I wasn't even thinking of this until now, but Cobalt is an element, number 27 to be exact. Hah! Now on to the battle!

PART 3

Eggman and the two ponies began a standoff, waiting to see who would make the first move. Little did Eggman know that Rainbow Dash was slowly extending her wings to take off, and Twilight Sparkle was getting ready to cast another spell, this time the opposite of a freezing spell, one to overheat the Big Arm robot instead of chill it.

"You really thought I was so unprepared, didn't you?" Eggman sneered, holding up a button trigger. "But you didn't think that I would have the foresight to plant a bomb on your boyfriend, did you, little flying horse?"

AT COBALT'S HOSPITAL ROOM

Cobalt Spikes scratched behind his ear, feeling something that caused an irritating itch.

"Are you okay?" a nurse asked him worriedly, not knowing much about the anatomy of a pegasus pony. For all she knew that could be a sign of a killing disease.

"Nah, just scratching." He replied. "Feels like there's something behind my ear."

BACK IN THAT RANDOM PLACE I DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF

"NO!" Rainbow screamed trying to fly at the robot.

Twilight quickly snagged Rainbow's tail in her teeth. "Wait! We can't do anything yet!"

"But Cobalt!" Rainbow's words were strained as she struggled to get free.

"It's what he wants you to do!" Twilight reasoned, her concentration for the spell completely broken now. Reluctantly Rainbow sat down.

"Aww, so adorable!" Eggman mocked. "It makes me sick."

"Rainbow, go." Twilight hissed under her breath as soon as the pegasus had calmed down enough. "The others need your help to find the rest of the elements and the emeralds."

"But Twilight, you don't know what he'll do to y–"

"Just go! I'll distract him." To Eggman, "Hey big, fat, and ugly! I've got one of those elements your dumb Chaos monster needs! Come and get me!" and with that, Twilight ran off, occasionally dodging laser shots with teleportation spells. It was obvious that this wouldn't be a permanent solution, but it worked at the moment.

Rainbow Dash flew off, the ground blurring below her. Within an hour, she had traversed the entire United States, making it back to the Thorndyke residence. Admittedly, she was worried about everything, but tried to hide it as she strode with false confidence into the house. That confidence quickly crumbled as she saw Cobalt, with bandages wrapped around his forehead, sitting on the sofa.

"Gah!" her wings flared out and she stumbled backwards, slamming into the lamp and causing the shade to fall over her head.

"Hi Dashie." He said with a smile. "Sorry if I surprised ya."

"S-surprised me!? You're a walking time bomb!" she got the lampshade off and slowly backed up.

"Why yes, I know I'm the bomb, but what's this about a walking time bomb?" he sat up, his interest obviously peaked.

"Eggman planted a bomb on you and he's got Twilight hostage!" Rainbow informed him, still terrified.

Cobalt's expression turned hard and determined. "Right. We've got to rescue her."

"B-but your injuries–"

"If I'm going to blow up, better I blow up at Eggman's base than here." He said without leaving any room for question. "The good of the many over the good of the few."

Rainbow began to see his point. "But what about the others?"

"Still looking for the elements, can't go as fast as we can, let's go!" he jetted past her and started flying toward the sea, with her following shortly after.

They traversed the land in a matter of seconds, getting to sea level shortly. They flew at a safe distance away from each other, just enough so that if Cobalt blew up, he would go out alone.

They got to the base, a cylinder shaped building with a yellow roof, and Cobalt kicked down the door in one fell swoop, busting down several walls and taking out sentry robots. Rainbow, meanwhile, found a way to squeeze in through the air vents and try to find the place that Eggman was holding his prisoner.

She spy crawled past a vent opening where Eggman was cowering, protected by several robots, in front of a really angry Cobalt.

"Go Cobalt!" she cheered in a whisper, seeing that the blue pegasus had smashed the bomb trigger against a wall and was now crushing the actual tiny bomb underhoof.

She squeezed a bit farther and found something she wasn't planning to see: all of her friends tied to chairs and gagged. Rainbow raised an eyebrow, but kicked out the vent and squeezed through. Her friends saw her and started making exited, muffled noises through their gags.

