Chapter 19: "Black as the night"

Knuckles: The last of the echidnas.

Rarity: Obsessed with the fashion.

Applejack: Damsel in disgrace.

Sticks: Another damsel in disgrace.

Sonia: Evil damsel.

Casino Park.

Espio was in the Ix Emporium spying the residents of the casino, like a professional, he was using a white suit James Bond style watching to the other gamblers on the roulette drinking a mojito, one of the gamblers was Photo Finish in company of their friends Pixel Pazzz and Violet Blurr, but wasn't her night.

Crupier: "Double 0"

Photo Finish: "CURSED THE MAGIC THAT BRING ME HERE!" She and her group left the table indignantly.

Espio wouldn't stop to notice that was something weird in these place, the more the people playing, more money betting, even betting each others, like a some kind of magic force them. So he viewed Wes Weasley grabbing a package walking to the elevator, was his opportunity to take a closer look to the place, he turn invisible and followed Weasley inside the elevator. They arrived to the basement, to opened the elevator, was a long corridor, to the end was a door with the sign of "ONLY AUTHORIZED PERSONAL". Behind was room full of computers and a magic extractor bigger than the former one with the siren gem on the core, near were Fluttershy and Cheese Sandwich tied to a table bed with the arms outstretched and casseroles on their heads connected to the machine. In that room was also T.S. Baker and Breezie herself.

T. S. Baker: "If that pony was so valuable for you, the pay must be the double."

Breezie: "The pay will be the same, better be glad that I don't retire you the increase!"

Wes Weasley: Here is it madame,

Breezie opened the package, inside was power ring which Breezie took with enthusiasm.

Breezie: Marvellous! With this ring I can increase the power of my machine and stole the magic of every people in this city!

Fluttershy: YOU ARE A GREAT AND UGLY MEANIE! YOU CAN'T GET AWAY WITH IT!

Breezie: "You want to see me what so meanie I can be?" Went to the console putting a finger on the button.

Fluttershy: "HE OH. What I just said, was only a joke. I think that you are very nice lady. In my world exist creatures called Breezie as you and like you they are also adorables. HEHEeheheh. PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!"

Cheese Sandwich: "When our friends come…"

Breezie: "I hope so, I tricked you to work for me, seduce you for steal your magic and sell it to Mephiles in a high price, I wanted to fulfil at last your wishes, but your attitude don't let me choice. In terms of your fox friend, I've something special for him."

Espio: "That's no good."

The chameleon left the room, in a safe place returned to his visible form and contact Tails on the mic.

Espio: "Tails, its me Espio"

Tails: "What's up Espio."

Espio: "Fluttershy and Cheese are trapped in the Ix Emporium. Breezie planned steal their magic and the magic of everyone with a gem and a big machine."

Espio was the better spying, but committed the reckless of not looked a camera outing from an eye on a poster of Breezie promoting the casino stuck next to him. The alarm sounded and an army of swatbots come to trap the chameleon.

Espio: "OH OH. Time to disappear, I call you later." The conversation was cut off and the chameleon spy made his escape.

Tails: "Espio?, Espio!." The kitsune turned off the mic looking up at a window on the Ix Emporium.

Tails: "Are you sure that she is there?"

Spike: "My fine dragon ears can heard her humming form here."

Rarity was in a sewing shop that Breezie gave to her inside the hotel. She was decorating the Breezie's dresses according to the last fashion. In that moment was arranging a crimson dress with golden ribbons covered by rubis.

Rarity: Ces't tres maginfique! When Breezie looks this wonder, she is going to faint.

The window was opened and through it entered Tails and Spike.

Rarity: "AAAHHH!"

Tails: "Don't shout!"

Rarity: "Why are you here?!"

Tails: "Espio send me a message, Fluttershy and Cheese are in trouble"

Spike: "We need your help."

Rarity: "I would love to help you, but I have a lot of work to do. Sorry"

Tails: "WHAT! YOU MUST BE KIDDING!"

