My Little Pony: The Mobian Era (Season 4)

Chapters

Episode 2: Rise of the Fire Alicorn (Part 2)
Episode 3: Misty Brightdawn
Episode 4: Not My San Andreas Fault
Episode 5: The Nocturnus Clan
Episode 6: Starlight Ridge
Episode 7: Dulcy
Episode 8: Meet the Hedgehogs
Episode 10: Sergeant Mufasa's Military School
Episode 11: Rarity & Pipp's Mane Fashion Style
Episode 12: The Opaline-lympic Games (Part 1)
Episode 13: The Opaline-lympic Games (Part 2)
Episode 14: Making a Foal Outta Me!
Episode 15: The Future Has Returned
Episode 16: Summer Festival
Episode 17: Hades Gate
Episode 18: Back to School...
Episode 19: A Breezie Through Bridlewood
Episode 20: Between a Roc and a Stinky Place
Episode 21: Running is Easy, Stopping's the Problem
Episode 22: Freedom Fighter Island Training
Episode 23: Cruisin' For a Future-in'...
Episode 24: C+L+O
Episode 25: Royal Pain (Part 1)
The Mobian Era Special: Michael Crayton vs. the Secret Society of the Multiverse
Episode 1: Rise of the Fire Alicorn (Part 1)
Episode 9: The Junior Olympics
Episode 26: Royal Pain (Part 2)

Episode 2: Rise of the Fire Alicorn (Part 2)

25 years in the future of an alternate timeline, more appropriately, the timeline where Silver, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp, Zipp and Izzy came from, the Windigos were just being taken down by the magic of the Unity Crystals, being held by MC's alternate timeline counterpart.

One of the unicorn fillies who were causing a fight walked away from the group of ponies. Once she was out of sighed, she then changed into Opaline, who laugh evilly.

"My plan to take down the last Freedom Fighter has gone on perfectly!" Opaline said. She then looked out among the ponies. "Oh, Michael Crayton, you so called King of Equestria, you just lost your faithful followers."

Once the Windigos were stopped, MC looked down at the ponies with a proud smile. But it soon faded when everypony in Ponyville kept arguing.

"No! Stop!" MC shouted.

Opaline laughed evilly and said, "Goodbye, Michael Crayton!" She then fired a beam at the bottom of the Castle of Friendship, causing it to start breaking apart from under MC.

MC looked down and saw the Castle cracking. He then shouted, "NO!!" The Castle then started crumbling from under MC, him falling and screaming all the way down.

Opaline then started walking away and said, "So much for him trying to stop me." She then started flying away, but magic then started glitching and kept her from flying. "What?!" She then inspected her wings. Then she looked up at her horn, trying to light it up, but to no avail. "No. NO, NO, NOOO!"

"What have you done?!" came a voice disguised by a vocoder. Opaline turned around and saw Iron Mask coming out of a time portal. "You shouldn't have done that!"

"Who are you?" Opaline asked.

"Doesn't matter!" Iron Mask answered. "But for your punishment, I will banish you and your lair to an alternate timeline where all the Freedom Fighters are still alive, and will take you down!" Iron Mask then raised her right hand, blasting a time sphere towards Opaline, her getting caught in it.

"NOOOOOOOOO!" Opaline shouted before she disappeared.

Iron Mask then turned around to look at the rubble that used to be the Castle of Friendship. Iron Mask then took off her mask, revealing Sarah Crayton. She then said, "Michael. It's okay. You can set things right once again in this timeline. I just know it." She was then starting to walk away when she stepped on something. She looked down to look at it.

Sarah Crayton picked it up and inspected it. She then said, "Nope. I better not let anyone find this. I better find a location to hide this so it doesn't cause any trouble." She then started walking away from that spot.

Back in the Present of the main timeline, Opaline was standing tall amongst everyone who was attending the graduation party for the School of Friendship.

"Opaline!" Luna said. "What are you doing here?!"

"We thought we've seen the last of you since you were banished from Skyros for trying to take all the magic for yourself," Celestia said.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," MC said, getting in front of the two Alicorn Sisters. "You know this wicked witch?"

"Opaline Arcana," Luna said. "One of the worst Alicorns we've encountered. She was even more wicked than me when I was Nightmare Moon."

"Wicked, am I?" Opaline asked. "Was I wicked when I asked to be friends when the three of us were fillies?"

"WHAT?!" Twilight asked.

MC sniffed and said, "She's lying." Opaline gave a shocked look. "She hasn't asked to be friends with Celestia and Luna." He then looked towards Celestia and Luna. "Let me guess, she was a snobbish brat, wasn't she?"

"The exact reason why the ponies who are pure of heart and true to themselves are chosen to be alicorns," Celestia said. "Opaline stole magic from every other Alicorn in Skyros for her own selfish needs. We had no choice but to use Grogar's Bewitching Bell to steal back all of the Alicorn Magic she had stolen. But it was already too late for the other Alicorns in Skyros."

"For Opaline had already taken their lives during her power hungry raid," Luna said. "The only Alicorn Magic she had left was the magic that she had. So we cancelled her magic and banished her to the deepest parts of Tartarus where nothing could escape from. And Grogar's Bewitching Bell, we've placed it in a cave on top of Mount Everhoof and made a barrier at the cave entrance so no greedy villain would take the magic for themselves."

"Well, that explains why I turned into an alicorn," Cozy Glow said.

"That magic is mine by right!" Opaline shouted. "And if I can't have magic, then nopony can!" She then fired a beam straight at Twilight, who was shocked as the blast was coming right towards her. But then Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Shining Armor came in, their horns glowing, and created a barrier to stop Opaline's attack. "What?! Impossible!"

"You shall not lay a hand on my best student," Celestia said.

"Freedom Fighters!" MC said. "Let's take her down!" Then the Freedom Fighters started charging towards Opaline. Along with Midpoint and Olive.

"Oh, fifteen Mobian heroes against poor ol' me," Opaline said in a mocking tone. "Who's gonna win? Oh, I know!" Her horn then started lighting up. "It's me!!" She then sent out a shockwave, sending all of the heroes back.

"Okay, that hurt," Sonic said.

"She's so powerful!" Sally said.

Midpoint then pulled out a trick arrow, brought it to his bow, aimed at Opaline, and released. Opaline caught it with her hand. She then said, "Seriously? Did you honestly think that you'd be able to stop me with..." The arrow then exploded, sending her back to the other side of the room. All the ponies there, were running for the door. Spike jumped out of the way as Opaline crashed into the Turntables.

"They always fall for that," Midpoint said.

Opaline then recovered with a roar and said, "How dare you make a fool out of me?! OPALINE ARCANA!!" She then charged at the heroes, her horn glowing. Sunny then came up flying in her Alicorn form and fired a beam at Opaline's incoming beam, cancelling each other's out. "So, you're the newest Alicorn in this time."

"Even though I'm from a different timeline, I'm still not gonna let you destroy what my father and I believed in," Sunny said.

"Alright, Sunny!" Pipp called out.

"Get her!" Hitch called out.

The other adult Alicorns came flying up and helping Sunny fight off Opaline. Opaline roared at the fact that she was outnumbered in Alicorn firepower.

"How dare you make a fool out of me!" Opaline shouted. Just then, she saw MC climbing the walls behind the five Alicorns that she was fighting. MC then jumped from the wall and dove straight towards Opaline. "WHAT?!"

"Chaos... Dragon... FIST!!" MC shouted before using his left fist to punch Opaline to the ground, the sound of a dragon roaring coming as the collision happened.

"Ooooh!" the other Freedom Fighters, Midpoint and Olive said in unison.

"That's gotta hurt," Spike said.

Opaline then started getting up from that last blow she took. She then said, "You foolish beasts! None of you are worthy of ruling this world! I shall take you all down, right here and now!" She then fired a blast at the heroes, but MC got in front of them.

"Chaos... Circle!" MC said, moving his hands in a circle with a golden aura circle coming out of his hands, his voice echoing when he said "Circle". The Chaos Circle absorbed Opaline's attack and started bouncing around the circle.

"What?!" Opaline asked shocked. "NOOO!"

"Eat this, you wicked witch!" MC said. He then jumped up, let go of the Chaos Circle, and kicked it right towards Opaline, sending her back towards the wall where the Turntables were. Opaline collided with the wall with a loud grunt.

Opaline looked up at the heroes coming towards her, all with angry expressions. Sonic then said, "You know, this would be a good time to surrender."

Opaline then growled and shouted, "NEVER!!" She used the Royal Canterlot Voice to send all the heroes back. Opaline then stood up and said, "None of you can ever stop me, Opaline Arcana!"

"Do you ever stop talking?!" MC asked, angrily.

Opaline then got up and teleported away. The heroes looked around. Sonic then said, "Where'd she go?"

"I'll find her," MC said. His eyes then started glowing in a golden aura. He searched all over the planet for Opaline. But then he saw her at the Treehouse of Harmony. "Oh, no!" MC said, his eyes going back to normal. He then pulled out his Super Warp Ring and threw it, opening a portal to the Castle of the Two Sisters. They saw Opaline climbing the steps.

"Opaline!" Twilight shouted. "That's as far as you go!"

Opaline laughed at that, turned around and said, "Oh, Twilight Sparkle. You don't understand." She then gave a dark smirk. "Magic never belonged to any of you." Her horn then started lighting up, and her magic was surrounding the Treehouse of Harmony. Then, all of a sudden, magic started being drained from the ponies and other magical creatures of Equestria. Even Truemen's magical robot arm was being affected.

"No!" Truemen said. "Not my arm!"

"Magic... is mine," Opaline said, smirking.

Magic from all over the world was being drained from every magical being and artifact and heading towards the Treehouse of Harmony, which then started glowing dark purple. The pony heroes started getting weaker.

"She's... draining our magic," Twilight said.

"My arm isn't working anymore," Truemen said as his robot arm was just drooping.

Sonic looked towards Opaline and shouted, "What have you done?!"

"You still don't get it," Opaline said. "Alicorns are so powerful, we should be ruling the whole world with an iron fist. But no, you all decided that peace and harmony were the way to go! Well, that changes now!" She then fired a blast towards Sonic who sped out of the way.

"Magic is getting drained!" Sally said. "What do we do?"

"We go all out with whatever we got left!" MC said. He then notice Truemen trying to reactivate his robot arm, but to no avail. MC then walked up to him and said, "Stand down, Truemen. We got this." MC then started charging towards Opaline, along with Sonic and Maria.

"So the three fasted Freedom Fighters want to take a shot at me?!" Opaline asked. She then cackled. "You can't even touch me!" She then created a barrier around the Treehouse of Harmony, blocking the three from getting near Opaline.

"Ow!" Maria said.

"She's trying to block us out!" Sonic said. "We can't get through."

"If we can't go over, around or through it..." MC said. He then grabbed Sonic and Maria and rushed away from the barrier. He brought the two hedgehogs to the root of the Treehouse of Harmony and started going up. "Then we'll just go under it!" MC let go of Sonic and Maria as they started speeding up the Tree as well. "Chaos Claw!" MC then used his claws to dig through the bottom. Eventually, he dug through and the three of them got inside the barrier.

"What?!" Opaline asked. "How?!"

"We might not be able to get through, but we could come in from below!" Sonic said. "Alright, Maria. Time to go for a spin!" He then grabbed Maria's right arm while MC grabbed Sonic's legs. He then started spinning around like he was about to do the Hammer Throw in the Olympics. He then threw the two hedgehogs as they were doing spin dash, and they collided with Opaline, sending her back and colliding with the wall above the door.

MC then rushed in, grabbed Opaline, and threw her towards the barrier. As soon as her horn collided with the barrier, the barrier dissipated and magic returned to every magical creature and artifact in the world.

"No!" Opaline said after noticing all the magic was returning to where it was being taken from. She was then grabbed in Celestia's magic and was lifted into the air. Then Luna used her magic to chain up Opaline's arms, legs and wings.

"It's over, Opaline," Celestia said. "You shouldn't have come back!"

"Nrr! You shouldn't have betrayed what should have been!" Opaline shouted. She then broke out of the hold and fired a beam towards Celestia and Luna. But the beam was intercepted by blasts from Sunny and Truemen, who's robot arm was active again.

"Not today!" Truemen said.

"You fools!" Opaline said. "Especially you, Sunny Starscout! You're not worthy of being an alicorn!" She then used more power from her horn to push Sunny and Truemen back. But they were being pushed forward by Hitch, Izzy, Pipp and Zipp.

"We got your back, Sunny!" Izzy said.

"You got this!" Zipp said.

Sunny smiled at that. Then she started getting more powerful in her magic. Twilight, Celestia, Luna, Cadance and MC also came in, firing blasts towards Opaline, helping Sunny and Truemen win the magical blast fight.

"NOOOO!!" Opaline said as the blasts collided with her horn. She landed on the ground in pain. "You... are all... beasts!" She then stood up angrily. "I will not surrender to any of you!" She then fired another blast to the group.

"Chaos... SHIELD!" MC shouted, the second word echoing as his golden aura shield blocking Opaline's magical blast. He wasn't even moving from his spot.

"How are you so heavy?!" Opaline asked.

"It's called Self Density Manipulation!" MC said. "I can be as light as a feather or as heavy as a mountain!"

"Oh, I should've killed you a lot sooner than that future when I brought that Castle down from under your feet," Opaline said. That comment made MC go wide eyed. He then remembered when his alternate future self falling from the crumbling castle.

The flashback ended and he got angry. He then asked, "That was you? You made the ponies argue with each other in that future?"

"You're such a fool, Michael Crayton," Opaline said. "You and your father. And his father. And every single male member of your family through the generations."

MC then got angry. But then a new voice came in.

"Oi, laddie! Ya gonna let 'er get under yer skin like that?!"

MC looked over towards the voice and he saw the Six Pillars standing there. He then said, "You knew about this witch as well?"

"We were the ones who held her back while Princesses Celestia and Luna were preparing the spell to seal her in the deepest parts of Tartarus," Star Swirl said. "We can seal her up again. This time, in her own lair where she can never ever escape from."

"So what you're saying is if we banish her back to her lair..." Twilight said.

"Then she can never escape from it ever again," Sonic said.

"Freedom Fighters, keep Opaline busy!" MC said. He then looked towards Midpoint. "Lynol, keep her grounded."

"Roger that," Midpoint said. He then grabbed another trick arrow from his quiver and attached it to his bow. He then launched it at Opaline. The arrow collided and tied down Opaline's wings, but her arms didn't get tied up.

"Raaagh!" Opaline said.

"Freedom Fighters Forever!" MC called out.

"Freedom Fighters Forever!" the Freedom Fighters all shouted as they ran towards Opaline.

The Freedom Fighters were doing their best to fight off Opaline, but she kept fighting back and trying to get out of the restraints holding her wings closed.

"Not gonna happen, Opaline," Midpoint said. "Titanium chords. It'll take you a while for you to break out of those."

"I'm gonna kill you first!" Opaline said. She then fired a beam from her horn and hit Midpoint, but it pushed him back to hit a tree. But he received neither interior nor exterior pain. "What?!"

"It's called unbreakable skin," Midpoint said. "My grandfather thought of that while he was saving me at his cabin-slash-secret lab the last time we went camping. What made me the way I am was based on Project: PHOENIX, AKA, Maria Robotnik the Hedgehog."

"If I can't kill you from the outside, then I'll do it from the inside!" Opaline said. She was then kicked in the face by Olive, sending the Alicorn down to the ground.

"Not gonna happen," Olive said. Opaline then tried hitting Olive in the face after getting back up, but Olive ducked and countered her with a sweep kick. But then she was grabbed in the back by Bunnie's extending robot arm and pulled back. Mutt then tied her legs down with his Elemental Whip as Bunnie let go of Opaline. Antoine then jumped and kicked Opaline in the stomach, knocking her down to the ground. Then tasers were launched at Opaline by a device used by Tails. Then Opaline's limbs were shackled in tree roots from MC's power.

"How dare you?!" Opaline asked.

"It's a matter of Matter," MC said. "You're done."

Opaline growled and shouted, "NEVER!!" She was then burning through the roots with pink flames. "You can never stop me! I am the Alicorn of Fire! I will burn you all!" Just then, she was hit by some arrows that released ice from the tips, cooling her off.

"Cool off!" Midpoint said, readying another ice arrow. He then released it.

As Midpoint released the arrow, the Mane 6, Sunny and her friends and the Six Pillars were nearly completed with the spell to send Opaline back to her lair, and keep her trapped there.

"Alright," Star Swirl said. "It's done."

"Then let's do it!" Twilight said. Then the three groups got together as Twilight started flying into the air. The three groups started glowing in a bright white light. They then released rainbow beams towards Twilight. That caught Opaline's attention.

"No!" Opaline said.

"Opaline, as High Princess of Equestria, I banish you back to your lair where you can never ever leave again!" Twilight said. She then released the power she had and a Rainbow beam headed straight for Opaline, surrounding her.

"No!" Opaline shouted. She then fired a beam towards Twilight, but the Rainbow Beam prevented it from hitting. "No! My power! This isn't over!" She then saw a portal opening up from under her, Opaline widened her eyes in fear. "NOOOOOOO!!" Opaline was sent through the portal, it closing right as she went through. The Freedom Fighters stopped and continued standing in battle position until Opaline was fully banished.

"Is it over?" Sonic asked. "Is she gone?"

"For now," MC said before he turned to faced the Castle of the Two Sisters and started walking towards it. "Villains like that always come back."

Meanwhile, in Opaline's lair, Misty was sitting in Opaline's throne, bored out of her mind.

Misty groaned and said, "How long is it going to take for her to come back?!" Just then, a white flash came in and Opaline landed in front of the Throne with a thud. "Opaline?!" Just then, a flash came from her and then an invisible barrier surrounded the lair, Twilight's Cutie Mark was on it. Then it faded from sight. Misty was confused by that. "What... happened?"

"Those pathetic heroes just banished me back to my own lair," Opaline said. "And what's worse, they trapped me in here! So I can't leave even if I wanted to!" She then noticed where Misty was sitting. "Why are you sitting in my throne?"

Misty then went wide eyed and said, "Whoops. Sorry. I was... keeping it warm for you." She was getting off the Throne as she was speaking.

"As much as I hate for you sitting in my throne, I do appreciate the thought," Opaline said, sitting down on her throne. "If only I can get rid of those Freedom Fighters, and those hero ponies once and for all." She then looked towards her enchanted mirror. "I just need to figure out a way to do it."

Meanwhile, back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, the Freedom Fighters, the Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, Midpoint, Olive, Cozy Glow, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Spike and the Young 6 went there.

"Whew," Sonic said. "What a day."

"Tell me about it," MC said. He then looked towards Midpoint, Olive, Cozy Glow, Sally, Bunnie, Antoine and Rotor. "Alright, you guys can stay here for the night."

"Thanks, Michael," Sally said.

"We'll be heading off to our homes tomorrow after breakfast," Midpoint said. "Are you seriously considering letting the six valedictorians staying here?"

"If they're gonna be Freedom Fighters, they might as well start training here at Freedom Fighters Mansion," MC said. He then looked towards the Young 6. "Follow me. I'll show you all where you'll be staying." MC then started walking off in one direction and the Young 6 followed. They were then led to a guest house with three apartments in it. "Okay, you six are gonna have to share bedrooms. I know that's not gonna be a problem."

"Yeah, yeah," Gallus said. He then sighed happily. "I'm just surprised their families are okay with this."

"I know, right?" MC asked. "Okay, Gallus, you're with Sandbar. Silverstream, you're with Smolder, and Ocellus, you're with Yona." The Young 6 nodded and headed off towards the building as MC started walking away towards the front.

Opaline and Misty were watching from the enchanted mirror. Opaline was furious seeing the Freedom Fighters back home, alive.

"Those heroes might have won the day, but I will get my revenge!" Opaline said.

"And you will, Opaline," Misty said. "I just know it."

"I know, Misty," Opaline said. "But the question is... how?"

"Well, it's not like you can get information about them from the inside," Misty said. "You are trapped here."

"Yes, I am..." Opaline said. She then noticed something through the enchanted mirror. She saw MC putting up a sign that says "Room for Rent". That gave Opaline a wonderful... awful idea. She smirked and said, "I might not be able to leave." She then looked towards Misty. "But... you can."

"What?" Misty asked.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Misty Brightdawn

Episode 3: Misty Brightdawn

In the city of Station Square, there was a mall. In one section of the mall, there was an old shop closed down. The Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, Sonic, MC and Mutt were looking around the place.

"So, you and Pipp just bought this place together?" Sonic asked.

"Of course, darling," Rarity said. "I was hoping to spread my fashion abilities all over the globe. And I thought of opening a boutique here. But here, the people of this world not only need a stunning outfit, but a great hairstyle to go with it. And that's where Pipp comes in."

"Yes, I shall be handling the hair styling here," Pipp said. "Since I am such an amazing hairstylist."

"It's true," MC said. "Here Cosmetology License just arrived in the mail yesterday."

"Now we need someone fashionable to help with the clothing," Rarity said. "Someone who is both fashionable, and stylish. If only I knew someone like that here."

"Hey, why don't you ask MC's ex?" Mutt asked in a joking matter. MC groaned at that comment from Mutt.

"You dated someone before me?" Twilight asked.

"It was one time," MC said. "It didn't work out."

"What happened?" Twilight asked.

"There was no real spark between us," MC said. "Plus we didn't have a lot in common."

"Who was it?" Twilight asked.

Sonic sighed and said, "My sister, Sonia."

"Ooh, of course!" Rarity said. "She's both stylish and knows people of this world. Contact her immediately!" Sonic sighed and held up his left hand and started walking away from the group.

"You're gonna tell me how that date went on the way home, MC," Twilight said.

MC sighed and said, "This is gonna be a long ride." Just then, Tails and Rotor arrived with tools as MC and Twilight were leaving the shop.

Meanwhile, on the floor below, in a hallway that led to a restroom, in a flash of light, Misty arrived there with a backpack. She then looked around and smiled. She then brought out the necklace that was given to her. It was the same necklace from the alternate timeline that Sarah Crayton took to hide.

"Opaline, I'm here," Misty said.

"Good," came Opaline's voice from the necklace. "Now, your mission is to infiltrate the Freedom Fighters Mansion. Get close to them."

"Got it," Misty said. "I'll head there immediately."

"Not so fast, Misty," Opaline said through the necklace. "Before you go, there are three things you need to do."

"And those things are?" Misty asked.

"Step one, trade in those jewels for money in that world," Opaline said. "Step two, get your own wardrobe. You can't go around wearing a homemade, ragged dress." Misty looked down at the dress she was on with a sad look. "Step three, get a cell phone and phone plan. Make sure it's affordable."

"Y-yes, Opaline," Misty said. She then looked out of the hallway, and she started walking around for any clothing stores.

In the mall, Sparky was running around the place with Izzy chasing after him.

"Sparky!" Izzy said. "Hold it right there!" She was chasing Sparky all over the place, through shops, arcades, a bowling alley, and even the food court. "Wait up!" As she chased Sparky through the food court, she accidentally knocked the burger out of a Mobian Dog's hands. But she caught it in her magic and gave it back. "Sorry about that." She then remembered. "Whoop! I almost forgot!" She continued chasing after Sparky.

Sparky was still running in a playful way, giggling as he was running. He turned to face Izzy trying to catch him, but then he bumped into someone without looking.

"Whoa!" Izzy said, slowing down her pace. "Careful next time, Sparkeroni." The individual who Sparky bumped into picked up the baby and handed him to Izzy. "Thanks. I was tasked with watching Sparky here." She then noticed who helped her out and gasped. It was Misty, and she was in a completely new outfit. She was wearing a green, short sleeved shirt, jeans that weren't too tight for her legs, and pink tennis shoes with a gray stripe going down the middle. "Oh, my gosh! A new unicorn friend!"

"I, uh..." Misty said, not too sure what to say.

"Hi! I'm Izzy!" Izzy said, starting to bounce around Misty, still holding Sparky in her arms. "Izzy Moonbow. What's your name?"

"Um... M-Misty," Misty said.

"Well, hi, Misty!" Izzy said. "So, what brings you here to Station Square?"

"Uh... well... I just arrived here and..." Misty said. "Actually, I've been looking for a place to stay, and since I have no cell phone plan, and no idea where to search, I'm trying to find myself a phone store to get my own phone."

"Oh, you don't have to worry about that," Izzy said. "The place I'm living at has a room for rent. You can come with me and check it out if you want."

"Really?" Misty asked. "You'd help me out?"

"Why of course!" Izzy said. "We can leave right after I give Sparkeroni here back to Hitch."

"Okay..." Misty said. "I'll wait..." She then looked around.

"Oh, you can just wait for me at the edge of the food court," Izzy said. "I'll come back to get you." She then started walking back to the store that Rarity and Pipp bought. Misty then started walking away from that spot, heading for the food court. She then pulled the necklace she had out from her shirt.

"Opaline, I've made contact with one of the futuristic ponies," Misty said.

"Already?" Opaline asked.

"Yeah," Misty said. "She's going to take me to Freedom Fighters Mansion to look at the room that's for rent."

Opaline started laughing excitedly through the necklace and said, "That's wonderful, Misty. Now, once you get there, remember. You have to get as much information from the Freedom Fighters. Their strengths and weaknesses. Anything that we can use to take them down."

"Yes, Opaline," Misty said. "I might as well start with the leader of the Freedom Fighters, Sonic the Hedgehog. I'll get as much out of them that I can."

"Good," Opaline said. "Meanwhile, I'll search for some qualified candidates who might be... useful for taking them down, and for me to take back all the magic in this universe."

Back in Opaline's lair, Opaline was looking up villains of that time.

"Like who?" Misty asked, her voice coming through the enchanted mirror.

"Oh, those who have a bone to pick with the Freedom Fighters, and certain villains they know nothing about," Opaline answered. "Now, get going!"

"Yes, Opaline," Misty said. Then the enchanted mirror stopped glowing. Opaline smirked at all the possible villains to recruit.

Back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, Izzy and Misty were on a scooter, Misty's new luggage strapped right to the back of it, under Misty's bottom. Misty was holding onto Izzy's shoulders tightly.

"Alright, Misty," Izzy said. "We're almost there." Eventually, they made it to the front gate for Freedom Fighters Mansion. She then looked towards the call box. "Hey, Nicole! It's me, Izzy! And I have a possible renter for the extra room!"

"Opening the gate now," Nicole's voice came from the call box. "Welcome home, Izzy." The gate then opened up and Izzy drove the scooter through. She eventually made it to the garage. Eventually, she eventually stopped at the guest house that had the last open room that was for rent.

"Here we are, Misty," Izzy said. "This here is the room for rent."

"This is it?" Misty asked. "Are you sure, Izzy?"

"Sure, I'm sure!" Izzy said. "I'm sure that Nicole has already informed MC about you."

"Oh, she did," MC's voice came. The two unicorns looked over towards the voice and they saw MC and Twilight coming up to the two. "So, this is the new unicorn." MC then got a good look. For some reason, he got a strange look when he was looking at Misty.

"Um... hello," Misty said.

"MC? Are you okay?" Izzy asked.

"You..." MC said, directly to Misty. "You look familiar."

Misty raised her eyebrows in shock and asked, "What? That can't be. You and I haven't met each other."

"Where could you have seen her before?" Twilight asked.

"I don't know," MC said. He then noticed Misty's horn. It was a different color than her coat. "I must've seen you in a vision of the future during our mission in Soleanna."

"The future?" Misty asked. "What does that mean?"

"Oh, yeah!" Izzy said, noticing Misty's horn. "I didn't even notice that your horn is a different color from your coat. You must be from the future. Maybe MC saw you in Bridlewood, because that's where I'm from."

"Um... I..." Misty said, trying to come up with a backstory. "Yes. I'm... definitely from Bridlewood. Yes siree." MC sniffed at Misty's words and gave a bit of a scowl.

"So, are we gonna show Misty the guest room?" Izzy asked.

MC sighed and said, "Alright. C'mon." He then grabbed the key from under the door mat, put the key into the locking mechanism, and opened the door. Inside there a bed on the left side from the door, and on the other side, there was a desk. On the wall, there was a 40-inch flat screen TV over a table.

"So, where do I put my clothes?" Misty asked.

"There's a closet in the bathroom," MC said. He then headed for the bathroom. "This way." Misty followed. In the bathroom, there was a tub/shower, a toilet, and a single sink with a mirror. And in the back, there was a closet for hanging clothes, and a dresser inside. "Is this to your liking?"

"Actually, yeah," Misty said. "This place looks really cozy. Better than my last place."

"Okay, that's good," MC said. "Listen, rent is free for the first month, so you have until then to find yourself a job so you can pay for rent."

"How much is rent?" Misty asked.

"$650 a month," MC said. "Of course, we're gonna need to get you some official papers, since you're from the future as well. So, we're gonna need your full name and birthday." He then brought up his right arm and a holographic screen came over his right arm. He then started typing Misty's name. "Okay, Misty..."

"Uh..." Misty said, looking around the bathroom. She saw the light bulbs over the mirror, seeing how bright they were. "Misty... Misty Bright..." She then looked around for anything else that could help out with her cover name for her last name. "Bright..." She then saw the sun. "...Dawn! Misty Brightdawn!"

MC then sniffed at that, raising an eyebrow. He then typed Brightdawn anyway. He then said, "Okay, Misty Brightdawn. Now we're gonna need your official birthday."

"It's... uh..." Misty then started thinking. She then remembered something from her past.

When Misty was younger, she was in a room in Opaline's lair, jumping up and down excitedly. But then, Opaline came barging in, angrily.

"MISTY!" Opaline shouted. "What are you doing?! I am trying to sleep!"

Young Misty stopped jumping out of fear. She then said, "But, Opaline. It's my birthday."

"Birthday?!" Opaline asked. "You really think birthdays are important? They just remind you that you keep getting older. So go back to sleep!" She then stormed out of the room, heading back to her room, slamming the door shut. Young Misty then started crying. She looked at the calendar in the bedroom she was raised in and she saw that the date was May 14th.

The flashback ended. Misty exhaled slowly and said, "May 14th."

MC sniffed and gave a smirk. He then said, "Okay. May 14th. I'll get this information to the President immediately and as soon as he can, he'll send us the information to us in the mail." He then left the room. Twilight followed.

"Get comfortable, Misty!" Izzy said. "Because we're gonna have a fun time now that you're here! See you for dinner!" She then headed out of the room, closing the door behind her. Luckily, MC left the room key on the table below the TV.

Misty exhaled in relief. She then pulled the necklace from underneath her shirt and said, "Opaline, I'm in."

"Good work, Misty," Opaline said. "Now, get as much information out of the Freedom Fighters as you can. We're gonna need everything we need to know about them before we can finally strike."

What they didn't know was from the doorbell speaker, there was a small camera watching Misty.

In another room, more likely Pipp and Zipp's room, which the door was replaced with a door with a business window that said "Zephyr Heights Private Eye, Zipp Storm", MC, Twilight, Zipp and Truemen were all in there, watching Misty talking to her necklace from MC's holographic screen.

"I will, Opaline," Misty said from the holographic screen. "I'll get as much information out of them as I can. But I'm also gonna have to find a job here. I don't know how long I'm gonna be staying here, and I only get a month of free stay."

"That's a good call," Opaline said. "Focus on getting information on the Freedom Fighters until you start job searching. After that, you continue finding more information on the Freedom Fighters while you're off work!"

"Yes Opaline," Misty said.

MC then turned off the screen. He then smirked and said, "Shoulda known Misty was a spy for Opaline. I caught Opaline's sent on Misty."

"So, are we gonna bust her?" Zipp asked. "I'm ready to take her down."

"No," MC said, looking back at Misty through the camera. "Let her think we're gonna let her get what she wants. But I think I know why she's working for Opaline."

"Why?" Truemen asked.

MC then smirked. He then asked, "What do ponies of Equestria get that no other creature can get on their flanks?" Twilight and Zipp went wide eyed and looked at each other. Zipp was wearing denim short shorts. She raised the right leg, revealing her Cutie Mark. Twilight then raised her skirt, revealing her Cutie Mark.

Twilight and Zipp looked at each other and said, "Cutie Marks!"

"Misty doesn't have a Cutie Mark?" Zipp asked. "Why hasn't she have a Cutie Mark?"

"Maybe she's been with Opaline so long, she hasn't figured out who she really is," Twilight said. She then went wide eyed. "Is that the reason you want Misty to stick around? So we can actually get her to join our side and ditch Opaline?"

"She's misguided," MC said. "Kinda like a certain unicorn with a broken horn was when she was working for the Storm King. And that was before bringing Equestria back to Earth."

"Tempest Shadow?" Twilight asked. "Oh, good example. Opaline is probably promising Misty a Cutie Mark. But everypony knows that Cutie Marks have their own magic, and cannot be given to a pony who doesn't have one, no matter how much magic that magical creature has. Believe me, I've tried."

"Really, she has?" Zipp asked.

"Must've been the Crusaders who begged her," MC said.

"No, just Apple Bloom," Twilight said. "Okay, let's keep an eye on Misty, then slowly draw her to our side. Show her all the fun things to bring her to our side to give her a subconscious message to join our side."

"That's a good plan," Truemen said.

"Alright," Twilight said. "Let's convince Misty Brightdawn that she can get a lot more doing good than evil."

"Even though Brightdawn isn't her real name," MC said. "She was just making it up on the spot."

"That explains the pauses," Twilight said. "She probably also lied about her birthday."

"No, that was the truth," MC said. "I can smell lies, remember."

"Oh, right," Twilight said. Just then, the phone started ringing. "Okay, we'll leave you two to your business." Then she and Twilight headed out of the room as Truemen answered the phone with his left hand.

"Zephyr Heights Private Eye, how can we help you?" Truemen asked as he brought out a notepad. He then lifted up his robot hand and the tip of an ink pen came out of the forefinger. He then started writing down the job.

At dinner, the Freedom Fighters, the Young 6, Sunny and her friends, and Misty were making some homemade pizzas with a giant pizza oven outside the house. Smolder and Blaze were keeping the fire burning.

"Wow," Misty said. "Talk about hot stuff."

"Yeah, you'll get used to it," Sunny said, using her new Earth Pony Magic to grow vegetables for the pizzas. "So, Misty, what would you like on your pizza? Peppers? Zucchini? Sun dried Tomatoes?"

"Um... I think I'll just have it plain cheese," Misty said.

"Seriously?" MC asked. "No toppings?"

"Hey, even a pizza needs a little bit of vegetation to keep your body healthy," Sonic said. "Even I can't have chili dogs everyday."

"What's a chili dog?" Misty asked.

"Oh, you are definitely from the future," MC said. "Chili is beans mixed with meat, and the dog comes from the hot dog, which is a link of meat like food item. And since you ponies don't eat meat, I don't recommend having it."

"Yeah, that's true," Pipp said. "Sonic, is Sonia on her way here to Station Square?"

"She's gonna be apartment hunting near the mall," Sonic said. "She'll be here as soon as possible."

"We're gonna hire some construction workers to work on the place to yours and Rarity's liking," Tails said. "It'll get done."

"That's a relief," Pipp said. Just then, Nicole appeared, surprising Misty.

"Gah!" Misty shouted, going under the table.

"Relax, Mist," MC said. "It's just Nicole. Our Artificial Intelligence." He then looked towards Nicole. "What is it, Nicole?"

"I've got some bad news from the Pentagon," Nicole said. "The Destructix escaped." Then Sonic, Tails, MC and Mutt went wide eyed.

"Who are the Destructix?" Maria asked.

"They're a gang of dangerous criminals who have it out for us Freedom Fighters," MC said. "Even though one of them was one of us before."

"But how did they escape from the Devil's Gulag?" Sonic asked. "That place is the most secured place in the world, now that Prison Island was kaput."

"That is a good question," MC said. "Surely hope Scourge learned his lesson from the last time we've fought."

"Who's Scourge?" Sunny asked.

MC sighed. He then said, "He's an evil version of Sonic who used the Chaos Emeralds, or as they're called in his dimension, Anarchy Beryl, and totally destroyed it. He then tried spreading his destruction to our dimension, but we took him down. It wasn't easy. Especially when he tried taking our Chaos Emeralds, but I took him down. He's had a grudge with me since then, and not just for taking him down."

"What did you do to him?" Hitch asked.

"Oh, I just gave him a couple of little scratches on his stomach," MC said.

"Little?" Sonic asked. "I don't think so. Nicole, show them what Scourge looks like." Nicole nodded and showed an image of Scourge.

The Freedom Fighters (except Sonic, Tails, MC and Mutt), the Young 6, Sunny and her friends and Misty were surprised at Scourge's scars.

"Oh, I say he's still holding a grudge," Zipp said.

"We know his weakness, since he's an evil version of Sonic," MC said. "Sonic and Scourge share the exact same weakness. They can't swim."

"Sonic can't swim?" Misty asked.

"I sink easily," Sonic said. "So I avoid water that isn't shallow. Like shallow streams, hot tubs, or bath tubs."

"Just how did the Destructix escape?" Tails asked.

Earlier, on a tall, mountain only island, there was a building known as the Devil's Gulag. It was a prison for the most dangerous Mobians. In one cell, Scourge the Hedgehog was sitting on the bench that was his bed, waiting for his time to escape. Just then, one guard came up to the cell.

"Hey, Mean Green," the guard said. "A package has come for you." He then tossed it towards Scourge through the bars. The package landing at Scourge's feet. "It's a book! We've checked with metal detectors. We've felt it through the package. We know what a book feels like." The guard then stepped away from the cell.

"A book?" Scourge asked. "Seriously?" He then picked up the package and opened it up. Inside was a book called Art of Escaping. Scourge was confused by that. He then noticed something coming from the folding part of the book, seeing something sticking out. Scourge gave a smirk. He then pulled it out, revealing to be a special blade to cut through certain metals. "Perfect. Time to get this power cancelling collar off of me."

A couple seconds later, Scourge burst through the bars. He then smirked as the alarms started blaring. Then a bunch of guards started running towards Scourge. But he was too fast for them and took them all down. He came to one cell where a female fox was there, taking off her orange jumpsuit.

"Is it time?" the vixen asked.

"It's time, Fiona," Scourge said. "Let's blow this joint after we get our squad."

Eventually, they made it out of the place with their squad, and headed for the helipad. They all walked towards the center and looked around.

"So, where's our ride?" the Blue Hawk, Predator Hawk, asked.

"Patience, Predator," Scourge said. "Our ride will soon be here." Just then a bunch of guards came in with guns pointed at them.

"Freeze!" one of the guards said. "Hands on the ground!"

"Oh, I don't think so," Fiona said. "Let's take these guys down."

"All fire on my command!" one of the guards said. "One... two..." Just then, the Destructix vanished in pink flames, the guards were surprised to see them disappear. "Where'd they go?"

Back in Opaline's Lair, the Destructix appeared suddenly. They all looked around.

"Oh-ho!" Scourge said. "This castle's nice. I'm taking it."

"I don't think so," came the voice of Opaline. The Destructix looked towards her while she was sitting on the throne. "I busted you out, and now, you're gonna have to return the favor."

"Like we'd ever listen to you," the lynx, Lightning Lynx, said.

"Yeah," the gorilla, Sergeant Simian, said, cracking his knuckles. "You may have gotten us out of there, but it doesn't mean we work for you."

"Not unless you can give us something in return," the frog, Flying Frog, said with a creepy smile.

"Oh, I believe I know of a way to repay you," Opaline said. "A chance to take down... the Freedom Fighters." The Destructix gave a shocked look towards Opaline. They turned to face each other and started discussing. When they were finished, they nodded towards each other. "So? What do you say?"

Scourge turned to face Opaline, a dark smirk on his face. He then said, "We're in." Opaline then started laughing evilly and the Destructix joined in on the evil laughter."

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Not My San Andreas Fault

Episode 4: Not My San Andreas Fault

In San Francisco, at the Golden Gate Park Archery Range, Cozy Glow was holding a bow and arrow, and Midpoint was helping her with aiming the arrow at the right angle.

"A little more higher," Midpoint said. "To the left." Cozy Glow raised the bow and arrow a little bit, and moved it to the left. "Now, keep your eye on the target." Cozy almost closed her eyes to focus on the target. "And... release." Cozy Glow then released the arrow, hitting the target. It hit the nine ring instead of the bullseye.

"Dang," Cozy Glow said.

"Not bad for your first try," Midpoint said. "It's all about concentration." He then brought out his bow and picked up one of the rental arrows. "Like this." He then aimed the arrow at the target. He then released and hit the bullseye.

"Wow," Cozy Glow said.

"You see, you have to keep up your concentration," Midpoint said. "Otherwise..." Then the ground started shaking. Everyone there started losing balance, car alarms were going off. Then Midpoint grabbed Cozy Glow and both of them went down onto the ground. After 10 seconds of shaking, the shaking stopped.

Cozy Glow looked around the place, seeing people running away from the park, heading off somewhere. Cozy then asked, "What was that?"

"That was an Earthquake," Midpoint said. He then looked around. "It was in your science class."

"That's what an Earthquake is?" Cozy Glow asked. "Never thought I'd experience one in person."

Midpoint then looked around. He then said, "I've got the feeling this isn't all we're gonna feel today."

At Freedom Fighters Mansion, Sunny was making a smoothie for MC, who was sitting on his Extreme Gear in a meditation pose, a blind fold over his eyes. The Young 6, Sunny and her friends and Mutt were looking at MC. Pipp was recording it on her phone.

"Okay, MC," Sunny said. "One Super Duper Mystery Smoothie. I bet you can't guess what I mixed in it." Gallus was snickering quietly right as MC was taking a sip. MC was checking out the flavor with his taste buds.

"Strawberry, watermelon, lime..." MC said, the last recipe was making Sunny smile widely. "...zest." That made Sunny lose her smile. "Paprika... Parmesan Cheese..." He then smacked his lips, leaning towards Sunny. "And Gallus dipped his toe in it."

"What?!" Sunny asked. Then everyone looked towards Gallus, who was darting his eyes from left to right quickly.

Gallus chuckled and asked, "Which foot?"

"Right foot," MC said.

"Which toe?" Gallus asked again.

"Pinkie," MC answered.

Gallus smiled, then laughed and said, "You are a freak!" MC then took off his blindfold.

Misty then came from her room, walking up to the group. She then asked, "What's going on?"

"I still can't believe that MC guessed all the ingredients in Sunny's mystery smoothie," Hitch said. "No one, even back in our time, has ever guessed every ingredient down to the tee. Not even Phyllis Cloverleaf."

"Check it out, Misty," Pipp said, showing the video of MC's taste testing.

"Ew!" Misty said, hearing the part where Gallus dipped his toe in the smoothie. "That's gross!"

"I didn't even think that he would even figure out that he'd figure out which toe of which foot was dipped into it," Gallus said. "And he guessed it correctly."

"It was impressive, though," Smolder said.

"Michael," came Nicole's voice.

"What is it, Nicole?" MC asked.

"We've got a problem on the West Coast," Nicole said. "It seems that an Earthquake is stirring up."

"An Earthquake?" MC asked. "Oh, that can't be good."

"What's an Earthquake?" Misty asked.

"It's a shaking of the ground that happens around fault lines," Ocellus said. "They can cause tremendous amounts of damage if the building structures aren't sound."

"And being in a city with tall buildings near a fault line isn't the best place to be if it's a magnitude of 6 or higher," MC said. "We better check to see if Lynol is okay."

"Good idea," Hitch said. "If there's an emergency going on, we should go there and help out."

"Let's get going," MC said. "Zipp, you pilot the Spirit of Freedom, I'll take the X-Tornado." He then headed off into the mansion. "Silver! Blaze! Marine! We're gonna need your help for this!"

Misty then headed towards the side of the house. Making sure that no one was looking, she brought out the necklace from under her shirt.

"Opaline, it seems that MC is taking the Freedom Fighter trainees to a place to check on their friend," Misty said. "Someone named Lynol."

"Alex Lynol, also known as Midpoint," Opaline said. "That annoying archer otter with the special tipped arrows. Always so confident."

"They said that there was an Earthquake where he was," Misty said. "Is that something we should worry about?"

"In your current location, no," Opaline said. She then paused. "Wait a minute. That's it!"

Back in Opaline's lair, Opaline was talking to Misty through the enchanted mirror.

"Ever since that otter's grandfather died, he left everything to that irritating otter!" Opaline said. "If we take everything away from him, he'll lose so much confidence and will never recover! It's brilliant!"

"How will we do that?" Misty asked through the mirror.

Opaline chuckled and said, "By having the worst kind of Earthquake in San Francisco." Then an image of Midpoint appeared from the enchanted mirror. "Say goodbye to everything you have, Alex Lynol." Then the image of San Francisco came up from the enchanted mirror as Opaline stepped towards it. "I may be an Alicorn of Fire, but doesn't mean I can't have fun with messing with other elements." She then fired magic from her horn into the enchanted mirror with an evil grin.

In San Francisco, Midpoint and Cozy Glow were driving through the streets of San Francisco when suddenly, a more stronger Earthquake started happening.

"Whoa!" Midpoint said, turning the steering wheel to the side of the road, making the car almost crash into a lamp post. Midpoint put the car in park and shielded Cozy Glow. When the quake stopped, he looked around at all the people on the ground, starting to go in a panic.

"That Earthquake felt more intense," Cozy Glow said.

"You're right, it did," Midpoint said. He then brought out his phone and checked the geological activity. "Whoa. The magnitude was up to 6-point-3." He then typed on his phone and he had connected it to every single radio station and mobile device in San Francisco. "Attention all citizens of San Francisco. That was a 6-point-3 Magnitude Earthquake. For your safety, evacuate the city as quickly and as calmly as possible." Then everyone started to get prepared for their evacuation plan.

"Wow," Cozy Glow said. "Everyone here is getting prepared for this."

"Most of the people of San Francisco are prepared for this kind of situation," Midpoint said. "Right now, we need to get back to Shadow Appliances."

"Isn't that on the other side of the city?" Cozy Glow asked.

"Shadow Appliances was started by my grandfather," Midpoint said. "No way I'm gonna lose his legacy by a series of earthquakes." Midpoint then backed up the car and started turning towards where Shadow Appliances was and drove there carefully.

The Spirit of Freedom and the X-Tornado were flying towards San Francisco as quickly as it could. In the X-Tornado, there was MC and Silver in the front cockpit area while Blaze and Mutt were in the back cockpit. In the Spirit of Freedom, Sunny and her friends, the Young 6, Sparky and Misty were there. Zipp was piloting the Spirit of Freedom.

"Okay, guys," Zipp said. "ETA on San Francisco, 5 minutes." She then turned her head slightly to the right. "Hey, sis. You gotten any connection with Lynol yet?"

"Still trying to get a hold of his company," Pipp said. "But it keeps cutting out. Saying about being disconnected."

Then a holographic image of MC came in over Pipp's head. MC then said, "The tremors must've ripped apart the phone lines. No landline must be working in San Francisco."

Then a holographic image of Mutt came in next to MC's holographic image. Mutt then said, "Earthquakes are quite destructive. Hopefully, there's not too much damage."

"If an Earthquake can cause serious damage, then the best way for everyone there to survive is to head east," Ocellus said, looking at a science book. "Which means we're gonna have to help anyone trying to get out."

"Escorting people out of San Francisco safely," Gallus said. "Sounds simple enough."

"Not unless the ground starts to shake and starts tearing apart the bridge out of there," Zipp said.

"I'll keep that from happening, Zephyrina," MC said from a holographic screen. "My materiokinesis will prevent any more tremors happening. Meanwhile, Silver and Blaze will rush across the city helping with anyone who is trapped beneath rubble or by fire."

"Sounds like a plan," Sunny said. "The rest of us will help escort the citizens towards the bridge."

Then on Treasure Island, the X-Tornado and the Spirit of Freedom landed near the tunnel to the bridge. MC, Mutt, Silver, Blaze, the Young 6, Sunny and her friends and Misty got out of the airships. They went towards the city of San Francisco.

"Okay, everyone," MC said. "You know the drill. Rescue and evacuate the citizens. Mutt, you help out with the Equestrians. Silver, Blaze, let's do this." Silver and Blaze nodded. Silver then started levitating himself up and then he hovered quickly towards the city. MC and Blaze used their super speed towards the city. Then Mutt and the Equestrians started running towards the city on foot.

MC then reached the Transamerica Building. He then placed his hands on the ground, them glowing in a golden aura.

Meanwhile, Opaline was watching from the enchanted mirror in her throne room. She smiled evilly at what MC was doing.

"So, that pesky Prince thinks he can save his friend's city like that?" Opaline asked. "That's where you're wrong, Michael Crayton." She then used her magic to create a more powerful Earthquake.

In San Francisco, MC felt the force happening from the Earthquake that Opaline was creating. MC groaned in pain from the event happening.

"This isn't right," MC said. "This isn't the tectonic plates pushing each other. Someone's forcing the quake to happen."

Silver was hovering high above the city, looking for anyone in danger from above. But then, he heard the sound of a little girl crying out for help.

"Huh?" Silver asked. He then saw a building collapsing. On one balcony, there was a little girl reaching out. "Hey! I'm coming!" He then landed on the balcony and looked in the apartment, seeing that the door was blocked by heavy household items. "Okay, you're trapped. Is anyone else in there?" The little girl shook her head. "Okay, I'm gonna get you out of here. Wrap your arms around my neck, and hold on." The little girl nodded and wrapped her arms around Silver's neck. He then levitated both of them off the balcony and slowly descended.

Down at the bottom of the building, a woman was crying out for help. "Somebody help! My daughter is trapped in my apartment!" Silver then came down with the little girl.

"Excuse me, Ma'am," Silver said. "Is this your child?" The little girl let go of Silver and turned around.

"Mommy!" the little girl said.

"Suzy!" the woman said. She kneeled and the little girl ran into her arms and hugged the girl tight. "I was so worried!" The woman then looked back at Silver. "Thank you!"

"You're welcome," Silver said. "Now, head towards the Bay Bridge. That's where everyone else is heading." The woman nodded, picked up the girl, and headed east to the Bay Bridge.

Around Fisherman's Wharf, Blaze was running towards the area, putting out some fires just by snapping her fingers. Blaze then saw an Applebee's on the third floor of a building, and there were some people were trying to climb down a rope made of tablecloths. One boy was struggling to hang on, but he was losing his grip.

Blaze jumped towards the boy and caught him, jumped off the side of the building, and she released fire from the bottom of her heeled shoes, decreasing her descent.

"Be careful," Blaze said. She then used her super speed and brought down more and more people down from Applebee's. When everyone was out of the restaurant, Blaze looked towards the people. "Okay, everyone. Head towards the Bay Bridge. Keep heading East." The people nodded and headed towards the Bay Bridge. Blaze then brought up her left wrist and said, "MC, more people are heading towards the Bay Bridge."

"Good!" MC's voice came from the communicator. "I'm holding back the quakes, but it feels like these quakes are being forced to go off!"

"What?" Blaze asked. "How is that possible?"

"Unless Manic has found a magical set of drums that cause Earthquakes, it might be someone else's doing," MC said through the communicator.

Mutt and the Freedom Fighter trainees were escorting the citizens of San Francisco towards the Bay Bridge. One man, who happened to be Bruce Lynol, Midpoint's father and Cozy Glow's adopted father, was coming up to Mutt.

"Mister Lynol?" Mutt asked. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, young man," Bruce Lynol said. "Hey, you're one of the Freedom Fighters, aren't you?"

"That's right," Mutt said. "Where's Alex?"

"I was going to ask you the same thing," Bruce said. "He and Cozy Glow haven't come back home to evacuate." He then brought out his cell phone. "I've tried calling them, but the cell phone towers are all down. The last quake took out the towers."

"Shoot!" Mutt said. He then brought up his right arm. "MC, this is Mutt! Bruce Lynol is here! Alex and Cozy Glow aren't with him, and he has no way of contacting them!"

"Hang on, Mutt!" MC's voice said. At the bottom of the Transamerica Building, MC was still kneeling down, but his right arm was up to his muzzle. "I'll find him." He then put his arm back down to the ground. He then closed his eyes. "Where are you, Lynol?" He then started checking the city for Midpoint and Cozy. He then saw the two in Lynol's car pulling up to Shadow Appliances. It then went back to his face. "What are you doing, Lynol?"

At Shadow Appliances, Midpoint and Cozy Glow got out of the car and started walking towards the building.

"What are we doing here?" Cozy Glow asked.

"I'm getting my grandfather's legacy," Midpoint said. "I'm not gonna..." Just then, another earthquake happened, making both of them losing their balance, and the sound of metal bending came in. Then a lamppost started falling, and it landed on the car, the car bent down the middle horizontally. Midpoint and Cozy Glow looked at the car in surprise. "My car!"

Cozy looked towards Midpoint and asked, "What are we gonna do?" Midpoint then ran back towards the car and headed for the back of the car, and opened up the trunk. Inside, there was a spare quiver full of trick arrows, and an Earthquake Preparedness Kit Backpack. He took the backpack and handed it to Cozy Glow.

"Put his on," Midpoint said. "Head towards the Bay Bridge. Find Dad."

"Not without you!" Cozy Glow said.

"You go find Dad," Midpoint said. "I'll find you in the Patriot Arrow. Now go." Cozy Glow gave Alex a sad look. She then nodded and started flying off, taking the Earthquake Preparedness Kit Backpack with her. Midpoint then looked up at the building, pulled out a trick arrow, attached it to his bow, and fired it towards the window that led to his office. The arrow connected to the window, and it sent out sonic waves, breaking the glass. Then he brought out another arrow, connected a coil from his belt, and fired the arrow into the office. He then pushed a button on his belt and he was being pulled up towards the office. He made it in and said, "Don't worry, Grandpa. I won't let your legacy die."

The people of San Francisco were still evacuating the city, and Mutt and the Freedom Fighter trainees were helping with escorting people out.

Misty was looking around, seeing so many people were getting out safely. She then walked out of eye and earshot, brought out her necklace, and spoke into it.

"Opaline, the Freedom Fighters have evacuated so many people," Misty said. "So far, no sign of the otter."

"Good," Opaline said. "As long as that otter is gone, we've won." Misty then looked over and saw a little girl, sitting down next to a building, hugging her knees in sadness. Just then, Misty then saw some debris about to fall down on top of the girl.

Misty nodded and ran towards the girl. As she was running, another quake was happening. She was jumping towards the girl, dodging falling debris. And she jumped and turned in mid air, her eyes closed, just as a fire hydrant burst, spraying water under Misty as she was jumping and turning. Misty then grabbed the girl and carried her towards the Bay Bridge.

"Still got it," Misty said. She didn't notice that Pipp and Mutt were there, recording the gymnastic movement she just did. "Uh... how long were you recording that?"

"When you started heading towards the girl," Pipp said. "That was amazing, Misty!"

"That... was awesome!" Mutt said.

"Oh, um... really?" Misty asked.

"C'mon, we've gotta go," Mutt said. "I wish I had cell phone reception to post that on the internet."

That made Pipp go wide eyed in shock, gasped, screamed, and started jittering rapidly. She then asked, "What did you just say to me?!"

Mutt then started laughing and said, "Note to self, don't let Pipp near anywhere near places that lack cell phone reception." He then headed towards the bridge.

MC then looked around to see if anyone else was still out there. He didn't see anyone else. He then looked around with his mind sight to see if anyone else was in the city.

"Where are you, Lynol?" MC asked. Just then, his concentration was interrupted when a voice came to his attention.

"Your Highness!"

MC looked up towards the voice and saw Cozy Glow flying in place at a 60 degree angle from MC's sighting.

"Cozy Glow?" MC asked. "Where's Alex?"

"He's still at Shadow Appliances!" Cozy Glow said. "He said something about getting his grandfather's legacy."

Back in Shadow Appliances, Midpoint was at his desk, grabbing and unplugging his computer. He grabbed the power cords and stuffed them and the computer into a garbage bag. He then stuffed that bag into another garbage bag. He basically used 10 garbage bags to save his computer. He then headed for the door. No. Not the door. The window. He jumped through the window. Thanks to his unbreakable skin, he came out unscathed. He still had the bag with his computer in it. He then went down the stairs and then he headed through the factory, heading for a staircase.

He headed down towards the hanger where the Patriot Arrow was parked. Just then, another quake happened. This one was stronger.

"Whoa!" Midpoint said. He then kneeled down. He then looked up and saw that the Patriot Arrow was heading towards the edge. "No! No no no no no no!" He then started running towards the Patriot Arrow, but the ship fell off the edge, heading down to the shipping area on the ground, exploding. Midpoint looked over the edge of the building and said, "Not... good."

MC escorted Cozy Glow towards the bridge as Silver and Blaze caught up with them.

"The citizens of San Francisco have been evacuated," Blaze said.

"Everyone's safe," Silver said.

"That's good," MC said. "Cozy, go with the others." He then looked around, looking for anyone else as Cozy, Silver and Blaze headed up to the bridge. MC then used his mind sight to get a look at Shadow Appliances. He then saw Midpoint running through the building with his computer in the bag of garbage bags. He then saw the shipping area and saw Midpoint's airship destroyed. "Oh, no." MC then got out of his Mind Sight and pulled up his right arm.

In Shadow Appliances, Midpoint was heading towards the front door. Just then, another quake was happening, making him lose his balance. Opaline was watching this from her enchanted mirror with an evil look.

"Now, time to finish you off," Opaline said. She then used her magic to start a more powerful quake.

"Oof!" Midpoint said. Just then, his communicator beeped. He brought up his left arm. "Midpoint here!"

"Lynol, what are you doing?!" MC asked through the communicator.

"I'm not letting my grandfather's legacy die!" Midpoint said. "I'm gonna..." Just then, a really strong earthquake started going off. "Whoa!" He then looked back and saw Shadow Appliances starting to tear apart. It then broke apart, falling down in front of Midpoint's eyes. "NOOOOO!!"

Opaline was watching from her Throne Room with an evil smile. She then said, "Goodbye, Alex Lynol!" She then used her magic through the enchanted mirror.

Then another quake happened. Then the building behind Lynol started to collapse. Instead of falling straight down, it started leaning towards Midpoint. It was going to fall on him. Midpoint then saw the building going to fall on him. Instead, he didn't move at all. He knew he didn't have the speed to get out of the way, so he was going to accept his fate.

"I'm sorry, Grandpa," Midpoint said, closing his eyes. Just then, the building landed on top of him.

MC rushed towards the Spirit of Freedom and the X-Tornado, where Mutt, Silver, Blaze, Cozy Glow, Bruce Lynol and the Freedom Fighter Trainees were. Just then, he felt something. He looked back towards San Francisco.

"NO!!" MC said.

"What? What is it?" Mutt asked.

MC looked back towards the others and said, "He... He didn't make it."

"No!" Cozy Glow said.

"Alex!" Bruce said. Zipp and Blaze held Bruce back as he tried running back towards the city.

"Bruce... Cozy... I'm so sorry," MC said. He then sighed. "Let's... let's get out of here." He then looked towards the Spirit of Freedom and was surprised on who he saw laying in front of it. Midpoint was there, unconscious. "Alex?" Everyone looked towards the Spirit of Freedom and saw Midpoint laying in front of the Spirit of Freedom, unconscious. The bag that had his computer in it was right next to him.

Hitch ran towards Midpoint and checked the otter's pulse. He then said, "He's still alive."

"But... how?" Izzy asked. Just then, the sound of footsteps on metal came to their ears. They looked inside the Spirit of Freedom, and coming from the shadows was, ironically...

"Shadow?!" MC, Mutt, Silver, Blaze, the Young 6, Sunny and her friends, Cozy Glow and Bruce asked in unison. It then flashbacked to when the building was about to fall on top of Midpoint.

Midpoint was standing there about to accept his fate, saying, "I'm sorry, Grandpa." Right before the building was about to make contact with Lynol, a yellow flash was heading right towards him.

"Chaos Control!" Shadow's voice came from the flash. Time froze for a moment. During that moment, Shadow grabbed Midpoint and the garbage bag that had the computer in it, and Shadow rushed out of there.

It then went back to the present time. Shadow walked towards MC.

"You're lucky that I came here," Shadow said.

"But... why?" Cozy Glow asked.

"Terrence Lynol was a good friend to me and Maria back on the ARK," Shadow said. "I couldn't let his grandson die like that." He then grabbed MC's hand, and put something into it. "Take this and Terrence's true legacy back to your mansion. I'm staying here to help these people recover." He then headed for the other side of the Bay. MC then looked at what Shadow gave him.

Bruce Lynol then said, "I better go with him." He then started following Shadow. "I'll let you all know when things settle down." Then the heroes looked down at Alex, who was still unconscious.

Opaline was watching them with anger from her enchanted mirror. She then shouted, "NOOO!!" She then growled angrily. "Those irritating heroes have ruined my plans again!" She then growled again.

Back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, Midpoint was asleep on the living room couch with Cozy Glow sitting on a side couch, her head bowed and her eyes closed in sadness. Just then, Midpoint groaned. He then slowly opened his eyes and saw the ceiling. He then looked around and saw where he was. He then saw Cozy Glow.

"Cozy?" Midpoint asked.

Cozy Glow opened her eyes in shock. She then rushed towards Midpoint and hugged him. She then said, "You're okay!"

"What... what happened?" Midpoint asked.

"Shadow saved your butt," MC said, coming into the room. Midpoint looked towards MC. "You're lucky that Shadow got you out of there in time."

Midpoint then sighed and said, "Even though I lost my Grandfather's legacy."

"The business was never your Grandfather's legacy," MC said. "You were. It was always you."

"What?" Midpoint asked.

"You've taken your grandfather's company and made it into an amazing company," MC said. He then sighed. "Sorry about your home, though." He then pulled out some keys and handed them to Midpoint. "You and Cozy can stay the night. But tomorrow, you're gonna move into our beach side villa at Emerald Coast."

"Oh, yeah," Midpoint said. "I remember that. That's where you guys had that beach party before our futuristic friends moved in." He then noticed another key. "You're giving me a new car, too?"

"I know it's not your grandfather's car, but it'll do, right?" MC asked.

Midpoint sighed and said, "Yeah. Thanks." Just then, Blaze came in.

"You guys might want to take a look at this," Blaze said.

MC, Midpoint and Cozy Glow followed Blaze outside. They looked and saw Sparky running around, giggling happily.

"So what?" MC asked.

Hitch picked up Sparky and said, "Watch this. Okay, Sparky. Do it."

Sparky then shot out fire and hit a plastic cup on an outside table, and it transformed into a cactus. MC then said, "Whoa! Sparky has magic?!" Misty was watching from her room, the door slightly opened. She then closed it.

"Opaline," Misty said, bringing out her necklace. "That baby dragon has magic."

"What?!" Opaline's voice came from the necklace. Her voice then paused for a moment. "Wait a minute. If I'm going to be a powerful Fire Alicorn, I might as well have more fire to make me more powerful. Especially, magical dragon fire! Misty, I have a new task for you! Get me either that dragon, or the dragon that belongs to Twilight Sparkle! Their fire will soon be mine!"

MC, Mutt and Zipp were watching the recording of that through Zipp's computer.

"Opaline wants Spike or Sparky for their magical fire?" Mutt asked.

"Opaline did say she's an all powerful Fire Alicorn," Zipp said. "I guess with that, she's gonna be even more powerful."

"No if we get Misty on our side," MC said.

"And how are we gonna do that?" Zipp asked.

"We keep giving her a subconscious message," MC said. "Keep making her come to our side." He then looked towards Mutt. "Mutt, you still have that video of Misty doing gymnastics to save that girl, right?"

"Yeah, why?" Mutt asked.

"We're gonna send that footage... to the Representatives of the Olympics," MC said. "No doubt a representative would want Misty to represent America for the Olympics."

Author's Note

Next Episode:
The Nocturnus Clan

Episode 5: The Nocturnus Clan

On Angel Island, Knuckles was laying down on top of the Master Emerald, a leaf in his mouth. As he was laying there, the Master Emerald started glowing brighter.

Knuckles was then awoken in the past, seeing something that happened. He looked up and saw he was in a field of some kind.

"What?" Knuckles asked. "What is this?"

"Something you must be warned about," came a voice. Knuckles turned his head towards the voice and standing there was a face Knuckles hadn't seen for a while. Tikal the Echidna.

"You?!" Knuckles asked.

"Yes, me," Tikal said. "I've come to warn you."

"About what?" Knuckles asked. Tikal did nothing but point off somewhere. Knuckles looked towards where Tikal was pointing. There, he saw Tikal's father, Pachacamac, and an army of his echidna warriors facing off against another echidna, and his army of technologically advanced echidnas.

"You have a choice, brother," the white echidna said. "Surrender the power or face the wrath of my army and gizoids!"

