Harmony of Heroes: Ultimate Multiverse Explorers

Sweetie Void, Past Sonic, and Past Amy came out of the rift, on the top of a mountain. They found themselves immediately in the middle of chaos. Human knights riding pegasi, and some riding dragons (don’t the dragons with wings for forelimbs have a different name?), were flying everywhere, attacking familiar wasp-like robots and other flying robots while trying to avoid their shots. As the heroes looked around, they quickly spotted in the sky a large flying city out of which more robots were coming, as well as ships that looked to be transport ships. The battle wasn’t just in the sky. On the mountains too, and in the valleys between them, there were troops facing robots. The transport ships were landing wherever they could and let out dozens of robots before flying back to the flying city.

The robots clearly had the advantage, in number, in defense (they were made of metal, duh), and in offense (they had energy weapons). Their opponents, however, were armed with simple swords, spears, axes, bows, and so on, and their armors didn’t help much against energy projectiles.

But while it would have been a massacre, there were still many individuals who were very effective against the robots, surprisingly. These individuals often had things in common. For example, there were cavaliers armored in gold, or swordsmen with rings floating on their back, and Sweetie even saw knights that were actually riding alicorns instead of pegasi!

Also, there were mages. While they weren’t numerous, many humans, generally in robes, were throwing spells at the robots or healing each other. Some used books or staves, but there were also individuals that used neither. There were even women slightly away from the action that invoked warriors that seemed to be made of hard light, some more powerful than others, like the ones with floating rings on their back.

Still, the humans were clearly losing. The robots constantly had reinforcements from the flying city while the humans didn’t have this luck. Pegasus and alicorn knights were trying to fly toward the city, but as soon as they got too close, they were shot down. Still, there were some knights whose mounts were very nimble and managed to avoid the shots, but there weren’t many and they were threatened to be overwhelmed by the number of flying enemies plus the city’s own defenses.

So yeah, the humans didn’t have much hope to win, unless one of them managed to miraculously destroy a vital point of the city to make it explode.

Of course, the heroes immediately understood what was going on.

Eggman.

He barely escaped and he was already causing problems in another world.

Also, it looked like time passed much faster here than back home if Eggman got time to build such an army of robots.

“I destroy the city, you destroy the robots,” Sweetie Void said to Sonic and Amy.

“Count on us!” Amy said before she and Sonic jumped down from the mountain into the fray.

Sweetie Void first made doubles of herself that she sent to help against the robots, then she sent her Pokémon and Spikezilla. Finally, she flew up toward the city, rapidly reaching it while destroying all the robots in the way, especially targeting the transport ships.

When she reached the city, she saw that it was more a factory complex disguised as a city. It was hexagonal and was divided into six sectors of different colors with a giant tower structure in the center.

Inside the tower, Eggman saw Sweetie Void and immediately panicked. “What is she doing here?!”

He then pressed a button on his throne, and the top of the tower separated from the rest to fly away, just in time to avoid being sliced in half by Sweetie Void along with the rest of the city which then began to explode.

Before Sweetie could target the escaping pod, Metal Sonic suddenly arrived to attack her by firing with his arm machine gun projectiles of very powerful energy, Sweetie could feel it. Very destructive. Sweetie immediately made sure to remain above Metal Sonic so the projectiles disappeared into the sky instead of hitting the ground and risking killing soldiers below.

Sweetie eventually teleported just beside Metal Sonic to slice him in half, but it suddenly teleported behind her before it curled into a ball, spines enveloped in energy ready to shred her. Sweetie quickly readied her beam sword, then the robot charged at her with a Homing Dash, and the weapon clashed with it.

After a few seconds, Sweetie was able to push it back only for it to do another Homing Dash that she also blocked, then another, then another.

Metal Sonic then began to roll in the air, remaining in place, charging more energy. Sweetie Void merged her ten swords into a single giant one. Then, after several seconds, Metal Sonic charged at Sweetie Void at a speed too fast to follow, and Sweetie slashed.

There was a terrible clash for a brief second, lightning produced from it.

Then, the giant sword managed to cut through, slicing Metal Sonic into two pieces that then exploded.

Sweetie Void immediately looked around to see if she could see Eggman’s escape pod, but it disappeared behind the clouds. Feeling the energies, however, she found it far away, just a speck in the horizon.

In the blink of an eye, she reached it and crashed into it, quickly finding the throne, but no Eggman on it. Searching around, she didn’t find him anywhere. However, she found a door behind which a smaller escape pod was supposed to be, but it wasn’t there anymore.

When she teleported outside, she saw that she was now above a poisonous swamp with countless robots patrolling it. She quickly spotted the smaller escape pod that had crashed in the middle of it, but no sign of Eggman.