Rarity: "I'm not kidding, I finally found an opportunity and I ain't quit for anything in the world. Now if you'll excuse me I have work to do.

The dragon and the kitsune were confused by the impression.

Rarity: "I'M NOT BE CLEAR? GET OUT OF HERE OR I'LL CALL SECURITY!"

Spike: "Rarity you are not like that! The generous girl that I remember never refuse to help her friends!"

Rarity: "DON'T BE RIDDICULUS, I'M NEVER BE FRIEND OF SHABBY ANIMALS LIKE YOU! NOW I GONNA COUNT INTO THREE AND IF YOU DON'T LEAVE, YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET. ONE…"

Spike: "Please remember!"

Rarity: "TWO…"

Tails: "Alright. Alright. We go now" The kitsune took Spike and flew out the window,

Tails: "What heck with her."

Spike: "She must be under Breezie's spell. We make her remember who is she and who are her friends. And I think I have an idea."

Rarity now was working with a black night dress. Only need a few adjustments, when she used her magic to took her notebook to compare the sketches with the model in life. Meanwhile She was working, Tails took carefully to the room and put a red card in the form of heart between notebooks pages. To open the notebook, she found the card with the phrase: "To my Rarity of Spikie Wikie" The card have also draws of all mane six cutie marks, including Rarity's. That's when the unicorn remembered her past life meanwhile a tear slipped on her cheek.

Rarity making one of her dramas: "OH MY POOR FRIENDS, WHAT I'VE DONE?!" And started to cry on the floor.

Spike and Tails went back to the room, this time accompanied by Cosmo, Scootaloo and Charmy.

Spike: "Welcome back Rarity." The dragon hugged the disturbed pony, she made the same and the else watched them with tenderness.

Rarity: "We not have no time to lose, Fluttershy need us."

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Soleanna.

Applejack, Amy and the rest of the Chaotix still locked in the dungeon. Shard try to communicate with GUN through her communicator, but the signal don't went far away from the walls, however he was still trying it to. Amy, Applejack, Vector, Bark, Spitfire and Flash were paying cards, Daring Do wouldn't stop circled to walk round in circles.

Daring Do: I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WE ARE LOCKED UP IN THIS DAMN CELL AND YOU LOOSE TIME PLAYING CARDS!

Amy: "I have a blackjack."

Applejack: "I have only a one third."

Vector: "That isn't fair!."

Upset, everyone threw their cards.

Daring Do: YOU'RE NOT EVEN LISTENING TO ME!

Applejack: "Hold your horses sugar cube, Granny Smith used to say: You can't drink sidra when gives out much leather."

Amy: "Applejack is right, you need to relax. We find the way to escape, now sit down and play with us."

Daring Do: "Ah boys, what to do with you". The bitter pegasus step away from them.

Flash Sentry: "What got into her?"

Spitfire: "I'm serious too, but she went too little far."

The intrepid heroine of literature had been out from troubles like this, but this time, her mind was in blank.

Daring Do: "Wherever you are my child, hope that you're right."

Upside, the queen of the changelings and her minions were in the palace chapel. Was a place baroque style with a marble floor, the oval was elongated and the windows was so high that the light coming everywhere, broad arcs and extensive slowly coils surrounded the altar, gave it a sublime effect. On the altar was a relief of Solaris symbol, an inverted triangle with wings and a circle on the top, and the queen knew which where the ring should be hidden. Used a horn beam to destroy the altar and effectively, between the remains was a box and in the box, a red power ring with a star in middle that the queen took with her magic.

Chrysalis: "The ring! The last piece that I need for accomplish my master plan. Now bring me the princess!"

The changelings brought princess Elise to their chapel and got down on knees after the hooves of the queen.

Chrysalis: "Now my child, show the way for unlock the power inside this ring"

Elise: "Sorry, I can't."

Chrysalis: "You can't or you don't want?"

Elise: "I don't know how unlock the power, really I don't know."

Chrysalis: "Well, when my children start to destroy your loved city, maybe you find a way to release the power in the ring. HEHEHEHE. "

Elise could only cry.

