On his way toward Little Planet, Sonic was hit with a volt of magic, tripping him and sending him flying into a tree.
When he looked, Sonic saw that Lord Tirek, accompanied by King Sombra, were there ready to fight him.
"Going somewhere? You'll miss out on the fun." King Sombra said with a slight laugh to his comment.
"Oh yeah! I was just on my way to kick your face in!" Sonic yelled as he got ready. I just have one question. Why is Eggman teleporting old Zones here?"
King Sombra and Lord Tirek looked at each other, "We have no idea what you're talking about."
Just as he said that, there was an earthquake before Sonic noticed something starting to phase into reality before hearing a labored breath and a loud, "Help! Me!"
"What was that?" Asked King Sombra as he was kicked out of the way by Sonic.
Sonic looked and watched as there were ruins that started to appear before a loud bang and a bright flash were heard and seen.
When everything settled down, Sonic gasped in awe as he saw Kingdom Valley right in front of him, "This place…seems familiar. When was I here?"
Taking advantage of Sonic's amazement, "Lord Tirek shot a large ball of energy at Sonic, hitting him directly in his back launching him forward and into the ground.
Sonic quickly got up and looked at them, "That was cheap, but I'm cheaper!"
Both King Sombra and Lord Tirek watched as one of Sonic's bracelets started to cycle through colors before stopping on red.
From Lord Tirek's perspective, Sonic was moving as faster than light speed without any strain.
Sonic smirked as he began to homing attack both enemies before him, "So, I will give you a chance to surrender, here and now. Give back Cozy Glow, return the chaos emeralds to us, and surrender now. If you do, things wont get ugly. What do ya say?"
King Sombra growled before pulling out the green chaos emerald and using his magic to amplify it.
Sonic's eyes went wide as his bracelet switched to yellow.
"Chaos Control!" Yelled King Sombra as all of time around him grinded to a halt allowing him to move freely while Sonic was completely frozen. "Time to shut you up, once and for all, halfling of Shadic." He said before laughing and radiating magic on his horn and blasting Sonic off the side of the cliff.
Once time resumed, Sonic went flying off the cliffside and into Kingdom Valley unconscious.
King Sombra and Lord Tirek laughed before hearing something, "Sonic? Come in, Sonic. Shadow just came back from Casino Park. How close are you to Little Planet? Sonic?"
Lord Tirek had picked up Sonic's communicator and smirked looking at King Sombra, "Lets take this back."
Elsewhere
Once King Sombra and Lord Tirek had returned, they brought the communicator to Crysalis, "We need you to turn into that blue rodent."
She raised an eyebrow and when explained why, she did it without question.
"Sonic? Do you copy?" Tails asked, a little concerned.
"Huh? Oh, yeah. I copy. What's up?" Crysalis asked sounding exactly like Sonic.
"How close are you to Little Planet? Shadow and Flurry Heart are back from Casino Park and Bingo Highway." Tails responded.
"I'm uh…almost there. Hey, Tails?" Chrysalis asked.
"Yeah? What is it, Sonic?" Tails responded.
"So, lets say we get the emeralds. How would we go about using them to get home?" She asked him.
"Well I could use enough of the chaos energy to cause a big enough distortion that allows us to board the tornado and fly to our dimension. Why do you ask?" Tails replied.
"Just wondering, you know, making sure once we leave, we can get out of here." She replied smirking at Sombra, Tirek, and Cozy Glow.
"Right…Sonic, Rainbow Dash wants to head over to you for assistance." Tails said.
"NO! I mean uh, that's alright Tails. I got this one under control. Don't want to overcomplicate things right?" She said slightly panicked.
"Well, if you say so." Tails replied before Shard cut into the comms, "Tails! Stop talking! Don't say another word!"
Everyone went silent before Shard started talking, "Who are you, and why are you trying to impersonate Sonic?"
There was no answer and everyone panicked, "Shoot!" Tails said.
"Nicole, trace the signal!" Shard said before he heard Nicole answer back, "The last known location of Sonic's communicator was just outside the Changeling Kingdom. I'm getting another huge chaos reading."
Shard nodded, "I'm heading there!"
"Shard, wait!" Came Celestia and Luna, "We will head there ourselves and investigate. You continue your way to the original destination.
"Affirmative. Over and out!" Shard said before disconnecting his communicator.
