Mechanical Monstrosity or True Hero?

Chapters

Reawakened
Secrets out, Chaos ensures, and a Rainbow Haired Opponent
Pain, Anger, and Slightly burnt cake
So a Cockatrice, a Dragon, and a Gizoid walk into a bar....
(X-Over) A Mechanical Melee
Metal Madness

Reawakened

It was a beautiful day in Equestria. Peace was maintained thanks to it's 6 protectors. Not a single pony was doing anything insane.

*Crash* *Bang* *Boom*

...I take that last sentence back....

The Cutie Mark Crusaders were in the Everfree Forest heading back from Zecora's home. They were trying to get their cutie marks in making medicine. They made a mess, and ended up doing more cleaning than making. Zecora sent them home when Celestia began to set the sun.

"Aw come on, we still haven't earned our Cutie Marks yet." a tired Scootaloo whined.

"Ah come on Scoots. We'll get em eventually." Applebloom said with hope.

"Yeah, we'll get them eventually." Agreed Sweetie Belle.

"Well what's next on the list?" Applebloom asked.

"Well it says here we should try to discover something Equestria has never seen before or even recorded." Sweetie Belle said pulling out a list and checking it.

"Ok then. Where should we explore first?" Scootaloo asked with some interest.

"Deeper into the Everfree forest?"

"There is no bucking way Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity will allow us to go."

"Canterlot?"

"We're not high in the bits category remember?"

"Fluttershy's Shed?"

"...Why do I feel really uncomfortable and scared with that idea?"

"Well how bout that cave over there?"

Sweetie Belle pointed to a cave that sat on a hill a 5 minute trot away from them from them that was covered in vines, blending in nicely, almost making it invisible.

"Hmm... Ok, but if whatever we find makes us popular, I want movie rights."

"I wanna write the autobiography and biographies on us."

"Deal."

"Girls, we may not find something in there. Besides, it may not be important."

"Ok fine."

The three fillies made their way to the cave as they entered, all praying they would be safe.

They explored the cave, which had dimly lit lanterns on the wall, only reaching a dead end in only a few minutes.

"Oh come on! There is barely anything worthwhile in here!"

They barely found any treasure up to that point, they continued to explore the barely lit cave

They noticed what they could only guess is an old statue made of a mustard colored metal nearby. Not much else seemed to stand out in the room.

The statue didn't look anything like a pony, yet it's height seemed to resemble a young dragon in their teens. Yet, it seemed to lack the muzzle and mouth, and their blue eyes seemed lifeless, so it wasn't a dragon. It was weird, not Discord levels of weird, just normal weird.

"I wonder who made this weird statue?" Applebloom asked to nopony in particular.

"Yeah, and what for?" Scootaloo agreed.

"Maybe it has a music box in it." Sweetie Belle suggested.

"That is the dumbest idea I've ever heard." Scootaloo exclaimed "I mean who in the right mind will hide a music box in a statue."

Sweetie Belle shrugged "How the hay should I know?"

Suddenly the lights turned off and they heard something that made their manes stand up on ends/

*Growl...* *Growl...* *Growl...* *Growl...* *Growl...* *Growl...*

They all immediately regretted life choices as they heard the multiple timberwolf growls. They couldn't see it but they were sure there was at least 6 timberwolves as their were at least 6 pairs of faint green timberwolf eyes. Their was only one thing that came to mind for them to do.

"HELP!!!" The three screamed, Sweetie Belle making the highest amount of sound as she shrieked for help with her 2 friends screaming. They wished anypony or creature to come and save them as they looked to the end to see if a shadow appears on the leaves and vines.

...But nopony came...

The saw the leader which had the biggest eyes lunge at them...

...But it didn't come.

They didn't feel pain or wet. They opened their eyes to see a bright cyan pair of eyes appear in the darkness. The leader was gone. They looked at the cyan eyes in confusion. But before they could speak, they heard a strange sounding female voice come from they're savior.

"Shame on you, deciding to eat 3 little ponies? That's not cool, not Papyrus cool, not Shadow the Hedgehog cool, hell not even Chuck Norris cool." The voice said with a disapproving tone. They didn't know who Papyrus, Shadow, or Chuck Norris were. But Papyrus sounded like he and Pinkie would get along fine, Shadow wouldn't like it here, and Chuck Norris sounded like a unstoppable god.

The timberwolves growled at the savior. Another one lunged at the savior.

*Jab*

They saw the timberwolf's shadow fly out the exit. Another one met the same fate before the timberwolves whimpered and ran for their lives.

"That was a close one. Are you three alright?" The voice asked.

"Yeah."

"Yup."

"THAT... WAS... AWESOME! Not Rainbow Dash awesome but awesome." Scootaloo said with a disapproving tone that mocked the savior's tone when he was shaming the timberwolves. Much to her friends amusement.

"Alright hop on. Let's get out of here." The voice said as his lowered, meaning they crouched down. The 3 fillies climbed on their savior's back, which was surprisingly cold and metallic, likely armor. "You 3 on tight?"

They all simply nodded as they took off at a moderately fast speed. Getting to the exit in 30 seconds flat.

They were dropped off as the voice said sadly "Goodbye little ponies. Don't tell anypony what has transpired here or of my existence alright?"

They all looked at the eyes once more and asked sadly "Why not?"

The figure's eyes had a saddened position as they said "I'm not ready for ponykind to know of me yet. Not after what happened."

"Can we at least see what you look like? So we know you when we see you." Sweetie Belle asked.

"...Alright. But don't tell anypony, promise?"

"Promise." They said in unison.

The eyes blinked twice before saying "Alright."

The figure stepped out as they're jaws dropped.

It was the "statue".

"...Goodbye. I hope to see you later." The figure said before going back into the shadows of the cave.

They walked about 10 minutes until they heard 3 familiar ponies speak from behind them. Much to their dismay and horror.

"Where the hay have you been?" A southern voice asked.

"You weren't on the way to either of our homes, at Sugarcube corner, or on the path to Zecora's home." A high class voiced continued.

"So that leaves one question." An athletic tomboyish voice finished.

The three fillies gulped and turned around to see Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash

"WHERE WERE YOU THREE!?" They yelled and asked the three fillies.

They were in a pool of sweat. Busted.

They didn't know what to say, they couldn't tell the truth, they promised not to tell of the living statue.

Suddenly Scootaloo had an idea.

"We thought we saw something but it turned out to be a bust." Scootaloo said sadly.

The two fillies caught on quickly.

"Yeah, we searched and searched, but we were on a wild goose chase the whole time." Applebloom said, in an equally sad tone.

"It was just a big dumb rock in the end." Sweetie Belle finished. The three hoping that at least they'll buy the lie.

"...Alright. But next time, tell us and we'll go with you. Promise?" Applejack said.

"Got it." The three fillies said.

"Next time, you three are grounded for a week." Rarity said.

"Ok." They said as they looked back and saw the cyan eyed statue nodding in approval as it went back inside. Much they're joy that they did the right thing. They all went home happy that they made a new friend.

MEANWHILE

The diamond dogs were looking through the dirt as they began to seek pretty gems. They're efforts seem futile until suddenly...

"I FOUND TWO PRETTY GEMSTONES!"

Rover and two guards began to look at them with interest, the gems looked similar but one was red and one was yellow. Oddly enough, they seemed to glow brighter when near each other.

"Hmm... I think we should look into them later. Put them over there for now." Rover said as he had the founder put them over by the entrance to the cave.

However the joy and interest didn't last long...

Lights start flashing 10 feet from the enterence

"What the- WHAT IS THAT THING!?" Rover shouts

The light develops and a strange blue spiky armored dragon-like creature appeared to come out. Some of the lighter dogs are pushed backward by the growing winds until it died down. His helmet now possessed two crimson red glowing eyes.

He appears to be scanning the environment only to finally focus on the pretty gems as he walks to them. Only for the founder to grab them and shout "Stay away from our new shiny gemstones!"

The blue spiky armored being stared at them only to shout at them "Give me the Chaos Emeralds!!!"

Rover looked at their visitor curiously "Chaos Emeralds? What's are Chaos Emeralds???"

The blue armored newcomer charges a strange red form of magic into his hand.

The founder of gem shouted "No! Wait! Stop!!!!" Only for a red energy sphere of powerful magic to annihilate him into a red puddle of blood as the blue newcomer took the gems and fly off at the speed of sound almost instantaneously.

...Rover stared at the fallen Diamond Dog and then stared in the direction that the blue spiky dragon-like creature with on question on his mind.

Who... no... WHAT is that thing?

Author's Note

Hello. Welcome to my second displaced fic.

I know an Emerl displaced already exists. But I decided to take a crack at Emerl.

I don't own the music used here, please support the original creators.

Enjoy.

Emerl is owned by Sega. ??? is owned by technically Sega and comes from Mark Haynes.

Secrets out, Chaos ensures, and a Rainbow Haired Opponent

It had been a few hours since they were saved. They needed to talk about it to see if it was so they had a sleepover in Sweetie Belle's room for the night.

"I can't believe that the statue was alive." Sweetie Belle happily said.

"Shush Sweetie Belle. Nopony is supposed to know about him remember." Scootaloo said trying to shut her up before she slips up and Somepony hears her blabbering.

"How do you it's a he? Her voice was very much that of a female's." Sweetie Belle asked back.

