Spectrum

DISCLAIMER: I don't like having to do this. BTW, didn't Sonic say something about this while back? Ah well, Sonic & Tails belong to SEGA & Sonic Team and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belong to Hasbro.

Chapter 14: Change the Changelings!

Just then, the door opened and there stood Sonic, Tails, Spike, Princess Luna, and the Mane Six. Everyone's eyes widened at the scene before them-Queen Chrysalis' horn inside of Princess Celestia's barrel, the royal blood of the princess falling at the feet of the evil queen.

"Princess Celestia!" They all exclaimed.

"Queen Chrysalis!" Twilight snarled.

"Ah, well if it isn't Ms. Pest-In-Training herself Twilight Sparkle, and her friends…" She then noticed the blue hedgehog and yellow fox. "Oh my, I didn't expect to meet you two this soon. I have heard many things about the both of you. Sonic, the blue hedgehog. You are capable of Mach 5 speeds, combat prowess, and an inflated ego. Miles 'Tails' Prower, the yellow fox, child prodigy, expert mechanic and tactical edge to his 'older brother.' Forgive me, but for the life of me, I cannot seem to spot a resemblance between the two of you. Well, everyone's here, that means I don't need this." Queen Chrysalis said in mock glee, before launching a blast of magic from her horn right at Princess Celestia, driving her into Sonic's arms. Princess Luna went to her sister's side immediately. Sonic, Twilight and the others looked at Celestia' punctured barrel, already turning purple from blood loss.

"There's a puncture wound in one of her vitals. She's lost a lot of blood. We might lose her at this rate." Princess Celestia let out a weak cough before opening her eyes slowly.

"Everyone…you look exhausted…" A weak chuckle escaped her lips. "Those changelings…they gave you…much more trouble…than they were worth, didn't they?"

"Save your strength, Princess. You're going to get past this." Sonic turned to Twilight. "Twilight, can your magic heal a wound like this?"

"I'll do my best." She replied. She concentrated her magic and shot a magenta-colored beam into Celestia's wound. The beam then turned sickly green and with a shocked cry, Twilight recoiled in horror.

"Twilight, what is it?"

"Chrysalis' horn was infused with magic when she ran the Princess through. My magic can't heal magically infused wounds." She replied, her voice trembling with despair. Everyone's eyes widened as the dawning moment of comprehension fell upon them. Spike fell to his knees.

"So then, there's nothing we can do? Princess Celestia really will…"

"Spike," Sonic called. "Can I trust you to do everything in your power to keep the Princess safe?"

"Of course you can." Spike replied, taking Princess Celestia from Sonic's arms before rushing out of the royal room, Luna close behind him. Queen Chrysalis observed the hedgehog carefully, and then noticed the six tattoos forming a circle on his chest. She used her magic to form a telekinetic aura around the hedgehog. She then brought him before herself.

"Let go of him!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"I'm observing him, whelp. Be silent." She scanned his body, all six markings of the elements; present and accounted for. "The markings on your body look just like the Elements of Harmony. I see you have brought the Chaos Emeralds with you. You currently have the most power in this room, hedgehog, besides me of course."

"Yeah, and?"

"The colors as well, red lightning for loyalty, blue balloon for laughter, pink butterfly for kindness, orange apple for honesty, purple diamonds for generosity, and a magenta sparkle for magic! These are the Elements of Harmony! How did you come across them?! Did the Princesses give them to you in case something went wrong?"

"You're asking me questions as if I'm going to tell you anything simply because you're a 'Queen.' I don't know that much about the Elements but I do know that only someone worthy can bear them. No offense, but you don't exactly scream 'worthy.'" Sonic said flatly. Queen Chrysalis hissed at the hedgehog before hurling him back towards the others.

"I don't care about how you got the Elements. All I know is that they belong to me, and I have no problem plucking every last one of them out from your body if it suits the need." She snarled.

"I don't think so, Chrysalis. I'd like to announce that as of now, you are vastly outnumbered. Don't bother summoning your changelings. They won't be coming to your aid this time." Twilight smirked. "While you fought Princess Celestia, we were actually en route to the castle when your second-in-command, Vice showed with over 300 of your race. Despite the odds, we ended defeating them."

"This leaves you with two options, 'Your Highness': Release Princess Celestia and leave the city of Canterlot and never try anything like this again, or try to fight me."

"Try to fight you?" Chrysalis let out a giggle as she rose, then her giggle escalated into full-blown laughter. "Obviously, you don't understand just how powerful and dangerous I am now that I've absorbed the love from those guards you met the other day. If you really read the book about my race, you would know that love makes us stronger. The more love I devour, the stronger I become. If I could defeat Celestia that easily, then what chance do any of you stand against me?" She challenged.

