Chapter 11: The fifth emerald and the battle of the three armies.

Wow! five chapter in week, Its new record! I´m was imagining the rest of the story since our friend darky written months ago. Since the apparition in the comics and TV the last year, I´m was charmed with Sticks, Coral and the rest of the new timeline Archie Sonic continuity crew. The same with the Dazzlings in My Little Pony universe, but I´m reserve the for another story.

Before to start I´m advise you that I was fixing the style of the previous chapters and incorporate new words for give them more "condiment", so I´m suggest you review them one more time. That's all.

Tikal: Ancient spirit.

Coral: Princess priestess.

Pearly: Priestess apprentice.

Vinyl Scratch: The DJ PON3.

Team Sonic: Lost in the jungle.

Southern island.

In the dock, Vinyl Scratch use her magic for make some modifications to the "Deep Typhoon" for build an amplifier for increase the power of the mystic melody for help Coral and the meropians. Octavia, Big, Froggy and Razor are helping with the tools.

"And this going to work?" Asked Razor to the earth pony.

"If somepony know how use the music like a weapon, is DJ PON3."

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Meropis.

Aquarius use her power for reinforce the shield and the invaders were incapables for break it. The city guard is combating against the deep ones, their sharp fangs pull up the scales of the meropians scattering the blood in the water. Striker was lying injured with a big scratch in his belly, but this don´t stop him for get rid some deep ones among his claw.

Coral use her music for maintain the shield, exhaust her each minute, but not counted with the monsters ultimate weapon, a giant hook canon. The deep ones shot the hook against the shield destroy it into a millions of pieces, this cause to Coral lost the counsciness and rolling down stairs. King Puff and Queen Angelica watched the scene with the horror meantime the invaders attack the city.

Echo, the dolphin guard, was threw near where Striker was lying, when she saw him, swim to his side.

"Sir, are you ok?"

"Don´t worry for me, protect the city." And the captain passed out.

With tears in her eyes, the dolphin only can do something.

SHOW NO MERCY!, PROTECT THE CITY AND THE TEMPLE! IN THE NAME OF CHAOS AND THE KINGS, EXPULSE ALL THOSE PROFANATORS FROM OUR WATERS.- Screamed Echo with her trident and hundred soldiers behind her.

Back in the shrine, Squirk and Crank have captives Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, Cream, Pearly and the Chaos until Tikal the echidna appeared in middle of a wave of light and with her shine make the octopus release them.

"BY THE POWER OF THE SACRED FLAME; RELEASE THOSE POOR GIRLS OR YOU WILL FACE MY ANGER!"

"HAHAHA!" Laughed Squirk. "Don´t make me fun, how a little child like you can stop me.?"

"What will you do? Throw us your nappy". Said Crank in joke tone.

BY THE POWER OF THE SEVEN CHAOS INVESTED TO ME, I´M SENTENCE YOU RETURN TO THE ABYSS WHERE YOU COME FROM. Tikal made appear a green and big emerald in form of diamond among her hands.

"THE EMERALD! GIVE IT TO ME!"

"As your wish". And the echidna used the spell that she used with Chaos with the gem to vanish the kraken and the shrimp back to the chaos zone.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

After this, Our friends woken up for contemplate the scene, a flash and after, nothing. The fillies ran to the echidna in order to ask whats happened and who is she.

"My name its not important now. Look!"

On her pedestal Aquarius passed out by the impact of the shield to explode.

"OH! NO!." Cried Pearly holding the white chao in arms.

"Now we have to do?" Asked Cream with angust.

Suddenly a huge submarine with a big cabin above in form of bulge with a blue swan and the name of "Deep Typhon" on the cuirass emerged from the well.

"Hey guys, could you help us please?" Said the voice of Octavia come out from the submarine.

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Frog Forest. Past night.

Sonic was in a dark place, only him and some images of familiar faces shouting him.

Sally: "I should´ve known you´d be selfish."

Scourge: "And its not the Fiona thing or that I´m better looking, its that all it takes is one bad day, and you´d be just like me."

Eggman: "Like said sonic, you´re out-matched, out-classed, you´re not fast, you´re not strong enough, and you certainly aren´t smart enough to defeat ME."

Sonic: "Who are you? Why you do torture me. Please leave me!, leave me!, LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Sonic was kneeled in the floor covering his hears with tears in his eyes, when a flash of light vanished the faces and a large face of an old pony with beard and pointed hat with stars appeared between the shadows.

"Don´t listen them, you´re a great hero and a good friend. You have the power, only listen to your heart."

"W-Who are you?"

"Listen to your heart."

Sonic awaken from his dream, Sticks cabin was to small for accommodate everyone, so Sonic, Rainbow, Shadow, Pinkie, Wind Whistler and Silver camping outside under the stars. The hedgehog woke up and walked to the forest, Rainbow Dash noticed him and follow his footsteps founding Sonic seated on a trunk, lost in his thoughts.

