Hello everyone and everypony! We got another chapter here, yay! Let's see who reviewed.

Captain: I don't know...maybe...you want action, THEN HERE IS SOME.

Glimpse: Thanks! Glad you liked the little extra I put in there.

Gold: Yes, you better watch it Glimpse.

Flutterlikeanangel: Eh, you get used to them. And thanks!

Mario21275: Yes, it is Mephiles of course. Thank Glimpse for the whole jealous thing, he and I came up with that idea. I WANT SPOILERS, ARGHHHHHH. Just kidding XD

Dragon Roberts: No more OCs in this story. Plus, you gave me your OCs, and all you said is what they were. No appearance, no personality, just straight up what they were. I can't use them if I know nothing about them. And why stop posting on here?

Aura: Yeah, Gold can be very trolly at times XD

Tail: You will see who it is soon. *whispers* Don't worry, yours are coming soon after.

BADA55: Nope, not Discord, I don't like having the same villain pop into the story as the prequel. I plan on making it very interesting.

Alex: Oh did not know that about the Rainboom, thanks for the info.

Newplayer100: Okay, let me explain some stuff, just to help. Reason Glimpse needed to learn to read is because he was never meant to do simple tasks like that. He was engineered to fight for his people in the military, like how Shadow was made by Eggman to fight for him, making Shadow a bit socially awkward and shows little emotion. I don't have 100% of the details on that, go read Glimpse's backstory story or just ask Glimpse himself if you are still confused. And it isn't so much that Gold is jealous because of what she is doing, but the fact that she would rather help Glimpse right now than hang with Gold. I guess it is one of Gold's flaws, he can be very clingy at times and likes attention. Gotta have some flaws, am I right? Twilight on the other hand, or hoof I guess, want to take time to help everypony, despite who they are or who she is, princess or not. Hope that clears up a little bit. Thanks!

Werewolf: Good advice! Or I can just watch a MLP creepy-pasta video to get the song out.

This chapter has action in it. And a surprise. Prepare for the epicness.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except Gold, the Eon, the plot, etc. All OCs belong to their respectful owners.

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Gold the Fox presents...

Eon Chronicles

Darkened Dawn

Chapter 9: The Power of Others

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Gold and Tails were hard at work on the new plane by reforging and rewiring the old plane Gold had used when they went to the wedding. They both had goggles on to protect their face from the metal and any sparks that would fly. Gold stuck to mostly the outer section of the plane, making and forging metal to replace or patch up any of the old metal. He also decided after it was done, he was going to be the one to paint and finalize it. Tails worked on the inner workings of the plane, working on the engine and the jets in the plane to make sure they were in tip-top shape and the latest model. Gold was working on soldering some metal together while Tails was under the plane.

"How does it look under there Tails?" Gold asked through his mask that was protecting his face while he was working with the metal.

Tails rolled out under the plane to talk for a moment.

"A lot of the engine looks intact, just need to upgrade the parts for maximum efficiency." Tails said and went back under.

Gold stopped with the metal and lifted up the face mask and looked at the plane.

"Sounds good." Gold said.

"You know, I'm glad we are fixing up this thing. I had just planned to send it to the scrap heap because of outdated it was." Tails said, under the plane.

"Yeah, it was a dinosaur. Surprised it made it to the wedding."

"Yeah, that surprised me." Tails said, turning something in the engine.

"I don't know how you even build these planes." Gold said.

"I just love it, building and flying stuff." Tails said simply.

"Plus, you are like the smartest person I know, next to Twilight." Gold said.

Gold heard a small bang under the plane and then a whispered curse word from the same place.

"Just not smart enough to not hit your head on the plane." Gold said with a chuckle.

"I heard that." Tails said, rubbing his head where he had hit it.

"I don't know what you are talking about." Gold said sarcastically.

"So how smart is Twilight anyway?" Tails said, over hitting his head already.

"Well she does have a giant library and Spike told me that she has read all of those books three times each already." Gold explained.

"Yeah, but it isn't like she has all the books in the world." Tails stated.

