard! Wrong song. I can't feel the sense of fight... What the fuck is that purple thing over there?" The green hedgehog said to his smaller counterpart.
I took out Caliburn, ripping off the bubble wrap on his blade as the popping noise drew Scourge's attention to me. Yes, I said it. I began my attack with a punch to his face and tripping the small one with Caliburn's blade.
On the ground, a green hedgehog with blue eyes and red shades, wearing a torn black jacket with flames on the shoulders and two long scars sloped across his chest. Next thing I saw were his black and green shoes attempting to strike my head, that was a distraction for Anti-Sonic to spin dash me to my right as soon as I dodged Scourge's feet.
I quickly parried a homing attack from my position on the ground and I swiped my blade, almost hitting my target of Anti-Sonic then Scourge.
Anti-Mini Me laughed as his took a running position, "So we meet again! Looks like you got some new tricks." He spun at me as I rolled backwards and counter spun, sending him flying yet also in perfect aim of Scourge's attack. I barely blocked his attack as his small blue counterpart swiped my feet out from under me.
Luckily I attached a enerbeam to him and tossed him at Scourge, getting back up. "You need some bandages? I can spare a few from my foot!"
"Great, I'm getting my ass handed to me by a sword wielding cripple," Scourge said, tossing Anti-Sonic off him.
"Who said I was crippled?" I said hopping on my feet. I kicked their boom box as little bit of Music Jackson played.
The destruction from the fight left some walls destroyed, nothing too bad, but it was still chaotic. So chaotic in fact that a brown hedgehog came out of nowhere and gave Scourge an actual Falcon Punch to the face.
It was obviously Discord. I mean, who would have a long fang, yellow-red eyes, and shoes that didn't match? Plus Sonic wasn't new to his tricks and abilities.
He spun at Scourge backwards and when his target countered, the attack back fired. Imagine punching someone and an invisible fist punching you with more force than your fist then you can see why he was sent flying while Discord floated up and away like a balloon. He then reappeared as a hammer, batting Anti-Sonic around.
To be honest, I'm glad he came. I can easily defeat Anti-Sonic alone, but Scourge has the strength and ruthlessness advantage over the situation. The only advantage over my Master Emerald mutated evil me is Caliburn and what equipment I have.
Speaking of which, I grabbed him with my enerbeam and started slamming him around me. He escaped my last swing and held out an Anarchy Beryl, transforming-
Pause for those who don't know: there's a gem all over Scourge's Mobius called Anarchy Beryl that's sort of like an anti-chaos emeralds, though once the power is gone it leaves a massive drain on the user, unlike the chaos emeralds. It has been said that if use of a Chaos Emerald is comparable to a good Caffine buzz, then Anarchy Beryl could be compared to some kind of 'Super-Cocaine', since it gives a brief high and then a massive drain.
-into Super Scourge! He points his finger at me shouting, "Come at me!" He flew at me with his full speed, allowing me the chance to use Caliburn to his fullest as I side stepped, positioning my sword. I almost impaled him, but he was too strong. I caught Caliburn with my enerbeam, luckily Lancelot came by to help- wait, what?!
Discord gave me a thumbs up before he tossed his head at Anti-Sonic. We stood in the middle of Ponyville, next to town hall as the fight raged on. Little Me stalled Anti-Sonic, allowing Discord free time to drop his anvil self onto Scourge, who was electrocuted among hand contact with the god-like being. Silver flew by with some rocks, tossing them at Scourge as both Knuckles glided from a tree over to our common foe.
Sir Lancelot then ran off to a tree and climbed it lifting Arondight as he gave a call, "Shadow the Hedgehog, hear my call! A purple colored foe is defeating my king and his friends!"
Suddenly the sound of a thousand voices could be heard in near perfect sync from all around, "CHAOS CONTROL!!!! CHAOS SPEAR!!!!" As a large wave of bright light converged at Scourge. King Shadow appeared next to Sonic as he prepared for the attack to end, he then rushed at the weakened Scourge as he gave a powerful kick. That kick sent Scourge flying through the air and reverted him back into his usual green self.
The Shadow army disappeared as King Shadow tossed Scourge back at Silver, "Call me when its an actual threat." And with that, he disappeared in a red flash.
Everyone stood there, getting re-accustomed to the returned silence- Well, besides the squirming, cursing Anti-Sonic and Sir Lancelot's foot steps. He walked over to the group with a sigh, "Well, that was a bit overkill."
Twilight looked to the knight, "What was that?!"
Big Knuckles waved her off, "Its not much! Lance has contact with the Shadow army we talked about. Looked like there was more than ten of 'em..."
Little Knuckles facepalmed, "You big lunk! There was at least ten thousand Shadows!"
"Woah! You can count that fast?"
I stepped up, placing my hand over my Knuckle's mouth. "Knuckles, go back to sleep," then I pointed at Lancelot, "Loyal knight, can you inform me about the 'Shadow army' I just witnessed?"
He bowed, "Yes sire. Over lunch, if that's fine?"
A brown stallion with a blue tie, hourglass mark, and rose themed mare ran on by, "Yep. Just another day in Ponyville! Come along Roseluck."
I turned by gaze to the pony as he left our sight, "Wait, was that pony doctor who?" I let Knuckles walk away as I refocused my attention to Lancelot. "Start now."
Thanks to Scourge and Anti-Sonic, the dungeon in Twilight's castle is used for a second time. Luckily within that gap of prisoners, Twilight and Tails worked on some modifications to the cells. Since its just a prototype, the elements had to take shifts watching him until the Robot Guard arrived. Though, Apple Jack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie were too busy with their jobs to make sure some green hedgehog didn't break another cell and probably doom us all.
I'm not joking! Rosy couldn't smash her way through, I couldn't eat nor melt the gems without them growing back! And yet, this guy broke out of three cells resulting in Twilight using magic to paralyze him and me dragging his weight into a stronger cell. This time we set it to where a single crack will stun his sorry butt.
Life with the castle and the arrival of Sonic has been interesting. Both Sonics are running all around the timeless places somehow reverts everything to normal. I think they have a magic touch.
With those two and their siblings, Sonic Underground has become the third most common thing in Ponyville with their rock music. The first being Pinkie parties and second being major disasters like a rabbit stampede.
They actually had a Equestria-wide tour that lasted a few weeks, due to their Sonic powered wagon... that the crusaders want back. They even have a set up where Jet is their manager and Lancelot is their body guard.
Cream and Bunnie often visits Fluttershy, mainly to teach Angel how to behave. Cream and Cheese have made it their duty to help Fluttershy with her animals, giving her free time to join Rarity and Silver on spa dates and other calming activities.
Both Knuckles and Bunnie have a volunteer job at Apple Jack's farm, giving Bag Mac competition! The only time you see that happening to him, its to either defend the farm or best his skills now they get three powerhouses doing his job better than him! Its just not right!
Silver works at Rarity's boutique, making Sweetie Belle a bit jealous. With the new spread of Mobians in Equestria, the fashion business is booming! What sucks about that is that I have to compete with thin Knuckles for gem hunting. I can dig great, but I need Rarity to find gems. Knuckles he not only can find gems without magic, he can dig up gems better than what Rarity finds! Heck, he can even defend her from Diamond Dogs...
Pinkie Pie has been throwing more parties than a party pony pretends to plan at playtime! Say that three times fast and you get a cookie. And the Mobians know how to party, heck even look forward to the next one!
Sonic trains his younger self every morning while Rainbow Dash and Sonic practice their running and reaction to things, even mastering the wisp powers in their races with each other.
We even invited King Shadow to interrogate Scourge for us. Unlike last time, he rode in out of nowhere on a black thing called a motorcycle that rumbled as he drove it. His black and red colors actually made me nervous around him as he hovered off the vehicle, entered the castle, and descended the steps as his cape flowed behind him...
The Timeline: Before Rainbow Rocks. Metal Sonic's P.O.V.
Ever since I arrived in this "human world" it has been... peaceful. Amy knows who I am and yet, accepts me just like Nichole said she would... which is a bit odd, but I think I can live (or the equivalent of live) not having an explanation.
I kept my human disguise so that I can buy the group these "tacos" and blend in when I stroll around. I tend to have a lovely conversation with past Amy and Flash Sentry, dropping vague hints about the future just for laughs. It was even funnier watching her assume it was her future with "Sonic" then return to other Amy to see her angry face.
As Amy recovers on a stack of mattresses, she comments my return in a happy tone, "So? Love is coming for me and I have a knight in shining armor?" Then drops her happy expression.
"You do know what happens when you assume, right?" I said with my arms crossed, leaning on the nearest wall.
Nichole's avatar appears in a towel that quickly switches to a purple robe, "Metal, quit antagonizing the poor girl!"
Me and Amy looked to each other then back to Nichole with Amy asking the question, "Why is your avatar in a robe?"
"Well, my usual purple dress got malware on it so I'm sort of "washing" it." She said with air quotes on washing, "These humans create their own electronic communication system and yet they trash it! Save the Earth, ha! Save the Web!" She disappears back into my ear as "water" is turned back on.
Sonic (a.k.a. not yet Mr. S) returns from his "mission" as soon as Nichole said 'Save the Web!' and went off air. "Your germaphobe girlfriend aside, we need to send the emerald to me at the right time. Any ideas?"
Me being the brains grabbed Nichole's idea and spoke it, "Well, I believe that if we time this right we can leave this world and toss the emerald to Princess Twilight's assistant, Spike through a portal. As soon as that happens they will work Princess Celestia's phone book into an safely active portal between this world and the pony world."
"What about Sonata?" Sonic asked as darkness crept at his feet, "You said she was with me when we met."
"I'm getting to that. We sneak back at night and wait for the night of the Dazzling's loss, bringing her with us!" I then pointed at Amy, "After that I bring her home and chose what I do next!"
Robotnik Council connecting to Hard Boiled's base, coincidentally ten miles from the green changeling hive. Our P.O.V.
Hard Boiled and the rest of the group look around to make sure Big Mouth was actually gone to relieve himself as Snivley gave the thumbs up. "Hard Boiled" Eggman clears his throat, "So how's it going Loki?"
"Nothing much. Just chillin' and planning on killin'." "Loki" Eggman responds in a so-so matter.
"Beach Ball" Robotnik shouts out, "What is up!" A massive groan came from every screen.
"Real Man" Eggman shakes his head, "Great, he ruined the mood."
"King" Eggman fixed his make up as he spoke, "Maybe for you. Let's try again without any Robotnik."
Beach Ball held the yellow world ring, "Then I'll be an Eggman!"
Loki gave him a glare, "No. Last time you called yourself Eggman two Sonics defeated us, abandoning us both in a white limbo."
"How do you think we got out? I clearly don't remember."
Loki smirked, "My plan B. If we were to be defeated, a time split would bring us all here at once and make sure a separate timeline was made to avoid me finding Time Eater. Thus Nega can be here too when the split reunites. Interesting enough, it also brought memories from forgotten timelines bringing "Real Man" to the new prime timeline."
Real Man twirled his mustache, "So you're the reason we're in pony land?"
"We were sent to a time when we all died and our fight with Sonic became meaningless. How was I supposed to know the world would be reborn as something that looks like it came from a little girl's TV show?"
Hard Boiled clapped his hands slowly, "OK. Now tell me: why do we grow soft every time a Genesis Wave happens?"
"PARTY PARTY PARTY!" "Oh my mom!" She screamed. Celestia never says that, especially in her Canterlot Voice, unless something truly terrifying happens.
Suddenly Luna bursts through the door, "Tia, it has begun!"
"Sonic, stop your story," Twilight said with a hand on her face.
I lower my stapled paper story, "What?"
"'Oh my mom' and 'Tia, it has begun'? What is that?!"
I pass her the papers, "Um.. Art? Just like this drawing!"
Twilight stared at the picture, at first in curiosity, then fear, and finally anger. "Where did you find this?" She asked between her teeth as a scowl formed.
"I got the idea from a dream."
Twilight tossed the bind back at Sonic, "Yeah and I'm a princess." She said, flapping her arms, "Spill."
Before I could say anything, Zecora bursts into the library, "Lord Sonic! Returned has the Ener Jac!"
"Nah! That's just Knuckles cosplaying, again," I waved her off.
"And Perfect Chaos is back."
I flipped a nearby table with enough force for shards of wood to fly everywhere, "Where is he?"
She paused a moment, "I was under a tree, deep in thought. When I saw a monster tower Canterlot!"
I drew out Caliburn, "Caliburn, summon Hyper Sonic!" I commanded as I left Twilight's tree library. "First the changeling interrupt Sir Lancelot and Cadenza's wedding, now this?!"
The rainbow factory once more rumbled as the rainbow racing car emerged from the clouds with bifrost forming its tracks. Rainbow Dash pulled on her blue-gold jump suit and followed as she slipped on a pair of shades over her shades, "Yeah baby! Break those academy records!"
Not far behind, Shadow rode the waves of his fan girl army from the ground.
The horn sounded. That meant the Sonic Heroes were needed and Sticks knew Amy would join them no matter what. "Amy stop."
The pink hedgehog stopped in her tracks, "What is it, teacher?"
"May I remind you of our training? No distractions, wax on and wax off is not real, the government is watching, and...?"
Amy sighed, "My weapon is an extension of myself. Leave no evidence and make it quick."
"No, make it quick if there's blood or terminal civilians! You are not ready."
"But I need to go."
"Then you shall. Finish what you start, always," she pointed her staff to the door as Amy covered her head in the hood of her cloak, leaving the Manehattan sewers.
Sonic could sense their presence and hear Shadow coming towards him.
The awesome Sonicbolt.
The screaming fan girls carrying the reason they live.
The rustling of bushes and leaves.
He sat in his car as soon as it arrived, placing Caliburn inside the key slot. "Everyone ready?" He asked as Dash, Shadow, and Amy nodded. He started the car, activating the giant Sonic mech.
It teleported on command once the transformation was over. Below them, Perfect Chaos flooded the city in... BUBBLEZ!
"Sonic we can't do it!" Caliburn cried, crying less after Sonic back handed the sword.
"No, we can do it and we will!"
Tails flew by with the Tornado X, "Tails here! Need some help?"
"Did you bring Jet?"
"Sup!" the bird said.
Sonic focused his team's power into Caliburn, "Lets go! Activating Hyper Tornado Sonic Jet X!!"
The Tornado X loaded Jet's gravity ring becoming the "Jet X" mech before merging with Hyper Sonic. The new mech looked like a giant rainbow Metal Sonic with blue-green wings and four arms. One arm held a Piko Piko Hammer, another had a machine gun, the third had a canon, and the top right had a giant Excaliburn with a blade forged of pure Anarchy Beryl by Dwarves.
The battle was so awesome it couldn't be described. It was so epic, the Bronies that witnessed it died and their bodies were fed to Mephiles the Dark's fans. Only BlackGryph0n survived with rainbow-related injuries.
Dr. Robotnik flew by with a grin, "Snooping as usual, I see! Well, you're missing my party in Twilight Town!"
"STAY AWAY FROM TWILIGHT!" I shouted, tossing a hand full of rocks and fangirls at his Pingus Mobile. He dodge it while Rich Rolling us.
We lept into the air, landing directly in front of Golden Oaks.
Sure enough he built something of true evil. It was a giant, orange robot centaur with a red electric guitar war hammer. It had a mark on its white chest of a blue shield with a yellow lightning bolt.
Robotnik returned to view, "This Waifu Stealer series: Flash Sentry 3.14159!!"
Tails went all nerd mode, "So Flash Sentry Pi?" The robot instantly fell apart, freeing Twilight and Fluttershy.
"How did you know the pass code?! I don't deserve my own promotion!" Robotnik complained.
The mech got in a fighting stance, "Twilight, my love, let's finish this!!!" I commanded as Twilight gave us magic, turning the mech into Sparkling Hyper Friendship Tornado Sonic Magic Jet X that now had a horn. We focused our power.
"You god set!" I called.
"Shenobe set!" Amy followed in a slightly heart broken tone.
"Hot ass set!" Shadow followed.
"20% cooler set!" Rainbow followed, wearing five pairs of shades, "I can't see."
"Null gravity set!" Jet shouted.
"Max power set!" Tails exclaimed.
Twilight entered the mech, pressing the harmony switch, "Friendship Is Magic!!!"
All at once we controlled the mech to fire a rainbow ball of energy. Somewhere in town somebody is screaming, "Taste the rainbow mother nope!!!!"
Pinkie closed her paper back book, "And everyone was happy! Especially Sonic, who MHHHMAHMPHH!"
I placed my hand over Pinkie's mouth, "Yeah, don't write fan fiction... ever again."
Twilight sat slumped in her throne, "Don't write any forever."
I walked back to my bean bag seat next to little me as the party pony responded, "But its fun!"
"No. Its bad so stop."
"Fine! I will replace Sonic with Silver... nope. Its dead," Pinkie huffed. "It would only fix the ending."
Little Sonic wrote on a tiny white board in terrible, yet readable, hand writing, "HoW woULd it fiX thE eNdIng?"
"If it was just big you and Twilight: the Flash bot would kill him and mobian Twilight would revive him... With a kiss."
The Sonics gaged as the big one replied, "Been there, done that! Disturbing memory. And?"
"If it was Silver, then would make out as they hovered into a cloud!" Pinkie gave a calming sigh.
Twilight glared at the pink mare, "Don't write romancic novels, either! Just stick with parties, please?"
"Okey Dokey Loki! I'll even pinkie promise it!" She almost bounced off when Twilight grabbed her tail.
"I don't think you will hunt yourself down." Twilight tossed on her crown as Sonic rose Caliburn high from his seat, "So that pinkie promise is now a royal promise. We decree that you will not write another fanfic with real... People!"
Sonic adds, "By this royal promise, you can only write these real Mobian/Pony fics away from Equestria and any place that share land with Mobians!"
"So I can only write this in North Kornea?" Pinkie asked.
He lowered his sword and looked at Twilight, "Sure...?"
Pinkie hopped away, "Hail great reader! I wonder what kind of cake they have in a dictionaryship?" Her rambling quieted as she left. Looking around, eye brows were raised as everyone shrugged.
Sonic hopped out of bed, exclaiming what his younger self mouthed, "Shut up Tails!" They looked to each other before the older one added, "This isn't Big Boom Theory, you can come in!"
Tails walked in with a 'seriously?' look and a folded paper while Manic and Sonia gave us glares.
Tails shook of the morning tension in the room and began, "Metal Sonic just stopped by." Both Sonics hopped to their feet, about to speed out before Tails stopped them, "He already left. Nothing harmed! Its weird, he had green wings and rust on him... I'm not sure what to think, but he left a flyer for you as a warning."
Manic tilted his head, "Mech Man left a warning? Are you sure he's evil?"
"Enemies giving warnings is nothing new," Sonic said, snatching the pamphlet from Tails without touching his hand. He read aloud, "Soar the Eagle and Iron Will... Motivation seminar?"
"I looked at my diary I found under my bed... apparently I have serious short-term memory loss in the future," Tails said, glaring at the three hedgehogs holding back laughter. "And talked to the ponies in town. Soar was an eagle that motivated Eggman when he was depressed, resulting in him firing Soar. Iron Will simply turned Fluttershy into a bully, who turned back to good and used her new assertive abilities in a good way, to this very day."
Manic flopped back on his matress, "Wow. If I wanted exposition I would've opened a history book!"
"If they won't let you cross, SHOW 'EM WHOSE BOSS!" Iron Will shouted as he punted his goat assistant.
A bald eagle wearing a lot of blue and pink flew down near the goat with his jet pack, "If I wasn't a germaphobe, I would help you back up, but only you can get up. Only you can soar!" The goat got back up, "Now, are you going to go past the limit to beat him?" The goat nodded. "Wrong! You will go beyond your limit!"
From the crowd in the back of an out door theatre Big Sonic, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie watched as the goat attempted to ram tough, Iron Will in the stuff. Iron dodged, "Those who block your path or drive you to block an assault, SHOW THEM THAT YOU ROCK!" This became less of a seminar and more of a fight between the goat and his boss.
"He's still a brute, but that eagle I can listen to fully!" Rarity said as Soar motivated the goat to calm down.
"Hot anger will melt your wings, making you fall like a rock! When your calm, you can overcome any challenges!" He covered his winged arms in his shirts from a nearby vendor with his goods and clothesline Iron Will.
"When those make you fall, SHOW THEM THE WALL!" Iron exclaimed, "If you listen to us, you can learn to be motivated and assertive instead of weak and depressed!"
Soar flew around, over the crowd, "Can we get two volunteers? A male and female."
"Remember, this isn't just a pony land! New dangers are arising!" Iron informed, "Giant robots, dark monsters, new magic, ninjas, many new dangers! This seminar is not only for life skills, but it will save your life!"
Soar flew over to us, "You, blue hedgehog and yellow bird-pony!"
Iron called out, "Pegasus! Pegasus, not bird-pony!"
We walked up on stage, Fluttershy with determination and Sonic holding Caliburn over his shoulder as they walk- never mind. Sonic grabbed Fluttershy and rushed to the stage with her, "Sup Ox-man!"
"Minotaur. I am a minotaur," Iron said, before his eyes met the butter colored pony. "So, you weren't satisfied with the last one, but came here. Nice to see you again."
Fluttershy glared back at him, "Just making sure you were actually teaching something this time."
"Wooooaaaaaahhhh!! Burn!" Pinkie shouted, standing before Rarity pulled her back down into her seat.
Sonic just stood there, in the back of his mind he thought, Did little, timid Flutter just talk back to this huge, hulking bull?! He shrugged before twirling the reluctant Caliburn high in the air and homing on the sword, catching him in mid air, lastly landing with style as he used the air around him to spin the dust around him in a little tornado as he landed, "Sup. I'm Sonic the Hedgehog." From the crowd either somebody commented on Sonic's gold shoes or Caliburn, but you could hear an 'ooooh shiny!' from the silent crowd... And it wasn't Pinkie, Rarity made sure of that.
Iron turned his head and made a shoo-shoo motion, "Sorry, but we have no time. Clearly you don't need our lessons."
Soar circled the two, "Think of me as the ying. A light, peaceful bird in the air-"
Fluttershy tilted her head, "Why do you have that thing when you have wings?"
"Nature. Twisted nature. Any way, Iron Will is the yang. A heavy, tough ox standing his ground." He pulled out some charts, "As you can see we both lacked a certain structure in our lessons."
Iron puffed out his chest, "In documentation: my teachings start off good, but then turn bad and a few return good. I taught assertiveness as a way to excuse weakness and become a selfish bully. In return more came to my seminars because of my mistake."
"And I was being too nice about my seminars. I have 31 step motivation plan, but motivation and need for guidance leave people confused and lost. In the end, our teachings meant pain and torment or a lack of fulfillment. I helped Dr. Eggman be a better him, but he only got to step six while others got to step five or seven before leaving my teachings." Soar hovered beside Will, "That is why both of our lessons together will mean something!"
Sonic tapped his shoe, "Still not cool helping Eggman."
Fluttershy gave a glare, "Or turning me into a monster for a week."
"OK, Flutters. What kind of confidence juice are you drinking?"
Iron got defensive, getting up to Sonic's face, "The point is, Butterfly needed her friends as the ying of my lesson while you were the yang of Soar and Egg Head's lesson." He gave a second goat a signal to turn on a projector, "Harmony. Chaos. The flow of good and evil, light and dark. Sun and Moon!"
Soar held a stick as notes and the story played on a power point, "Here 1000 years ago, your princesses were seemingly at peace. Here we have Celestia, a prideful princess who only thought of what was best for her ponies. Not her sister, not the victims of pony attach. In her eyes only her subjects were good." The slides switched, "Here we have Luna, in a time before fireworks and star gazing under a beautiful moonlight. Lonely, ignored, and sad. She felt like a tool for the light to use, because we can only see the moon due to the sunlight reflecting off the surface. Nothing special."
Iron Will held out his blue hand to the next slide, "No subject to rule, nobody to love or understand her. This is an example of my teachings alone in a historical fashion." We saw as the drawing of Luna rose to the sky, turning black and armored. Nightmare Moon. "Jealousy and hate turned her into a monster!"
"This is where my teachings come in," Soar said while flying above the crowd. "Celestia was blind and ignorant, focused on being happy. She was lost and confused when her own sister turned on her."
"Their struggle is our symbol and her return is the result of our lessons together bringing form." Iron said. He then paused when the photo of Twilight and her friends defeating Nightmare Moon appeared. His jaw dropped as he looked between Fluttershy and the timid butter yellow Pegasus in the picture- clearly Fluttershy. The whole crowd saw it, too has fingers, hooves, and talons pointed.
Fluttershy cowered behind Sonic, "That's a lot of... um... pony eyes..."
Sonic messed with his watch, showing an edited version of Omochao's projection, "Hi. I'm Sonic the Hedgehog, savior of Mobius, lands, planets, and zones. This is Fluttershy, element of harmony who knows your princesses. All of them in fact. Helped save Equestria from Nightmare Moon, Discord, some third villain, and a guy who clearly hates tree libraries." I pointed at the pony behind me, "According to Princess Twilight and what I've seen, an alternate version of her defeated demons and sirens."
The projection showed old camera shots with important people and him fighting things from Perfect Chaos... twice, to beating too many races to count. People 'ooh' and 'aah' as pictures zoomed by.
Soar landed beside Sonic, bowing, "Sir, you too should be a symbol for us."
"You know? I think this is a normal, uncorrupted seminar-" Fluttershy pulled Sonic as a laser singed the ground he stood on. Egg Pawns fell to the ground as a panic started... but they don't look normal. It didn't matter, because Pinkie had her canon on hoof to destroy the invaders. The surviving Pawn tossed a message card at Sonic before self destructing. Looking around, seats were empty except for two.
The card looked old and damaged, but the projector, a little rough, worked. The audio started as a blurred Eggman stood on the card, "Metal Sonic, I know you're out there. Ex- Ex- Explain yourself at these coordinates. And stop controlling my robots! Its bad enough trying to call a time traveling robot, but trying to figure you out again is driving me mad! Meet me either here or the hive. This isn't a request, its an order!"
From behind two yellow ponies with apple marks, striped shirts and hats, and one having a nice mustache just looked at the two motivators from behind the merchandise table. The shaved one tossed his hooves in the air, "Great! Now how are we supposed to sell "Soaring Will" merch, now!"
Iron looked to them, "Not now Flim and Flam, our time will come when the danger is away."
Six figures dashed in the night. Sonic (BOOM!) the Hedgehog in a black suit, black hoodies wearing Tails and Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie in a spy outfit with orange goggles and utility belt, and Twilight Sparkle with messed up mane, tail, and wings wearing a scratched up, black spandex body suit and an eye patch above a scratch on her cheek. Silver was somewhere, but I forgot where.
"How did I let this happen again?!" Twilight grumbled softly as she fixed her patch.
"Well, I warned you about Spike's cold." Tails replied dryly.
Sonic snickered, "The little guy almost sneezed you bald!" He regained his composure and stopped the group when Eggman's base was in view.
"It's ok, he's asleep," Pinkie said, holding an egg shaped plate of multicolored cookies. Sonic quickly grabbed the plate and chunked it at a nearby tree, Pinkie frowned, "What was that all about?!"
"I don't know how you got in there, but don't eat anything. Unless you want to be evil with a brown mustache on your face," the group looked at Sonic, but shrugged off his odd behavior. Sonic put on a red scouter (you know from Dragon Ball Z, but for some reason in the first or second episode of Sonic X when he was doing something like this) and switched it on. "Caliburn, can you hear me?"
"Loud and clear, sire." said a sword wearing a headset in Sonic's hut in front of a monitor. Behind him were some ponies and mobians watching the screen, seeing what Sonic saw. And what Sonic was looking at is a vast desert with a tall white metal building surrounded by changelings, looking a bit shocked.
The screen's feed became blurry as Sonic glowed yellow, drilling into the ground. All they saw was darkness and sand as they tunneled underground and back to the surface, looking at the passing bugs that didn't notice him. He looked to his left, now showing the wall in the shadows, showing Twilight give a nod before vanishing.
From our hiding spot on the warm, metal wall, Twilight flared her horn, activating our stealth mode Tails created. I didn't see how a brightly glowing purple pony, glowing blue hedgehog, shining gold fox, sparkling pink pony, and OMG SHIELD YOUR EYES IF YOU EASILY GET SEIZURES!! Rainbow kept changing colors in rapid succession, a later known side effect due to her mane and tail. Silver teleported to us, suddenly shimmering as a bright white hedgehog.
"Stay together, the only reason this works is because Twilight's suit is sending magic feedback to the rest of us from her horn," Tails informed in a hushed tone. We all nodded as we snuck to the nearest air vent. Silver unscrewed the screws as Pinkie slid through. Rainbow tried that only for friction to stop her as she entered.
Pinkie slid herself with a push of her tail while everyone else crawled or scooted behind her. Tails gave a quick 'beep bop' to signal our stop. Blue and crazy colors tilted their head in confusion as the gold fox pointed down to a vent for Silver to open. "I'll be back, my suit as a ten minute magic battery. I need to access this computer." He touched a button, turning a glowing purple like Twilight. The group left him to his musings.
Suddenly Rainbow stopped the group a minute later. In a whisper, "Why does he have a battery and we don't?"
"You and Sonic are fast, Pinkie is Pinkie," she said as Pinkie crossed the intersection of the vents, sliding on her side with her hind legs crossed, a hoof to her head, and a yawn. "And Silver is sticking with me as my body guard and magic substitute, now keep moving."
From below, some metal on metal clacking sounded as burnbots passed the vents... with flame paint jobs on their bodies. Sonic thought, Awww. He actually learns that he isn't smart enough.
"Are you sure we're seeing what Sonic is seeing?" Jet asked, eating some popcorn. "All I see is air vents, random stopping, and more air vent."
"Well, I'm sure it's him," the sword reassured his audience. "They seem to be whispering too-" He heard a metallic clang as the scouter looks down at something through a hole. Caliburn turned the speakers back on as robots were hit by an unseen force that made Rainbows. One of the robots overloaded as it's head blew up.
Now two ponies blinked into existence as Rainbow turned to, a knocked out, Princess Twilight.
"This gone be good!" Scourge exclaimed in his hedgehog shaped cage, looking through a slit for his eyes to look through. His cage wore one of those soda hats that fed through a hole on the left of the slit. You could hear the gurgle of an empty bottle as Sir Lancelot refilled the bottles on the side of the hat. "Thanks sir knight."
Lancelot kept his calm composure as he replied, "I will keep your skull to grow a maggot farm, rat."
"That's cold! Don't you have any honor?" Scourge replied.
"The only honor is proper burial," Lance smirked. "Where would you like your headless body buried?"
Both Knuckles shushed them, Big Knuckles wearing 3D glasses for some reason. Don't ask. Next to them, Little Sonic was jabbing at his caged counterpart. Especially when we saw some action.
Silver broke out of the air vent, holding all robots away from alarms as Rainbow flew through them.
Tails still had a full battery as he hacked the computer he sat at. It was too easy, especially since all of the passwords were Shard the Metal Sonic. Why would that be his password anyway?
My battery is now half empty... Or half full. There's some noise from down the hallway as damaged robots flew at a nearby wall. One of them had full mobility and was dragged back into the fight by a cyan aura, giving off a screech as it was pulled back while clawing the ground.
I flew over to find a pile of red, silver, and flame styled metal in a pile as Sonic, Rainbow, and Silver defeated waves of robots. I made myself known, surprising Twilight awake then back out cold. Over Twilight, Pinkie whined, "Tails! We were trying to wake up Twilight." She then gave a weak smile, "Good one though!"
I used a fraction of my magic reserves to "jump start" our lavender operation leader, making her leap awake. It was a good sign at first, then she started shaking and talking fast like she had twelve days worth of coffee or sugar... or both. From what I could tell: we had two Pinkie Pies, and one could fly and use magic. She flew through the air with no coordination, kicking at robots and throwing magic grenades with a crazed look in her eye as she hopped down the hallway.
We followed her as she destroyed ten robots in a purple blur and a flash of magenta or two. After the eleventh robot she calmed down, blushing a bit from her loss of control.
Sonic's radio chirped, "Sire, hide the evidence! Something is sure to-"
BEEP BEEP BEEP ZAP BEEP BEEP BEEP ZAP
The lights turned a pattern of red and green as Rainbow flew through- RAINBOW?! The rainbow with us turned out to be a robot changeling with a broadcasting antennas in its ears. It twitched as it died... I think. Robots have no pulse so I assume the head still works and the body is dead.
Suddenly a wave of robot changelings turned into robot Rainbow Dashes. The got up on their hind legs and activated arm canons, chanting,"Crush. Kill. Destroy. Swag. LOL. Crush. Kill. Destroy. Swag. GTFO." I dodged the first wave of fire as Silver and Twilight covered the other in shields and counter fire in the form of magic bursts and psychokinesis blades.
Silver gave Twilight a nod as she held up the shield. He teleported behind the robots, and using the burnbot remains, shouts, "Hold Smash!" The pieces glowed brighter and brighter a cyan color as they launched one by one as rapid canon fire. Whenever Silver missed, it was meant for Twilight to catch and rebound the attack, destroying the robots that didn't change their focus away from him. "Run Sonic, Run!"
Just like he was told, he took Tails with him as Pinkie and Rainbow stayed behind to cover them. For some reason Pinkie had a pink shot gun that fired confetti, with that she shot stray robots while Rainbow attempted her own version of a spin dash.
The elevator final y stopped spinning as Tails dragged me in a "I told you so!" montage. As the fifty Miles Prowers slowly became one, we looked to my left to see Eggman asleep on his couch in his pajamas... with a wingless Twilight Sparkle plushie in his arms. Yeah, that's not creepy at all.
He obviously didn't expect us here, so we burned his tiny Twilight and left marks all around the room and his head. As we turned to leave, a gun was pointed at my nose. "You're gonna pay for that," Eggman said in his usual suit, but slightly messed up like he was in a hurry. Behind us, a big changeling sat up from the couch with our blue markings all over her.
"Was the marker necessary?" Chrysalis asked dryly, tossing the singed unicorn away from her as she got in a battle stance.
"What matters is that you two are here. Why?" His gun's started to glow red on the end, "I didn't tell you where I live. Why and how did you find me?"
I raised my arms above my head with Tails, "Drop the act Egghead, we know you set this trap up."
"Yes, but not for you. Now your last memory is dying in a trap set for Metal," he almost fired when Tails started to hum.
"Do do do dodo dododa da de~..." Tails loudly hummed, getting Eggman to slowly join him. The guns slowly lowered as Chrysalis looked at Tails, a bit stunned and aiming her horn at him. Big mistake.
I kicked Eggman off his feet and used the blue setting on his gun to stun him before tossing the gun at the changeling's horn, stalling the magic long enough for Tails to spin dash her face. That attack was followed by Sonic homing onto her back and grabbing the gun with his enerbeam, allowing him to stun her in three shots.
Sonic kicked open the air vent on the floor, allowing him and Tails to fall inside and crawl away. When they found Rainbow, the two hopped out and escaped the base.
Pinkie screamed at Silver, "Hurry up! The base is about to self destruct!" That the group to scream 'WHAT?!' at her. When they made it out, a loud 'poof' sounded. Behind us, the base filled with a white foam, "I think I put too much whipped cream in the sundae nuke! Do you think he will like this?"
Sonic looked back at her, "Umm... Sure Pinkie."
"Good! He must be sick of always eating eggs! Or does he lay eggs? Why is he called Dr. Eggman?"
Two days after breaking into Eggman's lair, I decided to sleep in... Not going to happen. I heard a rip and something fell hard on my bed, sending both me and mini me flying. My face met the ground followed by my younger self landing on my back in a sitting position.
As soon as I could stand, I looked over to see Amy in my bed. Wait. Amy. In. My. Bed.
"Sonic!" Before I could fully react to the pink hedgehog, I was tackled out of my room. Somebody forgot to put up Scourge as we tipped him over, waking him.
"Hey! Not cool, bro!" he screamed from his cramped cell.
I tried to pry her off, stumbling out the open door, no doubt left open by either Jet or Manic. We fall over, rolling into town and to the market place as Amy kept her grip and happy giggling with her usual flirting. I finally pushed her off, but left my guard down as she returned with the destruction of Apple Jack's apple stand behind her. With my new position, I attempted to spin dash her off me.
We spun in the direction of Twilight's Castle, creating work for Spike in a sense. We were tossed out a window by an angry princess as we flew near town hall.
Rainbow stopped whatever she was doing, watching the two as Sonic tried to push her off and little Sonic following too far behind. "Well, I saw that coming." Suddenly she was plucked out of the sky in a Pinkie hug.
Sonic struggled over to Rarity, who couldn't help him with his problem. "Sorry darling, I wish I could help."
"But you're a unicorn!" Sonic complained.
Rarity raised an eye brow while taking off her glasses with her magic, "And she has an endless supply of hammers and might challenge me for your love. Darling, watch TV or something. Hopefully she will migrate to the 'normal Amy standards' you were talking about."
"But that's not this Amy! My Amy was weird and cute, this one is obsessive!"
"I'm sorry, darling. All I can do is wish for the best." She turned back to her sewing machine, returning to her work.
I walked over to Tails for an invention... I liked my Tails better.
I decided to sit and watch something with Bunnie. "Anything interesting?"
"Well, ya now have unlimited channels. From 'Comedy Chimp' to 'Sonic Channel' the channel some ponies made dedicated to what Mobians mentioned involving ya, Sugah." She twitched her finger, changing the channels stopping at 'Doctor Whooves' starring some brown stallion named Tenant. "Ah feel like Ah've seen him before..."