"Sonic, are you ok?" The pegasus seated on his side.

"Rainbow, have you ever wondered in the possibility that all your triumphs were only a lie and when guess that you won the war, discover that you lost everything?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Shadow told me that I´m a hero, but my memories told me the opposite."

"During our short time together, you show me that you´re a good guy. What did you thought that?"

"…"

"I´m guessing: a woman."

"Why did you…"

"Some things never forget."

"Yeah, the first memory come to my head was a person very important to me disappeared in a curtain of light."

"She was beautiful?"

"Like a gem, beautiful and cold but nice and generous. She needed me and I´m failed her.""

Rainbow hushed for a second. "We lose people everyday, but its part of the life. We must cry for the lost friends, but not forget enjoy the friends that we have now. You must feel that your story ended, but the best chapter of your book is not written yet and nobody knows what hiding the next page. The faith in yourself define if your life its a waste or a success."

The words of the pegasus make echo in the hedgehog.

"Thank you. Who tell you that?"

"I remember somepony special teach me lessons such that."

"You´re a special pony too and I never met someone so like… me."

"Really?" Rainbow blushed with a funny grin.

The two speeders looking each other during some minutes and in a sonic-second, their lips encountered, and after, their bodies.

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Meropis

The guys, including Tikal are going to the city inside the Deep Typhoon, taking the unconscious chao, from far they watched how the deep ones star to plunder the city.

"This is no good." Said Sweetie Belle with pessimism.

"I hope that Coral is okay." Said Razor worry.

"You care her very much isn't it?" Asked Tikal.

"Yes, she is my friend." Said the mobian shark with blush. The others watched him with curiosity.

They arrive in middle of the havoc when they found the unconscious boy of Coral near to the stairs of the monument of Chaos.

"CORAL NO!" Scream Razor with horror.

The shark left the submarine for swim to her side, the others following him with their talismans taking Aquarius in Cream arms, unless Tikal, because she is a spirit and the spirits don't breath. In his arms Razor and Pearly start to cry. After a moment of silence, in an attack of rage, Razor pull out his dagger ready to enter to the frenzy.

"To this manner you are not going to help her." Explained Tikal with firmness.

"And so how?" Asked pearly with distress.

"With this." The echidna gave the manta ray a magic flute, similar to Coral's. "Your teacher needs you, you must continue the show"

"But I'm not so good than Coral, I can't do it."

"Coral chosen you for something. The love for your friends will give you the inspiration."

"We believe you, all us." Said Applebloom with optimism. The others gave her a smile of support, Vinyl a hoof up.

"Thank you." With this motivation, Pearly start to play the flute.

"Vinyl, your turn." Said Octavia.

The DJ unicorn respond with a military gesture and swam back to the submarine, inside she pushed a big red button and transform the Blue Typhoon in a giant stereo device with mixing console, sound amplifiers and color lights. Watching this with delight, Pearly start to play, the flute sound enter to a microphone in the lower part of the submarine and retransmit in a higher level. The sweet sound of the melody start to cover all the city, giving's the scared citizens an air of tranquillity. The shield begins to rebuild and the invaders covering his hears because for them, the noise was unbearable. But that's not all; another army responded to the call with a singular scream of battle.

"SHOO BE DOO SHOO SHOO BE DOO! SHOO BE DOO SHOO SHOO BE DOO!"

Were an army of ponies half fish with prehensile tails and fins in the upper limbs, were SEAPONIES, accompanied by a blue kelpie named Cassie, come to help the sea mobians, charging and wiping the monsters with their tails. Without possibilities of win, the deep ones swam away. The guard, the citizens and our friends acclaimed the victory meanwhile Coral and Aquarius woken up for satisfaction of everyone.

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Frog forest. That morning.

The "Team Sonic" go across in the forest searching the trail of their friends or an exit to the next zone. Silver uses his telekinesis and Sticks her search abilities for spot clues.

"If something weird happens here, I'm going to find it."

But Pinkie has one of her ideas.

"Hey! Maybe one of those frogs could help us. I'm domain their language!"

All they looked how the pink pony ran to a group of huge blue frogs sited in a lily.

Sticks: "I've found something weird, and is she."

Sonic: "This must be a joke."

Shadow with his negativity: "I'm hate the jokes."

Silver: "She likes me"

"Leave her. She only wants to be funny." Explained Rainbow.

"By the way, you and Sonic had fun last night?" Asked the badger to the pegasus in lower voice.

"How do you…"

"As I have said before, I'm a searcher. Don't worry; your secret is safe with me"·

Pinkie croaking with the frog want to say: " Mr. frog, You don't has been saw a little fox, tow ponies and baby dragon around here?" But she really said: "You frogs maybe know sing, but any of you don't know dance!"

This makes the frog angry and croaked for unleash a great blizzard (Are 5 species of frogs that control the weather in the forest: the green ones that cause the rain, the black ones that cause acid rain, the red ones that cause warm and draught, the yellow ones that cause hurricane winds and the blue ones that freeze everything. For disgrace of our friends, Pinkie enraged the frogs that freeze everything). For prevent remain frozen, all ran to a hollow tree.

