the crowd went silent as the boat reached the altar in the middle of the city. Princess Elise, a young woman wearing a small white dress with medium long red hair, stepped off the boat with the priests following close behind, as well as two cloaked women who seemed to be slowly looking around as if something was wrong. The head priest walked up to Elise and handed her a silver torch. She stared into the flames, staying still as she did so.

Pinkie tilted her head as she analysed her expression. "Hey, Nanny, can you perhaps scan emotions?"

"I don't know, but if I have a function that allows me to drink milkshakes I'm sure I have something, why?" Omega asked in response.

"There's something not right about that look on the princess's face but I can't put my hoof on it."

"Ah, well I'm sure it's nothing really to worry about, I don't want to accidentally use some X-ray function instead..."

Pinkie facehoofed and turned back to the altar. Elise was brought back to reality by one of the cloaked women before nodding and Turing to the altar. Taking a few steps forward, she placed the flames on the altar and the flames began to spread across multiple curbed beams of metal around the structure before reaching a large dish-like structure which burst into a much larger flame. The crowd cheered as fireworks were launched into the air. Elise began to wave at the crowd with a smile on her face.

As Shadow watched the fireworks he noticed something strange. Some of the rockets were coming down instead of going up, rockets that he knew weren't launched. "Some of those aren't fireworks!" He yelled in warning before jumping into the air and kicking one of the incoming missles back into the sky before it exploded, causing the crowd to quickly disperse in panic.

Shadow used chaos control to teleport in front of another rocket where he turned it around and threw it into another. As the rest began to fall Omega retracted his hands and replaced them with two miniguns as he began to shoot the rockets out of the sky. "Pinkie, Rouge! Protect the princess!" He yelled out as he began shooting more of the projectiles being launched.

Rouge flew over to the altar while Pinkie used chaos control. "Don't worry your highness, we've got this under control." Rouge spoke calmly as she pulled a small blue and pink ball out of her pocket and threw it at a rocket that the others had missed, expolding on impact.

"Where are these things coming from?" Elise asked in a slightly panicked voice as she looked to the sky.

"It's probably better if I get you all somewhere safe." Pinkie walked over to the humans and pulled out her chaos emerald. "Now, this is gonna feel a little weird, so try not to puke when we get there." She warned with a smile. "Chaos control!" In a flash of light the humans and pony were gone, a faint light shining up through one of the large castles windows.

As the last rocket was destroyed, spotlights beamed down on the area, focusing on those that were there. The now revealed aircraft opened a hatch which dropped dozens of the robots that Pinkie had encountered in Wave Ocean. The robots landed around the group and pointed their guns as them, Eggman frowning and pulling a small grey and yellow cube out of his jacket just in case.

Suddenly, a smaller vehicle floated out of the hatch, a large and open white and silver cockpit and two large arms resting at the sides. As it reached down to the groups level, it's pilot revealed himself as he bowed. He appeared to be wearing a green version of Eggmans usual outfit. Although he was much shorter and had no moustache. All he had was about four or five strands of hair on his large head with his long nose being his most noticeable feature. He straightened himself and chuckled. "Well hello old friends, such a pleasure to see you all again, it's been far too long."

Eggmans eye twitched as he clenched his fists. "Snively?! Just what do you think you're doing?!"

Snively glanced at his former commander and rolled his eyes. "Oh, hello uncle, fancy seeing you here. While I'd usually say that you're looking as ugly as ever, I'd be lying if I said you didn't look god in that outfit...

"Thank you!" Eggman exclaimed as he looked to Rouge.

"The flamboyant guys already proved your point so shut it!"

Snively turned his attention to Shadow. "I remember you, the one who was always depressing. Where's that little brat that's changed you 'for the better'?" He asked in a sarcastic tone.

"She's taking care of the princess, who I think is the one you're after." Shadow replied as he folded his arms and stared down his old enemy.

Snively chuckled. "You're right, I am after the princess, but I won't bore any of you with the details, I figured I'd just kill you now and get it over with."

"You really think your stupid looking robots are enough for us?" Omega asked not able to take his threat seriously as he replaced his guns with hands again. "Won't even need my guns for this."

One of the robots flew up to Snively's side and aimed it's gun at the robot. "Well, worth a shot, what better way to test my instruments of destruction than to have them-"

He was stopped as a wooden stick shot right into the robots head and caused it to explode. The stick was blown up in the air before Omega caught it and glared. "If they can be destroyed by being poked by a stick, you're gonna have to make 'em with stronger metal in order to fight us short stack."

Eggman threw the cube up into the air and it began to expand, revealing IOTA who targeted a group of robots before Eggman himself pulled out two blasters. Snively smirked and snapped his fingers, signalling his bots to attack.

As the battle began, a mobian watched the group from the rooftops and clenched his fists. "I found him, the Iblis trigger..."

Author's Notes:

Hope you enjoyed the chapter, if you spot any mistakes make sure to let me know