My Little Pony/Sonic the Hedgehog
CHAOS IS MAGIC
Chapter 5: The Castle That Was Found
Castle of the Two Sisters.
Right where we left off... right outside the castle entrance.
Discord, the mischief maker and now reformed ally, appears before the Freedom Fighters and the Mane 6 as he just saved them from being beaten down by Scourge and his army, much to the confusion of the ponies as they kept silent. "What's this? No warm welcomes?" He humorously asked. "That's not very pleasing."
"Oh... I got your warm welcome right here!" Sonic spin dashes right at him but Discord spawns a tennis racket and bounces Sonic back from him. "What the?"
Sonic lands back on the ground while Discord spins his racket around with one finger. "Really? Is that any way to thank someone who just saved you from grave injury?"
Twilight Sparkle walks up to him. "Discord! What are you doing here? And... how did you get here?"
Discord teleports onto Amy's hammer and his face appears on it. "Why... You should know by now, Princess Twilight." Amy is shocked that he possessed her hammer while he talks. "I am the maker of chaos, and as a sentient being of magic I have the power to travel across inter-dimensional worlds with just a flick of my paw." Discord teleports off the hammer and appears behind Knuckles. "And what do we have here? You girls found yourselves a new band of playmatess." He flies over to Julie-Su and lifts her cybernetic quill up. "I love their hair by the way... makes them look more punk, don't you think?"
Knuckles tries to strike a punch at him but he disappears. "Touch her again, and I'll pulverize you!"
Discord then appears around Charmy and Sweetie Belle. "You wouldn't do that. I mean... I used to be the bad guy sure, but I have grown to treat my friends as if they were my own children." He hugs Charmy and Sweetie and teleports away.
"Hey, Dash. Who is this goat eared bozo?" Sonic asked Rainbow Dash.
"That's Discord. And I don't want to talk about him." Dash said.
Discord then flies over to Dashie. "Why don't you want to talk about me, Rainbow Dash? Didn't we have lots of fun back in the day? You and your loving friends always fighting for friendship and turning me into stone? The good old times?"
"You turned me into a treacherous jerk who left her friends behind to protect a stupid cloud." Dashie reminded Discord and he lies back on a floating couch.
"True, true. But it didn't last long at least." A glass of chocolate rain appears in Discord's paw. "And I don't recall you ponies ever being so distrustful of me." He drinks from his glass while the ponies frown at him. "What kind of harm have I ever possibly done to you?"
"You tried to take over Equestria." Rainbow Dash said.
"You flooded Sweet Apple Acres." Applejack says.
"You unsatisfyingly turned the homes of Ponyville upside down." Rarity said.
"You turned a cute bunny into a monster!" Pinkie angrily said.
Discord doesn't seem to recall those things he's done, or so he plainly hides while he smiles. "What have I done recently?"
"You planted plunder seeds under the Tree of Harmony and Ponyville was almost lost because of it." Twilight reminded.
Discord then breaks into laughter. He slouches on his chair while he holds his laughter. "Ohhh... right! And for good reason too. But that's all in the past now, my little ponies. I am no longer Discord, the bringer of ruin. I am now Discord, the bringer of chaos... and harmony."
The ponies are still glaring at him but Shadow loses his patience and walks up to him. "Look... I don't know what you are talking about but we're just sitting around and losing more time while Enerjak Tiara grows more stronger by the minute."
"Shadow's right." Sally said. "Tell us something, Discord. Why did you save us?" She asked him about why Discord saved the team from the rampant army of the Destructix and Revenge Ten who are currently frozen in ice.
"Well, if you won't believe me I will not tell." Discord turns his back with his arms crossed. "I did one good deed for you and you quickly hurt my feelings."
"Ha. As if he has feelings." Applejack said to Amy.
Fluttershy then flew up to him. "Um... I believe you, Discord." She said to him and Discord grabs her.
"Ahh... the pony who reformed me." Discord then holds her to his arm and looks to the others. "You see, everybody? You should learn to trust me just like dear old Cluttershy here."
"Umm... Fluttershy." She corrected him.
"Yes, of course."
Knuckles then looks to Twilight. "I may not know who he is, but he did just saved us." He told her.
"I agree with Knuckles." Vector said.
"I know it might sound uncomforting but... he could at least help us." Sally said.
Twilight pauses for a moment and gives in. "*sighs* All right. We'll believe you."
"Now that's more like it." He tosses Fluttershy back to the group. "But first, allow me to tell you how I got here in the first place."
"Oh you've got to be kidding." Sonic face palms in impatience.
He snaps his fingers making a set of movie seats appear under the team and they all sat on them, much to their surprise. Discord then plays a movie reel and shines onto a projector screen that appeared.
5...
4...
3...
2 BEEP!
The movie shows Equestria, mainly Canterlot and Ponyville. Discord provides the voice over.
"As you've probably figure out, because of the fusion of Enerjak Tiara, Equestria and Mobius are becoming highly unstable. As the cause of that, the two dimensional worlds are slowly merging together."
A crude drawing of Mobius and Equestria conjoining with each other.
"This is the result of a scientific theory..." Discord appears in a Albert Einstein wig and mustache tapping on a chalk board with various mathematics. "...made by Princess Celestia..." A crude picture of Princess Celestia appears. "...that time and space is collapsing."
