Author's Notes:

Due to some complaints and some much appreciated criticism I have rewritten most of this chapter. Please enjoy the new modified version.

Not much ever happened in my life, I'm just a normal everyday teen going about his business. That all changed when I went to Comic-Con. Wait don't go! Bare with me here, just read some more.

You've heard the stories, all of us have. About people disappearing at conventions like this, I knew this, I read stories about it on Fimfiction, FanFiction you name it. If you couldn't tell by that I'm a brony, the names Nathaniel James, but you can call me Nathan...or, you could have, I don't go by that name anymore.

Being a brony I have knowledge about what a displaced is and how it happens, yet I was stupid enough to forget all that when I bought something from the asshole that calls himself the merchant. I went to the convention as my favourite video game character naturally, and that happened to be (Modern) Hyper Metal Sonic. I had two friends with me, one was dressed as E123-Omega and the other was dressed as E-102 Gamma, my friends were called Myles and Connel. Myles was Gamma and Connel was Omega, he wanted to go as Megaman but we wanted to lgo as robots that didn't resemble humans, so he chose Omega.

We were walking around looking at stalls that had some really cool merchandise that we couldn't afford. As we walked along I Myles spotted something and pointed to it, it was a stall that had full sized replicas of the chaos emeralds and master emerald. We walked over and looked at them with wide eyes.

"Hey dude, these don't have any price tags on em, how much?" A man in a cloak wrote something in a book and looked at us.

"For you, Metal Sonic, they are free." At that point I should have walked away, but I was somehow drawn to the emeralds.

"Seriously?"

"Yes."

"Sweet. What about those?" I pointed to a hover pack model and some red gogles.

"Those are for your friends." Connel picked up the gogles and put them on, completing his Omega costume. Myles picked up the hover pack and looked it over.

"Thanks dude, what's your name anyway?"

"Oh, you can just call me...the merchant." It then clicked in my head how the situation seemed so familiar.

"Oh god damnit." A bright light enveloped us and we were whisked off to a universe I knew all to well.

Ten Years Later

Cosmo the Seedrian walked through the Everfree forest, untouchable by the predators within. She came across a cave and walked inside. She found a large open area in the long cave, at the corner of the room lay a pile of rocks with a dusty metal claw sticking out the side. She floated to rocks off of the robot within and found a dusty Metal Sonic, dead from lack of power.

Poor dear, sent into this world without any power source like his friends. Let's fix that shall we?

She raised her hand and four chaos drives (sonic adventure 2) and opened a hatch oh the body, they fit inside and the body began to twitch.

Metal Sonics POV

System restart activating...
System restart complete
Ending Combat simulation...
Simulation ended, combat skills added to vital memory files
Warning: Chaos energy nearby, take action? Y/[N]
Removing movement restrictions...
Movement restrictions removed.
Start up complete, activating consciousness...
Consciousness activated
Warning: Slight memory failure, my not remember certain point of time.

I woke up with blurred vision. "What was all those words in my eyes?" I placed a hand to my head to my forehead and heard a clang of metal. I looked at my hand and my vision came to, then I saw a claw where my hand should be. I looked around and found a small puddle of water, I walked over and saw my reflection, the reflection of Metal Sonic. "Oh god damnit..." My mind wondered back to the dream I had which seemed to go on for years. "What was with all of the combat training, I'm mean, I know it was a dream and all, but it dragged on for like ten years. Where am I anyway?"

Do you not remember?

I looked behind me and saw one of my favourite SEGA characters. "Cosmo?"

Yep, I trust that you had a pleasant rest for the past ten years?

"Wait, that was real?" She nodded. I looked over myself and hung my head. "I really am a displaced now, aren't I?" She nodded.

Yes, I'm glad that you know about it, it will make things easier.

"So, what episode had happened recently?"

A Canterlot Wedding, in between seasons two and three.

