(A/N) Okay new story. I normally do Sonic the Hedgehog fics, hence it being a crossover, but I thought I might have a crack at MLP while I'm at it. I'm relatively new to the MLP universe, so if characters seem a little OOC or I screw something up then I apologize. Anyway enough of this, here's the story.
Oh right, Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic the hedgehog or MLP, they belong to their respectful owners. I only own this story and my own OC
Connor Jenkins belongs to me
Scott Rider belongs to sonicepiloguelover
Into a New World
Rocket explosions, laser fire flying through the air, pieces of robots crashing around and a quick flash of blue dodging it all. The familiar signs of yet another battle between the heroic Sonic the Hedgehog and the nefarious Dr Eggman. Eggman had the usual hardware on his side, countless numbers of Swatbots and heavy defenses around his base. Sonic wasn't on his own this time though. This time, he'd brought along a few friends. With him were Knuckles the Echidna, Sally Acorn, Miles 'Tails' Prower, a red hedgehog named Scott Rider and Connor Jenkins, one of the few humans they personally knew.
Knuckles natural strength and the ability to crush almost anything with his bare hands made him a valuable asset to any team.
Sally may not have been one of the strongest fighters around, but with her tactical mind and strong leadership skills she had been a big help in many battles against the Dr.
Tails was Sonics oldest and greatest friend, he had been there beside Sonic for almost every fight and he wasn't going to let his brother down now.
Scott Rider and Connor Jenkins were the wild cards of the group. Neither of them had always been on the best of terms with the others, but time had helped heal the wounds of the past. Scott Rider was an expert marksman, able to hit a target dead on with just about any firearm he could get his hands on. His body was also able to heal wounds he sustained in shorter period of time due to an unknown chemical within his body.
Connor Jenkins was a man of many traits. He was clever and tactical just like Sally, but in a more cunning and sometimes devious way. His specialty was information mostly, he had a knack for finding information and using it to his advantage or solving mysteries. In combat his strongest skill was his reflexes and agility. Dodging most attacks that came his way while getting as close as he can to his opponent, bringing in his up close and personal style. A freak Chaos Control incident had left his body mutilated and nearly killed him. What saved his life were augmentations planted in his body. His left arm, right leg, and right eye had to be replaced with cybernetics and robotics.
The battle within Eggmans latest fortress had been going on for some time now, Swatbots were being taken down left, right and center. Sonic, Sally, Knuckles and Scott slowly but gradually made their way further into the metal fortress, Tails and Connor were yet to arrive.
"How much further do we have to go?" Knuckles asked after they had taken down yet another wave of robots.
"I can't say for certain," answered Sally. "Nicole seems to be having some trouble working out the mapping of this place," she added, looking down at the portable device she held in her hands.
"It would appear Eggman has found a way to halt my efforts of doing so," the A.I. explained.
"Well I guess that means we get to have some fun smashing up more of these junk heaps then," Sonic chuckled.
"You do realize if Eggman hears you saying that he's just going to send something bigger and badder our way right?" Scott said to the blue hedgehog.
"We'll see," Sonic replied with a laugh.
After stepping through another door they found themselves walking out into what appeared to be a large open courtyard.
"Is it just me or does this scream ambush?" Scott asked the others.
Not a second after the words had left his lips Swatbots began pouring into the courtyard from every nook and cranny in the area.
"I think that answers your question!" Knuckles shouted at him as he ran off to get into the fight.
"Tails? Connor? Where are you two?" Sally spoke into a radio she had on hand.
Up in the sky a bit of a ways out from the base, Tails and Connor were flying towards it in the Tornado.
"We're not to far away now Sally, I just need to find somewhere I can drop Connor off," Tails explained to her.
"No time. We need an extra set of hands down here right now!" Sally replied.
"Ok, I'll see what I can do," Tails said before hanging up the radio. "Any ideas?" He asked the human sitting in the passenger seat behind him.
"I'll take the flight suit," Connor replied.
"The flight suit?! We haven't even made it past the test phase for it yet!" Tails exclaimed.
"What better time to test it than now," Connor chuckled.
"I can think of a hundred betters times for us to test it," the fox groaned.
"Details details, just get ready to drop me out."
Connor undid his seatbelt and reached into one of the leg pockets of his grey cargo pants, pulling out what appeared to be a black balaclava. Instead of eye holes it had two white plastic looking spider like eyes on the front of it. Connor slipped the mask onto his head. It began to constrict in taking the shape of his head, and hardening until it appeared to be as tough as steel.
"You ready?" Tails asked.
Connor responded with a thumbs up. Tails sent the Tornado into a slow barrel roll, the moment the plane was upside down Connor easily dropped out from his seat. Diving through the sky he brought his arms into his sides and his legs together, straightening his body out as he continued to fall. A black line began to work its way down the back of his jacket beginning at the bottom of his mask, it spread out across his shoulders to his wrists and down his legs ending at the heel of his boots. When he brought his arms and legs back out there was a webbing connecting between his arms and legs, with everything complete he was gliding towards Eggmans base to join the fight.
"So is the flight suit functioning properly?" Connor heard Tails voice come in over the in-built radio.
"The Nanites seem to be holding together well enough," Connor replied. Tails noticed his breathing seemed to be a bit on the heavy side. "The breathers aren't working quite as well as we'd hoped though," he added, confirming Tails suspicions.
"You going to be alright down there?" He asked.
"I'll be fine once I get my boots on the ground and take this mask off," Connor replied.
