Originally this chapter was titled, "The Voice from the Hell," after Bak. R's epic orchestral version of Sonic the Hedgehog's Final Zone. This track was used in a Death Battle trailer for Eggman vs. Wily, and that Screwattack episode is where I got the inspiration in making this fanfic. But for this chapter title, I removed the second 'the' for the sake of simplicity. Enjoy.

The Voice from Hell

Distance miles away from Ponyville lie the majestic capital of Equestria, Canterlot. Like Ponyville, the residents of the capital city are asleep in their homes. Save for those working night shifts such as guard duty along with those in authority, the two princesses of day and night, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. Canterlot was not disrupted by their neighbor's incident. The princess of the night however, saw everything under her moonlight.

"What strange magic," Luna contemplating on what had happened earlier ago. As she does so, she walks the royal halls leading to her sister's room. "Only a high level magic user can perform such a feat, but the energy it gives off. It seems so…foreign." And the transport is not something an equine could've built, neither was it designed by the griffons, the changelings, or even those of Tartarus. She stopped in front of her sister's door, feeling there may be some revelation to be gained after going behind it. "If there's anything I do," she readies her magic, "I'll do what I can to help," and opens the door. Upon entry, Luna could see her sister was disturbed with a letter scroll rolled up upon reading. "Sister, have you received word from your student?" Luna assumed.

"I have," Celestia replied, "something has happened over Ponyville. Twilight was giving a full report on this matter and is waiting for further instructions by tomorrow. I'm sure you saw what happened under your night sky." She levitates the scroll to Luna, to which the latter opens and reads. Everything that was said in the letter relates to her watch.

"Twilight has indeed witnessed this strange phenomenon as I did," Luna said as she read along the lines of the mysterious green light and a red, armored airship appearing out of the flash. "Interesting." She reads the part about how Twilight's friends got themselves involved in the situation, particularly Rainbow Dash and a friend named Derpy. "Oh dear, I'm sorry what happened to her friend and Rainbow's house." Then there's the part about strange creatures commanding the airship. "What her friend saw, blue eyes and blue teeth. It almost sounds like a changeling, but having the colors red and yellow, two arms, no legs, with cubic and orbed shapes? This isn't something found in the creatures glossary."

"Yes," Celestia replied. "There are three others in the back row mentioned in the letter. They are a bit blurred from her vision, making this a mystery."

"They have a pair of arms and legs. One was large and red, one smaller but medium sized and in white, and the smallest is in black. What are they?" Luna questioned. What are they indeed; they could be any walking biped such as a minotaur or a canine. But none of these creatures are able to build such a massive, metallic structure. Are they from a different world? If so, where did they come from? How did they find different means other than magic to enter Equestria? And why have they come to Equestria in the first place? Luna finishes the sentence of Twilight asking for a mission, "In order to provide Twilight and her friends an objective, we'll have to acquire foreknowledge on the subject."

"Correct. We need to know whether or not if the creatures in the airship are hospitable or hostile to Equestria. Would you look in this matter, my sister?"

"Yes, I will check this out under discretion." Her horn glows and her body surrounds itself in a magic aura. Luna becomes misted and enters astral projection. She phased through the walls of Canterlot and flew to Ponyville to investigate.

In astral form, she'll be visible only to ethereal beings, high-level magic users, and any whom Luna wishes to see in person. She'll be invisible spiritually as mist to mortal eyes. And as she has shown with a certain flightless, pegasus filly, she's able to enter dreams. With her position and power, she can enter many dreams, and this was her first concern when entering Ponyville. The green flash did after all give off a strange energy.

