The air felt colder and the tension rose by the second as the mere appearance of Metallix sent fear all over the area. The students were all looking terrified at the sight of the smoke spreading from the wind caused by the aura. The Mobians stood their ground, cautious about this fight and sharing concern for the safety of the civilians.
Quickly, Sonic immediately sped out of the area before reappearing in his original set of clothes and his items in his backpack. He and his friends knew that they'd need what they had in order to keep up with Metallix as long as possible.
(Dragon Ball Z Volume IV Soundtrack - Cell Returns)
Within moments, the winds died down as the smoke started fading away. The aura's bright light and energy lessened down, revealing none other than the robotic demon, the Steel Nemesis; Metallix. The robot slowly rose up onto his feet, lifting his fist from the ground. The lightning of his Phantom Chaos energy flickered all around his body and his visor lit up, revealing his red glowing eyes as he made those familiar robotic noises.
Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie were left in a complete state of fright at the first sight of Metallix. Twilight and Flash were frozen, letting out panicked breaths. Rainbow and Applejack were stern yet terrified of the robot's terrifying power. Sonic, Shadow and Gage all stood straight, determined to do whatever they could to stop him.
Metallix glanced over at Sonic, Twilight and their friends behind them. He noticed the pony ears and wings they had grown. Moreover, he was detecting the Equestrian magic inside them… and the Element of Magic. Strangely, the magic he detected seemed… familiar?
As the wind finally died down and the smoke faded from sight, Metallix was left standing on the other side of the street with his Phantom Chaos energy flowing around him with his lightning flickering around his arms. He chuckled as he glanced at everyone around Sonic, "Well, it's good to see you again, Sonic, my old nemesis. I'm honestly surprised you've gathered all of your new friends here with you, but I suppose I should thank you for it. You've saved me the trouble of having to gather them all up myself. Now I can vaporize them all at once right after I force them to watch as I tear you apart."
The students were all completely frightened by the threat Metallix had just announced out loud; he was not here to play games. Their expressions ranged from shivering in fear to shock in silence. But despite his presence, Sonic, Shadow and Gage were not going to stand down. They took a step forward, tightly clenching their fists as Sonic spoke out, "We're not gonna let you hurt anyone else, Metallix. We don't care how powerful you are, cuz we're gonna stop you, one way or another."
Metallix simply asked in response to this, "Do you truly believe that after our most recent confrontation? After all, even before you attempted to defeat me yourself, all three of you struggled against me. And that was without any of us using the Emeralds."
Everyone behind the Mobians was quiet. This truthful history Metallix spoke filled the air with fear and silence. Twilight and the girls were all concerned about Sonic and his friends' safety. Rainbow especially was worried about him; she didn't want to lose him. Not to Metallix.
Sonic glanced over his shoulder and whispered to Twilight and the girls, "Shadow, Gage and I will draw Metallix away from here. That'll get you and Spike enough time to get back to Equestria before the portal closes."
Twilight, Rainbow and the girls' eyes all widened at this statement. Sonic and his team were going to fend off Metallix so that Twilight and Spike could get home and be safe. Though they all felt the noble act in this plan, they weren't on board with it. But before they got a chance to say a word, Shadow reached into his jacket and pulled out the turquoise Emerald from his pocket, "If you want to hurt these innocent people and take this Emerald, you'll need to kill us first."
Everyone in the crowd behind the Mobians glanced over at Shadow with widened eyes from that statement right as he quickly raised the Emerald into the air, "Chaos Control!"
Within moments, everyone from CHS was suddenly teleported out of the area. Immediately, they reappeared back in the gym, much to their surprise and confusion. Some were left feeling a bit dazed while others' faces started to turn green as they felt sick. Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy's faces turned as green as slime and they immediately ran over to nearby garbage bins, vomiting inside them.
Pinkie was left sitting on the floor with spinny cartoon eyes as she got dizzy from the transportation, "That was so cooooool…"
Among those who were relieved to be out of danger, Rainbow was still worried about one thing, "Sonic…"
With that done and back outside, Sonic, Shadow and Gage all prepared themselves for the battle in fighting stances. Metallix let out a simple scoff to this, "Very well, fools."
(Sonic Frontiers OST - Break Through It All)
Metallix immediately crossed his arms before throwing them out with a shout, causing his Phantom Chaos aura to burst out of him once more. Sonic, Shadow and Gage raised their defenses, ready to fight their dangerous opponent. The empowered robot then lowered to one knee as he prepared to engage, "Now. You! DIE!"
With his rocket engine boosting to its fullest, Metallix started flying straight towards the Mobians at intense speeds, his fist raised in the air with his energy flickering out. Acting quickly, Shadow teleported out of the way, Gage jumped to the side and Sonic ducked backwards underneath as the Metallix's attack went right over him. The robot's attack landed right into the stairs to the entrance, causing a cloud of dust to come out. As Sonic quickly stood up straight and turned around, he saw Metallix emerge from the dust and charge at him with an angry snarl, his visor fully lit up in the Phantom Chaos glow.
With a startled yelp and a quick reaction, Sonic quickly turned and started speeding forward down the street with Metallix following close behind him. Both fighters left a trail of their energy that moved along with them. Their intense speeds caused a huge wind that blew loose leaves off the trees. Birds flew off into the air frightened by the sudden winds.
Sonic moved along the road as quickly as his feet could carry him. As he continued on, he suddenly felt a brief but strange feeling on his back. He glanced over his shoulder and saw his Equestrian wings and his ponytail vanish, as if they were never there. He slightly tilted his head in surprise at this but seemed to have an idea on why this just happened as he thought to himself, "My Chaos energy's probably interfering with the Equestrian magic. Maybe it was just temporary!"
As Sonic processed this thought while he sped on down the road, he heard the sound of Metallix diving towards him from above. He quickly jumped forward with a Spin Dash, dodging a diving attack from the robot which resulted in an explosion of dust and debris from the attack. Metallix then caught back up and charged up his reactor with his Phantom Chaos energy before firing out an enhanced plasma pulse laser beam at Sonic. As the beam laid waste to the road, it was quickly catching up to Sonic.
Sonic glanced behind him to see the beam about to reach his feet. But just before they managed to make contact, Shadow warped into the scene in the air and threw a Chaos Spear at Metallix's head, causing him to jolt upward and disrupt the beam. The moment the GUN agent landed on the ground and started moving with Sonic, the two Mobians slowed down just enough to get behind the robot. They jumped into the air and grabbed onto each others' hands, performing a Spin Dash combo. They homed in on Metallix as their Chaos energy flashed around them and went off in an explosion of lightning as they collided with the robot with enough force to send him down onto the ground.
Metallix collided with the ground and slid across the road with a path of debris forming out of his forced weight before he collided with a sidewalk and came to a stop. His visor lit back up with his red eyes as he hovered back into the air. As Sonic and Shadow jumped right at him both with a jab, Metallix suddenly warped behind them as they threw their attack and gave them an energy blast to the back, sending them off right before he received a sneak Homing Attack from Gage.
The fight moved away from the road and led onto the ground as the Mobians and Metallix engaged into the hills. Sonic and Shadow quickly recovered in the air and landed on the ground running. Sonic glanced over his shoulder and saw a dazed Metallix flying over to him. He quickly jumped in the air and did a backflip while giving the robot a strong kick with his Chaos energy, knocking him upwards. The three Mobians quickly grouped up and sped onwards.
Immediately, Metallix reappeared in the scene and flew right behind the Mobians. He reached his hand out and deployed his gatling gun. He opened fire at them, forcing them to spread out and constantly adjust their speeds to avoid the gunfire. Gage quickly jumped upward and spun in the air while throwing a Chaos Spear at Metallix. The robot was quick to react and shielded himself with his arms. The attack exploded upon impact and Metallix's gauntlets were undamaged. Then the moment he lowered his defense, he saw Sonic coming at him but couldn't reach quick enough to counter him as the Mobian performed a Humming Top, repeatedly kicking him in the air in a circle.
Sonic pressed his feet against Metallix's head and jumped away as Shadow warped behind the robot and bashed him with a Chaos-boosted double hammerfist, sending him downwards. The robot crashed into the ground, but then suddenly reemerged from underground in front of the Mobians with an enraged shout as he threw out a wave of energy, knocking the heroes off their feet and separating them.
Metallix landed on the ground with enough force to make the earth beneath his feet break. He took a moment to glance back and forth looking for any signs of the Mobians. His visor scanned the area to find any source of life or Chaos Energy. Momentarily, Shadow warped into his sights and fired a pair of Chaos Spears at him. He prepared to block the attacks, but was suddenly hit in the back by Sonic and Gage spin dashing into him from behind, leaving him to take the blasts which gave him enough force to move across the ground.
Metallix slid backwards across the ground with his feet making a trail before he came to a stop, snarling in annoyance. As the three Mobians lunged at him all together, Metallix immediately swung his arms out as he released a wave of energy, using Chaos Control. The Mobians were frozen in time and space and Metallix took the chance to attack them one by one. He gave each of them a barrage of punches and kicks before giving them a strong blow that would knock them into each other. The moment the Chaos Control effects wore off, the Mobians were met with delayed blows right before they clashed into each other, all with a grunt in surprised pain.
Metallix grabbed Sonic by the leg and swung him into Shadow and Gage like a baseball bat, knocking them off to the side before tossing Sonic high into the air. As the Mobian went higher and higher into the sky, he quickly recovered from the pain and pointed himself downward as he started diving back towards the ground. On the ground, Metallix raised his right arm and summoned his gatling gun, opening fire at Sonic.
The energy blasts from Metallix's gatling gun soared through the air and towards Sonic at bullet speed. The Mobian could see them from afar. Using his skills, he curved and spun in the air avoiding the blasts with quick thinking and acting. He shifted side to side, forwards and backwards as he dodged the blasts and dived down towards the robot below.
Metallix's visor detected Sonic coming down and avoiding the blasts. To this, he suddenly deployed his missile launchers from his shoulders and fired out four missiles. High above, Sonic saw the missiles coming towards him at once all in a square. He quickly reached into his back and pulled out one of his Power Rings. Slipping it onto his wrist, he started spin dashing and dived down even faster. He sped down so fast that the missiles just missed him and they all exploded upon impact.
Diving down at intense speeds, Sonic came out of his ball form and stretched his leg out to stomp on Metallix. The robot below reacted in surprise to Sonic's surviving the missiles and quickly raised his arms to block the attack, only to not be quick enough as Sonic landed right on his head, stomping him into the ground. But immediately, Metallix snarled as he threw out a wave of energy, stunning Sonic and knocking him into the air. The robot then warped to the Mobian's position, grabbed him by the leg before bringing him down to the ground.
Metallix angrily snarled as he swung Sonic by the leg and repeatedly slammed him downwards onto the ground with bits of grass and dirt flying out from every impact and Sonic grunting loudly in pain. The robot then threw Sonic up in the air and flew right up to him, preparing to slam him back down with a double hammerfist. But right as he was about to throw his attack, he received a homing attack in the back from Gage who knocked him away. Sonic went falling back down to the ground but was caught by Shadow before he hit the surface.
Metallix fell down into a ravine with shallow water. He was quick to recover and repositioned to land on the ground with a stomp and the water splashing around him. He quickly raised his arms in front of him, blocking Gage's next homing attack. The spinning Mobian grinded against the robot's steel arms with sparks going out like a saw blade clashing with a shield.
Shadow carefully sat Sonic down on the ground. The blue Mobian's clothes received rips and bits of dirt, his arms had gotten bruises and his face took some scraps. Sonic groaned in pain from the punishment of getting slammed into the ground repeatedly. Shadow pressed his hand against Sonic's shoulder, "Can you stand?"
Sonic moaned as he stretched out his arm and got onto his feet, "I think so."
The two Mobians stood up and glanced out into the ravine. They saw Gage spin dashing against Metallix. The robot snarled as he continued to shield himself against the Mobian. His Phantom Chaos energy started flickering out of him; his anger was starting to really build up as the fight progressed.
Sonic quickly glanced over at Shadow, "Help Gage cut him off and I'll show him some Light Speed!"
Shadow nodded, but not without reaching into his jacket. He pulled out the turquoise Emerald and handed it to him. Sonic immediately became aware of what he had in mind and nodded as he took the Emerald. Wasting no more time, Shadow warped over to Gage's aid while Sonic put the Emerald between his hands and gripped it tightly. Its energy began flowing around his arms as his eyes lit up in his own energy with his lightning flickering around him.
Metallix growled as he grew fed up with Gage. As the Mobian continued to spin dash against his arms, the robot swiftly moved and suddenly grabbed him right by the neck, bringing him out of his ball form. He then threw him into the river and stomped on his back; the river was not shallow enough for Gage to keep his head up for air. Gage shouted out in pain underwater from the pressure forced onto him. Metallix deployed his energy cannon and aimed it point blank at Gage's face. He began charging it up and prepared to blast the Mobian to dust, only to receive a kick from Shadow which knocked him away into a wall of rock.