"Well how about I shut your bucking mouth!" Scootaloo shouted in annoyance.

Sweetie Belle smacked her with a pillow unexpectedly. Scoots looked angry before a cocky smile plastered on her face.

"IT. IS. ON!"

The three began a pillow fight, but it soon turned into more of pillow war.

Meanwhile Applejack was drinking some leftover cider she shared with her two friends.

"Ah can't believe 'hey would do something so reckless." the southern mare said.

"Well they are them after all Applejack," Rainbow said in their defense. ", we would Probally do the same thing."

"It's a miracle they weren't hurt," Rarity said in relief. ", Celestia knows what I'd do without Sweetie Belle."

"Yeah, not a single scratch on them. I could have sworn I heard them yelling for help just a few minutes before we got there." Rainbow said, recalling the events in her perspective as she began to tell them what happened.

Flashback: Earlier that day

Rainbow Dash was sleeping on a cloud like she normally did as she hovered near the Everfree Forest entrance. She was sent by Applejack to retrieve the Crusaders as they should be leaving by now.

She simply waited there as she had already talked to Fluttershy, who by that point was feeding her animals, and simply soared above the clouds until.

"HELP!" Three very familiar voices shouted as Rainbow Dash heard growling. She knew on her own she would be screwed so she flew off to get her friends. Fluttershy wouldn't be much help in combat, but Applejack was, and she knew how strong Rarity was if in the right scenario. So she took off quickly to go find them.

Her two friends stared at Rainbow in disbelief. Leaving the million bit question, What happened? They all looked at each other and went to interrogate the Crusaders. They weren't gonna leave without the truth. Rainbow Dash decided to go ask Fluttershy if she can help her find anything mysterious in the Everfree Forest, it could lead to some clues or perhaps the one who saved them if they hit the jackpot.

Meanwhile with Emerl...

I was distressed, the only ponies not scared of me and I let them go. I did the right thing, but after all these 1
200 years, I've been really lonely. If only Mike could have grabbed my hand all those years back, then we could have ended up in this world together. *SIGH* Well that's life, but should I stay here until they possibly return or should I go to the town.

Against my better judgment I stayed here and decided to load up the simulator. It allowed me free reign over a world that did not exist. I used it to create "Memories", like the Bowser Memory M & Bowser Memory L boss fight where Mario & Luigi face themselves created from Bowser's memory of them, only perfected to create exact clones of them.

I was brought to a boss select screen and scrolled through what seemed like limitless foes before deciding on a familiar teenage blue robot with a red gem in his helmet and green eyes with an arm cannon, Mega Man X.

I materialized in a large bleak field that just seemed depressing until the scenery shifted to that familiar highway that started my love for the series. I looked on as I saw no life for miles.

...Well no ORGANIC life that is.

The blue robot in question appeared nearby riding on what can only be described as a futuristic motorcycle.

I used Tail's arm cannon and fired an energy shot at him, destroying the bike as he jumped off of it. I then got into a fighting pose as he did the same.

'Just another average training simulation.' I thought as we rushed towards each other.

A FEW HOURS LATER...

I finally beat X again. He tried to get me using his Ultimate Armor. But my attacks were enough to take him down.

I simply sat in the cave as I began to wonder if I would be accepted. But I remember what happened when my face was seen.

I decided a simple look outside couldn't hurt as I made my way towards the night sky and decided to bask in Luna's light for at least a few minutes as I sat on top of the cave until I heard a faint "Hello? Is anypony here?" from a certain female Pegasus. I took a glance and saw her and it was exactly what I expected. The pastel yellow fur and wings, her timid pose, her cyan blue eyes that shined in the nightlight, and her long pink mane and tail. Fluttershy.

I tried my hardest to resist all urges to go down there and cuddle the living hell out of her for two reasons. It would be bad to get caught trying to snuggle that adorable pony as it would sink my reputation with Celestia and Luna as a force to be reckoned with to a threat that just needs attention every Thursday and I would be revealed and I would once again be feared and tracked down for study and containment.

The only reasons they never found me was because I faded into myths centuries ago, I don't possess any magic of the sort that they can track in this world, and I'm not really an organic life they can track.

I prayed to Chaos, Iblis, Mephilis, Solaris, Dark Gaia, Light Gaia, Infinite, and every other god or godlike character in the Sonic Universe that I wouldn't be seen.

"Is someone there? I can't believe I agreed to this, but I want to help you. If you saved those 3 fillies, I just want to say 'Thank you' and show my appreciation." She said.

I wanted to show myself but I knew I couldn't and weighed the pros and cons for the 300th time.

On one side, I could become a respected hero, have friends to combat the centuries of loneliness and solitude, and I might be able to track down all 7 Chaos Emeralds and maybe the Phantom Ruby if it's also here.

But on the other side, I would be feared like a wild animal and treated as one, I would be made fun of, and I would dismantled or worse brainwashed/reprogrammed never finding inner peace knowing in the back of my mind that it's not who I am, no matter how small of a tweak it is.

But this is Fluttershy, the element of Kindness. She and the crusaders could show that I was never the beast all those legends and myths painted me as. I only attacked those who tried to stop me when I was running away from Celestia who wanted me as her pet or pet project. I never bothered to find out when I booked it. This made Celestia think I was a violent beast who fights all who stands in her way when all I did what anyone would do if they were in my nonexistent boots.

I then began to ponder more and more, not noticing that the rocks were shaking and I fell down as my train of thought was wrecked when I fell down in front of her. Thanks to Sonic's agility. I was able to stick a landing with a bit of style by landing on my hand and pushing myself into the air and landing on my feet.

Fluttershy then looked scared and I realized that it was gonna be a long night.

Applejack and Rarity entered the bedroom after talking over a plan to make them talk.

When they entered, it looked like Discord came and dropped a bomb made entirely of Pillows as feathers were scattered on every visible inch of the room.

"What did ya girls do in this room? A pillow fight with Discord?" Applejack asked as Rarity looked like she was gonna faint.

"Nope, a pillow war." The orange Pegasus said.

"Shame pillow fighting aren't our Cutie Marks." Sweetie Belle commented.

Applebloom nodded as she then asked "What do you two want anyway?"

She secretly knew they wanted the truth. A truth they promised to not tell.

Applejack then said firmly "The truth on what happened in that there forest earlier. Rainbow got us when she heard you three call for help, but you're all fine. So we gotta know, 'What exactly happened in there that night?' Also don't you even think of lying to your big sisters or else. Got it?"

"Chrystal clear." The three said, sweating bullets as they tried to figure out what to do. That was until a few minutes later two Pegasuses came in. But before you can understand what's going on. You need to hear the following story that happened earlier.

Flutters simply looked at me in fear and curiosity likely trying to figure out what I am.

"Who-what are you?" Fluttershy asked as she backed away slowly and looked like she was gonna use her infamous stare on me.

"I'm a Robot. Couldn't you tell?" I said sarcastically and if I had pupils, I would have rolled my eyes.

"Robot?" She asked with curiosity.

"In basic, I'm not organic, I do have a soul and feelings, but most robots don't back where I'm from." I explained.

"Where are you from anyway? Oh an before I forget, I'm Fluttershy."

"Nice to meet you Fluttershy. I'm from another world where I was organic, but then I died and was reincarnated into this form." I said sadly.

"Oh I'm sorry Miss...?" She started.

"Emerl. In my last life, I was called 'Clara' before you ask." I said.

"What weird, but very unique names Miss Emerl." She said politely.

"Thanks. But I think we strayed far from the topic at hand. You wanted to thank me for saving those three fillies from earlier?" I asked.

"Oh yes. I came here to find the cause of them coming out unharmed with Rainb-" Fluttershy said before she got cut off.

"A MONSTER! DON'T WORRY FLUTTERSHY! I'LL SAVE YOU!" a certain rainbow haired pony shouted

Speak of the devil.

She was moving at a pretty fast speed. Using a Sonic Rainboom to try and hit me.

...Only for me to move a speed faster than sound instantly and step aside as she crashed into the mountainside behind us. Getting up a few seconds later.

"Don't worry Fluttershy. I'll protect you from that freak of nature." Rainbow said as she got into a fight pose. Confused at how I dodged her.

"As much as I want to avoid a violent battle, I can tell you won't stop unless I win. So here's the deal, If you win, I'll leave and won't 'hurt' her. But if I win, you got to let me explain myself with no outbursts at all. Deal?" I explained.

"Deal." Rainbow said with a smirk. Clearly stubborn to see this through with her loyalty to her friend.

I then got into my fight pose. This was gonna be a lighting fast brawl.

"First one to 10 strikes wins." I said.

I rushed at Rainbow and used Knuckles's hand to hand techniques to hit her with some pretty tough force, sliding her back as she rushed back and surprisingly karate chopped me as I was sent back a little.

'Oh yeah, forget she knew Karate.' I remembered and remember that Death Battle's Boomstick asked how she even mastered it. I'm starting to wonder that myself.

I shake my head and hit her with a powerful and quick combo followed by a finishing uppercut sending her flying up high. Instantly nailing me the win. Much to Rainbow's shock.

"You're faster than me, I thought you only dodged me the first time was because I was a good distance away, you dodged with some skill or dumb luck. But you're far faster than I thought, what kind of monster are you."

