Me: Hey guys, we're back and check out my new profile pic

Flare: Sure, you can draw yourself, but you can't draw me

Me: I try! But for some reason you come out a bit off to me

Flare: Don't act like Death the Kid

Zalgy: Death the Kid? He's so funny!

Me: No one cares!

Zalgy: Well you don't have to be so mean about it. Aura only owns his OCs and the storyline. Everything else belongs to their respectful owners!

Two days later in Canterlot, over at the castle Kay and Matt were guarding the entrance to the throne room while Misty, Ashley, and Jack were guarding the princesses inside the room. Kay was leaning against the wall, looking bored as ever until he looked back at Matt who had a questioning look. "What?" Matt asked

"Aren't you bored of standing here all day?" Kay replied with a question "I mean c'mon, nothing has happened and the princesses aren't in any danger" Kay told the young wizard

"I guess you're right" Matt replied, placing his hand under his chin and began thinking to himself. A Royal Guard came running towards them with an urgent expression on his face and stopped at the two hedgehogs guarding the door. Kay was the first to notice the expression on his face.

"Hey man, are you alright?" Kay asked

"There has been a strange amount of disappearances in the Crystal Empire and Manehatten and I must inform the princesses" the guard replied and entered the room along with Kay and Matt. "Your majesties" The guard bowed and stood back up "I am here to report that there have been some disappearances in the Crystal Empire and in Manehatten"

"Disappearances?" Jack asked

The guard nodded, "Yes and they seem to be continuing a bit too fast" he explained

"I see... Then I must inform Twilight and her friends" Celestia announced and made a letter appear and began to write on it. After she was done, she sent the letter away with her magic.

"Well, while we wait for Twilight and the others to show up, why don't Matt, Jack, and I go over to the Crystal Empire and investigate" Kay suggested, but Misty and Ashley weren't fine with staying in Canterlot.

"How come you guys are going to the Empire?" Misty asked while raising an eyebrow "We aren't just going to let you have all the fun"

"Yeah" Ashley added "We need some action!" she shouted, raising her hoof into the air.

"Well you two can go. I'll stay here and keep guarding the princesses"

"Well if that's settled then you guys can come" Kay said, and with that they all exited the room and then walked out the castle. From there, they started their travel to the Crystal Empire.

Ponyville

Back in Ponyville, in the park was Aura in his Guardian form, who got hit with a beam made from time and space, exploding in a huge smokescreen. When the smoke cleared you see Aura standing, but barely. "Is that all you guys got?!" He shouted to a certain hedgehog, the hedgehog being Unknown in his Empowerment form. Aura began to build up his aura into his hand as it began to grow into a bright light. Unknown teleported in front of Aura and kneed him in the gut, causing him to spit up blood and collapse on his knees.

"Aura, don't push yourself too much" Unknown told him "You need to take a break" Aura sighed and reverted back into his normal form and began to walk away.

"Alright, but... give it your all next time" That was the last thing he said before he exited the park leaving Unknown all alone with a smirk on his face

"That hedgehog is too stubborn about taking it easy" Unknown chuckled "I wonder what Stargazer is doing?" He asked himself and exited the park to find Stargazer. Meanwhile at Twilight's home where Twilight and Glimpse are seen sitting on the couch having a friendly conversation with each other that is until Spike, being back to normal, came in slamming the door open while holding a letter in his hand. Above the couch where Twilight was sitting, a little flower pot was teetering closely to the edge where it would most likely fall on Twilight's head because of Spike slamming the door.

"Hey Twilight" Glimpse started

"Yeah?"

"Could you scoot over a bit please?" He asked

Twilight held her hoof under her chin to think "Um... sure" She answered and scooted over to the right when the flower pot fell and landed on the couch cushions which surprised Twilight and Spike.

"That flower pot could have landed on your head... How did you know it was going to fall Glimpse?" Spike asked

"I didn't" He simply replied, but Twilight was curious as to how he could have known about the flower pot almost falling on her head.

"Riiight... So Spike, what was it that you needed?" Twilight asked which brought Spike back to his train of thought

"Oh! Princess Celestia sent a letter" Spike walked up to Twilight and gave her the letter "It said that there have been a number of disappearances in the Crystal Empire and Manehatten" he explained as Twilight finished reading the letter

"I bet it's those Equinoxian pricks!" Glimpse said, clenching his fists when Spike burped fire and a scroll landed on Glimpse's lap. He picked it up and began to read it. "It says that Kay, Jack, Ashley, and Misty are investigating over at the Crystal Empire" he explained "So that leaves Manehatten to the rest of us" Glimpse gave the scroll to Twilight and began to read the scroll to see that what Glimpse said was true.

"I hope they can handle it over at the Crystal Empire" Twilight said with worriness

"Don't worry Twilight, they'll be fine" Glimpse reassured her

"They should be there by now" Glimpse finished.

Kay and the rest of his group were almost nearing the Crystal Empire. "I'm bored" Misty sighed and looked at the ground when an idea popped into her head. "Hey! How about a race to the Crystal Empire!" She exclaimed while Jack, Kay, and Ashley looked at each other before nodding their heads with confident smirks on their faces. They all got into position when Kay spoke.

"Whoever comes in last place has to pay for dinner" Kay said and they all agreed. "Readyyy...? GO!" Kay shouted and they all took off running/flying towards the Crystal Empire.

