Thanks for all the follows and favorites everyone. Also, the Dark Ring is an artifact that I made up. The two Kronosian snakes sent to attack our heroes are a reference to the myth of two snakes sent to strangle Hercules.

Back at Dowunda, the group was waving their goodbyes to the Dowunda Freedom Fighters and Finn had recovered but still had to wear a cast on his arm.

"I was great working with you," said Jake to them. "No problem," said Walt Wallaby. "And thanks for helping to get rid of Alcon," said Guru Emu. "You're welcome," said Rainbow Dash proudly. "But how are you going to go to your next place?" asked Barby Koala to them. "Lorina, our AI can fix our plane," said Finn. She gave a sigh of relief. "So how are you going to fix it?" she asked. "Nanites," replied Lorina as she appeared on Finn's disk. Barby Koala replied with a nod.

With some guidance from the Dowunda Freedom Fighters, the group was able to get back to the plane and they waved farewell again to them. Afterwards, Lorina began work on fixing the plane which took a while.

An hour later, the plane was fixed and back to its normal state before it got shot down by the missiles. "Thanks, you're really helpful," commented Sonic to Lorina. "You're welcome," she said. "So where do we go next?" asked Twiligiht Sparkle to her.

Lorina got into scanning form and her projection changed into a radar screen on a map of Mobius and the Mane Six and Spike looked with wonder at her.

After a few seconds, she said, "I've improved myself during the time you spent on this continent and the energy signature is that of a Gem of Light and it is somewhere on a large desert area." "The Great Desert!" excalimed Sonic. "What's with that outburst about some desert?" asked Rainbow Dash. There is a Freedom Fighters group there and a Dark Egg Legion there which are always fighting but the Freedom Fighters there are very notorious," replied Sonic, remembering his previous encounters with the Great Desert Freedom Fighters. "What do you mean by notorious?" asked Finn. "They once captured me before and Bunnie later and they also nearly mistreated the both of us the third time we met them," said Sonic. "Who's Bunnie?" asked Finn, Jake, the Mane Six, and Spike. "Another friend of mine who went missing," replied Sonic with some sadness in his voice.

Everyone showed some sympathy.

"Wait," said Lorina. "I'm getting a message from your home city." "New Mobotropolis," replied Sonic to her. "Can you show us?" asked Tails.

Lorina obeyed and brought up a screen with Rotor's face on it. "Hello Rotor," said Sonic. "How's Sally doing?" "Sonic," said Rotor, "The Dragon Kingdom is under attack and Monkey Khan needs some help and if you want to know how Sally is doing, we're still trying to build a deroboticizer," replied Rotor. "We'll be on our way," said Sonic. Rotor nodded and ended the transmission.

"Dragon Kingdom?" asked Spike with excitement, "Does this mean there are any dragons there?" "No," said Sonic, "The Dragons that once lived there moved away a long time ago, which I don't know why." Spike hung his head low in disapointment. "Who's this 'Monkey Khan'?" asked Twilight to Sonic. "Another friend," he replied. "Wow, you really have a lot of friends here," said Rainbow Dash, who heard the conversation. "Long story," replied Sonic. "Let's just go save the Dragon Kingdom," he said and then the entire group got onto the Freedom Fighter Special plane which took off and flew away.

The plane flew for several hours and finally, Tails said, "I see some smoke and fire!" and everyone ran to the cockpit, to see what was going on while crowding Tails. While looking out the window, they saw the buildings of the Dragon Kingdom but most importantly, saw Kronosians and Changelings attacking the place. "Not them again," said Twilight.

"I've never seen those creatures before," said Sonic. "What are they?" "They are Changelings and they once nearly took over Canterlot and they feed on love," she said. "Doesn't sound that tough," said Sonic, "I've faced worse." "Trust me, they are," she said.

The Freedom Fighter Special landed on the group ran out and found the surroundings to be on fire. "Where's Monkey Khan?" asked Sonic to a villager that was fleeing. "He's fighting the leaders of the attack," said the villager, panickingly as he pointed toward a collection of burning buildings where there seemed to be a battle raging behind them. "Thanks for the information," said Sonic right before he spin-dashed there and Rainbow Dash shouted, "Wait for me!" as she flew after him at a fast speed, while the group once again, ran exhaustingly to keep up.

