Mario and Sonic: The Elements of Harmony

Chapter 19-Battle in the Badlands

Tails flew the Tornado through the sky leading towards the Badlands, where Shadow, Omega, and Firestar have been waiting for them. Tails land the plane near the Factory. The Mane Six were puzzled at the factory.

"Okay, I would really like to know how EggHead manages to build these giant factories and facilities so fast!" Rainbow shouted in annoyance.

"I have to agree, it doesn't really make any sense." Twilight inputted.

"Well duh, it's like that so the plot can move along." Pinkie blurted out.

Everyone looked to her in confusion, Sonic and the others looked to Twilight for clarification, "We stopped questioning it, years ago." Twilight said.

Sonic shrugged and looked to Tails, "Alright buddy, so what can we expect from this place?"

"A lot of fire power. According to my scans, this is the most fortified facility yet." Tails informed them.

"So, expect a lot of bad guys?" Pinkie asked.

"Yep." Shadow said while nodding his head.

"Gotcha. So, what're we waiting for?" Rainbow and Firestar asked.

"She's right. The longer we take, the more time Eggman and Bowser has to enact 'Phase 2', whatever that is." Twilight said.

"Well then, let's wreck the place." Applejack inputted.

"Couldn't have said it better myself." Sonic said.

"Commence Destruction." As Omega drew his guns.

Suddenly, the eye of the pyramid opened and a swarm of wasp Badniks and flying Egg Pawns came flying out of the pyramid. Tails boosted the plane forward and Rainbow followed, the robots fired a multitude of shots at the Tornado, but Tails swayed left and right to avoid the shots. Firestar unleashes fireballs and Omega destroy several robots with his guns.

Rainbow boosted forward and plowed through some of the flying armada, Sonic used a Homing Attack to destroy some of the enemies blocking their path and landed back on the wing of the plane. Tails then fired two rockets at the group of enemies, destroying them instantly.

The cannons on the ground aimed towards the Tornado and began firing. Tails had to swerve left and right to avoid the projectiles. Rainbow then dived down and plowed through the cannons, destroying them.

"Tails, the eye of the pyramid's closing!" Spike said in an alarmed tone.

It was true, the eye of the pyramid was closing, Tails then boosted forward with Rainbow following behind. As they flew, secret panels on the pyramid opened up and revealed several laser guns. They fired at the heroes and said heroes were having difficulty getting through.

The eye was almost shut, Tails then gritted his teeth and boosted forward, and Rainbow did the same. Swaying through all the lasers and cutting it real close, they just made it in the eye of the pyramid as it shut.

"WOO HOO! THAT. WAS. AMAZING!" Pinkie screamed excitedly.

The Tornado and Rainbow Dash flew through the Weapons Factory and eventually found a platform to land on. Rainbow landed first, obviously, and the Tornado was set down gently. Everyone exited the plane and walked over to Rainbow, who was looking around for any hidden dangers.

"This place is scary." Fluttershy said fearfully.

"I know, this place gives me the creeps." Applejack replied.

"Golly, if that's how you feel then you aren't gonna like this next bit!"

Suddenly, a shadow loomed over the heroes, they looked up and immediately moved out of the way. The giant robot landed harshly on the ground in a crouched position. The robot rose up and glared at the heroes.

The ponies gaped at the size of the robot while Sonic, Tails, Shadow, Firestar, and Omega simply glared at it.

Suddenly, the robots visor opened up to reveal Cozy Glow, who was piloting the robot, "Hey there, Headmare Twilight."

"COZY GLOW?!" The ponies and Spike all screamed in shock.

"You all like my new toy? Courtesy of Mr. Eggman. The Egg Juggernaut!" Cozy stated to the heroes.

"Wait, back up a sec. There a frickin kid in that thing?" Firestar asked while pointing towards said filly.

"Yeah, that's Cozy Glow." Spike said.

Firestar stood there for a moment before bursting out into a hysterical fit of laughter, much to everyone's confusion.

"HEY! WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!" Cozy asked angrily.

"Wait, you're telling me that one of your arch enemies, IS A LITTLE FILLY?! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Firestar continued to laugh hysterically, much to everyone's annoyance.

"YOU'D BETTER STOP LAUGHING RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL REGRET IT!"