"I wouldn't underestimate us, 'Your Majesty'. You never know what kind of tricks we have up our sleeves." Sonic remarked, settling into a stance. The very next second, Pinkie Pie's curious face filled his vision.

"We have tricks up our sleeves? We don't have sleeves! Sonic, you don't have sleeves! If you had sleeves, then wouldn't you be wearing a coat? Unless…" She began at she started stretching the skin on Sonic's arms. "You have a coat on that looks like your wearing nothing? It's actually pretty weird because if you think about it, if you had clothes on this whole time, wouldn't they stink right now? I mean, you've worn this for how many days now?"

"Pinkie Pie…" Sonic started.

"Or maybe you're wearing an invisible coat! I read this one story, where there was this king, he gave a few fake tailors a lot of money to make him some clothes for him to wear in the streets, but they pretended to make the clothes. He came back to see if the clothes were ready and they gave it to him, but he didn't know that those clothes weren't clothes at all. So he paraded around the whole town stark naked!"

"Pinkie Pie…" Sonic called again, a bit more firmly this time.

"Then again, we don't usually wear clothes except for formal affairs, so I guess you could say we're naked, but who really cares? If there was a problem with not wearing clothes, there would have been some sort of decree stating that ponies had to wear clothes." Pinkie Pie finished. Sonic's arms fell forward and he gave Pinkie a look of utter exasperation.

"You really are a walking, talking, big ball of happy, aren't you, Pinkie?"

"Guilty as charged." The pink earth pony giggled.

"Anyway, sleeves or otherwise, it wouldn't be wise to underestimate us. You know the phrase strength in numbers and all."

"It makes no difference whether there is one, ten, a hundred or a thousand of you." Queen Chrysalis' eyes lit up with flames. "You cannot hope to win."

Spike and Princess Luna stood next to Princess Celestia in a medical room close to the royal chambers. Princess Luna's magic far exceeded Twilight's but she couldn't heal magically-infused wounds either. However, her magic did work well enough to keep the wound from killing her sister.

"Luna…?"

"Try not to move too much, big sister. This kind of wound won't heal easily."

"No…save your strength…help the others beat Chrysalis. It is…taking most…of my energy…to stay…conscious…" With that, Princess Celestia's body relaxed, signifying that her body finally gave in to the toll the exhausting battle took.

"No, Celestia. CELESTIA! celestia?" Princess Luna, feeling no life coming from her sister, trembled. "No. No, no, no no…no…Celestia, stop it. Stop it!" Spike quickly held Princess Luna, consoling her.

"She's only unconscious, Your Highness! She'll be alright, she only needs rest. Right now, we have to help the others!"

"If you think that I'll leave my sister's side when her health is in critical condition, forgive me Spike, but you're mistaken."

"We'll watch her, Princess Luna!" Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle, The Cutie Mark Crusaders trotted up beside Princess Luna and, although difficult, saw the ugly wound on Princess Celestia's barrel. "You gotta help my big sis fight the Queen. Mr. Sonic and them others won't be able to beat her without your help."

"Please Princess, you must the others. As strong as Sonic may be, there's no way he'll be able to beat Chrysalis when she's this powerful. You must help them." Sweetie Belle urged. They both turned to Scootaloo expectantly. She sighed.

"My sister and her friends need help. I could care less about that bozo. You should help them, Princess Luna. You too, Spike."

"I can't leave her. Even so, my power is nowhere near enough to defeat Chrysalis all on my own. Celestia was the only one who could and well…Perhaps the others will fare better than I could."

"Princess…" Spike urged. Princess Luna looked at the pleading fillies and back at her sister, then she sighed.

"Do we have thy word that our sister will remain safe here?" The three fillies bowed to her.

"You have all three of our words, your Majesty."

"Then I leave her to you." Princess Luna ordered, rushing off with Spike on her back. They all looked back at Celestia.

"That's a pretty deep wound. How can this wound get healed if Princess Luna can't heal it?"

"Not me, Scoots. I'm an Earth Pony, you're a Pegasus. Sweetie's a unicorn, no offense, but I don't think her magic is proficient enough to heal these kinds of wounds."

Sweetie Belle wondered what to do, and then she remembered the other when she accidentally absorbed the Emeralds' power, albeit she blushed. Maybe before, but what if... "I'll give it a shot. Stand back."

Sonic charged at Chrysalis, armed reared back to deliver a punch to the Changeling Queen, but Chrysalis quickly caught Sonic in a telekinetic aura and threw him back to where he stood. The feeling of someone else controlling his movements felt nostalgic, as if it had happened to him before, so he wasn't as disoriented.

"Okay, so straight attacks don't work."

"Try increasing your speed. She can't hurt you if she can't catch you." Tails advised.

