Knuckles and Fluttershy were outside of a large temple on the outskirts of ponyville,searching for the pieces of the master emerald. Knuckles was an excellent tracker,so they already had most parts of the emerald by now.

"Ummm…..Knuckles…..are you sure its safe to be here,I've never seen this place before…" Fluttershy said to Knuckles as the two entered the temple

"Nonsense,I've got it under control,nothing gets past me!" Knuckles exclaimed,confident in himself

"Well…..if you say so….." Fluttershy said,sheepishly

"Don't worry, there's a warp hole around here that'll get us to where we need to be Fluttershy,the death egg!" Knuckles said,looking around carelessly

"You mean that giant moon-like object in the sky?" Fluttershy asked,Knuckles nodded

Behind them,a blue,liquid substance was following them,but when Fluttershy turned around,it sunk into the ground,invisible to the naked eye.

"Knuckles,I think we should hurry,something bad is about to happen,I can feel it!" Fluttershy exclaimed,Knuckles rolled his eyes

"Hold your horses already,I found the door." Knuckles said,calmly as he pushed a button on the door and a passage opened up,leading to a large room with several different colored symbols on the floor.

"This one will get us high enough to reach the death egg." Knuckles said as he walked towards a blue symbol before the liquid substance from previously sprang up and attacked him from behind,sending him to the wall with a screech

"AARGH!" Knuckles yelled out as he collided with the wall. He soon got back up to see that the liquid monster had turned its sights to the Pegasus pony. The monster slowly approached her before being smashed into a puddle by Knuckles with a single punch

"BACK OFF!" he yelled as Fluttershy slowly backed away,looking for something she could use as a weapon against such a beast. She couldn't think of anything. Knuckles ran up to her and grabbed her by the arm

"Come on,lets get out of here!" he yelled as he picked her up like she weighed less than a plastic bottle,then ran off to the warp hole and jumped into it.

The 5 heroes were on their way to the death egg when they spotted three red and white jets going their way.

"Looks like we've got ourselves a group of heroes on our hands!" a lizard said on a communicator

"Well then,lets do what we've been paid for." A wolf said,aiming his jet's blasters at the x-tornado.

"Uhh….Tails,who are they?" Applejack asked. Tails shrugged

"I don't know,must be paid assassins hired by ." the yellow fox said.

"I will tell you my name." the wolf said

"I am Wolf O Donnel,and let that be the last thing you hear before death!" he said,then the three jets started firing at Tails's ship,who luckily dodged the attacks

"AHHHHH!" Twilight Sparkle said, griping onto Tails tightly before noticing that she was safe. She let go of Tails,who had an annoyed look on his face

"Sorry…" she apologized

"Hower' we gunna get outta this one,they're blockin' our path." Applejack yelled out

"Leave that to me!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed before she grabbed Sonic by his quills with her teeth

"Your coming two!" she said to the sleeping hedgehog,who simply replied with

"Five more minutes mommy…." Rainbow Dash sighed,then threw him off the jet. That woke him up.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sonic screamed before Rainbow Dash raced up and grabbed the blue hedgehog onto her back

"You awake yet?" Rainbow Dash asked

"Yeah,but with you its like I'm living a nightmare!" Sonic exclaimed,sarcastically. Rainbow Dash simply rolled her eyes and went straight towards the three mercenaries.

"Looks like we've got our selves a fighter!" the lizard exclaimed

"And what a beautiful one she is." The panther flirted,Rainbow Dash scoffed,Sonic giggled a bit

"Whats so funny?" Rainbow Dash asked

"He said your beautiful!" Sonic laughed,he then began cracking up

Rainbow Dash waited for him to stop before she finally said

"I can drop you,you know." The rainbow colored pony said quietly,Sonic's smile deflated into a frown

"No need to be a party pooper…" the blue hedgehog said silently,Rainbow Dash smiled and squinted her eyes at the three mercs.

"Panther,Leon,lets blow these guys out of the sky!" Wolf O' Donnel commanded

"Yeah yeah yeah,were on it!"

"Affirmative"

"Ready hedgehog?" Rainbow Dash asked

"Yeah,lets do it to it!" Sonic sang,then Rainbow Dash zoomed up to the three jets,prepared to fight

"ARE WE THERE YET,ARE WE THERE YET,ARE WE THERE YET,ARE WE THERE YET?" Charmy and Pinkie Pie exclaimed happily

"NO,NO,NO,NO!" Rarity,Espio,Spike,and Vector said,annoyed at the two who were getting on their nerves as they trotted through a large desert. Knuckles and Fluttershy appeared out of no where through a warp hole and fell to the ground,landing on the others.

"Ow." Espio said,silently

"GET OFFA ME!" Vector exclaimed

"Get your butt outta my face!" Pinkie Pie shouted

"Pinkie Pie,that's your butt!" Rarity said,annoyed a bit

"Oh….sorry…." Pinkie Pie apologized,quietly

"Guys…can't….breathe…"Spike said,suffocating beneath Vector and Rarity

"Oops,sorry Spike!" Rqarity said,getting off of the baby dragon and levitating Vector off of him as well.

"Hey guys,look,its Knuckles!" Charmy Bee exclaimed happily,pointing to Knuckles who was sitting comfortably on top of him and Pinkie Pie

"Fluttershy!" Pinkie Pie yelled out,tackling her friend to the ground and hugging her

"Ummm….Pinkie Pie….your hurting me…" Fluttershy said,quietly and slowly as ever

"Oopsies,my bad!" Pinkie Pie shot back,letting her friend go.

"Let me guess,your Knuckles." Rarity said,calmly

"How'd you know?" Knuckles asked the white pony

"Your friends have told me about you,and I see you and Fluttershy are getting along perfectly well" Rarity. Knuckles looked back at Fluttershy,who was talking to Pinkie Pie

"Uhhh…..I guess you could say tha-"

"Oops,parton me,but I haven't yet mentioned my name,I am R-"

"Rarity,I know,Fluttershy told me all about you all." Knuckles said,calmly. Then,suddenly, a siren went off and many ships and platforms rose from the sand

"Well talk later,now we've got a mission to do!" Vector exclaimed as he ran and jumped onto a plat form. Espio followed shortly,followed by charmy,then Rarity levitated Spike,Pinkie Pie,and herself to the platform,Fluttershy picked Knuckles up with her teeth and flew up to the platform. The 8 heroes then began jumping platform-to-platform to get to the head ship,which would lead directly to the death egg..

Else where….

The search for the strange colt known as The Doctor.

Applebloom,Scootaloo,and Sweetie Bell had their equipment ready

"Okay,so we bring him back,dead or alive!" Scootaloo shouted,excitedly

Applebloom and Sweetie Bell looked at her like she was a man mare

"Uhhh….we just wanna talk to him." Sweetie Bell said,quietly

"Oh…..so I don't need this baseball bat…." Scootaloo said,throwing her bat away. A crash was heard in a window.

"Okay,now that were ready,where do we start?" Applebloom asked. The three foals stood there and stared at each other,they hadn't thought of anything after a while.

"Maybe we should go try that old temple that's just outside of ponyville?" Sweetie Bell asked,the two other foals nodded and put their hooves into a hand shake

"LETS GO!" they all shouted out,unaware of what was waiting for them at the temple