The group was meeting in the library to discuss their plan. Sonic walked up to tails "so what are you thinking we do now" he asked. Tails thought for a moment "well I can still track eggman but if we're going after him we have to be ready" he said. Applejack spoke up "well I think we should, he should be defenseless now" she said. Sonic turned to her "if I know anything it's that eggman always has something up his sleeves" he said. Twilight nodded "he's right, is everypony ready" she asked. Everyone nodded except fluttershy. Knuckles looked down at her "are you alright" he asked. She looked terrified. Knuckles put his hand on her head and she looked up at him "he won't lay a finger on you. You have my word" he said. She smiled dreamily at him. She then looked at twilight "I'm ready" she said.
Twilight nodded and turned to tails "where is he" she asked. Tails glanced down at his miles electric. He raised an eyebrow "that's weird" he said. Twilight looked at the screen "what is it" she asked. Tails pointed to the screen "it seems that he's just waiting in a field" he said. Shadow scoffed "he must know that we can track him, it's a trap" he said. Rainbow put a hoof to her chin "or it's his last stand" she said. Sonic shrugged "either way we have to face it head on" he said. Tails put his miles electric down "i agree, let's go" he said.
The group was walking through a forest with tails and twilight leading them. Sonic started walking next to tails "so how close are we" he asked. Tails didn't take his eyes off the screen "we're almost there" he said. Rainbow started flying above them "i don't think we needed to bring everypony, me and sonic could clean up easily" she said. Twilight rolled her eyes "we can't underestimate him rainbow" she said. Tails put his hand up and everyone stopped "wait, there he is. Sonic take a look at this" he said. Sonic saw eggman in a field along with someone else "metal sonic" he said. Rarity took a look "who is this, metal sonic" she asked. Tails turned to her "he is a robot designed to copy sonic's abilities" he explained. Knuckles pounded his fists together "let's get out there, already" he said. The others agreed and they walked into the field.
Eggman saw them approaching "i don't know how you managed to escape my trap but this ends now" he said. Sonic smirked "you're right it does end now. Give up and I won't break your toy" he said. Eggman laughed "if you underestimate metal this time, you'll end up broken" he said. Rainbow started flying "this will be no problem" she said as she started flying toward metal. Before she got to him, he grabbed her hoof and kneed her in the stomach. Rainbow slowly stood back up "this may by harder than I thought" she said. Sonic ran in and try to kick him but metal matched him with a kick of his own. Sonic tried a punch but it was catch by metal. Metal threw sonic to the side. Sonic got up "something seems different about metal" he said. Eggman smiled wide "I've upgraded him and he's being powered by the chaos emerald" he said.
Fluttershy was shaking in fear. Knuckles ran in with his fist raised. Knuckles threw a flurry of punches but metal was dodging every one of them. Metal landed a punch to his stomach and a kick to his face. Knuckles got up and ran back to him. Metal pulled his arm back for a punch but his arm was caught by a lasso. Knuckles took this chance to land a punch to metal's chest. Knuckles looked over to applejack "thanks" he said. She nodded at him "no problem sugarcube" she said. Metal got up and ripped the lasso off of him. He turned to applejack but before he could do anything sonic landed a kick to his back "what's wrong metal feeling a little overwhelmed" he taunted. Sonic, knuckles, and applejack ran to him at the same time. Metal disappeared and reappeared above applejack, coming down on her with an elbow. In another flash he landed a uppercut on knuckles and a kick on sonic. Tails gasped as three of his friends fell in a matter of seconds "that was chaos control" he said.
Metal ran up to pinkie and put his hand in the air and brought it down hard. His hand was caught by shadow who had appeared in pinkie's place "bad move" he said as he kicked him away. He got back up and in a flash he landed a punch to shadow's back. Twilight ran up and held him in place with her magic. Metal wasn't able to move but a laser came from his chest and hit twilight. Tails ran up to her "twilight" he called out. He kneeled next to her "are you okay" he asked. Twilight looked up at him "I'm fine but lookout" she warned. Tails saw metal coming towards them. Tails ran to him and tried to tail whip him but he was able to catch them. Metal broke his tail and kicked him away. Sonic got up and looked at metal with a angry expression. sonic landed a kick that knocked him over to applejack who bucked him into the air. Knuckles jumped and punched him into the ground. While he was getting up sonic landed a spin dash on him. Metal disappeared and swept sonic's legs and stomped on his chest. Rarity lifted him up with her magic but metal was about to escape. Twilight added her magic to the spell and they lifted him into the air and down into the ground.
Metal sonic seemed to have taken significant damage but he still got up. He turned around and ran to pinkie. She smiled "oh is it my turn" she said. Metal looked confused. Pinkie looked behind him "hey what's that" she asked. Metal looked behind him to see pinkie on a canon "oh it's a party canon" she said as she set it off. Metal was knocked in front of rainbow "It's about time I got some licks in" she said. She bucked him into the air and flew up with him. She tackled him back down. Metal started to look angry and started floating. He started shooting lasers randomly around the battlefield. Everyone tried to dodge them but fluttershy saw one coming straight at her. She wanted to move but her legs refused to listen to her. Knuckles jumped in front of her and took the full force of the blast. After the dust settled fluttershy saw that knuckles was still standing "knuckles why did you do that" she said. Knuckles looked back at her and smiled through the pain "not a finger, I gave you my word" he said. He fell forward and lost consciousness.
Metal landed and looked drained of power. Sonic and rainbow stepped up "are you ready to finish this" sonic said. Rainbow nodded "i was born ready" she said. Sonic homing attacked him and landed on rainbow's back. They flew up into the air and sonic jumped off. He landed on metal then rainbow flew toward him as fast as she could and crashed into him. the lights in metals eye's slowly turned off.
Sonic turned to eggman who had been trying to sneak away. Rainbow brought him back in front of them "so what should we do with him" she asked. Sonic put a hand to his chin "well we can't leave him in this world so we have to bring him with us" he said. Applejack walked up "I'll keep him at the farm, I got a cage" she said as she hogtied him with her rope. Twilight got their attention "we should head back" she said. Shadow reached into metal's chest and pull out the emerald "i agree, we've got what we came for" he said. Twilight ran over to tails "hey, can you walk" she asked. He nodded at her "yeah, it's just my tail. I won't be able to fly for a while" he said. Twilight smiled in relief "at least it's not too bad" she said. Sonic walked over to fluttershy and knuckles "is he going to be alright" he asked. Fluttershy looked at him with determination in her eyes "he will be, I'll make sure of it" she said as she put him on her back. They all walked back to ponyville.