Sonic nodded then ran towards Chrysalis before circling her like a tornado. "Don't blink!" He yelled, before launching a series of punches and kicks on the Queen that she couldn't avoid. He finished with a Sonic Eagle before falling back to safety. Tails went next, materializing his arm cannon and releasing a volley of blasts, hitting Chrysalis dead on, forming a huge smokescreen.

"Did we do it?"

"No, it didn't even faze her. Her energy hasn't dropped in the slightest." Twilight dismissed. The smoke cleared and it revealed the blasts Tails had launched at her suspended in place, now turned in green flaming orbs. With an evil smirk, she shot them all towards the team. Sonic grabbed Fluttershy and everyone scattered. Instead of the blasts hitting the walls, they redirected and continued on their original path.

"Your orbs got turned into homers, Sky! Keep moving!" Rainbow Dash yelled. Nobody needed another notice. The homing orbs, true to their name, kept flying at them. Sonic quickly ran an idea out in his head. He brought both arms back and clapped his hands together in a blur, creating a small cyclone made of sharp, sky blue winds, pulling in the flaming orbs like a vortex and slamming them into each other, resulting in a huge explosion. Once everyone came back together, questioning eyes, save for Tails, landed on Sonic.

"That was my Sonic Wind. I created it some time ago back when one of my rivals and I were trying to kill each other. It's pretty handy in situations where you're surrounded on all sides."

"Okay, that was pretty cool. But now what do we do?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"You could surrender…not that it would do you much good. I wouldn't have any reason to kill you right away, especially not the hedgehog. I sense an inner power within him, not just from the amethysts he carries in him or with him." Queen Chrysalis offered.

"An inner power?" Twilight questioned. Then again, when I took the Emeralds from Sonic while he slept, I could still feel an enormous amount of power radiating from him. It's almost as if he were amplifying the Emeralds, not the other way around.

"We'll have to decline your offer, Queen Chrysalis. I personally don't pledge myself to ambitious regiciders." Sonic declared.

"That's right, bro!"

"Hay yeah, we don't!"

"Indeed!"

"Darn tootin, we don't!"

"That's right!"

"We do not, either, Chrysalis!" Princess Luna concurred. "Especially the victim happens to be our sister. Therefore, we present an offer to your offer: Leave. Salvage the remainder of thy army of flies and return to wherever you came…or linger…and face judgment." Queen Chrysalis let out a condescending laugh.

"I will face judgment? Luna, you are on a roll today. This only explains further why I would be a far better ruler than you two mounts; you have more talent as a jester than wisdom as a princess!" The queen laughed, eliciting a growl from Princess Luna.

"Step aside, little ones. This mount belongs to me." Princess Luna advised before charging her night magic and running at Chrysalis, who sighed in boredom.

"So we're doing this then? Come your ways, mount." She hissed before charging at Princess Luna. They used their horns in a manner similar to swordplay, interlocking, clashing, sparks flew from their clashes. The others stood silently, amazed with Luna's combat prowess.

"I didn't know Her Majesty could fight this well."

"Princess Luna and Princess Celestia aren't our rulers for nothing, Tails. They can defend themselves without magic, though magic does solve problems much more effectively than physical strength."

"Sonic, you think Princess Luna can win?" Spike asked Sonic, who had his arms crossed and eyes closed.

"Can't say I do, little bro." The others looked at him in surprise. "Chrysalis is an emotion eater, right? She feeds off love; it makes her stronger. Not only that, but when Princess Luna came to fetch us, she got hit with one of Vice's lasers. You can feel it, too, right Twi?"

She nodded gravely. "It make have only hit her horn, but it's weakened her magic considerably. I don't think this is a fight Princess Luna can win."

"What are you trying to say, then? We just wait for Chrysalis to run Princess Luna through?! To hay with that!" Rainbow Dash growled and reared back to launch herself at Chrysalis while Luna distracted her, but Sonic nonchalantly reached up and took hold her tail. "What're you doing, Blue?! Let me go!"

Sonic shook his head. "We have to respect Her Majesty's wish, Dash. All we can do is watch and wait until the situation becomes critical."

"Blue, if you don't-huh?" Rainbow Dash turned her head and saw something she though was a dark tint on Sonic's fur. She blinked, and it was gone. She noticed that the grip he had on her tail had tightened just a bit. She sighed resignedly and lowered herself to the ground. "I understand."

They went back and forth and it seemed like they stood on equal ground when it came to power. However, in truth, Princess Luna felt like her magic reserves had been stolen. Queen Chrysalis on the other hand, felt good enough to go at least 9 rounds.

"Well, Luna, I'll admit you're not bad. Though, you are no Celestia. I'm sure you know how well that turned out. I thought your magic was limited to simple parlor tricks like vanishing into thin air, teleportation, and other feeble tricks, but it seems you have much more potential than I thought."

