When Sonic reaches Ponyville, he is welcomed by a strange sight: a moss-covered robot with hinged legs and its shoulder has the text 'E-112', it has dual mounted rocket launchers that are somehow still fully loaded. It destroys a building, and ponies flee from the fire and flames, all while yelling "Monster!" It stares down the road and locks on to Sonic, then it says, in a static filled voice, "Hedgehog located: energy signature matched; identifying Sonic the Hedgehog. Engage." Sonic gets an almost nostalgic flashback to fighting Gamma on the Egg Carrier.

"Guess you're Gamma's tenth youngest brother, huh?" Its rockets flare to life from its feet, and it blasts toward Sonic. It fires a flurry of missiles, but as soon as they fly toward him, Rainbow Dash smashes directly into the robot. Then, Twilight stops all of the missiles in mid-air with her telekinetic magic, as one missile slows to a halt, it stops an inch away from Sonic's nose, then she lets go and they all fall flat on the ground.

One of the missile launchers on its back aims at Rainbow Dash's face, before it fires, Sonic spin dashes into its chest, successfully deactivating it. Rainbow Dash fumbles back, Sonic walks over to Rainbow Dash, he offers to help her up, "Hey, you alright? That thing almost blasted you." Sonic helps her up, and she nods at Sonic, "Thanks for having my back, Sonic." Sonic nods as Twilight calms down the townsfolkand explains the situation.

"Everyone, everything will be fine! A new friend of ours helped defeat the monster!" She yells across town. The ponies then look and see Sonic for the first time. "What in the name of Celestia is that?!" A normal pony points his hoof to Sonic, then the others notice, and their eyes start going wide with fear, "People of Ponyville!" Twilight yells, "He is the one who helped defeat the thing that blew up that house over there, he is new and is here to help!"

The ponies look at Sonic and one yells out, "Didn't that guy punch Rainbow Dash through Shoeshine's house?" Sonic awkwardly scratches the back of his head while looking over at Rainbow Dash, and whispers, "Guess there aren't forgetting that one, huh?" Rainbow Dash whispers back, "I'm sure they'll come around eventually."

Twilight then yells out, "Yes, I apologize that Sonic may have caused a little bit of property damage, but he just stopped a lot more destruction. Besides, He and Rainbow Dash are friends now."

Shoeshine herself steps forward, "I'm glad they're friends and all but that cost me almost a thousand Bits to repair, my insurance wouldn't cover it." Twilight looks at her and says, "I don't really know how to respond to that, but I will tell you that you can all go home." The crowd disperses as Shoeshine stares daggers at Sonic.

Twilight sighs loudly and then says, "Let's just go and meet up with Applejack. I bet her, and Shadow are having a better time than us.", As she says that, something flashes in front of her then Shadow appears, and she bumps into him, "Shadow, what are you doing here, how are-?" He interrupts her, "Applejack sent me here, we are all going to the farm immediately, something just unearthed itself, and I think, to me, Sonic and Silver, it is extremely distressing." He gestures for Sonic and Rainbow Dash to come to him. Then Shadow teleports them to Sweet Apple Acres.

Silver teleports to Sweet Apple Acres, as well, with Rarity and Fluttershy in tow, deciding it is time to meet up, "Sorry we were late, there was an army of old Moto-Bugs, but they were- ", Silver looks at everyone, their attention is focused on a giant metal sphere, half buried, uprooting a small area of trees. Silver then comments, "That's certainly more interesting than the Moto-Bugs." Silver and his group meet up with the others.

"Moto-Bugs, huh?" Shadow says, Silver starts to walk forward, not even hearing Shadow's question, then Shadow stops Silver, "Wait, how did you just Chaos Control here?" Silver looks at Shadow, looks down to his hands, then says, "I guess because this is a new place or something. You'd know more than me." Silver then further inspects the massive spherical satellite, reminiscent of the Death Egg, it was about the size of a few houses, Silver then asks, "other than my issue, what in the hell is going on here?" and then Sonic points up at a familiar insignia, it was G.U.N.'s, "This is one of Eggman's designs no doubt about it. So, maybe G.U.N. was inspired by the Death Egg, made a smaller version? That would answer a few questions..." then Shadow joins in, "How would the Doctor or G.U.N. for that matter, even have the means of entering this world, judging from how deep it is, this has to be a decade old." Applejack then says, "Hold on now, how have I never seen this big ol ball, think I'd remember something this big hitting the ground in the middle of my orchard." Shadow says, "Then there are more questions to be answered inside."

