Spiders and Magic: Worlds Unite

Looking out at the balcony, Sonic and Spider-Man got a closer look at what was becoming of their worlds. Various landscapes and buildings were clashing together and floating from the planet in an eternal void, and in some cases exploding. The hedgehog whistled, "Woah. This is some chaos, isn't it?"

"Yeah. I never imagined dealing with anything of this scale." Peter admitted to the blue hedgehog. "I can still see Eris struggling over there," he pointed to the female draconequss, "We gotta act quickly before there's nothing left to save."

Sonic nodded, "Luckily, I think we got ourselves the perfect team for the job. Nice job on gettin' everybody here and organized."

Turning their heads from the balcony, the duo saw the other heroes grouped together, named out for the sake of simplicity. Twilight held a checklist with magic, checking off names that she heard. Sonic and Peter walked in the room with the others, listening out.

"Okay..." sighed Twilight, "It seems we were grouped off into teams and worlds for the sake of simplicity by Tails' suggestion." she said, earning a nod from the group.

Twilight looked at the paper and called the first group, "Okay, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi: Heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom." Mario, Luigi and Yoshi raises their hands and hummed.

"From Mobius, the Freedom Fighters: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Shadow, and Espio." the Mobians all responded, showing that they were all present and accounted for.

The purple alicorn checked off the names and continued, "Earth 20XX: Mega Man, Proto-Man, Doctor Light and Roll." once she saw they were there she moved on, "Earth 21XX: Mega Man X and Zero, the Maverick Hunters." X and Zero nodded.

Moving on, Twilight faced her friends, "Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Trixie, Spike, Sonata, Mayday, Ben and myself. It seems we're all here." she let out a silent sigh of relief.

"And now... Peter, Logan, and Gwen. From three different universes apparentally." Twilight finished, seeing the three superheroes standing around. "Okay, once Luna gets here, we'll decide how we'ee going to do this."

Gwen removed her mask, "Y'know, we look like the crew for some bizarre fanfic."

"Stuck with a bunch'a kids and animals. Literally." Logan gruffed.

Peter put an arm around the doppelganger of his old comrade, "Come on Wolvie. It's not too bad." he felt the mutant lower his arm.

"So... Is there anyone else we're missing?" Rainbow asked.

Sonic shrugged, "Eh. Kinda. We don't know where Silver, Blaze and the rest of the Chaotix are at for one."

Dr. Light folded his hands, "It's pretty much us. And the two Maverick Hunters." he could see X giving him a concerned look but he wasn't quite sure why that was.

Roll nudged Rock's shoulder, "Hey, Rock. Who is the tall guy that looks like you."

"X." Mega Man revealed. "He's from the future. Him and Zero. That's all I know so far."

Peter looked at the older scientist, "When did you and Roll get here anyhow?"

Dr. Light gestured to his two fighting sons, "Rock and Blues managed to retrieve the two of us from Light Labs. Things are looking quite awful out there." he smiled, "But enough of that, this is the world you found yourself in? I must say it's quite surprising, but I am happy you found yourself with a good life."

Peter smiled, "Hey, thanks doc. I just wish our worlds didn't meet like this constantly. Considering the Marvel vs. Capcom battles we've had plenty of times before, I'd rather us in a goofy sitcom than another world-saving adventure."

Zero walked by, patting Peter on the shoulder, "Welcome to the life of a Maverick Hunter, Spider-Man. Hope you survive the experience."

"...Right." groaned Peter.

'Quite the ensemble, huh?' Dream said.

'No kidding. It's getting a little crowded in here again.' Peter replied to the voice.

"Yo, Pete."

Snapping out of his trance, Peter looked down and saw Sonic and Tails trying to get his attention. The hedgehog smirked, "You looked like you zoned out there. You alright?"

"Huh? Oh, don't worry. Just thinking is all. What's up?" the man asked.

Tails raised a finger, "Do you have a lab anywhere? I was hoping to finish something before we decide how we're going to handle all this." he wondered.

