Discord: Wow…
Discord? Are you here?
Discord, shooting his head to me: Oh, Writer, you're back?
Yeah, sorry it took me so long, but I think I've got a few things that can make up for it.
Discord: I'm not sure that's necessary.
What do you mean?
Discord: Look here.
We check over the stories comments
Wow…
Discord: Looks like these commenters are really starting to enjoy the story.
Wow…, I don't know what to say…
Discord: Yeah, that Modern Sil… 'muphl;' I close his snout before he can get another word out; What wrong? A mouth on his stomach spoke.
Let's not mention any names okay.
Discord: Ah, how come?
The person knows who they are, and I'm very, very appreciative of the comment, but let's just focus on the story, okay.
Discord: Oh, is someone a little embarrassed; I said nothing; you're just so proud to get this comment, huh.
I've gotten them before you know.
Discord: But none like this.
…-)-'… What ever can we just get this going already? I leave to begin.
Discord, facing to who knows where: He really does like getting those comments you know, keep them coming.
Discord! He poofs away to follow after me.
Recap:
Last chapter, the group had just arrived in Mobius after having failed to protect Equestria from Quetzal's power.
Discord: And things got pretty interesting there, like when Twilight tried strangling Sonic to death not even two seconds after waking up.
The rest of the group weren't in much better condition themselves. Everybody in their own respects was devastated at the loss. Trying to take charge Sonic and Tails attempt to assure the rest that Equesrtia was still out there and every-pony still alive and well.
Discord: But even that doesn't work to convince them.
Not completely, no, but it did help to calm every-pony enough for them to begin thinking of a plan to defeat Quetzal and reclaim Equestria.
Discord: All but Sonic who pretty much admitted he has no idea what he's doing.
Now that that's out of the way, lets get to the story, shall we?
Discord: I thought you'd never ask.
Disclaimer:
Sonic the hedgehog is property of Sega
My little Pony is property of Hasbro
Now to the story…
Preview: It's time to go
Chapter 2: A Place to Start Again
Sumaya Ruins: Morning
With the entire group having arrived safely in Mobius, the portal from Equestria finally began to disappear completely. As the rift's light faded along with the constant crackling of energy, seven more shapes, the seven emeralds that had been sustaining it, fell from the fading pool. Directly underneath, both Sonic and Tails stood waiting to catch the gems as they fell, with success. Sonic managed to catch three of the emeralds while Tails caught the other four.
"Hmm, well at least we managed to get these back," Sonic said to Tails as they held the precious gems.
"Yeah, I guess," Tails said, depression clear in his voice, "a small victory from a huge loss."
"Seriously? Am I the only one trying to look on the bright side here?"
"Sorry to say it, but there isn't much of a bright side to look on Sonic," Twilight said as she walked up to the two mobians. "Now that you have your emeralds back, can some-pony please tell me…?" Twilight cut off as she realized that something was still missing, "wait a minute, what happened to the elements?"
As if in response to Twilight, one more object, the large brown trunk that held the elements of harmony, was spat out from one final burst of blue energy.
"I got it, I got it," Spike said, running under the box as it came down on his front. "I…" he stated losing his balance, "I…got it," he managed the get his footing back. "Hey, I got it," Spike tossed the trunk onto his shoulder, "what do you know. I might start to like this new body," he started flexing his new muscles, getting a chuckle out of the rest of the group.
"Alright, take it easy tough guy," Rainbow said, hopping off one side of the box.
"Hey…" Spike struggled to get his balance back from the action. Rainbow just laughed at the dragon tripping over himself; Spike didn't think I was so funny.
"Right," Twilight continued, "like I was saying, now that we have the emeralds, and the elements, do we actually have any plan on what we should do know, or are we just planning on sitting here and waiting for Quetzal to find us first." Twilight got noticeable annoyed at the disorganization of the matter.
"Relax Twilight, we have a plan," Sonic tried to reassure her.
"Really," she crossed her arms, looking un-reassured, "then tell me what it is."
"No problem. Tails what's the plan?" Sonic said, passing the buck.
"What?" Tails said, un-expectantly.
"You heard her; she wants to know our plan." The rest of the group started looking at the fox, hoping to hear the same thing.
"Uh…," Now Tails started looking annoyed at Sonic, "(thanks a lot Sonic; really appreciate this.)" Tails placed his hand on his chin and started thinking about anything they could do, until soon he came up with an answer. "Well…," he looked toward Twilight, "…I know you're not going to want to hear this, but what you said just might be the best we can do."