The channel changed to a drama 'Friendly Little Liars', getting Amy's attention. Bunnie changed the channel and Amy rubbed her head on my shoulder. "Bunnie go back!"
"What, Sugah?" She then saw my finger pointing at Amy, understanding my plight. She switched it back and shut her arm's remote setting off. It took a little bit, but Amy and Bunnie sat with each other, watching the show. They watched as the ponies on screen read their newest scroll from A, fearing his wrath.
I was almost free, but she held my hand. Just then little me arrived, tired. I saw that as my advantage and gave him to Amy. He almost struggled under her hug, but I tossed her Sonic plushie at him. He pulled a Daring Doo, replacing himself with the stuffed hedgehog as we ran off fist bumping.
Scourge laid on the ground, watching the television in the distance. "Can somebody change the program? No? You suck!"
From nearby, a shadow cloud appeared with a familiar voice calling to him, "Scourgey! I'm coming for your squishy face~!"
That voice... Rosy?! Nope! Nope! Nope! Before I could scream, the shadow engulfed me leaving nothing but my hedgehog "shell" behind.
Soon Silver arrived, using his powers to pick up Scourge's prison to its feet. He almost dragged it to Friendship Castle before he noticed the lack of blue eyes in the shell, "Hey guys? Why is Scourge's shell prison here?"
"Because Scourge is in it, Hon." Bunnie said from the couch.
Silver moved the container in front of her, "No. No he's not."
In the Everfree, Jet and Tails were testing out the Wisp Watch he and Twilight created. The idea was to acquire wisp data so that the group wouldn't need a wisp to use its color power. It would run on things from the wisp's hyper-go-on energy and magic-like energy to anarchy beryl or electricity.
Currently the test was a success. Not only could Jet be in a crimson eagle form, but he stayed in it beyond the normal time limit and could return to his normal form with little or no strain. "Tails, how many of these can you make?"
Tails reverted from a pink spike to his usual form, flying down from the tree he climbed up, "Within a week and Twilight's allowed free time for this, we could have one for all of us! So far we only have two-"
A shadow cloud appeared as Scourge tried to claw his way out, before being pulled back in with his screams echoing in the air as the cloud disappeared.
Tails and Jet looked to their rainbow watches and quickly removed them, "Well, back to the drawing board..."
Fluttershy squeaked when Twilight stomped her hooves on her lab desk, "What do you mean 'Scourge is gone' Silver?" She then stood straight and held a hoof breathing in then it left her chest as she exhaled.
Silver and Sir Lancelot looked to each other nervously as Silver began, "Go ahead, Lance..."
"..."
"Sir Lancelot..."
"..."
"Come on!"
"I wish you the best of luck," he said standing in place returning to his silence afterward.
Silver tugged on his imaginary collar as he began, "There was no sign of escape from the inside and nobody saw anybody set him free..." Sweat poured down his face as he waited for a response.
Before Twilight could speak Jet rode in on his extreme gear with Tails flying behind. Jet gave a serious face, "Guys, we had the craziest hallucination!"
Tails held out the watches, "We shared a weird vision of a dark cloud torturing and kidnapping Scourge! Isn't that odd? How we share the same hallucination?"
Twilight got up from her seat, all eyes on her, "I don't think that was a side effect of the wisp watches. Scourge is actually gone."
Amy walked into town with a suit case in her hand after leaving the train station. I heard Sonic was here. I hope he found Tails or Knuckles.
Nearby a robot pony in uniform waved at her, "Welcome to Ponyville! Need any assistance?" Amy just stared at him, thinking.
"Are you evil?"
"Nope. I'm like most of the robot ponies: peaceful and learning how to use our weapons as tools rather than killing devises." He tried to get the attention of a mare, but his focused returned to Amy when she asked about Sonic. "Which one? The King or the small one? Or do you want to know where they live?"
Amy was deep in thought, "May I have the last one?"
"What's the password?"
"Password? What do you mean by that?"
"My boss just informed me that you need a password for anything involving Sonic. Celebrity protection program and what-not."
"Cool beans?" Amy asked, getting a buzz from him.
"That noise tickles! I can actually feel ticklish!"
Amy tried more guesses receiving buzzing from the laughing robot. "Scramble some eggheads?"
"That one was close! What? I'll tell her. Miles Prower vouched for you. Have a nice day!" He opened his mouth, displaying a hologram map of the town. There was an arrow pointing at a burnt tree with a hut in front of it.
It took me about an hour before I found the familiar beach house. I opened the door, slowly walking in, "Sonic? Are you home?" As soon as I entered, the busy room quieted fast with everyone starring at me.
Two Sonics, two Knuckles, me in my red dress, a green hedgehog, another pink hedgehog, Silver, an armored Shadow, Jet, Cream, Bunnie D'Coolette, Tails, different kinds of ponies, a sword with eyes, and an Omochao looked at me with a mixture of happiness or stress.
Older Sonic stood up from the group, "As of recently, besides the living room and kitchen, one side will belong to the girls and the other side will belong to the guys. And red dress Amy and magenta suit Amy will stay far from both me's. We will integrate the new sleeping arrangements and install Murphy beds soon."
Armored Shadow got up, "So are the rooms forbidden?"
"At night unless invited in. And the couches and hammocks are neutral bedding unless given permission to reserve."
I just looked around as other me gave me an angry glare, "What is going on?"
Tails got up as the others sat, "I noticed you were at the train station a bit ago. Come with me, I'll bring you up to speed on everything."
As the new Amy followed Tails outside, the group continued their discussion about Scourge. Large Knuckles decided to join the two with Cream and Fluttershy.
"I think Mephiles is involved!" Silver stated.
Sonic was part of the debate group that pointed at Time Eater, "The land is randomly becoming blank and a black shadow cloud is taking people. It's Time Eater."
"It could be Dark Gaia. I don't think Time Eater is making shadow minions unless they were taken from the past," Caliburn stated, putting his opinion out there.
Pinkie jumped up shouting, "What if that Mephiles guy is using Time Eater to bring Dark Gaia minions from the past into the future!"
"But that can't happen! They need direct contact with Dark Gaia herself in order to stay alive!" Sonic said, "Besides if that was the case, the planet would have to be fractured."
Manic and Sonia pretended to understand who they were talking about, then Manic spoke, "What if dark magic is creating or keeping the monsters in existence?" Everyone looked to each other in silence.
Silver understood what was going on, "So that explains the minions, but who took Scourge?"
Suddenly King Shadow warped in, "You fools! Mephiles would only use others when he is weak. I see no sign of him or Iblis so shut up and go to sleep already!" He warped away with his outburst hanging in the air. Then he came back, "Black Doom might be a threat if Time Eater brings him back. Just saying." He left the same way he entered.
Everyone shrugged and waited for (BOOM!) Amy and the others to return as the ponies left the hut
For that night both Amys slept on the couch, one of them angry.
Sonic couldn't sleep with the fears of Scourge and two Amys dancing on his mind.
"Amy, this music is perfect for the party!" Pinkie exclaimed as she swung from a steamer, tossing sprinkles in a cake below. Red dress Amy fumed that her idea of a party didn't work, but her other self was a genius at what others want. Especially since her house almost destroyed Sonic's hut last night, but that's for another time.
Magenta suit Amy smirked at the work done. Piko Piko hammers held things together and made interesting decorations!
"I wonder what the boys are doing at the beach anyway," the considerate Amy mused.
Pinkie appeared out of hammer space, shocking red dress Amy, "I wonder what kind of fun they are having without us. Do you Amy One?"
Obsessive Amy liked how she is "Amy One" while the one Sonic noticed more, for being "his Amy", was named "Amy Two". In her mind, her "future self" was a piece of crap that needed to leave at let the "Alpha Amy" stay with Sonic.
(For simplicity, Modern Amy will take it from here.)
While the party was being prepared in the section that connected that Amy's house and Sonic's hut- Again, story for another time. -Which consisted of the front of the hut and the back of the house. Call it the biggest living room ever. Even has a door to separate the guy's hut from the girl's house.
The place was big and... pink. If it wasn't a potted plant, the floor, or streamers and cake related it was pink. Heck, Pinkie kept disappearing in the pink and jump scare us! Speaking of which, she hopped back into vision slowly with a CD, "Oh! Let's pop this in!"
Other me just shrugged, "Sounds good, but I don't understand it."
"What about this?" Pinkie took out a box with red and black on the bottom and tapped an arrow as it disappeared. "Now the readers can stop and start the song whenever!"
This song actually connected to me... wherever it came from. If I don't get Sonic soon, the other one will get him first!
Through out the week, I practiced juggling and wrapped sports tape all over me. I left him Swiss Rolls, cleaned his room, and sprayed chili dog perfume on me. OK, the last part lasted a day, but I switched to roses.
At a cafe, Tails sat with Twilight. He held his sandwich to his face, then stopped to take out the daisies, "Hey Twilight?"
"Hmm?" Twilight asked with sauce all over he face.
"Is it normal for Pinkie to throw a week long party?"
She gulped her food and wiped her mouth, "She's trying to make up for the missed welcome parties. In fact, this one is for Knuckles."
Big Knuckles danced as thin Knuckles watched. Big Knuckles laughed, "This was better than the time I was Sonic's lawyer!"
"What?"
"It was great! They even had knuckle sandwiches and someone left a salad in my case!"
Tails shrugged, "Well, I'll try to make it to mine... I guess."
"Anyway, can you tell me about these 'Genesis Waves' I heard Sonic talk about?" Twilight asked, grabbing a hay fry.
"Have you heard of 'Groundhog Day' by any chance?"
"I read the book before I left Canterlot recently."
"Think of it as instead of reliving a day over and over, your whole life and history is repeating. The only change is what the world or whoever controls the wave wants the existence to be," he looked over to see multicolored lights still waving in the air as the sun set.
Suddenly Sir Lancelot joined the group with glow bracelets all over his arms and Arondight. He also had a pink lamp shade on his head, tipping it before he sat. "This gathering of merriment is... strange. I look like a complete fool."
Tails sighed, "It could be worse." As he said that, a mob of mobians and ponies with wigs and highlights wearing costumes start walking on by laughing or talking towards the party. "Far worse." He shuttered as an image entered his head, destroying his clean thoughts.
Twilight waved hr hoof in front of his face, "Hello? Two tailed fox genius? Are you home?"
"Sorry Twilight, the very thought of it is bad," Tails said, pushing his final bite away.
"What is it?"
"N-nothing!" this topic is not needed, so Tails brought another topic back up, "I think I might join the party soon."
"Yeah, I hear her parties are fun by day and crazy by night." Suddenly a muscled guy in a suit accidentally brush a furry blue arm across Twilight's side, causing her to leap with surprise. She saw his wide emerald eyes from under his hat as he ran off.
Lancelot looked at the big mobian running off, "What's his problem?"
I took out my broken wrist communicator from my pocket and messaged a friend, [You didn't tell me this was Ponyville! - Mr.S]
You've gotta reveal yourself at some point. Besides, what's the big deal? - MS+N
[Princess Twilight. I wasn't careful and my arm touched her wing. Look, its not my time, yet! - Mr.S]
u met Princess Twilit? omg! wat dos she luk lik?! - Sonata She might not think much about you. Your only problem is Shadow and his army watching you. Word around the woods (learned to talk to animals through Deus Ex Machina) is that there's a Shadow look-alike named Sir Lancelot. He will be wearing metal shoes and gauntlets, mostly wearing a helmet, and holding the broadsword 'Arondight'. - MS+N
I nearly dropped the communicator, [Wait. Sir Lancelot?! The Sir Lancelot?! He was at the diner with Twilight and Tails! - Mr.S]
com oooooooooooooon! X( I wanno kno wat Twilit luks lik! - Sonata
[Here you go Sonata. Metal and/or Nichole, what am I going to do?!]
Whatch your back no matter what. - MS+N fcfvbfv w yvcid yewv -Sir Lancelot
I turned my head to see the knight with a phone, glaring at me. He held up his sword, ready for a fight, "Explain yourself! One such as yourself looks like trouble compared to the... uh... 'fools'? I don't have a word for the peasants."
I pocketed my communicator and ran towards the outskirts of town on fours as Lancelot ran after me. Luckily, I can still run pretty fast with the enchantment on my suit and shoes, fast enough to chase him or in this case: out maneuver him. I stretched my arm to a street post and shot myself at a farther distance and grabbed a tree, repeating the action as he followed.
"What sorcery- Who is thou kidding? Land of talking ponies and sorcery!" He shouted, skillfully catching up to me. He even used his sword to compensate for my sudden sharp turns!
He turned, leaving my sight. I thought he was gone, but no. The universe dropped a knight of the round table on my head, pinning me to the ground.
He nearly had me, but he was tossed in a cyan glow. Metal flew over with white arms with claws that resembled Silver's gloves and bracelets with a cyan aura over them.
Metal looked better than usual. Besides his arms, he had his usual shiny blue body with the green wings and stripes added. But now he had a chest canon installed once again, but with a small magenta six point star gem inside his center instead of a green power gem. He has two light blue lines run up his head (like a muscle car), light green wing tips, and a new visor with the old red eyes.
"Nice look, faker," (Modern) Sonic said as brushed himself off, his werehog face being once again hidden as he fixed his jacket.
"Seriously? Call me 'copy cat' or something like that! 'Faker' is Shadow's thing." Metal said. He slowly released the pressure off Lancelot, letting him stand.
"What're you doing?!" Sonic exclaimed, fear running to him as Metal held him in place.
"You're acting like a child! If you want me to work with you: MAN UP." Metal took off Sonic's hat and coat, despite the struggling werewolf. "Sir Knight, what does this mobian look like?"
Lancelot tried to piece together what just happened and snapped out, "He... uh... Looks like a big, blue, hairy beast with a formal suit and spiked shoes."
Sonic blurted out, "Close enough! Let's go!!" His struggling to move was humorous at best while he floated in mid air.
Metal "rolled" his eyes and sighed, "OK. He's another Sonic from a time between your small Prince Sonic and tall... seriously he could be made of legs, King Sonic. The memory of being King Arthur is fresh in his mind and he regained an ability to turn into... this at night." He turned his head towards the topic, "Also, do I have to fix your wrist communicator? I think its easy enough to take it off at night."
Apple Jack and Big Mac tossed a few trouble making teens with alcohol out of Amy's house, "Now y'all git! Ah wont have somepony bringin' any bad drinks!"
Bunnie came from behind, tossing a monkey out the door. "He was smugglin' drinks. When ah caught him he said he was "only horsing around" and broke the wall with a kick. Hon, ya better leave," she activated her arm canon, "before Ah get mad."
The group ran off as Bunnie returned her arm back. From a distance, Lancelot slowly walked up to the trio with a emotionless expression. Apple Jack noticed that and stopped the knight in his tracks, "Howdy Lance!"
"Hello, fair Apple Jack," he said with a passive tone. "Just taking a walk and felt the need for merriment." He tried to pass, but Bunnie stopped him.
She frowned, "Need it? What's wrong, Sugah?"
He sighed and looked to her, "I met a friend. I gave my word to let him reveal himself and all I'm allowed to say is that he is allied with Metal Sonic." He shuttered and gave an angry glare, "He bears a message: 'Darkness will fall and friendship will shatter. At this point, is time really the matter?' End message. We must enjoy our days now and prepare." He walks inside while his pink lamp shade hat falls to the ground from his hand with a quiet clatter.
This is an... interesting morning, thought Sir Lancelot. In his palm, a tiny pink (not mobian) hedgehog squeaked and tapped his palm with a tiny hammer. It would look adorable, but his focus was elsewhere.
Elsewhere as in a white sonic wearing gold scarf and shoes pulling his normal looking younger self, who is hovering above the ground, any attempt to touch it and move himself in vain.
Miles Prower hovered to his seat with his tails, his body purple and his limbs gone.
On his extreme gear, Jet was stiff as a board except for his head, pulling himself with his beak.
To Lancelot's right, new Amy looked the same shoulders down, but her head had clown makeup on and she was as silent as young Sonic. She tried to scrub off the makeup, suddenly falling over a banana that flew through an open window.
A very fat Silver dragged himself on the ground, trying to lift himself. He gave up and levitated the cereal Sonic prepared for Tails, getting an angry glare from the fox and gobbling the breakfast before sleeping where he sat.
Instantly the sound of a beating drum was heard and Manic walked in with his head in the form of a green "one man band" drum that had a stick beat the side of the drum his face wasn't on as he walked. He made himself some cereal like the others and tried to eat, only for the flakes to not pass his jaws, but slide down his open mouth.
A short green Sonia joined the group, opening the freezer (with some help) to see Cream and Cheese in the form of living ice cream. Cream was a gallon of orange sherbet and cheese was two blue scoops on a cylinder waffle cone. They both continued to shiver as Sonia closed the door. Sonia looked up at Sonic, "Black doesn't look good on you brother." She walked off with her ice bag.
A completely robotic Bunnie walked in, her metal stetson bouncing on her metal head. "What're you talking about? There isn't a lick of black on him, Hon!" She commented in a dull, emotionless voice. "Is that mah voice?!"
Lancelot almost brought his palm to his face, but stopped, remembering that his right hand was replaced by Arondight. His left hand still held the tiny pink hedgehog he found in a pile of Amy's laundry, holding her up to his ear, "Put. Me. Down."
"Cant do it Ms. Rose... (Silver might eat you.)" He looked as Silver learned to roll himself with his fat, waving as he passed.
A crash was heard from Knuckle's room as... Big Knuckles had two heads, the right one being his smaller counterpart's head. They wobbled around, fighting for control of the body up until they reached the couch and sat with Silver and Bunnie. Both Knuckles looked back at elder Sonic, saying in sync, "Nice look. The black really suits you/You looked better white and gold." They looked to each other, suddenly fighting over Sonic's colors.
Sonic stood on a stool, "OK, I can see that I'm white. Who here sees blue on my body?" Some hands raised. "Well, this is an interesting morning."
Manic glared at Jet, "Thanks Jet."
He looked at the accuser, "What're you talking about? Its Silver that did it!"
Deep voiced Silver never turned his head, replying, "Not me." He grabbed Manic's food and brought it to him, scarfing it down.
"Then who was it?" Jet asked dryly.
Amy's squeaking stopped as she rolled into a tiny ball. Lancelot looked down at her a brought her up to his ear, hearing tears. "Worry not, tiny Amy. We will soon-"
"I-I didn't mean t-t-to do it..." She whimpered. Amy explained what happened, receiving a sigh from the night.
Lancelot held up his hand, "Tis was an accident. Ms. Rose found flowers that did this to us. Manic assumed Jet was pulling a prank on him thus we all were affected. Why anybody thinks I would pull this foolish trick is beyond me."
Everyone grabbed a petal from their rooms, each a blue with a faint smell of laughing gas. Big Sonic had a stem with a few petals left on the wilted plant. While that happened, Silver attempted to eat Cheese, but was stopped by clown Amy, clonking his head with a squeaky hammer.
Tails tried to study the bits of plant, but fell on his face from the lack of balance. Bunnie tried to scan it, but advertisements blocked her vision. Knuckles tried to punch it, but disagreed on the idea. Amy had an idea, but she could only write in chicken scratch, causing her makeup to gain a frown and two blue tears. Sonia tried to talk, but quotes from Shrek escaped her lips instead.
They all looked to Caliburn... who turned into a pair of scissors upon contact.
Like promised, Twilight and Spike came over. It helped some.
Spike decided to call Tails Eggplant, Cream and Cheese Icecream Friends, Bunnie Bun3 2.0, and stopped when to Twilight placed a hoof on his mouth.
She scribbled some notes and looked back up to the group, "Don't worry, Zecora has a cure for Poison Joke. Well, hopefully. Go over to her hut and see what herbs you can get for the bath."
Bunnie walked up to Twilight, hands raised, "Hold up, Sugah! Bath?"
"Yes. She puts the herbs in a bath and you dip your whole body in it to be cured to your normal state," She then realized who she was talking to when Bunnie's eyes displayed fireworks and fully organic limbs. "Wait a moment. It might not cure your cybernetics, just the joke!"
The image shaddered as she lowered her head, "Well, you said 'it might not' so Ah guess Ah can be a test subject, Hon."
"That's the spirit!" Sonic said, patting her back.
Spike looked up at him, "What's your problem?"
"Do you see blue and black?"
"Yes...?"
Twilight noticed Sonic's reaction to Spikes question and a Q and A began.
Sonic ran through the forest, on a trail to prevent his younger self from being snagged by a tree. Younger Sonic was tied to a rope older Sonic held, enjoying his high speed hovering. Behind him, Tails and Silver sat in the red wagon, with its back wheels gone thanks to the hedgehog. Following them, Jet still lied on his board, being pushed by clown Amy who had tiny Amy sitting on her head and her red dress over her shoulder and the gloves, shoes, etc. in a bag.
Knuckles was led by Sir Lancelot holding his hand while Caliburn latched onto the knight's Arondight arm. Bunnie carried a cooler with Cream and Cheese inside while Manic and Sonia followed, drum beating and Sonia saying things about waffles and boulders.
Following the group, citizens followed the sound of Manic's drum, believing that there was a parade in the forest. A little bit later, those who feared the forest or didn't want to stumble in the dark left.
When they finally arrived, the group found a sad then surprised Applebloom at the door. She cried out to Sonic, "Help! Zecora is still not home!"
Manic ran closer to her questioning, "What do you mean she's not home?!"
She backed up, folding back her ears before realizing who the drum-head was. "H-hi Manic...? She hasn't been home in months! Ah check every week an she still aint home!"
On command, Bunnie ran up to Applebloom, holding out Cream. "Don't worry, we will help you." Cream said, looking up from her cooler, "Also, do you happen to know the cure by chance? Twilight mentioned you and Zecora were close in things like this."
"Its been awhile since Ah last cured somepony of poison joke!" Her ears perked back up, "But there's a book inside that could help!"
Sonic quickly looked at the hut, trying to open doors or find another entrance. He then looked at the windows, "I would break through the window, but I don't have a reason to dislike Zecora."
Tails tilted his head from the wagon, asking, "Why would you break through the window?" Clown Amy dragged her hands down her face from the question, she would groan if she could.
Sonic sighed, "A story for another time, Tails."
Bunnie walked over to the window, successfully scanning the hut. "Hold on... Somethins alive in there!"
"But Zecora doesn't have any pets," Applebloom commented.
"Sugah, the life sign is faintin' we'd betta git in!" Without opposition, she burst through the window followed by Sonic and clown Amy.
Clown Amy unlocked the door and grabbed the cooler away from Silver, leading everyone inside.
In Zecora's bed room, a time statue filled with fear, stood near the bed. Sonic tapped the statue, revealing a zebra with gold rings on her neck and left hoof. She fell to the ground, looking up to see the group, "For saving me, I thank you." Her focus came to Sonic, she messed with her eyes then groaned, "Also, are you white or blue?"
Zecora told us about a wave of white covering the forest and sky from nowhere, quickly taking her and her hut in its time/life empting wake. She reawoke without a body in a black limbo like everyone else (except any Sonics) and waited in fear for her rescue.
As we searched for the herbs, we found a wisp gathering. Zecora was in awe of the new creatures, never seen before. She was even more amazed when Applebloom demonstrated their "color magic", transforming into a crimson eagle.
"Eagle!"
Zecora looked around for the loud male voice, only to find nobody with that voice. Sonic laughed, "Nobody knows the owner or location of that voice. All I know is that it speaks when their power is being given."
They continued their search, finding only one herb, thanks to a friendly white wisp. Throughout their herb hunt, Silver complained about being hungry, Tails couldn't scratch his back or nose, both Knuckles argued, Cream and Cheese transitioned from the fear of the forest and Silver to the fear of melting, everyone was tired of Manic's thumping, clown Amy tried teaching sign language to little Sonic. It all stopped when Sonia prepared to smack someone saying, "This is the part where you all run away... Donkey!"
We then learned Fiona is good and Donkey is bad, thus resorted to guessing or talking.
Tails got his back scratched by clown Amy, commenting, "Once this is over, I'm going to build something to deal with this."
Silvers nudged him, "Can you also install a buffet table?"
"No. Your obviously not you when your like this."
"What is that supposed-" Silver felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up at Amy. Clown Amy shook her head while tiny Amy pounded her paws together from clown Amy's shoulder. "How long will this take? I'm tired!"
Sonia looked back at him, glaring, "He looked up at my dad. Its all ogre now. Donkey."
Long story-short we gathered the herbs and boiled the water in a spa.
The first to go (by popular demand) was Silver, who shed his fat and walked out slowly, drying his fur with his telekinesis. Knuckles hopped in with Manic, who decided to stay inside and soak.
In another pool, the girls walked in and dipped Cream and Cheese. What came out was normal magenta swim suit Amy, a red faced Amy soaking in suppressed anger while bubbled rose from her mouth, a rabbit and chao splashing each other, a not green Sonia, and Bunnie quickly hopping out to save her cybernetics once she returned to her version of normal.
As soon as most of the guys were normal, they tried to pull little Sonic inside the water, but his antigravity prevented contact. Silver lifted his hand, easily moving the water up to him. He glowed and fell with the water into the tub.
Bunnie got Amy a red swim suit and handed it to her. Soon she lifted her head completely out of the water and glared as other Amy and Sonic discussed something in private. Behind her, Lancelot wiped Arondight dry from the water with his returned hand holding a rag, "So, did you learn anything new from this?"
"Loki" Eggman was busy building egg pawns and motobugs when Orbot rolled in. "Doctor?"
"hmm? Oh, its you. What do you want?"
"Besides a smarter bo- I mean smarter Cubot, we have a problem on radar," Orbot said calmly despite his vibrating. "And its not Sonic related."
Eggman set down his factory remote and glowered at his servant, "What do you mean?"
"A strange anomoly is covering Eques- stria..." He points a red finger to the window, "Then again, you don't need radar to see that!"
Something dark was outside that would've brought tears of joy to the doctor, until it attacked the Egg Carrier. It was coming for him!
He fell to the ground from the impact and pointed at Orbot, "Call the Robotnik Council! Let them know I'll be late."
"As you wish!" Orbot exclaimed as he rushed out the room, leaving Eggman.
He glared at the creature, shaking his breath. He looked towards the darkness with a glare that hid his fear, muttering under his breath, "I hate to admit it, but I know who can stop this."
Little Sonic spun on his head and bounced around as his boom box blared some glorious MC Hammer.
Jet was ready for his turn, but the music stopped just as Tails walked into the room. He looked at Arondight impaling the stereo. Tails gave a tired look towards the knight, "You know I just fixed that, right?"
He leaned on a wall before walking over, casually take his sword out, "Our doom is coming and you fools are dancing. Pray tell, how is this training?"
Pretty much everyone in the house (besides the rabbits, Caliburn, and Sonia) glared at the knight, even Sticks, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie gave a disappointed look. Big Sonic fixed his scarf from his head to his neck, not sure if he should speak.
Bunnie flew in from target practice, landing in the middle of the commotion, "What's goin' on?"
Lancelot grabbed a rock from the burnt tree's pathway and tossed it in the air. He put away Arondight as the stone turned to dust, angering Maud wherever she is. "Knave Sonic do that. Oh and I don't mean you younger self."
Sonic grabbed Caliburn from the computer, pausing the blade's WoW game.
He grabbed a slightly better rock, tossing it behind him, "You Tails, catch!" Tails did that, finding a tiny stone carving of the Tornado X with nearly every detail in it.
Before anyone could open/close their eyes from blinking/to blink, Lancelot was directly in front of Sonic, trying to push him away as their swords met in the middle, both hedgehogs in fighting stances. Lancelot smirked, "Pretty good, but your arm is a bit... too slow." Those who saw the movement witnessed a flash of yellow speeding towards Sonic and his limbs being a blue blur as he blocked, those opening their eyes leaped back from the jump scare.
Tails found, in his hands, a camera. The recent pictures were: Sonic taking a selfie with Lancelot running behind him, a scared Caliburn in the next shot, and finally the image from now with Sonic blocking the knight. Sonic laughed, seeing the group behind Tails and their shocked faces ! Even Twilight's jaw hung as she dropped her scroll- What?
She took out a notepad, scribbling things. "Th- Tha- That has to be greater than the speed of sound!!"
I ducked up Lancelot's sword as I grabbed the parchment.
Dear Twilight, It has come to our attention that a dark force is slowly engulfing Equestria and possibly the world. A Miles "Tails" Prower look-a-like named Ali Ba Ba claims that it might be an evil genie named Erazor Djinn. A creature called a "human" calls herself Princess Elise mentioned that it might be a creature named Mephiles the Dark. The crystal ponies claim the return of King Sombra. Whatever the case may be, we need the elements of harmony. Sadly, we can't use them yet. We need King Sonic to help us, calling himself an expert in endeavors like this. Write back for more information. - Celestia
I sped to the computer, "Caliburn, take a letter."
"But, I cant type, sire!"
I turned to him, "Then how are you playing computer games?"
"Well played, sire."
"No, I'm serious! How do you do that?!"
"Your letter?"
Dear Princess Celestia, Tell me where to go and I'll check it out. Also, where are the elements and what are they? Why cant you use them? - Sonic the Hedgehog
I pointed at the computer, "Print it!" Just as it came off the printer, I grabbed a ribbon and my symbol sticker and tied the roll of paper in a nice bow. "Quick, Caliburn! We need this sent now!"
"Oh, gods! Why me?!" He complained before a green flame engulfed the letter into a green mist, heading towards Canterlot.
"Its the Master Emerald!" Big Knuckles exclaimed, pointing at the long lost sight.
Under the old castle in the Everfree Forest, the Master Emerald and its resting place sat next to a crystalline tree with the marks of the Princesses and Twilight's friends in significant places. The two powerful gems glowed in a way that looked like a conversation. As both Knuckles came near, the Master Emerald glowed in a way that pushed them away, almost like it's saying, "Excuse me? We're having a conversation here!"
The two echidnas backed up as Rarity and Stick commented on how shiny it looked. Behind them, a familiar voice made himself know, "You do realize their having a heated debate, right?" Everyone turned to see Discord leaning on a wall, waving happily at Fluttershy, who waved back kindly.
"How would you know?" Thin Knuckles asked.
"I'm a chaotic being. Vise versa is in my blood, so if I have grandchildren without a mate, where do they go?" The sudden topic made everyone nervous, "They go into the past, duh!" He picked up a timeline and a family tree with censored heads, starting with Discord and ending with the chaos emeralds. "I think you can see some resemblance!" He said with a chocolate diamond head that fell and broke. He picked up the pieces and ate it in a newly formed head.
Twilight tilted her head, "So... are you our translator or something?"
"Actually, its very boring. The only thing you should know about is the debate over the creation of Harmony Emeralds."
Twilight's eyes glowed in a meaning others didn't know. Rainbow flew down and waved her hoof in front of her friend's face, "Hello? Twilight? Are you home?"
She shook her head, breaking from the trance, "Sorry, I'm just excited!"
Rarity trotted up, "Excited about what, darling?"
"We might get the elements back!"
Discord slapped her with a talon as soft as a feather, only to have her flinch from an impact that didn't hurt. "Not close enough! You wont get the elements back, but a fraction of their power in a way others can use it."
Rainbow flew over, getting in his face, "Wat do you mean 'a way others can use it'?!"
He wisped her away with windshield wiper arms, "They will be similar to the chaos emeralds, but with a major rule! Choas Emeralds have both good chaos and bad chaos energy inside that anyone can use to a certain extent. Harmony Emeralds works similar to the elements, except the magic one can be freely used by anyone. A group of friends or one person of a certain attribute can wield that respective emerald. Though, like chaos emeralds, there's a bad side."
He pulled a chart from nowhere, showing the elements and their discorded counterparts. "Light and Dark Magic, Loyalty to others or yourself, Generosity or Selfishness, Kindness or Ruthlessness, Laughter-" He didn't give a counterpart to magic, laughter, and had a seventh spot left covered. "Honesty or Deception, and finally-"
Rainbow flew up, "Hold on! There's only six elements!"
"Not originally. The last one was destined to leave so that it could return stronger." Twilight gasped as a two tone red sun mark appeared next to a white crown drawing. Next to it was nonother than Sunset Shimmer in her recognizable human form that only Twilight and those who've been to the human world knew. "Forgiveness or Revenge."
Just as he said that, a white diamond shaped gem (like in SIMS) appeared between the Master Emerald and Tree of Harmony. One by one, the elements shot an orb of light that created exact copies of the gem in their colors, circling the magical gem. For every element energy fired, the respective pony would hover in their rainbow forms with Twilight being last with glowing white eyes that slowly returned to their normal look.
The voice that normally calls out the used color power exclaimed from everywhere, "Buy Our Toys!!!"
After the ponies were all in their color forms, those who were allowed the abilities of the chaos emeralds glowed. Both Knuckles, both Sonics, Silver, Tails, and both Amys glowed in a super form while the Sonics rapidly changed colors in their hyper form.
Rainbow started laughing, "Hey, Knuckleheads! Why are you pink?"
Pinkie looked over, "What's wrong with pink, dashie?"
She caught herself, "Well, the others are yellow and-"
Twilight cut her off, screaming as she covered her eyes from the Sonics, as did a few others.
Everyone returned to normal once the Harmony Emeralds fell to the ground. From behind another familiar voice (deeper and not jokingly) shouted, "What just happened?!" King Shadow stood as a gold aura disappeared from him.
"Snooping as usual, I see!" Another familiar voice said moking Dr. Robotnik, then the owner exclaimed, "Hey, I can tal-" Everyone looked to little Sonic, who went from super happy to tossing the nearest hat (Apple Jack's) on the ground and stomping around it, before handing it back.
Silver looked at big Sonic, "Why did your younger self sound like Steve Urkel just now?" Little Sonic glared at him, attempting to speak before giving up. Silver raised his hands, "OK! Sorry!"
Twilight and her friends grabbed the new emeralds while Tails took Sunset's emerald for research. He looked over to Sonic, "Hey, if we can get that to work again then maybe you can access your super form!"
Twilight held her emerald up to eye level, "Maybe. But if you cant, then me and friends will pick up the slack."
Rainbow flew around, "What do we need them for? With these new emeralds, its in the bag! We can beat this threat and be back home for dinner!"
"Well, Rainbow, what if Sonic or his friends know what we're up against? They could tell us how to stop them," Twilight said, fanning her left wing to Tails as she spoke.
"Whatever."
Suddenly there was a flash of yellow and Shadow stood between them, getting in Twilight's comfort zone, "You know there's a threat, but not what that threat is?!" He kicked Sonic, somehow grabbing the red chaos emerald. He held it high, "CHAOS CONTROL!!" In a flash of light, the group were on a hillside, watching a fight at the base of Canterlot Mountain as Shadow's army fought Dark Gaia minions.
Sonata pointed to a bird in the distance, "Hey, Sonic, what's up with that phoenix?"
Twilight was surprised to see a Mobian Sonata, Is this the same Sonata? Why is she here?!
Two voices responded in sync, "Its a Dark Gaia Phoenix- wait, what?" Next to each other, Sonic (BOOM!) holding Caliburn over his head and a Sonic (Modern) in a suit reacted in shock as their eyes met.
Sir Lancelot walked over to him, "So you weren't lying..." he paused and looked deep in thought. "You know what? I don't know who I'm supposed to be loyal to anymore."
Shadow looked over at them, "Correction, its a Time Sombra Phoenix."
Twilight's group gasped as Sticks asked, "Time-what now?"
Waves upon waves of enemies and Shadow clones were all over, covering the ground in black, blue, and a few red and purple. King Shadow and his adviser (BOOM! Shadow) used communication headsets to lead their armies while Twilight and Sonic's groups came up with a plan.
While Sir Lancelot ran over to awaken a time frozen statue with Bunnie watching his back.
Sonic (will be named Wolf Sonic or Mr.S) and his equal sized Sonic with Silver and Jet left to grab some things. When they returned, Jet flew around the battle field on his Extreme Gear, attacking nearby foes with his gravity powers and fast kicks.
Wolf Sonic passed out Wisp Watches to everyone while Sonic tossed little Sonic at a titan, equipping a devise called "Homing Buckles" on his shoes, allowing the little guy to home in on enemies in chain attacks without having the actual ability.
Wolf Sonic noticed the music and looked over to see Sonia fire at a few minions while Manic used his upgraded drums to play the actual song while causing the ground to shake. He waved at the Sonic, who had tears in his eyes. King Sonic slid next to him, "Never died. Sorry, but we need to focus."
The music slightly changed as both Sonics double spin dashed at the army, causing bodies to fly or disperse. The two stopped to high five and split to fight their own battles.
The dark cloud overhead formed a mixture of a familiar and nonfamilar face that loomed over head. It was a giant grey stallion with a crown and shredded blue eyes with purple smoke flowing at the sides and a glowing blue mouth that looked normal until he smiled a creepy smile with two blue rips opening at the side of his head. "Crystals!!!"
Rainbow flew towards him and stopped, calling out, "Funny! You still don't know how to talk!" She stuck her tongue out and rainboomed in his face, creating a crater on the ground when she landed and spun a titan into oblivion.
Time Sombra (Time Eater + King Sombra) frowned, looking unamused, "Rude. I came here to kill you all, because past Time Eater wont let me kill you at birth. Let's see what you've got!"
Twilight used a headset to contact Rainbow, "Why did you do that?! For all we know he could age us to an elderly age!"
Time Sombra opened his maw as a flood of his minions flew out. The dark energy on the field was so great, Wolf Sonic transformed into his Werehog form, luckily his Wisp Watch had a magic band that didn't break.
