Hellllllloooo readers! Another chapter is here! Hooray! Anyway, let's see those reviews!
Flutterlikeanangel: I read it! Good improvements!
Werewolf lover99: Glad you liked it!
Captainawsum9999: OMG GOLD IN SON OF SPACE SDHLVNERIOUVNASLN. Thanks for adding him and thanks for reviewing. The portal in the base was there for a reason, to get Eggman to Equestria. Not just random. He didn't expect for Sonic, Gold and Tails to go through it however. Just a little explanation, KEEP READING :D
BADA55: We talked about your idea in PMs. And guess what? I get to be in Son of Space with you. Oh wait, shit, I'm gonna have to deal with Ensis. Well that will be fun.
If you couldn't tell, Gold is in captainawsum9999's new story, The Son of Space! So before you read this chapter or even after this chapter, go check out his story! Tons of other OCs as well, it is awesome. GO READ IT! NOWWWWWWW! And don't worry, more Gold in the future (hint hint). DISCLAIMERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Disclaimer: I only own Gold the Fox, Eon, Dark Eon, etc. and the plot. The other characters are owned by their respective owners, and Blade is owned by BADA55W0RD.
Gold the Fox presents…
Eon Chronicles
Eonic Harmony
Chapter 10: Light in the Dark
"Um, is it just me or have they been gone for a while?" Tails asked Blade.
"Hey, maybe they are just having some fun…" Blade said, starting to laugh.
"Did you really just say that?" Tails said starting to laugh as well.
"Yes, I did." Blade said still laughing. "But in all seriousness, they have been gone for a while."
"Hey, maybe we can sneak up and see how Gold is doing." Tails suggested.
"Correction, sneak up and see how they are doing, if you know what I mean." Blade said starting to laugh again.
"That is just wrong dude…" Tails said, still laughing all the same as they went to go see how the two were doing, not knowing what had happened.
…
"Oh god, not here again." Gold said.
He was in some sort of space, where everything was black, and no lights, no anything. Gold couldn't even use his Eon to light up the place.
"It's been a while since you've been here." A distant voice said with evil in its voice.
A chill was sent through Gold's spine. That voice and the place he was in was probably the one thing he feared the most, but still he had to show no fear.
"And there's you." Gold said to no one, as no one was there.
"I see you got some new friends, let's play with them shall we?" the voice said.
Gold started falling, falling fast through the pitch black nothingness, yelling all the while. The one place that scared him was here, and what was going to happen next. It had happened before, getting hit by Dark Eon, but it was a feeling and place no one could forget and it was the place no one could not have fear in. Gold closed his eyes, knowing what was going to be next.
He opened his eyes to see robots everywhere, surrounding him. He quickly jumped up and saw the group was infinite, an infinite amount of robots all aiming toward him. Some of the robots charged at him. He was able to take them out, even without Eon. Then they all stopped coming at him. The robots parted and new robots came from the lane. They weren't normal robots. They were his robotized friends. Sonic, Tails, all the ponies, all gone of their freedom and now in hunks of metal, under someone else's control.
"Sonic? Tails? Twilight?" Gold started to say to them, hoping the nightmare would end soon.
"…abandoned us…" the robotized Tails was able to speak out.
"…saved yourself…" the robot Sonic said to him.
"…why did you leave us…" the Twilight robot said, hurting Gold the most inside.
"I didn't abandon you…" Gold said, almost about to cry.
"…we will abandon you then…" the Tails robot said and they started to attack Gold.
Gold needed to protect himself, but he didn't want to hurt anypony. He had to fight them gently. And so that battle began…
…
"Where am I…" Twilight wondered.
She was in a room of nothingness, everything black, nothing was there. She couldn't even see her own hooves.
"Well, well, what do we have here. Twilight Sparkle." A foreboding voice said.
"Who's there?" Twilight said, scared out of her mind of the voice and of where she was.
"No one. I'm just here to play. I have no name, no identity, I'm just in your head. First experience with Dark Eon, hm?" the voice said.
"Um…" Twilight nervously scared.
