Chapter 20: "The Keys of Harmony. Part 1."

Sonic: The blue blur

Rainbow Dash: The rainbow blur.

Twilight Sparkle: Princess in disgrace.

Knuckles: The red rad.

Mecha Sally: Sonic ex-girlfriend.

Iron Castle.

Twilight Sparkle awakens inside a cage smaller than where Fenghuang was sealed hanging over the throne hall. She viewed that their friends were locked with her unconscious, the next thing that she viewed was Hydia and her progeny.

Hydia: "Good morning my darling, I hope that my monkey wasn't so rude with you."

Twilight: "Who are you?"

Hydia: "I'm Hydia, the iron queen, those are my children, say hello to the princess."

Reeka and Draggle: "Hello princess."

Twilight: "¿Why you kidnapped Fenghuang and Zonshen´s grandchildren? ¿What are you doing with us?"

Hydia: "One question at the same time. First, I need the feathers of the Gaia Phoenix as ingredient for my new recipe, as well as the energon of this mountain, which is looking my slaves." The witch showed Twilight the people on the mines trough her crystal ball.

Twilight: "Monster! Nobody have the right to slavery other living beings."

Hydia: "My power on this kingdom gives me the all the right!"

Draggle: "You said it mama!"

Hydia: DON'T CALL ME MAMA!

Reeka; "Sorry mama."

Hydia: THAT DON'T CALL ME MAMA!

Twilight giggling for the discussion.

Hydia: "You think that's funny? Just wait what I got for you."

In that Conquering Storm accompanied by the Bride of Constant Vigil, a purple chamelon of long nape dressed in green, entered to the room with a bottle bowing for show it to their queen.

Constant Virgil: "My ninjas got the floo you majesty."

Hydia: "Excellent, prepare everything. You and your friends princess Twilight will our honour guest in the ceremony of tonight."

The witches left the hall with Twilight and her team locked on that cage, planning the way to escape.

Knuckles: "OOh my head. Where are we?"

Twilight: "Thank of Celestia that you woke. We are prisoners of a nasty with and we have to escape of here."

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Tartarus.

Rainbow: "I can't believed that Sonia tricked us"

Sonic: She tricked everyone. By the way, what is this place?

Rainbow Dash: "I fear the we are in the Tartarus, here is the place where the must terrible creatures of all Equestria are imprisoned."

Sonic: "That's sounds great."

So a boat coming to the speedsters floating on a purple fog, sailing it with a rowing was a strange creature seemed as a pony, was skinny with a dark brown coat, a reptilian snout, and two bat wings with a lantern as cutiemark.

?: "Get out! The visitors can't enter here without a permission of the princess."

Rainbow Dash: "We aren't visitors, we are looking a black cloud with a crystal heart. Are you see him mister…?"

?: "Nightcrawler, I'm a threstal, a guard of the Tartarus and yes, I watched a dark cloud flying to the other side of the fog sea. "

Sonic: "Can you take us mister Nighcrawler "

Nightcrawler: "You will have to pay me first."

Rainbow and Sonic looking on their pockets, RD found a rusty horseshoe and Sonic a spoiled chilli dog.

Nightcrawler: "I accept both things, go on"

Rainbow and Sonic got on the boat and were undertaken the road through the Tartarus. On the way met prisoners like Tiamat, the dragon of five heads, Fenrir, the wolf of ice, and Chulhu, demon of the deeps; but both don't seemed worried, in fact, they were laughing telling jokes. After a one hour of travesty, they arrived to a dock of stone.

Nightcrawler: "The cloud that you are searching crossed the area known as "Dungeon Cave" on that way. You must be careful because is the must dangerous part in the Tartarus, full of tramps and guards of little temper."

Rainbow: "Thanks Nightcrawler."

Nightcrawler: "At last you should've put gravy on my chilli dog." The boat with the threstal was taking apart.

Sonic: "The must dangerous place in the Tartarus"

Rainbow: "This guy don't know us. Excuse me."

Sonic: "After you."

STAGE: DUNGEON CAVE.

(BGM: The palace that was be found.)