In the air, Tails flew the X Tornado with Twilight, watching the battle below. The Tornado's engines transformed into a fair of fist that turned red from the burst and eagle color power, setting it on fire and speeding the plane. Tails dived down towards a red titan, "Falcon Punch!" Giant fire bird came out of the punch, incinerating the beast. "Oh no! I meant eagle punch!"
Twilight rolled her eyes, "Does it really matter?" They passed an odd sight as they ascended, "Hey! Apple Jack, why are you selling apples?!"
"Its a war, Twi! Soldiers are hungry customers!" Apple Jack replied from her stand. Suddenly the Dark Gaia Phoenix shot some feathers at the farmer, only for them to be deflected by a Coyote with red shoes and a sword. With him, two cyborg rabbits flew over, distracting the creature.
He turned his head to AJ, "Move! Apple zellz can vait later!"
"W- who are you?!" Apple Jack asked in shock.
He rose his father's sword to his enemy, a Nightmare, "Antoine D'Coolette. Now go! I vill take care of zem!" He spun into a spind dash with his sword pointed out, slicing the nightmare in half and running towards the Phoenix thinking, I reunite vith both Bunnies. Great. Zey probably vant me to choose... or not? I don't know...
Wolf Sonic noticed him and grabbed the soldier by the arm, tossing him despite his wishes. In Sonic's mind, 'Twan you got this!
The coyote landed on the head of the giant phoenix, impaling it. The bird disappeared, dropping Antoine, who was caught by both Bunnies. His Bunnie tilted her hatless head, "Is it weird that I miss that face, Hon?"
The other fixed her stetson, "Nice ponytail, Sugah. Now, who gits ta keep 'Twan?"
"Well, he has the memories of your husband and the mind and body of mine..." She smirked, "I got two out of three. Plus your memories so technically you still have him."
"Not close eno- Woah nellie!" The two Bunnies dodged waves of injured nightmares, looking down to see Silver tossing enemies at two competing Amys.
Red dress Amy smirked at her double, "673! You?"
Other Amy swatted a rex before grabbing it with her enerbeam, knocking down some enemies Rainbow finished off. "1025. Plus assistance, 2245."
Sticks barreled through, taking out enemies with her boomerangs. She let out her scream before drop kicking a mage, "The government made this pony world to give false hope and security. Then BOOM! Trapped! I WONT LET THEM!!"
Not too far away, the Knuckles fought. After crushing a red rex face, thin Knucles speculated, "I think the universe split Amy when it rebooted. Amy is Amy without Sonic and a therapist combined. Where does her craziness go?"
"Into Eggman's cooking?" Big Knuckles replied, having four red nightmares in a headlock.
"No Knuckles. No."
Suddenly a metallic voice shouts over the crowd, "TASTE THE RAINBOW MOT-" Cutting off the rest of the sentence, a large rainbow laser was fired at Time Sombra, making him angry. Comically, Sombra let out a blast of Dark Gaia Phoenix clones flying out of his creepy mouth.
Everypony gagged at the sight as the others pointed at Metal Sonic, blazing through the army of birds with Knuckle Man's Sharp Knuckle. His attack changed into Rose Woman's Piko Hammer, bashing away more phoenix with two hammered hands as he flew towards Time Sombra. When he got to a safe spot his hammers became white hands and arm, surrounded by five orbs with the same colors as Twilight's friends. He fire the rainbow blast again, but in two directions as he spiraled towards Sombra.
When he got to Sombra's snout, he booped it, making Sombra scrunch and lose focus long enough to be shot in the face by a Sonic Shot. Sombra roared, firing time arrows at Metal, causing him to drop.
As Metal fell, he pointed a claw at Twilight, "I DON'T WANT THE GLORY! Finish him."
Tails flew Twilight down towards Rarity and Fluttershy, punching flying enemies along the way.
Fluttershy wished she took Tails' offer as copilot as Rarity shot gems at oncoming enemies at the edge of the battle field, protecting her. Rarity accidentally grabbed an Anarchy Beryl, causing the magic to overload it, exploding. The Shadows in the impact dusted themselves off while scowling at her. Rarity gasped from the blast and sheepishly waved, "Sorry, darlings... hehe..."
Twilight flew over the blast, sliding to a stop in front of the two. She got out her emerald, signaling them to follow.
Next was Apple Jack, who was tossing a nightmare around with her lasso and bucking red rexes. She noticed Twilight, so she ended the nightmare in her rope, following her friends.
Rainbow Dash was being dragged by her tail by Pinkie Pie, blasting enemies away with her party canon. The two united with their friends, Rainbow flew away from Pinkie's rasp, holding out the emeralds. The emeralds spun around the group for two rotations then dropped, nothing happening.
"Hey, what's the big deal?!" Rainbow exclaimed.
Twilight looked around, "I- I don't know! Maybe we need somepony to replace Sunset, since she's not here!" Twilight looked around, her eyes meeting Sonata using her lack of singing voice as a weapon. The blue mobian pony noticed the mares and happily waved at them, "I would say Sonata, but she's more of a laughter type..."
"Like me!" Pinkie exclaimed, her mouth covered by Rainbow's hooves to block the waves of rambling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvhcadKNiHQ Sudden music blared, not from Manic or Sonia, but a carriage in the sky blaring the music. Inside were three figures: Cadence, Shining Armor, and a mobian in a cloak. They flew low enough for the mobian to hop off as they flew away.
Manic kept the song going for some reason as the figure tossed off the cloak, a mobian unicorn Sunset Shimmer stood before them with a utility belt full of shot gun shells and the gun to go with them, "Hey Twilight! Sorry I'm late, the other mirror is in the Crystal Empire," she said pointing to the direction with a thumb, "Some blue guy left active runes when he took Sonata! Can you believe it?" She turned around, firing at some nightmares that noticed her.
"Who is she and why is she here?!" Rainbow questioned.
"Don't you ever pay attention, darling?" Rarity asked. "That's Sunset Shimmer! The girl Twilight and Discord talked about!"
"Not ringing a bell."
Suddenly the emeralds spun around the group, faster and faster until they levitated. Sunset looked at the stone wide eyed, "Are these the elements?!" All at once, the group became rainbow ponies (and rainbow mobian). "BUY OUR TOYS!!!" Sunset looked around, "Who said that?!"
"Sonic calls it 'the color voice', why it says 'buy our toys' instead of 'rainbow power' is beyond us," Twilight explained with a shrug.
Unknown to them, Metal Sonic was disappointed that Sunset took his place, but glad she did. On one hand, he could help save the day for once, on the other hand, he didn't need attention. He then decided to join the battle with Rouge Woman's Black Wave, rather than fight Time Sombra head on.
Wolf Sonic and the Knuckles stopped their competition, the Amys lowered their hammers as they followed Silver's awed gaze, Jet watched with the band and little Sonic, Metal Sonic watched while firing Shadow Man's Chaos Canon in one hand to hold enemies in place and Charmy Man's Rapid Stinger to finish them in another. Sticks shielded her eyes, fearing hypnotism while the X Tornado stood nearby, inside Tails watched.
Twilight's eyes glowed white while Sunset's eyes turned bright red as the group fired a rainbow alicorn that resembled Rainbow Dash to fight Time Sombra.
Time Sombra smirked, summoning a four armed, clockwork armor, human Sombra holding a dark magic sword.
Sunset hovered to Twilight, "We're fighting Mr. Sombra?! I really need this!"
Rainbow flew over, "I thought you were the element of forgiveness!"
Pinkie flew across, screaming in glee, "Or revenge!"
Sunset shook her head with a hand to her head, "No! He gives me failing grades "because its funny". I even got a negative one thousand on a test because I answered the bonus question! Who does that?! And don't get me started on his vaping-"
"Silence!" Sombra roared, stabbing the rainbow alicorn, making the group feel its pain. Luckily Apple Jack and Twilight's natural reflexes teleported the mega sized alicorn to a position to buck warrior Sombra to the "ground".
Realizing what just happened, Metal flew up to the group. He got into a safe position, "Twilight! Use a shield and Rainbow, imagine yourself flying forward at high speed without moving for real! Apple one, kick again, but in your imagination!" Twilight realized what was going on and told her friends to trust him.
Rainbow alicorn collided with warrior Sombra with a speeding shield before bucking him higher in the air. The next command had it fire diamonds from its eyes and a laser from its horns, thanks to Rainbow, it dodged Sombra's attack and launched a pie from its mouth as the regal creature derped then recollected itself.
Everyone looked at Pinkie. She giggled, "What? I was thinking of cake! That reminds me: Sonata's party! It will have-"
"Please focus, Ms. Pie!" Metal scolded.
"Ms. Pie is my mom! I'm Pinkie Pie! What's your name?"
"Sigh. My name is Metal Sonic. I could be v.4 or v.4.1, I kinda stopped caring after the elements upgraded me. I'm Eggman's Metal Sonic v.3.9, but I guess I'm a completely different- Sorry."
"About what?" Pinkie asked frowning.
"I'm telling you to focus, but- WATCH OUT!!" It was too late, Sombra stabbed their wing. The group's alicorn not only fell to the imaginary floor, but the group themselves fell. Whether or not they had wings, they felt the actual pain of being stabbed. They could also feel the steel of the blade, about to knock their heads clean off. "I wont let you do this!"
As Sonic's group saved the falling elements, Metal dived down, forcing the elements to use him. The bearers returned to normal, all pain given to Metal Sonic. Just as Sombra's sword almost met neck, the alicorn teleported and in its place a rainbow Nichole took a battle stance in its place.
"Why does it look like me?!" Real Nichole asked from Metal's right ear.
Metal shrugged, now resembling Neo Metal Sonic from his past life. The Harmony Emeralds circled him, giving him their power, "I thought Metal Madness or Metal Overlord would take the alicorn's place, honestly." Just then, the honesty emerald glowed brighter.
Rainbow Nichole dodged the blade's strike again, sweeping her leg in an attempt to knock Sombra off his feet. Instead he jumped, but couldn't dodge the rainbow laser that hit his chest.
Metal laughed, commenting, "Oh, please forgive me for my 'kindness'! Though seriously, you can stop now." Just as he spoke, the forgiveness and kindness emeralds glowed brighter. "I hope you understand, I have friends to protect... even if they don't see me as one."
Time Warrior Sombra stood in front of his actual self, Time Sombra, both replying in sync, "Nope. I'm here to eat crystals and kill you all, but I lost my appetite. Your loyalty sickens me." He took out three more swords for his other hands while rainbow Nichole took out a feather.
"Wow, a political cartoon reference," Sunset said, sighing in defeat.
"A feather? Your going to fight me with a feather?" Sombra laughed.
Metal just shrugged, "You said my loyalty 'makes you sick' and laughter is the best medicine in my opinion." The loyalty and laughter emeralds glowed brighter. "Heck, I thought you were the bad guy that takes instead of gives. Then again, I don't understand generosity." The generosity emerald glowed. "I mean seriously! Out of all my hiding, I hardly see Rarity doing it!"
"Hey, you brute!" Rarity complained from the ground.
"Sure, she gave that one stallion in Manehattan her scarf, but how many times do you see her give free scarfs to strangers? Though the arrival of mobians are helping... Speaking of 'not helping'- FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC!!!" The magic emerald glowed as rainbow Nichole fired a much more powerful and bigger beam of rainbows.
Sombra screamed in pain as he barely dodged the attack, shooting gold arrows as he rolled. His bottom arms were gone and he was seriously damaged from the sneak attack.
Rainbow Nichole ran over with the feather, tickling him. He couldn't grab his dropped swords from the ground, but he could toss a fire ball. Looking at his hand, Sombra smirked sending rapid fire balls at his enemy and grabbing his swords in the process.
He stopped his attack, noticing a frog. In his head he thought, Why do I think of this creature as a threat?! He swooped down, flicking the frog away from the cliff. From the direction he launched the frog, tress fell over or were tossed from something powerful.
Everyone stopped, now watching the forest as a huge purple ball smacked warrior Sombra in the face, sending him flying. "You! Hurt! Froggy!" Big shouted, placing Froggy on a rock, and spin dashing down then back up the cliff, punching Time Sombra hard in the face before falling. He bounced off the X Tornado, as it flew to catch him, giving warrior Sombra an uppercut that knocked him back up to rainbow Nichole. He once again bounced off the X Tornado, landing on the cliff to doctor his friend.
Everyone's jaw dropped and eyes wide, even Sombra's minions, the Shadow army, and rainbow Nichole.
Tails shook his head, "I knew he could toss cars with ease, but that was insane!"
"Tell me about it! How did his spin have enough force to make him go airborne and not break the cliff?!" Twilight questioned.
Tails threw his arms up for a moment before catching the controls, "How did he even injure Sombra?!"
Pinkie muttered, "I taught him well, indeed."
Metal and rainbow Nichole shook their heads in sync. Metal looked down at the ponies, "Do you want to finish him off?"
The girls looked to each other, nodding in agreement. The emeralds were handed back to them as Metal returned to normal and the ponies regained their rainbow look.
The rainbow alicorn returned where rainbow Nichole once stood and dashed over to Sombra, releasing one final wave of rainbow energy.
A red wagon pulled up, the driver being Scootaloo on her scooter. Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, Spike, and Cream with Cheese hopped out, looking at the land filled with nothing, but Shadow clones and their friends. Scootaloo moaned, "Is it over? Did we really miss it?!"
Suddenly a voice bellowed from the sky, "I'm not finished yet!" In the sky, a completely healed, four armed human Sombra with clockwork armor slowed the attack with a time shield. He stood proud in front of his laughing Time Sombra head.
Before anyone could react, a portal opened as an army of green normal Metal Sonics with black torsos, red visors, and flame job arms emerged, followed by Rosey the Rascal with her hammer above her head.
Both big Sonics (Wolf in his normal form) looked upon them in shock, "Metal Scourge?!"
Metal rolled his eyes, "Plah-lease. They're just repainted mes, nothing to worry-" One by one they activated the same special weapons Metal Sonic acquired from Mega Man. "Now don't I feel special..."
The fight raged on as the Metal Scourges and Shadows fought.
Both Amys decided to distract their little brat counterpart, somehow making the odds even for Rosy as hammers were tossed and swung.
Sombra continued to slow down the rainbow alicorn and fire homing arrows at her, severely injuring the bearers in the process. With Metal warning everyone of capabilities he has that the Metal Scourge army might have, he cant take control.
Sombra is making sure Twilight cant lead her friends and everythings going down hill.
Sonic couldn't let this happen! He had to find some way to fight! If he cant help them, who could?
Suddenly, the Metal Scourge army became organized. They either had Blaze Woman's Fire Tornado or Tails Man's Tails Wind to create a wall of fire. Those who circled towards the back either had Shadow Man's Chaos Cannon or Silver Man's Psycho Burst to slow, hold, or push their enemies who tried to avoid the fire.
Those who were immune to one attack met the other one. It did not matter if a Shadow could counter Chaos Cannon, its no use trying to avoid Psycho Burst when you were in that weapon's hold. Metal Sonic knew every weapon's weakness, but couldn't stop them all. Speed is one thing, time was another.
Sombra charged up his final swing only to be stopped by another blade.
Between Time Sombra's warrior Sombra spirit and the mane seven's rainbow alicorn spirit, slowed by time, was King Sonic donning golden armor and an upgraded Caliburn.
Sombra pushed down on his sword with little response, "Move you pesky rat!"
Sonic pushed Sombra away and flew towards him, pulling down his face guard and letting his glorious red cape flow behind him. He swung Excalibur towards the warrior, tossing away swords until Sombra saw him as a true threat. Sonic smirked, "I'm a hedgehog, mule."
They exchanged swipes and slashed with their swords. Sombra took a fighting stance, aiming four swords at Sonic, "Give up!"
"Hmph! You are mistaken if you think this is the limit of Excalibur's power!" Excalibur boasted.
Sonic took no fighting stance, instead "hopping" on his feet. He gave a few arm stretches while tapping his foot, "I'm waiting for my demise over here!" Sombra shot arrows at Sonic, only for him to be somewhere else. "Come on! Chili dogs could be made faster than you!"
Sombra lunged at Sonic, expecting to impale him. Sonic made a golden tornado capturing him for a moment, then homing in on him, Antoine style. A few cuts appeared on him, he shot dark crystals at Sonic, but someone else stopped them and tossed them back. Both Sonic and the rainbow alicorn circled Sombra, looking for an opening. The warrior tossed arrows and fireballs around him, leaving under his feet open.
From underneath, a purple blur sent a quick cheap shot before joining the group.
Excalibur (BOOM!)Sonic looked over to Darkspine (Modern)Sonic and shook his head. "So, how did you convince Celestia and Luna to give you the other two world rings?"
"I asked nicely?" He might've smirked, but it didn't show on his creepy, mouthless face. He flew through fire balls without a scratch and deflected arrows. He gave Sombra a few punches, all being blocked with slight ease before a massive black crystal was tossed at him.
Rainbow alicorn tossed the attack back at Sombra, which was blocked away in multiple pieces Excalibur Sonic used to rapid fire shards back again at Sombra, who dropped his guard to be kicked in the ribs by Darkspine.
Steve Urkel's voice could be heard as Hyper (Classic)Sonic arrived, "Hey guys! Metal just hit me with a rad friendship cannon thing!"
Darkspine turned his head, "We got this."
"Not cool! I can help!"
"We got this."
"I'm juicin' anyway!"
"Nobody says that anymore, unless their vegan."
"Way past, uncool!"
From behind the argument, warrior Sombra had Excalibur Sonic in a head lock, punching him repeatedly and slashed at a frozen in time rainbow alicorn.
The rainbow alicorn's mouth was open, allowing Fluttershy to take control. "Fos Roh Dah!!!" Sombra flew through the air by the force, recooperating and returning to be engulfed by a rainbow laser from Hyper Sonic. Hyper Sonic flew over, giving Sombra kicks to the face and a punch in the gut. He gave another blast of energy, followed by Excalibur Sonic extending Excalibur's blade, swinging his sword rapidly in a Soul Surge Attack that sent him flying again.
He flew over to the group, back above the battle field. Time Sombra opened his mouth, giving warrior Sombra the ability to have more of himself as four warrior Sombras attacked.
Hyper Sonic balled up, placing himself in Darkspine's grasp as he fired him in a flaming rainbow homing attack. Fire, arrows, and rainbows filled the sky as they fought.
Metal Sonic watched the battle unfold. Shadows and robot parts lied all around, the once grassy field looked dark and lifeless. Some struggle to survive as the army of Metal Scourges kept piling out. King Shadow and Adviser Shadow had to join to fight, determined not to retreat.
Big continued to doctor his frog and everyone tired. Even the limited Shadow army gave it their all. Metal looked towards Canterlot, Why are they just sitting there?! Don't they care about their subjects? Don't they care about their world?
"Laser! Laser! Laser! Laser!" the voice exclaimed as four beams of cyan energy from the tip of the castle flew straight at the warrior Sombras, destroying three Sombras in the process and a starrie night trail one punching Time Sombra's face before landing, revealing to be the princesses and and prince Shining Armor, ready for battle.
"ROCKET!!!" From the city, waves of orange rockets flew over, becoming guards from the Crystal Empire and Canterlot with the Robot Guards following in their usual forms. They backed up the Shadows, hammering and impaling Metal Scourge.
Some were even hacked, Metal knows because someone tried to hack him just now. Thankfully the alicorn system blocked the guy out as Metal shook his fist at the robot stallion before following Cadence.
Surrounding both Time Sombra and warrior Sombra, three Sonics in powerful transformations, a rainbow alicorn controlled by seven bearers of the retired Elements of Harmony- one being dragon borne another having a shotgun enhanced by rainbow magic, Metal Sonic, three alicorn princesses- two of which sealed him in ice for a thousand years or so, Spike being held by Cream- Spike defeating him last time, some flying heroes, and two armies not busy enough, aiming at his face.
Time Sombra looked tired, "Yeah, unfair odds. You know what? I'll be back with Tirek, see ya!" Within a millisecond Sombra, his Metal Scourge army, and Rosy disappeared without a trace as the sun shined on everyone.
Luna held her weapons high, "Keep your guard, it may be a trick!"
Excalibur Sonic flew over to the princess, "No. He's really gone."
Darkspine hovered nearby, but not too close to Luna, "This is a game to him, and with his time powers he's allowed to be a sore loser."
From below Sir Lancelot raised Arondight, somehow not part of Excalibur, as he scolded, "Sire! We should prepare better!"
Hyper Sonic hovered close to the night, "We now know what to prep for, bub." "Don't try to sound like Wolverine!"
He returned to normal, falling to Lancelot's feet. Once again mute, he kicked the dirt and walked back towards home.
Big Mouth, the most feared Dr. Robotnik was slack jawed. Nobody in the Robotnik Council saw this coming and so far Nega wasn't responding, his screen blank.
Julian Snively looked smug at his uncle, before realizing what Robotnik's expression meant and frowned. "Um.. Sir?"
"Snively... try to get Nega on the line..." He replied, still lifeless but oddly neutral in tone. He watched as Snively hacked Nega's monitor.
Looking around, his place was a wreck in fire and destroyed machines, metal, and hanging wires unlike the neat, clean lair he had set up. There was one thing that was set apart from the chaos. In green flames and blood there was a message:
One egg scrambled. One spudnik caught snooping, fell with a crash.I'm coming for you all... Can you blame me?I've been dead looonger. This will be fun!
Next to the message was an aged, body less Bokkun with a sword blade holding it in place. The sword that impaled the head was the same gear-themed sword Time Sombra's spirit held. Bokkun had the biggest smile on its face that the corners were curled above his red eyes.
"Hi Rouge," a group of ponies, mobians, and a human replied.
"I'm married to a cyan ring who might be seeing other... people or ponies." Rouge sat down, insane look on her face and whispering to the world ring.
Antoine couldn't handle the struggle longer so her asked advise from Twilight... who sent him to a therapist... who sent them to a support group. The instructor was from one of the new human nations that was revived by Wolf Sonic that were time frozen until recently.
Next to me, hat Bunnie and ponytail Bunnie were whispering to each other. The only part of the conversation I heard was that one Bunnie made a five bit bet that Rouge would start calling her ring "precious" or bite someone who gets too close. We heard a yelp as a pony engaged to a bread stick got too close.
"YOU BIT ME!" she cried.
"Keep your hooves away from my precious gem!" Rouge screamed before returning to her whispering to her ring, laughing insanly as everyone scooted away from her. Whichever Bunnie won the bet smirked as the other fished for her money.
This time I stood, "Hi I'm Antoine D'Coolette and zese two are Bunnies."
"Hi Antoine and Bunnies." Everyone replied.
"I've been reunited vith my wife from my current life," motioning my hands to ponytail Bunnie, who waved, "and my wife from my past life." Other Bunnie tipped her hat, "Vell, zey vont let me go. Especially since I vas in a coma in my past life!" I sat down. Looking around the ring of assorted creatures, looking uneasy at us.
Then the more southern Bunnie stood, "Y'all already know who Ah am, but it seems unfair that I only have my memories while she has mine and her own. Ah just don't know what to do!" She sat back down. They donkeys that were going to speak just turned and left the room without known reason.
The human recollected himself from the tension brought about, "Would anyone else like to introduce themselves?"
From their left Silver stood, "Hi, I'm Silver and my girlfriend sacrificed herself to save to future. How do I cope with it?"
"I knew there was a catch..." Big Sonic grumbled as he rubbed Celestia's back in the Royal Garden. If front, little Sonic waved two fans at the princesses while Wolf Sonic scratched behind Luna's wing joint with his claws. Nearby, Manic and Sonia readied their instruments.
Luna turned her head to wolf Sonic, pointing to a tea set, "Sonic can you grab that?" Wolf Sonic rolled his eyes, stretching his arm to grab the tray and bring it over, setting it on a small table.
Little Sonic looked nervous as Celestia stared at him. Unlike what he thought, the princess was thinking, so silent... what secrets do you hold?
Then Prince Blue Blood trotted up, sitting in a lawn chair next to Luna, trying to get a tan again. "You, pin cushion! Hoof rub, now." Little Sonic shook his head and kept fanning.
The princesses glared at him, "No, Blue Blood. You don't fall into the agreement."
"What agreement? Are they only your servants? Seems unfair."
Wolf Sonic glared at him and smiled, showing his teeth as King Sonic spoke, "Do you know who we are?"
"Don't know, don't care. Rub!"
"Well, you should. Werewolf me here," pointing to Wolf Sonic, "can probably eat a pony whole. Wanna test it out?"
Blue Blood took off his shades and stared at the werehog face, smiling big, sharp, drooling teeth at his small pony head. If his arms weren't stretched to give Luna a back rub, anyone would see that Blue Blood was f***ed against this carnevor. The prince got the message, moving to a different chair.
Wolf Sonic walked over, "Hey, I've been wondering, why are you king?"
King Sonic shrugged, "You can be king, too. That reminds me, I wonder if Charmy will get his kingdom back..."
"Besides Lancelot and you hut, what do we rule?"
Sonic pondered on it, "Well, mini me co-rules over Mobotropolis, but King Max rules that, too. Until one of Silver's futures. You rule the medieval realm of King Arthur, which might not exist, according to debates... I don't know. Split time-space is weird."
Sonia and Manic gave each other a look before face palming with a groan or sighing.
Wolf Sonic looked a bit upset, "OK, so we rule over Sonic 3 hut. So if Equestria is the far future, according to Discord, which timeline or reality is it?"
Everything went silent fast. Gardeners stopped all work, nobody moved, even birds kept quiet! Blue Blood broke the silence, "That's it! I'm watching Comedy Chimp or something!" He marched away in discust.
Everything return to normal, slightly.
A gardener was about to clip a rose when a green hand stopped him. "Please don't cut me."
The gardener screamed, causing two Sonics and part of the royal guard to find a plant creature stuck in the ground. The creature was humanoid in shape with big green leaves with two budded roses instead of hair and she had a green shirt with a red gem on the front and a long white-lime green skirt also made of petals.
Both Sonics knew her instantly, "Cosmo?!"
In Friendship Castle, Twilight and Tails completed the library arrangements, naming it "New Golden Oaks" after her old home. There was already customers inside, as well as ponies looking for help. Today, Twilight held her first royal court as the primary problems involved human-pony relations and creatures called Overlanders causing problems to "lower lifeforms" and so on.
Tails was with her for the most part, but when he found a human named "Professor Pickle", she was left alone with things she couldn't understand without the fox.
The mob grew and grew, angry or worried. All of a sudden, the lights went out. When they came back on, standing on the back of Rainbow Dash's throne was a man in a blue-white body suit, wearing a helmet that resembled Sonic's head. He wore red boots that resembled Sonic's shoes if they were tall and had two extra straps. He shook his white gloved index finger like little Sonic, front flipping and landing in front of Twilight, ending in a bow.
He looked up smiling, "Need help, princess?"
"Um... sure?" Twilight said slow and uneasily, "Who are you?"
"I am the great savior of Equus! Defeater of Time Sombra! The blue blur! Life bringer and super hero..... SONIC MAN!" He gave a pose, tossing rings everywhere.
Twilight sighed, "Your joking, right?"
Sonic Man broke his magnificent stance, "N-no... why?"
"I was there when Time Sombra attacked. He ran away to grow stronger and still hasn't been stopped." He smacked his visored face, getting laughed at by four plus types of civilian species/race.
"I'll prove who I am! I challenge you to a race!"
That's when Tails flew over with a spray bottle, scaring the feline mobians and intimidating Sonic Man. He aimed the sprayer at him, "Go away Sonic Man. This will end badly."
Sonic Man held up his hands, "Woah! Woah! Fine! I'm going back to Soleanna!"
Twilight raised a hoof, "Hold it. Tails, who is this guy?"
"A fan boy who keeps tarnishing Sonic's name with his fantasies. Its great in most cases, but not needed now. I'll let all Sonics know you came by," Tails said, smirking.
Sonic Man looked down at Tails, "At least I'm not that Sonic Man from the 90's."
Miles rolled his eyes, "You mean Robotnik when Sonic was awarded "Man of the Year"? Come back when you don't want an autograph."
Twilight got between the two, "Wait a minute! There's no need for a fight!"
Suddenly Spike ran in with a letter, "Tails, you got mail from Sonic!"
"Hmm? Which one?"
"Both of them! To keep this short: I'm belching a huge order. Sonic found this plant girl named Cosmo and to free her from the ground-" before he could finish, a huge ball of fire shot up from his mouth, forming not a scroll, but a plant girl. She slowly fell into Tails's arms with a scared expression.
Hi, Discord here. Long story short: Tails cried, Sonic Man cried, everyone left the castle, and Twilight never held court again! Oh, and Antoine still didn't get any help. He's in a coma, about to go down a huge waterfall in the Rainbow Falls! Amusing to see an indestructible comatose French soldier in his sea adventures!
Rarity walked up to the two Amys and Sonia, "Thank you both, darlings! I could never find a mobian model that would help me out."
"No problem. Hey, maybe we can exchange fashion tips!" (BOOM!) Amy suggested.
The other Amy was busy looking outside, where she could get a good look at Apple Jack's shop. She had apple bobbing going on.
Wolf Sonic raised his head out of the water, drops of water sparkling in the sunlight. He noticed me, smiling and waving as the other Sonic winked with a smirk, apple picked for me.
Wolf Sonic coughed and sputtered, almost drowning in the tub while Sonic found a worm in his apple, letting go as a bird flew by and took it. Big Knuckles got more points, fitting four apples in his mouth, but Apple Jack one when the found the golden delicious. Suddenly, Lancelot came by, flipping over the barrel and beating AJ's score by grabbing the one big mackintosh in the tub, still in his mouth as he landed with a moist head still running.
Amy looked at the scene and back at (Modern) Amy, what does she see in him?!
Upon arrival, there were about a hundred Shadows in a mexican standoff with someone. Kind Shadow looked around, amused, "This is unexpected. Looks like you have work to do."
Lancelot took out Arondight, "Let's get down to business. Put down, your guns!"
Did he send me squires when I asked for lords?
Your the weakest bunch I've ever trained! But you can bet before we're through,
Knave, I'll make a Shadow out of you!
Tranquil as a the Garden full of Chao.
Once you find your control, you better offend!
Your cowardly, clumbsy, pathetic lot. And you need a clue.
Some way I'll make Shadow, out of you!
"I'm never gonna get an emerald!"
"Say good bye to "Ultimate Lifeform"."
"F***! I was a fool of skipping gym!"
"This guy got them running for life?" King Shadow asked his adviser.
"Hope he doesn't see the Brony in me!"
"Now I really wish I rode this extreme gear more!"
(Be a man!) We must be swifter than Sonic the Hedgehog!
(Be a man!) Faster than the Blue Typhoon!
(Be a man!) With the strength of a Black Arm! Mysterious as Robotnik's afternoon!
Time is running lower! You will get a B. Heed every order and might go through!
"Are you black and pink? You don't ready for war! So pack up, oh wait you cant. How do I... make a Shadow... out of you?!" Lancelot shouted to Brony Shadow.
(Be a man!) "Must be swift as Pinkie D. Pie!"
(Be a man!) "With all the force of a Sonic Rainboom!"
(Be a man!) "With all the strength of Big Mackintosh! Mysterious as Luna and Nightmare Moon!"
(Be a man!) We must be swifter than Sonic the Hedgehog!
(Be a man!) Faster than the Blue Typhoon!
(Be a man!) "With all the strength of Big Mackintosh! Mysterious as Luna and Nightmare Moon!"
(Sond End.)
Lancelot let his hand slide down his face, witnessing the strongest Shadow in the group being completely different than his edgy brothers. In fact, he used his superior skills to prepare a party... that was on fire for a minute before he used a series of kicks to put out the fire.
"Sir, what do we do with this one?"
King Shadow thought about it before an idea came, "Well, looks like he might need a different type of training than the usual. Track down Metal Sonic and leave him with his new mentor."
From above, a metallic voice responded, "I was actually hoping you'd say that." Metal hovered down into sight. "I'll take him."
"I still don't know what you see in these ponies," King Shadow said as his adviser left to grab the odd clone.
Once they got there, B.S. (nicknamed for multiple reasons) quickly shook his king's hand before bowing. He opened his mouth, "I was thinking, can we have navy blue guns that fire paint bullets? Let us know who shot who and who has better aim. Plus it would be fun and look like party warfare!"
Sir Lancelot pulled up his face guard, "That's the most Shadow thing he's ever said."
"I also don't get why most Shadows are the same. Shouldn't there be faster, stronger, skilled, or more powerful in separate classes to make up a group of one veteran Shadow, two experienced, and a new guy? Like little teams in a big game, you know?" B.S. took out a prototype party pistol, cleaning it as he spoke. He then too out some disks from somewhere, running past King Shadow and tossing them.
Using a combination of rainbow chaos spears and sky blue gun fire, he destroyed the disks smirking as he aimed his gun at King Shadow. Instead of a painted bullet, confetti and a white flag with a pink Black Arms symbol popped out. Metal clapped, being impressed as the others gave uneasy looks to each other.
Adviser Shadow began, "Brony Shadow-"
"Hold it! How about you call me, Bull. All my friends call me that... plus I forgot the last part."
"OK, Bull, you are assigned extra training with Metal Sonic, here. He will be your mentor here on out."
B.S. looked at Metal, "Isn't he our enemy or rival?"
King Shadow sighed, "Just. Follow. Orders."
He then gave a salute, "Okie Dokie Lokie, my King. Bull Shit- out!" He began marching out the cave with Metal in tow.
King Shadow looked over to the knight, "Train the others more. Increase the difficulty and consider his idea on small groups and classes. Create ranks and separate each clone by rank and each rank by type and build on from there."
"As you wish..." Lancelot said, turning and leaving.
Pinkie looked at the decorations Silver helped her put up, a bit sad that the last "Welcome Sonic's Friends Party" has ended- SCRATCH THAT COSMOS HERE!!!
Silver was tossed by the bass that came from the ground as ponies filled the room in a neon flower themed party. The music wasn't too loud to scare her off when Tails entered the room with Cosmo. How they redecorated and got ponies to come was unknown, but it happened.
Both Bunnies and the Apples had to stop whatever they were doing and guard the doorway. New Bunnie asked, "Is this normal?"
Apple Jack sighed, "Yesterday shoulda been tha last one! Two weeks of party isn't good."
Inside, Discord danced with the limp Antoine, still in a coma. Nobody noticed it somehow.
As soon as Silver got up, Spike pushed a door open, slamming Silver between the door and a wall. After Spike delivered the punch, the door shut and Silver's head fell in the punch bowl.
Pinkie pulled his head out with her tail, "No, Silvey! That's Gummy's punch!"
The now pink headed hedgehog suddenly felt sick and began rush towards the nearest bathroom, but stopped when a lamp make for Cosmo's indoor sun consumption came by, blinding him. When he could see, he was found at the DJ booth with his hand on a red button and a quiet room of angry party goers.
Vynal shook her head, "Not cool, man!" Silver had enough. He grabbed the nearest microphone and messed with the sound system with his telekinesis.
As he sang, the party bounced back up. He flew around, avoiding the ground and using Rarity to clean his head and summon a neon cyan suit resembling his Secret Freedom Fighter uniform. He circled the crowd before tossing two bits to Rarity and making loops, landing back on the stage.
The weak Cosmo sat under a lamp, absorbing sunlight and enjoying her friends being with her. Silver gave the stage to Neon Lights, hovering over to the plant girl. He introduced himself and brought her up to speed on things. From (BOOM!)Sonic saving (Classic)Sonic to the recent battle with Time Sombra. (Of course he left out Mr. S and Metal Sonic's stories. Time travel through two universes and breaking loyalty to join the time traveling group doesn't seem necessary to mention. Plus, it might confuse her.)
Cosmo looked around, "So there's three Sonics and two of almost everyone, plus a knight that looks like Shadow, who controls a clone army with his double."
"Let that sink in a bit, because that's the easy explanation," Silver said, leaning in his seat.
"It is? What's the hard one?"
"I said the Sonics are from three times, but he has friends, family, and memories from different realities. One or two of which, links little Sonic to that Sonic with the suit over there," pointing at Wolf Sonic with Amy hugging his leg as he limped. "But blue arms," pointing at the Sonic talking to Rainbow Dash, "Is from a different reality in the same universe "bubble"... Is bubble a good enough word for it?"
Cosmo moved the lamp closer, "Well, that's confusing..."
"Not as confusing as remembering Crisis City when it never happened."
She held up her hands, "I think I have enough information!"
Silver nodded, "Well, welcome to the far future in one or none of these timelines and realities!" He flew off, leaving the confused Cosmo and scientists that walked up.
"Alright Tails, I'll ask later," Twilight said, still holding her note pad. They sat nearby so Tails, Twilight, and Prof. Pickle could exchange notes and keep Cosmo company.
Pickles flipped through some of Twilight's notes and found a picture of Silver tossing little Sonic at a tree while Big Knuckled prepared to toss the other Sonic, "So Sonic and Knuckles play a game called Coconut Hurl, yet they still retain full intellegents?-"
Knuckles dropped his party plate with a shocked scream, "Woah! I thought my hand was gone!"
Discord bounced on his tail with coma Antoine on his back, like Andy and Woody in Toy Story. Antoine was a great friend. You send him into battle and his limp body creeps things away!
He looked to the sky, "Hey French Fry, do you see that?" He used a third arm to turn Antoine's head and nod. "What is that?"
Using his magic, Antoine's spirit talked through Discord's head phones, "Zat looks like ze Death Egg zpaze ztation!"
"It doesn't look like an egg... I know!"
"Vat are you going to do?" Antoine asked, Discord forming a smirk for him.
With a snap of his talon, he transmuted the station. "I like odd numbers. If you split three even between two ponies, who get's the third thing? Do you like the two new moons?"