"The reason being: Unicorn Magic and Chaos Energy." Shows a picture of a unicorn horn and a Chaos Emerald. "These two do not mix together." A cross appears on them and an alarm sounds.
"If any of these two worlds were fused together, then a time rift will rip in the sky and destroy the universe." A picture of a black hole sucking up the universe.
Princess Celestia is then seen talking to Discord about the problem. "So, when Princess Celestia asked for my help, she told me to find you ponies in Mobius. But how in Equestria am I going to travel there?" Discord then looks at the camera with a dramatic look and music plays. 'Dramatic Look Discord'. "I simply used the upmost of my chaotic magic and opened up my own time rift. It wasn't easy the first time I tried it." A video plays as Discord first tried to open a rift but when he did a cow falls on top of him. *moo* "But eventually, I found myself here on Mobius and set out on my quest to find you guys..." Another picture of Discord dressed as a pirate. "...and save the world!" Discord is seen again dressed like a superhero, even classic music plays in the background.
The end. And the film ends.
The movie seats disappear and Sonic and Co. look towards at Discord who was wearing 3D glasses and eating popcorn. "So? Did you enjoy the film?"
"Actually... no." Sonic said.
"If you didn't like it, I've got slides." Discord pulls out slide cards and smiles.
"The worlds are merging?" Sally asked in shock.
"Slowly. But soon it will grow stronger." Discord says.
"Well, what are we waiting for? We've got to stop this quickly!" Rarity said.
Twilight is still in consideration about trusting Discord. "That still doesn't explain why you saved us." She said.
"Twilight... the Princess told me to look out for you, and I don't really care how much you hate me." Discord said as he huddles around Twilight. "Just as long as I can help whenever I can...or could... when I feel like it." He then flies over to the frozen Scourge and rubs his head to shine his cloven hoof. "I only saved you and your friends so I can get you all inside the castle without having to waste your breath on your enemies."
"So you're buying us time?" Tails asked.
"Of course, my two-tailed friend. What reason would I be here for anyway?"
"Why, Discord, that is the most generous thing you have ever done for us." Rarity said.
Discord turns away for a moment. "To be honest... it really kills my chaotic nature."
"I still don't like him." Spike said under her breath.
"Alright! Enough talk." Shadow gets going and skates into the castle. "Let's get moving already."
"All right, Freedom Fighters, Chaotix, ponies. Get inside the castle!" Sally ordered and The Mane 6, CMC, Chaotix and Freedom Fighters enter the castle, while Fluttershy looked back to Discord and smiled. "Thank you, Discord. You're such a sweetie." She said to him.
"Well I am allergic to sweet." Discord replied.
Fluttershy rejoins the others inside the castle.
Inside the castle. Everyone marvels the interior of the whole place.
Sonic whistles. "Look at the size of this place. This used to be your princess's castle?" He asked Twilight.
"*giggle* Yeah. Most of it was destroyed by Princess Luna when she transformed into Nightmare Moon."
Tails becomes confused. "Princess Luna? I thought your princess's name is Celestia." Charmy scratches his head confusion as well.
"Oh, right. We actually have about two princesses in Equestria." Twilight corrects. "Well, there is another princess but those two rule Equestria."
"Zis is confusing." Antoine says. "Why is your world govern by two princesses?"
"Ain't ya gotta queen or a king maybe?" Bunnie added.
"Actually, Bunnie, we don't have a queen." Rarity said. "We simply live in the princess's way of harmony."
"Speaking of princesses; that Discord creep called you a princess as well, Twilight." Amy noted.
"Is that true, madam Twilight?" Antoine asked.
Twilight looks at her wings. "Yeah. But I've only just started becoming a princess." Twilight then turns to Sally while Sonic observes the tapestries. "Hey, Sally. Didn't that echidna call you a princess too?"
"I am a princess." Sally talked. "I am the daughter of King Maximillian Acorn. My brother Elias is the next of kin."
"Oooh! Ooooh!" Pinkie bounces over to Sally. "We should throw him a 'soon to be king' party when we're done here."
"Let's not think too deep ahead of the future, Pinkie. Not while Enerjak still lingers." Knuckles said.
"You mean, Enerjak Tiara." Pinkie corrected.
"Right." Knuckles looks around for anything useful while the CMC and Silver Spoon brood about Enerjak Tiara.
Apple Bloom expresses her sympathy. "Now, we're calling her 'Enerjak Tiara'?"
"What else are we going to call her?" Scootaloo asked. "The pony who wants to be super popular and probably destroy us all?"
"It's just that... Ah feel kinda sorry for her." AB said.
"Why should you be? Diamond Tiara is the worst pony who only cares about herself." Sweetie Belle said.
"That's the whole reason." AB said again. "Just why in Equestria does she pick on ponies like us who haven't got their cutie marks?"
Silver Spoon stops and starts telling them something they never knew about. "Girls." They listen. "Diamond Tiara wasn't always like that."
"Huh?" Sweetie uttered. "What do you mean?"