In the Changeling Kingdom Valley
Sonic groaned as he began to wake up face to face with a changeling, "AH!"
"AH!" Yelled the changeling as she and other fellow changelings watched Sonic get to his feet.
"Tails, I've been ambushed and…Tails?" Sonic said looking at his wrist and seeing his communicator was missing.
The changelings looked at each other then to Sonic with a look of confusion.
"Wait, aren't you guys gonna, you know, attack me?" He asked now confused himself.
"No. Why would we do that?" the female asked Sonic.
"Every other changeling I have met follows Chrysalis and her friends orders." Sonic replied still not letting his guard down.
The changelings gasped looking at each other then to Sonic, "Chrysalis? She is back?!"
Sonic nodded, "My friends and I are trying to stop her. She has also teamed up with Lord Tirek, King Sombra, and an enemy from my dimension." Sonic said.
"Question? Does this enemy look black and white, wears a mask, and have a glowing chest?" came the female changeling.
"No? Why?" Sonic asked before he was brought to a nearby cave where he saw him…
"He felt from the sky like you did, a couple days ago. He started acting weird and began to glow. Soon after, this castle and its ruins appeared from out of nowhere. He hasn't harmed anyp-" The female was cut off as Sonic ran at the individual who saw him coming and threw a red cube at him knocking Sonic away.
"I thought you were gone! You disappeared and no one knew where you went. What do you want, Infinite!"
The jackal glared at Sonic and sent an onslaught of red cubes at him before yelling and starting to grab his head, "Help! Me! Help! Me!"
Sonic switched the color of his bracelet to red again and started to slow time. Now being able to easily dodge, Sonic managed to get the changelings out of the way and make his way toward Infinite, "You're finished!"
Infinite started phasing and vanished before Sonic could get to him.
"Huh? Where did he go?" Sonic asked looking around before the female changeling walked up alongside him.
"He's been doing that for a while now. We don't know what's going on with him." She responded before Infinite reappeared back where he was originally standing.
Sonic came close to Infinite who looked at him, "Sonic! Help! Me!"
Infinite's chest began glowing before he was restrained in a magic bubble.
Sonic looked behind him so see Celestia and Luna enter, "Princesses! You arrived just in time."
They smiled before looking at infinite and seeing what was in his chest, "Is that what I think it is?" Luna asked.
Sonic nodded, "Yeah, another phantom ruby. His, however, was a prototype created by Eggman."
"Is this one also fatal to remove?" Celestia asked.
Sonic shrugged, "Not sure, never got close enough to find out."
Infinite started shaking, "Please! Help me! Get it out of my chest!"
Sonic looked at Celestia and nodded at her for him to be released.
Once he was let out, Infinite started phasing again but Sonic was faster.
He landed on Infinite and grabbed the prototype phantom ruby and started to pull at it causing Infinite to yell in pain.
There was a slight *tink* sound as Sonic and Infinite fell back and the ruby prototype hit the ground.
Sonic stood and saw the ruby glow and begin phasing before it disappeared completely.
Infinite stood and looked at his chest, "It's gone…its finally over! I'm free!"
Celestia watched his reaction then looked to Sonic, "We do have a problem."
"Huh? What is it?" Sonic asked still keeping an eye on the celebrating jackal.
"Your communicator got into the hands of our enemies…they know how to get to your dimension." She responded to Sonic.
"They what?" Infinite said looking at them, "Sonic. What is going on?"
Sonic looked at Infinite and shrugged, "So much has happened, Infinite."
"Call me, Zero. It's my real name." Zero said to Sonic.
"Well, Zero, Eggman has teamed up with very strong creatures of this world and with their help, they are going to try to take over this dimension, and now ours considering they know how to get to Mobius." Sonic said now earning a gasp from everyone.
"Eggman! That fool nearly got me killed with that prototype…" Zero said gritting his teeth and clenching his fist.
"Yeah, and they are after the chaos emeralds thankfully we have 4 of them in our control." Sonic said before a large changeling came walking forth and bowed his head to Celestia and Luna.
"Thorax, very good to see you." Celestia said as Thorax looked at Zero.
"Likewise. Are these 2 with you?" Thorax said.
Celestia nodded and Sonic looked at Thorax and smirk, "A pleasure to meet you. The names Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog!" Sonic said waving his finger.
