I know I've updated Chapter 4 and posted this disclaimer, but I'm going to post it one more time to explain myself.

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I've been getting a lot of comments about why Rainbow Dash was faster than Sonic during the big chase scene…To be truthful, Sonic is faster than Rainbow Dash, but she has a couple of advantages over him.

For one, she can fly. Sonic has to move along with the terrain while Rainbow Dash can simply fly over them; that was why the Wonderbolts were able to cut ahead of him when he was running through miles of hills.

Second, in this story, Sonic can't freely use boost like he can in the game; he needs an emerald before he can break the sound barrier and beyond. All of that extra energy has to come from somewhere. That's why she was able to catch him while performing the Sonic Rainboom, because all she has to do is fly completely straight. Sonic can't break the sound barrier without something powering him.

Third, and I know I'll be getting hate mail for this; Rainbow Dash in the story can turn a lot sharper than he can. Sonic has to slow down before making a sharp turn, while Rainbow can pull her wings to one side and keep her speed.

I should have explained this before posting Wanted…sorry.

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An evil smile crest across Dr. Robotnik's face as he observes the world beneath him, confident that his surviving robots did the job. They were nothing more than weaklings, what are the chances of even one of them surviving an invasion of robots when there is no technology on hand? Unit 021 rolled beside him, casting its visual scanners out the window with him.

"So tell me, Unit 021." Robotnik politely asked it, "Has the invasion been a success? I can imagine what kind of damage those things must have done to a backward civilization."

"The invasion was a complete failure, master." It answered in a plain tone.

His eyes widen in anger, "What?"

The robot rolled in front of him and plugged itself in to a projector screen; A HUB screen suddenly popped in front of the large window that stood between them and space. All of Robotnik's machines were equipped with a memory board that records the entire life span of every individual unit, saving it to a memory bank inside the Space Carrier. The screen began playing a sequence of videos that revealed the entire operation. One video shown a robot rushing ahead of its group, then was suddenly shot down by an armored white pony on the side. Another screen showed a blue blur hitting the camera then suddenly fizzing out. Several more short videos played until a video shown a dark-blue Alicorn standing on top of the robot, gritting her teeth before her horn illuminated a dark light. The HUB shut off, and unit 021 backed away from the projector. Robotnik banged his fists on the control panel, releasing his frustration.

"It appears I have underestimated my opposition." He growled, "And it also seems that Sonic and the rest of those wenches survived the rift."

That name echoed through his head, making his muscles contract in sheer hatred. Unit 021 pulled out a stack of papers from its inner compartment, handing it to its master.

"I must also report, Lord Robotnik, that this ship is becoming more unstable by each passing hour by the amount of damages it received. Your med bots do not have the sufficiency to keep this ship intact. We have at least 48 hours to land before this ship tears apart."

He took one quick glance at his papers, and then chunked it aside, "Unit 021, scan the surface below and find a suitable place for this ship to land, somewhere fay away from civilization and heavily vegetated. Meet me in room 3040 when you're done with you task."

It bowed, "As you command."

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Celestia, standing on the palace's tallest balcony, began her morning routine as she charged her horn with magic, pointing it to the dark horizon in front of her. She slowly began moving her head upward, and felt the weight on her neck bearing down on her. This would have caused her to pass out when she first did this as a filly, but now, it's nothing more than lifting a barrow full of apples on her back. An orange glow began painting the sky in front of her, and slowly but surely, the sun began to rise. She felt the weight on her neck lift when she felt gravity taking hold of the sun, ready to let nature take over. Beyond her palace, a little town began to stir, ready to begin its peaceful morning

Well…Somewhat peaceful.

Sonic kept his eyes straight ahead of him as Rarity took him around town. He didn't bother looking around; he knows everypony walking beside him was casting daggers at him. Rainbow Dash was hovering beside him, still avoiding casting her eyes on him. Rarity tried to get his mind off of things by carrying a conversation with him. She wasn't sure herself if he would try to kill the princesses, but she wanted to at least let him feel welcomed in her home town.

