Later that night, due to the very fact that the Rainbooms were mysteriously not showing up, Trixie and her band were given another shot. They were going against the Dazzlings. While Trixie was performing, the Sonic Heroes, the Rainbooms, and Strike and Specter were still under the stage. The singing and the music from above outside was sounding muffled.

The Mobians were still unconscious from Darkness weakening them. Strike and Specter couldn't use their powers to get out, thanks to Darkness who put the dampener devices on their arms, which they somehow couldn't remove. And the Rainbooms were all sitting around bored. Rainbow, however, just slammed herself against the door trying to open it, but it wasn't working. She groaned as she rubbed her arm.

"Give it up, Rainbow Dash," Applejack said, "You've been trying at this for hours. It's not going to open."

Rainbow rubbed her arm and took a seat next to her sleeping boyfriend. She placed her hand on Sonic's, hoping he would soon wake up.

Twilight stood up and said with doubt in her voice, "Maybe it doesn't even matter that we're trapped down here. I don't think the counter-spell would've worked anyway."

"Course it would've worked, Twilight," Applejack said, placing her hand on Twilight's shoulder, before turning her attention to Rainbow, "Assuming a certain band member didn't try to hog the spotlight the entire time we were trying to play it! For her boyfriend!"

"Hey, if you want to tell Twilight she's getting a little too caught up trying to be the new leader of this band, you don't have to be all cryptic about it," Rainbow said, "Plus, she and Flash hadn't really been together, ya know."

It was kind of obvious that Rainbow wasn't getting to the point of this. Applejack stared at Rainbow angrily with a face while Twilight was saddened by her friend's words. She backed up while Rarity just cut in and said with her arms crossed, "She was talking about you, Rainbow Dash!"

"Me?" Rainbow yelled shockingly, "I'm just trying to make sure my band rocks as hard as it needs to."

"OUR BAND!" Applejack and Rarity yelled at Rainbow loudly, making her give an angry face at them.

Sunset turned to Strike and Specter, "Do you guys have any ideas?"

"Without our powers, we can't hope to get out of here," Strike said.

"And we can't even count on getting help. There's some kind of barrier around this whole thing," Specter said, "Well, at least my tech isn't turned off."

"But why wasn't it working? I should know what to do. How could I not know what to do? How could I have failed like this?" Twilight asked herself before she buried herself in her knees.

Sunset looked at Twilight, and then turned to her friends and just watched in horror and worry as the Mane 5 was falling apart.

"It might've been your idea to start a band, but it's not just your band, Rainbow Dash!" Applejack yelled in Rainbow's face.

"I'm the one who writes all the songs!" Rainbow argued with Applejack.

Fluttershy spoke up, "I write songs. You just never let us play any of them!" she crossed her arms angrily.

"Oh, boy," Specter said as he and Strike stood up.

"I had the most perfect outfits for us to wear," Rarity said, "Even for our boyfriends."

"Again with the costumes!" Applejack yelled annoyed and irritated, "No one cares what we're wearing!"

"I care, Applejack," Rarity crossed her arms, "So sorry if I enjoyed trying to make a creative contribution to the band!"

Pinkie popped up in front of the girls and yelled, "HEY! Anybody here remember fun!? I'll give you a hint; IT'S THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF BEING IN THE RAINBOOMS!"

Specter whispered to Strike, "How long do ya think this is gonna go on?"

Strike just shrugged his shoulders.

That was the very second everyone lost it. "I wish I'd never asked any of you to be in my band!" Rainbow yelled.

"I wish I never agreed to be in it!" Rarity yelled.

"Me neither!" Fluttershy and Applejack agreed.

Soon, the Mane 5 began to argue at each other all at once. They were too distracted at this, none of them knew or even noticed that they all began glowing and their magic was coming out of them and going up out of the stage. Only Sunset, Strike, and Specter saw this, but they didn't know what to do. They just looked at the girls, until Strike pointed at their magic going up through the ceiling of the stage.