They ended the conversation on that note and focused on getting to the base. As he came into the courtyard the fight was currently happening in Connor brought his arms and legs back in against his body, deactivating the webbing that allowed him to glide through the air. He landed on a Swatbot, sliding along the ground on top if it as if it were a skateboard. After enough damage he leapt off, drawing a knife and sinking it deep into the head of a second bot as he came down. He tucked into a roll as he hit the ground, pulling his knife out at the same time and sprinting for cover for a chance to gather his surroundings.
"Show off," a voice said next to him.
Connor looked across a found Scott ducking down in the same piece of cover, he was wearing his usual black leather jacket, blue ripped jeans and black and white hi top trainers. His hair was still just as long and spiky as it had always been.
Knuckles dived out of the way of missile, landing behind some cover just across from the other two.
"Dude, you look like Venom from Spider-Man with that thing," Knuckles said after noticing the mask Connor was wearing.
The mask softened up, giving it the appearance of a soft fabric once again. Connor removed it and tucked it away back into one of the pockets in his pants.
"How are we looking so far?" Connor asked the other two.
"Sonic's been doing what he does best, smashing Swatbots and pissing off Eggman at the same time," Scott answered. He popped up and fired a couple of rounds from his M9 pistol, taking down a bot with each bullet.
"Sally's been working with Nicole to take down the other defenses around the place, should make it easier for Tails when he starts making passes in the Tornado," Knuckles was next to explain. "She's also been taking out any Swatbot that gets to close," he added with a chuckle. "I'll bet she's glad I taught her a little hand to hand fighting now."
Tails made his first pass over the courtyard, he let the machine guns in Tornado loose taking out ten Swatbots in one go. He took out another twenty on his second pass. It only took the group ten minutes to clear the courtyard of any and all Swatbots.
"Well that takes care of that," Sonic chuckled. "You'd think Eggman would know by now that a few simple Swatbots aren't enough to stop us."
"Now now Sonic, you honestly didn't think it was going to be that easy did you?" Said the all familiar voice off none other than Dr Eggman himself.
"You say that every time Eggman, and every time we beat you. How is this time going to be any different?" Sonic taunted, just as cocky as ever.
"How about I show you exactly why," Eggman replied darkly.
A section of the center of the courtyard suddenly split, separating until there was circular pit in the ground. From the hole a figure slowly began to rise upwards. Before the group stood a machine of colossal proportions, now standing atop a platform which covered the hole that had once been there. It more or less looked like an oversized Swatbot.
"Allow me to introduce you to my latest creation, the Egg-Colossus!" Eggman said, finishing with a laugh.
"Holy shit," Connor slowly said.
"That's one way of putting it," Scott replied.
"Egg-Colossus, DESTROY THEM!" Eggman screamed.
The machine wasted no time complying to its commands. It raised both of it's arms up, machine gun fire coming from the right and missiles lighting up the area from it's left. Sonic started sprinting around the area, the machines weapons coming no where near to hitting him. He leapt into the air and spin dashed straight at. He put his all into the attack on the Colossus, however when he came away from it everyone saw not a single scratch had been made. Knuckles was having just as much luck as the blue blur, no matter how hard he threw his fists at the machine he couldn't even make dent.
"We're going to need a new plan here," Sally shouted out to everyone else. "Connor, do you think you can give us an analyses on that thing?"
"I can try," the human replied.
As he gave himself a view of the machine his right eye shifted to a glowing red. Through his eyes he could see each section of the robot being singled out and scanned, searching for any form of weaknesses and giving him any other important information on it. It obviously caught Eggmans attention, for the next thing he knew the Colossus was coming straight for him. Connor dived out of the way, barely avoiding a missile.
"I'm going to need some cover here guys! I won't be able to give you anything if I can't hold still long enough to get a good bead on it!" he shouted at the others.
"Don't worry, I've got this," Tails voice was heard over the radio.
Up in the sky, guns began firing out of nowhere, peppering the machine as Tails made another pass. Eggmans Colossus switched it's attention to Tornado, firing all of its weapons at the plane as it flew away. It was in these few moments Connor got something that could help them out.
"Sonic! The center panel on its chest looks like it's covering something, you should be able to knock it off!" He explained.
No one wasted any time, Sonic and Knuckles both leapt into the air hitting the panel with everything they had. Scott tore off the weaponized arm of a nearby Swatbot, using it to fire it's laser straight the target. Nicole and Sally managed to override one the nearby defense turrets, using Eggmans own weapons against him. Finally the panel fell the ground, revealing all seven Chaos Emeralds shielded behind a barrier. Each and every one of the group let out a horrified gasp. Eggmans maniacal laughter shifted everyone's attention back to the matter at hand.
"As you can see, I hold the power of all the Chaos Emeralds," he explained. "With them, I will destroy every single one of you before moving onto the rest of this miserable world. My Eggman empire will at last come to be, and I can't think of a better place to start than the city you all call your home. Mobotropolis!"
"Not a chance Eggman," Sally replied. "You've gotten this far before and you've still failed, this time will be no different."
"We shall see," Eggman chuckled darkly.
For one of the few times in his life, Connor was caught off guard. The Egg-Colossus raised its foot and brought it down on top him.
"Connor! Look out!" Knuckles screamed, sprinting towards his comrade.
The machines foot came crashing down upon both Knuckles and Connor, dust billowed outwards from the impact.
"NO!" everyone screamed at sight of this, Eggman laughed insanely at scene before him.
His laughter was cut short when noticed something odd about the Colossus' foot, it wasn't completely touching the ground. On closer inspection, Knuckles and Connor could be seen holding the machines foot above them.