"Ahaha. Kid, isn't it past your bedtime?" Firestar said while giggling.

"THAT DOES IT!" Cozy screamed as the visor closed.

The mech opened its palm and fired a laser at the hedgehog, who simply sped out of the way. The mech got into a battle stance, as did the heroes.

Sonic then gave Firestar a deadpanned look, "You had to set off the psychopathic filly, didn't you?"

"Hey, in my defense, it was really funny." She said.

The Egg Juggernaut then flew into the air and then stomped back down onto the ground, creating a massive shockwave. Everyone was sent back by the shockwave but recovered. Sonic and Rainbow began to run and fly around the feet of the mech, but Cozy stomped its foot on the platform, sending the two back.

Cozy then flew into the air and flew a little distance away from the platform. She then raised the wrists of the mech and opened its palms, the fingertips opened and fired a multitude of heat seeking missiles.

"HEAT SEEKING MISSILES!" Tails exclaimed.

"What does that mean?" Rarity asked.

"IT MEANS THEY FOLLOW YOU, RUN!" Sonic exclaimed as the missiles approached.

Everyone then spread out as the missiles followed each of them. Cozy smiled and dashed forward and got closer to the platform.

Sonic saw this and got an idea, "Guys, head for the mechs chest and then move out of the way!"

Everyone nodded and made their way towards Cozy.

"What are you doing?" Cozy asked.

Once everyone was close enough, Sonic quickly turned slightly and tackled everyone out of the way as the missiles hit the mechs chest, causing it to tip back slightly and then lean on the platform as it began to recharge.

"HEY! WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

Sonic then began hitting the mech with a multitude of Homing Attacks, Rainbow was hitting the mech from all sides at high speeds, Pinkie was throwing cupcakes at the mech, Rarity was firing some magic from her horn, Fluttershy stayed back a few meters, not wanting to get hurt. Applejack bucked the mech in the chest as hard as she could and Twilight, Tails, and Spike were flying around the mech, firing blasts from an arm cannon, firing blasts from an alicorn horn or breathing green fire at the mech.

"Keep going!" Sonic shouted as they all attacked the mech.

The mech recharged and slammed its first down onto the platform, sending everybody back.

"THAT WASN'T VERY NICE!" Cozy shouted.

"Oh, please. You're the last pony to be lecturing us on being nice!" Twilight shouted.

The mech then flew back away from the platform. It then charged back, but it was positioned for a shoulder charge. Cozy shoulder charged the platform, causing everyone to fall down.

"Golly, this sure is fun. But I'm ending this!" Cozy said as she raised both fists into the air and brought them down on the platform.

Sonic saw this coming and jumped in the air as the fists were brought down onto the platform. He then air dashed onto the left fist and ran up its arm.

"HEY! GET OFF!"

Sonic jumped onto the shoulder and then curled up into a ball and hit the visor of the mech with a Homing Attack, damaging it even more. As Sonic untucked in midair, he then curled up again and hit the chest of the mech with another Homing Attack, damaging it even more.

Sonic landed on the platform with the rest of his friends. The mech was badly damaged and began to lean on the platform again.

"THIS USELESS PIECE OF JUNK!" Cozy shouted in annoyance.

Twilight then flew up to the head of the mech and encased it in a bubble, she looked back and saw Sonic and Rainbow race to the opposite edge of the platform. The two then smirked at one another as they dashed towards the mech. Sonic curled into a Spin Dash while Rainbow pushed her forelegs forward, the two then plowed right through the mechs chest as Twilight used her magic bubble to pull the head of the mech off.

Rainbow caught Sonic as he was falling and placed him back on the platform. The mech exploded and fell to the darkness below.

Twilight placed the head of the mech on the platform and used her magic to open it up. Cozy turned and smiled nervously at the group of heroes who were currently glaring at her.

"Uh, you wouldn't hurt a little filly now would you?" Cozy smiled nervously.

Twilight then charged her horn and Cozy was encased in a bubble and was lifted out of the mechs head.

"It's over, Cozy. You lost." Twilight said.

"I would agree if it weren't for this! IHATETHATHEDGEHOG1993!" Cozy shouted.

Suddenly, the alarm started blaring throughout the factory, signalling for everyone to get outta there.

"WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Shadow shouted.