When they got there, they saw that Monkey Khan was facing off against a mechbeast that had dragon wings, a hairy body and the heads of a goat and a lion. "It looks very strange," commented Rarity on its appearance.

The mechbeast was facing off against Monkey Khan and the mechbeast was being directed by a figure on a hoverboard which had the body of a snake and a white humanoid head with red eyes and also floating was Queen Chrysalis who was watching the battle with amusement.

Finn grabbed up a rock and tossed it at the mechbeast which, after hitting caught its attention. "Hey, pick on someone your own size!" shouted Finn to it. "Finn, what are you doing, you might get killed, and you're not completely healed yet," said Fluttershy with concern at him. "I've been in worst situations," he replied.

The mechbeast growled at Finn. "Mechbeast, attack him" ordered the snake man at it, but the mechbeast misheard and its lion head shot fire at the snake man, leaving him on fire while everyone including Queen Chrysalis giggled at him. "No, you idiot, them, not me!" he shouted in anger at the mechbeast but it angered the mechbeast and its goat head shot a torrent of air at him which sent him flying into a building. Then, it flew to attack the group.

Finn got knocked to the ground by the mechbeast's air attack but Sonic spindashed it.

The attack only pushed the mechbeast back a little bit and made it a little angry. It roared once again and was about to jump but several bullets and a magic blast hit it and it turned to see that E-123 Omega and Twilight fired the shots. The mechbeast growled and flew at them but while Twilight ran the moment it came, Omega kept on firing round after round of machine gun fire at it and a few landed in the goat head's mouth, destroying it.

The snake man then got back up from where he landed and gloated, "You may have destroyed one head but it isn't dead yet!" After he said that, the beast itself charged up a fire blast with is remaining head which it was about to fire but a blast hit it right in time and destroyed the lion head. Headless, the mechbeast fell to the ground and it disintegrated. "Noooooooo," shouted the snake man. "We'll see how you will get what you came to look for now," said Monkey Khan as he got up with a few injuries from his battle. "This isn't over," he shouted. "Queen Chrysalis, go get the Dark Ring while I shall take care of these weaklings," he said. "Not on my watch!" shouted Sonic right before he spindashed toward him but the snake man just shot a blast from his snake mouth which repelled Sonic. "Go," commanded the snake man to Queen Chrysalis. Then, she flew away.

"Now, allow me to introduce myself, I am General Serpentius, one of Xanazor's generals, and the smartest of them," he said. "My master's reclaimation of all your worlds is inevitable."

"That's where you're wrong since we have already have the Elements of Harmony, two Gems of Light, and four Chaos Emeralds," said Twilight Sparkle. "The Kronosians are not to be underestimated," replied General Serpentius. Just then, Rouge went for a screw kick while Omega opened fire but Serpentius dodged them all. "As I said, the Kronosians are not to be underestimat-" but was cut off when he got spin-dashed from behind by Sonic who just recovered from his earlier attack. "So much for that," taunted Sonic. "Even if you defeat me," he said as he was getting up, "My partner, Queen Chrysalis will retrieve the energy source we are looking for." "What are you talking about?" asked Sonic. "Let me answer that," said Monkey Khan. "A few weeks ago, shortly after the Iron Queen and Snively were taken away by Dr. Eggman, I found what Serpentius called the Dark Ring and I kept it here and I knew that someone would come take it but I couldn't find any other place to hide it," he said. "So you're the entire reason why they are attacking?!" accused Rainbow Dash. "In some way, yes," he said guiltily. "Now's not the time for accusing each other, let's kick the Kronosians out of here!" said Finn as he pushed apart the two. Then Finn gathered everyone. "Me, Jake, Sonic, Tails and Amy will take on Serpentius while you seven, Monkey Khan, Silver and Team Dark," he said pointing at Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Spike, Monkey Khan Shadow, Rouge and Omega, "Go stop Chrysalis from getting this 'Dark Ring,'"

Everyone nodded in agreement and set out.

"You think just the five of you can take one me? I am one of the strongest Kronosians and you should have made it the other way around," taunted General Serpentius as the five surrounded him. "We'll see about that," said Finn. "Then so be it." Serpentius fired a laser blast from his snake mouth at them but they scattered. "Mouth attack!" he commanded and snapped his snake jaws right toward Jake and bit him, causing Jake a lot of pain. "Get off my friend!" shouted Finn as he leapt toward him but General Serpentius jumped away in time and Finn crashed into Jake instead.