"That's enough out of you, Ix!" Pachacamac said, his spear in hand. "You do not have the will power that my men have!"

"You are not worthy of being the leader of the clan!" Ix said. "I was born first! I am the true leader! You were only chosen to be the leader because you were father's favorite child! Well, no more!" Ix then raised his staff and shouted, "Attack!" Then Ix's army started charging towards Pachacamac's army. But then a rift between time and space opened up, causing everyone there to freeze. "What?!"

"What's happening?" Knuckles asked.

"Their fate," Tikal said as Ix and his clan were being dragged into the rift. "The Master Emerald had summoned a rift above Ix and his clan and banished them into another dimension. But with final word, Ix proclaimed..."

"I shall return to take back what is rightfully mine!" Ix called out. "I shall have the great power all for myself! The legendary gem of power will be mine!" Then an explosion of light burst as the rift closed.

Knuckles then sat up on top of the Master Emerald, gasping. He then looked around and said, "It was only a dream." He then noticed something. There was a burn mark on the ground just outside the Altar of the Master Emerald. It was in the shape of a symbol. The same symbol that was on the clothing of Ix and his clan. Knuckles then looked up at the sky with an angry expression and said, "Or maybe not."

In outer space, a space time rift opened up, and a huge spaceship came out of it. In the bridge of the ship, Ix was sitting in a throne, looking towards the front of it. If you could see his mouth, you could tell that he'd be smirking.

At Freedom Fighters Mansion, Misty was trying to grab Sparky, who was running away from her.

"Hey, get back here!" Misty said. "I got you now!" Sparky then ran into one room, which happened to be Misty's room. "Aha! Gotcha!" Misty ran into the room, closed the door and locked it tight. "Nowhere to run now, Sparky. Now, where are you?" She then started looking under her bed. "Aha! Wha...?" Sparky wasn't there. She then looked under the desk, but there was no Sparky there. "Where'd he...?" She then checked the bathroom to see if Sparky was in there. With no place to hide, she then checked the only one place left to check, the closet. "Sparky? Are you in here?"

But as Misty was checking her closet, Sparky came out from hiding behind Misty's pillows. He then tried running for the door. He jumped and grabbed the door knob and tried turning it, but the door was locked.

"Aha!" Misty said, coming out of the bathroom. "Gotcha!" She then grabbed Sparky as he was holding onto the door knob with all his might. "Whoa! You are... strong!" Just then, the doorbell rang. Misty stopped pulling and gasped in shock. "Oh, no!" She then tickled Sparky, making him laugh and lose his grip. Then she threw him into the bathroom and closed the bathroom door. She then opened the main door and outside was MC. "Oh, uh... Hi, MC."

"Misty, have you found a job yet?" MC asked.

"What?" Misty asked. She then remembered. "Oh, shoot! I forgot to fill out job applications!"

"Well, you better start filling them out, because you only have two weeks until you start having to pay for your stay here," MC said. Just then, Sparky burst out of the bathroom, heading out the door. "Sparky?"

"Oh, uh... How did he get in here?" Misty asked, nervously.

"Listen, Misty, you've gotta start working soon, otherwise, I can't let you stay here," MC said. "Even the six graduates of Twilight's school are starting working. Ocellus is working in the library, Sandbar and Silverstream are working at the indoor pool, Yona is working in a thrift store, and Smolder and Gallus are working at a McDonald's in the mall food court."

"Okay, okay," Misty said. She then sighed. "I just don't know how I'm gonna start."

Then Midpoint came up to the two saying, "I can help you with that, Misty." Midpoint walked up to Misty. "The mall has plenty of choices for you to start working."

"You seemed to recover greatly," MC said. "How?"

"When you said that I was my grandfather's true legacy, it inspired me," Midpoint said. "Right now, Cozy Glow wanted me to start a new factory business here in Station Square." He then brought out his phone. "I'm now bidding on this factory building." He showed the bidding was almost complete. Midpoint just got the second highest bid with 10 seconds left.

"You're about to lose it," MC said.

Midpoint checked the bid and raised it, saying, "Bid going up to 850 grand and... sold!"

"$850,000?" Misty asked. "Wow. You must be rich."

"He's running one of the most famous appliance companies in the world," MC said. "Of course he's rich."

"I'll take Misty to the Mall," Midpoint said. "Twilight and her friends got a call from Knuckles. Something's coming to Angel Island."

MC then started walking towards the main part of the house, saying, "Freedom Fighters, those who aren't in training, meet up here at the mansion. We're going to Angel Island."

Later, Sonic, Tails, MC, Mutt, Amy, Cream, Cheese, Maria and the Mane 6 got into the Spirit of Freedom and they took off, heading towards Angel Island. The Spirit of Freedom arrived their as quickly as it could, and landed near the altar of the Master Emerald. Knuckles was standing right near the symbol that was burnt into the ground.

"What are we looking at, Knuckles?" Sonic asked, looking at the symbol.

"Honestly, I don't know what it is," Knuckles said. "All I do know is that it was created by an old rival clan of my ancestors. I know because Tikal showed me a vision of the past, and that symbol was on the pendant of the leader of that rival clan."

Twilight inspected the symbol. She then asked, "This was a symbol from 4000 years ago?"

"I've never seen anything like this before," Tails said.

"I'm sure that there's a logical explanation for this," MC said. "Perhaps Professor Pickle knows something about this."

Rarity noticed that Amy had something in her hands. It was a set of cards. She then asked, "What are you doing?"

"Checking my old psychic cards to see if they have an answer for this," Amy said.

"You still have those?" MC asked. "I thought you tossed them out years ago."

"You'll never know what you'll get from them," Amy said. She then picked out three cards and laid them out on the ground right between her and the symbol. "Oh, that's not good."

"What do they say?" Cream asked.

"Chao?" Cheese asked.

"It says... 'Danger will strike from above'," Amy said, reading the three cards. Just then, the sky seemed to get darker from around them. The Mane 6, the Freedom Fighters and Knuckles looked up and saw a spaceship blocking out the sun.

"No, no, no!" MC said. "I said no more space missions!"

"Technically, we're not in space," Twilight said. Just then Pinkie Pie's tail twitched.

"Twitchy tail!" Pinkie said. Just then, a bunch of armored figures started dropping down from the ship, landing between the heroes and the Altar of the Master Emerald. One figure brought out a magenta laser dagger and held it out.

"You have no right to have possession of the great gem of power," the masked figure said in a female voice. "We, the warriors of the great clan leader, Imperator Ix, shall be taking it back into his custody."

"You've gotta be kidding me," MC said.

Back in Station Square, in the mall, Midpoint and Misty were walking away from one store. It was a clothing store.

"That was exhausting," Misty said. "I don't think that fashion is for me."

"Yeah, you weren't all that great of sorting out clothes or giving people the perfect outfit," Midpoint said. "Rarity would be shocked to see how unorganized you could be in her stores." Misty nodded in agreement. "What else can we try?" Midpoint then saw the bowling alley. "How about the bowling alley?"

"Um... I'm not too sure about this," Misty said.

"I'm sure they'll let you in," Midpoint said. "C'mon." He then pulled Misty into the bowling alley.

Meanwhile, back on Angel Island, the Mane 6, the Freedom Fighters and Knuckles were on guard in front of a bunch of alien wannabes.

"Who are you?" Twilight asked.

"I am Procuator Shade of the Nocturnus Clan," the figure in front said. "You fools are in the way of taking back what rightfully belongs to us!"

"Not likely," Knuckles said. "You're messing with the Freedom Fighters, the Council of Friendship from Equestria, and me, Knuckles, the last of the Echidnas." MC then noticed something coming from the hands of one of the masked warriors. Spikes coming from its knuckles.

"Last echidna, huh?" Shade asked. "You are such a fool to believe that."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Knuckles asked.

"They're echidnas!" MC said. The Mane 6, the rest of the Freedom Fighters and Knuckles looked at MC in shock. "Take off the mask, girl and show these guys who you really are."

Shade chuckled and said, "Alright. Just to prove to him that he's not the last echidna." Shade then pulled the mask off, revealing her face. That made the Mane 6, the Freedom Fighters and Knuckles gasp.

"She is an echidna!" Fluttershy said.

"That... is... unexpected," Rainbow Dash said. The heroes looked towards Rainbow Dash with raised eyebrows. "What? I don't have to say awesome everytime."

"You have two choices," Shade said. "Give us the great gem peacefully, or die."

"The one day Truemen went back to Delphius to get his magical robot arm tuned up," MC said.

Meanwhile, in Delphius, the Oracle of Delphius was giving Truemen's arm a tuneup. But it wasn't attached to Truemen at the time.

"Wow," the Oracle of Delphius said. "You really have been working this thing up."

"You know it, Orc," Truemen said.

Back on Angel Island, the Freedom Fighters, the Mane 6 and Knuckles were still in battle position.

"Protect the Master Emerald at all costs!" Twilight said. She then used her magic to teleport the heroes to the top of the altar, all of them surrounding the Master Emerald.

"Get it!" Shade said, pointing to the Emerald. Then the armored Echidnas started running up the steps towards the Master Emerald. Mutt then brought out his Elemental Whip and started whipping an electric whip, making the armored Echidnas coming towards him to step back. Sonic used spin dash attack to send some armored echidnas back. Amy brought out her Piko Piko Hammer and swung it, sending three armored echidnas back.

The Mane 6 were using their magic and skills to keep the armored echidnas back. Shade then charged towards the Master Emerald, a laser dagger in her right hand. Twilight noticed it and used her magic to protect the Master Emerald by putting up a barrier. Shade shoved her blade through the barrier, but the handle didn't go through.

"What?!" Twilight and Shade asked in unison.

"Where did they get those weapons?!" Tails asked.

Shade groaned in frustration. She then pulled her laser dagger out and then she cut a hole in the barrier, it vanishing as soon as it was fully cut in a perfect circle. She then jumped through the hole and tackled Twilight. Twilight was now pinned by Shade, and Twilight's magic stopped, the barrier disappearing.

"You're strong, I'll give you that," Shade said. "But I'm afraid that this is the end of you!" She then tried to stab Twilight, but MC stopped her from making contact. Shade looked back at MC with anger.

"I don't think so," MC said. He then kicked the blade out of Shade's hand. As it was heading towards him, MC used his claws to slice it into bits. "Sorry, girl. But you're not getting another step closer to the Master Emerald."

Shade chuckled and said, "That's what you think." She held up her right arm, and a pink laser blade came from her bracelet.

"Oh, shoot," MC said. Shade then tried attacking him, but MC was too fast for her and jumped over her. Twilight used her magic and picked up Shade and threw her away from the altar. She then used her magic to create a small impulse sending the armored echidnas back.

"You are all fools for fighting against my clan!" came the voice of Ix from the ship.

"What?" Knuckles asked, looking up at the ship.

"If my army can't handle you all, then I'll send in my gizoid!" Ix said through the speakers. Just then, something yellow came down and landed on the symbol that was burned into the ground. The Freedom Fighters gasped.

"Emerl?!" Cream asked.

"Chao chao?!" Cheese asked.

"Oh, that's not good," MC said.

"What is that thing?" Twilight asked.

"That's a very complicated robot to fight," Sonic said. "It scans our skills and copies them perfectly."

"No way something's that good at copying my skills!" Rainbow Dash said. She then charged at the robot fast. The robot was looking at Rainbow Dash, copying Rainbow Dash's skill. After doing that, it dodged Rainbow Dash quickly. "What?!"

"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight said. "Look out!"

"Behind you!" MC said.

Rainbow Dash turned around and saw the robot doing the exact same skill Rainbow Dash was using, and it struck her, sending her flying.

"I forgot how irritating these things are," Tails said.

The gizoid started running towards the heroes. Just then, MC remembered something. He then said, "Wait a minute! I remember how to take this thing down."

"How?" Twilight asked.

"It copies our skills one at a time," MC said. "But it can't copy the skills of two people at the same time."

"Oh, yeah, that's right," Amy said.

"So, you fought one of these things before?" Rainbow Dash asked, coming back to the group.

"We found it at the bottom of the lake in Green Hills," MC said. As the robot came in, MC used his power to create a barrier around them and the Master Emerald. "Tails and Rotor fixed it up. It seemed to be a copycat robot. But when it had a Chaos Emerald given to him, it supercharged it and started attacking everything around it. It seemed that its original programming was to destroy everything around it."

"So how did you stop it," Maria asked.

"It couldn't fight two people at the same time," Sonic said. "It was Cream and Cheese that stopped it. Of course, it did take a heavy toll on them."

"How did that happen?" Fluttershy asked.

"Before going haywire, Cream and Cheese formed a strong bond with Emerl," Amy said. "Them having being the ones who destroyed it was so heartbreaking for them."

"Oh," Fluttershy said.

"Cream, Cheese, I know this is gonna be heartbreaking..." MC said before being cut off.

"I know," Cream said, tears coming from the corners of her eyes. "But for the safety of my friends, I must do it." She then started flying off, Cheese following close.

"Good luck, Cream," Twilight said.

Back in the Mall in Station Square, Midpoint and Misty were coming out of the bowling alley.

Misty sighed and said, "I don't think that being a part of maintenance is the right fit for me."

"Yeah, especially your horn banging into the machine and your hair getting caught," Midpoint said. "Ever thought of getting a different hairstyle?"

"Like what? Pom Pom Pigtails?" Misty asked. "No way. I'd never go for that." She then thought about something. "Or, maybe I have but outgrew it. I don't know. It's been a long time since I was a filly."

"Yeah, that's true," Midpoint said. Eventually, they came up to the movie theater, and the concession stand was backed up. The manager of the movie theater was working concessions all by himself. "Whoa! That guy needs some help!" Midpoint and Misty ran into the theater. "You need some help, sir?"

"I tried getting some help, but everyone who works the concessions is out sick today," the manager said. "I could really use some help." Midpoint and Misty looked at each other and nodded. Then they came in and got onto a cash register. The manager logged them in for those registers under his name and they started taking orders.

Back on Angel Island, Cream and Cheese were flying towards the robot. Cream then threw Cheese straight at the robot and Cheese had her right front limb charging hard for contact. The robot was scanning Cheese's skill movement, but was cut off when Cream got in front of Cheese, cutting off the robot's skill scanning feature, and Cream kicked the robot back.

"What?!" Shade asked. "Impossible!"

"That robot can copy peoples skills, but it can't copy two skills at once," MC said.

"Insolent fools!" came Ix's voice from a speaker on the ship. "I'll just have to do this myself!"

Just then, something white and purple came down very quickly and landed on the symbol with a loud thud. It was Ix from the past.

"Impossible!" Knuckles said. "There's no way he'd still be alive for all this time!"

"I hear machine noises coming from under his cloak!" MC said. "He's a cyborg!"

"Oooh! What a way to go!" Pinkie said.

"We shouldn't be complimenting him, Pinkie," Tails said.

"Prepare to be taken down!" Ix said. He then charged at the heroes. MC charged back. He and Ix grasped hands and tried pushing each other back, but they were at equal strength. "Impressive strength, Young man. You must be popular with the children."

"Get out of my universe!" MC said. He then kicked Ix's crotch, but to no avail. "What?!"

"Your strength is impeccable, but not enough to stop me!" Ix said.

"How about him?" MC ask, tilting his head. Ix looked where MC tilted his head to see Knuckles coming right towards him. Knuckles then punched Ix in the face, sending the ancient echidna back.

"Gaaaah!" Ix said. He then growled. "You... you're a descendant of a member of Pachacamac's clan. It should have been mine!"

"I saw that vision of the past, shown by the spirit of Tikal, who happened to be Pachacamac's daughter," Knuckles said. "You're going to be taken down like you were back then!"

"Like you ever would!" Shade said, standing next to Ix. "You're all going to get what's coming to you!"

"I've been told that for a long time," MC said. "Mostly death. But it could never come to me."

"You all believe that taking power and conquering worlds is your sworn duty?" Twilight asked.

"No wonder your father chose Pachacamac over you," Knuckles said. "You're a monster."

"My father was a fool!" Ix shouted. "I won't let my plans of taking over worlds be stopped!" He then looked at the Gizoid. "Destroy them all!" The robot nodded and charged at the heroes. Cream and Cheese then started flying towards the robot. The robot was about to strike both of them, but then it stopped in mid air. The robot looked back and saw an arm made of earth came from the ground, grabbing the robot's left leg.

"One way to fight a skill copying person, use a move that that copycat can't copy," MC said. MC then used his power and made the earth arm throw the robot towards him. MC then bared his claws and cut off the robot's head, deactivating it.

"Impossible!" Shade said. "That robot was designed to perfectly counter every attack!"

"Shade, destroy them!" Ix said. Shade then charged towards the heroes. But then Applejack got in front of her and held Shade back, without being cut by the laser blades coming from Shade's bracelets.

"Ah don't think so, sugarcube!" Applejack said.

"I don't give heck what you think!" Shade said, trying to kick Applejack off of her, but Applejack was too sturdy. Shade noticed and asked, "What do you do for a living?!"

"Ah'm an Apple Farmer," Applejack said. "Ya should see how we get the apples from the trees."

"Hyaaaah!" came Amy's voice. Shade noticed Amy coming towards her and Applejack.

"Oh, this is gonna hurt," Shade said. Amy then hit Shade towards the other armored echidnas, and they all went down.

"Nice hit," Applejack said, high fiving Amy.

"Thanks," Amy said.

Ix then shouted and said, "You're all useless!" Ix then charged at the heroes.

"They're only useless as the leader who commands them," MC said. "You're selfish."

"Those who are selfish get what they deserve," Knuckles said. He then pounded his fists. "A one way ticket to isolation!"

Ix then groaned and said, "I'll be back to claim what's mine!" Then Ix and his army vanished by teleportation technology, and the spaceship started flying away. Then in a flash of light, the ship vanished.

"Talk about a hasty retreat," Sonic said.

"Something's not right," Twilight said. "If they were banished from this world a long time ago, how did they return?" Then the heroes started thinking of any possibilities of how Ix and his clan returned.

Somewhere in space, Ix's spaceship was just hovering in orbit around Jupiter. Ix was standing alone in his quarters in the dark, disappointed that he didn't get what he wanted. Just then, a screen came in, and on the screen, Opaline was giving a sly smirk.

"So, you tried to get the Master Emerald and failed due to those Freedom Fighters," Opaline said.

"You knew my troops would fail," Ix said.

"I told you not to underestimate them," Opaline said. "So, about my proposition?"

Ix groaned and said, "To get what I want, I could not be more in. My army will fight by your side when the time is right."

"Excellent," Opaline said.

Back in Freedom Fighters Mansion, the Freedom Fighters and the Mane 6 returned. All of them were exhausted.

"That was a tiring fight," Twilight said.

"You said it, Sparkles," MC said. "I better see if Misty has found a job." He then headed towards Misty's room at the guesthouse. He knocked on the door.

"One minute!" came Misty's voice. MC then waited right outside the door, waiting for Misty to come out. She eventually did. She was wearing a vest that came with the position of working in a movie theater. "H-hey, MC."

"Where did you get that?" MC asked.

"I... I got hired at the movie theater at the mall," Misty said. "The manager gave me $100 for working there today. Technically, it was 50, but Alex gave me his payment since I needed the money."

"Okay, so you've got a job at the movie theater," MC said. He then sniffed Misty. "Concessions?"

"Yeah," Misty said. "How can you tell?"

"You have the scent of butter on you," MC said. "Not a bad start. So, how much are you getting paid?"

"$14 an hour, six hours a day, five days a week," Misty said. "I'm gonna be paid bi-weekly though."

"Good," MC said. "That'll get your rent payment, and extra money for clothes or personal things. You might as well save up for getting a driver's license. Which days are you working?"

"Mondays through Thursdays and Saturdays," Misty said.

"Okay," MC said. "I expect your first paycheck as soon as possible." He then walked away. Misty then sighed in relief. She then headed for her bed after closing the door.

"Oh, boy," Misty said. "This is gonna be so much more harder." She then pulled out her necklace, looking at it with a nervous face.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Starlight Ridge

Episode 6: Starlight Ridge

On the Friendship Express, Sunny and her friends, Misty, Spike, Nyx, Joshua, Sparky, Cream, Cheese, Mutt, Blaze, Marine and Olive were all on a train to the Crystal Empire. Olive was there because she wanted to spend some quality time with her little sister.

"Blimey! Look at all that snow!" Marine said. "I haven't seen this much ice since Blizzard Peaks."

"You said it, Marine," Blaze said. "At least I'm able to keep us all warm through this train ride, and after we get there."

"Oh, I don't think you'll have to worry about that, Blaze," Joshua said.

Blaze looked towards Joshua and asked, "What do you mean?"

"The Crystal Empire has an enchanted relic that keeps the snow out," Nyx said. "It's in the center of the empire."

"How long is the radius of this relic's magical power?" Sunny asked.

"10 miles, at least," Nyx said.

"So, how long until we get there?" Zipp asked. "I'd like to know a lot about this place."

"Me, too," Sunny said. "My dad heard legends about the Crystal Empire."

"Attention, passengers," came the conductor's voice from the speakers. "We are about to reach the snow blocking barrier, meaning we'll be at the Crystal Empire Train Station in 5 minutes. Prepare to disembark."

"Ooh hoo hoo!" Pipp said. "I'm so gonna get so many pics of this place!" She then brought Misty in and held out her phone for a selfie. "Smile!" Misty gave out a nervous smile while Pipp took a selfie with a big grin. Pipp took the picture and looked at it. "Oh, Misty. You looked like Zipp when Mom and I dragged her into that photo booth back in the future."

Zipp groaned and said, "I wasn't ready!"

"Sometimes, not everyone is ready for everything," Olive said. "You just have to expect the unexpected." Just then, the train passed through the barrier, all the snow disappearing from sight. Olive looked out of the window and saw that there was no more snow. "Like that for example."

"Whoa!" Izzy said. "Talk about a sudden weather change!"

"You know it," Joshua said.

Sunny and her friends, Misty, Spike, Nyx, Joshua, Sparky, Cream, Cheese, Mutt, Blaze, Marine and Olive were walking through the streets of the Crystal Empire. Spike was looking around for any of his fans. But, none came.

Spike sighed and said, "So much for Spike the Brave and Glorious." Just then, the Crystal Ponies barged through, picked up Spike, and tossed him up in the air and catching him.

"Spike, Spike, Spike, Spike!" the Crystal Ponies chanted.

"Um... what's happening?" Sunny asked.

"Spike has been made a legend here in the Crystal Empire," Mutt said. "Although, MC's Mom, at least a clone of her, kinda made Spike look like he didn't do much."

"Which he didn't really do," Joshua said.

"And when the Black Aliens, Shadow's blood relatives, attacked; Spike, MC and the clone of his mom took out their strongest fighter," Mutt said. He then looked around and saw the statue of Spike redone into a statue of Spike, MC , Shadow and the Iron Mask facing off against Black Doom. "Huh. Guess they added both Shadow and MC's Mom in the statue on facing Black Doom."

"Well, Spike and MC's Mom didn't really face Black Doom," Olive said. "But they did help MC take on Eclipse." Sparky then jumped out of Hitch's arms.

"Hey!" Hitch said. "Sparky! Come back!"

Sparky then ran towards the castle, giggling all the way there. Sunny and her friends, Misty, Cream, Cheese, Mutt, Blaze, Marine and Olive ran towards the castle, trying to follow Sparky.

"Hey, wait for me!" Spike said, but he kept getting tossed up in the air. "Hey, put me down! I gotta catch up with my friends!" He still was being tossed up in the air, even after he finished that last sentence.

Sparky was still running, being chased by the others. Sparky saw the Crystal Heart and, in amazement, said, "Oooooh." He then ran towards it.

Olive noticed where Sparky was running towards and gasped. She then said, "Don't let him touch the Crystal Heart!"

Blaze then used her super speed and grabbed Sparky just as the baby dragon jumped up and almost grabbed the Crystal Heart.

"Uh uh uh," Blaze said. All Sparky did was growl in sadness, bowing his head.

"Maybe I should... watch over him," Misty said.

"Nah, he just needs his dragon pony dad to watch him," Hitch said, taking Sparky in his hands. "Isn't that right, Sparky?" He then tickled Sparky, who giggled at the action.

"Looks like someone got a little excited," came a voice. They all looked towards the voice and they saw Princess Cadance, Shining Armor, Guard Armor and Flurry Heart. "Hello, all of you."

"Hey, Aunt Cadance!" Nyx said. "Hey, Uncle Shining!" She then saw Guard. He was only wearing a necklace with a shield, gloves and shoes. "Guard! You're finally out of your training pants."

"Yeah," Guard said. "Still trying to remember to actually use the toilet."

"I'm sure you'll get the hang of it, Guard," Joshua said, petting Guard's head.

"So, this is the Crystal Empire," Blaze said. "This place is actually beautiful."

"Blimey! I've never seen a place so shiny!" Marine said, covering her eyes. "It hurts my eyes."

"That's why I bring these when coming here," Mutt said, pointing at the sunglasses he was wearing.

"I bring mine, too," Zipp said, wearing her sunglasses. They had tape through the middle.

"You still haven't replaced those sunglasses, Zipp?" Pipp asked.

"I still haven't found a new pair I like," Zipp said. "I checked everywhere that sell sunglasses around Station Square. Even on online shopping sights."

"Including Amazon and Ebay?" Olive asked.

"Especially Amazon and Ebay," Zipp responded.

"Dang, you're outta luck, girl," Olive said.

"I guess you're just gonna have to live with what you got," Shining Armor said. "So, you're all here to see the Crystal Empire."

"Yeah, this place is so cool," Mutt said. "Although the reflecting light is... kinda..." He then noticed somepony. Everyone looked where Mutt was looking and coming there was Pinkie Pie. "Pinkie Pie?"

"Oh, hiya, everyone!" Pinkie said. "What are you all doing here?"

"Just exploring the Crystal Empire," Sunny said. "I can't believe that this place is so... amazing! So much history that needed to be discovered. To see how much of Equestria my Dad was right about."

"And what brings you here?" Zipp asked.

"Oh, I was heading back home from Yakyakistan, and then, I felt a doozy coming in!" Pinkie Pie said.

"Wha...?" Zipp asked, tilting her head.

"Pinkie Pie is one pony nopony can understand," Nyx said.

"Oh! Here comes another!" Pinkie Pie said before shuddering.

"Should... we be concerned about that?" Hitch asked.

"I'm sure that it's nothing," Olive said. She then reached something from her pocket and pulled it out. "But just in case..." She pulled out her Cyber Patch and put it on. She then looked around, seeing different parts where she was around if anything was out of place. "I'm not seeing much of anything." As she was looking around, her cyber patch detected something coming from Misty, but Olive then realized it and looked back towards Misty, who was not in the same place. "Wait, what?" Olive then looked for Misty, but when she looked towards the Crystal Heart, her cyber patch detected something coming from it. "Huh, that's odd. Something's coming from the Crystal Heart.

"Oh, that's normal here," Princess Cadance said. "You know the Crystal Heart keeps out the Frozen North's Snowstorm."

"I know, but that's not what I'm talking about," Olive said. "Something's... growing inside the Crystal Heart." Just then, the Crystal Heart started glowing bright. Then a portal opened up.

"Huh?" Misty asked, coming from behind Shining Armor. "What is that?"

"Ooooooh!" Pinkie said, shuddering. "Here it comes! The doozy!" Just then, the portal started sucking in certain individuals. It sucked in Pinkie, Sunny and her friends, Sparky, Misty, Nyx, Joshua, Cream, Cheese, Mutt, Blaze, Marine and Olive, and it closed up. Shining, Cadance, Guard and Flurry Heart were surprised to see them all being sucked up in the portal coming from the Crystal Heart. Just then, Spike came in.

"Finally," Spike said. "Just got away from my adoring fans." He then looked around. "Where'd everyone go?"

Somewhere in a different location, Pinkie, Sunny and her friends, Sparky, Misty, Nyx, Joshua, Cream, Cheese, Mutt, Blaze, Marine and Olive came out of the portal, landing on some snow. Their appearances were different. Their clothes were given Crystal patterns, their hairstyles were sparkly, they were all wearing Crystal pearl necklaces, and their arms and legs were sparkly. Izzy had a special headpiece that had a hole that her horn was poking through, and Misty had some decorative wrapping around her horn.

Mutt looked around at the area and asked, "Where are we?"

The group looked around and saw they were in some kind of forest with lots of snow. Pipp then pulled out her phone and said, "I'll check to see where we're..." She then noticed her arm. "Oh... my... glitter! Look! I'm all sparkly!" The group looked towards Pipp and saw her look. Then they all looked at each other, seeing they went through a similar change as well.

"We all are!" Marine said. "Blimey!"

"Why are we like this all of a sudden?" Zipp asked.

"Hey, guys!" Blaze said, calling from somewhere. "Over here! I see a town over there!" The group walked towards Blaze and saw she was right at a slope, pointing down at a nearby town. They all gasped.

"This place isn't on any map in Equestria," Nyx said.

"What is this place?" Hitch asked.

"Why don't we ask those ponies?" Izzy asked, pointing towards the ponies walking through town. But those ponies weren't like any normal ponies. They were like unicorns, but their horns were made of crystal.

"Huh, that's weird," Misty said.

"I haven't seen any unicorns like that," Cream said.

"Chao," Cheese said.

"Something's not right," Pinkie said, growing suspicious. It then zoomed in on the ponies of the mysterious town. It showed the ponies having forced smiles on their faces, walking around in a trance.

The group went closer to the town, looking in at the ponies there. The ponies were using forced smiles and were using magic to grab something from above. The group looked up and saw stars coming down.

"What is this place?" Zipp asked.

"It looks... kinda fun," Joshua said.

"Not to me, Joshie," Pinkie said. "Look at those ponies. They have bad smiles."

"What the heck is a bad smile?" Sunny asked.

"Those smiles are forced," Pinkie said.

"It's not just their smiles, Pinkie," Olive said, looking at the ponies with her cyber patch. "Look at their eyes. They look... hypnotized."

Blaze's ears were twitching. She then said, "Hey, you guys. What's that sound?"

"Huh?" Mutt asked. He then put a hand to his ear. He was hearing what Blaze was hearing. "I hear something, too. Kinda sounds like... purring?"

"No! Stop!" came a voice. The group looked over and saw a pony stepping back from something. "Don't...!" Just then, purple sonic waves came from where the pony was looking and went through the pony's head. Just then, the pony's eyes just flashed in a purple light. Just then, a creature came from the side, revealing a purple snow leopard with wings that had pink, blue and green feathers, thick, dark blue hair that had pink, blue and green highlights, and she was wearing a dark blue parka with white fluff trimming. She also had snow boots with a small heel, and a hole for her clawed toes to come out.

"Smile," the snow leopard said. Just then, the pony did as she was told. "Bring me more stars, Violet Frost, and then it'll be all over for you Auroricorns."

"Yes, Allura," the pony, now known as Violet Frost, said. She then walked off. The snow leopard, Allura, was giving a dark smirk. She then turned in the direction of the heroes, but they hid from sight of her.

The heroes were hiding from Allura behind trees or snowbanks. Allura then flew away. Blaze then said, "That snow leopard is mind controlling those ponies."

"Did you hear what she called those ponies?" Sunny asked. "Auroricorns."

"That's impossible," Nyx said. "Auroricorns are heard of by the Crystal Ponies, but only as myths."

"Guess they're real," Joshua said.

"We need to free these ponies from Allura's mind control," Olive said. "We need to get them away from Allura's control." Time then froze.

"Rookies," Blaze said as she was moving through speed time. She then ran over towards the one Auroricorn, Violet Frost, and brought her back to the group, and then went for another Auroricorn, one that was blue with purple hexagon glasses, and brought him to the group. Then everyone started moving in normal speed. "I got two of them. Bring them uphill." Then they started pushing the two Auroricorns uphill to get away from the town.

When they were away from the town, Allura's mind control was no longer in effect. The two Auroricorns shook their heads.

"Uh, what?" the stallion asked.

"We're... free?" Violet Frost asked.

"Not exactly," Blaze said. Violet Frost and the Auroricorn Stallion saw the group and gasped.

"Who... who are you?" Violet Frost asked.

"We're the Freedom Fighters," Blaze said. "And it looks like now you're gonna need all the help you can get."

Violet Frost looked towards the town with a sad look. She then said, "Yes. We do." She then took a step towards the town and looked down at it. "This is Starlight Ridge. It's where we Auroricorns lived in for hundreds of years. It was once a part of the great Empire."

"The Crystal Empire?" Nyx asked.

"Yes," Violet Frost said. "We were all dreaming that one day, we'd be able to reunite our lands together again, but for so many years, that hasn't come to be. We've been praying for the Nova Charm every Starshine Time to send us back, but it never came to be. And to make matters worse... she showed up."

"That snow leopard, Allura?" Zipp asked.

"Yes," Violet Frost said.

"She arrived here one day and took the Nova Charm, and kept it for herself," the Auroricorn stallion said. "And she put it around a small cage of ice, guarded by her little minion, Twitch."

Olive looked back towards town with her cyber patch. She saw the Nova Charm, and a little hare walking around it on top of a gazebo.

"That is one mean little hare," Olive said. "Okay, time to get to work." She then headed behind a tree. 3 seconds later, she came out from behind the tree in her red jumpsuit, boots and gloves.

"Are you ever going to tell us how you do that?" Mutt asked.

"Do what?" Olive asked. Pinkie Pie giggled and snorted at that comment.

"Alright, Glasses," Blaze said. "What else can Allura do?"

"My name is Comet, actually," the Auroricorn stallion said. "Anyway, Allura said one day that she was banished here for not only taking over the minds of certain creatures, but also by freezing the land with her frosty touch. Since this world is already covered in ice..."

"Her ice powers have no effect," Sunny said.

"And for someone who has ice powers, we'd need someone with fire powers to handle her," Zipp said. Then everyone looked at Blaze.

"Wow, so sudden," Blaze said. "I could handle her, but we're gonna need something to cancel out Allura's mind control." Olive looked down at the ground. But then her cyber patch noticed something coming from the snow.

"What? What is this?" Olive asked. She then picked up some snow. "My cyber patch is detecting something. Something about this snow is... unusual."

"Oh, that's natural here," Violet Frost said. "The snow here is special. It has healing particles in it."

"Although, it is..." Comet said before slipping. "Whoa!" Hitch and Pinkie Pie helped Comet up. "...Very hard to keep balance on. Well, mostly for me."

"Whoa! Oof!" Izzy said. "Yup! Very slippery!"

"Okay, so we're gonna have to face... a mind controlling Snow Leopard..." Sunny said.

"A hoard of mind controlled Auroricorns..." Pipp said.

"And a hare guarding this town's special charm," Olive said. "But how are we gonna get past them all without being caught by Allura's mind control powers?"

Izzy looked down at the snow and gave a smirk. She then said, "I got this."

Later, the group were all heading through town, trying to sneak their way past the hypnotized Auroricorns. They were heading towards the center of town where Allura was making sure that the Auroricorns were doing as she told them to do. They were hiding in case some Auroricorns would spot them and alert Allura of their presence.

"We're getting closer," Olive said. "Cream, you get the Charm. But don't let that little hare catch you." Cream nodded. She then started flying up towards the top of the gazebo where the Nova Charm was being guarded by Twitch. At least, that was where it was supposed to be.

"Huh?" Cream asked. She then faced the group. "It's gone."

"What?" Sunny and her friends, Pinkie, Olive and Blaze asked in unison.

"Well..." came Allura's voice. "...I knew it would be a matter of time when some new faces would lead me to a portal out of this place." The group looked around for Allura, but she wasn't in sight. "Did you honestly think I would let somepony try and take my Nova Charm just like that?" Just then, Allura came down and struck Cream's back when Cream wasn't looking.

"Gah!" Cream said when being hit.

Olive gasped, then ran out to catch her sister, calling out, "Cream!"

"Chao!" Cheese called out. Olive then grabbed Cream, not knowing that the special earplugs made out of snow fell out of Cream's ears.

"I got you, Cream," Olive said.

"No," Allura said. "I've got..." She then started purring. "...her..." Sonic waves came out of her mouth, heading right towards Cream and Olive. They passed through them. But Olive wasn't effected.

"You can't stop me," Olive said. "Tier 6 out of 5 spy. We're always prepared."

"Impressive," Allura said. "But can a spy fight someone she loves." She then looked towards Cream. "Take out your sister." Just then Cream kicked Olive's chin, sending her back.

"Gah!" Olive cried out in pain. She then rubbed her chin and looked at Cream, gasping at what she saw. Cream was standing with a forced smile on her face. "Cream, no!"

"It's too late now, rabbit," Allura said. "She's now mine. And soon, you'll all be, too." Just then the group were surrounded by Auroricorns, all with forced smiles on their faces.

"Oh, that's not good," Violet Frost said. Just then most of them were grabbed by the hypnotized ponies.

"Hey! Let go!" Marine said.

Some of the heroes got our of the hold of the hypnotized ponies, them being Sunny, Olive, Blaze and Violet Frost. Those who were captured had their earplugs taken out.

"So nice when good friends come together," Allura said. "So... puuurfect." Allura let out some sonic waves, making those captured be hypnotized.

"No!" Olive and Blaze said in unison.

"As soon as I get you three, you will all take me to the portal out of this place," Allura said. She and those who were hypnotized surrounded Sunny, Blaze, Olive and Violet, and they were getting closer to them.

Sunny, Blaze, Olive and Violet Frost were surrounded by the hypnotized individuals and Allura. Twitch was rubbing his paws, giggling about how he and his master were winning.

Blaze sighed and said, "Forgive me." She then spun around and created a fire twister, surrounding them, keeping those who were hypnotized back.

"What?!" Allura shouted. "She has fire powers?!"

"Run..." Blaze said. Then Sunny, Olive and Violet Frost ran through the crowd, making sure they weren't caught. They got out of the crowd because they were too distracted by the flames Blaze was producing. When the flames died down, they saw that the four individuals who weren't hypnotized by Allura were gone.

"Impossible!" Allura said.

Inside one building, which was a restaurant, Sunny and Violet were blocking the door with tables and chairs. Olive was scolding Blaze for almost hurting Cream and Cheese.

"That was really dangerous, Blaze," Olive said. "You've could've hurt someone. None of them were doing it willingly."

"I know," Blaze said. "I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt Cream either. She was my first friend."

"I know, Cream told me about you after you left," Olive said. "She even sent a photo." She then brought out the photo of Cream and Blaze. Blaze was totally surprised that she was pulled in for a selfie with Cream. "What was that about, anyway?"

Blaze groaned and said, "I wasn't ready."

"Focus!" Sunny said. "We need to stop Allura, get that Nova Charm, get our friends back, and save everypony here!"

"We know!" Blaze and Olive said in unison.

"Those earplugs your friend made out of the snow were great," Violet Frost said. "But it was still not enough. Plus, they melted when Blaze made that fire twister."

"The burns will go away," Blaze said. "Everything heals."

"Heals..." Olive said. "Wait a minute. Violet, didn't you say that the snow here has healing particles?"

"Yeah, why?" Violet asked.

Olive went towards a window and opened it up. She then went out. "I hope this works." She then grabbed a bunch of snow and made it into a snowball. Just then, Comet came around the corner, seeing Olive. He then ran towards her. Blaze then threw the snowball at Comet. He then got out of the trance.

"Huh? What?" Comet asked.

"That's it!" Olive said. "The snow can break the trance!"

"So that's why this place is so special," Blaze said, peeking her head out the window. Then the two of them smirked.

Allura was still in command of the ponies and Mobians around her. She then said, "Keep searching! I won't be stuck here forever!"

"Hey, everypony!" came Sunny's voice. They all looked towards Sunny, seeing that she, Blaze, Olive, Violet and Comet there, snowballs in their hands. "Snowball fight!" Then they started throwing snowballs, making those who were hit by the snow to get out of the trance.

"What?!" Allura asked.

"The snow here is special," Olive said. "Healing particles, which means they can break through your hypnosis."

"Impossible!" Allura said. "Are you all planning to throw snow at each other forever?!"

"We don't have to," Blaze said. She then used her super speed, and jumped towards Allura. Allura then tried getting Blaze with her mind control, but Olive had her back. She launched a taser from her glove, hitting Allura. Allura was stunned, which gave Blaze enough time to grab the ice cage that had the Nova Charm. "Got it."

"Keep throwing snow, everypony!" Sunny said. Everypony did as they were told by Sunny. They grabbed snowballs and started throwing it at each other, all having a fun time.

"No!" Allura said, noticing everyone having fun. Just then, the sky started lighting up with lights similar to the Northern Lights. "Impossible!"

"Here it is," Blaze said, handing the ice cage to Olive.

"Melt it," Olive said. Blaze did and melted the ice cage. She then pulled the Nova Charm out of the ice cage.

"What's so special about the Nova Charm anyway?" Blaze asked.

"Let's see," Olive said. She then used her Cyber Patch to scan the Nova Charm. She then gasped. "No way. This thing is sending out the same frequency as the portal that brought us here. Which means..."

"Allura had the way out of here and didn't know it!" Blaze and Olive said in unison.

"What?!" Allura asked. "The Special Star I've been looking for was in my hands the whole time?! Gah! I'm so stupid not to realize it!"

"Time to get out of here!" Blaze said. She then opened up the bottle containing the Nova Charm and held it tight. Just then, the Nova Charm started letting out a bright light, making the entire town of Starlight Ridge be covered.

Back in the Crystal Empire, there was an Earthquake happening. Shining, Cadance, Guard and Flurry were all holding onto each other as it was happening.

"What's going on?!" Shining asked.

"I don't know!" Cadance said. Just then, Starlight Ridge appeared in the northern part of the Crystal Empire, the special snow now all over the Crystal Empire.

Those who were in Starlight Ridge saw the Crystal Empire and gasped. They all were excited.

"Finally!" Allura said. "I'm finally out of that prison of a pocket dimension! Now to spread my mind control to the corners of this world!"

"I don't think so!" came Shining Armor's voice. The heroes and the Auroricorns looked towards the voice and saw Shining Armor coming in. He then fired a blast towards Allura, her being trapped in a magenta barrier. "You won't be able to break through that."

"I won't have to," Allura said. "You're gonna relinquish this spell for me."

"And why would I do that?" Shining Armor asked.

"Oh, nopony can resist my power of..." Allura said. She then released sonic waves while saying, "...persuasion." Shining Armor was shocked to see the waves coming in. But Sunny came in, holding a trash can lid, and it pushed back the sonic waves back towards Allura. Allura gasped and was pushed back in mid air. Allura was then caught by her own trance, forcing a smile. Twitch then got worried. He then started bouncing and stomping on Allura's head. That caught Allura's attention. "What?" She then noticed what happened. "Hey! How'd that happen?! How'd you turn my own trick back on me?!"

"Nopony messes with my friends and family!" Sunny said. "In this or any other world!" She then became an Alicorn. "Get out of here!" She then fired a beam towards Allura. Allura was shocked to see what Sunny was about to do to her. She was then blasted by Sunny's beam, being pushed far away from the Crystal Empire.

"NOOOOOOOO!!" Allura shouted as she and Twitch were being sent away from the Crystal Empire.

Sunny then fell to the ground, her Alicorn form disappearing. Shining then helped Sunny up.

"Are you okay, Sunny?" Pipp asked.

"Yeah," Sunny said. "I'm fine."

"Good," Cadance's voice came in. The group looked towards her and saw Cadance, Guard, Flurry and a bunch of Crystal Guards coming towards them. "At least it's all over." Then the Crystal Guards gasped.

"Auroricorns?!" one Crystal Guard asked. "Here?"

"Impossible," another Crystal Guard said.

Olive then chuckled and said, "We felt the same way about Unicorns, Pegasi, Alicorns, Griffons, Dragons, Hippogriffs, and so many different species in Equestria before you all came back to this world."

Somewhere in a dark room, Allura was waking up. Twitch was passed out on the ground. Allura then looked around.

"What is this place?" Allura asked. Just then, pink flamed torches lit up, getting Allura's attention. She looked around.

"About time you woke up," came Opaline's voice. Allura looked towards the voice and saw Opaline standing there. "I was expecting you."

"You? Expecting me?" Allura asked. "I don't think so. You've got a new..." She purred and sent out sonic waves when she said, "...problem." Opaline stopped the sonic waves with a special magical barrier.

Opaline laughed and said, "You think I haven't heard of you and your special trick, Allura?" She then shook her head. "I've been looking for you for a long time." She then looked at Allura. "I've got a proposal for you."

"Whatever it is, I'm not interested," Allura said. She then walked over towards Twitch and picked him up. "Not unless you have a way to stop that one Alicorn and her friends."

"Oh, that is exactly what I'm proposing," Opaline said, getting Allura's attention. "Those Freedom Fighters must be stopped. And I know with your trick, it'll be a whole lot easier. Interested?" Allura was thinking about it. She then gave a dark smirk.

"Sounds like fun," Allura said.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Dulcy

Episode 7: Dulcy

MC and Truemen were putting some books into a bookcase built into the wall in the master Bedroom, which is where MC sleeps. As they were finishing up with the books, MC closed the glass doors just as Twilight was passing by the open door. Twilight noticed and saw MC and Truemen moving an open bookcase to cover the locked bookcase from sight.

"Hey, what was that?" Twilight asked. That question made MC and Truemen jump in shock. They turned around to see Twilight coming in.

"Sparkles!" MC said. "Don't sneak up on us like that!"

"Sorry, MC," Twilight said. "But seriously..." She then used her magic to move the bookcase back to the side, revealing the locked bookcase in the wall. "...what is that?"

"None of your concern, Twilight," Truemen said as he was going to move the bookcase back. But Twilight used her magic to lift Truemen up to stop him from pushing.

"Nice try," Twilight said. "Why are you locking up those books?"

MC sighed and said, "These books are the Oracle of Delphius's private, enchanted library. You know the saying; 'Books that will take you on an adventure from the comfort of your home?'" Twilight nodded. "Well, these ones actually do. They literally suck you into the story."

"Oh, please," Twilight said. "Like any harm would come from opening a book." She then took the key out of MC's hand, but MC took it back quickly.

"Not gonna happen!" MC said. He then used his speed and strength to cover the locked bookcase. "No one is going to open those books. Ever. There are dangerous areas in those books. The Oracle said not to interfere. So we're keeping them locked up." MC then put the key into his chest fluff. He then walked out. Truemen followed. Twilight watched them leave and then looked towards the bookcase.

MC and Truemen walked outside to see the Young 6 in the pool. Silverstream wasn't in her seapony form because of the chlorine in the pool could harm her in her seapony form. Smolder was on the side, her hand to her chin.

"Smolder, are you okay?" MC asked. "What's bringing you down?"

"I've gotten a letter from my cousin," Smolder said. "She says she wants to be a Freedom Fighter, too."

"Seriously?" MC asked. "What's wrong with that?"

"What's wrong is that my cousin, Dulcy, is really clumsy," Smolder responded. "She doesn't land right, she constantly bumps her head, and she messes up my room whenever she comes to visit."

"Wow," Gallus said. "Your cousin sounds like a total klutz."

"Tell me about it," Smolder said. "She wouldn't stop with asking if you guys would allow her to be a Freedom Fighter. I kept sending her letters that there weren't any open spots in the Freedom Fighters. But the last one I sent said that she could be a Freedom Fighter if she could find this place. But I sent her in the wrong direction."

"Well, you're right about one thing," MC said. "We don't have any room for another person here. And it's not like she's gonna find Freedom Fighters Mansion."

"GANGWAY?!" came a female voice. They all looked up and saw a new dragon coming towards them.

The dragon came down and was sliding towards MC, sending him up and him landing in the pool. The dragon then crashed into the patio furniture near the pool.

"Whoa!" Sandbar said. He then got out of the pool and asked, "Are you okay?"

"Don't worry, Ma!" the dragon said. "It's not a school day!" She then passed out.

MC then brought his head out of the pool and looked at the new dragon. He then looked at Smolder with a grumpy look.

Smolder chuckled nervously and said, "MC... meet Dulcy."

Ocellus and Silverstream were helping the new dragon, now known as Dulcy, recover from the crash. MC was still upset that Smolder had told her cousin that she could be a Freedom Fighter if she found their mansion.

"I can't believe you did that!" MC said. "We have no room here for her!"

"In my defense, I never thought she'd be able to find this place," Smolder said. "I specifically told her that Freedom Fighter's base was in a place called... Spagonia."

MC face palmed and said, "That's in Sally's Kingdom. Why on Earth would you send her there?"

Smolder chuckled and said, "Actually..." Smolder then flashbacked to herself spinning a globe around. With her eyes closed, she then put a finger on the globe, choosing a random location, which was Spagonia. She then wrote it down on the parchment she had. The flashback ended and MC groaned. "Sorry, I couldn't handle all the stress of her constantly asking me when she'd become a Freedom Fighter."

"Aye-yai-yai, Smolder," MC said. "We can't have her roaming around here. She could interfere with our training."

"But what about Sparky?" Gallus asked, walking up to MC. "He roams free whenever he wants."

"He's just a baby," MC said. "That's different." Sparky then came running out of Hitch's room, giggling happily. Without realizing, he ran into the pool. Hitch came out of his room.

"Sparky?" Hitch asked. "Where's..." Then Sparky came from the water, not having the knowledge of how to swim. "Sparky!" Just then, Gallus came flying in, grabbing Sparky, and gave him to Hitch.

"Here you go," Gallus said, handing the baby dragon to Hitch.

"Thank you, Gallus," Hitch said. "Sparky really is getting to be a handful."

"I know," Gallus said. "I think... all babies are like that."

"Probably not all of them," Hitch said. His phone then buzzed. He pulled it out and said, "Dang it. I gotta get to work." He then put his phone away and turned Sparky to face him. "Okay, Sparky. I've got to go to work. Be good while I'm gone."

Sparky then rubbed Hitch's face with his. Then Hitch gave Sparky to Gallus and he headed off to work. Hitch then headed out towards the garage. As Hitch was heading there, Misty was hiding behind a column that was holding up a balcony on the second floor, thinking of a way to get Sparky.

"Okay, Misty," Misty said to herself, quietly. "As soon as Sparky's alone, just go and grab him, and then..."

"Misty?" Hitch asked, getting Misty's attention, causing her to scream. "Whoa, sorry. I didn't mean to scare you."

"Oh, uh... It's... no big deal, Hitch," Misty said, chuckling nervously. "It's just..."

Hitch noticed Misty's outfit and said, "Wait a minute. Isn't it time for you to go to work?"

Misty then went wide eyed and said, "Oh, no! I'm gonna be late!"

"Get your uniform, and meet me in the garage," Hitch said. "I'll drop you off." Misty nodded and headed straight to her room, passing MC and Smolder.

"Careful, Misty!" MC said. "You don't want to fall into the pool."

"Sorry!" Misty said. "I'm getting my uniform!" She then ran into her room, went to her closet, grabbed her uniform, and ran out, heading for the garage. At the garage door, Hitch was pulling out in a gray Toyota Tacoma 4x4. Misty ran around the front of the truck, and then she got into the truck. She then looked around it. "Nice truck."

"It actually was owned by a friend of the Freedom Fighters," Hitch said. "The sheriff of Green Hills to be precise. Although, it still ran when the entire hood was cut off by a really small Eggman Robot."

"Wow," Misty said. "This thing must've gotten fixed very good. It... looks like it hasn't taken any damage at all."

"You can thank Tails and Lynol for that," Hitch said. "Now, buckle up. We've gotta get going." Then Misty buckled up and then Hitch pulled out from the garage.

Dulcy was then walking up to the pool and seeing her reflection in it.

"So, this is what non-dragons swim in?" Dulcy asked. "Well, then, guess I'm gonna have to get used to it." She was about to dive in, but her tail was grabbed by MC, causing her to be pulled back. "Hey, what's the big...?" She then noticed who grabbed her and gasped. "You're the leader of the Freedom Fighters."

"Co-leaders," MC said. "Sonic and I lead this group together. Sally, too, but she's back in her home country."

"Well, I'm sure that..." Dulcy said.

"Sorry to break the news to you, Dulcy, but I'm afraid we don't have any more room in the mansion," MC said.

"That's okay, I can probably find someplace close to here and..." Dulcy said before her mouth was shut by MC's left hand.

"Plus, there's the fact that you're extremely clumsy, and could cause more harm than good," MC said. "Which isn't all that great whenever we're needed on a mission."

"Then train me," Dulcy said. "I can probably find a place in the city."

"Not without paying rent," MC said. "Face it, Dulce, you don't know the lowdown of how things work in this world."

"He's right, Dulce," Smolder said. "I had to get official records and ID just to live here. I even had to study for a test to actually live here. Luckily, Ocellus was there to help with studying."

"Studying American History and Government," Ocellus said. "I wanted to be prepared in case we had to do it."

"Then I'll study!" Dulcy said. "I could use some tutoring myself." MC then groaned and walked away.

"I'm gonna go for a run," MC said. He then started speeding away.

Dulcy looked down at Smolder and said, "Was I too demanding?" Smolder groaned and headed towards the room she slept in.

At the Station Square Mall Movie Theater, Misty was was working hard to keep up with the customers of their orders. She was working as fast as she could.

"One large popcorn, coming right up!" Misty said. She then grabbed a popcorn tub, and filled it with popcorn. When she got a couple scoops in, she looked back and asked, "I'm sorry. Did you want butter with that?" The customer nodded. "Coming right up." She then held the tub under a small pipe and pushed down on a pump that released popcorn butter from it. She then filled up the rest of the tub with popcorn and put butter over it. She then handed it to the customer. "There you go. Enjoy the movie." Then two customers came in with a couple of drinks and candy bars. "Hello. Two drinks and two candy bars." Misty was putting the order on the computer that was in front of her. "Anything else?"

"A large popcorn, extra butter," the man said.

"Coming right up," Misty said as she was filling out the order. "That'll be Sixteen-Forty-Three." She then saw that one of the customers had put his card through the card reader. "Just confirm order and... there. I'll be right back with your popcorn." She then filled up another tub of popcorn as fast as she could. She put in twice the amount of butter as the last customer. She then gave the tub to the couple. "Enjoy the movie." Misty was sweating and panting heavily. Then the manager came up to her.

"Misty," the manager said. "You're over working yourself."

"I know, Mister Bailey," Misty said. "It's just... really hard when you've got so many customers coming in to see a movie."

"Yeah, especially when a new movie is brought into theaters," the manager, known as Mister Bailey, said to Misty. "Perhaps you should take a break."

"Actually, I do need to use the restroom," Misty said.

"You go ahead, I'll take over your spot until you get back," Mister Bailey said. Misty nodded and headed away from there. She eventually went into the restroom and went into one of the stalls. She then sighed.

"Misty!" Opaline's voice came from Misty's shirt, making the unicorn jump. She then pulled the necklace from under her shirt.

"Yes, Opaline?" Misty asked.

"Did you get me one of those dragons?!" Opaline asked from the necklace.

"Umm..." Misty said, trying to come up with an excuse.

"YOU DIDN'T GET ONE OF THEM?!" Opaline yelled.

"I'm sorry, Opaline!" Misty said. "I was about to, but I forgot that it was a work day today! Besides, I'm also spying on them as well, but I can't spy on them if I'm not paying rent for my room!"

"You can't just..." Opaline said, angrily. But then she remembered what Misty said. "Oh, that's right. You need money to pay for rent. Just don't forget your mission, or you'll never get your Cutie Mark."

Misty sighed and said, "Yes, Opaline." She then put the necklace back under her shirt and sighed sadly. She then got up and headed out of the stall. As Misty came out of the bathroom. As soon as she came out, she saw MC standing at the entrance. Misty raised an eyebrow at that. She then walked up to him.

A few minutes later, MC and Misty were standing at a vending machine.

"So, Smolder's cousin is currently doing some studying to become an official citizen here in the US," MC said, grabbing both the sodas that were purchased. He then handed one to Misty. "Although, I think she'll do more harm than good."

"Sounds like it," Misty said. "Especially when she came crashing in."

"You saw that, eh?" MC asked. "Well, at least you're not as clumsy as her."

"Well, there have been moments where I have been clumsy," Misty said. "Mostly around the mansion."

"Yeah, I saw," MC said. "You should've seen Sunny when she transformed into an Alicorn when she went to see the Equestria she heard from her father."

"I bet she was ecstatic," Misty said. "Kinda wish..." Misty trailed off. MC noticed this.

"Kinda wish what?" MC asked.

"Never mind," Misty said. She then looked at her right hip. She then sighed and asked, "Do you know if there are... other ways of getting a Cutie Mark?"

"That's only for ponies only," MC said. "But... I heard from the Cutie Mark Crusaders, that a young pony receives their Cutie Mark when a pony figures out who they wanna be. Mostly by doing what they love to do the most. That's the only way a pony can receive their Cutie Mark. If a horned magic user uses their magic to make a Cutie Mark appear on a pony's flank or hip, it wouldn't last even five seconds."

"Really?" Misty asked. "Not even... a lot of magic?"

"No amount of magic can make it appear," MC said. "Sparkles had tried multiple times on Apple Bloom. And that was before she became an Alicorn."

"Really?" Misty asked. Just then, her phone started beeping and she pulled it out. "Oh, shoot. I have to get back to work." MC then rushed Misty back to work with his super speed. "Whoa! That was... a rush."

"You'll get used to it," MC said. "I should get back home." He then rushed back home. Misty then headed back to work.

Back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, MC rushed in.

"Alright, Dulcy," MC said. "If you can do something that impresses me, I'll let you..." MC had his eyes closed when he was talking. When he opened his eyes, he saw both Smolder and Dulcy glowing and scratching themselves. "Whoa! What is this?!"

Smolder was groaning from how itchy they were. She then said, "Dragon Lord Ember is calling for us! All Dragons must go back to the Dragon Lands."

MC looked over towards Sparky, seeing that he was itching and glowing too. MC then sighed, "For the love of God, you've got to be kidding me." MC then walked over towards Sparky, used his power to make a baby carrier, and then put Sparky into it. "Well, we can't let you ignore the call of the Dragon Lord. Let's head to the Dragon Lands."

MC then pulled out his Super Warp Ring, threw it, and it became a portal to the Dragon Lands. MC, Sparky, Smolder and Dulcy went through the portal. MC closed the ring and brought it into his hand.

MC saw Spike coming in by flying, scratching himself as he was flying.

"Spike!" MC called out. Spike noticed the group and smiled. MC then used his Super Warp Ring and opened a portal somewhere. He reached in and brought out his Extreme Gear. He then closed the portal and then he started using his Extreme Gear and rode it up towards Spike. Smolder and Dulcy were flying right beside them. "You know what's going on?"

"Not a clue!" Spike said. "Let's go!" Then they headed off towards where Ember's throne was. When they got there, they saw the dragons fighting off a group that weren't dragons at all. They saw Fiona Fox fighting Ember.

"Fiona?!" MC asked. "That could only mean..." Just then, MC was struck quickly be a green blur, him and Sparky yelling out and falling towards the ground.

Smolder caught MC's extreme gear and called out, "MC!" MC and Sparky landed in a pool of lava. Then the two of them came out, MC roaring in anger. He then looked around.

"Take that, Your Highness," came a voice. MC looked towards the voice and he saw..."

"Scourge!"

"Finally... some payback for this!" Scourge said, motioning his right hand to the scratch marks on his torso. "Prepare for your ultimate destruction!"

"Nothing can stop me!" MC said. "Not you, nor any other evil version of Sonic will stop me." Both of them got in battle stances as Sparky looked up at MC.

Spike, Smolder and Dulcy headed towards the throne to get into the fight. But as soon as they were getting in close, they were ambushed by Predator Hawk and Flying Frog.

"I don't think so!" Predator Hawk said, sending down Spike.

"Gah!" Spike called out as he fell.

"I don't think so!" Dulcy said. She then inhaled big, and she flew out a huge gust of wind, blowing Predator Hawk away, screaming.

"Whoa!" Smolder said with Flying Frog on her back. "I had no idea you could do that!"

"It actually came to me some time before Equestria came to Earth," Dulcy said. Just then, Flying Frog jumped onto Dulcy's face. "Hey!"

"You might blow away my ride, but you won't blow me away!" Flying Frog said, covering up Dulcy's vision.

"Hey!" Dulcy said. "Get off me!" She then tried pulling Flying Frog off of her. Smolder then tried kicking Flying Frog off. It worked, but not in the way she hoped. Flying Frog was now hanging onto Smolder's right leg.

"Hey!" Smolder said.

"You won't get rid of me that easily!" Flying Frog said.

"Funny that you decided to come here," Smolder said. "I thought frogs dry up when they get overheated."

"Wait, what?" Flying Frog asked. Just then Smolder started flying down towards the lava. "Yikes!" He was then holding onto Smolder's leg tightly as she was flying over the lava, very closely. "No! No no no no no no!" His skin then started drying up. "Gah! I'm drying up! I'm losing my grip!" He lost his grip, but luckily, he wasn't over lava when he did. "Ow..."

"Never mess around in the Dragon Lands!" Smolder called out. She then started flying back towards the throne. She then got involved with the dragons and the rest of the Destructix. Lightning Lynx was pouncing all over some dragons, Sergeant Simian was pounding Garble's friends into the ground, and Fiona Fox was taking out Ember, trying to reach for the Bloodstone Scepter.

"You will... never... get the scepter!" Ember said.

"Who says we need the whole scepter?" Fiona asked. "We just need the stone!" She then kicked Ember's crotch, making her lose the grip on the scepter.

"Gaaaah!" Ember cried out as she received a crotch shot. Fiona then grabbed the scepter and ripped the Bloodstone from the Bloodstone Scepter.

"Okay, I got it!" Fiona said.

"I don't think so!" Smolder said. She then flew in, and kicked Fiona's face, making Fiona drop the Bloodstone.

"No!" Fiona said. But then, it was grabbed by Lightning Lynx.

"Don't lose it, Fiona," Lightning Lynx said. "You know what the boss would say if we lost it."

"Don't remind me!" Fiona said. She was then punched by Smolder.

"Get out of my homeland!" Smolder said. She then grabbed Fiona and lifted her up. Just then, she was smacked by Sergeant Simian, making her drop Fiona.

"Gaaaah!" Smolder called out.

"Smolder!" came Garble's voice. He came in and grabbed Smolder before she could land in the pool of lava. "You okay, sis?"

"I'm fine, Gar-Gar," Smolder said. She then noticed Fiona, Lightning Lynx and Sergeant Simian running away from the throne, followed by Predator Hawk and Flying Frog. Fiona was carrying the Bloodstone. "They got the stone!"

In another part of the Dragon Lands, MC and Scourge were battling it out with Sparky watching from on top a tall rock column. He then saw a rock not as big as him. He then used his dragon fire and changed the rock into a bucket of popcorn. He then giggled, grabbed the bucket, and ate the popcorn as he was watching the fight.

MC and Scourge then held each others hands, trying to push each other back. Scourge than said, "You're always a pain when you get involved with those who know they can win! You'll never stop us!"

"You villains always lose at the end," MC said.

"That's what you think!" Scourge said before using his knee and ramming it into MC's crotch.

"Gah!" MC cried out in pain, letting go of Scourge. Scourge then pushed MC back before he could start recovering.

"Say goodbye, false king," Scourge said. That comment made MC mad. He then sweep kicked Scourge, sending him down to land on his back. Then MC pounced on him, pinning him down.

"Two things, Scourge," MC said. "One, I'm a prince. And two, I really am of Royal Blood on my father's side." Just then, pink flames started swirling around MC and Scourge. "What the heck?!"

Scourge smirked and said, "See ya." Scourge then kicked MC off of him and then the pink flames built up, and then Scourge and the pink flames disappeared.

MC looked towards where Scourge was and scolded. MC then said, "Opaline."

Smolder, Garble, Dulcy and Ember were chasing the rest of the Destructix out of the Dragon Lands, and through the forest. Just then, they stopped when Spike cut off the Destructix.

"You're not going anywhere with that!" Spike said.

"That's what you think," Fiona Fox said, smirking. "We've got what we needed. See ya." Just then the five villains were surrounded in pink flames, then the flames built up. The flames vanished, along with the Bloodstone and the Destructix.

"No!" Ember said. "They got the Bloodstone!"

"We'll get it back, Ember," Smolder said. She then looked around. "Where are MC and Sparky?" Just then, MC rushed towards them, carrying Sparky in the baby carrier. "Never mind."

"The others got away in pink flames?" MC asked.

"Yep," Garble said.

"Opaline," MC said. "No doubt she was the one who busted them out."

"Opaline?" Smolder asked. "You mean that Alicorn that attacked us after we graduated from Twilight's School of Friendship?"

