Chapter 11: Rage and Darkness

(Knuckles POV)(It brings me sad news about the music. Apparently, I was using sonicstyle to get the music I need, but apparently, the site was replaced by some Goddamn businesses site. Excuse me for my language. Until I find a new site for the music I need, I'll try to use the music, i'm recently using. Use any music you wish for the moment.)

At long last, Sonic and his friends were able to get some peace and quiet over at Sweet Apple acres, after they were able to outrun the news reporters and photographers. In the fields, Applejack and Knuckles were returning to the farm with buckets of Apples.

"Thank ya kindly fer helpin me out Knuckles. Business around here has increased due to the amount of Apples we sold to the markets." Applejack said.

"Not a problem at all Applejack, it's the least I can do for you and your family since you're allowing me to stay here for the time being." Knuckles said. The two finally made it to the farm and they placed the apples to the side.

"Is there anything else I can do for you?" Knuckles asked.

"Nah, you've done enough fer today, go ahead and take the rest of the day off, I can take it from here."

"Alright, let me know if you need any help." Knuckles waved as he left.

"He really is somethin." Applejack thought.

(Tails POV)

On the side of the farm, Tails was making some adjustments to the X-Tornado. Tails likes to keep the plane in check, so it can be ready for the next strike against Eggman.

"Hey Tails." He turned around and saw Sonic coming up.

"Oh, hi Sonic." Tails greeted.

"I see you're still making adjustment to the plane. You never put your wrench down, do you?"

"Nope, I need to keep checking on it so it can be ready for the next assault against Eggman." Tails said as he went back to tinkering with the wiring of the plane. Sonic then saw Twilight and Spike approching.

"Hey Twilight." Sonic greeted.

"Hey Sonic." She turned her attention to Tails who was working on the plane.

"What's Tails doing?"

"Tails is making some adjustments to his plane. It's what he does all day, other than reading that is."

"Tails reads?"

"Other than working on his plane or any of his inventions, yeah. He can be an egghead, but that's what I like about him."

Twilight couldn't help but smile at him while he worked. She was really happy that other than her there's another person who was not just smart, but also loves reading. Sonic saw Twilight smiling, knowing something was up with her. He then decided to leave to give the two some time alone.

"I'm gonna go see what's up with the others. Catch ya Later Twilight." Sonic said while leaving.

"Go get her little bro." Sonic thought while smiling. After Sonic left, Twilight suddenly then felt nervous around Tails.

"Twilight." Spike said getting her attention. "You okay?"

"I...I don't know Spike. I never felt like this before."

"You're just probably nervous. Why don't you go on up an talk to him?"

"You mean Tails?" Twilight asked nervously.

"Sure, he seems nice and smart. Sonic also said he likes reading, the same thing you like to do. Your smart, he's smart, you two have some things in common."

"I-I Don't know Spike. I never talked to a guy before."

"C'mon Twilight, it won't be so hard, just be yourself. Go." Spike said pushing her leg. Twilight nervously gulped and quietly walked over to him. She was right about what she said, she never went to a full blown conversation with a guy before. When she was next to Tails, she looked back at Spike who smiled and gave her a thumbs up.

Twilight took a deep breath and spoke. "Umm, Tails?" Tails was taken by surprise by Twilight's voice and threw his head up in surprise, apparently he hit head on one of the pieces of metal that sickened out.

BUMP

"Ow!" he yelped as he held his head.

"Oh my gosh are you okay?" Twilight asked "Oh man, i screwed up big time." she thought.

"Yeah, i'm fine, this isn't the first time this happened." Tails answered. He then turned his head and looked up at Twilight.

"Are you sure you're okay?" She asked nervously.

"Yeah, no worries. Umm...your names Twilight right?"

"Oh, yeah that's my name."

Tails smiled. "So, is there anything I can for you?"

"Oh no he's asking me a question, whats should I say!?" Twilight thought panicking.

"Umm...I...Ummm..." She couldn't forge words.

"You okay?"

"Uh, yeah i'm fine, it's just, umm, I just couldn't help but look at your amazing plane." Twilight thought quickly.

Tails smiled. "Thanks, one of the best machinery I've made." When he turned away, Twilight sighed in relief while wiping a sweat from her forehead. "Phew, man that was a close call." she thought. While Tails was working, Twilight was lost in thought on what to say to him next, and boy was she nervous. "Okay, think, what kind of conversation should I bring up? Okay, Sonic did mention he's very smart with technology and he loves reading. Alright, just let the words flow. Well, here goes nothing."

"So Tails, Sonic told me you're the smartest in your team right?" Tails stopped working and looked up at her. When he did, Twilight thought she put her words out wrong. Her fears then went away when Tails nervously smiled and rubbed the back of his head. "Well, I guess you can say that. I'm always the smartest in the team. I guess you can say, i'm kinda a geek, and also a little bit of a egghead."

Twilight smiled. "You and me both." Tails looked up at her with surprise. "You two?" He asked surprisingly.

"Yeah, i'm the smartest back at my world. One of my friends usually calls me an egghead because I read and study most of my time."

"Back at your world?"

"Oh, I forgot to tell you i'm from another world."

Tails eyes widened. "You're from another world?"

"Yeah, the world i'm from is called is Equestria, a world dominated by a land called ponies. There are four different types of ponies. There are earth ponies, hens the term that they're regular ponies, Pegasus, unicorns and Alicorns."

"Wow, so what kind of pony are you?"