"I do hope the object didn't do much harm to affect everypony's sleep." She said to herself fearing that the energy may be contagious. Before she could look towards the Everfree Forest to investigate the structure, Luna feels obliged to look into dreams of Ponyville to ensure their safety. Their uneasiness in rest has gotten the princess's curiosity. Hopefully she'll be able to calm them down with her power and intervention. "This is strange." She looked at one dream after another. "The energy has similar power to the Nightmare Dreamscape, being able spread and infect more than one pony with nightmares," except that these dreams weren't focused particularly on a pony's fear. The afflicted had dreams of monsters and unusual creatures. "Those animals," she saw through the dreams, "they're all covered in armored." Some of them have wheels. Others are armed with strange weaponry. Armed weaponry such as an armored bee's laser capability from its stinger. But then there's more. Luna is seeing dreams of a green-eyed creature made of water flooding cities, a lizard-like being attached to a space object falling into a planet's atmosphere, a metal, blue biped claiming to rule over all living things before transforming into a draconic monster, an army of black creatures destroying cities, one creating devastation through lava and flame, a deity rising out of a broken world, innocent entities being absorbed into a piece of machinery, and another on what appears to be a clockwork-machined entity. All the dreams that the ponies had in common have a large, egg-shaped, biped creature in red involved. "Could he be the same one in the airship described by Twilight and her friends?" Luna thought to herself. "And those things, it seems where ever he goes; destruction is follows. And what is he? Is he…a human?" It is said that humans can peak to high intelligence capable of advancing technologies with their thoughts and can use their hands as manual backup when in numbers. Maybe the airship was a product of their doing. But coming here to Equestria requires magic, and humans are far from magical. Luna collected those dreams in her memory bank as safekeeping. The ponies can then develop dreams of their own before the green light ever flashed. Luna then moved onward towards the Everfree Forest.

Upon entry of the wild forest, she could hear moans and felt tears close by. "This must be Fluttershy," remembering her home close to the Everfree and recognizing her voice. Luna phased through the cottage and she could see that the kind pegasus was crying under her bed with animals by her side.

"Dragon…Dragon…Please…go…away," the pink-maned pegasus whimpered. Luna moved in closer, feeling sorry for the bearer of the Element of Kindness from what she witness and perceiving it as her known phobia.

"Be not afraid, Fluttershy. I assure you. From what thou hast witnessed, it is not what you feared." The pegasus slowly calms down. She then relaxes in sleep as she feels Luna's presence taking her fear away. Animals who were concerned for her also relaxed. Feeling accomplished, Luna moves on towards her mission.

What she saw while traveling through the Everfree were frantic. Animals were going more berserk than before. Chimeras and Manticores were biting at each other. Doing what nature does without civil intervention: survival of the fittest. Their unrest is preventing Luna from helping them, so she couldn't do what she can do for them but move on, and let nature allow these poor animals commit acts of savagery. There was one that hasn't been partaken with the violence going on, and this is shown with a tree filled with fumes, an enchantment circling the tree, and foreign chanting. Zecora. The potion alchemist herself was meditating in spirit. This got the princess's attention, neither was her presence unnoticed by the enchantress.

"Ah, Princess of the Night," Zecora said. "Your presence here is welcoming after my recent plight."

"Greetings Zecora, and what do you mean by plight? asked Luna.

"The first is what you see around you. What has happened over the Everfree is also affecting me too. Out of the circle of my home, the world of the Everfree is wild. With my enchantments and my potions, my world is mild."

"Indeed. And what of the second?" Luna asked eagerly to learn what another is, knowing her that the airship maybe the one causing panic in the Everfree as it did with Ponyville's dreams.

"Ah, another is one concerning the being over the sky. Wildlife was unleashed in panic and fear when it flew by." Luna pays close attention to Zecora, concerned with what she's about to say next. "Into this I've looked into detail. But what I have witnessed, it made me pale."

"Oh, and how did you find it without going out of your circle?" knowing if Zecora were to step out, she might not survive the animal frenzy. "And where did you find it?"

"I was in spirit as you are here, with my spirit I was able to see what was happening over there." Luna nodded to the being also capable of astral projection. Zecora continued, "Down below the Ancient Castle stood the vessel. Infiltrate without detection was I able. But from what I saw, it was unnatural. Two beings with no legs are not in flesh, and what they said to each other I couldn't catch. I moved on and saw another two, what they said in detail I couldn't understand them too. The first two talked normally in pettiness, the latter two had detailed means of language I couldn't understand, your Highness."

Twilight mentioned there are five. Four of them are covered; that leaves one.

"I did see one more, a dark creature. He had arms and legs, but no mouth to feature. He had a jewel in hand and enters a room, I followed behind. The door then had a voice boomed."

"A voice?"

"I know not how it senses my projection, but the message the voice was giving me. It was with malice intention."

"What did it say?"