"Good job Pinkie Pie. Make us a favour and throw yourself to the swamp for liberate us from your silliness!" Blamed Shadow with energy the pink pony, while she had a frustration smirk.

"We're going to search a culprit later, now we must find the way to get out of here". Said Wind Whistler.

Suddenly they viewed bottle that used in a laboratory on a trunk inside the tree.

"Look!"

"For all the ponies. Who left this bottle here?" Said Rainbow Dash.

"Let me examine it" Pinkie took the bottle but slipped out of her hooves. To crash on the ground, a red door appears magically that gasped everyone.

Rainbow Dash: "Nothing bad Pinkie." Said Sonic.

Sticks: "What this. An instant door?"

Silver: "I'm feeling a lot of energy behind this door."

Wind Whistler: "Maybe can be a trap".

Shadow: She's right. We don't know where does this door go?

Sonic: "Well, only we have a way to know it."

Sonic opened the door and found themselves in a different location, was a city of crystal with a clear sky such a mirror, the grass green such emeralds and a huge castle so brilliant such a diamond emanating lights of color fluttering in harmonious melody, our friends arrived to the Crystal Empire.

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Meropis.

The heroes were in the palace receiving a condecoration by the kings for save the city.

"We are for congratulate our friends for their heroism and demonstrate us that beings of different species or habitats can work together for a common objective." Declared king Puff.

All the presents: the meropians, the seaponies, Cassie the kelpie with some meropian children in her back and the city guard including Captain Striker with bandaged belly lauded the heroes with a thunderous applause.

"Maybe we have our cutie marks for community service". Said Applebloom to Sweetie Belle.

Coral approached for ask something to Tikal: "So your are the voice that told me about Sweetie Belle and the others and not Aquarius?"

"Yeah, If you have told the kings that a voice from nowhere about visitors of the outer world, would they believe you?"

"No, I'm suppose not."

"Thanks for help us Tikal". Said Pearly.

"Was a pleasure, but the crisis not finish yet, you must find the rest of your friends and recover all chaos emeralds."

"Are more of us?" Asked Sweetie Belle.

¿How will us find them? After asked Cream.

"With these." And Tikal gave Cream the chaos emerald. "Only don't´ forget watch to the sky. "

"Don't forget watch the sky?" The group don't understand the riddle but when they turned the head, the echidna was gone.

"Watch the sky?" Asked Applebloom to herself while she watching the emerald.

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Sandopolis.

Princess Twilight Sparkle, Knuckles, Blaze, Heavy and Bomb stay in an pyramid searching the rest of the chaos emeralds or a clue about their localisation, now with the company of two new friends: Maud Pie, an earth grey pony with a dark blue frock, a purple straight mane and a look some… immobile; and Relic, a turquoise pika with an ochre coat-explorer, boots and gloves, purple glasses and a better humour sense; "Team Twilight" found them collecting "rocks" during their dessert tour.

"Look at this place Maud, the quality of the engraving and the naturalism of the paints represent the intellectual perfectionism of the constructors, what do you think?" Relic expressed with enthusiasm, but Maud was watching an empty wall.

"Adobe, boring."

Knuckles and Blaze were inspecting the place meantime Twilight take care the two "scientists", in company of Heavy and Bomb. Boring, The princess struck up in a conversation with Relic.

"So, you're an archaeologist."

"Yeah, basically, when I'm come to this island, I resolved to find in this ruins something that would tell me the cause of all this "phenomena. Look at this." Relic achieve a lap form her backpack. "Isn't work? What's wrong with this blasted useless-and-yet-frustratingly-interfering ancient interface?!". The pika kept back the lap and achieves a book. "You seeing it?, this is the same pictogram in the wall, speak about an entity called the "Chaosmare" that caused a temporal havoc between two universes, and look at that mural, its seems like your tattoo."

Twilight was surprised for seen an image of her cutie mark inside an echidna construction.

"But, but I don't understand, why my cutie mark is in a pyramid?"

Maud diverted her look to a little stone hourglass shape pedestal on a niche.

"Detritic gravel, awesome".

"Nothing on this tomb tell us about the emeralds." Said Knuckles when watched Maud grabbing the pedestal from the niche.

"MAUD, NO!"

All tomb torches blackouted and a laugh was heard in the dark.

What's hiding in the shadows? We will know it in the next chapter; besides, the next one will be the beginning of the battle for princess Sally.

So that its, the largest chapter until now, but I'm afraid that the next ones will be more extended, but this is that do you want, an intimate moment between Sonic and Rainbow. another clarifications, I want to add the characters of the IDW comic too, like Cassey and showing Vinyl use another "transformer" vehicle. The bottle is an item used in Super Mario Bros 2 and Super Mario Super Show cartoon.