"You're a damned fool, you know that?" Connor said through clenched teeth.
"Well if it wasn't for me, you'd be a pancake right now," Knuckles replied in strained voice.
Back out from under the machine everyone was trying hardest to get the thing to move. No matter what they tried though it just wouldn't budge, the Colossus was to heavy and the barrier covering the Chaos Emeralds was to strong. Next to him, Knuckles suddenly heard what sounded like a mechanical groan.
"What was that?" He asked with uncertainty.
"Me," Connor groaned back.
Next thing they knew, Connors mechanical leg gave out under him dropping him down to his knees. The sudden change in weight brought Knuckles down his knees as well.
"You guys might want hurry it up out there, we're not doing so well down!" he shouted to the others.
Sally, Sonic and Scott had no idea as to what they could do to save their friends, nothing they did worked. The Chaos Emeralds were simply making the machine far to powerful for any normal attack to work. That was until Tails came up with a bold plan, one he didn't like in the slightest.
"Everyone get out of the way," they heard his voice over the radio say. "This could go wrong in so many ways."
"Tails? What are you doing?" Sally asked slowly.
"Just trust me, okay Sal," he said, trying poorly to reassure her.
Up in the sky the Tornado could be heard approaching. Getting closer every second, getting to be too close. Suddenly the all familiar plane came flying into the courtyard, the bottom of it scraping the outside wall. The tornado flew crashing into the chest of the Egg-Colossus, exploding spectacularly into a ball of flames and debris. The colossus was knocked clean off of its feet, crashing to ground on its back. Knuckles and Connor helped one another up and hurriedly crawled away, Tails could be seen hovering to the ground having ejected from the Tornado at the last second. It seemed he had brought some of his tools with him as he was now wearing a brown backpack.
"You guys owe me big time," he said to Knuckles and Connor. They didn't reply, collapsing to the ground out of exhaustion instead.
"Sonic!" Scott shouted with a gasp. "The barriers down, go get the Chaos Emeralds!"
The blue blur didn't waste a single moment. With his trademark speed he sprinted straight for the emeralds, all while Eggman screamed in fury at the outcome of the events. In his presence the emeralds slowly floated into the air, circling him as they did so. They began to circle Sonic faster and faster, picking up speed until they were nothing more than a blur. At the last moment, they collapsed inwards. Empowering Sonic with the full energy of Chaos. Back away from all of this, his friends gathered together. Waiting for him to fly out as Super Sonic and to put and end to yet another mission to stop Dr Eggman. It didn't happen though, instead a white dome of energy began to grow outwards from where Sonic stood atop the colossus.
"What's going on?" Scott asked, slightly worried.
"I don't know," Tails replied. "This has never happened before."
All of sudden, the energy shot outwards. Engulfing everyone before they had a chance to move, shout, or even scream.
In an entirely different dimension, one inhabited by ponies, dragons, griffons and many other magical creatures, stood a well known city, Canterlot. A city known for its wealth, beauty but most significantly, the Princesses of Equestria. Canterlot was the home to princess Celestia and her sister Luna, rulers of the land and goddesses of day and night.
It was on this particular day Luna found herself making her way to the throne room, she had been called by her sister to discuss a matter. What it was, she had no idea. It must have been a matter if importance, else Celestia would have simply found her during the day when she had some free time. Luna approached the doorway to the throne room, the two guards standing on either side of the door bowed to her as she entered.
Luna found her sister standing by one of the windows rather than sitting upon the throne, staring off into the outside as if something had caught her attention.
"Sister, it is good to see you again," Celestia greeted with a smile, turning to face Luna.
"As it is you," Luna replied. "What is it you wished to discuss with me?"
Celestia turned to face the guards in the throne room. "Would you give us the room please," she kindly spoke. The guards bowed in understanding and left in an orderly fashion.
"This meeting must be of importance if we are to discuss it in private," Luna said, watching the guards make their exit.
"I am not entirely certain yet, but I do not wish to alarm anypony," Celestia explained. "Did you happen to feel the energy surge as I did this morning?" She asked.
"I did," Luna confirmed. "It was not at all significant and I thought nothing of it however."
"As did I," Celestia agreed. "It appears to have grown stronger throughout the day however. I fear it is a sign of events to come."
"What do you suppose it is?" Luna asked.
"I cannot say for certain, but this energy, it feels like..." Celestia paused to bite her lower lip. "It feels like, Chaos."
"Chaos?!" Luna exclaimed. "You do not think perhaps Discord could be behind this?"
"Discord has been locked away in stone for centuries, he could not possibly be responsible for this," Celestia explained.
"Then what?" Luna questioned.
"I wish had the answers dear sister, I truly do. However, this has even me puzzled."
Their talk was suddenly interrupted by what sound like a large explosion erupting across the skies.
"What in Equestria was that?!" Luna exclaimed.
Celestia turned back towards the window and stared out for a short moment.
"I do not know," she replied. "It sounded like it came from outside of Canterlot though."
"Do you think we should prepare some of the guards for a possible attack?" Luna asked.
"No, if anything were to happen the guards will be ready. I'm sure the noise will already have them prepared for the worst," Celestia answered.
"And what of Ponyville, it is but a small town with no real means of any defense."
"The Elements of Harmony will be able to take care if it. They are much stronger than anypony realizes, even they themselves do not know it yet." Celestia turned to face Luna again. "Have faith dear sister, everything will be alright."
Down within the Everfree forest, one particular human began to slowly regain consciousness. Connor let out a groan and rubbed his forehead.