"Get out…get out… From there I took my leave, fearing of the consequences if I don't heed. Return back home I do, with my home safeguarded with my enchantments and my perfumes."

"I see. Zecora, I would like to thank you for your time."

"No need, but be warned of lingering over there any longer, for staying there the consequences can be dire." Luna took caution and moved on.

"Down where the ancient castle stood. It was also once our home where Tia and I stood," Luna said apparently saying it with Zecora's tongue as she phased through statues of Timberwolves caused by the cockatrice. The castle was also the same place that got her transformed back from Nightmare Moon to Princess Luna. It was left abandoned in ruin again when the Elements had done its purpose.

She stumbled upon the cliff, looked down, and flew towards the fog. Normally no one can see through, but in astral form the way is clear. Down beneath the canyon lays the same aircraft that made its appearance in Ponyville. Upon moving in closer, she could hear banging noises. Closer and closer, she could see orange, metallic bipeds with using hammers and saws, wearing helmets, riding tractors, holding pieces of metal and glass in hands, and other construction materials. Strange that neither Twilight nor Zecora mentioned additional crew members of the ship. And what they were building, it looks like a tube-like structure leading to the top of the cliff. It must be an elevator from the looks of it.

"But what are they?" The bipeds look exactly alike. It's almost as if they were built to look alike and perform the same function. She used her magic to scan one of them. "It's not living," She sticks her head phasing to look into the insides of one with a saw. "Neither are they dead." Instead of flesh, bones, and organs, she saw only boards, screws, and other metal materials not seen or built in Equestria. Automatons. "I believe Twilight Sparkle was doing a research project on them." But the common techniques used for functional automatons would be either magic, water, motion, and air. They had none but electricity and a strange, energy source giving off a faint fragrance as the green flash. She moves in closer to the ship. As she does, an echo was faintly felt in the astral realm. "This must be the voice Zecora warned. I have to be careful." And enters the ship she goes.

Inside it was something out of the ordinary; inside the ship looked almost like a palace with hallways, large corridors, balconies, and maids sweeping the floors. The exception of a normal palace is that the ship had gears, engines, machinery, vehicles connected to different rooms, and the maids were also automatons. From there she begins her investigating mission; see to it that it gets done. Large columns of orange automatons were coming out of a room. She phased through its automatic door and saw that they were walking out of factorylike machinery operated by beings described in Twilight's letter and Zecora's description. The one was red and the other yellow in color. One orbed and the other cubed. Both of them had blue eyes, blue teeth, a pair of arms, but no legs. They were floating with no wings behind them and operating on a machine that's constructing the orange workers, with the one in red with the controls and the yellow pulling levers.

"500 Egg Pawns should do fine." The red one said.

"Eeyup." The yellow replied in a farmer's accent. They were done operating. After an army of orange automatons dubbed 'Egg Pawns' got their construction equipment and head out for work on the outside, the two got together with the red one sighing.

"What's wrong, Orbot?" the yellow asked.

"Well Cubot," the red one called Orbot replied. "It's just that… after all that's happened, do you think the doctor will make it this time? I mean once he's done with the mission in this world, will he fail again afterwards?"

"The doctor? A mission in this world?" Luna takes notes after what this Orbot had said. "What is their mission? And where did they come from?" None of the talking machines were able to hear her thoughts.

"Especially when we'll gonna deal Sonic and his friends later on." continued Orbot.

"Come on y'all," the squared automaton called Cubot said. "We got some help with Mod guy and that Shadow looks-alike."

"That's the thing, can they be trusted? They weren't honest with G.U.N. with their resignations, and it's not like the doctor had any trustworthy assets in the past. Plus Mod and his assistant wouldn't let us into that room of theirs."

"Hopefully the doctor'll learn from his mistakes. I wonder what they're doing up there?"

"I don't know, but probably some important stuff that shouldn't our concern. In the meantime, we're going to have to fix that voicechip of yours."

"Yeah, maybe a sleep mode will restart my system."

"Probably so. Perhaps it'll also repair the damages from what that hacker did to your voicechip."

"Yeah." Cubot yawned. "Nighty night," and rolled in a box.

"Now what should I do while you're fixing yourself? Hmm," Orbot sarcastically and rhetorically asked himself as he scratches his iron chin. "Orders were to build Egg Pawns and establish base, but we're finished with the Egg Pawns. Was it to build the base with the Egg Pawns or am I to build the base myself?" He then goes on and on repeating questions after questions with different synonyms in them.

