SPLIT 2: REUNITED

Three years ago Mobius and Equestria were made aware of each other. Under the tyrannical rule of Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik Mobius was forced to invade. Thanks to the work of Ragis "Rage" Chaotic the Hedgehog he was able to help protect Equestria and save them from total annihilation. In doing so however the war brought back the evil entity known only as Vlagh. Robotnik managed to kill Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. This allowed Vlagh to reawaken. With his army of monsters known as Dark Spawns they attempted to take both Mobius and Equestria.

Now united under the leadership of Princess Sally of Mobius, and Princesses Twilight and Cadence of Equestria, and the Chaos Guardian Rage they made an assault on Vlagh's fortress. In a final clash between Rage Chaotic, Vlagh and the resurrected and corrupted Princesses Celestia and Luna both Mobius and Equestria's fate hung by a thread. In the end Rage prevailed and Vlagh was once more defeated.

With the quarry between Mobius and Equestria settled and the darkness suppressed peace has sprung in both of the worlds. Both now living in harmony with the other Mobians and Equestrians are living in peace. With Mobius and Equestria having links to the other once every month Princess Sally would travel to Equestria to meet with the Princesses of Equestria. The meetings would generally be for diplomacy or aide with some crisis that occurred.

Rage will traverse between Mobius and Equestria for various reasons, to go with Princess Sally to the meetings as his position with Mobius and it's history is of great importance to Princess Sally. Other times he goes to visit Princess Twilight and her friends, sometimes he brings Sonic the Hedgehog along with him and they'll spend the day laughing about and enjoying themselves.

Little do they know of the great evil that is lurking in the darkness...This is where our tale begins during the Unity Festival. A celebration on both Mobius and Equestria that celebrates their unison as allies. Every year during the August Royalty Meeting one of the worlds hosts the event. This year being held in Canterlot the 3rd Annual Unity Festival is well underway.

Rainbow Dash flew through the skies removing all of the clouds she could. Everything HAD to be PERFECT for tonight. That meant no stray clouds. Tonight Rage, Sonic and Shadow were playing for the Unity Festival. Rainbow panted as Rage flew up to her. "Hey Rainbow Dash how goes things?" he asks.

"Rage?!" she exclaims. "I didn't know you could fly in your...Hedgehog form right?"

Rage nods before giving his answer; "Well not physically, I can manipulate Aero Chaos, a version of my Elemental Chaos that uses the power of wind to fly."

"That sounds really complicated. Why not just be in your Equestrian form? I mean you're an alicorn for Celestia's sake!" Rainbow chuckles.

"Well one reason is because I can't fly as an 'Alicorn' and second, I only have that form because of how much inert Chaos power I have. It's nothing special." Rage scoffs.

"Really? From the way you're making it sound you have another reason..." Rainbow smirks. Rage looks nervous and she laughs. "I knew it! So what is it?"

"Well I am still not entirely accustomed to... well the fact that Equines don't wear clothing most of the time." Rage answers.

"You're still worried about that?" Rainbow pokes fun at the reason. "You're not...attracted to us are you?" she teases.

"What?!" Rage exclaims dumbfounded. "Preposterous, no on Mobius it's considered indecent to walk around nude, even illegal in some places."

"Whatever." Rainbow Dash responds with a chortle. Rage sighs and turns around. "Hey hold up!" she stop him. "Before you head to Canterlot I just wanted to say...thanks for everything..."

"It's no big deal." Rage replied.

"You say that but I don't think you know how much it means to us, Rage." Rainbow asserts. "You know I was thinking back to when we first met...you've always put others first and that's totally awesome." she blushes. "I guess what I am trying to say is, you've really grown on the seven of us."

"Well." Rage starts giving Rainbow a warm smile "I'm glad to have such a wonderful group of friends here in Equestria. You and your friends are one of a kind." he says turning "I need to be going."

"Be safe, see you down there soon." Rainbow Dash says waving Rage off.

Rage heads down to the front gate to Canterlot and heads into town. All around ponies and Mobians were getting things ready for the upcoming festival. Rage looks at all sorts of stands and shops set up for the event. As he walks through the main plaza he catches Sonic and Tails. Well, Tails caught him as he called his name leaping down from the ladder he was on.

"Rage! Long time no see." The fox cheers as they shake hands.

"Hey Tails, Sonic, how are you two doing?" Rage asks the two.

"Well ever since the whole mess we had three years ago Sonic and I have been working around Mobius and Equestria helping other people and ponies with issues we could help with." Tails responds with a happy smile.

"Nice!" Rage compliments and looks at Sonic. The two had mended their relationship even after they were enemies during the Mobius/Equestria War. Sonic siding with Robotnik and Rage siding with Equestria to make sure both worlds kept the balance of light and darkness in check. "How about you Sonic?"

"It's been boring without Eggman around to fight. You probably are enjoying being able to jump to and from each world without any limitations or care." Sonic scoffs.