"Well yeah, but she studies like eight hours a day in Equestria." Gold said.

"Well I don't think she knows much about planes or mechanics or quantum physics." Tails said.

"I'm sorry we are all out of peanut butter today." Gold said with a smirk that Tails didn't see.

"Are you implying what I think you are implying?" Tails said as he rolled out under the plane again.

"I don't know Tails, why don't you go ask Twilight for the answer?" Gold said, now showing his smirk.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Tails said defensively.

"Sorry, we are also out of ice to put on that burn." Gold said.

"These puns are getting ridiculous..."

"I'm sorry, can't hear you over this sizzling that I hear of a burn." Gold said.

"I'm gonna get you somehow." Tails said, marking his words.

"The day you get me back is the day that Sonic is faster than me." Gold said with a smirk.

"I guess that is today then." Tails said with his own smirk.

Gold was about to open his mouth to comment back, but didn't say anything.

"Are you making hot dogs, cause I smell something burning." Tails said and went back under the plane.

Gold stood there for a second and finally spoke.

"This is why we are best friends." Gold said.

"You know it." Tails said under the plane.

Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy walked past the garage door that was inside and saw them working. They walked in to talk.

"Morning y'all." Gold said, imitating Applejack.

"Did you just try to imitate me?" she said with annoyance.

"I most certainly did not." Gold said with a smirk, now imitating Rarity.

"How rude!" Rarity gawked.

Gold laugh at there reactions and went back to talking normally, "Morning."

"Why didn't you imitate Fluttershy?" Applejack asked.

"Cause that is just plain mean." Gold said.

Applejack and Rarity looked at the pegasus in question and all Fluttershy did was shrug.

"Anyway...we are heading over the Sonic's to have Rainbow come here and check out the awesome basement you got here." Applejack explained.

"Alright then, thanks for letting us know." Tails said from under the plane.

He quickly got himself out of under the plane and stopped them from leaving right before they did.

"WAIT!" he yelled.

The three ponies came back because of his shout.

"Where is Pinkie." Tails said seriously.

"She is sleeping still, she had a long night." Fluttershy said quietly.

"Oh thank Chaos, I was worried she was pressing the party button, alright, have fun." Tails said relieved.

"AND STAY SAFE Y'ALL!" Gold shouted as they left.

"I'M GONNA KICK YOU SO HARD WHEN WE GET BACK!" Gold heard Applejack yell back, and Gold laughed.

"Really, imitating them?" Tails said.

"What? It was funny!" Gold said jokingly.

"Actually, it was a bit rude." Tails said seriously.

"Aw come on now, I was just having a little of fun." Gold said.

"There's a limit you know." Tails said.

"Tails, we have Pinkie with us, there is no limit to fun." Gold said with a laugh.

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Back at Gold's house...

Glimpse was silently reading to himself, having only three more pages of the newspaper to read. Twilight was invested in her own book that she brought with her to Mobius. Glimpse would occasionally ask for what a word meant or how to say it, but by now he was pretty independent. He noticed that Gold wasn't around.

"Hey, where is Gold?" Glimpse asked, putting down the paper for a moment.

Twilight looked up from her book to answer, "I believe he went to Tails's house to work on his plane." she said and went back to her book.

"They are making a plane?" he asked.

"Yes, they are fixing the one up from the wedding." Twilight said, not looking up this time.

"Oh."

"Speaking of them, I think I'm gonna head over there, Gold did say he wanted to take a walk with me, but I've been here." Twilight said.

"Alright, well, I got a couple of more pages to read before I'm finished, I'll head over there when I'm finished. I wanna see this plane of theirs." Glimpse said.

"Sounds good." Twilight said, now at the door to leave.

"Oh, and Twilight?" Glimpse said, making her stop for a moment.

"What word is it?" Twilight asked, assuming that was what he was going to ask.

"No, it's no word. I just want to say thank you, for helping me out. It means a lot." Glimpse said rather sincerely.

"It's no problem Glimpse. I'm just being nice, there is no need to thank me." Twilight said with a warm smile and then left.