"What the hell happened?" He said to himself.
It didn't take him long to realize something was different, that something was the fact that he was staring down through several tree branches at the ground. He looked back up and found one of his legs was caught between two branches. He wriggled and shook himself around to try and remove his foot from between the limbs but to no avail, Connor let out a sigh and pulled a knife from his boot. He curved his body up and got to the task of sawing through one of the branches.
"This is gonna suck," he muttered.
In a different part of the forest, Knuckles was the next to wake up. He shot up into a sitting position, panting heavily. Wiping some sweat from his brow, he took in his surroundings. Off to his left he found Sally lying on the ground. Knuckles jumped to his feet and ran over to her.
"Sally! Wake up!" He said, shaking her as he did so.
Sally began murmuring and slowly opened her eyes, blinking a couple of times once they were fully open.
"Knuckles? What's going on?" She asked.
Knuckles let out a relieved sigh, glad to see the princess was okay.
"I don't know Sally, last thing I remember is Sonic getting the emeralds and seeing nothing but white," he explained.
"Are the others okay?!" She said suddenly, quickly getting to her feet.
"Don't know, I've only seen you so far," the echidna replied.
Behind them they heard some rustling come from the bushes followed by the snapping of some twigs. Knuckles jumped in front of Sally, fists raised ready to fight. Out of the bushes appeared none other than Sonic the hedgehog.
"Sonic!" Knuckles and Sally both yelled at the same time.
"Nice to see you too", Sonic chuckled.
"What happened? Do you have any idea where we are?" Sally asked.
"Not a clue," Sonic replied. "This doesn't look like any part of the forest around Mobotropolis I've ever seen."
"We should get moving," Knuckles cut in. "We still don't know where Tails, Scott or Connor are, and with any luck we might find a clue as to where we are."
The others voiced their agreement, and with that the trio set off.
Tails had been wandering throughout the forest for a good twenty minutes, he'd found no sign of the others and no clue to which forest he was in. As he walked onwards he heard some rustling coming from above himself. Tails stopped walking and tilted his head upwards. Suddenly he heard a snapping noise followed by several heavy thuds.
"SHIIIIIIIT!" He heard a voice yell.
Out of nowhere, Connor dropped from the trees. He hit the ground face down with a hard thud.
"Ow," he said weakly.
"Nice of you to drop in," Tails said bluntly.
"Shaddup," came the reply.
Connor slowly got to his feet, his knees shaking slightly once he was up. He dusted off his clothes and picked up the knife that had landed on the ground next to him, he bent down and slid it back into the sheath in his boot. Tails hadn't gotten a good look at him earlier as they had been in a hurry, now that they were standing around though he got a better view of the human. Connor had Caucasian skin and was wearing a black leather jacket, a white long sleeve shirt, grey cargo pants and black boots. His blonde hair had grown since he'd last seen him, now coming down to the bottom of his neck. Connors most notable features had always been his eyes and the scar on his cheek. His left eye was blue while his right was red, the scar on his left cheek looked like someone had tried to give him a Glasgow smile.
"You know I always found it funny how humans are the same size as Mobians now, yet Eggman is so tall," Tails said, making a note of Connors height.
"Well it was bound to happen with humans having children with Mobians," Connor replied. "As for Eggman, well he's always been different in more ways than one."
"You don't have to tell me," Tails laughed.
"So, any clue as to how we ended up in a forest?" Connor asked Tails.
"If I had to guess, I'd say that white dome was the effect of chaos control. It must have teleported us here," the fox explained.
"Have I mentioned how much I hate chaos control," Connor said, looking at his metal arm.
"I think I have a fair idea," said a new voice.
The two of them looked to where the voice came from and found a very familiar red hedgehog walking towards them. A grin made its way onto Connors face upon seeing his best friend, the two greeted each other with a grip of the hand and slap on the back.
"So where the hell have you been?" Scott asked. Connor didn't reply, he simply looked up to where he had fallen from. Scott followed Connors gaze and then looked back to him. "That must have sucked," he stated.
"That it did," Connor replied.
"We should get moving," Tails suddenly cut in. "We still haven't found the others yet."
"Sounds good, but I think we've already found them," Connor replied.
Tails looked at him quizzically, puzzled by what he had just said. It wasn't until he heard some rustling coming off to the left of him that he understood what Connor meant. Out from some bushes appeared Sally, Sonic and Knuckles.
"There you are!" Sally exclaimed, running up to give Tails a relieved hug.
"It's nice to see you too Sal," Tails chuckled.
"I'm fine by the way," Connor said, Scott gave him a kick in the leg for the remark.
"Now that we're all here, any idea as to where we are?" Tails asked once Sally let him go.
"I don't know," Sally said. "I've tried to get Nicole but she's not responding," she added, holding up the hand held device.
"What about GPS? Doesn't that thing have more uses than just being a portable platform for Nicole?" Connor was next to ask.
"That was the next thing I tried. Unfortunately, I'm not picking up a signal. We're on our own," Sally explained.
"We'd better get moving then. We won't figure anything out by standing around," Sonic said, gaining everyone's attention.
Everyone was quick to agree, they all wanted to get out of the forest and figure out just where they were exactly.
Out of the Everfree forest in Ponyville, six well known ponies had gathered together. They were discussing the explosion from earlier and what to do about it.
"Are you sure this is good idea Twi? I mean, the Everfree forest ain't exactly known for its safety," Applejack said, voicing her concern.
"Come on everypony, we still don't know what caused that noise earlier. It needs to be investigated," Twilight answered, a hint of excitement in her voice.