"It has it's upsides." Rage says as Rainbow Dash and Twilight's other friends walk up to them.

"Howdy." Applejack says.

"Hey what's going on?" Sonic asks.

"Oh not much." Rarity sighs. "Just finished decoration for your show tonight."

"Cool, can't wait to see what you did." Sonic thanks them with a thumbs up. "Speaking of the show tonight, Where's Shadow?" He asks

"Last I heard he was up on Angel Island practicing his drums." Rage answers.

"Oh." Sonic sighs relieved. Then an alarm on Rage's watch goes off and he looks at the time. "Time for your meeting with Sal and the Princesses?" Sonic asks.

"Yeah." See you." Rage responds walking to the castle.

Rage reaches the castle and walks inside brushing his jacket off slightly to remove some dirt. He walked down the large hall and looked up at the large doors that lead into the throne room. Outside Sally awaited him. "Long time no see Rage." she says. He greets her with a nod as he carefully he opens the door.

Inside the princesses were all sitting and communicating about this and that. Rage couldn't tell exactly what they were talking about but it didn't relate to him so he didn't care. Celestia was the first to notice him. "Oh Rage please come in." she says. "What brings you up here today?"

"Well as always I accompany Princess Sally to your meetings." Rage answers as Sally joins them.

"Princesses." she says greeting the four.

"Ah Princess Sally glad to see you again." Princess Celestia bows her head in greeting.

"If you don't need me I will be up on Angel Island." Rage says "I have a few things I need to do up there before the festival tonight."

"Wait, you do?" Twilight asks. "But...what would you need to do up there?"

"Angel Island is the link between Mobius and Equestria that we utilize to transport from world to world. From there Rage or any Chaos Guardian for that matter can control the ties between the worlds." Sally answers. "The ties are like pipes and with less traffic between worlds Rage will restrict it to what is needed tonight however..."

"I need all hands on deck so to speak. I have to open all of the ties at full strength. Part of the reason I restrict some is because it helps prevent Dark Mobius and Dark Equestria from slipping into the ties between our worlds and preventing unwanted guests." Rage finishes explaining "It's complicated would you rather me draw it out or something?" he offers.

"No it's alright." Luna denies the request.

"Well if that's all I will be going then." Rage says waving to them and leaving.

Later Rage finally arrived on Angel Island and made his way to the Shrine of Chaos where Tikal was standing with some chao. "Good afternoon Master Rage." she says.

"Tikal we talked about this... you don't need to call me that." he groans. "Just because I am the Chaos Guardian doesn't mean you're a servant or anything just call me Rage."

"Sorry." Tikal apologizes. "Here to open the links between Mobius and here?" she asks and he nods. Rage walks up to the Master Emerald and presses a stone that opens a staircase into the chambers below. Within were different walls with etchings and carvings made by the ancient Echidna race. At the end of the hall was a room where a small blue light illuminated a platform in the center of the room. Rage walks up to it and he glows before using his Chaos powers to open the links to the world.

"Woah what is this place?" A voice catches him off guard. Rage looks to see Twilight.

"Princess Twilight?!" Rage exclaims "What are you doing here?"

"Well we got done with the meeting so I came to get you...what are you doing?" she asks.

"I was finishing with linking Mobius and Equestria like I had mentioned back in Canterlot." Rage answers with a sigh.

"Something wrong?" Twilight asks.

"Well this place is sacred, hidden from the knowledge of others...for a reason..." Rage sighs.

"Oh and what reason would it be to keep the princesses and I in the dark about?" Twilight scowls. Rage sighs and signals her to follow him. He leads her down some more chambers before they reach a large room with what looked like a stone gateway.

"I need you to promise that this information never leaves this room." Rage says sternly.

"Promise." Twilight says quickly eager to know about what she was looking at.

"This is the only portal to The Chaos Realm." Rage explains. "The Chaos Realm is a place located outside of the flow of time where the Chaos Guardians of the past are. There any world can be accessed and for that very reason it must be locked off."

"So...what's the Chaos Realm like then?" Twilight asks.

"It's beautiful." Rage sighs smiling thinking about it. "Nature is everywhere, old stone buildings mark the place we call home. In the event of an emergency we have enough space to house the populations of 25 Mobius' over. We hope it will never come to that but Chaotix wanted it just to be sure as a worst case scenario."

"Wow." Twilight exhales she had been lost in thought about what it must have looked like. "Anyway we should be heading back to Canterlot if you're done that is."

"I am" He responds leading her back to the surface. "I'll meet you there later I need to organize a few final things." He sighs.

"Okay don't take too long." Twilight cheers flying off.

A few hours go by and by now most of Mobius and Equestria were gathered. Rage was sitting on the Shrine of Chaos scrubbing some gunk off of the dome when he looked over to Canterlot where some strange dark clouds were gathering. "What in the world?" he asks himself.

Meanwhile, "Rainbow Dash I told you we have to have absolutely NO clouds!" Twilight barks to Rainbow Dash.

