You guys have Sonic Generations to thank for this! Gave me the proper ideas.

Note about this chapeter at the bottom!

Spyro: I'm not saying it, because it's obvious

Dasuke

Larxene bothered me for a while. An illusion of her has been created, but for what purpose?

It didn't make sense. Seeing that it was getting dark, I figured I would head to the library.

As I entered the library, I looked over and saw an amusing sight. Twilight had fallen asleep, literally with her nose in the book.

'She must have been up all night,' I thought. I walked over and picked her up, cradling her gently.

Holding her brought back memories.

(Ventus – Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep)

I walked into the living room of Keith's house, wondering what time it was. I turned and saw Sabrina passed out on the table.

"Sabrina?" I said. She jolted upright.

"Huh? Oh, hey Suki." She said. Sabrina yawned. "What time is it?"

"It's early morning."

"What? Oh man, I was up all night?"

"For what?"

"That's right…most Half-Dragons are denied any public education."

"We're self educated."

"Any ways…I have some tests coming up and I've been studying late into the night."

I chuckled. "It won't help if you're sleep deprived." I gently picked her up in my arms. "Come on. I'll put you in bed."

Sabrina snuggled into my scaly chest. "Thank you, Dasuke."

I gently placed her on the bed and walked out. "Sleep tight, Twilight."

I walked outside and looked at the rising moon. I could have sworn I saw an alicorn bring it up into the sky.

(Fade out)

Aile

"Alright, so Agrabah, Halloween Town, and Atlantica didn't have him…" I said.

Sonic groaned. "Man, why do we have to find him? He was a stick in the mud!"

"No…" Spyro said. "He's just carrying a lot of hurt."

"I know what you mean, Spyro. I can see it in his eyes. He's lost someone close to him."

"And I think…he's scared to get close to anyone but his friends."

Sonic began to think. "What if we became his friends? Like Keith and those other two are with him?

Spyro just looked at Sonic. "I've learned that sometimes, we already have what we want."

"You consider him your friend, don't you?" I asked him.

"I do." Spyro smiled and looked out the cockpit. "He helped me without even knowing me."

I looked out. "We're coming close to another world."

Dasuke

"I win again." I said, pinning Rainbow to the ground. "That makes it 10-0."

"Ah well," She jumped right back up as soon as I let up. "I'll get you eventually. Just you wait!" Rainbow jumped up and dashed into the sky, streaking a rainbow behind her. Two weeks just flew by with her around and her random attacks on me, trying get one over on me.

"Think you can give me sometime to rest then?" I said to no one in particular. I laid down in the grass and took in a deep breath.

It never occurred to me before, but this world was so bright and colorful. It made me feel at peace for once.

I reached for the familiar locket around my neck. "I haven't forgotten you, Symphony. I never will." I said aloud.

"I'll keep your promise, down to my dying breath."

Sonic

Dasuke sure can get himself lost. And apparently in the strangest of places.

Well, the first thing to note is that Aile and I have turned into small horses. Me a deep blue with the ever familiar quills, and her as a light red with that brown ponytail. To make matters even more fun, both of us had these weird marks on our flanks, Aile's being what looked to be some kind of package – as she says she was once a transporter AKA delivery girl – and mine being sound waves.

And to make it even more jolly, Spyro remains unchanged. Some god hates me. Might not be Chaos, but SURELY some god out there is out to get me.

"So now what?" I asked. Aile thought for a moment.

"Let's split up. That's our best bet of finding him." She responded. Spyro nodded and spread his wings.

"I'll search the air and see if I can find him." He took off in a purple flash.

Aile and I struggled to walk at first, but soon worked out how we would move. As soon as we figured it out, we made our way towards a rather small village. There, we figured out why we were…these small horses. Everyone else was.

"Well, that explains it." Aile said. I nodded in agreement with her.

With that we all split up, and began our search.

Dasuke

I walked into the antechamber of the throne room. Twilight and her friends trailed close behind me, looking at the note I held in my paw.

"To the young, mysterious dragon,

I have been very interested in you since I've first observed how much you are willing to sacrifice for others. To my knowledge, you were unaware of the exist of my student and her friends, yet put your life on the line to help them. I would like to see you along with them, perhaps you hold a valuable lesson they could all learn.

Princess Celestia."

"You wanted to see me?" I asked as I entered the chamber.

The white alicorn walked out, and for the first time, I noticed all of the royal gold she donned. "Oh, you're early!" She said a bit shocked. "I wasn't expecting you for a bit later!"

