Author's Notes:

Hope everyone had happy holidays! Enjoy!

Chapter 109

“WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PARENTS!!!”

Apple Bloom, looked up as the Imps set her down. She couldn’t see Sugar, but the rage in his voice…

Clicking her air shoes on, she began skating toward the mechs.

“And where do you think you’re going?!” Eggman called out. Apple Bloom turned just in time to see a trio of red and black blurs rocket toward her. She quickly aimed at the middle one and fired. The blast sent her backwards as the middle one flew back a bit. The other two landed, revealing themselves to be Shadow Androids.

Just as they started charging her, Scootaloo caught their necks with her Kama. With all her might and a shot of the hidden guns, she managed to decapitate the two.

“Scootaloo?!” Apple Bloom cried out, getting ready to rush to her friend.

“You get to Sugar!” Scootaloo said. “He needs you now!”

AB nodded as she skated off toward her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Scoots batted the remaining Android toward BOB. The robo butler swung his sign and batted the blur down toward Eggman.

The Nega Wisp tentacles whipped up to grab the ball.

“It will take a lot more than that to-“

With the tentacles busy, Spike let loose an explosive punch at the cockpit, cracks spider webbing from the impact. As he wheeled from it, a barrage of rockets shaped like the letters of Missiles flew into the body of the machine.

Silver smirked as her spell worked. It was a bit advanced but with the staff…

Using her Dark Wings, she flew nimbly around the missiles that flew at her from the Dragoon arm cannon.

“Enough!” Eggman roared. The tentacles gripped BOB and threw him at Silver, followed by a Dragoon missile. Silver managed to avoid the hulking robot, but the resulting explosion sent her flying into a nearby building.

“Silver!” Diamond called out. With a growl she turned toward the giant robot. Imps flew around her and caught the raining debris. “You want to play like that huh. Spike!”

Her boyfriend turned away from the few remaining Badniks as they beat against his solid air shield.

“Keep him busy!” As she said that, the Imps swarmed around her protectively, though Spike thought it looked smaller than normal. He didn’t know what she had planned, but he trusted her.

Looking over at the other mechs, he hoped his friend would be ok.

Sugar launched gout after gout of hardening frosting at his uncles. They countered it with their cider blasts, but they couldn’t defend themselves as Sugar got closer.

When he approached Flim, Sugar reared back his mech’s fist and slammed it down hard on the cockpit. The blow rattled his uncle, but the cider holding Peppermint was jostled. She broke the surface again and sputtered.

“Careful dear neph-“ Flam was cut short as Sigar aimed a minigun at his cockpit and fired. Despite the glass being bulletproof, the man flinched as they impacted in front of his face. Pinkie gulped as she realized Sugar seeing red now. Whatever happened to his parents...whatever his uncles did…

She didn’t even know if he remembered Peppermint and her were there any more.

She couldn’t blame him for his anger. Based on the news reports, a new machine that they were testing exploded, taking Sugar’s parents and a chunk of their staff with them. When lawyers tried to find records of where the machine came from, they were all erased. Based on recent events however, it was easy to guess that it was no accident.

“You bastards!” Sugar roared as the Regalia changed shape. Those watching him were shocked as they saw the ice cream truck take the giant mech’s place. “Eat this!”

The large clown head on top of the truck began to tremble. The two captured girls stared in fear as the large missile was launched…

Only for it to explode a few feet from launch.

The explosion blew out the windows and tires of the truck. Metal was bent at odd angles. It was only due to durability that the life fiber ice cream man uniform Sugar wore granted that he was still conscious. The Regalia faded back into his clothes, reforming his normal outfit.

“That fuck?” Sugar hissed in pain. He turned and saw Apple Bloom staring at him, gun aimed where the missile had been. “Apple Bloom? Why did-?”

“What were you thinking?!” Apple Bloom shouted. “Peppermint and Pinkie are still in there!”

Confusion crossed Sugar’s face, and then horror. Looking at his still rattled uncles, he saw the two girls looking relieved.

“Thanks AB,” he said. She smiled at him and nodded.

“Don’t mention it,” she said. “Come on. There will be time for you to make it up to them later. I’m sure they’ll forgive you.”

“Too bad you won’t have the chance to find out!” Flim hissed as he regained his bearings. He looked at his brother who also nodded. They both hit a button, and the tubes the girls were in began fully filling with cider.

“No!!!” Sugar yelled.

“Any ideas?” AB asked desperately. She was now cursing herself for exploding the damn missile so close to the Regalia. She just didn’t want to risk missing it.

“...Perhaps one,” Sugar said, thinking of a small green and small yellow ball in his inventory. “But I don’t know if I want to use it while they are still trapped!”

They needed a miracle! A miracle to help them push through this chaos!