"I've been wanting to see if my hypnotic powers can still work on every single organism," said General Serpentius and he then looked around and immediately attacked Finn and coiled him up. "Look into me eyes," he commanded as he stared with his hypnotic eyes at Finn and Finn tried to resist by slowly turned to look at them. "Yes," said General Serpentius but before he could finish the hypnotic process, he got pummeled in the head by a hammer and fell down, unconscious. Finn snapped out of his trance and saw Amy Rose with her hammer standing above an unsconscious General Serpentius. "Turns out you are not as strong as you say you are," she said.

"The others!" shouted Finn. This caught everyone's attention and they ran to where the others were and destroyed some Kronosians on the way.

Meanwhile, the others and Queen Chrysalis were evenly matched against each other. Silver clashed his pyschokinetic powers against Queen Chrysalis's magic and while they were fighting, a few Changelings and Kronosians that she summoned were fighting the rest. Rainbow Dash repeatedly charged into Kronosians and Changelings, Twilight Sparkle focused her magic in blasts, same with Rarity, Pinkie Pie pulled out her party cannon which sent the enemies flying with each shot, Applejack bucked them and Spike shot fireballs at them, Shadow used spin-dashes and Chaos spears against them, Rouge used screw kicks, and Omega mowed down hordes with machine gun fire, and Monkey Khan sent blasts or pummeled several with his staff.

As the group was gaining the upper hand, Finn, Jake, Sonic, Amy Rose, and Tails arrived. "You?!" she said with anger. "It's over," said Finn with determination. Queen Chrysalis immediately flew toward the cave where it was held but found that she couldn't move and turned to see Silver had his hands extended and there was a blue aura surrounding his hands and her. "Ready to give up yet?" said Sonic. "No," she snarled.

Right before anyone could do anything, there was an explosion in the cave where the Dark Ring was held. Out of the smoke jumped out a white armored figure who had red lights on his armor and was clutching the Dark Ring. "General Dienus!" they all said. "You know him?" asked Monkey Khan. "He attacked us doing the search," said Finn. "We're not going to let you ruin us again," shouted Sonic right before he spin-dashed toward him but General Dienus simply blocked the attack, which deflected Sonic. "Let's go," he said toward Queen Chrysalis and he, Queen Chrysalis and all the Kronosians and Changelings, including the still- unconscious General Serpentius all teleported away.

"No," said Monkey Khan as he watched all this unfold. "Cheer up," we'll find the Chaos Emeralds and the Gems of Light and beat them eventually," comforted Sonic. Monkey Khan walked around and looked up at the sky and the sun was setting. "Since you did help us," he said. "You can stay for the night." "Thank you," said Rarity towards him. "Yeah, thanks," said Finn. "At least we don't have to sleep on the plane, commented Rainbow Dash. "So where are we going to sleep?" asked Jake. Monkey Khan led them all to several houses and said, "You will by staying here for the night." "Thanks for your hospitality," said Silver to him.

Everyone all got to their rooms and sat down. "Man this is really comfortable," said Finn as he lay on his bed. "Totally agree," said Jake. In the other rooms, the others were also got comfortable with their beds. In the room where Sonic, Amy, and Tails stayed, Sonic said, "I wonder how is Sally doing," "Maybe just fine," said Tails. "After all, Rotor said that it was going just well." "But still, I wonder if Eggman is still up to his plans now."

In the other room, the Mane Six and Spike did also get comfortable on their beds. "This bed is so comfortable but not that decorated," commented Rarity on the bed. "It is," agreed Spike. "I am missing home," said Applejack. While they were talking, Twilight went to the window to look at the moon and for some reason, although it didn't look like Equestria's moon, it reminded her of Luna. "I do to," she said. After talking for a while, they went to sleep. In the other rooms, Team Dark, and in a seperate one, Silver went to sleep too and to Silver, he hadn't slept that well in many days. But when they went to sleep, they didn't notice two Kronosian snakes watching them and plotting to attack.