Luna was just as confused as Zecora by strange terms uncommonly used by living creatures such as restarting, damages (usually biological beings uses the term injury), sleep mode, repairs, systems, hacking, and voicechips. She puts this aside, looked to the one on resting mode, and closes in on Cubot to see if he dreams.

Usually when entering one's dream, it is like entering a different realm. From looking in the yellow automaton in sleep mode, it was all dark and nothing but boards. Looking deeper into one board, she could see signs. One of the signs says, "Primary Function: do whatever the doctor tell you what to do whenever possible." The primary function must be giving these automatons a purpose, but how is this possible without magic? She then looked at another piece of the board. This one here had interesting data inside of it, particularly memories on events within the past 24 hours. She looked it up and sees from his vision memory of him and his partner swimming in space. It seemed that the automatons didn't need oxygen while swimming in outer space. For a while, the being Cubot was just waving with his hands on about how he had his voicechip fixed. The red Orbot was getting tired and bored about of his partner's incessant nonsense and decided to get in lying-down position and acted like he's sleeping. The replay would've been going around for 23 hours and 30 minutes had Luna not have fast forwarded until something out of the ordinary stands out.

"Look Orbot! We're saved!"

"Really?! Finally, a rescue ship has arrived!" A green vehicle with a G insignia was flying towards them and the two swam to get on board. When they entered, a pod was ejected after they passed by it. After that, the door upon entry closes and they could hear explosions on the outside.

"Oh dear, I hope the pilot knows where he's going." Orbot sarcastically said. More explosions were heard with the vessel taking its course.

"Yeah it feels like we're going to back to Earth." Cubot expressed. From inside the 'G' ship, a black creature of small stature that the robots recognize made its approach.

"This must be him; the smallest in black." Luna said as he matches the description in the letter and Zecora's eyewitness.

"Hey wait a minute. Aren't you Shadow the Hedgehog?" asked Cubot.

A Hedgehog? They're supposed to be smaller and on four. This Earth really is a strange, new world, different from ours.

"Well according to the past archives," Orbot examined, "he does match the image of the hedgehog. However, the colors are a tad bit different and he doesn't have a mouth." The dark creature that's supposedly 'Shadow the Hedgehog' glared in at Cubot. The creature points his finger at the yellow automaton. He did not have a mouth but his muzzle moved with voice patterns matching his expression.

"I am Mephiles, and you will not refer to me as that doppelganger!" He said it out in frustration. He clutched his fist in anger.

"Oh!" Cubot covered himself and whimpered. "Sorry." Mephiles turns himself away from the cubed-shape automaton and turns to the one in white who made his appearance.

"Is he a human too?" Luna asked herself. And from the looks of him, he's wearing attire similar to the researchers at Starswirl the Bearded wing of the Canterlot Archives. The one in white must be a scientist.

"In G.U.N., I'm codenamed WMD. You may call me Dr. Mod, or Mod for short. Now then, where is the doctor?"

"Uh who? You?" Cubot acted like he's playing dumb.

"Where is Dr. Eggman?" The man in horn-rimmed glasses asked sternly.

"Umm. Uh. Umm. That's a really hard question. But...he was...he kinda disappeared."

"Disappeared? To where exactly?" He harshly interrogated.

"We don't know." Orbot stepped in. "First thing we knew he founded a strange, purple energy source with eyes and a mouth. He moved towards it and he simply disappeared."

"Hmm. I'm going to have to see that for myself." The man in white called Mod moves in on Cubot.

"Hey, whadidya think you doing?! Stop!" By then everything in the past went static and blanked. The Cubot at the present had woken up and Luna is back at the operating room with Orbot pestering Cubot on next objectives.

"I know what we must do now! In order to speed up the construction process, we'll need more Egg Pawns.

"Oh, uh. Right you are partner." Cubot said in a grumpy old man's voice. "Isn't that what we're here for?