"That was a rhetorical question. Now, since this is your first time, you get the VIP exclusive tour." The voice said.
"I think I'll pass…"
"And you thought you had a choice. Have fun, little pony." The voice said evilly.
Twilight started falling, screaming while falling, not knowing where she was going. She closed her eyes and braced for impact.
She opened her eyes to see that she was in her house.
"I'm…home?" she said aloud. "Maybe it was just a dream…"
She went outside to see she was still dreaming. The sky was grey with overcast clouds covering it. All around town were posters, banners, emblems all saying one thing. Discord is king.
"No, no, this can't be!" she said running to the one place she knew, Sugarcube Corner.
All color was gone from the bakery, it was just a grey standard bakery. She went in, no bell rung, and no Pinkie tackling her with cupcakes. Pinkie was there, but all the life was gone in her. No bouncing, no talking really fast, no parties.
"Pinkie?" Twilight asked.
"Welcome to Sugarcube Corner, how may I help you?" Pinkie said with no emotion.
"Pinkie, what's wrong with you?" Twilight said, scared of the place she was in.
"Welcome to Sugarcube Corner, how may I help you?" Pinkie repeated.
Twilight tried to see if maybe the real Pinkie could be found, "Hey, Pinkie, there is a party going on."
Pinkie just stared blankly at Twilight and finally said again, "Welcome to Sugarcube Corner, how may I help you?"
Twilight just looked in shock and ran out of the bakery. When she got out of the bakery, she saw ponies everywhere. All the ponies looked grey, with little color. All of them turned toward Twilight, noticing her presence.
"All hail Discord." They chanted.
They continually chanted that sentence while closing in closer and closer to Twilight.
"No, no, don't hail him!" Twilight yelled at them.
They kept chanting over and over, closing in on Twilight in a circle. She had nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. Lightning cracked in the sky and thunder rumbled as Twilight closed her eyes, and prepared for the worst.
Meanwhile…
"How far did they walk?" Blade asked.
Blade and Tails were walking on the side of the trail, so that if they saw Gold and Twilight they could hide behind a tree or bush that would be nearby.
"I don't know. They must have talked a lot. Maybe Gold did it." Tails shrugged his shoulders.
"That could be true, but I have a really bad feeling about something." Blade said, getting a strong sense that something was wrong.
"I'm sure they are-" Tails said, stopping in his tracks.
A couple of yards away they could see two things on the ground. One blue, one purple. Tails and Blade looked at each other and ran at the things, recognizing them as Gold and Twilight. Tails got down on his knee to check their pulses.
"They are alive." Tails said.
"Maybe they fell asleep talking to each other." Blade said with a bit of a chuckle.
Tails paid no attention to his joke and picked up Gold's hand. The symbol on his glove was black as the night sky, no blue glow could be found. This had happened before.
"Shit." Tails muttered under his breath. "Blade, find Sonic, get the ponies we need to move them now." Tails said to Blade.
"What's wrong with them?" Blade said to Tails, now worried for his friends.
"Dark Eon, I can explain later, go get everyone, now!"
"Tell me what is going on!" Blade said, getting a tad annoyed.
"Dark Eon, it's an energy that is the opposite of what Gold controls, the Eon. That stuff gets into your system and nighty-night. You get hallucinations in your head and extreme pain. Gold has been hit with it before, but I'm worried about Twilight. She could possibly-" Tails stopped before he said that last word. "I can explain in greater detail later, right now, we need to get them to the hospital." Tails explained quickly.
"Ok, I'll get everyone so we can take them, you watch them." Blade said already starting to head in the direction of where Sonic and Dash were.
Blade ran off, going to get some help.
Tails looked at the two lying on the ground, "Why did this have to happen…"
Meanwhile…
"So how long have you thought about it?" Dash asked.
The new couple started walking again, just so they could enjoy the company.
"A while now." Sonic said back to her.
Suddenly they could see someone running toward them. It was Blade.
"Oh, oh, Blade guess what?" Sonic said to Blade.
"Quickly, what?" Blade said.
"We both found out we like each other." Sonic said, happy that the pony he loved, loved him back.