"Sorry, I just know how royalty hates to be kept waiting." I apologized.

"No, no, no! It's quite alright. Please do come!" She beckoned, a hoof across her chest.

I nodded and walked up closer. "So, what do you want me to talk about?"

"Just something that I'm curious about." The princess reassured. "Why Fight so hard? Surely you don't have to."

That question. The one everyone asks me.

(Scent of Silence – Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories)

"Why do I fight. Because…because I've lost everything…" I walked over and looked out the window, at the bright colors of the world before me.

"Seven years ago…I became the subject of a prophesy. One that said I…I would destroy my world.

The skies shall darken, moon blood red,

All living beings with blood shed.

A soul of Darkness this world knows,

Will set fire to that is good

No matter how hard one tries, if they would.

The beginning of the end, he will sew."

Silence. I didn't blame them. I turned and saw each of their faces. All of them had the same expression, shock. And their hearts, the same emotion. Fear, of me.

"The severed half of the god of destruction, the one bound by emotion sought to make it come true. I order to 'awaken' me, he decided to let me feel grief that eat away at me forever…" I turned away as tears filled my eyes, yet keeping myself strong and not letting my voice choke.

"He killed my parents. Strangled my father and decapitated my mother. He turned to me and laughed sadistically. 'You're not getting off easy,' he said. 'You need to grow first!' He scattered my memories and sapped my powers, and left me as powerful as any normal being."

A shift. I could tell that they felt for me. Especially Celestia. Empathy radiated from her in massive waves.

"Nearly one day later, I found a young dragon hatchling named Symphony. He was my first real friend. He listened to me, he understood me. He was an outcast…like me.

"Nearly four years later, I learned that he used a part of the power that was taken from me to create a dark clone of me, Dark Dasuke. Narcissistic, sadistic, and obsessed with killing for the fun of it, he set fire to the world in barely a week.

"My group of friends had grown and we all agreed to confront Dark Dasuke at a sacred alter. He wanted that. He pinned us all down, and said that in order to activate the true power of the alter, someone needed to be sacrificed, and Dark Dasuke wanted it to be me."

I couldn't stop myself from hesitating here.

"Symphony took the blow instead." I choked out.

I didn't even bother feeling their emotions anymore.

"The rage in my heart awoke, and I understood why I was chosen. From the deepest reaches burst forth a power I never knew I had, and I nearly destroyed the alter in the process, and I thought I destroyed Dark Dasuke…but I didn't.

"Before he was killed, I made a promise to Symphony, one he forced me to make with him. No matter what, I would do everything to protect anyone I could." I turned to look at Twilight. "That's why I protected you, Twilight. I said I didn't have a reason, but the promise is natural to me, I never considered it."

"You were keeping a promise…" She observed.

(Fade out)

"Is it your promise that keeps you fighting?"

I nodded. Before anything could be said, there was an explosion out side. I looked out and saw a blue blur blasting through Canterlot.

"How long can you distract them?" Dark Dasuke asked the doctor.

"Oh, a few Egg Pawns in the city will be enough. You need all four right? Take away one and they can't find this, 'Keyhole', correct?" He responded.

"Yes…keep away one, and we can get the Keyhole. All worlds must fall." Seth said, looking away from the human.

"So, I'll keep Sonic away. You can do what you want."

Sonic

"You sure you saw him?" I asked Spyro.

"No doubt, he was heading to the castle, with six other horses. I think they may have summoned him there." He responded, hovering in the air.

Before Aile could say anything, I jumped up and called out, "LOOK OUT!"

Aile jumped away before an Eggbot attacked her. One homing attack later and it was destroyed.

"What was that?" Spyro asked.

"An Egg Pawn. Eggman must've them all over the city and near the castle…Hey Spy! Take me close to the city!"

Spyro flipped and latched around my body, flying close to the city.

"Man, it looks a lot like Spagonia!" I said through the wind.

"Is that a place from your world?" Spyro asked. He flew close to the ground, where several more of those horses gave us odd looks.

Wait, they had horns? Unicorns?

"Sonic?" Spyro snapped me out of my staring.

"Huh? What?" I shook my head and looked at him.

"What are you going to do?"

I smirked as soon as he asked that. He clearly did not know me.

(Rooftop Run Modern – Sonic Generations)

"I'm gonna run!" I took off in a blur and sped through the city streets. Coming to a long stretch of emptiness, I decided was a good time to boost and go faster!

Several Egg Chasers flew up close to me and turned to me. All of them pointed lasers at me, and tried to hit me. A simple sidestep forced them to miss that opportunity.