"But darling, the Everfree forest is just so... FILTHY!" Rarity stated.
"And scary," Fluttershy added, just as quietly as ever.
"Twilight's right, we should find out what caused it," Rainbow Dash said, agreeing with Twilight.
"Thank you Rainbow Dash," Twilight said, she was cut off by the same mare before she could continue though.
"Because it was AWESOME! I want to meet the pony who did it. I mean, didn't the rest of you hear it?" She said, a little too eager for the others liking.
"Ooh ooh, I heard it I heard it!" Pinky Pie practically yelled, jumping up and down excitedly. "I was just walking out of Sugar Cube Corner when suddenly there was this, booooom!" she explained, arching her fore hooves out above her head as if she were re-enacting the noise.
The others simply stared at her for a moment, unsure how to respond to what she had just said.
"Anyway," Twilight said slowly. "We really should look into it, it could be an exciting adventure for us to experience."
Fluttershy, Rarity and Applejack let out a sigh of defeat before finally agreeing to venture into the forest with her, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash watched the others with a big smile plastered on their faces. As the girls left Ponyville to enter the Everfree forest they failed to notice the Swatbots flying over head straight towards town.
Back with Sonics group, no real progress had been made. They had been wandering aimlessly through the forest for a good half hour, patience was beginning to run thin.
"Bloody hell! How big is this friggin forest!" Connor growled.
"Calm down Connor, getting angry isn't going to do us any good," Sally said.
"I could run off ahead you know, see if I can find something and then come back," Sonic offered.
Sally looked to the others, all of which gave her a quick nod. "Do it," she answered. "If you find anything, anything at all, you come let us know."
"No worries, just as I long as I get to stretch my legs," Sonic chuckled before disappearing off a ahead of them, kicking up leaves as he did so.
Not thirty seconds later, he was back.
"You guys might want to come see this," he said before disappearing again.
The others looked at one another briefly and sprinted off in the same direction. Tails was ahead of the group, using his tails to fly quickly through the air. Finally they found themselves out of the forest, Connor and Scott both let out a sigh of relief. Up ahead they could see a town and hear what sounded like laser fire.
"Didn't take Eggman long to get to work," Knuckles pointed out.
Above them a couple of Swatbots flew towards the town.
"Since when can Swatbots fly," Connor groaned.
"Never mind that, we need to help that town and fast," Sally stated.
Before anyone could say anything, Sonic was already sprinting straight towards the town. Tails and Knuckles were quick to follow. Sally went to run off but was stopped by a hand on her shoulder, she turned to find Connor holding a knife out towards her.
"You know how to use one of these right?" He asked.
Sally took the knife and twirled it around her hand a couple of times. "I've been practicing," she stated with a smile.
Behind them they heard some metallic sliding and clicking, they turned around to find Scott busily reloading his pistol and checking what ammunition he had left.
"You sure you got enough ammo left over?" Connor asked.
"I've still got a few clips on hand, should be enough for what's to come," Scott replied.
Connor pulled another knife out and held it out towards the hedgehog. "Save it," he said. "No point wasting it all if we don't know what supplies we might or might not find later on."
Scott gave him a shrug and holstered his pistol before taking the knife on offer. "Now then, let's go have some fun," he said with a smirk.
Back in the Everfree forest, the six girls had made some progress. Bushes that appeared to have walked through and footprints they didn't recognize in the dirt. They'd stopped for a brief moment as Twilight had wanted a chance search a particular area.
"Hey girls, come have a look at this," she said, catching everyone's attention.
The others walked over to her to find she was levitating a branch in front of herself, staring at it very intently.
"Uh Twilight, that's a branch," Rainbow Dash dead panned.
"No, what I mean is look at the edge of it. It hasn't snapped or anything, it looks like something cut through it," she explained.
"Well that would explain all the strange hoof prints we've been finding," Applejack added.
Off in the distance was sounds of explosions.
"Ohh there's another one," Pinky exclaimed.
"That sounded like it came from..." Rarity started.
Everyone went wide eyed followed by a loud gasp. "PONYVILLE!" They all shouted at the same time.
Back in the said town, everything was going down. Ponies were running around screaming as the Swatbots got to work destroying the place. One of the bots turned its head towards the road into town and noticed six figures making their way in.
"Priority one targets recognized," it said upon getting a better look at the figures.
Next thing it knew, a blue blur was on top of it slicing it clean in half. A second Swatbot turned its attention towards the first just in time to see its fellow bot falling apart.
"Alpha one target confirmed. Engaging," it spoke before going after blue blur.
Mayor Mare found herself running for her life. The day had started like any other day, then out of the blue these metal creatures turned up demanding that Ponyville submit to rule of someone named Dr Eggman. A laser shot hit the ground in front of her, it startled her and caused her to trip and fall to ground. She looked up to see a Swatbot standing over her ready to finish her off. Out of nowhere a knife flew through the air and embedded itself in the side of the bots head, the Swatbot slowly tipped over to its side and hit the ground with a loud crash. Connor walked up to it and ripped the knife straight out of its head.
"You need to move, gather up everyone you can and get them to safety," he said as he helped the Mayor to her feet. She stood in place staring for a moment, unsure what to make of the strange creature that had just saved her life.
"Don't just stand there, go! Now!" He shouted. The mayor got the hint and sprinted off. "Now then," he said to himself as turned back towards the fight. "Where were we?"
In the center of town Sonic was having the time of his life. Irritating Eggman was one thing he enjoyed more than anything, and what better way to do it than by destroying all of his machines.