"Okay one, stop calling me a monster, would you like it if I just called you 'Pegasus' or 'Pony'? Second, I'm an inorganic life form called a Robot. I'm the only one of my kind as far as I know. And like I was saying Miss Fluttershy, I saved those three despite the fact I wanted to hide from ponykind. You can see why I wasn't exactly excited when I fell down in front of you." I said and gestured to Rainbow as she said "Hey!"

Fluttershy then nodded and noticed I showed selflessness in my actions. Despite the possibility that she would be shunned by everypony if she was found out.

"But how come they weren't talking about you? They said they were on a wild goose chase, but you'd think they go on and on about you?" Rainbow asked.

"So they stayed true to their promise that won't tell about me to this hour." I said with a smirk despite it not showing.

"How long have you been alone?" Fluttershy asked.

"Over 200 years. Ever since I disappeared from the face of Equestria." I said reluctantly.

"200 Years!?" Fluttershy and Rainbow shouted at me, making me fall on my back.

"Give or take a couple decades." I added as I jumped up and brushed the dirt off me.

They then stared at me with wide eyes.

"...Well that makes it official, first thing in the morning we're getting you and we're gonna introduce you to our friends." Rainbow said. I could tell she was serious.

"...Oh alright. 8:00 AM is when I'll be ready, got it? Also if things go south I'm blaming you two all right?" I said.

"Got it." They said as they flew away to lord knows what. Likely going to go tell their friends about me.

'Lord knows what's gonna happen when Celestia hears about me. She'll be after me and it's gonna be like 200 years never happened. We'll just pick up where we left off.' I mentally groaned. I didn't want to tell them that I was technically a fugitive that ran away from Princess Celestia who wanted to make me her pet/pet project. Like I said, I never bothered to find out which. But I didn't like where it was going either way. But I also don't want to make my new friends sad either. Either way it's Game Over for me if it all goes south when Queen Sunbutt and her little sis find out about this.

I sighed as I prayed to all the Sonic Gods that I would be ok.

With that, I went back inside to rest. I had electric sheep to dream of.

Author's Note

So this fic is honestly gonna focus on Clara/Emerl and Metallix, only switching to a third person scene with the ponies for the sake of pacing the fic. But it's not enough to consider them main characters. I might add Celestia and/or Luna and potentially the Mane Six. But I'm honestly not sure. Either way, I hoped you enjoyed.

Pain, Anger, and Slightly burnt cake

At the Castle of Friendship
Twilight and her new roommate Starlight Glimmer were adjusting to their new life after the latter of the two played with time travel and was stopped by the former. Spike meanwhile was just reading his comics, after making sure this one wasn't cursed. Sure it was fun to be in a comic book and all, but one time is enough.

When suddenly Rainbow Dash flew by and dropped a note on the doorstep, much to the young dragon's surprise.

"Twilight, Starlight, we got a letter from Rainbow! It also says urgent in big red text!" He called out as the two turned their attention from what they were doing to the small dragon.

Twilight then took the letter and read it aloud.

Dear Twilight, Starlight, and Spike

We have a big surprise that me and Fluttershy are going the CMC all have a surprise for you. We'll be out here with the being at 8:15 AM on the dot if our friend's math is right.

From Rainbow Dash

"Huh wonder what that surprise is?" The three mused aloud.

"I wonder, what if it's a object of lost legend like an ancient artifact or a being from a time long forgotten?" Twilight mused as her eyes sparkled. Imagining a pony from ancient times holding a rare looking gem.

Spike rolled his eyes as he said "Knowing those five, it's Probally gonna be some sort of cool looking rare animal or being." He smirked as he thought about an insane looking animal that made Discord look tame by comparison.

Starlight then wondered "What if it's a being far stronger than anything you've faced before?" as she imagined all of Ponyville burning to the ground as it shows the Mane 6 in their Rainbow Forms as they are thrown aside with minimal ease. She then quivered at the thought.

They then just prepare to leave, preparing for the unexpected.

Only they didn't expect the unexpected to be something that was ironically a balanced mix between what they thought and more.

"Now Applebloom, ya promise the surprise isn't a monster."

"I promise big sis." the little pastel yellow filly said as they and the other ponies of Ponyville gathered as they awaited for the two pegasi to approach with the surprise. Twilight wanted to know if it was anything worthwhile and report it to Princess Celestia so she can record it in the books for all ponies to learn of it.

Only for her jaw to hit the ground when she saw a dragon with no tail and wearing armor like it was made of it. In fact it looked like the armor was alive. The being's glass eyes glowed with some sort of magic as it was looking a little shy as Pinkie went bonkers and said at a speed faster than the average pony can process "HimynameisPinkiePieandI'mhappytomeetyoumissClaraasI'vebeentoldbyFluttershyandDashietomakeacakeforyouwithyournameonit." She said as she held a cake that had the beings face on it. This "Clara", if I heard it right, seemed to process all of Pinkie's words just fine and simply said "Well Miss Pinkie, I hope we can be good friends in the future." Clara said.

I'm still paranoid and rather reluctant to be in plain sight where Celestia can come and get me.

"Now then I would like to introduce you to our princess Twilight Sparkle, my friends Applejack, Rarity, Spike-" She started as I then looked around to see if I could name all the ponies I could. When I finished I had named 90% of all the ponies. I then slowly began to wonder what I was so scared about, these Ponies Probally don't know of the legend. I burnt that record of my self defense being written as violence over a hundred years ago. Nopony has ever heard of it, I'm totally fine.

...and now I jinx myself in 3... 2... 1...

Twilight then said to me "Hello, Clara was it, I just finished sending Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria and my mentor a letter of your arrival."

My eyes widened as I said to myself "Called it." as I facepalmed myself and then held up my other hand as my fingers went from 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

Celestia appeared before me in full battle armor with a plethora of various weapons in her telekinetic grasp as she cried out "YOU! YOU MAY HAVE ESCAPED MY CLUTCHES LAST TIME, BUT I WILL CAPTURE YOU THIS TIME 'ROBOT', IF THAT IS STILL WHAT YOU CALL YOUSELF!"

"Geez nice to see you too Sunnyside." I then muttered annoyed under my breath with an attempted eye roll with no pupils.

Twilight asked "Wait you two know each other?"

Celestia then turned to Twilight and all of the ponies that were bowing and sort of confused at why Celestia teleported in a full suit of battle armor instead of taking her chariot in her normal outfit like she normally did. "Indeed, though it was over at most 100 years ago."

"Exactly 256 years actually but who's keeping track." I said with a smartass smirk much to the tri-color haired alicorn's dismay as I then said "Now are you here to capture me again because you couldn't do it and you had your sister Luna and Starswirl backing you up and you had the Elements of Harmony. So if you didn't mind me, I'd like to become a being that wasn't about to be falsely written down as a murderer for knocking out 99 of your strongest ponies in self defense, and for that you called me evil, If I wanted to, they'd all be dead instead of knocked out if I didn't have mortality." I explained.

"Is that so, then why are you only telling me this now?" Celestia said with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh don't play dumb, we both know I tried to tell you and you never listened. You just kept saying I was evil and I wanted to exterminate all life in Equestria after the incident, never bothering to pay attention. Well you know what, I don't care anymore, anything you throw at me isn't enough to stop me, not then and most certainly not now. You just wanted to stop me and make me your pet, when I am, in fact, sentient and am entirely capable of doing things myself." I shouted in anger as many ponies stared at Celestia in disbelief as guilt began to wash over her face. She began to sweat up a storm.

"So you know what, you may not be able to stop me from trying to live a life, but you can TRY." I said as I got into my fighting pose much to everyponies' shock. Rainbow Dash then said "We get to see to see the Princess fight against a powerful robot? (Whatever that is exactly....)" "AWESOME!!!" Both her and Scootaloo cried out in excitement. Much to some of the ponies' annoyance. Others meanwhile were scared of what was about to transpire. Pinkie Pie, much to both my amusement and surprise, had already set up a ticket booth as everypony that went up there was voting on Celestia with Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, The CMC, Spike, Fluttershy, and for some odd reason DJPon3/Vinyl Scratch being the only ones that voted for me.

I then prepared myself as I rushed at Celestia. As Sonic would say "Time to party."

I rushed at the princess and prepared to battle her as I attacked her with a quick Shadow Chop before following with a quick combo and pink tornado with Amy's Piko Piko Hammer. She then attacked me with a sword and spear from both sides as they attempted to stab into my body as I leapt with the strength of the Ultimate Lifeform into the air as I prepared Sonic and Shadow's homing attack technique as I locked onto her and in a blaze of orange and blue energy, I hit her at Hypersonic speeds.

I grabbed onto her horn after hitting her as she then sent me flying into the air with a mighty sword swing as I then stopped and hovered in the air as some sort of energy gathered in my hand.

"CHAOS SPEAR!" I shouted as a spear of energy was launched at her to destroy her own spear. Leaving a sword, a shield with spikes, a lance, and a hammer.

I then homing attacked towards the sword as I stopped and grabbed it out of the air, I hope all those hours of Sonic & the black knight and Skyward Sword are worth it here. I then began to clash with her lance, as she began to trust at me, hitting me a few time in the process before using the Boost to blast past her as I slashed at her from the back before her hammer met my Piko Piko Hammer.