"She told me once when we had a sleepover not very long ago." Spoon explains. "Diamond Tiara started out as a cheerful little foal out of the baby hospital. When she was in kindergarten however, the mean ponies always picked on her because they had their cutie marks quickly before her. She asked her dad 'when am I getting a cutie mark'? He said 'only when you find your talent'. Diamond never really had a special talent. The only cutie mark she received later was just wearing the tiara she was born with. This changed Diamond's personality to a whole new level of pain and cruelty. Before you girls ever attended Ponyville Elementary, I was just a shy little filly before I had my cutie mark. That's when I first met her. I saw her teasing a couple of colts who you know as Snips and Snails who haven't received their cutie marks yet. She then turned to me and called me a blank flank. Ever since then, I've been in a life of turmoil by her name calling. But then a new filly arrived who also has no cutie mark and Diamond made fun of her. It was at that time I finally snapped and stood up to her. But she threaten me by claiming that she knows what I have been doing and would show the whole school if I tattled on her. I was left with a choice. And then... I shoved the filly into the mud and she ran off crying. Diamond was impressed and she made me her new best friend. And since then we've led a serene lifestyle by making fun of blank flanks in school and not getting into trouble for it, especially you girls."
"Wow..." Scoots was fascinated by the story. "I mean... that must have been really hard for her."
"Still... She only got her cutie mark for just for wearing her tiara?" Sweetie asked.
"Well, I got my cutie mark for just playing the spoons." Spoon said. "You think I feel embarrassed about that?"
"Silver Spoon, don't you feel bad about picking on other ponies who haven't got their cutie marks? Why couldn't you just stand up to Diamond?"
"I had no choice. It was either be humiliated or join the winning team. I really couldn't decide. I mean..." She starts to shed a tear. "Oh, gosh... I don't even know what I'm saying anymore! I just wanted a friend who doesn't treat me like a doormat." She starts sobbing and places her hoof on her crying eyes.
Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo then feel sorry for her and tries to cheer her up. "We don't think you're a doormat, Silver Spoon." Sweetie Belle said.
Spoon takes off her glasses and dries her tears off. "You don't?"
"I mean, you were a jerk for most of our lives, but we still think you have some kindness inside." Scoots added.
"*sniff* You really think so?"
"Absolutely." Apple Bloom said. "But it's not over yet. If we save Diamond Tiara-"
"Enerjak Tiara." Scoots corrected her.
"Uh... right. If we save Enerjak Tiara and the whole world, you'll promise us that you will find the kindness that you threw away and have a better life, than being a snobby rich pony."
Spoon lightens up, dries her tears and puts her glasses on. "I will."
"Promise?" Sweetie Belle was unsure.
Silver Spoon clears her throat and recites the Pinkie Pie Swear. "Cross my heart hop to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye."
The CMC smile and the four then continue to look around the castle.
Over to Tails, he uses Nicole's device to track the book's signature energy. "What have you got for us, Nicole?"
"I've isolated the book of Ancient Pony History with my scanner. It's somewhere in the castle but I can't quite pinpoint it's location."
"Then we'll just have to split up again and search the castle for it." Twilight said.
"Oh... I'm not sure. This castle does seem a bit... *gulp* frightening." Fluttershy says.
"You still think they are 'Shadow Ponies' inside?" Spike asked Twilight.
"Spike, there's nothing to be scared about." She said.
"Pah! I'm not scared of some 'shadow pony'." Rainbow Dash said.
"Really?" Applejack teases with her. "Cause what I remembered you were flying around here screaming like a filly who just woke up from a nightmare."
"You were too you know." Dash retorted.
Twilight cuts in in impatience. "Girls! There's no such thing as a shadow pony! This place is deserted after all."
"Can we just skip this argument and just look for the book guys?" Julie-Su calmed them. "We don't have a lot of time before the world collapses."
"Right." Twilight agrees. "So. How about we just split into three teams and look around?" She asked Sonic.
"Sounds good to me. I'll lead the left." Sonic said pointing at the left hallway.
"I'll take the right." Knuckles said.
"And I'll go through the library." Twilight said.
Left Team:
-Sonic
-Tails
-Scootaloo
-Rainbow Dash
-Rarity
-Shadow
-Sweetie Belle
-Silver Spoon
Middle Team:
-Twilight
-Spike
-Antoine
-Bunnie
-Applejack
-Apple Bloom
-Sally
-Amy
Right Team:
-Knuckles
-Julie-Su
-Vector
-Espio
-Charmy
-Mighty
-Fluttershy
-Pinkie Pie
"Okay, teams." Sally commanded. "Call us on our wrist communicators if you encounter any trouble."
"Don't bother calling." Shadow coldly said.
"My! That's a bit harsh, don't you think, Shadow?" Rarity asked.
"When the world needs saving, I'm better off to be harsh. Besides, you ponies would only get in my way." Shadow said.
"What?! Get in your way?" Twilight is insulted. "Just who do you think-"
Sonic quickly calms her down. "Relax, Twiliy. Shadow's always moody. Ain't that right, faker?"
"Let's just find that book, blue hedgehog." Shadow said and the groups get moving.
"Good luck, guys!" Sonic called out as they all split and begin to search the castle. Sonic leads the left hallway. Knuckles leads the right hallway. And Twilight leads the passage into library.
Meanwhile, back outside. The Destructix and Revenge Ten were still frozen but suddenly Scourge begins vibrating his body to melt through the ice. He manages to do so as he falls down to his knees and shivers in his cold. "C-c-ccc-c curse that #&$% h-h-h-hedgehog." He gets up and spins around the Revenge Ten, creating some kind of warm wind and melting the ice down. The Revenge Ten (Trixie, Iron Will, Gilda, Flim, Flam, Diamond Dogs, Lightning Dust and Garble.) have been unfrozen and they get up from drowsiness.