"I'm an Alicorn, they're the rarest ponies in existence. I've only been an Alicorn for a while now, and i'm still trying to wrap my head around being a princess." As soon as she said princess, she covered her mouth quickly. Tails looked at her with shock.

"You're a princess!?"

"Well, yes, but i'm still new to being a-" She was cut off once Tails immediately kneel and bowed his head with respect. She was taken back by surprise that he was actually bowing to her, it was like he knows to bow to royalty.

"Please, there's no need to bow to me Tails, all my friends don't need to bow to me." Tails rose up and looked up into her eyes.

"Sorry, but it's truly necessary for me to bow to royalty."

"Oh, I understand, but like I said, you're my friend, and my friends don't need to bow to me."

Tails smiled. "Okay, if you say so."

"So, um, would you like some help with your plane?"

Tails thought for a second, and then smiled. "Sure, could you reach into my bag and grab me a 1/4 wrench?" Tails asked pointing to his bag.

Twilight smiled and nodded. "Sure." As she was looking through his bag for the wrench, she was now being more comfortable around Tails. She looked up and saw Spike taking a little bit of a nap. She smiled and rolled her eyes at his laziness. She finally found the wrench and handed it to Tails.

"Here's the wrench you need Tails." Tails took the wrench and smiled at her. "Thanks Twilight."

She smiled and blushed slightly. "You're welcome." Tails then started moving some of the bolts and then moved some of the wires around. He crossed a part of the plane where the wiring was a little off. He knows he needed a little help.

"Twilight, can I use I use your help on this please?" Twilight nodded and knelled to where she was needed.

"I need some help with these wiring, for some reason they seem to be out of line, do you know the problem?" Twilight took a look at the wiring, and immediately saw the problem.

"The red wire is suppose to go to this compartment and the blue wire is suppose to go here." She moved the wiring around and the plane was now working more efficiently. Tails looked at her with awe for what she did. He had to admit, she did amazing.

"Thanks Twilight."

Twilight smiled at him. "No problem, anything for a friend." Tails smiled as well.

"Well, I guess the X-Tornado is all set for next time. Let's go see what the others are up to."

Twilight nodded in agreement. When the two got to their feet, Twilight lost her balance and landed into Tails arms. Tails blushed once she landed into his arms.

"Uhh, you okay Twilight?" Twilight lifted herself up and then stared into his baby blue eyes. It was like she was looking into the blue sky itself. Tails looked into Twilight's beautiful lavender eyes. It was like her eyes were made of Amethyst. The two just started into each others eyes, while holding each other. Twilight snapped out of it and released him while blushing deeply.

"I-I'm so sorry, I-I didn't meant t-to land into your arms. I-I just lost my balance and-and-"

"Twilight." Tails calm voice got her attention. She saw he was also blushing deeply as well. "It's alright, I know you didn't mean to that on purpose. It was only an accident." His voice managed to calm Twilight down, but the blush never left her cheeks. "O-Okay.

"C'mon. let's see what the others are up to." She nodded and followed Tails. She gently picked up Spike, not wanting to awaken him from his sleep. While the two were making their way to the group, Twilight felt a sudden urge of butterflies in her stomach and her heart was pumping like crazy.

"Wh...What is this that i'm feeling? I've never felt anything like this before. What could this feeling mean?" She thought.

(Sonic POV)

"C'mon Sonicku, you know you love me, just admit it." Amy was getting seductive over Sonic for the last past few minutes, and he's really getting annoyed over this.

"For the hundredth time Amy, I do not love you, and secondly, stop calling me that nickname, it's so annoying, now please leave me alone."

"No can do Sonicku, i'm not leaving until you say I love you to me." Amy got very close to Sonic, and he wasn't feeling comfortable with it. Quickly thinking, the took out his chaos emerald and shouted "CHAOS CONTROL!" and dissapeared, leaving Amy furious.

"Mark my words Sonic, soon, you and I will be married!"

Sonic warped out and finally got some peace and quiet for once. He found a tree he finds relaxing and leaned on it. He gave out a sigh and closed his eyes. He felt relaxed again, until he heard faint foot steps approaching. Sonic thought it was Amy again and got mad.

"Ugh, for the last time Amy i'm not-" He stopped when he saw Rainbow dash. "Oh, Rainbow dash, sorry, I thought you were Amy." He said as he relaxed again.

"It's cool, I understand you're not in the mood right now, i'll just leave you alone." As she stared leaving, something clicked in Sonic's head.

"Wait!" Rainbow stopped in her tracks and looked back at the blue haired teen, who was actually blushing a little.

"You can stay, I just needed to be away from Amy for a while. I don't mind your company." Rainbow blushed a little by his words. It was like he wanted her to stay.

"Uhh, okay." Rainbow sat next to Sonic near the tree and felt the cool, wind brushing against their faces. Rainbow decided to ask Sonic about Amy.

"Hey Sonic,"

"Yeah?"

"I want to know, why does Amy always chase after you like that, and aslo very desperate to be your boyfriend?" Sonic deeply sighed and started explaining to Rainbow about Amy.

"About 5 years ago, she was kidnapped by my evil counterpart, Metal Sonic."

"Metal Sonic?"