"The same," MC said. "She's gathering other villains, and now she has the Bloodstone. Why would she need the stone instead of the whole scepter?"

"Who knows?" Dulcy asked. "I bet we'll get it back."

"Yeah, especially with your hurricane breath," Smolder said.

"Hurricane breath?" MC asked.

"Yeah, Dulcy blew away that blue hawk guy far away," Garble said.

MC put a hand to his chin to think. He then said, "Alright, Dulce. Since you actually put up a fight to the Destructix, and have some interesting magic, I think we should have you part of the Freedom Fighters. But you'll still need training. I better find you a place to stay." He then walked away, raising his right arm to his mouth. "Nicole, get me in touch with Amy."

Meanwhile, in Opaline's Castle, Opaline was holding the Bloodstone in her hands after Fiona handed it to her.

"Finally!" Opaline said. "A key to getting more magic from all of Equestria."

Allura, who was also in the room, walked closer to Opaline, inspecting the Bloodstone. She then asked, "How exactly is this thing going to help you get all the magic of Equestria?"

"It's crucial for getting it," Opaline answered. "So, as soon as my spy, Misty, gets one of those two dragons, I will use their fire on the Bloodstone, or how it's really called, the Dragon Stone, it'll increase my magic, and I will use it to steal the magic of all the creatures of Equestria."

"You have a spy in the Freedom Fighters?" Imperator Ix asked, walking into the room.

"Yes," Opaline said. Just then, a holographic image of Misty came in. "Misty here will capture one of those dragons, and when she has one and contacts me, I'll bring her back here, and then, I'll be the ultimate Fire Alicorn!" Outside of the room, Shade was standing right by the door, not seen by Opaline, the Destructix, Imperator Ix and Allura, overhearing the conversation.

"And when she gives you one of the dragons, will you give her what she wants?" Fiona asked.

"Oh, she wants to have her Cutie Mark finally given to her," Opaline said. "But sadly, that will never come to be. Once I get one of those dragons, Misty will be no use to me."

Shade gasped at that, but then she covered her mouth.

"What was that?!" Scourge asked.

"It's probably just the building settling," Flying Frog said.

"So a building settling sounds like someone inhaling loudly?" Allura asked.

"I lived in a weird building before I became a part of the Destructix," Flying Frog said.

"Poor Misty," Shade said, quietly.

"Okay, don't tell me you heard that," Allura said.

"It's the building settling," Flying Frog said.

"So the building suddenly feels bad for Misty," Allura asked. Shade was slowly walking away from the door, quietly.

Back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, MC was walking down the hallway to the Master Bedroom, exhausted from what he went through. When he opened the door, he was shocked when he saw something. On the other side of the room, Twilight and Sonic were standing in front of the bookcase with the enchanted books, which was wide opened. Twilight was now wearing an outfit from Saudi Arabia, and Sonic had on a metal gauntlet.

"You... you two opened enchanted books?!" MC asked.

"Sorry, Michael," Twilight said. "I shoulda listened." MC then put his left thumb and forefinger to his closed eyes as he groaned.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Meet the Hedgehogs

Episode 8: Meet the Hedgehogs

At Freedom Fighters Mansion, in the patio, Twilight was inspecting Dulcy's mouth, trying to inspect this new magic within the new dragon. The Freedom Fighters, except Sonic and MC, were there. Including the Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, and the Young 6.

"I never seen anything like this!" Twilight said. "Magic from dragon fire? I thought Spike was the only dragon with magic dragon fire."

"Not just him," Smolder said. "Sparky's also got magic fire. Transformation fire."

"Smolder's right," Hitch said. "Could it be that... all dragons now have magical properties from their fire since coming here from the other side of the Galaxy through Chaos Control?"

"No, that's not it," Spike said. "Dulcy said her hurricane breath came to her before Equestria was brought back to Earth. So something must've happened before Chaos Control."

"It was probably when you all went against Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy," came the voice of Midpoint. The group looked towards the voice, seeing Midpoint and Cozy walking in.

"Alex?" Sunny asked. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, nothing much," Midpoint said. "Just wanting to tell you that..." He then pulled something out. It was a letter. "We're going to the Olympics!"

"The Olympics?!" Twilight asked. "That's amazing! What is that?!"

"The Olympics are a series of games in an athletic festival," Tails said.

"Originated in Ancient Greece, supposedly founded by the Greek God, Hercules," Truemen said. "Oh, man. I've always wanted to see it in person."

"See it?" Midpoint asked. "You're gonna be competing in it."

"Me? Compete?" Truemen asked.

"That's right, man," Midpoint said. "You'll be competing in different sports. You're gonna be in Canoe Racing, the Javelin Throw, and rock climbing."

"Rock climbing?" Truemen asked. He then looked at his robot arm. "Wouldn't my robot arm give everyone else a disadvantage?"

"You wouldn't be the only one with Super Strength," Midpoint said. Just then, the sound of a car horn came in. They all looked towards the horn and saw a blue Ford F-150 pulling up. A crate was in the bed, a long with Sonic holding onto it. Just then, a female hedgehog came out of the passenger seat.

"Thanks for the ride, Michael," the hedgehog woman said.

"No problem, Bernie," MC said. "Now, let's get your husband outta the back." He then got out of the truck and headed for the bed. He then unstrapped the box and brought out the crate. He then ripped open the side, revealing a roboticized hedgehog, making everyone gasping.

"Next time, I get a bigger box," the robot hedgehog said.

The Equestrians started charging towards the robot hedgehog.

"Look out!" Twilight said. "It's a new Metal Sonic!" Just then, all of them were grabbed at the ankles by the matter around them. They all looked. Twilight then looked at MC and said, "MC! What are you doing?!"

"Relax, everyone," MC said. "That ain't no Metal Sonic."

"Everyone, meet my mom, Bernadette, and my dad, Jules," Sonic said.

"This robot... is your dad?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah," Jules said. "I was Roboticized long before Equestria came here."

Twilight looked towards MC and asked, "MC, haven't you tried...?"

"It wasn't that simple," MC said. "When Eggman captured him, he was too injured to be saved physically. Crushed spine, internal bleeding, he only had hours to live."

"Oh, that can't be good," Sunny said. "So if he gets... Deroboticized... he could die in hours?"

"There has to be a way to save him," Zipp said. She then put on her Z-Goggles to inspect Jules. But everything she checked out, it was nothing but what robots were made of. "Right. It won't work on robots."

"Okay, so any normal procedure of saving Sonic's dad is incredibly slim?" Twilight asked.

"Very incredibly," MC said. "We don't even know if there's a possible way for us to save him."

"I can check, but it might take me a while," Midpoint said. "It ain't right for someone who's been Robotocized to stay a robot forever. Surely Sir Charles didn't know the consequences of how it went if it fell in the wrong hands."

"Sir Charles?" Twilight asked.

"Sonic's deceased uncle Chuck," MC said. He then sighed. "He was the one who came up with the original Roboticizor."

"What?!" the Mane 6, the Young 6, Sunny and her friends all asked in unison.

"Why would Sonic's uncle Chuck make something like that?" Twilight asked. "Joshua almost got turned into a robot by that thing!"

"It wasn't supposed to make the robots into mindless slaves for Eggman," Sonic said. "My uncle Chuck made it originally to make sure that those who were dying to live longer to stay with their loved ones."

"Eggman knew about this project," Tails said. "So he sabotaged the presentation. He reprogrammed the Roboticizor to make those who were turned into robots to follow only him. He made them attack the humans during the presentation."

"After that attack, the humans thought that we Mobians were trying to take over the world, eliminating all humans," MC said. "And that's when we all had to go into hiding."

"I've been injured severely before I became... this," Jules motioned an arm towards himself. "I was lucky to get my mind back thanks to Tails and Rotor."

"Of course I had to hold him down," MC said. "Of course, when we had to send him and Bernie away into hiding when we formed the Freedom Fighters."

"Does anyone have any medical records of Jules before he got Roboticized?" Twilight asked.

"We checked everywhere," MC said. "Eggman deleted everything about Jules right after he Roboticized him. Eggman knew what he was doing."

"We even looked in all of his bases after he deserted them," Sonic said. "Including the Egg Carrier during the time he released Chaos from the Master Emerald."

"Even I checked all the backups when I was checking the EggNet the last time I hacked in," Midpoint said. "Anyway, I should hit the local archery range. Gotta get ready for the archery competition."

"Of course," MC said. "Tails and I've got someplace to be as well. Let's go."

"Roger that," Tails said. Then the two foxes headed towards the hanger.

"Where are they going?" Sunny asked.

"Who knows," Twilight said. She then looked at Jules and Bernadette. "You might not have the answers to get your full strength back through your world's greatest healers, but maybe there's something from Equestria that can heal you back to your normal self."

"That sounds really risky," Bernadette said.

"But it might be worth it," Twilight said. She then sat up. "I'm going to find a healing spell that will get you back to full health, Jules."

"Is that even possible?" Sunny asked as Twilight was walking away.

"If I have to search through all of Equestria to do it, then I'll do it," Twilight said, standing tall.

In the Castle of Friendship, Twilight was looking through all the books on healing magic she could get. She checked all the books, searching for anything that could help.

"Okay, let's see," Twilight said, opening one book. "'Mage Meadowbrook's medical potions of diseases'. Nope, that's not it." Twilight then tossed the book aside and grabbed another book. "'Somnambula's meditation process of self-healing'. No, that's not gonna work." She then tossed that book aside and went to grab another one. "'Discord's Guide to Chaotic Nature'?! How'd this get in here?!" She then threw the book into a trash can. Just then, the book gave off a flash of light, turning into Discord, who was wearing the trash can like it was a helmet.

"Why, I never..." Discord said. "Nopony can take a joke anymore." He then snapped his eagle talon fingers and vanished, the trash can on the ground, spinning around.

Twilight groaned and face planted on the table. She then said, "Even here, there's no way of healing Jules."

"Twilight?" came Nyx's voice. Twilight looked towards the door and she saw Nyx and Joshua standing there. "What are you doing?"

Twilight sighed and said, "Searching for a spell that can heal Sonic's father from his internal injuries."

"Sonic's dad?" Joshua asked. "Is he okay?"

"For now," Twilight said. "He's injured very severely. But the only thing that's keeping him alive is him being a robot."

"He's a robot?" Nyx asked. "Isn't that...?"

"He's still under his own control," Twilight said. "But we're searching for a way to heal him completely. But right now, there's nothing."

"I guess there are some things that can't be healed," Joshua said. "Guess Sonic is just gonna have to live with what he's got. Sometimes... I wish that..." Joshua then bowed his head. Twilight walked over towards Joshua.

"I know you miss them," Twilight said. "But they wanted what was best for you. You know that."

"I know," Joshua said. He then sighed. "I kinda wish I had more time with them."

"Yeah," Twilight said. "You were younger back then." She then thought of something. She then widened her eyes. "That's it! That's it!"

"What's it?" Nyx asked.

"An age spell," Twilight said. "Or, to be exact, a de-age spell." She then walked over towards the book shelf, started flying up, and looked for the complicated spells. "Okay, here are the books. Let's see. 'Elemental Spells', 'Relic Restoration', 'Gravitational Manipulation'... Ah! Here we go! 'Chronological Spells'!" She then opened the book and started searching through the pages.

"Are you sure this is gonna work?" Nyx asked. "One miscalculation, and you could make Jules a little kid."

"Or a baby," Joshua added.

"That's why..." Twilight said as she was bringing up a pot with a flower that was almost in bloom. "I'm gonna test it on this plant." She then looked at the spell to see how the spell was going to work.

Meanwhile, back in Station Square, at an indoor archery range, Midpoint was preparing to fire at the target he was facing. He then fired the arrow, and hit the bullseye, in between two arrows he fired at the target.

"Okay, that's 40 meters," Midpoint said. "Let's go for 80 this time." He then went over to a control console and turned the dial to the 80 meter mark. Just then, the target started descending into the floor, and a new target came up.

"80 meters, huh?" came a voice. Midpoint looked towards the voice and saw Olive standing there.

"Hey, Olive," Midpoint said. "What brings you here?"

"I heard you'll be going up in the Mobian side of the Olympics," Olive said.

"You've been checking up on me?" Midpoint asked.

"You'd think I'd miss out on you becoming an Olympic competitor?" Olive asked. "Heck, if you were still human, you'd probably be the youngest to actually compete with the other humans in the Olympics with your perfect aim."

"If it weren't for the incident on our camping trip, that might have been a possibility," Midpoint said.

"You're right," Olive said. She then held out an archer's bow in her right hand. "You'll be competing in archery for not only the individual rounds, but the team rounds, too. I might as well give it a shot."

"You do archery?" Midpoint asked.

"Not really," Olive said. She then grabbed an arrow from the quiver, attached it to her bow, and got ready to aim in the left handed position. "But there's a first time for everything." She then released the arrow, but the arrow hit the target in the six point ring. She then smiled sheepishly, looking towards Midpoint. "I might... need some practice and training, though."

Midpoint chuckled and said, "Your form was right, but it's not just about aiming right towards the target, but how far the target is. If it's at a certain distance, you might have to aim higher, and let gravity do the work."

"Really?" Olive asked.

"That's right," Midpoint said. "And also, there's also gonna be some wind resistance trying to move the arrow away from the target." Midpoint then grabbed an arrow from the quiver, and aimed it towards the target. Of course, he was in the right handed position. He then angled his bow a bit upwards, and fired the arrow towards the target. It then hit the bullseye perfectly.

"Easy for you to say, you're a natural shot," Olive said.

"I'm a natural because I'm also smart," Midpoint said. "Let me help you." Olive then prepared another arrow. Midpoint then moved Olive's position up. "The goal to hitting the bullseye from a far distance is calculation and geometry." He then pointed towards the target. "Aim the arrow at the 4 point circle."

Olive looked towards the target. Ad the end of the arrow, she saw that the tip of the arrow was pointing straight at the four point circle. Olive then released the arrow, but she accidentally released the arrow when she stepped back and aiming the arrow a little upward, and it hit the nine point circle.

"Darn," Olive said.

"It's also about concentration," Midpoint said. "Don't keep your eyes off the target."

"Didn't you win an archery tournament blindfolded?" Olive asked.

"It was on a dare from one of my schoolmates in MIT," Midpoint said.

"If you attended college in Massachusetts, and you lived in California, why didn't you go to college at Cal Tech?" Olive asked.

"My dad was living in Boston at the time," Midpoint said. "But then... when my dad and I were visiting Grandpa after I graduated, Mimic came in, and framed my dad."

Just then, Midpoint got a text from his phone. He then pulled it out and checked the message. Olive then asked, "What is it? Anything wrong?"

"It seems that Twilight is planning on healing Sonic's dad," Midpoint said.

"But that's impossible," Olive said. "Nothing can heal Jules from his internal injuries."

"She's planning on using an age spell," Midpoint said. "In reverse to undo the damage that was inflected in Jules's body. I think Twilight is wanting me to see if it is possible to save Jules. Care to join me?"

"Of course," Olive said. "Let's get going." Then the two of them headed out of there.

At Tails's workshop in Mystic Ruins, MC and Tails were wearing welding masks as Tails was welding a bumper that MC was holding up to something. Just then, MC's communicator started beeping. He then held up his right arm and looked at the text, seeing it was from Twilight, even though her nickname, Sparkles, was on the top of the message.

"Huh," MC said, removing his welding mask. "Never thought of that before."

"Thought of what?" Tails asked, removing his mask.

"An age spell," MC said. "To reverse his aging to a point he was fully healed."

"Could that actually work?" Tails asked.

"Only one way to find out," MC said. Then Tails and MC put away the welding supplies and headed out of there.

Back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, Twilight was reading over the spell to de-age Jules after MC would Deroboticize him.

"Okay, with the final preparations of the spell, it should be... ready to go," Twilight said. She then looked towards MC. "You ready to do this, MC?"

"It's been a while since I Deroboticized someone with my power," MC said, stretching out his arms and hands, his fingers locked together while cracking his knuckles.

"Are you sure you're up for this, Dad?" Sonic asked.

"If it means I'll be able to actually feel anything again, I'm willing to risk it," Jules said, patting Sonic's cheek.

Just then, Tails, MC, Midpoint and Olive came in.

"You sure you wanna go through with this, Jules?" MC asked.

"As ready as I'll ever be," Jules said.

"Okay," MC said, his hands started glowing. "This might start hurting." He then aimed his arms right towards Jules and golden beams came from his hands, the beams heading towards Jules.

MC fired golden beams from his hands, the beams heading towards Jules. Then Jules started to cringe as the pain was starting to come to him. His robotic form then started becoming organic. As soon as he was fully organic, MC stopped.

"Alright, Sparkles, now!" MC said.

Twilight nodded. She then fired a beam of magic from her horn, the magic surrounding Jules. Jules was struggling through the pain, but it was starting to sooth. Jules was no longer a robot. He is now a fully fleshed Mobian Hedgehog. Similar to Sonic, except he had brown hair over his forehead, a red vest, brown gloves and brown boots.

"J-Jules?" Bernie asked.

Jules looked down at himself. He then patted himself, checking to see if anything hurt. He then checked his hands. He then looked at Twilight.

"Am I...?" Jules asked.

"Yes, Jules," Twilight said. "You're back to full health and condition."

"I... I don't believe it," Jules said. He then looked towards Bernie. "Bernie?"

"Jules!" Bernie then ran over towards Jules and the two hugged.

"Dad?" Sonic asked. Jules looked towards Sonic. He then smiled.

"Sonic, by boy," Jules said. "Come give your old man a hug." Then Sonic rushed over and gave Jules a hug.

"Oh, dad," Sonic said.

Peeking her head in from outside, Misty saw Sonic hugging his dad. Misty was wearing her Movie Theater Uniform. She saw how much emotion that Sonic was giving off when he was with his dad.

"Aw..." Misty said. "That's so sweet." Misty then walked back towards her room. As she got in she sat on her bed. She then pulled out her paycheck she gotten from work. "Well, at least you're worth something to me." She then looked over at something on her bedside table. It was a homemade doll made of a tennis ball, a small crystal, a tea cup, and other objects. "I really wish I knew my dad, Madame Taffytail." Just then, she heard a voice.

"Misty!"

"Huh? Wha...?" Misty asked, looking around. "Who... who's there?"

"Misty come back!"

Just then, she had a vision. She saw herself as a filly, somewhere in a forest. She was running around a giant tree, trying to catch butterflies, laughing all the way. But as she came close to catching one, she tripped on something.

"Whoa!" filly Misty cried out. "Ow." She then looked around for what she tripped on. "What happened?" She then saw what she tripped on. It was the necklace that Misty of the Present was wearing. She picked it up. "Huh? What is this?"

"Misty! Where are you?!" came that voice that Misty was hearing.

"D-Daddy?" filly Misty asked. Just then, the eye of the necklace opened up, started floating around Misty, going at incredible speed. Filly Misty gasped at that. "Wha... What's happening?" Just then, the necklace opened a portal above her, sucking her in. Filly Misty then screamed, shutting her eyes tight as the voice of Misty's father came in.

"Misty! Misty, no!"

Filly Misty could no longer hear the voice of her father. When she opened her eyes, she was that she was in some kind of Throne Room. She then looked around.

"H-hello?" filly Misty asked.

"Glad to see somepony has returned what rightfully belongs to me," came the voice of Opaline. Filly Misty jumped and turned around, seeing Opaline behind her. She was holding the necklace in her hand. Filly Misty then screamed as the vision was ending.

Misty then sat up, gasping at what she just experienced. She then took deep breaths in and out.

"What was that?" Misty asked. "Was that... Opaline's doing?" She then shook her head. "No. That was something else."

From the top of the building, MC's mother, Sarah Crayton, the Iron Mask, was looking towards Misty's room, not being seen by anyone. She then removed her mask.

"So, that's how you ended up with Opaline," Sarah Crayton said. "You were pulled from your timeline to this one. Well, Misty, you aren't the only one from that time to be in this time." She then saw Hitch and Sparky.

"Sparky!" Hitch called out. "Come back here you silly dragon." Sarah smiled at that. She then opened up a time rift and walked through it without getting anyone's attention.

Meanwhile, in the alternate future Equestria, in Zephyr Heights, Future MC and some royal guards were walking down the hall, along with a royal advisor.

"Is everything arranged for the Manesquarade Ball?" Future MC asked.

"Yes, my king," the royal advisor said. "The Ball has been prepared."

"That's good," Future MC said. "How's the new Sheriff of Maretime Bay doing since he took over?"

"Sheriff Shadow is doing his job just as well as Sheriff Hitch was," the royal advisor answered. "Especially since you royally pardoned him and released him from his prison and he took down Sprout Cloverleaf."

"I kinda had to," Future MC said. "I couldn't just abandon this place to take down Sprout. There was too much paperwork to be done. Especially with the disappearance of the Sheriff, the Princesses, Sunny and Izzy."

"Don't forget Cloudpuff," said one of the guards.

"Oh, I sent Cloudpuff to where Zipp and Pipp are in the other timeline," Future MC said. "Might as well have him be with someone he knows." He then sighed. "How's the progress on Project: Meadowbrook?" He led the group into one room that had a capsule at the end, and somepony was in the capsule with a breathing mask over her face. That somepony was Queen Haven.

"Progress on Project: Meadowbrook are going really well," the Royal Advisor said. One of the scientists walked up to Future MC.

"Indeed, my king," the scientist said. "Pretty soon, Queen Haven will be out of there."

"How soon?" Future MC asked.

"About a month," the scientist replied.

"A month, huh?" Future MC asked. "Well, if it means getting her back to full health from what Mephiles did to her, then she'll be fine." He then walked up to the capsule and put his left hand on it. "If only it were that easy to tell her that her two daughters are trapped in the past on a different timeline." He then walked away, the royal advisor, the scientist and the guards following him. In the capsule, a tear was coming out of Queen Haven's right eye.

Back in the present timeline, Sonic and his parents were heading into the garage. Sonic was getting the keys to a car. He then headed for a Ford F-150, which was MC's. Sonic then drove the truck to the garage door where Jules and Bernie were waiting. MC then saw Sonic's parents getting into his truck.

"Hey!" MC called out. He then ran towards the truck. "Sonic! That's my truck!"

"Sorry, MC," Sonic said. "We gotta go pick up Sonia and Manic. For a good ol' family reunion." He then drove down the driveway fast as Jules and Bernie closed their doors.

"SONIC!!" MC called out, angrily.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
The Junior Olympics

Episode 10: Sergeant Mufasa's Military School

Gallus opened up the mailbox, grabbing the mail. He then walked back towards the mansion.

"Nicole," Gallus said. "Tell everyone the mail's here."

"Of course, Gallus," Nicole's voice came from the intercom just outside the gate. Gallus then walked into the house and started sorting the mail.

As soon as Gallus finished sorting the mail, Truemen walked up to where the mail was sorted. He reached into his box and grabbed what was his.

"Ad, ad, ad... Huh?" Truemen said, looking at something he grabbed. "My old military school?"

"You went to a military school?" Gallus asked.

"It was before the alien invasion," Truemen said, opening the letter. He then checked what was in it and read it. He then went wide eyed. "What? Insubordination? Quitting?" He then growled. "Kultz! That idiot!"

"Who's Kultz?" Gallus asked.

"Darius Kultz, he's a bully at the military school I attended before the alien invasion," Truemen said. "He was always mean to me. He always made me clean up his shoes, do the laundry, and even wash all the weapons, saying it was the Sergeant's orders. But Kultz told him that I volunteered."

"Whoa," Gallus said. "Now that's just messed up."

"I agree," came Zipp's voice. "If Kultz was making your life miserable at your old military school, then the sergeant should hear about it."

"I've tried it, but Kultz denied everything," Truemen said. "And besides..." Truemen then took off his jacket, showing off his magic robot arm. "My old military school doesn't allow anyone to use powers of any kind. How am I going to explain to them about my robot arm?"

"Just tell 'em what happened," Gallus said. "If you tell 'em what happened, they might be able to listen."

"You think I haven't?" Truemen asked. "Kultz has gotten the Sergeant wrapped around his weaselly little finger. That weasel is such a weasel."

"Then perhaps we should pay your old school a visit," came MC's voice. The group looked towards the voice and saw MC standing there.

"MC?" Truemen asked. "What do you mean?"

"If Darius Kultz is as bad as you say he is, he needs to be taught a lesson," MC said. "Let's get going."

MC, Zipp, Gallus and Truemen were in MC's Ford F-150, all of them heading to Truemen's old military school. MC was driving and Truemen was in the passenger seat. Gallus was behind MC and Zipp was behind Truemen. Zipp was talking to Pipp through video phone.

"I hope you finish up soon, Zipp," Pipp said through the phone. "Don't forget, I need your help with the opening for the shop opening next week."

"I know, Pipp," Zipp said. "It's just we gotta do something for Truemen at his old military school."

"That would explain the shirt he has," Pipp said. "Just be home in time."

"Fine," Zipp said. "I'll try to be there on time. Bye." She then hung up and groaned.

"Relax, Zephyrina," MC said. "We won't be there long. It'll just be for a couple days."

"Don't call me that, MC," Zipp said.

"Wait, so your full name is Zephyrina Storm?" Gallus asked.

Zipp groaned and said, "It's only my Mom who gets to call me that." She then sighed. "Or at least, she was."

"Oh, right," Gallus said. "Your mom got killed by a sinister shadow that looks like Shadow. Kinda wish I've been there."

"Mephiles woulda killed you on the spot," MC said. "Or get burned alive by Iblis."

"Oh, turn right here," Truemen said, pointing his robot hand to the right.

"Roger that," MC said, turning the wheel. Then they came up to the main entrance. MC turned the truck towards the gate where a toll arm was preventing them from entering. The box controlling the toll arm was on the driver's side. MC rolled down the window.

"Who dares enter Sergeant Mufasa's Military School?" the man in the box asked, standing at attention.

MC pulled out his wallet and showed his ID to the man, saying, "Prince Michael Crayton of the Freedom Fighters. I'm here with former student here, Truemen the Bear." Truemen looked towards the man, giving a nervous grin.

The man looked at Truemen with a stern look. He then looked down at MC's ID and smirked. He then said, "Your father is angry at you for leaving his school, Truemen. Report to your father's office, Truemen. Sergeant Mufasa wanted to speak with you for a long time since abandoning the school he worked anxiously to run." The man handed MC back his wallet. MC, Gallus and Zipp looked towards Truemen with shocked expressions.

"Your dad... is the Sergeant and Headmaster of this Military School?" MC asked.

"Yeah, I have a lot of explaining to do," Truemen said. Then MC started driving up to the school and went into the guest parking lot. When the truck was parked, they started walking up to the school. When they reached the doors, the doors opened, revealing a red weasel standing at the door at attention.

"Hello, Bear," the weasel said.

"Kultz," Truemen said. "You weasel."

MC looked towards Truemen and asked, "That's Kultz?"

"Yes," Truemen said.

"You shouldn't have come back, Bear," Kultz said. "Your father is really ticked after abandoning this place."

"That's not what happened," Truemen said. "You're lying."

Kultz chuckled and said, "Who says I'm lying? You are not welcome back here."

"Says you," MC said, charging his left fist with golden energy.

"None of you are allowed in this facility," Kultz said.

"We were just told that Truemen's dad was expecting him!" Zipp said.

"Yeah, and it's obvious you're lying!" Gallus said, crossing his arms.

"What's going on here?!" came a voice. Then an adult bear came to the doorway. He was wearing a military hat and uniform as he came to the door, seeing the guests. He then saw Truemen as he was covering his right arm. "Truemen?"

"Hey, dad," Truemen said.

"I told you before, Truemen!" Sergeant Mufasa snapped. "In the presence of others, it's Sergeant Mufasa or Sir! You hear that, soldier!" Truemen stood at attention.

"Yes, Sir!" Truemen said.

"Good!" Sergeant Mufasa shouted. "Now! All of you report to my office at once!"

"Yes, Sir!" Truemen, Zipp and Gallus said, standing at attention. MC was the only one not standing at attention.

Sergeant Mufasa turned towards MC and shouted, "Stand at attention!"

"You can't give me orders like that, dude," MC said. "I'm Prince Michael Crayton."

"You don't get to defy...!" Sergeant Mufasa shouted until he realized what MC said. "Wait... did you say Prince Michael Crayton?"

"Sir, it's obvious this fox is lying," Kultz said. "There's no way he's a..."

"At ease, Kultz!" Sergeant Mufasa shouted. He then looked at MC. "I can actually see the resemblance between you and your father."

"You knew my dad?" MC asked.

"I've met him when I was just starting my first off shore assignment," Sergeant Mufasa said. "You sure look a lot like him."

"Of course," MC said. "Let's talk." Sergeant Mufasa nodded. Then they all headed into the building. Kultz growled at that before following the group inside.

In Sergeant Mufasa's office, Sergeant Mufasa was sitting at his desk with MC, Truemen, Gallus and Zipp standing in front of the desk.

"So, you left my military school to join the Freedom Fighters during the alien invasion?" Sergeant Mufasa asked.

"No, that is not what happened," Truemen said. "I didn't leave. Kultz locked me out after he pushed me towards those aliens. He said I never belonged here."

"Don't you dare lie to me, Truemen!" Sergeant Mufasa snapped.

"Sergeant, I can assure to you that your son is not lying," MC said. "I can tell when someone..." He was then interrupted.

"Don't interrupt me when I'm talking to my troops!" Sergeant Mufasa snapped. He then sighed. "Truemen, report back to your quarters this instant. Tomorrow, report back to your training."

"But..." Truemen said, but was interrupted.

"End of discussion!" Sergeant Mufasa snapped. "Captain Kultz! Take Truemen back to his quarters!" Then Kultz came into the room.

"With pleasure," Kultz said, grabbing Truemen's left arm.

"Captain?!" Truemen asked as he was being dragged out of the office. The door closed. MC growled.

"What the heck's wrong with you?!" MC asked. "Your son was telling the truth! I can literally smell lies!"

"I've seen your work on the news, your Highness," Sergeant Mufasa said, walking up to MC. "But you know what? You rely too much on your powers."

"My powers are only in case of emergencies," MC said. "I don't use them all the time." He then sighed. "Besides, Truemen's now one of us. A Freedom Fighter."

"He must continue with military training!" Sergeant Mufasa shouted. "This school must train its students to be soldiers before they're sent out into the field! Not only in survival and fighting skills, but also through honor! As well as my old commander did while he and I served in the US Military, Commander Thaddeus Reynolds!" He pointed at a framed picture of his old commander, who was a human.

"Thaddeus Reynolds?" MC asked. "That's Lynol's grandfather, on his mother's side."

"Oh, that's right, Alex said he was born human," Gallus said. "And he did say that he learned from his maternal grandpa that there is no honor if there is no honesty."

"Guess Alex did learn a lot from his grandfather," Sergeant Mufasa said. "But I'm afraid that you three must be leaving. My son has to get back to military training."

"What?" Zipp asked. "You can't..."

"He's a Freedom Fighter, like us," Gallus said. "Even though she and I are in training."

"Sorry, you three," Sergeant Mufasa said. "But Truemen must continue in his military training before leaving to do what is right. And I'm afraid that he has no time for being a Freedom Fighter." Just then, the door opened, and in came some soldiers, pulling the three Freedom Fighters out.

"Hey, let go!" Gallus said.

"What are you doing?!" Zipp asked.

"I appreciate you looking after my son, but I'm afraid that it's time for you to go," Sergeant Mufasa said. "Men, make sure that these three are escorted off the premises."

"Yes, sir!" the two soldiers said. MC growled at that.

Truemen was back in his old quarters. He looked around at what was there and sighed. He was about to reach into the chest that had his stuff when there was banging coming from the closet. Truemen was antsy about it. So he slowly walked towards the closet. When he reached it, he opened it and falling out of it was a male raccoon. His hands were tied up and his mouth was gagged. Truemen recognized him and pulled him towards the bed.

"Holtzman!" Truemen said as he was pulling the raccoon towards the bed. He then ungagged the raccoon known as Holtzman. "Who did this to you?"

"You came back, Truemen," Holtzman said. "I was almost afraid that one of those aliens ate you."

"Well, in a way..." Truemen said. He then showed off his robot arm. "...they did."

"Oh, my god!" Holtzman said. "You have a robot arm! That there should be enough proof to get your father to listen to you!"

"You know that won't be enough!" Truemen said. "Kultz has every grown up wrapped around his weaselly little finger!"

"You're right," Holtzman said, thinking about it. "Kultz is a real jerk. He's been on me ever since I've recorded him pushing you out of the school when those aliens were attacking."

Truemen froze up from what Holtzman said. He then turned around and asked, "What did you say?"

Holtzman looked around to see if anyone was watching them. When he could confirm that the two were alone, Holtzman faced Truemen again.

"I brought my video camera with me when I was brought here," Holtzman replied. "I've been recording everything that Kultz has done behind the backs of every grown up that work here. But when he caught me recording him, he took my camera from me and smashed it, but not before I pulled out my Micro SD card."

"So you still have proof of him doing all the bad things he's done?" Truemen asked.

"Yes, but I've hidden it," Holtzman said. "I've hidden it outside of the school, but with Kultz watching my every move after I leave our room, I can't even get out to get the proof."

Truemen then looked towards the window in the room. He then said, "I know some guys who can." He then brought up his robot hand, and made its thumb and pinkie fingers extend. The two fingers got longer, revealing a microphone in the pinkie and a speaker in the thumb. Then some holographic buttons appeared, and he used the rest of the robot fingers to dial a number.

Meanwhile, across the street from the Military School, at a gas station, MC was putting gasoline into the gas tank of the truck while Zipp was on the phone.

"Okay, Truemen," Zipp said. "We'll go find the Micro SD Card. You just try to find your own way out."

"It won't be that easy, Zipp," Truemen's voice came from the phone, which was on speaker phone. "Kultz has this place like its his prison, and he's the warden."

"Then we'll take him down," MC said. "When we find that Micro SD Card, we'll show the information to Sergeant Mufasa and expose that weasel for everything he's done."

"So, where do we find that card thing?" Gallus asked.

"Holtzman says it's hidden in the old greenhouse just North of the overnight war zone," Truemen said.

"What's a war zone?" Gallus asked.

"It's when a military school divides their students into teams of two," MC said. "It's practice for military training in real life by rifle training with paintball ammo."

"Like when we went to that paintball court after your mom took Classic Sonic and Classic Tails back to their timeline," Zipp said.

"Oh, man," Gallus said. "Sonia, Rarity and Pipp were upset after being hit the first time."

"We warned them to wear helmets," Zipp said.

"Well, we should get going," MC said. "If we're gonna find that Micro SD Card, we should head out as soon as possible. We'll meet you back there, Truemen. Just stay put."

"Roger that, MC," Truemen said.

Zipp then hung up her phone. Then she got into the passenger side seat while MC put the hose back onto the pump. He then closed the gas cap, and went to the front of the truck and slid across it. Gallus then got in the seat behind MC.

Back in the Military School, Truemen was in a military school uniform, walking down the halls of the school. Just then, his head was grabbed by someone. He turned around to see Kultz with a dark smirk on his face.

"Your hair is too long, Truemen," Kultz said. He then pulled out a razor. "Time for a haircut."

"No," Truemen said, sweep kicking Kultz, making him fall over. Truemen then started running away from Kultz.

"Hey, get back here!" Kultz said, jumping back onto his feet. "You listen to your captain!"

"You're not the captain of me!" Truemen said as he was running.

"Actually, I am!" Kultz said. "You're just the sergeant's son who doesn't even deserve special credit. And you never will once my elite team find and destroy that evidence that your so called friends are gonna get."

"What?!" Truemen asked, stopping.

"That's right, fool," Kultz said. "Your friends are gonna lead my team to the proof that can be easily destroyed."

"Why you..." Truemen was about to punch Kultz, but he was tackled by two other students. "Hey! Let me go!"

"Lock him up in the basement," Kultz said. "This one's always been a pain."

"No! Let me go!" Truemen shouted as he was being dragged.

Truemen was eventually thrown down the basement, his arms and waist bound in a rope. He was struggling to get out of the rope when he looked up. He saw Holtzman tied up in the basement as well.

"Holtzman?" Truemen asked.

"Truemen!" Holtzman said. "They got you too, huh?!"

"How did this happen?" Truemen asked.

"I thought that we were in the clear, but I guess we weren't," Holtzman said. "We need to get out of here."

"No doubt about that," Truemen said. He then tried spreading his arms to snap the rope around him, but it wasn't enough. "Man, this rope is tough."

"Does that robot arm of yours have claws?" Holtzman asked. Truemen then went wide eyed. He then wormed his way closer to Holtzman. Holtzman then got closer. When the two were close to each other, Truemen had his robot hand extended. A claw came from the forefinger and it started cutting the rope around Holtzman. It then cut the rope and Holtzman got free. Holtzman then started untying Truemen. "You okay?"

"I'll be fine," Truemen said. Truemen was then freed from the rope. "We gotta get out of here."

"No doubt that Kultz had his goonies barricade the door," Holtzman said.

"Who said anything about using the door?" Truemen asked, smirking.

Meanwhile, just North of the Military School's War Zone, MC, Gallus and Zipp arrived at an old greenhouse. Gallus tried opening the door, but it was stuck.

"Great," Gallus said. "It won't open. MC, think you can use your powers to get the door open?"

"I would, but that would prove Truemen's old man right," MC said. "I would be relying too much on my powers. The real power... is up here." MC then pointed at his head with his left hand.

"But if the door is stuck, that means Holtzman found another way in," Zipp said. "Hm." Zipp then put on her Z-Goggles and then a drone came from her bag. The drone then started searching around the greenhouse until it came up on something. "Wait a minute. I see something." Zipp then walked towards where the drone was looking. MC and Gallus followed. They saw that what Zipp was seeing was a board on the outside of the greenhouse wall, being stood up and secured by vines. Zipp took off her Z-Goggles. "If this was supposed to be sealed from the inside, then the board here should have been on the inside of the glass instead of the outside."

"Detective Zipp does it again," MC said. He then picked up the board and put it aside. Then the three of them started crawling through the hole that the board was covering. When they got inside, Gallus and Zipp were already hot and fanning themselves.

"Wow, it's hot in here," Gallus said.

"Greenhouses are usually hot this time of year," MC said. "The glass catches the heat."

"Okay," Zipp said. "Time to find that Micro SD Card." Zipp then put her Z-Goggles back on, scanning for anything. She looked around to see if the Micro SD Card was there.

Gallus sighed and said, "This is gonna take too long." He then picked up a hand rake. "We might over heat in this place."

"Relax, Gallus," Zipp said before she turned to face him. "It's just gonna be..." Zipp then paused. Through Zipp's Z-Goggles, Zipp caught something in the handle of the hand rake that Gallus was holding. "Hold up. Gallus, I see it. It's in the handle of that hand rake."

"What?" Gallus asked. He then looked at the hand rake. He then pulled off the tip of the rake, and then he shook the hand rake with the open part down so the Micro SD Card would fall into his hand.

"Not bad," MC said. He then took the Micro SD Card and put it into a slot on his glove. "Now we got proof. Let's get out of here." Just then, something burst through the window. What came in was a... "GRENADE!" MC then kicked the grenade back out through the hole it came from and it exploded. Just then, the sound of gun fire came in. "Hit the dirt!" MC, Gallus and Zipp dropped down to the ground as more gunfire was made.

MC, Gallus and Zipp were still on the ground, keeping below the gunfire.

"What do we do?!" Gallus asked.

"Just keep low!" MC said. "Slowly head towards the hole!"

Then they all crawled to the hole. But then Gallus saw a rope. He smirked and grabbed it.

Outside, the three soldiers that Kultz sent were still firing their rifles. But then, they ran out of bullets.

"Dang," one of the men said. Just then, MC came rushing towards the men at normal speed. MC then grabbed one of the rifles of the men, and pulled it out of his hands. Gallus and Zipp came in for an aerial attack and pushed the other two men onto the first one. Gallus and Zipp grabbed their rifles and threw them aside. Then Gallus and Zipp used the rope and tied the three up.

"What does Kultz want with the proof?" MC asked, angrily.

"The Sergeant is too weak to even be in charge of the school!" the first soldier said. "The only way to get what we want is to take it! That's what real military men do!"

"That's what terrorists do," Gallus said. "We would know. We went up against a psychopathic scientist with a long mustache for years." MC and Zipp nodded in agreement.

"Let's get back to the school," MC said. Then MC picked up the three tied up men. "Zipp, call the police and tell them to meet us at the Military School."

"Roger that," Zipp said. They all started walking away from that area.

Back at the school, Sergeant Mufasa was doing a patrol through the halls. When he was turning a corner, he saw a couple of men guarding the basement door.

"Soldiers!" Sergeant Mufasa said. "What are you doing standing guard at the basement door?!"

"Sir, there are weapons in here that intruders have been trying to steal," one of the guards said. "We're on order to make sure no unauthorized people are allowed in there."

"Very good men," Sergeant Mufasa said. "Remain on..." Just then, the door was slammed open, sending both of the men to the wall on the other side. "...duty?" Sergeant Mufasa looked in the door and he saw Truemen and Holtzman, both with angry looks. "Truemen? Holtzman?"

"We were locked in there," Truemen said. "By Kultz!"

"Kultz?!" Sergeant Mufasa said. "Impossible, he's the most honorable soldier in the school!" Just then, the window on the other side of the wall was broken in and in came MC, landing on all fours. Gallus and Zipp flew in through the hole in the window. "Your Highness?"

"Kultz is a liar," MC said. He then held up his right hand. "And here's the proof." MC aimed his hand towards the wall and in came a holographic screen, showing the day Truemen lost his arm. In the video, Kultz was pulling Truemen towards the door the week the Black Arms invaded.

"Hey! What are you doing, Kultz! Stop that!" Truemen said in the video.

"You can't tell me what to do! You shouldn't be worthy of telling anyone what to do!" Kultz said in the video. "Just because your daddy runs the school doesn't mean you're Captain! That's supposed to be my job! And he just gives it to you on a silver platter?! No way! So long, sucker!" Kultz then opened the door and threw Truemen out of the door, slamming it and locking it. Coming onto the screen was Sergeant Mufasa.

"What's going on?!" Sergeant Mufasa asked.

"Sarge, it's your son! He's gone AWOL!" Kultz replied.

"What?! When he's about to be named captain?!" Sergeant Mufasa asked in the video. "And during an invasion! He better have a good explanation when he gets back."

The video then ended. Just then, Kultz ran down the hall, yelling, "Sarge! We have...!" Kultz then stopped when he saw MC, Truemen, Gallus, Zipp, Holtzman and Sergeant Mufasa giving him angry looks.

"Kultz!" Sergeant Mufasa shouted. "You threw my son out of the school when those aliens invaded?!"

"What?! No!" Kultz said. "I would never." Just then, the video replayed the part where he was throwing out Truemen, and it was on repeat.

"So long, sucker! So long, sucker! So long, sucker! So long, sucker! So long, sucker!"

"Looks like it's your word against yours," Zipp said.

"It's called a hustle," MC said.

Kultz growled in anger. Then Sergeant Mufasa shouted, "Captain Kultz, for your deception, corruption and the attempted murder of my son, you are dishonorably discharged, and are going to jail!"

"No!" Kultz said, pulling out a pistol. "I worked too hard to get where I am! I am not losing my position to no good goodie two shoes!" He aimed his pistol at Sergeant Mufasa, but Truemen came in and put his robot hand over the barrel of the gun when Kultz pulled the trigger. Kultz was surprised that Truemen blocked the gun without being wounded. "What?! How...?!" Truemen then pulled up the right sleeve of his uniform, revealing his robot arm.

"My real arm got eaten by one of those aliens because of what you've done!" Truemen said. He then used his robot arm to squeeze the pistol, crushing it, and making Kultz drop his gun. "You're done! And I'm gonna take you down!"

"Truemen," MC said. "You don't have to do this."

"Yes I do," Truemen said. He then started fighting Kultz, martial arts style. Kultz tried kicking Truemen, but he blocked the kick with his left hand. Then Truemen spun clockwise and kicked Kultz on the side of the head, sending him to the ground. Kultz then got back up and tried doing a flying helicopter kick on Truemen, but Truemen dodged it. Truemen then did a spin kick, sending Kultz onto the ground. Then Truemen jumped onto Kultz with his robot arm's elbow landing on Kultz's gut, making him cry out in pain. Then some guards came in.

"Guards, take this weasel to jail," Sergeant Mufasa said. "He purposely threw my son out of the school during the alien invasion."

"Yes, sir!" the guards said. They picked up Kultz as he was trying to resist the guards through the pain he went through.

"This isn't over, Truemen!" Kultz said as he was being pulled away. "I will get you back for this!"

Sergeant Mufasa looked back towards Truemen and said, "Truemen, I am so sorry for not believing you. You are more than ready to be a captain here."

"I'd be honored, sir," Truemen said. Then he looked over at MC, Zipp and Gallus. "But I'm afraid I'm gonna have to turn down the position."

"What?" Sergeant Mufasa asked. "Why?"

"I'm already a Freedom Fighter, along with these guys," Truemen said. "They rely on me as much as I rely on them."

MC walked up to the two bears and said, "He's right, Sarge. Truemen has become a valuable member of the Freedom Fighters. He's a hero along with the rest of us."

Sergeant Mufasa then looked at Truemen and asked, "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure, sir," Truemen said.

Sergeant Mufasa sighed and said, "Well, it's your decision. I can't stop you. Go ahead. Get your stuff and get on out of here. Be careful out there."

"Yes, sir," Truemen said. He, MC, Gallus and Zipp started walking away.

"Oh, and one more thing," Sergeant Mufasa said, making the four Freedom Fighters stop and turn around. "It's dad to you, whether in private or in public." Truemen smiled at that. He then ran over and hugged Sergeant Mufasa. Then the four Freedom Fighters continued their way down the hall.

"Send us a bill for the window, Sarge!" MC called out. Sergeant Mufasa chuckled at that.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Rarity & Pipp's Mane Fashion Style

Episode 11: Rarity & Pipp's Mane Fashion Style

Episode 11: Rarity & Pipp's Mane Fasion Style

At the Station Square Mall, in the store that was purchased by the Freedom Fighters, Rarity was panicking about all the possibilities of what could go wrong on opening day.

"Oh, goodness!" Rarity said. She was breathing in and out. "It could be a total disaster! I don't know what I'd do if this new store tanks on the first day!"

Then Pipp walked up to Rarity's left side, wrapping her right arm around the unicorn's shoulders, saying, "Relax, Rarity. We've got this. None of your other stores in Equestria have tanked, have they?"

Then Sonia came up to Rarity's right side, wrapping her left arm around the unicorn's shoulders, saying, "You're a very popular unicorn from Equestria, not only on the brink of being one of the greatest fashionista's in the world, but you're also a hero for taking down Doctor Eggman and other threats to the world multiple times."

Rarity then thought about it. She then smiled and said, "You're right. I am Rarity. I can do this!" Then the three of them headed for the front entrance, which from the outside, there was a huge curtain blocking the inside entrance. They walked through the curtains where the Freedom Fighters, the rest of the Mane 6, the Young 6, Dulcy, Manic, Midpoint, Olive, Cozy Glow, Sunny, Hitch, Zipp, Izzy, Misty, Spike, Sparky and a bunch of news reporters and cameramen were outside waiting for the store to open. Rarity then stepped up to a podium and said into the microphone, "Ladies and gentlemen, Mobians, Humans and Equestrians, may I welcome you... to Rarity & Pipp's Mane Fashion Style!" Just then, on each side of the curtain, Pipp and Sonia pulled on the rope, revealing the entrance to the store.

In the store, Rarity was showing the people her new shop. The camera men followed her.

"Welcome, everyone," Rarity said. "Welcome to the opening of Rarity & Pipp's Mane Fashion Style! Where all your fashion needs, along with hair styles, can fit your personality." Rarity then showed them a special mirror. "Here, we have this special mirror that shows you the type of outfit that would fit your personality and the occasion. Whether the customer is male..." Rarity then used her magic to bring Gallus towards the mirror.

"Whoa! Hey!" Gallus said. When Gallus stood in front of the mirror, there was a scanning line that scanned Gallus's body in the reflection. Then, the reflection of Gallus showed Gallus wearing a white shirt, a faux leather jacket, blue jeans and his shoes. "Hey, I look good!" He then stepped away from the mirror.

"Or female," Rarity said, bringing Smolder towards the mirror. Smolder had her arms crossed with a smirk. The mirror scanned her reflection. But instead of showing an outfit meant for a tough girl, it showed Smolder in her cute dress attire in the mirror, making Smolder go shocked. "Huh? Smolder, you like...?"

"Um, this isn't me!" Smolder said, running away from the mirror. Then Sonic, Tails, MC, Mutt and Gallus snickered, remembering what they saw on Smolder at the end of Season 1, Episode 5.

"Well, I guess we still have some bugs to fix," Rarity said. "Thanks to the two tech geniuses here, Miles "Tails" Prower and Alex "Midpoint" Lynol, we'll get this mirror up and running again." She then cleared her throat. "Oh, and if you need to get your hair done..."

Rarity then showed the people to a part of the store, where it was a hair salon. Pipp then said, "Just pop by my hair salon, which is cleverly called..." She then started singing, increasing the two words. "Mane Melody!" Inside the hair salon, Fluttershy, Midpoint, Maria, Hitch and Izzy were in a hair salon chair, ready for their hair to be done. There was one chair that was meant for Zipp, but it was empty. Pipp then started talking normally. "Come in and get a whole new look and..." Pipp then saw the empty chair. "Zipp? Where are you?"

Zipp was on the other side of the crowd, hiding from her sister, saying, "Sorry, sis. But there is no way you're messing up my hair. I like it the way it is."

Then it went over to the clothing racks where various clothes were on display. Rarity and Sonia were in front of the racks. Rarity then said, "Of course, we also have clothes for casual day wear. But if you'd like, we can make custom made outfits that depend on the occasion. Whether it's..." Rarity then showed the dressing room areas, where Rainbow Dash was coming out, wearing a track suit. "Sports attire."

Then it showed Amy wearing a beautiful dress for a special occasion. Sonia then said, "Fancy party or gala attire."

Then it showed Truemen wearing a tuxedo. Rarity then said, "Even wedding attire."

Truemen then said, "That is if I choose to get married."

"So, come on down for your choice of fashion or hairstyle!" Rarity said. "We'll be sure to satisfy you in every way!" Then the news reporters walked towards the exit as the rest of the Mane 6, Freedom Fighters, Sunny, Hitch, Zipp, Izzy, Misty and the Young 6 walked up to Rarity, Pipp and Sonia.

"Not bad, you three," Twilight said. "I think this store will be a big hit for everyone here."

"I can't believe that you've gotten this place up and running so quickly!" Sunny said.

"Well, we all have our genius friends to help out with the tech here," Pipp said.

"Of course, we'll have to get that mirror fixed before we all leave for Paris," Rarity said.

"What's in Paris?" Misty asked.

"The Olympics," Sonic said. "Where competitors from all countries around the world will be competing in various events."

"And it'll be even more special because this will be the first Olympics that Equestria will be attending," Twilight said.

"Oh, well, I guess I'll... cheer you guys on," Misty said. She then brought out her phone. "Whoops. Gotta get to work. Bye!" She then zoomed away from the group, heading towards the movie theater.

"Uh, she does know she's gonna be competing in the Olympics, right?" Zipp asked.

"Not yet," MC said. "We're planning on surprising her. Speaking of which, Rares, did you get her measurements?"

"Oh, I did," Rarity said. "She's in for a surprise, isn't she."

"Speaking of surprises, we should get one last one in before the big day," Tails said. "MC, let's get going."

"Right," MC said. "Let's go."

"Go where?" Zipp asked, getting curious.

MC smirked and said, "You know, Zipp, I think you should come with us to see. Izzy, you too."

Izzy walked up to the three and asked, "Really? What is it?"

MC pulled out his Super Warp Ring and said, "Follow us." He then threw the ring, and it expanded into a portal. Then MC, Tails, Zipp and Izzy went through the portal, the portal closing after they all went through.

"Ah, man," Pipp said. "I was hoping to give Zipp a new style."

"We both know that's not gonna happen anytime soon," Rainbow Dash said, passing Pipp. Pipp then nodded in agreement.

At the movie theater, Misty was giving everyone their orders from the concession stand. Just as she finished handing the customer their popcorn, her necklace started vibrating.

"Oh, geez," Misty said. "I gotta go use the restroom. Someone cover me!" Misty then walked towards the restroom. She got into a stall and pulled out her necklace. "Opaline?"

"It's about time, Misty!" Opaline's voice came from the necklace after it started glowing. "Did you get at least one of the two young dragons or not?!"

"I'm... still trying to get them," Misty said. "But, it's becoming harder to get them without anyone noticing. Especially their home security system, Nicole. I think she's been spying on me."

"Well get the dragons when they're alone, or kiss your chance of getting a Cutie Mark goodbye!" Opaline threatened, Misty leaning back in surprise. The necklace then stopped glowing. Misty then started shedding some tears. She then looked down at her right hip, and cringed in sadness. She then bowed her head, crying.

At Tails's workshop in the Mystic Ruins, MC, Tails, Zipp and Izzy arrived there and went into the hanger.

"So, what's in here that you wanted to surprise us with?" Zipp asked.

Tails then flipped a light switch and showed something to the two futuristic ponies. MC had his arms crossed with a smirk on his face. Zipp and Izzy were looking at a new flying machine.

"Whoa!" Zipp said. "What is that?!"

"Is that the Marestream?!" Izzy asked.

"Marestream?" Zipp asked.

"That's right, Izzy," Tails said. "We've been working on this thing for months now."

"Zipp has been taking the Spirit of Freedom so much for her cases out of town, we'd thought we should make her a ship of her own," MC said. "But this one... is more of an RV."

"A flying RV?" Zipp asked.

"So, you've taken in my designs, huh?" Izzy asked.

"Everything that was created in the world is accomplished by a little creativity," MC said, using Izzy's voice.

"I still find it creepy that you manage to make your voice sound like anyone or anything," Zipp said.

"Yeah, but we've gotten used to it," Tails said. "Anyway, Izzy got a lot of the essential things for the designs, but she left out a couple things."

"And those are?" Izzy asked.

"One, a bathroom," Tails said.

"Oh, right," Izzy said. "A mobile home has to have someplace to do their business. And the other thing?"

"This," MC said, pushing a button. Then the top layer of the Marestream expanded, making more room.

"Whoa!" Zipp and Izzy said in unison.

"Extra storage!" Zipp said.

"Actually, up there are a couple of bedrooms," MC said. "The front side has two beds, and the back side has three. Hitch and Sparky can have the sofa for when you guys officially use this to go to the Olympics."

"We're taking this to Paris with us?!" Zipp asked. "That is awesome!"

MC then held up the keys to the Marestream, saying, "Care to take it for a fly?"

"Oh, yes, I do!" Zipp said, taking the keys. Then the four of them headed into the Marestream. They walked into the door on the right side. Izzy looked around.

"Hey, I was pretty sure that the door was supposed to be on the left side, not the right!" Izzy said.

"Yeah, we saw it, but standard RVs in America usually have the main entrances on the right side," MC said. MC then motioned an arm towards a staircase that was behind the rounded sofa. "Up those stairs is one sleeping area. The one for the three beds." Zipp and Izzy then went up the stairs to see the three beds on the floor.

"Not bad," Zipp said. "I'm guessing that me and Pipp will be getting the other room?"

"Actually, the other room is for Sunny and Izzy," Tails said. "Hope you don't mind sharing this room with Misty."

"Okay, that makes sense," Zipp said. She then saw the three sets of closets. "I see you have space for our clothes. Are they over the bathroom?"

"There's enough space for it to stick in with the restroom without bumping your heads, or horns on it. Along with LED lights over the entire bathroom," MC said.

"Nice," Izzy said. "Can we see the cockpit?"

"Of course," Tails said. "Follow us." Then the four of them went downstairs, and into the cockpit of the Marestream. There were two seats in front with a touchscreen stereo system in between the two seats, two seats behind the front seats, and a couch with seat belts on the right side, enough for three people.

"Whoa!" Zipp said. "This is nice! Let's take this thing back to Station Square!" Zipp then got into the front left seat while MC got on the right. Izzy sat behind Zipp and Tails sat behind MC. MC then pushed a button and the upstairs area started retracting in and locking in. Then Zipp started up the Marestream. It then started moving out of the hanger. Then the folded wings unfolded. Then the Marestream started going down the runway. Then it started taking off and it headed off towards Station Square.

At a Smoothie Shop in the mall, Twilight, Rarity, Sunny, Pipp and Sonia were there, celebrating the opening of the shop. Sunny made the smoothies for all of them.

"That was the biggest opening I have ever done ever," Rarity said. "In my life!"

"Hey, we did it together, Rarity," Pipp said.

"That's true," Sonia said. "And I must say, with all of our work, we might make it so big, we'd be an unstoppable team to the fashion world."

"Well, I hope you all will be successful," Sunny said.

"Me, too," Twilight said. "This is pretty big for you all to work together in the fashion world."

Just then, Misty came into the shop, sighing loudly. She came up to the table and sat down.

"What's wrong, Misty?" Twilight asked.

Misty didn't respond just yet. She was still thinking of what Opaline said to her.

"Well get the dragons when they're alone, or kiss your chance of getting a Cutie Mark goodbye!"

Misty then looked at the others and asked, "Have you ever been raised and taught by someone who thinks they know what's best for you, but really it was something really bad?" The others gave off various ways of saying no. "Oh."

"Misty? Have you been abused?" Twilight asked.

Misty sighed and said, "You've guys have been so nice to me. I wish I could have what you all have."

"Oh, Misty," Sunny said. "You're a good pony. And we do a lot of fun things together."

Pipp then brought out her phone and said, "Yeah. Like when we all went out for doughnuts after that day at Twinkle Park." She then showed the picture of her, Sunny, Zipp, Izzy, Hitch and Izzy after a day at Twinkle Park. All of them were smiling in Pipp's group selfie. Especially Misty.

Misty smiled at the picture. Sunny then said, "Looks like that cheered you up, Misty. So, you want a smoothie?"

Misty then thought about it. She then smiled and said, "A Merry Berry, please."

"One Merry Berry, coming right up," Sunny said, heading for the counter.

"Well, we should get back to work," Rarity said. "Sonia, Pipp, let us be off." Rarity, Sonia and Pipp sat up and left the smoothie shop to get to work. Misty smiled at them as she waited for her order.

Coming from the East Side of Station Square, the X-Marestream was coming in. Zipp and MC were in the pilot seats while Izzy and Tails were behind them. Just then, the communications radio started buzzing.

"Unidentified Airship, you are flying through US Airspace. Identify yourself."

MC pushed a button and said, "This is Prince Michael Crayton, one of the leaders of the Freedom Fighters. Coming in with authorization code: 230691."

"Authorization Code approved. You are free to travel."

Zipp piloted the X-Marestream towards Freedom Fighters Mansion. Tails then held up his wrist communicator and said, "Nicole, open up the landing strip."

At Freedom Fighters Mansion, the path to the garage widened into a landing strip. The X-Marestream came in for a landing. Zipp pushed the landing gear button as she was descending the ship. The X-Marestream landed and kept going. The wings then folded up and then it started slowing down, and it came into the hanger where the X-Tornado, the Spirit of Freedom and the Freedom Fighters Spaceship were all docked. Then Zipp backed the X-Marestream into an empty spot and put it in park.

"And, that's it," Zipp said. "Wow. This thing is amazing!"

"Okay, time to show the others," MC said. Then the four of them headed out of the X-Marestream.

Back in the new boutique, all the customers were finishing up their payments. When the last customer paid, she left the store. Then Sonia went towards the the doors that lead outside and locked the doors. When the doors were locked up, Rarity, Pipp and Sonia went to the inside exit and then Pipp flew up and closed the cage door on the second floor. Rarity used her magic to close the cage door on the first floor.

"Well, I believe that was an excellent first day of the Boutique," Rarity said as Pipp flew down to the two.

"Like, totally!" Pipp said. She then brought out her phone for a selfie. "Hashtag: Successful!" Pipp, Rarity and Sonia smiled when looking at Pipp's phone. She then took a picture. Pipp then looked at the picture and smiled. "Ooh, this is gonna be amazing! And post!"

"Well, let us get back home," Rarity said. "I'm sure that the two of you will run it so well when I'm back in Equestria."

"You can count on us, Rarity," Sonia said. "Hopefully you got things ready for the Olympics."

"Oh, Sonic and Rainbow Dash had already gotten the outfits for everyone loaded in MC's truck," Pipp said. "They're currently back home."

"Oh, that's good," Sonia said. "Well, I wish you all the best of luck."

"Oh, no doubt about that, Sonia," Rarity said. "Of course, us ladies don't ever think of competing in such events that could ruin the way we look."

"Tell me about it," Sonia said. She then flipped her hair with a hand. "Do you know how long it takes to get hair like this to look this good?"

"I'm sure with the right bounce, you could make it look more exquisite," Pipp said. She then got an idea. "Perhaps I should also make my own hair care supplies. Ooh, even better! Various beauty products! Shampoos, Conditioners, Face Masks, Nail Polish!" Pipp giggled in excitement. "This could be so... amazing!"

"We'll think about it some other time," Sonia said. "Now, let's get on back to our homes." Then the three of them headed out of there.

Back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, Misty was about to get back into her room when Sonic called for her.

"Yo, Misty!" Sonic said. Misty turned her head to see Sonic coming towards her. "Come check this out." Sonic then grabbed Misty's hand and he sped the both of them towards the hangar. When they got there, Misty was dizzy.

"Whoa!" Misty said as they stopped. "How do you super speeders not get dizzy?"

"Who says we don't?" Sonic asked.

Misty then recovered and looked in the hangar, saying, "Whoa!"

"Ladies and Gentlemen, behold the X-Marestream!" MC said.

"That is awesome!" Gallus said.

"Yeah, it is," Zipp said. "Now, it's gonna be a transport and camper for some of us when we go to the Olympics in Paris."

"This is amazing!" Sunny said. "Who's all gonna be going there in that?"

"You, me, Pipp, Hitch, Izzy, Sparky..." Zipp then looked over at Misty. "And Misty."

"Wha... Me?!" Misty asked in surprise.

"That's right, Misty," MC said. "In fact, you're all registered to actually compete in gymnastics for America."

"What?!" Misty asked. "But... but...!"

"Hey, don't worry about it, Misty!" Sunny said, coming up to Misty's right side. "You're our friend! And friends have each others backs! No matter what!" Then Hitch, Izzy, Zipp, Pipp and Sparky joined in for a group hug.

Misty was a little concerned about what she was going through. She looked around in worry, hearing Opaline's voice.

"Well get the dragons when they're alone, or kiss your chance of getting a Cutie Mark goodbye!"

But then, Misty remembered what Sunny just said.

"You're our friend! And friends have each others backs! No matter what! No matter what! No matter what!"

Misty then smiled in true happiness and accepted the group hug.

In the middle of the night, Misty went into the kitchen to get some milk. When she got there, she saw both MC and Zipp there.

"What are you guys doing up in the middle of the night?" Misty asked.

"Eh, couldn't sleep," MC said. "Which is kinda rare since I'm a heavy sleeper. Both figuratively and literally."

Zipp laughed at that. Zipp then said, "So what, do you put something heavy in under your bed to keep it up?"

"Cement blocks," MC said. "I take some whenever I got out. Except when I'm camping." Zipp nodded in understanding.

"So, why are you up, Misty?" Zipp asked, looking towards the unicorn.

"I... I just have a lot of things on my mind," Misty said. "And it's kinda eating me up inside."

"Hey, don't worry about it," Zipp said. "So, you're shy, not very good with most people, hiding the fact that you don't have a Cutie Mark..." Zipp then went wide eyed. "Oops."

"YOU KNEW?!" Misty asked.

"Misty," MC said. "It's okay. You don't have to hide it from us."

"But... look at me!" Misty said. "I'm all grown up, and I still don't have a Cutie Mark. I don't even know what I'm good at!"

"Well, you won't know until you be you," MC said. "According to the ponies of Equestria, your Cutie Mark will appear after you let your true self shine through. Whether you're a sculptor, a dancer, or even an athlete. Just be you."

Misty then thought about it. She then asked, "Is there any other way of getting a Cutie Mark?"

MC and Zipp chuckled and said, "No."

"No amount of magic will make a Cutie Mark appear," MC said. "Well, it would make a Mark appear, but it would only be temporary." Zipp nodded in agreement.

"I've asked Twilight about it," Zipp said. "She tried it multiple times on Apple Bloom before she even met Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. It didn't even last five seconds of staying on her flank. And that was before Equestria was brought back to Earth."