She then fired a fireball at me to which I defended against using a nearby object, which just happened to be the cake that became a little more than slightly burnt. She then looked a bit hurt for a moment as I remembered her cake obsession. Her eyes then began to glow red and was about to draw blood from me, ...or oil but she doesn't know that.

Ponies began to cheer as the fight was heating up (pun not intended). Twilight was shocked that this being, that just came out of nowhere, is keeping up with-no, it is overpowering Princess Celestia despite not being seen and or found for over 100 years, has it been training In it's own ways?

"This is amazing...." Starlight muttered as Spike agreed with her.

I then decided to finish this here and now as I prepared the Falcon Punch of Sonic Battle, Knuckles' Deep Impact.

I then charged a lot of energy into my fist as my attack connected with Celestia's cheek and I sent her flying into the air with a mighty punch as I then flew up high and hit her with an axe kick towards the ground as it connected with Celestia's helmet as the force sent her spinning towards the ground as those who voted for me, were found getting the money and evenly splitting between themselves.

I then landed on the ground as I then simply looked at the shocked crowd. "Are they okay?"

"I think you shocked them too much." Spike guessed.

"Damn." I muttered as I then began to go find Celestia and see if she's alright. I found her unconscious as I then sighed "She's alive but just barely man those last few hits took a lot out of her."

"I got this...." a familiar voice said as I turned and saw Princess Luna coming with a first aid kit.

"Hey Starcheeks." I said nonchalantly to her as Luna was the one of the two sisters who actually understood me when she was fighting to prevent Nightmare Moon from taking over at the time. I can tell she's pass it by this point, much to my relief even if I knew the events were gonna transpire.

Twilight and the other ponies were about to scold me before Luna cut them off with a sigh of relief.

"*Relieved Sigh* Finally, my one friend who actually treats me like I'm a common mare. I was wondering when you'd show that metallic plating you call your face again Metalbutt." She said as we remembered when I treated her like a normal pony and not like a princess. I stiffened a giggle at the nickname as I watched her look into the kit.

She began to levitate a cake out of it and snapped it in half above Celestia, causing her to wake up as she devoured the cake faster than a fanbase demeaning the franchise with fanart.

Celestia then got into a battle pose, I held up my hands "Sorry Sunnyside but as fun as it is to get back at you for trying to make me your personal pet," I then pointed at her as I slowly let out more and more steam that I've had pent up for over 200 years. ",despite the fact that I'm a being that, if used correctly, could be a trump card, if the card literally flipped the table over, and shot the other player. Yet you wanted to waste what I could do for this world. At least you're sister cared about me enough to see me as a smart sentient being and saw me as an actual person! Also can we go over that whole accused murder thing. You block the exit and I didn't know I could teleport at the time so I just knocked them out by holding back my power so I could leave with little trouble and you think I tried to kill them and failed!? If I wanted to kill them, I would've started with you and I Probally could, and still can, kick your pale colored flank into next Thursday!" I shouted. Luna also giving her sister a disapproving glare.

"But you lack a-"

"I TOLD YOU A MILLION TIMES YOU IDIOT, JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE DOESN'T HAVE A REAL BRAIN, SOUL, OR HEART, DOESN'T AUTOMATICALLY MAKE THEM AN EVIL MINDLESS PUPPET!!!" I screamed in her face as I let some tears (or oil, you're call) flood from my eyelids.

Most of the ponies were starting to get angrier and angrier with how I spoke to their Princess. Luna then held up a hoof and tried to ease them.

"It's alright, she's just letting a lot of weight off her shoulders. After everything Celestia did to her, she has full rights to be angry at my sister right now. She's locked her away, isolated her from most ponies, treated her like a pet, forced her to wear a collar that she always found demeaning, and constantly annoyed her by trying to make her look, as Miss Clare put it, 'too girly for her own personal taste,' when she learned of her female gender."

"See told you she was female!" I heard Sweetie Belle shout to Scootaloo.

"So you can tell Tia isn't exactly on her good side, unlike I who visited her when I wasn't on duty after I raised the moon as I fed her food despite the insistence that she doesn't need food and yet appreciates the offers anyway, played games with her from Checkers and Chess to Poniémon and Bombermare, occasionally taking her and exploring the dream realm together to view other ponies dreams, and we even talked for hours on end. From juicy gossip, bets, jokes, puns, prank ideas, predictions, video games, theories, nerd offs, and of course our infamous debates on who would win in a fight." Luna explained as she became a bit flustered at the end with the mention of our debates.

I then mentally smirked as I remembered one time when we were debating on if I could take on Exousía, AKA, the Kratos of this world, all by myself, I said I could win and Luna thought otherwise, we got so vulgar with our words as we were trying to prove the other wrong with no hard feelings in the end, it all was in good fun.

I then focused back onto Celestia who was completely surprised that her sister had been doing such things behind her back. "Luna? Why did you befriend this metallic monster?"

"Because my dear sister, she treats me like I'm an everyday pony, not just some monarch most of the nobles suck up to just to get what they want. Like this time one when Clara was helping me sort requests that ranged from good spirited like a filly asking for funds to help repair her school's faults to a noble who wanted us to wage war on pancakes. PANCAKES!" Luna shouted.

"Oh yeah I remember that, I swear to god I was gonna shove a brick up the guy's as- flank." I said and quickly corrected myself when I remembered children were here. I then walked off and Celestia then walked off, I could tell from the look in her eyes she was slowly gonna see me for the person I am and not a soulless creature that is against her, but don't get me wrong she still thinks she is in the right as she said, "Don't think this over yet Clara, I know there is more to you than meets the eye, and for that reason is why I don't have faith in you and I still know that my ideals on you hold water. Next time, I will not be as merciful due to my loyal subjects being here so watch that rust colored back of yours." With that, she vanished as she teleported off to go back to her princess duties.

"I will see you in your dreams Clara. I hope that you do not hold any anger towards me if we fight. I will try to change my sister's thoughts on you if I can, but I make no promises." Luna said.

"Don't worry Princess, I would never. See you later Moonbutt. Talk to you tonight." I joked.

"Goodbye Roboflank." She teased back as she teleported off as well.

When I turned around I saw everyone looked at me and it was a mix of anger, sadness, symphony, confusion, wonder, fear, ignorance, and other emotions. I then said "...Well after this fiasco, I'm just gonna take my cake slices and a few drinks for later. Bye and thank you Miss Pinkie for the cake!" I shouted and grabbed 25% of my cake slices and a few sodas as in a flash of blue energy I was gone thanks to Sonic's insane speed as I ran back to the Everfree and I ran back to my cave, only to see the ruins of what was Celestia's and Luna's old castle in distance and I noticed it was in a mostly livable condition. It had plenty of books, essentials, and, best of all, it was smack dab in the middle of a forest very few ponies dared to venture which made it ideal for a being like myself.

I then found and repaired a fridge I found in kitchen, you'd be surprised how well a small portion of my Chaos Emerald could be used to power the entire castle without electricity.

With that I made my way downstairs and saw the room I was locked in and saw the collar I once was forced to wear as I destroyed it with a single Chaos Spear. Every time I broke a collar Princess Celestia had another one ready. I then put my food and drinks away. While I never got hungry or thirsty, I could still taste and enjoy food and drinks like any other pony.

With that I went to sleep later that night. Ready to see my friend from over a century ago. Tomorrow I would finally be able seek out the other Chaos Emeralds.

A metallic blue blur flew through the midnight sky as It landed in a town and saw a museum. It entered via a large hole in wall he made and saw the quote on quote "Rare Gemstone and saw it was one of emeralds."

However before the blue armored warrior could get the gemstone....

"Freeze! Put your arms or hoofs in the air!" A police officer shouted at the being. He only turned and face the guard who had his horn ready to fire a blast a magic attack. The being, if he had a mouth, smirked as he said "I never freeze." He then pulled out one of the two gems that resembled the one on display that he had gotten earlier from the Diamond Dogs and shouted "Chaos Control!"

With that time froze and he kicked the guard who will feel the full force of the kick as he will be sent flying time moves forwards again. He then took the gem as time skyrocketed forwards again as he teleported away. Leaving a guard that was sent flying and knocking him out.

When the guard came to, he saw the thief was gone without a trace.

"I'm so fired for this...." he muttered to himself.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed, this was just an excuse to show Clara's power compared to one other character. Also plot and character development, enjoy.

So a Cockatrice, a Dragon, and a Gizoid walk into a bar....

Author's Note

Heya, Sorry I haven't updated in a while, been working much more passively with School and I can get more episodes out. BTW, keep in mind that this fic won't be long per say, like maybe about 6 to 8 more chapters until the end. I will have some crossovers that I won't account for as chapters per say. But I do have a secret sequel in the works when I get finished. If I had to say when the final chapter comes out, I'd say in the Summer is the highest probability. Like before I don't own any of the music, enjoy.

So a Cockatrice, a Dragon, and a Gizoid walk into a bar....

I had set off to go find my second Chaos Emerald. I found the one I hold with me now when I found it in the Cave I sat in for many moons. I used the Emerald I already had to search the area as I made my way around the area, trying to find another emerald. I began my search around the castle and found one of the emeralds in a trophy case lodged into a "World's fastest cake eater: Princess Celestia". I frowned and broke the trophy to free the Emerald with one punch, "Saitama be proud." I muttered as I thought of the Caped Baldy himself.