Thorax smiled, "I am Thorax. A pleasure to make your acquaintance." Thorax said.
"You may refer to me as Zero the Jackal. Just call me Zero." Zero said crossing his arms.
Sonic shook Thorax's hoof and remembered, "Oh yeah. Chrysalis is back and she has a whole new army and she is after the chaos emeralds."
"Chaos…emeralds?" Thorax seemed confused.
"These." Luna commented as she pulled out the blue chaos emerald and handed it to Sonic who took it.
"In case of emergency, huh?" Sonic asked before hearing yelling come from outside.
"That cant be good." Zero said as he, Sonic, Thorax, and the Princesses ran outside to see Metal Shadic, Chrysalis, and her changeling army waiting outside.
"What a great surprise. A chaos emerald? For me? You shouldn't have." She commented.
Metal Shadic looked at Zero then to Sonic.
"Well, I would've gift wrapped it for you if you would've given me time. Let me go get wrapping paper. Zero, stay here and defend the place." Sonic said before starting a peelout and racing off.
Metal Shadic flew after Sonic at high speed while Zero stayed behind to deal with the invading army.
Through the Valley
"Catch me if you can!" Sonic yelled before his bracelet switched to a deep blue color allowing him to rip through the valley with metal Shadic boosting to catch up.
The ruins didn't provide easy terrain navigation as Sonic had to repeatedly jump on and off walls and go through a big ruined castle.
Metal Shadic scanned the area and began trying to spike and cut Sonic off as every opportunity to no avail as the hedgehog was one step ahead of him.
There were multiple explosions as Sonic had to dodge and leap away from Metal's chaos attacks and maneuvers.
Sonic started noticing Metal was catching up with him and he couldn't shake him, "You're not getting away from me! Hand over the emerald!"
"As if you metal head! You want this emerald? Come get it!" Sonic said as he pushed himself further now running up the sides of buildings and leaping high into the air and diving toward the ground.
Once he touched down, Sonic was hit by a chaos spear and dropped the chaos emerald allowing Metal Shadic to pick it up and race off.
Sonic quickly rose to his feet and chased after him going through many tunnels until looking around and seeing the scenery around him, "Why does this all look familiar?"
Metal Shadic looked behind him and flew faster now with the emerald's power in his clutches.
Sonic using the bracelet started catching up but noticed he was running out of path and there was open water, "Oh no…I cant swim!"
Metal Shadic darted away causing Sonic to make a choice: either stop or keep going.
Sonic gulped and speed up noticing a dash pad and spring up ahead and hitting both launched him into the air where he managed to get closer to Metal.
Metal Shadic watched as when sonic landed, he was running on water toward him.
Sonic put his body to the limit as he started to contest with Metal Shadic's speed and could nearly touch him before getting hit by something large and metallic.
Sonic hit a large stone structure and slowly got up to see what hit him and his eyes went wide as a large mech was flying over him.
The mech hovered before opening the cockpit and out stepped a large, bald man with a large orange mustache and a red jumpsuit, "Got you! You little blue rodent nuisance!"
"E-eggman?" Sonic said struggling to stand as he starred at his old nemesis, "It can't be…"
"Oh but it is, Sonic. It took me a while to perfect the transdimensional teleportation device and get it working properly. It was all worth it to ambush you, isn't that right Metal Shadic?" Eggman said smirking as Metal Shadic lowered itself on the large mech.
"Eggman!" Came Zero running up to confront his old boss.
"Infinite? Is it really you?" Eggman said delighted, "Perfect timing! Finish off Sonic and let's get out of here!"
Zero growled before standing in front of Sonic. "Your stupid prototype almost ripped me apart! You will pay for that!"
"Hm? The phantom ruby prototype went unstable? That's not my fault! Maybe if you weren't so weak and let it take hold over you, then it wouldn't have come close to that!" Eggman said before cackling.
"Im…not…weak! Rahhhh!" Zero yelled leaping at Eggman only to get blind sided by Metal hitting him to the ground.
The mask on Zero's face began to crack before it split in half and fell to the ground, "Oh splendid, Metal Shadic! Take the emerald back to home base. I can deal with these 2." Eggman said laughing.
Zero looked at Eggman and growled as the doctor got in his mech and went for a cheap shot on Sonic only for Zero to tackle him out of the way.