"Vat's vith the sun on it?"
Luna looked at the space station in the sky through her telescope, "Sister, come quick! Looks like there's another moon outside." Suddenly the mustached face became a big white butt with a sun mark and crude metal tail as Celestia arrived. The princess looked at the space station, then a nervous Luna, then her hind quarts before looking at the space station again. "What does it mean?"
"I don't know. It could be Discord... but I'm not sure."
"Discord? I didn't know he was into mustached robot space junk."
Celestia looked at Luna, "So you weren't making a joke? Check again." She did, seeing the wagging tail and fell back, holding back laughter.
"Not cool Aunt Lulu," Blue Blood said, passing the door in the hallway.
Werehog Sonic hung to the ceiling of Shadow's cave as he growled, "What was that for?!"
Under him, holding a katana, Shadow scowled at him, "Faker! We agreed that you'd never set foot in here!"
"Nobody told me anything about an agreement!"
Shadow put up his weapon as his king walked up, "You must have a good reason anyway, speak."
Sonic swung himself, landing at Shadow's feet. He popped his knuckles before speaking, "We might have a problem. The Death Egg is back." They ran out, looking up at the giant Celestia butt. "What the heck..."
King Shadow looked skyward, "What the hell?!"
There was a sign with neon lights pointing at it saying, [ Enter Here Sonic! ]
Sonic looked up at the sign in the sky both Amys dragged him out to see and saw the space station butt. It read, [ Enter Here Sonic! I'll be waiting Big Blue!]
Little Sonic walked up. As the sign registered in their heads, warning signs came up and their faces turned red.
Before words could be said, both Amys took out hammers. They chased the two for a bit, before Manic and Sonia walked up. Sonia stopped (BOOM!)Amy, "What's going on?!"
She pointed up at the giant metal sun goddess plot in the sky with a neon Luna sign sitting on Celestia's left cheek, kicking her legs and pointing the other sign at the space station. Sonia glared at her brothers while taking a hammer, "Sonic...?"
Suddenly Shadow drove up in his motorcycle, followed by Wolf Sonic in his normal form on his extreme gear and holding other boards with his hand out. "Come with me if you want to live!"
"Archie damn it, hurry!" King Shadow said. He then started driving off, "Run you fools!" All three Sonics rode away, on an extreme gear, plain hover board, and skate board as three angry girls tried to follow on foot.
"Big Mouth" Robotnik actually laughed. "Good. This is good, indeed."
"Beach Ball" Robotnik was holding onto a pillar as his space station rumbled with every change, "Oh look, you actually know how to have fun."
"That reminds me," he grabbed the remote from Cluck, changing channels.
"Real Man" Eggman came online, twirling his mustache, "Sir, I must ask someone this question."
Big Mouth didn't pick another video and leaned forward, making a finger tent in front of his face, "Have you asked anyone else?"
"Its at touchy subject for the others and Beach Ball doesn't understand it at all."
"Ask away..."
Real Man held up some papers as he asked, "If you died, why are you our leader? I mean, you failed at world domination and died, leading Robo Robotnik to arrive to your universe, take your place, and become Dr. Eggman. That bypasses Beach Ball's reason to exist and stupid Robotnik from being alive. So how are you superior?"
Big Mouth sat back, lifting a brow, "I died?"
"Yes, and we took your place as Robotnik Prime. The problem besides Beach Ball's existence, why didn't I rememer. Why didn't I know?"
"How did I die?"
Snively slowly backed away from his uncle's chair, holding back sobs. Real Man quickly saved him, "A sleeper agent turned your last devise against you. Instead of destroying Knothole Village, you were killed and the robians in Robotropolis regained their free will."
"Great... If you'll excuse me, I'll think of your answer." He disconnected his link with Real Man, turning on another video. "An hour long, eh? Snively, order something from Meh Burger. I need to vent over the fact that I failed to beat Sonic before I died."
(This video is seriously nearly two hours long. Watch at your own risk.)
"What is this?" He muttered to himself, petting Cluck, "What is my life?!" He then opened some battles in the joint data bases, studying them. He realized, he was still superior. Dr. Ive "Big Mouth" Robotnik is the best Robotnik, but he cant rule the whole world alone. He needs to learn every failure from every Eggman in the council- Did he seriously try to attack Sonic with a wrecking ball, twice? No wonder he sucks.
On the video (1:02:15 - 1:02:28) , JonTron was screaming at Aren, "I'll tell you what Aren, you can give up now or you can pick it up! Because I certainly cant do it without out you and you cant do it without me!!"
At that, he called Bokkun. The little guy appeared, looking more happy than ever until he saw the summoner. He asked in a slightly timid voice, "H-hey Doctor!"
"Little shit, make yourself useful and call him. I will ignore him, no more. Tell him his code name is "Pingus" or whatever he wants to be called," Big Mouth smirked, having a plan.
There was a crowd of ponies, griffons, mobians, humans, and robot ponies watching a stage with three pony princesses, all three Sonics, and Discord. This matter got waaay out of hand since the space station looks like the back half of Celestia with a poorly made tail, neon Luna and Cadence held signs pointing for Sonic to destroy the base and figurines of the mane six (replacing Fluttershy with pony Sunset Shimmer) waving at Sonic while the tail's wagging brushed them.
Twilight called out, "Attention everybody! The danger in the sky is real, Discord is just using twisted humor to slow their reconstruction of what Sonic and Co. call a "Death Egg" that might have an active laser. I-"
Discord slid in front of Twilight in a Frozone/Elsa mix costume, freezing the ground, "Hello! I've had my fun, but I need help! I need a chaotic idea that I can use to delay our doom, without my masterpiece! Any ideas?"
Wolf Sonic turned Discord's head, "I got one!" He sped off and returned with Omochao.
"Hi, I'm Omochao! Press A to confess you love to Amy! Press B if you're in a relationship with Sonata! Pull the left trigger to see my shipping chart! Combo A B B RT LB LB RB A A B A to silence Omochao!" Omochao kept his rambling as Sonic handed him to Discord.
"I see what you mean!" The Omochao disappeared with Discord, followed by some loud words.
"Press X to begin repairs a hundredth time!" The giant Omochao in the sky exclaimed.
"I've created a monster!" Wolf Sonic cried as Omochao continued talking.
"Did you know you can increase your speed by running? Running can also make you tired! Isn't that interesting?!"
Sonic sped into Twilight's castle, "Yo Twilight! Can we borrow some TP?" He stopped when he noticed the huge map in the canter of the throne room. "Is that new? I like it."
Spike looked up, "That's what I said!" He walked around the map, passing transparent landmarks.
Sonic turned on his communicator, "Tails! Check out Twilight's new castle map! It has everything from our house to borders!"
"Hi mom and dad!" Pinkie called before Spike accidentally stepped on them, making her cry. Suddenly, their cutie marks flew around the air from their thones and Rainbow's broken crystal chair. The five marks surrounded Twilight's mark as the marks flew over the map, stopping at the place we found Scourge and Anti-Sonic. Spike was then pulled off the map by Twilight and set in his seat.
Fluttershy pointed at the marks, "If this is Ponyville, why are our cutie marks over there?"
Twilight in leader mode, taps on the map, "I don't know, but I think it wants us to found out. The tree, the chest, this castle, and now the map. How can we not follow it?"
"Count us in, Twilight!" Wolf Sonic said as he entered the room with Little Sonic, Tails, Jet, and both Knuckles.
Rainbow hovered over the map, pointing at a trail with her muzzle, "You know what? There's a ton of room for dangerous adventure along that route. Count me in!" The other ponies decided they wanted in on the adventure, Fluttershy on the other hoof wasn't so sure.
"Um... maybe I should stay here with Spike." Fluttershy said as Spike and little Sonic put on similar hoofball drink hat and foam fingers, obviously on different teams.
Spike help out a purple foam dragon claw while little Sonic held out a big white glove foam finger. Spike stood in his seat, "Awesome! Me, Sonic, and Big Mac have a huge weekend ahead of us! Talking about hoofball, trade hoofball cards, talk about hoofball stats-"
"O- on second thought, maybe I'd better go with them... In case they need me!"
Big Knuckles pumped his fist, "Heck yeah! Mountain hike!"
Twilight shook her head, "More like road trip."
Back at the rock from a month ago, Rarity attempted to look for the spa, but was shot down by Twilight's logic of "Why are we here?"
Pinkie began, "Stay behind me everypony-" The Sonics and Jet missed the last part as they raced each other around the town and back to a rock, down the slope that the others hid behind. The two noticed creepy smiles, resembling those being under the rule of a dictator or something worse. The town was plain and dull while the citizens looked the same while having the same black equal mark on them.
Jet left the group in his own adventure and stake out.
When they got close to the group, Rainbow stated, "Fighting a horrific monster would be super awesome!"
"Or not..." Wolf Sonic said. "Let's just walk in, say hi, and find out what the problem is."
"Those smiles are bad news," Pinkie said, glaring at the town. We walked on in, everypony saying "Welcome!" in the same tone, even a group of children said it at the same time making Wolf Sonic die on the inside a bit.
"This doesn't look too bad," Big Knuckles said, waving at some ponies.
A unicorn stallion with a light sky blue coat a short, potato bag cloak walked up, "Welcome!" He looked at Twilight, "Parden my forwardness, but are you an alicorn?"
Twilight gave a smile while AJ introduced her while both Knuckles jazz handed towards her, one not liking the idea.
"Well, you certainly came to the right place for friendship." He said, leaning in with a smile, rustling Sonic's jimmies at the creepiness of his tone.
He stepped aside, smiling at Rarity as a completely white earth pony introduced themselves as Double Diamond and (the disturbing) Party Favor. Apple Jack introduced the group, gaining a response from the newcomer Double Diamond, "And most of you have your own unique cutie marks." Leaning in, causing Pinkie to hide hers with her tail in discomfort.
Sonic pushed him away, "Yeah, is there a problem?"
"Problem? Why, I don't think we ever have any trouble in our little village, besides the green hedgehog a month back." DD smirked.
Party Favor commented, "Its true! You'll see! Hmm!" He gave a wide smile-smirk.
They turned, guiding the group, "Perhaps you'd like to meet our founder, Starlight Glimmer?"
Fluttershy followed happily, "I wish everybody in Equestria was as friendly as these ponies are!"
Wolf Sonic looked back with Pinkie saying, "I have a bad feeling about being here. I have my eye on them... especially the stallions."
We stopped at a building, the two ponies knocked in sync with Double speaking, "Starlight? We have new visitors!" We all entered the small building that looked bigger on the inside like everywhere else. Next to the stairwell of the barren room was a teal door.
Rainbow whispered, "Prepare to fight! We don't know-"
Tails rolled his eyes, "Best bet: a pony. Just like the town, ponies. Leader of ponies is a single pony. My best bet is a pony."
A pink mare strutted through the door, acting more normal and speaking with true enthusiasm, "Welcome! I'm so pleased to have you here."
Rainbow groan and Double introduced the ponies, ending with a smooth "and Twilight Sparkle" as if it was some chocolate commercial. Twilight smiled, rustling her wings and sending Starlight's attention to them.
"Forgive my bluntness, but assuming its Princess Twilight Sparkle?" Starlight asked.
Big Knuckles butted in, "And two Prince Sonics!" Making the mobian group groan a bit.
Starlight kept her composure, acting as if Knuckles didn't say anything, "Also, we don't get many alicorns around here."
Wolf Sonic whispered to Pinkie, "I don't trust her. Watch the stallions and this mare."
"Yes! But Twilight is fine."
Starlight nearly squeed, "So?! How did you learn of our little village?"
Sonic stood next to Twilight, "Long story. We followed a map and the wind of destiny."
Big Knuckles laughed, "Technically, its a giant map."
Pinkie added, "A tree-chest-castle map!"
"BUY OUR TOYS!!!"
Starlight jumped, "Who said that?!" She fixed her composure, "Anyway, no matter how you found us, we're happy to have you! We're happy to have anypony... and anybody who wants to experience true," her pupils turned pin sized at the word, sending chills down Sonic's spines, "friendship, for the first time."
"Say what?" Apple Jack asked, glaring at the unicorn.
Sonic leaned over to Pinkie, whispering in a frantic manner, "We're not safe! We need to leave!"
"Oh, indeed. That's what's so unique about our village, you see. Around here, we don't flaunt our special talents because... We don't have any special talents to flaunt!"
Tails pointed at Starlight's flank, "Is that why you have those marks?!"
"Perhaps it would be easier to understand, if we give you a tour of the village!" Starlight said, almost cheerfully.
The Sonics whispered to Pinkie, "Watch your butt..."
After a musical performance that varied from insulting Rainbow to bad touching and making sure ponies were in line. Fluttershy enjoyed it, but was denied by an angry Pinkie.
Sonics and Rainbow started laughing. Wolf Sonic stated, "Utopia? That's a fool's gold! Dr. Robotnik tried to make a utopia and failed, continuously."
Rainbow added, "Besides, your joking? Give up our cutie marks? That's so stupid! Why would we ever do that?"
"Rainbow! Sonic! Don't be rude! We shouldn't judge them, they all seem perfectly happy with their choice," Fluttershy replied.
"Don't believe their smiles, Fluttershy!" Pinkie warned.
Wolf Sonic got in a fighting stance, "I've seen it before. These ponies are like robians! Stripped of their free will! Probably forced into this!"
Twilight "resolved" the problem, mentioning that they were confused while Tails glared at the Sonics.
Starlight calmly said, "We have no judgement in our village. Each of us was confused once as well," three ponies behind her nodded in agreement, "blinded by the false promise of our cutie marks."
Back in Ponyville, the crusaders gained a cold feeling. Applebloom looked to her friends, "Girls, for some reason Ah don't feel like crusadin' today..."
The other two gasped, before suddenly feeling the same way. They suddenly lost their purpose in life.
Rainbow pointed a hoof, "Are you for real?!" Receiving a glare from Twilight.
Said pony walked forward, "When we were sent to this village, we assumed it was to help it in some way, but, well... It doesn't seem you need any help."
"Have you ever thought that you were sent so that we could help you?" Starlight asked, placing a hoof on Twilight's chest before walking away. "After all, those who entered our village never wanted to leave. Why should you be any different?" The pony group looked to each other while Pinkie continued her scowl.
Both Sonics exclaimed in sync, "Neither did the mobians who became robians!" Wolf Sonic continued, "Enter Robotropolis and you were never seen again... until Robotnik died. But, you don't have that problem."
"... Anyway. That is entirely your choice! Please, enjoy our little corner of Equestria. We're all fond of it, no doubt you will be as well. Double Diamond, help our guests with whatever they need."
The perv smiled, "Of course!" Once he said that, the whole group backed away slightly as one. Even Sonic was afraid of what he might do. Starlight walked off as Tails berated the Sonics with scolding.
While the girls did whatever, Sonic and his group sat at a lunch table somewhere else discussing things.
"Why are we here?" Tails asked.
Sonic checked on sleeping Caliburn's ear muffs, "The map sent us."
"We don't even know what that map is!" Knuckles said, shaking his fist.
"Its a magic map, duh!" Big Knuckles said.
Knuckles sighed, "I should've stayed behind!" The conversation became bickering and comparing Starlight to a SWATbot or Robotnik, causing more problems. The ponies stared, suddenly covering the children's ears as the debates and bickering contined, yet kept their smiles.
The waiter came by, "What'll it be? We have muffins!" The group quieted, looking towards the pony.
Big Knuckles raised an eyebrow, "Aaand?"
"Um... just muffins."
Jet rode over on is board and wearing the local fashion, getting off and sitting with group, "We'll have twelve muffins, if you don't mind."
"Not at all?" The waiter walked back inside with the order.
Jet leaned in his seat, "I don't know why the girls were sent here, but the sooner its done, the sooner I ride free." Suddenly the plain bran muffins came and the waiter stood.
He spoke, "Sorry for the intrusion, but you were arguing a bit ago... and now you're agreeing. How are you still friends with the different viewpoints?"
Wolf Sonic leaned over the table, "Yeah?"
"Well, you had different opinions and looks!"
Knuckles smirked, "Dude, opinions don't always matter. It happens all the time, no matter what time frame or reality we're in!"
"But... you look like your friends!"
Big Knuckles group hugged his Sonic, "We are friends!"
"Yeah! A simple disagreement wouldn't change that!" Tails added, being an expert.
The waiter rugged his neck, "Excuse me, I have a hard time believing this." He went from nervous looking to dull and straight faced, "Different appearances lead to different opinions, which lead to bitterness and misery. So why aren't you miserable and-"
A chunk of muffing was coughed up by Big Knuckles, who spattered before smiling falsely, "Tastey..."
"Well, I'm not any good at baking. At least I'm not the worse, either!" Across from them, Party Favor stopped reading his book and noticed what the waiter said. He unsettling finished, "Hope you enjoy the village!" He walked off with a strained smile towards Party Favor, leaving a note. Party calmed down, reading his book with a smug look.
Sonic got the note, motioning Tails and the others to read it as Big Knuckled placed a sock in his mouth.
Quick, come inside! Meet me down the stairs. - Egg Beater
Wolf Sonic whispered to Sonic, "Party and Diamond remind me of SWATbots... Let's go."
Jet looked at the group, "Yep, that's normal."
Tails whispered, "Let's sit here, eat muffins, and act normal. I think we're being watched."
Knuckles responded, "The whole town is watching us. Just look! That guy is playing one note on his triangle and smiling at us."
Sonic shook his head, "Not like that, I don't think anybody wants us talking to Egg Beater- Great name, by the way. Must have smart parents." Sonic motioned his head towards Party Favor, who munched on a burnt muffin with glee.
Jet rolled his eyes, "Screw it. Eating contest, who ever can eat all the muffins without gagging wins." Big Knuckles won, eating nine muffins while Tails got one and Wolf Sonic got two.
As planned Knuckles flipped the table, "Great, you ate all the muffins, you moron!"
Tails raised his hands with obviously terrible acting, "Hey, we can get more inside!" The group did just that, going down some dark stairs.
"I ate cardboard tastier that those muffins!" Big Knuckles said.
Tails flew ahead, "Ms. Derpy would agree with that!"
"I'm so glad you made it!" Egg Beater said.
Sonic punched Wolf Sonic, tossing rings everywhere. The ring's light illuminated the room, revealing more ponies, "Ha! I had my suspicions!"
A green earth pony tossed his hooves up, "Did you see how high he tossed that table!"
"I heard the blue ones are the fastest things alive!" Egg Beater said, pointing at a Sonic.
"I would like to be as skilled on a board as that bird!" a tan pegasus exclaimed, trying to do a trick on a piece of wood his friend levitated.
"I also heard you were a prince. Is that true?!" Egg Beater said to a Sonic, nearly in his face.
"This guy is huge!!" the tan colt said, hanging off of Big Knuckle's arm.
"How are you friends, yet a different species?" The green pony with gold eyes asked.
Egg Beater sighed, "I wish I could have long hair again! I would totally style it with spikes! Even for one day!" He looked down, sad, "It would be better than those god awful muffins and combed mane..."
Sonic leaned on a crate, "What's the hold up? Get your butt mark back and maybe leave the town!"
Green pony gave a smile, "Day dreaming is one thing, but you mean actually putting it back on?!It seems extreme..."
Jet rolled his eyes, "Seriously? You don't know extreme..."
Egg Beater frowned, "I doubt Starlight would enjoy that. She wanted us all to be happy in our sameness."
Tails got out a notepad, "A question for a friend: How does somebody take away a cutie mark?"
The colt flew away from Knuckles, "Cutie Unmarking is an exciting experience! Starlight wields the Staff of Sameness to zap our marks away, and replace them with these!" Egg Beater, the tan pegasus colt, and green earth pony pointed to their equality marks in sync with a smile.
Wolf Sonic impressed the group with a quick transformation into Werehog, ignoring it as he spoke, "Isn't Cutie Marks your identity? Ponies shouldn't be banned from themselves and not chose their destinies! They're essential!"
The colt smirked, "Its not like we're away from them! They're in a vault in a cave and we can visit them all we like, to remind us of torture of life without equality."
"Can we visit this cave?" Knuckles asked, for other reasons.
From a distance in the form of crimson eagles, thanks to the wisp watches, Sonic's group noticed Twilight's group following Starlight up a trail to a cave with DD behind them, creepily close to Rarity. Jet circled around in his normal form as back up, in case of a fight while Knuckles used yellow drill to travel.
Twilight held on an unheard conversation. The group reverted to normal, slipping on stealth suits powered by Anarchy Beryl as then entered. Their vision became a golden Tails, violet Werehog, sparkling blue Sonic and Caliburn, and red Big Knuckles and everything else looked the same.
Thy came across a wall with picture, assuming to be the vault. They saw Starlight pick up a staff that looked like a fusion of Gandalf's staff and a tuning fork. She pointed it at Rarity, who backed into Double Diamond... actually saw that coming. More ponies fled in as Twilight's group huddled together with an audible:
She teleported above, firing magic, but was countered by Starlight ripping Twilight's mark off her and tossing it into the vault. The result, instead of a star, Twilight's flank had a black equal sign embedded and her coat lost some color. The rest were shot with the same effect as Sonic's group got into position.
Starlight walked over to the ponies, "I don't blame you for what you're trying to do here today, but you've spent your whole lives thinking those marks are a good thing."
"GIVE THEM BACK!" Twilight yelled in serious, burning anger.
"Well, now you can spend the rest of your lives here with us! And we'll teach you how much better life will be without your cutie marks!"
"To Be Continued!"
Everyone not used to the voice jump, startled. Starlight stomped a hoof, "Seriously?! Who said that?! Show yourself!!"
"Why didn't we do anything?!" Jet asked, stomping his foot.
Werehog Sonic shuttered, "That staff! I don't know what's so special about it, but I'm sure I'm like this in dark environments or exposure."
"I wonder how Knuckles Jr. is doing?" Big Knuckles asked. Five of the six mobians met back up at a makeshift Meh Burger left by who-know-what, using it as a temporary HQ. "I wonder what the others are doing, too."
"She's coming this way!" A ponied cried. There was mass hysteria in the streets as Red Amy grabbed a nearby griffon.
"Where's my Sonic?!" She questioned. Little Sonic and Spike were useless to her, but followed to stop her when a hammer appeared.
Spike huffed, leaning on a tree, "Why is she so obsessed with you?!" Little Sonic cupped his throat, raising an eyebrow. "Oh, yeah..."
"Hey guys!" Tails called out, pointing to the town. Twilight's friends stood in a line as Starlight and a group of ponies started calling out 'come join us' all around. It was very creepy.
The group returned to stealth, moving towards the town.
"My lord, you weren't kidding," Caliburn commented in shock, "they're auctioning them off!"
Wolf Sonic walked by, "They wouldn't do that. Not savages, just equal by force." The group climbed on the rooftops, looking down.
"I'd like to join!" Said the soft voice of Fluttershy.
A red flicky landed nearby, chirping, "What happened to her?!" Before flying off.
Blah. Blah. "How could you?!" Blah. Drama continued as all, but Fluttershy returned to their prison. Fluttershy almost outed somepony, but he took the full blame, everyone hates him. Yeah, good stuff. Hold on-
Sonic looked over to Tails, "Count the Party Favors. One over there in the dog house and one over there in the crowd!"
"Maybe they're twins?"
Werehog looked around, "Nope. Heck, the Party watching us is still watching us." Down below, Party Favor waved at them with a much larger creepy grin. His horn glowed black as an invisible Time Sombra blade appeared, opening a portal that he walked through. Gone.
The group began to move, following Fluttershy.
<Fast Forward>
Metal Sonic Log: Season 4. Log 2. Day 3?
Night time. Our heroes decide to sneak inside Starlight's cottage. How ironic. Heroes breaking into an innocent mare's home? Un heard of!
My heat sensors and x-ray track five figures inside. Werehog hands a wooden bucket to Jet, who fills the bucket with water as the large echidna stands near a window. Tails flies the bucket to Sonic. As Subject: Starlight Glimmer enters her room, Sonic drops the bucket on her. Classic prank.
Fluttershy stands next to the unseen Knuckles, watching as- Hello. Subject: Starlight Glimmer still has her Cutie Mark. Another irony! Talk about equality, yet still has her mark! This is gold!
Day 4?
All this pony drama! Faust! Sonic's team sits on the roof of the building Twilight's friends are housed in, just waiting. Werehog is starting to show signs of light in him, which is good since spiked shoes don't hide tracks well.
Subject: Party Favor hugs Subject: Starlight Glimmer's leg, begging forgiveness as Fluttershy walks her friends back inside. And...
OH MY GAWD!!! Subject: Party Favor!!! [ integrated into database :D ] He makes this HUGE speech about how Twilight's friends try to break him, but then he made the funniest derp face, EVER! "But I didn't listen!" he said. Yep, I'm archiving that!
Anyway, Twilight leaves the prison, joining their group.
Next thing you know, Sonic gives Fluttershy a bucket, which is used to clean part of Subject: Starlight Glimmer's cutie mark. The town is outraged by this.
"Surround her!" Werehog commanded his group, the others appearing around the lone mare as the tides turned on her.
"How could you!"
"Friendship is equality!"
"We trusted you!"
"I made you equal! Gave you friendship! It was my magic that made this all happen!" Subject: Starlight Glimmer [ integrated into database ] shouted in vein pulsing anger.
Werehog appeared next to her, "The staff is just a stick. I tried using it, but turns out the only darkness here is you! This spell you use is dark magic!" The town gasped, everypony speaking in anger or sadness.
"I created harmony!" Starlight exclaimed. That's when I revealed myself, sitting in the air.
"Yeah, me and my student would like to differ," I lowered myself to her. "Though, he's not here. You're the only one with a mark. Like you-"
"SHUT IT!" she replied in a rude, angry, and creepy necked way. If I had a face, it would reflect Twilight's perfectly. She pushed everyone away and made a mad dash to her cottage, followed by the town.
Double Diamond gave a battle cry, "Let's get our cutie marks back!"
Green earth pony- Lucky Charm led the chase, "Let's gooo!"
Soon, marks flew all over, liberating the town as everypony became talented and unique. Though, Twilight's friends had to get their marks. Knuckles knocked the door down as the town rushed in with them to follow Starlight. Following a tunnel, Oh My Gawd! Party Favor just turned balloons into binoculars!
Broken physics aside, I flew after Starlight as the Sonics (Werehog being back to normal Sonic form) followed behind while Jet took an alternate route with a group of ponies.
Sonics dodged blasts of snow and rock, one moving faster towards Starlight, who had the marks in jars inside a wooden wagon she pulled. Sugar Belle tossed a snow pie while Egg Beater (with a mark of sunny side up egg eyes and a unfinished pancake smile) tossed three snow eggs that took out the wagon and sent the jars falling, after the stone bride was destroyed. The cutie marks were saved, but not by the good guys. Starlight held them in her magic as she galloped towards the caverns.
As she ran off, Party Favor and Backyard Barbecue (tan pegasus colt with a balloon and grilled celery mark) made a balloon bridge that a blue pegasus pulled down, allowing everyone bounced across. As the elements slowly followed them... so slow, in fact, that they could be a mile or four away.
Lucky Charm (four leaf clover in a horseshoe) pointed out a thing to Diamond. Double Diamond stopped when he found some skis, remembering when he first met Starlight, and using them to slide around the snow faster than Starlight could run. He was lifted then dropped by a blue pegasus, the skis causing some snow to cover Starlight. She dropped the jars, causing the marks to fly free to their owners.
The group of ponies, Jet, Sonic and Twilight's group arrived on the scene in time to stop Starlight from killing the ponies that stopped her as Twilight and Metal created magic shields to block the laser.
"I studied that spell for years!" Starlight cried.
Twilight stopped her hoof, "I learned that studying would only take me so far! My friends taught me more about myself than I knew. I wouldn't be the element of magic without them."
"Spare me your pathetic sentiments! I gave these ponies a friendship they could only wish to have!"
Double Diamond in his ski suit glared at her, "How would you know?! You never gave us the chance!"
Suddenly she shot a burst of power, blinding us for a bit (and Metal Sonic for reasons), and ran into the caverns.
Wolf Sonic and Rainbow shouted, "Hurry! She's getting away!"
Double exclaimed, "You'll never be able to find her in there!"
"Let's just hope she thinks it over," Twilight said.
"Seriously! I hope she does," Metal said. "Well, I'm off! Oh, and Sonic?"
"Yeah?" Both replied.
"Stick to your own adventures, will you? This pony stuff might cramp your style." He took out a clock, "Looks like another boss might appear soon! Good luck!" He disappears.
Sonic's group got a message that Amy was destroying the city. It was exaggerated in some details and lacking in others.
As soon as blue was in sight, both Sonics were linked back to back by the grip of Amy Rose. "I missed you two! Where were you?!"
We looked to each other, "How about we don't take Metal's advise."
Brony Shadow stepped out of the mirror, "Thanks Twilight!"
"Your... um... Welcome Shadow?" Twilight replied. Nobody ever saw this coming, a defected clone that's nice. The Shadow army tends to have one or two defected clones with mental, physical, or power impairment, but a personality and color defect? Unheard of! Its weird looking at a black and pink Shadow with a pink Black Arms symbol on his shoulder that's great at "party warfare" and above all... nice!
In his arms were two black leather jackets, one was bedazzled and another one had orange lines on them. "I cant understand why Sunset would throw away, kickin' jackets!"
"Um... 'kickin''?" Twilight asked, the weird feeling in her returning. The feeling wasn't as bad as when she first met Maud, but it was still that creeping feeling of unease.
"Rainbow has "20% cooler", little Sonic has "juicin'", Sonata has "for realzies", and the other Shadows don't have any catch phrase besides "ultimate life form" and calling Sonic "faker" constantly." He took out a fake- harmony emerald?! "Don't worry! Its not real, but its as durable as the fake chaos emeralds we have. By the way, they're powered by magic!"
"...Nice to know?"
He shrugged, "King Shadow will be on my case for it, but how angry can he be?"
"All Hail Shadow!"
B.S. slumped his shoulders as his eye twitched, "That's not good..." He held up his copy of Pinkie's emerald, "Harmony Control!" He disappeared in perfect sync with King Shadow's materializing inside. He looked over to a bedazzled jacket on the ground then Twilight with a tired look and a sigh before he followed suit with his army filling the castle with blinding teleportation light.
"Teacher!" B.S. bowed, gaining an audible groan from him and Nichole in their Avatars.
"Stop. Bowing." He did so, "What's the problem?"
"I think King Shadow is watching me!" He said, waving his new jacket around. Noticing this, he put it on quickly.
Nichole scratched her head, "Why do you have Sunset jacket on?"
"If you throw your jacket in the wind, its free to those who want it!" He pointed to the orange lines, "I'll fix these later to fit my color scheme."
Metal scanned the area as he spoke, "Hey, I've been meaning to ask: why are your red quills pink?"
He shrugged, "I don't know... How does that solve my problem?!"
"Depends: is he following you and why?"
"I told Twilight our secret of our indestructible fake emeralds. I think I lost him." He said looking around for signs of his King.
Metal facepalmed and started chirping. His eyes made contact B.S., "Our lesson for today: responsibility and promise. How they work together. Your time begins now, good luck." Metal and Nichole's eyes flashed as they flew off.
Before Shadow could respond, he felt tapping on his shoulder. Slowly turning, his eyes made contact with... Oh, Faust! Not him! he thought as the angriest Shadow in the army stood in front of him. He doesn't have a nickname like the others, but Brony gave him a name: Wrath.
Wrath Shadow punched Brony Shadow, popping his head. He pushed his head out of the neck hole of his body, "Hey! I worked hard on that balloon!" He swung his leg, caught by Wrath as he was smacking around by the ground and the a** holding his leg. Brony tossed some chaos spears and ran away once his leg was free.
Too bad Wrath was powered by his hatred for everything made him faster and stronger. "Get back here, ya Sega damn faker!"
"Faker? We're clones, you idiot!"
"What happened to wuv an towerate?"
"Its love and tolerate. Hello? Shadow clone? I'll start to love when you can answer 2+2!"
"Its four."
"I'll start to love when... uh... when Maria returns!" We both stopped as I mentally kicked myself, I had to bring up Maria! Dang!
Next to Brony, "Wrath" Shadow started glowing red as he made loud breathing noises with his eyes closed. At this point, every Shadow could be seen with either a pained grimace, the emotionless glare of the robots, or the anger of both clones and emotion simulated robots. Even Kind Shadow was being held back by his Adviser, not sure what is happening.
B.S. grasped his emerald in the air, "Harmony Control!" Just as he said that, the army sensed his position, speeding towards him.
Brony reappeared in the Canterlot Archieves, wishing he still had his emerald. But he stumbled across the scroll he looked for in the Starswirl wing- "I found it! The time scroll Twilight used." He took out Wrath's unique red emerald he grabbed when he was punched, "Hope this works!" He rose his hand up an jumped, swiging the emerald down, "Chaos Control!" He fell inside a vortex, gone.
Instead of teleporting into the past, Brony Shadow found himself in an endless white limbo.
He sighed, "Don't tell me I'm alone..."
"alone" a female voice said.
"alone" a gravely voice said.
"alone" batman said.
He looked around, "Well, this sucks..."
"What?! Whose there?!"
"What are you talking about? Its me!"
"No, you idiot-"
"You're the idiot! You thought I was as smart as you? HA! I only came along to watch Sonic suffer!"
Brony Shadow followed the voices, seeing two red things in the distance.
"Why you...!"
"Also, I'm sticking with Dr. Robotnik. Eggman sounds like a Denny's mascot."
"Denny's doesn't even have a mascot!"
"Because they have the Eggman! Thank you! I'll be here all... No clue! No time here!"
"Hey, its Shadow!"
"Isn't he your enemy?"
Brony stopped when he saw that he was directly in front off Dr. Eggman and his past self Dr. Robotnik, clearly not friends. "Doctor Eggman?!"
He walked up, holding his own hands together in a pleading fashion, "Have you come here to save... What happened to you?!"
Brony Shadow sighed, "Long story. Basically, I'm from the far future and I'm not the Shadow you know."
"Well, you're probably stuck here. I guess I can enjoy long stories."
"Well, at least I'm not being hunted by a thousand or so Shadows..."
Eggman looked surprised, "You know about the androids?!"
"Oh, those things died years ago. I'm a defected flesh clone of Shadow, who just recently p.o.'ed the whole army at the mention of Maria."
Eggman grimaced as Robotnik sat back down, pretending to roast marshmallows. Robotnik rolled his eyes, "So hows the future?"
"Eggman Land and/or Empire lasted a whole year, you die, and then evolution turns the mobians and humans into magical ponies and mythological creatures with occasional demons. I'm serious about the last part. The mobinis either evolve more or evolve less, becoming other mythical creatures and usually harmless animals."
Eggman smirked, "That future sounds gay."
Shadow smirked at him, "They don't even have high tech and Luna's secret New Lunar Empire existed longer than your pathetic attempt at permanent control. In fact, she wasn't even around to rule it for 1000 years! Leave your robots alone and they rust or turn on you."
Robotnik laughed then got serious as it included him.
"You two cant even beat a hedgehog that slows down his top speed to save his environment!" Shadow circled in from Eggman to Robotnik, "Or is it to go easy on you?"
"Hey, I can beat him in a foot race!"
"Okay, then race me! Over there and back!" Shadow pointed with a smile.
"Over where? There's no landmark!"
"!kramdnal on s'erehT ?erehw revO" Brony Shadow said with a thumbs up, "I win!"
Eggman and Robotnik shared a look before a near sync, "What?"
"He said 'over' and 'there' and my challenge also said 'and back', thus I spoke backwards, winning!"
They gave each other a look, Eggman spoke, "I don't understand your logic."
"How do you even have a 300 IQ?!"
"300 IQ"
"300IQ"
"300 IQ"
Suddenly an army of (BOOM!)Eggmen trampled Shadow, rambling about reliving the same day.
Brony Shadow woke up standing in front of Twilight and her human world mirror holding two jackets that belonged to Sunset Shimmer.
"Your... um... Welcome Shadow?" Twilight said in a nervous tone.
"Your welcome for what?"
"Um... You just thanked me for... um... letting you use my portal. Your welcome is a... um..."
Realizing he just restarted his day, Brony Shadow stopped the princess and prevented the emerald subject, "Oh, sorry. I'm just out of it today. So, which looks better?"
Two big Sonics watched as a big, blue, shiny pin ball rolled by, somehow holding a sign that said, [Don't Ask.]
There was a sound of panic near Town Hall, leading the two to check the area. What they found was both devastating and slightly funny. Cosmo was many shades of blue all over, but that wasn't it. Everywhere she went, she left a trail of poison joke that transformed everyone who made contact with her and the plants.
She ran up to Wolf Sonic while the other Sonic leaped back, "Please, you have to help me!" She held his hand while on her knees in tears, "I don't know what's going on or why this is happening!"
Instantly, Wolf Sonic turned into a blue wolf. Not werehog, or mobian, a blue wolf. Nearby, Comedy Chimp (with camera crew) pointed at actually-a-wolf Wolf Sonic, "Hey, who let the dogs out?"
Said Sonic shook his head, "Rell, rat rucks... hehe..." His ears perked up as Cosmo continued crying, "At reast I can stirr ralk! ...Rort rof..."
Sonic had to contain his laughter, "You sound like Scooby Doo!"
"Rooby Roo? Roo?"
Tails ran up with Twilight and a pony Professor Pickle, who stumbled over his own hooves. "Sonic! Where's my voice recorder!"
"Rhat's up, Rails?" Wolf Sonic said, sitting down to look up.
"The poison joke make Sticks know the secret of reality! We need documentation!"