"You have got to be kidding me." Twilight was not happy to hear that.
"No, I'm serious," Tails started to explain, "Quetzal isn't just in the next Zone over; she's an entire dimension away. Even though we could get back to Equestria, all we would accomplish is getting trapped like the rest; and that's only assuming that she is even still there."
"What are you talking about," Rainbow said in confusion, "where else could she go?"
"She took a lot of energy out of the Chaos Emeralds, which gives control over time and space. Quetzal could have jumped to another dimension altogether by now, and we have no way of tracker her if she did."
"So you're saying there's no way we can find her," Twilight said in anger, "that's great, that's just buckin' fantastic."
"Hey don't lose hope yet, we've still got one thing on her," Tails got her attention. "Yes, Quetzal got a lot of the emeralds power, but me and Sonic have dealt with plenty of people, one in particular, that have craved power before, and I can say that's not going to be enough for her, right?" Tails addressed Sonic.
"Oh, definitely; these kinds of badies are never settled with just a little power, or even a lot, they always want all of it."
"That's right, and as long as we have the emeralds, and even the elements," Tails drew attention to the precious gems, "there's no way Quetzal won't come looking for us. And when she does, that's when we take her down."
"And how exactly do we do that?" Twilight asked scornfully.
"Well, we have from now to then to figure that out." It wasn't much of a response, but even so, Tails didn't say it with any hint of hesitation or worry, which was just what Twilight needed to hear, her and all the rest. Moved by the words, the group gathered around Sonic and Tails as they pulled the emeralds together. Twilight was still not sure how this would work out, but if Tails, Sonic, and even her friends could feel so confident with such a simple plan, then why couldn't she?
With the group now having a plan of sorts, Tails decided it was time that they got out of the ruined area, and get a change of scenery. He called Spike over with the box of elements and had him place them before him. With Sonic by his side, Tails opened up the trunk to reveal five golden necklaces inside, each with varying colors and shapes to the jewels that decorated their centers, as well as a single golden tiara decorated with a large purple jewel in the design of the star mark the acted as Twilight's cutie mark.
"Good," he said, "they look like they haven't taken any damage."
"I never thought they did," Sonic said at his friend's side as he placed the emeralds he held into the trunk along with the elements.
Tails followed along and placed his emeralds beside Sonic's and closed it up. "Alright, now it's about time we come up with a plan."
"I thought we already had plan," Sonic fawned confusion.
"I mean a plan on what to do when the Ancient-dragon finds us. We can't go into this unprepared. We need to know how we can play to all our advantages."
"Hmm, that's a good idea," Sonic lifted the trunk up and handed it to Tails, "have fun with that."
"Alright… wait, what!?"
Sonic turned his back and looked out of the ruins. "Passing through dimensional rifts always makes my body stiffen up. I'm going to head out for a run."
"Sonic!" Tails through the trunk into Spikes claws, "We really can't afford to play around with this one, this is serious."
"Who's playing? I haven't gotten to run on two legs in over a week, I'm rusty. When the time comes, you don't really want me at half skill, do you?"
"Well… no, but."
"That's actually a good idea," Rainbow Dash said as she flew next to Sonic, "mind if I join you?"
"What!? Rainbow Dash?" Tails said in shock.
"What? I've never flown with a body like this before, and I don't want to be half skill either. Plus, a new world, a full day, things I could never see back home, you can't blame me for wanting to take a look around, can you?"
"Yeah Tails, can you?" Sonic backed up Rainbow Dash. Tails just placed his palms over his face in irritation; it felt like his head would explode if she tried explaining any longer.
"Yeah Tails, can you." Discord said, appearing next to the two.
"See even he agrees," Sonic said, not keeping up, "…huh!" He turned his head to see the large serpent creature, consisting of various beast-like limbs, like a goats head, deer antler, dragon horn and claw, and others that made up this mosaic of a body, floating beside him. "What the…? When did you…?" Sonic stumbled on his words while trying to understand what he was seeing.
"Oh, he's catching up." Discord said mockingly
"What you say!?" Sonic said, slightly annoyed.
"Discord, what are you doing here!?" Rainbow shouted to the new arrival.