Sonic looked at Zero, "Thanks for the save." Sonic said looking at Zero who nodded, "Let's get him!"
Eggman began firing at both the hedgehog and jackal as they split up to tag team him.
The mech punched its fist into the ground and got it stuck allowing sonic and Zero to race up its arm to get to Eggman.
Eggman pressed a button to initiate a protective electrical field around the cockpit to keep his 2 adversaries away from him.
Sonic and began to homing attack the rest of the mech while Zero started to claw at its most exposed parts.
Eggman began to panic and ejected his egg-o-matic to fly off only for Zero to jump on it and bring it down.
Sonic watched as the egg-o-matic crashed as he rushed over to see Eggman's body on the ground with his head bouncing on a spring and the eyeball popped out like a lens, "Bwahahaha! You fools fell for it again! Bwahahaha! Now watch as the rest of the chaos emeralds are brought to me!"
Zero growled before slashing the spring while Sonic shook his head, "Its was a fake the whole time. Why didn't I see this coming."
Luna came flying down visibly injured, "Sonic! They got away with the emeralds."
"Wait…emeralds? As in plural?" Sonic asked.
"Chrysalis had one in her possession when she invaded…we didn't last long. She took over the Changeling Kingdom." Luna said sounding defeated, "We managed to escort and rescue all that we could, but there were so many. We didn't stand a chance."
Sonic looked down and Zero groaned, "Sonic, you never finished explaining to me what's going on."
Sonic looked at Zero and sighed as he began to explain in detail what has been happening and what Eggman has been up to, "So, that's the story."
"The phantom ruby is behind it." Zero said folding his arms, "There's no questioning it. The chaos emeralds may have brought Shadic here…but if what you're telling me is true, that Tails used the real phantom ruby to bring himself and his plane here then we have more trouble on our hands then you could possibly think."
Sonic held his hand to his face and started thinking, "How so?"
"After I disappeared from the result of our fight back in mobius, the phantom ruby went haywire. I couldn't control it anymore. It was sending me places I've never been to nor heard of. I was getting flung around so quickly, that it actually started to hurt when I teleported. Eventually, I tried to hold onto places I was landing in hopes that I could stop teleporting…but not even that could work. Things got worse as I was losing control, resulting in the phantom ruby prototype flooding locations I've been to with chaos energy."
Princess Luna gasped, "So, all of these locations randomly appearing in Equestria are from you?"
Zero nodded, "There wasn't anything I could've done to prevent it from doing that. Now that it's no longer attached to me, who knows what location might turn up next."
Just as Zero said that, Sonic and Luna's communicators went off, "Sonic! I've just received word that Hang Castle and Mystic Mansion just appeared!"
Sonic looked at Luna then to Zero, "Zero, lets get back to Canterlot and show you around."
Zero nodded and followed Sonic and Princess Luna back to Canterlot while making sure to keep an eye of for a potential ambush.
In Canterlot
Once they arrived, Sonic and Luna gasped seeing that Canterlot was, new.
Sonic went to find Tails only to se him in his workshop working on inventions and gadgets, "Tails? You alright in here?"
"Oh hey, Sonic. Yeah, I'm alright, why do you ask?" Tails responded while making more wipsons.
"Well, I just saw what Canterlot looks like. Did you do all of that?" Sonic asked seeing a smirk appear on Tail's face.
"I may have made a few machines and other inventions for Equestria just in case. Celestia asked me to make some defensive items in the event our enemies would attempt to attack us again. What you see is just a precaution." Tails said before seeing Shard walk in.
"I got what you asked for Tails." Shard tossed some robots on the ground in front of Sonic and Tails.
"Silver Metal Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Robo Sonic, and another Metal Sonic series robot? What do you need all these for Tails?" Sonic said.
"Out of fear that our enemies could be listening in on us, I cant tell you right now. However, it's a great surprise you'll love Sonic." Tails responded to Sonic before noticing Zero walk in. "Sonic!"
Sonic calmed Tails down, "Easy there buddy. Zero here is mad with Eggman and will help us for the time being. Also it turns out, he accidentally brought old zones and stages here because the phantom ruby prototype went bonkers while attached to him."
"Well where is it? If we destroy it, we wont have to worry about more showing up." Tails asked.