Outside on the stage, Trixie had just finished performing her song with her band. Fireworks flew around the area and the crown cheered. The Dazzlings stood waiting for their turn while Darkness, Fluttershout, Twivine, and Scourge stood in the dark with his eyes glowing.

Trixie and her band walked by the Dazzlings as Trixie said cockily, "Try to top that!"

"Oh gosh! I don't know if we can!" Adagio said before she, her sisters, Darkness, and his servants all chuckled sinisterly.

The Sirens and Darkness then noticed the magic from the Mane 5 was coming from under the stage. They smiled evilly. "It's show time, girls," Darkness said.

The Sirens then walked to the front of the stage as strange music began to play. The crowd's attention was caught as the Sirens began to sing and absorb the magic.

Back under the stage, Sunset, Strike, and Specter had finally figured out what was happening. Thinking quickly, Sunset called out at the girls who were still arguing, "Stop! You have to stop!"

Everyone's attention was caught. "This is what they've been after all along!" Strike said.

"Don't you realize what you're doing?" Specter asked.

"They're feeding off of the magic inside you!" Sunset said.

"How can they be using our magic?" Applejack asked, "It's the Magic of Friendship."

Sunset looked at Twilight who looked at her, and then Sunset turned back to her friends and explained, "Ever since you've started this band, you've been letting little things get to you. I never said anything because I didn't feel like it was my place. Not when I was so new to this whole Friendship thing. I still have a lot to learn, but I do know that if you don't even work out the smallest problems right at the start, the Magic of Friendship can be turned into something else."

Twilight thought about this, and then stood up and said, "I can't believe all this tension was happening right under my nose and I didn't even realize it. I'm supposed to be the one with all the answers, and all I've done since I got here is let you down. Even your boyfriends."

Sunset put her hand on Twilight's shoulder, "I don't think anyone is supposed to have all the answers, but you can count on your friends to help you find them."

The others smiled at this. "Well said, Sunset," a familiar voice said.

The girls, Strike, and Specter saw Sonic slowly standing up on his feet. "Sonic!" Rainbow said as she came to her boyfriend and hugged him along with a kiss.

"Yeah, we couldn't have said it better ourselves," Tails said as he and the other Mobians stood up.

The other Mobains' girlfriends each came to them with a hug and kiss. "How are you all feeling?" Twilight asked them.

"A lot better," Knuckles said, "We just needed to recover."

"Do you think you can do this?" Twilight asked, "I mean, didn't Darkness absorb your powers?"

"Not really," Sonic said, "It's my magic. Even I still have magic from the Fall Formal. Somehow, it protected me and my friends' powers from being taken."

Silver turned to Strike and Specter and used his physic powers to get the dampeners off of their arms. "Thanks, Silver," Strike said.

"If we are to beat the Sirens and Darkness, we all need to work together," Sonic said.

"Come on!" Twilight said, "We need to get out of here!"

Everyone ran into the door and tried to get it open, but then ended up falling over. Then there was the sound of a knock from outside the door, and then it opened revealing Spike.

"Spike!" Twilight said as she picked Spike up and cuddled him.

"Sorry for taking so long," Spike said, "I had to find somebody who wasn't under the Siren's spell to help me get you out."

Appearing out the side of the door was Vinyl Scratch.

"Why isn't she under their spell?" Sonic asked curiously.

"Never takes off her headphones," Spike answered.

Vinyl gave the group a thumbs-up with a smile.

"Come on, y'all!" Applejack said, "Time to prove we've still got the Magic of Friendship inside us!"

"And there's only one way to do it," Twilight said.

"We're getting the band back together?" Rarity asked.

"We're getting our band back together," Rainbow corrected her.

"Wee!" Pinkie said.

"Don't forget about us," Sonic said, "After all, two bands together are batter than one, right?"

"Which version of the counter-spell are we going to play?" Rarity asked.