Sonic darted ahead, dodging and weaving through many screaming ponies busy running for their lives. He leapt into the air and flew into a homing attack, smashing a Swatbot clean off its feet. He hit the ground and rolled straight into a spin dash, zigzagging along the ground taking out several Swatbots in the one motion. He pushed off of the ground, knocking a Swatbots head clean off its shoulders in the process. Sonic let out a whoop before sprinting off to smash some more bots.
A short distance away from where Sonic had made his display, Knuckles was wreaking just as much havoc on the machines. Swatbots were quite literally flying through the air as Knuckles fists knocked them clean off of their feet. He grabbed one of the bots on the ground by the feet and began to spin around. It didn't take long for the robot to gain enough lift, and once Knuckles had his target in sight he released his grip. The Swatbot went flying straight into cluster of his friends, strewing them all over the place. Knuckles pumped his fist in the air with a laugh and prepared for the next attack.
A little bit away from Knuckles, closer to the road into town, Scott found himself being knocked onto his back after misjudging a sudden attack. He hit the ground and immediately looked to see what was above him, finding a Swatbot raising its boot ready to crush him. A sudden grip on the back of his jackets collar grabbed his attention, he found himself being dragged backwards out of the path of certain death. A pair of hands roughly helped him back up onto his feet, he turned find it had been Connor who had helped him out. The two suddenly found themselves surrounded by four Swatbots, they ended up back to back.
"Well this is a predicament were in," Connor stated.
"We've been in worse," Scott replied.
"Fair enough," Connor chuckled.
"So, any ideas," Scot asked.
"We could go with that one move we pulled in Mobotropolis."
"Which one?" Scott said after a slight pause.
"That one time those four cops had us surrounded."
"This is a little different Connor."
"How so?"
"One, Swatbots are much taller than Mobians and Humans. Two, we didn't kill any of the cops. And three... we were really drunk that time, I'm surprised you can remember all of it cause I sure as hell can't."
"I can't remember all of it."
"Then what the hell are you saying?" Scott growled.
"Let's improvise," Connor replied with a smirk.
Eggman must have been listening to their very random conversation, because the Swatbots didn't move an inch throughout the entire talk. They were completely unprepared when Scott suddenly darted forwards, dropping to the ground and sliding underneath the Swatbot ahead of him. Connor threw a knife at the Swatbot straight ahead of him, piercing it straight through its face. He dived out of the way of a sudden barrage of laser fire as Scott clambered up the back of one of the remaining three. One of the other bots attempted to shoot Scott, it instead ended up blowing off the head of the Swatbot Scott was atop of. Connor jumped into the air and drove his shoulder into the chest of the bot that just destroyed its friend, knocking it onto its back. He gripped its head with both hands and started to pull, a few heavy yanks and its head tore off with an electric sizzle. The final Swatbot was dispatched with ease when Scott drew his pistol and fired a single shot. The bot fell to the ground, a bullet hole in its forehead.
"Well, that was easier than I thought it would," Scott said, turning to Connor.
"Yeah, it was," Connor replied. "It was quicker with the cops if I recall correctly though."
"Hey, how come those cops never followed up on us after that?" Scott asked. "I never heard anything about it at all."
He noticed a smirk making its way onto Connors face.
"What did you do," he asked cautiously.
"I didn't kill anyone if that's what you're asking," Connor laughed. "I pulled a few strings, asked a few favors and did a few jobs. Didn't I once tell you, if you're in trouble I can help."
"Yeah, because half the city owes you," Scott sarcastically scoffed.
"You know it," Connor chuckled.
Scott wasn't entirely sure if Connor was being serious or not, but he had a few rumors.
"Scott? Connor? Anyone?" They heard Sally's voice say over the radio.
"That thing's still working?" Scott asked.
"Apparently so," Connor replied, pulling the radio out of his pocket. "Yeah Sally, it's Connor. What do you need?"
"Me and Tails are at the town hall, the people in this town are gathering inside. We're trying to protect them but we're getting overrun, we need an extra set of hands here."
There was a brief moment silence as Connor turned his head to Scott, he received a nod in response and got back on the radio.
"Scott's on his way Sal, just hold out a bit longer," he explained.
"Thank you. Just make it quick, I don't know how much longer we can last," Sally replied.
"We'll see what we can do," Connor answered before stuffing the radio back into his jacket pocket. "I think I see your lift coming our way," he said, looking in the sky behind Scott.
Scott turned around to see a Swatbot equipped with a jetpack flying through the air in their direction.
"You thinking a boost?" He asked.
"That I am," Connor replied.
"Do you remember what happened last time we tried this?"
"Last time we tried this I was giving you a boost onto Tails Tornado when he was doing a low fly by."
"I almost got sliced in half!" Scott exclaimed.
"Quit being such a baby."
"Coming from the guy who got all teary at the end of Titanic."
"Hey! That happened one time alright! One time!"
Scott shook his head and laughed as he took a few steps backwards.
"Call it," he said.
"Alright," Connor replied. He set himself up so his fingers were linked together and his knees were slightly bent. "In three...two...one, and now!"
Scott sprinted ahead, he got to Connor and put his foot in his friends hands. As soon as he felt the boot Connor straightened his legs out and heaved his arms upwards, using all of his strength to get Scott airborne. When Scott saw the Swatbot heading towards him he prepared himself, the moment it was close enough he wrapped his arms around its neck. After a little twisting and swinging he managed to get himself onto its back. The Swatbot obviously had a direct set of orders as it completely ignored the Mobian now hitching a ride atop of it. Back on the ground, Connor turned himself around to find his next target, a smirk appeared on his face as an idea sprung into his mind.