Sonic and Rainbow started the level passing on a auto-running, crossed a shuttle loop circle, on a straight road encountered the first enemies two dark magic stalkers which Sonic and Rainbow destroyed with easly, after continued their race on a tunnel dungeon style. In the tunnel were axes swaying from side to side. The road continued on a stone bridge, more stalkers and a dark magic worm obstructing the way. There's nothing on the other side of the bridge, so the hedgehog jumped on a bumper to a jaggled rock peak, on the top appeared 2 dark magic golems to defeat them, opened a cage and took a big silver ring. He uses another bumper to arrive to the next speak with three golems more, so forth until arrive at a cliff, entered to a cave and found themselves in a big tower, running on circles to up top, Sonic used bumpers and jumping over dark magic takers. On the top jumped on a rail sliding down, ridded a big black magic bat to cross a sea of dark fog full of rocks, Rainbow and Sonic having to elude all the stalagmites coming out from the fog. To arrive a platform, the hedgehog used rolling attack on the enemies to jump from rock to rock until arrive to another bridge that was started to collapse, jump a great abyss with the help of a bumper, arrived to a big jaggled peak, up the stairs and touch the ring goal. Sonic made is classic posse with a finger up and Rainbow landed next to him smiling in an guard posse.

STAGE CLEAR.

SCORE: 15700.

TIME: 00:04:02:34.

RINGS:101.

TIME BONUS: 24730.

BONUS RINGS: 500.

TOTAL SCORE: 40430.

RANK: S.

Rainbow: "THAT WAS CRAZY."

On the top o the peak, they found the Crystal Heart.

Rainbow: "We must take the heart or the empire couldn't survive."

But before they could touch it, heard an evil laugh behind them, was Mephiles sat on a throne.

Sonic: "You! HOW COULD YOU STEAL THE CRYSTAL HEART AND CHEAT US THAT WAY!"

Mephiles: "I am a villain, its part of my job."

Rainbow: "Why would you want the crystal heart?"

Mephiles: In first place, to bring you here; in second place, facilitate the job to my friends

Sonic: "Your friends?"

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Crystal Empire.

The crusaders, Cream, Cheese, Froggy and Big where contemplating the view of the empire on the balcony, Coco, Diamond, Octavia and Vinyl were walking in the castle and on the throne hall, Shining, Silver, Wind Whistler, Pinkie Pie, Sticks and the rest of the newcomers discussing about what happened.

Silver: "Just when I was starting to fell something to her!"

Shining Armor: "This is the second that foolish me!"

Sticks: I already told but anybody never listen to me, I'm not so paranoid" So viewed her shadow. "YOU AGAIN! STOP FOLLOW ME!"

Marine to Pinkie: "And said that I am crazy."

Wind Whistler: "So you are agents of time and you are looking chaos emeralds."

Doctor: "Those emeralds are the key of all this, If exist and emerald on this place..."

Pinkie raised her hand: "We have and emerald."

Doctor: "Really."

Rotor: "Where."

Pinkie: "Only Shadow knows."

Mina : Shadow?"

Pinkie Pie: "Our friend little friendly. But I don't see it before the festival."

Shining Armor: "Perhaps that Mephiles did him something. His magic have some resemblance with the magic of king Sombra, will exist some relation."

Suddenly, a noise broke the calm of the place, everyone went to the balcony and saw and explosion on the fair. From the flame come an army of shadows leaded by something that seem a robot with squirrel form and two swords on her hands.

In the Tartarus Mephiles used his magic to show the speedsters the terrible scene.

Sonic: "SSSally?"

Mephiles: "Yes, your girlfriend is my now, we found her and erased her former programming. You should thank us for free her from Eggman's control."

Rainbow: "Nobody can treat a living being like a machine!"

Mephiles: "She isn't a living being anymore and will I use her to destroy the Crystal Empire, your friend Shadow hidden the chaos emerald in someplace of the empire, will be easier If I destroy it and search the gem from the rubble. and after. After I don't know, perhaps I could use Sally like a toy to entertain myself at the nights."

Sonic: "BASTARD!" Angry, he launched himself against Mephiles.

Rainbow: "SONIC WAIT!"

(Boss music: Mephiles theme 1)

Mephiles invoked another bunch of their shadows and disappeared. Sonic and Rainbow fighting against the shadows, but Mephiles not appeared in any place. So Rainbow looked something weird on the shadow.

Rainbow: "SONIC! YOUR SHADOW!"

Sonic used a rolling attack on his own shadow, lured Mephiles ready to receive the attack of Rainbow Dash. The dark hedgehog repeated the same tactic and the speedsters repeated the strategy. On the third round, Mephiles changed of tactic, he was floating covered by a shield, only opening for throw balls of dark energy. Soinc and Rainbow dodged them and use a combing to beat him. At least, they could defeat the enemy.