"A robot that Eggman created. He resembles me and was one of my greatest opponents I've faced on one of my adventures. Anyway, after I saved her, she began to fall in love with me. She never goes after any other person other than me. She kept forcing hugs and kisses on me for a very long time now, hell she even tried to force marriage on me. AT first it was a little annoying, but as the years rolled by, she became over protective around me. Everytime i'm with another girl, she gets very angry. No matter how many times I kept telling her that I don't want to be with her, she doesn't take no for an answer. It's been going on ever since than."

After hearing the story, Rainbow was surprised. "Man, That's rough."

Sonic sighed. "I hope you're not going through the same thing as I am."

Rainbow sighed as well. "No, not a lot of people see me as a girl they want to date or fight over."

"Lucky you then." Sonic chuckled a little.

"Hey Sonic,"

"What's up?"

"If you and Amy are not...you know...a couple...does that mean..." Rainbow trailed off while blushing. Sonic knew where she was coming from.

"Yep, i'm a free person, still single. I only see Amy as a friend, nothing more." Rainbow smiled happily, knowing that Sonic is still single. "However, I did date this one girl many years ago." Rainbow's smile faded.

"Who was she?" Rainbow asked nervously. Rainbow thought that Sonic might still have feeling for this girl.

"Her name was Sally Acorn. She was a princess back when I lived in a city called mobotropolis. Her father was the king, but he dissapeared many years ago. Me, Tails, Sally and a few other friends were part of a squad called the freedom fighters. Wait, i'm starting to get off topic here. Me and Sally were in a relationship for at least a few months. I've never been more happier in all my life." Sonic then frowned. "But then, something happened between me and her."

"What happened?" Rainbow asked.

Sonic sighed and started explaining. "After me and the freedom fighters defeated eggman, peace was restored to mobotropolis, and to knotholl, the place me and my friends stayed. However, Mobius still needed my help, and I wasn't going to turn away from those problems. However, Sally wanted me to stay in knotholl and be together and raise a family. Choosing between the women I loved and the world was the toughest choice I've made. I told her I couldn't stay and that Mobius needed me."

"How did she take it?"

"She didn't take it to well and slapped me hard in the face and called me selfish." Sonic rubbed his left cheek, still slightly feeling the pain that Sally gave him before their outbreak began. Rainbow gasped.

"She literally slapped you?"

Sonic sighed. "Yeah, but when she called be selfish, I got very mad at her. I yelled at her and told her everything that I worked hard for to protect my friends and Mobius from harms way, and yet she wanted me to throw all of it away, so I can be with her. Finally, Sally snapped and told me it's over between me and her. After that, she ran off crying her eyes out. I felt very bad that I yelled at her like that. I wanted to fix everything, but it was to late for that. Then, me and Tails left knotholl."

Rainbow looked at Sonic, and saw a very sad expression on his face. "So, did anything else happened after that?"

Sonic took a deep breath and told Rainbow the saddest thing that ever broke his heart forever. "About 2 years has past since the outbreak between me and Sally. I still missed her, and I still held feelings for her. I decided to go back to knotholl for a visit. All my old friends were happy to see me, which made my spirits go up. Then, I saw Sally, but when she saw me, she looked angry. I was about to say something, but then I discovered she was wearing a golden ring on her finger. She then told me she was married to Antoine."

"Antoine?"

"One of my friends and part of the freedom fighters. Sally told me she was living happily with him and she didn't care about me anymore. After everything we did together, all the happiest memories I had with her," Sonic stopped to catch his breath. Rainbow can see he was at the bridge of tears. "And yet, she just threw it all away, like it was nothing but garbage. I was so heartbroken. I became so furious with her and Antoine, I just wanted to kill them both for what they did to me." Sonic clenched his fists tightly, but relaxed a little bit and sighed. "But I knew better than to kill others, it wasn't part for who I am."

"So, what did you do?"

"I yelled at them and told them to burn in hell for all I care. After that, I left knotholl for good. Ever since then, I've never been in another relationship." Tears ran down his face as soon as he finished. Rainbow was so heartbroken and furious at the same time. How dare this Sally break his heart for another person. She realized a few tears escaped her own eyes as well. Rainbow then wrapped her arms around Sonic and tried to comfort him.

"I'm so sorry that you had to go through so much pain back then. I just wish there was something I could have done for you. But, i'm here for you now. If you ever need to talk to someone, feel free to talk to me, because I'll never leave you. I'll stay by your side, no matter what." Sonic couldn't put his words together for what Rainbow said, but he was truly happy by her words. He smiled and returned the embrace. He felt happy again, all the pain from what Sally did to him all those years ago, went away instantly. The two broke the embrace and smiled at each other.

"Also, you made the right decision to choose to protect your world, other than living with her forever and allow the world to come to an end." Rainbow smiled.

"Thanks Rainbow." Sonic said, feeling happy again. She returned the smile and gave Sonic a kiss on the cheek. Whoa, that's something you don't see everyday from Rainbow Dash. That kind of action surprised them both. When Rainbow pulled away, the two were blushing like crazy.

"I-I'm sorry. I don't what came over me with that." Rainbow said turning away. Sonic rubbed his cheek where Rainbow kissed it. He turned back to her and smiled.

"It's alright, and thank you for it. I needed it." Rainbow looked back at him and saw him smiling, but still blushing. She was still blushing, but smiled as well. Rainbow was picking up butterflies in her stomach and her heart beating like crazy.

"There's that feeling again, only it's stronger than before. Am I...really...falling in love...with Sonic?" Rainbow thought.

"I haven't felt like this since me and Sally started our relationship together. Could this mean I'm in love with Rainbow?" Sonic thought.