"I don't think it matters what song we play," Twilight said.

"As long as we play it together. As friends," Sonic said.

"I know just the song," Rainbow said.

That made the others feel a little worried, but that was then put aside when Rainbow said, "Fluttershy's written a really great one."

Fluttershy gave Rainbow the biggest smile she could ever give.

"We're about to save the world here," Applejack said, "Personally, I think we should do it in style. Rarity?"

"I thought you'd never ask," Rarity said as she pulled a rack of clothing out of nowhere.

"Wait, Vinyl also helped me bring something you're gonna need," Spike said.

Vinyl took out some kind of crate and opened it. Inside was the seven Chaos Emeralds. The heroes and girls smiled.

"Glad you still had them," Shadow said, "I used my power to put a protection ability over this box so Darkness wouldn't sense them."

"Good thinking, Shadow," Sunset said.

"What about you guys?" Sonic asked Strike and Specter.

Strike and Specter were quiet for a moment, until Strike said, "Specter and I will hold Darkness and his servants off while the rest of you all stop the Sirens."

Strike then began to spin in circles with his speed. Blue electricity crackled around him as he kept spinning. When he stopped, he was now wearing his suit that he showed back in his secret hideout.

Specter was surrounded by red energy for a moment, and then he was revealed wearing a pure white suit with his mask and hood on his head, and a sword holster on his back with his sword in it.

"We're gonna need you to at least catch everyone's attention for enough time to fight," Specter said, "When they're distracted, we'll take Darkness to another place to fight him."

Sonic nodded, "Good luck."

Strike and Specter nodded back as Strike pulled his mask on. Now only his mouth, nose, and eyes were visible.

"You too," Strike said.

Back on the stage, the Dazzlings singing got stronger and stronger.

* Welcome to the show *

Adagio: Welcome to the show

Sonata and Aria: Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah

Adagio: We're here to let you know

Sonata and Aria: Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Adagio: Our time is now

Sonata and Aria: Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah

Adagio: Our time is running out

Sonata and Aria: Ah, ah, ah

Up on the top of a hill close behind the crowd, each of the girls had gathered in their new clothing. Twilight was wearing a sapphire blue sleeveless shirt with a gold yellow star on the chest, a magenta purple skirt with gold yellow stars, two-colored tight-fitting pants; gold yellow on the right leg and sapphire blue on the left leg, and hot pink slippers.

Fluttershy was wearing a magenta purple sleeveless shirt with a chartreuse green butterfly on the front, a chartreuse green and black striped skirt with many magenta purple butterflies, two-colored tight-fitting pants; violet purple on the right leg and ballet slipper pink on the left leg, and bright chartreuse slippers.

Applejack was wearing a short sleeve parakeet green cowgirl shirt with a bit of strawberry pink detail, a new strawberry pink cowboy hat, a canary yellow skirt with strawberry pink apples and a bit of Aegean blue on the bottom, a syrup brown belt with an Aegean blue buckle around her waist, two-colored tight-fitting pants; parakeet green on the right leg and strawberry pink on the left leg, and gold yellow cowgirl boots.

Pinkie was wearing a magenta pink shirt with an Aegean blue heart on the chest, a sky blue skirt with magenta pink, Aegean blue, and gold yellow balloons, her original bracelets, two-colored tight-fitting pants; magenta purple on the right leg and violet purple on the left leg, and cerulean blue slippers.

Rarity was wearing a magenta pink outfit with a diamond cerulean blue star on the right side of her chest, cerulean blue diamonds and eggplant purple music notes on the skirt, two-colored tight-fitting pants; cerulean blue on the right leg and fuscia pink on the left leg, and taffy pink slippers with cerulean blue diamonds.

Rainbow was wearing a cerulean blue sleeveless shirt with a gold yellow lightning bolt going over the left shoulder, a black skirt with cerulean blue, parakeet green, crimson red, and gold yellow lightning bolts, two-colored tight-fitting pants; gold yellow on the right leg and bright emerald green on the left leg, and cerulean blue shoes with yellow lightning detail.