Competition

Shiro was disappointed. Not in his creation for the competition. His dessert was amazing. He even had the chance to try Asriel’s cinnamon butterscotch pie that he entered. He also was disappointed with the company he had.

“What’s wrong?” Sweetie said as she scratched behind his ears. To some it seemed a bit weird, but for Shiro’s tigerian side, it got him purring.

“I’m just wondering where Sugar and Apple Bloom are,” he said between purrs. “I really wanted to see how my dessert stacked against theirs.”

“Well,” Sweetie said, blushing as she thought of the message she received the previous night. “Maybe Apple Bloom just can’t walk straight and Sugar is avoiding her sister.”

Shiro looked at his girlfriend and saw her blush, instantly realizing what she meant.

“Oh! Well that’s understandable. Still...seems a bit… off.”

That was when he felt a small tug on his magic. Shiro though didn’t resist it. Chaos magic, unlike most magic, was sentient. It had its own intentions. If it sensed it was needed, it went. As such, he learned to let it go when it wanted to.

He wondered what crazy shit it was up to now.

Diamond

“Please tell me you’re ready!” Spike called out to his girlfriend. He formed a wall of air between him and Eggman but the Dragoon’s drill was working its way through.

“Move!” Diamond said once she had enough energy stored. Spike used an explosion to launch himself sideways as Diamond called out. “Heed your mistress! Charge Goristro!”

A pentagram burned in the air for a moment as a red furred Minotaur rushed out of it with a roar.

“What the-!” Eggman tried to aim his missiles at the demon when he found he couldn’t move that arm. Looking down, he saw it was coated in what looked like rubber cement. Silver smiled from the sidelines, using her staff to hold herself up.

The Egg Viper disks shot toward the Goristro, who lowered its head. With a flick up, its horns sent the disks flying into the air for Spike to explode with his Explosion Dragon Fist.

Nega Wisp tentacles whipped out and gripped the beast’s horns as the Dragoon drill stabbed towards its chest. The Goristro gripped the spinning weapon it its huge claws, stopping it dead.

“Oh…” Eggman said, looking up. The Goristro seemed to grin wickedly as the one hand held the drill in place as the other claw raised up and came crashing down, breaking off the front half.

The main threat disabled, the demon reached up and grabbed the tentacles, ripping them out of amalgamation mech.

“Choose now!” Diamond said as the Goristro gripped the sides of the cockpit a ripped the Egg Mobile out of its socket. “We know your master will pop your head off for failing. Either you wait about for them to give you agonizing death…”

“Or receive a mercifully quick one in exchange for information,” Spike finished. He didn’t like this type of deal, but considering the man was going to die no matter what they did.

Eggman seemed to think on it, sweating for a moment, before nodding. He already felt the slight burning of the mark reporting his failure to his master. The Egg Mobile popped open and he stood up. The Goristro looked ready to eat him but Diamond dismisses it after a few Imps restrained Eggman in the air.

“Who is after our friend?” Spike asked. “And why?”

“He never gives us his name,” Eggman said. “We only know him as master. As for why, he apparently discovered a way to absorb the “levels” another Gamer has.”

“Where can we find him?” Diamond demanded, seeing the man begin to sweat and cringe.

“His...base...moves… Gah!” His hand gripped the handprint on his head. “Please stop this!”

Diamond looked like she wanted to get more info, but Spike nodded.

“Thank you,” he said. In an instant he hit Eggman with two quick punches. Both let off an explosion that took out his head and heart.

Robotinik had only felt a hint of pain as he died instantly.

Spike took a few shuddering breaths, consoling himself with the fact it was a mercy. Diamond put a hand on his shoulder and he seemed to calm down a bit. He looked up over at her and smiled.

Sugar (Happening at the same time as Eggman’s fight)

The Candyapple couple dodged the streams of cider shooting from the mechs. Using the enhanced strength the life fibers still granted him, Sugar kicked off the ground and shot toward the closest boy.

Pinkie gave a forced smile to him as he gripped the tube as best he could. The cider was up to her chin now. He nodded and pointed to the side. She caught on and moved to the side. Rearing back his fist, he sent a powerful punch to the tube.

The life fibers allowed him to form a small crack. Small...as in minuscule. He went to punch it again when he was blasted off by a stream of cider.

Apple Bloom skates up to the other tube and pointed up. Peppermint took a second to understand what she meant, but pulled herself as high up in the tube as possible. AB jumped and fired her gun point blank at the base of the tube. The ricochet sent her flipping back. When she landed, she saw she only scratched the glass.

“You and your friend took everything from us!” Flam said, referring to how Micro’s help lead them to being arrested.

“So now you will lose those you care about!” Flim call as they saw the meters on their consoles. The tubes were filled.

AB and Sugar gasped as the air in front of them went hazy for a second. Flim and Flam thought it was at the fact that their friends were going to drown. Little did they realize the two were actually looking past them.