Shadow landed in the river next to Gage as the yellow Mobian quickly got out of the water gasping for air. The GUN agent offered his ally his hand, and Gage gladly accepted his help to stand up. Their attention was immediately drawn towards Metallix, snarling loudly as he pulled himself out of the wall. His energy continued to build up as he started flying right towards Shadow and Gage, shouting loudly in rage. As he raised his fist with aura building around it, Shadow and Gage quickly side-stepped to reveal a Chaos-empowered Light Speed Sonic coming right at him. The robot had no time to react as the blue Mobian bashed right into him, knocking him high into the air.
Metallix flew up higher and higher in the air right until he stopped himself and recovered as he hovered in front of the moon. He growled as he glanced around for Sonic, only to receive another blow from the blue Mobian attacking him from below. Then Sonic started dashing back and forth into Metallix from multiple directions at sonic speeds. Every landed blow caused a loud sound of collision and bursts of every flying as Sonic let out a long, empowered shout. Then he gave Metallix a kick strong enough to launch him off before getting ahead of him in the air. The Mobian repeatedly knocked the robot around in the air before he gave him a strong ax kick with his Chaos energy flashing out in lightning upon impact, launching him off towards the ground.
Metallix flew across the air until he crash landed on the ground with a cloud of dirt and dust flying out. Shadow and Gage stood their ground as they kept their distance from the crash site. Momentarily, Sonic landed on the ground in front of them with a stomp. He raised the Emerald in his hand as his Light Speed aura faded away. For the moment, it seemed like they managed to pin Metallix down.
Over at Canterlot High, Twilight, Flash, Spike and the girls all came through the main doors and got back outside. They approached the Wondercolt statue where the portal to Equestria was still open. Twilight glanced up at the moon in the sky, seeing the three stars closer than before. Time was almost up. But that was the last thing on their minds right now.
Rainbow stomped her foot against the ground as she growled in annoyance, feeling helpless for not being present with Sonic, "This is ridiculous! We can't just let Sonic take on that robot by himself! Even with Shadow and Gage, that thing's gonna kill 'em! We've gotta do something!"
"But what can we do?" Fluttershy asked, "We have no powers like them. And from what they told us, Metallix is so powerful there might be no chance at stopping him."
"Can't we just use our new magic to take away his powers?" Rarity suggested.
Everyone looked over at Twilight to see if she had any ideas. Twilight glanced down at the ground below her as she held her arm, "That power Metallix wields is powered by the Chaos Emeralds and the Phantom Ruby. Our magic was only able to neutralize Sunset's because it was Equestrian magic. But because neither the Emeralds or the Ruby are from Equestria, I'm not sure if it can stop Metallix's power. Even if we could stop him, he wouldn't give us any time to do it."
The group was silent as they all pondered what to do. This situation proved extremely difficult to solve. They thought hard to try and figure out a way to help. Could they be able to figure out a solution in time to save Sonic and his team? All while Twilight and Spike's one way home closing at the same time?
Over at the battlefield, Sonic, Shadow and Gage stood their ground as they gazed over at the crash site where Metallix sat and the cloud of dust still rose. It almost seemed like the robot was actually down for the count. But was it really over? That easily?
(Dragon Ball Super - Jiren's Wrath | Epic Rock Cover - Friedrich Habetler Music)
Suddenly the dust cloud was blown away as Metallix stood up with an enraged shout and Phantom Chaos aura bursting out like a fire. His lightning flickered out like the bolts from a storm. The Mobians quickly raised their fists and got defensive when they witnessed the robot powering up quickly.
Rocks and bits of dirt started rising into the air due to the energy flowing around through the area. Dark clouds started forming in the sky once again with thunder and lightning. The ground started cracking into pieces right beneath the enraged robot's feat. Metallix clenched his fists tightly as his eyes in his visor flashed brightly with his Phantom Chaos energy continuing to flow. He snarled in pure anger at his enemies; he was done wasting time here, "Fools! If you're so eager to throw your lives away…!"
The robot then crossed his arms over his chest as his energy charged up around his body and he let out a loud, echoing shout, "THEN SO BE IT!"
As Metallix prepared his move, the six Chaos Emeralds in his possession and the Phantom Ruby all appeared above him with their energies emitting and glowing brightly. They flew right into his reactor as he absorbed their power. He let out an ear-piercing howl of pure rage as he swung his arms out and his Phantom Chaos energy began bursting out upward like a beam into the sky with lightning flashing out everywhere.
The ground started shaking as the bursting energy from Metallix caused a massive wind, even stronger than when Sunset had transformed with Twilight's crown. The three Mobians covered their faces with their arms from the dirt blowing in the wind and the bright lights from the energy. The power blasting around felt as voracious as a firestorm. Metallix's enraged voice echoed throughout the hills and beyond.
Metallix's power was so great that the energy beam could be seen from Canterlot City. The ground was even shaking all the way out there, even if only slightly. Twilight and her friends all came to the sidewalk to see the energy more clearly from their view. They saw how high it rose in the air beyond the clouds with his lightning flashing through them. The rumbling of the earth shaking and the waves and wind from the energy drew the attention of the rest of CHS. Everyone came outside to watch what was happening. They could only wonder in fear what this all meant.
Metallix continued to roar in absolute rage as his power grew higher and higher from the Emeralds and Ruby. His aura flashed out even brighter as the ground around cracked and flew off in the wind. With one last echoing shout, his energy burst out in a giant ring that grew and spread throughout the hills. As the wind died down and the beam of energy with its bright light faded away, the Mobians uncovered themselves and glanced over at what the mad robot had become. Upon getting a good look, their initial reaction caused them to jolt back in shock, "Whoa!"
Metallix was revealed to have the blue of his armour change into a magenta colour with parts of his quills fading into a thick black. Phantom Chaos aura bursted out from under his feet like a deadly flame with particles rising into the air and lightning flickering around his gauntlets and reactor.
(Sonic Frontiers OST - Find Your Flame)
Metallix lifted his head up as he glanced down at his enemies with his visor lighting up. He raised his fists as he hovered over the ground and shouted loudly with his voice now sounding echoey and corruptive, "I'LL CRUSH YOU!"
Without any hesitation, Metallix started flying straight at the Mobians at godlike speeds with the ground where he stood suddenly exploding in dust. The robot shouted loudly as he raised his fist with his energy charging up around it. The Mobians were all startled at how Metallix's power had risen. And how fast he was coming at them! "HOLY CRAP!" Sonic shrieked.
The three Mobians quickly jumped away at the last second right as Metallix came to their location and slammed his fist right into the ground. The very moment the blow landed, an explosion of earth and Phantom Chaos energy blew out. The Mobians were separated again due to the gust of wind from Metallix's attack.
Sonic landed on the ground, recovering with a shoulder roll. He glanced over at the large cloud of smoke where Metallix had attacked. Suddenly, the robot burst out of the cloud and flew straight towards him. Sonic yelped in surprise but had no time to move as Metallix came right up and threw a punch square at his stomach. The punch was so strong and had so much force that Sonic was sent flying backwards. He flew across the land before crashing into a hill with earth and dust flying out upon impact.
Sonic groaned in pain from the crash and tried to get up, but was immediately met with another punch in the gut from Metallix. The robot then started repeatedly throwing jabs at the Mobian, causing Sonic to shout out in pain. Before long, a Chaos Spear hit Metallix in the back of the head, causing him to glance over with a growl. He saw Gage diving down towards him, quickly forming into a ball to perform a homing attack.
Shadow quickly warped between Sonic and Metallix before quickly teleporting out with his ally. The robot snarled in annoyance at these constant distractions. As Gage dived in with his homing attack, Metallix raised his hand and suddenly grabbed the Mobian by the neck, bringing him right out of his ball form. The robot raised his fist and threw an uppercut with enough force to knock Gage up into the air.
As Gage shouted as he flew off in the air, Metallix stomped his foot on the ground as he deployed his rocket launchers, both of which were now being charged by his Phantom Chaos energy. He shouted out with immense anger as he prepared to fire his launchers, "DIE!"
Metallix's empowered launchers fired four Phantom Chaos missiles towards Gage in the sky. Gage yelped in surprise when he saw the projectiles coming right at him. Right as they were about to collide with him all at once, Sonic immediately dashed into and grabbed Gage. The missiles collided with each other and exploded upon impact with particles of Phantom Chaos energy.
The three Mobians quickly grouped up and started moving up along a hill. As they made their way across the grass, they saw Metallix appear in the distance. The robot raised his hand over his head as his energy charged around his gauntlet. Within moments, he started firing energy blasts that flew into the air before turning and coming back down towards the Mobians like a storm of meteors.
The Mobians started side-stepping, jumping and rolling around to the best of their speed, dodging the blasts that exploded upon hitting the ground. As Sonic and Gage quickly sped up to get ahead of the barrage, Shadow quickly warped away from his allies and teleported right next to Metallix, giving him a kick to the head. But the moment his foot made contact with the robot…
The attack didn't phase him. And before Shadow had a chance to move, Metallix grabbed him by the leg and threw him down towards the ground before diving after him. Sonic sped on and on up the hill ahead of Gage. But right as he squinted his eyes to look further ahead, he realized that the hill turned into a cliff at the other side. He suddenly put his feet in front of him and screeched to a stop, just a few inches from going right off.
Sonic waved his arms as he hung over the edge of the cliff for a brief moment before he regained his balance and stepped back. He let out a sigh of relief, but was suddenly alarmed when he heard, "Sonic, watch out!"
Sonic quickly glanced behind him and saw Gage was still running at full speed, unable to stop himself. The Mobians collided with each other and went over the edge of the cliff, "Whooooooooaaaaaah!"
As the two speedsters went rolling uncontrollably down the steep side of the hill, Shadow and Metallix were seen in the background throwing blows at each other that echoed from impact. They warped left and right in the air, repeatedly throwing Chaos Spears at one other with every projectile just hitting each other.
Sonic and Gage quickly pushed themselves off the ground and managed to recover back onto their feet. As they started running forwards once more, they suddenly came to a stop by a gust of wind that came out of nowhere in front of them. Then Shadow and Metallix appeared in front of them.
Metallix's energy was starting to flicker more and more throughout the fight. He snarled in annoyance at the Mobians' continuous resistance. Shadow let out a huff as he crossed his arms in front of him, "Chaos…"
As Shadow started to channel his energy, a red Chaos aura started to form around him. This caused Metallix to do the same technique he was about to perform, "Chaos…"
Sonic and Gage let out a frightful yell as they knew what was about to happen. With their energies fully charged, Shadow and Metallix jumped in the air and threw their arms out as they shouted, "BLAST!"
The two fighters let out a massive burst of Chaos energy in the form of an explosion. Hundreds of yards away, the explosion could be seen shooting up into the air. And the wind caused by the explosion was so strong that Sonic and Gage went flying into the sky uncontrollably, "Aaaaaaaahhh!"
Within the cloud of smoke from the explosion, the light from the energy faded and Shadow had dropped to his knees, feeling a little tired after using his Chaos Blast. His jacket had received a few rips in the arms. He covered his mouth with his hands to keep himself from breathing in the smoke as he glanced around the area. Parts of it were still covered in smoke while bits of fire burned off grass.
Shadow quickly stood back up straight, only to be suddenly grabbed by the throat by a familiar robot hand that burst out of the smoke. A partially damaged Metallix snarled with his eyes glowing bright red as his nanotech repaired the damage in his armour. His energy continued to flicker around him from his use of his power. Wasting no time, he gave Shadow an uppercut with enough force to send the Mobian skyhigh within moments. Then he quickly charged up his rockets and shot straight up after him, creating a crater from where he stood in the process.
Shadow flew up so fast from Metallix's punch, he went right past Sonic and Gage. Before long, the robot flew up and gave them both an energy blast point blank, sending them off. He then teleported right over Shadow's head and gave him no time to recover as he immediately gave him a double hammerfist to the head. The Mobian shouted in pain as he went falling back down to the earth.
Sonic soared uncontrollably over the hills, spinning around in all directions. Before long, he came landing on flat grounds and slid across the grass, leaving a trail of dirt along the way. After slowing down to a stop, he groaned as he rubbed his head. He let out a huff as he processed the situation, "Okay, Metallix has gotten his new… "Phantom" form from the Ruby, and me and the boys are getting our butts completely handed to us. But I know I just felt it; his energy's starting to get unstable. The relics will resist him eventually, but I don't even know if we can last that long!"
As he continued to think through this situation, his ear suddenly twitched as he heard something. An indescribable noise, almost like the Phantom Ruby's power. But more dangerous. He glanced up and something in the sky caused his eyes to widen. Lines of energy appear around in the sky similar in appearance to the Phantom Ruby's. These rifts looked like coloured glass shattering apart; they were the fabric of reality tearing open by the unstable energy Metallix wielded. Worlds from other dimensions could be seen through the rifts.
Sonic gasped in realization as he stood up, "Oh, no! Reality can't handle all this power at once! If we don't get rid of his powers quickly, he'll tear the whole multiverse apart!"
The rifts continued to rise in size as the power continued to grow. Something had to be done fast before it was too late. Sonic reached into his pocket and brought out the Emerald. He glanced down at it in his palm. He seemed to have an idea. An extremely risky idea, but it was probably his only chance left.