BOOOM!

There was a sudden explosion from the fields.

"What was that!?" Rainbow asked shocked.

"I don't know but we're about to find out. C'mon!" Sonic and Rainbow followed suit to the source of the explosion. There, they saw all their friends looking with shock. The two looked up and saw the evil scientist himself; Dr. Eggman.

"Eggman!" Sonic shouted.

"Ahh, Sonic, just the rodent I wanted to see." Sonic growled.

"What are you doing here!?"

"I'm here for the chaos emeralds, that's why I'm here." Sonic shook his head.

"Guess you never learned from our last encounter." Sonic said as he got into his battle stance. Shadow and Silver walked up next to him and the two got into their battle stances as well. Eggman pressed a button on his controller and egg gunners were summoned.

"Tails, fire up the tornado, Fluttershy, get the little girls outta here, everyone else, prepare for battle!" Sonic ordered.

(No POV)

Tails nodded and ran off to the X-Tornado. He jumped into the cockpit and started up the plane. Before he could do anything else, he heard Twilight and saw her coming up to him.

"I'm coming with you!"

"No Twilight, I don't want you to get hurt!" Tails said.

"I'm coming with you, whether you like it or not. I'm your friend and i'm not letting you fight alone in the plane. Besides, you're going to need my help." Twilight argued.

Tails knows they're running out of time. He sighed in defeat. "Alright hop in, quick."

She nodded and got into the other cockpit behind him, with Spike in her arms. She buckled up and closed the hatch. Tails started the engines and pulled a switch.

"X-TORNADO, TRANSFORM!" The plane transformed before Twilight's eyes. The engines in the back turned into legs and stood upright. The X-Tornado was now in battle mode. Twilight looked at the plane with awe at its new look. Tails smiled and headed for Eggman.

"Egg gunners, ATTACK!" Eggman ordered.

As the group charged into battle,Fluttershy got the girls in the barn, safely.

"Stay quiet." She said quietly. The three nodded and began to witness the battle. Rarity was surrounded by three gunners and they aimed their weapons at her. Rarity tripped, screamed and covered her eyes. Silver suddenly appeared and threw them back with his phsycokinesis.

"You okay Rarity?" Silver asked. Rarity quickly nodded and Silver held out his hand for her. She blushed a little but quickly took it. She got to her feet and Silver stood close to her.

"Stay behind me." Silver said. Rarity nodded and went with Silver.

"I refuse to let Rarity get hurt. I'll protect her no matter what, even if it means die trying." Silver thought.

Shadow was cornered by the gunners, but quickly thew a few chaos spears at them. He charged at one of them and did a low sweep kick, making the robot off balance. He jumped and kicked the robot in the head, making it fly backwards and crash into another robot that Sonic was fighting. Sonic smiled and gave him a thumbs up. Shadow only nodded. Suddenly, an egg gunner appeared behind him and aimed for Shadow's head. Before Shadow could react, A BOOM was heard, and the gunner was flown away from him. He turned around and and saw Pinkie with a cannon.

"Where did you get that?" Shadow asked.

"This is my party cannon. I never leave home without it." Pinkie said smiling.

"What's with this girl smiling all the time, it's creeping me out." Shadow thought. He saw a gunner behind Pinkie. It raised its arm, ready to strike Pinkie in the head. Thinking quickly, Shadow lunged forward and grabbed Pinkie and shielded her before the attack made contact. He groaned in pain and threw a chaos spear at it, ending it.

"Thanks Shadow." He turned around and saw he was still holding her close to him. He quickly let go of her and nodded. He didn't know his cheeks were showing a faint shade of pink.

"Is he blushing?" Pinkie thought.

Meanwhile, Sonic did some of his homing attacks on the gunners. He landed near one of them, which was paralyzed due to the massive burst of his wind. He gently gave the machine a tap with the foot and the robot fell down and exploded.

"SONIC HELP!" Sonic turned around and saw one of the gunners lifting Rainbow and throwing her in the opposite direction, hurling toward a tree.

"RAINBOW!" Sonic ran after her with sudden burst of speed. He jumped and caught Rainbow in his arms and crashed into one of the trees that was hurling toward them. Sonic took the impact and softened the impact for Rainbow. He checked her to be sure she wasn't hurt.

"You okay Rainbow?" Rainbow looked up into his emerald eyes and saw so much care and courage in them. She blushed a little but spoke.

"Yeah, i'm good, thanks to you." Sonic smiled and put Rainbow down and headed back into the battle, with Rainbow following suit.

"Sonic, double team?" Sonic smirked.

"Let's do it." The two speed demons ran around one of the gunners, confusing it. It threw its arms in every direction, but didn't hit either of them. When the robot got to its limit of pure dizziness and confusion, Sonic and Rainbow attacked together and punched the robot in the face, sending it flying in the opposite direction of the two. When they saw the robot exploding in the distance, they exchanged a high five to each other.

"That's what i'm talking about." Sonic smirked.

Eggman saw his robot army getting reduced to scrap metal by our heroes. He growled and decided to kick it up a notch. He pushed another button on his controller and summoned 14 robots Sonic and his friends knew all to well. The robots were yellow and red that slightly hovered in the air. It held a strong thick shield on its right arm and possessed a laser cannon. It was the two robots they encountered back from the egg fleet; the egg commanders. (I basically don't know the true name for this robot, but egg commander fits it well considering it takes orders from Sonic Heroes.). It was followed up with two gigantic robots wearing helmets on their heads,and held a gigantic hammer. They were egg hammers.