Dragon Kingdom.

All the continent of Yurashia was isolated of the rest of Mobious by a dark magic barrier. Twilight Sparkle and her team were sent to the village of Chun-nan, a human colony where met Zonshen and the gaia phoenix Fenghuang, until the Yagyu Clana attacked the village and kidnapped Fenghuang and Zonshen and Lin's grandsons, was a distance of 20 miles between the village and the Iron Dominion, but were able to safe time flying following the Dragon Road; Knuckles holding Maud, Relic was riding Twilight and she used a levitation spell to take Blaze. Now Team Twilight was at Mount Stormtop flanks, on the top was the Iron Castle, built over the remains of the Iron Fortress, where the gaia phoenix, the children and the mobians were captive, was higher of the original, but conserved some aspects like a front in form of a big demon face.

Twilight: "According to this map the castle is on the top."

An idol hidden between the shrubs called the attention of the alicorn princess, she and Blaze went to check out the statue, as a grotesque representation of a Yama, a god of the death, on his chest was a collar of skulls.

Relic: "What's the matter?"

Blaze: "Don't come!"

Twilight was petrified of fear but she was determined to continue. The trail was so rugged, the alicorn was exhausted and need to rest, the others was agreed, approaching the occasion, they were planning the way to infiltrate to the castle without being seem.

Twilight: "Always exists a secret entrance to a fortress on a mountain, must be one somewhere. Found it!"

Everyone were look that entrance, when someone called the attention of Knuckles.

Knuckles: "It can't be possible!"

Twilight: "What found you Knuckles?"

Knuckles: "She's gone! I though I saw another echidna."

Blaze: "An echidna? Where?"

Knuckles: "Up that way". The red rad appointed a hole on a slope. "She was requested me that follow her."

The team went to the hole an found a grotto.

Twilight: "I thought that we found the secret entrance to the castle."

Relic: "How was that echidna?"

Knuckles: "Was a female, dressed as an ancient-fashioned way."

Blaze: "Should be a trick."

Twilight: "Trick or no Trick. We must go." And the team followed the pony princess to the darkness of the cave.

Inside the castle, was a mine where the mobians of Stromtop Village were extracting rocks, among them was Chun and Yilin, Zonshen's grandsons, also was Li Yuen, the patriarch of Stormtop Village, and her granddaugther Li Moon. Li Yuen was called by the new ruler of the castle, the witch Hidya, an ginger old woman of short stature with dark blue tunic and long nose, looked more a goblin than a woman. She was sat on a throne Ming style, holding a sceptre on one hand and spinning the Fan of Fen Xing in the other.

Li Yuen: "Why you called me?"

Hydia: "Told me that you are the only who know how use this thing" She was talking about the Fan. "Show me how or you are going to have a worst destiny than that ox."

Li Yuen: "I prefer to die."

Hydia: "And your granddaughter?"

Li Yuen had to tell her all about the Fan of Fen Xing. "The Fan has the power of invoke winds and control the air, only flog it against something. Now, please, free my people, at least free my granddaugher."

Hydia: "Isn't so easy". The witch showed put the fan on an armrest and from her tunic pulled out a shinning stone for show it to the old lion a stone. "You have an idea of what is it?"

Li Yuen: "We call it jing tí mo (magic crystal), we use it to make medicines and amulets"

Hydia: "This is energon, an extract of living energy and I need it for a special project, this mountain have a great deposit of this mineral and you and your people will help me to get it. It's a lame that the late queen didn't how use it . Now back to work!"

Ninja lynxes took Lin Yuen back to the mines while Hydia contemplated her rock. "When I have enough, not even that ram could with me. HAHAHA"

Team Twilight was walking through a long dark tunnel full of rocks, hopping find an exit. Maud don't stop to collect the rocks on the way. The route was interrupted when a fork got in their way.

Blaze: "¿Now what way chose?"

Knuckles have and idea, for a change. "We can use the emerald to track the gaia aura of Fenghuang"

Twilight: "Its brilliant! Give the emerald to me, I'm going to search Fenghuang, alone."