"Uhh... What just happened?" Lightning Dust asked.
"I don't know." Fido said as he holds his cold head. "But I think I have brain-freeze!"
Scourge then speaks out at them. "Wakey, wakey, sleeping beauties. We still got a couple of ponies and one idiot hedgehog to smash!"
Trixie looks at the remaining Destructix. "You released us from some kind of cryogenic sleep, but why not your people?"
"Never liked them." Scourge said. "They were useless anyway."
"So you helped us because...?" Garble asked.
"That's right." Scourge straightens his shades. "Remember what I said from before? You help me and I help you. I'm paying back the favor."
"I always thought Rainbow Dash was a jerk, but you, green guy, I like you a lot!" Gilda said.
"I like this hedgehog's style. Don't you agree, Flam?"
"I do so agree, Flim."
They look towards the castle entrance. "Trixie? Do you still have that magical necklace?" Scourge asked her.
Trixie pulls out the Alicorn Amulet. "Why?"
"Put it on. It's time for desperate measures."
"Hey!" Gilda stops him. "What about your girlfriend?" Scourge looks at the frozen Fiona.
"She's not worth the help." Scourge smirks and spin dashes into the castle and the others follow. Just as they left, Fiona, still in her cryogenic state, lowers her eyebrows and her hand moves as it's about to break free.
Discord is seen on top of the castle, watching the whole thing while he chows down on some popcorn. "This is going to interesting." He says.
Somewhere in the left hallway, Sonic and his team walk along the hallway, observing everything in their path.
"Nice place you got here." Sonic said to Dash.
"We were just here a week ago, cleaning up the place." Dashie said.
"Hmm... still, this place sure would have looked really great back in the day." Tails said.
"May I ask, Tails, dear?" Rarity spoke to Tails. "When did you ever get two tails?"
"Oh... It's nothing really." Tails says. "I was just born like that."
"I think they look pretty awesome, Tails." Scootaloo admired them.
"Yeah, super awesome!" Sweetie Belle agrees so too and Tails laughs while he blushes.
"So, where are we going, little bro?" Sonic asked Tails as he looks on his radar on the communicator.
"According to my radar, the book could be down this hallway." Tails says.
"Ugh! Can't we just take a break for a second?" Rarity asked. "My poor elegant hooves are getting tired."
"You can stop if you want, but we're not gonna wait." Shadow said and Rarity's expression changes into a frown.
"Hmph." Rarity huffed. "And I thought hedgehogs were cute."
Over to Twilight's team. She and the others walked down the stairs.
"Hey, Twilight?" Spike spoke.
"Yeah, Spike?"
"You're still not upset about... you know... there's no harmony in somepony?"
"I am a little disjointed about it. I can't believe it. Why would a little filly like Diamond Tiara just scold friendship like it's nothing?" Twilight asked herself.
"Maybe, she's... a little brat?" Spike answered and Twilight looks to him. "Okay, okay. But seriously, I never thought she could be so cruel. I mean, back when that Mogul guy was draining her. Did she really mean all that? Being the best of the best?"
"She probably said that out of jealously." Applejack said. "Now that Ah know she's a little trouble maker, I'll be sure to talk to Cheerilee about her behavior."
"You mean, once we transform her back from a dangerous monster to a spoiled pony and not let the universe crumble." Spike said.
"Exactly." She replied.
"Maybe we should just give her another chance?" Apple Bloom suggested after hearing Silver Spoon's story.
"And have her poking around your friends again? Not likely." Applejack said.
Twilight and the others have then suddenly reached the chamber where the Elements of Harmony once were. "Sacrebleu!" Antoine said in surprise. "What is this place?"
"It looks like an old chamber." Amy said. She turns to Twilight. "Twilight? Do you know what it is?"
Twilight walks up to the altar where the Elements were. "This is where me and my friends first found the Elements of Harmony. It is also the place where I first discovered friendship." Twilight sheds a tear and wipes it away. "Man, time flies so quickly."
"Golly! This place is really huge! Ah can't believe I've never seen this castle before." Apple Bloom expresses her surprise around the chamber while the others take a look around.
Applejack walks up to Twilight and places her hoof on her. "Twilight? Are you okay?"
Twilight just thought about how she was just here to retrieve the Elements to fight off Nightmare Moon when she returned and when she turned her back to Princess Luna. "This was the very place where I finally came to accept you guys. Before this all started... I never cared about friendship. I never cared about anyone. All I cared about was being smart and reading books. Learning everything about the world without somepony else. I once took you for granted but I soon came to embrace it." Twilight stopped looking down and looks straight at Applejack. "Applejack... I'm glad I met you and the others. You've given me so much."
Applejack smiled in heartfelt. "Twilight... we wouldn't know what to do without you."
Twilight smiled back.
Over to Knuckles and the Chaotix, they are walking down the Hall of Hooves and Charmy shakes in fear due to it's creepy nature.
"Geez, this place is giving me the heebie jeebies." He says.
"Aw, come on. These legs don't scare me." Vector said before he suddenly gets startled by a "Boo!" from Pinkie Pie. "WAH!" He screamed.