ONE DEGAGGING AND UNTYING LATER

"Thank ya kindly, Rainbow." Applejack tipped her hat. "Ah know we might always see eye to eye, but I know ya got my back."

"And that's the honest truth!" Pinkie joked, obviously happy to be untied.

"What–no, how did you get here?" Rainbow asked.

"We were trying to get the elements." Fluttershy whispered.

"And doing a bad job of it at that." Rarity added.

"Eggman got all of us after he got me and has all the elements, but has yet to let Chaos 6 attack Station Square." Twilight informed her friend in a flat tone.

"Chaos 6?" Rainbow complained. "Aw man, if it was bad at 3, then we've got another thing coming."

"NOT WATER!" they heard a voice scream in fear from down the stairs.

"Aaaand, there's Cobalt." Pinkie said enthusiastically, already on the way to help.

DOWNSTAIRS

A now terrified Cobalt struggled against a rapidly rising tide of water in the room he was in. It hadn't swelled above breathing level yet, but it was still roiling and splashing all over. It seemed every time he got a chance to breathe, water filled his lungs again.

"Help! Can't swim!" he choked, unable to even stay afloat for long.

"This is just a taste of Chaos 6's power for you." Eggman gloated from his safe vantage point in his Eggmobile above the waters. "Hopefully you'll live long enough to experience Perfect Chaos' wrath, and then maybe long enough to see Eggmanland where I can hunt you and your friends down!"

"Stupid idea Eggman!" Cobalt growled, trying to use his wings as a way to swim. "My friends'll stop you even if I do die here!"

"Speaking of…!" Rainbow Dash flew in and midair bucked the Eggmobile, sending it careening through the wall. "You need sturdier walls!" she dove down and scooped Cobalt out of the water in her forelegs. Too late did she realize that doing so would dampen her wings too much to fly. "Hold on, this may be bumpy!"

The two pegasi crashed through several walls and finally smashed out of the entire building, skidding in the sand and creating a trail. They sat up, groaning. "You okay?" Cobalt asked, still half stunned.

"Ow." Rainbow rubbed her head. "I've gotta stop doing stuff like that. Yeah, I think I'm good."

This was true, both had only suffered minor injuries, such as cuts and scrapes and bruises, and their wings weren't broken, only soggy.

Chaos 6 (resembling Perfect Chaos more now), which was sitting on the beach, used its ropelike tentacles to grab each of them.

"Hey ugly!" Twilight used another freezing spell to make Chaos ice again, and Applejack simply walked up and bucked it into shattering.

"Are you okay?!" Fluttershy ran up and asked worriedly, checking them for injuries and broken bones. "That was quite a crash you had! You must be hurt!"

"Sheesh, calm down Flutters, we're good." Cobalt said, struggling to his hooves. Fluttershy couldn't say she didn't blush a little at the nickname.

"Stop wrecking my Chaos monster!" Eggman complained, now out of his Eggmobile and on his feet. He took something out of his coat and tossed it at the rapidly defrosting shards of Chaos.

None of the ponies were fast enough to catch it, but Twilight caught a glimpse of a green gem. "The green chaos emerald!" Chaos 6 absorbed it and became what looked like a giant, carnivorous lizard's head sticking out of the ocean.

"BEHOLD, PERFECT CHAOS!" Eggman commanded.

Well, now we're doomed. Rainbow decided. Chaos has all seven components needed, and we're all weak or injured.

The moment she thought that, a giant wave of water slammed them against the base's metal exterior.

Eggman strode over and checked each of them for a pulse. Rainbow Dash and Cobalt were very surely dead, and the others wouldn't be coming round for a while. "I win!" he cackled. "Take your silly elements, Chaos doesn't need them anymore!" The elements shot out of Chaos and next to their respective bearers.

"I WIN!" Eggman flew away in his Eggmobile along with Chaos across the sea, toward the faraway skyline of Station Square, leaving the seven lying there.

PART 4

ONE HOUR LATER

The five simply unconscious ponies sat up with effort. At this point they didn't realize that two of their friends weren't going to come around.

"Well that was certainly a bit of a tight spot there." Rarity groaned, rubbing her head.