"I hate that Filly." Sonic stated

" I merely just activated the detonation code." Cozy smiled evilly.

"WE GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE. Y'ALL!" Applejack shouted.

Everyone made their way to the plane and hopped aboard with Cozy in custody. Tails then took off as fast as he could, as they flew, Sonic turned around and saw multiple explosions behind him.

"WE'RE RUNNING OUTTA TIME HERE TAILS!" Sonic shouted in alarm.

They reached the eye of the pyramid, only to see that it was closed. Tails fired multiple rockets at the eye of the pyramid, and it exploded, giving them their needs of escape. As they flew out of the pyramid, the entirety of the factory exploded in a blaze of glory, destroying the last factory in Eggman's arsenal.

Rainbow flew next to the Tornado and looked at Twilight, "So, all the factories are destroyed. Question is, what do we do now?"

"We make sure Cozy doesn't go anywhere, then we take the fight to the bad guys." Twilight replied with a determined look on her face.

As Twilight and others head back to Canterlot to discuss their strategy, We head back Death Egg Koopa Castle, Eggman was overlooking Orbot and Cubot, who were typing code into their monitors. Orbot then floated over towards his master, "Sir, I've just been informed that all your facilities have been, um, destroyed."

Eggman then smiled, "Hehehehehe, OH HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO!"

Orbot ,Cubot and Bowser looked at each other confused

"I think he finally lost it." Cubot stated.

"Could't agree more." Bowser stateed

"Heh heh. Those fools may think they have me beat by destroying my facilities. But what they don't know is that they did exactly what I wanted them to." Eggman revealed.

"You mean you wanted them to utterly humiliate you, like Sonic always does?" Cubot asked.

Eggman glared at the cubed shaped robot, "NO, YOU DUMBBOT! I needed them distracted so I could get the preparations for Phase 2 in order. Granted that the Legion of Doom wasn't supposed to fail, but I digress. Now, Phase 2 is finally ready to launch. ORBOT, LAUNCH THE SATELLITES!" Eggman ordered.

Orbot saluted and pressed a big red button. Outside, multiple satellites launched from the battlestation and flew up into the outer atmosphere of Equestira . They then spread out across the planet and stopped when each satellite hovered above their assigned position above the planet. The satellites then opened up and came online.

Back inside Orbot got an alert notifying him that everything went according to plan.

"Satellites are fully operational, boss." Orbot informed the mad doctor.

"Perfect." Eggman said as he walked to the center of the room, where a cylinder containing the seven Chaos Emeralds rose up from the ground, "Now, begin overcharging the Emeralds and the Crystals ."

Orbot floated over and pressed some keys on the command pad. Once Orbot tapped the last key, the Emeralds inside the cylinder were surrounded by red electricity, then the Emeralds themselves began crackling with red electricity. Eggman laughed maniacally, "OH HO HO HO HO HO HO HO! Once the Emeralds are overcharged, my machine will be fully charged, and Phase 2 will be completed!"

The two robots clapped at their master's success, he turned to the two and bowed with a wicked smile on his face.

Eggman then stood upright and look as Bowser, "BTW, did Squadron 5 find the remains of Metal Dash and Mecha Twilight?"

"About that. Mecha Twilight was found but was extremely damaged. But we were able to repair her and she's fully operational. Metal Dash on the other hand was damaged beyond repair." Bowser reported.

"Eh, she was a prototype anyway. Meant to be tested while the real thing was being completed. Speaking of which." Eggman then walked over to a computer console and pressed a button. "Viola! What do you think? Behold, the very things that will give the Element Bearers a run for their money. The Metal Six!" Eggman announced, "These six will keep the Element Bearers and that annoying hedgehog distracted long enough for Phase 2 to be completed. They all should be here very soon. We shall have the last laugh!"

Orbot looked confused, "Have the last laugh? What's good about that? Isn't that like being the last to get the joke?"

"I laugh last all the time! And people look at me like I'm an idiot." Cubot added.

Starscream glared at the dumb robot, "That's because you ARE AN IDIOT!"

Eggman sighed and facepalmed, "Oh lord, help me." Eggman dragged his hand down his face but then smiled evilly at the thought of his victory, "That's right, hedgehog. Bring me the very things I need to win."

Tune in Next time in Chapter 20- Mane Six vs Metal Six