Blaze: "Are you crazy."

Twilight: "Will be easier if one of us enter to the castle and I could use my magic to protect me from the guards."

Knuckles: "And what we are gonna do?"

Twilight: "Stay here. Go hide if the ninjas appear and if is necessary, run, don't wait for me."

Relic: "Well, but if something happen to you, use your magic to contact us"

Knux gave her the emerald, she looked that shinned stronger in the left tunnel.

Twilight: "Remember, stay here and do nothing until I come back. " She followed the emerald to the left tunnel and banished into the dark.

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Crystal Empire.

The afternoon in the Crystal Empire flew away, Rainbow Dash delighted everypony with her performance on the arena, except when she noticed Sonic who came to see her, immobilize her wings made her fall, fortunately Sonic went to her rescue. The pegasus has felt 2 times a sensation similar to the love: the first one with Firefly, her girlfriend of the Cloudsdale Flying School (Dash Academy series), and the other with the wonderbolt captain Soarin. Sonic and Sally were boyfriends since childhood till broke up after Sonic space adventure, in that brief moment Sonic was dating with Fiona till she ditched him for Scourge, evil Sonic counterpart (StH 162); Sonic and Sally eventually returned, until that happened (StH 230). Now was the moment of the concert, Sonic and Dash will play the guitar, such as the ones who the counterparts from another dimension used, Pinkie Pie will play the drums and Sonia offered herself to play the keyboard, everypony were waiting under the scenario in front of the castle demanding that the band go out, it remained Sticks with the song.

Sonic: "Where is she? The concert will start in five seconds"

Sonia was reviewing the keyboard without comment.

Pinkie Pie: "May she still looking the song."

Rainbow Dash: "It's too late. We'll have to perform without the written."

Sonic: "And the song?"

Rainbow: "No problemo, I remember the lyrics, just follow me."

Everypony knocked the floor to see the band get on the scenario.

Rainbow Dash: "By the way, thank for help us Sonia."

Sonia: "I owed you a favour."

Sonic to the public: "Thank you everypony, to petition of your prince we are here to share some of our courage to you at this time of despair.

Rainbow: "We are "The Sonic Rainbooms" and this is "The friendship is cool."

[Rainbow guitar]

RD: If a thunder scares you

Maybe anyone stay with you

Sonic: But Is not really true

A friend is always at your side.

[Sonic guitar]

Sonic: You can see the world around

Just wait the awesome freedom sound

RD: Our goal waiting in the sky

And only together we can success.

[All the instruments]

Both: Even in the blackest night

Even in the coldest fright

We always be friends

Because the friendship iiiiis coooool.

Sonic: Dropping every tear

Running from every fear

RD: You don't have to cry

Because I'm always here with you.

Sonic: Listen to your heart

Look at the color chart

RD: Is the power of friendship

Is the power of all.

Both: Even in the blackest night

Even in the coldest fright

We always be friends

Because the friendship iiiiis coooool.

[Both guitars].

Everyone: Even in the blackest night

Even in the coldest fright

We always be friends

Because the friend-ship iiiiis coooooooooooool!

Everypoony cheered the performance, making that the Crystal Heart shot a wave of colors from the tower of the castle. Shining Armor, Silver and Wind Whistler were among them.

Silver: "Awesome!"

Shining Armor: "Excellent song guys!"

Wind Whistler: "Woooooooow!"

Everypony were there, except Sticks of course, she was locked on King Sombra's office under the castle. The badger tried to bring down the door, but was tightly closed. Frustrated, Stick kick a bookstore, in doing so, the furniture went down revealing an vortex. Sticks though that could be an exit an trough it, but at the other side, only found an immense empty space full of stars and a road of crystal, so a rain of spears fall on her and the badger run as if the devil has been chasing her.

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Casino Park.

Trixie and her friends were performing their magic show in the casino, in a disoperation act put a dog guy inside a box, turned it around with her magic and on opening the door, he was disappeared to appear on the top of the stares. The last act consisted in transform a cadillac into a big elephant, not only did it, turned the elephant into an apple tree and the tree into a crowd of pigeons.