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In Finn and Jake's room, they were sleeping soundly and one of the two snakes crept to theirs while the others went to attack the one the Mane Six and Spike were sleeping in. The snake slithered, its red eyes glowing and hissed. It looked at its two targets and decided to attack Finn, who it believed to be the strong one and hissed and opened its mouth and was about to bite when suddenly it got grabbed. The snake turned its head to see that Jake was awake and had his arm stretched out. "Stay away from him," warned Jake in a threatening tone. The snake responded with a hiss. "Take this," he shouted, and he threw the snake with all his might at the wall but because Jake used all his might, he snake fell through the wall and out the room and landed into a tree.

Meanwhile, in the other room, the other snake was slowly sneaking up on the Mane Six and Spike.

The snake's hissing alerted Fluttershy and she woke up. She saw the snake, its red eyes and its sharp fangs, and she felt incredibly scared and screamed. Her scream woke up the the others and Applejack rubbed her eyes and saw the snake, "What is that?" she said. "It's a snake," said Spike. The snake crept closer with its mouth wide open and its fangs fully exposed. "It wants to kill us," said Rainbow Dash. This frightened Fluttershy and she backed away from the snake even more. The snake took some pleasure in that but continued to slither forward until it found itself caught in a purple aura and Twilight was on her hooves. Twilight shook her head in a direction and tossed out the snake through the wall and it landed at the same tree where the other snake landed.

The two snakes then coiled together, eyes glowing very red, combined into each other in a red aura which expanded to a very large size and when the aura cleared, the two snakes had transformed into a single mechbeast, a two snake headed mechbeast which arms and legs.

It gave a very loud roar.

In the other rooms, Shadow, Rouge, Omega, Sonic, Silver, Amy, Finn and Tails were all awakened by the loud roar. They all ran outside and Monkey Khan came too. "What the heck is that?" asked Finn. "It looks like another mechbeast," said Lorina. "I believe it was a recently created mechbeast unlike some others who were created long ago in the Starrunner Civil War," she said.

"Monkey Khan, do you have anything that can beat it quickly?" asked Finn to him. "The Fan of Fen Xing!" said Monkey Khan. "Fan of what?" asked Finn. "It is a powerful fan that can create strong air currents but I feel that just this cannot defeat the creature," said Monkey Khan. "We have the Elements of Harmony," said Twilight. "What do they do," asked Monkey Khan. "They ave enough power to defeat evil," she replied. Monkey Khan thought for a second. "I'll go get the fan and hold off the creature," he said as he got onto his cloud.

After he left, the group began to fight the creature. Omega fired bullet rounds and punched the creature but the bullets bounced off and it only seemed to annoy it and kicked Omega into a house. Finn leapt onto the mechbeast and made many stabs but just like Omega, didn't do any damage at all. Shadow tossed Chaos spears at it while Sonic spin-dashed the beast but they only left scratches.

The mechbeast responded by roaring and fired a blast at them which scattered in several separate shots and hit the ground. Luckily everyone avoided in time. Silver tried to use his pyschokinetic powers on it but it was too big to control and it responded by shooting some scattershots at them. Jake stretched into a large size and grabbed away Silver before the scattershots hit him.

Jake set down Silver and stretched into the exact same size as the mechbeast and shouted to it, "Pick on someone your own size!" The mechbeast's snake heads hissed and went to bite at Jake but he grabbed them and crashed them into each other. The mechbeast dizzily punched at Jake but it missed at hit a tree and fell down. "Is it dead?" asked Jake as he stepped closer. "Careful, it might be faking dead," cautioned Finn, but right after he said that, the mechbeast threw itself at Jake and tacked him to the ground and was about to sink its fangs into Jake when a powerful whoosh of air sent it flying into a building.

Everyone turned to see that their savior was Monkey Khan who was holding the Fan of Fen Xing. "So that's the fan," said Rarity. "Can I look at it?" she asked. "Later," he said. "Now, let's finish this mechbeast once and for all," said Finn.

The Mane Six then put on their elements and gathered an magic aura while Monkey Khan floated beside them on his cloud with his fan but when he looked at the six ponies in that state, he felt a wonder. The two headed snake mechbeast got back up and was fired scattershots but they had no affect on the six and then they and Monkey Khan released their attacks at it.

The combined attack overwhelmed the mechbeast and it exploded into many tiny pieces which fell to the ground and disintegrated. The seven got back to the ground. "Nice," said Finn.

Rarity got a chance to look at the design on the fan and commented, "It looks great," on it before handing it back to Monkey Khan.

Afterwards, Finn yawned and said, "Let's go back to sleep," as they were walking back to their rooms.