"Well, I was analyzing the wording of the doctor's mission to verify our objectives. So let's get to it!" They then moved back at the operating machine and to construct more units. Luna, while the machines and the technology amaze her, feels like she isn't making any progress. The knowledge she's gathered didn't really answer her questions: how did they get here, why are they here and what is their purpose? From the two she saw, they speak nothing but trivial concerns as Zecora defines their talk as pettiness. At least from the looks of things, they seemed pretty harmless. The other two from the memory though, the one in black and other in white, they seemed like a harsh bunch. She phased out of the room to the hallway, hoping to seek answers. Along the way, she could see the creature that angrily denied as Shadow the Hedgehog walk out of an automatic door. He turns towards where Luna is, facing her as if he's seeing her.

"Can he see me?" said the surprise mare. Only a high-level magic user can see astral projections, is he one? Instead, he just walked pass through her like nothing unusual has happened and moved on for his next directive. She moved down the hallway, passing by the door he came out of, and moved to a entrance that sticks out. A door with E,G,G,M,A, and N buttons in front and on the floor. "The one in white was asking for an 'Eggman.' Remembering seeing an egg-shape human in the dreams, could this be him? She then felt a tremor echoing in the astral realm.

"Get…Out…" Luna turned back to looked at the door she had passed by not too long ago.

"He had a jewel in hand and enters a room, I followed behind. The door then had a voice boomed," remembering the words of Zecora. He didn't exactly have a jewel in hand when coming out of the door. "…but be warned of lingering over there any longer, for staying there the consequences can be dire," remembering another flashback as it came to her.

"I see. If I get closer to the door, the thing behind it will know. I have to make sure not to get close to it lest it may warn the others." She heads forward for E.G.G.M.A.N. door in the hall. She hesitantly stopped, "Oh I do want to know what's behind that door earlier," she said playfully to herself reminding this part of the quest to be like a guessing game back at Nightmare Night. This isn't a time for games however, "I have to hurry. I can't stay here any longer." She moves to the next door. In it, she sees flashing buttons, screens, and a familiar human in white with another large in red discussing matters of their situation. "This must be Dr. Eggman I presume." judging humorously by his egg-shape size. She slightly chuckled, but moved in closer of the scientists' discussion. In front of their discussions were two additional automatons. One was black, has two clawed arms, one green eye, a tail, and the label 101. The other was red with one arm, a strange object Luna couldn't really identify but mostly likely a cannon on the other arm, two green eyes, two legs, and a label 102. These machines looked more elegantly and heavily armored than the automatons Luna saw earlier.

The two humans were talking about technicalities and using terminologies far beyond Equestria's thesaurus, so Luna could barely understand what they're talking about. The man in white identified as Mod said something where Luna could finally understand, "so if we were to run into wildlife here?"

"We'll be well-prepared now that we have the best of my soldiers ready for combat," the red replied.

"That'll be for the wildlife, but what about confronting indigenous civilization? We'll start with an invasion?" There Luna tensed herself, feeling that there may be harm from these humans after all. If they have armed soldiers, especially machined, they may be dangerous. But referring to us as indigenous? They're foreigners indeed. Hopefully we may come to an understanding that Equestria doesn't mean any harm, though the Everfree doesn't really follow our example.

"No. If they are civilized, we may not need any violence involved." Hearing from the egg-shaped doctor, Luna relaxed. "They could have knowledge useful for our plans. Once we have that, we can make way for a course of action." Ironic, they want to know about us just as much as we want of them, but what is their plan? Mod presses one of the buttons on a panel close to the black automaton with 101 and blueprints of its schematic prints out.

"Interesting."

"Indeed, Beta is equipped with high-speed jet boosters, teleportation, and energy shield. With its tracking system, he can fire lock-on homing missiles, uses its twin laser cannons to cause area-of-effect explosions, and its claw to shield against incoming fire and for melee combat.

"In G.U.N.'s combat experience, we have never faced such a design. And according to this one here, neither was it destroyed by the hedgehog." Again with the hedgehog? There was one in black, but who else could they mean? The Mephiles being did mentioned a doppelganger. "And from what his résumé is saying, it was unleashed when the Egg Carrier was out of commission. It battled another robot, E-102 Gamma, and they destroyed each other in the end." Luna looks towards another automaton with that label.

"A robot? This is what they refer to them?"

"At first I thought it was a sibling rivalry," Eggman answered Mod in their conversation. "I wanted to see if one can be proven better than the other, so I had them compete with Gamma emerging victorious."