Sugar felt blood rush to both his nose and down south. AB smacked the back of his head and he snapped out of it and back to the battle. Reaching into his inventory, he pulled out a round green pill and a vial that he handed to AB

“Prepare to lose,” he said as he popped the green spinach pill from Naruto’s Akimichi clan in his mouth.

He dismissed his shirt and jacket into the inventory, leaving his torso bare as energy surged around him. His hair waved with energy.

“What the?!” Flim said.

“Have you given up on your friends?!”

Sugar didn’t answer as he shot high into the air.

“Partial Expansion Jutsu!” He shouted as his fists grew to the size of wrecking balls with tree trunks for arms. Flim and Flam couldn’t react in time as the fists slammed hard into the cockpits, caving the glass in.

Sugar fell back and let his one arm shrink, further doubling the size of his other arm.

“Hammer Swing!” He roared and punched straight through Flim’s machine’s chest, including the tube.

“What!?” Flim shouted as his macchine started sparking. Flim went to crawl out, but found his legs trapped.

“You just killed your friend!” Flam shouted in astonishment. Sugar grinned and pulled back his fist.

“Not exactly,” he said, opening his hand. Flam didn’t understand what he was seeing. It...it looked like a blow up sex doll dressing in the one girl’s clothes. “Not sure how it happened, but they are safe ...which means…”

Flam went to rush away from the battle, but Apple Bloom fired a shot at the joint of the knee, being the last straw it needed to buckle.

“You aren’t!” Sugar roared as he expanded his other hand again and gripped the sides of the cider mech. With a grunt of effort, he sent Flam flying toward Flim. He watched the machines crunch into each other as his power started fading.

He motioned quickly for Apple Bloom and she gave him the vial. Downing the Nara clan cure, he felt it work fast, stopping the pain before it got too bad.

Sugar watched his uncles crawl from the wreckage of their mechs. Part of him wanted answers. Wanted to find out why they did what they did. Both long ago and now. But he realized something.

He didn’t care. He could guess. Jealousy of his parents. Greed for the company. Rage toward him for taking their shares and then again for getting them arrested. Nothing could truly explain what made them this way. And he wasn’t going to waste anymore time worrying about them. He closed his eyes as he heard them scream for mercy from their master.

Turning, he saw Apple Bloom rush to get Pinkie and Peppermint to avert their eyes. Suddenly, his nose started gushing blood. Between the damage from the pill and the loss of blood, he passed out.

“Apple Bloom,” Peppermint said shakily, desperately covering herself. “What just happened?”

“And why are we naked?” Pinkie said, not blushing as much as Peppermint but still covering.

“Don’t know the second,” AB said. “And the first is a long story. Let’s get you dried and dressed first.”

Competition

Shiro smirked as he held up the trophy from the competition. The smirk only grew as he felt his magic return to him.

‘What were you up to?’ He thought, knowing his magic wouldn’t respond. Sweetie distracted him from his thoughts as she pulled him into a victory kiss.

When they separated, Shiro looked over at Asriel who was talking to Mrs.Cake.

“This is a wonderful pie my dear,” she said. The older woman didn’t seem to realize she was making the young man blush, her outfit being very form fitting. “May I have the recipe?”

“Um….well…” Asriel said. Then he remembered a lesson Shiro taught him about impressing girls. Always act with confidence and kindness. Those two made the perfect combination. “Well, I suppose I could tell you...for a price…”

“Oh!” Mrs. Cake said, not expecting that. “Well, I suppose you wouldn’t want me selling the recipe and you not get anything. What is the price?”

“Well...um….maybe…” Asriel swallowed hard. “A date.”

Mrs. Cake nearly choked on her own spit. She blushed and sputtered a “Sorry/Got to go” and walked away. Chuckling a bit, Shiro put his arm around his friend.

“Asriel, let old Shiro let you in on a bit of wisdom,” he said, stroking a fu Manchu mustache that suddenly appeared. “Before you flirt, unless you want to be called a homewrecker, look for wedding rings.”

Asriel turned pure crimson.

“I didn’t realize! I need to apologize and-!”

“Wait,” Shiro said, holding Asriel by his collar. “While she wasn’t going to agree to the date, she looks like she is at least flattered that a young man like you still finds an older woman like her attractive. Especially after she’s had two kids.”

“She’s a mom!” Asriel gasped. Shiro clapped a hand over his mouth to stop him from accidentally shouting.

“Yes. Other than needing to watch out for rings, you did pretty well. By the way, this next one is single.”

Asriel was confused as Shiro walked away.

“Excuse me darlin’” a southern voice said. Asriel turned around and saw the one judge, Cherry Jubilee, standing in front of him.

“May ...May I help you?”

“I was wondering if you’d be willing to share this pie recipe with me?”

Asriel swallowed hard.