-On Equestria-

Lix stands alone against the tide of positive energy wielders, as Fist falls, his robotic eyes beep and blink to deliver the notification, "Hmm. It seems your squad on Mobius managed to eliminate Fist. He managed to get the Mobian Chaos Emeralds, so I suppose his sacrifice was not in vain."

Twilight perks up, "So we have you at a disadvantage then, you're alone while we are all together."

Calmly Lix explains, "Not quite. While true I am without comrades, I am not at a disadvantage, my advantage lies with knowledge. I know where the Equestrian Master Emerald is, and even if I die in this field, my master will have that knowledge. Secondly, I again deceived you, I am only in my Semi-Super form."

Shadow and Silver look at each other than to Lix, and Silver states the obvious, "But you're gold that means you're super, don't try to bluff us!" Lix shakes his head, "My kin and I are quite different from you, you see when we truly access a super-form, we undergo Reverse Roboticization, where we become organic beings. Such forms are tailored for the more efficient control of negative chaos energy. As to why I'm gold, Silver the Hedgehog, I accessed this form using the energy from the princesses and Twilight Sparkle."

He turns to Twilight, "As you may recall Twilight, I went super before I unbonded the Elements of Harmony." Her eyes widen in realization and a since of dread overwhelms her.

"We won't let you access that form then; you won't even leave this spot." Shadow says charging two Chaos Spears.

All the wind then stops, as Lix says, "Then why are they already at my feet, Shadow?"

They all three look down and see the six elements of harmony, they glance back up at the weakened ponies and see that they are just as surprised. "What was that, he didn't use chaos control, and I didn't see him move or teleport using magic." Twilight remarks.

"You rely so much on your sight and your senses into the chaos. Truth is only seen if you are welcomed by it, otherwise you are caught in infinite lies." Lix says as the Elements turn black, "Now witness the dawn of perfection and the arrival of truth."

The eruption of black energy is viewed by families in both Canterlot and Ponyville, Spike looks out of the window of the library with worry, as the black spire towers and its tendrils spread out across the sky, twisting and filling it in, blotting out the moon, sun and every star for but an instant and as the blackness fades, Neo Lix's organic eyes open, his sclera shrouded black with cyan pupils shaped like diamonds, his fur turned a midnight blue with black stripes going down from his upturned quills, and a small strand of hair curled down past his right eye, the center of his chest has a black gemstone embedded into it, his shoes are half red and half blue in a design that Shadow recognizes, the quills on his back are also in a familiar shape, long and extended outward to the side.

Neo Lix clenches his fist as black static runs up and down his body. "At this moment I am truly Neo Lix, and I would like to welcome you to my Equestria."

As he says this a pulse of black energy emanates from his body and shifts the color of the atmosphere as he powers up, then his eyes glance to Shadow, and before Shadow could even think to react, he gets punched and gets sent flying, from everyone else's perception Lix simply appears in the same place Shadow was just standing, while Shadow cratered into the ground all the way back in Ponyville miles away. Silver tries to retaliate with psychokinesis, but then Lix counters with his own, and flings Silver with such force and speed that he reaches exit velocity in a second and shatters him through the mountain Lix was fighting Twilight on. As Sparking Twilight tries to cast a spell on him to hold him in place, his eyes flash with a black fiery aura outlined in violet and green, as he stares into Twilight and says, "As the student of Celestia, you have failed. As a protector of the Elements of Harmony, you have failed. As a bulwark of light on this world, you have failed." As he speaks, she walks back with her eyes transfixed on his cold and cruel eyes. He continues to approach as he holds his palm open and a pitch-black orb manifests.