Sonic had a microphone earpiece on his right ear. He was now wearing an Aegean blue short sleeve hoodie with scarlet red strips. Under the hoodie was a new canary yellow and pure white striped T-shirt. His lower half contained stone blue jeans, and new bright and shiny gold parkour shoes. He still had his same extreme gears on his hands, and he also had his guitar in his hands.

Tails was now wearing an unzipped bright gold leather jacket over a merigold orange shirt, bronze jeans, and new sky blue shoes. In front of him was his electric piano.

Knuckles was now wearing a crimson red leather jacket over a sea-foam green shirt, denim blue jeans, and new merigold shoes. In his hands was his classic guitar.

Shadow was now wearing a black leather jacket with bright silver spikes on the shoulders, a crimson red shirt, charcoal grey jeans, and new currant red shoes with his inhibitor rings on. He still had his gloves and inhibitor rings on his hands and wrists, now a microphone earpiece on his left ear, and he had a bright red guitar with a black lightning bolt on the body.

Silver was wearing a bright silver jacket, a cloud grey shirt, black jeans, and new sky blue and gold yellow shoes. He still had his same gloves and rings on his hands and wrists, and in front of him was his drum set.

Manic was wearing a shamrock green sleeveless hoodie, a pistachio green T-shirt, cobalt blue jeans, and new scarlet red and white striped shoes. He still had his gloves on his hands, his earrings, and in front of him was his drum set from his medallion.

The Mobians and girls felt confident at first, but that had quickly changed to worry.

"How are we supposed to play over them from up here?" Rainbow asked.

Suddenly, the all heard the sound of a horn. They turned to see Vinyl driving up to them in a car. She pulled out a remote, pressed a button, and the car transformed into a cool looking portable DJ station. The wheels and tires turned into speakers, on the top back were some LED colorful lights with other speakers, the front turned into a large looking volume monitor with rainbow lights, on the sides were strange purple energy transferors and sound monitors, and Vinyl had the controls on her control panel.

"Whoa!" the Rainbooms said amazed when they saw it.

"That'll do the trick," Sonic said.

Everyone nodded. Then Sonic could someone's voice talking to him through his earpiece, "Sonic, Specter and I are in position. Can you see us?"

Sonic looked out and saw Strike and Specter peeking out from behind the left side of the stage waiting for the right moment. "I see you guys. We're ready."

"Let's do this," Specter said.

"And we need to do it fast," Knuckles said, "Look!"

Sonic, his friends, and the girls all looked out to the Sirens. Soon, the Sirens began sending a wave of red energy out through the area, and then onto the crowd. As they continued singing, everyone in the crowd was put into a hypnotic state.

Dazzlings: Feel the wave of sound

As it crashes down

You can't turn away

We'll make you want to stay (Stay)

The Sirens were then surrounded by red energy as they began to float in the air. Their ears changed into pony ears, they grew ponytails from their hair, and strange dragons wings on their backs. Darkness flew above them in the air. He began to use his new powers. Dark red energy surrounded his hands as three holes had opened in the sky. They were all portals to other worlds; Mobius, Equestria, and Strike and Specter's Earth.

Dazzlings: We will be adored

Tell us that you need us

We won't be ignored

It's time for our reward

Now you need us

Come and heed us

Nothing can stop us NOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!

As the villains all felt they were winning, that was when the sounds of multiple drums were playing, and they could hear other people singing. They looked around until Aria pointed at the hill. They could see the Sonic Heroes and the Rainbooms playing and singing together. As they were singing, the crowd was coming back to their senses. They smiled at them.

