Chapter 12: Pyramid of Fear.

Now this chapter is dedicated to the memory of Chikao Otsuka, the japanese voice of Dr. Eggman. "You were the one and the best".

Sonic: Hero of Mobius.

Rainbow Dash: Heroine of Equestria.

Twilight Sparkle: Friendly princess.

Knuckles: Half-brain guardian.

Shining Armor: Friendly prince.

Castle of the Two Sisters. Centuries ago.

Star Swirl the Bearded was in his secret lab thinking about these poor people of the other world, meanwhile he was escorted by the robots, Star Swirl watched from a window how the mobians were formed in row to be robotized. He could do anything for them, but had feared the possibility of that fat madman will came to Equestria and use his evil invention for robotizer all creatures in Equestria. So, he dedicated the next days in the research of a spell that turn the metal in flesh, but nothing.

One day Starswirl was in the throne hall of the Castle of the Two Sisters with Celestia when two earth ponies farmers, a brown male and a grey female, were presented in the presence of her majesty for an important matter.

"Sorry for the irruption your highness, but maybe you could say us something about this." Said the male pony showing a mysterious metal cube size of a small dog with a strange inscription. "Our son found this in a big hole on the forest last night. What could be?. Will be dangerous?"

Celestia used her magic for close the object. After review it for some seconds, come to a conclusion.

"Isn't equestrian, I 'm sure that. Said you have been found it in a big hole? "

"Yes, your highness." Respond the female pony.

""(…) Would be come from the sky? Tell my advisor. What's your opinion?"

Let me examine it. if its the wish of the princess. Whatever it, alien or equestrian, I will find out, (and maybe give me the inspiration that I need)."

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The Crystal Empire. Present day.

The Crystal Empire looks normal, the same crystal buildings, the same grasses, the same sheeps and the same crystal ponies. In an other time, the king Sombra exiled all the empire to another zone during 1000 years, but for the ponies were only days. The power of the crystal hearth protected the empire from the Genesis Wave avoiding that the habitants were transported to another place. Unfortunately the princess and Flash Sentry were inspecting the harvest of crystal berries in the province of "Amethystville", when the Genesis Wave was covered all the kigndom.

All our friends were gasped with the view, even Shadow.

"Look at this place! I'm never see some like this in all my life! Its so beautiful!" Said Sticks.

"And so magic, maybe we found something that help us in our quest." Suggested Wind Whistler, but Pinkie only was thinking on the blizzard.

"BRRRRR. WAS SO SNOWOFUL!, I´M LIKE THE ICE CREAM, BUT I DON´T WANT TO BE AN ICE CREAM, OR AN ICE LOLLY, EXCEPT IT I WAS A STRAWBERRY ICE LOLLY OR A CHOCOLATE ICE LOLLY, I´M LIKE THE CHOCOLATE. WHAT DO YOU THINK?"

"…..".

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Sandopolis. Inside the pyramid.

The camber was covered by a darkness so dense, "that can be felt"*, the most disturbing was a scary children laugh resounding whole the place (bad signal in a place like this). All looked Maud with an annoyed gesture, specially Knuckles and Blaze.

Maud: "Ok, I´m going to back it".

The stuff have two faces in his bases, one have a draw of a sun and the other, the draw of a half-moon with a star. Maud don´t put attention to the position of the hourglass, originally was on the niche with the sunside facing upward, but Maud put it facing up the moon pattern, then a cold flash shined the chamber, only for reveal a gloomy surprise: an horde of nasty ghosts leaded for a huge ghost of a house size, with blue lips, fangs and a multicolour tongue.

"UOH UOH UOH. Infidels. You´re never see again, the light of day!"

Heavy: "EEEH. Some plan your highness?"

Twilight Sparkle: "I have one".

Relic: "What?"

Twilight: "RUN!"

Knuckles: "Good plan."

And all flew from the ghosts, except Blaze of curse.

"Come on! I can deal with all you!". Saying with the claws ready, but Twilight used her magic for enclosed the lavande cat into a magic sphere..

"Hey! Let me out!"

"This is not time for prove your courage colleague." And Twilight levitate her away form the monsters.

Near to the exit, a boo downward a lever, closing the gate in front of our friends.

Heavy: Another plan, your highness?

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Back to the Crystal Empire.

Sonic team went over the city contemplate their majestuosity, the mobians were amazed, but the ponies, except Wind Whistler, have a sensation of strange familiarity.

"This place, I'm been here before". Rainbow Dash to Pinkie Pie, but the pink pony has disappeared.

"Pinkie?"

She was in a shop window watching crystal muffin with the hooves and the tongue stuck to the glass. "That place I sooooo wonderful".

"Whoever left us that bottle, wanted that us to come to this place what do you think guys?" Said Sonic to the mobians, but Sticks has rummaging the garbage of a thrash.

"Even the garbage is clean, this love this town".

Wind Whistler want to known more about this place, so she went to ask to one of these ponies.

"Hello mister, you could say us what is this place?"

But when the pony watched the mobians, don't say anything and ran. So Sonic go to ask to a businesspony in a legumes stall, but he ran too. In fact, all the crystal ponies found in the way ran away or stay petrified by the fright.