What should I do? I don't have that much in me and it's taking a lot just to combat her with my horn. Perhaps my judgment was impaired by my desire for revenge. Well, if I can't beat her, then the least I can do is weaken her!

"Nightmare Moon left me a few of her gifts." Princess Luna remarked hotly. "Those gifts that should prove more than enough to defeat an egregious mount like you!" Princess Luna yelled, parrying Chrysalis' horn with her own, and then started using her hoofs to attack Chrysalis.

Now, if I remember correctly, first, it was straight, straight, upper, Next, straight, straight, backflip buck, Then a flurry of straights. Princess Luna launched two straight jabs at the Queen before knocking her off her hooves, launching her into the air. Princess Luna rose after her. She launched two more straight jabs at the Queen before performing a backflip, her hind legs launching Queen Chrysalis into the air. When Chrysalis came back to eye level, Princess Luna threw jabs all over the Queen before smacking her into the wall, causing it to crack.

"It's time to finish you, Chrysalis!" Princess Luna yelled, conjuring her magic into the horn and releasing a huge stream of blasts at the queen, covering every plausible escape route. When the smoke cleared, Princess Luna stood at a distance looking down at an unresponsive Queen Chrysalis. Princess Luna clearly exhausted all reserves of strength and magic with the Crescent Moon Strike she saw Spike use against the changeling named Vice. The others had to brace up to defend themselves from any debris, as well as the bright light emerging from the resulting explosion. When they saw Queen Chrysalis, all but two of them began celebrating.

"That was spectacular, your majesty! She stood no chance against an Equestrian Princess!" Rarity praised.

"Ya got that right, hun! I'm glad to be rid of those varmints, always changing, make you confused and all that nonsense." Applejack agreed.

"I'm glad everything worked out fine." Fluttershy sighed.

"Yeah, everything turned out well." Twilight said, unsure.

"See, Blue? There was no need to rush into anything after all."

You were the one who wanted to interfere though… Tails and Spike thought with a simultaneous sweat-drop. Sonic simply stood there with the same stoic look and his arms remained crossed.

"What's the deal, Blue? You don't think that plothead survived that and is just playing possum and waiting for Princess Luna to drop her guard." Sonic opened his eyes.

"You're not too far off the mark, Dash. Look!"

Rainbow Dash turned around and before anyone could say "PRINCESS, BEHIND YOU!" a green aura enveloped Princess Luna's body and threw her against the wall, head first, instantly incapacitating her. Once she made contact with the wall, a chrysalis began forming on her body, spreading outside like an internal cancer. A chitterling laugh came from the wall with a crack in it.

"That was a valiant effort, Luna, and a very painful one too. If I hadn't absorbed the love and life of those two guards, I would have been pushing up daisies for sure. But I did, so your attack hurt just a wee bit. Now then, since that's out of the way, let's get back to the business at hand." She turned her attention to Sonic and began making his way towards him.

"You hold a power hedgehog, greater than anything that I have ever felt. Now we can do this one of two ways, you can comply, I extract the power from you, create my empire and leave your friends and "family" alive, however I can't guarantee that you'll survive. You can resist and meet the fate of the Mount Princesses. Trust me, however painful the first option may be, the second option I guarantee you will be much more painful." Rainbow Dash dropped down in between Sonic and Queen Chrysalis.

"Swarm Queen, there's 9 of us and 1 of you. I don't need to do math to tell you you're outnumbered." A carrot hit Rainbow Dash in the head and fell into Sonic's hand and Sonic, having missed breakfast, took a bite out of the vegetable. "Okay, 10 of us."

"I wouldn't count my dragons before their hatched, whelp. I think it is you all who are outnumbered. You have 10. I have an army…and hostages!" At that, the door swung open and several changelings filled the room, three particular changelings carried the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Vice disparagingly carried Princess Celestia, unconscious and all. Spike voiced his frustrations first.

"Oh, you gotta be kidding me! I wasted you!"

"Oh, you foolissssh lizzzzard. You honesssstly exccccpected your puny attack to defeat me?"

"Uh yeah, I beat you like a piñata, knocked you into the air, beat you again, and then drove you into the ground with authority. If anything, you shouldn't even be talking, let alone flying!"

"Sweetie Belle!"

"Applebloom!"

"Scoots!"

"Sorry, big sister. They overpowered us." All three spoke at the same time, each carrying an equal amount of shame. They believed they failed to keep their word that Princess Celestia wouldn't be harmed, so their respective sisters gave them a look of understanding.

"Let it be known that on this day, I, Chrysalis, Queen of the Changeling Race single-handedly defeated the Princess Celestia and the Princess Luna, the Sun and the Moon." Queen Chrysalis began.

"Where are the others, they should've been here by now." Sonic groaned. "Ugh. If I wanted to listen to an evil speech, I'd be in Eggman's lair right now."