"So... there's no other way?" Misty asked. She then turned around, making sure that MC and Zipp didn't see the necklace she pulled out from under her nightgown. Misty then whispered, "She lied to me..."

"Misty?" Zipp asked. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Misty replied putting the necklace back under her nightgown. "I'm just... tired. Goodnight." She then headed out. MC and Zipp looked at each other with smirks.

"She's coming around," MC said. Zipp nodded.

"I hope you're right about her, MC," Zipp said.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
The Opaline-lympic Games (Part 1)

Episode 12: The Opaline-lympic Games (Part 1)

At Freedom Fighters Mansion, in Misty's room, Misty had the door blocked to keep something from getting out. Misty looked around the room to see if she could find what was hiding from her.

"No way you're gonna get out, Sparky," Misty said. "Come out here, now!" Then the sound of Sparky growling came in. Coming out from under Misty's bed, Sparky was giving Misty the stinkeye. He then tried making a run for the door, but Misty grabbed him. "Ah ha! Gotcha!" Sparky tried struggling out of Misty's grip. "Sorry, Sparky. But this isn't personal." She then opened the door and headed for the hanger, where the rest of the Freedom Fighters, current members, part-time members and those in training, were loading the ships with their stuff. Hitch then saw Misty coming in with Sparky.

"Sparky! There you are!" Hitch said. Misty then handed Sparky to Hitch, who hugged the baby dragon. "Don't scare me like that!"

MC and Bunnie finished loading the luggage into the Spirit of Freedom's passenger container.

"And that's the last of it," MC said. "Time to get going."

"Sure is gonna be a lot of pressure in Paris since everyone in the world is gonna be watchin'," Bunnie said. "Y'all are lucky you and the Equestrian Royal Family are gonna be in the box watchin' the whole thing." She then looked at her robot arm and sighed. "Although, if I'm gonna compete for America in the martial arts division, Ah might as well be all o' me. Ya mind?" Bunnie reached out her arm towards MC.

"Of course," MC said. He then grabbed Bunnie's robot arm and used his molecular manipulation powers and made Bunnie's arm organic.

"Oh mah starz," Bunnie said, closing her deroboticized hand. "Oh, it feels so good to feel it again."

"Hold still, Bunnie," MC said, lowering towards Bunnie's legs. "I gotta get your legs, too." MC then used his powers to make Bunnie's legs organic. Then Bunnie lost her balance.

"Whoa! Oof!" Bunnie said, landing on her butt. "Guess Ah shoulda seen that comin'."

"Letting me be helping you, my lovely wife," Antoine said, walking up to the two. Antoine then helped Bunnie up.

"Okay, everyone," Sonic said. "Let's get to Paris. Tails, Amy, Cream, Cheese and Maria, we'll be in the X-Tornado. MC, Bunnie, Antoine, Rotor, Mutt, you guys are in the Spirit of Freedom. Sunny, Hitch, Izzy, Pipp, Zipp, Misty and Sparky, you guys are in the X-Marestream. The rest, you'll be riding in the Spaceship." Everyone nodded and then headed for their destined air transport. Misty took a moment and looked towards the hangar door. She then sighed and headed for the X-Marestream.

The ships then started taking off, heading East towards Paris.

Over the France Airspace, the four ships were coming up towards Paris. The Freedom Fighters were coming all coming towards where the Olympics were gonna be held.

"Okay, everyone," MC said through the communications. "We're coming up on where the Olympics are being held. Prepare for landing."

In the Freedom Fighters Spaceship, Silverstream was in the pilot's seat, holding onto the pilot's wheel. Silverstream was smiling widely. She then said, "I can't believe I'm actually piloting this thing!"

"You're not piloting it, Silverstream," Tails's voice came from the communication. "Nicole is. She's been piloting it the entire time."

"And I apologize for letting you believe you were, Silverstream," Nicole's voice came in.

"Aw, man," Silverstream said. Gallus laughed.

"You know, I was wondering, if it was your first time flying this thing and you were doing so well, I knew it had to be on autopilot," Gallus said. Truemen then walked into the cockpit.

"We better get ready," Truemen said. "So, are the others coming?"

"The others are already there," MC said through communications. "Okay, everyone. We're coming in at the air port. Be sure to have your passports out and ready."

Then the four ships started coming down. When they were there, a bunch of French Air Marshals were checking the passports of all who were coming in. Misty was nervous. She was searching through her bags, looking for her passport.

"Where is it?" Misty asked. "Where is it?"

"Looking for this?" Zipp asked, holding up a passport. Misty noticed and saw Zipp was holding the passport that belonged to the unicorn.

"Oh, thanks, Zipp," Misty said. She took her passport from Zipp when the Air Marshall was coming up to her and Zipp. He then checked her passport.

Just then MC was getting his passport handed back when some Olympic Officials came up to him. One of them said, "Prince Michael Crayton, we are here to escort you to the hotel where the Equestrian Royal Family is staying. Where you'll be staying with."

"But I'm not a part of the Royal Family," MC said.

"But you are the biological father of the daughter of Princess Twilight Sparkle," the official said. "Follow me." The official then started walking away. MC rolled his eyes and followed him.

Meanwhile, at Opaline's lair, Opaline, Scourge, Allura and Ix were watching the Freedom Fighters from Opaline's magic mirror. Opaline was disgusted by this.

"Look at them, celebrating their world peace with some silly competitions," Opaline said. "How pathetic."

"Actually, these games are quite interesting," Scourge said. "And fun to ruin!"

"Well, it certainly sounds like the perfect place for the heroes to be taken down," Allura purred. "Especially at the closing of the events."

"Ah, I see," Opaline said. "If we strike at closing ceremonies, the world will know that their world's heroes is no match for all of us." She then glared when she saw MC talking with Twilight in her magic mirror. "You heroes are done for."

Meanwhile, at the hotel where Twilight's family was staying at, Twilight and MC were walking through the halls of the top floor. When they reached one room, Twilight got out her key card and put it next to the card reader, unlocking the door. Then the two of them entered. Inside was Twilight's family.

"Hey, there he is!" Velvet said. She then walked up to the two. "I still find it hard to believe that you were the one who saved Twilight that night she was ponynapped."

"Technically, I didn't really save her," MC said. "I just showed Celestia where to find her using my Chaos Flare. But, it had a little too much power in it and it..."

"Basically, that's how he's Nyx's father," Twilight said. "His flare landed on the ritual and his energy became DNA and blended in with Nyx's."

"Really?" Velvet said. "Well, I hope one day you'll be a great part of this family. That is if you decide to propose to Twilight."

"I'm 17," MC said. "In my culture, I have to be king until I can propose to someone."

"He's right," Twilight said. "I've read his family history and kingdom traditions. Sure, I might be a couple years older than him, but for some reason, since Equestria came back to Earth, I actually felt younger."

"Perhaps Chaos Control did more than just transform all of you," MC said. "Maybe it also made everyone a little younger."

"That could be it," Twilight said. Then Nyx and Joshua came up to MC.

"So, you'll be joining us in the viewing box?" Nyx asked.

"That's right," MC said. "Since royals aren't allowed to participate in the events. Well, except for Pipp, Zipp and Blaze. Pipp and Zipp are from an alternate future, and Blaze's dimension got destroyed."

"I didn't know Pipp was competing," Joshua said.

"She's not," MC said. "Pipp is helping out with getting the competitors ready for their competitions."

"So she's helping Rarity?" Twilight asked.

"That's right," MC said. "I'm sure that they'll help out with the others." He then sighed. "And hopefully we've gotten through into Misty's heart."

Meanwhile, just outside of the X-Marestream, Misty was sitting in a swivel chair in front of a vanity mirror, nervous about what's going to happen to her at that moment.

"Um, I'm not so sure about this, Pipp," Misty said. "I really... don't like the attention."

"Oh, relax, Misty," Pipp said. "You'll look stunning. Let's see your true inner beauty shine out!" Pipp then spun Misty around, Misty shouting during the spin.

"WHOA-OA-OA-OA-OA-OA-OA!" Misty yelled out while she was spinning. Pipp then sprayed something into Misty. Then Pipp stopped Misty from spinning, but Misty's eyes were still spinning. When she recovered, she saw that her mane was now red with orange at the tip.

"So, what do you think?" Pipp asked.

Misty looked at her mane, seeing the color change. She then said, "Um, I don't really think it's me."

"Mm... you're right," Pipp said. "Well, time for round two!" She then spun Misty again, making the unicorn yell out again. Pipp then sprayed a different color into Misty's mane. When Misty stopped, her mane was now bright green with and aqua green tip. Misty then saw her reflection.

"No," Misty said. "I... I think I should go back to my natural mane color."

"No, no," Pipp said. "Just one more try." She then spun Misty around. And as the unicorn yelled around, Pipp sprayed another set of colors into Misty's mane. When Misty stopped, her mane was now purple with pink tips. "Oh, yes! Now that is you!"

Misty looked at her reflection. She was astonished by the way she looked.

"Is that me?" Misty asked. "Wow. I look..."

"Amaaaaaaazing!" Pipp sang. "Now, tomorrow's the opening ceremonies, so we should be prepared. Now, let's go eat."

At a restaurant, MC and the Royal Equestrian Family were sitting at a table, checking out their menus. Joshua was having trouble reading the menu.

"I can't read this," Joshua said. "Why is it in French?"

"Guess Josh needs to start studying this language," Shining Armor said.

"Of course, it would help if he had learned the basics," Cadance said.

MC then held up his wrist communicator, and scanned the pages of the menu. MC then said, "Nicole, translate the menu and send the information to the Equestrian Royal Family."

"Of course, MC," Nicole said on MC's communicator. Then the phones of the royal family buzzed. They checked the messages from Nicole and read the translated menu.

"Oh, that's better," Joshua said.

"I'm gonna go with the bouillabaisse," MC said.

"What's that?" Twilight asked.

"It's a fish soup," MC said. "Very big in France. Skip the escargot. Why people would want to eat snails are a mystery."

"Ew!" the Equestrian Royal Family said in unison.

"Even I'm not gonna try that," came a voice. The royals looked towards the voice and they were surprised at who was standing behind them.

"Princess Elise of Soleanna?!" Twilight asked.

"Have we met before?" Elise asked.

"Oh, we..." Twilight said before MC covered her mouth.

"We've... attended the Festival of the Sun last year," MC said. "As fellow dignitaries, we thought we would check out your country's customs."

"Well, I'm glad to have gotten to meet you two," Princess Elise said. "I'll see you at the opening ceremonies tomorrow." She then walked away.

Twilight looked towards MC angrily and asked, "Why did you stop me? I was about to ask her about the adventures we had during that time."

"She doesn't remember it," MC said. "It never happened in this reality since she was the one who blew out Solaris."

"Oh, that's right," Twilight said. "Now I remember." She then grinned sheepishly. "Guess we're all still trying to adjust to the new reality."

"Yeah, it'll take us a while to adjust," MC said.

"Hey, what's this... escargot?" Shining Armor asked.

"It's... snails," MC answered, making the Royal Equestrian Family give out disgusted reactions. "Oh, you think that's disgusting, you should hear what one of the delicacies in Scotland is. Haggis."

"Yeah, I've read what that is," Twilight said. "And it's more disgusting to think about it when you know what's in it."

"What is haggis?" Velvet asked.

"Haggis is chopped animal organs stuffed into a sheep's bladder and boiled in hot water for a couple of hours," Nicole described, making the royal Equestrian Family give out disgusted expressions.

"That's disgusting!" Nyx said. "Who would want to eat that?!"

"Someone with the stomach for it," MC said. "I heard not even certain Scottish People wouldn't want to eat it."

The next day, the opening ceremonies for the Olympics were starting. All the Mobian and Equestrian Competitors were all grouped up for the countries they were representing. Even Knuckles, Midpoint, Jet the Hawk and the Chaotix were representing America.

In the royal sitting areas, the world leaders that were able to attend were all sitting and watching their friends and those who were competing for their countries. Each of the countries had someone to carry an Olympic Torch for their country. For America, it was Mutt. For Equestria, it was Nyx. After all the countries representatives took a lap around the track, each Torch Holder went up to the larger torch so they could put their torches into it, setting the Olympic Torch ablaze.

"The Olympics have begun!" the announcer said. "Now, let's get the first event started!"

It then went over to the Archery Range where Midpoint was using his signature archer's bow, but with a quiver full of Olympics approved arrows. Coming up next to him was a hedgehog wearing a brown hood.

"Tis a pleasure that I, Sir Rob O' the Hedge, would be competing in these games throughout the realm," the hedgehog said.

"Oh, you must be Rob O' the Hedge," Midpoint said. "You're Amy's cousin from England."

"Though art correct, my fine otter," Rob said, looking at Midpoint. "Art though any good?"

"I never miss," Midpoint said.

"Though art confident," Rob said. "Are ye prepared to accept defeat?"

"You're gonna beat me? In archery?" Midpoint asked. He then laughed. "Oh, this is gonna be hilarious."

"Archers! Take Your Position!" Then all of the Archers got into their spots they were told to stand in and got into shooting position. "And... release!" Then all the archers released their arrows, hitting their respected targets. A lot of archers hit the rings representing 5-8 points. Fewer hit the nine ring, including Equestria's representative archer, Pizzelle. "Archers who gotten below 8 points, you may exit the field." Then those who scored lower than 8 points left.

It then did a montage of different events happening. Events other than archery. Such as swimming, table tennis, diving, volleyball, trampoline, canoe Racing, even surfing.

"Woohoo!" Zipp said as she was surfing. "Radical!"

It then showed Knuckles boxing against a dog from Ireland. Then it showed Midpoint, Vector, Rotor and Truemen were all in a pool playing Water Polo against Soleanna's representative team.

Then it went to where the athletics field. The fastest racers were all lining up for the advanced track relay. Equestria's Representatives were the Wonderbolts: Spitfire being the first to run, Soarin being the second, Fleetfoot being the third, and Rainbow Dash being anchor. America's Representatives are Blaze the Cat being the starter, Maria being second, Shadow being third, and Sonic being anchor.

In the Royal Box, Twilight, MC and Sally were about to watch the race.

"The fastest racers in America and the most skilled flight team in a foot race," Sally said. "This is gonna be interesting."

"The Wonderbolts are synchronized flyers," Twilight said. "And with Rainbow Dash as the anchor, there's no way that they could lose."

"I wouldn't be too sure about that," MC said. "Sonic beat Rainbow Dash before. Plus, there's also Shadow, Maria and Blaze. Shadow's just as fast as Sonic on his feet. Maria has the same powers as Shadow, so she'll be a little faster than him since girls have smaller forms than boys. And let's not forget Blaze's quick sprint."

"You make a good point," Twilight said. "We'll see who wins."

Then at the starting line, all the starting racers were getting ready to run, holding batons in their hands. The man with the starter's pistol aimed it up to the sky and pulled the trigger. Then all the racers started running.

"So where are they going?" Sally asked.

"The first trade-off of the baton is at Notre Dame," MC said. "Then the second racer runs towards the Eiffel Tower to pass it to the third racer, who runs towards Arc de Triomphe. Then the final racers race towards here."

"That's a long run," Twilight said.

"Not for those with super speed," MC said.

"It's true," Sally said. "Super speeders can go a long distance in a short amount if time."

At Notre Dame, the second racers were waiting for their first racers with the baton. Maria and Soarin were waiting for Blaze and Spitfire to come. Then they saw them coming in and started running. Blaze then passed the baton to Maria and Spitfire passed the baton to Soarin. Then the two started running towards the next checkpoint.

At the Eiffel Tower, the third set of racers were waiting for the second set to come. Shadow was wearing normal running shoes instead of his Air Shoes. Then Shadow and Fleetfoot started running as Maria and Soarin were coming towards them. Then Maria and Soarin passed the batons to Shadow and Fleetfoot. Then they started accelerating towards the final checkpoint.

Then it went to Arc de Triomphe. Sonic and Rainbow Dash were stretching when waiting for their partners.

"Quick stretch, and we'll be ready to go," Sonic said.

"Oh, yeah," Rainbow Dash said. "It's good to stretch. But, it won't stop me from beating you this time."

"Not likely," Sonic said. "Have you've forgotten who's the fastest thing alive?"

"We'll see about that," Rainbow Dash said. Just then, the sound of whooshing came in. They turned to see the third set coming towards them. The anchor runners started running as the third set was coming up towards them.

"Time to juice!" Sonic said as he was passed the baton from Shadow. Sonic then ran back towards the stadium where the race started. Sonic was in the lead with Rainbow Dash close behind. They reached the stadium and took a lap around the track and went towards the finish line. Sonic and Rainbow Dash finished the race.

"It's a Photo Finish!" the announcer called out. "Watch the screen for the results in super slow-mo." The viewers watched the ending of the race. In super slow-motion, they saw both Sonic and Rainbow Dash finishing the race. But Sonic was inches in front of Rainbow Dash. "The winner is Sonic the Hedgehog for America!"

"Oh, yeah!" Sonic called out. "Still the fastest thing alive!"

"Dang!" Rainbow Dash said.

Back in the Royal Box, Twilight, MC and Sally were smiling with the progress of their friends. MC smile was a proud smirk.

"In a race, it's not always about speed, but the right order," MC said. He then started walking away.

"Where are you going?" Twilight asked.

"To where the gymnastics division is going to be held," MC replied. "Misty needs some support."

In another part of the city of Paris, where the Martial Arts was being held, Bunnie was already advanced to the finals. She was waiting for her opponent who would be the winner of the Semi-Finals.

"Ah can't wait ta see who'll be mah opponent," Bunnie said.

"And the winner of the 2nd Round of the Semi-Final Karate Tournament is... Tempest Shadow!" the announcer called out.

"Oh, Mah Starz!" Bunnie said, seeing the winner on the competitor's mat. Tempest Shadow was standing over her opponent.

"Let's see what you've got, bunny-bot," Tempest said, looking at Bunnie.

"Not part bot at the time, Fizzlepop Berrytwist!" Bunnie said, using Tempest's real name. Tempest got a little angry at that. "Still sounds like the name of a soda pop." She then started walking towards the mat as Tempest's last opponent was leaving.

"Doesn't matter," Tempest said. "Show me what you've got."

In the building where the gymnastics were being held, Misty was pacing back and forth, nervous about competing in a high level competition with billions of people watching her.

"I can't do this! I'm so nervous!" Misty said. "What am I gonna do?!" Just then, she felt her necklace vibrating. She then held it up. "Opaline?"

"Misty?! Did you get those dragons?!" Opaline's voice came from the necklace.

"Uh, not yet," Misty said, nervously. "I've been... pretty occupied."

"WHAT?!" Opaline's voice came from the necklace. "You are getting more and more useless every second you're there! Get me those dragons by tonight or no Cutie Mark!"

"Misty?" came Spike's voice, making Misty gasp.

"Okay, I gotta go, bye!" Misty said, trying to hide the necklace. "Oh, uh... hey, Spike. What's up?" She then saw that Spike, Sparky, MC and Hitch were all there.

"You nervous?" MC asked.

"Oh, uh... yeah," Misty said. "I just... wasn't expecting so many people watching."

"Oh, the people in the building won't be the only ones watching," MC said. "Billions of people are watching from their homes on their televisions."

"Really?" Misty asked, even more nervous. "I... I don't know if I can do this!"

"Misty, it's okay," Hitch said. "You got this."

"I'm not so sure, Hitch!" Misty said. "I don't even belong here! I'm not special! I don't know if I can do this! I don't even have a Cutie Mark! What if I mess up?! Billions of people would laugh at me!"

MC then thought of something. He then smiled. "Misty, you did so good when it was just us watching. What if it was just us watching?"

Misty thought about it. She then said, "I... guess it wouldn't be so bad."

"Then when you go out there, imagine if it was just us watching when doing your routine," MC said. Misty then looked at the end of the hall. She then exhaled and started walking. "Oh, and one more thing."

"Huh?" Misty asked.

"Hand me your necklace," MC said. "You can't wear it during the performance."

Misty then sighed and nodded. She then handed MC the necklace and walked out of there. When she got out there, she saw thousands of people watching her. She then gulped nervously.

In the finals of the archery range, there were only two competitors left. Midpoint and Rob o' the Hedge. Their final shot was going to be tricky. They had to hit the target with obstacles in the path of the arrow. Walls that rise and lower, pendulums, and big circles with 1/16 of an opening.

"Gadzooks!" Rob said. "Now this is an interesting challenge."

"I've handled trickier shots than this," Midpoint said.

"England's representative, take your position!" came the announcer's voice. Rob nodded as Midpoint stepped away. Rob then took aim towards the target and waited for the right time to fire. As soon as he got the right time, he took fire, but his arrow got caught by the rolling wheel's side and hit the nine ring on the left side of the target. "Nine points for Rob o' the Hedge."

"Meh, can't get better than that," Rob said, walking away.

"America's representative, take your position!" the announcer said. Then Midpoint took his position and prepared to fire. He then looked in front of him, seeing the gaps in between the obstacles. He then smirked. He then loosened his position. "Huh? What's he doing?!" Midpoint then pulled his headband down to cover his eyes. "Is he serious?! Is Alex Lynol planning on doing this shot blindfolded?!"

"Gadzooks!" Rob said. "Though art crazy, Lynol!"

Midpoint only smirked as he was back in position. He then released the arrow and the arrow went towards the target through the gaps. With that, Midpoint hit a perfect bullseye.

"I don't believe it! Alex Lynol just hit that near impossible shot blindfolded!" the announcer said.

"Eat your heart out, Hawkeye!" Midpoint said.

"The winner of the archery competition is Alex Lynol!" the announcer called out, making the people cheer. Then Rob walked up to Midpoint.

"Though art the best archer mine eyes have seen!" Rob said.

"Rob!" came Amy's voice. The two archers looked towards the voice and saw Amy coming up to the two. "You did so well. Not bad, cousin."

"I appreciate it, dear cousin," Rob said. "Shall I join ye in watching though friends in the other events of the games around this realm?"

"We really need to get you talking in modern time," Amy said, Midpoint nodding in agreement. Then they started walking away from there.

In the building where the gymnastic were being held, Misty was walking towards where she was going to do her gymnastic routine. Misty looked around at all the people looking at her.

"Oh, boy," Misty said.

At Opaline's Castle, Opaline, Imperator Ix, Scourge and Allura were watching Misty's entry into the gymnastics division. Opaline was very mad at that.

"That little traitor!" Opaline said. "Misty is gonna regret betraying me!"

"I don't think she's betraying you," Allura said. "Look." Allura pointed at an area in the mirror, seeing Spike, Sparky, MC and Hitch at the tunnel. "She's really close to those dragons. They must really trust her if she's that close."

"Oh, I didn't expect that," Opaline said. She then gave a dark smirk. "Prepare for an ambush during the ending ceremonies. And bring the Dragon Stone with you. I want the power of those dragons."

Back in the gymnastics building in the Olympics, Misty looked at all the people nervously. She then exhaled. She was imagining that only her friends from Equestria and the Freedom Fighters were in there, cheering for her. She then smirked.

"Take your mark," an announcer said. Misty then got into position. As soon as the buzzer went off, Misty started doing the routine she was training to do. She then started flipping forward and jumped into the air, flipping sideways. She then landed and then went off to do an aerial split, and then she did a cartwheel, and did another aerial sideways flip, landed, and she did a backflip, and she finished the routine by raising her hands.

She was then startled when the sound of applause from the people in the building were applauding for her. Misty looked at all the people astonished. She then started smiling.

Then it went to the closing ceremony where are the contestants were standing in line for the countries they were representing. Misty was looking down at the medal she was wearing. It was a silver medal, but she wore it with pride.

"I may not have won the gymnastics event, but at least I gave it my all," Misty said.

"That's the Spirit, Misty," Hitch said, wearing a bronze medal," Hitch said. "You did much better than I did when I was competing for the long jump."

"Who'd you lose to?" Misty asked.

"Well, the second place winner was from Japan, and the first place winner was Pinkie Pie," Hitch said. "I can't believe she jumped over the entire sand pit and into the crowd! How does she do that?! She's an Earth Pony, not a pegasus!" Misty just shrugged her shoulders to reply. Just then, the ground started shaking. Everyone was losing their balance.

"Whoa!" Sonic called out. "What's happening?!"

"Earthquake!" Bunnie called out, wearing her silver medal. Then everyone fell to the ground.

Midpoint looked up and was astonished by what he saw. He then said, "No! Look!" Midpoint pointed up in the sky. There, everyone saw a ship coming from a portal.

"Oh, no," Misty said. She then started running away. When she did, she accidentally collided with Spike and Sparky. "Oof!" She then saw the two dragons. "Oh, my gosh! I'm so sorry, you two." She then helped up the two dragons. Just then, a bunch of fields surrounded the crowd, and all the other contestants, making sure that no one would get out. "Oh, no." She then tried leading the two dragons out of there, but her path was blocked by Allura and the Destructix.

Scourge then brought up his communicator and said, "Opaline, your spy has the dragons."

"Wait, what?" Spike asked, looking up at Misty. Misty was ashamed about being caught.

In Opaline's throne room, Opaline was looking into the mirror with an evil grin, pleased that she was closer to becoming all powerful.

Author's Note

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The Opaline-lympic Games (Part 2)

Episode 13: The Opaline-lympic Games (Part 2)

The people watching the closing ceremonies of the Olympics were in a panic after the Destructix, the the Nocturnus Clan and Allura arrived. Misty was holding onto Spike and Sparky with tight grips.

"Oh, relax, little dragons," Allura purred when looking at Spike and Sparky. "Just..." Allura then purred, sending out sonic waves towards the two. "...smile." The sonic waves only hit Spike and Sparky, who smiled after being caught in Allura's trance.

"Yes, Allura," Spike said in a trance.

"Good," Allura said. "Now to get you two to the Dragon Stone." She then looked at Misty. "Get to the ship, and await further instructions from Opaline."

Misty got nervous and nodded. She then started walking away. Then a member of the Nocturnus Clan came up to her, grabbed her, Spike and Sparky, and they teleported away.

Misty, Spike, Sparky and the member got teleported to the bridge of the ship where Imperator Ix and Shade were standing. Behind them, the Dragon Stone was sitting on a pedestal behind them.

"Opaline would be proud of you, Misty," Imperator Ix said. "Shade, put the two dragons into their cages." Shade nodded and walked over towards the group. She then grabbed the arms of the two young dragons and pulled them to individual cages. "Now, release your flames into the stone." Just then, Spike and Sparky started releasing fire, it heading towards the Dragon Stone. The stone then changed form.

Then Ix pressed a button and a holographic image of Opaline appeared. Opaline then said, "Ah, you got the dragons."

"Y-yes, Opaline," Misty said, trying to hide her shame.

"Oh, don't worry about those pathetic heroes, Misty," Opaline said. "You won't need them anymore. Besides, once those dragons have their fire drained, you'll come back and you'll finally get your Cutie Mark. Shade, take Misty to one of the waiting rooms of the ship!" Shade nodded and escorted Misty out of there.

In the Royal Box, Twilight, MC and Sally were trying to break out. Twilight was trying to use her magic to get through the barrier that was in front of the window. She managed to break the glass, but not the barrier. MC was trying to slam through the door, but the barrier was preventing him from even opening or smashing the door.

"C'mon!" MC shouted. "Let us out!"

Sally ran up to the door with laser blades coming out of her blue bracelets, saying, "Stand back!" MC stood aside and Sally tried cutting the door, but the barrier wasn't letting her go any deeper. Sally groaned. "C'mon!"

"We're trapped in here!" Twilight said. "The barriers are preventing us from leaving out the window or the door."

"Let's see," MC said. He then put his hands on the ground, and his golden aura eyes activated. He was looking at everywhere the barrier was. "Hold on." He then saw that the barrier wasn't covering what was under the floor. "I got it." MC then raised his left fist and his golden aura came and surrounded his left arm, the aura taking the form of a dragon's head. "Chaos Dragon Fist!" He then punched the floor, making a hole in the floor. "If we can't go around the barrier, then we'll just go under." He then jumped through the hole.

"Good idea, Michael," Twilight said. She then followed MC through the hole, and Sally following.

Meanwhile, on the field, most of the contestants have been caught under Allura's mind control, surrounding the rest of the Mane 6, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, the Freedom Fighters, Sunny and her friends, Rob o' the Hedge, and the Young 6.

"Zis iz not good!" Antoine said.

"You don't have to say that again, Ant," Sonic said. "We need to stop these guys before it's too late! Where are Twilight and MC?"

"Breaking out of the royal box the field had them in," Midpoint said, pushing some buttons on his left glove. "Gotta get..." He then noticed something. "Dang! The ship is blocking all reception! I can't even reach Nicole!"

"What are we gonna do?" Sunny asked.

"Surrender," Scourge said. "Opaline has big plans for all of you. After all, we've got your baby dragons now."

"Sparky?!" Hitch asked. He then looked around. "Sparky?! Sparky?!"

"Your dragon is now our prisoner," Allura said. "Along with that purple dragon. You won't see him again."

"You'll never get away with this!" Sunny said. Just then, Fiona Fox came in and kicked Sunny's face, knocking her down to the ground. "Gah!"

"Never let your guard down," Fiona said.

"Fiona!" came Bunnie's voice. Fiona looked towards the voice and Bunnie was standing there in battle position. "It's time y'all got punished fer betrayin' the Freedom Fighters!"

Fiona chuckled and said, "Like you can take me. I was the best fighter in the Freedom Fighters. Also, all of you were always on the losing side. That's why I betrayed you. You were always destined to lose."

"Then how did we beat Eggman over and over again?" Sonic asked with a smirk.

"You were lucky," Fiona said. "But you won't be lucky this time." She then charged at Bunnie, but Bunnie countered Fiona.

"You're right," Bunnie said. "I'm not lucky this time. I'm just good." Just then, she was punched in the back by Sergeant Simian. "Gah!"

"BUNNIE!!!" Antoine cried out. He was about to help her, but he was snatched by Predator Hawk. "Sacré bleu!" Antoine was being carried up in the air.

"Hey!" Knuckles said. "Not cool!" Knuckles then charged at Sergeant Simian. He tried punching Sergeant Simian, but the ape's palm stopped Knuckles's fist cold. "What?!"

"Did you really think you could stop me like that?" Sergeant Simian asked.

"No, but he could distract you," Truemen said from behind, Sergeant Simian turning around. Truemen then used his robot arm and punched Sergeant Simian's face, sending him up into the air, colliding with Predator Hawk, making him drop Antoine.

"Gaaaah!" Antoine cried out. He was then caught by Tails.

"Gotcha, Ant!" Tails said.

"Merci beaucoup, Tails!" Antoine said. Just then, both of them were struck by a green flash.

"Gaaaah!" Tails and Antoine cried out as they were falling to the ground. Then Sonic caught both Tails and Antoine and put them onto the ground safely.

"Nice try, Scourge!" Sonic said. "You're not gonna get away with this!" Then Scourge landed in front of Sonic.

"It's too late about that, blue boy!" Scourge said. "I'm the best version of you! And you're done for! Well, once I take down Crayton for giving me this!" He then pointed at the scratch marks on his stomach.

"Oh, I don't think so," Sonic said. "Spin and win, time!" Sonic then did a spin dash. Scourge tried doing the same thing, but they bounced off of each other. They continued spin dashing against each other, but kept bouncing off.

Meanwhile, on the ship, Misty and Shade went into one room. Shade shut the door and looked around. Misty noticed what Shade was doing.

"What are you doing?" Misty asked.

"Making sure we actually have some privacy," Shade answered. As soon as she saw that there was no cameras or microphones, she looked towards Misty. "Listen, Misty, it's obvious that Opaline isn't going to give you what you want. Once she gets what she wants, she'll get rid of you."

"What?" Misty asked. "She was... she was using me?"

"Yes," Shade said. "She wasn't even planning on getting you a Cutie Mark."

Misty gave a sad look and looked down at her right hip. That sadness then turned to anger. She then said, "Then I need to foil her plan, and help my friends."

"You won't be alone," Shade said. "I'll help you as much as I can. Although, if we go somewhere where you're not authorized and we get caught, we're gonna have to fight. Fake, of course. Make it look real."

"Oh, I see," Misty said. "Let's do it." Then Misty and Shade ran out of that room, heading off somewhere.

Meanwhile, at the camping area, Cozy Glow, Cream, Cheese and the Crusaders were walking back and forth, worried about what was going on. Cozy Glow was trying to call someone.

"C'mon, c'mon, pick up," Cozy Glow said. She then sighed. "Those fields are blocking all reception from inside." Just then, the ground started shaking. The kids fell onto the ground. Then something came out of the ground. It was a gray flash surrounded by a golden aura. It then landed in front of the kids. It was MC, and coming out of the hole in the ground was Twilight and Sally.

"Twi... Mom! Dad!" Nyx said, running up to Twilight and MC. She then hugged them.

"Nyx," Twilight said. Joshua ran up to them as well. "Joshua. Is everyone here okay?"

"We're fine," Joshua said. "But the building isn't letting anyone in or out."

"Not even communications are going through," Cozy Glow said. "What are we gonna do?"

MC looked up at the ship. He then said, "The barrier was blocking our energy attacks, and is preventing everyone from entering or exiting. And it's also causing communication problems. So if we can't take out the barrier from down here..."

"Then we'll have to take it out from up there," Sally said, pointing at the ship. "I don't think even MC's claws will be enough. We need some very powerful weapons."

"She's right, MC," Twilight said. "Our powers are more along the energy side."

"Hm, you're right," MC said. He then got an idea. "Cozy, get in contact with GUN. Tell 'em that I want them to send in the big gun."

"The big gun?" Cozy Glow asked. "What big gun?"

"You'll know it when you see it," MC said. He then headed for the Spirit of Freedom, and pulled out his Extreme Gear from a compartment. "Sparkles, Sally, let's fly!" MC threw his Extreme Gear towards the ground, and he got on it. Sally got onto it behind MC, and then they started going up with Twilight using her wings to follow.

"Go get 'em!" the Crusaders, Cream and Cozy Glow called out.

"Chao chao!" Cheese said.

In the field, the Freedom Fighters were trying to take down all the bad guys that were there. Sonic was fighting Scourge while on the track.

"No way you can beat me!" Sonic said.

"If you can beat me, I'll eat my shades," Scourge said. "C'mon. I'm waiting!"

"Hey, that's my line!" Sonic said. He then tried striking Scourge again, but Scourge dodged Sonic. He then tried striking the blue hedgehog, but Sonic jumped up and Scourge crashed into the wall. As Scourge was recovering, Sonic did a spin dash into Scourge, causing him to be stuck in the wall.

"Ow," Scourge said.

"Take that," Sonic said.

"Oh, you're good," came Allura's voice. Sonic turned and saw Allura behind him. "But not good enough." She then purred towards Sonic, but Sonic ran out of the way. "Hey! Where'd you go?!"

"Um, fastest thing alive?" Sonic asked from behind Allura. Allura jumped at the sudden sound of Sonic's voice. "Sorry to startle and run, but I gotta go fast!" He then zoomed away from her.

Allura growled and said, "Get him!" Then the hypnotized people started chasing after Sonic. They even cut off his path.

"Whoa!" Sonic said, stopping. One of the hypnotized people tried grabbing him, but he jumped out of the way. "Not cool! Way past not cool!"

Meanwhile, Hitch was trying to grab Flying Frog with his Floral Magic, but the frog was too slippery to get caught by the vines that Hitch was using.

"Stand still!" Hitch said, angrily.

"Not gonna happen," Flying Frog said. "And besides... I'm only the distraction."

"Wait, what?" Hitch asked. He was then ambushed. He got pinned down by Lightning Lynx.

"It's over, cop," Lightning Lynx said. "You're done for." Just then, he was kicked off of Hitch, and sent flying into Flying Frog. Hitch looked over at who saved him and saw Applejack standing above him. She then helped Hitch up.

"Thanks, Applejack," Hitch said.

"Ya kiddin', sugarcube?" Applejack asked. "We're family, remember?"

"Right," Hitch said. "Family stick together." Then they continue fighting the villains that were in the field.

Meanwhile, in the ship, Misty and Shade were running through the ship, searching for where Spike and Sparky were. They ran into one room to see Spike and Sparky getting weaker as their fire was being drained. Spike and Sparky looked at Misty and Shade. Sparky smiled a little and tried reaching out for Misty, but he was too weak.

"Wh-what... are you... two... doing... here?" Spike asked angrily, yet angrily.

"I'm getting you two out," Misty said. "I'm getting you our before..." Just then, she noticed that the Dragon Stone was full of Dragon Magic. "Oh, no. The stone is full." Just then, the stone was engulfed in flames and it disappeared. "Oh, no! Opaline's got the..." Just then, Misty's necklace started vibrating. "Uh oh." She then answered it.

"Misty, I just got my dragon fire," Misty said. "Now, all I need you to do is..." She then noticed where Misty was. "Oh, you're already in there. Good. Now, get rid of the dragons."

"Wha-what?" Misty asked. "What do you mean by that?"

"Tie down their wings and throw them from the ship," Opaline said. "They're no longer useful." She then hung up. Misty sighed.

"I... I can't do it," Misty said. She then looked at the two dragons. "I have been following Opaline for years because she only wanted power for herself." She then turned around to look at Shade. "Ever since I came to the Freedom Fighters, I have been treated as a real friend to them." She then pushed a button outside of the cage Sparky was in, and she grabbed and held Sparky. "I'm done working with Opaline."

Shade smirked at that and said, "Opaline was never gonna give you what you want. But you found what you needed."

Misty looked at Shade and nodded. Shade then pushed the button outside of Spike's cage, and she grabbed him and moved him towards Misty.

"Shade?" Misty asked.

"It's time you three get out of here," Shade said. "This way." Misty then grabbed Spike and put him on her back. Then she followed Shade out of the room. They ran through the halls of the ship and headed for the hanger.

"What are we doing in here?" Misty asked.

"You're gonna take the three of them out of here and get out of here," Shade said. She then handed Misty a device. "I shall inform you and the Freedom Fighters about Opaline's next move."

"Got it," Misty said. "Just be careful, okay?"

"You got it," Shade said. Misty then ran towards the hanger, holding Spike and Sparky, and she continued looking for an unoccupied ship.

"No... No... No..." Misty said. She then saw an unoccupied ship. She then ran towards the controls that open the ship. "Good. It's not in use. Now to..." She opened up the ship, but then she got surprised and gasped, along with Spike and Sparky.

"Well, well, well," Imperator Ix said, coming out of the ship with ten of his warriors standing behind him. "Looks like we have a traitor in our mix. Opaline isn't going to be happy about this."

Misty growled at that and said, "I'm done with all the evil! I'm joining the Freedom Fighters! For real!"

"Looks like Misty doesn't get it," Imperator Ix said. "Those who betrays us and get caught... get executed. Kill them all." Misty gasped. The armed echidnas took out their weapons and aimed them at Misty. Misty shut her eyes and embraced for the blasts to hit her. But then the sound of magic came in. Misty didn't feel anything. She opened her left eye to see what happened. She then saw Twilight in front of her, using a shield spell to block the attacks.

"Twilight?!" Misty asked.

"We're getting you out of here!" Twilight said.

"Twilight Sparkle?!" Imperator Ix asked, shocked. "How did you get out of the barrier?!"

"The answer is about to punch your face," Twilight said, smirking. Ix got confused. He then turned his head to the right and he instantly saw MC's left fist, giving out a golden aura in the shape of a dragon's head, and was about to punch Ix's face.

"Chaos Dragon Fist!" MC said as his fist collided with Ix's face, sending him flying to the back wall.

Imperator Ix recovered from that, growled and said, "Get them!"

The echidnas were about to fire their weapons, but then Sally came in and sliced their weapons. She then tripped them and then Twilight used her magic to levitate the echidnas and pin them towards the wall. Then she used a spell to make the echidnas stay down.

"What did you do to them?" Misty asked.

"Gravity spell," Twilight said. She then used a teleportation spell to send Spike and Sparky down to where the Crusaders, Cream, Cheese and Cozy Glow were. "Now, we need to get the others out of the barrier." Then the four of them headed out of the hanger.

As soon as they were in the hall, Misty stopped and said, "Guys." That made Twilight, MC and Sally stop and turn around. "I'm... I'm so sorry. I thought what I was doing would be good for me, but... after being with you guys for so long, I just couldn't let Opaline and her minions hurt you all. I'm so sorry for hiding the facts." She then shed some tears.

MC walked over towards Misty and put his left hand on Misty's right shoulder. He then said, "It's okay, Misty. It's okay. Besides, we knew all along."

Misty looked at MC surprised and asked, "You knew? How could you have known?"

"I could smell Opaline's scent on you," MC said. "I could also smell lies. And once I figured out what Opaline was doing, Zipp wanted to bust you immediately, but I talked her out of it. So, we all came up with this plan to get you on our side by letting you be our friend for real."

"Which was actually a great plan," Twilight said. "And it seemed like it worked, didn't it?"

Misty looked at Twilight with an unconcerned look. She then gave a sad smile, remembering all the fun times she had with the Freedom Fighters and the other ponies. Misty then opened her eyes and nodded at the three.

"Now, let's take out that barrier," Sally said. Then they all continued running down the hall. They eventually made it to the control room where at least a hundred armed echidnas were in, waiting for them. Including Ix himself.

"Shoot," MC said.

"Did you really expect for it to be so easy?" Imperator Ix asked. "I expected better than you."

Just then, there was beeping coming from MC's communicator. MC answered it, saying, "Yeah?"

"MC, I've gotten a hold of GUN," Cozy Glow said. "They said that the big gun is already on its way up there."

"Big gun?!" Misty asked. "What kind of big gun?!"

"Look!" Twilight said, pointing at the window. Something was coming towards it fast. It then crashed through the window, letting out an explosion. Twilight, MC, Sally and Misty were on the ground. As the smoke cleared, they saw what came in. It was E-123: Omega. "Oh, that big gun!"

"Primary target, battleship in the sky," Omega said. "Initiating destruction of the ship." He then started running through the ship, destroying everything in sight.

Omega then started firing his machine guns at the ceiling of the room, dropping debris on top of the echidnas. Those who haven't gotten hit tried running out of the way.

"We need to take out that barrier keeping all the people in the stadium," Sally said.

"To the controls!" Twilight said. They ran towards the control and started fiddling with the controls.

"Keep 'em busy, Omega!" MC said. "We're gonna take out the barrier."

"Affirmative!" Omega replied.

Misty looked down at the stadium where it was surrounded by the barrier. Just then, Shade snuck in and pinned Misty to the window.

"Gah!" Misty said.

"Misty!" MC said.

"Stand back!" Shade said, holding out one of her energy daggers. "This traitor deserves to be punished." MC sniffed. He then smirked.

"Oh, I get it," MC whispered. He then stood tall. "Like we're gonna let Opaline win."

Shade turned her head slightly towards Misty and quietly said, "When I bring the laser blade closer to you, grab my arm, take it out of my hand, trip me, and use the blade to destroy the controls. That'll bring down the barrier." Misty nodded. Shade then brought the dagger closer to Misty.

Misty then grabbed Shade's arm, and then tripped her. Misty then took the blade to the controls. She then brought out her necklace and put it on the control console. Misty then pushed the center of the necklace, making Opaline answer.

"What is it Misty?" Opaline asked, angrily. "I was testing my new..." She then noticed that Misty was not alone and gasped. "Freedom Fighters!"

"It's over, Opaline," MC said. "When we find you, we're taking you down."

"Misty, take them down!" Opaline said.

"No, Opaline!" Misty said.

Opaline was shocked at what Misty said to her. She then angrily asked, "Come again?"

"You've been too focused on getting what you wanted, but not what you needed!" Misty said. "Ever since I came to the Freedom Fighters, they've been treating me nicely, unlike you! You've treated me more like your servant instead of a pony! And I'm done with you! I'm becoming a Freedom Fighter for real! Even if I have to take you down!"

"YOU DARE DEFY ME?!" Opaline asked, fire burning behind her. "That's it, Misty! You're never gonna get a Cutie Mark now!"

"Like you were gonna give me one even if I did get you what you wanted!" Misty said. "I know that no amount of magic will make a Cutie Mark appear and stay permanently!" She then held up the dagger. "Opaline... I QUIT!!" She then sent the dagger down on top of the necklace.

"NOOOOOOOOOO--!!!!" Opaline called out before the necklace was destroyed, along with the controls to the barrier. Then the controls started letting out electricity. Then the barrier surrounding the stadium vanished.

"Drawbridge is down, people!" MC said. "Omega, time to help out the others down below!"

"Affirmative!" Omega said. He then boosted towards the wall in the direction of the stadium, and crashed through. MC then pushed a button on his communicator and his Extreme Gear came to the hole.

"Well, hate to foil your evil plan an run, but, see ya, suckers!" MC said as he and Misty got onto the board. They rode the board down to the ground as Twilight carried Sally down.

Meanwhile, in the stadium, the heroes were surrounded by the hypnotized people in the stadium, the Destructix and Allura.

"There's too many of them!" Tails said. "We're doomed!" Just then, Bunnie was snatched by Predator Hawk.

"Gaaaah!" Bunnie shouted.

"BUNNIE!" Antoine called out.

Predator Hawk then smashed Bunnie into a nearby wall where Sergeant Simian was standing above. Sergeant Simian then slammed the top of the wall, making it crumble and the rubble landing on top of Bunnie, making her scream in pain.

"NOOOOO!" The Freedom Fighters on the ground cried out.

"It's over," Scourge said. "Get them!"

"I don't think so, Scourge!" came MC's voice. Scourge then looked towards the voice and MC slammed the bottom of the Extreme Gear into Scourge's face. Scourge was sent flying into the people.

"Looks like we have trouble," Allura said. "But no problem." She then looked towards MC and Misty. "He'll make a nice slave." She then purred towards MC, sending out sonic waves towards the fox. MC then threw Misty out of the line of fire as the waves went through MC.

MC chuckled and said, "That tickles."

"What?!" Allura asked.

"Eggman tried to hypnotize me before," MC said. "He failed, miserably."

"MC," Omega said, coming down. "You are going to need this." Then the compartment in his stomach area opened up, and coming out of it on the sliding platform was something that the Freedom Fighters could use.

"Perfect," MC said. He then grabbed it. "Sonic!" MC then tossed the Emerald to Sonic.

"Thanks," Sonic said. He then used the power of the Emerald, and then he sped around taking out the villains. But then there was a new problem. "What about the people?"

"Don't worry," MC said. He then brought up his communicator. "Nicole, hack into the speakers of the track and field stadium for the Olympics here in Paris, and start playing my jam.

"On it, MC," Nicole said through the communicator. Just then, the speakers of the building started giving out a buzzing noise. Then it started playing some music.

"It's My Life by Bon Jovi?" Sonic asked. "Good choice for a jam!"

When the music hit the chorus, all the people got out of Allura's trance. Allura was furious that her trance was being overwritten.

"No!" Allura said. "This can't be happening!" She then tried using her power of persuasion again, but the sonic waves were being distorted by the music. "NO!"

"Time to take out their ship!" MC said. He then fired a beam towards the ship, destroying one of the engines that was making the ship hover in place. Twilight did the same thing with another engine. Omega then fired a bunch of missiles and bullets towards the ship.

"No!" Scourge said, recovering. "Retreat! Retreat!" Just then, the villains vanished, then the whole ship vanished.

MC then sniffed around. He then said, "They're long gone."

"Help me, Mon Amis!" Antoine called out. The heroes looked towards Antoine and saw him trying to lift some rubble off of Bunnie.

"Bunnie!" MC said. The heroes then ran towards her. They started pulling rubble off of Bunnie. When they saw her condition, they all gasped.

From atop the stadium, a figure was looking down at the group. This figure looked like an older version of Sonic, had an eye patch over one of his eyes, a long brown jacket, white gloves with golden bracelets, golden boots, and a scar over the eye that was covered by the patch. Then a Mobian Lynx walked up to the figure.

"Another anomaly has been taken in, Chief," the lynx said.

"Very good, Nicole," the figure said. "I have my eye on the one from this universe." The figure then looked at MC with a cold stare. "Keep an eye on that one, Nicole." He then opened a hexagon portal then stepped through.

"Yes, sir, FS," the alternate Nicole said.

Just then, MC sneezed from below. He then shouted out loud, "Okay! Who's talking smack about me?!"

Back in the US, in Station Square Union Hospital, Bunnie was laying on a gurney in a private room. Her left arm and her legs were in casts. Antoine was in the room with her, holding Bunnie's only working limb in his hand. Bunnie was sound asleep. Outside, Sonic, Tails, MC, Twilight, Sunny, Hitch and Misty were looking in through the window.

"The doctors done all that they could," MC said. "The bones in her arm and legs are completely shattered. Bunnie's unable to walk again."

"Does that mean we have to re-roboticize her limbs again?" Tails asked.

"Too risky," MC said. "It might be too much on her limbs. Unlike with Jules when he was Roboticized." Just then, doctors came in and started moving Bunnie's gurney. "Hey, what's going on in there?"

Then a doctor walked up to the group, saying, "Alex Lynol has offered to give Bunnie some more... interesting upgrades to Mrs. D'Coolette. Something that's more... bionic."

"Bio-tech?" Sonic asked. "Lynol was working on that sort of thing?"

"He's been doing pretty interesting things," Twilight said. "I'm sure that Bunnie will be back on her feet in no time." Then the five of them looked towards Misty, who was looking down in shame.

"I'm so sorry for everything I've done," Misty said, rubbing her left arm. "I... I understand if you all hate me, and want me to leave forever." She then sighed. "I'll... I'll start packing."

MC then put an arm on Misty's right shoulder, saying, "Hold it, Misty. You're not going anywhere."

"Huh?" Misty asked.

"You came through for us," MC said. "You stood up for yourself against Opaline, and you saved Spike and Sparky. You're one of us, Misty. No way we're gonna let you move out. Besides, where would you go?"

"He's got a point," Sonic said.

Misty smiled at that. Just then, her right hip started glowing. She noticed it and asked, "Huh?" She then pulled up her skirt and saw something on her hip.

"I... I don't believe it," Misty said. "A Cutie Mark."

"I noticed it glowing when we were coming down from that ship," MC said.

"Helping us earned you your Cutie Mark," Sunny said. "You're a hero, Misty."

"So, what do we do now?" Misty asked.

Twilight got closer to Misty and said, "Tell us everything you know about Opaline."

In Opaline's lair, Opaline was in Misty's old room, using her new power to destroy everything Misty had in anger.

"Misty! You'll regret betraying me!" Opaline said. "You and your friends will be burnt to a crisp!"

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Making A Foal Outta Me!

Part of this episode was requested by BronySonicFan for his story, Sonic the Hedgehog x My Little Pony: The Final Act.

Episode 14: Making a Foal Outta Me!

At Freedom Fighters Mansion, Sonic, Tails, MC and Sunny were cleaning up red glitter that was all over the living room. Twilight and Misty then came out of the dining room area.

"Okay, Misty," Twilight said. "Thank you for telling me everything you know about Opaline."

"Of course, Twilight," Misty said. She then sighed. "Again, I'm really sorry for what happened to Spike and Sparky."

"Hey, don't worry about it," Twilight said. "You'll be able to put it behind you." She then noticed the living room full of glitter. "Um, what's with all the glitter?"

Sunny sighed and said, "I was practicing my Alicorn Magic, training to use against Opaline's minions if they come, I accidentally turned the pool water into a pool full of glitter, a strong gust of wind blew in, and most of the glitter was blown into the living room.

"This is gonna take forever to clean up," Tails said.

"Maybe for you, Tails," Sonic said. "But for me and MC, it'll take about..." Then Sonic and MC used their super speed to clean up the entire living room, leaving a bunch of glitter in four garbage bags. "...a second."

"Wow," Misty said. "That really was fast." Just then, Hitch and Izzy walked into the living room.

"Hey, guys, have you seen Sparky anywhere?" Hitch asked. "Izzy and I can't find him anywhere."

"Oh, we had Smolder and Dulcy take him and Spike to the Dragon Lands for some dragon recovery after what happened at the Olympics," MC answered.

In the Dragon Lands, Spike, Sparky, Smolder, Dulcy, Garble, and Dragon Lord Ember were all sitting in a pool of lava, letting out sighs of relief.

Back in Freedom Fighters Mansion, MC was continuing his answer to Hitch.

"They'll be back in a couple of days," MC said.

"Are you sure it's okay for Sparky to be among dragons?" Hitch asked.

"Hey, he's been staying here with Smolder for the past couple of months," Sonic said. Just then, Pipp and Zipp came in.

"C'mon, Zipp," Pipp said. "Let me give you a facial. It's good to get rid of those nasty wrinkles."

Zipp groaned and said, "No way, Pipp. I'm not gonna let you do anything with my face." She then headed for the kitchen. She opened the fridge and sighed. "Besides, we're getting low on food."

"I was actually gonna head over to Costco for some grocery shopping anyway," MC said. "I could use the help."

"Of course, my king," Zipp said, smirking.

"It's Prince," MC said. "I don't officially become King until my eighteenth birthday. And I'm seventeen."

"Right," Zipp said. Then the two of them headed out.

Pipp sighed. She then saw who was left and smiled. "So, anypony else want to try this new facial I want to try?"

"Anything's better than doing what Opaline kept telling me to do," Misty said. "Why not?"

"Ooh hoo, you're gonna love it, Misty," Pipp said. "I guarantee it." In a small candle holder on the coffee table, there was some glitter filling it to the top.

In the dining area, Pipp was mixing in a bunch of ingredients into a bowl, humming while she was doing all the mixing. In the living room, Twilight was talking with Misty about her the blue unicorn's life.

"There's... not much I can remember before Opaline," Misty said. "All I know is that I got lost somewhere, and Opaline took me in. I'm not so sure if it's true or not, but she says that she believes that my parents abandoned me. After what Opaline had put me through, I'm pretty sure it was a lie."

"Yeah, I'm guessing so, too," Twilight said. "No way your parents would abandon you somewhere. That's Foal endangerment, which is a crime in Equestria."

"It is a crime everywhere, Twilight," Nicole said.

"Okay, good to know," Twilight said.

"Why would anypony just abandon their foal out in the middle of nowhere?" Izzy asked. "Even in Bridlewood, that's not allowed. It's Jinxie."

"What's Jinxie?" Misty asked.

"Bad luck," Izzy responded. "Unicorns in our time had become superstitious."

"Huh," Misty said. "Weird."

"I still found it hard to believe that all three pony tribes in the future were afraid of each other for no reason," Hitch said. He then thought of something. "You think it was Opaline at that time?"

"Well, Opaline did say she crumbled Twilight's Castle when MC was on top of it in the alternate timeline," Sunny said. "So, she must've been responsible for everypony not getting along in that time."

"Which probably led to the ponies fearing each other for no reason," Sonic said. "And probably had some crazy superstitions growing up."

"Tell me about it," Misty said. "At one time, I thought that Earth Ponies had laser eyes."

Tails laughed at that and asked, "Who do you think they are? Cyclops from X-Men?" That made the others, except Misty, laugh. Just then, Pipp came in with slices of cucumber.

"Okay, everyone!" Pipp said. "I need you all to put these cucumber slices over your eyes, not only for getting the wrinkles out of your eyelids, but to make sure that my face mask doesn't get into them."

"Oh, boy," Sonic said, a little annoyed. He then put the cucumber slices over his eyes. Twilight, Tails, Sunny, Hitch, Izzy and Misty did the same as Pipp walked away to get the face mask mix she was working on. When she was bringing it over, it was giving off a horrible scent, which made her gag.

"Okay, that is strong," Pipp said. She then noticed the candle holder full of glitter, and she smiled.

Over at the local Costco, MC and Zipp were picking up some groceries. Zipp was groaning about how she thought all the things Pipp found interesting was more annoying to her.

"C'mon, Zipp," MC said. "Clearly, not everything about Pipp is annoying to you. She's your sister, after all."

"Yeah, but... she keeps wanting me to try things that she's into," Zipp said. "My Mom was expecting me to be queen when clearly, I wasn't able to do anything I wanted to do as a filly."

"She was concerned about raising her first born to be the queen," MC said. "Even though your ancestor automatically thought that having the Pegasus Crystal meant whoever has it is royalty. How'd they even think that was how it works?"

"Even I don't know," Zipp said. "Six generations of royalty for nothing. What is royalty in Equestria?"

"Mainly, its the alicorns," MC said. "Unless you're biologically related or adopted by an Alicorn, you're Royalty. That's how it works in Equestria. Although, there is some... trouble when having royal status stripped."

"There was one pony who had their royal status stripped?" Zipp asked.

"There was Prince Blueblood," MC said. "He was ticked. He was so ticked, he hired two of Equestria's biggest scammers, the Flim Flam Brothers, to help him tear down the school that Sparkles had started before she became High Princess of Equestria."

"Really?" Zipp asked. "What happened?"

"They were thwarted by Smolder, Cream, Cheese and Lynol," MC said.

"Really?" Zipp asked. "They were taken down by a little rabbit girl and a Chao?"

"Get Cream and Cheese riled up enough, they're tougher than they look," MC said. "And if you think that Cream and Cheese are bad enough when angry, you should see Amy... from 40 yards away."

"With that hammer of hers?" Zipp asked. She then thought about it. "Okay, I see your point."

MC then grabbed a few boxes of cereal.

"Are you sure that's enough cereal?" Smolder asked.

"Do you see how much cereal Yona eats?" MC asked. "Sheesh, I keep wondering where she puts all that." Zipp then nodded in agreement.

"So, you think Misty is going to be okay, no longer working for Opaline, I mean?" Zipp asked.

"She spent most of her life under Opaline's control with no idea where she originally came from," MC said. "She's been through a lot." He then thought of something. "But still, I swear I've seen her somewhere before."

"And by before, you mean in one of those visions your mom kept giving you during your mission in Soleanna, which led to us meeting?" Zipp asked.

"It's a high probability," MC said. "But who knows? She could've been at the time around when you came back from the future, or at some other point in time."

"It might take you time to figure it out," Zipp said. "We should go check on her."

"Good idea," MC said. "Let's go check out." Then MC pushed the cart towards the check-out with Zipp following.

Back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, Pipp was coming out of the kitchen with drinks inside of pineapples. She was humming one of her songs from her original time.

"Okay, everyone," Pipp said. "I have drinks for all of you. How do you all feel so..." She passed Hitch, who was a baby, sitting on the dining room table. She then stepped back, turned her head, and looked at baby Hitch, who responded with babbling. Pipp gasped and asked, "Hitch?!" She then heard other baby voices coming from the living room.

She saw baby Twilight flying around and levitating things from the living room. Baby Sunny was sitting in her position, eating one of the cucumber slices. Baby Izzy and baby Misty were drawing on the walls. Baby Sonic was running around the house at super sonic speed with baby Tails flying behind him. Lucky all of them were wearing diapers.

Pipp screamed and asked, "What... have I done!?"

Pipp locked up the entire house to make sure none of her friends turned babies would get out. She then closed the curtains to make sure no one looks in.

"Okay, Pipp, just relax," Pipp said. "Just keep the babies inside." Just then, baby Sonic then rushed around Pipp's legs with a rope. Pipp then fell over. "Ow!" She then looked over and saw baby Sonic holding the end of the rope. "Sonic! Bad baby hedgehog! Give me that!" Pipp then tried grabbing the rope from baby Sonic, but baby Sonic ran away from Pipp, tightening the rope. "Ow!"

Pipp then started flying up so she wouldn't get tripped by baby Sonic. She then grabbed the rope and started pulling it. But it got caught on something. She thought it was Sonic before she saw that it was tied to one of the sofas.

"Really, Sonic? Really?" Pipp asked, a little annoyed. She was then hit in the head by something in baby Twilight's magic aura. It was a lamp. "Ow!" She then looked at Twilight with an angry expression. "Twilight!"

Twilight was levitating multiple stuff in her magic, amazed by what she was doing.

Pipp then looked around at all her friends turned babies, doing whatever they could do. Pipp was really worried that her friends were now out of control babies.

"Cloudpuff, help!" Pipp called out. Just then, Cloudpuff came in, barking. He then saw that all of Pipp's friends were now babies. "Cloudpuff, help me round up these babies!" Cloudpuff barked and tried helping out. But he was tackled by Baby Sonic, who giggled and started playing with Cloudpuff. "Sonic! No!"

Baby Sonic then launched Cloudpuff, who landed into the facial mix that Pipp had made. Just then, Maria came into the room, seeing Sonic, Tails, Twilight, Sunny, Hitch, Izzy and Misty as babies.

"What the heck is going on?!" Maria asked. Pipp looked at Maria with a worried look.

"Maria, help me!" Pipp said. "Our friends are fillies!" Just then, Sonic, Tails and Hitch crawled up to Pipp, all giving deadpanned expressions. "And foals!"

"Girls are fillies. Boys are colts," Maria said. "How did this happen?"

"I don't know!" Pipp said. "This is a total nightmare! What will MC and Zipp say when they get back?!"

"Pipp?! What is going on?!" came Zipp's voice, making Pipp freeze in shock. She turned around seeing MC and Zipp behind her.

MC looked at all the baby versions of their friends running around the place. He then asked, "Who's all been affected?"

"Twilight, Sunny, Izzy, Sonic, Tails and Misty," Pipp said.

"Where's Misty?" MC asked. Just then, the sound of baby Misty giggling came to their attention. They all looked up and saw Misty holding onto a sun hat, being levitated in a pink aura. "Misty!" Zipp then flew up to baby Misty and grabbed her.

"I gotcha!" Zipp said. Baby Misty giggled. Zipp then brought baby Misty down. MC then looked at baby Misty. He then raised an eyebrow.

"Huh," MC said. "There's something... familiar about Misty in her baby form." All baby Misty did was smile and giggle at MC.

"You think you've seen her in those visions you had during your time in Soleanna?" Zipp asked.

"Maybe," MC said. "I won't know until I have the right evidence."

"Wait, where'd Sonic go?" Maria asked. Just then, baby Sonic went past them with super sonic speed.

"Grab that hedgehog!" Pipp said. Then MC handed baby Misty to Pipp, and then he and Maria used their super speed to follow baby Sonic, but the baby was too fast for them.

"He's faster than ever!" Maria said. "How is he so fast?!"

"Smaller frame, less wind resistance!" MC said, running on all fours. "We gotta out think him." MC then jumped away, trying to cut off baby Sonic's path. He then grabbed Baby Sonic and held him up, him giggling. "What are you laughing at?"

"We need to get them contained somehow," Zipp said. "Any ideas?" Then the four older creatures then started thinking.

Later, the six babies were now in a poorly made crib with a large board to prevent the babies from getting out, with some heavy objects to keep the flying ones from pushing the board off.

"And to make sure no magic is used..." MC said. He then used his materiokinetic energy to create runes around the poorly made crib. "Magic cancelling runes. It was how Joshua and I taken down King Sombra before you guys ended up here in the past."

"How long before?" Zipp asked.

"To make it amusing for those who are reading this story, it was about 3 seasons ago," MC said, smirking. "When I had to take me, Sparkles, the kids and Mutt to Delphius to meet with the Oracle after Joshua's time of grieving."

"Speaking of Josh, how are we gonna tell him, Nyx and Spike that Twilight is younger than them?" Zipp asked.

"Well, Spike did say this happened to her before," MC said. "And that was before Equestria came back to Earth." He then looked at Pipp. "Now, Pipp, what exactly happened before we got here."

"Okay, well, I offered everyone here a facial, and once I did, I went into the kitchen to get everyone a fruity drink," Pipp said.

"Maybe it was something you used," Maria said. "C'mon, let's see what you used." Then the four of them walked towards where Pipp was mixing the ingredients.

When they weren't looking, baby Sonic walked up to the wall of the poorly made crib and started pushing it. Then the other babies came up to where baby Sonic was, and they started pushing as well.

Where the others were, they were trying to figure out what Pipp put into the mixture.

"This is all that I put into the mixture," Pipp said. MC then sniffed it.

"Oh, God!" MC said. "That stinks!"

"Tell me about it," Pipp said. "I've added another ingredient to it to make the smell go away. But I didn't know what it was."

"You put an unknown ingredient into your mixture?!" Zipp asked. "We gotta find out what it was before..." Just then, a bunch of different noises came from the living room. Then the four of them ran into the living room, seeing it a complete mess.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" MC said. "We shoulda had one of us stay in here to make sure this didn't happen!"

"We gotta do something to keep them occupied," Maria said.

MC then saw Izzy drawing on the walls again. He smiled and said, "I got an idea."

Later, the babies were doing some drawing with crayons and paper, which then were being surrounded by the walls of a playpen.

"That totally worked," Pipp said. "How did you know that would work?"

