Thank you for all the reviews everbody. Also, the mechbeast in this chapter is based off the Predator aliens

"Sonic?" asked Bunnie Rabbot as she walked out of the fortress. "So this is where you went all this time after losing Antoine," said Sonic. "Yes," she replied. "But why did yah come here?" he asked. "My grief of Antoine," she said. "Why did you come here?" she asked him. Sonic told her all about the story of the search for the Chaos Emeralds and the Gems of Light.

"You're welcome to join the search," said Sonic. "No thanks, ah would rather stay with my uncle instead," she said. Sonic accepted but felt sad at it but still a little happiness at meeting his Freedom Fighter teammate again. He walked back to the Freedom Fighter Special and waved goodbye to Bunnie Rabbot and she waved back.

After he got back on the plane, Rainbow Dash asked him, "Who's she?" "Another friend of mine," he replied and told the whole story of how Bunnie Rabbot was a member of the Freedom Fighters and how Antoine's comma drove her to leave. "She had a good reason," said Applejack, who had heard him telling it. "Still, I wish she didn't leave us," he said sadly. As they were walking, Finn suddenly had a vision appear in his head and Twilight too. In the vision, Xanazor appeared again, showing them a map of the Kronosian-Changeling army and the distance from New Mobotropolis which wasn't very far.

After snapping out of the vision, Finn told Sonic what happened. "Again?" he said. "But we must get the Chaos Emeralds quickly," said Finn. Sonic then went to the piloting room and asked Tails, "What did Rotor say?" "He said that he's asked the other Freedom Fighters for help and so far, there hasn't been much responses, so I'm afraid that there's a chance that we'll have to rely on your super forms and the Team Freedom to defend us." Sonic gulped.

"So where are the other Chaos Emeralds?" asked Finn. "They're in the Special Zone and wait! I forgot to bring the Warp Rings to bring us there," said Tails. "Then how are we going to get there?" asked Finn. "Floating Island!" said Sonic. "An island that floats?" asked Twilight. "Hopefully it has warp rings that can get us there," said Sonic. "That's good to hear," said Rainbow Dash. "Knuckles will definitely allow us," he said. "Who's Knuckles?" asked all the non-Mobian members. "Another friend of mine," said Sonic. "Like I said before, you really do have a lot of friends," said Twilight. "You sure do," said Pinkie Pie.

After a while, the plane flew until it saw a large island hovering in the sky. "That must be it!" said Applejack, pointing at it. Tails got the telescope into view. "It is," he said. "Something's wrong here," said Sonic. "What could possibly go wrong?" asked Finn. "Look," he said and pointed at some smoke coming from it. "Get down quickly! Knuckles might be in trouble!" said Sonic and the plane flew at a fast speed there. "Land on Shrine Isle!" said Sonic.

When it landed, everyone ran out and saw the Shrine Isle was on fire, with the Master Emerald intact but the Chaotix which consisted of Knuckles, Julie-Su, Vector, Charmy, Espio and Saffron was facing off against a mechbeast. The mechbeast had eight red glowing eyes, a large jaw filled with sharp teeth, dreadlocks, and was holding a spiky mace. "Looks mean," said Pinkie Pie. "That, my friends, is Knuckles," said Sonic, pointing at the red echidna.

At the moment, Knuckles shouted to him, "What are you standing there, please help us!" "Sheesh," he said and immediately ran to where Knuckles and his group were standing and helped to confront the mechbeast.

The mechbeast immediately acknowledged its new threats and charged at them.

Right before it could bring its spiky mace down on them, it hit a purple shield and it saw that Twilight Sparkle was generating it.

It growled and charged forward with a lot of might that it shattered her shield but before it could bring it down on all of them, Julie-Su fired her blaster at its face.

It roared in pain and clutched its face while randomly hitting them and Twilight, Rarity and Silver used their powers to try and create force fields. The mechbeast, very angered, jumped high up and charged toward them but everyone just stepped aside and it hit the emerald shrine instead.

As it got back up, Sonic spin-dashed it, knocking it to the ground again.

The mechbeast jumped back to its feet quickly, with its mace in hand. It swung at them again but it got caught in Vector the Crocodile's hands. The mechbeast used a lot of its might and Vector was slowly losing strength, trying to block the mace. But then, a lot of bullets hit the mechbeast and it gave up trying to bring it down to see that the bullets came from, and saw Omega had his gun arms stretched out.

The mechbeast immediately ran toward Omega, mace raised but before it could do anything, it got hit by a screw kick and fell to the ground AGAIN. It pulled itself to its knees but Knuckles rushed forward against it and hit it really hard in the back while Sonic simultaneously spin-dashed at the mechbeast's chest and both went clean through it, dismembering the mechbeast and Fluttershy covered her eyes during the simultaneous attack.

The mechbeast's parts disintegrated a short time afterwards. Then, Knuckles walked up to Sonic, "What have you come here for and who are those people?" he asked him while pointing to Finn, Jake, the Mane Six and Spike. "Some new friends," said Sonic and he explained all about the search for the emeralds and the Gems of Light, the dimension travel, and the Kronosian threat. "I'll say," said Knuckles, after hearing his story. "Now, do you have warp rings?" asked Sonic. "Yes, they're in the Emerald Shrine," said Knuckles and he lead the group to inside.