Why does she remind me so much of, no, don't think of her, Glimpse thought to himself. Well, let's get this paper finished, he thought and went back to reading.

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At Sonic's house...

Knock, knock, knock. Sonic got up from watching the television to answer the door. He saw three ponies outside and called to Rainbow.

"RAINBOW YOU GOT COMPANY!" Sonic yelled.

"I'M TRYING TO SLEEP HERE!" Rainbow yelled from a different room in the hallway.

"WELL WAKE UP!"

Rainbow reluctantly got out of bed and walked into the living room.

"Oh my, Rainbow, your mane..." Rarity said.

Rainbow's mane was all messed up from sleeping and getting a bed head when she woke up.

"Let me just fix that for you." Rarity said.

Rarity ran around Rainbow for a few seconds and then came back to the other ponies. Rainbow's mane was back to the way it was supposed to be.

"I don't know how you did that fast but anyway, why are you here?" Sonic asked.

"We wanted Rainbow to come see the basement at Tails's house." Applejack answered him.

"That sounds awesome! I don't know about twenty percent awesome, but still awesome." Rainbow said.

"Well I have some stuff to do around here before I go anywhere, so I'll catch up to you later." Sonic said.

Rainbow and the rest of the ponies were already a few feet from the house, "THAT IS IF YOU CAN CATCH UP TO ME!"

"DARN YOU, RAINBOW DASHHHHHHHHH!" Sonic yelled.

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Back at Tails's house...

Gold and Tails were still hard at work on the new plane when a certain mare woke up and came upstairs.

"Oh dear Chaos, she's awake." Tails said as Pinkie came into the work site.

"Morning you two." she said rather calmly.

"Good...morning...?" Gold said cautiously, not wanting Pinkie to explode in happiness.

"Boy, I'm still tired..." Pinkie said, letting out a yawn.

"You aren't gonna explode in absolute pandemonium?" Tails asked carefully.

"I will eventually, just a bit tired from last night." Pinkie said.

"What happened last night?" Gold asked curiously.

"We had a party, duh." Pinkie said, knocking on Gold's head, like duh.

"You had a party last night, and I didn't even know?" Tails said, with a little anger.

"Yeah, it was- TAIL TWITCH!" Pinkie said randomly, almost immediately back as random and crazy as normal.

"Oh there she is." Gold pointed out.

"NO SERIOUSLY, TAIL TWITCH!" Pinkie said running around.

"Okay, your tail twitched, big deal." Tails said.

"NO YOU TWO DON'T UNDERSTAND. When my tail twitches, it means something is going to happen, something big!" Pinkie explained quickly.

"Okay, I can understand breaking the fourth wall and walking on the ceiling, but being able to sense the future, that is a little too much, even if you are Pinkie." Tails said.

"NO I'M SERIOUS, SOMETHING IS GONNA HAPPEN." Pinkie said in Tails's face.

"Tails, this sounds crazy, but we should listen, what if something is gonna happen?" Gold said, with some seriousness.

"Alright fine, but if it is just a party..." Tails said and they went out into the world to see if something was gonna happen.

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Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were all talking among themselves while walking, Rainbow hovering with her wings. The talk was mostly about what Tails's basement was like and some other random topics here or there. While they were walking, they bumped into Twilight, also heading for Tails's house.

"Oh hey you guys." Twilight said after bumping into them.

"You heading for Tails's house too?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah, gonna see what Gold is doing and if he still wants to take that walk with me." Twilight answered.

"Oh walks, what a pleasant thing to do." someone said from around them.

The ponies gathered up in the middle of the street into a circle to face who was there.

"Where are you? Show yourself!" Rainbow yelled from the circle.

"How brave of you, Element of Loyalty. But I do not need you right now." the voice said around them.

"Well you are gonna get me if you don't come out and fight!" Rainbow yelled again.

"Actually, like I said, I don't need you." the voice said. "I will need you."

Twilight was suddenly surrounded in a dark aura and thrown out of the circle to the side. She got up from the ground only to be immobilized in the dark aura, unable to move.