Peter nodded, "Uh, sure. Do you want some help?"

"Okay." Tails replied.

"Mayday, come over here, sweetie!" Peter called out for his daughter.

A beige pegasus filly ran by the group at the sound of her father's voice, "Yes, Daddy? Hey! Why are you human and I'm not?" she huffed, having not seen Peter in his current state yet.

"Not sure why to be honest. Magic and science mumbo jumbo. But are you up for a little experimenting? Tails here could use some help with finding the lab and something else." Peter offered. "...What are you doing exactly?"

"I'm trying to modify my Chaos Emerald tracker to account for all the interdimensional mayhem. Once we're done with it, then we can worry about finding them."

Mayday put a hoof to her chin, "What's a Chaos Emerald?"

Tails turned around, "I'll explain on our way to the lab."

Sonic nudged Peter's elbow, "Your daughter's a horse?"

"What? I was a stallion once before this whole mess came about. You'd be one too if it weren't for this whole Sigma war we've got to deal with anyhow." Peter shrugged off.

Shadow, Logan, Zero, and Proto-Man isolated themselves from the rest of the crowd, finding themselves in a small room where they could just keep to themselves. "Hmph. Any particular reason why you're here?" Shadow asked, referring to Logan. "You sounded awfully confused over what was happening."

"Not sure. I ain't here to make friends, though, that's fer sure." Logan answered.

Zero looked to the older X-Man, "What happened to you, though? Last I saw you, you looked perfectly fine."

"You don't wanna know." Logan grunted.

"I do!"

The sudden appearance of a pink pony caused the four to take a step back in surprise, even catching the usually stoic Shadow off guard for a moment. "The hell do you want?" asked the older Wolverine.

"I saw you looking really sad and I want to turn those frowns upside down!" Pinkie exclaimed.

Proto-Man folded his arms, "We do not need this, Pinkie."

"I say you do!" said Sonata, appearing behind Blues seemingly out of nowhere like the pink mare before. "It's a shame to see everypony else conversing and all of you isolating yourselves like this." she said with a small frown.

"I'm not here to make friends. I'm here to get the job done." Zero pointed out, looking at his unactivated Z-Saber. "Same could be said for these guys."

"I'm with Zero. Only to get the job done." Proto-Man agreed.

Logan closed his eyes when Pinkie moved to his face, "But Logan, you actually liked spending time with Peter and us!"

"I never met you before. That was some other version'a me." Logan dismissed in an angered tone. "I'm still tryin' to wrap my damn head over the fact that I'm lookin' at a ghost!"

"Ghost?" Sonata repeated, "Where?"

Logan pinched his temple, "Parker. He shouldn't be here." a sigh escaped him, "If ya want, I'll explain all this bullcrap later. But it ain't fer the weak of heart."

"Okie dokie then!" Pinkie said.

Shadow huffed, "Can you leave now?"

"B-But..." Pinkie studdered.

"Just. Leave." Logan demanded. "We'll talk to ya when we feel like it, alright?"

"Okay..." sighed Pinkie and Sonata in sadness, walking out the door.

"Woah! So these Chaos Emeralds have unlimited power? I'm sure glad Discord and Tirek never thought to use them." Mayday exclaimed upon hearing Tails explain what the emeralds were.

"Yep. It's surprising, I know. But that's why we have to find the emeralds before the bad guys do. I take it you know how to work this technology?" the fox asked.

Mayday smiled, "Uh huh! I've been watching my dad for as long as I can remember when building something. Maybe he should upgrade the Spider-Mobile at some point to fit everypony here."

"He built a car? Maybe I should've brought the Tornado with me." Tails muttered.

"The Tornado?" the pegasus filly repeated.

Tails raised a finger, "The Tornado-2 to be exact, it's Sonic's, but at this point I've used it more. After the last one got destroyed, I had to rebuild it and modify it for battle purposes." he elaborated.