"Gotta know your babies," MC said. "Especially Izzy. Since she loves arts and crafts." Pipp and Zipp nodded in agreement. "Maria, you watch them, Pipp, Zipp, let's go see what caused this." The three girls nodded. Maria stayed as MC, Pipp and Zipp went back to the dining area.

When they went back there, they saw Cloudpuff, regressed to a puppy. He also had on something that was red and sparkly all over him.

"Puppy Cloudpuff!" Pipp and Zipp said, adoring Cloudpuff's cuteness. Then Zipp noticed something.

"Hold on," Zipp said. She then went out, headed for the room she and Pipp shared at the guesthouse, and came back with a Q-tip. She then wiped the sparkling red stuff off of puppy Cloudpuff. "Pipp, what is this?"

"Oh, that?" Pipp asked. "That's the face mask I created after adding the last ingredient."

"Why is it glowing?" MC asked, getting a better look at the stuff. Pipp then winced at that.

"I... might have found the last ingredient inside of that candle holder on the coffee table," Pipp said, nervously.

"What?" MC asked. Then the three of them headed for the living room. "Nicole, we need footage of the living room. Mainly around the coffee table, before Pipp added what was in the candle holder."

"Viewing footage on the screen," Nicole said. It then showed footage on the TV. It showed Pipp picking up the candle holder from the coffee table.

"What was in that?" Zipp asked.

"Wait a minute," MC said. "Nicole, rewind it to when Sonic and I were cleaning up the living room." Then the footage rewinded to when Sonic and MC were finishing cleaning up all the magic glitter. The footage then paused. "Oh, no. Sunny's magic glitter."

"You put magic glitter into the mixture?!" Zipp asked, looking at Pipp.

"I didn't know it was magic?!" Pipp said. "How was I supposed to know?!"

"Well, it won't matter unless we can get them back to normal," MC said. He then noticed something. One of the babies was missing. "Hold it. Where's Misty?" Just then, the sound of baby Misty giggling came to their attention. She saw baby Misty chasing puppy Cloudpuff out the back door.

"MISTY! CLOUDPUFF!" MC, Pipp and Zipp said in unison. Then the three of them chased Misty and Cloudpuff.

Baby Misty was chasing puppy Cloudpuff outside. MC, Pipp and Zipp ran outside to see baby Misty chasing puppy Cloudpuff into the room where the portal to Equestria was.

"Oh, no!" MC said. He then rushed towards the door and shut it before they could get into the room. "Not today, you two." Then baby Misty and puppy Cloudpuff started heading back towards the house. Then Pipp grabbed Puppy Cloudpuff and Zipp grabbed baby Misty.

"That was close," Zipp said. "We don't want Misty to end up in Equestria and taken in by a new family."

"That would be hard to explain," Pipp said. "Let's get them back to normal."

Back in the dining area, Pipp was thinking of a way to undo the age regression.

"Okay, if I put ingredients into my face mask that make you look younger," Pipp said. "So, if I put different ingredients into it, I can make them look older."

"Can that work?" Zipp asked.

"Hopefully, we can get them to the right age they were before," MC said. "We wouldn't want them to be as old as your mom or Alphabittle." Then the two pegasus sisters giggled at that.

"Wait, wait... Who's Alphabittle?" Pipp asked.

"Alphabittle was that old unicorn stallion that future me had taken the Unicorn Crystal from after winning that dancing game," MC answered. "Although, he was pretty spry for someone his age."

"Well, so were you since you lived for over 200 years," Zipp said, making MC laugh.

"Alphabittle was very grumpy when future me had taken the crystal from him," MC said. He then started talking like Alphabittle. "If you can beat me just one time, the Crystal is all yours." Just then, he felt something attached to his leg. He looked down and saw baby Misty looking up at MC with sparkly eyes.

"Misty?" MC asked.

Pipp then brought up a bunch of beauty supplies in a box. But she accidentally tipped the box, making some bottled liquid spill out onto Misty. The bubbles were green and dark blue. MC then reached into the bubbles and pulled Misty out. Her mane was covered in green and dark blue bubbles, and there were larger mounds of soap that looked like afro puffs.

"I gotcha, Misty," MC said. He then gasped when looking at baby Misty. "Oh, my God!"

"What?! What is it?!" Zipp asked.

"That's it!" MC said. "That's where I've saw Misty before!"

"You have?!" Pipp asked. "Where and when?!"

"Okay, it was in one of the visions my mom sent me during our time in Soleanna," MC said, remembering one of the visions of the future.

He remembered when future MC beat Alphabittle in Prance-Prance Revolution.

"You are not getting this crystal!" Alphabittle said to Future MC. "I don't care if you beat me at Prance-Prance Revolution. You're not getting it!"

"Oh, yes I am," future MC responded.

"Oh, yeah?" Alphabittle asked. "How are you gonna do that?"

Future MC smirked. He then said four words. "Magic, feather, wing, mayonnaise!" All the unicorns in the room froze at that.

"Bing!" Alphabittle said.

"Bong!" another unicorn said. Then all of the unicorns in the Crystal Tea Room started saying "Bing Bong" repeatedly and they started doing their dance.

"Well, I'd hate to get into your strange habits, but I gotta get going to Zephyr Heights," Future MC said. "Ta-ta." He then backflipped towards the counter where Alphabittle worked. He then landed on a tea saucer on the counter, making him slip and hit the wall that had shelves on it. "Okay, not as smooth as I used to be." He then looked up and saw a bunch of dishes, the Unicorn Crystal and a framed picture about to fall. "Uh oh!" Future MC then used his speed to catch all the things. He grabbed the Unicorn Crystal with his right hand, the picture with his left hand, and the dishes got stacked on his right foot and tail. He then sighed in relief.

"Whoa!" Alphabittle said. "Now that was smooth."

"Not for long," Future MC said. "I'm about to lose my balance. Get over here and help me with this." Alphabittle then ran over and grabbed the dishes and put them on the counter.

"That was close," Alphabittle said.

"Yeah, that would be hundreds of dollars of dishes," Future MC said, Alphabittle nodding in agreement. Future MC then looked at the framed picture. "Who is this?"

Alphabittle gave Future MC a sad look. He then said, "My daughter."

"Your... your daughter?" Future MC asked. "What happened...?"

"She went missing many years ago," Alphabittle said. "I've been waiting here for her, in case that one day, she would find her way home."

Future MC then sighed. He then said, "If she's still alive somewhere, I'll find her, and send her home. But until then..." He then rushed out of there, leaving the framed picture in Alphabittle's arms.

It then went back to the present time.

"So, Misty is the missing daughter of that old unicorn stallion?!" Zipp asked. "MC, we've gotta reunite those two ASAP!"

"Agreed," MC said. "But first, we gotta get these guys back to normal."

"Already mixed the ingredients!" Pipp said. "All it needs it magic glitter!"

"On it!" MC said. He then handed Misty to Zipp as he rushed towards somewhere, and came back with a garbage bag full of magic glitter. Pipp then pulled out a measuring cup, scooped up the glitter from the bag, and put it into the mixture, and mixed it up. Then the entire mixture turned red and sparkly.

"Okay, time to get everyone back to normal," Pipp said. They then headed back into the living room where all the babies were still doodling. Maria was watching them. Pipp then walked up to baby Sunny with a brush that had the mixture on it. Baby Sunny moved her face away from the brush annoyed.

"This isn't gonna work," MC said. "Any ideas?"

Zipp then got an idea and said, "Once upon a time!" That got the attention of the babies. They then crawled up to Zipp. Baby Misty included. "There were two sisters who were very different. And even though they liked different things... really different things... that was what made life together so fun!" The babies then started getting sleepy.

"Aw, you use to tell me bedtime stories," Pipp said. Then Pipp, MC and Maria grabbed brushes with mixture and started spreading the mixture onto the faces of the drowsy babies.

"The two sisters have lived together for a long time in a castle together until one day..." Zipp said.

It when went to where Twilight, Sonic, Tails, Sunny, Hitch, Izzy and Misty were all asleep on the couch, all back to their normal ages. Even Cloudpuff was back to his normal age.

Izzy then woke up. She then felt her cheeks and said, "Wow! It worked! I feel so much younger! I'm gonna tell all my friends about this!" She then looked around and smiled. She then whistled, making all of them wake up. "You all gotta try this face mask!"

"We did," Twilight said. She then felt her cheeks. "Wow. I actually do feel younger."

"Wow," Hitch said. "Who knew this would be so good?"

"Hey, look," Sonic said, pointing at a corner. In that corner, MC, Pipp, Zipp and Maria were asleep, MC being in the back side. They then woke up with dark circles under their eyes.

"Whoa, you all look exhausted," Sunny said. She then held up the first mixture of Pipp's face mask. "You all should try this face mask. You deserve it."

MC, Maria, Pipp and Zipp looked at each other and started giggling. Then they got up. MC then walked towards Twilight, and pulled her away from the group.

"Sparkles, remember when I said that Misty looked familiar to me somehow?" MC asked.

"Yeah, why?" Twilight asked.

"Well, I figured it out," MC said. "Where she came from. Who she really is."

"You have?" Twilight asked. "Who is she?"

"The answer to that... involves going back to the future," MC said.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
The Future Has Returned

Episode 15: The Future Has Returned

At the villa at Emerald Coast, the Mane 6, the Freedom Fighters, the Young 6, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Sunny and her friends (Misty included), Spike, Sparky, Midpoint, Olive and Cozy Glow were all there, enjoying their time at the beach. The Crusaders were in the water, splashing each other. Rainbow Dash, Smolder and Zipp were surfing on the waves. Rarity, Pipp and Sonia were getting a tan. Sonic, Sally, Twilight, Olive and Sunny were all doing some yoga right near where Mutt, Cream and Cheese were making a sand castle.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch," Sonic said. "How does Maddie keep doing this?"

"You'll get used to it, Sonic," Sally said. "It helps keep you flexible."

"I really... don't see... how," Sonic said before tipping over onto the sand castle. Right as the sand castle crumbled, the sand started building up. MC came out of the top of the building up sand.

"This day could use a little bit more fun!" MC said, holding a volleyball. "Who is up for some beach volleyball?" He then dove into the sand, then a wall of sand built up, which then deconstructed into a volleyball net. Then a volleyball referee stand appeared right beside the net, along with the court lines. Then Sandbar, Tails, Sally, Applejack, Fluttershy and Izzy got on one side of the court while Misty, Truemen, Mutt, Olive, Cream and Ocellus.

Twilight then walked over towards one area. Then Sunny, Hitch, Pipp, Zipp and Sonic came up to her. Then an elemental clone of MC came up from the sand below, looking at the group.

"Okay, we need to find a way to get back to the future," Twilight said. "Or, at least the future where you're from."

"That's gonna be hard," Sonic said. "Like MC said about Lynol's theory, we can't jump from one timeline to another with the space-time rift we used with two Chaos Emeralds."

"Hey, what about MC's Mom?" Sunny asked. "She can visit all timelines, remember?"

"Yeah, my Mom can do that," MC said through the sand. "She can take you back to that alternate future. After all, we went through time and space on Sonic's birthday."

"True," Sonic said.

"My future counterpart will help you guys out," MC said through the sand. "Mom, help 'em out." Just then, a portal opened up. "We'll keep Misty busy until you get back."

"See you when we get back," Twilight said. Then the five ponies and Sonic walked into the portal while the sand clone of MC went back down to the ground. Then the portal closed.

In the alternate future, in Zephyr Heights, the time portal opened up in the middle of the city, Twilight, Sonic, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp and Zipp coming out of it. The five of them looked around.

"Zephyr Heights!" Pipp said. She then hovered in place. "We're home!"

Zipp then breathed in and said, "I actually missed this place." She then sighed. "But, with Mom gone, I'm gonna have to take over the throne." Just then, two Pegasus guards came up to the group. Then they recognized the two pegasus sisters.

"Princesses Pipp and Zipp?!" one of the guards, Zoom Zephrywing, asked in shock. "You're back after so long?!"

"Zoom? Thunder?" Zipp asked. She then thought of something. "How long were we gone?"

"A year," Thunder responded.

"A year?!" Sunny, Pipp and Zipp asked in unison.

"Wait, if we were gone for a year, who's been running the castle?" Zipp asked.

"Oh, you're going to enjoy this," Zoom said. "Follow us." Then the two guards walked towards the castle. Twilight, Sonic, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp and Zipp followed the two guards.

Later, the five of them were escorted into the throne room of the Zephyr Heights castle. When they got there, they were surprised at who was in the throne.

"MC?!" Twilight, Sonic, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp and Zipp asked in unison.

On the throne, Future MC was sitting on the throne, giving a sly smirk towards the six visitors. He then said, "Well, well, well, looks like some old friends have come to visit." He then sat up from the throne and walked towards the group.

"MC, you're in charge of Zephyr Heights?" Zipp asked.

"Not just Zephyr Heights," Future MC said as he approached the group. "I've been ruling all of Equestria from here."

"Really?" Hitch asked. "So, how have all the towns been since we've been gone?"

"Maretime Bay has been made better," Future MC said. "Especially since Canterlogic got shut down."

"Canterlogic finally got shut down?" Sunny asked.

"That's right, Sunny!" Future MC said. "They kept making illegal products. The Splatter-pults, the Unicorn Traps, the Earth Pony Balloon Escape Packs. Those ones are so dangerous, especially with what happened with that one stallion."

"Yeah, that would've been a lot of paperwork," Hitch said.

"Oh, it was," Future MC said. "Now, what is it that you have been sent here from your timeline?"

"You know we're from another timeline?" Twilight asked. "How?"

"I watched you get burned alive, Sparkles," Future MC said. "Of course there had to be an alternate timeline after the whole Solaris incident. The only thing I don't understand is how these four, Izzy and Silver never returned."

"We got stuck on the other side," Sunny said. "We're only here because we need to find Alphabittle."

"Alphabittle?" Future MC asked. "Why?"

"Because your younger counterpart kept your promise you made to him," Zipp said. "We found his daughter. Misty."

"WHAT?!" Future MC asked. "You guys found her?"

"Yes," Pipp said, bringing out her phone. She then showed a picture of Misty they took in the alternate timeline. "Here she is." Future MC then looked at the picture.

"No way," Future MC said. "She's in the past?! How?"

"Opaline," Twilight said. "Somehow, Misty found a necklace that belonged to Opaline, and she was transported from this timeline to ours in the past. We still don't know how that happened."

"Opaline?" Future MC asked. "Opaline, that name... it sounds familiar."

"She's a magic stealing lunatic," Twilight said. "She attacked us in our timeline, and tried to steal all the magic in the world from the Tree of Harmony. Misty betrayed her and she's staying with the Freedom Fighters."

"Well, that's good," Future MC said. "Right now, we should get to Bridlewood and tell Alphabittle the good news. Let's get going. It's better to tell him in person." The others nodded. They headed for the door with Future MC out in front. He then stopped and turned around. "Hold on. But first... Pipp, Zipp, there's something you two should know." Just then, the doors to the throne room were slammed open. A blue Pegasus guard came in with a panicked expression.

"My king!" the guard said. "There are dragons in Maretime Bay!"

"What?!" Future MC asked in shock.

"Dragons?!" Twilight asked. "This I gotta see. Let's go." Then they all headed out of the throne room.

"Hopefully, I can be back home before Nyx wakes up," Future MC said.

"Nyx is here?" Twilight asked. "How was she all these years?"

"All I can tell you, she missed you a lot," Future MC said. "Along with Joshua. Until he died." Twilight felt sad about her children being raised without their mother as she kept running with the others.

Meanwhile, back in the original timeline, Fluttershy spiked the ball over the net, where Olive almost made contact with it, but it hit the sand.

"Point!" MC said, pointing at Fluttershy's team. "Sandbar, Tails, Sally, Fluttershy, Applejack and Izzy win!"

"Aw, man!" Truemen said. He then raised his robot arm to point at MC. "This game was rigged." Just then, sand came out of Truemen's left arm. "Next time I visit the Oracle, I better ask him to make my robot arm element proof. Mostly against sand."

Midpoint then walked up to Truemen, took a look at the bear's robot arm, and said, "This is incredible technology. How did a creature of sorcery forge this?"

"Even I don't know," Truemen said. Just then, Antoine came up to them.

"Monsieur Lynol," Antoine said. "I am just wondering... how is my wife? Is she... out of ze surgery?"

"Why, Antoine, Ah knew you would care," came the voice of Bunnie. They looked towards the voice and saw Bunnie coming up to them.

"Bunnie!" Antoine said. Then the married couple hugged each other. "You are feeling alright, oui?"

"Ah'm alright, sugah," Bunnie said. She then showed the palm of her left hand, seeing a repulsor in the palm. "This fancy new tech built into mah arm is really handy."

"Just be careful where you aim your arm, Bunnie," Midpoint said. "That repulsor might go off by accident."

"Good to know, sugah," Bunnie said. "How about the repulsors in mah feet?"

"The repulsors in your hand and your feet respond to your movement," Midpoint said. "Although, I'm gonna have to make you and Antoine an entirely new bed frame that will wirelessly calibrate your bionics so they won't go out of control."

"Good to know, sugah," Bunnie said.

"I might as well go on down to New Orleans to do it," Midpoint said.

"Actually, Lynol, that's unnecessary," Sally said. Midpoint looked towards Sally. "I'm actually moving into the Acorn Embassy here in Station Square. Bunnie, Antoine and Rotor will be moving in with me."

"Okay, so that will save me the trip," Midpoint said. "I assume that your stuff is being moved to the embassy?"

"Oui," Antoine said. "But of course."

"Why else would we stick 'round these parts?" Bunnie asked. She then stretched. "Ah think Ah should try and get a tan mahself." She then headed over towards where Rarity, Sonia and Pipp were.

Back in the alternate future, in Maretime Bay, the ponies in Maretime Bay were all panicking when dragons were flying all over the place. There were seven dragons. 3 were male (one red, one salmon, and one green), 4 were female (one pink, one yellow, one blue, and one light pink). The pink dragoness was looking around for something.

"We are looking for the leader of this land," the pink one said. She then saw a red stallion with his blonde mane combed back. "You! Where is...?!"

The red stallion, Sprout Cloverleaf, just screamed at that and ran off. He then said, "Prepare my defense vehicle, Sproutacus Maximus!" He then ran into a building.

The pink dragon just sighed in annoyance. Just then, she saw some figures rushing towards her. It was Twilight, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp, Zipp, Sonic and Future MC.

"Ponies of Maretime Bay!" Hitch called out. "Relax! Help... has arrived!"

Then all the ponies of Maretime Bay saw the group. One of them called out, "It's Sheriff Hitch! He's returned!" Then all the earth Ponies of Maretime Bay, except Sprout, applauded.

"And it looks like he's accompanied by Sunny and the King!" a mare called out.

"Relax, everyone!" Future MC said, raising his arms. "I got this." Just then, he walked towards the pink dragon. The pink dragon got closer to Future MC and looked at him with a weirded out expression.

"You're the leader of the ponies?" the pink dragon asked. "You're not a pony yourself, you know that, right?"

"I was left in charge of Equestria when the world was starting to burn due to the Flames of Disaster," Future MC responded. "And just who are you?"

"I am Blaize Skysong," the pink dragon responded. "Second in command to the Dragon Lord. Are you the leader?"

"No one has higher authority than me here," Future MC said. "I am King Michael Crayton. Listen, how about you and your dragon buddies calm down and..." Just then, there was some rumbling coming from the ground. Just then, a huge machine that was shaped like an equine came from the South Side of town. Piloting the machine was Sprout.

"Don't worry, Maretime Bay!" came Sprout's voice. "I shall save you all from these evil dragons!" He then piloted the machine to charge at Blaize. Future MC then stood tall in front of the path of the machine.

"What is he doing?!" Sunny asked. "He's crazy!"

"Wait for it," Sonic said, smirking.

Future MC then held his right hand out in front. Then the machine made contact with Future MC's hand, making the machine stop cold. Then Twilight, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp and Zipp's jaws dropped.

Sunny then remembered something and said, "Oh, that's right. MC has self density manipulation."

Blaize was amazed by what had happened and asked, "How did you do that?"

"I've been doing something like that for over 200 years, girl," Future MC said. He then looked up at the cockpit of the machine. "Sprout! What the heck are you doing?! This machine is not legal!"

The machine head looked down at Future MC, and Sprout said, "I'm doing what you're too weak to do! Take down our enemies!"

"What enemies?!" Future MC asked. "Equestria is in peace! Why can't you accept that?!"

"Because you are unfit to rule!" Sprout said. "Don't stop me! So says Sheriff Sprout!"

"You're not Sheriff!" Future MC said. "You were fired for attacking the other pony tribes! Twice! But this is the last straw!" He then whistled. Just then, something fast came in and destroyed the head of the mech, throwing Sprout to the ground. Future MC then picked up the machine, and threw it out of the town limits. Then Sprout was brought in by Future Shadow.

"I got him, Crayton," Future Shadow said.

"Good job, Shadow," Future MC said. "Take him to jail. Lock him up for 20 years."

"You got it," Future Shadow said, taking Sprout away. Hitch then walked up to Future MC.

"Wait, Shadow's the new sheriff of Maretime Bay?" Hitch asked.

"Well, he did have an incredible reference being with GUN," Future MC responded, Hitch nodding in agreement. Then Future Shadow came back and saw the group.

"Sonic? Twilight?" Future Shadow asked. "What are you doing here? And how?"

"We're from an alternate timeline," Twilight responded.

"Twilight?" Blaize asked. "As in Twilight Sparkle?" She then approached the group. "Our Dragon Lord talks about you from time to time ever since your demise. How are you here?"

"We came here from an alternate timeline to help out a friend," Twilight responded. "Wait a minute. Your current Dragon Lord talks about me? Who's the Dragon Lord?"

Just then, Blaize pulled out a horn and blew into it. Just then, an eighth dragon came out from behind the old Canterlogic Building, and landed near the group.

"Is that...?" Sunny asked, getting a look at the Dragon Lord.

"It can't be," Sonic said.

The Dragon Lord was Purple with green spines. He yawned, letting out emerald flames. He then said, "Oh. Excuse my breath."

Twilight got a good look at the Dragon Lord's eyes, gasped and asked, "Spike?!"

The Dragon Lord looked down at Twilight, went wide eyed and said, "Twi?"

"Holy smokes, dude!" Future MC said. "You're huge!"

"How are you still alive?" Zipp asked.

"That, my little pony, is because dragons have longer lifespans than common ponies," Dragon Lord Spike said. He then tilted his head. "Have we met?"

"Actually, the four of us have been living in an alternate timeline with your younger counterpart," Zipp answered.

"How much younger?" Dragon Lord Spike asked. Twilight then put her hand to where her Spike's current height was. "Oh. That young. Good to know."

Future MC then made an announcement to the ponies of Maretime Bay, saying, "It's okay, everypony! The Dragon Lord is an old friend of mine! I haven't seen him in 175 years! The dragons are our friends!" Then all of the ponies came up to the dragons. "You know the stories that Argyle Starshine, may he rest in peace, was talking about?" The ponies nodded.

"You mean those ridiculous stories about ponies uniting with none pony creatures against those evil monsters?" came the voice of Phyllis Cloverleaf. "That's way too far-fetched."

"Not really," Future MC said. He then pointed at Dragon Lord Spike. "Because this dragon happened to be the same baby dragon that was raised by Twilight Sparkle."

"And I doubt those stories were ridiculous," Dragon Lord Spike said. "I've seen so many adventures with Twilight Sparkle. She basically raised me."

"It's true," Twilight said. "I raised him since I hatched his egg."

"Wait, you're Twilight Sparkle?!" Phyllis Cloverleaf asked. "Aren't you...?"

"Dead?" Twilight asked. "Well, in this timeline. I came from an alternate timeline for something." She then got an idea. "Hey, Spike. How about we catch up on the way to Bridlewood?"

Dragon Lord Spike smiled at that and said, "I'd like that." Then the sound of a mare groaning came to their attention. The group looked towards the voice and saw an Earth Pony mare that was butter yellow and a light pink mane pulled back into a pony tail.

"Ever since that fox took over as leader, things have gotten worse," the mare said. "Unicorns levitating stuff with their magic. Pegasi flying around. Now dragons?! This is getting messed up!"

"Hey, what's up with Posey?" Hitch asked.

"Oh, nothing much," Future MC responded. "She's just jealous because the Earth Ponies are the only ponies that haven't gotten magic."

"Oh, that's not true," Hitch said. "Hey, Posey!" Posey Bloom looked towards Hitch with a raised eyebrow. "Watch this! Sunny?"

"Of course," Sunny said. Then Sunny raised her right foot while Hitch raised his left foot. Then they started glowing green, and then they stopped their feet. Then magic vines spread through the ground to an empty garden box, and out came a bunch of flowers.

Future MC went wide eyed and said, "Did... not see that coming."

"New Earth Pony Magic?" Dragon Lord Spike asked. "That's definitely new."

All the Earth Ponies in town looked at each other. Then they looked at their feet. An Earth Pony filly raised her right foot and it started glowing green. She then stomped and it created a huge vine 5 feet in front of her.

"Didn't know that could happen, did you, Posey?" Sunny asked. She then looked towards all the ponies of Maretime Bay. "Listen, everypony. Just be careful when using this kind of magic. You could accidentally cause chaos." She then started sparking and she became an Alicorn. "And don't forget, your magic is stronger when you have good friends by your side."

Then all of the Earth Ponies were amazed by Sunny becoming an Alicorn in front of them.

"Another thing I didn't see coming," Future MC said. He then thought of something. "Wait a minute. That must've been what I've saw in you when you were born."

"Yeah, probably," Sunny said. "Now, to Bridlewood." Then Twilight got onto Dragon Lord Spike's back. The others got onto the other dragons. Then the dragons started flying away.

Back in the main timeline, Izzy and Misty were helping the Crusaders make a sand castle city. Misty then looked around and got confused.

"Hey, where are Twilight, Sonic, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp and Zipp?" Misty asked. The others looked around and shrugged their shoulders. Then they continued making the sand castle city.

Back in the alternate future, the dragons were flying Twilight, Sonic, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp, Zipp and Future MC to Bridlewood. When they reached the entrance, they saw that it was creepy.

"Okay, that is creepy," Hitch said. "Izzy and Misty were from here?"

"Oh, please," Future MC said. "You should see the Everfree Forest during this time. Things have gotten wild... er than what it was in the past."

"No doubt about that," Twilight said. "Now, let's go." Then they all headed into the forest. When they reached the main part of Bridlewood, all the ponies there were having a good time there.

"There we go," Future MC said. "No more boredom. No more depression. Smiling faces all around." Just then, the ponies saw the dragons and got scared. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! It's okay, ponies! These dragons are friends! They're not here to hurt you."

"That's right," Dragon Lord Spike said. "We come in peace." Then the ponies relaxed a little. They were still curious about the dragons in Bridlewood, but they weren't going to panic.

Just then, the group reached the Crystal Tea Room. Future MC then said, "Here it is. The Crystal Tea Room. Where Alphabittle resides."

"Okay, that's good," Twilight said. "Now we can tell him about his daughter."

"Let's go," Pipp said.

"Now, hold up a minute," Future MC said. "Pipp, Zipp, remember when I said I had something to tell you? Before these guys were spotted in Maretime Bay?"

"Yeah, why?" Zipp asked. Just then, the sound of a mare's laughing came to their attention. It came from the Crystal Tea Room. "Wait a minute. I know that laugh."

"That's the thing," Future MC said, smiling. Pipp and Zipp ran past Future MC and burst through the doors of the Crystal Tea Room. Sitting at the counter was Pipp and Zipp's mom, Queen Haven. And she was giving a loving smile towards Alphabittle.

"Mom?!" Pipp and Zipp asked in unison. Queen Haven looked towards Pipp and Zipp, and then gasped.

"My... my babies! You've returned!" Queen Haven said. She then ran towards the two pegasi sisters and pulled them into a group hug.

"Mom... I'm... I'm sorry," Zipp said.

"It's okay, Zephyrina," Queen Haven said. "You were upset. I understand that."

"Wait a minute," Pipp said, getting out of the hug. "How are you still here?"

"Yeah, how did that happen?" Zipp asked.

"During our fight with Mephiles, some of the guards pulled your mom's body away," Future MC said, coming towards them. "They took her to a special project known as Project: Meadowbrook."

"Meadowbrook?" Twilight asked. "As in Mage Meadowbrook?"

"Bingo," Future MC responded. "In the past, it hadn't worked because it didn't have enough energy. So, I lent some of my own to have it work properly. And seeing Haven back on her feet is the result."

"And I'm so glad to have my two daughters back," Queen Haven said. "Even though, I'm retired."

"You retired from being the queen?" Zipp asked. "But, what about...?"

"It seems that King Michael Crayton has done an amazing job of running the entire country when I was in that thing," Haven said. "So, I decided to check out the other places. And that's when I've met..." She then looked at Alphabittle. "Alphabittle Blossomforth. Oh, he has been such a great stallion."

Alphabittle chuckled and said, "Well, I couldn't have such a lovely lady such as you be living in the streets. I might as well let you stay here." He then looked sad and turned away.

"Still thinking about Misty, huh?" Future MC asked.

"Yeah," Alphabittle responded.

"Misty?" Haven asked. "Who's Misty?"

Alphabittle then grabbed the picture of his daughter, and gave it to Haven. He then said, "My daughter."

Haven gasped and asked, "You have a..."

"She went missing many years ago," Alphabittle said. "I looked everywhere. And I doubt our king has found her."

"Not quite," Sunny said, walking up to them. "In a way, he did find her. But it wasn't just where... but when."

"When?" Alphabittle asked. "What do you mean when?"

Pipp then showed a group picture that had Misty in it to Alphabittle. Alphabittle gasped at that.

"She's in the past in an alternate timeline," Sunny said. "We've come here so we could reunite you with her."

"Misty..." Alphabittle said. He then went wide eyed. He then ran towards where the bedrooms were behind the Crystal Tea Room. Twilight, Sonic, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp, Zipp, Future MC and Haven followed Alphabittle into the room where he went into. They saw him packing up the stuff that was in there. "Oh, my Misty-wisty. I'm coming."

"I guess he wants to pack things up that belonged to Misty when she was a filly," Sonic said.

"Well, you all are gonna have to get your stuff," Future MC said. "You are staying in that alternate timeline, right?" Sunny, Hitch, Pipp and Zipp nodded. "Okay then. Your stuff, along with Izzy's, are in storage boxes I have stashed away in Zephyr Heights." He then headed towards Alphabittle. "You need a hand?"

"I would appreciate that," Alphabittle said. Then Sonic and Future MC helped with packing Misty's stuff. When they were all done, they all headed towards the front door. Alphabittle then looked towards two unicorns who were into beat poetry. "Onyx, Dapple, I'm retiring from the Crystal Tea Room. You two are in charge."

"We appreciate it," Onyx said, dully.

Then they all headed out.

Later in Zephyr Heights, there were moving pods with the Cutie Marks of Sunny, Hitch, Izzy, Pipp, Zipp and Misty ready for transport. Then Twilight used her Make-It-Mini spell to reduce the moving pods down to size.

"Okay, time to head on home," Twilight said. She then looked towards Haven and Alphabittle. "You do realize you'll have to find your own place in the other timeline, right?"

"Of course," Haven said. "As long as I'm in the same timeline with my daughters."

"And as long as Misty is back with me, I'll be alright in an alternate time," Alphabittle said. "So, how do we get there?"

"The same way we got here," Zipp said. "Sarah, we need the portal." Just then, a portal opened up. Sunny grabbed the moving pod that had her cutie mark, Hitch grabbed his, Zipp grabbed hers, Pipp grabbed hers, Twilight grabbed Izzy's and Sonic grabbed Misty's. Alphabittle and Haven had their bags on a large cart.

"It was nice to see you again, Sparkles," Future MC said.

"And it's good to see that you've been trying your best to keep Equestria in peace," Twilight said. "And for taking care of Nyx."

"Of course," Future MC said. "I had to take care of her for your sake."

"Especially when you know the truth about what really happened the night of the ritual that made Nyx," Twilight said. "Princess Celestia didn't interrupt the ritual. Your counterpart did."

"What?" Future MC asked.

"That's right, Michael," Twilight said. "Nyx... is your daughter, too."

Future MC then thought about it. He then gave a small smile. He then said, "That would explain why I wanted to watch over her all those years ago." Future MC then hugged Twilight when she dropped Izzy's stuff. "It's been nice seeing you again, Sparkles."

"Take care of our country," Twilight said. She then picked up Izzy's stuff. Then she, Sonic, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp, Zipp, Haven and Alphabittle went through the portal and it closed.

Future MC then turned around, just before Future Nyx came down and landed in front of Future MC. She then asked, "Was that... Mom?"

"An alternate version of her," Future MC responded. "Also, your brother's back."

"Spike's back?!" Future Nyx asked. "Where is he?" Future MC then brought out his Super Warp Ring.

"He's on his way back to the Dragon Lands," Future MC said. "How about we go surprise him?" Future Nyx smiled at that. Future MC then threw his ring and it expanded into a portal. Then the two went through the portal.

Back in the main timeline, the Freedom Fighters made their way back home. When Misty entered the house, she was given a vision of her foalhood.

She saw her younger self scared, and surrounded by mist. Then she saw a figure's silhouette. It then cleared up, showing a younger Alphabittle.

"Where'd you go, pumpkin?" the younger Alphabittle said. "It's almost dinner time." The vision then ended. Misty stood in place, unsure about what she saw.

"Wha-what?" Misty asked.

"What is it, Misty?" MC asked.

"I... I think I just had a vision," Misty said. "About my..."

"Misty?" came the voice of Alphabittle. The group looked towards the voice. They saw Alphabittle coming into the Foyer from the living room.

"D-d-d-d-d-Dad?" Misty asked, stuttering. She then let out tears.

Izzy gasped loudly and asked, "Alphabittle is your DAD?!"

Misty then ran over towards Alphabittle and the two hugged. Alphabittle then said, "I'm happy you're back in my arms, Misty."

"Oh, Dad," Misty said.

"And I'm never losing you again," Alphabittle said, putting his left hand on the back of Misty's head. Twilight, Sonic, MC, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp, Zipp and Haven looked at the two unicorns from the stairs. MC walked up to the group.

"Another happy ending," MC said. The group nodded at that.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Summer Festival

Episode 16: Summer Festival

At the Castle of Friendship, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were looking at a calendar that had a date marked for the Summer Festival in Station Square. They then checked how much US money they had for the Festival.

"Looks like we have enough for a lot o' the activities there," Apple Bloom said.

"I heard it has some rides that can knock your socks off!" Scootaloo said, her wings flapping fast. "I can't wait."

"Don't we need someone to go with us to the Festival?" Sweetie Belle asked. "According to this flier, we need a guardian just to enter the festival."

"I'm sure one of the Freedom Fighters will escort us to the Festival," Joshua said. "Especially if one of them is actually the father of one of our members." He then looked towards Nyx, the others following.

"I'm not sure if MC is going to make it to the Festival," Nyx said. "He, Truemen and Blaze are out of the country."

"Doing what?" Dinky asked.

"Don't know," Nyx said. "They never said why or when they would be back."

"Well, perhaps one of the other Freedom Fighters can escort us there," Scootaloo said. "How about we go and see?" Then the Crusaders headed out of the room. Later, the Crusaders went through the portal to Freedom Fighters Mansion. When they entered, they saw Misty and Alphabittle talking.

"I'm sure there's something we can do together like the old days, Misty," Alphabittle said. "We could go to the local playground. You loved going on the Merry-Go-Round."

"Actually, Alphabi-- I mean, dad," Misty said. "I'm kinda old for that."

"Okay, that's true," Alphabittle said. "We could try some poetry. You used to love that when you were a filly."

"Emphasis on use to," Misty said. "I'm not that much into poetry. Or attention." She then sighed. "I just need time for myself." She then headed towards the Crusaders. "Oh, hey there, Crusaders. What brings you here?"

"Well, we were wondering if any of the Freedom Fighters are here to take us to the Summer Festival here in Station Square," Joshua said.

"Well, the only ones who are here are me, Maria and Muttski," Misty said. She then looked towards Alphabittle. She then sighed. "Perhaps I should try something fun. I can escort you there. Might as well bring Maria and Mutt there."

"That actually sounds fun," came Maria's voice. Then Misty and the Crusaders looked towards the voice and they saw Maria and Mutt standing there. "I actually wanted to go to one a long time ago, but because of my sickness, I couldn't do anything about it. Plus, there's the fact I was shot and then turned into a hedgehog. And then I spent 50 years in suspended animation."

"50 years?" Misty asked. "Wow. You're older than me."

"Misty, everyone here's older than you," Mutt said. The Crusaders laughed at that.

"True, true," Misty said. "How about we head out?"

"Okay!" the Crusaders, Mutt and Maria said. Then they all headed for the front door.

"Hey, wait!" Alphabittle said. "Misty! Don't forget your sweater!" Alphabittle was carrying a sweater and he closed the door from behind.

From the other side of the closed door, Misty whined, saying, "Daaaad!"

At the Station Square Park where the Summer Festival was being held at, a lot of people were enjoying their time with the activities there. Especially the young ones. The Crusaders, Mutt, Maria, Misty and Alphabittle entered the Festival.

"Whoa!" the Crusaders said.

"This is awesome!" Joshua said. "What should we do first?"

"Remember, stay together," Misty said. "Your families might freak out if I come back to the mansions without one of you. You got it."

"Yes, Misty!" the Crusaders said. Then they all headed off somewhere.

Misty chuckled and she looked around at all the things to do. She was about to walk off somewhere, but then Alphabittle grabbed her shoulders.

"Hey, Misty-wisty," Alphabittle said. "Check out all the games. You used to love playing all of these kinds of games when you were a filly."

"Daaaad," Misty whined. "I know it's been a while since we've saw each other, but maybe we should tone it down with the father/daughter bonding. I'm not a little filly anymore."

Maria leaned towards Mutt and whispered, "Not since what happened the other day." Mutt looked at Maria confused. Maria then whispered, "Nicole will show you what happened when we get back home."

"I know you're not a little filly anymore, Misty," Alphabittle said. "I'm just happy to have my daughter back. And I can't handle the separation anymore."

"I know, Dad," Misty said. "It's just... ever since we've reunited, I feel like... you're afraid of losing me again. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. But sometimes, I need some time for myself."

"Oh, c'mon, Misty-wisty," Alphabittle said, hugging Misty tightly. "I know you don't mean that." He then noticed something. "Hey, look. How about we ride that roller coaster together?" Alphabittle pointed at the roller coaster at the end of the park.

Misty looked at it and gulped. She then said, "Maybe... at the... end of the day. We should..."

"Oh, c'mon, Misty," Alphabittle then pulled Misty towards the roller coaster. "The best time to get onto a roller coaster is as soon as possible. That way we won't have to worry about the line."

"Wait! Dad, no!" Misty said. Maria and Mutt followed the two futuristic unicorns towards the roller coaster.

Meanwhile, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were walking down the path full of festival games, looking at all the things they could do for fun.

"So many choices!" Scootaloo said. "Ring toss, water gun race, skee ball! This place is awesome!"

"Well, I don't wanna walk past any more of them," Joshua said. "Let's play!"

"I like the way you think, Josh," Babs said. "Let's do this!" Just then, Misty teleported in, making the group of kids jump in fright.

"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Misty said. "Ever since my dad came back from the future, he's been unbearable! He won't let me eat my own meals!" She then remembered one time when she was trying to eat her cereal. She was about to eat it, but the spoon was taken out of her hand.

"Here comes the Pegasus," Alphabittle said in the flashback. All Misty did in response was give off an annoyed face, without opening her mouth. It then went back to the present.

"He won't let me sleep," Misty said. She then flashbacked to when she was trying to sleep. But then, six blankets were put on over her.

"Better keep warm, Misty," Alphabittle said in the flashback. "It's gonna be a cold night."

"Daaaad!" Misty said in the flashback. "We're in a heat wave!" It then went back to the present time.

"He even walked into the bathroom when I was in the tub," Misty said. She then remembered when Alphabittle opening the bathroom door as she was bathing.

"Misty, I'm here to..." Alphabittle said in the flashback before being interrupted by Misty's scream.

"DAAAD!!!" Misty screamed, making Alphabittle slam the door shut. "I'M NOT DESCENT!!"

"Sorry, Misty!" Alphabittle said in the flashback. It then went back to the present.

"I just wish... he wasn't so... clingy," Misty said.

"Ah'm sure y'all get past that separation issue," Apple Bloom said. "Mah Ma and Pa were gone fer a long time due to an Equestria Disease called Swamp Fever. They missed a lot o' mah life. Mah first day o' school, gettin' mah Cutie Mark, so many birthdays o' mine, Applejack and Big Mac's. But they knew Ah wasn't that li'l filly they knew when they were gone. They had o' lot of catching up on."

"Swamp Fever?" Misty asked. "Isn't that that deadly disease that turns any creature into trees if not treated in time?"

"Eeyup," Apple Bloom said. "It was MC that actually got rid o' that disease and cured all who wasn't cured in time. What he did undid all o' it."

"It was actually nice meeting Apple Bloom's parents," Sweetie Belle said.

"It was sappy, yet amazing at the same time," Scootaloo said.

"Well, at least it wasn't as long as I was separated from my dad," Misty said. "You know, being raised by a magic hungry Alicorn tyrant bent on destroying those who stand in her way."

"Is she really that evil?" Nyx asked. "Wow. Makes me, or rather, who I was supposed to be, sound like a schoolhouse bully than an evil queen bent on having Equestria bathe in an eternal night."

"You did that?" Misty asked.

"For two weeks," Nyx said. "My friends here, before Joshua and Dinky came along, helped me see the light again."

"I was living in Manehattan at the time," Babs said.

"Okay," Misty said. "Well, right now, I need my space."

"Misty?! Where are you?!" came Alphabittle's voice from afar.

"Let's get out of here before he makes me do something I'm too old for," Misty said, pushing the Crusaders towards the haunted house.

Misty and the Crusaders were walking through the haunted house. The Crusaders were sticking close to Misty in case they ran into something really scary. Just then, a dummy werewolf came out from behind a black curtain, sending out noises. The Crusaders screamed in fright, clinging onto Misty, who didn't flinch at all.

"Okay, now that was scary," Scootaloo said. Then she looked up, seeing Misty wasn't scared at all. "Why didn't that make you jump?"

"Have you seen where I lived for years before coming here?" Misty asked. "Opaline being angry is a lot more scarier than what this place has."

"I'm not gonna argue with that," Joshua said. "Opaline was pretty scary when she appeared in the Castle that day."

"She scares me my entire life," Misty said. She then looked at Nyx. "So, you're really a reincarnation of a wicked mare that brought an eternal night?"

"Yeah," Nyx said. "I was created to make everypony see how beautiful the night sky is, but it was a complete disaster. The plants were dying, crops weren't growing, everypony was eventually going to starve. Nexus had an idea to make all the plants of Equestria grow during the night, but they didn't do it until after the eternal night started."

"They should a started that process months in advance," Misty said, making the Crusaders nod in agreement. Just then, a creepy clown popped out of a giant jack-in-the-box, scaring the Crusaders, hiding behind Misty.

Scootaloo looked up at Misty confused and asked, "Not even clowns scare you?" Misty shook her head. They continued walking through the haunted house.

Outside, Alphabittle was looking all over for Misty. Mutt and Maria were following him, trying to calm him down.

"Misty! MISTY!" Alphabittle called out. "Where are you, Misty?!"

"Mister Blossomforth, calm down," Maria said. "Misty is..."

"Lost in this carnival with no adult supervision!" Alphabittle said, cutting Maria off. "I gotta get her back! I can't lose her again!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Mutt said. "Take it easy, Alphabittle! She's old enough to watch out for herself! She's 16."

"So?! She's still so young! I can't lose her again!" Alphabittle said, picking up Mutt and shaking him. Just then, someone patted his back.

"Take it easy, y'all," came the voice of the one who pat him. Alphabittle turned around and standing right behind him was Applejack, Apple Bloom and Big Mac's father, Bright Mac. "Y'all are panickin' over nothin'."

"Bright Mac?!" Mutt and Maria asked in unison.

"Hey, ya two," Bright Mac said. "What brings y'all here?"

"Enjoying the Summer Carnival here in Station Square," Mutt said. "What about you?"

"Mah wife and Ah are selling some apple sweets over there," Bright Mac said, pointing at a booth. There, Pear Butter was at the stand.

"Get yer apple sweets from Sweet Apple Acres in Ponyville, Equestria!" Pear Butter called out. "We got caramel apples, apple pies, even some apple fritters!"

"Ooh hoo hoo!" Mutt said. "I love me some apple fritters!" Mutt then dashed towards the booth.

"Mutt sure loves those apple fritters," Maria said.

Bright Mac then looked at Alphabittle and asked, "So, why are ya so worked up?"

"My daughter's missing, again," Alphabittle said.

"Really?" Bright Mac asked. "How old is she? 5? 6?"

"16," Alphabittle said.

"16?" Bright Mac asked. "Sounds like she's old enough ta make her own decisions. Doing things by herself."

"I missed 11 years of her life!" Alphabittle said. "She's my little filly! I have to find her!"

Bright Mac then sighed and said, "Come with me. We have so much to talk about." The two fathers walked away from Maria. Mutt came back eating an apple fritter and he extended a caramel apple out for Maria.

"Caramel Apple?" Mutt asked.

"Thanks," Maria said, taking the caramel apple. She then took a bite out of it. "This is good."

"So, what are those two talking about?" Mutt asked.

"I'm gonna have to say... years of separation from their offspring," Maria said.

"Oh, I get it," Mutt said. "Pretty smart for a 65 year old with the mind of a 15 year old." Maria nodded in agreement. Then the two of them walked away from there.

Later, Misty and the Crusaders came out of the Haunted House. Scootaloo was clinging onto Misty with her tail between her legs. Literally.

"I-I-I d-d-don't g-g-get it!" Scootaloo said. "Th-th-that l-l-last one was s-s-so sc-sc-scary! H-h-how are you n-n-not afr-fr-fraid?"

"Meh, I don't scare easily," Misty said. "Well, except for when I saw some of the older Freedom Fighters watching Frankenstein."

"What's Frankenstein?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Frankenstein is the scientist who created a monster made up of different body parts dug up from the cemetery, and brought to life," Joshua said. "It's also been used as a Halloween costume."

"That makes sense," Sweetie Belle said. Just then, the stomachs of the Cutie Mark Crusaders started growling.

"Sounds like we need to get some food in you little fillies," Misty said. "C'mon, I think I saw a booth that serves pizza." Then they all headed away from there.

Eventually, Misty and the Crusaders were sitting at a long table, eating their slices of pizza and drinking their drinks. Misty sighed in relief that her dad wasn't bugging her by treating her like a little filly.

"So, Misty, any good movies in theaters?" Joshua asked.

"Probably not ones that are okay with your parents," Misty said. "But, there may be some movies that are age appropriate for you now. I'll check." Misty then brought out her phone to see what's in theaters. Just then, something in her pocket started vibrating. Misty pulled it out. It was the communicator that Shade had given her. She then answered the communicator. "Shade?"

"Misty, you're in danger," Shade's voice came from the communicator. "Opaline is peeved." Just then, the girls of the Crusaders gasped.

"Hey, you really shouldn't repeat that kind of language around kids!" Scootaloo said.

"Do I hear kids with you?" Shade asked through the communicator.

Misty sighed and said, "Yeah. I'm kinda watching the Cutie Mark Crusaders from Equestria here at the Summer Festival."

"Well, you need to get out of there, quickly," Shade said through the communicator. "Opaline is sending the Destructix to take you down."

"What?!" Misty asked.

"They won't stop until you're taken down," Shade said through the communicator. "You need to get out of there before they get you."

"Okay," Misty said. "I got it." She then looked towards the Crusaders. "We need to get out of here, pronto." The Crusaders nodded. Then they all headed for another part of the Festival.

Back over at the Apple Sweets Booth, Bright Mac, Pear Butter and Alphabittle were all talking.

"So, we knew we had to let our foals grow up on their own," Bright Mac said. "We missed so much of their lives. The way we knew 'em are nothin' but memories now."

"It sure was hard seeing our foals grown up," Pear Butter said, handing a customer some apple sweets. She then turned around to face Alphabittle. "Misty is all grown up. And there ain't nothin' ya can do 'bout it."

Alphabittle sighed and said, "I guess... it's hard seeing my little filly all grown up now. I was... hoping she'd remember all the good times we have done together since before she disappeared. But I guess I can never have them back."

"It's gonna be alright, Alphabittle," Bright Mac said. "How 'bout instead o' tryin' ta rememberin' all the old ways all at once, you make new memories." Alphabittle then looked at all the families that were there at the Festival. He then saw older kids doing the more mature rides.

Alphabittle sighed and said, "Perhaps you're right, my farming friend. I've been holding onto the past so much, I didn't see what was going on now. I know Misty is grown up now. I can't keep her from growing up. But I'll be there for her whenever she needs me." Just then, Misty and the Crusaders ran past the booth. Alphabittle noticed this and called out, "Misty? What's the rush?!"

Misty stopped, turned around, and said, "I have to get out of here!"

"Why?" Alphabittle asked. Just then, Misty was tackled by something fast. They crashed into a booth selling popcorn. Misty and whoever tackled her were covered in popcorn. Misty popped her head out of the popcorn, but then the back of her head was grabbed and slammed down. Misty tried looking back at who was pinning her down.

"Did you really think that Opaline was done with you?" came the voice of who was pinning her down. Then the face of who pinned her down came into Misty's view. It was Lightning Lynx of the Destructix. "Hello, Misty." Just then, the rest of the Destructix came down in front of Misty, getting ready to pound her.

"This is your punishment for betraying the one who took you in," Scourge said, cracking his knuckles. Misty got worried at that.

Misty was pinned down to the ground. Sergeant Simian was stepping up, getting ready to pound Misty's skull. Misty was getting nervous at that.

"Leave her alone!" came Alphabittle's voice. He came charging in to protect Misty, but was kicked back by Fiona.

"Dad!" Misty called out.

"Dad?" Scourge asked. "I thought you were abandoned when you were a filly."

"More like foalnapped!" Misty said. "Opaline stole me... from my home! From my family!"

"At least you've gotten one last chance to see him again!" Flying Frog said, before he started laughing creepily.

"Sergeant Simian, crush her!" Scourge said. Misty got nervous when she saw Sergeant Simian coming up close to crush her. Predator Hawk and Fiona were holding Alphabittle down. Just then, she saw something on the right side. She then gave a sly smirk.

"You may have me pinned down, ready for my skull to be crushed, but there's one thing you haven't thought of," Misty said, looking at Scourge.

"Oh, yeah?" Scourge asked with a mocking tone. "And what's that?"

"The Phoenix Flare," Misty said.

"The what?" Sergeant Simian asked. But then he was slammed from his left side by something yellow, glowing in an orange aura. He fell over and landed on Flying Frog, out cold.

"Gaaaah!" Flying Frog said, being crushed. "Get this gorilla off of me!"

"Where'd that...?!" Scourge asked before noticing Maria and Mutt standing in the middle of the path of booths. Maria's eyes were red instead of orange now, and she was surrounded in an orange aura.

"You shouldn't have done that," Maria said. She then charged at Scourge. Scourge went over to counter her. The two of them were giving their all trying to knock each other out. Mutt then went over and tried kicking Lightning Lynx off of Misty, but he jumped out of the way, still pinning down Misty.

"You're too slow, kid," Lightning Lynx said. "You should just give up."

"That's the thing about us Freedom Fighters," Mutt said. "We never give up. We always fight for what's right."

"Then why are you a Freedom Fighter?" Lightning Lynx asked. "Face it. You're just a kid without any powers. Just fancy shoes and a dangerous toy whip." Mutt then got self conscious about that. He looked down at his shoes. "That's right. You're nothin'." Just then, he was levitated off of Misty with a pink aura. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! What's happening?!"

Misty's horn was glowing. She then said, "Dad, duck!" Misty then threw Lightning Lynx towards Alphabittle, Fiona and Predator Hawk. Alphabittle ducked as the two holding him were hit by Lightning Lynx. Misty then got up and approached Alphabittle. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," Alphabittle answered. "Are you?"

"I'm good," Misty responded.

"Not for long!" came Scourge's voice. Misty turned around to see Scourge coming right towards her. Misty got nervous. But then, Maria came in and attacked Scourge on his left side, sending him towards a booth, him crying out in pain.

"How is that girl so fast?!" Scourge asked. He then tried going after Misty again, but Maria was preventing it.

The Crusaders were trying to get the people around them away from the battle. But as Nyx was doing her part, she saw something glowing in a hollow tree. She ran over towards it, looked at what was inside and gasped. She then reached into the tree and grabbed it.

Misty held up Fiona, Lightning Lynx and Predator Hawk in her magic. Then Bright Mac came in with a lasso and hooked the three of them in it. Then they started spinning around, tightening the lasso around them. Misty then brought them closer and then Bright Mac tightened the rope so they wouldn't escape.

"Not bad, Misty," Bright Mac said. "Oh, Ah'm Bright Mac by the way. Ah'm Applejack and Apple Bloom's pa."

"Nice to meet you," Misty said.

Maria and Scourge were still battling. Scourge was trying to hit Maria, but she moved out of the way every time. Scourge was getting irritated.

"Stand still and get hit!" Scourge said.

"Not gonna happen!" Maria said.

Nyx then ran up to the fight and said, "Maria! Catch!" She then threw what she had found.

Maria caught the Chaos Emerald. When it went into her hand, it started bright. Scourge was getting freaked out by this. He was stepping back from Maria with the Chaos Emerald.

"Chaos Inferno!" Maria said, holding out the Chaos Emerald. Then the orange aura turned into blue flames, taking the form of a phoenix. It then charged at Scourge, making contact, sending him out of the city, and towards the ocean. Maria then went back to the group as time was frozen. Maria's eyes went back from red to blue as time was frozen for 19 seconds. Then time went back at normal speed.

Misty looked around and asked, "Where's Scourge?"

"I... I think I sent him towards the ocean," Maria said. "Sometimes my powers activate by a Mama Bear Instinct. Alex's grandfather refers to it as the Phoenix Flare."

"Misty," Alphabittle said, walking up to Misty. Misty turned around, seeing Alphabittle coming towards her.

"Listen, Dad, I know I ran off earlier, but..." Misty said before being cut off by Alphabittle hugging her.

"I'm sorry, Misty," Alphabittle said. "I... I guess I was too stubborn to let go of the past that I didn't see the Young mare you've grown up to be. I always thought you would always be the filly I once knew, but I was wrong. From now on, I will give you some room for you to grow on your own, and we can talk from time to time if you want to."

Misty smiled at that and said, "I'm okay with that... Dad." She then returned the hug saying that last word. Just then, the Destructix vanished in pink flames. "Oh, boy. Looks like Opaline's going to be upset with them."

Back in Opaline's Throne Room, Opaline was scolding the Destructix for failing to kill Misty.

"YOU INCOMPETENT FOOLS!!" Opaline shouted. "How hard is it to kill a traitor?!"

"She wasn't alone, Opaline," Scourge said. "She had backup."

"I don't care!" Opaline shouted. "I want Misty taken down immediately!" She then looked down at the magic mirror in the middle of the room, seeing Misty, the CMC, Maria, Mutt, Alphabittle, Bright Mac and Pear Butter getting onto the bus back to Freedom Fighters Mansion.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Hades Gate

Episode 17: Hades Gate

Mutt was swimming laps in the pool, building up his endurance. He touched the wall after the second lap, and tried going for a third. But when he was half way there, he was exhausted. He then started to go under. Just then, he was pulled out by Ocellus in Seapony Form. She carried him to the ladder that leads out of the pool. Mutt then got out and coughed.

"Are you okay?" Ocellus asked.

"I'm fine," Mutt said. "I just... I was thinking about what those guys said about me at the Festival. That lynx guy. He said I shouldn't even be a Freedom Fighter because I don't have any powers."

It then showed a clip from the previous episode with Lightning Lynx saying, "Face it. You're just a kid without any powers. Just fancy shoes and a dangerous toy whip." It then went back to the present time.

"I don't even know how I feel about that," Mutt said. "So, I'm starting to do some hard core training like MC has done."

"This isn't hard core," Ocellus said. "You're overexerting yourself. If you push yourself too hard, you might end up hurting yourself."

Mutt sighed and said, "You're right. I'm just the runt of the Freedom Fighters. Sonic, Tails, Amy, Cream, MC, Truemen, Bunnie, Maria, Blaze, Silver, they all have powers. Me, Sally, Antoine and Rotor don't have powers, yet I'm not as skillful as they are."

"Just don't worry about it," Ocellus said. "I'm sure you'll be a good Freedom Fighter as much as the others are. I gotta get to the library. See you when I get back." She then started buzzing her wings and she flew away. Mutt then sighed and looked at his hands.

"Maybe... maybe I'm not good enough to be a Freedom Fighter," Mutt said to himself.

"Is that what you think, young one," came a voice. Just then, a green flash appeared behind Mutt. Mutt turned around, shielding his eyes from the blinding light. When the light dimmed, there stood the Oracle of Delphius. "Perhaps you haven't been doing the right training."

"Oracle?" Mutt asked. "What are you doing here?"

"I've been keeping my eyes on Michael Crayton to see if he was living up to his mother's expectations," the Oracle said. "But it seems that you are doubting your own expectations as a Freedom Fighter."

Mutt sighed and said, "Yeah. It's been so rough for me trying to catch up with the other Freedom Fighters. I'm... just a runt."

"Only if you believe you are, young Muttski," the Oracle said. "Perhaps... you just haven't found the right training yet." He then used his magic and created a vortex from the pool. "This vortex will take you to a place where you will take on excruciating challenges to prove you're worthy of fighting along side your friends."

"Is this one of the challenges that MC went through?" Mutt asked, looking down the vortex.

"Indeed," the Oracle said. "You must face the demon at the end to complete this challenge. You must use your wit and determination to get through it."

"Is that how MC passed this challenge?" Mutt asked. The Oracle walked up to Mutt and put his scaly hands on the dog's shoulders.

"About that," the Oracle said. "This is the only challenge that Michael Crayton hasn't complete." The Oracle then pushed Mutt into the vortex.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaa--?!" Mutt asked as he was being sucked down by the vortex. The vortex then vanished.

"Good luck, Ben Muttski," the Oracle said. He then disappeared in a green flash of light.

Mutt was unconscious someplace volcanic. Mutt then woke up and he looked around, wondering where he was.

"Where am I?" Mutt asked. He then looked up and gasped. In front of him was a large gate with flame emblems all over it, with three stone dog heads over it, all three of them giving a snarling look towards those who look up at the stone heads. "Whoa! What is this place?!"

"Benjamin Franklin Muttski, son of Ava Muttski, prepare to face the demons within," a strange, ominous voice came from the dog heads.

"Who... who said that?!" Mutt asked.

"I am the gatekeeper," the voice said. "Welcome... to Hades Gate."

"Hades Gate?!" Mutt asked. "How am I gonna pass this?!"

"As I said before, you must face the demons within," the voice of the gatekeeper said. "The demons within will take forms of those you may or may not have encountered before. Villains from your past."

"And if I don't pass?" Mutt asked.

"Then you will be returned to where you were, not worthy of your goal," the gatekeeper said. "Are you ready to enter?"

Mutt looked down at his hands. He then clenched his fists, looked up at the gate and said, "Let's do this!" Then the gate opened up. Mutt then walked through the gate. And as soon as he took five steps through the gate, his sixth step had no footing and he fell, screaming. He then landed in a pile of rubber chickens. Mutt then unburied himself from the pile of rubber chickens to look around. Where he saw looked like Ponyville, but it was in complete chaos. "What the heck?! Ponyville?!" He then looked around and saw the ponies of Equestria being tortured by pranks set up everywhere. He then looked behind him and saw a sign that had a picture of Discord on it. It even had a speaker that came on, reading what was on the sign.

"Welcome to Discord's Capitol of Chaos! For my personal amusement!" Discord's voice came from the speakers on the sign.

"No way," Mutt said. "My first demon to fight has taken Discord's form?" Just then, the eyes of the Discord on the sign looked towards Mutt, and it got angry. It then popped off the sign and began crawling on all fours, its mouth gotten longer and a lot of sharp teeth came from its mouth, its eyes became completely red and the Mane got longer and got sharp points from it. Mutt took a step back, saying, "Uh oh."

The Discord demon roared. Then it started chasing Mutt through the streets of Ponyville. Mutt then started using his Jet Shoes to get away from the Discord Demon as fast as he could. He then boosted towards Sweet Apple Acres. There he saw Applejack sitting on a bench that was outside of it. But her colors were duller than they usually are.

Mutt stopped in front of her and said, "Applejack, help! There's a demon that looks like Discord after me. And it's made Ponyville into his own personal playground of Chaos!"

"Ya kiddin' me?" Applejack asked. "Ah don't think so. There ain't no demon. Besides, Ponyville is alright. Ain't nothin' causin' anythin'."

"Uh, what?" Mutt asked. "Have you seen what's out there?"

Applejack looked towards Ponyville as it was being soaked by chocolate rain coming from some cotton candy clouds. She then said, "Nope. All Ah see is Ponyville havin' clear skies."

"What?" Mutt asked. "But..." He was then drenched in water from above. "Hey!" Mutt got angry and looked up. Above him was Fluttershy, her colors duller than usual, her expression in a mean smile, holding a bucket like she dumped something from it.

"Ha ha! You've got wet!" Fluttershy said. She then flew off.

Mutt was jaw dropped at this. He then started thinking out loud, saying, "Okay. There's a demon that looks like Discord, and my friends are acting like..." He then got a realization. "This... this isn't the real Ponyville. This is just a copy full of Chaos. And nopony here is really who they are. They're just copies. And that means that Twilight and her friends are made into their complete opposites. Which explains why Applejack is a liar and Fluttershy is a jerk."

"Ah ain't no liar," the Applejack copy said. "Ah am 110% real."

"No you're not," Mutt said, pointing at the Applejack copy. He then started thinking. He then got another realization. "The gatekeeper said that I have to face every demon that's taken the form of a familiar face. That means..." He then looked back towards Ponyville. He then used his Jet Shoes to skate back towards the town. He eventually got to the statue of Chancellor Pudding head in front of town hall, jumped on top of it, and called out, "Discord! Come and get me!" Just then, the statue started moving, making Mutt fall off, landing on the ground. He then looked up and saw the statue crumbling, becoming the Discord demon. "Okay, there you are."

The Discord Demon roared and tried smacking down Mutt, but Mutt jumped out of the way. Mutt then started running away from the Discord Demon as it chased him. He lead the Discord Demon down an alley. Mutt then grabbed a banana peel from a trash can and threw it on the ground behind him. The Discord Demon slipped on it and slid towards a wall that was at a corner which Mutt turned in time. The Discord Demon made contact with it, flattening himself.

"Like a squash and stretch cartoon," Mutt said before chuckling. Just then, the demon vanished. "Huh?" Just then, the ground below Mutt started rising, taking him upwards. "Hey, what's going on?"

"You have defeated the first demon," the gatekeeper's voice came from the sky. "Time to face the second."

"How many demons are there?" Mutt asked.

"Five," the gatekeeper's voice answered.

"Okay, that's not so bad," Mutt said.

"Each demon more stronger than the last," the gatekeeper answered again.

"Huh. I spoke to soon," Mutt said before he went through a portal in the sky. The portal led him to the Smithsonian Plaza. He looked around and said, "I'm... home?" He then got suspicious. "Wait a minute. This can't be home." Just then, a manhole cover was shot up. Mutt turned to face the manhole just as something came from it. It landed 10 feet away from Mutt.

"Chaos?!" Mutt asked. "Oh, boy."

Back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, Tails, Midpoint and Rotor were setting up something around the front door.

"Okay, with these Sonic Cannons set up, there's no way anyone will try to get in," Rotor said.

"And Twilight is casting a spell to keep those who seek evil desires from entering the house," Tails said.

"How did she do that?" Rotor asked.

"The Unity Crystals," Midpoint said. "And they should be activated... now." Just then, a rainbow beams came from the guest house. "That must be the Prisbeam. That should keep out Opaline's squad." Just then, MC and Truemen came out of the house.

"Hey, guys, have any of you seen Mutt?" MC asked. "I can't even track his scent."

"Mutt's missing?" Tails asked. "That's odd." He then looked towards the outside panel. "Nicole, locate Mutt."

"Locating Ben Muttski," Nicole said from the panel. "Error. Ben Muttski is unlocatable."

"What?" Tails asked.