"I need to take you to the spa one day, dear." Rarity said to him, "A little back massage and a couple of minutes in the sauna could do you some good after everything you've been through."

Sonic kept his attention to her, but had an eye on the cyan pegasus behind him, "Do they give feet massages by any chance?"

"Why, of course! I don't think they've given a massage to a uh…Hedgehog before, but I guess the twins wouldn't mind a challenge."

Rarity continued chatting about the town, but the hedgehog's mind drifted to the pegasus. He couldn't get her out of her mind, it'll just kill him if he didn't at least shake the hand (uh, hoof) of a would be competitor. He backed tracked until he was beside her. Rainbow Dash took notice but looked on as if she didn't care.

"Uh, hey." He greeted the only way he could think of, "I haven't met anybody able to match my speed. You're pretty fast."

She kept the back of her head facing him, hovering down the path.

"Uh, hello?"

Rarity took notice what he was doing and trotted beside him, nudging him on the shoulder to get his attention.

"I believe you owe someone a birthday cake. Could you go down to Sugar Cube Corner and help Pinkie Pie? It's just up ahead, we can still watch you."

The last place he wanted to visit was where that pink thing dwelled. He swallowed hard and dragged ahead. Rarity put a hoof on Rainbow's shoulder while watching him.

"You should really give him a chance, Dear." Rarity said to her, "I don't know if he did it or not, well; most likely so, but we shouldn't be hostile towards him."

"Hm! I'm not being hostel." Rainbow Dash raised her voice, "I'm being hateful. That thing tried to kill the two princesses."

"We don't know that." She answered, "All of our friends already warmed up to him yesterday; maybe you should too."

"Over my right flank!" She scorned, "I'm not giving him a single second!"

"Come now, Dash; he even completed on your speed. You should give him a chance. If it turns out he was the culprit; we'll give him what for, O.K. Sweetie?"

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, turning to her, "Fine, I'll say something to him when I see him."

"I would appreciate it." She humbly thanked her.

"You'd better."

Rarity gave Dash a cold glair.

"Uh, I mean…Oh, never mind."

They continued on to the Bakery. To their surprise, they found Sonic still lingering at the entrance; staring at the door.

"Aren't you going to go in, Darling?" Rarity asked him politely.

He turned around and tried to put on a brave face, "I-I was thinking about visiting that spa first…You know, relax."

"I think Pinky would very much appreciate it if you do this favor with her as soon as possible." Rarity continued, "Besides, she already brought the little filly with her."

"SURPRISE!" Pinkie squealed kicking the door open.

Sonic jumped five feet in the air and screamed to the top of his lungs, running a couple of feet before tripping over. Rainbow Dash burst out loud laughing in tears, her back hitting earth. Rarity couldn't help but suppress a giggle.

"There's no time for collecting coins, silly!" Pinkie cheerfully said to him while dragging him to the doorway, "We have to turn some frowns upside down!"

Sonic had his fingernails dragging across the dirt as he disappeared behind the door.

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Twenty seconds later, Sonic found himself wearing a pink apron with KISS THE COOK print on front; holding an egg with one hand and a mixer with the other. How he suddenly found himself standing in a kitchen staring at a huge bowl bigger than himself in front of him; he wish he knew.

"Okily, dokily!" Pinkie shouted behind him, "Everything's ready to go. We're ready to fix the biggest most HUMONGEST cake we've ever backed! Well, the FIRST cake were ever going to bake, but still all the same!"

He quickly glanced around for a knife…But decided against it.

"Uh…I never backed a cake before." He plainly informed her.

"Of course you haven't!" She cheered, "I wouldn't know how to bake too if the only thing I eat is slaughtered pigs on a bun, silly willy!"

…NOW I'm scared! He thought shivering.

"All you got to do is take a WHOLE bunch of these." Pinkie began juggling a dozen eggs towards him. Out of instinct, he dropped the things he was holding and began tossing them up in the air in a complete circle, each egg landing in the bowl.

