I was at the shrine I had built for the master emerald with my back against the wall and my arms folded, watching Chaos move around in there. I remember in the game and Sonic X that the reason he was evil was because he was angry, maybe I should find a way to calm him down. No, I wouldn't know where to start, if I was going to try something like that I'd need Tikal with me.

"There has to be something I can do, he isn't purely evil." I sighed and walked over to the emerald, I placed my hand on it and the movement stopped. "What the?" I lifted my hand off the emerald and he started to move again. "Maybe I just need to keep him calm, when he's released he won't be in his own world, he'd be confused, maybe he already is." Then I decided to try something. I leaned down and placed both hands on the emerald and looked into it. "Can you hear me Chaos?" I saw slight movement in response, then a shadow appeared in the emerald that looked like Chaos and it nodded. "Good, do you know where you are?" It shook its head. "Listen to me, you are not on Mobius anymore, you are in a world known as Equus, in a kingdom called Equestria, a land where the inhabitants live in harmony with nature, do you understand?"

There was a moment of silence until I heard a voice.

I understand

I was surprised that he could talk, but questions would have to wait. "How do you feel?"

I am not sure...

"Do you feel angry at all? Any negative feelings?"

Only sorrow...

"Why do you feel this way?"

I cannot protect my brothers and sisters here...

"The Chao?" He nodded. "I know this may not matter to you, but I'm sorry."

It does mean something to me, thank you my friend

"Friend?" The shadow moved closer and placed its hand on the surface of the emerald.

Yes, friend. For the time you have been in possession of the master emerald, you have kept it safe, and have taken the time to talk to me instead of seeing me as an immediate threat

"But I've taken measures to prevent your release, to even stop you when you are released, I did see you as a threat. Yet you still call me friend?"

You reacted to the given situation very well, you were only trying to protect the people of this world, I will not hold that against you

Well, this is going better than expected. "Do you want to be released?"

Would that not cause problems for you, the master emerald would shatter and scatter around Equestria

"You don't deserve to be held in there, and if you feel as if you are causing a problem, you can help me search for the pieces, sound fair?"

It does

"I mean no disrespect Chaos, but I just need to make sure, this isn't a trick is it?"

I give you my word that this is no deception or lie

"Ok, you can come out now." I stepped back and watched as they emerald started to crack, then the cracks glowed and shards of it shot through the walls of the cave, I was able to catch three of the shards with my speed but the rest got away.

When the light died down, Chaos was standing in front of the shattered emerald. I gave him the three shards and he placed them into their correct positions. "Welcome to Equestria Chaos." I reaching out my hand and he took it in his.

Thank you, Metal Sonic

We both looked to the shrine. "Do you know how many more pieces there are?"

No, but I can sense them when they are close, not from any distance

"Well, looks like we've got a few adventures ahead of us Chaos."

It looks that way

"Come on, let me show you around." With that, we made our way out of the caves.

Allies
(New) Chaos

Some time later

"Alright Chaos, now that you know your way around, let's introduce you to the princesses." He nodded and we made our way down the long hallways, we got a few questions from some of the guards but other than that everything else was fine. Once we were outside the throne room I stopped and looked to Chaos. "Alright, I'm going to go in first and tell Celestia about the emerald, when I introduce you that's when you walk in, know that she may be a little hostile, so just let me do the talking ok?" He nodded and formed into a puddle to hide.

I knocked the door. "Come in!" I opened it to find the mane six sitting at the bottom of the throne and Celestia gave me a stern look. "Do you need something Metal?" I sighed and flew up to her.

"Look, before I say anything I just want to say that I'm sorry for the way I've been acting recently. All of the excitement had gotten to me and I didn't think about what I was doing." She looked genuinely surprised at this but then gave me a warm smile.

"I forgive you Metal Sonic, as long as there's no more incidents like this morning." I chuckled nervously and rubbed my shoulder.

"Yeah, I don't want to experience that again." I turned to the girls and floated back down to the door. "I'm actually glad that the six of you are here, I want to introduce you to someone." They all looked at me with curiosity. "Allow me to introduce you all to Chaos." Chaos slid under the door as a puddle and formed into his body. I noticed Celestias face was filled with anger. "Wait! Before you do anything let me explain." She calmed down and put on a neutral expression.

"Go on." I gave a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, as I said, this is Chaos, I was watching over the master emerald earlier today when I decided to see if I could communicate with Chaos through the master emerald, and I was able to. We began to talk and we reached an understanding. He has given his word that he will not bring harm to anyone, he is also willing to help us recover the master emerald pieces." I looked to him and motioned for him to speak. He nodded and stepped forward.

It is true princess, I promise to help the ponies of this world in any way I can

Celestia placed her hoof to her chin in thought. "I sense no lie in either of your voices, I will trust you for now." We both gave a sigh of relief. Then Twilight stepped forward.

"Excuse me Mr Metal Sonic, what is this 'master emerald' you keep referring to?" I looked at Celestia and she nodded.

"All of you follow me, I'll show you." Twilight smiled and pulled a quil and scroll out of nowhere. While we were walking down the hallway Celestia walked closer to me with a newspaper.

"Metal, do you mind explaining this to me?" She handed me the paper and I looked at the front page.

"What the?!"