Sticks soon arrived, angry and unable to shut her mouth as she spoke, "Kirby doesn't eat people, he just sends them into an alternate universe inside him made by space-time that allows him to harness their power. Next door to Kirby's stomach is the white limbo that Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik and younger Dr. Ivo Robotnik are staying. Through a Shadow clone named Brony Shadow they escaped by..."
Twilight wined, "We need to record her before the next important information wave comes!"
"Rilight! Reye ractuarrarry ranted to rear rat!" Wolf Sonic exclaimed while growling.
Sticks ran off as she explained the cure for poison joke, causing the scientists to chase her.
Nearby, pinball Sonic rolled away as a younger Sonic Man... or Sonic Boy chased him.
Sonata walked up, high fiving Cosmo, turning into a taco cannon. "For realzies, what just happened?!"
"Ronara, re rearry reed roo ret cured..."
Hours later nearly the whole town was cured, except for Sonic the Blue Wolf, Gunata Dusk, Cosmic Joke, and the Stick of Knowledge.
"The herbs have been used up so they're not strong enough. Knuckles is never strong enough. That's why he's big and has unlimited jump, though there's another factor in the later: pausing. Pausing is a time-space semi-paradox that occurs randomly within a millisecond. The purpose of life is pausing and 42. Why 42? In a language I cant name nor speak of an eastern continent or island, the sound of the number has multiple meanings. We live to die, but some live to unwittingly experience pause..." Sticks rambled with a numb jaw and dry mouth as she suffered.
Sonata turned her canon head that rested on her normal mobian body towards Sticks, "Can you please be quiet, for realzes?!" She complained for the lost count -inth time.
Wolf Sonic's speech was reduced to dog sounds, but his facepaw explained his mood.
Cosmo saw Professor Pickle and Sonic Man leave their pool, "Hey, that pool might work!" The group carried Cosmo as Sticks explained amazing theories untold, recorded by nearby NEEEEERRRRDDDSSSS with notebooks. They learned the pool was also used up of its herbs, but before they left, a herd of brown unicorns with blue horns, yellow eyes, and black manes and tails filled up surrounding pools of water instantly.
One of the ponies complained about active herbs in his family's pool, causing Allot and Lotus to empty nearly all of the pools. While this happened, Sonic's group hopped in with the wolf rolling in the herbs on the floor. Within seconds, Cosmo was placed in a hazmat suit and tossed out with her friends on the street.
Sticks groaned as she talked, "...and that is the secret of regenerating limbs and regaining sight. Oh, we were just kicked out of the spa by pony Discord clones who drained untouched herb pool and is wanting a favor from us soon in exchange for the poison joke cure. Now, onto the Faust v. Archie Sega debate, who is the real gate to god? Well, the evidence..."
Sonata covered the sides of her canon head as Sticks spoke, firing tacos to ignore her. Wolf Sonic leaped high in the air, eating a stray chilidog that was shot out of Sonata.
Discord sprouted out of the ground with a grin, "Hello Twilight Princess Link, Canon fodder, Violets are blue, and-"
"...another source of evidence is Discord's crush on Fluttershy and Celestia. The relevance of this is that he is torn between the two. If Faust was real, he would marry Celestia. If Archie was real, he would hook up with Fluttershy and his nonchaos born children's chaotic powers will start another world war..." Sticks smirked as she spoke, causing Discord to turn her into a wooden puppet.
"And Jackie Chan's monkey leg. Or Pinocchio, since you just told a lie," Discord snapped his fingers, making Stick's nose grow. Stick opened her mouth, only for her bottom jaw to hang limp. "I want to create some chaos, but in order to do that: I need others to make it since I'm too strong! So I'm sending you all to Eggman's lair. Cool! Bye!"
Sonic tilted his head, but as soon a red lights flashed his ears matted down.
Inside a metal hallway was Sonic's group... and a blue can of Eggman's Tomato Sauce.
Metal Sonic looked up with his one eye, "Discord got you, too?" The group nodded. He groaned before cheerfully saying, "Good luck! I'm going to corrupt Burnbots into a giant mech..." He crawled off with cute little tinking noises with his six tiny legs.
The group starts running away as the robots and a laughing doctor chases them. Leading Cosmo to scream, "Where's our friends when we need them?!"
"I'm gonna do it."
Across a sea of poison joke that surrounds the house, Lancelot calls back, "Sire! Don't do it! You cant jump that far!"
Sonic crossed his arms, "OK, you go to Eggman's lair and save them!"
"My Arondight is in there!"
"You're so close to that sword, it's your child! How could you abandon it?!"
"Discord!"
"Oh." There was some silence between the two, "Do you think Sonata is with them?"
"You mean the cannon with a blue ponytail on her head?" Sonic nodded, "Yes."
"What if I made a bridge of chairs?"
"My lord, it wont work."
"Should I toss you Arondight?"
"With all due respect,NO."
Out of nowhere Discord came, holding little Sonic's boom box. "Don't mind me~!" he sang as music blared.
Wolf Sonic pointed a paw at a hallway with ten doors with "EXIT" on all of them. The group ran into separate doors, coming out of a random one either together or apart, a few times weird stuff would happen like Sonata would be normal, but in two places at once or just as weird, Eggman's unfinished Michael Jackson android would moonwalk from one door to another as Sonic's group chased the robots they were trying to avoid, and Eggman chasing his Eggmobile. In short, serious chaos in that one hallway.
Discord sat in a picture, hugging ink Eggman that kept his smug face since he had no other expression. Discord snapped his talons, causing Metal Sonic to instantly appear in the hallway with a massive robot made of cans and scrap robot parts. Discord attempted to share popcorn with a blue Eggman painting while wearing a red monocle for a 3D effect, watching as Metal Sonic sloppily yet effectively pummeled Eggman's robots while Sonic continued to chase the doctor, seemingly foaming at the mouth.
Discord smirked, "I didn't know this was an action movie! Cartoon Network should really get their act together." He nudged Eggman, only for the painting to tilt and have an awkward frown. "What? Don't tell me you like "Teen Titans GO!" over the original?" *chirp! chirp!* "Thought so."
Metal Sonic turned his head towards Discord while treating a robot like a soccer ball, bouncing it on his legs, "Hey... um... Is this enough chaos?"
Discord waved a paw, "Almost, you silly, silly can!" He pulled Metal close, opening him and enjoying the green tomato sauce.
Metal pulled away at the last moment, "You don't know how weird that felt!" Discord frowned... everywhere. "Never mind."
Wolf Sonic pulled a beaten Eggman out of a room with his strong mouth, back in his normal form thanks to Discord. Cosmo found the real exit, pointing it out while back to normal as Sonata's returned pony face grinned before coughing up a taco. All the robots backed up when a blue robot hedgehog with a huge green wings climbed up from a pile of once assembled robot parts.
Sticks... well, we really don't care at this point. She's back to normal... well, her normal at least.
Discord teleported the group back home to "preserve the chaos garden" or something.
"Silver! Toss me!"
Knuckles walked up, "It's no use! Silver went with Rainbow, big me, and Apple Jack to a convention."
Sonic quickly turned his attention, "What convention?"
"I think they called it a... Strength Con? I don't know." He shrugged, "It involves pony and mobian strength."
"Why is Silver there?" Sonic asked, nearly tossing Caliburn, who was floating next to him.
"Telekinesis is his strength. Do you know how many cars he toss on a daily basis?"
"None? Do you see any cars in Equestria?!" The field of poison joke disappeared and Sonic could cross it. But he didn't need to since Wolf Sonic's group returned. Sonic put a hand out to stop the other hedgehog, "Hey, where were you guys?"
Sonata laughed, "That's funny. Didn't your tracking thing tell you?"
"Um... what tracking thing?"
Caliburn rolled his eyes, "Sonata, I can only track metal!" The Sonics looked to each other then shrugged.
"NO RINGS!" multiple voices exclaimed in unison as all three Sonics and a few others were tossed out of the throne room via hidden confetti canon.
Metal Sonic brushed himself off with the sound of screeching iron, "Yeah... I'm out." He flew out, leaving red skid marks that vanished.
Sonic tossed his hands up, "I thought the rings were a nice touch!"
Jet laughed, "You're joking? I thought extreme gears looked great!"
"Are you even friends with Twilight?" Silver asked, he too getting up from the ground. "I mean, does anybody know what Twilight wants?!"
"Yeah, and pictures of the future- sorry, the past looks great?" Brony Shadow smirked, "Nothing says warm like a burning city with people inside!"
Dr. Eggman Nega walked past, "Nope, that was me! See ya, suckas!" He warped away with a Sol Emerald.
-Meanwhile-
"Hey Spike! I didn't know you liked muscle masseuses this tough!" Big Knuckles commented as him and Spike were being pummeled by the strongest pegasi in Ponyville.
"Trying... ow! To stall Twil- YOWCH! Twilight for the girls... Hey!" Spike said as he resembled a cube before flattened.
Knuckles shook his fist, "Yeah! You can handle it, dude!"
>> Fast Forward
A few minutes after Twilight left, her other pony friends came by led by Antoine with his sword out while the girls held shovels.
"Ho, Antoine! Up for another skirmish out back?" Sir Lancelot asked, a towel over his shoulder from his recent training session.
"No. Ve are getting zay bigger backyard, zanks to zese poniez!" Antoine said, pointing at the scorched tree. Rarity, Pinkie, and Rainbow took off to do whatever while Silver pulled on the tree and the other dug into the ground with Fluttershy's animals.
One of the Amys saw the roots fly above her thinking, Wasn't there a basement in that tree?
As if by magic, Tails' work shop fell from the sky and on top of the scorched ground. Around it, life returned to the plants as a small group of flowers appeared.
-Meanwhile-
"Twilight!" Sticks said on the ground.
She rushed over to the badger, "What happened to you?!"
"Oh, I was playing in a mud puttle, but that's not what I'm here for," Sticks said with a wave of her hand. "Our friends want the suspense to be huge! Like its unbearable!"
A cream colored bear with a red hat and green scarf walked by with a mattress, "Yeah, like I haven't heard that before..."
"Sorry Bark!" Sticks called. "Not making a pun is as hard as distracting-" She covered her mouth in fear.
Spike looked uneasy as Twilight inquired, "Distract what?" Near by, Metal was fighting a humanoid robot with guns.
"...Um... One of those SWATbot... thingies!" She grinned, hoping Twilight would believe her. Spike ran out, spewing fire balls at it.
"We need to stop it before it harms the others!" Twilight flew out of Quills and Sofas with haste.
>> Fast Forward
"Do you know how hard it is to distract her?!" Spike asked the group in the castle once everyone returned.
"Wait, what?" Twilight asked before Metal Sonic burst open the doors with Sonata Dusk.
Inside the throne room, Rainbow's throne was gone again and there was a ceiling piece made of roots and crystals.
It was beautiful that there was a theme about memories... that was taken away for a moment when Rainbow groaned about her lack of throne. It returned when everyone showed the princess pictures from the past inside the glowing crystals that hung on strings from the roots.
Little Sonic ran off then returned with Twilight's miniature white board, [I can not speak!]
Sonata tilted her head, "Why cant you speak?"
[Because I]
"Because what?"
Sonic looked at the board and returned with a new marker, [Because Iwas kicked in the throat. Long story, small board.]
"What is that T word?" Sonata asked. Sonic shook his head before pointing to his neck.
[This.]
"Does it hurt?"
[Only when I tr] Frustrated, he ran off and returned again, [Only when I try to speak.]
"Oh... So, what were you trying to tell me earlier?"
[Where's Tails?]
"Oh! You mean the yellow fox with the two tails?" Sonic nodded in response.
"He's in Canterlot City, America. Do you want me to take you to him?" Nod. "Oh, can we get tacos on the way?"
[Sure, why not? Its nearly lunch time.] They entered Twilight's Castle and did the usual, place Twilight and Sunset's harmony emeralds in the two chaos emerald slots and jump through the mirror. Before jumping Sonic thought, If Tails is in Canterlot City, then why are the emeralds out of place?
At Taco Bell, Aria and Adagio were fired after the former got employee of the year within her fourth week on the job while the latter was upset that she put in as much effort for months.
"Nice going Adagio..." Aria said, tossing her black cap on the ground.
Adagio fell to her knees sighing, "Well, I wasn't the one who destroyed the soda fountain!"
"Whatever, I'm going to find a job." Aria walked off, rolling her eyes.
Before Adagio could leave, Loco Taco came out with a mop, "Clean."
Adagio looked up, "D- Does this mean..."
"Yes, you get a second chance. Now go clean!" he said between his teeth and stroking his mustache as he handed her the mop. He calmed down some, grabbing her shoulder, "Oh, and tell Aria that if she wants her job back she will have to work the hours."
Adagio remembered the hours. They were either during her lunch break or midnight with interesting characters. "Y-yes sir!"
"You will love this place, Sonic!" Sonata said with a smile as the two humans walked the sidewalk towards Taco Bell. "There's these chips called Doritos that they put into the most delicious food ever! Tacos!"
Screech, screech, squeak, [I doubt they're better that chili dogs.]
As the walked inside Sonata smirked, "Prepare for your mind to be blown!"
[This better not be another hamburger vs burrito thing. There's already two idiots doing that debate with no winner.]
"Sonata?!"
Sonata looked down at him, "Did you say anything." Unamused, Sonic gave her a slow set of claps before pointing to a tired looking yellow girl with frizzy and curled orange hair wearing the usual uniform, eyes wide, and jaw hanging. Sonata turned her attention, "Oh, hey Adagi!"
"Don't "hey Adagi" me! Where have you been?!" Adagio questioned, getting in the blue girl's face.
Sonata put a finger to her chin, "Either Equus or Mobius. Despite the debate: Ponyville!" She finished with a grin.
"Debate?! Why is there a debate on a planet's name?!" Sonic tugged on her sleeve. "What is it?"
[A lot has changed. It used to be Mobius, now its Equus, but now time has merged the two into one.] Sonic smiled.
"Whose the kid?" Adagio asked.
Sonata held her hand, looking at the menu, "Hold on..." She looked down, "What would you like Sonic?"
[One of those Dorito Tacos you mentioned and a nuclear taco.]
"But it says its not for kids!"
A black guy leaned over the counter, "We can take out the peppers, miss."
Adagio turned her head, "Can it Robert, I'm the one talking!"
"And I'm the one who knocks. You better get back to work before the boss returns, I don't want to see you without a job." Robert returned his attention to the two customers, "Would you like the meal or just the tacos?"
Adagio groaned, "Why and how are you in the pony world?!" she asked, leaving a wet floor sign. Behind her, Lyra slipped on an ice cube, causing her to nearly drop her tray. Luckily, the former siren leader bounced the tray off her mop handle and caught it. As the food fell, she caught everything in a fluid motion while Lyra was between her arm and mop. Handing the tray to Lyra, she smirked and said with a fake-happy tone, "Watch your step! Have a nice day~!"
The room clapped as Adagio mopped the floor and left more wet floor signs. Sonata clapped along, "That was amazing!"
Adagio glared, "You're not off the hook, yet."
"Tell Aria I said hi!" Sonata said, walking off with Sonic to a table.
"Stupid tacos. Stupid Adagio. Stupid boss watching my (you thought this was cursing, eh?) butt..." Aria said as she neared her apartment. On the door, a reminder about their due rent money brought more anger to the purple girl. She walked inside and sat on the junkyard couch, flipping on a TV with static. "Adagio forgot to pay the cable bill! That f(got ya, again!)ch!"
From behind, a woman's voice broke the silence, "Now that's not nice to say~."
Adagio turned her head, falling to the ground, "HOW DID YOU GET IN?!"
In front of her stood a woman that looked similar to her, with a single ponytail, wearing a pink sweater with two horizontal black stripes in the middle and cream colored jeans with a mark of a blue star with streaks coming off it. "I think the question is "what can I do for you?" My name is Starlight Glimmer, servant of King Sombra the Time Eater." She points her finger at Aria, who is somehow back in her Canterlot High clothes. "We want you to join our team!"
The whole room was engulfed in shadows while the only audible words heard now from Aria was, "What's going on?!" Before the apartment was once again empty...
Adagio slumped in her seat, "So you live in Equestria and our old world is overrun by these humanoid animal things?"
"Yes, and I'm one of 'em!" Sonata said, returning from getting more water for Sonic, who ate the nuclear taco with the peppers still inside.
Adagio's attention was away from the little kid with tiny fireballs leaping from his mouth that took the drink from her sister, "You are?!"
"I'm a pony one!"
"hmph. Figures..." she replied, head on her arms. Sonic, out of water, suddenly gained a bubble of fire around him. He punched it out of existence, only for a new one to form with a bwop sound.
"There's also three Sonics and one to two of his friends." Adagio's head rose up. "I don't understand either. I was told to believe time is like spaghetti."
[Wibbley Wobbley Timey Wimey... stuff.]
"What he said," Sonata said, pointing at the white board. Sonic glared at her while slowly eating another taco in his flame shield. "Oh... hehe... Sorry."
"Why is this guy mute? I mean, no offense, but were you born like that?" Adagio asked. Sonic made a poorly drawn picture of a blue mobian hedgehog being kicked in the throat by a robot chicken, tossed by a green thing... Adagio couldn't tell what is was. There yellow circles all over the place... that looked like a... bar? There was a slot machine so... a casino? "Wow... um... That's some active imagination!"
Sonic jumped from his seat, homing in on a cup on the ground, tossing it around in focused homing attacks before kicking it in the trash and finally touching the ground without his shield... which caught up to him. He arched an eyebrow at the yellow girl. [A true blue story, lady! I take offense to those who say otherwise.]
"How did you do that?!"
[I don't know how my future me's do it, but I have a thing on my shoes.] He said, pointing to a protected computer chip inside his buckle. [Homing attack is way past cool.]
"'Way past cool?' What're you from? The 90's?"
[Says Ms. Frizzle's daughter at Taco Bell. I'm from the year 3230. Born day 162, 3220.]
Adagio moved some hair back inside her cap then shrugged, "I have no clue what that means."
They continued to converse with each other, not knowing that they were being watched...
"Ready? Go!" Sonic shouted as he ran through Canterlot City, chasing down a rouge Shadow.
He used his enerbeam, which still worked in the human world to his surprise, to grab a rooftop and take the high road. He leaped roofs and climbed ledges, a brown cloud of dust behind him as he ran. He took out Caliburn... once again a microphone... "Sire, are you going to sing?"
"No... I keep forgetting where I'm at-" Sonic was cut off by the sound of sirens as some crazy cops rode their motorcycles and fired at the blue haired human. Sonic side stepped to the left and homed in on a potted plant then a street light, flinging himself to the top of a bakery. Behind him, the cops took an alternate route with their custom rides while one smashed into a wall.
Next to him a gruff voice asked, "What was that about?"
"Some crazy police officers, Shadow." His mind suddenly processed who he was talking to as the Shadow ran ahead and kicked Sonic in the gut as he passed. Sonic faltered slightly before bouncing to another building, landing in a roll as he suddenly rolled with great speed. He bounced off a nearby star spring, sending him flying to a street light where he made a turn and followed the Shadow in hot pursuit. Behind them, squad cars revved their engines, chasing them as a road cop directing traffic ran out of the way.
The cars launched themselves, driving on a road of civilian cars as Shadow shot a beam of chaos energy at Sonic from between two rows of cars. Sonic absorbed the power into his wisp watch "LASER!" riding the wave of energy as a cyan laser, head butting Shadow in the face. He returned to normal, kicking Shadow across the face and sending the extra energy into his enerbeam, turning it into a laser whip that he used to feed the energy into the sky.
Shadow laughed, "Nice trick, rat!"
"Looked in the mirror lately?" Sonic replied. Shadow ran off as Sonic continued after him, coincidentally preventing the easiest police capture as two cops collided into each other in mid air, one holding a butterfly net and the other with hand cuffs. Sonic took out his blue chaos emerald and red world ring, thinking, How can I create a portal with these? He forced the emerald into the ring, "World Chaos Contro- WOAH!!"
A portal opens, dropping a ginger human and a business suit wearing man. The ginger wore a blue shirt with brown pants with spiked hair combed back messily and a face for TV. The taller man wore glasses and a black suit and tie, looking to be from one of the eastern countries and screams with a shrill voice, "Oh no! Ozu! Where's my Ozu!" As he runs around, looking for his boss.
The ginger gets up and brushes himself off before noticing the assistant, "Yes man! Hey, yes man, calm down!"
"How can I calm down without Ozu?! He might need somebody to feed him!"
"Gonard can do it...?"
"Fix his suit to perfection?"
"Um.. Lily?"
Yes man points a finger in the young man's face, "Who is going to take care of his bonsai tree?!"
"Guano maybe... Or Mitsuki? Dude, chillax!" he said, patting the assistant director on the back.
"Mikey, I'm not sure if I can go on like this!"
Mikey through his arms up, "Its only been a minute and you're doing fine! Are you going to die if you sleep in a normal bed?!"
"Ozu says-" the man was cut off by an explosion over at a nearby street. Suddenly a black haired person skid by them as a blue haired kid rode the other's back like a skateboard.
They watched as the blue haired kid milked his victory dry by forcing the still moving body to grind across a rail before finally stopping and holding the guy over his shoulder. He saw the two and looked at a horse statue they stood on a reflective pedestal next to then back at them, "Hey... um... don't touch that mirror."
Yes man and Mikey looked at each other, before the later arched an eyebrow, "Why shouldn't we?"
"Mikey, don't do anything... he looks serious..." Yes man whispered.
The blue boy fixed his brown bandanna before making a mad dash and jumping INTO the mirror. Mikey shrugged off the weirdness and was about to check out what part of Japan they landed in... Well, if Japan looked like America with thinner outlines and everybody's skin had a color from the rainbow. "Yes man, I don't think we're in Japan..."
"We're not?!" his glasses nearly fell and he started running around with foutains of tears coming out of his, now big, head. Mikey smirked, taking yes man's wrist and going into the mirror.
They fell through a rainbow portal, Mikey spinning in place and yes man, more rapidly, orbiting the actor.
"I think we should study them!" Twilight said, opening the portal. "Besides little you is still out there!"
Sonic closed the portal, "They can use the Mobian portal or my rip in space-time!" He said, pointing to a small worm hole that grabbed Spike, pulling him inside for a moment.
Twilight opened the portal, "Well, I think-" She was as two figures flew from the mirror, knocking the princess out of place. Laying on her in a dog pile were two humans. The one in the suit gave a high pitched groan while the red haired guy and Twilight gave shared expression of serious shock as they locked eye contact.
"A horse?!"
"A human?!"
"Ozu where are you?!" The first two looked up at yes man with "mixed reviews" or something.
Twilight pushed them off and stood, regaining her composure, "Hello, my name is Twilight-"
Yes man screamed, "Ozu told me this day would come! Mikey arm yourself!" He broke off a piece of Rainbow's throne and sloppily held it like a sword. "I will not comb your hair!"
Mikey pulled down his friend's arms, "Chillax yes man! This probably a misunderstanding... um ...right?"
Sonic just gawked at them and Rainbow screamed in rage as she passed the throne room door, at first thinking of entering.
Twilight flapped her wings a bit, "Well, yes. Though, do you mind if I ask questions?"
Sonic rolled his eyes with a hand on his hip, "Somehow you're still human after passing the mirror and stumbled upon a magic pony world mixed with the multiple realities of an anthro animal and robot war world. Your turn."
Mikey stifled a chuckle, "I'm an American actor that moved to Japan to start his acting career in a super hero show called Lily Mu, playing the hero Kappa Mikey. This is yes man, a shell of a man that does anything our producer, Ozu, commands. Its to a point that he sleeps in a drawer under Ozu's bed. Its hard to survive when you have to run from fans and real pirates with great friends."
Twilight and Sonic held back laughter, leaving Spike to reply, "You call they surviving? We survived a fire ball, My Kill Bay wish he could make! Oh, and Twilight and Sonic can beat up giant monsters with princess powers and running, respectively."
Yes man cut off whatever Mikey was going to say, "Why are you so trusting?! Mikey, stop!"
Mikey sighed, "Yes man? Does this look like a bad place to you?"
"Yes! It does!" Mikey facepalmed while all yes man could see was an evil purple horse monster with a sharp horn and wings with her smaller reptilian demon spawn and a carnivorous human hedgehog hybrid made of the unicorn's victims left over body parts controlling Mikey like a puppet. "I don't trust this place!"
Applebloom was relieved that her cutie mark was gone, until she turned her flank and she kept changing marks every time her flank moved. At one point her own face winking was a cutiemark!
(I swear! They either referenced this or its a season 2 time prediction of season 5! Don't judge me.)
She found herself back in the Everfree Forest, yelling at the creepy creature that caused her so much trouble.
Suddenly Silver appeared! With more muscles than Knuckles, giant wings sprouting from his back, and a third eye. He pointed his finger up, "Don't worry, dear 'Bloom, I shall van-"
He was cut off by laughter coming from the moon, "Silver Hedgehog, you look ridiculous!"
He whined back, "No, I look awesome!"
Luna walked down from her moon and back hoofed Silver into his normal form, "There!"
He made his secret freedom fighter uniform appear on him as he leaned on an invisible staff, "Oh well, I could dream. Oh wait, I am dreaming."
"Silver, how are you dream walking?"
"I don't know! But I do so I'm going to punch Applebloom's nightmare in the face."
Luna lowered the moon, revealing the creature to be Applebloom's shadow, causing the filly to ask questions the two ignored, "You punch a poor filly in the face?"
Silver rolled his eyes and turned to Applebloom, "Moral of the story: stop worrying about your butt mark."
"Too early, Silver!" Luna said, tossing the background away and replacing it with a dream hall of doors. On half had the appearance of fireflies and stars in the night sky while the other half had a cyan light, Silver themed Casino. "Silver?"
"Hey, I fell asleep first." He attempted to remove Luna's theme, but was denied, almost losing his.
"This is my realm!"
Silver pulled chef Scootaloo out of one door and Luna forced Applebloom to look through a door showing Sweetie Belle about to sing, but was pulled into the hallway by Silver as soon as a broom and mop bucket appeared. He then stopped and asked, "Who mops with a broom?!"
"Apparently I do," Sweetie Belle said depressed.
Scootaloo sat next to her friends, tossing her hat to Sweetie Belle while Sweetie gave Scoot her broom to break while she screamed in the hat. Applebloom looked down at her shadow, scared of it.
Luna fired a party canon, Silver fired a tank missile in Iron Man's suit, Luna fired a tank, Silver tossed three tanks, Luna fired a laser canon, Silver blocked with cars and tossed Celestias at her. Luna dodged the Trollestias and fired her orbital friendship canon.
Sweetie looked at her friends, inside a dream version of their club house, "I think we're asleep."
It got to a point the two were wrestling each other and Luna was winning. Silver used his psychokinesis to toss a YouTube video at Luna, causing them to make bets. Silver made a bet Godzilla would crush Spikezilla while Scootaloo bet Silver would beat Luna.
Silver chunked bits at Luna and the struggle for control continued...
"Apple Jack, darling, Sweetie wont wake up!" Rarity said, taking her sister out of her saddle bags.
"Same with 'Bloom! We even gave her a Big Mac attack and she hardly giggled or sturred!" Apple Jack said, suddenly a knock was at her door. Outside stood Big Knuckles with Silver, Rainbow with Scootaloo, night guards with Luna, and Twilight with Spike. "Why is everypony at mah house?!"
Twilight looked at the others, "Spike was supposed to be here for some reason, so I just carried him here."
"I followed Rarity and Twilight," Rainbow said in a slightly worried tone.
Knuckles shrugged, "Sorry I'm late, nobody is watching Silver."
The night guards looked uneasy, one guard said, "Princess Celestia wanted to see if a "Silver T. Hedgehog" could wake her up since she skipped Dinnerfast." The other guard spoke up, "I wonder what's going on?"
Discord walked up from Apple Jack's kitchen with his Antoine, "Oh, is this a coma buddy gathering?" He said, pulling out Antoine, who bent forward limp.
Knight Spike sat on a boulder with Antoine, watching the dreamscape brawl. Spike in his very maaanly voice asked, "Hey, shouldn't we be awake by now?"
Antoine shrugged, "It vont matter to me in ze zlightest." He summoned a squirl girl in blue boots who fanned him with a big leaf while two dream Bonnies (his Bonnie) relaxed with him while he wore royal regalia and shades.
"I think you might be enjoying this too much," Spike said, stroking dream Rarity's mane in silence.
"Oh, and zou're not?"
Spike looked at his increasing six to eight pack while his dream Rarity purred, "OK, I see what you mean." They clinked glasses as Luna grew huge, spewing fire at Silver from her mouth. Luckily Silver had a "cuteness shield" made of baby ducks and kittens, that ran off. From nowhere a wave of water from a crystal grail fell over, waking the group.
Discord was put in charge of waking the group, sticking hooves, hands, and claw into a cup of warm water.
"Cutie mark!" Applebloom screamed.
"Go Silver!" Scootaloo cheered, throwing her tiny Rainbow Dash.
"Luna!" Sweetie Belle cheered.
"Laser arrow!" Silver said with his arm forward.
"Damn it, Discord!" Luna muttered.
"Rarity!" Spike said.
"..." Antoine... actually he's still silent in his coma.
This visit got weird to the point where yes man was laughing like a little girl and playing with the ponies he came across. They enjoyed his anime faces while Mikey still attempted the art, his head not growing or conjuring sweat drops or anger marks. Sonic just stared at them, finally asking, "What are you doing?"
Mikey stopped puffing his cheeks and exhaled, "Don't you see yes man's head?!"
"Yeah... it looks bloated..."
"Apparently, all of Japan can do that!" Mikey said, pointing at the chibi assistant playing with the ponies.
Sonic just stared at the scene, "Yeah..."
From next to Ms. Cheerilee's school, some bushed rustled. Sticks the Badger leaped out of the bush, tossing her boomerang at yes man with no effect to his mood. ... one minute ... five minute ... "Hey!" Yes man exclaimed angrily at Stick's direction.
She growled, "What are you?!"
Yes man thought hard before a tear fell, "A shell of a man, who will never be an actor and will die with his boss. I HAVE NO LIFE!!!" He screamed with his high pitch voice.
Everyone fell silent, jaws dropped. Mikey Simon was even stunned that his friend was that open.
Yes man pointed his nose up, "If you'll excuse me, I need to go." He dashed into a nearby outhouse, do something he hasn't done in a while.
Mikey rubbed the back of his head, "So he really isn't a robot..."
"What?" Sonic asked, crossing his arms.
"This guy is so intense that he will literally starve himself." Mikey said, the surrounding ponies around him gasping. "When did all these ponies surround me?"
Sonic rolled his eyes, "This world has some drama focus."
"Really?" Mikey smirked, "Hey, I high five my friends, but I haven't high five'ed you! Up high!" He rose his hand as Sonic shrugged and fived. "Down low!" Mikey had his hand down as Sonic retuned he missed, seeing Mikey move his hand away. The now crowd of ponies gasped. "Too... Slow...!" The crowd went wild in mixed response as Sonic stared at his hand.
Sonic clenched his fist as he looked back at Mikey, laughing at the ponies.
He noticed Sonic's anger, "hmm? Woah, dude! What's wrong?" Metal Sonic appeared out of nowhere, slapping a red M on Mikey. The M turned Mikey into his fictional alto ego "Kappa Mikey" for the plot!
Metal patted his back, "Good luck, kid." Sonic noticed that Mikey could stand a chance against him, started running circles around him. Without hesitation, Mikey became more like his alter ego as he tossed two battle orbs at Sonic. The hedgehog was stunned for a bit until the momentum used his frozen body to cartwheel and force a kick that broke him free. Mikey took out his light saber and charged at Sonic, who countered with Caliburn.
"I'm not too slow!" Sonic yelled, holding back tears as he remembered his failiurs before Equestria.
Kappa Mikey smirked, "Not bad for an actor, huh?" Suddenly he realized the situation. "Awesome, I'm actually Kappa Mikey!" He kicked Sonic, who bounced back with a punch Mikey dodged. Luckily Sonic grabbed Mikey's cape and pulled him in for a kick that was stopped by a silver motorcycle colliding with him. Mikey tossed some bombs at Sonic that were deflected back at him by a series of rapid kicks. Mikey destroyed the grenade with his saber, letting each impact hit his face.
They charged at each other, sparks flying as Caliburn's magic blade kept the laser at bay. Sonic kicked Mickey in the stomach, but the attack failed as Mikey was saved by a flying yes man struck the hedgehog away. He used rapid kicks that were blocked by Sonic each time, leaving Mikey to toss a bomb that sent yes man flying into infinity and Sonic to be pushed back slightly.
He spun at Mikey, who ran on top of him and kept balance as he stuck another grenade on him before hopping off and letting his motorcycle slam into the turning blue ball and detonating the explosive, sending Sonic rag dolling to a tree. He quickly climbed up and homed in on Kappa Mikey, who rolled out of the way.
Suddenly yes man stood in front of Sonic with a katana in his hands, screaming in his higher-than-Pinkie's high pitched voice, "Mister Tanaka says 'hi!' Fight!" Mikey and yes man ran towards Sonic. Without warning, time froze and you can hear a lady that sounds like Pinkie Pie swing open a door and tell somebody named 'Guano' to leave the script alone.
When time moved back, Sonic and normal Mikey were chillin' at Twilight's castle. Said alicorn was holding a note pad and was writing down some notes about how to send the wild yes man and careless Mikey home.
Everyone looked to each other with Mikey asking, "Fixed what?"
"The script, duh! Sonic was uncharacteristically clumsy and angry compared to the over powered Kappa Mikey. And Metal Sonic appeared out of nowhere for no reason," she said. "Its like a bad fanfic or something!" Sonic tossed a newspaper at Pinkie, frowning. "I cant even say the word now?!"
Sonic sighed, "Yes, now purge those words... unless you have one that doesn't involve shipping."
"I do! Thanks for the loop hole!" She said, hopping out of the room.
Mikey shrugged and enjoyed a cupcake while enjoying the conversation about himself. Sadly, all good things must end as Twilight messed with Sonic's hole in space-time, sending the two back to their Japan.
Tails flew around, blasting clouds out of the sky as Rainbow hid a few in a tree. Thanks to his magic jet pack, he doesn't have to keep winding his tails to fly. Rainbow Dash was doing this to keep her pet tortoise, Tank, from hibernating while Tails helped stop winter to keep Cosmo from putting herself in stasis.
Every time they made the weather team one step behind, Cloudsdale made winter three steps ahead.
"We need to stop winter at the source!" Rainbow exclaimed.
Walking closer to them was the X Tornado with Tails hopping into the pilot's seat, "Get on my wing! I'll distract the weather team after your near the town."
Rainbow with Tank in tow sat on one of the wings, Sonic style, "Let's do this!"
Tails flew around, nopony noticed him. Suddenly he saw Tank and Rainbow Dash slide through a tube, a scene played in his head.
Sonic was helping the ponies get rid of some leaves by slicing every leaf into bits when he heard a noise.
Apple Jack trotted closer to the scene to get a better look at an intense looking cloud city, "What in tarnation is going on up there?!"
Sonic recognized what was going on, but Twilight beat him to the warning. She hesitantly said,
"Prepare Yourself! Winter is Coming!"
A giant snowball took out Tails's plane in the distance as it flew towards us. It was like nobody had super powers or something as the town took the snowball plane like a champ. The snow covered everything as ponies, humans, and mobians got their heads out one by one until Rainbow got her head out and found her turtle.
A smaller snowball flew over and gently landed, shaking the snow off revealed to be the X Tornado and probable reason Rainbow was with us, since she wasn't around earlier.
Sonic's feet popped out of the ground as he slowly got off his face. Looking at Rainbow, he asked, "Yo RD, you alright?"
"No..." she replied, ploping onto the snow. Tails also looked depressed.
Sonic and the group looked between a tired Cosmo, crying Tails, and creepy black-red, green lens stasis chamber Shadow loaned us.
Amy grabbed Tails by his green Cosmo colored PJs then stopped, looking at the plant girl with yellow-white PJs. "That's not creepy at all."
One Sonic said to the youngest Sonic, "Chasing, stalking, and forcing marriage. That's not creepy at all."
"Not helping, Sonic." Second Amy said from behind.
Big Knuckles, being completely lost in the situation shrugged, calmly stating, "Hey, its just a winter without your presumed-to-be-dead girlfriend." Everyone glared at him as Tails's tears streamed stronger. "What?"
Other Knuckles (to defend his other self) nervously added, "If he let's it all out, he might feel better!"
Bunnie pushed a Sonic closer to the fox, who hugged his girlfriend stronger now. Through hand gestures:
Sonic motioned, What?
Bunnie motioned her hands, You know him better, go on!
I don't know...
Hat Bonnie through up her fist, a hand gesture with many meanings that shouldn't be translated, but can be described as painful.
Sonic through his hands up, OK! OK! I'll do it! He walked over to Tails, "Hey, buddy... Don't worry, Cosmo will wake up stronger and more energized than ever in a few months!" His cheerful tone, not convincing enough.
"A few months?! I don't want her to go-o-o-o!!!" Tails continued crying and hugging the air out of Cosmo, who let out a squeak.
Sonic sighed, "Nice going Knuckle head! How's he going to stop now?!"
Big Knuckles shrugged, "He should be done soon." Everyone let out a tear, because stuff like that is nothing compared to what Robotnik does on a daily basis as Eggman.
King Shadow burst through the wall in his motorcycle, "Stop it with your damn crying! Me and a few Shadows are going south for training."
Jet raised an eyebrow, "And you're telling us, why?"