"Oh great, these again." Sonic groaned.

"Hehehe, now will you surrender the emeralds?" Eggman asked chuckling evilly.

"Bite me Egghead." Sonic said.

"Very well, Egg commanders and egg hammers, ATTACK!" The robots charged into battle. Sonic and the others handled the egg commanders, while Twilight and Tails handled the egg hammers.

Applejack have one of the egg commanders a good kick, but it blocked the attack with its shield. She fell to the ground, holding her leg with pain.

"Applejack, you okay?" Knuckles asked while helping her up.

"Ya, ahm fine." She turned her attention to the robot. "How do we destroy that thing?"

"It's vulnerable in the back. Distract it and i'll go for its weak point." Knuckles said. She nodded and followed along with the plan. The egg commander held out its arm and readied its cannon. AJ then saw an opening. She quickly rushed forward and gave the cannon a good hard kick. The cannon split and was removed. Knuckles took this opportunity and attacked from the back.

"Heat Knuckles!" The attack made contact and destroyed the robot instantly.

Tails and Twilight were doing their best to avoid being hit from the egg hammers attacks. Twilight fired some of the lasers from the back. They made contact, but didn't do any damage.

"How can we defeat these robots if our attacks won't work on them?"

"Don't worry Twilight, they might be strong, but they have a weak point." Tails aimed for the helmet and fired. The helmet was knocked off and a small green mark was seen on its forehead.

"Twilight, aim the laser cannons on their foreheads, that's their weakpoint." Twilight nodded and fired the cannon. The laser hit the green bulb on its head and the egg hammer instantly exploded. Tails did the same thing with the other one, using the cannons and knocked the helmet off. Twilight once again aimed for the weak point and destroyed it.

"Alright, we did it!" Twilight cheered. Tails smiled. Suddenly, a pink laser cut through one of the legs, causing the X-Tornado to fall. Tails opened the hatch, and climbed out, coughing. Tails opened the other hatch and checked on Twilight. Twilight was holding her head while Spike was whimpering a little.

"Twilight, you alright?" Tails asked reaching for her hand.

Twilight nodded. "Yeah, i'm okay." She reached for his hand and Tails pulled her out. "What happened?"

Before Tails could answer, an egg commander hovered over to them. Tails growled and put himself between the robot and Twilight. He held out his arm and his cannon appeared, much to Twilight's surprise. He aimed for the egg commander and fired, but the robot blocked it with its shield. It held out its cannon and aimed for the two. Twilight held on to Tails and he returned the embrace, knowing that the two couldn't do anything. Before the cannon was fired, a blue and rainbow blur struck at the back, causing the robot to explode. Rainbow and Sonic appeared in front of the two.

"You two okay?" Sonic asked. The two looked up and nodded. Rainbow smirked.

"Does the egghead have a boyfriend?" Rainbow mocked. Tails and Twilight looked at one another and blushed deeply, and released each other quickly. Rainbow laughed and Sonic let out a small chuckle.

Somewhere close by, Rouge and Sunset shimmer were squaring off against 2 egg commanders. Rouge charged in and threw some of her heart bombs. The egg commanders blocked the explosions with their shields and aimed for the two. They shot their lasers, but Rouge dodged the attack. Sunst shimmer barely dodged the attack, but was left with a scar on her arm. A shadow then hoveered over her. She looked up and saw one of the egg commanders aiming for her face. Sunset closed her eyes and waited for the blow to come. But then, she heard a loud clang from the back of the robot. She opened her eyes and looked up. She saw the robot's face completly clobbered by a familiar pink hammer. She looked behind her and saw Amy summoning another one of her hammers.

She threw her hammer again and the egg commander was sent flying into a tree, causing it to explode. Amy ran to Sunset and offered her hand.

"You okay Sunset?" Amy asked. She nodded and took her hand. When she got up, the two girls turned around and saw Rouge still struggling with the egg commander she's fighting.

"Tag team?" Sunset asked grinning. Amy grinned back.

"I'll follow you lead." Sunset nodded. The two charged forward and Amy summoned another hammer and gave it to Sunset. Amy circled around the egg commander while it was being distracted by Rouge.

"ROUGE DUCK!" Sunset shouted. Rouged ducked her head as she was told, and Sunset brought the hammer down. The robot saw the attack coming and brought up its shield and blocked the attack. Sunset only grinned by this.

"Game over bucket of bolts." Sunset said. At those words, Amy brought her own hammer down and smashed the robots head into a million pieces. The three high fived each other as the robot exploded.

Meanwhile, one of the egg commanders was sent flying toward the farm and landed near Fluttershy and the young girls. It got up and turned around and saw the girls. It aimed its cannon at the girls and Fluttershy embraced the young ones tightly.

"Hold fire egg commander." Eggaman ordered. The robot stopped charging the cannon, but still aimed at the girls. He hovered near them and smiled evilly.

"This gives me a brilliant idea." Eggamn said out loud. Sonic and the others continued their attacks on the remaining commanders.

"Oh Soooniiic." Eggman said getting his and the others attention.

"I'm giving you a decision right now, hand over the chaos emeralds," eggman moved to the side. "Or the girl and little children suffer the consequences."

"Sonic, Help us!" Fluttershy shouted. Applbloom, Sweetie belle and Scootalo clenched Fluttershy tightly. Sonic and the others growled and clenched his fists.