Trixie: ·GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE, AND THANK YOU!"

The curtain closed with an thunderous applause.

Trixie: "Love me, they really love me."

Behind he scenes, Tails and his team were waiting her.

Trixie: "Are you. What you want?"

Tails: "Fluttershy, Cheese and Espio need our help and…"

Trixie: "I know what you're talking about and my answer, is NO. I've everything that I always wanted and I'm not gonna quit to help a pony who I hardly know! "

Rarity: "You don't understand Trixie? Breezie is using to us, she doesn't want our talents, SHE WANT OUR MAGIC!"

Trixie: "ENOUGH, I know what really you want of me, you are jealous and you want to see me fail!"

Unlike of Rarity, Tails couldn't want to bear her attitude.

Tails: "You think that you are special because you are great and powerful?! What's the use all this fame if you don't have friends to share it. On day you will be alone and the fault will only be yours!"

Trixie "I've been alone all my life and I have been able to go ahead. I don't need friends to fulfil my dreams."

Fushia and Lavender were behind and got depressed with that commentary.

Tails: "The fame don't bring your mother back."

Trixie: "DON'T YOU DARE TO MENTION MY MOTHER!"

Furious, the blue unicorn pounced on the kitsune but Rarity's immobilize her.

Trixie: LET ME DOWN UNICORN IMITATION!

Rarity: "I know your story Trixie, you thought that your mother didn't feel anything for you, let me tell you something, you don't need to be a famous magician to make her proud, she always be proud of you."

Cosmo: "I know how you fell, you think that you're a failure but you're wrong, meanwhile you have friends, you'll always be a winner. Your mother wouldn't like see you to leave them".

Rarity let free Trixie and put her on the floor upside down.

Trixie: "Leave me alone."

Scootaloo: "Please come need you."

Spike "I know how feel a to be failure."

Tails: "C'mon boys, only we waste time."

Left Trixie with her bitterness, her friends decided follow them, gave a last look to their leader prior to leave the scenario. The magician didn't have anything more than tears to spill.

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Soleanna.

Two changelings are keeping the entrance to the dungeon, on a corner a hand rolled a green stained egg to them . When the guards went to check out the egg, this exploded covering them with a slimy green substance. A hand took the keys on the belt of one of the guards. The eyes of the team shining with joy when viewed Billy and Cyrus in front of them.

Amy: "GUYS!"

Shard: "You got the message."

Billy Hatcher: "No, we decoded the princess diary and come to inform you."

Cyrus: "But when we watched a crowd of changelings flying form the castle, we deduced that you maybe are in trobules."

Daring Do: "And the foals?"

Pipsqueak: "We are here."

Pipsqueak and Babs got out behind Billy.

Vector: "You shouldn't have to come here, but I'm glad to see you again."

Cyrus used a pocket melter to open the cell. Inside, the guys embraced, after the lion pulled out his pocket computer for show them something.

Cyrus: "Princess Elise send us, his father's dairy, she though that could be safe in GUN HQ, besides she can't access because she didn't know the password. I tried many times, but I couldn't access too, until Babs suggested me the nickname that the duke used to call her wife, WHAT KIND OF KING WOULD CALL "LITTLE COTTON" TO HIS QUEEN!"

Spitfire: "To the grain!"

Cyrus: "Oh, sorry, we were reading the duke's dairy and found this."

August 24th. 3222.

"I just to lose my beloved wife, all because of those damn mobians, to top it off, the energy crisis, the crisis that led to this war, is on a critic point. Fortunately, a mobian scientist called Ellidy come to ask me if I could support his project. The war minister of Acorn Kingdom, Julian, accused him for treason and is why he come to me searching help, who I was gonna be to for denied his begs, especially when he have a sick child. It will be easy manipulate him for accomplish my father's dream, the conquest of the Acorn Kingdom."

Applejack: "That's what I call, "a rotten apple."

February 5ft. 3223.