Twilight puts her hoof to her chin, "If this thing has a door, we should go in there and, assuming this is one of his, we should see if this 'Eggman', or G.U.N., left anything behind." Pinkie then says "Hmm, it doesn't look like it has one... even with how old it might be, it doesn't even have a single hole!" Rainbow Dash backs up a bit, "Well if there isn't a door, we'll just have to make one." She opens up her wings, "Wait, Rainbow, use your head!" Twilight yells, Rainbow Dash smirks and says, "I am!"

Then she rockets into the egg-like satellite, when she collides with it, a shield activates, and it displays a hexagonal grid, she gets ricocheted off, and goes directly up, then she gets angry, "Why does this thing have a force field?!" Then she rams into it repeatedly, getting faster and faster. "Say that's not a bad idea!" Sonic says, and spin dashes into the force field trying to saw through the energy.

"I hope no one gets hurt doing this," Fluttershy says with worry, "Don't worry sugar-cube, that Rainbow Dash is one tough nut to crack." Applejack says reassuringly, then Silver walks over to her and says, "Same goes for Sonic, I watched him ram himself into more things than you could imagine." Fluttershy giggles, calms herself down, but it is short lived when she hears, "Everyone!" Shadow's voice booms, he then holds out his open palm and begins charging blue energy, "Out of the way!"

He yells, "Chaos Arrows!" fires a barrage of Chaos Arrows, and he peppers the force field with high-intensity, Sonic and Rainbow Dash land on the ground, "Damn it!" Shadow yells as he struggles to maintain the attack, then Twilight's eyes light up and she says, "Shadow, aim at that cracked spot!" Shadow looks in the direction Twilight points her hoof, and sees a hexagon with a crack, he then re-aims his barrage, "Very perceptive, Twilight." He smirks, stops Chaos Arrows, then he gets into a stance where he looks like he's about to launch a javelin, and a yellow energy charges in his fist, the ponies look in awe and Silver mouths the words: 'Show off'. He fires a Chaos Spear, it hits but it doesn't do anything, he pants slightly, and charges another one, "Damn, I don't have much Chaos Energy in reserve..." then Twilight walks up and charges a magic blast, "Then let me help you, it may need two to do this." Twilight says to Shadow with determination, Shadow nods and catches his breath then he conjures another Chaos Spear. "Are you ready?" Shadow asks Twilight, who is glowing purple, answers "Yes!"

Then they both yell at the same time and blast the broken part of the grid, then it all deactivated. Shadow huffs heavily, "We were successful... good." He then winces and falls on one knee, "I-I used too much power..." Twilight rushes over to him, as a staircase haphazardly swings downward from the side of the sphere, Sonic, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and Silver go to the staircase and they look surprisingly pristine, even with a faint scent of 'new car'.

Sonic looks at Shadow, Twilight, Rarity and Fluttershy, the four of them are sitting under a tree. "Yo, you guys staying out here?" Shadow nods, "We'll stay out here, I need to recuperate, just share your findings with us." Applejack then yells "Oh, we wouldn't want a certain pony to be ruinin' her mane, now, would we?" Rarity scoffs then looks away saying, "Hmph. I'll have you know I spent all morning freshening up!" Applejack chuckles to herself as she trots up the stairs, "Come on you guys, last one there is a rotten apple!" Sonic and Rainbow Dash boom up the stairs instantly, they knock Applejack off the side and then Silver catches her with his powers, "Are you alright, uh, Applejack?" Silver asks meekly, "I'm right as rain, Silver, thank ya." She drops, land and smiles at Silver. Pinkie happily hops up the stairs next to the rotten apples.

When they get to the top of the staircase, Silver, Pinkie, and Applejack see Rainbow Dash and Sonic looking around at the high-tech design, bright white walls, and floors, not even a speck of dust. "Definitely Eggman's, now we just need to find out what he was using it for." Sonic says while looking around for any clues."

Then Pinkie Pie points down the hall with her hair, "That way!" Sonic and Silver look at each other, then Silver asks, "Wait, how do you know? This facility has been in the ground for... more than a decade at least.", she adamantly continues to point, and then yells, "My Pinkie senses say that we need to go this way!"

"Oh well shoot, if it's one of her wacky senses, then it usually works." Applejack says, then Rainbow Dash comments, "As much as it weirds me out, she's usually right with this kind of stuff." Sonic shrugs, "We got nothing else to go off of, besides, I'm pretty curious." Everyone walks in the direction Pinkie points.