"Hee hee hee! I scared ya good." Pinkie chirped and bounces along.
"Knock it off, over there!" Knuckles said as he continued looking but then he sees Julie-Su is a little shaken. "Julie-Su? Are you feeling okay?"
"It's just..." She speaks. "If you hadn't come and... I would've been..." Knuckles sees that she is traumatized by her near death experience earlier. "My eyes almost flashed before me... I..."
"It's okay. It's over. You're still here and you're still with me." Knuckles told her and she feels a little better.
Espio then questions Pinkie as she and Fluttershy walked with Angel sitting on the latter's back. "Why are you always so cheerful? Don't you know the world is in crisis?"
"Of course I know, silly." Pinkie responds. "I'm just smiling so I can feel positive."
"But, um... Pinkie... back in Equestria, weren't you... um... not so positive?" Fluttershy asked.
"What do you mean?" Pinkie asked.
"Well, after that party with the cakes, you were so... um... uncaring."
"What? Uncaring? What are you talking about?" Pinkie asked again.
"Well, the cakes babies are still missing. Aren't you worried about them?" Fluttershy reminded her and Pinkie then realizes the words Mr. Cake said to her.
"You need to learn some self control. I am evicting you out of Sugarcube Corner until you have proven to be more observant of yourself." But then more words play in her mind. "You ruined the cake's birthday, Pinkie! We worked hard on that cake! You were too hyper! You just don't know how to control yourself! You are crazy, Pinkie Pie! The cakes are missing and it's all your fault! It's all your fault! It's all your fault!" The words echo over and over in Pinkie's mind and she her unnatural mood swing kicks in. "It's all my fault..." Pinkie becomes saddened and her mane and tail deflates like a balloon.
The team then stops after hearing Pinkie drop to the floor. They turn and see her collapsed into a state of unconsciousness. "Pinkie?" Fluttershy said in concern and runs to her.
"What's wrong with her?" Julie-Su asked.
Fluttershy tries to get Pinkie up. "Pinkie, wake up, please. What did I say to her?" Angel slaps Pinkie's face to wake her up.
"Rrgh! What happened?" Knuckles demanded an answer from Fluttershy.
"I don't know. I think I said something to her. Oh... I probably shoundn't have said that." Flutters admitted.
"Come on, pony, wake up. I got cupcakes." Mighty tried his best.
"Look, there's a all-you-can-eat pizza stand!" Vector tries as well.
Espio feels her neck and senses. "She's in a state of shock. We have to get her out of here."
Vector picks her up. "Sure thing."
"Let's go, now!" Espio is serious.
"Espio? What's the rush?" Knuckles asked.
"I sense a disturbance." Espio said as he can detect danger. And then the hallway starts making noises. Fluttershy whimpers in fear.
"M-Maybe we should go." Fluttershy turns back to see the Chaotix and Pinkie are no longer behind her. "Knuckles? Mighty? Charmy? Pinkie?" She walks backwards with Angel hiding in her mane, but she bumps something behind her and turns her head up and sees Garble's face. "Hey, Dragonshy. Missed me?" He said to her and she screams in a soft tone, making it clear for Sonic and the others to hear.
Scootaloo hears the scream. "What was that?"
"It's probably just the wind." Rainbow Dash said. "Nothing to worry about, Scoots."
"Rarity... I feel scared." Sweetie Belle said to her sister.
"Don't worry. I won't let anything happen to you, Sweetie Belle." She hold her.
"Any luck, Tails." Sonic asked.
The radar suddenly loses connection. "Ugh! The connection's gone. Probably because of the castle's magical aura."
"Just perfect. I'll go on it alone then." Shadow walks past the group.
"Hey, faker! Where do you think you're going?" Sonic asked him.
"Finding the book with time to spare. I can't afford to wait any longer. You're slowing us down, Tails." Shadow said but Rainbow Dash flew in front of him.
"Hey! I couldn't afford to wait for the next Daring Do book but you can't just go on and leave us behind without thinking ahead." She said to him.
"Get out of my way, stupid flying horse." Shadow threatened and Rarity and Sweetie Belle gasped while Rainbow Dash becomes irritated.
"You know what? I've had enough with you. What gives you the right to say that!?" RD asked but Shadow doesn't listen and quickly becomes aggressive.
"I said. Get. Out. Of my. WAY!" Shadow kicked Rainbow Dash in the face and she hits a wall. Scootaloo and Silver Spoon gasped while Sonic himself becomes infuriated. Poor Dashie passed out as she fell to the floor and Shadow looked to the group. "Anyone else?" He asked.
"Right here!" Sonic ruthlessly spin dashes towards Shadow and he defends himself as Sonic pushes himself and Shadow through the wall. They smash through and fall into in the Organ on the Outside chamber.
"Sonic!" Tails called out and tried to intervene but Rarity stops him.
"No! They're too strong!" Rarity said to him.
"But so am I." Tails said. "I have to help Sonic he's my friend-"
Suddenly Tails gets hoof kicked by Lightning Dust. "Found ya!"
"Lightning Dust!" Scootaloo panicked and gallops over to the knocked out Rainbow Dash to wake her up. "Rainbow! Wake up!"