Sonic Heroes and Rainbooms: Oh-oh, oh-whoa-oh

I've got the music in me

Oh-oh, oh-whoa-oh

Twilight: Don't need to hear a crowd

Cheering out my name

Sonic: I didn't coming here seeking

Infamy or fame

Sonic Heroes and Rainbooms: The one and only thing

That I am here to bring

Is music, is the music,

Is the music in my soul

Now the Sonic Heroes and Rainbooms began to change and pony up. Their clothing became sparkly. They grew ponytails, ears, and Sonic, Tails, Manic, Twilight, Rainbow and Fluttershy grew wings on their backs. There was also one little change. Each of them all had one or two bright highlights in their hair. They were all now experiencing new rainbow power.

Sonic's hair had gold yellow and crimson red highlights. Tails' hair had white highlights. Knuckles' hair had tiger orange and emerald green highlights. Manic's hair had sky blue and lemon yellow highlights. Shadow's had gold yellow highlights. Silver's hair had cyan blue highlights. Applejack's hair had rose red highlights. Rarity's hair had fuscia pink and cerulean blue highlights. Fluttershy's hair had chartreuse green and violet purple highlights. Rainbow's hair remained the same rainbow color. Pinkie's hair had mauve purple and sky blue highlights, and Twilight's hair had arctic blue and fuscia pink highlights.

Sonic Heroes and Rainbooms: Gonna break out (OUT!)

Set myself free, yeah

Let it all go (GO!)

Just let it be, yeah

Find the music in your heart

Let the music make you start

To set yourself APART!

While everyone was distracted, Strike quickly used his speed to grab Darkness and took him to a different area. Specter used his powers to follow them. The portals that Darkness opened had closed and disappeared.

Up on other hills from far away, Strike stopped and threw Darkness on the ground. Specter appeared right beside Strike.

Darkness growled, "You two."

"Sorry, we're not going to just stand around and watch," Strike said.

"We'd rather beat you up," Specter said, "And where are your buddies?"

Suddenly, Fluttershout, Twivine and Scourge appeared out of nowhere in front of Darkness.

"You wanna get to him? You gotta go through us," Scourge said.

Scourge, Fluttershout, and Twivine yelled as he charged at Strike and Specter. Strike and Specter got themselves prepared for what he had. Back at the Battle of the Bands, Adagio spoke out, "So the Sonic-Rainbooms want to turn this into a real Battle of the Bands? Then let's battle."

Adagio: What we have in store (Sonata and Aria: Ah-ah)

All we want and more (Ah-ah)

We will break on through

Now it's time to finish you!

The crowd was then put back into the state as the Sirens' eyes all glowed completely red. Their gems glowed and released red energy into the air. In the sky appeared the Sirens in the forms of flying dragons with fish tails, their Equestrian forms. The whole sky had turned red and dark clouds appeared.

"Holy cow!" Tails said.

"I think we just got them annoyed!" Manic said.

The Sonic Heroes, the Rainbooms, Sunset and Spike were worried and scared. The Dragon Sirens flew at the Sonic-Rainbooms and went flying around them. They all felt afraid, but knew they had to be brave and fight.

"Get ready, everyone," Sonic said.

Sonic and Twilight looked up and saw the Dragon Sirens were then flying straight at them from up high. Vinyl quickly increased the volume. Pinkie, Silver, and Manic began to bang on their drums sets together. The Sonic-Rainbooms with their instruments began to work together as Vinyl's DJ station began firing rainbow sound blasts from the speakers while Sonic and Manic's instruments fired their lasers at the Dragon Sirens, making them scatter.

Rarity played her keytar and shot bright blue diamonds out of it. Silver used his psychic powers and combined them with Rarity's flying diamonds. They shot at Dragon Aria.

Fluttershy used her tambourine to fire purple energy butterflies at Dragon Sonata. Tails quickly used his arm cannon to quickly combine its firepower with Fluttershy's.

Twilight began to leave out a long high note and fired white sparks at Dragon Adagio. Sonic quickly used his guitar and fired to help Twilight. But Adagio, who growled having enough of this, she sang a higher note than Twilight and forced the attack back. Twilight and Sonic were getting pushed back. Twilight and Sonic growled.

