In the middle of the sky, Sonic and Tails were flying in the Tornado while Twilight and Rainbow were flying right beside them as they were flying Rainbow notice one of the Egg Fleet's battleships as it breaches the cloud cover.

"How is that thing showing up on the radar?!" Rainbow asked seeing the battleship.

"Don't know!" Tails shook his head. But good job on spotting it!"

"The Bases we've already raided haven't provided any promisnig leads." Twilight mentioned. "But if the Egg Fleet is still peforming maneuvers, they must be getting orders from somewhere."

"Take this," Tails haned Sonic his Miles Electric. "Conntect to the first computer you find and download all the data you can. Hopefully we'll get some answers once I analyze the data."

"I'm not computer guy." Sonic brought up. "What do I plug in? What button do I push?"

"I custom it to have unviseal WIFI accessiblty!" Tails said. "In others words just hit the "Go" button!"

"You think of everything!" Sonic gave him a thumbs up. "This our stop, you ladies ready?"

"Born ready!" Rainbow said then three of them jumps off the Tornado and lands on the Egg Fleet battleship. He then slips past an Egg Pawn and enters the battleship's interior.

Upon entry, the trio runs into a room full of Egg Pawns and an apparent Dr. Eggman who begins ranting about his genius.

"Save the ranting, imposter," Twilight called his bluff.

"Imposter?" Eggman asked.

"Sonic already have seen Eggman, he's fine and he's not here but you had gonig for a bit. So who are you really?"

"Humph. You'd ruin my feint, my loathsome copy and your royal highness..." Having no choice but to tell the truth, the fake Eggman reveals himself.

"No way," Rainbow gasped. "Metalhead?!"

"Neo Metal Sonic," the robotic hedgehog said it's name.

"What?" Both the ponies were confused.

"Allow me," Sonic explained. "He tried to take over the Eggman Empire. But me, Tails, and Knuckles and the others kicked your butt and return you back to normal."

"Lord Eggman repaired me, Removed the rebellious coding in my programming. But you this-we've clashed since then. He decided to give me this form once more to be greatest weapon in the final battle."

"But, I was completing too late. the war was lost. You had once again ruined everything!"

"I was given the Doctor's Bio-Data...but I serve the Eggman Empire the only person who qualify for was Dr. Eggman! I use his persona to make sure his legacy remained intact."

"I will conquer the world for Eggman as Eggman. And will tell me where he is so I may hand over control to him."

From this, Sonic understands why he did not face the true Metal Sonic during the Eggman War.

"Nice speech, but there one problem with your Grand design," Rainbow spoke up.

"Oh? And that is?" Neo asked.

"We're going to send you to the scarp heap before you do anything!" Rainbow said then she and Sonic did a series fast attacks and Twilight did a massive blast of magic to Neo.

"How do you like that tin can!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"Just fine," Neo said. "Sonic the Hedgehog, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle's Bio Data successfully copied."

"Oh, right," Sonic realized something. "I forgot to mention he copy powers of life forms. My bad."

He swiftly fights Sonic, Rainbow, And Twilight back, with them finding themselves almost evenly matched then Neo did magic blast and send crashing into a control panel.

"Okay. Battleship? Seems simple enough. With company of Badniks. Dicey but doable. That all and squaring off Starfish-Head? Nope, time to bail!" Sonic asses the situation and then rushes out there with the mares following him.

Sonic and the others rushes out of the structure while Neo gives him chase. The robot orders for the batteries on the landing strip to fire at Sonic, only for the hedgehog to dodge all of it.

Neo Metal Sonic commands all hands on deck, wanting full armament and to surround and disable Sonic, yet wanting him alive. Sonic faces off against much of the Egg Fleet's artillery and Egg Pawns but still managed to take them out with quick maneuvering. Neo swiftly hits Sonic and grabs him by the throat, holding him over the edge. He demands once more that Sonic tells him where Eggman is but Sonic refuses, saying that killing him will not give him an answer. Neo counters this by stating that he still has Sonic's bio-data and his original plan, warning him to tell him or fall. Sonic simply tells the robot "I never fear the fall" and kicks him, allowing the hedgehog to free fall. Neo believes he is now the one true Sonic until he sees a saved Sonic on the Tornado with Tails. Neo Metal Sonic commands for there to be heavy gunfire on the Tornado, only to see that Sonic had destroyed them. Regardless of the damage, Neo considers himself to be the victor of the battle as he knew that Eggman was alive while Sonic knew nothing of his plans. With this, Neo commands his troops to stay on course to rendezvous with the rest of the Egg Fleet.

Back at Resistance HQ, Sonic finishes telling Tails, Knuckles and Amy of Neo Metal Sonic's return. Knuckles expresses his unhappiness in the robot's comeback, while Sonic confides in Amy that he did not manage to collect any data from the Egg Fleet.

Knuckles finds relief in knowing Eggman was not the one responsible for the Badnik attacks, but Tails reminds the echidna of Neo Metal Sonic's high intelligence with Sonic's abilities and limitless stamina. Knuckles, annoyed, tells Tails to savor the small victories. Sonic, however, decides not to settle for that and plans to find a record of Eggman's old plans seeing as they could not find anything on current troop movement. Amy decides to put out a call to all of the Resistance, with hope that they can find out what's going on before it is too late. With this, the group put their hands together and celebrate victory.

Meanwhile, Neo commands the Egg Fleet into formation and to begin docking procedures. He menacingly wishes for Sonic to take his time as he believes he has already won. As he says this, the Egg Fleet moves in on Angel Island.

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