"And who else wants to be my partner for this magic trick." the voice said. "Oh, how about you."

Next Applejack had the same fate as Twilight and was flung to the side and immobilized in place.

"What in tarnations! Who is doing this!" she said, still able to talk.

"Before I show myself, no interfering." the voice said for the last time and a dark dome covered the other three ponies in the middle between Applejack and Twilight.

"You coward! Trapping us like this! Show yourself now!" Rainbow yelled from inside the dome.

A dark hole opened in the ground and the Dark, known as Mephiles rose from it, with a dark aura around him.

"There, that better?" he said darkly, specifically at Rainbow.

Rainbow kept her words in, in actual fear of Mephiles, an emotion not common to her.

"Now who is talking big." Mephiles said.

"What are you going to do to us?" Twilight asked, struggling to use her magic to free herself.

"I haven't decided yet. Actually, I'm not gonna decide at all, I'm not gonna be the one to determine your fate." he said.

"Then who is!" Twilight yelled.

"Oh someone very close to you, Twilight Sparkle. He will choose who will live and who will die." Mephiles said sinisterly.

Twilight's eyes grew large, for she knew who he was talking about.

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"Pinkie, I swear if you are just tricking us!" Gold said, running at a steady pace with Tails and Pinkie.

"I'm not! My tail doesn't lie!" Pinkie said semi-seriously.

"I can't believe we are basing our knowledge on the twitch of a pony's tail!" Tails said, thinking it was crazy.

"Remember Tails, this is Pinkie's tail, it's special." Gold said with a slight smirk.

"It really is!" Pinkie argued.

Gold and Tails stopped dead in their tracks when they saw the scene. It was Mephiles, standing in front of a dark bubble, with Twilight and Applejack being held above the ground by a dark aura.

Gold closed his eyes and looked down, "Tails, get Glimpse. Pinkie get everyone else. Now." Gold said very seriously.

Tails and Pinkie nodded at each other and went back the way they came, so they could sneak around with getting caught by Mephiles. Gold took a deep breath.

"Okay, Gold, fight the memories, fight 'em. Think of her, think of them, don't think of anything else." he talked to himself.

Gold took another deep breath and yelled out, "MEPHILES!"

Mephiles snapped his head around and saw just the person he wanted to see.

"Oh, here he is, I was wondering when you would show up." Mephiles said.

Gold ran a bit forward to get a little closer, "Let them go!"

"I will."

"I said...wait, what?" Gold said confused.

"You have two choices here Gold. I can either spare your mare friend over here and have the rest go into the depths of darkness, or I can save them all but your poor Twilight Sparkle goes into the darkness for eternity." Mephiles explained.

"I want them all saved!" Gold yelled.

"I'm sorry but there is no option like that. There is a similar one where they all die or you take one side of the deal." Mephiles said sinisterly.

"NO!" Gold pleaded.

"Gold, save them! Don't worry about me!" Twilight said.

"Twilight, you are not sacrificing yourself for us! We live together or go together!" Applejack said from the other side.

"You better choose fast Gold, I'm very impatient." Mephiles said.

"Gold save them!" Twilight pleaded.

You can imagine Gold's mind right now. Gold has a sense of no one should die or get hurt when he is around, no one should have to die. He couldn't choose between the pony he loved and the other four innocent ponies. He just didn't want anyone to die.

"Leave them alone! It is me that you want! Just take me!" Gold pleaded.

"Gold, don't!"

"That isn't an option Gold, time is wearing thin for your precious ponies." Mephiles said, the dark aura around him getting larger.

"Gold just save them!"

"Twilight, don't sacrifice yourself!"

Gold's head was absolutely going nuts. Not only did he have to live with making a decision he didn't want to make, he also had to fight off the painful memories of the past. Gold was shutting his eyes tightly trying to process everything and fight off everything.

"Time's up, Gold."

Mephiles strengthened his darkness around everypony, squeezing them into the darkness. But suddenly, Mephiles was kicked a ways away and the darkness around the ponies faded slowly, leaving them tired and in some pain. Gold opened his eyes to see what had happened. There standing where Mephiles was before was a dark red hedgehog with five quills pointing downward with dark blue eyes.

