Twilight, Dusk and Tails were the last ones to arrive. Sonic joined them to greet his long time friend.
"How's it going, Tails?" he said, smiling. "I see you already met our visitors!"
"Yes, I did! Sonic, that's Twilight! Twilight, that's my best friend, Sonic!"
"Hey there, Twilight!"
"Greetings!"
"Is everypony here?" asked Dusk.
"Not quite!" The Doctor answered. "Where's Fluttershy?"
"Butterscotch is missing too!" The Doctress noticed.
"Nah, they'll be here soon!" assured Blitz.
"Yeah, they're probably standing in front of each other, looking at the ground and kicking dust in silence, too shy to say something!" added Dash.
"I wouldn't be so sure!" said a foreign voice coming from above.
They all looked up and saw a female bat, who landed in the middle of the group.
"Rouge The Bat!" said Knuckles, assuming battle position.
"What do ya mean?" Jack asked. "Did somethin' happened to 'em?"
"I don't know exactly!" she answered. "But lately I've seen some metal dudes wandering around!"
"Oh, I almost forgot!" said Blitz, facehoofing. "Doctress, Cyberponies have been spotted around here!"
"Cyberponies?!" everypony shouted in union.
"Weird name! They don't look like ponies at all!" Rouge said.
"Then... What do they look like?" asked The Doctor.
"Let's see... They were kinda big, looked like big cylinders, metal balls all over their bodies and a single big blue eye thingy!"
"A-Are ya sure, sugarcube?" asked Applejack, clearly not comfortable with the description given.
"Yes, I'm pretty sure!"
Rainbow Dash landed in front of the Time Lords and poked their chests with her hoof.
"You two better have a plan! If you don't, think of something! Fast!"
"Why? What are them?" asked Sonic.
Pinkie raised her front legs above her head, standing on her hind legs.
"Problem! Evil! Dooooooom!"
"Or you can call them by name!" said Elusive. "Daleks!"

Butterscotch was wandering in the woods, looking more for dangerous things than for his mare version from a parallel universe.
"Oh, dear!" he whispered to himself. "This is worse than the Everfree Forest! Hello? Is anypony (or anything) here? If you are but don't mean any harm, come out! Just not from a place that can scare me! And there are plenty of those around here!"
"Heeeeeelp!!"
Butterscotch, startled by the scream, hid behind a bush. He took a peek between the leaves and saw a little bunny cornered by three robots.
"Daleks?" he whispered.
"YOU WILL TELL US THE LOCATION OF THE BLUE BLUR!" the first Dalek said.
"I don't know where mr. Sonic is!" she said. "Please, leave me alone!"
"SHE IS USELESS TO US!" said the second. "WE MUST EXTERMINATE!"
"EXTERMINATE!" they screamed in union. "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
"She looks like..." Butterscotch gasped. "Angela Bunny!"
The Daleks pointed their death lasers at her. When they were about to shoot a butter-colored pegasus with pink mane and tail grabbed her and flew away. The Daleks tried to shoot him down, but they all missed.
"Are you ok?" he asked.
"Yes, thanks to you, mr...?"
"Butterscotch! That's my name!"
"Hello, mr. Butterscotch! My name is Cream The Rabbit! Thanks for saving my life!"
"Sorry if I took so long, I'm a big coward!"
"No, you're not!" she hugged him. "You are very brave!"
He smiled then landed, but the moment of peace was really brief; metal forelegs grabbed both of them.
"Cyberponies too?!"
"Mr. Butterscotch!!"
"You will come with us." one of them said with his metallic voice.
Cream struggled, but it was useless.
"What will happen to us, mr. Butterscotch?"
"I don't know! But don't worry! I'm here with you! I will protect you, no matter what!"
"Thanks, mr. Butterscotch!"