I then began to make my way outside as I began to search. I would look for one more Emerald, then I will take a break. I began to run around like I was in a Sonic action stage. Beating up foes, rolling around at the speed of sound, and, I kid you not, a giant Monday-to-Friday boulder straight out of a Indiana Jones movie.

A familiar blue blur flies at speeds faster than the eye can track. With 3 Emeralds in his possession, he will find the remaining 4 emeralds. He detected 3 with 2 near each other in the Everfree Forest. He decided to find the unaccounted one before going after the last 3, now all he had to do was find the damn thing.

He then continued his long search for the keys to his true power. Then maybe with said power, he can finally find the one he lost. A single tear of oil shed from his dark eyelid. "I'm coming soon my love. I'll be able to reach you soon."

With that, he flew in silence as he tried to sense the Emerald, but was too wrapped up in his emotions to sense it.

I found an Emerald's location. Apparently, according to Equestrian legends I found in Princess Luna's and her fat cake-loving butthole of a sister's library, an ancient race of ponies worshipped a shiny stone that they called the "Precious Stone," that was rumored to hold the key to their true god, Aqueous, the rumored water god. I realized why they thought so. Chaos you clever Chao.

I assume they sensed Chaos's presence in the Emerald due to it's connection with the Master Emerald, where he and Tikal are sealed in. I wonder if I would ever see him, displaced or not. I pray he's at least friendly.

I found it, the cyan colored gemstone sat on a stone pedestal. I was about to reach it when I heard some leaves shake as I saw a white chicken head on a teal dragon. It stared at me. A Cockatrice, the medusa of chickens. It seemed to the guardian of this gemstones. It seemed focused on my eyes as I stared at it's back. I knew what it was trying to do and smiled (not physically) and began to walk towards the gem and took it. I then saw it was shocked and then said "Nice try, but I'm not a organic life form... at least, not anymore." I muttered at the end as I walk away with the Emerald. Leaving it stunned as it attempted to attack me... keyword "ATTEMPTED". I just smacked that son of a chicken into a tree without even thinking.

I then began to make my way off as I rushed out of the forest to quickly search around an 800 mile radius of the Everyfree Forest. Including Ponyville, though I moved at a speed faster than they could perceive, I was only saw by the rainbow haired Sonic wannabe pony, who was also travelling at similar speeds, and the pink pony version of a walking, talking textbook definition of a sugar rush, who was sitting in a rocket car (I don't have any idea how or why) who were racing each other. They simply waved and said "Hi!" respectively as I waved back before I continued my search and began to go even further beyond. I feel it's close, but I don't know where.

When I finally get an idea, I run in a single direction as I see a lava area filled with dragons who were eating gemstones. "As Gohan would put it, 'Ah crapbaskets...'" I deadpanned before continuing onwards as I prayed to all the Sonic deities in existence that I would not have to wait for it to... develop.

It's a good thing I don't have to puke cause I wanted to hurl right then and there.

After I got my bearing together and put the 2 new Emeralds in a pocket dimension. I held tightly onto the other Emerald as I rushed and began to walk around until I find a pile that it's buried in and was being eaten by 2 Dragons. I then asked "Pardon me gentle-dragons. But I believe a rare gem of mine was brought and left here by accident. If you may, I sense it in this pile."

I was greeted by a large black dragon with a pony skull necklace, he also had long, sharp, blood red scales, claws, and eyes, with the finishing touch of a white stomach. He also had notably jacked muscles.

"Me and my friend, aren't going anywhere tiny, your so weak, you have to wear armor." He said, clearly not noticing the fact that I'm not a dragon. "*Sarcastically* Right, so what's your name ?"

"Brute. Brute Force. The strongest of all the Dragons here 'Girly.'"

Girly? Oh that's it this guy is dead meat on a stick.

While I began to have violent thoughts about this guy. I said "Oh really 'Girly?' That's the best you've got? At least I'm not some big, tough, stupid dragon who won't let a girl find her gems."

"You take that back or I'll kill you!" He shouted in anger. I mentally smiled. Perfect.

"All right, all right. You're not tough." I said.

"That's better!" He shouted while the other dragon, a white dragon with blue eyes (Insert Yu Gi Oh or "My Blue Eyes!" Jokes here) looked at me confused "Wait, but didn't you... "

I held up a finger to him "Give him a minute."

BEAT.

"Hey! That's it you're dead bi-" I then punched him into a mountain before he could finish, nobody get's away with calling me that name.

"Now, now. That mountain is not your eating disorder. " I said smugly, oh how proud TFS Piccolo must be right of me if he could see me now.

I then saw he was knocked out as I turn to the blue eyed white dragon.

"You can take the stupid gemstone, I'm not risking my butt for one stupid gem! I got to go get Brute medical attention STAT. I got to go miss...?"

"...Clara. Clara The Gizoid. I'm not a dragon, common mistake a lot of ponies and dragons can make."

"...huh, whatever that is, good on you. Nice to meet you Clara, I'm Kaiba. Later!" He shouted while doing a ciao gesture while he flys off.

I then began to search the pile of gemstones until I find it, thankful not eaten yet. I then look at Brute with my still smug face while I run off, faster than they could see as they all stared at me, I suppose that's natural when you take down the strongest there in just one punch. Once again, Saitama be proud.

With that I set off home, I picked up a newspaper that read "Stolen gemstone from museum." Aw crapbaskets, someone else is after the Emeralds, when I read the eyewitness report the guard stated "-I was confused by him and when he held up two gems of the exact same cut as the one stolen in different colors and shouted, 'Chaos Control,' I was somehow kicked into a wall and saw he was gone." If another thief, possibly a Sonic character, is in the mist, then that means he has the remaining Emeralds. No doubt he's gonna come after me next. But I'll be ready for them, no matter who it is.

(X-Over) A Mechanical Melee

Author's Note

I hope you enjoy this. This was an X-Over by me and DisplacedWriter on a fic that may or may not get off the ground, we don't know yet. I hope you enjoyed. This fight was done in the 3rd person for the sake of simplicity.

All music belongs to their respective owners. I hope you enjoy.

(X-Over) A Mechanical Melee

Clara had just finished finding her third Chaos Emerald as she made her way back to the old castle. She had put her emeralds into her hammerspace, how she learned is a mystery.

Meanwhile a red shard formed in the sky and flew towards the ground nearly hitting her in the process.

She bent down and examined it with curiosity. It clearly wasn’t an emerald or a ruby. Thank every Sonic deity, she didn’t want have to deal with an Infinite or something like that.

As the robot examined it again, a voice entered into her mind, although in the same binary only she and most computers would understand.

"Registration: Gorbyc. Token name: Broken Shard. Time Created: 5/12 Year Unknown. Message: I require data on the topic > Multiverse. Summon me so I may learn, only the strongest will earn my trust."

She then thought about it for a minute before nodding to herself and prepared to summon this displaced.

Clara then attempted to summon this “Gorbyc.” and challenge them in a 1 on 1 combat. There was a large spark that burst from the ground. As the energy clear as quickly as it appeared, a new person now stood from her. He looked like a blue skinned human with some marks on his left shoulder forehead. Around his neck and mouth was a red banana while his hair was blond yet spiky and standing up. He was wearing a sleeveless suit combined with dark aqua blue pants that were being held up by two brown leather belts. He wore blue and white boots with white wraps around his ankles. His right arm was different than the rest of his robo, mostly blue and grey, but there was some sort of spiked eye symbol, the arm was mostly robotic in nature with only his hands being normal.

The Gizoid watched in awe as she then said, “So you must be Gorbyc? Well nice to meet you, my name is Clara, but you can call me Emerl if you so wish.”

“Name: Now registered in database. It is nice to meet you, Clara.” Gorbyc said as he dusted himself off from the sudden trip to get here. “Battle required to further the truth.”

The Gizoid then got into Shadow’s battle pose and said “Let’s go then. May the better bot or cyborg win.”

“I will prove my design is more superior. “ The Cyborg said as he threw his fist into the palm of his hand before leaping back. He stretched his arm out and aimed at the Gizoid.

The smaller robot then rushed to the side before her hands turned into boxing gloves as she rushed and prepared to land a blow on the cyborg.

Just as she was rushing at him, his fist detached from his arm and suddenly skyrocket straight out her.

She was momentary shocked before being hit. She then smirked as she stopped herself from flying back before boosting towards him and landing a flurry of weak punches. The Cyborg raises his fists in a boxer like fashion to take on the blocks, he threw out a right hook once he found a opening.

She then had wide eyes before blocking the attack. She then jumped away as her boxing gloves vanished and she now had an arm cannon on her hand. She then aimed it before firing an electric projectile towards him.

The blonde haired blue skinned man was struck by the energy ball, causing some tears in his clothes, before he got up and jumped high up and then landed on the other side of the Gizoid. Suddenly, red tendrils flared up around him before flying at her, however the flow rushed became difficult to see. Before she knew what happened, her body took on a red glow of its own, but she didn’t feel pain nor saw any damage to her, all it did was leave her confused.

She then asked “What did you do to me?” She then continued to examine her red glowing body, confused at what effects it causes.

The cyborg didn’t answer except with a flying drop kick straight at the Gizoid. Sending her flying before she hit a tree. She then got up and muttered “Alright, time for an experiment.” She then took out one of the Emeralds and shouted “Chaos Control!”