Egg Pawns were bring dropped in like they were worth pennies all over the city, which meant I had quite a job.

I came up to a corner and wondered if I could still drift. I made a small hop and successfully curled into a ball, even though I wasn't a hedgehog, and drifted around the corner. I jumped out and leaped up onto the roof and continued my dash, smashing any Egg Pawns.

Dasuke

"I know that blur." I said. "That's Sonic!"

All of the ponies were looking out at the window and saw the blue blur speed across Canterlot, smashing away Robots as they appeared in waves.

"He's so fast!" Twilight said in shock.

"He's the self proclaimed 'Fastest Thing Alive' and he's living up to it I'd say." I said. I turned and noticed that Dash had vanished.

"I said the magic words didn't I?" I asked.

"Yup." All answered at once.

The window next to me suddenly broke as Sonic sped past us. I looked out and saw what he was doing.

He was a blue pony. He was doing this…as a pony. He was running up the side of the castle with little effort.

He ran up to the tallest spire and leapt off. The remaining five screamed.

"He won't make it!"

"Yes he will." I said, more than likely somewhat annoyed. "He's sky-diving." I just sighed. "We may as well go and see if he's alright…who wants to come?"

Sonic

I jumped off the spire and began to dive, looking for my next route. The railing along the castle caught my attention, and I dove towards that.

Being led to a new part of the city was pretty fun! I got to smash even more of Eggy's robots, seeing as he apparently had enough to spare them all.

Not to mention that running through this city was tons of fun! It's certainly no Spagonia, but it's still big!

The Egg Chasers returned, and with plenty of Egg Fighters, I knew what to do. A simple boost to knock and Egg Fighter into a Chaser took care of every chaser that came close to me. I drifted back towards to the main center. And yet something felt off…

Where was Eggman?

"Sonic!"

Dasuke

I glided down next to Sonic and called out his name.

He turned and smiled. "Hey! We've been looking for ya ever since the ship was fixed up!" He turned a corner suddenly, barely slowing down.

"I thought that. Hey, you might want to meet my passenger!" I pointed up to the purple unicorn latched onto my back.

"I'm Twilight! Are you one of his friends?" Twilight asked through the wind.

"Yup! Name's Sonic!" He looked up. "Hey, that looks familiar! Eggy's here after all!"

I looked up and saw what he meant. There was a huge black and red airship hovering over the city, letting out more of those robots by the second.

"Make some room Twi!" Sonic side flipped and landed on my back. I just smirked.

"Just know that I can go fast to!" I pulled up and aimed myself at the Egg Carrier. A whole mass of fighters began to swarm out towards me.

"Incoming!" Sonic said. Sure enough, all lock onto to me and begin to fire missile after missile.

"Twilight, grab those missiles with your magic and throw them back!" I yelled. She nodded and did as I said, the missiles turning back towards their origins while covered in a purple-ish light.

"Your turn Sonic! Hang on tight Twilight!" She wrapped her hoofs around my neck as tight as a she could without suffocating me. I did a flip and sent Sonic flying towards the fighters. Sonic repeatedly slammed into one after the other, coming closer to the carrier itself.

Something told me that Sonic would be fine on his own for now. I flew over towards the engines and maneuvered myself away from the exhaust and in the sunlight. I opened my mouth and let loose a barrage of light beams on the engines, destroying them.

I turned and saw Sonic hovering in the air, two gemstones hovering around him. I heard him yell, "CHAOS CONTROL!" Before slamming INTO the Carrier and going through its core most likely.

Sonic came out the other side, skydiving. I swooped over and grabbed him in my claws, catching him before anything bad could happen.

"Alright Twilight, you said you had a lot of magic right?" I asked her.

"Yeah?"

"Nudge the remains of the Carrier over so they won't slam into your home city!"

Twilight was freaking out. "Wh-WHAT! I can't move something that huge!"

"Yes you can! Just a nudge is all that's needed. You can do it!" Sonic encouraged. Twilight audibly gulped before she undertook the task. I flew closer to make it easier and matched its decent speed.

The wreckage began to glow the familiar purple before being moved over a foot or so, and inertia took over. The Egg Carrier slammed into the ground, completely missing Caterlot by a good quarter-mile.

"YES! I DID IT!" Twilight cheered.

"We're not done yet!" Sonic said.

"Time to clean house!" I yelled. "Hold on you two!" A dark mist gathered around my body.

"What is…" Twilight began to ask.

"DARK!"

"Whoa! Twilight, hold on!" Sonic yelled.