"All righty! Now we just need to stir it."

He was about to grab the mixer back from the floor until he felt two hooves on his back.

"W-wait! What are you doi-"

Pinkie suddenly picked him up and used her hooves to curl him into a ball, then; in a very dramatic swing, hurled him into the bowl like a dodge ball. He spun on impact and after a second later, bounced back up and uncurled himself. His spikes were covered with goo.

"Next, we need a whole lotta milk!" Pinkie zipped to the fridge and hurled a huge gallon of milk at Sonic at full speed. He quickly reacted and jumped up, and out of habit, home attacked it. The carton shattered and the contents inside flew right into the bowl. Sonic landed on both feet, now casting daggers at her.

"I don't know what you're getting at but-"

"FLOWER!" She screamed as she pulled a giant bag out of nowhere, running at Sonic with the bag over her head. He fumbled backwards and dodged roll out of the way as she charged for the bowl in front of her. White powder began fluffing all over the kitchen when she started beating it against the bowl. When the flower settled, the whole room was covered in white. Sonic opened his flowered covered eyes and saw a white coated Pinkie Pie standing beside the bowl. She stuck her tong out and licked the flower out of her own face, revealing her wide smile.

"Now." She continued, "We're gotta stick this into the oven!"

She somehow managed to pick up the table size bowl and heave it to the stove. This gave him a little break to catch his breath. When he saw Pinkie Pie approaching the stove, he began chuckling to himself when he realized the size of the bowl. It was easily twice the size of the oven, not even the bottom can fit through the entr-

Ding!

The next thing he saw was a missing bowl and a timer on the side. He blinked his eyes for a couple of seconds in bewilderment.

"H…How did you-"

"No time!" Pinkie Pie shouted pulling another large bowl out of nowhere, "You need to brace yourself!"

She chunked the bowl to him and set him in front of the stove.

"W-what's going on?" he asked.

Suddenly the stove began stirring, each passing second becoming more violent. He raised the bowl in front of him like a shield, wide eyed and shaking like a leaf. It began thrashing around in place as Pinkie stood beside it with a stick somehow sticking to her hoof. When she unlatched the itty bitty lock on it, the stove burst open with yellow batter shooting out like a cannon. Sonic gripped the bowl as tightly as he could before being knocked back with sheer force, crashing against the wall behind him. The bowl landed on top of him with every drop of the batter in it. Pinkie lift the bowl off of him, placing it on the side and stuck her hoof in the bowl for a taste test. She found him twitching in agony.

"Hm…Could have used a liiiiitle more milk." She politely criticized as she put the tip of her batter covered hoof on the tip of his tongue. He just blankly stared at her.

"…YOU THINK!"

She just smiled, "aw well, we're going to have to make due."

Several minutes later, the bladder was shaped and cooked into a towering cake that stacked itself almost to the celling. Sonic was willing to help her finish it off with different layers of icing…Well, more like forced since he was too scared of how she would react if he said no. Pinkie Pie, to Sonic's unbelief, was actually carrying a normal conversation with him; no squealing or unexpected occurrences. He decided for one moment to let his guard down.

"I'll do almost ANYTHING to make people smile." Pinkie said squeezing another layer of Icing on the bottom layer of the cake, "Because it makes me smile, and it makes me smile to see another pony smiling."

"So that's why you throw random parties and what not." Sonic commented, "Just to make people happy?"

"That, and I love to shake my little pinkie tail in the air like I just don't care. I mean what's more fun than a party? I mean, DUH! Nothing's more fun than a party!"

"You must be a crack up among your friends, huh?" Sonic commented.

"Well, yea." Her voice died down to a depressing tone, something that seemed impossible to him, "Some ponies get a little jumpy when I'm around them, like I'm about to knock them upside the head and drag them to my basement…It makes me so sad."

Sonic stepped a little closer to her, but still out of reaching distance, "Well, I guess some don't know how to cope with different. What do they know? You're you, no one can change that."