"That is great and all, but we need you two, now!" Blade said quickly.
"What's the rush?" Sonic said, getting a little more serious.
"Gold, he got hit by this Dark Eon stuff, and so did Twilight."
Oh no, Sonic thought. Not again. As said before, Gold has experienced the Dark Eon before. It was the one time that Sonic actually felt sorry for Gold. To make matters worse, Twilight had been hit. The things that stuff could do to her, Sonic thought.
"We gotta get them to the hospital, now." Sonic said with determination and looked at Dash, who was serious too.
Blade ran back toward where Gold and Twilight were, with Sonic and Dash following.
…
Gold had been fighting his robotized friends for a long time. He was pretty bruised and cut up due to there being no Eon inside of him to heal him or for him to use as attacks. Sonic was just as fast as before he was robotized, leading to Gold getting hit from many of his attacks. He suddenly felt like he was being picked up, and he was. The robotized Twilight had used her magic and picked him up and held him high in the sky.
"Time to die, Gold the Fox." The Twilight robot said.
It withdrew its magic and Gold started to fall fast. With no Eon to cushion him, he prepared to get severely hurt or even killed by the height of the fall. Instead he just fell through the ground and back into the dark room.
"Oh you failed. Well that simply won't do. Try again." The voice said, laughing manically.
"NO!" Gold yelled as he started falling again.
When he landed, he was surrounded by the same robots. The same robots attacked him and the same robotized versions of his friends approached, ready to fight him.
"NO! NO! NOT AGAIN!" Gold yelled, but was quickly cut off by a spin dash from the Sonic.
Meanwhile…
"Sonic, Tails, you get Gold, me and Dash will get Twilight." Blade said to the group of three, as time was ticking.
Sonic and Tails picked the unconscious Gold up and started toward the hospital. Blade and Dash did the same for Twilight and went to the hospital. Gold would occasionally murmur in his sleep, like he was scared. Twilight, however, was dead silent.
"Tails, I'm worried about Twilight. I know Gold gets hit just as hard by the Dark Eon, but at least he knows what is going to happen." Sonic said to Tails as they were carrying Gold.
"I'm worried too. Although, Gold's experience might be the same. New place, new friends, and new sick nightmares he'll have to go through." Tails said.
"That's true, never thought about it that way." Sonic said, worrying for both victims.
They had arrived at the hospital. They stopped for a moment to explain to the pony in front what was happening.
"There's nothing too serious we need to do. We need two rooms and something to ease pain." Tails said.
The pony had them go to the hallway and put Gold in one room, and put Twilight a few doors down. Sonic, Tails and Blade decided to stay with Gold for the night and Rainbow did the same for Twilight, with Sonic going over occasionally to Twilight.
…
Gold had repeated the same fight against his robotized friends over and over. Each time hearing that he had abandoned them. They said the same thing over and over, every single time he was picked up by robot Twilight's magic and fell down eventually going back to the black room. This event just occurred.
"Please…make it stop…" Gold said, tired of doing the same fight and being attacked repeatedly.
"Oh you want me to stop? Fine. How about something, a little more emotional." The voice said and Gold was falling again and closed his eyes again.
He opened his eyes to see he was back to walking with Twilight. Was all that not real, Gold thought.
"Uh, Gold, hello?" Twilight said.
She looks perfectly normal and so does everything around us, Gold thought. Maybe I was just day dreaming, Gold thought.
"Yeah, I was just thinking about something." Gold said.
"Thinking about what?" Twilight asked.
Well, whether it's real or not, I'm saying what I should've said, Gold thought.
"Well, I was thinking about you." Gold admitted.
"Oh were you?" Twilight asked shyly.
"Yeah, I was. You're just so nice and caring. And I feel like when I came here, this is where I belonged, here with you." Gold said blushing.
"Oh is that what you thought." Twilight said, very oddly.
"Yeah, why, is something wrong?" Gold asked, becoming a little suspicious.
"Yes there is Gold. You are a liar. All lies. You didn't think that. You came here to do what you needed to do, and you were going to do it. Then you saw me. You don't like me like that. It is a front, a fraud." She said, her voice getting deeper and more sinister.