"View his last known location," MC said. Then the panel showed Mutt in the pool area, with the Oracle of Delphius. "The Oracle of Delphius? What's he doing there?" It then showed the pool becoming a vortex. "Nicole, what are they saying?" Nicole then put the audio in the footage.

"Is that how MC passed this challenge?" Mutt asked in the footage.

"Indeed," the Oracle replied in the footage. "You must face the demon at the end to complete this challenge. You must use your wit and determination to get through it."

"Is that how MC passed this challenge?" Mutt asked before the Oracle put his hands on Mutt's shoulders.

"About that," the Oracle said. "This is the only challenge that Michael Crayton hasn't complete." He then pushed Mutt into the vortex.

"Nicole, pause footage!" MC said. The footage stopped right before Mutt was sucked into the vortex. "Hades Gate?! The Oracle has taken him to Hades Gate?!"

"What's Hades Gate?" Tails asked.

"The only training challenge I could never complete," MC said.

"Well, that's not good," Truemen said. Then the rest of them shook their heads in agreement.

Mutt risen from the second challenge of Hades Gate, soaking wet. He then got on all fours to shake off what's left of Chaos on him.

"Okay, that was tricky," Mutt said. "Two down, three to go. Alright, who's next?" He then looked around and saw that he was in a castle. "Whoa. What is this place?"

"Tis the place of your demise, trespasser," came a female voice. Mutt turned around and saw the throne. He then widened his eyes with who he saw.

"Nightmare Moon?!" Mutt asked. He then broke the 4th wall. "I'm screwed!"

"Prepare... to die!" Nightmare Moon said, pulling out a sword. She then charged towards Mutt. But Mutt jumped out of the way, and hid from her. Nightmare Moon looked around for where Mutt went, but she couldn't find him. "Show yourself, you dog! You can't hide from me!"

Mutt was hiding behind the throne. Mutt was trying to keep quiet when hiding from Nightmare Moon. Nightmare Moon then left the throne room to search for Mutt. Mutt then sighed in relief, knowing he bought himself some relief. Or so he thought. He turned around and saw Nightmare Moon, smirking at him.

"Found you," Nightmare Moon said, giving a dark smirk.

"Waaaah!" Mutt shouted. He then dashed away from behind the throne and headed for the door. But it was then slammed shut before he could get out. He tried stopping but he crashed into the door and fell onto his back. "Ow."

"Did you honestly expect that I would take it easy on you?" Nightmare Moon asked. She walked towards Mutt, her horn charging. "You were a fool to even come here. Any last words?"

Mutt smirked and said, "You're gonna kill your subjects by eternal night."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Nightmare Moon asked.

"Haven't you even considered that the plants need sunlight to stay alive?" Mutt asked. "If they don't have sunlight, the plants will die. No plants, no crops. No crops, no food. Face it, you're gonna kill everyone slowly!"

"What?!" Nightmare Moon asked. "What have I...?!" She then went mentally unstable. Nightmare Moon was getting stripped off of a dummy that looked like Princess Luna. Then the Nightmare Moon ghost rose up and got angry. Its eyes were now red. It then charged at Mutt.

"Uh oh," Mutt said. He then dodge the demon ghost and it slammed into the wall. Mutt kept running from the demon ghost. The demon ghost then grabbed a torch from the wall, turned around and said, "Eat this!" The torch then made contact with the demon ghost, and it was being burned by the flames. It then disintegrated into nothing. Mutt then sighed in relief. "That was close." Mutt then got in the middle of the throne room. Then the ground below him started rising, taking him to the next challenge.

When he went to the next level, he saw that he was on some hill tops. He turned around and saw Canterlot behind him.

"Canterlot?" Mutt asked. "Okay, who am I facing here?" Just then, the sound of pounding came from behind him. Mutt turned around and saw something from hilltop to hilltop, coming closer to him. "Is that..." Just then, what was coming landed in front of him, making him fall down on the ground. Mutt looked up and saw his next opponent.

"Oh, snap!" Mutt said. Tirek then tried smashing Mutt, but he went in between Tirek's legs before he made contact. Tirek then looked between his legs, seeing Mutt zooming away from him. Tirek growled, turned around to face Mutt's direction, and started chasing him by jumping.

In Delphius, the Oracle was checking on Mutt's progress through his Crystal Ball. Just then, a Super Warp Ring opened up. Coming out of it was Twilight, Sonic, MC, Rainbow Dash, Zipp and Truemen.

"Oracle!" MC said, angrily.

"Ah, Michael Crayton," the Oracle said. "I see you have returned."

"You sent Mutt to Hades Gate?!" MC asked, angrily.

"He wanted something that would prove to himself that he's worthy of being a Freedom Fighter," the Oracle said. "If he passes this test, it'll prove to himself that he is worthy of being a Freedom Fighter. Or else..."

"He's thinking of leaving?" Sonic asked. "No way. Mutt's been with us since we've started the Freedom Fighters. He doesn't need to prove that he's worthy of being a Freedom Fighter."

"Sonic's right," MC said. "Mutt is stronger than he thinks he is. He doesn't need to so this test."

"What's so dangerous about Hades Gate?" Rainbow Dash asked. "It doesn't sound so bad."

"Hades Gate is all kinds of dangerous," MC replied. "It's full of demons that take the form of villains faced in our past. A lot of danger comes in with each challenge, more harder than the last."

"That doesn't sound so bad," Zipp said. "How hard is each challenge?"

"The final one is always extremely hard," MC said. "In fact, I couldn't even complete it."

"WHAT?!" Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Sonic, and Truemen asked in unison.

"It's true," the Oracle said. "This is the one challenge that MC hasn't completed."

"Then how will Mutt be able to pass this if MC hadn't passed it?!" Sonic asked.

"He's actually doing a lot better than you would expect," the Oracle said. "He's already on the fourth challenge."

"The fourth?" Twilight asked.

"Huh. I would've thought he'd give up on the third," MC said. "Who'd the demons take form of?"

"The first one was Discord," the Oracle replied. "Then Chaos 0, then Nightmare Moon, and now..." The Oracle then showed his Crystal Ball with Mutt running from Lord Tirek. "Lord Tirek."

"Okay, that's not good," Twilight said. "If Tirek is that powerful, then Mutt's in trouble." Rainbow Dash got a closer look. She then smirked.

"I wouldn't think so, Twi," Rainbow Dash said. "Look. Mutt's leading him to Ghastly Gorge."

"He's gonna make Tirek fall off the cliff," Truemen said.

"But it won't be enough to stop Tirek at that size," Twilight said. "Tirek's really strong at that size. How will Mutt be able to do that?"

In Hades Gate, Mutt was running away from Tirek as he was chasing him. Mutt turned his head seeing Tirek coming closer to him. Mutt then looked ahead. He saw a hardware store. He then got an idea. He ran in and came out with a lot of rope. He then continued boosting towards Ghastly Gorge. He then reached the gorge at a high peak.

"Okay, now all I have to do is..." Mutt said before he started tying the ends of the ropes together, making them all one long rope. As soon as he finished, Lord Tirek landed 30 yards away from the dog. Mutt then looked up at Tirek. "Oh, boy."

"Looks like you're done for, dog boy," Tirek said. "Any last words?"

Mutt then smirked and rushed around Tirek's legs, the ropes being around Tirek's legs. Mutt then held the ends of the tied up rope in both hands.

"You say something?" Mutt asked, mockingly. "I couldn't hear it over the stench of your BO. Gross."

Tirek growled. He then used his right arm and reached down to pick up Mutt, unaware of what the dog was planning. He then said, "Why you little..." As he picked Mutt up, the rope around Tirek's legs tightened and brought all four of his legs closer, making him lose his balance. "Whoa-oa-oa!" Tirek then leaned forward, letting go of Mutt, and he fell into the gorge, screaming all the way. Mutt barely went over the cliff, hanging onto the edge as Tirek fell down.

The impact shook the ground, almost making Mutt fall in, but he kept his grip. He then pulled himself up as magic was coming from Lord Tirek. Mutt looked down to see Tirek back down to his weakened sized, unconscious.

"Ooh, that's gotta hurt," Mutt said. He then saw the giant horns of Tirek on the ground beside him. "He'll feel that in the morning." Then Tirek and the giant horns vanished in black smoke. "Okay... that's four."

In the Oracle's home, Twilight, Sonic, MC, Rainbow Dash, Zipp and Truemen were watching Mutt through the Crystal Ball on the Oracle's table.

"Did he just really beat four villains?" MC asked.

"Indeed, Michael," came the Oracle's voice. They all turned around to see the Oracle coming in with a meal for the heroes. Chili dogs, pizza, carrot dogs, even a pasta and potato sandwich on sourdough bread. I bet you can guess who that last one is for. "It seems that Mutt has proven to himself as a valuable member of the Freedom Fighters. But he has one last challenge."

Back in Hades Gate, Mutt looked around, still in the same place as before.

"Okay, gatekeeper!" Mutt said. "Let's get this over with! Where's my last challenge?!" Just then, the area started getting covered in smoke, blinding Mutt. Mutt coughed at that and tried blowing the smoke away with his hands. "What is going on?" Just then, the area around him changed to a large arena, the walls being jagged rocks and active volcanoes around the arena. "Where am I?"

"Your demise, young one," came a voice from behind Mutt. Mutt turned around, seeing some jagged rocks going down, revealing a new figure.

"Who the heck are you?" Mutt asked.

"I am... Grogar!" the goat said.

In the Oracle's home, the heroes were surprised at Mutt's final opponent.

"Oh no," Twilight said. "Grogar is the most powerful villain in Equestria. Mutt's done for.""

Mutt was standing his ground in front of Grogar, getting ready to fight him. Mutt was getting cocky.

"Seriously?" Mutt asked. "My final opponent is a goat? This is gonna be easy."

"Oh, really?" Grogar asked. Just then, the bell on the front side of his collar started glowing. It transferred magic to his horns, and he shot so much power towards Mutt. Mutt jumped towards the ground, going under the beam of powerful magic, destroying the wall behind Mutt. When Mutt turned his head to see the impact, he saw that the powerful beam destroyed not only the wall, but dug into the ground behind the wall in a far distance.

"Oh, snap," Mutt said. Just then, he was grabbed in Grogar's magic and pulled towards the old goat.

"You're done for, dog," Grogar said. "Time to take you down!" Grogar then slammed Mutt into the ground, making him bounce. Grogar then rammed Mutt, pushing him towards the wall.

"Ow..." Mutt said, trying to recover from the pain. He slowly used his hands to push himself up. Mutt then looked towards Grogar.

"You don't know when to quit, do you?" Grogar asked.

Mutt then started getting back onto his feet and said, "That's the thing... about us Freedom Fighters." He was breathing heavily. "We don't... give up... on what we believe in."

"Then you will die a fool for your stupidity," Grogar said. He then fired another beam towards Mutt. Mutt barely dodged it and used his Jet Shoes to speed around the arena. Grogar was trying to catch up with Mutt's movement. "What the heck do you think you're doing?! You think your speed is enough to take me out."

The heroes in the Oracle's lair were all confused on what Mutt was doing when watching from the Crystal Ball.

"What is he doing?" Truemen asked. "He can't win if he keeps rushing around."

"He's not running," Sonic said. "He's picking up momentum. Enough momentum will give him an incredible impact. He's using his speed to increase his hit on Grogar."

"That's actually clever," Zipp said. "That just might work."

"Mutt, it's a trap! Pull back!" Twilight said, making the others look at her.

"Huh? A trap?!" Rainbow Dash asked.

Mutt then charged at Grogar, but he was repelled by a barrier surrounding Grogar. Mutt was then forced back towards the wall, making him lodged in an impact crater in the jagged rock wall.

"Ow..." Mutt said. He then fell to the ground.

"You see that, dog boy?!" Grogar asked. "You can never beat me as long as I have this!" He then pointed a hoof at the bell on his collar. "Give up, and I'll let you live."

Mutt then slowly got up from the ground, breathing heavily. He then started thinking of what his friends said in his past. Mutt remembered when Knuckles helped him during the Junior Olympics.

"If you're going to strike your opponent, you must make sure you're not hit. Read your opponent's movement, block his or her attack, and then strike."

Then the sound of a large dog growling came in. Mutt then clenched his right fist. He then remembered what Rainbow Dash said when they were with his mom and some of the other heroes when they were looking for the Chaos Emerald in Egypt.

"You can do this, Mutt. Just believe in yourself."

Then the sound of another large dog growling came in. Mutt then stomped his foot on the ground. Mutt looked at Grogar with a determined look.

"What makes me a Freedom Fighter... isn't powers, special tools, or the stuff I wear," Mutt said, breathing heavily. "It's all... about... the will to keep going. For what's right!" Then the sound of a large dog growling came in. "I am... a Freedom Fighter!" Just then, Mutt was surrounded in a red aura.

The heroes in the Oracle's home gasped when they saw Mutt glowing in the Crystal Ball.

"What's happening?!" Twilight asked.

"Now that's cool!" Zipp said.

"He's... he's awakening," MC said.

"Awakening?" Twilight asked.

"When a certain Mobian is faced in a difficult challenge, he gains some powers," Sonic said. "Powers they never knew they had before. It usually happens when that Mobian starts to mature."

"Looks like it's Mutt's turn," MC said. "He might get himself a beast from his resonance."

"A beast?" Twilight asked. "What kind of beast?"

"Well, MC already has his beast," Sonic said. "The golden dragon."

"That must've been what Smolder saw when they were fixing the moon!" Rainbow Dash said.

"Exactly," MC said. "That's the power of my Dragoon Force. From the mighty dragon, Dragoon. The great protector of my kingdom. Let's see what he'll gain."

Back in the arena in Hades Gate, Mutt was still glowing. He then started zooming past Grogar's barrier, leaving a red streak behind. He then kept going past the barrier over and over again, making the red streaks go through each other. There were multiple lines covering the arena, around Grogar's barrier.

"What are you trying to accomplish?!" Grogar asked.

"The will to keep going!" Mutt said as he stood back in the spot he started. "I am Ben Muttski! And I am... a Freedom Fighter!" Then the aura around Mutt expanded. Then it revealed a giant, three-headed dog coming from the aura. Then he grabbed the red lines, which formed into a chain, all the lines doing the same. Then they were set ablaze. Mutt then pulled the chains to tighten around the barrier, which then got crushed, and Grogar was trapped, and burning in pain.

"Raaaaaaargh!" Grogar roared.

"It's time I finished this!" Mutt said. He then charged towards Grogar, the Cerberus from Mutt's aura following. Then Mutt made contact, and Grogar got sent flying away. Mutt then breathed heavily at that.

"Congratulations, Ben Muttski," came the voice of the gatekeeper. "You have passed Hades Gate. You have proven yourself worthy. Not only to your team, but to yourself, that you are worthy of being a Freedom Fighter." Mutt continued to breath heavily.

"Yeah..." Mutt said. "I... I did it." He then fell onto his knees. "I guess I... I am... worthy... of being... a..." Mutt then fell to the ground, unconscious. It then blacked out.

When Mutt came to, he saw that he was surrounded by Twilight, Sonic, MC, Rainbow Dash, Zipp, Truemen and the Oracle. Mutt's vision was a little blurry, but the sound of MC's voice was coming in.

"Mutt...!" MC said, echoing in Mutt's head. "C'mon, Mutt... wake up...!" Mutt then opened his eyes all the way, seeing that he was surrounded by his friends. "There you are, Mutt."

"Guys...?" Mutt asked. He then put his right hand on his head. "Oh, my head."

"You have passed Hades Gate, Ben Muttski," the Oracle said. "You have proven yourself to be a great Freedom Fighter. And you even started your awakening state."

"Awakening?" Mutt asked.

"It seems that you have gained the Cerberus Chains," the Oracle said. "Check out the necklace under your neckerchief." Mutt then took off his neckerchief, and it revealed a chain link necklace with an emblem. The emblem was of three nasty looking dog heads. One facing left, one facing right, and the middle one looking straight.

"Whoa!" Mutt said. "This is cool!"

"At least it wasn't burned into your body," MC said. He then extended his left fist, then he grabbed the end of his glove, and pulled it down, revealing a dragon head.

"Whoa!" Mutt said.

"After everything we went through, you have never shown me that," Sonic said. "Why didn't you say something earlier?"

"You never asked," MC said. "Alright, everyone. Time to head back home." He then looked towards Mutt. "And if your mother asks where you got that, don't say anything about Hades Gate."

"I can't promise you that," Mutt said. Then the other heroes laughed. MC then pulled out his Super Warp Ring, and threw it, opening a portal back home.

Somewhere in the multiverse, a yellow digital screen showed MC and company going back home, with the alternate one-eyed Sonic and the alternate Nicole watching.

"MC's power grows exponentially with each passing day..." Future Sonic, FS for short as the alternate Sonic is mostly referred to, said with a frown and a cold stare at the image of the fox. "The more powerful he gets, the dangerous it can be."

"Sonic, I don't wanna sound like I question your methods or anything, but... Don't you think keeping an eye on MC and some other selected variants is driving us away from our real, main concern?" The alternate Nicole asked with a bit of concern, standing right over FS' shoulder. "I think I should remind you there's a wicked Alicorn out there making a mess in the whole multiverse! We've been tracking her for 8 months, but we keep hitting corners and finding villains in universes they don't belong!"

"That's why Twilight is in charge of supervising all of that," Future Sonic reminded, then rolled his eye with a groan. "Although I wish she'd let that Sunset pupil she took on her own and fully focus on her job. She's a liability. My job is to focus on capturing the anomalies spread across the multiverse, both the ones Opaline is moving, and those that represent a potential threat, like MC."

The alternate Nicole rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say, boss... So how do you plan to capture him? And when?"

"We've been studying this fox for months now," Future Sonic said. "My bracelets are being updated to combat that guy, and I'll soon have that special little blade that stuns you and weakens you when stabbed, but doesn't harms you physically. The wonders of magic, I tell ya."

"And the advantage of having an Alicorn as your lover~," The alternate Nicole teased him with a grin.

In return, Future Sonic deadpanned at her. "You're an AI, why did Tails made you so sassy?" The alternate Nicole simply giggled, and FS rolled his eye. "Anyway. I'm afraid that MC is gonna have to wait for a little longer to our meeting to happen."

"Why's that?" The alternate Nicole asked. "You have captured other anomalies before, I'd argue some mightier than him! What makes him so special that you have to prepare this much?"

"This isn't like Mr. Tinkerer or Leonardo, Nicole." Future Sonic said. "We can't just tell them we want to recruit them and then capture them to lock them away. MC will see us coming from a mile away, and he can't be fooled because of his ability to smell lies. And he could prepare for our coming all because his mother can warn him with dreams, visions or whatever they are. If we wanna get to MC, we first gotta deal with Sarah... Specially with her Chronokinesis."

"Oh, I think I know how to deal with that!" A voice spoke behind them, and they turned to see an alternate Twilight... One that was a pony and not a Mobian. "We've got some new recruits studying how to brake time manipulation! Does that sounds helpful?"

Future Sonic's eye widened a bit, then he looked back at MC on his monitor and grinned. "Twi, that works perfectly!"

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Back to School...

The ending of this episode was written by BronySonicFan for his story, Sonic the Hedgehog x My Little Pony: The Final Act, although, I had to make a few alterations that fit into this story.

Episode 18: Back to School...

Cozy Glow was getting her backpack filled with school supplies. Midpoint walked into Cozy's room, seeing her packed up. He then smiled.

"You just about ready for school?" Midpoint asked.

"I am, Alex," Cozy Glow said. "So, when's dad going to be here?"

"Let's see," Midpoint said. He then removed the rings on his wrists. He then smiled. "Huh. He's flying in today. Guess I'll pick him up after I drop you off at school."

"Well, we should get going," Cozy Glow said, grabbing her bag and putting it on her back.

"Hold up, Cozy," Midpoint said. "You forgetting something?"

"Am I?" Cozy Glow asked. She then looked down, seeing that she didn't have any pants or a skirt covering her panties. Cozy Glow looked up at Midpoint, smiling with her face turning red. She then slid towards her dresser drawer to get some bottoms.

Midpoint chuckled and walked out of the room, saying, "I'll meet you at the front door."

Midpoint was driving Cozy Glow to school. He eventually pulled up to a curb in front of the school. Cozy Glow then got out of the car.

"Okay, Cozy," Midpoint said. "I've gotta go pick up dad from the airport. See you around 3."

Cozy Glow nodded and headed towards the school. She eventually made it into her classroom, where most of the desks were occupied. Including one seat that was occupied by Mutt.

"Mutt?" Cozy Glow asked.

Mutt looked towards Cozy, smiled and said, "Hey, Cozy!" He then patted the desk that was next to his. "Come on over here." Cozy walked over towards the empty desk and put her stuff down next to it. "I'm guessing Alex got you registered to this school?"

"Yeah, and it wasn't easy," Cozy Glow said. "The original middle school I was going to start attending got destroyed by the quakes."

"That's too bad," Mutt said.

"Well, at least you're back in school here," said a human student. "Hi. I'm Christopher Thorndyke. But you can call me Chris."

"Thorndyke?" Cozy Glow asked. "Like Nelson Thorndyke, the President and CEO of Thorndyke Industries?"

"That's right," Chris said. "Although, your adoptive brother is kinda my dad's biggest financial rival about that."

"Oh, I know that," Cozy Glow said. "He doesn't really care about being the best in business. He leaves that for his archery game."

Just then, the school principal came into the classroom.

"Good morning, class," the Principal said. "Welcome to Station Square Middle School. Including our new transfer student from San Francisco, California, Cozy Glow-Lynol." Cozy smiled at being mentioned. "Although, I know you were expecting Mrs. Jenkins to be teaching you this year, but I'm afraid that she has retired over the summer. So, I would like for you to give a warm welcome to your new homeroom teacher, Mr. Franklin Stewart." Then the new teacher walked into the room, standing in front of the desk.

"Hello, class," Mr. Stewart said. "Glad to meet you all."

"Well, all of you enjoy your new teacher," the principal said. "I'll be heading back to my office." He then left the classroom.

"Okay, class," Mr. Stewart said. "Let's get started with some basic Spelling." He then looked at Cozy Glow. "And no, it's not like the spells that are done by any creature with a horn from Equestria, Cozy Glow." That made the class laugh. Cozy smirked and shook her head.

In Opaline's lair, Opaline was having a talk with her fellow villains. Shade was in the room as well.

"So, Twilight Sparkle thinks that she can protect Misty from my wrath, huh?" Opaline asked. "She is wrong. I'm gonna punish Misty for betraying me. All the magic in Equestria... no... the universe shall be mine."

"And what will you do when you have all the magic in the universe?" Scourge asked.

"Oh, that's for me to know and you to find out," Opaline said. "As for Misty, I want her taken down."

"Perhaps... we can persuade one of the other Freedom Fighters to take out Misty for us," Allura said.

"Oh, you think you can convince one of them to take down Misty?" Opaline asked.

"Oh, I know I can," Allura said. "Just need some... persuasion." Allura then used her mind controlling pur on Opaline, but it had no effect.

"That trick don't work on me, remember?" Opaline asked. "But, that is a good idea. In fact..." She then used her magic to project an image of Cozy Glow from the magic mirror. "...I think this little filly will be the perfect one to take over. Revert her back to her evil way."

"That Shirley Temple filly was evil?" Scourge asked. "How is that possible?"

"Abusive father wanted to take her to a military school after her mother died," Opaline said. "She ended up making an alliance with that centaur, Tirek."

"Never heard of him," Allura said. "So, where can I find that little filly?"

"She is starting to attend middle school in Station Square," Opaline said. "Go and manipulate her."

"Of course," Allura said. She then looked down at her hare. "Come, Twitch. We've got a filly to persuade." Then Twitch got on Allura's left shoulder, rubbed his paws together, and gave an evil chuckle. Allura and Twitch were then enveloped in pink flames and they vanished.

Shade walked out of the room and walked down the hall. She then pulled out her two way communicator, saying, "Misty. Misty, come in. I need you to listen carefully."

In the Station Square Mall, Misty was getting ready to start working. Then she felt the communicator she got from Shade buzzing. She pulled it out and listens to a message left on it.

"Misty. Misty, come in. I need you to listen carefully. Opaline is sending Allura to manipulate Cozy Glow and make her kill you. You must warn her."

"You got it, Shade," Misty said. She then grabbed her cell phone and checked her contacts. She then saw Midpoint's name and clicked it, calling him.

Back at the Emerald Coast Beach House, Midpoint was helping his dad with unloading stuff from the moving trailer. A lot of it was stuff from their old home in San Francisco. At least, the things that weren't too damaged from the quakes. Midpoint was carrying the recliner from the trailer by himself.

"Still blows my mind that you're able to lift stuff that heavy by yourself," Bruce said. "I still can't believe dad did that to you."

"Well, to be fair, it was an emergency," Midpoint said. "After what happened with Julien Robotnik making all Mobian-kind fugitives for his actions." Just then, his phone started ringing. He then saw the caller ID, seeing it was Misty. "Oh, right. I did see that happening earlier. I gotta go, Dad. Cozy's in trouble."

"Well, get going," Bruce said.

Midpoint then answered the phone saying, "I've already seen it happen, Misty. I'm getting my gear and I'm heading there now." He then waited a few seconds to let Misty talk. "Because I can see all possible futures up to 72 hours." Midpoint then opened up the picture frame that covered a safe. Then he turned the dial to the right combination, and opened up the safe. Inside was his signature bow and his quiver full of trick arrows.

Across the street from Station Square Middle School, a circle of pink flames emerged from the sidewalk. Allura and Twitch were there after the flames dissipated. Allura looked at the school with a dark smile. She then started walking towards the school.

In the homeroom of Mutt and Cozy Glow, the students were working on math that Mr. Stewart was teaching.

"You see, class, to solve a linear equation, you must reduce the numbers to figure out what x is," Mr. Stewart said to the class. "For example, solve this equation." He then written down a math equation: 3x - 2 = 2x + 4. A lot of the students in the class were worried that they wouldn't be able to solve this problem, especially Cozy Glow.

"Oh, man," Cozy said. "I barely was able to pass Math in my old schools. How can I..."

"Finished," Mutt said. That made the whole class look at him. Mr. Stewart walked over towards Mutt's desk.

"There's no way you could've solved that equation within 30 seconds," Mr. Stewart said before looking at what Mutt had written. "Except you're right and have shown your work. How did you solve this equation so fast?"

"I was originally home schooled by one of the greatest minds of Mobian kind, who happens to be the late uncle of Sonic the Hedgehog," Mutt said. "Sir Charles Hedgehog."

"Oh, that's right," Mr. Stewart said. "Sir Charles was a brilliant scientist. Of course he'd teach you some advanced things. Okay, you just wait until all the other students have solved the problem." Mutt nodded. He then turned around to look out the window. He then saw Twitch looking in. Twitch noticed him and ducked down.

"What?" Mutt asked. He then looked out the window to see Twitch scampering away from the window. "Uh oh." Mutt then headed back to his desk. He then started typing on his wrist communicator, getting in touch with the other Freedom Fighters.

On the freeway, Midpoint was driving on his way towards the school. He was being followed by someone on a red motorcycle. Midpoint looked towards the motorcyclist, seeing that the motorcyclist was wearing the same red jumpsuit as Olive.

"Hey, Olive," Midpoint said.

"What's the rush, Lynol?" Olive asked under the helmet.

"That winged snow leopard is going after Cozy," Midpoint said.

"Allura?" Olive asked. "Oh, I want in on taking her down. After what she did to Cream. She deserves to be taken down. Lead the way." Midpoint nodded and they exited the freeway where Cozy's school was.

Back at Station Square Middle School, the school had entered lunch period. Mutt and Cozy Glow were getting their lunch from the lunch counter, which was pizza.

"Sweet," Cozy Glow said. "Pizza."

"Yeah, who doesn't love pizza?" Mutt asked. He then thought about something. "I saw that hare that belonged to that snow leopard that showed up at the Olympics."

"Allura?" Cozy Glow asked. "Why would she be here?" Just then, the PA System went off. Then the Principal's voice came from the PA System.

"Cozy Glow-Lynol, report to the Principal's office," the Principal said over the PA System. "I repeat, Cozy Glow-Lynol, report to the Principal's office."

Mutt and Cozy Glow looked at each other with raised eyebrows. Cozy then said, "I haven't even had lunch yet."

"Something's up," Mutt said. They eventually made it to the end of the line and paid for their lunch. They then walked out of the cafeteria where Mr. Stewart watched them walk down the hall to the Principal's office.

"That's odd," Mr. Stewart said. He then headed towards the janitor's closet. He then got into it. He then pushed a button on his wrist watch, and an antenna came out of it. "This is Chalkboard Charlie calling homeroom. Come in homeroom."

Eventually, Mutt and Cozy arrived at the door that leads to the Principal's office.

"He only asked for me to go in," Cozy Glow said. "You just wait out here."

"Hang on, Cozy," Mutt said. "Something doesn't seem right." He then took off his hat and put his head against the door. "Huh. That's... odd."

"What is it?" Cozy Glow asked.

"Almost sounds like... purring," Mutt said.

"Purring?" Cozy Glow asked. "Like a large cat?" Mutt and Cozy looked at each other.

"Uh oh," Mutt and Cozy Glow said in unison. Just then, the door was ripped off its hinges and on the other side of the door was Allura.

"Hello, little pony," Allura said. Mutt then grabbed Cozy's hand, and then he used his Jet Shoes to get away from the winged snow leopard. "Oh, you think you can get away from me?" She then spread her wings and started chasing the two down the halls of the school.

Mutt was pulling Cozy towards the main door of the school. Just then, their path was cut off when the front door was covered in ice.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Mutt said, trying to stop. Then he and Cozy slammed into the frozen door and fell down to the ground. "You alright?"

"No, you?" Cozy asked.

"No," Mutt said. Just then, Allura walked up to them, looking down at the two young ones. "You shouldn't have tried keeping her away from her true destiny, Freedom Fighter."

"True destiny?" Cozy Glow asked. "What is that supposed to mean?"

"Oh, don't play dumb with me, little pony," Allura said. "After all, you were one of us. A villain."

Cozy Glow gasped at that and said, "You mean... this was about me... turning back to the dark side?! Not gonna happen!" Cozy Glow then got up, picked up Mutt, and started flying towards the cafeteria. They eventually came crashing into the cafeteria, getting the attention of all the students that were there.

"Everyone, evacuate!" Mutt called out. "Crazy, mind controlling snow leopard is in the school!" Just then, the doors to the hallway were coated in ice. Then they were broken apart as Allura came in.

"I've got you now, little pony," Allura said, smirking. "Don't worry. You'll be..." She then purred. "...purrrr-fect." The Sonic waves coming from Allura went through Cozy Glow. She was on the way of being mind controlled.

"Cozy!" Mutt said. "Fight it!"

Cozy Glow was being forced to smile, but it wasn't working as much as Allura was expecting. Cozy Glow had successfully blocked the mind control, and she looked at Allura with an angry expression.

"What?!" Allura asked. "How is that possible?!"

"You're not the only one who's a master manipulator," Cozy Glow said. "It's true. I manipulated a lot of ponies to do what I wanted them to do, but I won't let anyone else manipulate me. Plus, I had some help from those who was willing to help me when I was mentally troubled."

"Perhaps you may resist my power of persuasion..." Allura said, looking around at the other students. "...but they won't." She then purred at the other students. Then all the other students were being mind controlled by Allura's pur. "Get them!" Allura then pointed at Mutt and Cozy Glow. Then all the other students started walking towards Mutt and Cozy Glow with forced smiles on their faces.

"Not good," Mutt said.

The other students were being mind controlled by Allura, and they were heading towards Mutt and Cozy Glow. Just then, Chris came into the cafeteria, seeing the damage done. He then saw the students being mind controlled and going after Cozy.

"Okay, maybe I should've stayed in the bathroom," Chris said. Just then, Mr. Stewart ran past Chris and charged through the students to get to Mutt and Cozy Glow. He then grabbed them and headed back towards the door.

"Hang on, kids," Mr. Stewart said. "We're getting you out of here." He carried the two down the hall with Chris following behind.

Allura growled and said, "Don't let them leave!" Then the students started chasing after Mr. Stewart, Mutt, Cozy and Chris. They ran down the hall, trying to find another way out, but all the exits were covered in ice.

"Boy, she does not want any of us to leave," Mutt said.

"Not until she gets what she wants," Mr. Stewart said. Just then, the shadow of Allura covered them. They turned around, seeing Allura flying right behind them.

"You're not going anywhere!" Allura said. "What could puny creatures like you do against me?" Mutt, Cozy and Chris were hiding behind Mr. Stewart, trying to keep Allura from getting what she wants. He was about to reach for something in his pocket until the PA System went off. Just then, music started playing over the PA System.

"What?" Allura asked. "What is this?" Just then, the door behind Mutt, Cozy, Chris and Mr. Stewart was broken apart. They all looked at the broken door, and from outside, there was Midpoint holding his bow out like he just released an arrow, and standing next to him was Olive.

"Hello, Allura," Olive said. "Miss me?"

"Oh, no," Allura said. She then started flying away from them, but Midpoint shot another trick arrow, hitting Allura in the back, causing binds to come out of it, strapping down Allura's wings, making her flightless. "Oof!" Allura growled at that. "You shouldn't have done that, archer."

"Oh, that's not all I can do," Midpoint said. He then put his bow away and then he raised his right hand, making the sprinklers in the hallway start spraying. He then manipulated the water to strike Allura.

"Trying to fight me with water?" Allura asked. "Don't make me laugh." She then used her magic to freeze the water and the sprinklers. "What can you do now?"

Midpoint smirked at that. Olive noticed that and asked, "What are you up to?"

"I've been working on a new trick with my hydrokinesis," Midpoint said. "Behold." Just then, the ice shattered and reformed around Allura, turning into a large ice cage.

"What?!" Allura asked. "You can manipulate ice, too?!"

"Ice is just frozen water, which I can manipulate," Midpoint said. Just then, more water came in and dowsed Allura. Allura was getting angry. Then Olive fired a taser dart at Allura, electrocuting her, and the water wasn't helping. Allura then went unconscious. Then all the other students got out of Allura's trance.

"That was for my sister," Olive said. She then looked towards Mr. Stewart and said, "I'm gonna need a witness report from you about what has happened."

"Of course, miss," Mr. Stewart said. Then the two of them headed out.

Midpoint then looked towards Allura and walked towards her. Just then, he felt something kicking his right foot. He looked down and saw Twitch kicking Midpoint's right foot in anger. Midpoint then picked Twitch up by the scruff.

"Boy, you are one angry hare," Midpoint said. "Talk about loyalty to your owner." He then tossed Twitch towards Allura, making the hare land on his owner. He then brought out his bow and a trick arrow. "Okay, time to..." Just then, pink flames enveloped the entire cage. Then the flames disappeared, the cage, Allura and Twitch disappearing.

"Great," Midpoint said. "Opaline has taken her away."

Back at Opaline's lair, Opaline was scolding Allura for failing what she was sent to do.

"How hard is it to manipulate a little pony's mind?!" Opaline asked. "You just had to be defeated by that otter and that rabbit! How could you be more of a failure than the Destructix?!"

"Those pesky heroes somehow knew I was coming there," Allura said. "And I tried persuading that little pony into going back to the dark side, but she was able to break through it. And don't get me started on that otter's new trick."

"New trick?!" Opaline asked. "What new trick?!"

"Apparently, not only can the otter manipulate water, but he can also freeze it," Allura said. "He might be able to douse you out."

"Douse me out?!" Opaline asked. "No way! I shall destroy him and the other Freedom Fighters once I find a way out of this blasted barrier that's keeping me locked up in my own lair!"'

"Sounds like you're peeved," Allura said.

"Peeved? Peeved?!" Opaline asked. "Of course I'm peeved! Those pesky Freedom Fighters are getting in the way of my goal! Becoming the most powerful Fire Alicorn in the Universe! Then who knows? Maybe I'll move onto the whole Multiverse!" Shade was standing outside the door, listening in on Opaline and Allura.

"Oh, shoot," Shade said.

Back at Station Square Middle School, Olive was having a talk with Mr. Stewart.

"And that's basically what happened," Mr. Stewart said.

"Thank you for your honesty, Chalkboard Charlie," Olive said.

"At least we're keeping my GUN Status a secret from everyone in the school," Mr. Stewart said. "As long as you don't tell anyone. Especially your family."

"Well, my Mom found out I was a GUN Agent, and yet, she wasn't too upset," Olive said.

"That's surprising for me," Mr. Stewart said. "Especially since I was the one who got you into GUN."

"Well, I gotta get going," Olive said. "I gotta pick up my little sister from school." She then walked towards her motorcycle. She then got on it and started it up. "See ya, Chalkboard Charlie."

"Goodbye, Red Rabbit," Mr. Stewart said. Then Olive drove off, heading towards the Freeway.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
A Breezie Through Bridlewood

Episode 19: A Breezie Through Bridlewood

The Freedom Fighters were all relaxing at the pool area, well, the ones who weren't in school. Sonic, Tails, MC, Amy, Sally, Truemen, Maria, the Young 6, Sunny and her friends were all relaxing by the pool. The girls were in their swimsuits.

"Is it wise for Silverstream to be swimming in a pool that has chlorine in it?" Sally asked. "It's dangerous to aquatic creatures."

"Yeah, but when these six students moved in, we decided to switch out the chlorine filled pool for salt water," MC said.

"When did that happen?" Sally asked.

"A week after they moved in," Sonic said. "We were lucky MC cleared out the pool before Silverstream could go all Seapony in it."

"We explained to her that the chlorine filled pool might do some serious harm to her," Tails said.

"I still don't see why you all like water so much!" Sonic said.

"Water is a part of this world we live in, along with it being in our bodies," Zipp said. She then looked at MC. "Most of our bodies."

"Hey, I got water in my body, too," MC said. "So what if I can manipulate my own molecules to copy the environment around me?"

"Well, I don't know about you, but I need to find some new ingredients for a new project I need to release," Pipp said. "Sure, America has a lot of great natural plants for remedies, but not as good as Equestria in the future."

"Perhaps... we should take a trip back to the naturals of Equestria," MC said. "Or perhaps, the places you all know, but not of your time."

Izzy gasped and asked, "Are we going to our hometowns in this current time?!"

"Precisely, Izzy," MC said. "I can take you all there myself. Starting with the location where Bridlewood would be. I think we should get Haven and Alphabittle on this as well."

"Seeing our homes before they were found sounds interesting," Zipp said.

MC then saw Smolder on a laptop, searching for something. MC then asked, "What are you up to, Smolder?"

"Meh, my job at McDonald's sucks," Smolder said. "I'm searching for a new job."

"You know, the movie theater needs more employees," Misty said. "Especially during the opening weekends of a new movie release."

"I've already tried applying, but I haven't gotten a response yet," Smolder said.

"I could put in a word to the manager, and he might see you," Misty said.

"Well, we should get going," MC said. "See you guys later." MC, the Young 6 and Sunny and her friends got up and headed to their rooms to change before leaving for Equestria.

The Spirit of Freedom was flying over the land of Equestria towards the area where Maretime Bay, Zephyr Heights and Bridlewood were going to be. Inside, MC was piloting the Spirit of Freedom. The Young 6, Sunny and her friends, Sparky, Alphabittle and Haven were riding in the back.

"I can't believe we're going to see our homes before we knew them back in the future!" Sunny said. "Do Twilight and the others know we're checking it out?"

"I haven't informed them yet," MC responded. "I was thinking of surprising her on the way back home."

"That's nice," Ocellus said. "Oh, I can sense how much you love her. Maybe one day, after your coronation, there might be a proposal for you two. And eventually, a wedding."

"What is it with changelings and weddings?" MC asked. "Chrysalis ordered an invasion during Shining and Cadance's wedding, and I heard rumors of one changeling making an appearance at Cranky Doodle Donkey and Matilda's wedding."

"So that's where Kevin ended up that day," Ocellus said.

The Spirit of Freedom came up across the coast of where construction was going on. MC then flipped a switch and a screen showing where the Spirit of Freedom was pointing at came up above the heads of the Young 6, Sunny and her friends, Sparky, Alphabittle and Haven.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the construction of Maretime Bay," MC said.

"Look, Hitch!" Sunny said. "That's our hometown."

"Or at least during ground break," Hitch said.

"I can't believe we're back over Maretime Bay before it was even built," Zipp said. "What do you think of it, Pipp?" Zipp looked at Pipp, who was live streaming. "Pipp!"

"I know, you're all expecting a new product coming from my new line, Potions by Pipp, soon, but I'm actually stumped on finding the right ingredients," Pipp said, looking at her phone. "Right now, I'm checking out the sights of where the future homes of me, my sis and our friends are. We are currently over the sight of a town currently in construction, which will eventually be named Maretime Bay. Once I find something that will wow you, I will let you know immediately."

Zipp then leaned her head to get into the sight of the camera, saying, "Or, you could go offline for a few days until you find something, and release a commercial for your new product when it's ready."

Pipp gasped and said, "That's a way better idea, Zipp. If you Pippsqueaks don't hear from me, I'll let you know. Pipp Pipp Hooray!" She then ended the live stream.

"I can't believe I actually gave you an idea that's actually good," Zipp said. "Perhaps one day, if you need a little R&R, MC could take you to Delphius for a dip in one of those hot springs."

"That actually sounds relaxing," Pipp said. "Perhaps Rarity, Sonia and I should go there. Maybe I should live stream some of the greatest spots while I'm there."

"Not gonna happen," MC said. "The Oracle is usually a seclusive sorcerer. In fact, you won't be able to get cell phone reception of Wi-Fi there."

Pipp gasped, stuttered and motioned her arms around before asking, "What did you just say to me?!"

"How about we listen to some tunes?" Sunny asked. "Just to loosen the tension? Nicole?" Just then, music came in. It was one of Pipp's songs, "Glow it Up".

"You have one of my songs in your soundtrack?" Pipp asked.

"I thought it might loosen the tension," Nicole's voice came from the speakers.

Then the Spirit of Freedom was flying towards a mountain where construction was going on. The screens inside the ship showed the construction going on.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the construction of Zephyr Heights," MC said.

"Oh, now that is a sight to behold," Haven said. "Home sweet home. Sure we're a couple centuries early, but still... It's marvelous to see it again. Perhaps, one day, we could actually put on a Mane-squerade Ball in this time."

"Haven, if we do that in this time, we would actually be starting that tradition," MC responded.

"Hey, at least you have time to plan it, Haven," Sandbar said, smugly.

"Bad time, Sandbar," Smolder said. Just then, the rest of the Young 6 laughed at what Smolder said.

"Hey, how come she gets a laugh and I don't?" Sandbar asked.

"You need to work on that, Sandbar," MC said. "If you wanna do a Mane-squerade Ball in Equestria, you should talk to Twilight about it, Haven. She's the High Princess of Equestria. Although, I know for a chance that ponies won't know it's you since you weren't born yet."

"What does that mean?" Haven asked.

"Every pegasus in Zephyr Heights knew it was you during those balls," Pipp said.

Haven chuckled like she heard a joke and said, "How could everypony know it was me? I had a mask on."

"And your crown, and you were sitting in your thrown during the ball," MC said. "It was obvious from the start."

"Oh, that's right," Haven said. "I always forget to take off the crown during that ball."

Then the Spirit of Freedom came over a Forest.

"Okay, ladies and gentlemen," MC said. "We've reached Bridlewood."

"Home sweet home," Alphabittle said. He looked at Misty with a smile. Misty looked back at him, giving a small smile as well. Alphabittle then saw the screen and said, "Huh. There doesn't seem to be any construction going on."

"That's because it'll take another 20 years for Bridlewood to start construction," MC responded. Just then, there was beeping coming from the console. "Huh. That's odd."

"What is it?" Sunny asked.

"I'm picking up six ponies in the center of the forest," MC said. "There shouldn't be."

"Should we check it out and report it to Twilight?" Zipp asked, coming up to the front and sitting in the other pilot's seat.

"Might as well," MC said. "Hold on, everyone. We're coming in for a landing." The Spirit of Freedom came over a clear spot above the treeline and descended. MC activated the landing gear and the Spirit of Freedom landed. Then the door to the Spirit of Freedom opened up, and then MC, the Young 6, Sunny and her friends, Sparky, Haven and Alphabittle walked out of the Spirit of Freedom. When they got out, they were surprised to see who was standing there. It was the Mane 6.

"Hi, you all!" Pinkie Pie shouted.

"What are you all doing here?!" MC asked.

"An old friend of ours invited us here for some reason," Twilight said. "He says he has a special treat for us."

"Who would be out here?" Zipp asked. "There's nopony out here for miles and..."

MC then heard something and said, "Quiet. Everyone be quiet." Everyone looked around and stood quiet.

"What is it?" Sunny asked quietly.

"It sounds like... buzzing," MC said. "Like Ocellus's flying, but softer and quieter."

"They're here," Twilight said.

"What is it?" Pipp asked. "Who's here?"

"No," Izzy said. "It... it sounds like..." She then gasped. "No, it couldn't be! I didn't think they were real!"

"You didn't think what was real?!" Zipp said, getting in front of the group, her wings spread out and standing in a defensive position. Just then, a bunch of Breezies came from the trees, surrounding the group.

"Ah! Oh!" Izzy said before laughing. "Breezies!"

The Breezies were flying around the group. All of them were astonished by this. Pipp was having a mental breakdown that she was trying to avoid getting the Breezies on video.

"Be calm, Pipp," Pipp told herself. "You don't have to record or live stream everything." She then giggled nervously.

"Incredible," MC said. He then held out his left forefinger and one of the Breezies landed on it. "I haven't seen creatures like this before in my life."

"I didn't even believe in Breezies before today," Alphabittle said. "How have I not known about this?"

"What do you mean?" Twilight asked.

"Sparkles, we're in Bridlewood," MC said. "Or at least 20 years before construction."

"Oh, that makes sense," Twilight said.

"Welcome, my dear friends," came the voice of a Breezie. They all looked up towards the voice and flying up to them was Seabreeze, leader of the Breezies. "I'm so glad you've all come. Oh. And you've brought more friends."

"They surprised us as well, Seabreeze," Fluttershy said. "So, what is it you wanted to surprise us with?"

"Oh, yes," Seabreeze said. "I think it's time to..." Just then, a bunch of Breezies started talking in their language, interrupting Seabreeze. "Hey, hey, I am getting to that."

"Wow, they seem chatty," Hitch said.

"They've learned to talk in our language," Fluttershy said.

"That was English?" Gallus asked.

"Yeah, it was, but they're speaking too fast for normal speed creatures to catch up," Hitch said.

"I could understand them," MC said. "I have super speed, remember?"

"Oh, yeah," Gallus said. "Well, what did they say?"

"They said..." MC said before clearing his throat. Then he used his vocal manipulation to sound like one of the Breezies. "We haven't seen creatures like you for hundreds of moons. We have a special treat for you." He then cleared his throat and sounded like the other Breezie. "Follow us, new friends. The Night Market awaits!"

"Night Market?" Misty asked. "What's that, Izzy?"

"Another thing in Bridlewood I didn't know about?" Izzy asked. "Oh, I gotta see this." Just then, the Breezies flew towards the biggest tree in the forest.

"The Wishing Tree?" Alphabittle asked. "There's something more special about this?" Misty then gasped. She then remembered something from her foalhood, before being taken from Misty.

Young Misty was carrying a sack, putting some glowpaz crystals. Just then, she saw something coming from the ground.

"Huh?" young Misty asked. She then grabbed it and inspected it. "What's this?"

"Misty!" came Alphabittle's voice. Young Misty looked towards where the voice was coming from, not knowing that what she grabbed was the necklace she had in the present time before breaking it started floating.

"Dad?!" young Misty asked. Just then the necklace floated in front of her. Then the eye of the necklace opened, scaring Misty. She let out a yelp. Just then, the necklace started spinning around Misty, releasing purple fog, blocking her sight of the forest.

"Misty, come back!" came Alphabittle's voice.

"Dad! Help me!" young Misty said. Just then, the fog diminished, showing that she was no longer in Bridlewood, nor in the same timeline as the one she was in.

"Well, well, well," came the voice of Opaline. Young Misty looked behind her, seeing Opaline sitting in her throne. "Looks like my power necklace has picked up a stowaway." Young Misty screamed at Opaline, the flashback ending.

Misty yelped, surprising everyone.

"What is it, Misty?" Alphabittle asked.

"I... I remember how I ended up with Opaline," Misty said. "I was out here... collecting glowpaz crystals. Then I found that necklace I had to keep in contact with Opaline. She pulled me from the future to her castle. I don't know how she did it, but..." She then looked up at Alphabittle. "I... I missed... so much..."

"It's okay, Misty," Alphabittle said. "What matters is that you're back." He then pulled Misty in for a hug. "And I'm never gonna lose you again."

"Oh, Dad..." Misty said, embracing the hug.

"Hey, look!" Rainbow Dash said, pointing at the Wishing Tree. Then, the center of the tree opened up, revealing a large space within the Wishing Tree.

"Holy moly!" Pinkie Pie shouted. "Is that the Night Market!"

"It must be," Twilight said. "Let's check it out!" Then they all headed inside, seeing the Night Market. The group looked all around the Night Market, seeing it was a lot bigger inside the tree then it was outside.

"Whoa! Check out the size of this place!" Sunny said. "It actually looks bigger on the inside than it does on the outside."

"Must be some magical pocket dimension or something," MC said.

"Dimension?" Sunny asked. "You mean like when that other Sonic appeared out of the whole in the sky saying he was from another Universe back when we were in Soleanna?"

"Exactly, Sunny," MC said. "But, pocket dimensions are still connected to the same universe we're all in. Kinda like the Mirror Dimension in Doctor Strange."

"Oh, oh, I've been there!" Pinkie said. "It was really weird. Oooooooh-oooooooh-oooooooh!" She then laughed.

"How?!" Zipp asked.

"It's best if ya don't question it," Applejack said. "Pinkie Pie is one mystery nopony or creature can solve."

"I bet I can solve her," Zipp said.

"Good luck with that," Twilight said. "I've tried doing that, and I kept getting hurt in the process."

"You're kidding," Zipp said.

"Oh, I have," Twilight said. "Ask Spike. He'll back me up."

"Hey, guys, check this out!" Sandbar called out. They all walked over towards where Sandbar was, seeing a carving of three initials on it. The initials were "C + L + O".

"C... L... and O?" Pipp asked. "Who carved those initials?" Then a bunch of Breezies came up to them. One of them started talking very quickly. Pipp looked towards Fluttershy, Hitch and MC and asked, "Can I get a translation?"

"She says that this tree was planted by three Alicorns that came from the land of Skyros," Hitch said.

"Skyros?" Twilight asked. "That's just a myth. Believe me, I've been trying to find proof of it for years."

"Maybe you just haven't been searching in the right books," Misty said. They all looked towards Misty. "Because that's where Opaline's lair is."

"What?!" Twilight asked. She then teleported to Misty, getting up in her face. "Opaline's lair is in Skyros?! Where is it?!"

"I... I don't know where exactly," Misty said. "It always keeps moving location."

"Like the Vanishing Isle from Aladdin and the King of Thieves," Ocellus said. "It was on the back of a giant turtle."

"Really?" Smolder asked. "How big?"

"Las Vegas, Nevada big," Ocellus said.

"Now that's a big turtle," Zipp said. MC wasn't paying attention. He was sensing something.

Applejack noticed it and asked, "What is it, sugarcube?"

"I think I sense a Chaos Emerald," MC said. He then looked around. He then saw something wedge at the top of the space. He then pointed at it with his left fore finger and said, "There!"

"I got it!" Rainbow Dash said. She then started flying up to it. The the grabbed it and pulled it back down. "Here you go."

"And with this... that makes five," MC said. "Two Emeralds left."

"We had no idea what that thing was," Seabreeze said coming up to the group. "It must be really important if you guys want it. What is it?"

"This is a Chaos Emerald," MC said. "It has the ability to turn thoughts into power. In good hands, it can be used for great miracles. But in the wrong hands, devastation and destruction."

"Oh, well that must be why it's called a Chaos Emerald," Seabreeze said.

"This is just one out of seven," MC said. "Although, we might need all seven to stop Opaline if she gets strong enough."

"But she could still take the power of the Chaos Emeralds for herself," Misty said. "Opaline wants all the power in the world for herself."

"Then we'll be careful," Twilight said. "If we can find her weakness, then we can take her down."

"Along with the Destructix, the Nocturnus and Allura," Sunny added.

"That's true, they're also with Opaline," Zipp said. "Maybe there's something here that can help out."

"Wouldn't hurt to look," MC said. "Let's get searching." Then they all started looking around the Night Market for anything that could help them stop Opaline.

The Mane 6, MC, the Young 6, Sunny and her friends, Sparky, Alphabittle and Queen Haven were all spread out across the Night Market, searching for anything that could stop Opaline, but they couldn't find anything.

MC just looked at the engraving that Sandbar pointed at earlier, trying to figure out who those three were. Just then, Twilight walked up to him.

"Still wondering who engraved their initials into this place?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, I am," MC said. "I feel like I know this."

"Who knows?" Twilight asked. "Maybe you'll find out later."

MC looked at the carving. He then held out his right hand, and then from his communicator came a scanning light, scanning the engraved initials. He then walked away with Twilight.

"This is something Zipp will definitely look into," MC said, making Twilight nod.

Over at another part of the Night Market, Sunny, Zipp and Misty were sitting on a bench, licking some ice cream.

"So many places to look for something that could stop Opaline, and nothing," Zipp said. "This place was a bust."

"At least we've seen a lot more cultures in here than when we were seeing the world," Sunny said. "Like when we all went to Paris."

"Oh, yeah," Zipp said. "After the events of each day, we saw some amazing sights. The Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triumph, Notre Dame, the Louvre."

"I was a little weirded out by that one painting," Misty said. "That one painting with that guy squishing his own face by some guy named Edvard Munch."

"Oh, yeah, the Scream!" Sunny said. "That confused me, too."

"Meh, art is weird in this world," Zipp said. Just then, a Breezie came up to Sunny carrying something.

The Breezie spoke quickly to Sunny. Sunny then said, "I'm sorry. But that's not mine."

"Hang on," Zipp said. "Let's see what he said." Zipp pulled out her phone, opened up an app, and held it out to the Breezie. "Now, repeat what you said earlier." The Breezie then spoke again into the phone. "Okay, now to slow it down, and..."

Then Zipp played the message in slow motion. The Breezie's voice came from the phone, this time it was understandable. It said, "This special locket has been waiting for a special pony. A hopeful pony. I believe you are the one."

"Hey, Future MC said the same thing about you," Zipp said, looking at Sunny. "He saw that you were special when you were a baby when looking through the Earth Pony Crystal the day you were born."

"That's right," Sunny said. "I guess the Breezies sense something in me that I haven't discovered for myself." Sunny was then given the locket that the Breezie held out for her. "Thank you." The Breezie spoke that almost sounds like saying "You're welcome" in another language before flying off.

"No need to translate what that Breezie said," Misty said. Then the three of them shared a laugh.

"We should talk to MC about this," Sunny said. "Let's go find him." Then the three of them headed off somewhere.

Over with Alphabittle and Haven, they were talking to each other about something.

"I'm sure that the new businesses will go splendidly," Haven said. "You opening a new tea shop and me owning a daycare. I'm sure that we'll make it big in this time."

"Hopefully," Alphabittle said. "So, have you found enough people to help you run the place?"

"Almost," Haven said. "I need one more employee to get it official."

Alphabittle then looked around. He then saw the Young 6. He then got an idea. He then said, "I heard that the orange dragon is looking for a new job. Perhaps... you can offer her that position."

Haven looked towards the Young 6, more importantly, Smolder. She then smiled.

"I think I can give her a good paying job," Haven said. She then walked towards the Young 6.

Later, the Mane 6, MC, the Young 6, Sunny and her friends, Alphabittle and Haven walked out of the tree right when it was closing.

Izzy looked towards one of the Breezies and asked, "Pardon me. When does the mystical magical market come back."

The Breezie then spoke in it's quick tone. Hitch then said, "She says, 'You'll never knoooow!'"

"Huh," Izzy said. "That doesn't really narrow it down."

"The Breezies must not understand how the Night Market reopens themselves," Fluttershy said.

"I guess we'll have to wait until the next time it opens," Zipp said. "We haven't found anything useful."

"Yeah," Sunny said. "All we found was this." Sunny was holding up the locket that one of the Breezies gave her.

"That's interesting," MC said, checking out the locket. "What did the Breezie tell you?"

"The Breezie that gave me this told me that it has long waited for a special pony," Sunny said. "A hopeful pony."

Twilight walked up to Sunny and said, "Maybe MC's future counterpart wasn't the only one who saw something in you."

"Well, I think it's time we get back home," MC said. "Let's head on home."

"Hold up, MC," Pipp said. "Izzy says that Bridlewood had so many natural plants that could be used for a new product of mine."

"Oh, yes," Rarity said. "I heard that some plants have been made into great perfumes. Hopefully it'll be better than your last idea."

"Yeah, ice cream as a face mask was a really bad idea," Pipp said. Then everyone around Rarity and Pipp laughed.

"Well, we'll catch up with you later, Pipp," MC said. "I'll have Nicole send you back the Spirit of Freedom. That way, once you find that ingredient, you'll have a way to transport it." Pipp nodded. Then MC, the Young 6, Sunny, Hitch, Zipp, Izzy, Misty, Sparky, Alphabittle and Haven got into the Spirit of Freedom. The Mane 6 and Pipp watched as the Spirit of Freedom take to the sky, flying all the way back to Station Square.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Between a Roc and a Stinky Place

Episode 20: Between a Roc and a Stinky Place

In the forest where Bridlewood should be, Pipp was holding a basket full of various flowers. She was humming a tune to herself.

"I can't believe that I've found so many fabulous flowers," Pipp said. She then sniffed the flowers. She then went deadpanned. "But it's still not enough for my brand new line of product." She then hung her head back and groaned. She then saw how much her gloves got dirty from picking the flowers. "Oh, great. My gloves are all messy from picking those flowers." She then removed her gloves and put them in her pocket. "Maybe I should just rest." She then sat down on a rock.

Pipp then pulled out a canteen and drank from it. She then put it away, but instead of staying, it started rolling down a slope that was behind the rock Pipp sat on.

"My water canteen!" Pipp said. She started chasing it from the air, grabbing it as she crashed onto the ground where her hands gotten into some thistle plants. She then got up. "Whew. That was close." She noticed that her fingertips were now gold and shiny. "Oh, wow. Look at that shine!" She then looked at the plants. "Yes! This is it! A new product. Ink thistle that makes fingernails shine! This will be the next big thing!" Then a scent came to her nostrils which make her coughed. "Where is that smell coming from?" She looked at her finger nails and sniffed it. "Whew! That's... tender. But, I bet I can get rid of the smell." She flew back up the slope and came back down with her now empty basket. "Product by Pipp has a new line!"

At Freedom Fighters Mansion, Gallus and Silverstream were sitting on the living room couch, watching TV. On the TV was a news report about something.

"Coming all the way from Equestria, a large predator bird known as a Roc is being delivered to the Station Square Zoo where many people can experience it in it's large steel cage," Scarlet Garcia's voice came from the TV. "A lot of Equestrian Animal Lovers, including hero of Equestria, Fluttershy, is a little shaken up by this. But rest assured, the Roc will only be in there until a reserve for the worlds large and dangerous creatures is built for them, and no innocent person will be hurt by them."

"I doubt that a cage like that would contain a Roc," Gallus said, turning off the TV.

"What makes you say that?" Silverstream asked.

"Gremlins, Aliens, Jurassic Park," Gallus said. "All those movies had dangerous creatures contained and they escaped due to recklessness."

"He's right about that," Smolder said, coming out of the kitchen, eating a doughnut. "I gotta get to work."

"Wait, you're not scheduled to work today," Gallus said.

"I turned in my uniform yesterday, Gallus," Smolder said. "I got a new job. One that doesn't make me keep breathing fire on the burgers because the manager refuses to buy a new grill!" She then released smoke from her nostrils. She then gave out a small breath of air. "Anyway, I gotta get going." She then headed out of the living room, into the Foyer, and went out the door.

Gallus and Silverstream looked at each other in confusion. Gallus then asked, "Wanna go check out what her new job is?"

"Do I?!" Silverstream asked excitedly. She then giggled in excitement. Then the two of them followed Smolder without her seeing them.

In the office in the back of Rarity and Pipp's Mane Fashion Style, Sonia was reading a magazine with a smile on her face. Just then, the door was slammed open.

"Whaaa-!" Sonia shouted.

"I'm back, Sonia!" Pipp said.

"Pipp?" Sonia asked. "Where were you these past few days?"

"In Equestria, trying to find something for a new product for my line," Pipp said. "And behold." She then held out her hand, showing her shiny gold fingernails.

"Wow!" Sonia said. "What a shine you...!" She then caught a whiff of the scent coming from her fingernails. She then plugged her nose. "Oh, god! What is that smell?!"

"Oh, right," Pipp said. "I discovered it from this. Ink Thistle." Pipp then held up the basket of thistle flowers towards Sonia. "These flowers have a special pollen that makes this shine happen!"

"Really?" Sonia asked. She then smelled the thistle flowers. She then plugged her nose. "Ew, that stench!"

"Yeah, I'm... planning on getting rid of the smell," Pipp said. "Once the stench is out, it'll be a big hit."

"I hope you're right, Pipp," Sonia said, plugging her nose. "Otherwise, it might be as bad as the time you thought ice cream would make a good facial."

"Yeah, not my best idea," Pipp said. "Now, I'll be working on it until it's ready. TTYL." She then walked out of the office. Sonia then turned away from the door, giving a nervous look.

"Oh, this is not good," Sonia said. "If that product doesn't have a way to clear that smell, then Pipp's new product would make her a big joke, and this place would be shut down." She then pulled out her phone. "I gotta get some help." She then started texting multiple people; Amy, Olive, Zipp, Izzy, Maria, and Misty, telling them all to get to the boutique.

In the Station Square Subway Station, Gallus and Silverstream were watching Smolder as a subway train was at the station. They saw Smolder enter the subway train. They decided to get into the same train car, but on the other end of it so they wouldn't be spotted.

"You think she sees us?" Silverstream asked.

"Not if we keep our heads down and keep quiet," Gallus said.

Smolder was checking out the next stop sign, waiting for her stop to come. The train then came to a stop at one station. Smolder saw it was her station, got up, and headed for the door as it was opening up. Gallus and Silverstream got off the train and continued following Smolder through the city.

Back at the Boutique, Misty was going through the entrance. She headed for the back and went into the office.

"I got here as soon as I could," Misty said. "I had to wait for my break to start. So what is..." She then smelt the repulsive aroma. "Jeez! What is that smell?!"

Sonia then brought out a flower that Pipp had brought. She then said, "It's this. Some kind of thistle plant. It has ups and downs. The up side, it shines fingernails like crazy. But the down side..."

"It reeks like rotten asparagus mixed with rotten eggs?" Misty asked.

"Bingo," Sonia said. "I called for some of the others to come here. They should be here..." Just then, in a flash, Maria teleported in. "Maria?! Did you just teleport here?"

"Yeah," Maria said. "Shadow invited me to a private condo in Fiji. Then I found this old temple, and look what I found inside." She then pulled out something.

"Another Chaos Emerald?!" Misty asked. "Huh. Two episodes in a row where there's been a Chaos Emerald found."

"That's nothing," Maria said. "Back in season 1, we actually found a Chaos Emerald in four episodes in a row." She then shook her head. "Wow. We've been spending too much time with Pinkie Pie lately. So, what did you want me to..." She then sniffed the rotten stench. She then plugged her nose. "Ugh...! What's that smell?!"

"It's this," Sonia said, pulling up the thistle flower. "This flower shines fingernails, but leaves a disgusting smell. Pipp is trying to find a way to get rid of the smell with whatever natural ingredients she can use. And I think it's working." She then sniffed. "That, or I'm just getting used to the smell."

"I sure hope not," Maria said. "Where did this flower come from?"

"Pipp says she found it in Equestria, where Izzy grew up before coming here," Sonia replied. "Hopefully, she might no what this plant is."

"Let's hope so," Misty said. "Because this plant stinks. Pee-yoo."

On the other side of the mall, Smolder was coming out of the subway station. She then caught a whiff of something.

"Huh?" Smolder asked. "Is there a molting dragon here?" She then shook her head. "It couldn't be Sparky. He's too young to be molting. Plus, he already has his wings." She then headed out of the mall, and headed across the street. Gallus and Silverstream saw Smolder going across the street. They eventually saw her enter one business on the other side of the street, it being called "Royal Daycare".