"You built a plane?! Can I see it?" Mayday wondered.

Tails rubbed the back of his head, "I dunno. I can show you, but you're gonna have to ask your father about that. Maybe once we get this whole organization thing sorted out."

The filly waved a hoof, "I'm sure he wouldn't mind. Do you know any of those other heroes? Like that robot, Mega Man?"

"Kinda. We met before when our worlds collided. He and his brother helped us fight Eggman and Wily once before." Tails explained. "For robots, they sure act human."

Mayday beamed, "Awesome!" she decided to change the subject, having found the lab, "So, what do we need to do to change this radar of yours to good use."

"Just recalibrate the energy signatures to not account for all this world merging." Tails replied, sitting down next to the enthusiastic filly, who glanced at the round radar.

Mayday added, "What about Eris? She's probably exerting a lot of chaotic energy. If the Chaos Emeralds share that kind of energy like her, perhaps we should find a way to trace the energy from the emeralds only."

"Hm... Yeah. She is a Spirit of Disharmony like you said, right?" when Mayday answered, the fox continued, "Then what we have to do, is account for a weaker source of energy output. I'm sure Eris could potentially be stronger than the emeralds separate, but I should also account for the Master Emerald just in case. That has unlimited chaos energy. Maybe I should ask Shadow how he senses chaos energy like he does."

Mayday raised a brow, "Are you sure? Shadow doesn't look to be the... friendly type."

"I know him personally. Once you get to know him, Shadow can be a valuable friend. He just doesn't show emotions a lot and say the same. Heck, Sonic still gets on his nerves." the fox laughed.

"Don't let Pinkie or Sonata near him then." the filly laughed back.

"So... Let me get this straight... You come from a world of talking mushrooms and turtles?" Rainbow asked.

Mario nodded, "Mm-hmm!"

Gwen chuckled, "And that's weirder than a world dominated by talking ponies, griffons, bug creatures, and dragons? I sense some slight hypocrisy."

"Don't-a forget the Bean Bean-a Kingdom." Luigi added.

"...So, talking beans?" Applejack corrected. When the Mario Bros responded, the farmpony groaned, "Now, I'll admit that's a tad bit strange."

Yoshi spoke up, "Yoshi Yoshi Yoshi (I don't know why you're so surprised)!"

"I wish I can understand you." muttered Fluttershy. "How do you two do it?"

Espio huffed, "Sorry to intrude on the conversation, but I am an ally of their world."

"Oh yeah! It has-a been a while-a, Espio." Mario realized, "Our world and-a Sonic's went to the Olympic Games a few times."

"What are the Olympic Games?" Rarity wondered.

"Basically, we-a all compete in-a athletic events to win. From-a track to gymnastics, swimming. It's-a all in good-a fun." Luigi explained to the ponies.

Rainbow folded her hooves, "Huh. Sounds like the Equestria Games. So, you were saying, Espio?"

The chameleon cleared his throat, "Right. I've known them for a while. If you wish to communicate with Yoshi, we had to learn slight translations based on tone, situation and emotion. Isn't that right, Yoshi?"

"Yoshi Yoshi (Yeah, Espio)." the dinosaur explained.

Trixie rolled her eyes, "Can you hand me a guidebook?"

The White Widow grinned, "I just got advice on how to speak to a green dinosaur from a ninja chameleon. I'll admit, that's pretty cool. So, Espio, what's your world like... When it's not merging like a comic book splash page?"

Espio nodded, "Quite peaceful whenever Eggman doesn't commit any heinous acts."

Rainbow leaned in midair, "How threatening can a guy called Eggman be anyway? He sounds like someone who'd try to ruin your breakfast or something."

"I was thinking the same thing." Gwen added.

The chameleon responded, "He is a man that will capture woodland animals, force them to become his robot slaves like you saw to our friends, blew up half our moon, split apart the planet into chunks on his own, released a few demonic entities, and even built a space station of destruction a few times over."

Gwen paused, "Huh. That actually does sound threatening."