He holds the orb to her head. Twilight refocuses and breaks the spell, then teleports away, but she realizes that he was wise to her reaction and teleported with her with the sphere of energy in his hand, "Now die. Starless Torrent." The ball turns into a black beam outlined in cyan, it bores a ravine straight through the mountain next to Canterlot. This beam causes a tremor that rocks Canterlot and causes panic in the streets, as Twilight plummets to the ground, her form wavers for a moment, but she teleports back to the battlefield, with a ball of purple energy on her horn, she then casts the spell, and the beam engulfs Neo Lix, this results in a crater stretching deep into the ground. She senses Neo Lix use chaos control, so she counters the way she did before, but then the colors reverse once more around him as he performs a Super Chaos Control, before she can realize it, she gets slammed into the ground, as she bounces off the ground, Neo Lix warps beneath her with another Super Chaos Control, and knees her in the back as she's falling, rocketing her straight up, he warps again appearing where she's going to be and roundhouse kicks her mid-air in the direction of Ponyville at blinding speeds, and she smashes through five houses in the town, skipping like a rock on a lake through the fields of Sweet Apple Acres.

Neo Lix appears before her in a blink and pummels her through apple trees. She tries to send out another beam, but her attacks can't land, Lix grabs her by the throat and tosses her again, he reappears and catches her by her mane in the middle of Ponyville where a crowd has gathered. The ponies look up, seeing the beaten and pained body of Twilight Sparkle, who is dazed and confused, Twilight looks at the Mayor, and every other pony she knows she has to protect. Neo Lix begins to speak, "Twilight, these people depend on you, and I feel as if I must teach you the most important lesson. Despair." His free palm opens, and a black orb apparates grows to a cataclysmic size. "If you do that, you'll destroy Ponyville, you can't do this!" Twilight pleas.

As the orb condenses, he prepares to launch it, Twilight thinks fast and teleports out his grip, then she focuses another spell, to teleport the orb miles in the sky where it detonates, clears all the clouds and the wind pushes everyone downward and blows back trees. As she's about the get hit by Lix once more, Super Silver and Super Shadow chaos control to her in the nick of time, Silver holds up Lix's arms as Shadow lands a gut punch then a knee to the side of his head that sends him into the Everfree.

Shadow looks over to Twilight, "We need a plan fast, he's only slightly weaker than Nazo in his super-form, an enemy I and Sonic fought not too long ago, and extremely similar to him, if he's also like Neo Metal Sonic, then he's adaptable. Adaptability and strength, the likes of which we can't handle without planning."

Silver looks over, "This guy is crazy all he did was look at me and copied my abilities."

Shadow then gets an idea, "Silver, you have a good grasp of chaos control, right?"

Silver nods, "Yeah, I think so, why?"

Shadow looks at Twilight, "Get to your friends and recharge your emeralds. Try focusing, and channeling positive emotions into them. You need to hurry. Me and Silver are going to buy you time."

"We are?" Silver asks with concern and Twilight nods, "Alright Shadow, I trust you."

As Twilight warps away, Shadow looks to Silver, "On my signal we need to Chaos Control into the same place at the same time."

Silver looks at Shadow as they see Lix walking toward Ponyville, "That'll kill us, Shadow!"

Shadow snarls with worry thinly disguised by anger, "Its either we die to that, or we die trying to even the playing field, besides you still owe me a favor from a few days ago, remember."

"Fine, let's do this. We only have one shot." Silver says adjusting his gloves.

"Chaos Control!" They both yell it at the same time, Shadow and Silver disappear, in between them appears a golden orb of light as bright as the sun above Ponyville.

Then a new golden hedgehog appears, with Silver's boots merged with Shadow's Hover-shoes, and Silvers glowing gloves now adorned with inhibitor rings, he has Shadows up-turned quills with Silver's leaf pattern quills both sets of quills have red-streaks.

Neo Lix looks him up and down, "Chaos Fusion, I've only seen this once before in person." The fused hedgehog appears next to Lix, "Once before, you say? How is that possible I wonder when Shadow and Sonic are the only two to ever do it when they became Shadic? You weren't there."

Neo Lix punches but his arm is stopped with focused psychokinesis from one hand. Then the fused hedgehog says, "Chaos Barrier." Then a solid barrier appears around Neo Lix's forearm and hand. Neo Lix chaos controls 5 feet away, as the barrier fills with red chaos energy and explodes. "Fast. As I'd expect."

"What should I call you, fusion?" Lix asks while rubbing his arm, the golden hedgehog ponders Lix's question calmly, "Simplicity is a good foundation to have, call me Shilver. In this form I'd be Super Shilver. I think that's easy to remember."