"Come on!" Sonic yelled.

The Dragon Sirens began to sing a really high long-lasting note at the Sonic-Rainbooms. It was so loud and strong; they were pushed back and had fallen over. Twilight's microphone flew out of her hand. When it landed on the ground, it rolled over to Sunset's foot and Sunset picked it up. But Sunset was afraid; she still didn't feel like it was her place.

The Sirens smiled evilly as victory was close. The Sonic-Rainbooms struggled to stand up, but Sonic and Twilight turned their heads and saw Sunset holding Twilight's microphone.

"Sunset Shimmer!" Twilight said.

"We need you!" Sonic said.

Sunset was surprised, but she quickly gathered the strength of courage and got ready. She walked in front of the Sonic-Rainbooms, removed her jacket and let it go, letting it fly away in the wind. Vinyl pressed a button on her station and spun the left track. A drumbeat from the station began to play as Sunset sang.

Sunset: You're never gonna bring me down

You're never gonna break this part of me

My friends are here to bring me round

Not singing just for popularity

Sunset helped Twilight stand up and Sonic and Shadow were able to stand up and join them. The Sirens were now annoyed. Twilight and Sunset held the microphone together as Sonic and Shadow turned their earpieces on, and the four began to sing together as the rest of the band stood up.

Twilight and Sunset: We're here to let you know

That we won't let it go

Sonic-Rainbooms: Our music is a bomb and it's about to blow

Sonic and Shadow: And you can try to fight

But we have to the light of

Sonic-Rainbooms: Friendship on our side!

The Dragon Sirens began to charge at the Sonic-Rainbooms growling. Sonic, Shadow, Twilight and Sunset held their hands out in the air and released a loud and massive wave of rainbow energy out. It knocked the Dragon Sirens back and finally released the crowd from their spell.

Sonic-Rainbooms: Got the music in our hearts

We're to blow this thing apart

And together we will never

Be afraid of the dark

Sunset began to glow and float in the air. She gained pony ears and a ponytail.

Sonic-Rainbooms: Here to sing our song out loud

Get you dancing with the crowd

As the music of our Friendship survives

Survives

Each of the boys and girls all glowed their colors and began to float in the air. Colors of beams from each of them went into the clouds creating a massive ball of colorful energy. Sonic flew into it and then he was suddenly surrounded by rainbow aura as enormous blue energy wings appeared on his back. Everyone in the crowd was singing along with the Sonic-Rainbooms.

All (but the villains): Got the music in our hearts

We're here to blow this thing apart

And together we will never

Be afraid of the dark

Here to sing our song out loud

Get you dancing with the crowd

As the music of our Friendship

Survives, survives

SURVIVES!

The Sirens looked up at the clouds and saw Sonic with massive blue energy wings on his back as his hair glowed rainbow and his eyes were glowing completely white. He held his hand out in the air as a rainbow energy orb charged up. Then Sonic swung his hand downward and fired a massive wave of rainbow energy at both forms of the Sirens. The Dragon Sirens were destroyed as the real Sirens' gems were cracking and then broke apart into pieces.

When the music had ended, the Sirens were on their knees. They quickly stood up and tried to sing, but they were off-key. Everyone just began booing them and throw food at them. They tried to run, but a blue blur had grabbed them, put them down and tied them up in ropes. The blur then stopped revealing Sonic.

"And that's a wrap," Sonic said.

Sunset picked up a piece of one of the gems, "Guess that explains why these were so special to them."

The rest of the Sonic-Rainbooms came over back in their normal forms. "Without those pendants and the magic that you brought here from Equestria, they're just three harmless teenage girls," Twilight said.

"Sonic-Rainbooms rule!" Flash's voice said as he came running to Twilight and hugged her, "That was amazing!"