"What do you think the doctor's doing anyway?" Tails asked, out of curiosity.

"He's probably doing something lame."

Back on Eggman Island…

Dr. Ivo H. "Eggman" Robotnik does most of his evil by the book, evil robots, world domination, etc. except one particular creature kept him from succeeding every time; Sonic the Hedgehog. Ever since his first encounter with a then 10-year old Sonic, the two had mutual hatred of each other. But as much as they hate each other, on some occasion, they have found themselves working together to defeat an even greater evil. As a matter of fact, Dr. Robotnik made it clear at one point that he would rule the world and destroy Sonic the Hedgehog for good and ever since has made sure that those who were not affiliated with him who had intentions to destroy Sonic did not succeed. Basically, it's like this:

"No one kills you but me, Sonic. I'm the only one who will have that pleasure. If that means I have to, revolting as it is, save your life and work alongside you when the situation arises, then so be it."

See, Dr. Robotnik, when it all boils down, isn't that rotten of an egg. As a child, he looked up to his grandfather, Dr. Gerald Robotnik because he had dedicated his life to helping mankind. No one really knows where Dr. Robotnik went wrong. Perhaps he heard of how humanity's fear indirectly killed Maria and his grandfather, and has harbored hatred for his fellow humans ever since.

"AH-CHOO! *sniffle*"

"Is something wrong, boss?"

"No, Orbot. It just feels like someone's talking bad about me somewhere, probably that loathsome hedgehog and his buddies." The neutrally evil doctor replied, resuming the clipping of his toenails.

"Well, if they are, they're certainly doing it off the island. I heard screaming about Sonic abandoning someone with Tails and taking the Chaos Emeralds with them. Funny thing is, she said the same about that Shadow guy, that Rogue person, those Chaotix guys, that sweet bunny girl, two people from the future, and that red echidna taking off with the Master Emerald to go find Sonic." Cubot recalled, sipping on his warm mineral oil. An audible crunch followed shortly.

"AH! MY NAIL BED!"

"Oh my, boss! Cubot, get a rag and some rubbing alka-seltzer or what the doctor has when he's depressed." Cubot immediately ran off into the lair.

"THE PAIN, THE PAIN! So Sonic, Shadow, and-PAIN those other misfits are-SUFFERING gone and there's no-MISERY-one to defend Mobius-WHY?-from my takeovers?"

"That's the rundown, sir."

"Well, well, WHY?-well. This helps me aside the-ngh-pain for a while. Orbot, get me my plans!"

"Your plans, sir? Should I get the ones that Sonic has stopped before, or the ones you keep in the basement?"

"All of them."

"The ones that require Chaos Energy or the ones that doesn't?"

"All of them…"

"Should I get the ones that would've worked without Sonic stopping them, or the ones that have no chance?"

"All of them, all of them, ALL OF THEM!"

"Hey boss, how much should I pour on your wound?

"ALL OF IT!"

"Okay."

"Wait, NO!"

An audible yell of stinging pain could be heard across the planet for miles on end.

Meanwhile, in a clearing in a forest outside Canterlot…

A bright green light suddenly appeared and after a few seconds, several different animals appeared, a hedgehog, a bat, an echidna carrying a giant gem, another hedgehog, a cat, and a crocodile, carrying a bee, a rabbit, and a chao.

"This world seems pretty childish. It's almost like a little girl's fantasy come true." Rouge remarked.

"Yeah, this place is way too girly for my taste. Hey, Vector!" Charmy cried.

"What is it, Charmy?!" Vector irritably replied. Dimensional travel didn't sit well with him either.

"I'm bored again. Let's go find something to do."

"No way, Charmy, I'm not letting you get lost. What do you think, Espio?" The Chaotix leader queried, turning the chameleon for help.

"Before we do anything else, let's get reacquainted as to why we're here-Finding Sonic, Tails, and the Chaos Emeralds." Shadow said, already annoyed.

"Knuckles, can you use the Master Emerald to detect the location of the other emeralds?" Espio asked.

"Let's see, Sonic and Tails should be someone over…there." The red echidna pointed to a castle, standing out of a city like a sore thumb. "The Master Emerald is having a strong reaction to that castle."

"Then I suggest we move immediately." Shadow ordered, before skating off in the direction off the castle, the others following suit.

"The old Egghead's probably clipping his evil toenails." Sonic laughed.

"Yeah, with his evil nail clippers." Tails chimed in.

"Right, and getting some evil disinfectant for cutting himself." Spike offered. They looked at him for 5 seconds before bursting out laughing.

"That's cool, evil disinfectant!" Sonic chortled, ruffling Spike's scales has he puffed out his chest in pride.

"Can we focus?!" Twilight whispered angrily. "In case you haven't noticed, we're outnumbered…again! Our princesses can't move, let alone help us, and now Queen Chrysalis wants Sonic's power! What are we going to do?!"