When they got inside, they saw a warp ring and it was glowing a golden color. "So shiny," said Pinkie Pie when she looked at it. "Is it some kind of portal?" asked Finn. "Yes," said Sonic. "How does it work then?" he asked.

Knuckles went to get the ring and after doing some things with it, tossed it and it created a portal to a place. "This is it, the Special Zone," said Sonic. Everyone all walked into it and found themselves on a platform and there were other hovering platforms and sphere around and the place was very colorful. "So this is the Special Zone," said Rarity looking around, "It has very strange looking patterns." "When I first came here, I thought there was something wrong with the place," said Sonic.

"Back so soon?" came on omnipresent voice. "Feist?!" said Sonic in surprise. "Of course," he said. "We've come here for the rest of the Chaos Emeralds," said Finn. "So you've brought some new friends along," he said to Sonic. Then he saw Shadow, Rouge and Omega. "You again?!" he shouted in anger when he saw the trio. "Please," said Tails, "If we don't get it soon enough, our homeland might be destroyed." he pleaded to Feist. "I still remember the fact that you were one of Naugus's enemies and we both shared a mutual hate against him, so I'll think about that," said Feist. "Speaking of Naugus, we defeated him," said Twilight Sparkle. This caught the entity's attention. "Are you not bluffing?" "We defeated him with these," said Twilight, "Show your Element of Harmony," she said to the rest of the Mane Six. They all pulled out their Elements to show to him. Feist looked with wonder at them. "Is he gone once and for all?" he asked. "The Elements of Harmony destroy evil so I guess he is," she replied. "Finally, that old fool is gone," thought Feist in his mind.

Since you did destroy the hated Naugus once and for all, I can give the last two to you without you having to complete a challenge but you'll have to complete a challenge for the first one," he said.

Then, he created the course. It consisted of a very long twisted pathway and they could see a yellow glow. "That must be it," said Finn, looking at it. "You have a time limit and your time counts down now!" said Feist and everyone all raced for it, but when Shadow, Rouge and Omega were about to join, Feist created a barrier, "You will cheat like last time and I cannot let you in," he said to the trio. Shadow responded angrily by tossing a Chaos Spear at Feist while Omega fired bullet rounds but Feist simply created a barrier around him which the attacks harmlessly bounced off of. "You will only watch your teammates," said Feist to them. The trio had no choice but to look over the barrier and see how they were doing.

Meanwhile, on the pathway, Sonic, Rainbow Dash, and the others were doing relatively well except that Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Finn kept crashing into barriers that were in the way and Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, and Silver found out that they couldn't move all the barriers and obstacles out of the way and the rest of the group had no choice but to run as fast as they could without getting halted by the barriers.

While the others were having A LOT of difficulty with the barriers, Sonic and Rainbow Dash were fast enough to evade them and in the middle, Rainbow Dash said to him, "Wanna race to see who's fastest?" "You bet! it's a rematch!"said Sonic and the two took off toward the Chaos Emerald at a very fast speed which was so fast they actually smashed though the barriers without slowing down for some reason.

When they were racing, both semed evenly matched and none were slowing down or getting ahead of each other and Feist watched this with amusement. After a while, they both reached the Yellow Chaos Emerald at the same time and afterwards, they and the rest were all teleported back to the platform with both Sonic and Rainbow Dash holding the Yellow Chaos Emerald. "This has been so entertaining," said Feist. "So well you give it now?" panted Finn, "All of us, spent a lot trying to get it." "Of course, a deal is a deal," and he created a portal and out floated the cyan and green chaos emeralds. "Thanks," said Sonic to him as the rest walked out through the warp ring and Feist released Team Dark and let them go through. "Good luck, you'll need it," said Feist right before the Warp Ring closed.

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Finn and the group all walked out of the Warp Ring back to the Emerald Shrine. "So did you get it?" asked Knuckles. Sonic showed the three to him. "Will you be coming?" asked Sonic to him. "The Chaotix will come," he replied, and after all, there hasn't been any threats to Floating Island or any thieves wanting to steal the Master Emerald." "That's great," cheered Pinkie Pie.

The entire group, including all the Chaotix got onto the plane which took off shortly after.

As the plane headed to New Mobotropolis, suddenly, a red sinister symbol(Xanazor's glyph/Kronosian insignia) appeared on the plane's communications screen and Xanazor himself appeared. Everyone all sat back in fear at seeing the Kronosian leader himself. "My army has already reached your pitiful city and now laying siege to it and will turn all of its inhabitants into Kronosians with my Converters, and maybe I will raze the city to the ground as an example to all my subjects of what happens to those who oppose me," he said. "We'll see about that!" said Sonic. Xanazor then ended the transmission. "We've got to get there fast," he said to Tails.

Next chapter, will our heroes save New Mobotropolis in time? Or will Xanazor burn it to the ground? Wait and see.