"According to doctor Ellidy, this power not only will give us a new source of energy, also give us something more ambitious: the control of the time himself. I could see my wife again!"

September 11th. 3224.

"I heard that the minister Julian took over the city of Mobotropiis, will be question of time to come to Soleanna. I need to finish the experiment as soon as possible. We need the power for defend us. Ellidy just missed her daughter during a excursion to the great forest, I felt sorry for him, I know what it's feels like lose someone, but maybe this tragedy motivate him to complete the project."

October 2 th. 3224.

"The, the experiment has failed, was too energy to control it, the core exploded killing most of the technicians and let me seriously injured. Ellidy warned me, but I didn't want to hear him. I haven't much time so I'll fast, "the Gaia Flames", how I decided to call this power, was divided in two parts: a one of light and another of darkness. The dark half is in a place that only Elliy and I know, the half of light was locked in a living container, the body of my daughter Elise. According to the scrolls, this power only could being held by the living energy of a pure soul, if a negative sensation take over of this soul, the energy will be unleashed in the form of "The flames of Disaster". Ellidy is working in a substitute to free my child from this weight. This is my last entry, I hope that Elise could forgive…"

Daring Do: "So the energy that the changelings are searching is inside Elise. "

Amy: "The Sun Festival is tonight, everyone will be present, will be the perfect to steal the love of the kingdom."

Vector: "Well team, this our opportunity to shine."

Applejack: "This is a rodeo that we can't lose."

Dragon Kingdom.

Knuckles and Blaze were sat on a rock waiting for Twilight, Relic was studying the scanned scrolls on Dexter memory and Maud was making an inventory of her collection.

Maud: "Until now I've gathered14 basalts, 11 andesites and 8 dacites."

At the beginning the wind was that made music in the tunnel until some weird sounds come form the right tunnel, Knuckles, curious by nature, want to find the origin of that sound. The girls told him that he must wait Twilight, but a sexist like Knuckles follow his instinct. Closer, the sounds took the form of sorrows and hammerings. At the end of the tunnel found what appeared to be a mine full of workers what appeared to be living dead, were the residents of Stormtop Village turned in slaves by the iron fist of the iron Dominion. Old mobians, women and children tied with chains under the stares of the ninja lynxes from the Raiju Clan leaded by the Bride of the Conquering Storm, once the right hand of queen Regina and now was the right hand of queen Hydia. Relentlessly journey, unrewarded job, that was the price of living on the slop of the Stormtop Mountain.

Relic: "That's terrible."

Knuckles: "We must save them."

Blaze: "Twilight told us that not make anything."

Knuckles: "Twilight don't knew anything about this."

Blaze: "However its better wait for her return. We must save the phoenix too, together we'll able to save all these people."

Conquering Storm, an orange lynx with black hair, purple gi (a kind of combat siut), a coolie hat hair, heavy glooves and boots with metal reinforcements; was monitoring the works when two of her ninjas come with a human child with a blue shirt and black pants.

Relic: "Is one of Zonshen's grandchildren!"

Ninja 1: "Sir, this boy has something to tell you"

The leader lynx put her hand under boy's mouth, which name was Chun. With a stunned glare, the boy pitted a piece of energon form his mouth that fell on Conquering's hand palm.

Conquering Storm: Cheng ta! (punish him).

One ninja croaked Chun's left arm and the other pulled out a sword ready to amputate.

Knuckles can't stay indifferent anymore, so he grabbed one of Maud's rocks from her backpack and threw it to the ninja with the sword hitting him on the head, saving the arm of the child. Conquering rolled the eyes to the side where the guys were and without turn the face said to her men.

Conquering Storm: "lie qu ta men (catch them)."

All the ninjas went to them, the guys launched the flight. With the horde out the back, passing the fork, was close to the exit when from the shadows, spider ninjas covered the girls with their webs. Knuckles tried to release them when the Bride of Rich Nights landed in front. To see her, the echidna swooped where she was, but she dodged the attack as did it with Blaze, she struck back with punches and kicks, the echidna blocked them and with a royal fist, broke her mask revealing her face, was a white bat that Knuckles hardly could forget.

