FAE 11

Celestia and Luna sat across Sombra in the dining room. Sombra ate lightly, preferring to wait for the main course to serve meat. Celestia and Luna picked at their food, but neither of them had an appetite for vegetables.

The CMC, including Diamond Tiara, stood at guard around the princesses

"So why have you come?" Sombra asked

"We came to see if what your…son…said about you was true." Luna said.

"And what do you believe?"

"It's not hard to believe you've changed. It's just hard to see whether you're trying to help us or just following your own agenda."

Sombra laughed. "I'm doing both, my dear princesses. My kingdom and my family are my top priorities. And since The remainder of Robotnick's army, his generals, and the changelings are panning on negotiating a military alliance with tirek, my only option was to attack first. That's why robotropolis was attacked in the first place."

"You ordered the attack on robotropolis? "

"No. I sent them on a reconnaissance mission. They just got a little emotional."

"A little?!" Celestia remarked.

"It's understandable, especially after what happened to them."

Sombra…" Celestia said, "….what happened to Sonic and his friends?"

"Ahh." Sombra set down his utensil and leaned forward. "That info has been kept even from me. But, if Sonic trusts Rainbow dash and her friends, he should tell them in a few minutes."

"We also would like some answered questions about some tampered data." Luna said.

"Tails hacked them and removed the histories and identities."

Celestia blinked. "Well, that answers that problem."

"It was a simple answer. Ah, Cadence."

The sisters turned around. Cadence stood before them, wearing a black spy suit that looked like the black widows from Marvels Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Cadence walked forward and knelt.

"Oh, do get up. We have company. Your relatives are here." Sombra said.

Cadence got up, placing a radio on the table. "The audio is in place, father."

"Audio?" Celestia asked.

"Father had Cadence and I place hidden microphones all over that bat-girls' bar." The sisters looked up. Crash was laying on a guard rail for a second story balcony that overlooked the dining hall. He sat himself up and jumped off, hitting the floor with barely a then walked over and stood next to Sombra, winking at Sweetie belle with a smirk on his face.

Celestia noticed Sweetie Belle tense up at the sight of Button Mash.

"Good. Then all the audio should be ready. We'll start hearing it as soon as he starts telling. I know about as much as you do about this subject, my dear princesses, so don't think of it if I'm surprised. I don't know what happened in the time frame of when they disappeared and when they came to me." Sombra said.

The radio made a crackling sound, and the audio began.

At the bar.

Sonic sat across from the mane six and the freedom fighters. Other then they themselves, the bar was empty.

"So what do you want to know?" He asked.

"How about everything that's happened since we had last seen you?" Dash said.

Sonic sighed. "I guess that's the best time to begin. But before that, are any of you recording this?"

The mane six and the freedom fighters looked at each other.

"No? Okay then."

Sonic then began.

Flashback.

Sonic's pov. (The parts that aren't in quotation marks are the parts where sonic is talking in present time.)

It all began after we had left to visit Knothole. We had been meeting up in the everfree forest so we could go through the checklist and what we would do when we got there. I had been the last to get there.

I had just entered the forest. "Okay guys, I'm here." I said.

I waited for a few seconds. "Guys? Where are you?"

I heard a rustling in the bush behind me. I turned around. "Guys?"

Suddenly, before I had any time to react, a knife flew out, slashing my left eye. Out of reflex, my hands flew up to the eye to try and stop the bleeding, but then an energy blast flew out, vaporizing my right arm. I howled in pain and fell to the ground. I managed to look at the assailants with my good eye. It was none other than Scourge and Monkey Khan, two of Robotnick's generals. Scourge smirked.

"Hey, fucko." He then booted me in the face, knocking me out.

When I woke up, I was strapped to a table. Robotnick stood over me, grinning evilly.

"Ah, hedgehog, you're awake. You're nap time isn't over yet." He clicked his tongue and stuck a syringe in my neck. I dozed off.

We I woke up, I didn't remember anything. I only had one objective in my mind: to obey Robotnick.

Robotnick sent us on a rampage through parts of his country, killing all who could be part of rebellion. We would bring back survivors, only for us to kill them one at a time. It went on that way, until one fateful day. One that continues to haunt me.

Regular POV.

Present time.

Sonic stopped talking, looking down and grimacing.

Dash looked at the others then back at him.

"What happened that day, Sonic?"

Sonic looked up. "He…" he took a shaky breath."…he made me kill Amy."

Dash's eyes widened. She looked at the others. All of them had shocked looks on their faces.

Over in the crystal empire, Celestia and Luna's eyes widened. Sombra folded his hands and closed his eyes. Cadence bowed her head and folded her arms. Crash frowned, his fist shaking slightly. The CM looked away, trying to force down the gasps and feelings of shock

Sonic took a deep breath and continued.

Flashback

Sonic's POV

As I stood over Amy's corpse, something changed. It felt like a piercing headache. I stumbled back. My memories had returned for only a moment, but that was enough to confuse me. From what I learned later on, that was about the time Starlight glimmer messed around with the timeline and when Twilight fixed it. That wouldn't take up any normal time, so it makes sense.

"Horsemen #7, is something wrong?" Robotnick's voice came over the loudspeaker

"I shook my head and straightened up. "No, sir. No problems."

"Good. Return to your room."

I did as he said. I felt woozy. My mind kept on flashing, resurfacing memories for only a moment. I managed to enter my room and get in bed.

That night, I kept tossing and turning. I couldn't remember her name, but the girl's scream kept resurfacing. I suddenly remembered her name. I sat up.

"Amy?"

As soon as I said that name, all the memories came rushing back. My head suddenly felt whole for the first time in months. I got up and exited my room, at the exact same time the others did, conveniently enough. We looked at each other, and, seemingly reading each other's minds, found our weapons then left. You know what happened from there.

Present day

Regular POV.

"So that's my story." Sonic said. "That's why I'm like this now. Why I do what I do."

The two groups looked at each other.

"What happens now is your decision." Sonic leaned forward. 'Will you still deny the fact that I've changed, or will you accept it and move on to the more important matters?"

Back in the Crystal empire, the audio recordings ended. Sombra cleared his throat.

"Well, that certainly answers a few things."