Along the main road into Ponyville, the mane six were sprinting as fast as they could to reach the town. The sight that awaited them was like nothing they'd ever seen before. Their beloved town was now a battle ground, pieces of Swatbots were strewn out along the ground although the girls had no idea what they were. Off in the town they saw what appeared to be a blue hedgehog jump into the air. It curled into a ball, dashing ahead and slicing several of the metal beasts in two. The next thing they saw was a red echidna, slugging the creatures left, right and center with his bare fists.
"What in the hay is going on here!" Applejack shouted.
"I don't know, what I wanna know is what that one's doing," Dash replied, pointing towards a rooftop.
The others followed her hoof and noticed a creature they'd never seen before standing on the roof, it was Connor. He stood on the roof carefully watching a Swatbot flying in his direction, he smiled deviously and took a few steps back. Once the Swatbot had closed the distance, Connor ran ahead. He reached the edge of the roof a leaped into the air, grabbing a hold of the Swatbot and moving himself onto its back. Using all the strength he could muster, he was able to turn the machine and control which direction it would fly. The moment he had it flying towards a cluster of bots he stuck his knife into the back of its head, killing the Swatbot and deactivating its jetpack. Connor jumped off of its back and rolled as he hit the ground before standing up, the bot hit the cluster causing pieces of itself and the others to scatter everywhere. Connor slapped his hands together and laughed at the success of the stunt. His joy was short lived when another Swatbot dropped out of the air down in front of him and grabbed him by the front of his shirt, lifting him up and hurling him back towards the road into town.
The girls saw Connor get thrown away and watched as he skidded and rolled along the ground, kicking up dust as he went.
"Look at it go!" Pinkie shouted, hopping up and down.
For a moment Connor thought it was never going to end, it was shock when he felt himself very suddenly come to a stop. This was mostly because he was now floating slightly off of the ground, a strange violet colored aura surrounded his body. The aura disappeared and Connor fell straight onto the ground flat on his face.
"Are you okay," a voice asked.
"Just peachy," Connor groaned, rolling onto his back. He looked up to find it was a violet colored pony who had asked the question. "Christ, now I'm seeing unicorns? I must have banged my head up pretty good," he muttered.
"Um... I am a unicorn," Twilight replied.
"...Okay," Connor said very slowly.
"Sorry to cut your little chat short, but the big guy's heading our way," Dash cut in.
Connor saw the girls looking at something behind him, he diverted his eyes towards the town and saw the same Swatbot that had thrown him walking towards them. Rainbow Dash prepared to fly off to attack when Connor raised his hand to stop her. He pushed himself up onto his feet and dusted his jacket off before turning his attention to the machine.
"Allow me," he said.
Connor began running at a slow pace and slowly sped up. The Swatbot raised its arm and began to fire its laser. Connor saw the first shot coming and twisted his body to the left, the laser went sailing by and hit the dirt behind him. He pulled off a front flip as he leaped over the second, continuing to sprint forward once his feet touched the ground. For the third he spun himself around, weaving off to the right slightly before moving back into his original path. The Swatbot didn't manage to get off another shot before Connor was on top of it, jumping into the air and knocking it square onto its back with a clothesline from his metal arm. He proceeded to tear off the Swatbots arm before bashing its head in with its own limb. Connor turned back around to find the girls all staring at him, wide eyed and slack jawed.
"That. Was. Awesome!" Dash shouted as she hovered in the air.
"If you thought that was good, then you should see Sonic in action," Connor chuckled.
"What was that thing?" Twilight asked.
"Swatbot," came the reply. "I'm starting to get a feeling that this isn't Mobius," he added.
"Mobius? No, this is-" Twilight began, she was cut off when a voice came in over Connors radio.
"Hey Connor, it's Scott. Looks like Eggman's had enough. The rest of the bots are bugging out," his voice spoke.
"About time," Connor laughed into the radio. "I'll meet you in the center of town, we need to gather our bearings," he finished.
"Sounds like a plan, see you there."
Connor stuffed the radio back into his pocket, pulling out a packet of cigarettes in its place. He pulled one out, slipped it into his mouth and lit it up. With his cravings now being satisfied, he began to make his way to the meeting point. It didn't take long for him to notice that the six ponies he'd nearly knocked over, courtesy of a Swatbot with a hell of throwing arm, were now cautiously following him. The pink pony skipping next to him speaking faster than he could keep up with was a bit of a giveaway. Upon reaching the meeting point he found only one of his friends there, Scott appeared to be washing his hands in the fountain.
"Scott," Connor greeted.
"Do you know much of a bastard the oil from those bots is to get off your hands?" Scott asked, scrubbing his hands vigorously in the water.
"Can't say I do," Connor replied, turning around and sitting on the edge of the fountain. Reaching into one of the inside pockets of his jacket, he pulled out a silver hip flask. He unscrewed the top and took a swig, holding out to Scott afterwards. Scott took the offer and had a quick drink himself.
"Cheers," he thanked, passing the flask back over.
"Are y'all gonna tell us who the hay you are by any chance," Applejack suddenly asked out of the blue.
"We'll wait for others get here if you don't mind," Scott answered.
Applejack gave him an understanding nod before looking over at Connor.
"I like your accent," the human randomly stated. Applejack raised an eyebrow at the comment, receiving a chuckle from Connor in response.
"He does that," Scott explained. "Never met anyone more random in my life."