Shadow and Gage were left groaning on the ground. Beat up and in pain. They groaned as they struggled to get up. Metallix hovered down from the air to the ground and slowly started walking towards the Mobians. Before long, he stood in front of Shadow and glanced down at him. The GUN looked up at the robot whose eyes glowed in the shadows and his Phantom Chaos energy flickered unstably. And it didn't seem like he cared, not when he was so close to victory.
"You sure are quite resilient for a Mobian," Metallix lowered his hand towards Shadow and grabbed him by the neck, causing the GUN agent to gage as he continued, "But I'm afraid I've gotten bored of fighting you."
The robot lifted him up in the air and gripped his neck tightly, choking him. Shadow gagged as he gasped for what air he could get. Gage tried to get up to help Shadow, but he suddenly collapsed back onto the ground. He looked over and saw that his knee took a bad hit. He groaned as he held his knee in pain.
Metallix raised his free hand and gripped it as he summoned a Phantom Chaos beam sword blade from the back out of his gauntlet. He pointed the end of the blade right at Shadow's face, "Farewell, 'Ultimate Lifeform'. Now die!"
Metallix swung his blade back and prepared to strike Shadow down once and for all. Shadow simply closed his eyes as he braced for the killing blow. But right as the robot was about to attack, he was suddenly grabbed from behind by someone who had enough strength to make him drop Shadow. Metallix grunted as he looked behind to see who was holding him; a once more Chaos-empowered Sonic.
Wasting no time, Sonic placed his hand right over Metallix's reactor and started tapping into the other Emerald's power. With an empowered shout, Sonic had a burst of gold aura come out from below him. He had transformed into Super Sonic with the blue of his hair and clothes turning gold yellow, most of his hair pointing upward and his eyes turning bright cinnamon brown once more.
Sonic looked at his attire in confusion for a brief moment, "How come my clothes changed colour too?"
Metallix was in shock at what Sonic just managed to do, "WHAT?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
Sonic quickly put his questions of his change in attire aside and grabbed hold of Metallix tight, "Taking you for a flight!"
The empowered Super Sonic tapped into his energy with the ground beneath him and Metallix cracking. Then with a burst of power and speed, he started flying them up, up and away into the sky. Shadow and Gage watched this from the ground. "What's he doing?!" Gage asked in surprise.
Shadow answered without looking away, "Stopping Metallix."
Sonic's superspeed continued to increase as he went higher and higher into the sky with Metallix. The light in his golden aura brightened and grew longer. Almost immediately, there was a loud boom as he went blasting up faster into the sky in a streaking, gold burst of light. The resulting shockwave caused some of the clouds in the sky to get blown away into the distance.
The sonic boom could be heard all the way from Canterlot, and the streak of gold could be seen from just as far. Everyone at CHS watched as Sonic's streak rose higher and higher into the sky towards the rifts. Rainbow held her hands in front of her mouth as she watched in worry.
Before Sonic made it up in the sky with Metallix, hovering in front of the full moon and in range of the rifts in reality. Wasting no time, he shut his eyes as he focused as much effort as he could into his power. Metallix shouted out loud as he couldn't find a way to stop him, "NO! NO!"
Sonic's eyes snapped open, glowing as bright golden as his Super Chaos lightning, and he let out an echoing shout, "CHAOS CONTROL!"
Suddenly, a ring of energy flashed out of Sonic and Metallix and spread across the sky at godlike speeds with an ear-piercing boom. The energy passed through the rifts in reality and they all started to quickly close, preventing the multidimensional collapse.
The students of CHS watched in amazement at the sight. They witnessed what looked like reality falling apart get fixed within seconds. As the wave of energy disappeared in the sky, something could be seen falling down towards the earth. An unconscious Sonic had come out of his Super form with the seven Chaos Emeralds and the Phantom Ruby with him, all covered in flickering energy.
Flash squinted his eyes to get a better look in the sky, only for them to widen in realization and fear, "Uhh, guys… it's Sonic! And he's not slowing down!"
Everyone gasped in fear at the realization of Sonic falling down. Almost immediately, Rainbow used her new wings and started flying up towards Sonic. Her friends were all left in shock right when they realized what she was trying to do. "Rainbow Dash, be careful!" Applejack called out.
Rainbow flew up in the air as fast as her wings could take her. She could see Sonic falling closer and closer towards her. When she found herself at a good range, she stopped flying up and started diving back down towards the ground as the Mobian was catching up to her. Once they were close enough, Rainbow grabbed hold of Sonic from behind as she started using her wings to glide. She put all of her strength into holding onto Sonic tightly.
Sonic moaned as he started to regain consciousness. He felt the breeze blowing on his face, no ground beneath his feet and someone holding onto him tightly. He glanced over his shoulder to see none other than Rainbow bringing him down as he weakly moaned, "Dashie?"
Rainbow took a moment to glance down at him and gave him a smile as she glided him down to safety. Before long, they both flew back towards CHS where everyone was waiting for them. Once they made it to safety, Rainbow gently put Sonic down on his feet, helping him sit down.
Within moments, the students of CHS all started cheering for Sonic, much to the Mobian's surprise. They were all more than happy to see him safe and that he managed to prevent what could have been an absolute disaster. Flash, Twilight and their friends all gathered around Sonic and Rainbow.
"That was awesome, Sonic!" Flash cheered.
"Absolutely spectacular, darling!" Rarity agreed as she clapped.
"WOOHOO! You did it, you did it!" Pinkie squealed in excitement as she hopped around.
Applejack sat on her knees and patted Sonic on the shoulder, "Oh, sugarcube, you had us all worried half to death!"
Sonic just chuckled, "Yeah, I know. I'm awesome."
Before long, a flash of light went off, and Shadow and Gage appeared in the yard. Shadow carried Gage's arm over his shoulder. As Rainbow and her friends helped Sonic stand up on his feet, Shadow gave his friend a smile, "You got a lot of stuff, blue hedgehog."
Sonic simply smiled back, "Thanks, Shadow."
Sonic then gave his Mobian allies a thumbs-up and they both smiled as they each gave him one back. Momentarily, everyone took notice of something. The seven Chaos Emeralds and the Phantom Ruby all laid on the ground with flickering energy around them. For the moment, their combined energies left them unable to use. Shadow spoke out to cleanse everyone's concerns, "Not to worry. We can use them to get back to Mobius soon."
Everyone nodded in union to this. At this time, it seemed like there wasn't anything else to worry about. Even though Twilight and Spike still had to return to Equestria, they were taking a moment to be in celebration at this victory. The group all gathered around Sonic for a group hug, all laughing and sighing in relief.
Once the group broke their hug, Twilight was the first to break the silence, "You'll look after Sunset Shimmer, won't you?"
Everyone looked over at the broken entrance to the school where they saw Sunset hiding from behind the corner. "Of course we will, darling," Rarity responded with positivity before she crossed her arms with a change in tone, "Though I do expect some sort of apology for last spring's debacle."
Sunset shamefully looked away in guilt. "I'm sure she'll be handing out a lot of apologies," Sonic added.
Flash gave Sonic a pat on the shoulder, "Don't worry, we'll help her out. I know it's gonna take time, but… we'll sort things out."
Sonic nodded, "Yeah, I know."
Rainbow took a moment to glance at Sonic. She couldn't stop smiling at him. Not only for his victory, but for the friend he had become. The person she got to know and like. Maybe… maybe even something more.
Spike pawed at Twilight's boot to remind her of an important matter, "We better get going."
Twilight nodded and looked at everyone before tearing up, "I know we've been friends for a short time, but I'm going to miss all of you so much."
Sonic chuckled as he pointed up at the Element of Magic on Twilight's head, "That crown really does suit you, Princess Twilight."
"You know what, Sonic? I think I'm starting to feel a bit more comfortable wearing it," Twilight responded with a grin.
"And the wings?" Spike asked sarcastically with a smirk and raised eyebrow.
"Are you kidding? I've spent the past three days walking on two legs and having to pick things up with these," Twilight joked as she held up her hands, "Wings? I'm thrilled that's all I'll be dealing with back in Equestria."
Twilight let out a sigh as she took one more moment to glance at all of her friends. The girls all had light tears in their eyes, but happy smiles regardless. Sonic gave the Princess a thumbs-up with a grin, and Flash gave a warm smile. All of the other students and Celestia and Luna behind smiled as they waved to Twilight.
Twilight smiled as she took a deep breath. Now fully prepared and ready to head home, she turned and started walking towards the portal to Equestria with Spike. At last, she was able to go home. And nothing could stop her.
But suddenly…
"SOOOOOONNNIIIIIIIIIIIC!"
Everyone was suddenly startled and frozen at the sudden sound of that voice. They all glanced forward and saw a bright beam of light with a howling scream of pure rage flying upward in the air and diving straight down. Towards the yard that everyone stood in.
Flash gasped as he quickly ran forward, "Twilight, look out!"
Flash quickly grabbed Twilight from behind and pulled her backwards before the light came crashing down. But where it landed… was on the Wondercolt statue! It shattered into pieces in a cloud of dust and smoke. The debris spread all over the yard, causing some students to dive for cover.
Everyone gasped in utter shock at this. Twilight quickly sat up in realization and shrieked at the sight of the portal's destruction, "NOOO!"
"The portal!" Spike yelled.
"What just happened?!" Gage shouted.
Momentarily, the smoke cleared and revealed what was the source. And that source made everyone's eyes widen in absolute fear. It was an enraged Metallix with aura bursting out of him and lightning crackling around his armour. No longer in his Phantom form. Snarling in absolute anger. His eyes glowed in pure hatred at the sight of his enemies.
Sonic scowled with his fists clenched hard, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, METALLIX?!"
Metallix growled in rage as he started slowly stomping his way forward. Every step he took caused the ground beneath his feet to crack, "You dare… to humiliate me… and expect to WALK AWAY?! I will never accept defeat! I will destroy you, Sonic! I will kill EVERYONE you love! And I will rip this world to PIECES!"
Metallix raised his hands and started charging an orb of Chaos energy from his palms. Preparing a blast. Sonic, Shadow and Gage quickly got in front of the crowd and raised their fists in defense. They were all tired and exhausted from the fight, but they were not willing to stand down.
Metallix's orb grew larger and glowed brighter. He prepared to fire it at everyone in his sights. But right as he was about to do so… something started feeling off. A wind started blowing around the area. An unnatural wind.
Then a bright streak of blue lightning started moving in a circle around the crowd. Everyone watched in wonder and confusion at what was going on. Their hair all moved along with the wind at the speed of the blur. Before long, the wind suddenly died down and a bright blue ball of lightning hovered over the edge of the roof on the right side of the building.
Everyone glanced up at the strange blue light. Within moments, the light suddenly faded and revealed none other than a mysterious person. The mysterious person was a teenage boy with tan skin, his hair was a mixture of cerulean-blue and cobalt-blue with streaks of tiger-orange, and his eyes were cerulean-blue. He was wearing some kind of advanced spandex suit with a built-in mask and many parts were made out of advanced armour. The suit was mixed in light blue and bright orange with hints of white highlights and lightning designs. The mask on his head had a built-in open hole for the hair to come out with marigold-orange lenses over the eyes and a breathable seal over the lower face. The suit also had short sleeves with some of the advanced armour on the shoulders, the forearms had advanced high-tech gauntlets with fingerless gloves on the hands, and a pair of silver boots with light blue lightning details were built into the suit.
The stranger stood at the edge of the roof with flickers of bright blue lightning as he let out a scoff directed towards Metallix, "My, my! That's a pretty snazzy performance there!"
Everyone immediately let out a surprised gasp at the sight of this stranger's sudden appearance. Questions flowed through their minds. Who was this? Where did he come from? What was that power he seemed to wield? And why did he come here of all places?
"Who… who is that?" Fluttershy asked, glancing at the Mobians.
"Is that another Mobian?" Flash asked.
The three Mobians just gazed at the stranger in wonder with Shadow being the one to respond, "I've never seen him before."
At this moment, Sonic took a chance to call out to the stranger, "Hey, that's my line!"
The stranger simply glanced down at Sonic and shrugged in response, "What can I say? It's kinda my thing."
Metallix snarled loudly in annoyance at this, regaining everyone's attention. He grew fed up with all of these unexpected interruptions and quickly aimed his orb at the stranger instead, "Begone, fool!"
Metallix fired it and it went flying straight at the stranger at intense speeds. But right as it was about to make contact, the stranger suddenly vanished from sight, but not without a blur of blue lightning appearing on the way.
Metallix perked in confusion, "What?! Where are you?!"
Immediately, the same blur started circling around Metallix at intense speeds. The lightning flickered brightly as the stranger was running around him, "Right here!"
Everyone watched in amazement at this. The stranger was running so quickly he was only a blur of lightning. This caused Rainbow to glance at Sonic and blurt out, "Sonic… he's moving… just like you do!"
Sonic nodded as he kept his eyes on the stranger's movement and speed. It was so much like his own, but at the same time, he couldn't sense any Chaos energy coming from him. Neither could Shadow nor Gage.
Metallix attempted to use his visor to scan for the stranger's movement, but it was having difficulty tracking him. It was like he kept adjusting his speed on the go. Before long, the stranger appeared right in front of him and threw a barrage of speed punches. The robot grunted from each blow as for every punch the stranger threw, his fists had lightning sparkling around them.