Shilver looks around at Neo Lix, "My senses are enhanced, I see what you did earlier, how you retrieved the elements and how you tricked Applejack, interesting. I'll have to get rid of that ability so I can hit you." Shilver says this and his red eyes glow a little bit, as a thin veil of negative energy shatters around Lix.

The two hedgehogs stare at each other, emotionlessly and inquisitively, gauging the other's next move. "You discovered my Chaos Hypnosis, only a being with extremely precise senses could even imagine something was wrong, I used it as sparingly as possible, so that in the off-chance someone could sense it, I could simply deactivate it, but you aren't just perceptive, you're proactive. Impressive." Neo Lix charges up his energy without a word and Shilver does the same.

They both vanish and collide at blinding speeds, their fight takes to the air as a line of black and a line of gold slam and collide with each other hundreds of times per second, then Shilver flies back a distance and his hands glow with a grey light outlined by red. Lix tries to close the distance, but he hits a psychic wall. It reveals itself upon impact, colored like the one on his forearm before. Lix tries to Chaos Control out, but it fails, the barrier keeping him in place. He takes a step back and looks around at the structure. Shilver's glowing hands then completely glow red, as the box crackles with red energy, Shilver snaps his fingers, and it bursts apart with a contained Chaos Blast.

The dust and static clear to reveal Lix using Metal Sonic's Black Shield. The shield powers down, then Shilver's palms flash far more intensely, sensing the incoming danger, Lix warps out of the way of any barrier forming around him, he tries once again to close distance, but Shilver's hand wraps itself in this powerful barrier, and blocks the attack, and the other hand then glows as an intense psychokinesis grips Lix, and he gets flung to the ground. Shilver warps to the ground to slam him down again telekinetically. Shilver's eyes and hands shine as the pressure presses Lix deeper into the ground, causing him to vomit blood. Shilver rockets him up and puts a barrier around him.

Lix, covered in black blood, breathes heavily. Shilver snaps his finger and this time he hurts Lix with an exploding barrier, Lix falls for a moment before using Super Chaos Control and appearing behind Shilver. The fused hedgehog turns in surprise, as Lix puts two red balls of energy in his face and detonating both. The dust clears revealing Shilver had closed around himself. Then Shilver watches as Lix's body regenerates, the blood reenters his body and all scratches close.

"That is what I thought. You have Nazo's abilities, his back spikes, and his shoes, but you aren't him. Nazo would not have waited to use his regeneration." Shilver says with his arms crossed. "You're also testing me, Lix."

Lix nods, "Correct. I'm curious as to how your abilities will evolve during this bout. You've already combined Shadow's focus with Silver's psychokinesis. You're using these barriers so intuitively. I'm more than impressed but I wonder," he tilts his head, "how long will this form last?"

"We've talked enough, I think we should end things."

"I agree, I need to retrieve those emeralds."

Shilver conjures a long and dense Chaos Spear as he mutters, "Chaos Gungnir."

Lix starts to spin in place and gather light energy, then he stops as he becomes a midnight blue silhouette, he vanishes and starts disappearing and appearing all around Shilver, all while Shilver reels back his arm and gets into a throwing stance, Shilver's eyes rapidly look around. Lix then leaps toward Shilver with a blade of black gemstone he conjured from his palm, but Shilver catches on and tosses the spear. It booms out of his hand and Lix dodges it, Lix then sees Shilver twists his palm, turning the spear and it rockets back point first at Lix, Lix gasps out as it pierces his chest, and his Light Speed aura vanishes. The spear flies back into Shilver's hands. He then grabs it with both hands and starts thrusting it at Lix. He dodges the best he can with a hole in his chest, as the spear barely misses him, and his face gets cut by the energy. Lix tries to block the assault with his gemstone blade, but it shatters on impact.

Shilver goes for jabs and swipes, but Lix, now on the backfoot, tries to retreat so he can heal. Shilver throws the spear to the right, Lix watches it fly off as he gets hit with a solid left hook empowered by a barrier, he twists back as the spear comes down from above, Lix's eyes widen, it pierces his chest and pins him to the ground. Then Shilver encloses a barrier around him.