Sonic laughed nervously, "Well uh…about that. I sorta took it out of his chest and it disappeared."
Tails' eyes went wide, "That's not good Sonic. We may be in more trouble because of that…if the prototype is unstable, who knows what it could do without something to contain and regulate it."
Sonic rubbed the back of his head and sighed before remembering, "Oh yeah, you said something about Hang Castle?"
Tails nodded and gave Sonic the coordinates, "Also, Twilight and AppleJack will be joining you. It's in a place called the Hollow Shades. They are familiar with it so they will join you."
Sonic nodded, "Let's hope they can keep up!" Sonic said before being handed the clear chaos emerald by Tails. "Huh? What's this for?"
"Sonic, we only have 3 emeralds left in our possession. We cant afford to slip up now. I'm giving you, Shard, and Shadow the rest of the emeralds to keep up after." Tails said now serious.
Sonic nodded and ran off out of Metallic Canterlot catching up with Twilight and AppleJack.
At the Hollow Shades
Once Sonic and the girls arrived, He looked and saw Hang Castle floating there, "Alright, before we go in, you girls need to know how Hang Castle works."
Twilight and AppleJack both nodded to Sonic, "Tell us everything we need to know."
"Well this place is mostly a spooky castle and mansion but there will be times where it likes to flip and turn us. Don't spilt up and don't get disoriented easily, ok?" Sonic told them.
They both nodded before following Sonic through the castle gates and down the main stretch of path.
Once they were in the castle, Twilight and AppleJack began to start assisting Sonic in destroying Eggman's robots while advancing.
After destroying a few robots, Sonic saw a floating orb glow and rolled his eyes as he saw Twilight walking over to it.
"Interesting…" She said reaching out to touch it with Sonic yelling for her not to go near it.
He was to late as there was a bright flash before they all started falling toward the ceiling, "Whoa!" "I'm falling!" "This was what I was afraid of!"
Twilight glided to the ceiling while Sonic landed on his feet and caught AppleJack, "Thank ya, sugar."
Sonic smiled and set her down before hearing a door open and seeing more robots.
Twilight started shooting them with magic while started spindashing, "Hey, AppleJack, gimme a little kick!"
AppleJack smirked and turned around before bucking Sonic at the robots causing him to ricochet off of the surrounding walls and hit the robots, reducing them to a pile of scrap.
Sonic unrolled and stretched, "I love the smell of destroyed eggbots in the afternoon. Let's me know that this day can get better."
They continued through the door where there was a platform ahead of them that led to the rest of the castle but separating them was a large pit.
Sonic looked over the pit and saw it was a large fall causing him to look at Twilight and shrug, "I know I said not to split up…but Twilight, you're the only one capable of flying over that gap. I could my cyan gem bracelet ability to get over there, but what do we do about AppleJack?"
AppleJack looked at the gap, "I might be able to make that jump."
"No, that's too risky." Twilight said shaking her head with Sonic shrugging.
"I don't know…if she is certain she can make it, I say go for it. She does seem pretty adamant about it." Sonic said moving out of the way.
Twilight hesitantly moved and gave AppleJack some room to get a running start still worried.
AppleJack backed away before charging toward the edge and leaping only to come a little short just barely missing the other side.
Sonic and Twilight yelled out for her only to see her fall flat on her gut in mid air.
"Huh? How is she doing that?" Twilight asked Sonic who at this point had just noticed and was laughing.
"I forgot, this place had invisible paths!" He said pointing to a trail of flames the were evenly spread apart with AppleJack in the center of them.
Sonic and Twilight caught up with AppleJack whom was picking herself up and dusting herself off, "You ok?" Twilight asked her only to get a nod.
"Come on, this way, I think I see another one of those orbs just up ahead." Sonic said running ahead with both girls following.
Right when they got to the orb, the doors behind them shut and the walls started to close in, "What's going on, Sonic?" Twilight yelled.
"I don't know! I never remembered Hang Castle doing this!" Sonic said as he touched the orb.
The orb flashed and they began falling back to the floor putting everything back to normal.
Once back on solid ground, Sonic ran off seeing the mansion in sight, "Come on, keep up! We are almost to the mansion!"
Once the were close enough to the mansion doors, Sonic began to push them open and ran inside with the girls following close behind.