Then they reach a four-way intersection, and her tuft of hair starts pointing to the left. As they walk, they start to feel uncomfortable and tense. As they start hearing creaks in the walls, with smells of rust and rot, ebbing in and out of vents. Then they walk past a metal door with a handprint scanner, and it's the first door they've seen since they entered the satellite, and sure enough Pinkie's tuft of hair stands straight up, "Yup. This is the place!"

Applejack's face scrunches up, "How're we gonna even get in?" Sonic and Rainbow Dash nod at each other and prepare to barrage the door, then Silver steps in between them and the door and he telekinetically forces the door off of its hinges, and it flies back, Silver then looks at everyone and does a 'Come right in' gesture.

It is a circular room with multiple desks, workbenches, and a cylindrical computer in the middle of the room, Silver moves closer to the computer and everyone else investigates other parts of the room. Suddenly, a screen pops up on the far side of the room, across from where the door was, on the screen is Dr. Robotnik, when he was younger, less wrinkles on his forehead and he had a shorter mustache, and the screen is a paused video it seems.

"What in tarnation is that?!" Yells Applejack, Sonic then looks at the screen in confusion, he then asks, "Eggman?", Rainbow Dash then comments "That's Eggman? He really does look like an egg! Weird question though, what is he?" Sonic answers the question, "He's human for the most part."

Then Silver starts the video, and everyone's eyes are glued to it, Robotnik begins the video with yelling, cursing, and throwing everything off of a workbench in a completely different location, he catches his breath and looks into the camera.

"I warned the fools at G.U.N. I nearly killed myself begging for my resources not to be used in the pursuit the original six Chaos Emeralds, my brother hypothesized. Mistakenly, I tracked their location based on evidence Colin collected, and it led us to a warp ring... without a ring. I told G.U.N. It was unstable, but they ignored me and my brother. They replicated it in a lab, blackmailed my brother and sent him and a satellite into it the portal. May I remind you that the satellite you nitwits created were based on designs I drew!" He looks down and shakes his head, "As G.U.N.'s Lead Technical Researcher I resign, officially, I will not sit idly by while my designs are being used for your benefit without my consent." He sits down in a chair, "I'm going to talk to Naugus and go to the Kingdom of Acorn, to fulfill what must be done to destroy this regime. Former Technical Research Lead, Doctor Ivo Robotnik, signing off. Try to make it back home, Colin, I'll make sure to take good care of the family while you're away."

The Hedgehogs look at each other, and Sonic starts to speak, "So Eggman worked for G.U.N.? That's surprising. Even more surprising is Eggman caring about, well, anyone." Silver starts looking through the files for 'Colin'. "It says here that Colin is, in fact, Colin Robotnik, Eggman wasn't lying. Weirdly, it says here that he left this facility sometime after it crashed. How does that work? Did he purposefully crash this thing just to be on the planet?" Rainbow Dash looks at the paused image of Eggman in confusion, she looks at Sonic, "His brother was sent to another planet and the only thing he cared about was his toys?"

Sonic nods, "Good to know he's always been like that, I heard rumors he roboticized his own family, but what he said at the end there makes a pit twist in my stomach."

Pinkie then hears a rustling noise behind her, she turns around and sees nothing but a metal panel, she sighs in relief. Then something bashes into the wall behind her so hard, that the panel bursts open, and then everyone looks to that wall and sees one red, digital, eye, the glowing pupil moves back and forth as it scans the room and then it steps into the light. It's on all fours and has a light blue hull, it has a rainbow colored, solid metal, headpiece mimicking Rainbow Dash's hair. Then, its metal wings expand and a jet engine on its back starts to rev up.

Then it takes off but before it could hit anyone, Applejack bucks it in the face, and it flies diagonally into a metal girder in the wall of the satellite, and it starts to spark and malfunction. As it tries again, Silver telekinetically diverts its flight path, and it bashes its head into the ground, suddenly Silver sees it spark for a moment, then it starts to beep rapidly, and he yells, "Everyone get down!" Metal Rainbow Dash then self-destructs. Silver holds up his hands and creates a force field, blocking back most of the explosion. It pushes him back a little, but when the smoke clears, the explosion destroyed the doorway, and most of the room as the explosion was curved around Silver's shield.

Silver puts his hands on his knees and tries to catch his breath. Then he looks back at everyone huddled together and gives a thumbs up, then Sonic says, "Look out!" Before Silver can turn around, Sonic sees another Metal Rainbow Dash this time on two legs. It back-hands Silver, he hits the wall and slides down. Before Sonic can retaliate, two more Metal Rainbow Dash's show up.