"You bastard! Let them go, NOW!" Sonic shouted. Eggman only chuckled evilly.

"Hand over the emeralds now," Eggman snapped his fingers and the egg commander charged up its cannon. "Or say goodbye to the girls forever.

"What should I do? If i hand over the emeralds to him, he'll rule this planet, if not, Fluttershy and the young one will die." Sonic thought in anger.

"Ya no good creep, you ain't fightin fair, using innocent little girls to git the advantage." Applebloom scowled.

Eggman growled. "Shut the red haired one up egg commander." Eggman ordered snapping his fingers. It rushed up and smacked Applebloom in the face with its shield, sending her flying into an apple tree, making her unconscious.

"APPLEBLOOM!" Applejack shouted. Applebloom laid there unconscious, but still breathing. The group stood there with shock that Eggman did that.

Eggman chuckled. "That outta teach the little brat not to talk to me like that."

Applejack gritted her teeth and clenched her fist in anger. Flames can be seen in her emerald eyes. Oh boy Eggman, you have no idea what you just did. Knuckles saw her very angry.

"Applejack, you okay?" knuckles asked. She didn't respond. Instead, she screamed at the top of her lungs, which got everyone's attention. She stomped toward Eggman with flames burning under her feet.

"Stop right there!" Eggman ordered, but Applejack ignored him.

"Egg commanderes, stop her!" The remaining 9 robots surrounded her, but that didn't stop AJ. In pure anger, she grabbed one of the robots head and ripped it off.

"No one," she threw the head at the second one and the body was blown off.

"And ah mean no one," she kicked the third one's shield off and bashed the robot in the head.

"Hurts," She turned to the fourth one and ripped its arms off and bashed it into rubble.

"Mah," She grabbed two of the egg commanders and bashed each other in the head.

"Little," She grabbed on of the ripped arms and aimed or the seventh one and fired the cannon and destroyed it.

"SIIISTEEER!" She grabbed the eight one and ripped it in half. She then grabbed Amy's hammer and started bashing the 9th egg commander. Sonic and the others watched in complete shock while their mouths hung from what their witnessing.

"I am SO in love with her right now." Knuckled muttered.

Sonic turned to Knuckles. "What did you say Knuckles?"

Knuckles blushed and turned away. "I-I didn't say anything." He quickly said. (Give credit to bluebarnowl for this idea. LOL xD)

Applejack then turned her attention to Eggman, who still fumed with range. She stomped toward him with the hammer in her tight grip.

""G-Get away from me!" Eggman shouted in panic. Applejack jumped and was eye leveled with Eggaman.

"GIT OFF MA PROPERTY!" She screamed as she swung the hammer into Eggman.

"I'LL REMEMBER THIIIIIIIIIS!" Eggman shouted as he flew off in the distance. Applejack landed and breathed heavily. She finally calmed down and dropped the hammer. She looked back at her friends, who still had wide eyes and open mouths.

"And I thought Amy had the biggest blow out, but that just bumped Applejack up to #1 on the list." Sonic thought. Applejack sighed.

"Ahm really sorry that ya'll saw that, it's just when he hurt Applebloom, ah-Oh Ma God, Applebloom!" She ran to the distance where she was. She was still out cold. She carefully picked her up and cradled her into her arms. Sonic and the others joined her and looked at the unconscious Applbloom. Tears welled up in Applejacks eyes. Not waiting any longer, Knuckles stepped in.

"Applejack, I think I can help your sister." Knuckles said.

"Please, do whatever it takes to wake mah sister up." Applejack said with a few tears escaping. Knuckles nodded and placed his hands on Applebloom. An orb of green energy appeared around her and the bump on her head dissapeared. The orb entered her body and she started glowing for a few seconds. When the light faded, Applebloom slowly opened her eyes, which made everyone gasp in surprise, well, except the sonic team.

"A...Applejack?" Applebloom asked weakly. Applejack smiled as tears of joy poured from her eyes.

"Oh Applebloom, yer okay!" She called out in joy as she tightly embraced her young sister.

"Ahm fine sis, really." Applebloom said. Applejack released the embrace and put her sister down. She turned her attention to Knuckles. She surprised him with a hug.

"Thank ya so much fer what ya did fer ma sister." Knuckles smiled and returned the embrace.

"Anytime Applejack, anytime." The others smiled at the two.

"Those two are defiantly a good match." Twilight thought. The silence was then broken by the sound of clapping.

"How very touching hehehehe." Said a voice. The group were taken by surprise by the voice and they looked around for the source of the voice. The group then saw a black hole starting to form a few feet away from them. What came out of the black hole was a human that looked like Shadow, but his clothing and color was grey-blue. It also had piercing green eyes, and had no mouth.

"You're all stronger than I thought, impressive." It said. Sonic, Shadow and Silver got into their battle stance.

"Who are you!?" Silver demanded. The being chuckled.

"What, did you really forget about me Silver?" The being asked. Silver was taken back that it new his name.

"Maybe this should refresh your memory. 'You must defeat the being who has awaken Iblis, the Iblis Trigger.'" Silver's eyes widened. He remembered those words all to well. The only being that gave him those false words and lies would be...

"MEPHILES!" Shadows eyes widened as well, Sonic was little confused. Mephiles chuckled.

"Well well well, it seems you still remember me, and I taken you still remember me Shadow." Shadow growled. He turned his attention toward Sonic.