In Mystic Mansion
They ran into the main foyer and saw some robots waiting for them causing them to go on the attack.
Sonic began spindashing and homing attacking while Twilight and AppleJack got up close with their enemies.
After all the robots were destroyed, the team decided to take a short break, "So, Sonic? How do ya do that spinning thing?"
Sonic looked at her and tilted his head in confusion, "My spindash? To be honest…I'm not sure. It just came naturally to me. I don't really think about it…I just do it."
Just as he said that, Sonic notice one of those orbs and walked toward it before stopping short.
"What's wrong, Sonic?" Twilight asked seeing him tense up.
"I just remembered, Mystic Mansion doesn't change gravity…this orb does something different." He began to survey his surroundings before seeing 5 eggrobo statues and 3 paintings of eggman's bigger robots. "Get ready of a fight!"
AppleJack looked around at the pieces of art, if you could call them that, and saw why Sonic was tense, "Oh I see. Get ready Twi, the art is about to get real aggressive."
Twilight nodded and got ready before seeing Sonic touch the orb and the flash encompass the room.
As predicted, the art came to life before them and wen ton the attack without any hesitation.
Sonic notice that one of the paintings continued to another room and grabbed Twilight and AppleJack's hooves and ran past the robots to the next room.
They ventured through multiple rooms only to find more and more robots with each new room explored until they came to a opening in the ground.
Sonic looked at Twilight, "Hm…this wasn't in the original Mystic Mansion. You guys recognize this hole from anywhere?"
Twilight without warning jumped in with AppleJack looking at Sonic, "Don't worry, we will meet back up with you later. Something is here that we need to get."
Sonic nodded and gave her a thumbs up before seeing her follow after Twilight.
After they split up, Sonic ran through the rest of the mansion no problem being able to quickly attack robots left, right, and center.
Once he found the end to the mansion, Sonic went to walk out but was shot in the back by a magic bolt.
Sonic hit the ground hard and struggled to get up only to get blasted again forcing him to stay down.
The unknown being came over and took the emerald off of Sonic's body the noticed the element of unity and went to reach for it, "Interesting…I don't remember this being an element…"
Right when the being touched the element, the chaos emerald and element reacted to each other causing multiple flashes of light before there was a being standing before him.
"That was very rude of you. Attacking someone when their back is turned is a scummy and cheap move by itself…but when you take it further and hit them while they are down, that's where I really lose all respect for you." Came a white glowing hedgehog.
"How is this possible!? You were supposed to be gone!" Came the being, "You were supposed to take longer to come back!"
The hedgehog smirked and cracked his knuckles looking at what seemed to be a blue ram standing in front of him, "You're right…I was supposed to be gone until Sonic and Shadow fused. Luckily for me, I have new way to stay. So, tell me, who are you, and why should I not completely obliterate you where you stand?"
"Fool, you couldn't stand up to me even if you tried. I am Grogar, father of monsters, and bringer of true terror!" Grogar replied shooting magic now infused with chaos energy at the white hedgehog who began to dodge and deflect most that he could.
Grogar was relentless, trying his best to fend off his adversary who was toying with him the whole time.
"You're not have bad for an old goat, but allow me to show you my true power! Haaaaa!" The hedgehog began to yell as his hands began glowing.
Groagar started firing electric magic at his enemy who punted and kicked the magic away while throwing 2 magical spears at him.
The spears landed beside Grogar who laughed thinking the hedgehog had missed his target, "You call that power?! If you're going to attack someone, make sure you're aiming!"
The being smirked and closed his fists causing the magic to detonate and throw Grogar away forcing him to drop the chaos emerald he was holding onto.
Grogar started to get up and looked at the hedgehog who was readying another attack forcing him to retreat.
"Hmph, serves you right. Next time, maybe you'll think twice before pulling a really stupid move like that." He said wiping his hands off like he was taking out the trash. He powered down seeing as Grogar had left and there were no other enemies in the area.
Sonic started to groan before getting up, "Ugh my he-" He paused seeing the hedgehog and his eyes went wide.
"Heya Sonic, long time no see." The hedgehog said with a smile.
"How is this possible? Am I hallucinating?" Sonic asked.
The hedgehog shook his head, "Nope! I'm all here buddy. Hard to believe, right?"
"Yeah…how do I explain this to everyone…that you're back, Shadic."