She perked up and zipped to him, squeezing him around his stomach, "You're the best hedgehog anybody can ask for."

He reeeaaaallllly didn't want to embrace her, but he knew it would be out of place if he didn't, "uh…Thanks?"

"Yourwelcome!" She cheered letting him go, much to his relief, "Now, we have a filly to cheer!"

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In the mist of Sweet Apples Acres, Applejack and Applebloom were carrying two straw woven baskets as they made her way to the center of their field, where their new guest was waiting. When they arrived, they found Knuckles standing before a tree, staring at it with daggering eyes.

"Ready, Sugar cube?" Applejack asked him.

He turned around and casually walked up to the two, "Yea, what do you want me to do?"

"Big Mac was cummon down with somethin', so we need an extra pair of hooves to help us to buck them apples before harvest's over and done." She answered him.

"Uh...You mean hands?" He asked in confusion.

She and her little sister trotted over to the next row of trees, standing underneath it with her back hoofs facing a tree full of apples.

"Now, all you got to do is get them apples out of them there trees." Applejack instructed him.

Knuckles chuckled, "Is that it? Just pick apples out of a bunch of trees. No sweat!"

With his fists, he scaled up a tree beside him. When he was among the branches, he began to pick each apple one by one, letting them fall to the ground. After a couple of minutes the whole tree was stripped of its apples, and Knuckles hopped down from the tree. When he was looking around for Applejack, he found three trees already missing its apples. When he went around, he found them working on the next tree.

"How did you clear those trees that fast?" He asked approaching them.

Applejack gave the tree a good buck with her hind legs, knocking every apple down while her litter sister, who was balancing a basket on her forehead, was galloping to one end of the tree to another catching them.

"If you hit them trees just right, all them apples come down in a lickidy split."

"Huh." Knuckles sighed, "Sounds easier than climbing."

He set himself in front of a tree, popping his fist and drew it behind him. In one swift motion he punched the tree with all of his might.

Only to topple the whole tree over with a crashing rattle; its roots sticking out of the bottom.

Applejack and her little sister galloped to him.

"My mister, you're so strong!" Applebloom politely commented.

Applejack stared at him in unbelief.

"When I said buck the tree, I didn't mean knock the darn thing over!" Applejack snapped.

"Heh, sorry." Knuckles went to the side of the mid-size tree and put his white mittens underneath it, "Can you go on the other side and lift; we can still replant it."

She snorted and galloped to the other side, putting her head underneath the main trunk. After it was put back in place, everyone went back to work. During the half an hour of working, Applejack and Knuckles were carrying a conversation; he even gave her a little bit of his back ground.

"Sorry about earlier." Knuckles grumped in his usual tone, "I sometimes overdo things."
"nah, it's all good." Applejack ensured him, "but ah don't know anything else who can knock a tree over."

"Aw, that's nothing; you should see knocking a couple of Eggman's machines around." Knuckles proudly stated.

She chuckled and went back to bucking. Knuckles was still struggling to get all the apples down in one shot, but was zipping to one tree to another rather quickly. The apples were left behind on the ground, but he was planning on picking them up in the basket after he was through. After a little while, when the sun began to drop behind the landscape, an idea popped to him to finish the rest of the day.

"I bet I can clear fifteen trees faster than you can." Knuckles shouted to her.

Applebloom was zipping from one spot to another catching and picking up apples; the poor thing was worn out by the end of the shift.

"Is that uh challenge?" Applejack asked him sternly.

"What else?" Knuckles asked in a sarcastic tone.

She couldn't resist a challenge, a little fire ignited deep inside her, "It's on, little doggy!"

They stopped and stood beside each other, squwating and eyeing the tree they were going to hit first. When they count themselves down, they took off. Applejack was going one tree to another, only needing one good to knock the apples down. Knuckles took a lot less time getting to another tree, but had to hit a tree more than once before he could move on. When he was done, he ran back to the dirt road; only to find Applejack there with a charmful smirk on her face.