"Bearing a grudge against its brother and you gave him an upgrade to improve on its performance. At first you thought?

"When I stumbled upon their bodies and looked into their mainframe computer system, Beta is just as you call holding a grudge. But inside Gamma there was a glitch in his programming. From what I've seen in his memory log, after his confrontation with Sonic and Amy, his AI went AWOL, went rogue, and labeled me as the enemy, thereby destroying everything I've ever created, including Beta."

"That's pretty dangerous, and they're powered up by animals inside of them?"

"Yes."

"Those animals, are they aware they're inside the robots? Do they operate it?"

"Yes and no. I developed a structure that makes animals living batteries while they remain inside the robots. As batteries, they are put in a hibernation process where their bodies are placed in a state of suspended animation. This slows down their biological functions such as the need for food. At the same time their life energy provides an energy source for the robot they're in."

"Interesting. So that way you don't have to feed them or take care of them when they're sick."

"Exactly. What's better, I can expand their lifespan a hundredfold. Maybe even forever."

"That's impressive work." Mod said with his brows up. "It's like you've found the method of everlasting life. Have you thought about applying them on humans?"

"Yes, I have. The animals I've used were only part of that experiment. When it applies that on humans as well, there wouldn't be a need for wars over scarce resources; no need for crime such such as robbery for them; and no need to grief or fear death."

"Amazing," Luna feels astonished. Despite being intellect beings, the humans are having the same problems as we do with their wars, poverty, and distress. These scientists may have a solution to solve all of their problems, but what's stopping them from going through?

"However, that project came to a close now that meddlesome hedgehog keeps getting in the way and starts 'freeing' these robots. Since then I've been focusing all resources in eliminating that rat. Once I do that, I can finally I create a utopia on Earth."

"Speaking of resources, I've been meaning ask-"

"Get...Out…" Luna looked around.

"It's that voice again." She looked at the scientists and it didn't sound like it came from them. They were still holding their conversation with their mouths moving and making gestures, but Luna couldn't hear a thing. Everything was muted.

"Get out…!" The astral realm begins trembling. In the material world, nothing is really happening. To Luna, everything around was distorting.

"Get out…Get…out…!" became ever louder.

"Where is it coming from?" The scientists around her weren't aware of anything and continued on with their work. Then the dark creature, Mephiles, came in through the automatic door. When the door opened, she can feel it.

"Get out…!"

"Was it from him? This Mephiles? Was he aware of my presence and feigning ignorance? A false alarm?" Luna thought. When the door closes, the voice was a bit dimmer but still just as a loud with its echoes. The one in black was holding onto some blueprints in hand. He walks past through Luna and showed his research to the scientists. "No, he doesn't know I'm here. Wait." She then remembers from Zecora. "The door!" She phased out of the research room. In the halls, walls, the corridors, and the maids, everything was distorted in astral view. Only the path to the door was clear.

"Get out! Get out! Get out!" This time the sound became clear as it was vapid.

Flashing back, "I know not how it senses my projection, but the message, the voice was giving me, was with malice intention."

"Malice? This creature is demonic! I have to make my escape…no. We all fear the unknown, and we must face our fears. And as the Princess of the Night, I do not fear thee! Show yourself!" she demanded as she charges to the door.

"Get out!"

"Very well, you leave me no choice!" She phased through the door. Behind it, everything was dark. Luckily as Princess of the Night, she can see through the darkness as though it were day. She didn't need her night vision though as a green light glowed in the middle of the room. Upon it was a green jewel.

"This gem. It's giving off energy used for the flash." She stepped in closer to it while almost materializing herself to gaze at a structure. "This thing here is far from magical. It's mystical. This could explain how the humans got here. But the voice, could this be the one? No. The voice had to be-"

"Begone!"

Before she could turn to the direction of the voice, which sounded rawer than before, the green light flashed from the jewel. She covered her astral eyes. When she opened them, she finds herself back on top of the cliff. The tube that the Egg Pawns were constructing at the bottom was finished at the top completed as an elevator. The two talkative automatons, or robots, as the scientists referred to their kind, were using it.

"Now that we're finished wit' the elevator," Cubot said in another different accent, "now what?"