"So, you mind telling me what that whole training thing was about and why I got sent here ten years ago basically dead?"

Honest mistake, you were sent here without a power source so I found you one, as for the training, you're going to need it in this world.

"I guess that makes sense, so, where are we?"

A cave in the Everfree Forest. You should probably turn around.

I looked behind me and saw the emeralds in a glass container, I broke the glass and lifted them out. "Are these real?" She nodded. I looked over to see the master emerald shrunk down. "How am I meant to carry these around?"

You're a sonic character, just but it behind you and it will disappear, you want it back, just think of it and reach behind again.

I tested this out for awhile until I was used to it. "So, what now?"

Now you do as you please, I'm not here to hold your hand the entire time, the exit is over there, I will talk to you later.

She vanished and left me in the cave. "I can't help but feel there is something important that I'm supposed to remember. Eh, it'll come to me." I walked out of the cave and was assaulted by three Timberwolves. Using the training that I had experienced in the simulation. I jumped, curled into a ball and shot towards then in a homing attack. I then put all of their bodies together and used a spindash to grind them into splinters. "I don't know how I can see straight while I'm spinning like that but I don't think I'm going to find out."

Deciding that the ground wasn't safe enough I flew up and took in the landscape. I looked over to a mountain range and spotted a familiar castle on the side. "Is that Canterlot?" Figuring that introducing myself to the princesses was the best course of action I shot off towards the castle.

When I came across a row of clouds I cancelled out my engine and homing attacked the clouds in a zigzag pattern. Once I reached the end I started flying again. I eventually reached the Canterlot Gardens and landed by a few statues.

Meanwhile

Celestia, Cadence, Luna and Chrysalis had finished the peace treaty between ponies and changelings and where walking through the gardens.

"I'm glad we could put that whole invasion thing behind us, Cadence, I swear it wasn't personal."

"I know Chrysalis, you were just looking out for your subjects. It's great that our subjects can now coexist, as to stop further conflict."

"By the way, how was your honeymoon?"

"Oh it was brilliant, the resort we went to was so peaceful and relaxing, it was like heaven." They continued their little talk as they walked through the gardens, they eventually ended up in the statue area. Then Luna spotted something.

"Sister, what is that?" They all looked in the direction she was pointing and their jaws dropped.

I had found the statue of Discord and was inspecting it while rubbing my metal chin. Then I heard a voice that almost made me go full on fan girl.

"Who are you, explain yourself?" Yep, it was definitely Luna, I internally squealed in delight as I turned around to see the three princesses and...wait is that Chrysalis? If she was there and she wasn't blasted by the love spell, that meant one of two things, either they sat down and worked out some kind of treaty, or Chrysalis had taken over and the princesses were under her spell...wait that's the dazzlings, sorry. "Can you talk?" I snapped out of my deep thought and bowed respectively.

"Good morning princesses, my name is Metal Sonic. I promise you I mean no harm." Chrysalis's horn glowed.

"I can't scan his emotions."

"That's because I am a machine Queen Chrysalis, I do have emotions just not any organic parts." At that point I stopped being formal. I dashed to Chrysalis's side and leaned on her back while rubbing my fingers in one hand. "So what's the deal here, did the changeling invasion happen or did you work something out?" She moved to the side to get me off of her. I walked in front of them waiting for an answer.

"How do you know about the invasion?"

"Oh I know lots of things, like why Discord escaped his stone prison, the crystal empires return, when Celestias little pet project will succeed, when Tirek will escape, you get the picture."

"You... Have a very blunt way of putting things."

"I like to get straight to the point." I looked to Luna. "And I must say it is an honour to finally meet the beautiful princess of the night herself." I bowed playfully and Luna blushed. Then Celestia stepped forward.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Where I come from, the best princess is Luna, so it's kind of exciting to finally meet her like this." Luna seemed surprised by this.

"And where are you from?"

"You lovely ladies might wanna sit down, it's a long story."