"Agreed." Twilight said, spitting up some water. "Rainbow Dash, Cobalt, are you two okay?"

There was no answer. Their friends' lifeless bodies didn't move.

"Wakey wakey!" Pinkie tried, getting in their faces. That didn't work either. Finally, throwing aside all politeness, Fluttershy trotted over and checked for a pulse. After a few seconds, she turned back to her friends, looking stricken. "They're dead."

A collective gasp went up. "D-dead?" Applejack stammered. "No, it can't be!"

"Whatever are we going to do?" Rarity asked, feeling tears begin to form in her eyes.

"I'm afraid if they're dead, then there's only one thing we can do." Twilight sighed. "It's been said that the elements have reviving powers, but Eggman has all of them. I suppose we could try to get them, but–"

"Or we could just use the ones right next to us." Pinkie suggested, holding up the element of laughter.

The group let out some forced, slightly insane giggles. "If Eggman is leaving us the elements, he must think we're doomed for sure." Fluttershy chuckled.

"Let's prove the varmit wrong, eh girls?" Applejack grinned.

They placed all six elements in a circle around the two, and Twilight spoke some sort of ancient incantation. The two pegasi's corpses hovered into the air along with the elements, which started spinning around them in a rapid orbit. All of a sudden the elements froze, and then collapsed in on the pegasi, creating a giant white flash.

When the five's vision had cleared, they saw an epic sight.

Rainbow Dash and Cobalt were now emitting a brilliant aura of strength that suggested that they had taken an amazing power boost. But the most amazing part of this was that they were looking very much alive. Rainbow's mane was flowing like Celestia's usually did.

Rainbow glanced down at her form, and groaned. "Aw man, I'm dead, aren't I?"

Cobalt looked down at himself as well, and then glanced back around at everypony. "Far from it, I think."

"He's right." Twilight informed her friends. "You did die for a while, but thanks to Eggman's usual bad planning we got you back to life with the elements."

"Hang on, the elements can work on one pony and not only as a group?" Rainbow asked. "This is so awesome!"

"Does this mean my memory…" Cobalt wondered, racking his brain. "Nope."

"What are you calling yourself?" Pinkie asked cheerily. "You must have a name! YOU HAVE TO HAVE A NAME!"

"How about… Harmonic Dash?" Rainbow suggested.

"I'm gonna have to copy that first part." Cobalt said with a grin. "Harmonic Cobalt… I like that! So what can we do now like this?" he got an idea from a faint memory he'd had of a blue spiked ball smashing stuff. "I'm gonna roll with this idea." He launched himself forward and rolled forward in the air, like a more concise version of a flip, allowing his mane and tail to connect in a sharp sphere of cutting. "Spin attack baby! Woohoo!"

What can I do? Rainbow wondered. Suddenly an urge struck her and her eyes turned pure white. "Harmonic Blast!" she yelled, and fired a rainbow from her chest, blowing another hole in Eggman's base. Her eyes returned to normal. "AWESOMENESS! Cobalt, I'd hug you, but I think that might kill me again. Let's go kick Chaos' butt!"

IN STATION SQUARE

The city was in chaos, literally. The whole town was flooded with water intoxicated with Chaos' energy. In the center of the town Perfect Chaos stood, using its tentacles to cause collateral damage.

Until… "Chaos, that is enough! You have done your duty, now stop!" Eggman commanded his monster. In response, Chaos shot his Eggmobile down, confirming its treason. "Cobalt Spikes, Rainbow Dash, help!" Eggman screamed as he crashed into the water. A blue blur scooped him out of the water. "Thank you Cobalt!"

"I don't like this any more than you do." Cobalt growled, setting him down on a nearby building. "Now be a good Eggman and stay put."

Meanwhile, Rainbow shot a few harmonic blasts into Chaos, but that only seemed to make it angrier as the destroyed areas reconstructed themselves. "Uh, Cobalt? We might have a problem!"

"There's a weak point in its head, right where the brain would be if it had one!" Eggman advised.