Sonic: "Surrender Mephiles, you can't win"

Mephiles: "Why? if I just begun."

Mephiles used an illusion spell on the hedgehog and the pegasus, both viewed their deepest fear. Sonic viewed the city of Mobotropolis burnt in flames, his friends lied dead on the ground with Mecha Sally see him shouting "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT." The same thing happened to Rainbow Dash, but instead of Sally, was her mother calling her loser.

Rainbow: "PLEASE FORIVE ME!"

Rainbow Dash: "MOTHER DON'T LEAVE ME!"

Pray of the confusion, the evil hedgehog made appear a pair of cubic cages and brought down to the guys.

Mephiles: "I would like to stay with you but I have things to do and people to visit." And disappeared with a booming laugh leaving both with a twitching in their cages.

In the Crystal Empire, the Royal Guard are fightingh against the shadow and the captain Shining Armor to the robot.

Mecha Sally: "IDENTIFY: SHINING ARMOR, PRINCE OF CRYSTAL EMPIRE AND CAPTAIN OF CANTERLOT ROYAL GUARD. OBEJTIVE: ELIMINATE."

Mecha Sally used her blades, but Shining Armor use his shield. Octavia, Coco and Bing took over the crystal ponies to a safe place along with the fillies, Coco, Cream and Cheese. Vinyl, Honey, Silver, Wind Whistler, Mina and the doctor joined to the scuffle, the hedgehog immobilized the shadows, Wind Whistler used a tornado, Mina and Vinyl their martial arts skills and the doctor disintegrated them with his device. Honey seemed scared, but when the shadows approached curious to her, the cat gave an evilly smile and knocked down with a tornado kick. Sticks used her boomerang to thrash a bunch of shadows bouncing with them as pinball ball. Pinkie and Marine were being chased by a dark golem, when they around the corner, the girls disguised as hairdressers.

Pinkie Pie: "Welcome to our barber shop. You need retouch very urgently."

Both sat the monster and put him a blanket. Pinkie spread spume on his chin and Marine polished his rock fingers.

Marine: "Have you heard about the new dress of princess Cadance? Will the new sensation of this season."

Pinkie: "Voilá."

The monster looked in on a mirror, his face was make up as a doll and growled of fury. Then Pinkie spinned the chair leaving dizzy the monster, after she and Marine shake hands. The battle continued meanwhile the shield that maintained the Crystal Empire safe started to dissolve.

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Iron Castle.

In the mine Li Moon, a young fox with red fur, black hair and purple clothing, was cutting stones with the other villagers, approaching the distraction of the foreman, she used the rock hammer to cut her chains. Free, Li Moon looked a way to escape and look for help.

On their part, Team Cadance disguised as ninjas looking Twilight everywhere, they were noticed that the majority of the ninjas were absent to see.

Antoine: "Mon dieu, look at this place, I feel like a graveyard."

Then Li Moon stumbled with Antoine. The fox puppy got scared until a familiar voice dispel her fears.

Soarin: "Li Moon?"

Li Moon: "Soarin? Oh Soarin! How I am to see you again." She hugged the pegasus.

Soarin: "Where is your grandfather and the villagers?"

Li Moon: "In the mine, they forced us to extract brightful stone. "

Cadance: "Are you see a lavender horse with a horn and wings?"

No, but I heard to the ninjas talking about sacrifice a pony, Cadance was creepy feeling.

Nicole: "Where?"

Everyone were reunited on a compound in a cave where celebrated a ceremonial thing with drums and chants, on the centre were the standards with the logos of the clans and the Iron Dominion and a giant relief of Hydia. Hydia was with her daughters and the four brides, including Rouge as the new Bride of Rich Nights. All the ninjas were there separated of their leaders by an extensive breach full of lava. On a corner was Ken, better known as Monkey Khan, now under the influence of the witches magic. On the roof was hanging the cage with Twilight and her friends like witness of the ceremony.

Hydia: "Now we have the necessary for our moment of glory. You ninjas of the four clans have followed the fake promises of Regina Ferrum. I promise you an unprecedented power thanks to our new weapon."

Ninjas: HYDIA! HYDIA! HYDIA!

Hydia: "Open the hatch." A hatch with lava in the bottom crater opened on the floor.