The stranger then put his hand behind him and gave Metallix an uppercut while jumping with a spin. The blow had enough force to knock the robot back several yards and he landed on the ground on his back with a loud thud.
The stranger took a moment to pat his hands and brush off some dust from his suit, "Man, I've missed this."
Wasting no time, the stranger quickly glanced over at everyone behind him, "Everyone okay?"
No one found a word to say. They all just glanced at the stranger with wonder and confusion, multiple questions in their heads. Sonic was quick to get out of his trance and respond, "Y-yeah, we're good. Thanks for that."
"No worries," the stranger nodded, taking a moment to look over Sonic's condition, "Oh, man, looks like that bot's roughed you up good."
"Yeah, Metallix has been tough lately," Sonic rubbed his shoulder with a little moan.
Momentarily, Shadow approached the two and stood next to Sonic, "What was that power you used?"
The stranger took a moment to look back at where Metallix landed. Then he turned back to face Shadow as he answered, "Well… I used my bioelectric powers to hit that thing and used my superspeed to move around the area the way I did. I don't know where it even came from and I didn't expect to come all the way out here this quickly, but… I've been working on my speed, and… I guess I've gotten faster than I thought."
Sonic and Shadow took a moment to examine the way the stranger spoke; the way his tone was used, he acted as if it was somewhat obvious yet there was some surprise for him as well. The two Mobians looked at each other with raised eyebrows before they gazed back at him with Sonic asking the question that everyone had on their minds, "Who… Who even are you?"
For a moment, the stranger was quiet. He glanced at Sonic with his head tilted slightly. But then he let out a chuckle as he answered with his hands on his hips, "I'm Strike, of course."
"You're who now?" Shadow replied.
"St…" Almost immediately, the stranger, apparently known as Strike, paused when he heard the way Shadow just spoke and then asked, now sounding confused, "Wait… Do you guys not know who I am?"
Sonic scratched his head as he shrugged, "Umm… no, should we?"
Shadow motioned his head at the crowd of CHS students behind him, "None of us do."
Strike then glanced over at the crowd behind Sonic and Shadow. He noticed their expressions were the same; they looked like they'd never seen him before. He then glanced back at the Mobians, "What about Specter?"
Sonic shook his head with an awkward expression. Strike asked again with a different name, "Red Reaper?"
Again, the answer was no from the Mobians. Strike went on once more, this time with multiple names, "Uhh, Fleet-Frost? Black Ghost? Cyber-Dash?"
Sonic could only give an unfortunate response, "Sorry, dude. Don't ring any bells."
Through his lenses, Strike's expression was puzzling with confusion. But as he put his hand behind his head, he took a moment to examine the area. He looked at Canterlot High from left to right, top to bottom, to the very last detail. Then he took a look at the students of the school in the crowd. For a brief moment, his attention was mostly towards Rainbow, Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity… and even Sunset in the entrance. Something of which they and Sonic took notice of.
Strike placed his finger on his chin as he took everything into account, "So if you all don't know who I am, and Canterlot High looks like it was built in the early 1990s along with them existing here…"
Strike raised his head as he came to a possible conclusion, quietly answering to himself, "Could I have jumped into another dimension? Is the multiverse real?"
Almost immediately and out of nowhere, Pinkie blurted out an idea, "Maybe he's from a world where a particle collider exploded releasing a bunch of unknown energies into his world causing mutations resulting in superhumans!"
The idea that Pinkie blurted out caused her to earn raised eyebrows and dropped jaws in confusion from everyone, "Huh?"
Rainbow scratched her head at the suggestion Pinkie just made, "Where on Earth do you come up with these things?"
Pinkie then quickly shrugged the idea off, "Nah, that just sounds silly, even for me."
Before anything else could figure out what to say about the situation, there was a sudden, loud and angry roar from closeby. Everyone looked over in the direction of the shout and saw Metallix once again powering up and slamming his fists against the ground to get onto his feet. The robot was so enraged at this moment that he didn't have the patience to speak; he snarled in anger as he prepared to engage.
Strike immediately turned directly at Metallix and raised his fists in defense, "Guess I gotta do one thing at time; evil robot, now. Current location, later."
Momentarily, Sonic and Shadow stepped forward and stood by the Strike's side. Sonic rotated his shoulder and stretched his arm as he replied to Strike, "Couldn't agree more. Metallix just won't quit."
Shadow glanced over his shoulder and noticed that Gage hadn't stepped forward; he sat on the ground holding his knee where his injury was. Knowing he couldn't take part in the fight anymore, he glanced at Sonic's CHS friends, "You look after Gage. Make sure he's okay."
Rainbow, Flash and their friends, save Twilight and Spike, nodded in agreement. Twilight was on her knees, tearfully eying the debris of the destroyed statue all over the yard; the portal to Equestria was gone. She had earned the opportunity to go home after all of that hard work, and it was taken from her in seconds. Spike sat next to her on the ground, breathing as unhappily as her.
As the three fighters prepared to face off against Metallix, the robot snarled at them in anger as he slammed his fist on the ground, preparing to move in and attack. Sonic took a quick glance at Strike between him and Shadow, "So… Strike, huh?"
Strike nodded as he glanced back at Sonic, "Yep, and you?"
"Sonic, "Sonic simply smirked before he pointed over at Shadow, "And that's Shadow.
"Cool," Strike responded as he gazed back at the threat before them, "Ready to jam, boys?"
Sonic and Shadow raised their fists as they nodded, "Ready!"
Metallix roared as he started flying forward towards his enemies. Sonic, Strike and Shadow sped forward towards the robot at intense speeds. The fighters came into contact over the road, resulting in a sudden and loud noise of a clash with a brief, bright light. They started moving throughout the area and beyond with blurs of their energies following them and the sounds of their landing attacks echoing here and there.
Twilight's tears began to fall as she reached forward on the ground and picked up a few pieces of the broken statue. She gazed down at them in her palms as her tears dropped onto them and the debris, "Now I can never go home…"
Twilight shut her eyes as she quietly sobbed. Spike whimpered as he rubbed up against Twilight's leg. Flash and the girls all came to their side and comforted her. Flash rested his hand on Twilight's shoulder while the girls sat beside her and Spike. They could only feel sad at this moment; there was nothing they could think to help Twilight get back home, let alone make her better.
(Sonic Frontiers OST - Undefeatable)
Sonic and Metallix spin-dashed right into each other, grinding loudly with sparks coming out like a saw against steel. Then they repeatedly bashed into each other as they went up in the air before locking in again. Momentarily, Metallix came out of his ball form and gave Sonic a double-hammerfist, knocking him down. The Mobian crashed onto the road, leaving pieces scattered around.
Metallix deployed his blaster and aimed down at Sonic. He began charging it up with a blast, only to receive a blow to the back from Strike with enough force to move him away. The speedster ran across the road with the robot flying right over his head. He started shifting left and right to avoid getting grabbed from above, much to Metallix's annoyance. The robot then flew upward before diving down with a kick, causing Strike to leap forward to dodge the attack and land on the ground with a shoulder roll.
As Strike recovered and got back onto his feet, Metallix shot right past him like a bullet and stomped onto the road. Thinking quickly, Strike jumped up and came at the robot with a roundhouse kick, only for the robot to block it with his arm. But this was expected by Strike as he quickly jumped up with his free leg and managed to kick the robot in the face, knocking him back and freeing himself. Metallix snarled as he managed to grab Strike by the shoulders and knee-kick him in the stomach, then punching him in the face with enough force to knock him back.
Strike went sliding across the ground before he quickly rolled onto his feet. Metallix appeared over his head with his gatling gun equipped and revved up. Strike yelped as he instantly sprinted forward with the mad machine following behind him, shooting at him with his weapon. The energy bullets came very close to connecting with the speedster, but Strike had the speed to evade them. He shot off ahead of Metallix's range, to which the robot switched to his missile launchers. Two missiles fired out and flew towards Strike.
Strike looked over his shoulders and saw the missiles locking onto him. A chill of fear went up his spine, "Ahh! Guys! Anyone! Gonna need a little help here!"
The missiles flew closer and closer towards Strike but were suddenly hit from above by Chaos Spears. Shadow landed down on the road and moved alongside Strike. The speedster let out a quick sigh of relief, "Thanks, I owe you one!"
Shadow nodded while throwing another Chaos Spear at Metallix. The robot quickly raised his arms and blocked the attack, but the moment he lowered his defenses he was met with a kick from Shadow who then elbowed him hard in the chest and sent him back.
Metallix quickly recovered and saw Shadow coming at him again. He warped out of the way of Shadow's attack and gave him a double-hammerfist with enough force to make him bounce off the ground like a ball. The robot then started spin-dashing into Shadow, grinding against him. The Mobian shouted out in pain as the robot continued to spin dash against him.
As Metallix started grinding harder and faster against Shadow, Sonic immediately rushed into the area and elbowed the robot in the back, causing him to come out of his ball form and release Shadow. The Mobian then unleashed a barrage of punches and kicks at the robot, along with a Sonic Eagle kick, launching him down into the ground.
As Metallix hit the ground on his back with a crash, Sonic shot towards him with a stomp. But the robot was quick to warp away and Sonic landed on the ground. He was immediately met with a punch to the gut from Metallix and then a high kick which launched him back, to which Metallix received a stomp from Shadow, causing him to land face first on the ground. The robot immediately let out a burst of energy with an enraged shout, causing Shadow to jump off before he got caught in the blast.
As soon as Shadow landed on his feet, Sonic and Strike were quick to group up with him. Metallix turned towards the heroes and equipped his blaster, gatling gun and missile launchers all at once. Strike yelped out in surprise, "Incoming!"
Metallix howled with rage as he started firing his weapons all together. Energy blasts and missiles flew out towards the heroes. "Everyone split up!" Sonic shouted out.
As the blasts and missiles came at them, Sonic sped left, Strike dashed right and Shadow warped out of the area. Metallix aimed his guns at Sonic and Strike as he roared with anger with his weapons continuing to fire, "Die, DIE, DIE!"
Sonic jumped around and spin-dashed his way through avoiding the gunfire and missiles aimed at him. Strike continuously shifted left and right to avoid the missiles while repeatedly slowing down then speeding up to dodge the bullets. He let out a few panicked breaths as he observed Metallix's attacks, "Man, this bot's really going all out right now! Like, gatling guns? Why's it always gatling guns?! Are water guns too much to ask for?!"
As Strike glanced forward to focus on where he was running, Metallix suddenly appeared in his way and was prepared to throw a kick at him. The speedster quickly ducked his head backwards and slid across the ground on his knees. Metallix threw the attack with Strike dodging the attack, the kick just missing his face by a few inches.
Strike quickly got back onto his feet as he screeched to a stop and turned to face Metallix. He let out a quiet scoff to himself, "I'll take that a 'yes'."
Metallix stomped onto the ground and aimed his blaster at Strike. The speedster quickly sped up and started running around the robot in circles at super speed again. His blur of blue lightning lit up brightly as the robot repeatedly looked left and right trying to line up the shot. In slow motion, Strike had bolts of lightning on his arm as he came to a sudden stop. He swiftly swung his arm out and threw a bolt of lightning at Metallix.
The moment Metallix made contact with Strike's lightning bolt, he shouted out as he was getting electrocuted. Strike took the opportunity and rushed forward towards the robot, throwing another barrage of punches with his superspeed. Before long, Metallix was able to catch both of Strike's fist and kneed him right in the stomach, causing the speedster to cough in pain. The robot then gave a high kick with enough force to knock him back.
Strike landed on the ground with a thud on his back. Though he groaned in pain from the attacks, he jumped off his palms and kicked back onto his feet, standing back up and getting ready to go again. Metallix snarled as he prepared to charge towards Strike, but he suddenly had his attention drawn to his right and received a homing attack from Sonic. The blue Mobian sent the robot into the side of a hill with a crash.
As Sonic flipped backwards from the force of the attack, he landed on his feet on the ground next to Strike. Then Shadow warped into the scene, brushing dust off his jacket.
Sonic let out a tired yet determined sigh from the fight, "Alright, guys. I think we're starting to wear him down. Let's keep this up!"
Sonic and Strike sped forward together towards Metallix and raised opposite fists, ready to throw a punch. Right when they made it up to the robot, they threw their punches, only for their attacks to be caught in Metallix's palms. The robot snarled as he glanced at Sonic and Strike in front of him, their reflections clear on his armour. He growled as he pulled them towards him and gave them both a strong headbutt, causing them both to yell out in pain. He then shoved them aside as he charged up his rockets and flew towards Shadow.
Shadow snarled at Metallix's continued pursuance; the robot could only be stopped if they gave it their all. Seeing no other choice, Shadow reached his wrists and removed his Inhibitor Rings. As they and the red tongues fell from his gloves, he clenched his fists tightly as he released an red aura of Chaos energy.
Shadow, now fully powered up, charged towards Metallix and the two fighters came into contact, pushing against each others' arms and locking into a close up stare. They started warping left and right, up and down all around the area. Throwing blows that landed on each other with a loud echo from every impact.