"Well the boss did say he had an eye on that castle," Orbot said. "I'd say with remodel it in his taste."

"One big hunkin castle for the boss comin righ' up! Alright boys, let's leg it!" Cubot ordered 15 additional Egg Pawns to follow him on the bridge. Due to its fragility and the massive, metal weights of the robots, the planks of the bridge broke. "Aiiieeeee!" Cubot and 15 Egg Pawns swing their arms in the air as they fell all the way to the bottom with a clash. Orbot facepalms. "We're okay!" Cubot shouted from the fall. "Sort of."

"We'll have to modify the bridge too. Cubot will be fine. The rest of you." Orbot gave a commanding gestures to the Egg Pawns holding metal and glass to start building a new bridge of their design.

Luna tries to fly down to see the conditions of Cubot and other Egg Pawns and return to the ship for more information, but she was blocked off by an invisible force. She pushes through and through, but in the end she was pushed far back to the other side. She then felt that same demonic presence around the barrier.

"This isn't good. I have to make my retreat." She mystifies herself to a quick run and returns to Canterlot. She demystifies herself in front of her sister in her room.

"Did you find anything?" Celestia asked.

"I'm not sure where to begin." But she let on, talking about her travels and discoveries on the airship, the beings inside, the characters displayed by their personalities, intellect, and vague intentions, and a certain item.

"I see. We're still unsure of their exact purpose of the being here, but we know so far that they are harmless." The Princess of the Sun said, writing a letter to Twilight and her friends for a mission upon sunrise. Luna was about opened her mouth to explain more detail. She didn't mentioned the strange voice she encountered when she reported back, and it's hard to explain something if you don't know any detail about it. "Oh? Is there more you like to add?

"I…no. There isn't. That is all." She lied, though there isn't much to say from that experience. If she did, it would be unprofessional and out-of-character of her to say something like 'a mysterious voice terrified me, so I ran out of there' or 'the voice used some strange power to kick me out of the ship.'

"Very well, I'll send the mission to Twilight and her friends. If the beings are friendly and mean no harm, there wouldn't be much of a problem from them.

Luna was worried that she neglected mentioning her discovery. It was unknown to her. While the being was clearly evil, she didn't felt much of its aura from the others. She takes her leave to bring the moon for down for Celestia's rising sun.

This chapter buildup was not easy when I made this in the past. I had go through some research, play some cutscenes/episodes to refresh my memory, and proofread a 5,500+ words chapter just to make sure I didn't make any mistakes.

When I said it was not easy, it's because I'm trying hard to make sure the official characters would actually be saying the lines I provide for them. Specifically Luna. I tried to be accurate as possible with her voice in my head saying this line or that line. Then it's been giving me a headache for a while, so I just let it go and be done with it. What's done is done. It's really hard writing for characters who are no longer evil.

What Luna's doing is Astral Projection. It was inspired by the Sheep Talisman, based on the Year of the Sheep in Chinese calenders, in Jackie Chan Adventures, where it grants the user a ghost-like form with the ability to phase through objects and being able to interact with others' dreams. Just like Luna does in the episodes with the CMC. Though it's a bit tricky when using it on robots, so let's just say she's able to astrally and microscopically shrink herself to hack into Cubot's memory log with magic.

The Nightmare Dreamscape is a land on the moon where Luna was banished. Further explained from the comics. There it is said that dwelling there will bring out your worst fears. Luckily Twilight and her friends triumphed, but there's more in the later issues.

I feel like Yoda when writing down Zecora's lines.

The hibernation process inside robots was inspired by a chapter in the Two Evil Scientists. You would have to read about 2,000 chapters to get to the one I've got my inspiration. Apparently it was also used to fill in a gaping plothole for E-123 Omega in Sonic 06 in case he has animal like the rest of the E-Series, and it makes a lot of sense.

What was that voice? Get out...Get out...I actually got that line from the Harvest Moon episode in Courage the Cowardly Dog. I really miss that show. Now on to the voice, even I don't know what it is to be honest. And it can be subjected to change in the future depending on the current situation.

Instead of calling himself Mephiles the Dark, he just goes by Mephiles. Weird. He even refers to Shadow as his doppelganger. What could he mean by that? Stay tune.

Long Live the Eggman Empire. Man I really love saying that line out loud.

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