"There's more than one!" Sonic yells at the ponies, they take a defensive stance as more come in, it gets to the point to where there's a dozen Metal Rainbow Dash's in the room. Sonic then speaks under his breath, "I'm going to make a distraction, you three grab Silver, and get out of here." Applejack responds not taking her eyes off the robots, "No way, no how, we ain't leaving you behind Sonic." Pinkie also comments, "We haven't gotten you home yet, and I never break a Pinkie promise." Lastly Rainbow Dash looks at Sonic and says, "There's no way I'm letting you take all the action!" Sonic looks ahead then smirks, "Alright, then, let's show these creeps!"

Rainbow Dash flies into a group of Metal versions of herself, with a hoof out, and bucks one in the face while flying, the force knocks it back into other robots. Pinkie does what she does best, and pulls her party cannon out of her mane, jumps into the barrel, and fires herself into the crowd, sending Metal Rainbow Dash's flying in every direction, like bowling pins being hit by a Mach-speed bowling ball.

Applejack kicks as hard as she can, and she takes out each one that tries to attack her, shattering their torsos, knocking their husks into the center console, and they begin to pile up at the base of the console. Sonic bounces on top of the heads of the Metal Rainbow Dashs, bashing their faces in, with his homing attacks, and Rainbow Dash headbutts any of them that are distracted, and bashes them into a wall.

More keep pouring in from vents and loose panels, "How many more of these tin cans are there?!" Applejack yells, Sonic notices an orchestra of beeping, then yells, "We need to hurry! I'm gonna make an opening! Rainbow, grab Silver and let's get out of here." then Rainbow Dash swoops over to Silver, still knocked out, and picks him up under his arms, then Sonic spin dashes and plows through a giant group of the Metal Rainbow Dashs then before backup comes, they rush out of the room, but as they rush out the defeated Metal Rainbow Dash's all explode and block the corridor in front of them forcing them to go the opposite way, loop around and find the exit. In the opposite corridor more Metals are crawling out from the ceiling and vents on the floor. When they get to the exit, they all leap down the steps, they see Shadow, and Twilight defending Fluttershy and Rarity from the Metal Rainbow Dashs.

The gang run to Shadow and Twilight. "Shadow, Twilight, what's going on? How many of those weird Rain-bots are coming out?" Sonic asks as Applejack kicks a robot out of the way, so their explosions can't harm anyone. Rainbow Dash sets Silver down as he comes back into consciousness. He then asks groggily, "What happened? Man, I'm dizzy."

Twilight starts to explain what happened, "A few minutes after you guys went in, they started flying out, a few went to town, we were going to stop them, but they started coming out of the ground, what did you find out in there?" Silver sits up, as he pulls out a file from Pinkie's mane, "I managed to snatch this before we left, it was a file Colin wrote, apparently, before he left the satellite," he skims it, "It says here that Colin saw a 'giant multi-colored explosion' and monitored an 'Equine individual named… Rainbow Dash', he became obsessed and started making these Badniks, but what could this 'Multi-colored explosion' even be, and how did he see it from orbit?" Rainbow Dash smirks and says, "He might be talking about my Sonic Rainboom, something I did when I was just a filly!" Silver looks back at the notes, "That would explain the obsession…"

Twilight's eyes open wide, "So we aren't the only ones affected by the Rainboom? Why would a human scientist be interest in something like that?" Then the gang starts hearing screaming in Ponyville, Sonic and Rainbow Dash look at each other, they both smirk and race off to Ponyville, to deal with the onslaught. Everyone else follows suit and they run/fly to Ponyville. As everyone else runs off to Ponyville, Shadow turns and looks at the space-craft, he takes a deep breath.

"Let's see if I can do this." He says to himself, before she runs off, Twilight looks at Shadow, about to ask what he's doing, then is stopped in her tracks, as a red aura flares off of his body and the rings on his gloves come off. "Twilight," Shadow glances at her as he charges energy, "this attack is going to destroy the satellite and prevent anymore machines from leaving, you need to get to Ponyville, they'll need you." She then nods, with a worried look then, teleports off.

As she teleports farther away, she looks over at Sweet Apple Acres, and she waits to see the attack, after a while she says, "Guess he was- ", then her hair gets blasted back as a giant red sphere envelops the entirety of the satellite. Then when it stops, Shadow walks out of the trees limping, then he collapses on a tree. Twilight teleports over to him and helps him up. "Are you okay Shadow!?" She asks frantically, Shadow then says, "Why haven't you run away?" he says weakly then coughs up blood, Twilight then says, "Just wait to say anything, you need to rest!"