Lix looks over at Shilver, this time in a strained voice, he huffs, "This will… only delay the inevitable…"

Twilight appears back at where her friends were earlier, and they had gathered around the grey and drained gems that were once the Elements of Harmony. "It's rather sad that these dull rocks were once pieces of us." Rarity sighs sadly. Applejack looks on to Ponyville, "That fella… I don't know if we can win this girls." Fluttershy looks down quietly as Twilight approaches.

"Everypony listen to me." She says gently, her form still glowing with energy, "We have been through a lot together and I don't just mean the past few days. It's never been quite so dire. I know that you're all feeling tired, I was too when my connection to my element was broken but, those gems don't define us! We define who we are, and our friendship helps us shine brighter. I don't think that I'd be here fighting like I am without all of you." She starts to tear up, "I love you girls so much and I know that if we really put our hearts into it, we can win!" Fluttershy, Applejack and Rarity, smile, and they all hug Twilight, and she nuzzles into them. As this display occurs, the emeralds embolden with color again glowing and shimmering with power. Twilight looks confidently at her friends wiping away her tears. "Let's go get 'em!" They all nod and Twilight warps them to where Shilver is.

Shilver holds this barrier in one hand, while holding Chaos Gungnir down into the ground with the other, he senses Twilight and Emeralds appear, he also feels his super form and fusion nearly out of time.

Lix stares in pain at Twilight, and sees the former Elements fully recharged, his eyes widen as he tries to think of a way out. Shilver yells out, "Twilight, get ready to send Lix to the stratosphere with all the power you can muster!"

The emeralds orbit the ponies and the multi-pointed gem hovers above Twilight's horn as she charges a massive amount of energy, her mane flares out and she floats up into the air. The other ponies also float up with Twilight, creating a current of positive energy, as they channel their thoughts and feelings into Twilight.

"Now!" The instant Shilver lets the barrier down, he jumps back, and Twilight fires a wide spanning multicolored beam as all the gems focus themselves through her Emerald. As the spear disappears, the rainbow-beam slams into Lix, but he pushes out a beam of black energy from his two palms, that combine in the middle. Lix stops getting pushed back, as he equals the pony's energy output. He goes against the pain in his chest with oozing wounds, he yells out, "How far are you willing to push yourself, Twilight Sparkle!"

As his black beam pushes Twilight's to the middle, Applejack yells, "We're down two ponies! We just don't got enough in us!"

Then appearing behind the ponies is Shadow and Silver in their base forms, Silver yells out, "We got you guys covered, let's do this Shadow!" they center themselves and float up with the ponies, Shadow yells out "Behold the ultimate power!" he puts his hands out and so does Silver as they both yell putting in as much of their hearts into the beam struggle as they could.

This new input of energy balloons the blast in the hero's favor, as the black beam gets engulfed, Lix sees his beam disappear. Before he is swallowed by the beam. He faces forward with an ever-stoic look, with his arms behind his back, and mutters, "Well played, bearers of light." As his body vanishes into the light. The rainbow-colored beam continues through the air, parting the clouds and appearing as a spectacular display above Ponyville.

The beam disperses into twinkling lights, that fall like snowflakes over Ponyville.

Shadow and Silver fall to their knees panting, Silver then looks over to Shadow and holds up his hand for a high five. "We did it, heck yeah!" Shadow gives him a high five, with a smirk. The other ponies sit down also feeling the exhaustion and Twilight powers down from her super form. The Emeralds still remain on the ground and in their possession.

Twilight watches as the eclipse ends and the sun and moon move back to their proper places. She smiles with hope, "Celestia and Luna must've gotten their magic back. Good. Hopefully, they can help us get Pinkie and Rainbow back home."

"Darling, I think I need a spa day after all this craziness. Surviving yet another near-death experience warrants a bit of rest and relaxation. Treat ourselves, if you will." Rarity says as she stands up. Silver nods, "I feel like I've been on my feet for days, a spa would be amazing right now."

The group walk toward Ponyville with Lix successfully defeated and the Equestrian Chaos Emeralds are safe and sound.