"Royal Daycare?" Gallus asked. "What is she doing at a daycare?"

"We should check this out," Silverstream said. Then the two of them flew over the streets to get to the daycare. They looked through the window to see Smolder talking with Haven. "Haven? Why would Smolder be hanging out with Haven?"

"I don't know," Gallus said. "Let's check it out." Then they started flying up and over the building. As they reached the top, they saw some Nocturnus Echidnas checking out the mall. "Uh oh."

At Opaline's lair, Opaline was talking with Imperator Ix. The two were alone in the throne room.

"So are your soldiers in place?" Opaline asked.

"They are," Imperator Ix said. "They are planned to strike Misty when she's alone."

"They better," Opaline said. "Because your group is the only one I had recruited that hasn't failed me. If it doesn't go as I expected, you're all gonna be punished for your failure."

"Not likely," Imperator Ix said, smirking. "My soldiers are at the top of the line. They won't fail us."

On top of the building where the daycare that Smolder went into was, Gallus and Silverstream were surrounded by eight Nocturnus Echidnas.

"Okay, not what my day was expecting to be," Gallus said.

"What do we do?!" Silverstream asked. Just then, the echidnas fired plasma blasters, but Gallus and Silverstream jumped and flew out of the line of fire. The blasts hit the echidnas, making them fall on their backs. They then recovered. They then aimed their weapons at Gallus and Silverstream. Then they flew down the building towards the front of the daycare and they went in. The Nocturnus went down after them.

Gallus and Silverstream went inside the daycare. Gallus went up to the front counter and asked, "Where's Smolder?! It's an emergency!" The woman pointed towards the back curtain of the daycare. They quickly ran towards the back of the daycare and went through the curtains and Gallus quickly closed it. "Smolder, the echidnas from the Olympics are here and..." Gallus and Silverstream then saw Smolder, and she was wearing her cute princess dress from when she was babysitting Cream and Cheese.

Smolder looked at the two in shock. Then she looked down at the outfit, her cheeks turned red and said, "Uh, this isn't mine!" She then removed the dress, revealing her normal outfit.

"What was that?" Silverstream asked.

"Was that the same outfit you were..." Gallus said before seeing Smolder giving a menacing glare towards him. "You know what, I'm gonna stop there."

"Good call," Smolder said. "Anyway, what are you doing here?"

"Well, we were originally trying to find out what you've been up to," Silverstream said. "But then we found those echidna guys from the Olympics on top of the building."

"WHAT?!" Smolder asked. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me." Smolder then walked over to a console cover. She then raised her wrist communicator towards it, and the cover opened, revealing a screen. Then Nicole appeared on the screen. "Nicole, we've got trouble here."

"Activating defenses," Nicole said.

Outside of the daycare, the Nocturnus Echidnas were running down the side of the building with tethers connected to their belts. They reached the ground and removed the tethers from their belts. Then, gravity mines appeared from underneath each echidna and activated, sending the eight Echidnas up high into the sky.

Smolder, Gallus and Silverstream were watching from the screen. Silverstream then asked, "They are gonna come back down, right?"

"If they do, they're probably gonna have broken bones," Smolder said.

"Most definitely," Nicole said from the screen.

"We better alert the rest of the Freedom Fighters about this," Gallus said. "Especially Misty. Since they're probably here to take Misty out."

"Notifying the other Freedom Fighters," Nicole said.

Just then, Haven came into the back room. She then saw Smolder and said, "Smolder, hurry up and get dressed. The little ones will be coming in here for story time." She then exited the room.

"Story time?" Gallus asked.

Smolder sighed annoyingly and said, "We'll talk about this back at the mansion tonight. Just go." Gallus and Silverstream then looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders, and then left.

Back at the boutique, Olive, Zipp and Amy arrived. The three of them were wearing gas masks to block the smell. Zipp's was just covering her muzzle while she was wearing her Z-Goggles.

"Nothing on the web about this kind of plant," Zipp said. "So, I'm gonna have to say that we wait for Izzy to come."

"Seriously?" Sonia asked. "If Rarity smells this, she might have to have this place shut down for bad odor. And Pipp is certain that she can get rid of the smell." Just then, Pipp came into the room with a bottle of nail polish.

"Finally!" Pipp said. "I finally created the polish and got rid of the smell! Check it out~!" Pipp then held out the polish. Olive removed her gas mask and took a whiff.

Olive coughed and said, "No, it's still there!"

"What?!" Pipp asked. She then sniffed it. "Smells fine to me."

"Maybe you just gotten used to the smell," Amy said. "Because, wow, it really stinks!" Just then, Izzy came into the room.

"Hey, everyone!" Izzy said. "What is it you wanted me to..." She then sniffed the fragrance of the room. She then waved her right hand in front of her face. "Sheesharoo! Why does it smell like stinkthistle in here?"

"Izzy!" Sonia said. "Thank goodness you're here." She then held up one of the thistle plants. "This plant here, it shines fingernails like crazy. But the smell is..."

"Stink-ay!" Izzy said. "That's why it's called 'stinkthistle'."

"Stinkthistle?" Sonia asked.

"Izzy, what is this stuff that Pipp found?" Zipp asked.

"Pipp has foraged the stinkiest plant in all of Bridlewood," Izzy responded. "If a pony spends a long time exposed to it, they can become used to it."

"You mean it actually smells worse than it already is here?" Pipp asked.

"Yup!" Izzy said. "We unicorns mostly stay away from it because it's so stinkerrific. That, and it usually attracts certain creatures that are jinxie to everypony."

"Like what?" Olive asked.

"Tatzlwurms, hydras, giant predatorius birds called rocs," Izzy said.

"Rocs?" Olive asked.

"That's right!" Izzy said. "And don't worry, Pipp. I know the flower that is able to cancel out the stinkthistle. I'll be back." She then left the room. While she was going down the hall, Izzy then said, "Hi, Gallus. Hi, Silverstream." The two ran into the office while panting.

"Misty, you gotta get out of here, now!" Gallus said.

"Those echidnas from the Olympics are here!" Silverstream added.

"The Nocturnus Clan is here?!" Misty asked. "Oh, no. Opaline must've sent them here to get me!"

"Not if we can help it," Amy said, bringing out her hammer.

"We got your back," Olive said, pulling the ends of her gloves. "Let's take care of some business." Then Zipp, Amy, Olive, Maria, Sonia, Gallus, Silverstream and Misty headed out of there, heading for one of the entrances of the shop. The one that led to one of the parking lots of the mall. They saw the Nocturnus Echidnas coming right towards them.

"Looks like we're in trouble," Misty said. She then noticed that the Nocturnus were waving their hands in front of their faces. "What's wrong with them?"

"Uh, I think this is the problem," Zipp said, pulling out one of the stinkthistle flowers.

"Anything else we need to worry about?" Maria asked. Just then, the sound of an 18-Wheeler Horn came in. They saw the 18-Wheeler passing by with a Roc bird strapped to it. The Roc then sniffed something. It then broke out of its cage and screeched. It then flew towards the mall.

"There's your answer," Amy said.

The Roc charged towards the heroes and Nocturnus. The heroes and Nocturnus ducked down as the Roc was heading towards them, but a couple echidnas weren't so lucky.

"That was close," Maria said. "For us that is."

"The Roc will just keep coming because of the smell," Zipp said. "And as for these guys..." They saw the Nocturnus getting up and getting their weapons ready. "What are we gonna do?"

"Spin and win time," Sonia said. She then charged at the Nocturnus. She then started spinning around, creating a pink tornado, sucking in the weapons of the echidnas.

Amy then charged towards the echidnas and was using her hammer to swing at the echidnas, knocking them out. Amy then said, "Never mess with a friend of a girl who swings a mean hammer." Just then, the Roc came back down for another bite. The heroes all ducked down to evade the claws of the Roc.

"If the Nocturnus can't kill me, this bird will," Misty said.

"What are we gonna do?!" Silverstream asked.

"We need to get rid of both the Roc and the Nocturnus," Gallus said.

Zipp then looked up and saw a ship that belonged to the Nocturnus, seeing it was a little smaller than the Roc. Zipp then said, "I think I have an idea. Keep the Nocturnus busy. Gallus, Silverstream, you're with me." Then Zipp, Gallus and Silverstream headed into the boutique.

"Where are they going?" Maria asked.

"I hope they have something to handle all these guys when they get back," Sonia said. She then spun around to make some more Nocturnus Echidnas sucked up and thrown away from them.

"These girls are too strong," one of the Echidnas said. "Retreat! We'll blast the whole block away with the plasma bomb!" Then they all retreated to the ship.

"Plasma bomb?!" Amy asked. "They're gonna take out the entire mall!"

"Not if we can help it," came Zipp's voice. The others looked behind them and saw Zipp, Gallus and Silverstream, carrying three pillowcases with something in them.

"What are you doing?" Maria asked.

"We're gonna have the Roc destroy the ship," Zipp said. "Gallus, Silverstream, let's fly!" Then the three of them took to the sky.

The Roc was about to dive down when he caught the whiff of the stinkthistle. The Roc turned its head and saw Gallus coming up towards it.

"You want this?!" Gallus asked, holding up the pillowcase where the stench of the stinkthistle was coming from. "Come and get it." Then he started flying away. The Roc screeched and chased Gallus. Zipp and Silverstream flew alongside Gallus and headed towards the Nocturnus ship.

Zipp put on her Z Goggles and scanned the ship. Zipp then said, "We need to drop the stinkthistle at the processor. Follow me!" Then Zipp flew in one direction, Gallus and Silverstream following, the Roc coming up behind them. Zipp lead Gallus and Silverstream towards where the processor was. "Drop 'em now!" Then Zipp, Gallus and Silverstream then dropped the pillowcases towards where the ship's processor was located. The Roc chased the pillowcases and was about to grab them. As is did, the Roc ripped off the processor as well.

The ship went critical. The Echidnas in the ship were freaking out. Then they all pushed a button on their belts and they all vanished from the ship. The Roc flew away from the ship, carrying the pillowcases, and then the ship exploded because it didn't release the plasma bomb.

"That was a great plan!" Misty said.

Back in Opaline's lair, Opaline was really angry at what just happened, seeing Misty survived once again.

"GAH!!" Opaline shouted, angrily. "Failed again!" She then looked towards Scourge, Allura and Ix, seeing them afraid of what Opaline could do to them. "I sent each of you to come up with a plan to destroy Misty for betraying us, and you all failed! I should've known all of you were too incompetent to do something simple!"

"She's always with those Freedom Fighters!" Scourge said. "Plus, it's like she knew we were coming for her."

"Are you saying we have another traitor in my lair?!" Opaline asked. "Find out who the traitor is and bring him or her to me immediately!" Then the three villains ran out of the Throne Room.

In the vent above the Throne Room, Shade was looking through the grate. She then pulled out her communicator to Misty and activated it.

"Misty, Opaline knows that there's a traitor here, but she doesn't know it's me yet," Shade said. "I need you to be extremely careful. Don't go out alone."

"What?!" Misty asked through the communicator. "Shade, you need to get out of there!"

"Not until I have enough information on how to..." Shade said before the vent grate was ripped off, surprising Shade. Shade looked towards the hole, and she saw Opaline flying up to the hole.

"Well, well, well, looks like we have our traitor," Opaline said. "You're gonna regret having to side with those pesky Freedom Fighters."

"You... will never win," Shade said. She then pushed a button and said, "See ya, witch." She then vanished in a pink light.

Opaline roared. She then said, "Shade is the traitor! Ix, recall her here!" Opaline flew down to the floor of the throne room. Then in a pink light, something came back. It was Shade's teleportation device, and it wasn't attached to Shade's belt. Opaline roared in rage.

Back in the Boutique, Pipp was packing all the stinkthistle nail polish in a box while the news was reporting that the Roc was recaptured.

Pipp sighed and said, "Well, I guess this was a waste," Pipp said. "I finally found something that could be a big hit, and it literally stinks." Zipp and Sonia were helping Pipp pack up the stuff.

"Well, Pipp, you just didn't know what you were putting yourself into," Zipp said. "I'm sure you can find something that'll work."

"Not like the time we tried using ice cream as a face mask," Sonia said. "That was a mess with all the mice." She then gave off a small laugh.

Pipp then sighed and said, "I guess Potions by Pipp is officially cancelled."

"Well don't cancel it yet," came Izzy's voice. Sonia, Pipp and Zipp looked towards the door and saw Izzy coming in a basket with pink flowers. "I found the elusive neutralizing ingredient! Pinkthistle!"

"Pinkthistle?!" Zipp asked.

"No, it will get rid of the smell from the stinkthistle," Izzy said. "Give it a whiff!" Then Pipp, Zipp and Sonia got a whiff of the pinkthistle, and they smiled in joy.

"That smells amazing!" Zipp said.

"Best smell I ever smelled," Sonia said.

Pipp gasped and said, "This will keep the shine but erase the smell! And it's all natural! Just like I wanted! Awww, 'Potions by Pipp' is saved! I'm gonna need all your help to get this into the polish in time for opening tomorrow!"

"You got it, sis," Zipp said. Then they all started grabbing a nail polish bottle and a pinkthistle flower and started shaking some of the pollen into the bottle, and mixing it up.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Running is Easy, Stopping's the Problem...

Episode 21: Running is Easy, Stopping's the Problem

In Appleloosa, the ponies there were in a panic when a robot was attacking the town. It was destroying everything that was in its path.

Bokkun was flying above, using a remote control to control the robot. He laughed and said, "This would be more fun if Doctor Eggman was here. He'd get a blast out of this."

The robot then started charging the clock tower. The ponies there were running to get out of the way of the charging robot. Just then, a blue blur came in and impacted the robot. The robot was heading down the road after the impact, rolling away from the target.

"What?!" Bokkun asked.

"Hey, Bokkun!" came Sonic's voice. Bokkun looked up at the top of the clock tower, and he saw Sonic standing on top. "You think you can terrorize these ponies on my watch?! I don't think so!"

"Sonic!" Bokkun shouted. "You always ruin my fun! Get him, E-88!" Then the robot started charging at the building Sonic was on. Sonic then started running down the building and then he started doing a Spin Dash attack, and collided with the robot's chest, and going through the robot. Then the robot blew up. Sonic stopped in place and looked towards the robot. As that happened, a microchip came from the robot and went into Sonic's left ear.

"Never go after the country of my friends, Bokkun," Sonic said.

"This isn't over, Sonic!" Bokkun said. "I'll be back!" Bokkun then started flying away. Sonic chuckled and looked around. He then zoomed away from there. As this was happening, the microchip that fell into his ear went deeper into his ear canal.

At the Castle of Friendship, Twilight was doing a lot of paperwork. Spike came in with more sheets of paperwork.

"Got some more paperwork for you," Spike said.

Twilight sighed and said, "So much paperwork. This would be a lot easier if I had someone help me. How did Princess Celestia do this for over a thousand years?"

"I'm sure you'll get used to it as much as she had," Spike said.

"Princess Twilight, Sunny and her friends have arrived," came Nicole's voice.

"Send 'em in, Nicole," Twilight said. A few seconds later, Sunny and her friends came in. "Welcome back to my castle, all of you."

"Wow, this place is amazing!" Misty said. "Much better than Opaline's lair."

"I'm glad you brought that up, Misty," Twilight said. "I may have banished Opaline to her lair, but she always keeps finding a way to send her magic out to collect the enemies that have been defeated by us and the other Freedom Fighters. I need to know where her lair is located."

"Actually... I don't have an exact location of where Opaline's lair is," Misty said. "But what I can tell you, it's a place that has some Arabic building designs."

"Arabic buildings," Twilight said, putting a hand to her chin. "Spike, take a note of that."

"Gotcha, Twi," Spike said. He then grabbed a note and started writing down the description of where Opaline's lair was.

"It's also really high up," Misty said. "In the sky, I think."

"What makes you say that?" Twilight asked.

"Because for the last few years I was there, whenever I looked down from my window, I could see the ground below and everyday, Opaline's lair is in a different place," Misty said.

"Okay, lair in the sky, always in a new location," Spike said, writing it down.

"I doubt that it's somewhere on Angel Island," Twilight said. "The only structure there is the Altar of the Master Emerald. Guarded by Knuckles."

"Knuckles lives on a floating island?" Misty asked. "Alone?"

"He comes down whenever he needs to," Twilight said. "Sometimes when he's needed, or just to talk with someone."

Just then, Sonic came into the room, saying, "Hi, ponies!"

"Sonic!" Twilight said. "How are you doing?"

"Pretty good so far," Sonic said. "Although, I did just beat a robot down in Appleloosa that was being controlled by Bokkun."

"Eggman's old messenger bot?" Spike asked. "That little bot is always a little pest."

"You can say that again," Sonic said. He then saw Zipp looking at her phone, trying to find something. "Whatcha up to, Zipp?"

"Still trying to figure out who the three ponies that put that inscription into that tree back in Bridlewood are," Zipp said. "C, L and O. Who could they be?"

"Is MC helping you look into it?" Twilight asked.

"As much as he can," Zipp said. "Although, right now, he's helping the rest of the Freedom Fighters in training train for future missions. Mostly Dulcy. Someone's gotta keep an eye on her when she has to fly correctly."

"I've seen that happening," Sonic said. "She had been carrying MC on her back every time, and she crashed every time."

"That must've been hard on both of them," Hitch said.

"Oh, MC has survived worse than that," Sonic said. He then looked towards Twilight. "Twilight knows what I'm talking about. Twilight, remember when we were taking the Chaos Emeralds to the Dragon Lands to keep Eggman from bringing back the Storm King?"

"Oh, yeah," Twilight said. "I still can't believe he mimicked the lava and melted all of those robots that Eggman sent. And he was still hot after turning back."

"Now that sounds crazy and unbelievable," Zipp said.

"You've seen him manipulate matter, Zipp," Sonic said. "Just wait until he goes Gigan."

"Gigan?" Twilight asked.

"Nicole," Sonic said. "Explain."

"Of course, my main hedgehog," Nicole said.

"Seriously?" Twilight asked. "Why does she talk like this when Sonic or Rainbow Dash speak to her?"

"Because, Twilight, Sonic had shook my original handheld device because I was speaking in words they cannot understand," Nicole answered. "Anyway, Prince Michael Crayton not only can manipulate or mimic the elements around him, but he can also increase in size, increasing his strength and intimidation."

"And he hasn't done that the whole time Equestria came back to Earth?" Twilight asked. "Why? He could've used that ability to punch Metal Sonic in the face back on the Egg Fleet."

"He didn't want to show any of you up," Nicole said. "His words, not mine."

"Well, we should get back to work," Twilight said. "I have a lot of paperwork to finish."

"You look like you could use some help," Zipp said.

"You've done this kind of paperwork?" Twilight asked.

"My mom was preparing me to be queen for years," Zipp said. "Years before Mephiles attacked."

"How old are you?" Twilight asked.

"18," Zipp answered. "Two years older than Pipp."

"It's true," Pipp said.

Just then, the sound of a vehicle came from the window. Twilight, Sonic, Sunny and her friends walked towards the window and they looked down. Outside the window, they saw Applejack coming out of a Ford F-250 with a bunch of barrels of apples in the bed of the truck.

"Howdy, y'all!" Applejack called out. "Ah got yer delivery of apples, Twi!"

"That's great, Applejack!" Twilight said. "And I love that new delivery truck."

"Yeah, done Sweet Apple Acres good," Applejack said, pulling out the car keys. She then pushed the button and locked the truck. Then the chip that was in Sonic's ear reacted to it. The light on the chip started glowing yellow.

Sonic then yelled in shock. All of a sudden, Sonic's legs started moving on their own, making him run at supersonic speed. He ran out the window and ran past Applejack and the truck, heading off somewhere.

"What in Tarnation?!" Applejack asked, looking towards where Sonic went. Sonic was heading towards Ponyville.

"Where's he going?" Izzy asked.

"I don't know," Zipp said. "Nicole, did Sonic say what he had planned for today?"

"He did not," Nicole said. "It would seem that something has taken over the muscles in his legs causing him to run without full control of them. The only thing he can do is turn."

Meanwhile, Sonic was running through the streets of Ponyville, surprising everypony there. He even passed the Cutie Mark Crusaders as they were coming out of Sugarcube Corner.

"That was Sonic!" Scootaloo said.

"Where do y'all think he's goin'?" Apple Bloom asked. The others shrugged their shoulders then they started running towards the Castle of Friendship.

Meanwhile, on the outskirts of Ponyville, at the Animal Sanctuary, Fluttershy was treating the animals that were there, humming a happy tune. When all of a sudden, Sonic came running through without stopping, making Fluttershy spin around and then fall on her butt, getting dizzy.

Fluttershy slightly recovered and looked towards where Sonic ran and asked, "Sonic?"

As for Sonic, he still continued to run away from Ponyville without stopping. He then said, "I don't know what's happening, but I can't stop me feet! Gotta call for help!" He then held up his left arm which had his wrist communicator and then he saw that he was heading towards the Everfree Forest. "Whoa!" Sonic then maneuvered himself away from colliding with one of the trees. He even passed Zecora as she was coming out, making her spin around.

Zecora then stopped spinning, fell on her butt, and then she called out, "Where are you going in such a rut?! You almost made me fall back into my hut!"

"I can't stop my feet!" Sonic called out as he continued running. "Get some heeeeeeeeeeeelp!"

Zecora stood there looking confused. She then started running towards Ponyville, going to alert the others about Sonic's predicament.

Back at the Castle of Friendship, the rest of the Mane 6 arrived there, along with the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Tails, Sally, Midpoint, Amy, Truemen and Zecora. The Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, Tails, Sally, Midpoint, Amy, Truemen, the Crusaders and Zecora were watching Sonic on a holographic screen seeing him run uncontrollably.

"What's going on?" Amy asked. "Why is Sonic running all over the place?"

"Right after taking a sudden seat, the hedgehog called out that he could not stop his feet," Zecora answered.

"You saying that Sonic is running without any control?" Truemen asked. "How is that possible?"

"We don't know," Twilight said. "Applejack was delivering apples here and all of a sudden, Sonic started running uncontrollably."

"It's too bad MC or Maria aren't here with us," Misty said. "They would be able to catch up with Sonic."

"Eh-hem," Rainbow Dash said, clearing her throat. She looked at Misty giving an annoyed expression. "I can catch up with Sonic. I'll get him and bring him back in a flash."

"I'm not sure it'll be that easy, Rainbow," Midpoint said. "We need to stop him to see what's wrong with him."

"But how are we gonna do that?" Rarity asked. "And where's he heading?"

"It appears that Sonic has changed direction," Nicole said. "He is heading south. So far, he's got about an hour before the reaches Mount Aris."

"Sonic has the best traction when he's on solid ground," Tails said. "But if he goes into the water..."

"There might be a way to stop him before he can reach Mount Aris," Twilight said. "Let's get going." Then they all headed out of there.

In the desert south of the Badlands, Sonic was zooming through heading towards Klugetown. Sonic was doing his best trying to gain control of his legs, but they weren't doing what he wanted them to do.

"I gotta stop myself before I run into the ocean!" Sonic said. Just then, he heard the sound of air machines flying. He looked up and saw both the X-Tornado and the Spirit of Freedom. Tails was piloting the X-Tornado with Sally, Amy and Truemen in the passenger seats, and Midpoint was piloting the Spirit of Freedom with Zipp as the co-pilot. The Mane 6, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp, Izzy, Misty and the Crusaders were in the Spirit of Freedom and the extra passenger box connected to it. "Oh, right! Finally some help!"

In the Spirit of Freedom, Tails was on the screen talking with Midpoint and Zipp.

"This special tipped arrow is designed to get Sonic off the ground for just a little bit," Tails said. "It has a special kind of helium, stronger than normal helium. It can basically lift one person off the ground with just one balloon."

"Are you able to make that kind of shot, Alex?" Zipp asked.

"Take the yoke," Midpoint said. He then grabbed the arrow tip, pulled an arrow from his quiver, removed the tip from that arrow, and attached the new arrow tip to it. He then got up, grabbed his bow, and he headed out of the bridge of the Spirit of Freedom, and headed for the ladder. He then grabbed special magnets and connected them to his boots. He then climbed the ladder and opened up the top door, closing the tube that surrounds the ladder. He then got up to the top of the Spirit of Freedom with the magnets on his boots on. He then brought out the new arrow and his bow, and aimed it towards Sonic. "Keep going Zipp, we're almost in range."

In the cockpit of the Spirit of Freedom, Zipp pushed a few buttons and the boosters of the Spirit of Freedom increased the speed. Midpoint cringed his face to get a better look at his target, being Sonic. He then released the arrow from his bow and the arrow headed right towards Sonic, hitting Sonic's right side.

"Gah! Ow!" Sonic called out. Just then, the arrow tip released the rest of the arrow and a balloon came out of it, getting bigger, and it lifted Sonic off the ground. "Whoa! Hey, what's going on?!"

"Direct hit," Midpoint said.

"Alright!" the others called out.

"Okay, let's get him down," Tails said.

Midpoint then noticed something. He then said, "Uh, Tails, how much of that special helium did you put into that balloon?"

"Why do you ask?" Tails asked. Just then, the sound of Sonic yelling came in. They all noticed that the balloon was getting bigger, carrying him higher and higher. "Oh, that's why."

"Whoa! Help me!" Sonic called out. The X-Tornado and the Spirit of Freedom flew past him, the wind pushing the balloon towards Klugetown.

"Turn around, Zipp!" Midpoint said. "Turn around!" Zipp then tried turning around, but the speed of the Spirit of Freedom was too fast for her to control.

"Whoa!" Zipp said. "Too fast! We're going too fast!"

Eventually, Sonic was floating over Klugetown. Just then, he saw Tempest Shadow on top of a building.

"Yo, Tempest!" Sonic called out, getting Tempest's attention.

"Huh?" Tempest asked. "Sonic?"

"Little help up here!" Sonic said. Tempest smirked. She then pulled a dagger from her belt, then she used a propeller kick and her foot made contact with the end of the handle, making it head towards the balloon, popping it. Sonic then fell down to the ground and when he did, he continued running. "Whoooooa! I take it back! I'd rather be back in the air!"

"Huh?" Tempest asked, looking towards where Sonic was going. She then noticed the X-Tornado and the Spirit of Freedom continuing their flight to chase Sonic. She then got ready to jump high. She then jumped and landed on the Spirit of Freedom, but she slipped. "Whoa!" She then reached to grab something, but then she was grabbed by Midpoint.

"Gotcha, Tempest," Midpoint said. He then pulled her up and they went towards the hatch. Midpoint then pulled her towards the open hatch and she climbed down the ladder with Midpoint following.

In the Spirit of Freedom, Tempest was being told about Sonic's predicament.

"So you have no idea why Sonic is running without control?" Tempest asked.

"Not that we know," Sunny said. Misty was looking at Tempest's broken horn.

Tempest noticed that. She looked at Misty and asked, "What?"

"What happened to your horn?" Misty asked.

"Oh, that," Tempest said. "I kinda crossed paths with a grumpy Ursa Minor. It broke my horn and I got this scar. Everypony back home was creeped out by my appearance. So... I ran away. I eventually was founded by this terrorist known as the Storm King. And you know what he did? He trained me to be his most skilled mercenary, making me do what he wanted. He wanted all the powerful magic for himself, and in return for getting what he wants, he'd fix my horn. I did it, but..."

"He betrayed you?" Misty asked. She then sighed. "Guess I'm not the only unicorn who worked for a psycho and got betrayed."

"Better be careful who we cross paths with," Tempest said, making Misty nod.

"Okay, Sonic is heading towards Mount Aris," Zipp said. "What's plan B?"

"Plan B, Hamster Wheel," Midpoint said. "The Crusaders are getting ready to push the wheel out of the box when we get in front of him." He then pushed a button. "Sonic, we're sending something down. Once you get near it, get in it."

"What is it?" Sonic asked.

"Just do what I say," Midpoint said. He then piloted the Spirit of Freedom down towards Sonic. As soon as it was at least 100 yards in front of Sonic, the box underneath the Spirit of Freedom opened up and Apple Bloom, Nyx and Joshua were about to push out the giant Hamster Wheel, which was currently in in half. "Now!" Midpoint called out.

Apple Bloom, Nyx and Joshua pushed the wheel out of the box and it went down to the ground. Sonic then jumped into it just as the wheel was becoming a full circle. Then legs popped out of the middle and stayed in place. Sonic kept running while in the wheel. Then the X-Tornado and the Spirit of Freedom landed. Then the Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, the Crusaders, Tempest, Sally, Tails, Amy, Truemen and Midpoint ran over towards Sonic and the wheel.

"Sonic, you okay?" Midpoint asked.

"For now!" Sonic said. "How long will this thing keep going?"

"We got an hour until the bearings melt due to your speed," Midpoint said. He then went to a console on the side of the giant Hamster Wheel. "Let's see what's wrong with you." He started typing on the console and then a scanning device came out of the center and scanned Sonic. On the screen, it was showing Sonic's body. Then something was blinking and it was coming from Sonic's left ear canal. "What is that?" Midpoint then typed on the console some more and saw that it was a microchip. "There's a microchip lodged in Sonic's ear. It's sending a signal to his Cerebellum making him run without full control."

"What's a Cerebellum?" Scootaloo asked.

"It's the part of the brain that controls every muscle in the body," Tails said. "Is there any way we can get it out of him?"

"We need to remove it, but for us to do that, we have to get him to stop running," Twilight said. Just then, the sound of a stomach growling came in.

"Sorry, that was mine," Sonic said.

"I got you, Sonic," Amy said, walking up to the Hamster Wheel. She was holding a plate with a couple of Chili Dogs and some French Fries. She then noticed something. "How do I get this in there?"

"There's a compartment that opens up on the other side," Midpoint said. "It'll open on the inside and it will give the food to Sonic." Amy nodded and headed for the other side of the wheel. She then opened up the compartment and the Chili Dog meal went inside the wheel and it was in front of Sonic. Sonic grabbed one of the Chili Dogs and started eating it. Eventually, he finished eating. When he did, his legs started moving faster, burning the bearings in the wheel. "Uh oh. The bearings are getting burned out by Sonic's increased speed! Everyone get away!" Midpoint then started running away from the wheel, the others doing the same. Then the wheel broke and Sonic got out of it, running away from the group.

"He's getting away!" Sally said.

"Not on my watch!" Rainbow Dash said. She then sped towards Sonic trying to catch up with him.

"We got ten minutes until Sonic reaches Mount Aris," Midpoint said. "Let's go." Then they all headed for the X-Tornado and the Spirit of Freedom.

Rainbow Dash continued her pursuit with Sonic, trying to catch up with him. They were nearing the bottom of Mount Aris.

"Oh, that's not good," Rainbow Dash said. "Sonic, try to turn back!"

"I would if I could, but I'm losing control with the rest of my body!" Sonic said.

In the Spirit of Freedom, Midpoint was checking his arrow selection to see if he had one arrow that could stop Sonic.

"Let's see, what I got," Midpoint said. "Taser, acid, flash, ensnarement, explosive..."

"You have a lot of dangerous arrows, don't you?" Zipp asked.

"For different situations," Midpoint said. "USB, Sonic Pulse, EMP... Ah, here we go." He then held up one arrow. "Ballistic Gel."

"What's that supposed to do?" Sunny asked.

"This stuff is extremely sticky, causing whoever gets on it to stop cold," Midpoint said.

"Well, you better get that arrow ready," Zipp said. "Sonic and Rainbow are climbing the mountain!"

"Oh, snap!" Midpoint said, heading for the ladder, holding the arrow and his bow. He then climbed up the ladder.

Sonic and Rainbow Dash were nearing the top of the mountain and its cliff. Sonic was starting to panic because he knows what happens when he goes over the cliff.

"Hurry!" Sonic cried out. "I can't swim!"

"Hang on, Sonic!" Rainbow Dash said.

Midpoint was on top of the Spirit of Freedom in position to release the arrow. He then released the arrow and it went towards Sonic. It landed right in at the edge of the cliff, releasing the gel. Sonic and Rainbow Dash then went into it, and both of them stopped and got stuck. Sonic legs were still trying to move.

"Got him!" Midpoint said. He then went down the ladder. Then the X-Tornado and the Spirit of Freedom landed near them. The others came out and ran towards Sonic and Rainbow Dash.

"Sonic, are you okay?" Sally asked.

"Any later, and I would've drown in a few seconds," Sonic said.

Twilight used her magic and pulled Rainbow Dash out of the gel. Rainbow Dash then said, "Thanks, Twi."

"Let's get that thing out of Sonic's ear," Zipp said, putting on her Z-Goggles. Then a drone came up and went to Sonic's left ear. It then went in and an arm came out. It then reached for the microchip and grabbed it. The drone then pulled out the chip out of Sonic's ear. As soon as it was out, Sonic was getting control of his legs.

"Hey, I'm... I'm in full control!" Sonic said. "Whew. That was close."

"It was," Midpoint said, taking the microchip out of the grip of the drone controlled by Zipp. He then inspected the chip. "Huh. Looks like it's a radio controlled chip. It would must've reacted to a small device like an old beeper or a remote for a car.

"Oh, so that's what happened," Applejack said. "Ah locked the truck and then Sonic just started runnin'."

"That makes sense," Twilight said. Just then, there was an explosion at the bottom of the mountain. The group all looked down and saw a bunch of Eggman Robots attacking the Hippogriffs. "Oh, no!"

"We've got work to do," Midpoint said. He then grabbed Sonic's arm and pulled him out of the ballistic gel. Then the heroes went down the mountain, Midpoint and the Crusaders staying on top of the mountain as Midpoint was preparing some arrows.

The others made it to the bottom of the mountain and there were a bunch of Eggman Robots firing lasers all over the place. These weren't any normal robots, but Swatbots.

"Swatbots?!" Sonic asked. "I haven't seen these since Eggman started taking over."

"Then let's take 'em down," Twilight said. Then they charged at the Swatbots. Destroying them in the process. Then Bokkun came in and got angry.

"Oh, you Freedom Fighters are always getting in my way!" Bokkun said. "Swatbots, attack!" The Swatbots then charged at the heroes. But then one arrow came down and went into the sand behind the Swatbots. Then a pulse came out, shutting down the Swatbots. "What?! Oh, c'mon!"

The heroes looked towards the top of the mountain and saw Midpoint in a releasing position.

"EMP," Zipp said.

"What does that stand for?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"Electro-Magnetic Pulse," Zipp said. "It shuts down anything electronic in a certain distance."

"No!" Bokkun said. "No fair!" Just then, an orange blast came in and pushed Bokkun down to the ground. "Whoa!"

"Nice shot, Truemen," Amy said.

"Thanks, Ames," Truemen said. Then they looked around.

Applejack had tied Bokkun up in a lasso and he was squirming. Tails then said, "Alright, let's get this guy locked up."

"You guys go on ahead," Truemen said. "I think Amy and I should stick around here."

"Yeah, it's beautiful out here," Amy said. She then smelled the ocean breeze. "Aw, that's nice."

"Okay," Twilight said. "Just call Nicole if you want to come back and she'll send the Spirit of Freedom over here. And if you spend the night, we'll let General Seaspray know you're here. He's Silverstream's dad."

"Thanks," Truemen said. "We'll keep that in mind." Then the rest of the heroes headed out of there. Truemen and Amy looked out on the ocean with a bunch of Seaponies playing with each other in the water.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Freedom Fighter Training Island

Episode 22: Freedom Fighter Island Training

Over the Atlantic Ocean, the Spirit of Freedom was flying over the ocean. Inside were Sonic, Tails, MC, the Young 6 and Dulcy. MC was piloting the Spirit of Freedom.

"So, where are we going this time?" Gallus asked.

"To a place where all us Freedom Fighters go to train when we need extra training," Sonic answered. "An island personally created by MC himself."

"It took me a full 24 hours to create the entire island," MC said. "This place is where all of us Freedom Fighters train when we need to."

"Meh, I'm sure it's nothing we can't handle," Smolder said. "After all, with our powers, there's no way this training session will be a challenge."

"That's what you think, Smolder," Tails said. "In case we get into a problem that cancels out our powers, we train here just in case without using our powers. And Sonic is the most impatient of this one."

"Island Training with no powers?" Ocellus asked.

"That's right, Ocellus," Sonic said. "We all have to be prepared for whatever happens. All the other Freedom Fighters had done this. Of course, when Antoine and Mutt finished it, they ended up sleepwalking when we were camping at the end."

"Land ho!" MC said. An island was coming into view and the Spirit of Freedom was heading right towards it.

The Spirit of Freedom landed at the dock of the island they were heading to. The island had a mountain that was at least 1000 feet high over the water. Sonic, Tails, MC, the Young 6 and Dulcy exited the Spirit of Freedom. Sonic, Tails, the Young 6 and Dulcy were wearing backpacks.

"Whoa," Gallus said. "We're supposed to climb this mountain?"

"More likely to go up the path that leads to the top," Ocellus said.

"This is so exciting!" Silverstream said. "I can't wait to..." She put her left hand on the spot where her seashell necklace was, but it wasn't there anymore. "Huh?" She then gasped. "Where's my necklace?!"

"It's right here," MC said. MC was holding up Silverstream's seashell necklace. "You're gonna have to complete this training without magic. Or powers. Or even flight."

"Seriously?" Smolder asked. "We have to go up there without using our powers?"

"C'mon, Smolder," Dulcy said. "This shouldn't be too much of a problem. They want us to be prepared for anything."

"Plus it'll give Dulcy a break from crashing into everything every time she flies," Gallus said.

"Yona thought Yona was most clumsy creature among group, but Yona proven wrong," Yona said.

"But at least we won't have to worry about that for today," Sandbar said. "So, are you gonna lead us through this place MC?"

"No, I'm not," MC said. "Sonic and Tails are. I'm gonna be waiting for you up on top of the mountain, setting up camp for tonight. I'll see you all when you get up there." MC then turned around and walked back into the Spirit of Freedom. The door started closing. The Spirit of Freedom then started up and it started ascending.

Sonic, Tails, the Young 6 and Dulcy watched as it ascended up to the top of the island. Sonic then said, "Okay, all of you. There's our rendezvous point. We're gonna meet MC up there, without using our powers."

"So we should start walking," Tails said. "Let's get going." Then they all started walking up the path to meet with MC at the top of the mountain.

They all walked up the path to the top of the mountain. Then they reached their first obstacle. It seemed to be a small tunnel with holes on the sides and tiles with animals on them.

"Whoa," Sandbar said. "Sweet tunnel."

"This is the first challenge," Sonic said. "You have to get through this tunnel without getting hit."

"Hit by what?" Smolder said walking into the tunnel. She then set her right foot on one tile and it sank. Just then, a dart came out from the left side of the wall, almost hitting Smolder's left arm. Smolder stepped back at the incoming dart when it happened. "Got it."

"What was that?" Ocellus asked.

"Parallelization dart," Tails answered. "Don't worry, it'll only last five minutes."

"So, we're gonna have to use our smarts to get through this, huh?" Ocellus asked. "Well, I am the smartest out of the seven of us."

"Yes, you are, Ocellus," Tails said. "Let's see what you got."

Ocellus kneeled down and looked at the tiles on the ground. Seeing a bunch of different animals on them. Lions, tigers, bears (oh my), panthers, elephants, mice, monkeys and zebras.

"Okay, there are animal tiles here," Ocellus said. "Predators and prey animals. Smolder, which tile did you step on?"

Smolder walked over to Ocellus and kneeled next to Ocellus. She then put her right hand on the tile she stepped on, which was one with a panther, saying, "This one." The tile sunk and a dart came out of the right wall, going across from them. "That was close. Again."

"Wait a minute," Ocellus said. She then put a hand on a tile with an elephant, but it didn't sink. "The prey animals are safe. The prey animals are safe!"

"That's it," Tails said. "There you go."

"Okay, everyone," Ocellus said. "Step on the tiles that have elephants, mice, monkeys and zebras." Then Ocellus stepped on the tiles that had those animals she mentioned. The others followed her by following the same path as Ocellus. Eventually, all of them made it through.

"Good job, Ocellus," Sonic said. "Now, let's move on." Then they continued up the path some more.

Then they came across a bog. The path was going through the muck in front of them, and large stone footings above the muck. And it was giving some kind of odor.

"Sheesh!" Smolder said. "This place stinks!"

"Is this the next obstacle?" Gallus asked.

"Yup," Sonic said. "This is one of the most challenging parts of this island. Especially with all this Mega-Muck."

"Mega-Muck?" Yona asked. "What's Mega-Muck?"

"It's a very sticky substance that's even able to stop super speeders cold," Sonic said. "It was able to stop me. It's part petroleum, part quicksand, part clay mud."

"Yikes," Gallus said. "Wouldn't want to get trapped in there." He then leaped towards one stone floor that was above the Mega-Muck. "See? This isn't so bad." He then saw a plank of wood. He grabbed it and reached over to the beginning so others could cross. More likely, Yona.

"Smart thinking, Gallus," Sonic said. "You and Silverstream are the most agile, so you can make the jump across the muck to bring the others across."

"Ooh, that sounds fun!" Silverstream said. She then jumped across the muck towards another platform. Eventually, they made it passed the obstacle.

They continued up the path and they saw a river with a large canoe at a dock.

"Canoe paddling?" Yona asked, getting scared.

"What?" Tails asked. "You afraid of boats?"

"Last time Yona was on a canoe, Applejack and Rainbow Dash were with us and we crashed into a spire," Gallus said.

"And Yona can't swim," Sandbar said.

"Well, we're gonna have to go across the river," Sonic said. "Believe me, I can't swim either. I had to get across this river... because of that." Sonic pointed down the river where a current was heading. Down the river was a waterfall.

"Yikes!" Yona said. "Okay, Yona try best."

"All we have to do is cross the river," Sonic said. "Let's go." Then the eight of them put on their life preservers, then they got into the canoe. Sonic was in front with Smolder, Tails was behind with Ocellus, Gallus was in the third row with Silverstream, Sandbar was in the fourth row with Yona and Dulcy was in the back, manning the rutter. As they all sat down, they started paddling.

"That's it, all of you," Tails said. "It's all about working together."

As they were paddling, the current was pulling the boat. Everyone with a paddle was trying to stroke as hard as they could.

"Whoa!" they all shouted.

"The current's too strong!" Sonic said. "It wasn't this strong the last time we went across!" Then they all started screaming as they were being pulled down the current towards the waterfall.

Sonic, Tails, the Young 6 and Dulcy were screaming as they were being pulled by the current towards the waterfall. Yona then grabbed Sandbar's oar and she started paddling, and she was doing it quickly. Dulcy held onto the handle that controls the rotor and turned the boat towards the other side of the river where they were supposed to go. Eventually, they made it to the dock. Sonic and Tails jumped out of the boat and tied off the boat to the dock.

"Whoa, that was close," Sonic said. "We're gonna have to talk to MC about that."

Tails chuckled and said, "Yeah." Then the Young 6 and Dulcy got out of the boat and they continued up the path.

They eventually made it to a rock wall. Sonic, Tails, the Young 6 and Dulcy looked up at the rock wall. And on top of the rock wall was only one pulley system for a rope.

"A rock climbing wall," Smolder said. "Interesting."

"And look," Dulcy said. "There's an elevator for all of us to get up there."

"But the controls to the elevator are up there," Gallus said. "We can't use our powers to get up there."

"Then we use this," Sandbar said, grabbing a harness that was connected to a rope. "Here, someone strap this on me." Tails ran over towards Sandbar and helped get the harness on the pony. He eventually got it on him. "Okay, now someone pull on the rope to get me up there." Yona then grabbed the other end of the rope and started pulling Sandbar up as he was pulling himself up on the rocks.

"Did you have a flying guy install those rocks on this wall?" Smolder asked.

"Actually, it was all MC that installed these rocks," Sonic said. Smolder got a surprised look.

"Oh, right," Smolder said. "Gray fox are great climbers. I learned that from Fluttershy's animal class. But I thought that they only climbed trees."

"That's the normal ones," Sonic said. "MC's a lot different than those ones."

Sandbar continued climbing the rock wall to get to the top and eventually reached the top. He then unstrapped himself and went over to the controls of the elevator and sent the elevator down. The girls got into it and then Sandbar sent it back up. Then the girls got out of the elevator and sent the elevator back down so Gallus, Sonic and Tails could get into it.

Later, the group continued up the path and they came towards a tunnel.

"Okay, guys," Sonic said. "This place is to test our other senses besides sight."

"Such as sound or touch, huh?" Gallus asked.

"Yeah, pretty much," Sonic said. "So let's..." Just then, a weird sound came in from the tunnel. They looked into the tunnel and a bunch of red eyes came from the darkness. Then the ones who had those eyes came out, and they surrounded them.

"Cockatrices!!" Ocellus shouted. "Everyone, shield your eyes!" Then all of them, except Silverstream, closed their eyes.

Gallus opened his eyes and saw Silverstream heading towards one cockatrice and shouted, "Silverstream, no!" He then got confused. "Huh?" Silverstream turned around and saw a cockatrice on Silverstream's right arm, and she was scratching its neck with her left forefinger.

"Silverstream, you can tame cockatrices?" Smolder asked.

"I actually tamed this one and she's a good friend," Silverstream said. "This is Edith. She helped me a few years ago when I was studying cockatrices."

"Wow," Sonic said. "So, can all of these guys..." Edith looked around and squawked. Then all of the cockatrices moved away from the group and hid in the bushes. "Okay, let's get going."

"Thanks, Edith," Silverstream said as Edith was flying off her arm. Then Sonic, Tails, the Young 6 and Dulcy headed into the tunnel. As they were going through the tunnel, all anyone could see was each others eyes.

"Whoa," Tails said. "It's darker than I thought here in this tunnel."

"Yo, Smolder, is it possible for you and Dulce to use your fire to give us a little light?" Gallus asked.

"No way," Smolder said. "We're not allowed to use our fire. It's a part of our powers."

"He's right, Gallus," Dulcy said. "We're trying to get through this place without using our powers."

"So what do we do?" Ocellus asked.

"Wait a minute," Dulcy said. "Hey, Smolder, when we were baby dragons, remember that game where we had to go through an underground cave blindfolded?"

"Oh, yeah," Smolder said. "Blind Dragon Maze! That was awesome!"

"What's the point?" Sonic asked.

"The only way we could get out is to find out where to go by roaring," Smolder said. "For example..." Smolder then roared and her roar echoed off the walls. "We roar in different locations to see which way to go."

"Going through the tunnel by using echo location!" Tails said. "That's genius!"

"Lead the way, you two," Sonic said.

Smolder and Dulcy took turns roaring at the walls until the echo ended. The timing of the echoes were different every time they roared. Eventually, they made it to the end of the tunnel and went out.

"That... was awesome," Sandbar said. "You helped us get out of there."

"Looks like there are some things that Dragons do that are useful," Sonic said. "Hopefully, MC has set up camp by now. Let's get up there." Then they all continued up the path.

As they were heading up, they were all having a chat.

"I still can't believe you did all of that before Prince Rutherford came down from Yakyakistan," Sandbar said.

"Yeah," Yona said. "Yaks love smashing things for fun!"

"Just like when Smolder likes having secret tea parties," Dulcy said. That made Smolder blush. Her entire face turned red.

"Wait, what?!" the rest of the Young 6, except Ocellus, asked, looking at Smolder.

"That was supposed to be a secret!!" Smolder said, looking up at Dulcy.

"You like tea parties?" Gallus asked, looking at Smolder.

Smolder sighed and said, "Yeah. Fine. I admit it. Ever since I started attending the School of Friendship, I didn't mind doing it."

"That would explain why you were wearing makeup when we came to pick up Cream and Cheese," Sonic said.

"And that outfit your reflection was wearing when we were opening up the boutique back in Station Square," Tails said.

Smolder groaned and said, "I really didn't know what to say to you guys."

"Hey, it's okay," Sandbar said. "We all have different aspects."

"Yeah," Sonic said. "Take Amy for example. She's not only cute and sweet, but she's also quite strong and doesn't get pushed around."

"Good example," Smolder said.

"And there's also MC," Tails said. "He was born to be a king, but his kingdom was destroyed. He would've ended up as a snobby Prince like a certain white unicorn that had his royal status removed."

"Who later got arrested for trying to destroy the school," Smolder said. "Cream, Cheese, Lynol and I took him and the Flim Flam Brothers. And that was before you guys came back that day." Just then, the sound of someone screaming came from the top of the mountain. They all looked at each other and then they started running up the path to the top, Sonic running at normal speed for the others could catch up.

At the top of the mountain, MC was in a fight with a bunch of people in full body armor trying to take him down. They came out of a hexagon portal that opened up to the right of the Spirit of Freedom.

"C'mon!" MC said. "This is the personal training island of the Freedom Fighters."

"By the order of FS and the Secret Society, you must be taken away from this universe for it to survive," one of the armored creatures said.

"Over my dead body," MC said. "And that's gonna be hard since I can't be killed."

"We'll see about that," the same creature said. He then brought out a night stick with an orange light at the end, electricity coming out of it.

"Bring it on, suckers," MC said. He then got into a defensive stance. Then the armored creatures charged at him.

The armored creatures charged at MC, but MC ran towards them and slid underneath, tripping some of them and dog piling on top of each other. Then the one who spoke earlier got up and looked at MC.

"You shouldn't have done that," the armored creature said. "We got you up here, all by yourself."

"He's not by himself," came Sonic's voice. The armored creatures looked towards the voice and saw Sonic, Tails, the Young 6 and Dulcy standing there.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" the leader of the armored creatures said. "Wait a minute. This place cancels out powers. They can't defend themselves without their powers."

"This place doesn't cancel powers," MC said. "We use this place to train by using our natural abilities. We don't use our powers unless it's really necessary. Like this for example. Okay, guys, time to use your powers!"

Then Sonic started running around using his super speed, Tails, Gallus, Smolder, Silverstream, Ocellus and Dulcy started flying up. They then dive-bombed towards the armored creatures. Yona charged at some of the creatures, sending back through the portal that they came in from. Sandbar then grabbed one of the armored creature's nightsticks and pointed it towards the chin of that creature, tazing it. Then the creature fell down.

"Take that," Sandbar said. He then headed for some other creatures and did the same.

Dulcy then took in a big breath and started blowing on some of the armored creatures, all of them covered in ice. Then they were picked up by the other flying creatures of the Freedom Fighters and they were thrown back into the portal. All that was left in from the armored creatures was the captain.

"This is impossible!" the captain said. "You shouldn't have..."

MC grabbed the captain by the neck and said, "Tell Opaline that whoever you guys are, it was a mistake for you to come after me like that."

"Wait, what?!" the armored creature asked. "We don't work for..." He didn't get to finish before he was thrown into the portal. It then closed after that happened.

"That... was weird," Sonic said. "Who are those guys?"

"Don't know," MC said. "They just came out of a portal and tried picking a fight with me. Big mistake."

"Major mistake," Sonic said. He then looked around, seeing the camp was messed up from the battle. "How about we... fix up our camp?"

"Yeah," MC said. "C'mon, all of you. We've got camp to reset." Then they all spread out to fix up the camp.

Somewhere in another universe, FS, the alternate version of Sonic from another universe, was training with some holograms, using his brand new blades to slash them in half. He also was trying out the new orange blades, as he stabbed one hologram and made it fall "painfully" on their knees. It is true the hologram felt no pain, but these blades were made to neutralize powers, and it seemed to work.

FS looked at the blades and inspected them. Having a bunch of Tails working for him was not only a big advantage, but it also meant they could all put their heads together to come up with something as brilliant as this.

"So?" The alternate Twilight's voice spoke, the one that is an actual pony, as she approached him once he was done training. "How are your new toys?"

"Better than anything I expected." Future Sonic said, retracting the blades back into his bracelets. "These beauties will come in handy to deal with Sarah and Michael alike. I just hope I won't have to deal with the latter's friends..."

"Yeah, I may have to disappoint you in that regard, boss..." The alternate Nicole said as she appeared in front of him. "MC has been spending a lot of time out of the mansion, so you may have to deal with his friends first after you deal with his mother... Yay?"

"...Not yay..." Future Sonic rolled his eye and shook his head. "Then again, foolish of me for expecting this to be an easy task like the others once I got the proper weapons to deal with Michael."

"You're the one that's been remarking the most how difficult it'll be to get to him, Sonic." The alternate Twilight reminded him. "You have the proper weapons to deal with him, true, but you'll have to get through his mom and trained friends to reach him and bring him over."

"I'm aware of that..." Future Sonic said, as he then approached his office, stood over a platform and then touched some buttons, making several digital screens show up. "But first, I gotta wait for him to deal with the Opaline of his universe. Once she's out of the map, the hunt will begin..."

Back in the main universe, Sonic, Tails, MC, the Young 6 and Dulcy were surrounding a campfire, all of them eating dinner. There were chili dogs, salads, and rolls.

"Sonic, is there something besides chili dogs you eat?" Smolder asked.

"You kidding me?" Sonic asked. "I've been eating chili dogs since I was a baby." He then stood up. "There's nothing in the world that can..." He had his back towards the fire and standing in front of Smolder. As that happened, he farted into the fire, sending some fire to the other side, making Gallus, Silverstream and MC lean back.

"Watch it, Sonic!" MC said.

"Hey, sorry, MC," Sonic said. "You two as well, Gallus and Silverstream. Also, it's not like you haven't farted before."

"Yeah, that's true," Gallus said. "Everyone farts."

"Usually, I do it when I'm in the water," Silverstream said.

"I haven't farted in five years," MC said. Then everyone there looked towards MC in shock.

"You haven't cut the cheese... in years?" Gallus asked.

"How did you keep that in for years without exploding?" Tails asked.

"You don't wanna know," MC said. He then looked up at the sky.

"Sometimes, I don't get you, MC," Sonic said.

"You'll get used to it," MC said. He then looked at his wrist and said, "We should get to sleep. We leave first thing in the morning." Then they all got up and started putting their food trays into garbage bags, then they headed for their tents to get to bed.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Cruisin' For a Future-in'...

Part of this chapter was written by BronySonicFan for his Sonic X My Little Pony: The Final Act story.

Episode 23: Cruisin' For a Future-in'...

At Freedom Fighters Mansion, Silver and Blaze were at a tennis court, playing doubles tennis with a automatic tennis ball launcher. Blaze was in her tracksuit and tennis shoes.

"Keep it up, Silver," Blaze said. "We got to stay in shape if we're gonna fight evil villains like Eggman or Opaline."

"I'm trying," Silver said. He was sweating and panting. "How do you not get hot from doing this all day?"

"I'm always hot," Blaze said. She then spun around in a fiery twister. She then hit the ball back towards the automatic tennis ball launcher and hit it back into the releasing tube, making it fall back where the releasing tube was facing upwards, and the tennis balls inside were dumped out. "Oops."

"Yeah, I think we're gonna need a break," Silver said as both he and Blaze dropped their tennis rackets. Then they headed back inside the Mansion.

When they got in, they saw Sunny and her friends packing up their bags and were wearing vacation outfits. Sunny had on a pink shirt, blue shorts, red sunglasses, a sunhat and blue flip flops. Hitch had a had with a strap that goes under his chin, black sunglasses, and green flip flops. Izzy had a blue tank top, pink shorts, pink flip flops, a purple hat with blue flowers poorly sewn onto it and holes for her ears and horn, and pink sunglasses that had pink heart shaped lenses. Zipp had on a yellow T-shirt and blue shorts, blue flip flops, a visor hat, and teal sunglasses. Pipp had on a white tank top, purple shorts, purple sunglasses, a large, floppy sunhat, and white flip flops. Misty had on red strapless tank top, white shorts, purple flip flops, a red visor hat, and white sunglasses with yellow lenses.

"Whoa, you all going on a trip somewhere?" Silver asked.

"Yes we are, Silver," Sunny said. "All of us have been invited onto a cruise to the Bahamas."

"A cruise?" Blaze asked. "I haven't been on a boat since... well months before my dimension blew up."

"Sounds like you need a vacation as well," Pipp said. "I'm sure that we can convince Twilight and her family for you two to join us."

"MC will be joining us as well," Sunny said. "We should get going."

"Hang on!" Hitch said. "Where's Sparky?!"

Then MC came up to the group, carrying Sparky. He handed Sparky to Hitch, saying, "Here he is, Sheriff." Sparky giggled as he was handed back to Hitch. "Okay, the transport will be here in an hour. Sparkles and her family should be coming here soon." He then noticed Silver and Blaze. "You two want in?"

"We might as well bring Marine as well," Blaze said. "She loves to sail."

"Then grab your bags and pack up, and tell her to do the same," MC said. Blaze nodded and headed towards her room.

At a port just outside of Station Square, a lot of people were boarding a cruise ship. Including the Sparkle Family, MC, Sunny and her friends, Sparky, Silver, Blaze and Marine. Blaze was back in her normal outfit.

"Whoa," Misty said. "There are a lot of people here."

"Relax, Misty," Sunny said. "We're here for some nice vacation time."

"It's too bad we couldn't get Sonic and the others to join us," Twilight said.

"Actually, all I could get to come is Amy and Truemen," MC said. "The others are keeping an eye out for Opaline if she plans to strike again."

"Good call," Twilight said. Then they boarded the cruise ship.

Eventually, they all came up to a penthouse suite aboard the cruise. MC was looking out at sea from the balcony as the boat was already out to sea.

Twilight walked up to him and asked, "Are you nervous?"

MC turned his head to look at Twilight and asked, "About what?"

"Your 18th birthday is coming up soon," Twilight said. "And when that comes, so does your coronation to be king."

"Before my kingdom was destroyed on my seventh birthday, I couldn't wait to be king," MC said. "I was hoping one day I would be leading the people of my kingdom with a glorious purpose. But all that changed when a certain roboticist attacked my kingdom on my seventh birthday."

"Well, I hope that this time, things won't be that eventful," Twilight said. "We're also gonna have to do is find a location for your coronation to be."

"Actually, Sally is allowing me to have my coronation at the Acorn Kingdom Embassy," MC said. "In the grand hall. She says I can invite whoever I want."

"You coming up with invitations?" Twilight asked.

"They've already been sent through the mail," MC replied. Nyx then ran up to the two.

"Hey, Mom," Nyx said. "Hey, Dad."

"Finally getting used to calling us that, huh?" MC asked.

"It actually started after the Olympics that it got comfortable for her to call us that," Twilight said.

"Mom? Where's the schedule for our fun time on this cruise?" Nyx asked.

"Oh, we don't have one," Twilight said. That made MC and Nyx look at her in shock.

MC then got a smug look and asked, "Who are you and what have you done with Sparkles?" That made Twilight and Nyx giggle.

Later, on the pool deck, Sunny, Pipp, Izzy, Misty, Blaze and Velvet were getting a tan as the rest of the group were in the pool. Cadance was helping Flurry Heart learn to swim.

"That's it, Flurry," Cadance said. "Keep kicking."

Flurry giggled and said, "I'm kicking, Mommy."

MC, Silver, Spike and Joshua were outside of the pool, stretching before they could get into it.

"Why are we stretching again?" Silver asked.

"Sometimes, it's best to stretch your muscles before entering a pool," MC said. "We wouldn't want you to get a cramp in your legs, would you?"

"Better to swim as a biped than a quadruped," Joshua said. He then looked over at Shining Armor and and saw he was with Guard in the hot tub. "Hey, Uncle Shining, Guard, you two want to join us in the pool?"

"No thanks, Josh," Shining Armor said. "I'm showing Guard how to relax in a hot tub." Then both him and Guard sighed in relief. "Maybe you should join us."

"No thanks, Shiner," MC said. "Swimming is a great way to keep your body strong and loose. Although, we've been having trouble getting Sonic to do it because he can't swim."

"Is that the reason why he isn't here?" Shining Armor asked.

"That, and he wanted to keep an eye out for Opaline," MC said.

"Opaline?" Candace asked. "I swear, I've heard that name somewhere before."

"You have?" MC asked, looking at Cadance. Just then, Twilight came out from the water. She was wearing a dark blue one-piece swimsuit and a magenta swimming cap. "Jesus, Sparkles!"

"Sorry, Michael," Twilight said. "I was checking out this teched up pool. What are those special lights on the bottom?"

"Oh, I think those are so no one can swim in the dark," MC said. "Also, there are water heaters in case it gets too cold at night. The water always gets cold at night. You saw what happened to those people after the Titanic sank."

"It killed DiCaprio," Silver said.

"It killed everybody," Joshua said.

"It didn't kill the old lady," Hitch said coming up to the group with Sparky on his head. "She threw the jewel into the ocean decades later."

"Oh, you saw that movie?" MC asked.

"While Sparky and Spike were still in the Dragon Lands after the Olympics," Hitch said. "Hopefully, you haven't had an encounter with an iceberg."

"That was one time," MC said. Just then, the speakers started blaring and a voice came out of them.

"Attention all passengers, we are coming across the island where Royal Member of the Freedom Fighters, Prince Michael Crayton, was born, coming up on the starboard side." Then a lot of passengers zoomed towards the starboard side of the boat.

"What?" Twilight asked. She then looked towards MC. "I thought you were born in your family castle."

"I was," MC said. "It's always been the family tradition."

"Something's up," Princess Cadance said. "Wait a minute. You don't think..."

"Iron Will has promoted us again?" Twilight asked. "Let's get to the bottom of this."

"Iron Will?" MC asked. "That Minotaur that's been doing those get rich quick schemes?"

"You heard of him?" Twilight asked.

"I have," MC said. "I heard because of him, Fluttershy, the kindest pony of all of Equestria, became the biggest jerk everypony has seen?"

"Bingo," Twilight said. "And he also tricked my parents into getting us onto a Princess Promotional Cruise."

"Isn't it illegal to promote someone for an event without their permission or knowledge of that promotion?" MC asked. Then Twilight and Cadance went wide eyed.

Twilight facepalmed herself and said, "It is." Then she headed for the edge of the pool. Cadance followed her, carrying Flurry.

"Shining, you watch Flurry," Cadance said. She then levitated Flurry over to the hot tub. Shining then grabbed Flurry and sat her next to him. Then Twilight, Cadance and MC went towards the bridge of the ship.

Eventually, the three of them made it to the bridge of the ship. Twilight and Cadance were back in their normal attire. MC then opened the door and walked in where the Captain of the ship was.

"Ah, if it isn't our guests of honor," the Captain said. "What brings you here?"

"Where's the promoter?" MC asked. "We like to stage a complaint."

"Over here," came the voice of a raspy creature. The three royals looked towards their right and saw Iron Will standing in front of a console with a microphone. "What can Iron Will do for you today?"

"Only one thing," MC said. "Jump ship and leave your ill-earned money behind."

"What is he talking about?" the captain asked.

"We did not give Iron Will permission to promote us for this promotional cruise," Twilight said. "In fact, we never got information about it. We were invited here for a vacation."

"And it wasn't the first time he did it," Cadance added.

"What?!" the captain asked, getting angry.

"Uh... all customers agreed to come on this cruise even if no Freedom Fighter or Royal Member of Equestria is on board," Iron Will said, getting nervous.

"Take him to the brig," the captain said.

"With pleasure," MC said. He then jumped and started rolling into a ball. He then started bouncing off of the walls, floor and ceiling, ricocheting and slamming into Iron Will, avoiding the controls and those who else were in the bridge, Iron Will grunting in pain. Iron Will then fell over. MC then grabbed Iron Will by his back and carried him towards the door.

The captain went over to the microphone and said, "Attention all passengers, apparently the promotion of this cruise was made without the permission, or knowledge, of those our promoter has promised. They're just here for a vacation of their own. We'll give everyone a 50% refund for your inconvenience."

The people who were excited about the promotion all understood and left the Freedom Fighters and the Equestrian Royal Family alone.

In the water, a glacier was coming up towards the ship. And from the glacier, there was the sound of a creature roaring.

In the brig of the cruise ship, MC was pulling Iron Will by the horn past the closed cells. Eventually, he came across one empty cell and threw the minotaur in.

"Whoa!" Iron Will said. MC then closed the cell. Iron Will then got up and grabbed the bars of the closed cell. "You can't treat Iron Will this way! Iron Will demands to be released!"

"You don't demand anything to me, criminal," MC said, pointing his left forefinger at Iron Will. "You tricked us onto coming onto this ship and promoted us without our permission or knowledge. Which was very illegal."

"Iron Will does whatever Iron Will wants!" Iron Will said.

"Some laws say that Iron Will can't," MC said, walking away. Just then, another voice came in.

"Palsy, palsy, palsy! Please, let me out!"

MC looked towards the voice and saw a weasel in a yellow plaid tuxedo.

"Wes Weasely?" MC asked. "I was wondering what was happening to you. How'd you end up in here?"