Sweetie Void growled. Eggman was darn good at escaping. Oh well, she began to clean the small of robots. Hopefully, she will eventually find Eggman.

Eggman was riding a Motobug, moving toward the ocean while avoiding the poison of the swamp as much as possible.

He couldn’t believe that that filly, the same one who bested Super Shadow, was here. What were the chances? There was no way she should know that he was here, in this world.

Everything had been going so well. After Crazy Hand busted him out of prison, he helped him build several robots before he sent him to this world telling him to do his worst. With what he had, he was able to build a whole army. He subdued the dragons and the few savages that lived in these wastelands where he ended up. He was then able to conquer the whole continent effortlessly, and he had been in the process of conquering the second one just west of the first one. He had been winning!

And then, she arrives and ruins everything! His beautiful flying city, his Eggperial City, destroyed in an instant. Curse her!

But it wasn’t over. Crazy Hand left for him a huge quantity of his energy to power his robots. Surely, with the right robot, it should be able to destroy her, right?

Marth couldn’t believe what was happening.

They had been losing, but then, they weren’t losing anymore. The enemy’s flying city was gone, and the robots (as the enemy called these metal golems) were being destroyed left and right by the hundreds by unexpected allies that suddenly appeared. Strange creatures going from little white horses to a dragon made of yarn, passing by a pink creature with a hammer as big as her and a giant turtle with cannons coming out of its shell spewing water. Also, whatever was this blue blur.

Defeats were all Marth had known since this man appeared, but now, the first rays of hope in a long time appeared.

He raised his Falchion and yelled, “Everyone! Now is our chance! Destroy the robots with the help of our new allies and let’s prevail!”

Not far, a man with green hair, Alm, the King of Valentia, raised his sword too. “You heard him! Let’s fight with all our might! For Valentia!”

“For Archanea!” Marth shouted.

“Aaaaah!!!”

With morale back at its highest, the united army of Archanea and Valentia fought with renewed vigor.

And so, it was in the mountains around Fear Mountain that they achieved their first victory.

Marth planted the Falchion into one last robot already partially destroyed on the ground but still working, one looking like a monkey that threw bombs, ending its artificial life and releasing out of it a small bird.

Using animals as a source of power, it disgusted Marth.

He then looked around, seeing that the battle was over, and he sighed in relief, and also in sadness at all the death that happened today. They suffered so much loss in this battle.

He heard the sound of wings, and he looked again, seeing the little white horses land before him. To his surprise, they merged into a single horse who waved at him.

“Hello! I guess we arrived just in time, uh? My name is Sweetie Belle, but call me Sweetie Void, nice to meet you. You are the leader of this army, right? It seemed to be the case, with how you rallied everyone.”

Marth was stunned for a bit upon hearing the apparent miniature Falicorn speak, but quickly summarized it really wasn't the most unusual thing he had seen.

“I am a co-leader actually. My name is Marth, King of the Archanean Alliance. Nice to meet you, Sweetie Void. Thank you for your help. We… We would have lost without you.”

Sweetie Void grinned. “Happy to help!”

Her expressions were so human.

Alm then approached, followed by his wife, Queen Celica, as well as what looked like a bipedal blue hedgehog and some other creatures. All around, soldiers approached to look at the creatures that saved them in curiosity, some with mistrust, others with fear.

“Marth. Apparently, we are in the presence of beings from other worlds,” Alm said, not believing what he was saying.

Marth wasn’t that surprised however. This Robotnik really looked like he came from another world.

Sweetie Void presented herself again to Alm and Celica, then she presented the other creatures, Sonic, Amy, Spiky, Tank, and so on. Alm and Celica then presented themselves as king and queen of the One Kingdom of Valentia.

Sweetie Void nodded once they finished. “And that’s right. We come from other worlds, like the man at the origin of these robots, Eggman. Sonic and Amy are actually from the same world as him. They are bitter enemies.”

Amy nodded. “So you can say that we are used to fighting Eggman, so count on us to help you kick him out of this world.”

“Will you really help us? This man, Robotnik, or Eggman, he has caused us so much suffering since he appeared,” Marth said. “We were powerless to stop him. We could only escape, leaving behind our homes, and for many of us, loved ones.”

“Yes, we will help you,” Sweetie Void said. “There is no way we will leave you to be enslaved or killed by Eggman.”

“...Thank you.” Marth then looked around at the army. “Let's camp and rest. We won, but part of Valentia still has robots walking on it.”

Alm nodded. “We will walk tomorrow to the Dead Man’s Mire and banish the robots from Valentia once and for all.”