Conquering Storm gave her a box with energon stones and dumped them into the hole. "You don't waste rocks that way" shouted Maud, in question of rocks, Maud was a fiery. Constant Vigil gave her a bottle of floor and spilled in the hole too; she made the same with a shining dust on a bag given to her by the Bride of Endless Reach.

Hydia: "Now the final ingredient, bring the Gaia Phoenix."

The ninjas of the Yagyu Clan arrived pulling with ropes the cage with Fenghuang inside, the bird didn't do anything except scream. Rouge took a clamp and pulled some feather from the tail of the phoenix and threw them to the hole.

Hydia: NOW, THE LAST INGREDIENT.

Lowed carefully the cage with Team Twilight.

Knuckles: IF YOU GONNA SACRIFICE TWILIGHT, YOU ARE WRONG!

Hydia: Luckily we need the alircorn alive, but you are expendable, submerge them!

Pulled out Knuckles, Blaze, Relic and Maud. and close them to the hole.

Blaze: "If you don't know it, the fire is my element." She tried to melt her chains, but a spell on them nullified the pyrokinesis of the cat princess.

To the place arrived Team Cadance, as far away from the crowd, they looked how their friends will be scarified. Li Moon set her sights to Monkey Khan, he saved her village from Eggman forces and the iron Dominion, besides, exists a prophecy about that the peace will arrive with the coming of the "king monkey."

Li Moon: "This is Ken! Why he not doing anything?"

Soarin: "Because he is one of them now. Its useless, he won't remember you."

Li Moon: "I must try." The fox girl run girl ran to him.

Cadance: "Li Moon! Come back!"

The girl set behind the cyborg monkey, he rolled his eyes to her with a cold glare.

Li Moon: "MISTER KEN, MISTER KEN PLEASE HELP US!"

But the monkey didn't anything except slapping the fox with force throwing her down to the floor.

Li Moon: "PLEASE AWAKE!"

Ken grab the girls and go to Hydia to show her.

Monkey Khan: "You highness, this brat came without invitation. What we doing with her?"

Hydia: "To the hole, will be a special condiment."

Li Moon: "NO."

Team Cadance decided that this was the time to act, they fell off from their disguises and ate their way beating some ninjas.

Hydia: INTRUDERS! CATCH THEM!

Twilight recognized the pink alicorn.

Twilight: "CADANCE!"

Knuckles, Blaze and Maud approached the distraction the guards and pushed with their shoulders. Lyra closed to them and used her magic fingers to open the chains, after free princess Twilight, the other team joined to the fight, even Bulk Biceps. Blaze went to the witches, but they used the trick of smoke to escape. Rouge and Knuckles faced in a fight hand to hand. Nicole used her karate skills which download as computer program. Derpy took off running and not realizing, brought down some ninjas. Lyra made appear a bunch of magic hands and with them, grab the enemies and threw them. Bob Bon dropped her contact lenses, while she looking them, Constant Vigil stumbled while her trying to escape. Bunnie used her canon blast and Antoine his sword trying to save Fenghuang, but a bunch of ninjas took her away and blew the exit with a bomb. Maud faced Endless Reach, the spider shot her some web but these don't stop the earth pony, busted the web and knocked her with one of her hoof punch. Soarin sent some ninjas to the abyss with a diving attack. Monkey Kahn faced princess Twilight, he drop Li Moon and threw a thunder attack, but Twiiight used her shield and respond with a magic beam.

Li Moon: "Please don't hurt him, those witches haunted him!"

To see the purple shine on Ken's eyes, Twilight realized that the girl was right, so she pulled out the chaos emerald, immobilized him and shouted in high voice.

Twilight: CHAOS CONTROL!

The bright blinded the monkey and back to normal.

Monkey Kahn: "What happened to me?"

Twilight: "You were under a spell, but you're free now. Now less talk and more action." Ken started to beat the ninjas.

Rouge moved with amount of grace, until Knuckles decided to use an strategy.

Knuckles: "LOOK, IS A CHAOS EMERALD!"

Rouge: WHERE?

The echidna approached to knock her down with a punch on the cheek. When everyone made the ninjas ran, Twilight approached to Cadance and gave her a big huge.

Twilight: "I'm so happy to see you again."

Cadance: "You are my sister, help you its part of my job."

Grabbing Rouge on his arm, Knuckles put her down on the floor ready for fight with Ken.