Time around her turned negative colors as time froze, allowing her to catch her nonexistent breath before rushing somewhere before time resumed as the cyborg found her gone from where she landed, almost like she teleported.

“Strange combination of tech. Unable to determine color.” Gorbyc said as he stared for a few seconds. He held out a stretched out as dark and purple energy started to gather. If the Gizoid could detect anything, it would be a weak pull in the gravity all around the ball that was gathering.

She meanwhile was in the air high above, charging a Chaos Spear. She then threw the spear at the cyborg as she fell towards the ground. When he unleashed his ball of gravity, her Chaos Spear was swallowed up whole, now it was flying straight at her quickly.

She quickly used Sonic’s speed to run away from it. Because he managed to outrun a black hole, she managed to get away from the attack before sidestepping to get away from the attacks line of fire. Landing her deep in the forest from her foe as she ran back.

The android then rushed forwards before throwing a fake gold ring followed by her homing attacking towards it. Hitting her cybernetic foe’s head in the process. Causing some in it.

Using the momentum caused by her attack, he backflips and somersaults several feet away. He made a quick made dash in a attempt to knee her in the stomach followed by a chop.

She jumped high into the air to avoid the dash before back flipping and vanishing, she then reappeared on the ground as she generates a large pink energy sphere around her like a barrier.

The cyborg quickly handed his hand as light blue energy started to gather, but it quickly shot out a thin piercing laser of water at her.

The water struck and she was hurt by it gravely. “What the Iblis!?” She shouted in pain. This broke her left lens As she asked “What was that? There was no way water could do that much damage to me normally.” She still had yet to realize that this was the red glows doing. She then got up and tried to heal herself as a green ring spun around her body as she began to recover her Health. Slowly fixing her eye.

Grobyc pressed on the attack as he quickly charge up another Aqua Beam to fire at her, the attack was a quick as she was trying to recover. She barely had enough health to survive such an attack. Opening a nasty wound through her body. She then got back up and began to try and try to use Chaos Control again. Almost managing to fail when another beam was only a mere inch from her when time froze. Using this time to avoid and heal herself, almost managing to get back up to over half when time resumed as she was still healing. Fixing her eye entirely and partly sealing her new wound.

Grobyc punched his palm as blue tendrils rose up, he was using an attack similar than before, the rush of blue energy turning transparent as it rushed at her.

“Not this time!” She shouted as she began to maneuver around the attacks as best as she could, almost getting hit a few times in the process. She managed to get close enough as she snapped her fingers and a small rock with tiny eyes and legs appeared and began to run at Grobyc.

The cyborg raised his right arm to guard against it, but made no effort to dodge the attack. When the rock got close, it detonated like the bomb it really was. Catching him off guard. This caused some of the arm to break, along with causing his human arm to be destroyed.

She then rushed behind him and landed a mighty axe kick on him in the back. Grobyc repeated his tactic again, blocking her attack. He remained having his arm raised as if daring the Gizoid to attack him again.

The Gizoid looked and though before she flew back and got into a DBZ Charging pose, only with no aura and no gain in energy. Suddenly a large rock began to fly at him from the air towards him, which was quickly followed by 3 more. She then continued to charge until she began to flash white.

Grobyc allowed the rocks to hit him full force. Something seemed off though, he allowed the attacks to hit him with no effort to dodge them… The answer was revealed when lowered his arm and slammed a fist into the ground. A swirl of water surrounded him form as a small amount of the damaged inflicted had been healed or repair depending on what was flesh and what was metal. “Thanks for the kinetic energy.” He said as red energy rushed through his body, energy started to glow very close to Emerl’s location, then grew in size yet not harming her, all it was causing was the temperature to quickly raise up. Suddenly, a fiery explosion erupted from the center of its glow.

She then looked a bit surprised and shouted “What the heck is going on here!” in amazement as she stared in awe, but she shook the shock from her before trying to avoid the fire, she was hit by its power yet strangely, she wasn’t harmed as hard as she was expecting. After a minute she then shook her head and got serious when she then said “Well it doesn’t matter how much HP you recover. I got all I need now to win this fight!” She then rushed at him before performing a spin dash at rushing at his legs.

Grobyc cartwheeled to the side to avoid the attack. He then stood there with arms crossed. “I believe there is something wrong with your programming when you fail to notice how my Tech works.”

She then stopped for a moment when she got out her spin dash ”What do you mean by that exactly?” Her head tilting to the side in confusion.

“When you hit me, it allows me to build up kinetic energy, the heavier the amount, the stronger the level that’ll allow me to access.” He explained to the Gizoid. He then raised a hand. “Conclusion: We would be at a stalemate due to us healing when given the chance.”

She then said “At first glance, yes you’d be right. But about that ‘kinetic energy’ thing….” She started as she then said “I have something quite similar. I take it that you’ve no doubt noticing my white flashing?”

“Yes.” Grobyc said simply as he studied the flashing coming from Clara.

The ancient robot crossed her arms, “Well over the course of this brawl, I have been charging up as I took damage, recovered HP, and even defending your attacks. My Ichikoro Gauge has now been filled enough for me next special attack to be fatal, sound somewhat familiar yet?” She asked. If she had a mouth right now, it would be in a confident smirk.

“...Very well then..” Grobyc said with no emotion in his voice, he reaches over to his mechanical arm and with a few rotations, he removes it and tosses it to the side. Something flies out from out of the forest. It looked rather alien-like appearance, the end of the canon ending in a metal twirl.

Clara then looks over her shoulder in curiosity. But then looked back, “What’s with the cannon?” she asked.

“If it's going to be fatal, I might as well try use my strongest as well.” The cyborg said as the canon attacked itself to his shoulder. Bright purple energy started to gather at its tip as he moved his arm to aim at Clara.

Clara’s eyes would have widened in shock if they could. She then prepared herself as she tried to keep her cool as she got into a pose not unlike that of a runner preparing to race. “Well you’re gonna have to overpower me first.” She said.

“Trust me, I won’t be pissing.” He said as red energy glowed around him and into his eyes. “But I will give you much credit if you manage to find the 1%!” He said before unleashing a thick blast of energy from his canon.

She then said “Never thought I'd have to use these, but this case seems special.” Her eyes then began to glow red as well as she turned into her Ultimate Emerl form. She then rushed as the blast as she began to glow as a large aura appeared around her as she began to boost at full speed.

The Gizoid then collided into the blast head on. As they were now at a standstill with the blast and boost both refusing to lose ground.

The cyborgs eyes went wide as Clara was tanking the hit like it was nothing, with only some of her paint being slowly peeled off, he decided to input more dark energy into his canon. He didn’t want to accept that something survive his secret weapon, even his dead creators claimed something could stop it.

Likewise, the Gizoid did the same as well, even slowly overpowering it as she let more of her energy flood out.

The extra charge in his attack was beginning to wane out his strength, warning lights were flashing in his vision as the percentage went lower and lower. At the last three seconds, he cut off the power and leaped out of the way, although having quite a rough tumble and crashing into the nearest tree.

Clara then turned and went in for the final blow as she began to slow down and put all the Ichikoro Gauge's energy she had into her one fist as she punched him with a mighty explosion, leaving him barely holding on to life. The Gizoid then collapsed onto the ground, completely worn out from their battle, “If I was still human, I think every bone in my body would be broken. Good fight.” she managed to get out, although it was a bit distorted from the damage she took over the battle that she had yet to heal, her eyes meanwhile, were slowly turning back to their familiar blue.

The cyborg made no comment as he was forced to put his mind into sleep mode

2 Hours later…

He blinks his eyes in minor surprise that he was still in one piece. “100% power efficiency. Checking for damage… Minor damage found.” He said as he got up. “...But one error found.. What was I thinking of using a Red tech when her body was Red?” he said to himself.

“Well it didn’t matter what color I was anyway, I still would’ve outlasted that blast anyway.” A familiar female voice said, snapping him out of his thoughts. He turned and saw Clara sitting there with a book in her hands and the female Gizoid said, “At least you’re awake now. You’d be surprised how well Chaos energy works as a charger.” She then closed the book.

At the moment of Chaos energy, he does a quick scan of his power source, only to see multiple colors of tech flowing through his body, he does a deeper scan of it but finds no harm in them.

She then said, “Don’t worry, Chaos energy is just the pure energy that comes from the Chaos Emeralds, filled with positive and negative energy, I simply used the positive to charge you like your average smartphone. Anyway, like I said before you fell asleep, good fight. I hope we get to battle once more someday.”

“...Assuming the royal two aren’t too paranoid about our conflict and spar. Please tell me though, how were you able to control time? I only saw Black and Yellow tech combined along with other things I cannot describe.” He asked as he got up. He detached his canon-arm then reattached his original arm. The weapon flews up and vanishes into the forest, although never to be found despite where it went.

“Ah, you mean Chaos Control. Chaos Control is an ability that allows the user to manipulate or warp the fabric of space and time using a Chaos Emerald's Chaos energy, and its effects can be molded into affecting reality in a multitude of manners. One of them just so happens to be stopping time itself. Also about Luna and Cake-lestia, I’ll talk to Luna tonight about it. Me and Sunbutt aren’t on good terms at the moment. Not after all that she did to me, but that’s a story for another time.” She explained.