Shadow then appeared in the air and held his hands out. Multiple Chaos Spears formed over his head, charged by his boosted power. He shouted loudly as he threw his attacks towards Metallix. The robot flew around in the air, dodging the Chaos Spears and making them collide into each other. Before long, Shadow then appeared in the way and gave Metallix a barrage of Chaos-empowered punches and kicks, shouting out karate yells with every attack he threw. Then with enough effort, he gave the robot a double hammerfist and sent him falling down towards the earth. Crashing in the dirt with a boom.
Shadow was left feeling exhausted after all those attacks he threw out all at once. He suddenly fell back down to the ground and collapsed to his knees upon landing. He panted from exhaustion after using all of that energy. He hadn't removed his Inhibitor Rings in a long time.
Suddenly there was a loud snarl that caused Shadow to jerk his head up and get immediately grabbed on the neck by Metallix. The robot snarled in absolute annoyance from all of this fighting. Strike sped up towards Metallix from behind, but was unable to land a punch as the robot managed to catch his fist behind him without even looking. He then grabbed Strike by arm and threw him and Shadow far off into the distance.
Sonic suddenly appeared once more and started running around Metallix in circles at intense speeds like Strike before him. But this time, Metallix was not going to fall for it. He reached out and managed to grab Sonic, much to the Mobian's surprise. The robot shouted out in rage, "ENOUGH!"
Metallix slammed Sonic onto the ground face first with a loud crash. The ground beneath the Mobian cracked due to the force from the hit. The robot then flew towards the same hill Sonic launched him into and slammed the Mobian into the wall. Then he started running across the ground while pushing Sonic against the hillside, creating a wall of exposed earth and stone. Sonic shouted loudly in pain as he got shoved across the ground. Then before long, Metallix swung his arm up and threw Sonic off in Shadow and Strike's direction as well.
Sonic, Strike and Shadow flew over the neighborhood of Canterlot and fell back down towards CHS. They landed on the ground and slid across the concrete until they stopped in front of the school.
The crowd gasped in shock at the sight of the heroes' conditions. "SONIC!" Rainbow cried out.
Before long, Metallix warped into the area and started slowly walking towards the weakened fighters. As he approached his enemies, Gage immediately appeared in front of him, though his leg was still hurt from his injury. Metallix simply walked up to him and gave him a punch to the gut, causing Gage to groan in pain and hold his stomach where he got hit. The robot then simply grabbed the Mobian by the hair and threw him towards the other fighters.
As soon as Gage was on the ground with Sonic, Strike and Shadow, Metallix simply gazed over the fallen fighters, "To think you were so powerful with the Chaos Emeralds. And now, here you are on the ground with your friends. Helpless. Weak. Broken. Unable to save the people you care about. Just as you were unable to save Bunnie, Antoine and Rotor."
The crowd of students could only watch in horror at the sight of Metallix's dominance over the heroes. Everything seemed hopeless now. Rainbow unsteadily breathed as she gazed at Sonic on the ground, tears building up in her eyes.
Sonic, Strike, Shadow and Gage all groaned in pain as they laid on the ground, barely able to move. The punishment they received from Metal was beyond what they expected. "Oh, man, this guy's tough," Strike grunted as he held the side of his core.
Gage continued to hold onto his injured knee, "That's an understatement…"
Sonic slowly turned onto his stomach and groaned as he painfully got onto his knees. He gritted his teeth as he glanced down at his jittering hand, "If only we had just a little more power…"
Suddenly, Metallix sped up in front of the group with a loud stomp from his feet on the ground, breaking the concrete beneath him and causing stones to fly out. He grabbed Sonic right by the neck and lifted him in the air. The Mobian choked as the robot gripped his throat too tight for him to breathe.
Metallix snarled as his eyes glowed with his energy flickering around, "You have made a fool out of me for the last time, Sonic! Now you will taste my power!"
With a swift turn, Metallix tossed Sonic over. The Mobian flew across the street and landed on the ground, sliding across the grass towards the crowd of CHS students, and ended up reaching the crater. He went right off the edge and fell down into it, ending up in the very center at the bottom.
"Sonic!" Rainbow immediately jumped down into the crater and came to Sonic's side, followed by Flash, Twilight, Spike and the rest of their friends.
Rainbow and Flash helped Sonic sit up as the Mobian groaned. He looked at his worried friends with his one uninjured eye as he spoke through his pain, "You guys have… to get away… I'm the one he wants dead more than anyone."
Immediately, Flash put his hand on Sonic's shoulder as he shook his head, "No way, man. We're not going anywhere. You're our friend. And we don't leave our friends behind."
Sonic winced as he felt a sting of pain. Tears started to form in his eyes for his friends' safety, "Please… please run."
Everyone on the ground heard the angry robotic noises from Metallix as the robot hovered high in the air. The machine raised his hand and charged a light of energy in his palm, before he started firing a thick beam out. The students outside of the crater all jumped back to keep their distance from the beam as Metallix directed it around the crater, leaving it blocked off by a ring of fire. And keeping Sonic and his friends trapped inside it.
The students all started running towards the entrance into the school, screaming in terror and fear. But before anyone got a chance to get inside, an energy blast from Metallix made its way to the entrance, exploding and causing a fire to form and block the entire entrance. The students were all terrified, seeing that they were unable to get to safety. To make matters even worse, Metallix fired another energy beam, creating another trail of fire. But this time, he directed in a circle large enough to surround the entire school. Trapping everyone inside it with no means of escape.
Seeing he had everyone right where he wanted them, Metallix glanced down at the group in the crater and spoke directly to Sonic, "I'll kill you and your friends first, then your comrades, then everyone at this school! And then this entire world will suffer my wrath! The end has come, Sonic!"
Metallix raised his hands over his head as he began channeling his energy. Bolts of lightning began shooting out of his palms. Within moments, he created an orb emitting from his palms. It was growing in size as the robot continued to channel his energy into this ability. Bigger and bigger. Brighter and brighter.
Sonic and his friends observed Metallix's preparation to eliminate them. They could see nothing to counter this. Shadow, Gage and Strike down for the count and Sonic was too injured to keep fighting. The Mobian lowered his head as he quietly sobbed, "I failed."
Rainbow, Flash and their friends all looked at Sonic with surprised expressions, wondering what he meant. The Mobian elaborated as he started to cry with his tears going down his face, "I failed to protect you. Just as I failed to honour Bunnie, Antoine and Rotor's memories."
Sonic lowered his head further, to the point where shadows blocked out his face as he whimpered, "I'm sorry. I'm so… so sorry."
The group all looked at each other with sadness. They couldn't think of anything to say or do about this. They could only face reality; it was over. They had lost. Twilight could never return to Equestria and now Metallix had won. With a sigh, they all gathered close to Sonic and sat down together.
Sonic raised his head when he noticed everyone grouping up to him. His tears were on his face like waterfalls. He wondered why they were gathering to him, even though they knew he was right. He turned his head to his right to notice Rainbow gazing at him with a sad expression…
Yet she smiled. Sonic didn't understand; what was she smiling about?
While the group was all preparing to face their demise, Sonic and Rainbow stared deep into each other's eyes; they shone in the moonlight with stars in the sky glimmering in their reflections. They felt their connection to each other stronger than ever as they felt a blush forming on their faces.
In this moment of nothing else seeming to matter, Rainbow gently took hold of Sonic's hand. Tears fell down her face as she spoke, "Sonic… I'm just happy I got to know you. I really wish I got to say this sooner, but… whatever happens, I just want you to know…"
Rainbow closed her eyes, pausing for a moment as she took a deep breath. With the courage to finish her sentence, she gazed into Sonic's eyes once more as she warmly smiled, "I love you."
Sonic was silent with widened eyes. Rainbow had just said it; she loved him. All of the other sounds around him faded out from his hearing as he processed this. Momentarily, he wiped his tears as his shock wore off. He gave Rainbow a warm smile back as he replied, "And I love you too, Rainbow."
Metallix roared as he continued to channel his energy even further. The orb over his head had grown into the size of a giant ball, right about the size of the crater below. Lightning flickered around it as it was filled with energy brought together out of the robot's rage.
With what little time they had left, the group all started to hold each other's hands. Ready to face their demise. Together as friends. Rainbow leaned her head on Sonic's shoulder, and Sonic leaned his head on top of hers as he quietly whispered to all his friends around him, "Thank you, my friends."
The group all nodded in agreement as they all lowered their heads. At this moment as they were ready, Twilight was unaware of her crown slipping off her head and landing on the ground between Sonic's legs. Suddenly, the Element started to glow as particles of magic started to emit from it.
Metallix leaned back as he held the orb in the air with his hands, ready to destroy his adversaries. The day he waited so long for had finally come. Sonic would die, by his own power, right in front of him, "You're DOOMED!"
With his strength, Metallix swung his arm downward, throwing the orb down towards the crater. It dove down to the earth like a meteor. Within moments, Sonic and his friends would die. But unknown to anyone, the Element of Magic detached itself from the crown and hovered in front of Sonic. Its energy glimmered around it with particles. And right as the orb was about to land on the group, the Element hovered over to the Mobian and placed itself on his forehead. Sonic's eyes snapped open, glowing pure white as he felt a sudden power surging in him.
The orb came down into the crater, right on top of the group. Without warning, the energy shot up in a dramatic burst, a cloud of smoke shooting up like a nuclear bomb.
The students trapped in the yard all covered themselves from the spreading wave of energy and smoke from the blast. Shadow, Gage and Strike watched in horror at the sight of it.
"NOOO!" Gage yelled as he held his hand towards the school.
Metallix hovered in the air, glancing down at the sight. He stood straight in the air and glanced down at his palms. He had done it. He had won. He had fulfilled his purpose. He had defeated Sonic. He gripped his fists as he began chuckling to himself as he felt nothing but the feeling of being triumphant. It was the most satisfying feeling he had ever felt. His chuckled began ascending into evil laughter, "Yes. Yes! Finally! At long last, I have destroyed my loathsome copy! I am the one true Sonic!"
Metallix then began cackling with his voice echoing across the sky, "Hmhmhmhmhm! Hehehehehehe! Hahahahahahahaha! AHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
(X-Ray Dog OST - Intrigue)
Suddenly, a strange sound was heard, interrupting Metallix's celebration. He glanced down at the smoke in the crater on the ground, and nothing something; a light starting to glow through it. Shortly, his sensors suddenly started picking up activity in the epicenter of the blast, causing him to be left in shock, "What…?"
The students all watched in wonder at what was happening. As the smoke cleared, the bright glowing light was revealed to be a giant barrier of energy. The sight of this caused the students to gasp in surprise. Where did the barrier come from?
Inside the barrer in the crater, Flash, Spike and the girls were all revealed to be perfectly unharmed. They all opened their eyes as they realized that nothing had happened to them.
"What the…?" Flash gazed at the barrier, "What's going on?"
Applejack turned her attention to Twilight through her amazement, "Twilight, are you doin' this?"
Twilight could only stammer; she was as surprised as the others, "It's– it's not me."
"Twilight!" The group looked down at the source of the voice; Spike. The dog was showing the group Twilight's crown, only, "The Element's not in the crown!"
Twilight gasped as she grabbed the crown to see for herself; the Element's shell was empty. She started to panic as she looked around for it, "W-where is it?!"
"Uh, guys?"
Everyone glanced over at Rainbow, who was looking at something that made her stare in awe. They all looked over at what she was seeing, and what they saw left them silent in surprise and their jaws dropped. There, standing just a few feet in front of them was a white-silhouetted Sonic. With a strange glow of energy around him. His right hand was raised in the air, with that same aura emitting from his palm; this was creating the barrier.
Shadow, Strike and Gage's expressions were silent in surprise. They could feel the energy radiating from Sonic. But this wasn't the Chaos Emeralds' doing. Nor was it the Phantom Ruby. It was coming from something else entirely.
The group stared in awe at Sonic's new mysterious power as they could all feel it. The air itself seemed warmer and calming under the influence of the energy. Sonic slowly raised his left hand up to the height of his neck in an open gesture. Immediately, the ground was shaking underneath the group, much to most of their surprise. But they were quick to realize something; the earth below them wasn't breaking, they were rising back up to the surface. Before long, the crater in the ground was gone, as if it was never there.
Metallix hovered in the air, completely dumbfounded by what he had just witnessed in front of him; his apparent victory against Sonic was completely shattered, "Impossible! What is this?!"
Sonic used his free hand to snap his fingers. Immediately, the ring of fire surrounding the school suddenly vanished, along with the burned circle on the ground. Then he let his hands lower to his sides and the barrier slowly faded from sight. He was left in his white-silhouette with the aura around him.
Metallix snarled as his lightning flickered around his gauntlets, "T-this is nothing! I'll kill you as many times as I have to!"
The robot started diving down towards the crowd on the ground with rocket speeds. He raised his fist as he prepared for a deadly blow at Sonic. The crowd cried out in a fright for their safety.
"Sonic, look out!" Rainbow cried out.
Sonic didn't try to move out of the way, he simply stood there. Calmly and patiently. As Metallix dived in and came close, he shouted loudly and threw his fist forward for a punch. But the moment he went in for the attack…
The punch was immediately caught in Sonic's palm with the sound of the blow being blocked. Metallix reeled back in alarm, and was quickly given by Sonic a punch square to the face. With enough force to send him back up into the air, flipping backwards.