"Leave it to Eggman to harness a monster with no brain." Cobalt muttered, rushing at Perfect Chaos with a charged up spin attack. He connected with the yellow weak point and was blasted back near the water's edge onto a hovering piece of concrete kept up by a spout of water by Chaos' roar of pain.

"On it!" Rainbow barrel rolled under a tentacle, flying through the smashed window of an office building and out the other side right in Chaos' face. "Take this!" she fired a harmonic blast at point range, nailing the weak point right in the center. Another chaos energy shot flew at her, but a spiked blue ball slammed it away. Cobalt uncurled and shot her a grin. "Homing attack! Think you can beat that, Dashie?"

She hovered back, crossing her forelegs and putting on a smirk. "Yes, I can. DUCK!" He didn't question her order and swooped downward as she fired a harmonic blast, blasting the tentacle that had been about to whack Cobalt out of the air to pieces.

Cobalt's face took on a more serious expression. "Okay, enough toying around. Let's destroy this thing once and for all, shall we?"

"Right." Rainbow agreed. Their eyes met and instantly they knew what to do.

"Boost." They said at the same time. They flew next to each other at terminal speeds, heading right for Chaos' weak point. Once they were close enough, they linked forehooves and started spinning, glowing with a rainbow light, essentially becoming a spiked, pure harmony filled ball of doom.

The two rammed straight into Perfect Chaos, smashing its weak point into a thousand tiny little pieces. Without its power source, Chaos let out a dying scream and exploded into a massive, nondestructive tidal wave.

Cobalt and Rainbow separated, their power spent, and the elements flew out of them in six different directions. Drained from the experience, the two fell into the floodwater, unconscious. They were quickly fished out by medical services before they could die again and rushed to the nearest hospital in the next town over.

The battle was over, and the good guys had won.

THREE DAYS LATER

Rainbow Dash's eyes snapped open for the first time since she'd passed out. She'd been having the worst nightmare that they'd failed and all her friends were dead. She wiped away the cold sweat and was comforted by the sight of Cobalt passed out in the hospital bed next to her. We did win.

What happened to Eggman, though? She continued pondering. Did he escape, or drown? Heck, as much as I hate the guy, it would be pretty harsh if he died. And the elements and emerald, what happened with those? And my friends! The last I heard, they were mass teleporting back the Thorndyke place, but…

Her thoughts were quickly settled as she read a letter with a picture of all her friends, still alive thank Celestia, attached. It was obvious that Twilight was writing this one even before she read the sender's name at the bottom.

To whichever of my hospitalized friends happens to be reading this,

Hello! We're fine and back with the Thorndykes. Also, Pinkie say to tell you that it was super duper fun to watch you both beat Chaos like you did. In regard to the questions you may be asking: Eggman is still alive, but he fled and is probably plotting his next move, the elements and the chaos emerald involved are scattered and have yet to be found again, and you all are due for release in about two weeks, assuming this is the third day you have been at this hospital. The entire city is rebuilt by now, these humans are amazingly efficient with a capable supervisor (i.e. me). Amazing work with Chaos, and we hope you're better soon.

Sincerely, Twilight Sparkle

Rainbow smirked. Well that answered her questions. Getting out of the hospital bed, she trotted over to Cobalt and tried to rouse him. "Hey blue blur? You still with me there?"

Cobalt groaned, slipping out of unconsciousness land. "Hi Dashie. Did we win?"

"Yep. You were awesome." She replied, but was pretty sure he only heard the first part since his eyes closed and his breathing became extremely steady once more. Rainbow smiled. "See you when you wake up, Spikes." She kissed him on the forehead, assuming he wasn't awake to notice, and trotted downstairs to the hospital cafeteria.

Key word: assuming. He had simply slipped into unconsciousness for a few seconds, and was very much awake when she did that. He grinned, looking forward to two peaceful weeks with nothing to do but talk with his friend.

Little did he know that somepony plotting in the shadows was going to make sure that his two weeks weren't peaceful whatsoever.

Hehehe. That was ominous. Thumbs up if you can guess what I'm doing next!

So seriously, nobody has any questions whatsoever? I was being serious about just asking if you're wondering anything guys. Well anyway, see ya as soon as I can get something up.