"To inform Lancelot of the new trainees at head quarters and offer Tails and her to come with us. Specifically drop them off at a beach, where Shadows will work as slaves to learn humility and what happens to them is not as bad as the punishment for treason," Shadow slipped on some shades. "Last chance, boy."
Silver chuckled, "Well, isn't this nice of y-"
"Times up, follow me." He revved his bike, burning exhaust in Silver's face before driving off. Tails and Cosmo ran out with Pinkie prepared bags of things and waved good bye in island wear as they flew off in the X Tornado.
Antoine stared at the hole in the wall, "Well, zat juzt happeened."
It was an interesting day, here in Hoofenova Village. I was told that it was the first village to accept all three tribes of pony, even passing zebras and mules. Overall dragon attack were low thanks to their odd strategy of giving the pegasi armor with sharp needles and have the earth ponies launch the pegasi over their head. Reminds me of Lord Sombra and his fair queen, who died recently.
Those two were a great team until the end. Nopony knows how she died and rumors floated around that a unicorn assassin snuck in a poisoned her. Its one thing to believe rumors and another to have a dead end in the truth. I decided to give up the case and tell Vector that I failed him, but my student Clover the Clever noticed a dark cloud forming over the small village...
Oh my Faust... Giant lifeless-looking lady bugs ran around, slaughtering the populace with flying creatures that shot magic from its bottom half with more accuracy that even I could have.
I turned to my student, dead in the eyes, "Grab my hat, this is going to be a long day..." As she did I transformed my dull, brown cloak back into the form of my glorious, blue enchanted cape. With an extra spell, it shifted into blue armor and my hat stuck onto me, only falling off in my time of need. "What're you doing?"
Clover barely held a stick in her magic, "I wanna halp you Sir Starswirl."
"No. I cant let you near his disaster! What would I tell your parents when their little girl dies? That a little filly fought well?"
"Sir, I mean no-" I put a hoof to my young assistant's mouth.
"I know you mean well, but these aren't manticors. I fear their power even as I stand." She started tearing up, but she got the message and stayed behind in my wagon. I teleported into the village, taking out my wand to double my attacks and conserve my magic. Each creature made of magic and armor broke by my will, until something new showed up. It was a green and black creature that held me by my neck, high above the ground.
From the sky, a loud, booming laugh filled the village as a creature formed the face of a pony similar to Sombra with glowing blue details that resembled ripped parchment. "Starswirl the Bearded... actually not yet. The goatee is an interesting look on you, but I'm not here for fashion tips. Hoof over the village lest I summon more Metal Scourge and make your early death slower and more painful than your would be future death." The Bearded? What kind of title was that? And future death? These creatures... I don't think they were from this time at all! I was saved by a purple blur that tore the metal creature to pieces.
"Espio?! Vector? Oh... um ...hi Charmy." Stood with me were the Chaotics. A purple striped zebra "ninja", a green crystal pony with the biggest muscles ever seen and a voice that will never have a singing career, and a black and yellow pegasus "bee" with a black helmet with an artificial unicorn horn I made... used for poking his enemies instead of magic. They based their rag tag group off of mythical creatures, but that's for another day.
I took out two my wands and started drawing arcane marks around me as Vector took out his cragodile war hammer. Where he got it out from, I wish to never ask. We charged at these 'Metal Scourge' that flew out of the beast's mouth in a gruesome matter. When he finally stopped, he gave a smirk, "Finally! A time where things flying out of my mouth is creepy. The future is weird."
With my arcane gunpowder spell (need a name for it) I sent metal parts flying all over the place. With the new ammunition, I started tossing what I assume are his head and two odd shaped hooves at its brothers. We were doing so well until the beast summoned another being. A small blue creature, not made of metal, but still dangerous. He has a long black mustache that extends from under angry eyes. The blue creature stood like a Metal Scourge and held a wooden staff in his hand. He was clothed in a black cloak and had determination in his eyes. "Its great to be young again," he said. "And even better to kill your enemy at a time before he meets you!"
"Have at him Master Zik."
I dodged his attacks with his staff, only for him to use my arcane marks against me as I was blown back towards him. He quickly held me close in his magic, rapidly kicking my body before I could finish another mark. Luckily like the legendary thoom the dovahkiin has, even tough it wasn't complete in my eyes, I had a useful mark. I pushed him away, the mark being a simple wind bend and element increase without the soil reactivate detail. I rushed him, rolling so that I could drop kick him before punching him in the face.
That last part failed as he kicked a Metal Scourge head in my face, obscuring my vision long enough for him to move behind me and crescent kick followed by a powerful upper cut behind me. Physics caught up to me as I bounced all over the place, feeling like a rag doll. Out of the corner of my eye, over on the hill where my wagon stood was Clover prepping a canon.
I almost thought she would reveal herself, but instead she shot my diamond staff towards me. I used the head of it to send this Zik fellow flying a few hooves. He then returned with a giant land dolphin (no jest, a gargantuan sea creature that swam on land) as he fired some magic bolts towards my way.
"Hey Sonata, you don't mind a little adventure, do ya?" Wolf Sonic said, standing at the time ring they made.
"I'm not really up for any excitement..."
The Sonic laughed, "The history book says you're going with me anyway." He said, opening the book at a young Starswirl the Bearded at a time when he was called Starswirl the Boasted.
"I don't see us..." Sonata said, trying to read the book. Sonic fed the machine with anarchy beryl as Sonata tossed the book away. When the portal opened, Sonic tried to get Sonata to go with him, but she didn't budge.
"Look, you wont be in any major fighting and there's a cute little filly you can take care of."
Sonata thought about it.
"You're the reason the Griffon Kingdom has tacos," Sonic said flatly, causing Sonata to run in first for her obsession for mexican food. Sonic just stood there thinking:
I looked into the eyes of my grim reaper. An ugly blue thing with two tiny horns that burned off part of my facial hair, leaving him with the best mustache. I'm so dazed right now, I need a miracle to fully realize my situation. Suddenly I hear... music playing? More of those Zeti things had instruments, playing interesting yet terrible music.
Another blue creature, similar to the Metal Scourge, wearing an odd formal outfit ran by with a sword with eyes. He used the blunt side of the blade to push Master Zik away from me. A canteen was dropped next to me as he ran to save the Chaotics and turn to attack Zik from behind with a series of fast paced kicks and some sort of rolling attack that defied the laws of physics.
Sonic homed in on the younger Zeti, Master Zik. Using his bladed homing attack, he killed the dolphin. "Nice look, old timer," Sonic said, leveling his "borrowed" Caliburn, who also smirked at what would be a great fight. He ran at them, but Sonic was faster than his future counterpart, who needed gold shoes to beat Rainbow Dash in a race. Sonic twirled in the air, his blade finding his target in five rapid rotations before he was blocked.
Vector tossed his hammer like Shining did with Cadence, knocking Zik out of the air as Sonic increased his speed with Caliburn under him. He gave the Zeti a cut arm from the delayed reaction. Espio tossed some shurikens while Charmy flew head first into Zik, "stinging" him.
Sonic landed, giving the trio a thumbs up, "heh. Pony Chaotics, I guess this world has more to it!"
Everyone ran towards Zik, except Starswirl who seemed out of it. Zik slammed his staff on the ground with both hands, creating explosions all over the ground. Sonic blade spin dashed at him, leaping when the explosions happened and homed in. He slashed Zik a few times mid air before circling him. He jabbed and slashed at random times before he was magically pushed away.
"LASER!" Sonic quickly changed into a cyan laser, bouncing off all surfaces as he constantly collided with Zik from unpredictable directions. He was prepared to block a laser, but Sonic got out of the power, kicking the staff away and knocking Zik onto the ground. Sonic aimed his sword at his foe's head, "Yield! Do it now!"
"Seriously?" he asked, almost laughing. "Come on hero, end this!"
Starswirl got up from his spot, the confusion spell slowly leaving. He took out a purple shell and started blowing it, the unnamed Zeti disappeared, but their music still played as it faded out. Master Zik held onto his head in pain. Starswirl got in Zik's face, "You think me a fool? I'm a master in magic, even unknown magic such as your own." He went back to flowing some air into what Sonic called "the magic conch shell" before stopping and laughing, "I should probably give this to Clover, thine tone deaf as it is. It will be amusing to her, no?"
As soon as the shell returned to Starswrl's face, Zik disappeared in back time smoke. Time Sombra conjured a hand that he let slide down his face, "OK, why is it so hard to kill you now, but almost easy to kill your future self?! You're like a plague that wont end!" He returns to a calm state, "Our battle will come. You have your friends and I have mine." He disappeared, all traces of him gone.
Sonata held the first taco feast with the worst tacos ever made and Sonic got to tell the pony Chaotics about his Chaotics from his home. Everything cooled down as they waited for Metal Sonic to take them back home...
Jet opened the door to Amy's house, surprised to see Princess Twilight standing outside. Twilight had on saddlebags and smiled, "Hey Jet, is a Sonic home?"
"Um... No, but I can leave a message." Jet put down his board and watched as Twilight opened a history book, showing Clover the Cleaver banishing the sirens, now Dazzlings, to the human world.
With a stern look she said, "The past is changing. We need Sonic, now." She took off her bags, revealing her lack of wings, "It's about to go down..."
At the train station, a blue mobian hedgehog with a sword and a purple pony got off the train car they rode in, rushing towards Canterlot Castle. With the past constantly shifting, the pony named Twilight Sparkle was having a hard time remembering how to get to the archives. The tree of harmony's magic flowed over the unicorn, but instead of her castle and dragon being reduced to a tent and snake, her appearance changed again.
Sonic the Hedgehog, hero of the planet Mobius, looked down at the pony in his arms. She looked like a recolored Twilight, her lavender and purple color replaced with sea and navy blue. Her mane and tail had a cream streak where her magenta streak used to be and she looked up with matching eyes wide. She quickly asked, "What's my name?!"
"Twilight Sparkle," Sonic said with an annoyed tone.
She gasped, "No! My name is Lunar Shine!" They looked over at the castle in the distance, "We need to hurry over to mom!"
Sonic, somehow being immune to the effects of the changing time, was thrown off guard by replacing "princess" to "mom", but still kept his focus nonetheless. He was suddenly blinded by a blue wing, that was quickly moved away, "Looks like your wings are back..."
"I can tell!" She replied, gripping the hedgehog harder. Her mane suddenly became messy when another rainbow flash surrounded her, "You're going way to slow, molasses hog!"
Sonic was urked by the sudden change in faith, but ran for his friend. Lunar climbed onto his back as she flew them over to the castle.
"Not to be rude, Chip, but I rather fight with Caliburn in dire situations." Sonic conversed with a flying burgundy creature with a white tuff of hair and fairy wings. Instead of his usual gauntlet for Caliburn, Sonic had a green bauble bracelet that used to be Chip's necklace. Walking with them was a griffon chick that was originally Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship, Element of Magic. Now she's Giddy, a nerdy griffon chick and the Element of Understanding.
"Don't be too hard on the poor... Whatever he is. I bet he can summon a giant stone body to fight for you... Though, with the ageing process, its 9.600100201504% probable," Giddy said, checking her talons. The rainbow magic flashed over her again, making her resemble more of a griffon Twilight. She raised her talon.
"Princess Twilight Sparkle, student of Celestia, you have a royal brother and a baby dragon named Spike, you have five friends. Elements of harmony sound familiar?" Chip informed and asked, just as tired as Sonic.
Twilight Griffon nodded before tilting her head, "Why would I be Celestia's student again?"
"Why would you ask that?" Chip asked, hovering back slowly.
In the sky, Celestia flew around, laughing like a psycho and attacking the trio. "Run! Run, Twilight Sparkle! Discord wont save you, now!"
Chip looked over Sonic's shoulder at Twilight, "Discord?"
"Hero of Equestria that sent Celestia's statue to the sun for a thousand years. He's also my body guard love interest." Twilight said with a shy smirk.
Sonic climbed up onto the rooftops to avoid dead ends, "I thought you didn't like Discord!"
Twilight fumed, "I do! He's one of the most selfish-!" Discord tossed another grenade at the four, luckily Spike burned it, causing a huge explosion behind them (that blocked off the rest of Twilight's rant) as Sonic tossed off a pair of sunglasses that perfectly landed on Spike's face. The beast tossed more grenades, but they were blasted by magic the group currently didn't have. "Its Prince Blueblood of the Crystal Empire!" Twilight exclaimed cheerfully.
Blueblood was armed to the teeth with knives and swords, riding a chariot with a hot yet depressed Princess Cadence next to him, who blew a kiss at Sonic as they passed. Spike and Chip watched as she rode out of sight, hearts on their eyes. Sonic rolled his eyes, "Spike! What would Rarity think?!"
Spike looked back at Sonic with a carnivorous grin, "I remember Rarity. She actually broke my heart when Trenderhoof visited Ponyville. The unicorn tasted like chicken, now we'll be together forever!" Sonic and Chip grimaced at the idea while Twilight reached to her back and patted his head as she soared between rooftops.
The sky suddenly ripped open, revealing Time Sombra's warrior spirit fighting a giant armored Principle Celestia with a necklace that looked familiar to Sonic, both pushing at each other's swords. Sombra growled, "Yield Solaris! I will have your power!" The two beings disappeared, causing normal time to snap back for a moment.
In that moment Twilight was back to her usual self with the normal Spike on her back. Sonic held Caliburn as he ran, but Chip was still there somehow. He pointed down to see the cowardly Prince Blueblood run from a muddy normal looking Princess Cadence, carrying her chariot in her magic. The four neared the castle, recapping Twilight and Spike's bio before they entered the throne room.
There were a huge line of creatures, requesting court with the princesses. Twilight grabbed Sonic as they flew over the line, skidding to a stop in front of Celestia. The princess saw the fear in her eyes, but couldn't tell the ponies to leave fast enough when a history book was shoved in her face. There was another chapter- Starswirl's death by the hand of Zik as Clover the Clever forced her mentor's knowledge of magic into her, beginning an campaign of her insanity as a dark mage after she banished the sirens. Twilight exclaimed, "The past is changing! Starswirl died early, Clover the Conquer, Discord's near death! All of this is changing the future!" She pointed to her fangs and bat wings, making Sonic jump at the sight.
Twilight gave off another rainbow glow as the entire scenery became a barren mountain, luckily the other princesses had a rainbow shimmer over them, making them as immune to the changes as Twilight... who was part orange. Orange as in the fruit. Why are we talking about oranges? What purpose- Oh yeah, all of the ponies are young fillies now.
Sonic took out Caliburn as Spike returned to existence with the group and the others- back to normal -preparing to fight as Time Sombra flew through the sky. They moved over the mountain as Pinkie Pie- whoops! I mean Bubble Berry flew a hot air balloon overhead with Sonia and Manic playing music to fit the scenery as everything transitioned to white.
Surrounding the group, many Master variant Dark Gaia minions appeared. The power master enhancing the abilities of fire and lightning masters. Sonic dodged fire balls and electricity as he ran, slashing the minions to oblivion with Caliburn. He even tossed the dang sword.
"Sire, what are you doing?!" Caliburn asked from the ground.
Sonic homed in on a few masters and kicked one across the face, "I thought you'd fly back! The plan has holes!"
"I can only hover when I'm standing!" He responded as Sonic grabbed him and tossed him again, killing some minions and being caught by Luna, who who swiped at her enemies, "I actually don't have a problem with this."
Twilight countered their magic as she dispersed a Lightning Master's bolt at the Power Masters, weakening all of the remaining Masters as Celestia crushed some Fire Masters under her summoned war hammer. Ten Red Titans appeared, but Luna and Caliburn lowered the number to nine in an instant as Sonic homed in on one, climbing up another Titan's club, and grabbed Caliburn to stab a third one in the eye, in a single fluid motion. On the ground, Spike set the huge clubs on fire and let one Titan hit him, using the force to fly over to Chip and grab him, pulling him to safety. That plan was flawed as Chip hit his head on the ground, but Spike took most of the skull-splitting force, causing Chip to unlock his powers "Avatar: The Last Air bender Aang vs the Fire Lord" style- better known as Deus Ex Machina.
Chip let his wings grow as he held onto Spike, the two flying around the battle field, combining Chip's photokinesis and Spike's magic fire they began burning Masters and oncoming Red Nightmares that appeared with a strong, pure light magic flame. They got a little reckless and started punching Titans into oblivion, Spike's weak punches given Light Gaia power. It was impressive seeing the two work like a perfect team and fight as if Chip was an extension of Spike's dragon instincts and wild imagination, especially when they didn't even speak a word and paused with angry look on their faces like a sudden argument.
Hey, Sonic? Should Spike fire a fire ball or fight up close and personal? Chip asked in Sonic's mind. The hedgehog was used to his friend's telepathy so he replied in thought.
Keep your distance and make sure you two don't over do it, Sonic thought to Chip.
Warrior Sombra and "Principle Solaris" returned, fighting with no sign of a winner. The actual beings appeared next, staring each other down as they shot energy balls and homing projectiles, in hopes to get one spirit to falter and drop their guard. One of Warrior Sombra's bottom arms broke off from the other three in defense, in an attempt to stab the Solaris spirit. Bad news for him, Solaris split it's arms and sun-themed sword in two, a bottom arm mirroring the one attacking arm.
From on top of a Titan's head, Sonic stared in awe as Solaris actually existed! He has memories that shouldn't exist of him blowing out the flame of young Solaris before the sun-time god could grow into a being of darkness (Mephiles the Dark) and destruction (Iblis) then become one again (Solaris) to be a threat to everything! Chip looked upon the creature in shock, nearly dropping Spike, "It really is Solaris! We need to stop him, now!"
Caliburn was tossed Sonic's way, allowing the hedgehog to catch it and stand in silence with his sword drawn... for a minute... two minutes...
The sword looked around, "Sire? What are we doing?"
"I'm trying to summon the power of Excalibur like last time, let me focus..." Sonic replied. Caliburn rolled his eyes, glowing and transforming as golden armor attached to Sonic with a glorious red cape flowing behind Excalibur Sonic. "Yeah, it worked!"
"You could have said 'please', sire!" Excalibur said said, groaning a bit. Sonic didn't hear him over the face guard shutting and he flew up to the warring avatars, fighting for control. They use time in their fight, equal power and prediction abilities. If scientists studied this fight, nobody would know the movement origin, because every move to attack or block move in sync. Sonic being added would tip the scales in any combination of win-lose wether two win, one win, or no win.
Time Sombra took out a lamp from hammerspace, "Erazor, destroy the pest!"
The lamp summoned a muscular purple, red man that bowed as his green eyes displayed a black smoke and his black cape flowed behind him, "As you wish, mmmmmasster..." He said the last part with great pain as he summoned a red lamp themed sword. Sparks flew as they collided, he smirked recognizing his foe. "Ah, looks like we have a rat problem."
Excalibur Sonic glared at him past there blades, "A sword? Why the sudden change?"
"I would make a fourth wall joke, but I hate stories almost as much as I hate you!"
"Author? What author?" Sonic asked before he shook his head, then quickly spinning, and slid his Excalibur across Erazor's back as dark shadows left the deep cut. The djinn clenched his teeth as a counter spell that allowed the shadows to form a copy of Excalibur to form in his free hand. He turned a kneed Sonic in the gut, barely denting his gold armor. Sonic instantly backed off and they flew towards each other again, Sonic's speed with Excalibur compensating for the lack of a second sword, but he had one trick Erazor Djinn probably didn't know. He swiped his sword a few times, soul surging as he shouted, "Yo Pinkie, its party time!"
Two balloons appeared, popping to reveal little Sonic with their extreme gear "the Blue Star" and the Sonic, that originally met the genie, with the harmony emeralds with him, hanging over the board. The later Sonic pointing at little Sonic, shouting, "Kindness, frees animals! Loyalty, to those in danger and his friends! Generosity, saves the world without being asked? He shares laughter with his friends! He will be honest, but not too blunt! Forgiveness, he teams up with his enemies? Oh yeah, Knuckles! Friendship is his magic?"
The seven gems circled all three Sonics as two of them resembled their hyper form while the armored one gained a rainbow glow inside of his gold armor, wielding a rainbow Excalibur.
"Are you, what they call, 'gay'?" Erazor asked, an eyebrow raised.
They ignored him as two Sonics fed rainbow magic to rainbow Excalibur, firing a multicolored soul surge beam straight through Erazor and into Solaris coincidentally, weakening the god to the point that Time Sombra went for the kill. He disappeared with Solaris and Erazor Djinn as Warrior Sombra impaled Principle Solaris, the two avatars for the beings fading away.
Just as Sonic and Twilight left the train they rode on, they noticed the return of the princess's wings. Upon that notice, a wave of information entered their mind in a natural, not painful way that allowed them to remember what happened.
Sonic sighed, "I'll go buy the tickets for home... Unless you want me to run us home or a royal sky chariot?"
Twilight glared and growled, "No. We need to think of a plan on the train. Two time beings just merged and I'm not enjoying that."
"Yeah, and we have to prepare for the worst," Sonic said with clenched fists.
Rarity noticed the familiar bell calling to her customer, "Sorry, we're closed! Come again~!"
"Even for a friend?" Sonic the werewolf Hedgehog asked, walking in with his usual suit on.
"Never to a friend, darling! What can I do for-," Rarity stopped before eyeing his outfit. Before Sonic could let out a word, a shriek filled the air, "Your suit! There's holes, burns, and tears! The stains are fixable, but those shoes with that look? I'm calling the fashion guards! Looks like some red is showing through your black paint on your sneakers." Sonic tried to speak, but Rarity wasn't done. "You lost your tie and its... winter! You're still wearing that suit?! I can fix this with what material I still have!"
But I want the suit off! Sonic thought as Rarity kept shushing and measuring him, moving things around in the air.
"You don't need to pay me! These are scraps from my last order," Rarity said as she fixed the suit still on him.
"But I-!"
"Your thanks is all I need."
"Why-?!"
She stopped and placed a gloved hoof on Sonic's mouth, "Sonic, you look terrible. I know this must be hard, so let me help you." Her tone was way too serious for the situation. "I'm the element of generosity! What's more generous than a self-repairing and stain resistant suit?"
More like the element of- Wait, what?! Sonic went pale as he was rushed out of the door.
Rarity waved happily before locking the front door, behind it saying, "You did great, darling."
Sonic's anger boiled over to the point that he changed into his werehog form, trying to rip off the new suit with its own healing factor...
In a stormy forest, the Cutie Mark Crusaders watched helplessly behind Apple Jack and Braeburn as the Stetson wearing Bunnie grabbed Two Shoes from above and dropped him in the mud where the Sheriff and his stallions waited to lasso him. Two Shoes looked around before stating, "Normally I'd mention my luck, but I think I had too much cider..."
Applebloom tried to pass her sister and cousin, shouting, "Sheriff, wait! Ya got him all wrong!"
"Yeah, he's not a bad pony!" Sweetie Belle squeaked.
"Applebloom, get back! He's dangerous!" Everyone stopped as a pink force field surrounded everybody.
Holding the field steady and sighing, Bunnie walked up to the children, "Apple Jack, I'd like a word with yer sister, if ya don't mind?"
The Sheriff huffed, "Now what the hay is the meaning of this?"
"Now's not the time Bunnie!" Apple Jack said, eyeing Two Shoes.
Applebloom exclaimed, "Bunnie, you have to listen to us!"
She rolled her eyes, "That's what I'm tryin' ta do, sugah." Sheriff tried to speak, but before he could make a sound the force field disappeared for a moment to let out a laser blast. "Hon, ya better pipe it before I become sheriff of a town I'm startin' ta like!" She looked around as everyone glared at her, besides four ponies. "Tell Bunnie everything, hon."
Two Shoes spoke first, "I loved rodeos all mah life and always wanted to be part of one-"
"A motive!" The Sheriff exclaimed, "If he cant be in a rodeo, nopony should!"
"That's not it," Bunnie said, "I think there's more to this."
Scootaloo picked up the slack, "He mentioned that his upsidedown horse shoe cutie mark meant bad luck, and it shows!"
Two Shoes nodded, "I was auditioning when I was a colt, but the day I got my cutie mark I've been getting nothin', but bad luck. I never wanted to leave the rodeo! I never wanted to hurt anypony, but bad luck followed to every rodeo I went..."
"I think I've pieced everything together." Bunnie smiled as she took the ropes off him, "Apple Jack, the crusaders wandered off like usual. I can attest to it, since I got a sky viewpoint." The fillies backed up in fear. "Though, I think ya might as well be a rodeo clown. They have bad luck a lot in this world!"
Long story short, this was a good ending. Well, except for the CMC. Bunnie Rabbot took their glory!
Lancelot returned from his training... just to be young Sonic's +1 at a gathering called "the Grand Galloping Gala". I was up for it at first, but then I remembered my formal armor wasn't allowed. I tried fixing my prince's bow tie, but he wouldn't stay still, his impatient vibrating undoing the huge bow tie on his suit.
A pony that resembled the Quaker Oats duck introduced, "Spirit of Chaos, Discord and the Snooze!" Discord walked in with an orange suit, holding coma Antoine over his shoulder.
Silver popped out of nowhere, groaning as he cleaned green goo off his suit. "Lance, I just created a paradox..."
His +1 Jet walked up with a tray of food, "Silver, why is the Smooze and Chaos here?"
"That's the paradox."
Everybody with diamonds ran as Chaos in a green hat and tie tried to assimilate the "emeralds" as a green blob with a blue hat and bow tie slid after him, worry on its mouth. Jet shook his head, "This doesn't look good..."
"I swear, I didn't invite him!" Discord replied to an angry Twilight, under a spell to not see the body he held. Seriously, nobody sees the limp coyote around his neck? Meh. I suddenly don't care.
Twilight fumed, "If you didn't then who did?!" The Knuckles quietly shuffled away from each other, realizing their mistake.
"I don't know, I didn't expect him to be here! Besides, who's the blue guy he's with?" As Twilight pondered, Discord walked towards the dining area, whispering, "Oh, Antoine! Only you understand me..."
After an hour, a green water filled the room. Every Sonic was drowning at once, when somehow the water wasn't that high. Luckily what King Shadow called "a damn hippie pony" calmed the ooze into one spot with her whinnies... and turning it into an odd slime-water golem that grinned at the sound.
Somehow, Discord got angry... then quickly sad as he hugged Antoine, mumbling things like, "You're my only friend..." and other things like that. Nobody noticed, all they saw was the slime golem react to Discord's sadness by opening a portal to SEGA knows where!
"Not cool, bro!" one of the big Sonics said as they circled the golem, splitting the Smooze and his limited magic from Chaos and his limited power. The portal closed, but not without Sonic watching Time Sombra finish absorbing Solaris while happily waving at him.
When they were split, Smooze glared angrily at Chaos, but then smiled as they silently forgave each other and reassured Discord that... Whatever his deal was wasn't going to be a bad thing. They party continued as if nothing bad happened and I got to have mead with Fluttershy.
On the train, Rainbow turned her head to see (Modern) Amy and (BOOM!) Sonic. One looked happy and the other looked freaked.
"I've always wanted to race a gryphon!" Sonic said, looking out his window.
Amy was silent, occasionally repeating, "...Why is my brain a pager?"
Rainbow decided to ask, "OK, why are you two here?"
"The map sent us here." Sonic said, sipping some soda.
"No, it sent me and Pinkie."
"Your butts glow and vibrate, our heads vibrate- That sounded better in my head."
"Bet I can find the treasure first!" Sonic said, handing a bag of bits to his assistant. He sky dived below some feet, stopping when the gryphon took hold of his rope. Sonic looked up, "That'll be for every order I give you, here!" Then helper nodded, lowering Sonic as Rainbow attempted to lower herself. Sadly, her wings kept her from falling as low and fast as Sonic.
Rainbow trotted off, returning with a flight suit added to her gear. She fell double the distance, but the wind still messed with her. Sonic got tired of waiting and paid his buddy to wait for him as he left to find the girls.
"Oh my gawd! How come every adventure food sucks?!" Amy asked. There was Eggman's cooking, Gamma's cooking, Blaze's cooking, Big's cooking, Sugar Belle's cooking (Jet brought the muffins), and now Gilda's cooking. "Dr. Eggman's hedgehog food tastes better than this!"
Pinkie rolled her eyes, "Its great, but lacking one thing."
Amy gasped, "One thing? Its missing everything! Its not food, its a rock."
"That grey pony in the frock last week seemed to like 'em," Gilda said, glaring at Amy.
"Maud was here?!" Pinkie asked with some excitement.
Sonic ran by, saw the situation, and swept me off my feet as he ran toward the sunset. At Prance, we had dinner and-
Sonic kept waving his hand in front of Amy's face before giving up, turning his attention to the lion-bird-thing and Pinkie, "OK...? So, what's up?"
Gilda responded, "My life is being wasted." Pinkie responded, "Her cooking needs better taste. That's why we're here! Cook with baking powder = friendship!"
"I'm gonna go jump in a canyon." Sonic said, running back to Rainbow Dash.
"Wow, smartest thing said today," Gilda commented with a sigh.
Gilda was so close to recovering the idol, but stopped to save her friends. Meanwhile, Sonic caught the fallen idol, running up the walls of the canyon with Amy on his back. She still seemed out of it, so Sonic used her stiff legs as a way to pull himself back onto the wall. Caliburn would be out of a job.
(Sonata and Occasional Third person/pony point of view.)
"Twilight! Something weird is going on!" I cried out.
Twilight made the moaning noise Adagi makes- Even putting her hoof to her face like Adagi! "Does it involve your ears?" She put her hoof down as I nodded quickly. "Ponies ears fold back or to the side when they have certain emotions. Like now their folded back because...?"
"I don't know, I was asking you!"
"Are you scared or sad about something besides your ears?"
"I pushed a Pegasus off a cliff- I pushed Rainbow Dash off a cliff!" I was about to fall over on my bottom and cry, but when Rainbow flew in I saw she was fine.
Rainbow shook her head, "Sonata! Rule one of playful pushing: Don't push hard, especially near a cliff!"
"S-sorry... Something hairy just touched my leg!"
Twilight sighed, "That's your tail Sonata."
"Oh, forgot about that." I giggled nervo... nervah... That feeling you get when you're waiting to be in trouble. I don't like that feeling.
Suddenly the doors slam open as a crazy looking bat-lady stomped in, dropping jewels as he entered. "Where is Princess Cadenza?!"
Rainbow hovered above Twilight, Twilight saying, "Um... In the Crystal Empire? Where she lives."
Rainbow covered my ears when the bat began to speak. I learned that she said something along the lines of "Get that ...........itch down here, meow!" I could be wrong. My lip reading has failed me before.
Turns out the lady was stressed about something and wasn't allowed near the empire. Something about stealing the children there. Any way, Twilight sent a message that got an instant response that made the bat angry enough to stomp it into the ground and say more words Rainbow doesn't want me hearing. When she left Rainbow let me hear again.
"What was that for?" I asked.
"There were words that shouldn't be repeated." Rainbow replied angrily.
"I'm over a thousand years old, quit treating me like a baby!"
Twilight looked over, "Might I recommend you act your age?"
I thought about it for a bit before declaring, "The night will last forever! Mwahahaha!" A weather pony began creating lightning as I said those words. This world is weird.
"I said act your age!"
"But I don't want worms in my head and dirt on my body! I don't like death..." A tear almost fell out of Sonata's eye, but stopped as soon as she thought somepony said 'taco'. The tear was absorbed into her eye as she looked around, "Taco? Where?!?"
Rainbow shared an awkward glace with Twilight as they left Sonata alone. Said person- or pony, but the technicalities are debatable -didn't question why she was by herself. The only thoughts she had were having tacos with her besties and who that bat-lady was. She seemed so weird, but why did she stay in her mind? Sonata shrugged as she exited the castle.
"What do you mean Meh Burger doesn't sell tacos?! Its a food place right?" Sonata asked, leaning over the counter to be in the worker's face. The light blue mobian in the purple polo known as "Dave the Intern" by all mobians, cowered in fear of the only pony- albeit mobian pony -to come to the establishment, demanding tacos even though it wasn't on the menu. He told her the last fifteen times no, but she got more aggressive each time.
"T-this is Meh Burger! Meh Taco hasn't been located yet!" Dave said, watching as her glowing red eyes returned to normal and she backed off.
"That does make sense..." Her thoughts were broken by the sound of somebody using a trashcan. Its her! The weird bat-lady! Sonata thought. She left Dave to handle the next customer, somehow following the spy inconspicuously.
I followed her to cave. What is she doing in a cave? Bears live in caves- Oooh. Because she's a mobian and mobians come in many animals and colors, she must think she's a bear! I have to watch out and hopefully warn her in time! I wouldn't want to be mauled by a bear and I think she would have the same thoughts... but her own. Yeah...
I slowly snuck into the cave, making sure I step on every stick so my noise problem could be avoided later. Like in the movies! The hero is being sneaky, but is found by a stick on the ground. How stupid is-
[/*CRAK*b]
From deeper inside, a familiar voice called out, "Who's there?!" I covered my mouth over my hands... the other way. I mean, like, mouth is there then your hand touches it before your other hand makes it sandwich-like. The voice then called, "Marco?"
"Polo!" I sandwiched my face again. Why did Adagio teach her that game?! I was our secret hide and seek game that I always lose at!Wait...
I noticed the sounds of wind disp- dosplu- change, looking up in time to be tackled by the bat. "Who are you?!" I tried to sing, but I made an usual sound that reminded me of a dyeing whale and Aria on bean night. I wasn't supposed to write that? What do you mean there's no ink eraser? Yeah, I'm writing my side of the convlvgvkfldlvykguylvc.
While I wait for black ink... I told her who I was and why I was there. She gave me an unusual look and helped me up.
"You do know bats live in caves, right?" I was about to answer when my nose found a taco smell in the cave. I followed it to the bat's glowing cyan bracelet that smelled like tacos. She used her hand and directed my head to her eyes, "Pay no attention to Wally D."
I tilted my head, "Who?"
"Wally D. "World" Ring, my husband. By the way, my name is Rouge the Ring- EYES UP HERE, LADY!" My head was redirected to said eyes.
"Why does it smell like a taco?"
"He's flirting with you," she crossed her arms, "Like with everyone else he's near. This is why I need Cadence!"
"I think you need a love expert for that."
"Seriously? Princess Mi something something Cadenza, princess of love, isn't a love expert?"
"When you put it that way... hehe..." A thought popped into my head. "Wait, shouldn't she be queen? She has a prince and an empire!"
"You're right..." Rouge thought aloud, "Well, come in. We weren't expecting guests." I followed her deeper inside the cave, looking around at the stock of heart-themed bombs and the random assortment of tech.
"We?" She started spinning Wally D. on her finger. "Oh." Suddenly a pink notebook with the word 'plot' on it fell on my face. Opening it, I read aloud, "So, what have you been up to in Equestria?"
I looked up at her then back at the suddenly gone book. Rouge tapped her chin, "Well, I stole crystal ponies before learning that they were living crystal, met Wally, started having a close relationship with him, escaped a changeling hive. Love at first sight stuff, but thinking about it... my life here... was all about... Wally." Her eyes went wide as she looked at the cyan world ring. "Am I being to clingy, dear?"
Sonata looked around before replying, "...No?"
"Not you, I was talking to Wally D."
I stared at the one sided conversation. "I don't get it."
Taken! (Takes place in the same time frame as S5 E9.)
Sonic fell back, sliding a bit before he got to his feet. Shadow was somehow over powered by their enemy, but landed on his feet, glaring at the beast. "What. The. Hell."
"Sooo, its a bear and a bee. I can see why its angry, he must hate being a Bee Bear!" Sonic commented.
Twilight flew over, firing a stream of lasers as Rainbow kicked at the white bear with four arms and black and yellow stripes. "Sonic! Aim for the Bug Bear's head!"
Little Sonic and Wolf Sonic had slightly better luck in the fight. They nodded as they climbed the bears arms and together kicked its head as Lancelot pulled on the bug bear's antennae. Jet repeatedly circled the beast as it held Rainbow in his arm, "supervising" for Big Knuckles, who was told to punch its stomach.
Somewhere behind, Silver noticed a donkey known as Matilda shoving ponies away and screaming, "Where's Pinkie Pie?! I need my wedding planner!!!" She gasped, before screaming, "A monster attack on my wedding day?!" Silver wanted to help, but the bug bear tossed Little Sonic waaay too far for comfort.
Silver held his hand out, but couldn't catch Sonic. He gave out a yawn as he grumbled, "Stupid Twilight lectures... Why does shethink that nighttime is teaching time?" With his weak energy he followed after Little Sonic, a curious Sonata deciding to join.
(Silver P.O.V.)
"Hello? Sonic?" I called out, Sonata at my heels. We've been searching for him in the Everfree, no sight of him so far and no sound.
"If you can hear us, play Johnny B Goode!" I gave Sonata a look as she shrugged. "He a mute with a guitar."
"Fair point?" Silver replied, unsure how to think about Sonata being the brains of the two. We pass some brush to see Little Sonic and his siblings tied up, tape of two of their mouths.
Subliminal messaging?! Just as we turned, there were five SWAT Bots around us. Sonata flailed her arms, "It's a-"
(Sonic P.O.V.)
I was shaken awake by Silver, "Sonic! Sonic! You will not believe this!" What wont I believe? My eyes slowly opened, revealing-
A hand was placed on my shoulder as I sat at a wall, looking up to see a familiar chipmunk girl with blue boots and open blue jacket. "Welcome to New Knothole-Mobotropolis! New K.M. for short." The Rotor's Knothole Lab!
Sonata was the last to wake up screaming, "Where are my tacos?!!" As she went from a lied position on the ground to on her feet, head butting Manic across the room. "S-sorry!" She looked over to the chipmunk next to me, "Woah! Who are you and what is this place?"