"…Fight?" Sonic and Rainbow Dash offered, causing Tails and Twilight to face-palm and face-hoof respectively. "What's wrong? We can just beat them down again and again until-"

"Until you get so worn out that you can't fight anymore?!" Twilight dared, now in Sonic's face. "Then what, you practically beg her to take your power by lying motionlessly?"

"…You know, Tails is going to get jealous if you're this close to me." Sonic deadpanned. Twilight's face went red. Rarity decided to voice her reason since Twilight couldn't.

"Twilight's right, Sonic, Personal problems aside. We can't keep fighting them; they'll just keep coming and coming. We're going to have to settle for something less…practical."

Sonic began tapping his foot in impatience and thinking at the same time. A few seconds later, Sonic opened his mouth as if to say something, but shook his head and closed it, resuming his thinking posture. Sonic began wagging his finger and nodding before he opened his eyes and snapped his fingers. "I've got it!"

"SILENCE!" Chrysalis roared. "The hedgehog, bring him before me." The changelings went to grab him, but Spike and Tails readied their fists and arm cannon respectively. Sonic held out an arm in front of them.

"It's fine, bros. I got this." He turned back to the Changelings. "There's no need. I can walk just fine." He groaned, annoyed as he made his way to the area where Chrysalis had settled herself. "I'm here. What do you want?"

"You dare usssse that tone of voicccce in front of our Queen!?" Vice growled as he got in Sonic's face. Sonic retaliated with an Up-Draft and kicked him into the same area cracked portion of the wall Chrysalis fell from.

"I do dare. I also dare you to get in my face again. Better yet, Tails, the next time Vice speaks, vaporize him."

"Understood." Tails replied, readying his arm cannon.

"Now, would you like to try that again?" Vice remained at his position on the floor and looked at Sonic with contempt. "No? Well, then. You want something. Apparently, you want something you think I have. So…how is this going to work?"

"Simple. I extract this power from you and use it to build my empire. You could resist, but…," She indicated to the CMC. "I assume those fillies over there mean a great deal to you, don't they?"

"They do, but this is kinda unoriginal, if you ask me." He reached into the pouch on his hip; Solaris knows how it stayed there after everything; and pulled out the Yellow and Cyan Emerald. Chrysalis stared at them, unimpressed.

"These must be the Chaos Emeralds that Vice told me about. You just use your magic and absorb them and you'll be infused with the power and emotion of the Emerald, am I correct?"

"Yeah, that's just about it. This is where all my power comes from. Though, most of it comes from these two emeralds. Here, try them out."

Chrysalis eyed them carefully and stared back at the hedgehog. "What kind of fool do you take me for?"

"Well, the previous solutions I was thinking ended up in my going through about 100 changelings and having enough for 900 more. I just want to see how this one will end out. They're plenty powerful on their own, not just together."

"Sonic, if you make her absorb those Emeralds, there's no telling how powerful she could become!" Tails "yelled". The female ponies, save for Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, looked at him fiercely.

"What are you doing, bro?!" Spike asked, livid. Tails crouched down to hide his face-splitting grin.

"Just wait." He whispered. "Oh man, how dumb am I?" He "yelled" again. Sonic could have just died laughing right then.

"That's my bro, Tails. Way to go." Chrysalis' evil smile returned. "Probably shouldn't have said that, Tails! Well, guess I better leave before she takes them." Sonic said, attempting to move away quickly, but Chrysalis used her horn like a lasso and pulled him back to her.

"Not with these, you're not." She took the Emeralds and suspended them with her aura. "Using these Emeralds, I could easily remake Equestria in my own image. And you, hedgehog, shall be responsible for the demise of the Sun and Moon Princesses. Now, feast your eyes on-"

"OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, CHRYSALIS, YOU HAD YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A SPEECH ALREADY, JUST DO IT!" Sonic yelled. All eyes fell on the hedgehog again, save for Tails and Spike, who desperately tried to keep themselves from laughing. Sonic looked at the ground sheepishly. "Sorry, I've just had a lot to do today and I still haven't had anything to eat."

"As I was saying…Rejoice, my dear subjects and tremble, you odious rodent as I absorb the power of Chaos!" With that, the Yellow Emerald and the Cyan Emerald burst into strands of energy and entered Chrysalis' body. Suddenly, she started to sweat.

"What…is…this? What's happening…to my…body?" Chrysalis looked down at her hooves; the holes began to fill and they looked like normal pony hooves. Her body temperature heated up and she started emitting steam. The Changelings had a similar reaction; collectively, they sounded like cicadas dying in the hot sun.

"What's going on? Twilight, Tails, what's happening to them?"