"Well you obviously haven't Pinkie pie then," Twilight was next to say.
"Who's Pinkie Pie?"
"The pink one," Connor cut in. "Wouldn't shut up the whole way over here."
"That's just Pinkie being Pinkie darling," Rarity explained. "You get used to it after a while."
"Are you two alright?" A new voice asked.
Scott looked to his left to find Tails approaching them.
"Yeah we're good," he replied.
"Nothing but the usual minor flesh wounds," Connor joked.
"As charming as ever I see," Sally said, walking up beside Tails. She had Sonic and Knuckles with her.
"So if this is all of you, do you think you could tell us who you are exactly?" Twilight asked.
"I'm Sally Acorn," Sally began. "The others are Sonic, Knuckles, Scott Rider and Connor Jenkins," she added, pointing to each person respectively.
"Wow, no crack about being the fastest thing alive Sonic? You must have had a good day," Connor chuckled.
"So, um, wha-what are you exactly? If it's alright for me to ask that is," Fluttershy timidly asked.
"We're Mobians," Sonic explained. "And lippy over there," he added pointing at Connor, who gave him a grin and a wave. "Is a human."
"Humans and Mobians? I've never heard of such creatures. There isn't even anything in any of my books about your species," Twilight said.
"Twilight, you're such an egghead," Dash laughed. "You seriously need to get out more."
"Hey!" Twilight protested.
"Twilight! Twilight!" A young sounding voice suddenly said from behind the girls. They turned around to find Spike running towards them, a scroll clutched in his claws.
"Spike? What is it?" Twilight asked.
"I just got a letter from Celestia, it's right here."
Twilight levitated the letter in front of herself and quickly began to scan her eyes over it. Over by the fountain, Connor leaned over to Scott.
"Is that dragon?" He asked.
"I think so," Scott replied.
"I thought dragons were supposed to be ferocious, not innocent."
"Hey! I am ferocious," Spike protested. "Who said that anyway?"
"Their hearing's completely fine though it would seem," Scott said to Connor.
"So what does message say darling?" Rarity asked, drawing everyone's attention back to letter.
"It says she knows about the attack on Ponyville. She received word after the town had been saved, by all of you," Twilight explained, looking up at the group from Mobius.
"They're heroes," a new voice said.
Upon searching, everyone found it had been Mayor Mare who had spoken. It appeared most of the residents of the town were also slowly gathering around, talking quietly amongst themselves.
"These ponies saved the town, we owe them our thanks," the Mayor announced.
The area erupted in cheers as the townsfolk shouted their joy, celebrating the fact that they were all now safe and sound.
"Celestia also said she will be visiting Ponyville tomorrow with her sister," Twilight explained to the Mobius group. "She wants to meet all of you and make sure the town is alright."
"Okay then, so what do we do until then?" Sally asked.
"Well like I said, Celestia and Luna will be visiting tomorrow. That means you'll need a place to stay for the night. With the way everypony's reacting though, I don't think finding you a spare a room will be a problem."
Sally noticed that some of the ponies in town were beginning to crowd around her and the others. Looking over at Sonic she noticed he appeared to be getting a little uncomfortable.
"Are you alright there Sonic?" Sally laughed.
"I enjoy being the hero and all, but this is getting to be a little much," he replied as more and more ponies surrounded him, asking a million questions at once.
"Where's he going?" Rainbow Dash suddenly asked.
Sally looked up to see Connor making his way out of the town center. She looked over at Scott, thinking he might know seeing as he was Connors best friend. Scott caught her gaze and instantly knew what she was going to ask, he gave her a simple shrug of his shoulders as a response.
"Where are you going Connor?" Sally shouted.
"I've got work to do," he shouted back, not even turning around to face her when he replied.
"What does he mean by that?" Twilight asked uncertainly.
"If I know Connor, we'll probably find out in the morning," Knuckles answered, walking over to them.
"Okay," Twilight said very slowly. "Anyway, let's get to finding you all a place to stay."
"Sounds good," Sally replied with a nod. "I don't know about the others, but I'm looking forward to a bit of relaxing."
"I'll second that," Tails agreed, stretching his arms out.
It took them a little while to get through the rather large crowd of ponies. Afterwards though, it was a clear path ahead. The Mobians weren't sure what was going to happen next but one thing was certain, if they wanted to get home then they were going to need the Chaos Emerald. They had a new objective, and getting out of this world depended on its success.
Far away from Ponyville, on the outskirts of the opposite end of the Everfree Forest, sat a metal ship. Although its size wasn't nearing the scale of a mothership, it was still impressive. Within the bridge of the said ship stood the one and only Dr Eggman. He was currently reviewing the outcome of his attack upon Ponyville. Infuriated by the outcome, he slammed his fist down on the console he stood in front of.
"Those pests are here too?!" He screamed. "That hedgehog and his do-gooding friends! I'll destroy them if it's the last thing I do!" He chuckled darkly as he calmed himself down, raising his other hand and looking at the gem he clutched within it. "It wasn't a complete loss I suppose," he said, chuckling again. "Finding the green Chaos Emerald in that pathetic town was a stroke of luck. Now all I need is to find the other six and then... well, I believe that should be quite obvious," he finished, an evil grin slowly making its way onto his face.
(A/N) Alrighty, first chapter done. To anyone who enjoyed this or decides to follow it or whatever, I don't when I'll be getting the next chapter done. Could be a couple of weeks, could be a couple of months. You'll just have to bear with me.
Anywho, that's all from me.
Catchya :)