"I'm Princess Sally Acorn... You can call me Sally- Or Princess Sally." She finished under her breath. I was going to ask why, since she never liked being called 'princess', but I lost my white board in the bug bear attack. "Before I give the tour, I'm waiting for a few others to join us."
An elevator made itself known with a loud "bing" and music.
A second Sally in a different outfit, two Walruses, a bee, and Metal Sonic holding two handheld devises entered from the elevator across the room. Second Sally asked the stronger of the two Walrus, "Why do you insist on using that music for the lift, Rotor?"
Rotor crossed his arms over his chest, "Fast music to welcome Sonic, plus its catchy."
"But it does get annoying," the other Walrus said.
Princess Sally walked up to her slightly taller other self, "Mission accomplished. Sonic is here. How was your mission Princess Acorn?"
Princess Acorn sighed, "I thought we agreed you were Sal Acorn and I was Sally Acorn."
"Try convincing the locals! These ponies wont stop calling me princess! I know its my title, but I rather keep it for formal events."
The mobian bee got between the two, screaming, "Where's Vector?!"
Metal smacked his face with a loud clank, "Oh my god, not again! How do you lose a crocodile?!"
Sal rolled her eyes, "He's probably down stairs, wondering where you went."
Metal let out a soft chuckle, "Or he's pestering Vanilla, again."
Silver's head snapped towards Metal, "Wait, you knew Cream's mom was here?!"
"As of today, yes. I've never actually been here, but I kept in touch through Nicole who decided to stay with me." He said that last part, looking at Sal.
"She could be corrupt, it might be Stockholm syndrome. Its unconfirmed." Sal replied, glaring.
"Then how come Sally trusted me with both terminals?" he asked, balancing one on top of the other. Metal moved his hand from under them to examine his claws, causing Sal to attempt to grab the handhelds, but they didn't fall. He actually held one in blue magic and the other in purple, the auras looking like pixels instead of a candle's flame.
Snatching one with a scowl, Sally said, "I didn't." Rotor handed her a ring that she placed on the terminal in her hand, activating the Nicole inside. She looked like the normal Lynx Nicole, but had a dress that made her resemble a sorceress. Other Nicole appeared next to her, projected from Metal Sonic's chest. She still had a green dress and her black stripes were still replaced with green stripes as the result of being with the altered Metal Sonic.
"Nice dress," she complemented as Nicole 2.0 looked her over. "What?"
"Sorry, but green is not our color."
"I know, but it was unavoidable." Nicole Beta said with a sad smile. "A sacrifice to keep Metal's free will active. Luckily, he's on our side."
The two Sallys looked to each other then gave the Rotors a 'help me out, here' look, almost in sync as the Rotors gave different silent responses. Metal's face was blank as always, but I'm sure he understood what was happening.
Manic clapped his hands together, joining the group, "This conversation is cool and all, but I want to know why you kidnapped us." He gave a wide grin despite his eyes giving an angry vibe.
He's the meeting in a nutshell: They want us to send the Bunnies and Antoine over and to inform the others of their existence, but keep it secret from the Shadow Amy, ponies, and G.U.N. They don't trust the fact that Equestria has three princesses ruling the land and one with close ties ruling an empire that could turn on everyone at any moment. Also Sonic needs to fix time in other areas. Time Sombra is slowly getting stronger and only he can stop it, because he always does. Silver and Sonia keep trying to convince them that their being paranoid and Sonata was forced to wait outside halfway through. Metal is partially on the pony side, but admits Celestia and Luna might cause problems if they become corrupt. I wanted to add my own thoughts, but thoughts are not words and nobody can read minds. Manic hasn't said anything at all or fallen asleep, but just glaring.
His eye flashed red for a moment!
I reacted, jumping off the back of my chair and finding the sweet spot that gave off a hollow *tink* as I bounced off it's head. Everyone stood and had their reactions of objections until they saw a dent in the robot's metal head. Sal growled as she began to run off, but was stopped by her exact duplicate, entering the room with tape over her mouth.
Metal Sonic quickly scanned the fakes, exclaiming, "This room may have blocked their signal, but she's more than just a spy bot!"
Sonata entered from another door, screeching Mecha Sally to pieces.
"Sonic, wake up!" I awoke to Manic shaking me from the seat he sat at. "Dude, I saw you nodding!" I tapped his head, checking to see if he was real. "OK, can you stop?"
I nodded in agreement as the meeting continued. I was pretty sure we were forgetting something.
Tails walked past Celestia and Luna as they argued over by the presents, going to the two pairs of Sonics and Amys. "Has anyone seen Little Sonic?"
As the Sonics groaned in one Amy's hold with other rolling her eyes, Caliburn replied from one Sonic's hip, "We haven't. By the way, Silver and the band seem to be missing. Luckily they found a court jester and a cellist." The wedding was starting as they left their gifts on their way to their seats.
Short: Princess Spike and Prince Sonic: Fire and Ice (S5 E10)
King Sonic walked up to Little Sonic, who was co-guarding Princess Twilight with Spike. "Hey Lil me, check this out!" Sonic suddenly burst into flames without explanation before the fire was replaced by a chilled air aura. "Anyway, Spike told me that Twi ordered some dumb things to happen so I'm going to fix 'em."
Little Sonic tilted his head in confusion.
"Twilight ordered through Spike to move a sporting event that looked like cricket. Not surprised if it was. Also, some trees were supposed to be trimmed and a water line fixed. Sounds like comedic disaster. I should know, I watch Comedy Chimp twice a day to prove other us that its funny."
Little Sonic shrugged.
Getting the wrong message, King Sonic exclaimed, "I know! How is he even me?!"
Little Sonic rolled his eyes as his bigger self ran off.
A cricket ball knocked over some trees, luckily King Sonic turned them to ash with his new power, but not without missing one. The main water line broke, causing water to arch into Canterlot Castle. With a touch of ice power, Sonic froze the water.
Following the stream of water, Sonic found Spike half frozen with a bowel of gems. "Sup, Princess!"
"What's going on?!" Spike cried out.
"Yeah, what is going on? Ice skating?" Cadence asked, flying into the room.
Sonic frowned, "As King of the Wind, without objections, I was ordered by Twilight to keep the peace and patrol the streets of Canterlot. Spike said one thing, countering Fancy Pants saying another- Basically, Discord would be proud."
"Indeed I am!" Discord said, making a one sentance cameo while using recycled ice skating frames from 'Keep Calm and Flutter On'.
The day ended with Spike learning a lesson and a temporary ice rink being open in Canterlot. There's not much to say.
(Watch the episode first to avoid potential spoilers.)
"This no yak food! This fake pony food! Yaks smash!!!" It was hard for Ponyville to ignore the sound of destruction coming from inside Twilight's castle. Especially since the doors were WIDE OPEN. Among the civilians, one big bored echidna looking for his smaller counterpart stopped to hear the excitement.
Knuckles frowned as he ran towards the castle, complaining at the doorway, "Why didn't anybody tell me there was smashing?! I love punching things!" Knuckles ran up to a wall and punched a hole through it while eating some food he found on the ground.
Rarity pulled him back screaming, "No, you brute! We're trying to stop this!"
"Oh. Then why are you letting the buffalo destroy everything?"
Twilight hovered overhead, "They're yaks." She dodged a vase as she levitated some crystal from the air to the ground. "They get angry when thing are not perfect!"
Knuckles gave a smirk, "Really? Sounds like my kind of people!"
Rarity rolled her eyes as she hopped over a sliding door, "Of course they are."
"We need to take the prince away from here before we lose the castle!" Rainbow exclaimed.
Knuckles gave a wide smile as a gleam appeared in his eyes. "I'm on this! Hey prince... uh..."
"Rutherford. Prince Rutherford." Twilight whispered to Knuckles.
"Prince Prince Weather front-" the group facehooved as Knuckles spoke. "-wanna go play Coconut Hurl? Trees have been growing everywhere!"
The yaks stopped, Rutherford walking up to Knuckles. "How you know warrior title?"
"I'm the smart one here in Equestria!" Knuckles replied.
Somewhere at the market place, Tails suddenly felt sick and had to leave the girls to lie down. They don't know why, but decided to let Cosmo walk him hope.
"I, Prince Rutherford the Weather Front, declare mobians friends FOR ONE THOUSAND MOONS!" The four ran off as the remaining seven gave a relieved sigh.
Knuckle's head broke through the coconut tree, breaking Sonic Eggman's record. Or was it little Sonic and Knuckles Jr.? We can check later.
"Game is fun!" Rutherford exclaimed as he tossed his guard through two trees. "Fun is doubled!"
"Sweet!" Knuckles replied as the guards cheered. Soon Apple Jack came by, ending the game when she mentioned having beds for the yaks.
Back at "the SonAmy hut-house" (dubbed by red dress Amy) the three Sonics sat in the hut living room with casts on their legs and TV in front of them. Knuckles entered the room as two of the Sonics fought over the remote.
"Speedster X is on!" Suit Sonic complained.
"Well, Comedy Chimp is better!" the King Sonic said.
"Seriously?! He's not the slightest bit funny!"
Little Sonic rolled his eyes, hopping over to the other couch and turned on "The Adventures of Speedster the Human" on the older TV.
Ever since King Sonic used his new fire/ice powers Knuckles, Pink dress Amy, and Sticks also seem to have for no reason, he began to abuse them. Bragging about his powers, he burnt part of a tree that fell on them. We only had enough bits to heal nearly all of their bones, but Nurse Redheart decided to let their legs heal in the usual fashion as their punishment. I don't see why they need to be punished. All they do is race and destroy things- oh.
After talking about the recent Coconut Hurl game and explaining to suit Sonic what the game is, the Yaks entered Amy's house to invite Knuckles to a Yak game.
"You try breaking rock by breaking tree." Rutherford's right guard explained. Left guard set up some boulders and placed logs over them, showing that your hoof must go through all ten logs. The bigger crack on the boulder or how amazing your destruction of trees determines your score. He gained a 4-4-3 with his skill of turning the logs into powder, the power and speed behind destruction, and how big the crack was if he made it.
After the other yaks had their turn, I got up on the pedestal and used my mystic flying dig skill when I attempt to dig, but the catch is I gain tall. After... um... cloud tall, I actually jumped, falling as I created a cloud of wooden dust and broke the two boulders in half. I got an X-T3N-10... I think I did terrible and they didn't have the cards to express how bad it was. Their jaws even dropped!
"Impressive," was all Rutherford could say as his hair parted to show his eyes.
This time, Pinkie arrived with Rainbow Dash holding a cloud. They followed the two away in curiosity.
"I just don't trust them." Silver said as Knuckles sat next to him on a bench. Metal Sonic stood beside Knuckles, sipping holographic tea as Discord joined us.
"What's there not to like?" Knuckles asked. "They're a warrior race that used to have an ancient rivalry with Griffonmark before the griffons left their conquered land to found Griffonstone and they have awesome games! I've never seen anybody punched a rock so far."
Discord gave a laugh, "Yeah! They're loads of fun! We became friends for a thousand moons, though ponies have a place in my heart." His head began pulsing like one for a moment before he downed a barrel of rock tea. "I even have to clean their mess, giving me time to relish in the chaos! They tossed a pink spike wisp so hard it almost became part of the tree it was in!"
"Oh yeah! Wisp archery! I taught them that game." Knuckles gave a happy sigh. "Rutherford used the orange rocket's power to beat us."
"That explains the fire damage." Metal replied.
"No, that was his right hoof guard. He shot an angry red burst. Now they're friends with the wisps for a thousand moons." Tree of the four friends laughed at this. As soon as silence filled the air...
Suddenly, sleding backwards faster than Sonic's running speed, a confused and sad Pinkie Pie flew past them. She somehow entered the closed doors of Sugarcube Corner without problem as she glided inside. The group followed- except for Discord -Pinkie into the bakery where her trip ended upstairs in her room.
Silver stopped the group, listening as Pinkie talked about how much she was a failure. Before anything could happen, Pinkie found herself going down a trap door. The three decided to follow as seemingly everybody was inside Pinkie's secret room, even the three Sonics who still weren't talking to each other- well, one doesn't have a choice.
"Well, I think its some-what creepy," King Sonic said.
"I think its nice," Fluttershy said. She took out folders on 'Parties a Sonic might Like'. "This one mentions that you like simple picnics or nightclub styled parties as long as nobody... jumps... out of the cake...?"
"Eggman did that. I was weird. Amy did that and it reminded me of Eggman. Fiona the Fox did that which reminded me of Amy which reminded me of Egg-head. And I have no idea why Rouge was in one of my cakes, but it reminded me of Eggman." All three Sonics shuttered with green faces as Little Sonic's spine quills seemed to vibrate.
I turned my head, "Hey, Knuckles Jr.!"
"Oh, Sega no." Thin Knuckles said as he dug his way out.
"Now, I'm not going to question how you three heal faster than Rainbow Dash-" Nurse Redheart began.
Suit Sonic seemed to pay attention while Little Sonic and King Sonic were a little less focused.
"Sonic!" Redheart shouted. Both hedgehogs broke out of their trance as Suit Sonic took out a hat from his shoe's pocket dimension, placing it over his face. "Good, I got your attentions your highnesses."
"I still think we need to rule land to be royalty," Suit Sonic commented, sliding his hat to his head. "And shouldn't I be king? I asked around and there's no trace of you being royalty."
"But, I have the gold light speed dash shoes! Having the willingness to wield Caliburn and run in these shining shoes should make me king." (Probably King. BOOM!) Sonic explained, hands in the air with Caliburn in one. Redheart grabbed the sentient sword in her magic, glaring at the Sonic. "My bad... hehe..."
Caliburn rolled his eyes while still in the pink aura, "How about I decide who is what. Knave, Prince, and King," he said each, looking from Little Sonic to (BOOM!) Sonic in that order. Little Sonic looked unamused as he tapped his foot. "You want to be prince, knave the hedgehog?" He nodded furiously. "Well, somebody has to be a squire!"
Redheart shoved Caliburn into (Modern) Sonic's hands, "I don't care who is what, just don't use that weird fire-ice magic for fun and games!" She then held all three Sonic's in her aura, pushing them out. "Have a nice daaay~!"
Ponyville. Land of connection and harmony. In the castle region of Twilight Sparkle and the Three Royal Hedgehogs. ...I think... no. I hope I find a familiar face here. Ever since I woke up I saw nothing, but ponies and minotaurs... or bull mobians, but I'll let them hurt their own pride.
"C'mon, boy," I said to a stray mobini dog I found as we left the train station. Coincidentally, I found a dog with the same name as my last name. Some call it dumb luck, I call it fate. ...Or bad writing if this was a fan fiction, but nobody is a fan of me. Nobody is interested in Ben Muttski, loyal lab assistant to Professor Charles... or Uncle Chuck as I've called him. I wonder if he's here?
As soon as my foot passed an etched line on the ground, I was glomped by something pink as the Muttski dog took a step back.
"Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie! What's your name?"
We sat around a table, evidence supporting what position we should have. (BOOM!) Sonic wasn't planning on losing his "King Sonic" title anytime soon, sliding face down cards to the others, "This is how it will work. For the duration of this we will be given numbers and we will be called by those numbers. Caliburn will decide who is fitted for what title "Knave" being an optional title that can be changed."
Suit Sonic looked at his card, "I'm 2." Little Sonic held out three fingers.
"And looks like I'm King!" (BOOM!) Sonic exclaimed, showing a red 1 that has been altered with black marker to say "King".
Caliburn sighed from his spot on the wall, "You just lost the wisdom segment Number One."
"I don't know, I guess you can still call me a wise guy."
Three shook his head while Two spoke their dislike, "Don't... Just don't."
"I cannot." Caliburn stated.
Red Dress Amy- now to be known as Magic Amy for simplicity and the fact the can create hammers from nothing unlike her counterpart -walked into the kitchen, noticing the three. "Hey Sonic, what's going on?" She asked, grabbing a soda.
Magic Amy glared at her Sonic, "I thought you only built I time machine."
"He means me," Number One stated. "No universe hopping at all!"
"Actually, Metal Sonic built the time machine," Number Two said.
"Doesn't matter. I say twinkle toes there is your Knight or "Sir Sonic", well dressed is King, and pint size is Prince," Magic Amy said. "By the way, me and Sticks need you and all of the guys out."
"Why?" Sir Sonic asked.
"You tend to use Caliburn more often."
"No, I mean, why do you want us out?"
"Oh." Magic Amy opened a bigger fridge, taking out several cases of soda.
"Pinkie is having another party here?" New King Sonic asked.
"Only in my house. Unless you want enter you have to use the window," she said, pointing to the nearest window.
"We're fine," Sir Sonic said. "The entrance has pizzazz."
She almost left, but stopped, "If Knuckles wakes up, keep him away from the pizza."
"Sure thing."
"Also, Twilight is gone so you might want to check the wisps every so often," she added. Little Sonic nodded, hopping out of the window with a little *bwoop* sound. "How does he do that?!"
"Amy, I feel like this party is going to be special, but..." Pinkie started.
"But what?" Amy asked as Magic Amy joined them.
"My snout itches. Either its an itch or I'm needed for another super special party soon! I need somepony to take over for me!"
The girls were surprised by a gruff laugh from behind them. Magic Amy looked behind, exclaiming, "Vector?!"
Behind the three was a mobian crocodile with a gold chain necklace, black boots, and a headset. "The one and only!" He boasted, his red eyes seemingly glowing. "So, you want a special party? What's the occasion?"
"OMG, you look like a giant Gummie with teeth!" Pinkie gushed, appearing on his head. He didn't seem to notice.
Amy looked back at him, "Its somebody Sonic knows, but Pinkie wont tell us. We're letting him rest at Twilight's castle for the time being."
"You mean the dog ki-" Vector was cut off by a pink hoof and his owner making a sound that resembled air leaving a balloon. Vector lowered Pinkie to the ground. "Anyway, since its a secret, I sent it on a wild hunt for a fabulous golden castle. That was before I learned this was 'home sweet home'. Kind of a pink dump in my opinion."
Amy rolled her eyes, arms crossed, "Everybody is contaminating my house with either dirt or things from Sonic's hut. I didn't chose to combine our homes!"
"I say its fate," Magic Amy said. "A version of me and Sonic were always meant for each other! Besides, we keep bumping into each other!"
"We both know how dumb that is," Vector pointed out. "According to Metal Sonic, one Sonic has a chaos emerald and another has a world ring. In fact, I know you use mystic melody to track them."
"Mystic what-now?" Amy asked.
"Its basically a flute made of light magic that has been enhanced in this world."
"OK, fine. I just- once again -out skill the Italian juggling sidekick. I guess that's why I'm 'Magic Amy'!" She gave a fake smile and jazz hands, "WOW!"
Vector grabbed a mic off stage, lifting it up to his mouth. Ponytail Bunnie entered the room and quickly pushed him aside, giving him a trumpet as he began playing. Both Amy's silently thanked her as she began to sing.
Sonic and their available friends entered the room, drawn to the music as they added party decor. Sonia and Manic added their instruments and voice talents as Little Sonic prepped his guitar.
That night, Twilight and Spike flew overhead and caught Pinkie after she shot herself out of her party canon, making a bee-line to Canterlot.
The group worked like a well oiled machine, starting again in the morning as the Sonics and others competed in an streamer tossing contest and creating coconut confetti bombs based on Dr. Eggman's failed Spiderbots. When they were done, balloons were being blown up all around the room at a rapid pace.
As soon as Sir Sonic was about to pass out from lack of oxygen, the doors opened wide with some unexpected force. "Vynal... we didn't... expect you so... soo-" As eyes met, jaws fell.
The room was filled with several voices as a dog pounced a Sonic and licked his face, a mobian dog stood there as an onslaught of "Muttski?!?" spread through the room. Jaws hung as everyone looked between the surprised lab assistant to the happy, loyal pet.
Silence fell for a while until the guest of honor spoke, "Yeah... is this a bad time?"
"Yes, Muttski," Amy said, writing down notes with Twilight. "In fact, this is a unique case altogether."
Twilight nodded, "Sonic the King- which is suit Sonic -is actually faster than his alternate self Sir Sonic. ...About four times, in fact. Sir Sonic has to wear those golden shoes to even go half as fast!"
Ben Muttski pondered this, "Well, that explains why the Amy I know has magic, but this one is smarter-"
"Hey!" Magic Amy exclaimed from Sonic's hut.
Ben lied his head back on the pink sofa, "Though, a pet dog to a lab assistant is a huge reality jump... actually, I'm glad I don't have old me's memories. Wouldn't it be weird to gain memories of being walked by one of your best friends and doing," he gaged a bit, "...gross pet stuff?"
"Muttski, get off the couch! Sonic, control your dog!" Ben's ears fell back as he gripped the sofa, Magic Amy's words seemingly painful.
"Amy, its my hut and he hasn't been my dog in a while. He's either Ben's dog or other me's dog," a Sonic replied. "Besides, until everything is established, he's one of us."
"So I can beat him with my hammer?"
"You would beat a dog?! That's animal cruelty."
"Its animal cruelty beating a mobian with my hammer and animal cruelty if he's one of us!"
Amy and Twilight shared a tense stare, looking back at Ben, whole curled in a ball and hiding his face. Before Twilight could speak, Ben leaped over to back of the couch and ran into the hut. When Amy and Twilight caught up, they saw Magic Amy sitting like a dog, fear in her eyes while Muttski hid behind Ben, who held one of his blue flipflops at her face and a hammer head in his grasp.
"Ben!" Twilight and Amy exclaimed in shock.
"What?!?" He didn't dare to look back at them, his eyes on the Amy on the ground. Those who entered backed away slowly, except for Big Knuckles, who froze. Little Sonic stared blankly at the situation.
"What happened?" Twilight asked, worried.
"Amy had her hammer out over he shoulder, I assume she was going to harm other me. I simply knocked her over and caught her swung hammer, and believe me, I'm not known for my strength." Ben flipped the hammer in his hand and let it drop, Magic Amy's head splattering crimson blood everywhere.
Ben woke up in Twilight's castle, breathing heavily. He looked over to the corner to see Muttski, sleeping peacefully and unharmed. It was just a dream, he thought to himself, looking up at the crystal ceiling fan spin slowly. Well, more of a nightmare, but its not- Suddenly he heard Twilight scream from her room, waking Muttski, who began to howl.
(Ben Muttski P.O.V.)
"Hey, Twilight, how did you sleep?" I asked in the kitchen, making waffles with Spike. The princess hovered into the room, bags under her eyes and her balance staggering. Her landing wasn't all good either as her head collided with the table before the rest of her rag dolled over said head and pulled her over to the other side of the table. "...That bad, huh?"
Twilight rubbed her head, "OoOoow... N-not really..." Her horn glowed, seemingly erasing obvious damage to her. "I kept having a nightmare."
"I know it," I flipped a waffle, tossing one to Muttski. "Remember when one of the Amys were being mean to other me, yesterday?"
"Yeah...?" Twilight asked, partially focused.
"Well, in my dream she was a HUGE jerk and I beat her to a pulp. Me! Beat up a friend!" I filled pet me's bowel with water, laughing, "That dream was terrible! Enough about me, though, your highness."
"N-no, its fine Ben. Really- also, its just Twilight, please," Twilight waved a hoof. "Anyway, me and the girls are going to Rarity's place to groom our pets, do you want to join?"
Muttski looked up at me, shaking his head. Clever boy... "We're fine. I was actually going to take Muttski on a walk."
"Alright. Well, see you soon." She got up and was about to leave when her Owl landed on the table, drawing her focus.
"Um... Weren't you going to eat?" Spike asked, flipping waffles onto a plate.
"Oh yeah, I forgot..."
The last thing I remember was walking Muttski, then falling asleep only to wake up in a dark, strange Ponyville with Princess Luna trapped in a bubble. Muttsky was with me. He's my robot dog hand that fires lasers from his mouth and gives me my super powers. Spike was there, too! He was a knight on a giant, grey pony fighting a dark cloud with a stallion so rich he walked on flying coins and fired them from his mouth. Fluttershy was riding a demon and brown pony turned into a human in a blue box.
His box was being chased by robots that attacked Zapp and Taco Girl. Silver was in his super form, firing lasers from everywhere while a red alicorn kicked ass. It was impressive. Though, when houses were trying to eat people Muttski Man would back head them to dust. I looked over from my work to see three Sonics combined their power to launch a three mobian spin dash. From that attack, all the monsters, robots, and some of the dark cloud was destroyed.
I rolled my eyes and aimed Muttski at the cloud, firing the executioner cannon.
Metal Sonic just stared down at the two Muttskis on the ground, looking around to see the whole asleep on a suddenly dark Ponyville night. "I wish I could sleep." Suddenly everyone on the ground got up at once, the sun flew up into the sky, and everybody was cheering. Metal tossed a rock on the ground, "Get your priorities straight, Celestia!! I'm done!" He flew off into the sky, out of sight.
Fausticorn stopped her constant writing of the universe, staring at a book with three blue hedgehogs on the front, instantly knowing the signs of the disturbance. "Not again... Horseapples, why?!"
The source of the disturbance, a black and pink Shadow clone and 4th wall breaking bad OC known as Brony Shadow... felt his own disturbance. "My bitch radar is on. Location: Canterlot Carousel Boutique. And its not Rarity."
The Shadows at his table picked their trays up and left, not dealing with B.S.'s BS. He got up on his chair and took out a red faux harmony emerald , "Harmony Control!" In a flash he disappeared.
"Great, he's gone," One of the muscle Shadows said.
Before he could eat his damn sandwich, Brony Shadow's arm popped out of it and began waving as the owner's voice said, "Wait, I'm over here! HARMONY CONTROL!!!"
Every Shadow at base chorused in a collective groan that sent tremors through the Everfree.
Brony Shadow pranced through Ponyville as he searched for everything on his checklist. "OK. Sonic is always the hero and they can't get their code names straight. Nope! Sticks is out, everypony is busy, my brothers have target practice in a few minutes... Nooope!" He stopped, scratching his chin. "Who do I bring with me?"
"Pizzazz!"
"Pizza!"
"Why or how would you bring pizza to the office of a crashing Egg Carrier?!"
"Because Eggman might let us carpool with him as he flies us to safety."
"I suddenly want your Eggman."
"I know, right!"
"I'd still break through the window."
Brony Shadow is now the speaker. Why? Oh, too late. ...Um... Yeah, I walk over to two Amys arguing over a board game magicless Amy created. It was some-what poorly drawn in some areas yet had detailed and actual photos of Eggman bases. From that Egg-dome-thing he had to the Alien Amusement Park. In the middle the game's name "Eggheadz" could be seen. Cards were on and around the board and wooden dice were bouncing from the force of tapping hammers. Metal and wood board game pieces abandoned their post as the argument continued.
The Amy that offered the Pizza Tactic shouted, "You're the Amy class! I don't break windows."
"Well, you're not the only Amy," the red dress wearing Magic Amy retorted. "I will not be reduced to a mere damsel in distress, even in a board game!"
"Amy class is the smart class!"
Magic Amy rolled her eyes, "Yeah, as smart as a little girl wasting her youth to be with her hero." Their eyes met again, "Or a hero that was kidnapped by a giant snake. You realize a friendly chat can wait, right?"
"You're just jealous that you've never been Sonic class these past games, little girl."
They backed up, but before their could hammers could collide, I ran between them. In doing so, not only did I pause the fight, but I put a dent in a "Green Wood Sonic Totem"...I nicknamed the piece Scourge, but that's beyond the point. The point is that I ended another cat fight.
Yeah, another cat fight. Amy doesn't like how she feels worthless compared to her counterpart, who envies her for getting not just one Sonic, but two Sonics to easily spend time with her.
I was easily able to get them to cool down once I mentioned a problem Rarity might be having. ...Any time now. "Girls, OMGoodness, stop!" Even with my voice it sounded weird. "Rarity might be in trouble and I'm bringing you two and Big Knuckles. ...Also the crusader wagon. ...And whipped cream, but the last part is unrelated. Rarity needs us!"
The two glanced past me, but was caught off guard by with wind whipping their quills behind them while Knuckles rocked the wagon. "B. Shadow, how fast are you going?!"
"I dunno, but don't look down!" I replied as we ran up a waterfall, three of the party of four in the wagon. Both Amys hugged Knuckes in sudden fear as the mentioned Echidna flashed the readers a smirk and a wink. After all, chicks dig impossible water running.
Meanwhile Fausticorn tried burning the fan fiction, but its dark dislike powers repelled her flamethrower. "Where are the Admins?!" the book opened up as words filled the void around the goddess. "Oh daughter, ITS IN MY EYES!!!"
As soon as our heroes broke through two windows and brought pizza at the newly established Canterlot Carousel, all the "Princess Dress" were replaced by "Rarity's Royal Regalia" and many more designs. Mobians, ponies, and the few humans were walking around trying dresses on.
"Hey, Ms. Rarity," a blonde human asked, holding up a Mobian version of the dress based off Princess Celestia. "Do you have a taller, slimmer version of this?"
Rarity smirked up at a frowning Sassy Saddle, "Of course, darling." Their eyes met again, "We don't normally take much account of humans, but I made sure to remember this time around. They're over by the dressing rooms."
Brony Shadow starred up at Sassy, "Bitch level going down, down, and gone. Well, looks like the problem resolved itself." Looking back, he noticed Knuckles checking himself out in the mirror, in front of him, both Amys got in each others face. In fact, I couldn't tell you who was who from the identical Celestia dresses and angry faces they wore.
"This can't be good," Rarity said behind me. "Who's going to pay for the broken glass?!"
I slowly turned around at the glaring fashionistas. Apparently the two made up, but now I had to deal with two angry mares... one taller than a Shadow. "Don't look at me, I followed the pizza idea!"
"So you're paying for the pizza stains?" Sassy Saddle pointed over to an empty and very greasy pizza box with a dress laying on it. A fat pony with thin legs let out a belch before looking for a Princess Dress.
An aged blue pony with a grey mane and aerial ace helmet cutiemark slowly trotted into the unusually dim yet still whiter that which chamber of Dr. Eggman Code Name: "Hard Boiled".
"In fact, we were expecting a successful mission," Hard Boiled said, turning in his chair to face the old pegasus. "We were all planning on giving you a welcome back party-" Behind him, a fabulous blonde Eggman and a Biker Eggman blocked his only exit. "-but you need to be in a welcoming mood for that party."
The lights took a green tint as heavy metal footsteps and chattering teeth came near, a deep voice straight from the deepest reaches of Tartarus growling. The original Robotnik known as "Big Mouth" around his counterparts came into view, passing the two racing Eggmen. Wind Rider slowly turned his head, watching as him and Snively walked to the front of the room and sat on a seat two robots prepared next to Hard Boiled. "Wind Rider."
"Sir."
"You have failed to remove the Rainbow one- Snively, continue for me." Being in a world of ponies, it was no surprise that just saying 'rainbow' wasn't going to build intimidation.
The meek little man in green took out a thick packet and read, "You will not get a second chance, your family will be robotisized and work in our mines, and your granddaughter will either be trained for our goals or robotisized so that she will be scrapped for spare parts." He looked up from his script, "Sorry, but you don't have a say in the matter."
Wind Rider sighed, "I understand." His eyes met the whole Eggman council (Minus Nega) and he bowed, "Please, take me instead."
Big Mouth grinned, "Sure. We'll take you."
The Robotnik dubbed "Beach Ball" cleared his throat, "I hate to say this, but I'm not letting you do that."
All eyes were on him, "Real Man" Eggman left the room as he was aware of the circumstances.
"Wind Rider, by agreeing with Hitler 2.0 here, your family won't be spared," Wind Rider's eyes widened as he briefly turned back to Big Mouth, "In fact, he wouldn't force them to work, he can make them work against their will. You and your granddaughter's fate will be unknown. He might use you to spy on Sonic or scrap you for parts, or make you mine- I don't know!"
Big Mouth got up, his robot chicken flew out of the room. "How dare you defy me!"
"Its a triple hedgehog dare, you old relic!" Beach Ball shouted, striking Big Mouth with a homing attack similar to Sonic's. Big Mouth stood dazed for a moment before slowly turning, transforming his robot arm into a word.
Eggman "Loki" pointed and exclaimed, "How did you do that?!"
"I can beat Sonic in a foot race, logic being that if I took enough yoga and studied the blue pest then I would learn more than the rest of you! I'm running for council leader, baby!"
"You're running alright," Big Mouth attempted to impale Beach Ball, failing.
"Old man, you move like a tank! Fight like one!" he lifted his fists, hopping on his heels as if he was a boxer. "In fact, get your nephew to fight your battles. Snively, go beat up the fast meanie! I have a deep voice and a robot arm, I'm intimidating! Wake up, you fool!"
Big Mouth glared at Beach Ball- the code names not giving this moment the serious justice its demanding -before nodding at Snively, who replied with hand signals and head motion response. It wasn't working out, "Snively..."
"Oh, that canon! R-right, sir!" he replied, the little guy leaving the room. There was a tense pause before a laser beam shot Big Mouth a few times. Snively returned with a black cape that resembled a vampire's cloak. A smoking pistol in his hand.
"SNIVELY!" Big Mouth shouted in shock, his voice higher than usual.
"Yeah, you made this death too easy. I mean, you global robotisizer killed you," as he ranted, time seemed to slow as everyone looked at the body on the ground. Sparks flew from the holes as the head popped off, causing Snively to stop. "...Damn."
Suddenly, Snively was obliterated from behind. Holding a smoking laser canon to his side, Big Mouth replied to the ashes. "That, canon. A canon fit for a tank." He then repeated the action at Wind Rider, who was too destroyed to have ashes. "You have one life left, Mr. Robotnik."
Big Mouth left the chamber, leaving everyone mourning for-
"I-is he gone?" Snively asked through Cubot.
"Loki" Eggman laughed, "He is. Are you in the human world?"
"The trip was a success. Within ten or so operations, you will all have Eggman Empire Land," he reported. "Project E.E.L. for short."
"That's convenient," King stated. "Though, how do we explain Wind Rider's death?"
Magic Amy walked to the location of the "Sisterhoof Social" with Sweetie Belle on her back, both wearing matching purple bandannas and pink wristbands.
"What's taking Applebloom is long?" Sweetie asked, looking around at the happy ponies, humans, and mobians walking around with their younger sibling.
"I heard she was going to ask Knuckles to join her," she looked around, walking towards the starting line. "But neither of them have a sense in direct-" Everybody stopped as the ground began to shake when suddenly Applebloom's head popped out of the ground.
She looked up at her two friends, "Lil' help here?" The ground shook again as Big Knuckles emerged with Applebloom sitting in his open hand. Applebloom looked back down, "Is it too late to grab Big Mac?"
An odd looking red mare galloped past, crying.
"We... are lost." Knuckles stated as he looked around, "Hey Amy, have you seen the Sisterhoof Social?" The three girls pointed at the line that sibling began to line up at. "No seriously, I have no idea where it's at."
"Fillies and gentlemen!" a female voice exclaimed from the speakers. Looking at a stage, a tall and slim green hedgehog with a red suit and long green quills held up a microphone, "Welcome to the first annual multi-race Sisterhoof Social, I'm Breezie the Hedgehog, your announcer for today!" She checked her watch, "Everypony to your places in about ten minutes!"
"Found it!" Knuckles cheered as everyone around him groaned.
"Indeed you did," Breezie said with a sigh. "Ten minutes! I repeat, ten minutes!"
Over on a hill, two figures stood. I could go into details about silhouettes and dramatic poises, but it was obvious.
"Loki, what are you doing?" 'Beach Ball' Robotnik asked.
"Eggman? Nonono no." The tall egg shaped doctor clad in a red and green luchador wrestler costume replied as his yellow cape flapped in the wind. "I am... EL GRAN GORDO!!!"
"I am... waiting for death to take me, now."
El Gran Gordo put his hand on the smaller doctor, "I offered a matching costume."
"And I told you no Gordo!" Robotnik replied, knocking the hand off him and walking closer to the location of the social. "Without Sonic and two harmony ponies here, we can take hostages!"
"...or we can say we failed our mission while having fun, Mi hombre."
Robotnik stopped, turning his head towards El Gran Gordo. Their eyes locked as their mustaches twitched in some unknown language.
"Fine. But, we're taking as many little fillies as possible." He turned to look at four robots standing behind the Eggman. "Scratch, Bokkun, Decoe, Orbot. You four are seen as the superior robots... except for Bokkun. We need his eyes in the skies while the rest of you grab hostages." The three robots soluted while the floating black on lowered his head.
"Attention! Bokkun, you are amazing. You are the best flying robot I've ever made." The little robot regained morale is it solluted, "I've never made another one of each of you because nobot can replace the original!" Gran Gordo rose his fist like a rocket, shaking before it reached the sky, "Scratch is smarter than his Robotnik, Decoe is best skilled in evasion, and Orbot is a made leader!" He got closer to them, handing out huge butterfly nets... without a net. "Never give up, because El Gran Gordo believes in you! Now scram before I turn all of you into scrap."
"Sir, yes sir, doctor!" they replied as they ran off.
Robotnik was tempted to clap before Eggman added, "Luckily, I'm not always El Gran Gordo..."
"The race is about to begin! Everyone to the finish- What is THAT?!" Breezie exclaimed, pointing at the pair practically close to her spot next to the starting line.
A white gloved hand pulled her microphone, "Hola, seniorita. I'm El Gran Gordo," Eggman slipped a white slip of paper into her hand as he took his place.
"Uh... um... OK..." Breezie studdered, lost and confused.
Luckily Mrs. Harshwhinny was around with a backup mic. She tapped the mic before shouting, "Ladies...and gentlecolts... In position! ...3...2...1... GO!!"