Twilight: STOP! HE IS ON OUR SIDE NOW

Knuckles: But he had the fault that hey captured Fenghuang!

Twilight: "He is only another victim of the Hydia, besides, everyone deserves a second chance."

Knuckle put down his fist. "Alright. Where are those witches."

Monkey Kahn: "They must be running away on their blimp with the Gaia Phoenix."

Twilight: "Me, Knuckles, and Monkey Kahn we are going after Hydia. The rest of you going to the free the villagers."

Nicole: "I'm going with you."

Twilight: "Are you sure…?"

Nicole: "Nicole and I have a score to settle with the iron Dominion, I want to help you."

Twilight: "Well, but do as I say."

Knuckles put Rouge on Bulk back. "Take her for me."

Li Moon: "Follow me!"

The mobians and ponies took different ways.

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Tartarus.

Sonic continued to have that horrible dream, his city, his friends, all was lost. rendered impotent, the hedgehog put himself in fetal position. Suddenly a bright light turned everything in white and an old bearded pony with a conic stared hat appeared in front of him.

Star Swirl: "Stop to cry Sonic!."

Sonic got up and sat down cross legged intrigued with this visit. "Who are you? Wait a minute! I remember you!"

Star Swirl; "You saved my life and I com to repay you the favour. Now stand up, we gotta save the Crystal Empire and the princess now."

Sonic: "You mean Sally? How can I possibly save her now?"

Star Swirl: "Ah come on Sonic, don't got let it get to you, you don't ever give up when have a fight, only need some FAITH."

Sonic: You can help me?

Star Swirl: "Surely, only remember this words" The unicorn whispers something into Sonic's ears. " "The rest depend of you."

Sonic: "But I don't know anything about magic! "

Star Swirl: "If you don't saver her now, you could lost her forever. Answer me one question. Do you love her? The enough to save her?"

Sonic: "More that anything."

Star Swirl: "Alright, lets do it together!"

Sonic smiling: "Lets do it to it."

Sonia awakens from his dream, took a look to the scarf that Rainbow gave him and a color shine illuminated it, same as flashed on his eyes. Broke the cage with a rolling a attack, made the same with Rainbow's cage and tried to waken up.

Sonic: "C'mon Rainbow! Wake up!"

Rainbow: "Sonic I have a terrible nightmare!"

Sonic "Its over."

Rainbow: "But was so real. I fear that becomes a reality."

Sonic: "That's s not will happen." Cleaned a tear on Rainbow's eye. "Smile."

Rainbow always said that she was brave and wasn't afraid of anything, but at the bottom was too insecure, even more that Fluttershy, when she was a little filly, Rainbow's mother abandoned her for considering her as a failure, that left a profound mark on the pony's self-esteem. Sonic had that problem too, but always count with their friends to cheer up. With that word, the confidence return to the adventure lover, so she respond him with a smile.

Rainbow: "And how we get out of here?"

Sonic turned his eyes to the Crystal Heart, he feel some kind of energy and know how to do?

Sonic: "With FAITH."

(BGM: Reach the goal)

The hedgehog and the pegasus held the "hands" and closed the eyes thinking in your friends and all their adventures together, so the heart start to shine covering the speedsters with his light and in the blink of an eye, they turned in their super forms: Super Sonic and Rainbow Power Dash. Both used the chaos control to create a portal, Rainbow took the relic and they went through the gateway back to the Crystal Empire. Mecha Sally and Shining Armor took the battle into the Olympic Stadium, there, she broken the magic shield of the unicorn captain; exhausted, he was at the mercy of the robotized princess. She nearly give him the blow with her laser blade when Sonic landed between she and Shining Armor.

Mecha Sally: "PRIORITY ONE HEDGEHOG!"

Sonic: "AND MY PRORITY ONE, ARE MY FRIENDS!"

Both took flight, Sally used her of laser eyes, but Sonic leads them away, so he grabbed the robot princess. He took her for a fight whereas on his head remembering all the good times, inadvertently the ring was ejected from her compartment. Calmed, the golden hedgehog put Sally down on the grass of the stadium, held her of the hands and transfers all his energy to her body saiyin this words on his mind:

"In a soul so cold as metal, the sparkle of the life will be shine. In a heart so hard as the steel, the magic of friendship will prevail."