"CHARGE!" I blasted forward surrounded in Dark energy while my two passengers screamed. Whatever Egg Pawn was left in Canterlot was utterly destroyed by me.

As soon as I skidded to a halt, he trail left by me dissipated. Twilight fell off, looking a bit woozy. Sonic jumped off and began to cheer.

"That was tight!"

(Fade out)

Everyone gathered up to where we were. I smiled as soon I saw Spyro and Aile. I ran over and gave them a hug.

"Man, I missed you guys!" I said, laughing.

"You're-you're LAUGHING! You're not supposed to laugh!" Spyro said in shock.

Dash came in and tackled Sonic. "That was INCREDIBLE! I flew out to see the whole thing, and you were FAST! You and I HAVE to race sometime!" She said.

All of us laughed at Rainbow's desires. All of that ended when a sudden tremor rocked the city. The four of us looked around, seeing if there was another attack coming.

A yellow light surrounded Sonic and Aile, leaving them in their normal forms when it died down.

"Hey, what's going on?" Sonic asked.

"TIA! TIA!" A dark blue alicorn flew over and latched on to Celestia, more than likely being her sister.

"Luna calm down…now what's wrong?" The sun princess asked, given their names.

"These two…dragons came in…leading these…black creatures through…the throne room!" Luna gasped out.

"What did they look like?"

"One of them…was black…blacker than the nights…the other was red."

"Blood red! Seth!" I yelled out. I looked back at the castle, and it clicked.

"The Keyhole! We never sealed the Keyhole!"

"And if there were heartless up there…" Sonic said.

"Then Seth led them there to…" Spyro noted.

"EGGMAN'S ATTACK WAS A DISTRACTION!" Sonic yelled.

A small pulsating black orb formed above the castle as the skies darkened. I could hear Sonic growling as the wind picked up.

"Aile, get the Gummi Ship down here. We need to get them to Traverse Town!" Spyro said. Aile nodded before being transported to the Gummi Ship.

"I'm going to find Eggman!" Sonic said. I grabbed him before he could run off.

"And do what? Fighting him won't solve anything."

"I know that! But he has information. He knows what the master plan is, and if any of our other enemies are involved!"

Sonic's idea made sense. I nodded and let him go. "Just come back to us." I said.

Sonic reached into his quills and threw out a small red gem. "Why?"

"As long as we each hold one Emerald, I can come back to you."

Sonic waved before running off. There was a loud smashing behind me as part of the castle was demolished by the windstorm. The Gummi Ship came down close as a small hatch underneath opened up.

Sonic

(Modern Crisis City – Sonic Generations)

I ran past all of the ruble that was flying towards me, jumping from on spot to another. Heartless began to amass as Shadows, trying to block my path. I just snarled and summoned my Keyblade, ready to take them all on.

A large piece of ruble from the city was coming at me, and it gave me an idea. I jumped up and Slashed it to pieces and directed them at the Heartless. The ruble destroyed them all and cleared my path to the village.

Lightning began to flare across the sky, and I could too that it was about to strike the ground. I took off running, Key still in hand should I encounter anymore Heartless.

I turned and saw that I was being chased by a mix of a Heartless and an Egg Chaser. I jumped and threw a chunk of ice at it in the form of a Blizzard Spell. The spell made contact, destroying the Egg Heartless and releasing the heart in an explosion.

I looked back and ran towards the village again, noting how scared every single one of the ponies looked. Most of them were running away, and the village was nearly empty by the time I reached the edge.

The forest was made of nearly all dead trees. Fitting, considering what was going on.

Aile

"AILE HURRY UP!" Dasuke yelled to me.

"I'm not leaving with out Sonic! He can still make it!" I countered.

"We don't have time! Sonic will be fine. He can get out of there using Chaos Control if he has to." Spyro said.

I was still wondering why Dasuke decided to bring along these ponies. I then noticed the box the blue princess was cradling.

"Dasuke, what's your game?" I asked him.

"I'm just going to help who I can. Now we need to go!"

I gave in. "Sonic, you'd better know what you're doing!" The Gummi Ship rose and took off away from the collapsing world.

"Will…will everything be alright?" The pink pony asked. Her usually curly hair had inexplicably turned straight, like it was ironed.

"He'll make it, right?" The purple unicorn asked.

"He will." Dasuke said. "And if he doesn't, I'll dive into the Darkness and get him."

I punched in the coordinates for Traverse Town. "Here we go." Cid's warp drive activated and we were out of there.

Sonic

This feels…familiar.