"These aren't normal clouds!" Rainbow Dash responds "I cleared every cloud from here to Ponyville today!"

"What's happening?" Sonic asks as the clouds begin swirling. "No..." he says.

Rage who was still on Angel Island watching leaps to his feet. "Shit." He swears before leaping down off of the roof to the shrine and darting off past Tikal kicking dust up he went.

"Rage?" she asks before he darts by. She didn't get his attention but when she saw the clouds her mouth dropped. "It can't be... that's not possible..."

Back in Canterlot the swirling clouds began to drop Dark Spawns which terrorized the ponies as they scattered and ran. "Dark Spawns?!" Sonic shouts as he gets in a battle ready stance.

"What?" Twilight asks "You mean those creatures Vlagh commanded?"

"Yeah." Sonic says kicking one away. Sonic, Twilight and the mane 6 fought as hard as they could but soon were overwhelmed.

"There's just too many..." Rainbow pants. They looked up to the clouds that had formed a malstrom as a dark figure floats down. The figure looks around and smiles.

"Greetings..." he chuckles. "Now where are your princesses?"

"Like we'd tell you!" a pony shouts. The figure who was shrouded in some form of mist looked over to the one who yelled and a Dark Spawn kills it.

"I will ask one more time!" It shouts in an echoing voice. "Where are your princesses!"

"We're here." Celestia says as she lands with Sally on her back, Luna and Cadence join her at the sides and Twilight slips between Dark Spawns to join them too. "What do you want..."

"My name is Daku-Shin, you will bow to me and surrender your magic or perish..." he chuckles grimly.

"That isn't your name..." Sonic shouts "I know who you are."

"Well if it isn't Sonic the Hedgehog..." He chuckles "Too bad you're not going to be playing hero this time..."

"We will never surrender to the likes of you!" Celestia shouts firing a beam of magic at him. Daku-Shin puts a hand up to meet the magic blast which did nothing. He then snorts and throws a ball of energy at her. She was unprepared and it strikes her before releasing a mist freezing her solid.

"Celestia!" Twilight shouts as the mist spreads slowly. She flies back avoiding it but the others weren't so lucky.

"Now any other objections..." Daku-Shin asks chuckling before a red blur hits him across the face sending him to the left into a pillar which collapsed on him. "Who did that?!" he screams as he throws the rubble off and looks where he was standing before hand to see Rage in his pony form standing there with an angry look on his face. "You have guts to hit the mighty Daku-Shin..."

"So that's what you're calling yourself these days Dex? 'Dark God'?" Rage chuckles.

"Wait a second I know that voice..." Dex growls as Rage glows and changes to his hedgehog form. "Rage the Hedgehog..." he grumbles.

"Twilight get Sonic and your friends to Angel Island, take them to the place I showed you and get them to safety." Rage directs. Twilight nods and releases some magic knocking the Dark Spawns away as she, her friends, Sonic and Tails all fled.

"I don't think so!" Dex yells sending some Dark Spawns after them. Rage however defeated them and looked to Dex. "Get out of my way!"

"I don't take orders from a Fallen Guardian." Rage scowls in a scornful way summoning his sword. Dex leaps for Rage and they begin to trade blows.

Both were nearly evenly matched. Few hits made contact with the intended target as Rage and Dex blocked most every attack from the other. Until Dex released a Dark Wave sending Rage into the ground. Rage lept to his feet and retaliated with a Chaos Spear. Dex laughs and blocks it as he begins glowing with a dark energy.

"What..." Rage pants surprised.

"Ha ha ha, pathetic you see Rage all this time I have been gaining more power to take over Mobius...but when it linked with Equestria all of the residual dark energy that floats about in the Outlands and the Badlands came right to me...now I am More than ten times more powerful than when we last faced each other!" he laughs.

"That was...10 years ago...I was still a child." Rage smirks. He was talking big but, he was already exhausted. He had made the same mistake that he did before...he let himself get used to not needing to be at full power. He stood up and looked around. He had to flee. Suddenly Shadow leaps by him and hits Dex.

"Get out of here Rage. I'll hold him off." he says. Rage nods thanking Shadow silently before running.

Meanwhile,Twilight and the others made it to Angel Island where Tikal was waiting. "Quickly." she says leading them down into the chamber housing the portal to the Chaos Realm. The arrived an a tall golden mobian wolf with warm red eyes stood there.

"Lord Chaotix." Sonic pants.

"We can talk later when you're safe in the Chaos Realm." He says leading them through the portal. He looks back out to see Rage running as fast as he could. He began to close the portal. Right before it was Rage leaps in and slides on the grass a bit.

"Master Rage what happened?" Chaotix asks

"It's terrible..." Rage pants. "Dex has...Dex has returned..."


AN: Well I hope you enjoyed the first Chapter, I will begin this story after Halloween. I will be looking into allowing Original Characters into the story whether I do or not is still undecided but if you want feel free to ask.