"I think the fox over there told you to leave them alone." the hedgehog said.

Mephiles got up from being attacked and looked at the new arrival.

"Just who are you supposed to be." Mephiles said.

"I think all you need to worry about is being pummeled by me." the hedgehog said.

"You? You really think you can defeat me! I am Mephiles the Dark, not even this fox who calls himself a warrior can touch me!" Mephiles said with a dark chuckle afterward. "Wait, where did you go?"

"I don't know, behind you while you were caught in your monologue." the hedgehog said, now behind Mephiles.

Mephiles spun around with darkness in his hand but the hedgehog just dodged his punch, while actually flying. The hedgehog had some purple in his quills now and his fur was a cyan color.

"What are you?" Mephiles asked.

"I need not tell you my name. Now feel the aura." the hedgehog said before sending a blast of energy to Mephiles's head.

The flying hedgehog flew after Mephiles but before doing so stopped in front of Gold.

"Name is Aura. Now, how about a little help here." Aura said before flying off.

Gold ran in the same direction as Aura was flying. Aura was already fighting with Mephiles. Gold came at the side of the two trying to land a hit in and punched Mephiles with a Eon-covered fist. Mephiles slid back from the attack.

"Oh, forgot about you for a second, Gold. Our deal is still gone however, so I might as well try to end it." Mephiles teleported away.

"What deal is he talking about!" Aura said, slightly frustrated.

"Get back to the ponies! Now!" Gold said running off.

Aura went back to his normal form and ran where Gold was heading. They both stopped when they saw Mephiles walking slowly toward a freed Applejack, everypony else still trapped in their respective holds. Applejack was slowly backing up while Mephiles still proceeded toward her.

"Oh, how I love the look of fear on an innocent pony's face." Mephiles said darkly.

"I ain't scared of you!" Applejack shouted with uncertainty.

"Oh you should be." Mephiles said with an outstretched hand.

A dark orb materialized in his hand as he looked at his victim about to be sent to darkness. He sent the shot at her and she flinched. Aura teleported to in front of Applejack and took the hit for her. Aura got down on one knee because of the darkness but was confidently back up very quickly.

"It's gonna take a lot more than that to get me down." Aura said confidently.

"Why you little-" Mephiles was cut off when he was hit from a beam of Eon to the side of him.

Mephiles put his hands out toward the beam, slowing it down but still pushing him back.

"You really think your pathetic Eon can defeat me!" Mephiles shouted and started to push the beam back on its self.

"Thanks for the save there, partner." Applejack said, relieved to be alive.

"Anytime." Aura said flew to behind Mephiles, some distance away.

Mephiles glanced back slightly and saw Aura preparing an attack.

"AURA BLAST CANNON!" Aura shouted and a blast of aura came out of his hands.

Mephiles took one of his hands away from the Eon Blast to block the Aura Blast Cannon, sandwiching him between the two beams. Gold put more power into the blast, making Mephiles start sliding toward Aura's blast. Aura did the same with his blast, both sides now forcing their blasts at Mephiles. His hands gave away and the two blasts met in the middle and produced a purple explosion in the middle where Mephiles was. Both sides stopped their blasts. The explosion cleared and Mephiles was not there.

"Was that it?" Aura said around him.

"Not even close." a voice said around them.

"Get out here Mephiles!" Gold yelled.

"I'll admit, this new hedgehog popping up, I didn't expect it. I also didn't expect him to be powerful enough to handle me. Also, saving those ponies, not want I wanted but I don't need to kill them right now. I still have my jewel in the crown." the voice of Mephiles said around them.

"What are you talking about!"

"Oh, Gold, you must know." Mephiles said.

Mephiles reappeared next to the immobilized Twilight who was still enveloped in the dark energy. Mephiles had his hand outstretched toward her.

"I close my fist and she is closed in the darkness." Mephiles said.

"Don't you even do it." Gold said, now worried.