"I don't know. I guess the reaction to the Emeralds must be different since they're changelings." Twilight observed. Interesting. When I used the Cyan Emerald, waves off pleasure coursed through my body and I latched on to Sonic because his…spirit felt so…pleasant. If that's the case, then…

"You!" Chrysalis growled as she stared hatefully at Sonic, who just smiled contently. "What did you…do to me…to my subjects?" Chrysalis found it increasingly difficult to breathe as her inner heat began suffocating her. She fell forward and felt a pair of arms hold her. She looked up and saw the hedgehog running his fingers through her mane. "It hurts…make it stop…"

"It's almost over. Don't worry. You're almost there."

"Can't breathe…too hot…my subjects…leave them alone…please…they only…follow my orders…spare them…I beg you…" Chrysalis pleaded. An overwhelming, but explainable level of concern for her fellow Changelings flew through her mind. She wanted all of them to be safe, to not feel her pain. Unfortunately, her subjects were in just as much pain as her and the sight of her subjects in pain brought her to tears. No one understood how Chrysalis could have such…emotion pouring out of her. The queen of the changeling race was supposed to be evil, manipulative, not able to care about anyone aside from herself and her subjects, and even if she cared about her subjects, she wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice as many Changelings as needed to complete her objectives. So the sight of her shedding tears for her subjects was almost heartbreaking.

"What's going on? Tails, do you know?" Twilight asked.

"I have a theory." He replied. "When Sonic went Super Sonic against Perfect Chaos, he neutralized the sadness and anger within him. So maybe, the Emeralds of Happiness and Pleasure are forming a side of goodness in Chrysalis.

"No harm will come to your subjects, I promise." Sonic reassured her. A cocoon of bright light started constructing itself around the Chrysalis and the Changelings. Chrysalis looked frightened and turned to Sonic. "You'll be fine, Chrysalis. This is the last step. I promise it won't hurt at all." The cocoon closed around the Changelings and the Queen. One second passed.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

Then the cocoon cracked and the outer shell exploded revealing a unicorn with a cream colored coat, vermillion eyes with white sclera, and a yellow mane with yellow stripes that cascaded down her back like a river. The shell covering the Changelings exploded, revealing similar creatures, but their sclera matched their eyes.

"Whoa." Sonic gasped. "Is that you, Chrysalis?" Sonic's question was answered to a degree when the flame-maned mare suddenly leapt at the hedgehog, wrapping her forelimbs around the hedgehog's neck.

"I'm sorry!" She wailed. "I'm so sorry!" The changed changelings all began wailing with the queen. Sonic looked across the room pleadingly, but Tails let a smug look curl on his face. His 4 minutes of vengeance had begun. Sonic turned around and saw many of the changed changelings all staring up at him, eyes and lips quivering with tears threatening to spill. Sonic sighed and opened up his free arm and many of the changed changelings came running.

"You are…Sonic the Hedgehog. Please…tell me…I hurt the princesses badly, did I not? Has Princess Celestia…perished?" Sonic's smile did much to reassure her. "I'm so glad…After I've done today…if she were to perish, I…"

"Chrysalis, calm down."

"Don't call me that!" She cried, in a frightened tone. "I don't want to have that name anymore! Call me something different!"

"Gee, okay. Hmm, how about Morpha?"

"Morpha?"

"Changeling, transformation. Transformation, metamorphosis. Ergo, Morpha."

"I'm not sure. It sounds…rotund."

"Okay, then maybe Aurora?"

"Aurora?"

"Yeah, it's Latin for 'dawn'. Dawn is synonymous with change. You've changed. The changelings have...well, you understand."

"Queen Aurora...I like it. It sounds very pleasant. But my subjects, what shall they be called now?"

"Well, I want to keep the whole 'biology' aspect of change. How about 'metamorphs?'"

"Aurora, Queen of the Metamorphs. It sounds wonderful. Thank you, Sonic the Hedgehog."

"Just 'Sonic' is fine, Aurora." Then the chrysalis holding Princess Luna broke and she fell, but Sonic swooped in just in time to catch her. "Princess Luna. Do you feel okay?"

"We are fine. Where is that fiend, Chrysalis? Did she get away?" She then took notice of her surroundings. She saw Twilight and her friends, Tails the fox, Spike the baby dragon, the three fillies and her sister. She then took notices of the countless colts and fillies that looked like the mare standing where she assumed Sonic was. "Who are these creatures, Sonic? Did you call for back-up?"

"No, actually. These are the Metamorphs, and this is their Queen, Aurora." Sonic introduced. It didn't take long for Princess Luna to put two and two together. "I gave her the Emerald of Happiness and the Emerald of Pleasure. I thought that somewhere in the middle, love would be formed and such a concentrated amount of love would end up completely reforming the user if their heart contained nothing but evil. The Changelings and their queen are no more, except Aurora knows she was Chrysalis and what she did."