“Oh!” Sweetie Void exclaimed. “Is the Dead Man’s Mire a poisonous swamp? Because my double is actually destroying the robots there while searching for Eggman who escaped there.”

Alm looked at her in surprise. “Y-yes, that’s right. The Dead Man’s Mire is part of the poisonous swamps that cover all of northeast of Valentia. Robotnik’s army arrived from there. I’m worried about the Sage’s Hamlet situated in the forest over there.”

“Oh, there is a village in this place? Tell me where and I will send my double to look at it.”

Alm nodded and took out a map of Valentia that he showed to help, pointing at a forest in the northeast of the continent.

“Somewhere in this forest. The hamlet is well hidden, but you should eventually find it, if it hasn’t been destroyed by the robots.”

Amy frowned. “I don’t think that Eggman has had much time to do anything to the inhabitants of this hamlet. At worst, they must be under the robots’ guard, waiting to be transported elsewhere.”

“Then I’m going there right away,” Sweetie Void said.

“I hope that Halcyon is alright,” Celica said.

Later, in the camp, in the tent where Marth, Alm, and Celica were gathered with Sweetie Void, Sonic, and Amy, along with a few others like an old knight named Jagen, or another old knight named Mycen, or Marth’s wife, Queen Caeda, or his Royal Guard, Kris.

“So, I found the Sage’s Hamlet, and I have good news and bad news,” Sweetie Void said. “Good news, the civilians are all alright, as Amy said. A bit bruised, but nothing bad. I destroyed all the robots who guarded them. Bad news, the hamlet is destroyed, and Halcyon is dead. He tried to defend the village and managed to destroy lots of robots, but the robots eventually managed to shoot him down. I’m sorry.”

Celica began to cry at this news. Alm quickly put an arm around her back to comfort her.

A moment of silence followed before Sweetie Void eventually asked, “So… What exactly happened?”

A shadow covered Marth’s eyes before he sat on a chair, a huge weight on his shoulders.

“It all started when mages from Khadein arrived and announced that the city-state had been invaded by an unknown army composed of metal golems. We barely heard the news that said army came to our door, and we battled to defend our home, Altea. We battled ferociously with everything we had. In the middle of the battle, their leader came and presented himself before he gloated about how “the great Hero King” doesn’t stand a chance against his robots and he will conquer the world starting with Archanea.

When asked why he is doing all this, he just stared for a few seconds and proclaimed he was an emperor that came from the stars and anything under the sky was his by divine right… Although looking back at it and what you’re telling us about him, it seems he was merely making fun of us.

Then he flew away in his flying vehicle, and the battle continued. However, when my captain, Cain, was killed, I understood that we were losing, so I ordered we retreat. Better we live to eventually retake our kingdom than dying. So we escaped. At first, we planned to go through Gra to Archanea-the kingdom, not the continent-but Gra was already conquered, so we went south to Dolhr and Macedon where I gathered a bigger army in the hope of pushing back the robots. But it was in vain. News came to us of Archanea being conquered, and we would be next if nothing was done. Two friends then told me about Valentia, west of Archanea, where we could ask for help.

So, it was with heavy hearts that we retreated again, by the sea, to Grust, first, where we gathered more men, but still not enough. The robots were more numerous than ever, and they were joined by half-robot dragons. Then, we sailed to Valentia where, for many days, we prepared until, finally, Robotnik began his invasion here too.”

Alm then took a turn to speak. ”It was quite the sight when we saw all the refugees coming in, but we did our best to accommodate everyone the best we could. Marth and his friends here are a fun bunch even in the face of tragedy!”

Marth chuckled softly. ”Well, even if hope seemed ever-shrinking we couldn’t just let it get to us, or else it would be no use fighting any longer. As long as we are alive we knew we could one day take back our home. We did so twice, although admittedly, now it seems harder than ever. The deaths we have suffered are proof enough of this.” He then looked at Sweetie Void. ”But hopefully, you and your friends will be just what we need to turn this war around.”

Sweetie Void nodded. ”You bet, now that we are here, Eggman stands no chance!”

Sonic gave a thumb up, smirking.

Hours later, Eggman, in his Eggmobile, arrived at his base located in the ancient city of Thabes, north of Archanea. Later, he was sitting on a chair, facing several screens showing the ocean all over the coast of west Archanea

“It’s only a matter of time before they try to retake this continent,” he said to himself. He loved hearing himself talk. “But I think that I know how to stop them. I will fight fire with fire. Magic… with magic.”

Behind him, a roboticized green-haired man in a blue robe stood, before a large group of robots in robes too, some being roboticized people, others being real robots, all holding tomes.