Lightning Dust kicks Tails away and Rarity charges after her. But unfortunately for her, Fido digs up a hole under her and drags her down, yelping. "RARITY!" Sweetie Belle panicked as she dove down the hole to chase her. Silver Spoon was horrified she did that, and she watches Lightning Dust kicks Tails again. "How's that, fox boy?"
Scootaloo watched her beat up Tails and decides to spring into action. She leaps towards her and blinds her eyes with her hooves.
"Hey! Get off me!" LD struggled.
"Leave my friends alone!" Scoots yelled.
Rainbow Dash recovered just in time to see Scoots bucked off of LD and gets kicked in her face. Scoots lands in front of Spoon while Rainbow becomes infuriated at Lightning and rams her through the roof. "WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU!?"
Scootaloo gets up and watches RD and LD fly up. "Rainbow Dash!"
Spoon comes up to her. "Scootaloo! We have to get out of here, now!"
Scoots pauses and agrees with her.
Over to Twilight, Bunnie tries contacting Tails. "Tails? Tails! You there, hon?" She looks to Antoine. "He's not responding."
"Mia amore! What are we going to do?" Antoine looks to Twilight.
"Hold on a second." Twilight uses her magic to reveal the location of where Sonic and Tails are. She sees Tails struggling to get up after dealing blows from LD. "*gasps* Tails in trouble!"
"What about Sonic and Rainbow Dash?" Applejack asked.
"I'm not sure where they are." Twilight says.
"Hello, Twilight." Trixie enters the room with Gilda, Flim and Flam. "Missed me?" Trixie's eyes glow red as Twilight spots she's wearing the Alicorn Amulet and gasps. Trixie then shoots a red beam at them.
Sonic and Shadow get up and look around to see they are in the Organ Room. The two then face each other and glare.
"I don't like the way you hurt my friends, Shadow." Sonic said.
"And I don't like the way your friend got in my way." Shadow said.
"I want to save the world as much as you do, but at least have some kinda sense of humor. And would it kill you to smile for once?"
"I have a promise to keep, Sonic. And if you get in my way, I'll hurt you too." Shadow threatened.
"Is that so?" Sonic asked.
Shadow then held his hand out. "CHAOS SPEAR!" He tosses energy spears at Sonic, in which he dodged and accepts his challenge.
"The hard way, huh? Okay. Bring it then!" Sonic clenched his teeth.
Sonic and Shadow spin dash at each other and bounce around off and on each other. "CHAOS SPEAR!" Shadow shoots more spears at Sonic as he runs along the hall dodging them. He shoots another and Sonic backflips over to the organ.
Meanwhile, over to Fluttershy, she is in the clutches of Garble the dragon and she screams. "Don't bother. In here, nobody can hear you scream."
"Please don't eat me, Garble. I taste bad." Fluttershy pleaded.
"Oh don't worry. I'll do more than eat." He sharpens his claw and prepares to strike Fluttershy as she shuts her eyes.
But over to Sonic, he dodges Shadow's kick and he lands on a key of the organ, which plays a tune and causes one of the wall behind Garble to spin around and releases Fluttershy from his grasp. Fluttershy sees that she is unharmed and she and Angel fly off to warn the others.
Over to Lightning Dust and Rainbow Dash. They fight along the hall filled with pony armor suits. They traded hoof kicks and punches together but another key pressed by Sonic's shoe causes the two to be caught by a spinning wall and they appear outside the castle, it is nighttime. Nevertheless, they continue to fight.
Over to Knuckles and the Chaotix. They run through the Hall of Hooves with Vector still carrying Pinkie. While back to Sonic, he dodges more punches and kicks from Shadow and he punches down more key notes on the organ causing more traps to occur. Including a punching glove hitting Espio's face, Mighty getting flung into the air by a spring trap and Vector getting hit by multiple stings around him as he squeals in pain. Sonic punches down another key and a trap door appears under Knuckles and Julie-Su and they fall in. The Chaotix just ran past the trap door while Charmy just avoids all the other traps being thrown at him. "Whee! This is fun, guys!"
Shadow destroys the Organ with his chaos spears and Sonic jumped right off it. The two hedgehogs continue to brawl. The two are then running down the hallway while Sonic tries to reason with him.
"Shadow, this going nowhere!" Sonic said.
"Because you're slowing me down!" Shadow said.
Shadow spin dashes and trips Sonic.
In the Chamber, Applejack tosses her lasso over to Flim but he uses his magic to control the lasso and hogties Applejack with it. Gilda fights Amy Rose, with Gilda trying to claw at her but Amy swiftly dodges and swings her hammer toward her, but she misses and hits a pillar. "Is that all you got, little dweeb?" She taunted but Amy quickly whacks her with the hammer shouting "I'm not a dweeb, you freak!"
Flam comes up behind Apple Bloom and Sally Acorn and uses his magic to levitate them in the air. Sally takes out a projectile gun and shoots it at Flam's horn, disorientating him and releases her and AB of his magic. Sally runs up to him and swiftly kicks his face down to the ground.
"Nopony hurts my brother!" Flim said as he grabs Sally with his magic but suddenly Antoine jumps in and slices off the tip of Flim's unicorn horn, cancelling his magic.
"And nobody harms the princess." Antoine said as Flim mopes on about his horn.
"My horn! You unsavory customer! You damaged my horn!" Flim breaks down into tears.