"Those poor animals." Fluttershy gasped, putting her hooves to her mouth in surprise.

Rainbow smirked, "So, how does Bowser compare to Eggman, Mario and Luigi?"

Mario sighed, "He is a Koopa that-a doesn't know when to-a give up. He-a constantly kidnaps Princess Peach, used ancient-a artifacts to boost-a his powers, turns-a giant, nearly destroyed-a the universe-a twice and fell into a Sun. And-a there were-a few instances where he-a fought as a skeleton after being burnt-a in lava. He's-a been after-a me since we were-a babies."

"Yoshi Yoshi (I helped him when he was a baby too)!" Yoshi chimed in. Espio translated for the dinosaur.

"Oh, dear." Rarity muttered.

Gwen replied, "Fighting you as a skeleton after swimming in hot lava? That's pretty metal. You two got some enemies there. The worst I have is a creep called Matt Murdock and a secret organization called S.I.L.K. trying to use me for some criminal business. Still trying to figure that out."

"Hey, wait. We've met Matt Murdock when the Legion invaded. He was a vigilante like Peter called Daredevil." Trixie realized. "He's not on your world?"

Scoffing, the White Widow said, "I wish."

While they continued to converse, Twilight spoke with X, Dr. Light and Roll. "So, you're a robot with free will? That's... interesting. I never knew such a thing was possible." Twilight admitted.

"Well, Dr. Li--" X corrected himself, "My creator found a legendary feature in our programming. We are no longer bound by the Three Laws of Robotics, and can act of our own accord. But I was in a capsule for a few decades to ensure that the world was ready for such a technological evolution until Dr. Cain found me. Luckily, I was designed just in case of battle with my X-Buster. And I knew that I wanted to protect my world from any threat that hoped to harm it."

Roll put a finger to her chin, "That's pretty cool... For some reason you look like my brother."

X gave Mega Man a quick glance, not wanting the future to be spoiled to Light and Roll. The original Reploid replied, "Well, I am from the future, maybe whoever designed me was inspired by him." he suggested.

Dr. Light hummed, "To think Rock could leave such a legacy in the future. It's astounding."

Twilight smiled, "You should be proud, Dr. Light. To know you've made such an impact in the field of technology. I sort of wish our world was advanced as yours."

The older scientist frowned, "Thank you, Princess Twilight. But I just wish I can get Albert to see the error of his ways. He's stuck up in his method of advancement through domination."

"Albert... You mean Wily?" Twilight corrected. "How does he tie in all this?"

Dr. Light nodded, "He and I used to be partners, and we even built Proto-Man. But his building of powerful weapons got his license revoked, meaning we couldn't work together. He grew bitter and sought to use my own creations, the original Robot Masters against the world. You see... Rock was just a helper robot, not designed for combat in mind. But he saw the terror and wished to fight back, after all he claimed his programming was to help others and he took it to the next level. I couldn't be any prouder of my boys and girl for all the good they've done. We're like a small family only looking out for each other. He and Roll were the reason Blues came back to my life in the first place."

X smiled, "I'm glad to see that even the past had such good heroes. Y'know, I've heard of the original Mega Man before now and what he stood for. Everlasting peace. Although I knew very little, I knew that he was righteous in his actions."

Twilight and Light faced Mega Man X, "At least the future has someone like you and Zero to defend it, X." the latter said.

"Yeah. Zero, Axl, and I do our best. Speaking of, I may just see if I can bring Axl here. I'm sure he'd love this." X admitted.

the alicorn agreed and said bashfully, "You should. It'd be nice to know more of the Maverick Hunters. I'm sorry, it's just... all this is new. To see how technology can advance. Peter has shown me a lot that I wish to know more."

"It's quite alright, Twilight. Maybe we can take you to our lab?" Roll offered.

"I'd like that."

With the remaining heroes, Peter, Sonic and Mega Man all spoke to one another. "So, you and Mega Man met in some big epic teamup too?" asked Sonic.