"No! That's not true!" Gold said panicking.
"Just do what you have to do and leave. You came here with a purpose and we all want that purpose fulfilled and you and your stupid friends to leave. It's the truth. Leave now Gold, before the darkness overtakes you." Her voice had turned into the voice that haunted him in the dark room.
"NO! NO!" Gold yelled out, tears coming out.
"Leave now Gold." A chant started up by other ponies that surrounded him.
"NO! I WILL NOT!" Gold yelled out, closing his eyes.
"Leave now Gold." The chant was getting louder and louder by the second.
Gold covered his ears and was on the ground on his knees.
"It's so easy to break you down. I just look through you like a book, find something you hold dear, and show it to you, crushed and destroyed. Abandoning your new friends, being rejected by the one you love. It's so simple." A voice in his head said sinisterly.
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" Gold yelled.
"Face it Gold, when you wake up, if you ever do, and she wakes up- oh wait, she won't." The voice still talked in his head.
"DON'T TOUCH HER!" Gold yelled out to the voice in his head.
"What are you going to do about it fox? She's mine to control, there's no stopping the darkness." The voice laughed in his head.
The chant was still going on around him. The voice in his head, breaking him down. It felt like he never been hit with Dark Eon before. It was all new, all darkness, all evil.
But then he thought. Tears on his face, he got up and moved his hands from his ears. The voice still laughed in his head. He could hear the chant loud and clear but didn't care. He knew what he knew, nothing was true in this dark place he had been sent to. The dark place where darkness ruled, but there was still light. He was the light.
He looked up, thinking that the evil voice was watching him and said, "I will."
He looked back down and punched the ground with all the force he could, even within the dark place. A crack formed, light spilling from it. The dark ponies backed off, the light warding them off. Gold kept punching it, the voice in his mind screaming at him, but he didn't care. He knew what he knew, and that was that he had friends here, he would not abandon them, and that he would not let Twilight fall to the darkness. He kept punching, keeping everyone in mind, all that he went through, all the people and ponies he had met. With a final blow, light engulfed him and the voice in his head screamed in defeat.
In Gold's room in the hospital…
Gold's eyes flew open and he quickly sat up, in a sweat. He was breathing heavily, he had just escaped the dark place that Dark Eon would send him to. He looked to his side and looked out a window. It was nighttime, Gold estimated around midnight. He looked to his sides and saw Sonic, Tails and Blade, all asleep. He rest his head back on his pillow and thought about what just occurred. That's when he remembered,
"Twilight." He said to himself.
He started to get out of his bed, but was met with excruciating pain. The Dark Eon was still inside of him and the Eon was fighting back. This was good that the Eon was trying to counteract the Dark Eon, but it caused him much pain. He grit his teeth and endured the pain getting out of the bed. He slowly walked out of the room, making sure he did not wake the trio who stayed with them. He closed the door quietly and started walking down the lit hallway. He looked at the doors, trying to find Twilight's room. He had found it and started opening the door.
"Sonic?" someone inside said.
Gold quickly closed the door and could recognize the voice as Rainbow's. He did his best Sonic voice impersonation.
"Yeah, it's getting late, I think we should go for now. We can come back at the crack of dawn." Gold said, still in pain but able to surprisingly pull off a good Sonic voice.
He heard Dash yawn from inside and then she said, "Alright, I'll meet you guys outside."
After a minute, Dash came out of the room. As she opened the door, Gold hid behind it, holding it open until Dash had gone by. He then went inside and closed the door quietly. He still was in massive pain and decided to pull a chair over next to Twilight's bed and sit down. He sat and looked at Twilight. She looked so peaceful, but then she shivered and talked in her sleep like she was scared out of her mind. Only one thing I can try, Gold thought. Gold took hold of her hoof and closed his eyes. When he opened them, they were both glowing a bright blue.
…
"Ok, how about something different?" the voice said to Twilight, back in the dark room.
Twilight had just gone through seeing each of her friends, however, they each were sad and almost ghost-like. They weren't themselves at all.