Trixie then fires off a red beam at Bunnie but she flies out harm. "Hold still, you flying jack rabbit!" She screamed.
"Okay, hon. I'm completely offended." Bunnie said as she dodges another beam that damages the ceiling of the chamber.
But then she gets blasted by Twilight's purple beam and she flies a bit back. "C'mon, Trixie. It's me you want not them."
"It's always you, Twilight. It always has been. You think you're a big shot with magic than me, huh?" Trixie talks out at her.
"It's not like that. I just finished an unfinished spell, that's it." Twilight said.
"And look where that got you. You are an alicorn. But me... I, the Great and VENGEFUL Trixie has the ultimate power of the Alicorn Amulet!" She screamed and somewhere inside the castle, Enerjak Tiara opens her eyes as she heard it and flies off into the shadows of the castle.
Over to the Chaotix, they manage to find a bedroom and place the unconscious Pinkie down. Espio tries to see if she's okay and she is. "She'll be fine. But I don't know how long she'll be out."
"Hey. Where's Knuckles and Julie-Su?" Mighty asked.
"I thought they were behind us." Vector said.
"And where's Fluttershy?" Charmy asked too.
Just then, Fluttershy entered in quickly and slams the door shut behind her and holds it down while Angel hops over to Pinkie. Fluttershy hyperventilates in fear. "They're here! They're coming for us again."
Vector puts his hand on his head. "Rggh! I really hate the bad guys."
"Me too." Espio said.
Just then, a hand bursts underneath Espio and he gets dragged down. "Espio!" Vector cried but he gets punched in the face by Iron Will as he jumps in.
"Get this straight, croc head; Iron Will never forgets his strength or his enemies, and Iron Will never let's his enemies beat him down."
"Wanna bet?" Mighty challenged him as Fluttershy and Charmy hide under the bed sheets. Iron Will turns around to see Mighty and laughs at his size.
"I got six words for you buddy; Iron Will laughs at little weaklings."
"Weakling?" Mighty rises his temper. "WEAKLING?!" He charges up at the battle ready Iron Will. "I'LL SHOW YOU WHO'S WEAK!"
He punches Iron Will's stomach and he groans. "How's that for weak?" Mighty asked.
"Not bad, spud." He says. "But." He swings his fist and punches Mighty's face. "Rule #7 of Iron Will's battle guide; never leave yourself opened to your opponent."
Scoots and Spoon are galloping down the hall, but were then ambushed by Spot and Rover as they pop up from the floor and surrounded them.
"Come here, little ponies." Spot said.
"We want to play with you." Rover said.
Scoots and Spoon have horrified expression on their faces but just before Rover could jump at them, Tails flies in and punches Rover down. "Leave them alone!" Tails faces Spot as Scootaloo and Silver Spoon are relieved. "Why don't you dogs pick on someone you're own size?"
Spot then charges at Tails. "Okay, fox boy. You first." Suddenly a hoof pops out and punches Spot in the chin and he falls down next to Tails. And out of the hole, comes Fido as he is sent flying out and Rarity herself pulls out of the hole with her mane covered in dirt. Rover, Spot and Fido then see her coming out and she breathes heavily in anger.
"Do you have any idea... how long I took to stylize my mane, you filthy ruffians?!" She yelled at them and the dogs dig down to the ground in fear while Rarity chases them. "Three days, I tell you! THREE DAYS!" She cried as she dives down the hole. "Oh! I'm going to rip you mutts apart!" Sweetie Belle also pops out and follows Rarity down the next hole.
"Rarity! Wait up!" She dove down while the others just look with confusion.
Outside, Rainbow and Lightning duke it out with spins and ricocheting back and forth from each other, while Discord just sits on a floating couch and enjoys the show with some popcorn. "Oh! This is so much better than the Changling fight." He remarks.
Dashie then strikes Lightning downward making her crash into the throne room of the castle.
At the same time, Sonic and Shadow burst through, still brawling and they spin dash past Lightning Dust. He and Shadow run to the ceiling while colliding into each other two times. They reach the roof and they thrust their kicks at each other.
"We're just wasting more time fighting like this, Shadow." Sonic said.
"That's the whole reason." Shadow said and he uppercuts Sonic into the air.
Iron Will charges at Mighty and they break through the door and out of the room. Fluttershy peaks out for a moment but was then surprised in terror as Garble flies in to grab her. However Vector stops him by tackling him down. "Here come's the leg breaker." Vector pulls onto Garbles leg and he screams while Charmy cheers him on and Fluttershy escapes along with Angel who held onto her tail. "Yeah! Get him, Vector! Woo!"
Back in the throne room, Lightning Dust gets up but then Twilight bursts through into the room and lands on the floor. She gets up to see Trixie leaping towards her with her horn glowing but Twilight ducks and the beam destroys a pillar. Twilight and Trixie then match hooves strength as their horns glow.
"Ready to give up, Twilight?" She asked.
"In your dreams!" Twilight knocks her back with her front hooves.
And then Iron Will tackles Mighty through the wall and into the throne room. He throws him over to Lightning Dust and gets hit by him.
"You idiot! I was right here!" Lightning Dust yelled at Iron Will.
Suddenly the walls explode behind her and she turns to see Knuckles and Julie-Su covered in dirt. "Sorry, guys. We heard the party from inside a cramped room and decided to crash in." He used his spikey knuckles to dig through the wall.