Everyone giggled at this. Twilight and Flash looked at each other, and blushed as they slightly leaned back from each other. Trixie then popped up between them and said, "You may have vanquished the Dazzlings, but you will never have the amazing show-stopping ability of the Great and Powerful Trixie!"

Trixie threw her hand down and smoked went out with a 'poof'! The heroes and the girls coughed until the smoke cleared.

Pinkie peeked for a second, and then said, "She's GONE!"

That was until she and the others could hear footsteps and looked, "Oh wait. There she is."

Trixie was the top back of the stairs in the bleachers. She was climbing over, but then she lost balance and fell down to the ground, "Trixie's…okay!"

"She never learns," Sonic said.

Then the Sonic-Rainbooms then heard something they weren't expecting. They turned and saw Adagio chuckling evilly.

"What's so funny, Adagio?" Sonic asked, "You lost. It's over."

"You may have defeated us," Adagio smirked evilly, "But there's one thing that you have forgotten."

That was the very second everyone perked up. Then they all heard yelling coming from above. They looked and saw Strike and Specter coming and landing on the stage. Their suits were damaged as they had bruises. Darkness, Fluttershout, Twivine, and Scourge appeared. Everyone gasped when they saw them.

Darkness turned his head to the Sirens with disappointment on his face, "You've failed."

The Sirens looked at Darkness terrified. Darkness held his hand out at them and shot red energy surrounded Aria and Sonata and it held them up in the air. Darkness then rushed and grabbed Adagio by the neck and began to chock her. Everyone gasped at this.

"AGH! What are you doing!?" Adagio chocked, "Let- GASP! Let me go! Please!"

"Did you honestly believe that I would want to rule with a pathetic weakling like you?" Darkness asked.

"Please…" Adagio whimpered, "Don't kill me."

Darkness stared at Adagio as his eyes glowed. Adagio whimpered in fear. Darkness smirked, "Don't worry, killing you isn't on my list… yet. You served your purpose."

Darkness threw Adagio and her sisters away. They screamed as they flew out of sight.

"Why would you spare her?" Sonic asked.

"While you're all on my list, it's pointless to me," Darkness answered, "And guess what, I knew she and her pathetic sisters would fail. I just had to see it for myself. And now that Adagio Dazzle and her lousy singing sisters are gone and out of my way, the multiverse shall belong to me. But first…"

Darkness was then surrounded by yellow energy and then his looks changed. His hair turned dark gold yellow and pointed upward, the blue on his clothing turned dark yellow, and black lightning crackled around him. He turned Super. Everyone gasped in fear.

"Want to die, or live and kneel before me?" Darkness asked.

Darkness could then see that the Mobians, the Rainbooms, Strike, and Specter were all growling and clenching their fists angrily.

"Don't you dare think that we're just going to die without a fight," Sonic growled.

Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, and Fluttershy were surrounded by auras in the colors of their Chaos Emeralds. They transformed into the Chaos Ranger forms.

But Darkness was calm and looked at Strike, "Tell me, Strike. Is this truly what you want to do?"

"You're still trying to convince me in joining you?" Strike asked.

"Inside both of us, we really are just the same person," Darkness said.

Strike scoffed, "Yeah. You keep on saying that, but that isn't gonna make it true."

"You'll see, we are," Darkness said, "The similarity; we both want to gain more power, the same want and the same reason to be faster. But, what of the difference, you may ask? You think that your anger is dirty somehow."

Everyone began to stare at Strike about this as Darkness continued, "You simply want to be seen as pure, the hero. Doesn't it just get exhausting? Does it not get exhausting, Strike?! Before I came to be back on Mobius, it was just exhausting being nice, believe me."

"I'm not pretending," Strike said.

"Hmm," Darkness said, "Then perhaps he would like to talk to you."

"Who's 'he'?" Strike asked.

"Me," another male voice said.

Stepping out from behind the curtains was Strike's dark look-a-like, Vezon.

"Oh, great, it's you," Sonic said.

"Indeed," Vezon said.