"Beatcha." She cooed.

He rolled his eyes, "You just got lucky."

She trotted over to him, "Granny Smith is wiping up some homemade apple pies for tonight."

"Bet I can eat a pie faster than you can."

She smirked wider, "Oh, no pony's crazy enough to take meh on a pie eatin' contest!"

"You haven't met me." Knuckles boasted.

They were well on their way to the barn. Applebloom was sitting on a rock, exhausted and more than ready to head back inside to her granny. She was up and on her way until-

"Applebloom." Her older sister called while passing her, "Can you pick up them apples me and Knuckles left behind there?"

She took one look at the apple field, seeing a whole bunch of apples left from the contest.

"Sis! (sigh), (sigh), this is full of baloney!" She cried to her.

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The sun settled and Princess Luna cast beautiful full moon into the night sky, lighting the earth with a dim glow. Inside the library's basement, Tails just finished dismantling the robots he has carried from Canterlot; pieces of computer chips and torn wires were scattered all over the floor, and ready to be reassembled. Twilight was coming down the steps with her assistant on her back. When she beheld the bundled mess Tails has created, she galloped the rest of the way.

"No, no, no, no, no." She gasped, "You can't put anything together with this mess. I mean, how do you know what pieces the pieces are or which pieces go with which?"

"I-I don't know." Tails humbly answered, "I just sort of do it."

A large scroll and a feather ink pin poof out of nowhere. She levitated the robotic parts in midair and began separating each individual part into categories. Spike held up the checklist and began marking down what part is. Wires were piles with the other wires by their colors, metals were segregated by shape and size, and the parts she couldn't make head or tails of she piled into a corner. Tails was a little aggravated that his work was interrupted, but didn't mind letting her organize his things. In fact, when she was finished, it became a lot easier for him to assemble the broken parts together.

"Thanks!" Tails obliged, "That cut a lot of time off of my hands."

"Oh, it's nothing." She answered.

He went back to work with his two newly made friends. After a couple of hours of working, he was close to done with the machine. Twilight was on the side lines observing him; she never met someone with some much knowledge and skills, not anybody in her life time. She slowly trotted over to his side to observe his work. She couldn't tell what he was doing, but by looking at his straining eyes and a tongue sticking out just slightly to the side, she knew he was engaged in his work. It reminded her how she looked when she worked with books, either sorting or reading them. His yellow and white were flowing wildly behind him, and Twilight couldn't help but notice. It puzzled her; how do those things carry him in the air? Is that really physically possible? She took one last look of his body. The way his fur covered his body was pretty exotic to her, she never seen anything like it in any of her books or in her life time. He was, dare she might think…Cute?

"Uh, Twilight." Spike called her when he notice her to be in a trance, "You alright?"

She quickly shook her head, "Y-yea. I'm fine."

He just shrugged his shoulders and dismounted her. Tails walked around the machine to inspect it. It was no bigger than a small table, just light enough for him to hold. It was just a couple of parts away from being done.

"Can somebody give me a pair of blue wires?" He politely asked opening a compartment.

Twilight then noticed how polite he was when talking. She imagined her ideal boyfriend to be somewhat like what he was, intelligent, hardworking, polite, and most of all humble when dealing with ponies or other things. Spike was about to grab the wires until Twilight levitated them to him in a hurry. After a couple of minutes of tinkering, Tails backed away from the machine.

"Now, the only thing we need now is a shot of electricity to boost this tracking system on.

She trotted by him, making sure she's at a spot where he can see her, "I've got it."

Twilight charged her horn with a little bit of magic and gave off a small electric charge to the machine. The lights on it immediately turned on and the machine began making beeping noises.

"I think that got it." Tails stated wiping sweat from his forehead.

Spike walked up to it, "Uh, how is it supposed to work?"

"See those numbers on the machine?" Tails asked pointing, "That's an indicator showing the exact proximately of an energy source, or more pacifically a Chaos Emerald."