Metallix quickly regained his balance and glanced back down at Sonic on the ground. Suddenly, he realized that the Mobian had just vanished. No blurring, no streak of light, no wind. One second he was there, and the next he was gone. Then he immediately took a blow to the back from Sonic, who had appeared behind him, causing him to fly off again.
Everyone on the ground from Sonic's friends to the students of CHS were silent in surprise. Sonic had moved so fast that they didn't see where he went. As Metallix flew across the air, he was shocked as he processed what just happened, "What?! How did my sensors not detect him behind me?!"
Before he could get a chance to recover, he received a strong kick from Sonic, who came out of nowhere again. And then the Mobian repeatedly knocked the robot around in the air again and again, launching him off with one attack and then appearing ahead of him to do so again. Then with one strong roundhouse kick from a front flip, Sonic launched Metallix off towards the hill with a waterfall in the distance. The robot flew over the houses and trees to the distant hill, landing in a crash with earth and dust shooting out.
Shadow, Gage and Strike made their way back to the school. Shadow held Gage's arm over his shoulder once more. As they gathered with Twilight and her group, everyone watched as Sonic slowly hovered back down to the ground. He simply stood there, looking out into the distant hills.
Twilight stared at Sonic, looking completely blown away. Somehow, she too sensed the power he had earned. And it felt… very familiar, "Can it be…?"
Before long, the white silhouette on Sonic was gone, everyone looked at him seemingly breathless at what stood before them. Sonic stood up straight at full strength. His eyes closed, his head bowed. His hair pointed upward as it did before in his super form, only it appeared to stand more rigid than before. A crystalline-like white aura with hues of pink and bright blue emanated around his body. The Element of Magic was at the front and center of a makeshift headband made out of pure crystal around his head. His wounds from the fight with Metallix were completely healed. His Equestrian wings and ponytail had returned. When he raised his head and opened his eyes, the most striking change was his expression. This expression on his face was one of deadly seriousness, and a shimmering hot-pink replaced the emerald green of his eyes.
Sonic took a moment to raise his hands, gazing at his palms. This power was almost unlike anything he had ever felt before. And with this power… it made him feel calm. Refreshed. At peace. Even after that life-or-death situation with his friends. And right now, it felt like he didn't have anything to fear. The walls of thought were destroyed. There was only one thing to focus on; the fight against Metallix.
The crowd was left in shock at the state of Sonic and his new power, "Whoa…"
Gage was stunned at this, "Incredible…"
Strike was surprised, "Amazing…"
Shadow didn't think of anything to say, he simply witnessed what was there. He gazed at Sonic, seeing his expression, feeling his state of emotion. Though deadly seriousness dominated his face, he could feel the seemingly unnatural calmness in his friend. This power that the Element of Harmony had granted him, it had brought him into a state of mind he had never felt from Sonic before.
The entirety of CHS students, Equestrians and other Mobians remained quiet. To say that the turn of events was the last thing they expected was an insulting understatement. Gaining enough courage, Rainbow took a few steps forward and approached Sonic. She slightly reached her hand out and spoke cautiously, "Sonic?"
Sonic slowly turned around to face Rainbow. His serious expression lessened as he smiled at Rainbow, "It's me, Dashie. I'm here."
Rainbow let out a relieved chuckle as she smiled with joyful tears. The rest of their friends approached them, looking astonished and intrigued by Sonic's new form. They were all quick to notice he was wearing the Element in the crystal headband around his head.
Twilight was still in disbelief at the fact that Sonic was using the Element of Magic's power, "This is… astonishing. Never before has there ever been a non-Eqstrestrian capable of wielding the Elements of Harmony's power… And the fact that you're not even from my world… this shouldn't be possible. How… how do you feel?"
Sonic could see the clear befuddlement in Twilight's words. He glanced down at his palms as he processed the feeling, "I'm not really sure what to tell you, Twi. Though, I have had some instances where I've channeled energy from things other than the Chaos Emeralds. As for what this feels like, it's… weird. But soothing at the same time. It's almost like… I don't know how to explain…"
Momentarily, Sonic swiftly turned back around when he heard a distant sound. He immediately knew what it was; Metallix was still there. He thrust his fist into his open palm and cracked his knuckles, "Time to finish this."
Sonic glanced over at Shadow and motioned his head to his friends. Shadow recognized Sonic's wish and nodded, "He's all yours."
With that said and done, Sonic faced the direction where Metallix was. He placed his fist against his chest and immediately teleported out of the area in a flash of light. This particular energy was not Chaos Control, this was the Element's Magic. Everyone in the crowd took a deep breath, wishing Sonic the best of luck to win against Metallix.
Metallix crawled his way out of the hole from his crash landing in the ground. He stood up with fury in his voice; he was not going to tolerate defeat at Sonic again. Before long, the Mobian warped into the area. Fists gripped tightly. Ready to fight, "Just you and me, Metallix."
Metallix simply readied himself, "Wouldn't have it any other way."
(Sonic Adventure 2 - Live and Learn - NateWantsToBattle Cover)
Sonic raised his fists as he crossed his arms in front of him before he swung them out with a yell. His aura started bursting out like a flame with wind blowing around. Metallix responded in kind by bursting his Chaos aura with lightning flickering around him. The two foes stared each other down, just as they did from their first fight in this dimension. Only this time, no Chaos Emeralds. No Phantom Ruby. Just Metallix's full power alone and Sonic's new Harmony power.
Fully charged with the power they needed, Sonic and Metallix flew forward towards each other at bullet-like speeds while cracking the ground they stood over and causing dirt to fly out. Their energies followed them in bright streaks. Upon coming into collison, a loud sound of the blows landed echoed out afar with a cloud of dust puffing out. The dust was quick to fade, revealing Sonic and Metallix pushed against each other with their auras shooting out like plasma flames.
Momentarily, both fighters warped out of the area and reappeared high in the sky. They started throwing punches and kicks at each other, with every blow either landing on one another or missing their targets. The landing blows had an echo that could be heard from afar. Their speeds were seemingly matched by their increased powers.
Metallix snarled as he threw an empowered punch at Sonic, only for the Mobian to swiftly shift to the left in midair. Using his Equestrian wings and the Harmony Magic, he flew across the sky like an agile rocket with the robot chasing after him with a growl. As Metallix got close to catching up to his target, Sonic swiftly turned towards him and threw a drop kick at him. The robot reacted with surprise and quicked blocked the attack with his arms, but wasn't to anticipate Sonic's sneak attack as he received a roundhouse kick to the side of the head so strong that he went spinning in a cartwheel.
Metallix quickly rebalanced himself as he flew back at Sonic, shouting in anger. He raised his arms and started firing a long barrage of Chaos Spears at the Mobian. The beams shot across the sky at intense speeds, yet Sonic didn't tense up; his serious, calm expression remained as it was. The Mobian flew straight forward towards the Spears. He started spinning his way through, dodging the projectiles that came closest to him while the rest simply flew harmlessly past him.
Metallix howled as he continued firing at Sonic with Chaos Spears. The projectiles shot faster and burned brighter with power, yet not one of them could touch him. Before long, Sonic suddenly appeared right in front of Metallix and threw a kick at the robot's face in a split second. In response, Metallix immediately teleported right behind Sonic, all covered in red aura before he swung his arms out, releasing a Chaos Blast. Sonic quickly covered himself before the blast managed to hit him.
Sonic was sent flipping backwards from the force of the blast, but he was quicker than ever to shake it off. He lowered his arms as he let out a relaxed and focused exhale.
Everyone at CHS on the ground could barely see the fighters in the sky from so low. They could only see their auras glowing brightly in the night sky, but they could tell which was who.
"Incredible," Strike said, "I've seen plenty of people with powers like flight and fireballs in my world, but not like this."
Shadow took a step forward as he observed how Sonic was fighting, feeling his energy, "The power that the Element of Harmony has granted him, it feels like a level beyond his super form. His speed hasn't just increased, it's like he's a whole new warrior. And… something more…"
"What do you mean?" Flash asked.
Gage himself took a step forward, "I can't sense Sonic putting his thoughts into his attacks and moves. At least, not completely. It's like he's not transitioning when he fights. Whatever the Element of Harmony did, it's taken him up to a completely different level."
While the students all watched in awe and murmured to themselves about the situation, Rainbow remained silent as she simply watched the fight. She observed it with her own eyes, yet Sonic's moves felt so unreal. What had he become?
Sonic readied himself as he saw Metallix charging at him with his aura bursting out. The Mobian started spinning in his ball form, but instead of homing in on his enemy, he started summoning orbs of energy that appeared in the form of his spin-dash that circled around him like a ring. Then he immediately came out of his ball form and swung his arm forward, commanding the orbs to strike. The projectiles all flew forward at once, catching Metallix by surprise. The robot quickly raised his arms to block the attacks, but the moment they came into contact, they gave him enough force to stun him and drop his defenses.
Sonic saw Metallix left open to attack. He went right back into his ball form and homed right in on the robot. He bashed right into the robot, knocking him and himself backwards from each other. The Mobian quickly homed towards the machine again and started repeatedly bashing into him. But instead of bouncing on and off of him, he slashed into him while moving in a circle. Then he came right out of his ball form and kicked Metallic back, flipping backwards from the force of his attack.
Metallix quickly shook off Sonic's attack and snarled as he fired another Chaos Spear at the Mobian. To this, Sonic simply raised his hand and deflected the projectile to the side, making it explode in the air behind him. Then he immediately dashed forward and spin-dashed against the robot's chest, grinding against his armour. He jumped upward above Metallix's head and then stomped right on top of him with the stomp being so strong that the robot was sent down towards the ground.
Metallix shouted as he flew down towards the earth like a meteor. He crashed into the ground, creating a crater from the force of the impact. The cloud of earth and dust that followed was quick to blow away in the wind. The robot snarled as he quickly stood up and fired up his rockets, flying back up towards Sonic.
Sonic could see Metallix coming at him. He started swinging his legs at high speeds, throwing shockwaves of energy towards the robot below. Metallix snarled as he threw Chaos Spears at the projectiles, causing them to explode upon impact and creating a large cloud that grew in size. Metallix flew into the smoke, charging straight through it to attack Sonic upon coming out. But then Sonic suddenly appeared in front of him and stomped on his head again, this time taking him down to the ground with him.
Sonic stomped Metallix back down into the same crater. More earth and dust flew out in a cloud. Then the robot flipped backwards out of it and deployed his gatling gun. He shouted in rage as he opened fire into the cloud. The energy bullets shot down loudly.
As the cloud of smoke faded, Sonic was revealed to simply be walking forward to the side with his head facing Metallix. He calmly made his way through the crater. The robot's onslaught rained down right behind him, inches from hitting him. But not a single round could even touch his skin. As if he could sense and anticipate their destination before they landed or even fired from their source. And all without fear or even thinking. He remained calm and focused on Metallix as he simply walked with the storm of projectiles following him, as if they weren't of any concern to him. A stray projectile shot towards his face; he simply backhanded it away without taking his eyes off Metallix.
Metallix couldn't believe what he was seeing. How were his weapons not hitting him? His anger burned up inside him like a kettle close to boiling. He ceased his fire and shouted out in rage as he charged straight towards Sonic, switching from his gatling gun to a beam sword from both hands. Sonic simply stopped moving and stood almost completely motionless. His fists remained lowered until the second his attacker made his move.
Then when Metallix unleashed his first attack with his beam swords, Sonic moved. The robot swung his blades from all directions at almost unseeable speeds. His swings, moves and melees were perfectly executed, yet none of the blows made contact with the Mobian. He dodged the deadly blades with near perfect ease.
Metallix howled with rage once more as he raised his beam swords and swung them both at him at the same time. This time, Sonic didn't dodge the blades; he caught Metallix by the gauntlets, leaving him unable to move them. The robot jolted his head back in surprise, "What?!"
Sonic's serious expression strengthened as he almost immediately squeezed Metallix's gauntlets in his palms, cracking them and causing the beam swords to deactivate. Before the robot could process this, Sonic gave the robot a few high-speed punches and kicks, circled around him at godlike speeds with a ring of energy appearing around him and then stood behind him. The energy ring left around Metallix suddenly exploded, causing the robot to shoot up into the air.
Sonic let out a burst of aura as he flew after Metallix once more. Metallix quickly recovered and snarled as he bursted out his aura as well. Both fighters charged at each other and started throwing attacks at one another again. Like before, every blow either hit each other or completely missed as they fought with their movements so quick, it almost looked blinding.
Everyone below continued to watch the fight. Even with Sonic's movements so clear and sharp, their speed was difficult to keep up with. Like there were multiple attacks at every second.
Applejack murmured as she rested her palm on his head, "Oh, man… they're goin' so fast, it's makin' me dizzy trying to keep track of 'em."
Shadow and Gage observed the fight. They had to admit, even they were finding it unusually tricky to keep track of Sonic and Metallix fighting.
Rainbow could feel something in herself. She had this strong feeling that Sonic was actually winning. She didn't hesitate to hold her thoughts back as she called out to Sonic, "You can do this, Sonic! Take him down!"