"What's up with this ponies". Sonic to the others.

"Stop". Shouted a voice, were two members of the royal guard. The crystal ponies never have seen a mobian, but heard stories. "You strangers don't move. We need to come with us for an interrogatory"

Sticks saw the two guards and went to them with her boomerang in hand. "Oh well, I'm needed some action after all".

"Me too". Said Rainbow with hooves in guard.

But Wind Whistler stop them.

"That which not need us in this moment now is a row".

"Tell it to them!" Expressed Shadow with a chaos spear in hand.

The two guards were prepared for the combat when they recognized to the pegasus and the earth pony.

"Oh goodness, lady Rainbow, lady Pinkie. Are really you?"

"UH?"

"Those are your friends, we're sorry. Come, the prince will be glad to see you"

Silver: "Prince, …."

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"…what prince".

Inside the Crystal Castle.

Shining Armor was in the war hall with the royal guard, debating what happened with princess Cadance and the rest of Equestria.

"Nopony can't go beyond to the gate, the train tracks disappear at the first 2 miles and a mysterious black fog cover all the city; I'm afraid that we're trapped." Explained a royal named Knight Night pointing at map of the empire.

"Keep trying and remember, nopony must knew it. If the panic take over the city, the Crystal Heart will loose his power and we're unprotected". Responded the ex-captain of the Canterlot Royal Guard; but in his mind, he cannot stop worrying about his wife and sister (Cadance, Twily, where are you?).

In that moment a guard enter to the room with good news. "Sir, we have some guests that you will be glad to see!"

Shining Armor went to the castle lobby and jumped of joy when saw familiar faces.

"PINKIE! RAINBOW! I'm so glad to see you". Said out loud the unicorn when ran for hug them. "Where's Twilight?"

EEEH. We meet us? Asked Rainbow in the arms of Shining.

"You don't remember me?"

"No, I'm afraid that not"

"But how do you…... the cloud. Must be did you something".

"The cloud, you have seen it too". Interrupted Sonic.

"And you are?"

"Sonic the hedgehog, this is Shadow, Silver, Wind Whistler, Sticks and its obvious that you knew Pinkie and Rainbow."

"They're the best friends of my little sister and I'm heard of you Sonic, you helped Twilight to defeat the Chaosmare"

"Twilight?" Asked Rainbow.

"Come with me, I'have something that could help you".

Team sonic accompanied Shining Armor to the throne hall with more questions in their heads, except Pinkie, she has only one.

"When we eat?"

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Sandopolis. Even inside the pyramid.

Bomb used his ability to explode for blow the door, but was useless, the gate is very hard.

"Its obvious that only exist a way for get out of here" Explained Blaze with claws in burn".

"Relic, search in your book something about these ghosts, meantime we distract them". Ordered the alicorn to the pika and her with Knuckles, Blaze and Heavy rush to the boos.

Twilight fly using her magic beam, Knuckles his dreadlocks and Blaze her fire balls. Maud was apparently stayed without doing anything, but when an boo charge to her, she jump and smash him with "Hundred Hoof Slap" with two legs. A few received punches, until the attacks go through them.

Blaze: "Damn it! None of our attacks could hit them."

Knuckles: "Relic, could you hurry up."

Then King Boom Boo noticed the cutie mark of Twilight.

"That mark, the star of the seven lights. AT LEAST!".

The ghost extend his claw and grabbed Twilight.

"AGHHH. LET ME NOW! PLEASE HELP ME!"

The group was in checkmate when Relic come with her book.

"I've found something!". Signing a page with hieroglyphs. "It says here: "The nightmare appears under the moon, disappears under the sun".

"Cool, but there's no any piece of sunlight in all this place". Exclaimed Blaze.

In her captivity, Twilight have an idea.

"Maybe not necessarily". Then twilight used a flash light attack for blind the ghosts.

THIS LIGHT! BURN ME!" Shouted King Boom Boo covering their eyes.

In his despair, King Boom left free princess Twilight, without looking what is he doing, beginning to crash against to the columns which held the roof, demolish them and causing that all pyramid collapse. There wasn't a way to escape, so Knuckles and Maud used their force for opening an exit thought a wall. Team Twilight can escape before the entire pyramid sank into the sand within ghosts inside.

Knuckles: "Its good leave this house of horror. One second? The emerald, where is it?."

Maud with the emerald: "Don't chill out, its here" .

Twilight: "Now what?"

Then they looked a figure on the air, she's wasn't a bird or a machine, she was an… earth pony? A pink pony with a wavy purple mane with white straights, distributed eyes, a yellow cap with a green helices spinning and a screw and a baseball ball as cutie mark, making a "follow me" gesture.

Blaze: "Who will be she?"

Twilight: She's asking us came with her.

Relic: Maybe she knows where is the emeralds?

Knuckles: What you're waiting for? Follow her!

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The Crystal Castle.