Ponyville

Back in town, everyone was huddled up in Twilight's "lab" below her library, each of them wondering who called them to the unexpected meeting when Twilight, Glimpse, and Tails walked in front of the large group.

"Well I have something to show all of you, so get ready" Tails began and walked over to something that was covered with a cloak. "Meet the new Metal Sonic and Metal Aura!" Tails exclaimed as he pulled the cloak and revealed the two robots standing there shining like a brand new car. MS looked at the crowd and did Sonic's signature thumbs up pose while MA turned the other way and crossed his arms. Tails looked at MA with a little sweat drop on his forehead and chuckled nervously. "I kind of programmed them to act like Sonic and Aura, but Metal Aura seems to have more of Aura's serious attitudes I guess" Tails explained.

"Well at least they're on our side" Aura said when Tails held up a hand.

"That's not all, Metal Aura?" Tails gestured the mechanical being as it turned from its robotic state into a hover board and started to fly all around the room while everyone stared in awe

"Now that's what I call 20% cooler" Rainbow said watching Metal Aura fly around the room. Twilight and Glimpse then stepped up and cleared their throats.

"Okay, now Princess Celestia informed me that there have been disappearances going on in Manehatten and in the Crystal Empire. Kay, Jack, Ashley, and Misty are going to handle the Crystal Empire while the rest of us go check out Manehatten." Twilight then made a few communicators appear, about 7 of them and passed them out, one for each group they were about to split into.

"Sonic and I'll be partners!" Rainbow shouted while the blue hedgehog gave her a smirk.

"Just try to keep up when we head out" Sonic said with a smug look on his face.

"Bring it!"

"Well Glimpse and I will be one team" Twilight said looking at Glimpse who nodded his head.

"Stargazer and I will keep watch of the town, but if anything happens over there just shout "Cupcakes" over the communicator and we'll be over there in a heart beat" Unknown said, confusing everyone, except for Pinkie, with the Cupcakes part.

"Spike and I could team up" Tails said, getting out his arm cannon while Spike activated his amulet and then reverted back into his original form. After that the two shared a high five with each other.

"I'd like to partners with you Blade, if that's okay with you" Fluttershy said with her usual shyness and Blade just smiled.

"Sure, we'll be partners" he replied

"Rage and I will become team Raging Party!" Pinkie shouted and started jumping all over while Rage looked at her in confusion, but shrugged the feeling off.

"That just leaves Aura, Rarity, and Applejack" Twilight said and looked at the three of them.

"It's fine" Aura said and began to climb up the stairs to the main room, but stopped at the door way. "The sooner we get to Manehatten, the better" Aura left everyone in the room and for a moment they stayed silent until they began to exit the room as well.

They all arrived at the train station, waiting for the train to get here when the conductor exited the office and yelled out, "Trains going to Manehatten and the Crystal Empire have been stopped until further notice!" he shouted while all the ponies there groaned.

"Great, now what?" He asked when Aura suddenly turned into his Guardian form and flew up into the air.

"Well I guess the obvious thing to do is to get a ride!" he shouted to them down below and flew back into Ponyville. Five minutes later, he arrived back with an apple cart he borrowed from Big Macintosh. He carefully placed it on the grassy area and dusted his hands, reverting back into his normal form. "Well, get on" he said and Tails, Spike, and the Mane six, except for Rainbow Dash, hopped into the cart and Aura strapped himself and got ready to take off.

"Aura, do take it slowly, I don't want my mane to get all ruffled up" Rarity said politely while Aura looked back at her with a serious expression

"Rarity, if I took it slow then it would take us days to get there" Aura exaggerated a bit, but knew he was making a point. "We're gonna get there in about ten minutes or so if we take off like its the end of the world" Sonic was the first to take off followed by Rainbow Dash, Glimpse, and Rage. Aura waited for a moment before turning into his Guardian form again and flew off, pulling the cart with him while everyone on board began to hold on for dear life, except for Pinkie pie who was enjoying the ride as if it was just like any other rollercoaster ride.

"This so much fun!" she shouted.

Manehatten

In Manehatten, all the buildings have been ruined. You can see multiple piles of debris on fire, but this fire was black and dark. The streets were covered in black ice spears coming up from the ground. Dead bodies of ponies were seen all over, some were even mounted on the icicle spears like trophies, their blood dripping down to the ground. For those that were alive were captured or either killed on the spot. On top of one of the buildings, you see a dark silhouette of a hedgehog, looking down at the ruined city. A dark fox walked up behind him and placed his hand on his shoulder.

"I like what you've done with the place" he said "I especially like the ponies that are mounted on the ice spears. Very Slendery" Max complimented.

"They're coming..." Flare said

"What?"

"They're coming... Sonic, Glimpse, Rage, the Ponies, and... Aura" Flare started to smile widely when he said his brother's name and began to laugh, but it died down when he looked back at Max. "Listen here when they arrive, Aura is mine! You got it!" he shouted.

"Hmph! It's first come first served. So if I find him, then I'm the one who gets to break him"

"Only one way to settle this!" They both walked over to a stump of concreted and sat down as if it were a table. Then they grabbed each other's wrists and began to arm wrestle.

Me: Well not very action packed, but it will do

Flare: Really? That's how we're gonna settle it? With an arm wrestle?

Me: It was the only thing I could think of

Zalgy: Slendery *laughs* That's funny

Me: Well that's all for today's chapter. Don't forget to Review

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