The eyes of the robot began to fill with teas and a miracle occurred, her metal body turned in flesh again, replacing the black armour for a brown furr, SALLY IS BACK TO NORMAL! She watched her hands but before can said anything, she passed out falling on Super Sonic's arms. By her part Rainbow eradicated all the shadows with a rainbow beam, Pinkie Pie looked her and ovationed her friend with a cheer.

Pinkie Pie: YAHOO! THAT'S MY FRIEND! HARD WITH THEM!

With clear path, Rainbow put the Crystal Heart on his place, a magic wave restored the shield around the empire and finished the rest of the invaders, all the crystal ponies shouted from jubilee. Rainbow landed next to Sonic with Sally on arms, they turned back to normal and shared smiles. Pinkie, Shining, Mina, Silver, Wind Whistler, the Doctor, Coco, Honey, the fillies, Cream, Cheese, Big, Froggy, Marine, Mina and Rotor entered to the stadium and went to them with a series of cheers.

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Dragon Kingdom.

On the blimp the witches were escaping accompanied by Conquering Storm and ninjas of the Yagyu and Raiju clans, with them was Fenguang locked on her cage hanging from the keel. Twilight with Nicole on back, Knuckles, and Monkey Kahn riding his cloud going after the blimp; to see them, Hydia order open fire. The ninjas started to shot the canons, but our friends could dodge the shots easily.

Twilight: "Knuckles, me and Ken we'll take care of them, you free Fenghuang!"

Knuckles: "Roger."

Twilight, Nicole and Ken landed on the blimp, took over some ninjas and each one chose an opponent, Twilight versus Hydia, Nicole Reeka and Draggle, and Ken versus Conquering Storm. Knuckles landed on Fenghuang's cage trying to brake the lock, but was some bat ninjas interfering.

Twilight: "Surrender Hydia!"

Hydia: "Not now I have you!"

The old witch shot some blasts from her scepter that the alicorn could blocked, after she pulled out the Fan of Fen Xin to send the princess to te airs, but Twilight was laready warnded by Ken and used her magic to attract it to her. Nicole go down under the deck and found herself with Hydia's daughters, Reeka used a broom and Draggle a pan.

Reela: "Get back!"

Draggle: "We're powerful witches."

Nicole: "Are you kidding?"

Ken used his staff to make a rotating attack to avoid the shurikens, Conquering dodged pass to the combat hand to hand him and put down the monkey with a tornado kick, Ken used his staff but the lynx threw his hat breaking it in half.

Conquering Storm: "How could you calling yourself a king, you are not different as me. Are you forget how attacked all those humans without control or when you destroyed your comrades Freedom Fighters?"

Monkey Kahn: "That's wasn't my fault!"

Conquering: "It is, just that don't you realize yet."

The lynx finished him with a tornado kick

Conquering finished the battle with tornado kick throwing the monkey to the floor, after put her look under the blimp and saw Knuckles trying to free the phoenix, so she threw a shuriken hurting his arm depriving the opportunity to escape flying. Conquering Storm jump down on the cage ready to confront the echidna. With a wounded arm Knuckles had difficult to fight, the lynx could with him easily, Knuckles slipped and hung himself from the cage. Ken dragged to deck's side, he saw Conquering stepping Knuckles hand. Ken knew that the lynx was right about him, so he decided, for once, make something noble in his life.

Conquering Storm: "This is the end of your species."

Monkey Kahn: "NO! FOR US!"

Ken jumped tackling the lynx falling both to the abyss, with the commotion Knuckles got loose but the flying caught him immediately. The echidna only could watch them disappear like spots reducing at the distance.

Knuckles: "Goodbye, my friend."

Knuckles looked the face of the bird, was when a multicolor light shining on his eyes and with his good arm, broke the lock and free Fenghuang. Twilight and Hydia were throwing spells to each other, one of them hit the blimp and began to burn in flames, so Hydia decided finish the showdown controlling the ropes of the ship wrapping Twilight like a bug on a web and struggle her with force. The princess showed the pain on her yelps.

Nicole uped to the deck dragging Reek and Draggle and saw the predicament that the alicorn faced, so she took initiative jumping over Hydida, taking the sceptre form the witch's hands and broken it against the floor

Hydia: "NOOO!"

The ropes realized the alicorn, but a jolt electrified the lynx making down to the floor.

Hydia: "THIS IS SO FAR TO OVER". And disappeared taking her daughters with her.