Fluttershy woke up. She felt something furry under her head. She looked up, noticing she was resting her head on the lap of a fast asleep Silver. She got up in the same moment, blushing. Silver opened his eyes.
"Oh! Hello, Fluttershy!" he yawned and stretched. "Sorry, I fell asleep!"
"I-I-It's ok! I fell asleep too!"
"This cave is just too cozy, I couldn't help myself!"
"I-I understand!"
"Specially with you here..." he whispered to himself. "So, wanna go out and look for your friends?"
"I'd appreciate that!"
Silver got up and both left the cave. After a few minutes walking, they heard a voice.
"Let us go, you brute tin head!"
"Is that Cream?" Silver said.
They dashed to the direction the voice was coming from. Arriving there, they saw two robot ponies holding a colt and a rabbit.
"Cream!" Silver called.
"Mr. Silver!"
"Activate teleportation." said the robot pony holding her.
"Help m--"
She couldn't finish her call for help. The robots teleported away, taking her and the unknown pony away.
"There's only one person that could be behind this!" he said, clenching his fist. "Eggman!"

Blitz, Tails, Dash, Rouge and Charmy landed back where the group was.
"Any sign of 'em?" asked Jack.
They all shook their heads.
"But I saw a big flash near the woods!" Tails said. "But when I went to investigate, there was nothing and nobody there!"
"Take us there!" requested The Doctor.
Tails nodded and flew away. Those who could fly followed him flying as well. All those who couldn't runned/galloped, not losing him from sight. Rouge was about to take off when Elusive grabbed her leg.
"Hey, what are you doing?" she asked.
"What are you wearing, dear?"
"My clothes, obviously! Something wrong with them?"
Actually, no! They are beautiful, but they simply don't fit you!"
"What do you mean?"
"It's not because your fur is white that you need to wear black! You should try some purple! With a few pink details!"
"A unicorn is giving me advices about fashion? Really? What I've been drinking? By the way, you're naked! How can you talk about my clothes when you aren't even wearing any?"
"Th-That's not the point! The point is that you need to wear clothes that display your natural beauty, not force them in everypony's (sorry, everybody's) face! I will not lie, dear; you are GORGEOUS, but with the right clothes, you will SHINE!"
"Are you hitting on me?"
Elusive opened his moth to say something, but closed it. He blushed and galloped toward the direction the group went. Rouge smirked and took off.

Butterscotch opened his eyes. He was locked inside a cell with Cream. She woke up not long after him.
"Mr. Butterscotch..." she said, rubbing her eyes. "Where are we?"
"I... I don't know! But don't worry!" he hugged her. "I am here with you, little Cream!"
"Ohohohohohoho!!" a laughter echoed. The source of it soon showed himself: a tall and fat human with sunglasses and a big mustache.
"Well, well, well! Look what I got today! A little bunny and--" he stopped talking and looked at Butterscotch, who hid his face behind his mane. "Who and what are you?"
He let an "eep" escape and took a few steps back.
"Well, it doesn't matter! It's just another coward! Won't be a burden!"
"What do you want, Dr. Eggman?" Cream asked.
"I want to use you as bait! I want Sonic to come here and give his sincere opinion about my new army!"
"You mean the Daleks and the Cyberponies?" asked Butterscotch.
"Oh, so you know their names! Then you must be familiar with the one who gave me the blueprints to build them! You two must be the same species, since your body shape is not so different!"
"Who it was?"
"He called himself 'Discord Whooves', and warned me about the arrival of your species! He said I could do whatever I wanted with the robots as long as a killed the brown one among you called 'The Doctor'!"
"The Doctor?"
"Oh, you know him? This means you two are baits for both my targets! That's perfect! Better prepare my army! Ohohohohoho!!"
Eggman left the room where the cell was located, leaving the two alone. Cream hugged Butterscotch tighter.
"What will we do, Mr. Butterscotch?"
"Don't worry!" he said, kissing her forehead and petting her. "They're with The Doctress! She always has a plan!"
"I hope!" he thought.