Knuckles: "YOU!"

Rouge: "Yes darling, me."

The thief bat threw a sting on Knuckle's arm, making him fall to the floor, the last thing that he viewed was Rouge laughing at him at moment in he was closing the eyes.

Twilight following the tunnel, she could enter to the castle, used invisibility spell to hide from the guards and using the emerald as guide, she could find the cell where the Gaia Phoenix was imprisoned. The door was guarded by two chameleon ninjas, the princess used an immobilize spell to freeze the ninjas, opened the door and found Fenghuang locked in a big circular cage.

Twilight: "Don't worry Feng, I'm gonna get you out of here."

Twilight used her magic the decode the combination of the lock which maintain closed the cage. Before she know it, a secret passage opened on the wall and from a rust hole, a thunder struck Twilight's horn leave her unconscious. After a monkey entered to the room.

Monkey Khan: "Another piece for our collection."

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In the TARDIS.

Mina Mongoose was sleeping inside the TARDIS, she and the dream world haven't good relationship. First Mammoth Mogul used a caught spell on her trough her dreams after suffered recurring nightmares about Nicole taking the control of New Mobotropolis, now have recurring nightmares about her experience of that town. The pony of the cult, a one Starlight Glimmer, a pink unicorn with a ponytail and purple mane; predicated that the path of the happiness was that all be "the same". On that strange town, everypony had the same cutie mark, an equal sign. When she fell on that place, she was treated as distinguished host, but when was invited to "preach the word", she only said no and was imprisoned on a cave. She was trapped there until the Doctor and Rotor appeared on the TARDIS just inside on her cell and rescued her. But was more, a success before her imprisonment, Mina dreamed that she was tied up on a bed surrounded by a group of zombified ponies accompanied by the leader.

Mina: "What will you do with me?"

Starlight Glimmer: "I gave the opportunity of join us nicely, but your folly force me to use "The Treatment."

Mina: "PLEASE NO, NO, NOOOOOO!"

The last thing that the mongoose singer reminded was a flash light covering her eyes.

Cream: "Wake up Mina! You have a nightmare."

Mina: "Oh, are you. I dreamed that those ponies was experimenting with me."

Cream: "Don't worry miss Mina, It already happened"

Applebloom: "You said that on that town gave cutie marks to everypony. Maybe we should take a look."

Mina: "Isn't a nice place, believe me."

For her part, Sweetie Belle and Diamond Tiara were listening music, Vinyl and Octavia were paying Chinese checkers. Vinyl made signal to Tavi with satisfaction.

Octavia: "Sorry Vinyl, but not have checkmate in Chinese checkers."

The doctor was measuring the energy levels on the panel with Marine talking about the wonders of his machine, the time lord used a pair of cottons to support the punishment, and Honey was talking with Rotor.

Honey: "And you met the doctor when he was fighting with a goat sucker"

Rotor: "His eschew stuck, son I jumped on the beast and tied his mouth and legs with a vine. He told me about the Genesis Wave, the TARDiS was damaged by the chaos energy, so I offered to repay it. The doctor was so satisfied that he hired me as his assistant. Among us, sometimes I think that is reverse."

Then the TARDIS stopped.

Doctor: "I think that we arrived."

To left the TARDIS, everyone were found a long road of crystal in middle of the space.

Doctor: "Its seems that we landed in a some kind of dimensional intersection"

So they viewed Sticks coming to them with a rain of spears behind her.

Sticks: "LET ME IN, LET ME IN!"

The badger entered to the TARDIS and when the others saw the spears, everyone made the same. The TARDIS disappeared just in time. When asked to Sticks who is her, she talked everything, since the meet with Team Sonic in the Frog Forest to the fight with Sonia.

Doctor: "Maybe that girl is the responsible of this mess and if is an emerald hidden on the crystal empire, we must find it, Rotor…"

Rotor: "You don't need to tell me twice."

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Dragon Kingdom.