"HELP!" Fluttershy cried as Vector and Garble get thrown in and they wrestle with each other.
Rainbow Dash comes swooping down from the sky to strike Lightning Dust but she dodges and Dashie bounces off the ground and stops in mid air.
"You guys again?" Dash said as she sees the villain gang.
But she then looks up and sees Sonic and Shadow fall through the hole in the roof and crash into the floor. They got up and started to fight again but Sonic notices the whole gang here. "Hey! Hold up, Shadow! Time out!"
"What is it?" Shadow asked, hungry to fight again.
"Looks like we got company." Sonic pointed out to the villains all here.
"I thought they were-" Shadow sees them too.
"Sonic!" Tails comes flying down to defend him from Shadow. "You want to fight Sonic? You'll have to go through me!" Tails raised his fist in anger.
"Tails! Do you realized what's happening here?" Sonic reminds him and Tails sees all the other villains here.
Gilda then bursts out of the wall thanks to being flung by Amy's hammer. And then Flim and Flam galloped in but then they tripped as Spike, Applejack, Apple Bloom, Sally, Bunnie and Antoine entered the room as well.
So do the Diamond Dogs as they bursts out from the ground and onto a stack on the floor as Rarity herself, covered in mud, dirt and other filth and scrapes around her, as she pulls herself out of the hole and wails.
"I have just been in this world for hours. Now my mane, my hooves, my beautiful shape... it's a disaster!" She whined but then Rarity loses her temper and faces the Diamond Dogs. "YOU out of all the ungrateful things in the world, have ruined my lovely PIZZAAAAAZZ!" She screamed in rage. Sweetie Belle also climbed out of the hole, covered in scrapes and mud as well.
"Did she just fought those dogs all by herself?" Applejack asked.
"Pretty much looks like it." Bunnie replied.
Espio then walks into the throne with a headache after that sneak attack. "Ohhh... I did not see that coming."
Scootaloo and Silver Spoon also arrive and Sonic begins to talk. "Well... we're all here." He says.
But just then, Charmy crashes the bed through the hole with Pinkie still on the bed and he cheers. "WOO-HOO! Let's do it again!"
Shadow then protests in anger. "What's going on?! I thought that dumb Discord guy said he's got us covered."
So does Sonic. "Well, not a problem. We'll take 'em on again!"
He jumps at them but was suddenly pushed back by the spin dashing Scourge himself. "Oof!" Sonic grunted as he falls back down and Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy catches him. They put Sonic down as he stares at Scourge who shows up in front of his team and smirks.
At the same time, the Egg Beater armor manages to break out of it's crystal prison somewhere else in the castle. Doctor Robotnik then tracks Enerjak Tiara who is heading to the throne room and flies toward it.
Scourge in the mean time addresses to Sonic and the rest of his team. "I'm not finished with you yet, idiot! If I go down and the world goes down, I'm taking you with me, with or without a fight. But I'm sure you want to fight, because you want to find that stupid Enerjak pony and prevent world chaos. Well, guess what? I'm not holding back. I want my revenge! We all want our revenge!"
Sonic glares but then talks to Tails without looking at him. "Tails?" His friend listens for a moment. "Run."
"What?" Tails is shocked.
"We need to find that book and old 'mister talks-a-lot' here is just stalling us. Go. Find the book. Me and my guys got this."
"But Sonic-?"
"Tails, if you stay here a while longer you'll get hurt even more and I don't want that. Trust me, you'll do what I say, right?" Sonic wanted Tails to understand.
Tails was unsure of how it's gonna go down but he nods. "You got it, Sonic."
"Take a team with you and go." Said Sonic. "Me and the rest will handle these guys."
Tails jumps down and Sally questions. "Tails?"
"Sally, come on! Sonic and the others have got this. Everyone who wants to avoid this fight, follow me!" Tails called out and half of the team drops out from the skirmish.
The team following Tails: Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Silver Spoon, Spike, Antoine, Sally, Apple Bloom, Espio, Charmy, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie (still unconscious), leave the throne room while the rest prepare to deal with the Revenge Ten and Scourge.
"Get ready, Sonic!" Scourge said.
"Just say when, Scourge." Sonic retorted.
Scourge, Trixie, Lightning Dust, Gilda, Flim, Flam, Spot, Rover, Fido, Iron Will and Garble charge at them. "GET THEM!" Scourge yelled.
Sonic, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Shadow, Twilight, Bunnie, Applejack, Amy, Knuckles, Julie-Su, Vector and Mighty do the same and charge. "LET'S DO IT TO IT!"
"Ready your not, here I come!" Sonic cried as he and Scourge are about to have a castle showdown with their armies.
To be continued...
Sorry to cut this short.
Please note, the story about Diamond Tiara is just my understanding and might not be canon.
One more thing: The title of this chapter is a reference to Evil Foundry from "Sonic and the Secret Rings" if you didn't catch it. But the whole chapter felt like Night Palace.
This time, Sonic and Scourge battle it out! Who will come out on top? And will Tails be able to find the book to stop Enerjak Tiara? With the spoiled power maniac on the hunt and Robotnik about to intervene on this epic fight, only one question remains; what's the role of the Alicorn Amulet and it's part of the destruction? Sonic! Ponies! You all have to speed up, quick!