“Ah, then I can’t replicate it even if I tried without your energy.” Gorbyc said as he continues to analyze the energy, but any combination he tried in his mind wouldn’t work.

“Nope. Not unless you had at least one of the Chaos Emeralds” She said, taking out one for show. “I mean you can keep trying to find a combination of those colors that you used.” She said shrugging.

“None of the techs would work and I sense a lot of it is Black, but not enough to freeze time without breaking anything in my body.” The cyborg said as he scanned his surroundings. “We did quite a number here...”

Clara then looked out the window and saw the battleground and all the destruction they caused. “Nah, this seems kinda light compared to all the destruction that the stronger villains of this world could cause.”

“Those emeralds you speak of? How many are there and if possible, could I have one?” The cyborg asked.

“Ah, there are seven total. I’m sorry, but I can’t give you one, the cost is too high as, when all seven are brought together, you can become an invincible fighter. I mean, if this was the Sonic Archie comics before they made it only seven, with a ton of green Chaos Emeralds, Then I honestly wouldn’t mind. But sadly, there are only seven and I can’t.” She explained.

“Shame, it would of very helpful for me and the war we’re trying to win.” Grobyc said with disappointment in his voice.

She then looked up and said “Speaking of reaping the fruits of our battle. I at least have gained a few new attacks thanks to my copy ability I can now use you’re Rocket Fist, Strong Arm, Aqua Beam, Turn Red, Turn Blue, Inferno, Cure, and Gravity Blow.” She then demonstrated when a mustard yellow colored version of his cannon flew in from the window and landed on her shoulder. Before firing the blast out the window to demonstrate.

“You.. replicated my weapon?” Gorbyc said impressed. "That's quite the Tech.”

“This ‘tech’ is the entire point of Emerl. The real Emerl from Sonic had the uncanny ability to copy any move he’d seen after one demonstration. All the moves I displayed in our fight are moves I cannot call my own. I can also replicate the tech needed to use it, like that Arm Cannon I used early on. I also can use them differently in a much more creative manner if I so wished. Anyway, I can’t copy moves when I being attacked by two foes at once.” The Gizoid explained. A memory flashed in her head of Emerl’s defeat in the Sonic X anime to Cream and Cheese double team attacks.

“So you’re able to copy anything regardless of the size and complications?” Gorbyc asked with interest.

“Pretty much, other than that double team weakness I have yet to see any move in Sonic that Emerl can’t copy.”

“I would ask you more, but my database is limited since the day I woke up with no memory.” The half-robot said as he let out a somewhat electrical sigh.

Upon hearing the words “I woke up with no memory.” She sighed with him. “Alright Shadow, well do you wanna go back now or later?” She asked jokingly at the nickname.

“..My name is Gorbyc, not Shadow. “ Gorbyc said with minor confusion in his voice.

She rolled her eyes, “I know, I was being joking because a Sonic character also loses his memory. So many times he suffers from amnesia. His name is Shadow.” She explained.

“It's not a good joke since it wasn’t my choice to be this..” Gorbyc said as he waved his cyborg arm and gestured toward his body.

“Same for me too. Anyway, you didn’t answer my question. You wanna stay in my world for a few more hours, or go back to your own right now?” The android girl asked.

“Send me back for now. But I can always come back.” The cyborg said with a smile. Although it was hidden behind his bandana.

“I’ll be waiting. Who knows, maybe I can help out with the war you mentioned. We’d be a strong duo together. Then maybe we can even have a round 2.” She said. “So… how do I send you back?” She asked. She then pulled out the red shard from earlier.

The cyborg reached over and looked like he was pressing invisible buttons. “Stand back a bit.” he warned. Clara nodded and jumped back as she watched the events play out. Like before, a bolt of energy shot from under him and he was gone from sight.

The Emerl displaced then sighed before she went back to her book, making a mental note to make a token of her own later. But then remembered that she still had 4 more emeralds to track down and obtain. But first, she'd have to get herself a paint job. She had lost some paint during the blast Perhaps she could ask Rarity for help, assuming she doesn't kick her out for the battle she and Celestia had yesterday.

Metal Madness

Author's Note

UPDATE! Not dead yet, and am currently working on a rewrite of OFF the Rails, or at least plan to. Sorry it took so long, I've been busy. I probably won't write another chapter for a little while, school and I've got plans for some little projects, but I had this half done and just decided to complete it recently.

Welcome to the first of the final few chapters that I've planned to get done sooner. I expect it be another chapter or two until it's done, but that won't be for a little while. In the meantime, I hope you all enjoy.

Metal Madness

I may not be one for looks as I'm not that overly girly, but I'd rather not look like a rusty worn tin can, I still want to look like a decent person.... or robot.... or.... you know what I mean.

So after Rarity gave me the paint necessary to fix my paint job after my recent scuffle, though still worn out from trying to use Ultimate Emerl's powers for a second time.

The first and last time I used it was many years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday.

FLASHBACK: 150 YEARS AGO

I sat within my little prison, hiding myself from the outside world as I looked like I was sleeping peacefully.

But on the inside, I was in for what could have been the fight of my life if It was actually happening outside.

Inside I was going head to head with a certain someone, we fought in a maze-like area filled with mostly grey and purple figures that looked similar to one another, they were avoiding explosions and attacks coming from me and my opponent.

He was a figure about 1.5x my height, maybe a bit taller. He wore black armor with golden shoulder pads under a brown cloak, wearing a helmet that bore a blue jewel in the middle of it as well as having two fins on it, making him resembling a cobra. The most notable thing was the golden circle on his chest, it was filled with black, with a white scar across his chest.

This foes was Bass, but not just any Bass, this was Bass.EXE from the Mega Man Battle Network series, the strongest boss in every game in the series, and I had made the mistake of accidentally cranking him up to the hardest setting in this simulation.

Dear any Sonic god, help me.

We were fighting in the Undernet, specifically the one that appears in MMBN5.

I fought as best as I could, but none of Sonic and his friends moves did any critical damage to destroy his LifeAura, a barrier around him that need enough damage in one shot to temporally destroy it, even Deep Impact with both hands were barely enough to do it.

So while Bass remained untouched, like a toy in mint condition locked inside it's box, I however had looked like a toy that has seen better days. I had been banged up pretty good up to this point, my right eye lens was broken, my right arm has a hold that was exposing wires while my left hand was missing it's index and middle finger, both torn off earlier, and I had a crapton of dents.

The NetNavi looked cocky and taunted in a way similar to a certain conquer, "Was that your best?"

I was annoyed, used to arrogant douches taunting me when I lose in a video game against them, but that taunt really got under my metallic skin for some reason.

I then felt my rage boiling, I was starting to hate this copy of Bass.EXE more than I hated Celestia right now. So I became determined not to lose this battle, no matter what he throws at me, I wanted to win more than anything else right now.

As I felt my anger surging though me, I was unaware of it at the time, but that anger broke the seal locking me out of Emerl's hidden potential. As my eyes had now gone from their usual calming blue to a glowing crimson red, my headpiece also had what resembled a literal third eye, glowing blue.

Bass looked confused by this, and at the time, I didn't understand why nor did I care, I hadn't really noticed the differences as I rush forwards, far faster than before as I go for a solid punch, and explosion appeared like the Deep Impact technique does, breaking his Life Aura as I wail on him with a combo of attacks followed by an backflip kick into leaping and using an Axe Kick that sent Bass flying downwards into the, before I teleported via Chaos Control downwards and hit him with a barrage of punches and kicks courtesy of the Sonic Combo skill, before finishing him off with a Sonic Wave as he was forced to Log Out to survive, making me the winner by default.

It didn't dawn on me until then that I had unlocked the secret cards from Sonic Battle as well as the Ultimate Skills as I realized I was Ultimate Emerl and saw my reflection on the nearest reflective surface, but made a vow to only use them when it was absolutely necessary as I returned back to normal and the ???, Combo and Ultimate skills all became locked once more behind the now broken seal, which became more of a, "In case of emergency break glass," kind of thing.

Honestly that was the last I ever fought of the NetNavi named Bass.EXE. Thankfully this was all a simulation in my head so I was alright and in tip top shape in reality, still hurt like hell when he tore off my fingers and dented my armor at the time though.

I shake my head as the memory that played in my head had finally ended.

Now it was time to get to work looking for the guy or girl that has the other Emeralds.

After searching for any leads, I either got looks of fear, rage, or confusion, as to be expected, after my battle with the princess, not many are going to trust me so easily like the likes of Pinkie did.

After calling it day when it turned to night, I headed back to the place I would call my new home.

As I drifted to sleep, I awoke and found myself in a large void, one familiar to me as I turned and saw my old friend walking towards me.

"Ah, wondering how long it would be until I see you again. It has been far too long since we last talked like this," I said smiling.

Luna meanwhile, grinned and agreed with me before saying, "So... What happened?"

I then feigned an innocent look and said, "What are you talking about, I don't anything about something happening today?"

Luna raised an eyebrow and said like she already knows, "So you're not one of the two mechanized warriors responsible for the battle that took place outside our old castle? The one you seem to reside in right now?"

If I still had eyes, they would widen before she then said, "Good show between you and that Gorbyc fellow by the way."

"You were watching us?"