Team Cadance were at the doors of the iron Castle hidden behind a rock, there was guards of the Rayju Clan making guard singing the theme of the Wicked Witch army.

Antoine: "Well, we tried it."

The coyote was already going for the fear as ever when Cadance used her magic to stop him.

Cadance: "We must enter"

Nicole: "How? Must be hundred guards there"

So, a group of ninjas of all clans surprise them form behind, after a brief moment of struggle, the team went out from the rocks using the uniform of the ninjas.

Cadance: "This is how."

The guard was called to return into the castle, the rows passed through the entrance and Team Cadance disguised as ninjas followed them. Derpy walked on another direction but Lyra used her magic to direct her on the right direction. When all entered, the gate has closed.

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Crystal Empire.

After the concert everyone celebrated a gathering near to the Crystal Heart, Sonic, Dash and Pinkie ate like pigs as always, making nauseas to Sonia.

Sonic: "So your first love was a girl?"

Rainbow: "Her name was Firefly and I prefer don't talk about her now."

Sonic: "I know how you feel. But forget the past, you have me now"

The two speedsters are rubbing noses and when close their lips, Pinkie made another of her surprise entrances.

Pinkie: "Who want more cupcakes?"

Obviously the two lovers got mad. The party was crowned with fireworks, after the team went to check the Crystal Heart if the plan worked and noticed that the relic was blinking, something wasn't right.

Shining Armor: "I thought that the celebration would strengthen it"

Sonic: "Perhaps need an adjustment."

Sonia: "I studied magic relics in the college, maybe I can see what happen it."

Shinning Armor doubt for a moment, at least he agreed and let the pink hedgehog to take the gem, when the TARDIS appeared in front of them.

Rainbow Dash: What the…?

The doors opened and Sticks got out with boomerang on hand.

Sticks: "GET BACK MONSTER!"

Sonic: Sticks, where you were?

Sticks glaring Sonia: "SHE LOCKED ME ON A DUNGEON.

Sonia: "I DON'T HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT ARE YOU TALKIN ABOUT?".

Sticks: SHE IS EVIL AND WANT TO USE DARK MAGIC OVER ALL OF US!"

Sonia: IT'S RICULOUS!

Sonic: "ENOUGH STICKS, I THINK YOU'RE GOING TOO FAR."

Doctor: "NO SHE IS RIGHT AND I'M GOING TO PROVE YOU"

Wind Whislter: And who are you?

Doctor: "I'm the Doctor."

The time lord used his eschew to shot an energy wave to Sonia', in a reflex action she used a dark magic shield to repel the attack. Everyone stayed annoyed.

Sonia: "Oh what the hell."

(BGM: Kings Sombra's return theme)

A dark smoke covered Sonia, the crystal ponies who were in there watching with horror the show, the smoke increased more and more until exploded upwards in direction to the sky forming a column of darkness. Bit by bit coming mores ponies to look what the heck happened, was something that they have seen before. To Shining Armor and the crystal ponies on could means something: "HE'S BACK!" The mobian revealed her true form, but instead of a black unicorn, she turned into a crystal hedgehog black as the night with eyes red as blood.

Sonic: WWWho are you?

(BGM: Tension).

"My name is Mephiles, Mephiles the Dark. Thanks for let me play in your band but before I go…"

The hedgehog turned into a black smoke and took the Crystal Heart, after opened a warp ring portal.

Mephiles: "IF YOU WANT THE CRYSTAL, JUST FOLLOW ME!" the sinister being crossed the portal.

Rainbow Dash: "HEY! COME BACK LYER!"

The pegasus crossed the portal too.

Sonic: "RAINBOW!"

Sonic followed her leaving a blue blast behind him. When they arrived to the other side, the portal was closed and the speedsters found themselves into a dark cave stinking as dead. Sonic and Rainbow Dash arrived to THE TARTARUS.

Surprised? It was my first song, I hope you enjoyed it. In the next chapter, four teams, four battles. I hope to finish the chapter before the premiere of the Season 5. See you in a week.