Mephiles seemed to evilly smile, which wasn't even possible since he had no mouth. He slightly closed his hands and the aura around Twilight got darker and more immense.

"How does it feel, Gold? To be helpless, to not be able to save someone. I bet you know how it feels already." Mephiles said, slowly closing his fist.

"Shut up!"

"It's just like your father. You couldn't do anything then and you can't do anything now. You are still weak like you were before. I don't know how you live with yourself with all these people leaving you. I killed your father, I got your pony friend here to die, and who knows, in the future I will kill everyone close to you."

Mephiles paused for a second.

"How do you live with yourself? Even your pony friend here is abandoning you for that hedgehog."

"You don't know what you are talking about!" Gold shouted.

"I feel the jealousy from you, Gold. I can feel that negative emotion in you. How ironic, the warrior of Eon has a bad emotion that comes from Dark Eon."

"There is no jealousy in me!"

"Oh Gold, always thinking you are the good person with no faults because of your stupid Eon. Let me just show you how pathetic you and your damn Eon is." Mephiles said, his hand almost in a fist. "Prepare to lose another of your loved ones."

Just as Mephiles was going to close his fist finally, he was hit in the back from several chaos based attacks. The dark aura surrounding Twilight vanished and she was about to hit the ground but Glimpse caught her. She looked up at him.

"Thanks for the save."

"Your welcome, now get yourself and the rest of the ponies out of here." Glimpse said seriously and put her down.

The dome surrounding the other ponies was gone as well and they all ran away to safety while Mephiles was dazed by the sudden attack. Mephiles turned around to meet his surprise attacker.

"You annoying rat! How dare you surprise me!" Mephiles said and shot a sphere of darkness at Glimpse.

"Well, I don't think it is nice to hurt someone innocent to you." Glimpse said dodging the attack.

Mephiles was kicked to the side by Aura and while still in the air was kicked by Gold. Gold and Aura were taking turns hitting Mephiles back and forth like a tennis ball. Gold suddenly used an Eon Blast and Aura did the Aura Blast Cannon, trapping Mephiles again like before. This time however, while he was holding them off, Glimpse ran toward him and stopped inches from Mephiles.

"Chaos Blast!"

A dark red chaos sphere exploded from Glimpse and hit Mephiles dead on. The sphere widened until it stopped at a certain point. It started to come back on its self, leaving Glimpse on one knee and no Mephiles.

"He's gone, for now." Glimpse said.

"Thanks for saving Twilight back there." Gold said, helping him up.

"Anytime."

"So, Aura, you new around here?" Gold asked.

"I think we can sort everything out with a meeting of sorts, got someplace we can go for that?" Aura said.

"I'm assuming they are all at Tails's house, we can head there." Gold said.

"Sounds perfect."

The trio of Gold, Glimpse and Aura started to walk after the exhausting battle, both physically and emotionally for Gold. To say the least, he was thankful everyone came out alive of the situation. He felt good that they now had someone else to help against the monster known as Mephiles. However, that wasn't all he was feeling. He was also feeling something bad, something dark inside him, something emotionally that shouldn't be there at all. Something he wanted nothing to do with, something that should be gratitude.

Jealousy.

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Jeez...that...was...awesome! That was awesome to write for me and hopefully an awesome chapter for you guys. Surprise Aura! Well, it wasn't that much of a surprise. I gotta thank Aura for letting me use Aura in here and to Glimpse for helping me out with this idea. We have a couple more OCs to appear as a pair, and then that is it. For people like Xavier and Nia and Blade and Ensis, sorry you guys haven't popped up in the last couple of chapters, I wanted to get this idea in here. You will all reappear in the next chapter, I promise.

Sonic: Didn't Pinkie go to find me?

Blade: And didn't Tails come to get us?

Um, maybe...let's just say you got stuck in a traffic jam.

Sonic: There isn't even cars in Mobius.

STOP POINTING OUT PLOT HOLES. JUST GO WITH IT!

Sonic: Alrighty then...

-.- Anyway, thank you all for reading and reviewing, please leave a review as always, and as always,

EONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN OUTTTTTTTTTTTTT!