"Please…no…" Twilight begged.
"Too bad!" the voice said as Twilight started to fall and closed her eyes.
When she opened them, she was back to her house again. This time however, someone knocked on the door. She went downstairs and opened the door, bracing herself for something dark. However, it was just her friends, the rest of the Mane 6, all normal looking and acting. Maybe I'm back, Twilight thought.
"Hey everypony." Twilight said to her friends.
"Hey!" they said.
I guess this is real, Twilight thought.
"So do you guys know where Gold is?" Twilight asked.
She wanted to know because she did hear what he said before the Dark Eon took over. That he loved her. But if the Dark Eon nightmare things were just real nightmares, was that just a dream. She hoped not.
"Who's Gold?" Pinkie asked.
Twilight laughed a little, "Funny Pinkie, as usual. You know, Gold. The fox?" Twilight asked, slightly nervous.
"I have no idea what you are talking about…" Pinkie said.
"Well, what about Sonic? Or Tails? Blade?" Twilight asked, slightly suspicious.
"Twilight, I think you are getting into way too many books, there is no one here called those names." Applejack said.
"Ok, I see how it is. Nice prank guys, good one." Twilight said with a nervous laugh.
"There is no prank Twilight. We legitimately know no one like that." Rarity said to her.
"Yah right? Fluttershy, you know who I'm talking about, don't you?" Twilight said, getting more nervous by the second.
"I…I'm sorry Twilight…I don't know what you are talking about…am I supposed to?" Fluttershy shyly said, being put on the spot.
"Fluttershy! Tails stayed at your house! Gold was here, and they defeated the dragon...and, and they defeated that army of robots." Twilight yelled.
"Don't start yelling at us just because you are crazy!" Applejack yelled back.
Everypony started arguing, with the exception of Rainbow Dash.
"Stop." Dash solemnly said.
Everypony stopped yelling and looked at Dash.
"You remember them, right everyone?" Dash said in a dark voice.
"Yeah, now I remember, they did what they had to do and left." Applejack said with the same voice.
"No they didn't! We were good friends!" Twilight argued.
"They abandoned us. Left us. They didn't want anything to do with us. Abandoned us." Even Fluttershy had the dark voice.
They now dark sounding Mane 6 started chanting, "Abandoned us."
"Oh, what if they did, Twilight Sparkle. Just left you. They wanted nothing to do with you, Gold didn't want anything to do with you, none of them did. Or better yet what if they never came. They your world get destroyed and let the place become Robotnik's. What if they didn't bother and left you to die!" a voice rang in her head.
"THEY WOULD NEVER DO THAT!" Twilight yelled out.
"She's right, I never would." A voice said from behind Twilight.
It was Gold, standing there, surrounded in light.
"HOW ARE YOU HERE?" the voice yelled at Gold.
"Does it matter. I told you to leave her ALONE!" Gold yelled.
He grabbed Twilight's hoof and within a second they were gone.
"NO! NO! THE DARKNESS SHALL NOT FAIL!" the voice screamed out but Twilight and Gold were already gone.
Back to reality…
Twilight woke up, breathing heavily and sweating. She noticed her hoof had a hand holding it. She looked over and saw Gold looking at her.
"You…you're okay?" she asked faintly.
"I'm hurting but I'm fine enough to be with you." Gold said to her.
Twilight thought for a moment and looked into Gold's ocean blue eyes, "Did you mean it?" she asked.
"All three words." Gold looked back.
They hugged knowing that the other was their light in the darkness.
*looks at word count* 3900+ WORDS?! HOLY CRAP! I never would have thought this would be that long, nor that it would be that sad and dark. But damn, almost 4000 words. Well, that was fun to write. Probably the darkest thing I've written in forever, and the longest chapter ever. I need to go write a research paper now, oh boy. Thank you to those who reviewed, thank you for reading this far, leave a review for this chapter, remember, CHECK OUT SON OF SPACE,
Sonic: What's with the story plugin?
*bangs head with frying pan* MY STORY, MY PLUGINS.
AS ALWAYS…
EOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNN OUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!