The moon princess laughed and said, "Yes, while I was asleep I was able to spectate your clash with someone just like you. And I know you've got some, as you usually call them, new 'toys' to play with."

I nodded before explaining the Rocket Fist, Strong Arm, Aqua Beam, Turn Red, Turn Blue, Inferno, Cure, and Gravity Blow attacks to her from what I've gathered.

After that, we were silent before she then asked me out of the blue, "So how long?"

I tilted my head, "'How long' what?"

"How long until you and my sister finally bury the hatchet and stop hating each other? You two can't hate each other forever, it's been 200 years now Clara, if you let it go, sooner or later she will as well. I'll talk to my sister about it later if that helps."

I then began to think about it and then said, "...I hate to admit it, but I suppose you are right Luna, if it makes you happy, I will stop least try to stop hating her. However that doesn't mean I'm not still sore over what she did, and know that if does try any stunts like that again, I will use the minimal force necessary to get out of it."

"I suppose it would be a start," Luna said happily.

I then hugged her and said with some tears, "I just wish my friend, Frigus, was here with me."

Luna then said jokingly and sympathetically, "Hey now you walking suit of rust, don't cry. I'm sure you'll reunite with your boyfriend one day."

"HE IS NOT MY BOYFRIEND!"

I screamed, very annoyed by her teasing, as Luna laughed at my misfortune, soon I began to join her, making myself slowly feel better.

The next day, I ran a few miles away from Ponyville in my search and I noticed a large blue blur flying though the sky, Probally the Emerald thief that dropped and looked at me. He seemed to strongly resembled Mecha Sonic from Sonic 3 & Knuckles but with some of the original Bass's armor designs from the Classic Mega Man series thrown into the mix.

I only ask, "Who are you, and what kind of robot are you?"

I've never seen a Metal Sonic like him before.

"I... am... METALLIX! The ultimate Sonic CopyBot!" He shouted dramatically.

'Wow, that sounds super dumb when you say it like that.' I muttered, it sounded like something my best friend would say.

He didn't fail to hear what I said though as he cried out in anger and/or annoyance, "HEY!"

He then held out his hand, "Now hand me all your Chaos Emeralds." He demanded sternly.

"And why should I?" I shouted back as I fired a Chaos Spear at him.

"Because if you don't I will be forced to destroy you without mercy."

He simply side stepped it with minimal ease, as his arm then began to change into something that somewhat resembled a mix between a Minigun and Bass' Buster Arm. He then fired a barrage of energy bullets at me as I began to dodge them with my speed, doing my best to stray away from anything he could shoot that could hurt somepony.

I then dodged almost all of the bullets, a few clipped my leg, before I went in for a powerful kick to his head followed by a barrage of quick, but weak, punches. When he managed to get out of my combo, he flew up high and tried to get me with a Kamehameha-looking laser beam, even down to him mimicking the pose of the iconic Ki attack.

The beam missed me, as I had dodged it with a quick Chaos Control teleport to get a few feet away to the side, and it blew a large hole into the ground and shook the planet a bit.

"Ready to give up the Emeralds?" He asked, tilting his head to the side. I swear if he had a mouth, he would have a cocky smirk.

I then jumped into the air and went for a homing attack combo, only for him to block it with minimal ease.

He then mimicked Ryu's iconic Tatsumaki Senpukyaku as I ducked under it before going in with Knuckle's Deep Impact.

Metallix dodged it before he seemingly vanished.

I then felt a bit lighter, so after quickly checking my nonexistent pockets, I saw all my emeralds were gone. Metallix then appeared in front of me with them all hovering around him as he waves his finger in the same way Sonic would in the title screen of Sonic 1 or Metal Sonic when you're about to race him in Sonic CD. He then fired an electric blast at me and sent a shock to my circuits as I was forced to power down to recharge my energy.

He then absorbed them turning a golden hue as he shouted while I powered down, "Finally. With all 7 Emeralds, I can finally find...."

That was all I heard before I fainted from power loss.

After a while I heard a multitude of voices in the middle of talking as I power back on.
"-all I'm saying is that she's the only one who could stop him," One voice said, it seemed to be Twilight's.

"Are you out of you're mind, she's untrustworthy," another voice said that really grinded my gears. I knew it was Celestia's.

"Only to you dear sister, after all. You are the one who locked her away and tried to turn this powerful warrior into your pet for a long time. Let it go, and so will she. Trust me," a more familiar voice said. Moonbutt's voice for sure.

"Yeah, what the Moon Princess said." Rainbow Dash said. I recognized as I began to power on.

This stopped their conversation as they looked at me.

"Oh you're awa-" Twilight stared before she was cut off.

"EXPLAIN THE BLUE DARK KNIGHT WHO THREATENS TO TEAR A HOLE IN TIME AND SPACE!?" Celestia screamed.

I then blink, "What? How long have I been offline?"

"About 2 days." Twilight said.

"Thank you. Anyway that 'Blue Dark Knight'," I began mentally picturing that Sonic CD image of what appeared to be a Sonic and Batman fusion that made me chuckle inside, ",his name is Metallix and he has all 7 Chaos Emeralds."

"Chaos Emeralds?" Rarity asked, I could see a sparkle in her eyes.

I sighed and gave the short version of the story, "The Chaos Emeralds are 7 mystical gems from the universe that this body I became hales from, they are filled with positive and negative energy. I can use one emerald and tap into their Chaos Energy to preform a manner of moves like stopping time and throwing energy spears. However, if one were to collect all 7 they can become nearly unstoppable, only gods and those also filled with chaos power can fight on par with these super forms. Also, before you all start asking, my spirit came from that of a world where you all along with this body, the emeralds, etc. are all fictional games, comics, and shows, but that is a story for another day."

Everyone had a look of shock at this revelation.

Luna then asked, "So what can we do if he's unstoppable?"

I then looked out the window and said, "I have an idea, it's risky and I've only done twice before, but I've worn myself out with it the last time and nearly crashed my systems."

Celestia looked interested but still looked at me like I a bit untrustworthy, "Which is...?"

I sigh and explained, "There is a powered up mode of mine that allows me to shift into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!" I shouted at the end in a dramatic voice, it was ridiculous enough to rid some of the tension as I got a few chuckles and giggles.

"For real though, I can turn off my limiters to access a more powerful state of being, allowing me to utilize Emerl's full potential, dubbed Ultimate Emerl, a form that he takes in his only game when he tries to copy and form a link with the Final Egg Blaster, which caused him to-"

I then saw I was getting confused look from everyone in the room as even Luna has no idea what I going on about, as I sighed and said in an embarrassed and kinda flustered tone after fake coughing, "So It's a long story, Sonic Battle was always one of my favorite Sonic games back home."

I then unlocked those limiters like I did yesterday as my eyes turned Red once more with my third eye revealing itself, giving me a more menacing appearance, to the point where I'm sure there was a reference to be made.

With that I then looked at them all before looking at the ground and said, "But I don't think this form is enough, Ultimate Emerl was still defeated by a base form Sonic at the end of the game, so just imagine how a battle with a Super Metallix would go. It hurts me to admit this but Celestia, I'm gonna need your help. Same for you Luna and Twilight."

The Sun princess looked at me, "What do you mean?"

"I believe that even 1 Alicorn, alongside me, we stand a better chance against Metallix, but with 3 by my side, that just improves the odds."

Celestia, "And why me?"

I looked at her directly in the eyes, "Being the most powerful of the Alicorns, since Twilight is still a novice and Luna was stuck in that edgy phase of hers and spent most of her time on the moon," I got a glare and a smirk from said pony while the purple alicorn agreed with my logic on her end, "You would be the most useful and most powerful, and as much as I hate it as you do right now."

I then sigh and take a deep breath and admit, "I think what Luna said to me last night is right, it's time to bury the hatchet and let bygones be bygones. I'm sorry for attacking your men in self defense and hiding from you all this time."

Celestia looked genuinly shocked before she said with a bit of hesitation and began blushing, "A-and I'm sorry for trying to turn you into my pet, I was a bit naive at the time and still a bit bratty. I've let my anger and the actions of the past get the better of me."

I then held out my hand, a smile would be on my face if I had a mouth, "Friends?"

Celestia looked at it for a moment and smiled as she shook it and said, "Friends."

I then heard some tearing up as I see Pinkie crying a river of tears, while Luna said, "As sappy as that was, at least you two are finally gonna get along."

Pinkie then finally stopped crying and asked excitedly, "So what's the plan, Mrs tin can?"

I then said, "OK, if that nickname sticks you and me are the ones who are gonna have a problem with each other now. But anyhow, here's the basic idea, Celesia, do you think you can seal Metallix in the moon like you did with Nightmare Moon or turn him into stone like you and Luna or the Mane 6 both did with Discord on two separate occasions?"

Princess Celestia shook her head sadly, "We had required the Elements of Harmony at the time, and even then, me and my sister are no longer capable of using them as they now belong to Twilight & her friends, but even then, they're gone now thanks to the Tree of Harmony."

I sighed and asked, "Do you think a substitute would work?"

"Pardon?"

"Perhaps, in theory, we use something different source of energy to potentially seal him?"

Celestia looked at me and boy I could tell I had that look in my eye, the kind of look that had a plan so insane, it just might work.

I then looked at everyone present and said, "Alright, so here is what I'm thinking..."