I was currently running through the dead forest away from a black tornado that was trying to kill me. I don't know, but I feel like I've done this before.

I the Keyblade I was holding began to act up, and these images of me running through a flaming city flashed in my head.

I shook my head and boosted to get away from the tornado. Have I done this before? I don't remember…

I saw the small Egg-Pod flying through and turned towards it. "Eggman!"

The doctor turned and looked at me. "Ah, Sonic! Find my machines fun?"

"Look at what you've caused! Is this what you want? I thought you could never hurt other humans! Is this what you intend to allow to everyone!"

Eggman laughed. "All for the greater good you stupid hedgehog!" That familiar Wrecking ball dropped out from below the Egg Pod. "Now, time for you to vanish with this world!" The pod suddenly turned, leaving me unable to defend against the attack.

I was thrown against a large boulder. I was likely out for an hour or two. When I looked at the ground, all of the vegetation seemed to be dying around me. The huge black orb was getting closer and larger. There wasn't much time left.

I turned and saw a group of children struggling with a small wagon. One of them was carrying a small rabbit, oddly enough. I jogged over to the small ponies.

"Need a hand?" I asked.

"Thanks, mister!" The white unicorn said. "We're just so scared right now…"

"Tell me about it." I said. I turned and looked back, and saw something horribly familiar flying towards us.

"HANG ON!" I yelled. I took off running, pulling the wagon behind me. Metal Sonic flew up next to me, those red eyes of his glowing red.

"Not now Metal, don't have time for you!" I jumped and kicked him away. I grabbed the handle and took off again. I turned and saw Metal shake his head before diving towards me again.

"What do I…Wait!" I flipped into the wagon with the others.

The ground began to break apart below us as it was being pulled into the black hole.

I reached into my quills and pulled out the green Chaos Emerald.

Metal Sonic drew closer.

I held up the Emerald.

"CHAOS CONTROL!" I yelled, activating the teleportation to Traverse Town.

After that all I know is that the world collapsed and sank into Darkness.

(Fade out)

Spyro

I knew what they were going through. The ponies we rescued. I saw my world collapse as well.

Twilight walked off to another part of Traverse Town with the princesses, while Pinkie aimlessly wandered. She seemed the saddest of all of them.

"Hey, I'm sorry." I blurted out.

"For what?" Rainbow questioned me. "It wasn't your fault. These bad guys were just smarter for once."

"You did what you could…that's the…important thing." Rarity looked like she was ready to break down crying, and AJ took close second to that.

"We failed…we were supposed to stop things like that from happening, but we couldn't." Dasuke said, sounding upset, sad, and angry.

"Please…don't blame yourself." Fluttershy asked of Dasuke.

"Yeah, we did what we could Dasuke…" Aile reassured.

A green light flashed above us and Sonic fell onto his back, along with three smaller ponies and a white rabbit.

"Applebloom!" Applejack said in glee.

"Sweetie Belle!" Rarity squealed.

"Hey, squirt! Ya made it." Dash smirked as she said her piece.

"Angel! You're alright!" Fluttershy flew over and grabbed the rabbit in her hooves.

Sonic stood up and smirked. Aile shook her head, walked over, and smacked Sonic so hard, he fell face first on the ground.

"NEVER pull something like that again!" She yelled at him. Sonic jumped right back up and shrugged.

"What can I say? I'm Sonic the Hedgehog!"

Dasuke chuckled to himself. "I'm going to give our goodbyes to Celestia and Luna. Wait for me." Dasuke walked off.

With it just the three of us again, we needed to know. "Sonic, how did you find them." Aile asked.

Sonic's face became serious. "I ran into Metal Sonic."

"Isn't he that robotic copy Eggman made of you?" I asked.

Aile pulled out a small…holoscreen and began to look at a map. "The Dark wall has receded, and I can see a world in it. Anyone recognize it?"

I looked at the map that Aile brought up. I saw Cornelia, our next destination, but also an obscre world in the darkness.

"Not to-"

"No way!" Sonic yelled. "It can't be!"

"What?" Aile asked.

"That's Stardust Speedway!"

The thing that had me stuck was how to include good ol' Metal. Next up to be included are Prometheus and Pandora.

Now, why include Equestria in the first place? Dasuke is why. He SUCKS with new people, and distances himself from others. So, you bring in them crazy ponies, and you get this!

Now, why have it be destroyed? Because Seth's a douchebag is why. That was just to show how serious he is.

Next may be an intermission at the beginning, then the fight against Garland. After that, the next chapter will be short and the first battle against Metal Sonic.