"Yeah. Marvel vs. Capcom we called it. Our universes were in conflict and sought to end it with fisticuffs until some big threat revealed themselves like three times. Honestly, you'd think by the time our worlds crossed beyond the X-Men and Street Fighter guys we'd realize that we were on the same side." said Peter.

"Some of us were rivals to one another. But Spider-Man and I were partners during the whole ordeal." Rock added. "I don't know why, but we worked quite well as a team."

Peter put a hand to his head, "You should've been there when Wesker and Doom summoned Galactus. At least I had Zero and Logan by my side. Speaking of, where were you?"

Rock pointed to Sonic, "In the Smash Tournament with him, Mario and a bunch of other heroes from a world called Nintendo. We were all brought by two giant hands to fight one another like we were a bunch of toys. Even Ryu showed up for a bit. He was a little late, but honestly, it was kind of fun."

Sonic put an arm around the blue robot's shoulder, "Yeah. And there was the time Eggman and Wily tried to use the Chaos Emeralds to reset the world with something called a Genesis Wave in their image. We chased them in the Skull Egg, turned super and then saved our worlds once and for all."

'It seems our new friends are more connected than we thought.' Dream said to Peter.

'Yeah. At least we can work together.' Peter said. 'So far, besides old man Logan showing up, there's been no mistrust.'

Eggman, Wily and Bowser all hid behind a capsule, intending to hide from the Deadly Six and Mecha Sonic. "So, how are we gonna get out of this one, docs?" asked the Koopa leader. "I kinda wish I didn't give my Koopa Troop that Sigma armor. I'd have them be a distraction otherwise."

"If we're quiet enough, we can find an escape pod and fly to safety." Eggman whispered.

"That won't be necessary." said a female voice.

The three villains' eyes went wide, seeing Starlight trot next to them. "Oh no. Don't snitch to Sigma please. We like our lives thank you." Wily pleaded.

The unicorn smirked, "Why would I? Honestly, it's like you don't know me."

Bowser sighed in relief, "So why are ya here then, huh? To taunt us?"

Starlight shook her head, "I have to thank you three... You actually made it easier for me to usurp Sigma when the time comes. With the heroes against him, it's only a matter of time... But I will allow you three to escape should you help me."

"With what?" Eggman asked.

"I only wish to have what you want. To destroy Sigma once and for all for treating us like his slaves. But I want to play the long game. Should you help, I'll spare you in what I have planned." Starlight offered.

Footsteps were heard clanging on metal, surprising the three, "Yes, please, whatever. Just get us out!" they said.

Starlight lit up her horn, "Very well. Do bid the others a greeting from me."

"Huh?"

Suddenly the three vanished in a purple light. When they reappeared, they realized they were in a lighter room and piled atop once another from a brief tumble. "Ow..." muttered Bowser, pushing his allies from the top of his stomach. The doctors both landed on the floor painfully.

"Where are we? It's a lot brighter than I anticipated." Eggman wondered.

"And a lot bluer." Wily added.

They faced their right, and were annoyed by what they saw. Standing around them were the heroes, all their enemies grouped together into a single building. Mario, Sonic, Mega Man, Peter, X and Twilight all stood in front, ready to attack should the villains try anything funny.

"H-Hey, Sonic... Old buddy old pal." Eggman chuckled nervously.

Bowser extended his arms, "M-Mario, G-Green Stache! Great to see you!"

Wily got to his knees, "Mega Man, D-Dr. Light, please forgive us!"

Sonic grinned deviously, "I dunno guys. What should we do?"

"Is it ready, Twilight?" Peter asked his wife.

Twilight nodded, knowing what her husband was talking about, "Yes, Peter. I say a good restraining is in order for these three."

"Take them to the dungeon! Heh, I always wanted to say that." chuckled Spider-Man.

Then, a loud noise and a burst of energy hit the villains. And everything went black for them, the heroes' plan for them unknown.