Twilight then approached it, fascinated of his crafting, "How do we know if we're close to one of those emeralds."

"To begin with, that percentage on the top of the screen shows how close we are to a power source. It's showing a hundred percent right now because of that necklace around your neck. The rest of the numbers below show how strong it is. Those numbers are low right now because it's only detecting your lone element. By projecting an approximate power number of a Chaos Emerald, it should be able to pick it up from a five mile radius."

Spike's mind just blew out of his little head trying to understand a word he's saying, but Twilight understood every bit of it. She couldn't get enough of hearing him talk in technical terms; it just tingles her nerves.

Suddenly, Twilight heard her assistant burp up a small green flame, revealing a scroll and a black book dropping by it. She levitated the scroll to her and unraveled it. The Princesses' signature was at the bottom.

My dearest student Twilight Sparkle

I've forgotten to give you something before you left Canterlot. The book I've sent has been reserved for many generations of my elite solders who stand for the greater good of this kingdom. I believe it is time I pass it on to you.

Princess Celestia.

She levitated the black book. The cover of the book had a series of weird white symbols on all four corners of the cover. There was an alicorn standing on his hind legs on it, with giant wings fully extended on its sides. There was a title hovering above it reading, martial arts for unicorns, deadly spells and matter manutpulation revealed. Twilight flipped through the book and saw almost every other page with drawn illustrations of different stances and how to charge a certain spell. It shocked her to her roots.

"I...I thought this book was just a myth." Twilight thought out loud.

Spike took the book and skimmed through it. He couldn't understand what anything in the book meant, but by glancing at the different symbols, he can tell this book was something special.

"What's so special about it?" Spike asked.

"This, Spike; is the book that Celestia uses to teach the elites. It's not just any kind of teaching, it teaches deadly magic that is forbidden to exercise in Equestia. I never thought Celestia would have anybody converge it into a book.
Twilight has heard only rumors of that book. She has seen a handful of elite guards train when she was in Canterlot with Celestia. It terrified her to the core, the amount of power those solders posse. Creating magical spheres that explodes on impact, summoning lightning that can skewer stone, emitting scorching flames around your body and hurling it to a would be attacker. The princess is giving it to her just like that? Even though it may be for her safety? She never felt so bestowed.

"Spike, take the book down and lay it on the table." She asked of him, "I'm planning on staying up."

He saluted like a baby dragon would and went down stairs. Tails was pushing a couple of buttons on the machine to calibrate it and turned it off, turning it back to Twilight.

"I'm bushed." He yawned, "Where do you want me to sleep?"

She was about to say living room so she could secretly watch him, but took it back before she answered.

"You can sleep in my room, but let me warn you, Spike is a pretty loud snorer."
He can hear a faint sound coming from upstairs, "I've slept through worst…I'm going to contact Sonic tomorrow so we can get ready to search."

They traveled upstairs to the main library. The black book was resting on the table, right were Spike was instructed to place it. Tails was just about to head upstairs until Twilight called him.

"Wait." She had a little smirk on her face, "Can you explain to me how that thing in your ear works again?"

"Sure. It receives radio frequencies from another user and translates it into speech."

Twilight tingled with excitement when those words reached her ears. She went for her book and began reading the forbidding contents inside.

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Discord gazed upon the night sky. Eggman was right on cue with his landing, he can sense his presents getting closer and closer by each second as his Space Carrier prepares to land. There was a problem, though. He can also sense another being close to him. If he can remember correctly, it was the presence of a changeling, nasty little pests that harassed his kingdom when he was ruler of Equestia. He definably recognizes their ruler, or 'mother' in this case; something he'd rather not remember. Why, this would never do! He can bet his lion paw that their queen is eyeing at the carrier, an easy prey since all of those machines were destroyed. He needed a mechanical master mind to infiltrate Celesta's Kingdom, not a swarm of cos-players. She always looking for something to take over, anything; didn't matter! Least he has a solution to this problem, a fun solution at that. He happened to find another emerald just an hour ago while sunbathing inside a volcano, and he just made a friend that can harness it. Shadow rather surprises him, though. He never imagined him to have a soft spot for lives; contrary of what he seen when he was watching him escaping from Canterlot. He didn't even have to corrupt him, the only thing he had to do was perform a small illusion spell and everything was set.