As soon as everyone ran, those ahead quickly found that their younger sibling was nowhere in sight and slowed down to find them.
"Bokkun, tell the others to be more subtle!" Robotnik shouted over his radio before a hammer sent him skyward.
"Little brother!" El Gran Gordo slid to a stop, not running into a spiked fist waiting for him as he redirected his attention to bring Amy into a head lock.
"Let 'er go!" Applebloom demanded as she began kicking the wrestler. She stopped and ran off to kick a net away from Sweetie Belle. "Sweetie can ya pick up that there hammer?"
The small unicorn looked over at the pink and yellow weapon, nudging it closer to Amy with her magic. Gordo grabbed the hammer, blocking Knuckle's attack and knocking him out. "Taco Tuesday..." Knuckles said woozily before falling.
A blue mobian pony hopped out some bushes, her head on the other side of the portal as Sonata searched for tacos. She "saw" Eggman, thinking he was selling tacos as she pulled Scratch behind her.
The chicken robot let out a high pitched scream as she ran towards El Gran Gordo. "What the-" he was tossed over her head as mentioned head returned and saw the lack of tacos, but found a luchador with a robot chicken twitching on him and Amy beating them sense less.
Before anything could be said, Robotnik landed on Amy and got her mostly stuck in the ground as the three got back up and ran off.
"Hurry along Tails Boy!" Sonic Man shouted... despite slowing down from over exertion.
"Quit calling me that!" the orange stallion in yellow complained. "You told me Princess Twilight would be here!"
"We don't save princesses, we save crazy fan girls and cute animals!"
"That sounds like her pegasi friends," Flash "Tails Boy" Sentry commented dryly.
He was cut from his thoughts as he was pushed aside from two speeding fat men. One wrestler and the easily recognizable Dr. Robotnik.
As soon as Sonic Man reached the marshmallow chunking area he shouted, "Aw come on!!!"
"Come on, they would look cute together!" Sonata gushed as they passed the angry Sonic wannabe and his sidekick. "He's even wearing a tails costume!"
'That's looks creepily identical to Tails Doll...' Amy thought as she ran with Sweetie Belle. "But, Tails is with Cosmo and that pony is blue and orange. Those two colors clash with purple."
Sweetie added, "I heard that she was in a relationship with somepony already. Rarity told me."
"I think I know who~" Pinkie said, Maud standing on her back as she slowed down and just as fast sped past them. "Bye!"
Knuckles let out a whistle, "I'm surprised Sonic isn't here! I mean, look at Pinkie go!"
In Canterlot, all three Sonics were in a meeting with the princesses and world leaders.
Their spines tingled as they squirmed in their seats, but they had dedicated friends keeping them in place... though to be fair, all Sonics had to stay in their seats lest the Bunnies stun them or Cream guilt trip a Sonic for leaving the other Sonics, added to the fact that they were classified as "By blood or destiny or retired or yet-to-be royalty" and needed to be in this meeting.
"But I gotta go fast..." one Sonic would mutter under his breath.
"Even Shadow is here!" Knuckles added.
"More like his clones," Amy clearified. "If Sonic was here, this race might be safer! Look at all this danger!"
The Sonics screamed internally as they shakily sipped their tea with an uneasy smile and listened to Celestia talk about multi-species law and peace relations very slowly.
Little Sonic got out of his seat, only to meet Cream and Twilight's glares. He slowly got back in his seat and signaled for another cookie.
"Such a gentlecolt," Twilight whispered as Cream and Cheese nodded in agreement.
The eggmen pasted Pinkie, covered in mud and slightly beat up, but still running. Robotnik cleaned his glasses, looking at his "big brother", startled as El Gran Gordo was somehow cleaning himself as he ran. "How the-"
"Oh my god, I'm running so fast! We're the fastest thing alive! I, Dr. Eggman, is winning a race!"
Celestia looked up from the vibrating table to the far end with the Sonics with their twitching eyes and unnerving smiles as they tried to sip tea from shaking tea cups that spilled tea all over the tablecloth. All of the world leaders turned their attention as well, a few curious, a few rolling their eyes, and many angry. Celestia rose a hoof, "Sonics? Are you alright?"
"P-peachy," Knight Sonic said.
"N-never better!" King Sonic added. Next to him, Little Sonic was silently screaming.
Luna stood up, "We propose we take a five minute recess. Shining Armor looks to be tired and we can't blame him."
Everyone else voiced their agreement as Princess Celestia rose, "Very well. Ten minute break for lunch."
The table bounced and three chairs fell back as the Sonics ran off, leaving a cloud of dust in their wake.
On stage, the two doctors got into a position on stage where Dr. Robotnik would home in on Knuckles and El Gran Gordo would body slam Amy. When this happened, Amy knocked the first doctor off Knuckles before being flattened by the other. Gordo quickly got up, tossing Knuckles out of the "ring" on stage and threw his brother into the air for an overhead homeing attack on the recovering hedgehog.
"Ay-yi-yi!" Gran Gordo shouted, dodging Amy's hammer as it flew pasted his head.
Sweetie and Applebloom shared a glance before turning to the crowd, both shouting, "Run!"
A sillouette appeared, a heroic stance, "Did somepony say run?!"
Knuckles reached out, "Sonic Man, no! Don't be a hero!"
"LASER!"
Three cyan lasers flew above, hitting one of the speakers to reveal three Sonics sliding down the pole they landed on before bouncing off with their fists back.
Caliburn stared at the computer screen... peeved. He's trying to understand why the author of one of his favorite stories keeps adding characters, promise action but can't deliver, make the mysterious character obvious before tossing him into the main cast, put in some bad OC characters, and-
The screen went black.
Caliburn looked around to find Little Sonic with the cord, pointing to a sign he made stating "TEAM MEETING. Like, now." in marker.
Before he could rebuke, his handle was held and he was moved into Amy's side of the hut-house-miniature pony castle. When all three Sonics got to their seats, Caliborn between the Little Prince and King Sonics. King Sonic Boom stood, "I bet you're all wondering why you're here-"
"Instead of your side," a Amy added, "We just swept!"
"-so we'll cut to the chase." He turned to the slightly shorter Knight Sonic.
Sonic Boom sat as Knight Sonic stood, holding some papers. "Sorry, guys, gals, everyone. We have to force you out." There wasn't a response. "Also we're coming out of the closet to say Princess Sally is in a secret location with more housing than we can offer. We can't really keep it a secret anymore because Cream needs to be reunited with her mother aaand a swarm of changelings are attacking their headquarters. So Twilight arranged a sky carriage to take us to New Knothole Mobotropolis, but be prepared for a fight."
Mighty raised a finger, "Couldn't we call in the Shadow Army?"
"The Shadow Nation would need compensation, being a hired variety of G.U.N. agents, assassins, hitmen, mercs, and so on of Shadow clones. Due to recent repairs- I'm looking at you Big Knuckles -we can request the misfit Shadows, they're usually free."
"But vhat's ze catch?" Antoine added, gaining some murmurs from the crowd.
Some are careless, can't control their powers, too smart too slow, won't listen to orders... "Uh... one changeling can take on ten weaker Misfit Shadows?" Little Sonic held up a white board stating "B.S." ...probably meaning the Shadow clone.
"What about trained Misfit Shadows?" Magic Amy asked.
"Having them fully trained is a rare occurrence. Like Brother... uh... Pony Shadow."
Silver raised a hand but spoke once eye contact was made, "When the battle is over, can we still live in Ponyville?"
Metal Sonic flapped his wings once, stabilizing his flight as he sent volleys of lasers back at changelings. "Brony, toss Heat Seek!" The pink and black Shadow clone ran towards a shorter Shadow clone trying to eat a rock. The rock was tossed with a "Forgive me, Maud," bouncing off a changeling.
Heat Seek Shadow teleported inside the changeling, making it break apart from the inside. "Boom!"
"Boom bugs!"
"Boom bugs!"
Agent 343 Shadow holstered his Glock, catching the changeling horn to finish his shoddily made assault rifle. "Eureka! The leftover magic in this horn is working like a charm! I just need to harvest a second horn to replace the ammunition!" He then kicked Heat Seek Shadows rock at another changeling, making it explode with the overcooked clone's teleportation. "Hey guys, isn't it a bit odd that Heat has the most accurate replica of King Shadow's voice?"
A Metal Shadow made from the spare parts and scrap of its brothers started firing lasers from his second head, which then beeped a response. The body's owner brought the head to his head, "I know S2, I do find that a bit funny." Several beeps. S3HO slammed S2-H2 into the head of a charging changeling. "No, we're not after any damn emeralds, S2! Get with the program!" Low beeps. "No, you just weren't listening!"
Brony Shadow slid and bucked a changeling and Heat Seek's rock before either could hit the robot Shadow, "Will you guys just focus on one mission?!"
"I do believe I am sorry," he replied, sniping some changelings out of the air. Despite perfect aim, neither shots hit their entended mark. "Oh, S2, we'll never get that triple headshot!" Beeping. "Let YOU aim? Last time that happened you lost your body and I-"
"QUIET!" the pony-themed Shadow shouted, veins popping. "You shot them down; keep it up!"
"Ur cuntrxon iz discgas ta hedheg cend!" Agent 343 Shadow couldn't fast enough to avoid being knocked aside by Shaydew. "NOT FEST ENOFF!"
Metal Sonic's claw made a clink noise against his face. "Who let the meme escape?"
"My bad!" A gray Shadow called up before bumping and knocking S3HO over. "Sorry!"
"Help, we have fallen and cannot get up."
The distraction would've been enough for a changeling advantage over the hedgehogs but the unholy noise met their ears as Sonata swung her bat over he head, startling a changeline to fire its charged magic into another changeling which almost hit another but missing added power to one of the destroyed defense turrets that happened to point directly at Sonata but failed to hit her as one Changeling tried to attacker from above and behind. The hind hoof of the changeling hit Heat Seek Shadow in the face hard enough for his rock to fly to a changeling near him, getting lodged in one of its holes. The changeling could not stop himself from expanding and exploding from the Shadow's forced entery via Chaos Control. The other changelings feared for their lives, avoiding the rock at they got into range of another broken turret that filled them with bullets.
The sole survivor of Sonata's attack knew he wouldn't last long as he declared, "We... just... wanted... LOOOOOOOOOOVE! bleh."
Brony Shadow neeled at the corpse, closing it's eyes, "Guys... uh... What would happen if a Shadow left the army?"
The gray Derp Shadow frowned, trying to look serious but his bad eye wasn't helping, "King Shadow wouldn't miss us and Advisor Shadow would track us down for our superior hedgehog carpentry."
"We did successfully build a sun dial..." the Shadow agreed.
S3HO hobbed over, "You want to control the changelings, don't you?"
"Well, yeah! I'm pretty sure I can lovingly rule some changelings!" he boasted, "Think about it: We control these bugs with love their Queen doesn't have, snag some DNA, and creat a new breed of Shadow clones!"
"Y- You really mean that?" The Shadows looked back at a scared changeling slowly edging close to them. "Can you rule us with love?"
Brony Shadow smiled, and replied in a calm tone, "Well, I can try... um..."
"Thorax."
Sonata frowned, "That's your name? That would be like name your kids Spleen and Ribcage! You poor, poor thing!"
Brony Shadow nodded, "Despite the weird name, I suggest you grab some bugs, stop this fight, and we'll go look for a place to colonize!"
Trumpets and one tuba sounded as the arrival of Twilight and the Sonics showed up... for a battle lacking changelings. Sonic Boom's communicator went off with a message from Sally.
Twilight announced soon after, "Alright, this our first stop before we join the New Shadow Hive to assist in a changeling revolution against Chrysalis."
The doors to New Knothole Mobotropolis opened, allowing Cream and Cheese to reunite with Vanilla, for Blaze the Cat to reunite with Silver, and the exchange of Mobians.
"...and so it is from sheer speed and determination to not drown that I can run on water." Sonic finished, "Now I'd like to hand the mic to Twilight Sparkle who is going to share exposition- I mean share her findings on the Magic of Friendship!"
Hands and hooves clapped as Twilight took the podium as Little Sonic with Spike set up the projector.
Twilight's speech was more tame, talking more about her connection with her friends rather than stroking the ego of a specific race of fast beings. She spoke highly of Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom and how it changed many lives from Applejack returning to her farm, Fluttershy's newfound love for animals, unlocking Twilight's magic, Pinkie's inspiration to want more in life, and Rarity's rock farming skills. It is what connected them and-
She paused, squinting her eyes and blinking before resuming her speech.
"Are you sure it was Starlight Glimmer?" Sonic asked.
Little Sonic nudged him, holding out his small whiteboard with a surprisingly well-drawn picture of Starlight despite his limited colors.
"OK, so I guess I did see her, too."
Twilight frowned, "Why didn't you say anything?!"
"There are times where I think I see two Bon Bons and three Trixies. I didn't want to be rude!"
RUDE TO PONY STALIN? Little Sonic wrote.
Twilight rolled her eyes, "Look, we can look into Starlight once the girls arrive but for now, we can discuss the treaty with the New Shadow Hive in my castle."
Little Sonic got into a fighting stance as Spike exclaimed, "Maybe we should invite Starlight?!"
Sonic chuckled, "Silly Spike, why should we- Oh."
On the magic map Starlight was tossing Silver around the room with her magic, "You ruined the surprise, you IDIOT! It's no use! It's no use! It's no use! Tell me 'it's no use' one more Celestia-" Her eye moved to where Everyone else stood before tossing Silver into another wall and teleporting to Fluttershy's throne with her hooves on the map and a smug look on her face.
After the silence was broken by a Sonic sigh, Starlight stood up.
"Weeeeell?"
Spike narrowed his eyes, "What are you doing?"
"What am I doing?"
Silver moaned, "Traveling through time..."
"Traveling through time?"
Twilight tensed, "Are you...?"
"...yes," she finally said, opening a hole in time, surrounding herself in a protective barrier before disappearing through the hole. A scroll she was holding fell to Spike's feet.
Twilight grabbed the scroll, "Little Sonic, grab some friends for when we get back. Knight Sonic, Silver, you both will join Spike and I."
Silver got up, "It's no u- I- I mean, why is Spike joining us?"
"To be the first time traveling dragon and to record more examples on why you should never mess with time." She replied, charging the magic spell in the scroll.
Silver and Twilight floated before quickly grabbing their buddies. Sonic fixed his tie as his feet met road, "Clouds... why did it have to be clouds?!"
Twilight looked around. Dead quiet. No pegasi in sight, no Starlight, not even sunlight! The sky was dark, no star shone in the sky.
Spike shivered, "Twilight? Where and WHEN are we?"
"The Flight Camp in Cloudsdale, the first time Rainbow Dash performed her Sonic Rainboom..."
Silver looked around, "How could she have done this?"
Sonic looked at the flickering street lamps, keeping the area visible. "Are you sure it isn't night time?"
The princess looked him directly in the eyes, "Rainbow mentioned a celebration dinner under a visible moon after showing her family her new cutiemark. Look around."
"YES, LOOK AROUND. LOOK INTO OUR DARKNESS. LOOK AT THE ECLIPSE ETERNAL!"
Everyone looked to the booming voices at a visage of the amalgamation of what was once King Sombra, Time Eater, Solaris, and now Nightmare Moon. The new addition seemed to be a major drawback as Sombra and the Nightmare fought for control.
"ENOUGH! WE WILL HAVE EQUILIBRIUM!" Starlight's voice boomed, taking over as the face of this evil. "TWILIGHT SPARKLE. SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. Silver... AS UNEXPECTED AS IT IS, I HAVE GAINED MORE POWER THAN I'VE EVER DREAMED! EVERYPONY WILL BE EQUAL, EVEN IF I HAVE TO RECREATE THE UNIVERSE!"
"Hey, Glimmer, you only have control of time, the sun, the moon, and darkness! Changing the universe is impossible!" Silver shouted, bringing his fist up, "In fact-"
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY IT! I WILL END YOU!" She screamed.
"It's no use!"
Spike whimpered behind Twilight, "Silver, no..."
Silver was lifted up into the air by Starlight's dark magic, "Do it! There is only clouds up here so... IT'S NO USE!"
Nightmare Solaris Glimmer smirked as she tossed Silver into the road so hard it opened a hole in time to suck everyone else through with him. "Wait. Did he just play us? I knew integrating the puny unicorn was a- Shut up. No. Following Starlight back into a time-locked place was bad. It was worth it. No. It wasn't."
Within the dark, dank, and metal city smelling of oil, smoke, and gasoline a sudden source of fresh air opened before closing and resuming the reign of air so bad it blocked out the sun in eternal shadow broken by buzzing lightbulbs and flickering street lamps.
Sonic the Werehog fell face first, followed by Silver landing on his back. Now, Twilight could've been the elegant one, hovering down safely but Spike had to ruin that, falling on her and knocking the air out of them both as they landed on a familiar crystal table that wasn't there before.
Sonic got up, letting the others simply fall to the ground before squirming, "WHAT IS THIS AIR?! I CAN HARDLY BREATH!"
"No... How?!" Sonic exclaimed, ignoring Twilight's coughing as she got up. "WHY ARE WE IN ROBOTROPOLIS?!"
Spike frowned, looking at the junkyard city around him, the air barely breathable and no life in sight. Anything that wasn't made of metal and rust was the crystal map, the four of them, and the dirt they stood on.
"Who. Are. You?" A robotic voice came from behind. Turning, you would assume it was the original Metal Sonic but close inspection showed... Well, you can't make metal pretty. His jaw shifted upwards in what resembled a smile, "Lord. Robotnik. We. Found. Life."
Dr. Ivo Robotnik gave the first smile in decades but it was the smile of a hunter that thought the hunt was lost before hope returned, "Another hedgehog and a pony? An alicorn, even! Yesss, good. I thought we converted them all." He turned his head to the arrival of King Sombra, the clinking of his metal hooves were never missed nor were the smoke billowing from his head and optics. "Sombra get your troops. Sonic, kill them all and bring me the pony!"
Over the radio the voice of his ire reported, "There's a baby dragon, sir."
"What of it? I only want her magic; not a puny reptile."
"Yes, sir, Robu-bu-bu," the voice sputtered as a result of errors in his program, the sputter would never leave like the memories. "Robotnik, sir!"
The roboticized Sonic's optics flashed red before he swiftly circled the group, sizing them up before dashing up the nearest mountain of metal, shaking a metal claw. "Give up now."
"Or what?" Wolf Sonic demanded.
"Bro, we can juice and jam or we gonna rock n roll." He leaped, charging a spin attack that got interrupted by a stretched punch. "So NOT cool!"
"I know! I mean, did I REALLY talk like that?" The good Sonic demanded, interrupting spins and blocking kicks as the others watched. Wolf Sonic put no effort while the metal one began sparking, "Well, it's not worse that my Sonic Heroes phase."
Robot Sonic leaped back, "You're good but can you beat Super Sonic?"
"There's chaos emeralds here? Really?" Silver asked nobody in particular. "I assumed they would be in constant use to keep a city like this running!"
The bad Sonic sent a signal, leading the real Metal Sonic to arrive, merging with him as his rounded quills gained longer, sharper edges and a more barbed look while thrusters were added to his body with white twin racing stripes came up from his optics, making them resemble a metal blue Darkspine Sonic. "Super Metal Sonic: Active. I'm about to clean your clock, time speedster."
Wolf Sonic rolled his eyes, dodging and countering their attempts with minimal damage, "Quit it, you're reminding me of how I skipped breakfa- That's not the line."
Silver hovered towards them, "Either I'm more famous than realized or it's the fact that there are two Twilight Sparkles occupying the same junkyard."
Trumpets sounded in the distance but the quick pace almost resembled helicopter blades. Rumbling followed as Twilight gasped then coughed from the smog. An army of metal dragons, metal ponies, and metal any other dangerous lifeforms; mobian, monster, or man charged at them but what caught Twilight off guard was the Metal Celestia and Two-headed Robot Nightmare Moon/Young Luna next to her.
While holding the tiny Sonic in one hand, Sonic the Werehog turned and smirked. "Look! A real fight!"
"This fight is re-r-real! Let me pun-p-pu-punch you in the fa-fa-fa-face!" the robotic nuisance shouted, sparking. "Shut it, Hedgehog, the big boys are playing." He sparked again, "You may-may-may know everything-ing-ing I-I'm going-ing to do-"
"But that's not gonna help, cuz you don't know anything I'm going to do!" Sonic slammed Super Metal Sonic into the ground, "Strange, isn't it?!"
"Super Metal Sonic! I command you to bring me the beast! He will replace you, soon enough." Dr. Robotnik ordered, patting his metal crow.
Snively Robotnik walked into the room, paused, winded his leg's key, and continued walking up to his uncle who roboticisized him without remorse. "Sir. Our scanners. Found time. Magic in. The crystal. Mapthattheybroughtwiththemandifwe'reluckywecancontroltime."
"Yeah. Yeah. Go back to bringing me coffee."
"But that. Is Sombra's. Job, sir."
Robotnik turned his seat, glaring, "Get out of my face, Snively. Your impudence never fails to annoy me."
As the meek robot left the room, he opened communications to Metal Starlight Glimmer on a private channel, "Is it. Ready my. Loyal subject?"
"Screw your bolts; I'm controlling time!" she snapped back.
"Are you. Kidding me?!"
"Nah. Just hurry up; we only get one shot. After all, magic is a rare energy source here." Glimmerbot said before closing communications.
"Glimmerbot, the army has been dispatched!" Sunset Shimmerbot informed, rolling up to her partner. "Why are we not joining?"
"We need to assist Master Snively Robotnik!"
"What is he doing, now?"
Glimmerbot's voice rose a pitch, the only sign of her joy, "He will control time, allowing us to create a timeline where magic never died and... and... and something!"
Shimmerbot looked towards the monitor, "Princess Twilight, Spike?! A white hedgehog? ...and a wolfman?"
"They showed up with a crystal map." Glimmerbot pointed, "The source of their time magic!"
"Well, it's better than some telephone box..." she paused, "Why are we giving this power to Snively?"
"We both know it's either the two of us fighting to the death or Snively," Glimmerbot replied in her original pitch.
Shimmerbot's eyes flickered, "A pony, a dragon, a hedgehog, and a wolf. There's four of them and two of us, four if we count Snively and Trixie."
"Eh, he wouldn't make it fast enough," Glimmerbot said with a shrug. "Open the hatch, Charles!"
The robot head of Chuck the Hedgehog, guardian of Sonic the Hedgehog, was mounted on a metal rod. "As you wish..."
The door to their bunker opened as Sunset and Starlight transmitted their halves of a code to unlock a closet holding Uncle Chuck's body.
"It was nice working with you," Shimmerbot said before the hatch sealed itself shut.
Silver tossed robots away as the machines surrounded them, Spike's enhanced flames cleansed the air as it burned and melted metal beings in the fire's wake, and Twilight struggled to fight the machine version of her mentor and her sister.
"Fight me, mortal!" Luna Moon shouted in stereo while Celestia fired lasers against Twilight's shield. "Your light will be put out like a breeze against the flames of a candle!" Spike fired a fireball at the princesses who were replaced by a robot Cadenza and Shining Armor, making things harder for her.
Spike screamed, "Twilight, they're not real! Just copies!"
Silver tossed the royalty away as he got near, "That's not true Spike. In this world is where they lost control of themselves, becoming slaves o steel. So it's either us or become them."
Sonic reverted to normal as Spike's flame brought in the sunlight through a small hole that sealed itself, reverting him back in his Werehog form. "Sorry, but, surrender isn't an option if it means working for Robuttnik." He thought about it, "Wow, that just feels aliens after so many years..."
The Metal Sonic froze and sparked, his eyes cycling between red and green, "Robuttnik..." He sparked again, "Oh good, you've regained free will."
Sonic stared at the other Sonic, "What?"
He sparked again, "Wh... what have I become...?"
"Yeah, this is too sudden NOT to be a trap."
Super Metal Sonic turned to Twilight, "Yo, pony!" Twilight turned from her shield defending her as Spike freaked out about killing people. "There's six ponies being led by a Twilight Sparkle, embedded in their cores is the Elements of Harmony. Go wild."
Twilight frowned, "Or we can hop back onto our map, activate the time spell, and look for another timeline that would allow us to defeat an overpowered Starlight Glimmer Sombra Nightmare Moon Time God thing."
On top of the map stood robot Starlight Glimmer sharing a look with a robot Sunset Shimmer who looked at the armies, roboticized gods, and the four tourists looking back at them.
Silence fell, only broken by a tumbling tin can, whirring, and quiet beeps.
Spike and Silver held off the unorganized stampede of machines as Twilight fought Glimmerbot and Shimmerbot for control of the map, every landmark disappeared and reappeared under their hooves as electricity fought and absorbed magic. Hooves and horns collided as Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria Prime held nothing back against a crazed mare of steel and a desperate mare of iron who should have stayed at school.
"This is all your fault, princess!" Glimmerbot spat as she regained her balance on the map. "You just had to mess with time!"
"No, it's your fault for screwing with time," Twilight replied. "Well, technically not this you since Sonic's worlds merged with ours before we met but assuming those worlds were branching timelines then a single world ran by robots would've appeared and taken over so I never followed my map arrive in your town."
Silver added his two cents, "And since robot Twilight doesn't have wings, that further supports the deviation of the path further since she's not a princess here."
"Good eye, Silver!"
A giant blue fist launched the two robot ponies from the map as Sonic climbed on with Silver and Spike. The scroll hovered above, creating a force field. Sonic waved, returning to normal as they floated, "Let's get out of here!"
The robot Elements of Harmony pawed at the magic wall, Pinkie Prime visibly frowning with a sadder Sweetiebot on her back.
Before leaving Twilight shouted, "Remember! Magic is nothing without honesty, loyalty, kindness, generosity, and laughter!"
The map vanished but in its place were six floating cyborgs, whose magic spread far and wide with various effects of either giving everybody their freedom or returning them to normal or almost normal.
Robotnik watched the screen as the light flooded his vision and chamber, "WHAT IS HAPPENING?!"
Sitting on a throne of various metals, lights, and wires as an egg-shaped man turned into stone colder than his heart. The world could never be the same but it would be rebuilt better and stronger than before led by Princess Celestia and President Nightmare Luna.
"That was a bit cheesy," Silver commented.
Sonic rolled his eyes, "And the magical land of colorful talking ponies and animals isn't?"
Silver sighed, "No, our universe ending so that a pony universe could begin is ridiculous; Twilight's statement-"
Twilight groaned, "We get it; you're a critic. At least I got their Elements of Harmony working before we left instead of leaving it to rot. I can imagine better situations like a war between Equestria and normal-yet-still-dark Sombra's Crystal Empire or Discord ruling Equestria. I hate to imagine what it must feel like..."
Spike hugged Twilight, "Well, at least you didn't kill trapped ponies..."
Sonic frowned, "I doubt this will help but from what I remember from Dad and Uncle Chuck's stories, you would be doing them a favor."
Spike nodded, "It doesn't but thanks." The group fell back in dark Cloudsdale, suddenly frozen in a purple crystal that slowed their descent.
The three headed form of... whatever we name this thing loomed over them. The elegant form of King Solaris Sombra hovered to the right as Nightmare Moon with glowing blue eyes as razor sharp teeth hovered to the left as Nightmare Time Eater. Both being branched off a corrupt Starlight Glimmer like wings as the three fought to stay together and fall apart.
"We will be with you shortly!" Starlight shouted, "You fools! I am the eclipse!"
"We never agreed on that. You are nothing, mortal." Sombra stated in a calm tone as light shone from him instead of smoke.
Nightmare Time Eater kept pulling, "NO! We are the new rulers of Equestria! Nay, the world!" She let out a feral scream, "Pull harder, Sombra!"
"Our revenge is at hoof!" Starlight begged.
"No. Our beef is with Celestia before Twilight and company found the Elements." Solaris Sombra replied peacefully yet still pulling against Starlight. "You already made a couple of timelines that were not even close to a destroyed Celestia."
"But you led the crystal ponies on a war path or Robotnik killed everyone including himself within doomed immortality running on depleting fuel sources!" Starlight countered.
"Celestia won and the Twilight your fighting made sure Celestia won in that timeline!" Nightmare replied.
"So we have a reason for revenge, right?! Twilight makes sure Celestia wins but we don't want either to succeed!" Starlight continued to shrink to normal size as she begged.
The group sat on the crystal, watching their foe self-destruct. Silver shared his notes with Twilight, "So this fight will make sure you and your friends never meet to get the Elements, Rainboom or not. You six will still have a connection but there's no object keeping everyone together."
"And I would either still be in my library or alone with Spike renting my tree library as a home," Twilight added.
"Discord takes over preventing Cadence's Wedding with chaos in place which doesn't give the changelings a target..."
"Tirek still escapes..."
Sonic got up, "So when do yours truly fall into the picture?" The duo groaned, scribbling as Sonic hopped onto the clouds. "Alright, question: Who do I have to beat up in order to send Nightmare Moon back to the moon, King Sombra to Hell, and allow Solaris to unexist again?"
Starlight quickly shot the group into another timeline.
Nightmare Solaris Time Sombra reformed, glaring with four mismatched eyes, "Was that really necessary? I was aching for a fight..."
"Well, you don't care about how I feel!" Starlight snapped back.
"Exactly. Your origin and motivations are foolish and not worth caring about." the dark being replied as the pony fumed.
Sonic fell on his face... again, coughing up dirt as Silver floated slowly to the ground. When Sonic sat up his jaw dropped, "Silver, we've gone too far! It's Ancient Rome! Or Greece! Or Italy- Very old someplace!"
Silver chuckled as he pointed to a statue of an obese Little Sonic wearing a crown, bigger than the Discord statue supporting it from below. "Nope, this is another alternate timeline."
Sonic eyed the statue up and down then back at himself, "Dang, he really let himself go!"
"Then why don't you?!" Apple Jack snapped, getting whipped in response.
"You WILL obey your king!" Manic shouted, tossing a stick at the wrong pony.
"What did I do wrong?!" Derpy panicked, speeding the chariot. "I don't know what went wrong!"
"I'd say chili dogs and waaay too many onion rings!" Our Sonic said, knocking the dough ball off the chariot and tossing Manic while Silver detached the harnesses with his powers. "Go, freedom! Do whatever free ponies do!"
Maud ran up to fat Sonic, firing her party rock canon, "Eat banded gneiss, you fat lard! Haha!" She fired another decorated rock, propelling herself as she rode her canon far away.
"You don't see that every day, right Twilight?" Sonic turned then looked around.
"Spike and Twilight didn't show up with us, catch up," Silver replied tossing the chariot at Sonia, which was deflected by Scourge, that landed behind her without wheels. Trixie got on, revving it's nonexistent engine as she sped away with Snips and Snails at her sides. "Now that's physically impossible!"
Sonia smirk, hugging Scourge, "Oh, my dear, we need to send these interlopers to the dungeon with Robotnik's rebels. Can you help us, pleeease?"
"Your wish is my command, Queen Sonia," Scourge replied. As he turned towards Silver, Sonia began playing her keytar, turning Scourge into Super Scourge... somehow.
Silver's heart stopped. Now, if he brought a chaos emerald; he could take on Scourge but without a powerup, he would need Sonic though seeing as Sonic is fighting Manic while the chubby one held him down... things didn't look good. "Sonic, we need to retreat!"
"Great! We're stuck in a dungeon in an alternate timeline with no Twilight to save us!" Silver cried, continuing his focus on the cell's bars. For all of his effort, not even a flicky could escape. "We're gonna die here!"
Sonic looked out of their tiny, barred window in the underground cell. He looked down to see his watch, reminding himself of the lack of wisp energy with him. He looked back out to the sun about to set.
Silver turned to Sonic, taking a break. "Why- No. How are you not scared? You look so calm over there and yet here I'm worrying if our friends could find us with these timeline alterations!" Silver stared in silent panic at Sonic, who shrugged in response. "That's it?!"
"It's not the first time I've been in prison," he replied, "In fact, I was in a cell surrounded by water on Earth; this is nothing."
"I don't know-"
"I've been on another Earths, one where Shadow killed me, been rewritten in a Genesis Wave multiple times with Equestria somehow tying everything together as a peaceful future." Sonic got up and began stretching for a bit, "So I apparently have two or three moms and a robot dad, my dead siblings are alive but we're currently stuck with evil versions of them, and we're dealing with the worst sci-fi trope: time travel; so what's new?"
Steel doors slid open as Scourge walked in, tossing a pony into the next cell. Scourge locked the cell door, walking towards Silver's Cell, "What the He-"
"Doctor Ivo Robotnik will not give up! He will not surrender to the oppression of the Hedgehogs!" The pony shouted before being dog-piled by her other pony cell mates. She somehow stuck out her muzzle, "The Eggman Militia will not be silenced!"
Scourge turned to the pony, "Morning. Your whole cell will endure the Sonic trials. Interrupt me again and I'll send your cell mates to the Manic machine while you watch unblinking in the front row seat. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR YOU LITTLE-"
"You cannot break our shells!"
A green-maned pony with small, black glasses vaped in the pony's face. "I vote you shut up before things get worse."
The top pony leaped as the group got off the new mare, landing an impressive drop kick. The rest of the ponies made a ring as she was bucked all around the cell high and low.
The pony next to vape pony cried out in a high pitched voice, "Oh no, it's worse!"
Scourge smirked, "As I was saying; what took you guys so long?! First I'm hangin' with a buncha weirdos now I've been stuck in a world where your fat ass rules like an iron-weighted idiot! I don't care about revenge as long as you take me with you."
Sonic and Silver shared a glance with Sonic breaking their eye contact first, "And here I thought you were here to gloat about who's in jail, now!"
"Any world where I'm not worshiped or feared is a prison. I literally have to play kiss ass until I can get some magic instrument to fight back!" he replied, "And I know that this place will disappear with me inside it, unlike the other universes-"
There was a sudden flash of light as a pony in gold, red, and green armor appeared. The alicorn turned around, "Hello, my name is Zwilight Zparkle of the Zone Cops."
The cell door closed and locked as Scourge joined Sonic and Silver inside their cell, "Nope. Nope nope nope. Not this crap, again. I'm out."
Zwilight raised her visor, "Don't worry, I'm only here for Sonic and Silver. You can join us if you want; I'm just part of the Equestria division." She tapped a few buttons, leaving a portal generator on the ground, "Zonic the Zone Cop's affairs do not matter to me, just the ponies in these doomed alternate timelines and making sure you two are returned to the Twilight Sparkle and Spike of your zone."
Scourge narrowed his eyes, "I don't trust you."
"And I don't care," she replied cheerfully, freeing the ponies in the jail. "Not my department!"
Sonic transformed into his Werehog form, ripping the bars away. Before Silver could complain Scourge let out a frightened squeal.
Sonic deadpanned, "What? I'm not that-"
"The Zone Cop is over there!"
Zwilight gave off a sigh, typing something from a keyboard on her left foreleg, "Dear Captain Zelestia, I would love it if you could contact the Mobian division. Your blindly faithful student, Officer Zwilight Zparkle. Send." The message was sent, leading Scourge to dive into the portal for escape. "That idiot, he's not supposed to be in Cloudsdale! Can you catch up to him?"
Sonic and Silver shared a glance.
"Come on, boy! Get the chili dog!" Zwilight babied, dangling a chili dog on a string, extended on Zaliburn's blade.
Spike hung upside down over physical Nightmare Time Sombra's throne, the creepy mare-stallion watching Twilight and Sonic's forced dancing within magical seals.
"You know, I think I prefer the changelings and Camp Everfree fighting," Twilight said, magically adjusting her clown-maid outfit. "Zecora was very wise in this matter."
Werehog Sonic was a better dancer, not getting zapped as much as Twilight but still wearing a jester costume by force. When he found his opening, his fist punched Sombra Moon's face just as Silver returned to them with the New Solar Empire rebel forces. "I don't know, I think the timeline with the fat me was interesting. Maud was acting crazier than Pinkie Pie while being rockier than the Maud we know."
Sombra Moon got to their feet, summoning their armor to attack with time-sped fireballs and fear mines that explode, making some of the rebels relive their worst nightmares and memories. "Sonic the Hedgehog, Twilight Sparkle, do not fight this! This perfect timeline run by a perfect god!"
"I don't see her anywhere!" Spike announced, stabbing them with their own spear. If they didn't have their armor, they would've been impaled from the time-distorted spear toss. "All I see is another evil jerk that Twilight- Oh no."
Portals opened everywhere as clawed hands came out, slamming down on everybody friend or foe. From next to one claw, Rainbow Dash stared at Rarity's dead, crushed body. The Raridash ship sunk, this Rainbow Dash was given the power of every dead Rainbow Dash from the multiverse by Captain Zelestia in her realm, allowing that Rainbow Dash to grow in size so rapidly her armor exploded.
Sonic turned his head, taken aback by Rainbow's transforming state, "First Titan Tails and now Titan Rainbow Dash? When this is over; I'm going to have a talk with these Zone Cop ponies..."
The giant muscular Rainbow Dash hovered behind Sombra Moon, a big finger tapping their shoulder followed by a fast punch when she saw their head move.
While the villain was distracted, Silver grabbed Spike before a clawed fist could harm him. Opening his bag, Spike ripped open salt packets and poured them on the seals, disrupting their flow. "Quick, to the map!"
Sonic leaped, being caught by Silver as Twilight brought Spike to her back as they flew. Sonic punched oncoming fists and guards blocking their path while Spike torched the stragglers behind them. They made it to the map just as Scourge snapped Starlight Glimmer's neck.
"What? I hate her face," he tried to reason.
Sonic pulled him onto the map, "And I hate your face but I won't snap your neck over it."
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