"What do you want, Vezon?" Strike asked.

"Why do you ask when you already know the answer?" Vezon said.

"I don't know what you're talking about, but you're not going to kill anyone else," Strike said.

"Oh, you disappoint me," Vezon said, "You're really not like what you were from what happened that night."

"What?" the Mobians and Rainbooms said.

"He didn't tell you?" Vezon asked, "Hmph, fine then. I'll explain it myself. Allow me to give everyone here a simple story about him back on our world."

Everyone listened to Vezon as he went into his explanation, "You see, everyone, back on our world, about a year ago, an old enemy of Strike's named Rainbine, an evil cyborg speedster version of Rainbow Dash, killed his girlfriend and she died in his arms, his Sunset Shimmer. When that happened, he was filled with rage, anger, and thirst for killing Rainbine. His anger allowed him to reach power beyond anyone's imagination. I simply just gave him the push he needed, and I was able to get into his head, and make him do something he had never wished to do."

"And what is that?" Shadow asked.

"Simple, my friend," Vezon said, "He went and killed so many of the evil meta-humans and members of an evil group known as the Claw, even their leader, Master Claw."

Everyone gasped at this as Vezon continued, "He slaughtered every one of them, without giving any one of them even a single bit of mercy. And he simply didn't realize that he was making my spirit stronger and more powerful while it was still inside him and controlling his mind. And all I needed was for Darkness to get me out."

"But why did you choose me!?" Strike asked, "You could've chosen someone else other than me!"

"Wrong," Vezon said, "Both types of the Speed Force had to choose only one person, someone who we could see having a future of being the greatest being who has ever lived, who can be a god… the Speed Force God. You. And guess what, now that you have this power, you are immortal."

Everyone was shocked. No one could believe this; Strike who was only a teenager, was immortal and destined to be a god.

"And how about I tell you a little secret, Strike?" Vezon asked, "You're not like any other human who has ever lived."

"What do you mean?" Strike asked.

"This is something that your father should have told you a long time ago," Vezon said, "The very night you were put into your coma when you got your powers, that was not the only gift you earned.

"What are you saying?" Sunset asked.

"I am saying that Strike was also given blood from every other parallel world in the multiverse," Vezon answered, "Including Mobius, Equestria… and this world. And that makes you… the son of the multiverse."

Everyone gasped. "How can this be!?" Strike asked shocked, "How could you know all this?"

"That is indeed a true shock, even for me, believe me," Vezon said, "But I had been banished in the Negative Speed Force for so long, and eventually, I became the Negative Speed Force itself, and I had been watching over you ever since you were born. And we have one other reason on why you should join us."

"And what is it?" Strike asked.

"You are immortal and becoming a god, but you have not fully unlocked your powers. You can accomplish great things. And if we work together…"

Darkness finished for Vezon, "We can bring your girlfriend back. And there is still one other single thing, your DNA can be the one thing that can be a cure to all sicknesses."

"Like what?" Strike asked.

"Every single one," Darkness said, "And it will also allow people to live longer than they ever have before, for more than a century."

Strike was thinking hard about this. He almost felt and believed that this could be something he could truly accomplish.

The others were worried. "Come on, Strike, don't do it," Sonic thought.

Strike was quiet for a moment, until he slowly turned his head back to the villains and said, "Never."

Vezon showed a little bit of surprise on his face, "Are you saying you don't want to see your girlfriend again?"

"I choose to move on," Strike said cracking his knuckles.

Sonic and his friends smiled, "We knew you wouldn't fall for them."

"Then," Darkness said, "this discussion is over. So, you all really want to fight, do you?"

"We will do whatever we can to stop you," Sonic said.

"Really have a death wish, do you all? No matter," Darkness said, "If you wanted to die… all you simply had to do WAS ASK!"

Giant dark red energy orbs surrounded Darkness's hands and he fired an enormous wave of energy at the heroes. Everyone gasped and was worried that they were gone.