Chapter 108

Sugar growled as the nozzles on his mech sprayed purple acidic frosting at a large group of Badniks. As they melted, he ran through them toward his uncles while Eggman moved aside and joined his Badniks on the front lines.

The others stared a bit worriedly at the robots until Apple Bloom fired off a shot. That was the trigger and the army of mechanized charged the group.

The group spread out with only Silver staying behind. She pulled a golden staff with a twisted handle that wrapped around the blade of her rapier. The head of the staff held seven gemstones of different colors. While she couldn’t us the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown to the fullest yet, it certainly provided a boost to her spells.

With a wave of her staff, she sent a multitude of support spells to her friends. Strength, speed, and defense rising. As a small group of Crabmeat and Shellcracker Badniks moved toward her, she pointed the staff toward the wave. A barrier flashed to life as the staff expedited the spell script process.

The minute the robots passed the barrier they fell apart.

Robots who pass this barrier shall fall apart
Strength: 30%

Silver was a little disappointed with how much strength the barrier lost in that first attack. Just showed how much further she had to go. With another wave the word FOG appeared, literally made of fog, before spreading out and hiding her. A few Badniks scuttered into the mist, only to shatter in a purple flash of light.

“Dark Ecriture: Destruction,” Silver said before taking off into the air on the Ecriture Wings.

Diamond wore her battle gear, swinging her axe in wide arcs. Robot Bees and Buzzers did battle with her Imps while she slammed her axe hard against the shield of an Egg Knight. Deflecting her blow, the Knight stabbed forward with his lance.

Before it could hit, Diamond opened her mouth in a scream, directly in the robot’s face. While the Scream of Pain (an ability of the Queen of Pain from Dota 2) didn’t cause any physical pain, the high pitched shriek caused the motherboard in the thing’s head to crack.

Spike caught the blades of a pair of Slicer’s and smirked. It felt so good to punish the bane of many Sonic players. With a flick of the wrist, he sent them spinning back toward their origins, slicing the mantises apart. His joy was short lived as he heard something approach.

Spinning, he was just in time to grab the horn of the Rhinotank that charged him. He skidded back a bit, but managed to hold his ground. He plunged his one claw into the metal head and tore a small gap. The dracokin breathed into the hole, using his Solid Air quirk to form a spear. One quick explosion boosted jab sent the makeshift weapon out through the back of the Badnik

Apple Bloom called out BOB and sent him to grapple with the Egg Dragoon. The giant robo butler swung his stop sign axe to bat the drill arm away as Eggman aimed the missile launcher. Just as the projectiles appeared, Bloom used her new ability.

With a deep breath, time seemed to briefly slow to a crawl for her and she swung her gun around at the missiles. The second she had pointed at them all, time resumed and she fired a series of quick shots that caused them to explode just in front of the doctor.

“Thank you Tennessee Kid Cooper,” she muttered, happy Crackshot worked so well.

“What the-?!” Robotinik said as the smoke from the explosions clouded his vision. Suddenly, a giant fist hit his cockpit as BOB charged through. Before another blow could land, the Nega Wisp Tentacles grabbed the fists and held him at bay. “Get a load of this!”

Holding the butler in place, he thrust the drill toward BOB’s chest. Apple Bloom aimed at the one tentacles and fired. The gunshot loosened the grip on the fist just enough for BOB to twist out of the way, the drill skidding across his metal skin.

Just as Apple Bloom was about to celebrate, a pair of Imps grabbed her and pulled her into the air.

“What in tarnation!?” she shouted, then she saw the spiked wheel that nearly tore through her spin back over to Eggman with an identical one. It was the spinning wheel from the Egg Viper in Sonic Adventure.

“You know what they say,” Eggman started. “The more the-” An explosion sounded and Spike launched a powerful punch right at the cockpit just as a series of energy balls started forming around the giant robot. They vanished as Spike growled out.

“I hate that stupid voice clip!”

Sugar

Sugar intended to trap them in place with the hardening frosting just long enough to free Peppermint and Pinkie. That was the plan at least.

Flim and Flam grinned and aimed their own nozzles at the frosting, sending gouts of cider toward it. The cider mixed with the frosting and caused it to splatter on the ground harmlessly.

“Not good enough nephew,” Flam spat venomously before his and his brother’s mech charged forward. Sugar glared as he raised his mech’s arms to block the blows.

‘I can’t use my guns or I might hit the girls.’

Looking between his arms at the glass cases he saw Peppermint having to tread...cider to stay above surface level. Pinkie was tall enough to stand but lost her balanced during the charge and just rose back up, coughing up the liquid. Both looked up at him frightened and he turned his attention back to his uncles.

“Why are you doing this?!”

“Besides the fact that our master ordered it?” Flim said as he grabbed the purple frosting tube on the right arm and ripped it out, throwing Sugar off balance.

“Besides the fact you and your genius friend got us sent to prison?!” Flam growled as he landed a punch to the Regalia’s torso.

“How about the fact that we were supposed to get the company after the machine malfunctioned!” Flim spat as Sugar started getting up. The boy froze as pieces began clicking.

Your uncles developed a better way of infusing the fillings without sacrificing the chocolate shell

They finally came around to working with you dear

Your parents...they...I’m so sorry

A freak accident

What do you mean the shares go to him!

Sugar felt himself shaking as he grabbed the offending mech’s foot that went to kick his cockpit.

“What the-?” Flam gasped as he heard the machinery crunch. Thinking quick he detached the calf of the robot before retreating just as the Regalia reached for the tube holding Peppermint.

The calf of the other robotic limb separated into two and one half connected to the other knee, leaving the mech looking funny with calves half the size of the rest of its legs.

Through the glass at the front of the Regalia’s cockpit, they saw Sugar looking at them with hatred that made the two girls they trapped gasp.

“WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PARENTS!!!!”

Author's Notes:

Oh...oh boy....