"Allow me to introduce myself to you Sonic, my name is Mephiles the Dark. I'm the one who killed you those months ago to free Iblis from Elise." Sonic's eyes widened by what he heard. Silver and Shadow explained about what happened after he was killed and before he was revived. He growled and clentched his fists. He then turned his attention toward Twilight.

"And it's an honer to meet you at last." He started as he bowed slightly at her. "Princess Twilight."

The girls gasped. "H-how did you know I was a princess?" Mephiles only chuckled.

"Oh there is so much I know about you Twilight, and about your pathetic little friends, and your world." The girls took a step back in fear. Finally, Shadow snapped.

"Start talking Mephiles, how is that you're still alive!?" Shadow demanded. The girls were frightened by what was going on.

"Very well, I'll show you." He snapped his fingers and a black cloud formed. In the cloud, it showed the group Sonic, Shadow, and Silver in their hedgehog forms and in their super forms fighting Solaris. The girls looked in awe by what they were seeing.

"So that's what they look like as hedgehogs, incredible." Twilight thought. The three came together and attacked head on, finishing Solaris, but what they saw in the back of Solaris, was a small piece of darkness being separated by its body.

"Before you three dealted the final blow, I was able to separate myself from Solaris. But when I did, I was extremely weak." Mephiles explained. The next picture they saw was Mephiles on the ground in his crystal hedgehog form, struggling to get up. "Through those months, I struggled to stay alive. But then, I felt a mysterious energy coming from some place. I followed the source and found a portal leading to this world. I decided to discover this world and felt so much energy. I decided to hide here and regain my strength, and then waited for the three of you to arrive in this world. Now, i'm back and I'll fulfill the prophecy to bring internal darkness, and there's nothing you all can do about it." Mephiles laughed.

"So it's you who's bringing internal darkness to Mobius and the Future." Silver shouted pointing at him. Mephiles chuckled.

"We defeated you once, we can defeat you again." Sonic said with confidence.

"Hahahaha, you cannot defeat me now, since I've gotten stronger, thanks to this." Mephiles held up a familiar crown. Twilight and her friends gasped.

"MY CROWN!" Twilight shouted. Our heroes stood there in shock that Mephiles has the element in his hands.

"I discovered that this crown holds a large amount of energy and power. It was unlike anything I've felt before. Also, once I felt its power flowing through my veins, I learned everything about you Twilight. I know everything, the other elements, you fight against Nightmare Moon, Discord, and so much more." Twilight was at a loss of words by what she just heard. She couldn't believe that he has the power to see everything just through an object that belonged to her.

"Now that I have the crown, I will take the seven chaos emeralds from you." Mephiles snapped his fingers and the same creatures the group fought from before appeared. The girls gasped again, realizing Mephiles was the one who called these creatures to attack them those days ago back at the track.

"So it was You who sent these creatures to attack us!" Rainbow shouted.

"I needed to see how powerful the crown was, but then I decided to change up the plan and kill you all to take that power for myself."

"You don't know anything about the element, if you kill me, the element's power will fail and will never work again." Twilight said.

Mephiles chuckled. "Well, I guess I'll have to keep that in mind, as for the rest of the girls, I'll do as I please."

"You won't lay a finger on them!" Silver shouted.

"We'll protect them, no matter what!" Sonic shouts as well. The three mobian heroes summoned the chaos emeralds and transformed into their super forms. Twilight and the others were still awestruck by their amazing appearance.

"He's so awesome." Rainbow thought.

"Very well, if you all want to share their fate, then so be it." Mephiles held the crown up and called out to its power. The element glowed and shot beams of energy to his minions. The creatures then started to change. Their large claws grew two extra fingers, their feet had jagged ends, and grew another beading red eye.

"Everyone, stay back, We don't want any of you to get hurt." Sonic demanded. They all nodded and got to a safe distance away.

"Kill them!" Mephiles ordered. His minions charged as did the three. One of the creatures threw a punch at Sonic, but he dodged at the speed of light and attacked it from behind. The attack made contact, but did little damage. Silver grabbed the creatures with his physcokinesis and bashed them together. Silver was then shocked that they broke free from his grip. He took a different approach and threw one of his energy attacks.

"SUPER KINESIS BLADE!" A streak of cyan energy burst out and landed a direct hit to the creatures. When the smoke cleared, only three were destroyed out of the 8 he was fighting.

"Twilight's element made them stronger than before. My attacks are doing little damage to them." Silver thought.

Shadow threw out many chaos spears, and fury attacks at the creatures, but did little help. One appeared from behind and threw a slash attack at Shadow's back. Shadow shouted in pain as he flew away from the creature. He looked at his back and saw a deep cut, oozing blood. He quickly focused his chaos energy and healed his wound. The three mobians flew next to one another and started panted heavily.

Mephiles chuckled evilly. "Give up while you still can. You cannot defeat me with this new power. I'm far more powerful than ever before." Thre three mobians only growled in response.

"Sonic, should we try the same tactic from before?" Silver asked. Sonic thought quickly over it and nodded.

"Yeah, distract them and Shadow and I will charge up for a light speed attack." Silver nodded and charged forward while Sonic and Shadow started spinning at high speeds. Mephiles saw through their plan and chuckled.