Shadow was waiting for him yet again in the Ever Free Forest, looking upon Luna's moon. He knew deep down inside, that she could have taken him out in a full fight, even with his emerald. Suddenly, Discord appeared in front of him holding a small paper-wrapped box with a pink bow on top.

"What's that?" He growled in his usual deep tone.

"Why, it's a gift!" Discord cheered, "I just wanted to give you something for all the trouble you've put yourself through."

Shadow shrugged and took the box from him. When he took the cute little bowl off and opened the box, he couldn't believe his eyes…It was a Chaos Emerald.

"Where did you find it?" he demanded.

"I've bumped into it while snooping around in a volcano somewhere; it was a matter of luck really."

Shadow took the emerald, holding it in his other hand. He felt energy, strong energy; mounts of power surging through his body, begging to be unleashed. The two emeralds vanished, now imbedded in him. Discord hovered just slightly away from him, surprised of how much energy those things actually hold.

"Now, there is a vicious race of ponies that was eyeballing Canterlot. It would be convenient of you if you would to go over there and take out their uh…'Mother'".

"Why should I?" Shadow asked annoyed, "That will only help if I strike the same time they do."

Discord hovered closer to him, "Those things are after those emeralds too, dear Shadow." He lied, "I can't imagine you going against not two, but three alicorns at the same time."

"So it's smarter to take her out alone."

"Exactly, and that's not all, she's weaker than the two princesses. I've heard that she managed to stand against Celestia toe to toe and won, but the way I understand it, it was under special circumstances."

"What happened during the invasion?" He asked curiously.

"Well, they planned a strike during a royal wedding. Their leader disguised herself as the bribe and tried to marry the captain of the Royal Guard. Things didn't go exactly as planned, but she fed off of so much love that she stored enough energy to overpower Celestia."

Shadow raised his hands, "Wait…Feed off of love?"

"I know, it's cheesy." Discord sighed, "The invasion was thwarted when Cadence escaped. If I'm correct, they should be weaken enough for you to take the whole colony out! With my help of course."

Shadow sneered at the moon, "If it's worth freeing a kingdom from bondage; I'll do it."

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Author's notes.

Don't you just love it when Pinkie breaks the fourth wall…I love it too.

I know this chapter didn't have any kind of action, but I promise you the next chapter will be a lot better. I decided to do a whole chapter of the characters interacting with each other. Sonic and Rainbow will be talking in the next chapter, I guarantee it! I have plenty of plans I'm about to execute, and I want every reader to be there to experience it.

How did everyone like the interaction? I was planning on having Fluttershy and Amy talking, but I'm saving that for later. (if I did put those two in this chapter, it would have been pretty boring). This chapter feels a little weak, but I'm planning making it up for it.

O.K. Deadline. I'm thinking about December 14. I should be done way before then, but you never know.

And about my pole. Readers, please vote! I'm planning on making another mlp fanfic and I need your opinion to do my story. I won't do one if no one will read it.

And lastly, I wish I could shake everybody's hand. This story is really taking off better than I suspected. You readers made this happen! If it hasn't been for your comments, I wouldn't know what to do.

Brohoof and all of that good stuff! (I mean seriously, what kind of traditions do you fans carry?)

Next time on When Chaos Stirs

What happens if Robotnik kidnaps dangerous creatures from the Ever Free Forest and turns them into machines? What happens if Shadow is put up against a swarm of Changelings with nothing but two ancient emeralds? And how in the heck will the mane 6 and the Sonic Team will settle their differences?

FOLLOW TO FIND OUT!

(If you find the sneak peak a little annoying; just comment…I'll be more than happy to keep you in the dark.)