Almost immediately, Pinkie followed, "Yeah! Tear that machine to pieces!"
Then Flash was next to give support, "You got this, bro! Show him what you got!"
Before long, more of the students started calling out towards Sonic for him to win. The entire crowd started chanting his name, showing their support and hope for his victory. Shadow and Gage could do nothing but smile at this. They knew they were right. Sonic had finally gained the upper hand he needed to win.
Sonic went into his ball form once more and dashed towards Metallix. Instead of going straight at him, he wildly zigzagged in a shifting pattern that the robot struggled to track before he was meant with a blow to the chest. The blow had enough force to send the robot downward towards the ground.
Metallix crashed into the earth, making a trail of dirt that followed where he moved. He growled in annoyance as he was struggling to stand up. His joints jittered and his bolts shook. His nanotech was no longer repairing the damage in his armour. His Chaos energy flickered weakly around him.
Sonic appeared on the other side of the trail, standing confidently and calmly as his aura flowed around him as bright as ever. He watched as Metallix slowly got onto his feet, barely able to stand up straight.
Metallix snarled in absolute rage as he gripped his fists tightly, "This.. this is not possible! I cannot lose! I won't accept defeat! Not everything I've gone through to reach this power!"
Momentarily, his lightning started flickering around him as stones from the earth started rising around him. Sonic's expression slightly shifted to surprise, he could feel Metallix's power suddenly rising. The robot snarled as his energy built up higher and higher, "If I can't destroy you…! Hrrgh…! Nrrgh!"
Metallix swung out his arms as he started howling out in anger with his voice booming. His aura bursted out like a wild, uncontrollable fire. The wind from his energy caused the nearby trees to bend from the gust. Now fully powered up again, Metallix howled at Sonic, "THEN I'LL DESTROY YOUR FRIENDS!"
Sonic's expression went to shock the moment heard Metallix's words. The robot suddenly fired his rockets and flew up into the air. Several hundreds of feet in the air, he raised his hands, aiming towards CHS below and started channeling all of his energy into his palms, creating orbs of highly concentrated Chaos orbs.
Fluttershy was the first to notice, "AHH! It's aiming right at us!"
Sonic snarled as he suddenly flew forward, straight at CHS. Metallix howled at everyone at the school below, "DIE!"
Metallix started firing a massive beam of energy down towards everyone at CHS. They all looked in horror at the onrushing blast of death. They all screamed in fear as it was coming in too fast for anyone to run. They covered themselves and shut their eyes as they braced for death.
But a streak of light so much faster than Metallix's beam outstripped it and Sonic appeared right in front of the crowd. He raised his hands and the beam made contact. And clashed against his palms.
Metallix's beam, with all of his power put into and several times the size of Sonic, didn't go any further beyond him. The wind howled, power coursed through the air, zigzags of energy crackled around the beam, but it couldn't break through.
The entire crowd could do little more than watch, mesmerized by Sonic's power. Sonic gritted his teeth as he growled; this was the last straw. Metallix had just tried to hurt his friends and every innocent life at Canterlot High. Now he was not going to hold back anymore.
Sonic let out an ear-piercing, echoing outraged roar, with his voice sounding like there was another, deeper and angrier voice in sync with his. To the shock of everyone, he flew straight into the beam. He passed through the energy without any harm done to himself as he closed in on Metallix.
A moment later, Metallix's hands were separated by Sonic who suddenly appeared right in front of him with a bright pink-white glow and his eyes fully glowing with his power. The robot's beam suddenly faded away, much to his shock, "NO!"
Sonic flipped forward and kicked Metallix down towards the earth. The robot crashed into the ground with earth shooting up like the smoke from an erupting volcano.
Momentarily, Sonic then reappeared in front of the crowd, hovering above the grass below his feet. He quickly glanced over his shoulder and looked over at his friends, "Everyone okay?"
Though nearly everyone was still left in a state of shock after nearly being blasted to dust, they all gave a nod to Sonic. Relieved to see that they were alright, he looked directly towards Rainbow and the other girls. He gave them a smirk as he pointed out in Metallix's direction, "Whaddaya say, girls? Wanna help me finish this?"
Twilight, Rainbow, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie and Rarity were immediately surprised by Sonic's surprising offer. But almost instantly, Rainbow responded with nothing but overwhelming excitement, "Heck yeah! Count us in!"
Sonic nodded as he raised his hand and snapped his fingers. Immediately, the six girls had a crystalline aura flowing around them, similar to Sonic's, and they all hovered off the ground, much to most of their surprise. But they quickly brushed their shock aside as they knew it was time to end this.
"Let's do it, y'all!" Applejack called out.
"Absolutely, darling!" Rarity agreed.
"We're with you, Sonic!" Twilight cheered.
"Whoo! Let's go!" Pinkie squealed.
"R-right!" Fluttershy also cheered, feeling unusually confident in this moment.
Metallix groaned as he struggled to sit up on the ground. He groaned as he rested his palm over his reactor. Then he glanced up into the air, and was immediately left in shock at what he just spotted, "What?! What is this?!"
Live and learn!
Hanging on the edge of tomorrow!
Sonic, Rainbow, Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie and Rarity all hovered in the air with their auras flowing around them. Sonic pounded his fist in his palm as he stared down at his enemy, "It's game over, Metallix! You lose!"
Live and learn!
From the works of yesterday!
Sonic flew straight forward at Metallix with godlike speeds. Upon reaching him, he flipped backwards while giving the robot a kick so strong that he went up into the air. The moment he was in the sky again, the girls all started flying at him one at a time, throwing punches and kicks as they darted past him all from different angles.
Live and learn!
If you beg or if you borrow!
Rarity and Pinkie appeared over Metallix's head and both gave him a hammerfist, knocking him down to the earth. Upon reaching the ground, the robot landed on his feet, but his arms had stopped working and were now limp. Through his damaged and weakened state, he could only utter a single word, "How…?"
Suddenly, Applejack appeared right in front of Metallix. Right as he looked up at her, she let out a shout as she gave the robot an uppercut with so much force that he shot into the air again, spinning uncontrollably.
Metallix made it right up to Sonic and Rainbow's height in the sky. Knowing this was now or never, Sonic glanced over at Rainbow with a grin, "For our worlds."
Rainbow looked back at Sonic as she smirked back, "For our friends and family!"
Live and learn!
You may never find your waaaaaay!
Sonic and Rainbow then gazed directly at Metallix as they shouted together, "For Bunnie, Antoine and Rotor!"
Sonic got into his ball form and started spinning extremely fast with his aura building up by the second. Rainbow took hold of him, hovering him over her palm. Metallix could do nothing more than stay in the air defenseless. Now fully powered up, Sonic and Rainbow shouted out with their voices echoing, "HARMONIC SONIC BOOM!"
Rainbow threw Sonic straight towards Metallix. The Mobian's aura glowed as brightly as a star as he homed in on the robot. He collided right into Metallix's chest and grinded against him. The energies shot across the sky in bolts of lightning as the force was causing the earth below to shake.
Metallix let out one last loud and long howl of pain as Sonic grinded against him. Within moments, the energy around them went off in an explosion with a ring of energy spreading far beyond Canterlot. A large cloud of smoke was left in the air.
Everyone at CHS was left in shock and silence. All of that fighting with the noises and literally earth-shaking moments, it was all quiet. It was over.
Before long, Metallix suddenly appeared out of nowhere and fell to the ground. Shut down. Greatly damaged. Then Sonic, Rainbow, Applejack, Fluttershy, Twilight, Pinkie and Rarity all slowly hovered towards the ground. They all held their hands together as their feet touched the grass. Their energies around them, as if knowing the purpose was fulfilled, faded away.
Immediately, the group was met with cheers from the students. Whistles and cries of joy of relief were heard over the clapping. The group couldn't help themselves feeling happy. Pinkie immediately pulled them all into a big group hug, much to their brief surprise and delight.
"Whoo!" Flash cheered with excitement as he approached the group, "You did it! You saved us all!"
The group simply smiled at Flash's support. As the cheering died down and everyone lessened their excitement, Sonic glanced over at Shadow, Gage and Strike approaching them. He smiled at his friends as he spoke more directly to the other Mobians, "We wouldn't have gotten this far without you. I would never have gotten this far without you. Thank you."
Shadow and Gage simply nodded back to Sonic. The blue Mobian then glanced over at Strike, "Thanks for your help too. I'd say we were pretty lucky to have you come by."
Strike just shrugged casually, "Eh, I barely did anything all that useful, to be honest. But I'm glad I got to help out anyway."
At that moment, Strike started walking out the yard towards the street. But he was stopped by Sonic chuckling, to which he turned back to see what the Mobian was chuckling about, "Wait, what. That's it? You're just gonna go running off and finding something else to do now?"
Strike's only response was another casual shrug, "Well, I'm kinda in a foreign world now and I'm gonna need to know where to go, sooo… Yeah, that's exactly what I'm gonna do."
With that said and done, Strike gave Sonic a salute as he prepared to head off, "See you around!"
Strike then took off down the street with his superspeed. His trail of lightning followed behind him. Sonic and his friends all looked out at his direction in the distance with the Mobian himself thinking quietly, "I wonder who he is, and where he came from…"
But Strike's story was a story for another time. After all, Sonic knew that while the battle was finally over, there was still something he needed to do before he and his team could return to Mobius. But before he could do that, he first noticed something that drew his and the other Mobians' attention.
The flickering energy around the Chaos Emeralds and Phantom Ruby vanished and the gemstones' powers were no longer neutralized. Shadow picked up the green Emerald and immediately focused into its power as it glowed in his hand. Within seconds, a brief flash of light went off as Dr. Eggman suddenly appeared and landed on the ground face first with a grunt. Still handcuffed.
Gage grabbed Eggman by the arm and made him sit up on his knees. The doctor grumbled as he looked around. He saw the shut down Metallix on the ground next to him and silently spoke, "So he won after all… Impressive…"
Knowing that Eggman had nowhere to go, Sonic felt it was time to do what he needed to do next. He turned to his friends and motioned his head towards the school. They raised their eyebrows as to why, but stepped to the crowd of students.
With enough space, Sonic turned around to face the remains of the Wondercolt statue. He raised his hands and rested his palms against each other in front of him. His eyes glowed pure white as he tapped into the Element of Harmony's magic.
Momentarily, there were the sounds of stones moving around. Everyone looked down at the ground to see pieces of rocks scattered all over the yard rolling across the ground and gathering towards Sonic. With the same aura he had with his new "Harmonic" form. No, these weren't just random rocks; these were the broken pieces of the Wondercolt statue. They gathered towards the remains of the statue base and slowly started to rebuild. One by one, they moved back into place piece by piece. The cracks faded and the dust regathered.
The entire crowd of CHS, especially Twilight and Spike, were left speechless at Sonic doing this; he was restoring the portal to Equestria. They watched as the Wondercolt statue got put back together. The horse was built back into its original pose as the final pieces rebuilt the head.
The Wondercolt statue was fully restored. And at the moment, the portal to Equestria had reopened, showing itself beyond the solid wall. Twilight and Spike were speechless; they couldn't find any words to say. They could only have huge smiles of joy that they could go back home to Equestria again.
The glow in Sonic's eyes vanished as his use with the magic was complete. He slowly raised his hand as the Element of Magic released itself from the makeshift crystal headband. The headband vanished as the Element slowly hovered into his palm. The Harmonic aura faded away as his hair hung normally and his eyes returned to their natural emerald green.
(Shrek 2 OST - All is revealed)
Sonic turned and walked towards his friends. No words could be found to describe how happy Twilight and Spike were feeling. He simply smiled as he held out Twilight's Element to her, "I think you're gonna need this."
Twilight could only utter a few words through her overwhelming joy as she took the Element, "Thank you, Sonic…"
Sonic only chuckled, "Don't worry about owing me anything. Cuz you, Flash and the girls already helped me with my problems. This is the least I could do."
Twilight placed the Element of Magic back into her crown's shell and placed it back upon her head. With a grateful smile and joyful tears, she came up to Sonic and gave him a big hug, which he gladly returned. Spike also came up and rubbed himself against Sonic's leg, much to the Mobian's chuckling. When he and Twilight broke their hug, Sonic bent down and gave Spike a scratch behind his ears, which made him sit down in relaxation and wag his tail.
While he scratched Spike's ears, Sonic reached into his jacket and pulled out something. A small paper rolled up with a strap. He slipped into Spike's collar and the dog was enjoying the scratching too much to notice it.
The rest of their CHS friends approached Sonic, Twilight and Spike with Flash being the first to speak, "Twilight, I know you're gonna be very busy with your duties as a princess, but you're always welcome back here if you ever want to visit us."
Twilight nodded as she wiped her tears away with a smile, "I'm really going to miss all of you…"
"We'll miss you too, Twilight," Fluttershy said.
The rest of the girls all nodded with smiles and joyful tears. "Good luck being the Princess back there," Sonic gave a salute.
Twilight nodded to Sonic before she looked down at Spike, "Ready?"
Spike proudly smiled and eagerly answered, "Ready!"