In the throne room, Shining was using a magic device for help Rainbow and Pinkie recover the memory, a crystal sphere which infuse magic, show images form the mind of the user, a magic photo album. The sphere projects scenes to the ponies of them with Twilight, moments like they in the havoc of the Great Galopping Gala, the ball in the wedding of Shining and Cadance, cheering up the crystal ponies, Twilight coronation and the equestria games.

Shining Armor to rainbow Dash: "And this is when Ponyville Team won the silver in the relay race, of course the Cloudsdale Team won the gold, but help your friends were most important".

Rainbow Dash: "I'm lost?"

Shining Armor: At least you won in the medal table.

Wind Whistler, the hedgehog sand the badger we're watching the scene too. Sonic was lied on a step with an arm crossing behind his head and a finger in the nose.

Sonic: "If I was there, I would won all the competitions".

Pinkie Pie: "And who won the bronze?"

Shining: "The Griffin Kingdom leaded by your "friend" Gilda".

Rainbow: Gilda?

Shining with laugh: "You must be looked their face. I'm never see anyone so anger in all my life ".

Pinkie: "Yeah, I'm start to remember now. I'm scattered with a tube of confetti's in her burning face".

Rainbow: "She was released by petition of the griffin government, I'm tried to speak with her after the race, but she screw me. I wanted that we were friends again, Twilight comfort me telling that she needed more time. I'm remember now too!"

Wind Whistler: "This stuff, we can use it".

Shinning: "Of course". And give the sphere to the mobians.

Sticks: "Be careful, this thing could suck our minds".

Shining: "….."

Sonic to Shining Armor: "Don't look at me, I hardly knew her!".

The blue pegasus and the mobians, except Shadow, close to the sphere, Silver used his telekinesis to transmit the thoughts of everyone to the sphere, projecting a lot of images in the room. Silver watched images of his time and his mentor, an old mammoth; Wind watched images of her previous life, adventures with a girl human friend, nice and wise, and an enemy: a creepy ram with dark fur and demonic eyes, Sticks the faces of her parents leave her in middle of the jungle as a baby, and Sonic, an old fat man turning a paradise village in a dirty and cold metropolis, a fox sidekick, and angry echidna, a crazy girl hedgehog, and a lover turned into a machine in front of him.

Sonic: "ENOUGH!".

Sonic kneeled down with all horrified by the unpleasant scene. Rainbow close to the hedgehog for huge him.

Rainbow: "If it makes you better, you still have us". The pegasi dried a tear of his eye with her hoof. "Smile".

Sonic looked every one and returned the huge to Rainbow.

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Sandopolis. Over a hill.

Our friends followed the pony to a hill, she was sited on a rock playing marbles.

Knuckles: "Now "Screwball", tell us where is the chaos emeralds "

The pony hoisted to the air, bringing up a bottle from her cap.

"Only asked to me showing this to you". And threw the bottle to the ground, making appear a red door, the same that Team Sonic used for across to the Crystal Empire, later the pony disappeared.

Blaze: "A door?"

Knuckles: "Maybe the emeralds are inside. Come on!"

Twilight tried to reason with them. "Stop you! You don't think that could be a trap!" But anyone listen her.

When opened the door, were themselves in middle of a small town with tall pagodas** and bamboo forests before the eyes of the residents, humans in mostly. Which appeared the chief, an old man with a white white shirt come to welcome the visitors.

"Welcome friends to the town of Chu-nan."

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Outside the Crystal Castle.

The time was different in each zone, in that moment the night arrived to the empire and all the ponies went to sleep ignoring the situation of the outside world. On a rooftop was a silhouette locating her next target.

?: TARGET SITTED. OBJETIVE: CAPTURE.

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Star Swirl secret lab. Centuries ago.

Star Swirl the Bearded spend a year of their life studying that cube. He could only decipher one word: "Allspark".

"Allspark? I know an unicorn named Allspark, but this, is a mystery."

The wizard examines it for one more two seconds, until at last, he given up.

"AHHHG! This is useless! Deal with Tirek or the sirens were easier that deal with this $%#!"

The old unicorn used his magic for threw the cube to the wall, when with the strike, this starts to shine. The old unicorn levitated the artefact for look the phenomenon, suddenly, the cube explode in a cosmic wave, reveal him images of an alien civilization and sentient machines, buried in an endless war; and after, the secret of the allspark, the spark of the life.

That's it! The spell that I've been searching for! I've found it!

*Exodus 10:21-23.

**Description, sonic unleashed.

Clarifications: I took advantage to include the transformers universe for explain something that will be important and we don´t see what happened in the competitions of the "Equestria Games", so I´ve take the liberty of explain it, making look that Gilda was part of the event. Relic is a Knuckles´s friend form the new Sonic comic universe. Screwball is Discord daughter and I think that was necessary giving her a roll. And the sphere inspiration was taken form the story "Love of mother" form the spanish writer Sg91.

Darky was written me, give me the thanks for continue the story, but with some wrong things (don´t worry, I´m going to think how kill Cosmo again, reborn her will be like reborn Gwen Stacy); meanwhile he go back to the story, I'm hope to write 3 chapters more, the next will be beginning of someone that you and I must waiting for.

Note: Will have special guests in the next chapter.