"You three seriously believe that little technique will work like last time!? Think again." Mephiles held out his hand and builded up negative energy. Silver saw this fired super kinesis blade at him. Mephiles saw the attack and dodged it quickly. He threw the attack at Silver, but used chaos control to dodged. One of the creature hurled toward Sonic and Shadow and Sliver was not allowing that to happen. He quickly grabbed the creature and hurled it toward its allies and they all fell to the ground. While Sonic and Shadow spun, the two quietly started chanting.

"The servers are the seven chaos, chaos is power, power enriched by the heart. The heart is the controller, the controller serves to unify the chaos." As they said those words, the emeralds glowed brightly. Finally the charging was complete. Sonic and Shadow got into a crouching position.

"Ready..." The two started. Silver saw they were ready and held the creatures in one place with his phsycokinesis.

"NOW YOU GUYS! Silver shouted.

"GO!" The two dissapeared and only two yellow streaks were seen, hitting each creature in every possible direction. The two finished their light speed attack and the creatures exploded into dark clouds. Mephiles growled that their plane worked yet again.

"You three have gone off my nerves for the last time!" He shouted. He got into his battle stance and readied for battle.

"If I have to get things done around here, I have to do it Myself!" The three mobians breathed heavily. All their energy spent on the creatures.

"I can't let Mephiles get the emeralds, if he does he'll bring internal darkness to Mobius and this world. I guess I have no choice." Sonic thought. He took the seven chaos emeralds and flew up into the air.

"SONIC, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Silver shouted. Sonic got to a high enough place and the emeralds glowed while he closed his eyes.

"Forgive me you guys for doing this, but there's no other way." Sonic snapped his eyes open.

"CHAOS CONTROL!" The emeralds glowed brighter. Then, they scattered in different directions, out of reach for both our heroes and Mephiles. Twilight and the others were surprised by what he did, but Shadow and Silver were extremely mad by what he did, especially Mephiles.

"Look at what you've done!" Mephiles shouted. Sonic only smiled that the emeralds are out of reach. But then, both of our three heroes returned to their physical forms and landed to the ground. Shadow was very mad and slapped Sonic on the head.

"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING FAKER! THAT WAS THE MOST PATHETIC AND DANGEROUS MOVE YOU'VE DONE EVER!" Shadow shouted.

"I had no choice, either I scatter the emeralds through this world, or Mephiles gets all seven of them!"

Mephiles growled. "As much as I want to rip your head off for what you did Sonic, I have other business to take care off. I still need to know how to work this power and finding the seven chaos emeralds." The group ran up to them.

"Until next time fools." Mephiles the dissapeared into the darkness.

"Are you three okay?" Twilight asked.

"No we're not okay, Sonic just send all the chaos emeralds through your world." Silver explained.

"At least he was able to buy some time for us. If he didn't, Mephiles would've had all seven emerlds in his grasp." Tails explained.

"Tails has a point, but I still can't believe I left My element back at the house. I should've taken it with me." Tails puts his hand on her shoulder.

"It's okay Twilight, it wan't your fault, we'll get the crown back, promise." Twilight smiled at his words.

"Thanks Tails." Sunet then spoke.

"No that the emeralds have been scattered, how are we gonna find them?" Tails smiled at her question.

"Easy, we can use this." Her then held out a radar. "This is an emerald radar, it pin points the locations of the emeralds and lock on to their energy signal. We can find the emeralds with no problem."

"Glad you though ahead little buddy." Sonic smirked giving him a thumbs up. Tails smirked. They all looked to the horizon and saw the sun saw setting.

"We all better git some sleep, we got school tomorrow." the all nodded in agreement. They all said their goodbyes and returned home. Once again, luck was on thier side that the news reporters and picture takers were not around. Sonic and the other's true journey has now begun.

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(Scourge POV)

After a long day at school and through community service as one of his punishments, scourge walks home exhausted and still upset that Sonic got off the hook because of Fluttershy.

"If I see those two ever again, i'm gonna beat them to a pulp." He growled. Scourge kept walking on the cement path to his home. Suddenly, he caught something glowing near one of the bushes.

"What's that?" He said to himself. He walked over and looked into the bush. What he saw was what made his eyes widened. It was a large, green diamond. It was the biggest diamond he's ever seen before. He carefully picked it up and examined it. It was very smooth and gave off a small glow.

"What is this?" He thought. He continued looking at the emerald and then a evil smirk grew on his face.

"Whatever it is, it's mine now. I better keep this hidden. Whoever loser dropped this is so stupid." He chuckled as he walked home with the green emerald in hand.

To be continued...

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Sonicbrony1700: Whoa, Scourge found one of the emeralds? That can't be good.

bluebarnowl: Just imagine what will happen when he finds out what the emerald really is.

greninja32: Wait, howcome he doesn't know what the emeald is? Isn't the news spreading anywhere?

sonic3461: He doesn't watch or read the news because he thinks its stupid.

greninja32: That makes a lot of sense.

Inkwell Lynx: I'm getting excited for the next chapter bro. Hope Sonic and the others can stop Mephiles.

Inkwell: So do I.

Inkwell Lynx: HEY, That name has been taken, faker.

Inkwell: At lest it doesn't have Lynx at the end.

Inkwell Lynx:...Touche

bluebarnowl: Enough you guys, let's all be friends here.

Inkwell Lynx/Inkwell: Alright.

sonic3461: Alright you guys, leave me to the next chapter and I'll give yo all the word when it's up.

SingingSnowflake: no problem, and I so love your story.

sonic3461: Thanks SingingSnowflake. Please leave a like, and comment or follow my story if you all enjoyed. catch you all later everypony.