With their final goodbyes said and done, Twilight and Spike walked towards the statue. The princess raised her hand and placed her palm through the portal. But before she stepped through, she gazed over her shoulder to look at her friends one last time. Everyone in the crowd smiled and waved goodbye to her. Flash nodded to her and gave her a salute, and Twilight smiled back with a small blush.
With a deep breath, Twilight and Spike stepped through the portal and went back to Equestria. Up in the sky, the moon rose up and glowed as the three stars were in range. They surrounded the moon in the shape of a triangle as they all glowed brightly. It was done. The portal to Equestria had closed.
Then all of a sudden, the girls' pony ears, tails and wings suddenly vanished as if they were never there, much to their surprise. Rainbow in particular was flying in the air with her wings and immediately dropped to the ground on her butt. She crossed her arms as she immediately complained about losing her flight, "Aw, man! And I just started to love my new wings!"
Pinkie suddenly ran towards the statue and tried to go through the portal, but this only resulted in her hitting the solid wall of the base with a thud. She got dizzy and stumbled backwards to her friends with spinny cartoon eyes and stars circling around her head as she dropped to her butt on the ground, "Oh, bummer!"
Sonic, Flash and the rest of the girls all gathered as Flash patted Pinkie on her shoulder. Though they were sad that Twilight couldn't come back and they couldn't go to her, they were happy for her to be back where she belonged. In Equestria.
Now that Twilight was home, all that was left was for the Mobians to return to Mobius. "I guess that just leaves us," Gage stated.
Shadow approached Sonic and put his hand on his shoulder, "Sonic, you know what to do."
"I know, but…" Sonic looked over at Shadow for a moment, before he turned his attention to Rainbow, "There's just one last thing I need to do."
At this moment, everyone, sans Rainbow, stepped backwards to give her and Sonic some space. The two took a moment to look each other in the eyes. They felt a heavy weight of knowing it was time for them to say goodbye. Rainbow stood with her hands behind her back, "So… this is it, huh?"
"We both know I can't stay here, but this doesn't mean it's goodbye. It doesn't have to be," Sonic replied, "At least, not forever."
Sonic and Rainbow took a gentle hold of each other's hands. They could do nothing more than smile as the moonlight shone over them. Rainbow stared deeply into Sonic's eyes, watching them sparkle in the glimmering light like a pure green emerald. Sonic gazed into Rainbow's eyes, seeing them too reflect the light like clean, bright pink crystal.
Sonic spoke warmly as he took one hand and gently placed it against Rainbow's cheek, "I'll miss you, Dashie. But I promise… I will find a way to come back to you."
Rainbow could only smile as she flicked her hair. A bright blush of pink formed on her cheeks; her feelings for Sonic shone brighter than ever. Sonic himself had a bright pink blush and it was one out of nothing but love. With a deep and calm breath, Rainbow warmly spoke, "I love you, Sonic the Hedgehog."
Sonic only smiled back as he shared the same warm tone, "I love you too, Rainbow Dash."
As the moonlight shone brightly over the place, Sonic and Rainbow leaned their heads towards each other and they closed their eyes as they shared a compassionate kiss and embraced. It had finally happened; Sonic and Rainbow had accepted their feelings.
Everyone at CHS gave a happy gasp to what they were seeing. Smiles were on everyone's faces. There was nothing but pure joy and happiness at this moment. The rest of the girls all gazed at their friends with happy expressions. Rarity in particular had tears building up in her eyes. The stars glimmered and shone in the beautiful night sky.
Sonic and Rainbow broke their kiss and took a moment to look at each other once more. They smiled with a quiet laugh to each other. Then they embraced in a warm hug as joyful tears went down their faces. The bittersweetness of Sonic's departure was completely overshadowed by their happiness.
Sonic and Rainbow broke their hug and held hands as they glanced over at their CHS friends. They all felt happy for them. Sonic chuckled as he held his free arm out, "I'm gonna miss you all too. Now come on over here."
With a chuckle, the rest of Sonic's CHS friends all gathered and came in one last, long group hug. The rest of the CHS students, along with Celestia and Luna, clapped and cheered for them. Their joy was at the highest it had ever been.
But the tender moment was slowly ruined by the sound of evil laughing. Everyone looked over at the source to see that it was none other than Eggman himself chuckling with a sinister grin, "Oh, this is just priceless. The hedgehog has fallen in love with the rainbow-haired girl."
Sonic immediately went hot with suspicion with Eggman's tone at this moment. Why was he acting like this now? He spoke towards the doctor sternly, "What's so funny, Eggman?"
Eggman stood straight on his knees as he sinisterly responded and started to gloat, "Oh, nothing. Just that when I figure out how to rebuild and control my dimensional transporter, I can find my way back to this world. So I can enslave her and everyone you've met at this school and–!"
But before Eggman could finish his threat, he was immediately cut off when Rainbow walked right up to him and decked him right across the face, knocking him face first onto the ground unconscious. She let out a huff as she rubbed her fist in her palm, "Told ya I'd give you a good punch to the jaw."
"Nice cross," Gage commented before he looked down at the unconscious doctor and cracked a joke, "At least now Tails has a use for that prototype memory wiper he tried working on."
"Yeah, good thinking," Sonic replied.
Shadow disapprovingly shook his head at Eggman as he held the unconscious doctor by the arm, "Dr. Eggman, you're under arrest."
Rainbow then pointed towards the shut down Metallix nearby, "What about him?"
"Don't worry, GUN will take care of him too."
(Sonic Adventure OST - Good-bye)
With everyone's worries gone, Principal Celestia approached Sonic. She placed her hand on his shoulder as she spoke, "It's been quite a thrill having you and Twilight here these past three days, Sonic. Know that wherever you go, no matter what universe you're from, you will always be a Canterlot Wondercolt."
Sonic looked around and saw everyone cheering in agreement with Celestia's statement, from his CHS friends to the rest of all the students. Sonic couldn't help but shed a tear of sentimentalism, "Thanks."
Now finally feeling ready to go home, Sonic and Shadow glanced at each other and nodded as they closed their eyes and focused. The seven Chaos Emeralds slowly hovered into the air and circled around them. Within moments, Sonic and Shadow were in their Super forms. The black of Shadow's hair and clothes turned to a bright golden yellow like Sonic's. Everyone was in awe at the sight of them in their golden glow and aura.
Sonic and Shadow pointed their arms in the air and yelled out, "Chaos Control!"
Out from their palms came a beam of light that hit the sky, taking the form of a dimensional rift, similar to what Eggman used to send them to this universe. Only this one was stable and in their control, in the form of a white light.
Sonic and Shadow slowly began hovering off the ground towards the rift. Shadow used his powers to levitate Gage, Eggman and Metallix with them. As the Mobians all made their way towards the rift, everyone below at CHS waved goodbye as they watched them fly away with smiles and happy tears.
Though they were so far away, Sonic and Rainbow could see each other. Somehow, they could even understand their expressions, feel them. They held their hands out towards each other. Rainbow smiled as she wiped a tear away, "See ya, Blue…"
Sonic smiled back and waved as he and his team began to vanish into the light of the rift, "On the other side, Dashie."
Momentarily, the Mobians all faded into the light of the rift and it closed with a spark of light. The sky was now as clear and full of stars as it was before. Everyone let out a long sigh of relief. It was finally over. With nothing left to think about, the students of CHS started to head home for the night. They gave each other goodbyes as they headed to their cars or simply walked to their houses. While everyone else had left, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity and Flash remained where they stood. Looking out into the sky. Holding a spark of hope that someday, one day… Sonic and Twilight will come back to them.
Fluttershy looked over at Rainbow, who still had tears streaming down her face. She put her hand on her friend's shoulder and asked with concern, "Are you going to be okay, Rainbow Dash?"
Rainbow nodded as she just looked on into the sky with a smile of happiness and confidence, "Yeah, I will be. He'll come back one day. I just know it."
"I'm sure of it too."
The group turned to see that the voice came from a messy clothed Sunset, who approached the group but kept her eyes on the ground, "Given the recent damage done to the city, we need others like him around."
Applejack could tell by Sunset's tone and gesture that something was on her mind, "If ya got something to say, sugarcube, just say it."
Sunset simply sighed as she looked up at the group with sad eyes, "I know what I've done is unforgivable, which is why I'm worried I won't live up to how Twilight thinks I can."
Luna approached Sunset and stood by her side, "It's admirable that you already plan to make up for your actions and change for the better, Sunset Shimmer."
She then raised her hand to reveal a small cement shovel in her hand, "However, you can start by repairing the damages to the school."
Luna then glanced over her shoulder and noticed Snips and Snails tiptoeing away from a nearby wagon full of bricks and bucket full of cement to try and avoid getting caught. But she was quick to get their attention, "That goes for you two as well."
Snips and Snails' arms drooped down as Snails said sadly, "Aw, man…"
Sunset took the shovel handed to her by Luna and looked sad. She sighed as she knew this wasn't going to be easy. She then felt someone put their hand on her shoulder. It was Flash, who reassured her with a smile, "It's gonna be a hard road ahead, Sunset, but we have your back."
Sunset nodded as she let out a small smile, "Thanks, Flash."
Rainbow looked back up at the sky, at the very spot where Sonic had vanished into the rift. She held her hands over her chest as she smiled on, holding that hope for Sonic's eventual return.
"Goodbye, Sonic. I miss you already."
FanFiction story written by Sandstorm - Books based off of the original screenplay of Meghan McCarthy
Chapter co-written by BMG Studios
Characters of Sonic the Hedgehog owned by: SEGA and Sonic Team
Characters of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie) owned by: Archie Comics
Characters of Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) owned by: IDW Publishing
Characters of Sonic the Hedgehog (Film Series) owned by: Paramount Pictures
Characters of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and My Little Pony: Equestria Girls owned by: Hasbro
STORY ELEMENT INSPIRATIONS
Sonic the Hedgehog - Main Series Games by: SEGA and Sonic Team
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic/My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Series and Films by: Hasbro, Inc
Sonic the Hedgehog - Archie Comic Series by: Archie Comics
Sonic the Hedgehog - IDW Comic Series by: IDW Publishing
Sonic Cinematic Universe - Film Series by: Paramount Pictures
Super Mario Bros. Z - Fan Crossover Web Series by: Mark Haynes (Alvin-Earthworm)
Sonic Legacy - Fan Comic Series by: Sonic Paradox
Sonic Chaos Adventure - Upcoming Fan Webcomic Series by: Team Chaos (YouTube)
Sonic 06 Rewritten - Games Rewritten by: Garrulous64 (YouTube)
Break the Walls Down - Sonic and MLP Fan Story by: Super Saiyan D (FIMFiction)
Equestria Girls: Sonic the Hedgehog - Sonic and MLP Fan Story by: sonicfan05 (FIMFiction)
CHARACTER DESIGN INSPIRATIONS
Sonic the Hedgehog - Main Series Games by: SEGA and Sonic Team
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic/My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Series and Films by: Hasbro, Inc
Sonic Boom - Game Series by: SEGA and Sonic Team
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) Film by: Paramount Pictures
The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog - Fan Comic by FrostbiteWhiteKnight (DeviantArt)
Super Mario Bros. DX - Fan Crossover Sprite Series by: Smashinity (YouTube)
Other specific elements for character designs are inspired by various artists on DeviantArt.
OCs
Strike - Sandstorm (YouTube, FanFiction, DeviantArt)
Gage the Hedgehog - Gage the Hedgehog (FanFiction)
SONGS
Dragon Ball Z Volume IV Soundtrack - Cell Returns
Sonic Frontiers OST - Break Through It All
Dragon Ball Super - Jiren's Wrath | Epic Rock Cover - Friedrich Habetler Music
Sonic Frontiers OST - Find Your Flame
Sonic Frontiers OST - Undefeatable
X-Ray Dog OST - Intrigue
Sonic Adventure 2 - Live and Learn - NateWantsToBattle Cover
Shrek 2 OST - All is revealed
Sonic Adventure OST - Good-bye
REFERENCES
The entire fight between the heroes and Metallix is heavily inspired by Mark (Alvin-Earthworm) Haynes' Super Mario Bros. Z as a whole (Both versions).
Strike's appearance is inspired by Sonic's appearance in Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog 2006.
Strike's first conversation with Sonic and Shadow is similar and inspired by how the Flash met Supergirl on Supergirl - Season 1 - Episode 18: World's Finest.
Metallix's quote "Die, die, die!" is a direct reference to Reaper when he uses his ultimate ability Death Blossom in Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch & Overwatch 2.
The Mane 6 and Flash's comforting Sonic and Sonic's transformation into Harmonic Sonic before death is a direct nod to when Tom and Maddie Wakouski comfort Sonic in Paramount Pictures' Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
The final fight between Sonic and Metallix is heavily inspired by both DXAnimations' Nazo Unleashed - Remastered Sticknodes and piplupfan77's Sonic Stop Motion Adventures - Episode 27: Forward - both on YouTube.
Sonic and Rainbow's final dialogue to each other is a direct nod to Super Sonic and Sally's dialogue in Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog - Issue 229.
This Fan Fiction story is written out of love and inspiration from the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog and My Little Pony. Anyone who is interested in using concepts, materials or ideas of character designs from my stories is allowed to do so as long as they ask me and say where the idea originally came from.