"We see." Princess Luna then walked over to Aurora, an unreadable look on her face. Aurora felt herself moving backward, unable to look at the Night Princess. Many of the newly christened "metamorphs" quickly moved in front of Aurora as if to shield her, but once they saw her stoic face. They started to crumble.

"Just get behind me, my dears. It'll be okay." Slowly, but surely, the Changelings moved behind Aurora leaving no space but the remaining air between Princess Luna.

"Aurora. Do not be deceived by thy new name, nor by thy new form. Thou hast committed very egregious crimes today, including the attempted murder of our sister and the attack on Canterlot. Equestrian law calls for a swift and severe penalty for such crimes."

"Big bro, don't you think she's being a bit...harsh?" Spike asked as he, Tails, and the Mane Six came closer to him. "I mean, she committed those crimes when she was Chrysalis, not Aurora, and the Changelings weren't Metamorphs either. Can't she give her a second chance, or something?"

"Just watch closely, Spike. I wouldn't be standing still if I knew there was trouble ahead, and right now, my quills are just fine." Sonic replied calmly.

"I understand, Princess Luna. I shall submit to any punishment that the law requires of me. However, whatever is given to me, please...don't inflict any harm of my subjects! They only followed my orders when I was Chrysalis. I was the one who attacked you and your sister. Please, Princess Luna, you may punish me as the law sees fit but spare my subjects!" Aurora begged, bowing her head low. The metamorphs bowed their heads low. Princess Luna sighed. She couldn't get too angry at Aurora for the crimes she committed as Chrysalis, because she wasn't Chrysalis. This Aurora is a new mare, a much more powerful looking mare, and would it be wrong to call the little metamorphs cute? Sonic walked up next to her and tried talking her out of something heinous.

"I don't know, Princess. They do seem kinda sorry for what they did. Plus, she's begging for you to spare her subjects instead of her. Aurora's a far cry from Chrysalis, don't you think? I don't see anything wrong with giving her a second chance."

"But..."

"Look, back on my homeworld, I had plenty of opportunities put old' Baldy McNoseHair away for good, but some part of me actually sees the good he's capable of. I hate the doc, but I don't hate the doc, you know? Don't get me wrong, I just want him gone. I don't want him dead and gone." Sonic reasoned.

"Sonic..."

"He's right, your highness. Besides, back when you were Nightmare Moon, you were so consumed with envy and anger and hatred and you threatened to take away the power of the Sun so Equestria would remain dark forever." Twilight Sparkle pointed out. "Now, everyone's grown to like you again."

"We would thou failst to remember." Princess Luna sighed. "Queen Aurora."

"Yes, Princess Luna."

"In spite of the heinous crimes your previous incarnation, Chrysalis occurred, because of Sonic, Twilight, and their friends, we have decided that Chrysalis' sins as well as the sins of the Changelings shall not be visited upon you." Queen Aurora eyes filled up with tears of happiness. She had been given a new start, both her and her subjects. "But where shall they stay? They do not have an Empire where they can rest."

"I can fix that!" Tails announced. "I'll just make an underground castle and a royal chamber for Queen Aurora and separate beds for each of the metamorphs to sleep in."

"You can do that?" Twilight asked, instantly curious.

"Sure. The Chaos Emeralds aren't only used for giving Sonic and I super forms."

"Um, if it's not any trouble...could I ask for one more thing?" Queen Aurora spoke nervously.

"You may speak." replied Princess Luna.

"I'm not exactly accustomed to sleeping alone, so...can I have a companion to take with me and my subjects?"

"A sleeping companion? Well, I suppose one of the guards can-"

"Well, actually, I wanted to choose my companion." Queen Aurora requested.

"Very well. You may choose." Princess Luna allowed.

Sonic sighed in his head. Well, at least I get a break from females this time around. She's probably going to take Spike or Tails, Tails is more likely though. The mares at the square nearly ate him alive so I don't know of any good reason as to why she would choose-

"I want the hedgehog." Aurora said, blushing as she spoke. Sonic fell on his face.

"Somehow I'm not surprised." Tails sighed. "Anyway, there's something that's been bothering me for a while."

"What's up, bro?" Sonic asked.

"Those camera pegasi have been following you and Rainbow Dash for sometime now." Tails said, pointing at the camera Pegasi floating above them.

Sonic had a horrifying realization. "Hold on…you don't think…"

Tails caught on, horrified as well. "Everyone back at the Cloudsdale Coliseum…"

Twilight nearly fainted. "They all saw what happened here?!"

So I ran out of ideas. I was going to reunite them here but I got lazy. I've already prepared a cold bath from the flames I'm sure to get for this chapter...or lack of flames, I guess. Next chapter, we'll have the whole reunion and Sonic's Welcome/Victory/Thank-You party.

Later, Capital Punks.

~MODdenial