"Well I couldn't stay in Equestria, too purple for my taste." Discord said, apparently forgetting all of the pink candy clouds, and purple checkered roads he made in his chaos world. "(No one likes specifics writer.) Anyway, seeing as that dimension was done for, I figured I could spend some time in yours." Discord 'poofed' on a generic tourist get up, including red baseball cap, palm print shirt, cargo shorts, and camera. "After all, where better to take a vacation then our new friends world," he started taking pictures, "Seeing some new sights, maybe make some new friends," he got uncomfortably close to Sonic's head, "now doesn't that sound like fun; Selfie" he caught both himself and Sonic in the camera's frame and hit the flash, disappearing along with it. "Ooo, that's a keeper," He reappeared in front of the group, "so, what are our plans for the rest of the day?"
"Uh…, well…, Tails did say something about planning what to do about Quetzal when he got here" Sonic said, revving quickly to Discords side and wrapping his arm around his waist.
"Yeah that's right," Rainbow copied, grabbing his shoulder, "I'm sure they could use all the help they can get."
"Yeah," they started pushing him to the rest of the group, "So you'll be more than welcome to help them out. Now don't forget to tell us how that goes and we'll see you later, bye!" Sonic rushed off.
"Hey! Wait up!" Rainbow followed quickly after.
"Well that didn't seem so friendly," Discord said as he watched the two disappear into the distance with the rest of the group. "Oh well I guess it's just the five of us today," Angel bunny started ranting, "Oh sorry, I meant just the five-in-a-half of us." Discord started looking at Angel in the lens of a magnifying glass.
"Oh joy" Twilight said out loud, not even bothering to hide her disgust.
"Sooo…, are we planning on hanging out in these ruins all day? Not that I mind," He poofed an archeologist outfit on, "the strange specimens in this area are truly wondrous to behold," he was still looking at Angel bunny in the glass.
"Uhh, well actually I do have somewhere we can go," Tails responded, "I even have a way to get there, but I'm not sure we can all… What The!" he shouted as he looked over to where he lasted parked his beloved plane, the Tornado 2. It was usually a Blue steel biplane having his mark on the side and tail wings, an image of his Tails, but when he looked at it now…, it was not what he had made at all.
The plane he saw looked as if it was made of two thin green plane engines connected by three thick rods of steel in its center. Two sets of long wings were placed on the outer edge of each of the cockpits, just behind the planes nose; a set of propellers, practically overlapping each other, hung from the planes twin noses; four wheels connected to a set of interlocking rods, looking sort of like a scissor lift, lifted the body off of the ground. Of all of these changes, the one that caught Tails eyes the most was the symbol. Instead of his own insignia, Tails saw a large picture of Discord giving thumbs up with an obnoxious smile on his face replacing both of the wing's and tail wing's marks.
"Obnoxious? I find that offensive," Discord shouted to the skies in an attempt to deny the truth. Quickly after, a deep frown worked across his face for some reason.
"Wha… what happened to my plane?" Tails said in bewilderment.
"I just made a few alterations to the machine," Discord answered the fox. "You can't exactly fly two ponies a dragon and a ball of fur out of these ruins in that tiny little machine you made now can you."
"Tiny Little Machine!?"
"Well that won't be a problem now," The group vanished with those words and instantly reappeared in the seats of the discorded biplane. "Any time you're ready Fox boy, she's ready to go."
" Wha…How…?" Tails mixed words in his shock before looking toward Discord from the planes cockpit, "How did you…?"
"We'll explain later," Twilight answered form the cockpit beside Tails's, "Can we please just go already?"
The hostility in her voice snapped Tails out of his shock. Not wanting to linger anymore, he looked to the planes dashboard to inspect the controls. "Hmm? Well at least the controls seem to be the same."
"So start her up already," Discord said. Tails looked back towards Spike sitting in the seat behind Twilight, who was holding the box of precious gems. "Oh don't worry about using that emerald; this baby's got chaotic energy to spare," he said while patting the planes side, "I'll see you in the air." In a flash of light, Discord disappeared again.
"…Okay, let's see what this thing can do." Unsure what was expected, the group just braced in their seats as the little fox hit the ignition and the engines roared to life. The plane propellers reached top speed in a matter of seconds, driving the plane, and it's passengers, straight and into the air meters from the start. Constant screaming mixed with the sound of the plane engines roar and the propellers whirling through the air was the last thing heard before the Sumaya Ruins went Quiet as the last of the Equestrian friends left them behind.