Twilight took Nicole on her back and with Fenghuang and Knuckles got away to the blimp on fire crashing against the Dragon Road.

On the mine a guard beat a pig kid, but before he could pull the third hit, view princess Cadance in front of him.

Cadance: "NO MORE SLAVES!.

The pink alicorn used her magic to froze all the ninjas in a crystal block. The gang left free all the villagers, including Zonshen's grandsons. Taking everyone out from the castle, the team watched Twilight, Knuckles and Fenghuang saluting them from the air.

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Crystal Empire.

On the celebration for the triumph against Mephiles, everyone enjoined the party, Pinkie sang one of her raps with the Doctor and Rotor as companions with Vinyl as DJ, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Marine and Sticks competed for who ate more, Shining Armor was drinking sidra along Honey and Big, and Sonic and Rainbow sining more songs like "We are Sonic Underground" and "I wanna be awesome", accompanied by Octavia on the cello that made in Meropis. In middle of the party arrived Sally, waring only a pair of blue boots but the same smile as ever, everypony stopped to look her.

Sally: "I can join you?"

She was expecting heckling and insults, but instead, she received cheering from the crystal ponies. Sonic invited her to getting on the scenario with the hand extended, she agreed took his hand and started to dance again. After the party, all began to think about where Shadow put the emerald.

Sonic: "If I were Shadow, where would I put the emerald?"

So Applebloom put an eye on the crystal statue of Spike in middle of the park.

Applebloom: "Maybe there."

Sonic go to the statue and looked that the left eye bright more than the one on the right, he jump and took the emerald from the pupil.

Sonic: "Look!"

Suddenly the emerald start to shine, the same as the emerald that Tikal gave to Cream. Then a portal opened magically in front of them.

Wind Whistler: "Where it leads?"

Sonic: "Exist only a way to find out."

Everyone crossed the portal and found themselves in a town with a castle on a tree, Sonic, Rainbow Dash and friends arrived to Ponyville.

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Chun-nan.

To the town of Chun-nan arrived Twilight, Knuckles, Cadance and friends accompanied by the mobians of Stormtop Village and the grandsons of Zonshen, to look them, he and Lin ran to huge them. After Fenghuang flew over them and landed in middle of the village, there was Heavy swinging the egg and Bomb cleaning it with a tissue, their work over when the bird got it with her beak and put it between her legs. The reaction of Lyra was not to delay.

Lyra: HUMANS!

She immediately ran to touch their fingers.

Bon Bon: LYRA, MORE RESPECT!

Everyone laughed.

Zonshen: "Now you know the power in that bird that you back to us."

Knuckles: "I'm know that's powerful."

Twilight: "What about you mister Yuen."

Lin: "You can stay with us."

Li Yuen: "Thanks, my people and I decided moving to Leung West, will be safe there."

Cadance: "Sorry by the lost of your friend Ken."

Li Yuen: "He did that he must be do."

Fenghuang closed to their saviors, pulled some feathers from her plumage and gave them to they.

Zonshen: "Is a gift for your gratitude."

Everyone took one.

Knuckles: "I'm not feeling worthy"

Twilight: "Believe me, you are."

So a rainbow shine glowed on the feather, in that moment the emerald that was on Knuckles fur started to shine, after a portal opened in front of them. To the other side Twilight viewed a familiar place.

Twilight: "That's Ponyville! My friends must be there! c'mon!"

Cadance: Twilight wait!

Everyone began to cross the portal, Bulk Bicep carrying an unconscious Rouge while Bunnie was carrying Nicole, Relic some scrolls, Bon Bon arranged an excited Lyra, Derpy a basket with muffins and Maud a bag full of rocks. Antoine said goodbye like in the theatre being pulled by Mighty.

Soarin: "I would to stay but..."

Li Yuen: "Go with them, its your destiny." Hugged Li Moon and went to the portal.

Knuckles: "In the name of princess Twilight Sparkle, goodbye."

The humans and mobians of the Dragoon Kingdom said goodbye too. On the other side, everyone landed in middle of the town, Twilight recognized her castle. In that moment Nicole awoke of her dream.

Nicole: "I REMEMBER KNOW. I HAD A FATHER, A MOTHER AND A SISTER"

This is my version of how Sally was de-robotized, I took the story of JayFoxfire, also I wanted to give Monkey Kahn a worthy end. The next issue, the battle of Soleanna and Casino Park. See you.