To Be Continued
Equestria (Canterlot): Unknown hour
Back in Equesrtia, things were not alright. As far as the eye could see, the atmosphere looked to be covered in a bright purple field of energy that stuck to virtually everything and every-pony. Any ponies caught in the field were stationary and lifeless; frozen in what ever event they had been performing before captured.
Inside of the Castle, things were about the same. The group that attempted to stop Quetzal had been frozen at the scene of their last effort to defeat the Ancient dragon, succeeding only to get the emeralds out of her grasp, all except for…
: Wait… wait a second, what the!? Where's…?
Discord: Something wrong Writer?
: Um…
At the… top of the of the Castle Peak, too figures could be seen flying high above the land, looking over their work.
(Discord: He, he, he)
Quetzal: 'growl,' Damn it! She shot her head to the side.
Chrysalis: What's wrong?
Closer inspection revealed the two to be the Changeling queen, Chrysalis, Flying her dark bug-like body next to the fallen sun princess, Celestia, now controlled by the Anient-One, Quetzal.
Quetzal: I can't believe they escaped! And with the element and the emeralds too! Damn them!
Chrysalis: What does it matter? We have what we came for, Equestria is ours, and they are no where to be seen. We don't need the emeralds anymore.
Quetzal turned her head to Chrysalis, angry at her response. One of the snake tails attached to the back of Celestia's neck shot out from under her lime hair and wrapped it-self around Chrysalis's celled body, crushing her in it's grip and forcing a grunt of pain out of her.
Chrysalis, struggling to breath, let alone talk: Quetzal… what are you…?
Quetzal: Think before speaking 'princess!' The power I have here is still limited! With the amount of power I took from the elements, I can hold this field for half a year, maybe more, but unless I have the element to maintain the energy field, I will lose control! And we don't want that, Do We! She strengthened her tails grip.
Chrysalis, between crushed lungs: No…no… I'm sorry…, please… forgive me.
Quetzal released her grip, letting Chrysalis catch her breath and begin flying again.
Quetzal: No, I'm sorry, I let my anger get the better of me. But we do have to get those elements back.
Chrysalis: How?
Quetzal gave a sly smile in response, holding out her grey fore hooves as a large ball of light blue energy, clashing with the purple energy field, grew in front of her. Chrysalis watched in a trance at the expanding energy ball.
Quetzal: Huh, I still have plenty of chaos force to open a portal or too. They won't escape me a second time.
Chrysalis: But we don't know where they went.
Quetzal: Yes we do.
A large group of swarming changelings, each looking like a smaller version of Chrysalis, started flying up to the two seemingly out of no where, and began surrounding them.
Quetzal: They went back home, and that's just where we're going.
Quetzal's smile only grew as the energy sphere around her hooves kept growing until it began consuming her within it, then Chrysalis, and then all the rest of the changelings. It kept growing until all the swarm had been swallowed inside of if it and the energy could collapse back into itself, but it was not done yet. As the ball faded, the energy field around Equestria reacted, its energies hue darkening, and the frequency spiking out of control. It looked as though Equestria's imprisoning field, and all that was held inside, had begun to compress.
Next Chapter: What's better, flying or running?
And there you go. Chapter two is complete
Discord: Not bad writer.
Oh, I'm just getting started
Discord: By the way you never told us. What was so surprising in the Equestrian field?
Oh, I'm sure you know. Some-pony happened to be missing, who should have been there.
Discord: Do you mean Fluttershy? Didn't we already state that I saved her?
Not her.
Discord: Well I'm stumped then.
Yeah right…
Discord: So shall we close this chapter then.
Sure, well we hope you all enjoyed this chapter of My Little Mobians
Discord: If you did, try following and favoriteing writers work and leave any of your comments down below, he really does appreciate them
Right, and I hope to hear you all next chapter so
Until…
Discord: Oh Writer.
Huh…
Discord: I almost forgot. One of our commenter friends had a question that I'm wondering myself.
What?
Discord: Our 'heroes' have arrived in Sonic's home world right? Does that mean they are going to meet some of his friends now.
Uh…
Discord: Which ones? I'm sure I'd love to meet them myself, and honestly who wouldn't love to meet me?
…well, I can't say anything for sure yet, but I can say this. One of their friends will show up soon, one that has noticed that they have been gone for so long, especially Sonic.
Discord: Ooo, I'm getting goose bumps.
Now?
Discord: Right, see you next chapter, and until then…