"I was just trying to sell some much needed items to this ship, and the next thing I knew, they put me in here," Wes Weasely answered.

"More likely, you were trying to scam them," MC said. "You may not know this, but I can smell lies."

"Oh, right," Wes Weasely said.

Just then, MC's communicator beeped. MC brought his right wrist closer to his head and answered, "What is it, Sparkles?"

"MC, there's an iceberg in the path of the ship! Hurry!" Twilight's voice came out of the communicator.

"I'm on my way," MC said. He then started running towards the bow of the ship. There was Twilight and Sunny.

"There!" Sunny said. "The ship's not going to stop or turn in time!"

"Get me onto that piece of ice and I'll turn it into a giant snow cone!" MC said.

"Snow cones!" Sunny said as she brought out her Alicorn form. "I should've made some during the heat wave that came last month!"

"Let's go," Twilight said. The two Alicorns started flying and Twilight used her magic to carry MC. They all headed right for the iceberg. Twilight, MC and Sunny landed on the iceberg.

"Time to make some..." MC started to say before being cut off by a noise. He also had his claws bared. "What... was... that?"

Twilight and Sunny looked towards where the noise was. They ran towards the noise and came around an ice pillar. When they came around it, they gasped at what they saw.

"What is it?" MC asked, coming around. "What did you... What the heck?!" What the three saw shocked them.

"A dinosaur?!" Sunny asked.

"I've researched this creature," Twilight said. "In the Smithsonian. It's a Terapod."

"Not just a Terapod, a baby Terapod," MC said. "It's... domesticated on this piece of ice. He's all alone."

"A baby Terapod all alone on this rock?" Sunny asked. "That's so sad. And he doesn't even know what's going on."

"Not entirely true, Sunny," MC said. "Sally have been studying Terapods, and rumor has it that they're just as intelligent as us. They're just not able to speak English." Just then, the ship's horn came to their attention. "The ship!"

"We gotta get rid of this iceberg!" Sunny said.

"But we can't leave this baby Terapod all alone," Twilight said. "He's about 65 million years from its original time period."

"What are we gonna do?" Sunny asked.

"We don't have a choice," MC said. "We need to get this baby Terapod onto the ship. Then we'll deal with the iceberg."

"I'll take him to the ship," Twilight said. "Sunny, help MC when the iceberg is shredded enough."

"Gotcha," Sunny said. Twilight then started flying away, carrying the baby Terapod in her magic.

Twilight groaned and said, "You're... really... heavy..." The baby Terapod let out a roar.

MC then started shredding the iceberg with his claws and super speed. The iceberg was being shredded into ice cubes. Sunny noticed how fast MC was shredding the iceberg. It was starting to crumble.

"MC, time to go!" Sunny said.

"Not yet!" MC said. He then jumped up, then used some of the shredded ice as stepping stones in the sky. He then reached a certain height. "This won't last long, but enough for the ship to get clear." MC then started descending. "Time to go really heavy. Then, start the light show." MC then started falling faster and his left hand started glowing. "Chaos... Dragon... Fist!" MC's fist gained the head of a golden dragon, covering his left fist. It then collided with the remaining iceberg. The iceberg then went down towards the bottom of the ocean.

Sunny then caught MC right before he hit the water.

"What now?" Sunny asked.

"We need to get to the stern of the ship," MC said. "We need to increase the speed of the ship before the remains of the iceberg resurfaces." Sunny nodded. She then carried MC towards the stern of the ship. Eventually, they made it. MC then used his materiokinesis to lift the water from the back of the boat. It then made the back of the boat lift up and increase its speed. Enough for the ship to get out of the way from the coming iceberg piece coming from below.

MC and Sunny sighed in relief as the ship was cleared in time. Sunny then looked towards MC and asked, "Smoothie?"

"Yeah, I could go for one," MC said. Then the two of them headed back to the front of the ship.

At the bow of the ship, Twilight and her family, along with Sunny's friends, were calming down the baby Terapod.

"Easy, boy," Twilight said. "It's okay. You're safe now." The baby Terapod was roaring, tears coming out of its eyes.

"Oh, man," Hitch said. "That's so sad."

"You can understand Terapod language, too?" Zipp asked.

"These guys are as intelligent as us," Hitch said. "This poor guy is crying. He wants his Momma."

"The poor thing," Izzy said. "It must be so sad having him be this far from his home." The baby Terapod roared.

"Don't worry, big guy," Hitch said. "We'll look after you." The baby Terapod roared.

That night, the Spirit of Freedom came over to the ship's bow. Tails, Sally and Mutt were inspecting the Baby Terapod.

"Incredible," Sally said. "This little guy is domesticated."

"He says that he wants his Momma," Hitch said.

"You can understand him?" Tails asked.

"Yeah," Hitch said. "I can communicate with all animals. Just like Fluttershy."

"Oh, right," Tails said. "You're her descendant. Lynol said so when he was checking your blood samples." He then remembered something. "Oh, yeah. I almost forgot. Misty, your DNA test came in. Apparently, you're also a descendant of Applejack and Fluttershy, just like Hitch."

"Really?" Misty asked, looking towards Hitch. "We're related?"

"Distantly, that is," MC said, coming up to the group. "After all, the three pony types have been separated for almost 200 years."

"Oh, that's right," Twilight said. She then looked at Misty. "You know, I kinda see it in her. Her shy personality and butterfly cutie mark, and let's not forget the freckles."

"Oh, yeah," Sunny said. "I can compare that. Fluttershy's shy personality and butterfly cutie mark, and Applejack's freckles." She then looked back at the baby Terapod. "But right now, we have to focus on taking care of this baby Terapod."

"We'll take him back to the Acorn Embassy back in Station Square," Sally said. "We wouldn't want this creature to be Cruisin' for a Future-in'."

"You're right," MC said. "But, I don't think he's gonna fit in the Spirit of Freedom that well. He needs more leg room than that." He then brought out his Super Warp Ring. "Let's get you all..." Just then, he was interrupted by a masculine voice.

"Iron Will doesn't think so!"

They all looked towards the voice and they saw both Iron Will and Wes Weasely standing there.

"Iron Will will take that dinosaur and promote it," Iron Will said.

"No way!" Wes Weasely said, trying to push back Iron Will. "I'll buy it off you! Do you realize how much people would pay for the discovery of a prehistoric creature alive and in such good health?!"

"Oh, crud," MC said. "These two are wanting the Baby Terapod."

"Not gonna happen," Twilight said.

Iron Will started running towards the group of heroes. Silver then came in and used his power to lift Iron Will off the ground.

"Whoa!" Iron Will shouted. "Who dares lift Iron Will off of solid ground?!"

"I do," Silver said. "You're a criminal. You've illegally promoted us without our permission."

"Iron Will does what Iron Will wants," Iron Will said. He then broke out of Silver's hold.

"Impossible!" Silver said. "No one has broken through my psychokinetic hold like that before! The closest thing was a spin dash by Sonic and MC."

"Iron Will will do anything to get what he wants!" Iron Will said. He then charged towards Silver. Blaze used her super speed and pulled Silver out of the way right before Iron Will could make contact. He couldn't stop and he accidentally went over the railing and yelled all the way down. Blaze then walked to the railing, grabbed a life preserver and threw it off the boat for Iron Will to use.

"He's going to need a couple more than that," MC said. Blaze nodded in agreement. Then they looked around. "Hey, where's the Terapod?" Then they heard the baby Terapod roaring in fear. They looked towards the noise and they saw the baby Terapod being pulled away by Wes Weasely.

"Hey, palsy," Wes Weasely said. "Don't worry. You're going to be well taken care of and will make me lots of money! Things will look up for us both!" Just then, Twilight teleported in front of him, surprising Wes Weasely. "Huh? Oh, hey, Princess. What brings you here?"

"You're not taking the Terapod," Twilight said, sternly.

"You don't understand, Princess," Wes Weasely said. "This thing is a personal gold mine! Tell you what, whatever money I make off of this guy, I can split the profits. What do you say? 70-30, is that a good deal?"

"Not gonna happen," Twilight said. She then used her magic to try to get the collar off of the Baby Terapod, but it wasn't doing anything. "What? What's going on?"

"That's the patent pending magic proof collar," Wes Weasely said. "It's able to resist any kind of magic from wherever on Earth. It's from when I was being a sponsored salesman for Fail-safe Wizardry Inc. Nothing magical is able to get it off of this little gold mine."

The baby Terapod roared. It then used its trunk to grab onto the collar. It used its strength and started pulling it. It eventually got ripped off, surprising Wes Weasely.

"But how?" Wes Weasely asked. "It's immune to..." He then got a revelation. "Oh, that's right. Terapods aren't magic, they're history. Well, pre-history. But still..." Before he could continue his speech, the Baby Terapod used its trunk to whack Wes Weasely towards the railing and he fell off the boat. "Whoa!"

The splash was heard from there.

In the water, Wes Weasely got out of the water, trying to use his briefcase as a flotation device. He then pulled a cord from it and it turned into a one person dingy. He then said, "Good thing I never leave the boat without my personal watercraft briefcase." Just then, Iron Will came out of the water and tried climbing onto the dingy.

"Just hold on a second!" Iron Will said. "Iron Will needs to survive more than you, Weasel."

"Hey, wait!" Wes Weasely said. "You cannot come onto my personal watercraft briefcase! It won't be able to hold the weight!"

"Iron Will don't care!" Iron Will said, trying to push Wes Weasely off.

"Hey! Get off!" Wes Weasely said, trying to push Iron Will off. Just then, the vibrations of both the water and the two pushing each other off started making the boat crack. Then it broke and the two fell into the water. They then resurfaced. "Now look what you did you big oaf!"

"What Iron Will did?!" Iron Will asked. "You were the one pushing Iron Will off of Iron Will's boat!"

"It wasn't your boat!" Wes Weasely said. Just then, another boat came towards them. It had the words "US COASTGUARD" painted on the sides. It then brought out a net to catch the two and bring them out of the water.

Back on the boat, Sally was putting something onto the baby Terapod's neck. It was a collar that had a speaker on it.

"Is that the translation collar?" MC asked.

"Yes," Sally said. "Rotor and I have been continuing it ever since we moved into the Embassy. Hopefully it'll work on this little guy."

The baby Terapod was roaring in fright as this was happening. Hitch then got in front of it and said, "It's okay, little guy. It's okay. It's not gonna hurt you. It's gonna translate what you say so the rest of us can understand you."

The Terapod roared as Sally was adjusting the settings. She then said, "Just keep talking, little guy. Just until we reach English on this collar." The Terapod kept roaring. The speaker was letting out animal noises until it started coming out as a human language.

"Est-ce que ce truc fonctionne?" the collar translated what the baby Terapod said, which translated "Is this thing working?".

"That's French," Cadance said. "I remember hearing that language back during the Olympics."

"Okay, let's try this again," Sally said, adjusting the translator. "Okay, try speaking again." The baby Terapod roared as another language came out.

"Jigeum-eun eotteohseubnikka?" the translator said for the baby Terapod, which translated, "What about now?".

"That's Korean," MC said. "One of the East Asian languages."

"Okay, that's two strikes," Sally said, readjusting the translator. "Let's try... this."

"I don't think that it's gonna work," the collar translated.

"Boom, there it is!" MC said. "Now we can all understand you."

"Really?" the collar translated. "You can understand me now?"

"Yes, we can," Sally said. "Okay, little guy. Before coming out of the ice, what happened to you?"

"I remember... large rocks... falling from sky," the baby Terapod's roars being translated. "All of them... burning."

"Large burning rocks?" Twilight asked.

"The dinosaurs were wiped out when an asteroid 6-miles long came down from space," MC said.

"Like my world," Joshua said, getting sad.

"Mama pushed me onto ice... pushed me away from land..." the baby Terapod's roars continued being translated. "Mama... saved my life. She's..." The baby Terapod let out some tears.

"I know how you feel," Joshua said.

"We should take in Baby T here," Mutt said. "After all, he's like Joshua."

"Terapods grow up to be as big as a garbage truck," MC said. "I don't think we have enough room at the Mansion for him to stay."

"But, we do have room for him at the Acorn Embassy," Sally said. "MC, you mind...?"

"On it," MC said. He then pulled out his Super Warp Ring and threw it. It expanded into a portal to the Acorn Embassy. Sally then walked through the portal.

"Come on, little guy," Sally said. "We'll clear out some space for you."

The baby Terapod roared, and the translator said, "Thank you, miss." He then followed Sally through the portal. Tails and Mutt then got back into the Spirit of Freedom. It then started taking off and headed back towards Station Square.

"Okay, that was an interesting start to this vacation," Shining Armor said.

"Scammers, desperate salesmen, a baby dinosaur domesticated in this time," Silver said. "Hopefully we can..."

"We're not bringing back the dinosaurs," MC said.

"Why not?" Twilight asked.

"Jurassic Park," MC said.

"Ohh..." Twilight said. "Okay, that's perfectly understandable." She then looked at the rest of the group. "So, who's hungry?"

"I could eat," MC said. Then they all started walking away from there, heading for the eating area of the ship.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
C+L+O

Episode 24: C+L+O

In her room at Freedom Fighters Mansion, Zipp was doing some research on how to stop Opaline. But she kept hitting dead ends along the way. She was up for the past two nights doing research. She had bags under her eyes and her mane wasn't styled up in her usual style. Instead, it was down, covering half her face. Then Pipp came up to her.

"Zipp, it's 2 in the morning!" Pipp said. "Get to..." Pipp then saw the state her sister was in. "Oh... my... glitter! Zipp, are you okay?!"

"No, Pipp," Zipp said. "I've been up... for the past two nights..." She then yawned. "Trying to figure out any weaknesses about Opaline. So far... nopony in the world knows about her, except for Misty."

"Zipp, I think you've done enough for tonight," Pipp said. "Take a break. Go to bed." She then sniffed something. She then plugged her nose. "Ugh. But first... take a shower. Please."

"Pipp, I need to continue doing this!" Zipp said as Pipp was dragging her out of the chair. "Let me go!"

"No, Zipp!" Pipp argued. "You need to rest. Besides, your research will still be here tomorrow. Just go take a shower, then head right to bed."

Zipp then smelled herself and said, "Ugh. Well, I guess you're right. I do need to take a shower." She then yawned. "I'll... see you in the morning." She then headed into the bathroom.

Pipp sighed and said, "Oh, Zipp. You really shouldn't focus on research so much. Especially if it keeps you up all night." She then looked at Zipp's research, seeing how much dead ends it led to. There was even a picture of the engraving that Zipp took a picture when they went to the Breezie Night Market in what will eventually be Bridlewood. "So much research, such a big migraine. Trying to stop an Alicorn would take too much time. And it's not like Opaline's the only Alicorn. There's Twilight, Sunny, Nyx, Cadance, Guard, Flurry, along with the two royal sisters, Celestia and Lu..." She then cut herself off. She then got a realization.

Pipp then grabbed the picture of the engraving and inspected it. She then remembered what Opaline said when she came in uninvited to the graduation party of the Young 6.

"Wicked am I? Was I wicked when I asked to be friends when the three of us were fillies?"

Pipp gasped at that. She then grabbed a marker and wrote on the picture. She added the letters of Celestia, Luna and Opaline to the picture to tell Zipp who those ponies were who put on the engraving. She then put it back on Zipp's chart of research. Then she went to bed.

"Hopefully, Zipp will get the message," Pipp said.

The next morning, Sunny was with the Young 6 and Truemen, making breakfast for them. Outside, there was a storm. Not a big storm, but there was lightning and thunder going on.

"Has anypony seen Zipp?" Truemen asked. "She's usually up by now?"

"Not that I know of," Gallus answered. "But, you're right. She never misses breakfast."

"Nicole, is Zipp awake yet?" Smolder asked.

"Not yet, Smolder," Nicole replied. "She has been up for the past two nights doing research on Opaline. And the only one who has information on Opaline at all is Misty."

"Since she lived with her most of her life," Sandbar said.

"Don't remind me," came Misty's voice. She then walked into the kitchen.

"Morning, Misty," Sunny said. She then brought out a plate of pancakes and put them in front of Misty as she sat down at the table. "You doing better?"

"Yeah, I am," Misty said. "Sometimes, I wish I wasn't really taken in by Opaline. She's so..." She then sighed.

"I know, Misty," Sunny said, patting Misty's back. "I know. But hey, if it wasn't for her, we wouldn't have met."

"Yeah, I guess that's true," Misty said.

Just then, Zipp came in quickly, Pipp following with an umbrella. Zipp then said, "Guys, we need to see Princess Celestia and Princess Luna!"

"What? Why?" Gallus asked.

"Pipp just helped me with a piece of evidence that I've been working on for months!" Zipp said. She then yawned.

"Zipp, you're on 5 hours of sleep," Pipp said. "You need more rest."

"No, you don't understand, I..." Zipp said before being interrupted by her own yawning. "Can someone whip me up some coffee?"

"Not when you're that tired," Sunny said. "Plus, why would we go see the two former rulers of Equestria?"

"You know that engraving back at the Breezie Night Market?" Pipp asked. "Well, I figured out who those names were. And it was at the graduation party for these six that helped." Pipp referred to the Young 6.

"What?" Sunny asked. "The graduation party? What has that..."

"Nicole, replay footage of the graduation party, mostly around when Opaline came back for vengeance," Pipp said.

"Playing, Pipp," Nicole said as the TV in the kitchen showed footage from the graduation party. Talking about when Opaline was lying about trying to be friends with Celestia and Luna when they were all fillies.

"Oh, that's right," Sunny said. "Opaline did say that she wanted to be friends with Celestia and Luna. But MC knew she was lying."

"The three names in that engraving stand for Celestia, Luna and Opaline," Zipp said. "So we must go see the two Royal Sisters now." She then yawned. "I'm gonna... fire up... the... X-Marestream."

"Not under that condition," Truemen said, walking up to Zipp. "I'll fly the X-Marestream. You need more sleep."

"Should we get Twilight and MC in on this?" Ocellus asked.

"Actually, they're at the Embassy setting up for MC's coronation," Sunny said. "MC's 18th birthday is coming up."

"MC really gonna miss out on this," Yona said.

"Indeed," Silverstream said. "Let's get going!" Then they all headed out. Misty used her magic and stuffed the entire stack of pancakes into her mouth as she ran out with them.

At the Acorn Embassy, the main hall was being set up for the coronation of MC. Twilight, MC and Sally were checking on the preparations.

"So, you ready for your big day?" Sally asked.

"I'm still a little nervous," MC said. "And that's really unusual for me since I faced death a lot in my life and always came out standing. My healing factor prevented me from dying."

"Right," Sally said. "Death doesn't seem to want you."

"So, MC, you have anyone in mind who will run the ceremony?" Twilight asked. "Someone to give your vows to you?"

"Already thought of that, Sparkles," MC said. Just then, a green flash came in from above them. From the flash came the Oracle of Delphius.

"I was tasked by Queen Sarah Crayton with handing Michael Crayton his vows," the Oracle said as he was hovering down. "Michael Crayton needed to understand what it means to be a true king. Putting others before himself first."

"Of course," Twilight said. "And I'm guessing Sarah Crayton will be making an appearance?"

"She wouldn't miss this for the multiverse," Sally said. "She's Michael's mother after all." The two girls then headed down the hall. MC and the Oracle stayed behind.

"Did you bring it?" MC asked.

"I have," the Oracle said. He then brought out something in a box. MC took it and opened it up. He then smiled. "I expect big plans for you and Twilight Sparkle in the future."

"Oh, believe me, I wouldn't want to mess this up," MC said. He then closed the box and put it in his pocket. Which is weird because the male Mobians don't usually wear pants. He then rushed towards Twilight and Sally. The three of them came into the room where they saw Sonic, Tails, Mutt and the Baby Terapod in one room.

"Alright, big guy," Sonic said, holding up a chili dog. "Time to eat up." The baby Terapod shook his head. "C'mon, Baby T. It's just one of natures greatest foods."

"Sonic, Terapods are vegetarians," Sally said. "You shouldn't be feeding him chili dogs."

"Oh well, his loss," Sonic said before throwing the chili dog up and catching it in his mouth. He then swallowed it.

"Sonic, you really should learn to respect nature for what it truly is," Sally said. "Baby T is the last of his kind, and he needs to be taken care of."

"Yeah, yeah, I know, Sal," Sonic said. "I can respect him enough. But still, Sal, you need to cut back. Relax. Kick it loose."

Baby T roared and the translator translated, "Yeah, Sal. Kick back and relax. Sometimes, you gotta juice it loose."

"Oh, my gosh," Sally said, annoyed. "All that research and he talks just like you, Sonic." The others laugh at the inconvenience.

"So, MC, you ready?" Sonic asked.

"Just about," MC said. "Just need to wait for my 18th birthday. Along with getting the proper ride to this place."

Meanwhile, in Equestria, at Silver Shoals Retirement Home, the X-Marestream landed. Truemen was piloting. In the cockpit with him was Sunny, Misty, Gallus, Sandbar and Smolder. Pipp, Zipp, Silverstream, Yona and Ocellus were in the back. Zipp was asleep on the couch in the living room area. But then she woke up when the X-Marestream landed.

"Huh?" Zipp asked. She then yawned. She then looked around. "Are we there yet?"

"We just landed," Truemen said. "C'mon, let's go." Then they all went out of the X-Marestream and towards the main entrance. Eventually, they walked down a hall towards where Princesses Celestia and Luna were staying.

Sunny knocked on the door. She then said, "Princess Celestia? Princess Luna? Are you in there? It's me, Sunny. My friends and I need to talk to you."

"Enter," came Princess Celestia's voice. Then Sunny opened the door and walked into the apartment of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.

"Princess Celestia, we need to..." Sunny started to say before noticing something. Or rather, someone. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were not alone in the apartment. They were joined by Shade the Echidna.

"Shade?" Misty asked. "You're here?"

"Good to see you again, Misty," Shade said.

Sunny, Zipp, Pipp, Misty, Truemen and the Young 6 were surprised to see Shade with the previous rulers of Equestria.

"What are you doing here?" Misty asked.

"It's... a long story," Shade answered. "It was also a matter of time until you found out that Opaline was a fellow Alicorn with these two."

"C, L and O stand for Celestia, Luna and Opaline," Zipp said. "We found that engraving in the forest in Southeast Equestria. In the Breezie Night Market."

"So, you found it, huh?" Princess Luna asked. "I'm surprised it took you this long to figure it out. Ever since she returned."

"Yeah, and she nearly took all the magic in the world with help from the Tree of Harmony," Smolder said, her arms crossed.

"Is there anything we can do to stop her?" Gallus asked.

"Over a thousand years ago, before we came down from Skyros, Opaline swore revenge on us for getting her banished," Celestia said. "Luna and I barely survived when she went on a magic stealing rampage. More agile than Tirek when he escaped from Tartarus. So, we had no choice but to banish her to the deepest part of Tartarus. Nopony has ever escaped from there."

"But it seems that Opaline has," Sandbar said.

"No... she didn't," Misty said. "Or at least not yet."

"Huh?" everyone else asked.

"When I was under Opaline's control, she had told me that she had finally escaped a couple days after MC's 18th birthday," Misty said. "And MC's 18th birthday isn't for another week."

"Oh, that's right," Silverstream said. "She came from an alternate timeline."

"Banished to this timeline by the Iron Mask, MC's Mom," Sandbar said.

"After the Castle of Friendship got broken by her in the alternate future," Ocellus said. "She must've been laying low after her escape."

"So we'll have two Opalines to fight," Truemen said. "Not cool. One Opaline is enough."

"What do Freedom Fighters do?" Yona asked.

"Perhaps we should let Princess Twilight know about this as soon as the Opaline we've been fighting is defeated," Sunny said.

"Yes, it's for the best," Misty said. "But right now, we have to focus on the Opaline that we know, then move onto the other one."

"And we need to know exactly where Opaline's lair is," Zipp said. "She'd probably go back to this... Skyros place."

"Skyros is forbidden to those who aren't Alicorns," Princess Luna said. "And only they are able to find it. And their royal guards there will not let anyone find it."

"So, we're gonna have to find out where Skyros is on our own," Truemen said. "Maybe their guards have descendants and they can tell us where Skyros is."

"That's gonna be hard," Princess Luna said. "The last time we were in Skyros was before Equestria was stripped from this world. And all the other Alicorns there have perished from fighting a dark creature that came from below the crust."

"Dark Gaia," Sunny said.

"Exactly," Princess Celestia said. "My sister and I were the only Alicorns when that happened."

"And if Opaline's still alive, she survived too," Sunny said. "Right now, we need to find Opaline's lair."

"All we know from her lair is that it's located in a place that has similar designs as the Arabic buildings in Aladdin," Zipp said. "And it's probably in the sky."

"Wait," Princess Celestia said. "Did you say Arabic style buildings and in the sky? That's Skyros." She then brought out a book and gave it to the Freedom Fighters that were there. "Here's everything that's left about Skyros. Share it with your fellow Freedom Fighters."

Back in Opaline's lair, Opaline and her army were preparing to get the assault on the Freedom Fighters ready.

"Okay, all of you, the time to take down those pesky Freedom Fighters is coming soon!" Opaline said. "The time to strike... will be on the 18th birthday of Michael Crayton, his coronation day! He thinks he should be king? I don't think so!"

"So what's the plan?" Scourge asked. "Ruin his coronation before he gets crowned?"

"No," Opaline said. "We'll ruin his day... by taking the ones he cares about first. We kidnap his fellow Freedom Fighters, and any ally that is with him. And especially..." Then an image of Nyx appeared above them. "Michael Crayton's precious daughter. You know how fathers are when they lose their precious daughters."

"Oh ho ho," Scourge said. "And if we take her, Michael Crayton may be vulnerable."

"But what about Twilight Sparkle and Sunny Starscout?" Allura asked. "They're probably going to be a liability when we do the raid. They might be there when it happens."

"That's why we take them down as well," Opaline said. "I won't be defeated by unworthy creatures who think they have the right to use their magic or powers under my rule. I will rule them all with my power!" She then cackled.

Back in Silver Shoals, in the X-Marestream, Sunny, Pipp, Zipp and Misty were checking out the book that Princess Celestia and Princess Luna gave to them.

"This book just might be the final piece of evidence that can lead us to Opaline's lair," Zipp said. "Twilight and the Freedom Fighters are gonna flip when they hear about this."

"But it's not gonna be enough," Pipp said. "We probably have the location of where Opaline's lair is, but we don't know where the place is."

"You're right," Sunny said. "We need to know where Skyros is." She then looked at the book. "It says here that Skyros has alternate names. Such as Murasia, Al-Ula, or Babylon..." She then groaned when a word that was burnt after the first letter of the second word of the alternate name. "Babylon G-something because the rest of that word is burnt."

"You think the rest of the Freedom Fighters might know about that?" Misty asked.

"Probably," came Truemen's voice. Truemen came out of the cockpit of the X-Marestream. "They probably have a lot more information than we do currently." Just then, the X-Marestream started taking off.

"Wait, who's in the pilot's seat?" Zipp asked.

"Silverstream, what are you doing?!" came Gallus's voice. Then the five of them went into the cockpit. They saw Silverstream piloting the X-Marestream.

"I just wanted to take this thing for a spin!" Silverstream said, getting excited. "I've never flown this thing before."

"And you're not gonna," Zipp said, getting into the other driver's seat. She then took control of the X-Marestream. "Next time, ask permission to fly this." She then yawned. "And right now... I'm still too tired to fly this thing."

"I'll take it from here," Truemen said. "Besides, it's better for the pilot to be fully awake then to be sleep deprived."

"Good point," Zipp said. "Silverstream, out of the seat."

"Fine," Silverstream said. "I guess I'll have to practice in it's simulation mode." She then thought of something. "This thing does have a simulation mode, right?"

"You'll have to ask Tails and MC, because they're the ones who made this thing," Truemen said.

"Time to go home," Sunny said. The X-Marestream was piloted away from Silver Shoals Retirement Home, and went back west towards the US.

Back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, MC was in his room, meditating in the middle of his room. Just then, there was a set of knocks coming from the door.

"Enter," MC said, his eyes still closed. Just then, Twilight and Rarity came in.

"Hey, MC," Twilight said. "Rarity thought it'd be best for you to be dressed up in some proper attire for your coronation."

"Right," MC said, opening his eyes and getting up. "The soon to be king must have the proper coronation outfit." He then walked over towards the bookshelf and brought out the Crayton Family Journal. He then turned to a page in the book and showed it to Rarity. "Here is... the proper coronation outfit."

"Ooh," Rarity said. "Yes, we must get this attire made for your coronation." She then brought out her outfit making gear, and she put on her red glasses. "Let's get to work." She then wrapped her ruler tape measure around MC's waist with her hands as she lifted a pen and notepad with her magic.

"You must be good of having control of your magic when you're working," MC said.

"Imagine how the other Rarity would be more productive if she had that ability," Twilight said. "She'd actually give up being human and move here permanently."

"I don't think so," Rarity said. "There is only room for one Rarity in this world."

"That got me thinking," MC said. "Whatever happened to the other Sunset Shimmer in that world?"

"That's... a good question," Twilight said. "The Sunset Shimmer that lives there is actually from Equestria. What happened to her counterpart?" She then shrugged her shoulders. "Meh, nothing to worry about. You should focus on your coronation outfit."

"Hold on, Sparkles," MC said. "I was thinking, it would be an honor if you accompanied me during the ride to the Embassy for the coronation."

"Really?" Twilight asked.

"I'd love it if you were there by my side when we arrive there," MC said.

"I... I'd be honored," Twilight said. "Rarity...?"

"Already thought ahead about it," Rarity said.

Over in Zipp's room, Sunny, Pipp, Zipp, Misty and Truemen entered the room and Zipp went to her desk. She put the book on her desk and opened it up.

"Okay, time to add this to my research," Zipp said.

"Zipp, are you sure about this?" Sunny asked. "We also have to be ready for MC's coronation. He's going to need all hands on deck."

"Speak for yourself," Truemen said, holding up his robotic hand. "I lost my arm to an alien. After a jerk from my dad's military school pushed me out and lied about me going AWOL."

"Hey, you exposed him for the jerk he really was," Zipp said. "And we wouldn't have gotten him exposed if it wasn't for your old friend from that school."

"Sure was," Truemen said.

"Do you think that Celestia and Luna will be able to help us out more with defeating Opaline?" Pipp asked.

"I don't know, sis," Zipp said. "But for now, we're just gonna have to keep our eyes peeled for her and her minions."

Back in Opaline's lair, in the basement, the villains were preparing a dungeon underneath the throne room. It was prepared for as many heroes they could get in there.

"Excellent," Opaline said. "And as soon as we get them in, I will take their power and become the most powerful fire Alicorn in the world."

"Fire, huh?" came Allura's voice. "Seems like you're being more with magic than fire."

"Huh, now that you think about it," Opaline said. "All members of the Nocturnus, I have a mission for you. Go to the Dragon Lands and capture every dragon there!" Opaline then smirked. "I'm going to be the most powerful Alicorn in the universe. Then perhaps, even beyond."

Allura gave a grimacing look towards Opaline as the Alicorn turned her back towards the leopard. Allura then left the room. She then came into a room where Scourge, Fiona and Imperator Ix were.

"Do you honestly think that Opaline will give us what we want when she's done?" Allura asked.

"You kidding?" Scourge asked. "She wants all the power to herself. Not if we can help it."

"I want to conquer the entire universe with my Nocturnus Clan," Imperator Ix said. "But if Opaline thinks she will be in charge of us all, she's dead wrong."

"Then we come up with a plan to take her down and take the power for ourselves," Fiona said. Then the four of them huddled together to come up with a plan to thwart Opaline behind their back. Unbeknownst to it, Opaline was watching them. And she was also coming up with a plan to dispose of her cohorts before they dispose of her first.

Back in Freedom Fighters Mansion, Rarity was finishing up MC's coronation outfit. It was red with blue shoulders and gold buttons and tassels.

"Now, all we need is your crown," Rarity said.

"The Oracle has got that covered," MC said.

"Oh, I actually can't wait to see it," Rarity said.

"Oh, you'll see it, Rares," MC said. "I'm sure you and the rest of our friends will be fascinated by it during the coronation. It's gonna be epic."

"I guess being around Sonic for so long has made you start talking like him," Rarity said.

"It's good to have friends by your side," MC said. "Even if they're different than you."

"Kinda like when Rainbow Dash and I were forced to do an adventure together," Rarity said. "Maybe we should have tried walking in each others horseshoes that week." She then finished up. "And... we're done."

MC smiled and said, "Thanks, Rares." He then removed the outfit. Rarity then used her magic to put it on a mannequin that was set up in his room.

"Now, just keep that nice and tidy until the big day," Rarity said. "I'll see you there at the big day."

"You bet," MC said. Rarity left the room and closed the door behind her. MC then brought out the box that the Oracle of Delphius gave to him earlier. He then opened it up and looked at what was inside. "Hopefully Sparkles will be wanting to accept this."

Back in Pipp and Zipp's room, Zipp was finishing adding the latest piece of evidence that could eventually lead to Opaline's lair and finally defeat her. Zipp still had bags under her eyes.

"Zipp!" Pipp called out. "It's almost 11:00 at night! Go to bed!"

Zipp then checked the clock. She then yawned and said, "You're right, Pipp. I think tonight, I'll get a good night's sleep. And take tomorrow off from investigating." Zipp then got up and headed towards the bathroom to get ready for bed.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Royal Pain (Part 1)

Episode 25: Royal Pain (Part 1)

At Freedom Fighters Mansion, the alarm clock in MC's bedroom was going off. MC woke up. He rushed towards the bathroom to get showered quickly. He was already brushing his teeth. As soon as he finished, he gave a confident smirk.

"The day has come," MC said. Just then, in the reflection, a portal opened up behind MC. MC smiled as he saw his mother coming out of the portal, wearing royal attire. A red dress, a gold sash around her waist, a gold necklace with rubies and emeralds, red heels, and a gold crown with three small sapphires on the front three teeth of the crown over her red hair. "Hey, Mom."

"I'm so glad this day has come, Michael," Sarah Crayton said. She then brought out a hairbrush and started brushing MC's hair. "Your father and I had dreamed of this day to come. Although, he'd thought that the kingdom would still be standing and he would be alive still."

"Yeah," MC said. "But at least you're here."

"I wouldn't miss this for the Multiverse," Sarah Crayton said. She then hugged him. "I'm proud of you, Michael."

"Thanks, Mom," MC said.

"Now, you should get some breakfast," Sarah Crayton said. "I know you're gonna make a great king."

"I'll make you and Dad proud," MC said. He then headed out of the bathroom, and towards the bedroom door.

"I know you will," Sarah Crayton said. She then turned around. "And I know you'll also be ready for your greatest challenge." Sarah Crayton then opened a portal behind her and entered through it.

Outside of the Acorn Embassy, a lot of people were gathered in front of it, waiting for the royal coronation of MC to commence. Scarlet Garcia was reporting.

"I'm Scarlet Garcia, and I am standing right outside the Acorn Embassy, where the royal coronation of Prince Michael Crayton, soon to be King Michael Crayton, will be arriving here. Inside, many invited guests of the soon to be king are waiting inside. Such as the Freedom Fighters, the friends of Princess Twilight Sparkle, and their families. Many of us are awaiting the soon to be king's arrival. And maybe soon after that, the king... just might have his queen."

Outside of Freedom Fighters Mansion, a convertible limo was parked outside of the entrance, awaiting MC and his guest to come out. Then, the two of them came out. MC was wearing his coronation outfit that Rarity made for him. And Twilight was wearing her coronation dress she wore during her coronation as High Princess of Equestria, modified for her new body style. She also had silver heeled shoes and her gloves had silver fabric around the cuffs.

"This is it," Twilight said. "Your big day. When I became high princess, I was worried that everything was going to change. That my friends wouldn't need me anymore."

"You kidding me, Sparkles?" MC asked. "Just because you're the ruler of your land doesn't mean your friends won't need you. And... Omega and I might have accidentally helped with that since we blew up the support beams that held up the castle on the mountain."

"Well, if it wasn't for that, Nyx and Joshua would still be attending a school that would make them miserable for being different from all the other ponies their age," Twilight said. They eventually got into the limo.

When both of them sat down, MC said, "Driver, to the Acorn Embassy.""

"Will do," the driver said. Then the limo started moving towards the Acorn Embassy. As they were going down the streets of Station Square, a bunch of people were watching them. Twilight and MC were waving to the crowd as this was happening.

"Never thought I would see this day when I lost my kingdom," MC said.

"You'll get used to it," Twilight said. "When I first became a princess, all I thought of myself was just a princess whose royal duty was to just smile and wave."

"No way," MC said. "If you earned your title as princess, you must've been given a special reason. And you found that reason when taking on Tirek for the first time. Although, he seemed pretty easy to defeat."

"What makes you say that?" Twilight asked.

"We've seen Lynol take on a variant of him in the White Space," MC replied.

"Oh, that's right," Twilight said. "I still can't believe it takes a tech genius-slash-marksman to take him down."

"You know it," MC said. Eventually, they came across the Embassy.

Twilight and MC got out of the limo and walked towards the Acorn Embassy, both of them holding hands. When they got to the door, Antoine was waiting for the two.

"Come with me, Princess Twilight," Antoine said. "You are to be escorted to ze VIP section."

"Of course, Antoine," Twilight said. She then looked at MC with a smile. "See you in there."

"You got it, Sparkles," MC said. Twilight then followed Antoine away from the main entrance. MC then looked towards the front door. He then took a deep breath.

In the ballroom of the Embassy, a lot of invited guests were there, all dressed up in formal attire. The Freedom Fighters, Knuckles, the Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, the Young 6, Dulcy, the Chaotix, Shadow, Rouge, Olive, Midpoint, Cozy Glow, the families of the Mane 6, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, even Sarah Crayton was there.

All of them were waiting for MC to walk down the red carpet to where he would receive his crown, which was gold with an emblem that represented the front. The emblem was the shape of a dragon's head made out of a black diamond. The music started, which was MC's cue to walk down the red carpet. Everyone watched MC walk down the carpet and he arrived where he would receive his crown. Just then, a green flash appeared right in front of MC. Coming from the flash was the Oracle of Delphius.

The Oracle of Delphius smiled and said, "So, the time has come, Michael Crayton." MC nodded. He then took a knee and bowed his head. "Do you, Michael Crayton solemnly swear to govern the people you look after with justice and mercy as long as you shall reign?"

"I swear," MC said.

"Do you swear to bring hope to the people who depend on you as long as you shall reign?" the Oracle asked.

"I swear," MC said.

"Do you swear to rule your kingdom through peace, Harmony and love as long as you shall reign?" the Oracle asked again.

"I swear!" MC said, louder, looking up at the Oracle.

The Oracle then grabbed the crown and moved it towards MC's head. He then said, "Ladies and gentlemen, may I officially announce..." The Oracle put the crown on MC's head. "...King... Michael Crayton." Then everyone applauded as MC received his crown.

Later, in the courtyard, the Freedom Fighters, the Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, the Young 6, Midpoint, Cozy Glow, Olive and Shadow were all around MC.

"I still can't believe you officially became King after everything that has been done to you," Sally said. "You deserve this."

"But still, it's not right for you to have no kingdom to rule," Maria said. "I'm sure your kingdom was beautiful when it was still standing."

"No doubt about it, Maria," MC said. "You would've loved it. If it wasn't for your cousin."

"Julien?" Maria asked. "He destroyed your kingdom?"

"It was a long time ago," MC said. "I wanted him to pay for what he did. But... I knew that taking him down... wouldn't change anything."

"Which I would've expected a lot from you seeing how violent you are with those claws of yours," Twilight said. "But you've always held back. Why?"

"My claws are mostly used for slicing metal things," MC said. "Or anything that's not organic or wood. Sometimes."

"What about what you did to Scourge?" Sonic asked with a smug.

"That was one time," MC said.

"Well, I'm sure from now on, you'll be able to find a kingdom of your own," Twilight said.

MC smiled at that. He then thought of something. He then said, "Actually, Sparkles. There's... there's something I've been wanting to talk to you about."

"What is it?" Twilight asked. Just then, the light from the sun was covered up. "Huh?" Twilight and the others looked up. Above the Acorn Embassy, there was the ship of the Nocturnus.

"The Nocturnus?" Sonic asked. Just then, there were pink flashes of light around them. Coming from the flashes were members of the Nocturnus, the Destructix and Allura.

"Seriously?" MC asked. "Had to be today?!"

"Take them down!" Allura shouted. Then they all charged at the heroes that were there.

The villains were fighting the heroes that were there. They were all focusing on a specific target. Scourge was taking on Sonic, Fiona was going after Bunnie, Sergeant Simian was taking on Truemen, Predator Hawk was attacking Rainbow Dash, Lightning Lynx was fighting Shadow, Flying Frog was dodging Antoine's sword, Allura was trying to freeze Blaze, and the rest of the villains were trying to take down the rest of the heroes.

"You Freedom Fighters are pathetic," Scourge said. "It's time you learn who the real king is, and it isn't your friend."

"You never deserved your title, Scourge," Sonic said. "You just take things as you see them for yourself."

"We'll see about that," Scourge said. He then hit Sonic's crotch with his knee, making the blue hedgehog fall down to the ground.

"Cheap shot, Scourge," MC said. Scourge turned his head towards MC's voice, and he got kicked in the face by MC's left foot. Scourge got kicked towards the wall. "You attack on the day of my coronation. You shouldn't have done that. Why are you here?"

"Oh, you really think it was you we were after?" Scourge asked.

"If you've come for Misty, then that's an even bigger mistake," MC said. "We got Midpoint ready to hit whoever gets her."

"Not this time," Scourge said. Just then, the sound of Nyx screaming came to MC's ears.

"Nyx?" MC asked. The heroes looked towards the voice and on top of the Embassy, two members of the Nocturnus had Nyx held in their grips. "No, Nyx!"

"Nyx!" Twilight called out.

MC growled and started charging up the building. Right before he could get her, the two members teleported away, taking Nyx with them. MC stopped in horror. He then turned around, seeing all the villains disappearing with pink flashes. Then the ship disappeared in a pink flash.

"NO!" Twilight called out. MC then jumped down and landed near Twilight. "Michael..."

"I... I was too late," MC said. "I couldn't save her." Twilight started crying. She then grabbed MC, hugged him tight, and cried into his left shoulder. "We'll get her back."

"But how?" Sonic asked. "We don't know where Opaline's lair is. That's the most likely spot where they could've taken Nyx."

"Actually... I've been looking into that," Zipp said. "Come on. Back to the Mansion."

In Opaline's lair, Nyx was locked up in a giant snow globe made of ice. She was trying to use her magic to get out, but there were runes specifically designed to prevent teleportation magic from happening in that room. Just then, Opaline came into the room.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the daughter of the only ones who can stop me," Opaline said. "Huh. Now that we've gotten to know each other face to face... you remind me... of somepony I've known a long time ago."

"I'm guessing it was Luna?" Nyx asked, getting angry. "In a way, I'm kinda her clone. Well, a clone of her darker self, Nightmare Moon. But, I wasn't completely like that."

"Oh, yes," Opaline said. "You do share some characteristics of Luna. But you act more like Twilight Sparkle and Michael Crayton. How is that possible?"

"I was being taken care of by Twilight when I first woke up," Nyx said. "She loved me and I loved her. She's my mother, no matter what. Whether I'm biological or adopted, we still love each other."

"Well, let's see if your parents love you enough to come after me," Opaline said. "So I can dispose of them completely." She then walked out of the room. She then looked at the two Echidna guards standing outside of the room. "Make sure no one else gets in or out." The two echidnas nodded as Opaline walked away.

Back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, the heroes were in the living room. Zipp brought out her board of where Opaline could be located. The heroes that were there were the Freedom Fighters, the Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, the remaining Cutie Mark Crusaders, the Young 6, Dulcy, Midpoint, Cozy Glow, Shadow and Olive.

"Okay, everyone," Zipp said. "I've been working this chart to locate where Opaline's lair could be located. According to Misty, it had to be somewhere in the sky, and it has Arabic Style architecture. And that place is known as Skyros."

"Skyros," MC said. "Never heard of it. Did this place have alternative names?"

"Actually, it did," Zipp said.

"What were the alternate names, sugarcube?" Applejack asked.

"Murasia, Al-Ula, and one name that has been smudged in the second word," Zipp said. She then brought out the book that Celestia and Luna gave her. "Here it is."

"Let me see that," Olive said. She then typed a couple buttons on her cyber patch and it scanned the words. It then showed the word underneath the smudge. "It's Babylon..." Then the word came up from under the smudge. "...Garden?!"

"No!" MC said. "No, no, no! No way are we ever asking those three for their help on this!"

"Who's he talking about?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"The Babylon Rogues," Sonic said.

"The Babylon Rogues?" Hitch asked. "Those three birds that raced MC, Silver and Blaze on Christmas?"

"Babylon Garden?" Twilight asked. She then got a realization. "Oh, that actually makes sense. Those three birds had to have a connection to the place. Nicole, we need to find the Babylon Rogues."

"No way... are we asking Jet, Wave and Storm for help!" MC said, angrily.

"Michael!" Twilight said. "Nyx is our daughter. We have to save her. And to do that, we need the help of the Babylon Rogues. Please. Do it for her."

MC looked at Twilight angrily. His angry look then turned into a sorrowful look. He then said, "Nicole, do what Sparkles told you."

"Locating the Babylon Rogues," Nicole responded. Then on the TV screen, it showed the zeppelin owned by the Babylon Rogues flying over the Grand Canyon. "The Babylon Rogues are currently in Arizona."

"Then let's move out," MC said. "Crusaders, you stay here. Spike, you watch them and Sparky."

"Got it," Spike said.

"Wait, what?" Apple Bloom asked. "C'mon, MC."

"Nyx is our friend, too," Scootaloo said.

"We have to go, too," Sweetie Belle said.

"Listen, kids, I know you want to help, but this is Opaline we're talking about," MC said. "She will take you all down if you get in her way. For now, we all need you to be here and safe." He then faced Sunny and her friends, the Young 6 and Dulcy. "As for the rest of you, you're coming with us."

"What?" Gallus asked. "We're just in training."

"Not anymore," MC said. "You've been training enough to be official Freedom Fighters. You all faced challenges using your natural skills, without the use of magic. You're all Freedom Fighters. Now, let's get going."

"What do you say, Shadow?" Sonic asked. "You in?"

"Someone has to be watching your backs," Shadow said. "Let's do this." Then the grown up heroes walked towards the door. Joshua looked around to make sure Spike wasn't looking. He then followed the others out the door without any of them seeing him.

The Freedom Fighters, the Mane 6, Sunny and her Friends, the Young 6, Dulcy, Shadow, Midpoint and Olive all went towards the hangar where all the airships were parked. Sonic, Tails, Sally and Shadow got into the X-Tornado, Sunny and her friends, the Young 6 and Joshua (without anyone seeing him) got into the X-Marestream. The rest of the heroes got into the Spirit of Freedom with the passenger box attached to the bottom of it. Then they all flew Southwest towards Arizona.

Joshua hid in the bathroom of the X-Marestream and kept quiet throughout the whole flight, which was hard consisting on how fast all three airships were going.

Eventually, they made it to Arizona, above the Grand Canyon. MC was piloting the Spirit of Freedom with Twilight sitting next to him. Twilight then pointed towards a direction.

"There! The Babylon Rogues Zeppelin at 11!" Twilight said.

"I see it," MC said. The three airships then turned towards the Zeppelin as it was on the move. The three airships were getting closer and closer to the Zeppelin. "It's only a matter of time until..." Just then, something came in on the radio.

"Well, well, well... if it isn't the Freedom Fighters," came a voice. It was the voice of Jet the Hawk. "What brings you here to my team's personal airbase?"

MC sighed and said, "We don't have time to deal with this, Jet. But right now, we don't have a choice. We need your help to get to Babylon Garden."

"And why would I tell you where Babylon Garden is?" Jet asked.

"Jet, what do you know about an Alicorn named Opaline?" Twilight asked. All that came from the radio was a gasp from Jet.

In the office of the Babylon Rogues Zeppelin, Twilight, Sonic, MC and Sunny were talking with the Babylon Rogues.

"So, you figured out that Babylon Garden is really the land of the Alicorns, Skyros, huh?" Jet asked.

"I still can't believe that Opaline has returned and taken it over, and we didn't even know it," Wave said.

"And you three are descendants of the guards of Skyros, aren't you?" Twilight asked.

"Yes," Jet said. "So, if Opaline is in the main Castle of Babylon Garden, it's not gonna be easy to enter. Only Alicorns and their royal guards are able to open the door. We lost our access a long time ago since Babylon Garden was lost for a long time."

"Lucky for us we got a couple of Alicorns here," Sonic said. Sonic and MC looked towards Twilight and Sunny. Twilight unfolded her wings and Sunny revealed her Alicorn form.

"Huh, that'll work," Jet said. "But it won't be enough if you're gonna stop Opaline." He then pulled something out of his desk. "You're also gonna need this. I heard you had the other six."

"The last Chaos Emerald," MC said. "This is perfect."

"Storm, get the Key to Babylon Garden," Jet said.

"You got it, boss," Storm said. He then headed out of the room. After he left the room, there was the sound of a huge mess being made. "Where is it? Where is it?"

"Hurry up, Storm," Sonic said. "I'm waaaaaiting."

"That sounds very 1992," Sunny said. MC laughed at that.

Just then, Storm came back in and said, "Oh, now I remember where it is. I put it in your desk drawer on the right side."

Jet looked towards the right side desk drawer and opened it up. Inside, there was a cube. Jet brought it out and said, "Now, let's get back to Babylon Garden." Then the cube started glowing. "Have your team follow the blimp. We're about to get there fast."

Then all the airships started flying fast towards Babylon Garden. A couple hours later, they came across an air space where the Key to Babylon Garden was leading them. Eventually, Babylon Garden came into sight.

"Is... Is that...?" Twilight asked.

"Babylon Garden," Jet said.

MC sniffed around. He then said, "I smell her. I smell Opaline. She's here."

"How can you smell her from here?" Jet asked.

"Enhanced senses, remember?" MC asked. "Land this blimp quickly."

"We need to get to that castle before Opaline does something bad to Nyx," Twilight said. "She needs us more than ever."

Eventually, all the air ships landed in a clearing big enough for all the ships to land. Eventually, all of the heroes got out of the airships. Well, except Smolder.

"Okay, everyone," Sonic said. "Let's find Opaline's lair, stop her and her lackeys, rescue Nyx, and go home."

"Hang on," Truemen said. "Where's Smolder?" Just then, Smolder came out of the X-Marestream, pulling Joshua.

"Hey, guys," Smolder said. "Look who stowed away."

"Ow!" Joshua said, angrily.

"Joshua?!" Twilight asked.

"I told you to stay back home," MC said.

"I couldn't," Joshua said. "Nyx is my sister. She helped me, and I want to help her."

"Not today," MC said. He then brought out his Super Warp Ring and threw it in one direction, but it didn't expand. MC looked towards it in confusion. "What the heck?"

"Yeah, apparently, only Alicorns are able to teleport things to and from here," Jet said.

"Dang," MC said. "Alright, Joshua, you can come. Just stay with Mutt."

"Got it," Joshua said. He then got closer to Mutt. MC grabbed his Super Warp Ring, then all of them started heading in one direction. MC was taking the lead. As they were running, Smolder and Dulcy were stopped all of a sudden. Then they put their hands to their heads in pain.

"Gaaaah!" Smolder yelled.

The rest of the heroes stopped and looked at the two dragons. Twilight then asked, "What is it? What's wrong?"

"My head..." Smolder said. "It's... ringing!" She then yelled in pain.

"What's happening?!" Dulcy shouted.

"Lynol, what's going on?" MC asked.

Midpoint removed the rings on his wrists. He then said, "Opaline. She's using the Bloodstone to control dragons."

"What?" Ocellus asked. "Opaline's trying to take the minds of Smolder and Dulcy?"

"Not just them," Midpoint answered. "She's also controlling these dragons that are about to ambush us." Then the group looked around, seeing all the dragons of the Dragon Lands coming right towards them.

"Oh, snap," Olive said.

Midpoint then grabbed some discs and threw them towards Smolder and Dulcy. The discs connected to the sides of the two teenage dragons, and their head pains ended.

"Huh?" Smolder asked.

"What was that?" Dulcy asked.

"Telepathic Control Blockers," Midpoint said. "Based on MC's telepathic immunity. These are just prototypes, so they won't last long."

"How long?" Smolder asked.

"An hour, two tops," Midpoint said.

"That should be enough time," Sonic said. "Spin and win time." Sonic then rushed around the group, creating a giant, blue cyclone, blocking the sight of them from the dragons surrounding them.

"You guys head to Opaline's lair," Jet said.

"Are you serious?" Twilight asked.

"This is our home," Wave said. "We're not gonna let that Opaline use this place as ground zero for her total control."

"Wave, Storm, let's do this!" Jet said. They brought out their Extreme Gear boards and started riding them. They went out of the cyclone to get above the dragons. "Hey, dragons! Come and get us!" The dragons attention were all brought up by the Babylon Rogues. They then chased the three through the garden to try and take them down. Unbeknownst to them, it was only a diversion so the heroes would go after Opaline.

Sonic then stopped the cyclone and stood next to the rest of the heroes. He then said, "Guess Jet has guts."

"Let's go," Twilight said. Then the heroes all ran in one direction towards where Opaline's lair was. Once they got there, Misty stopped seeing her former home once again.

"Oh, boy," Misty said.

"Misty?" Sunny asked. "Are you okay?"

"I never thought I'd be back here again," Misty said. "I used to look at this place and see what the world would have to offer from above. But now... all I see is all the tormented things I've gone through throughout my entire foalhood."

"Misty, you stood up to Opaline the last time you saw her," Twilight said. "You helped rescue Spike and Sparky, and you made a real bond of Friendship with us. And you got your Cutie Mark because of that. Misty... you're stronger than you think."

"Ya got that right, sugarcube," Applejack said. "Right now, this is where we need ya. Besides... we're gonna need a tour o' the place." Applejack smirked at that.

Misty looked up at the castle where Opaline has been staying at for who knows how long. She then sighed and said, "Okay. Follow me, everyone." She then headed for the door and opened it up. Then they all headed inside. As soon as they all got inside, the doors closed right behind them.

"What the heck?!" Twilight asked.

"She knows we're inside," Sunny said.

"That's right, Sunny Starscout," came Opaline's voice. "You're all brave to come into my humble abode, but I'm afraid that this is the end for all of you."

"Show yourself!" MC shouted angrily. Just then, a giant illusion of Opaline's head came in above them.

"You really think you have what it takes to take me down?" Opaline said through the illusion. "I'll make sure that you all get taken down today. Prepare... for the end... Freedom Fighters." She then laughed. The heroes all looked up at Opaline with angry expressions and defensive stances.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Royal Pain (Part 2)

The Mobian Era Special: Michael Crayton vs. the Secret Society of the Multiverse

The Mobian Era Special:
Michael Crayton vs. the Secret Society of the Multiverse

In a void, there were lines of white lines spread out, and giant purple crystal chunks all over the place. This is the space between universes.

"The Multiverse... What is it? Well, it's basically a series of endless possibilities of what could happen if a different choice is made. Whether it's someone making an alternate choice in their path, or someone who wasn't born in one timeline was born in another. Maybe even a colossal event happening when it wasn't supposed to. The Multiverse is unpredictable. And if you ever get lost in the Multiverse, just be careful on where you end up. It's hard to find your way around here. I should know. I got kidnapped in my universe by a psychotic variant of my friends, Sonic the Hedgehog. Who am I you ask? I am King Michael Crayton. And right now... I'm in trouble."

From one lines of the multiverse, something came out through a portal. It was MC. He had on a special watch on his right wrist that could help him travel the Multiverse. He had swiped it from someone from a place he had escaped from. MC jumped from crystal to crystal at high speed. Eventually, he stopped and hid behind one of the crystals just as a bunch of portals opened up from the same line he came out of. Coming out of those portals were variants of some friends he knew. Zipp Storm, Twilight Sparkle, Tails, and even a Sonic. But this Sonic wasn't like the one we knew. He wore a brown overcoat, white boots, an eye patch over one of his eyes, a scar over that one covered eye, and he had gold bracelets on his white gloves.

"Don't let him get away!" the Sonic variant announced. The others nodded and looked around for MC. "You can't escape from us, Michael Crayton! You're an anomaly! You must be contained until your canon event happens!"

"I'm not an anomaly, FS!" MC called out. He then jumped away from the crystal chunk he was hiding behind. The chunk was heading right towards FS. But FS was ready for it. His bracelets turned into swords and he used it to slice the Crystal chunk in half. He then saw MC heading off somewhere.

"Wherever you go, you're an anomaly!" FS called out. "You will be stopped!" He then saw MC entering a universe. "Gotcha."

Universe: 010921 (Alicorn Sunset's Universe)
Location: Bridlewood

MC broke into the universe with a Hexagon shaped portal in the sky. He landed on the ground, scaring a bunch of ponies that were there. One of them was, of course, Alphabittle. And none of them were Mobians.

"Shoot, wrong universe," MC said. "Let's see where I am." He then checked the watch he had snatched from a member of the secret society and saw he was in the Alicorn Sunset's Universe. "Shoot. Not even close." Just then, he was surrounded by a bunch of Hexagon shaped portals. A lot of bipedal creatures in armor came out of the portals with weapons that might be able to stop MC. The ponies in Bridlewood all ran in terror from what was about to happen.

"Michael Crayton!" one of the armored creatures said, his weapon pointed towards MC. "By the authority of the Secret Society, you are to be imprisoned until your canon happens."

"You don't tell me what to do!" MC said, angrily. He then smirked. "By any chance, are any of you by chance from this Universe?" That made all the armored creatures look at each other in confusion.

"No," the leader of the armored creatures answered.

"Then it won't matter if I do this," MC said, digging his claws into the ground, and threw a chunk of earth at the leader. The leader fell over and the rest of the society members got closer to MC. "This is gonna be fun." He then started fighting the armored creatures.

Oh, baby, baby, how was I supposed to know...
That something wasn't right here?...
Oh, baby, baby, I shouldn't have let you go...
And now you're out of sight, yeah...
Show me how you want it to be...
Yeah, tell me, baby, 'cause I need to know now, oh, because...

The armored creatures were trying to hit MC with there weapons, but the royal fox was too fast for them. MC grabbed the weapons from their hands and used them against the armored creatures. Hitting them in multiple places. More armored creatures were coming out of the Hexagon shaped portals to go after MC.

My loneliness is killing me (and I)...
I must confess I still believe (still believe)...
When I'm not with you I lose my mind...
Give me a sign...
Hit me, baby, one more time...

A lot of armored creatures were trying to get him. A couple of them were holding an Anti-Matter net. But MC dodged the net and he tripped the armored creatures with a sweep kick. Then they got trapped in the Anti-Matter net. MC then charged at more armored creatures coming towards him.

Oh, baby, baby...
The reason I breathe is you...
Girl, you've got me blinded...
Oh, pretty baby...
There's nothing that I wouldn't do...
It's not the way I planned it...
Show me how you want it to be...
Yeah, tell me, baby, 'cause I need to know now, oh, because...

A bunch of armored creatures were surrounding MC with Anti-Matter shields and night sticks. MC then used his claws to dig into the ground. The armored creatures then got closer to the hole, but then in a 15 yard radius sinkhole came in and swallowed up all those armored creatures. Then another hole came out from beyond the sinkhole. MC then came out of it and looked down the sinkhole, seeing a lot of the armored creatures were down for the count.

My loneliness is killing me (and I)...
I must confess I still believe (still believe)...
When I'm not with you I lose my mind...
Give me a sign...
Hit me, baby, one more time...

A bunch of armored creatures came out of the Hexagon shaped portals to try and get MC. But he was too fast for them. He used his martial arts to take them down. MC then used his strength to throw the armored creatures into the sinkhole.

Hit me, oh, yeah...
Hit me, oh, girl...
Hit me, baby, but not too hard...
Hit me one more time...
Hit me, baby, but not too hard...
One more time again...

Then more armored creatures came out of the Hexagon Shaped Portals and went after MC. But MC was ready for them. MC grabbed one of the armored creatures by the back of the head and used that one's head to headbutt the others coming towards them. All of them were getting knocked out on impact.

Oh, baby, baby, how was I supposed to know...
That something wasn't right here?
Oh, pretty baby, I shouldn't have let you go...

Then more armored creatures came in and surrounded him. MC then used his Elemental Mimicry to copy the elements around him. Then he increased in size to intimidate the armored creatures.

And I must confess, that my loneliness is killing me now...
Don't you know I still believe...
That you will be here...
And give me a sign...
Hit me, baby, one more time...

MC in his Gigan form used his tail to sweep all the guards into the sinkhole, trapping them all. As as soon as all of them were in there, MC shrunk down to his normal size. Then he used his materiokinesis to cover up the sink hole, leaving a bunch of air holes to the ones trapped could still breathe. Then the cover of the sinkhole turned into a large metal grate.

My loneliness is killing me (and I)...
I must confess I still believe (still believe)...
When I'm not with you I lose my mind...
Give me a sign...
Hit me, baby, one more time...

MC then started walking away from the grate, but then the image stopped.

"So, you're all probably wondering why I'm being chased by these guys are chasing me? Well, it's a long story. To make it simpler, we'll go back to where it all began."

Universe 160521...
Location: Crayton Castle...
Date: MC's 7th Birthday...

It showed a castle standing tall over a kingdom. The town was setting up for a celebration.

"Whoops. Looks like I went back too far. Oh, wait. I remember this day. It was my seventh birthday. Which... was also the day I lost everything."

The people of the Crayton Kingdom were getting ready for the celebration. Within the Castle Grounds, young Michael Crayton was in the courtyard, playing with some local children. A male badger, a male raccoon and a female squirrel. The male badger was brown and black, he had dark blue eyes, and was wearing two sports bands on his wrists and blue running shoes. His name was Adrian. The male raccoon was gray and black. He had brown eyes, and was wearing red fingerless gloves and brown sandals. His name was Rudy. And the female squirrel was brown with a light brown underbelly. She was wearing a pink tank top, blue jeans, pink and white sneakers, and she had blonde hair done up in pigtails. Her name was Emma.

The four of them were playing with a hacky sack, kicking it around.

"C'mon," Adrian said. "Haven't any of you given up yet?"

"You know we can't give up yet, Adrian," Rudy said.

"I can do this all day," Emma said. "Can you keep up, Michael?"

"Oh, I can," Young MC said. "The real question is... can you keep up with me." He then sent the hacky sack up high. And this was before his powers awoken, so it wasn't too high.

Adrian stepped back and said, "I got it. I got it." The hacky sack came back down. Adrian tried kicking it back up, but he missed and it landed on the ground. "Aw, man."

"Gotcha, Adrian," Young MC said.

"Your highness," came a guard's voice. Young MC turned around and saw a guard behind him. The guard was a wolf. He was gray, had red eyes, and he was wearing red and blue armor. "Your parents are wanting to see you."

"Right now?" Young MC asked. "But I'm playing with my friends."

"Don't worry, Michael," the wolf said. "You will be back with your friends in no time."

"It's okay, Michael," Emma said. "We'll be back tonight for your birthday party. See ya." Then the three kids left the Castle Grounds.

"Captain Stryker, where are my parents?" Young MC asked, looking up at the wolf.

"They're expecting you in the Throne Room," the wolf, known as Captain Stryker, said. Young MC then started walking into the castle. As soon as Young MC was out of earshot, Stryker looked away. He walked towards a castle wall. He then brought out a communicator and said, "Doctor Robotnik, the Royal Family is occupied and all the guards are off duty. Prepare for the invasion."

Inside the castle, Young MC met up with his parents. His parents, King Paul Crayton and Queen Sarah Crayton, were expecting him.

"Hello, there, Michael," Sarah Crayton said to her son. "Happy birthday."

"Another year closer to being King," Paul Crayton said. "And I'm sure you will make a great leader."

"I just hope I'll be just as good as you," Young MC said.

"You might not be as good as I am, Michael," Paul Crayton responded. "You just might be the greatest one of them all."

"I can see it happen," Sarah Crayton said. Just then, Captain Stryker came in with a panic look. "Captain Stryker, what brings you in so abruptly?"

"Your majesties, we are being invaded!" Captain Stryker said.

"What?!" Paul Crayton said. Then he, Sarah and Young MC ran out of the throne room. They went up to a balcony to look out at the kingdom. There, coming above the forest, was a flying battleship. It then fired upon the villages. The people were running in panic. "Impossible! All of the guards are supposed to be on duty! They should be firing back!"

"Oh, I gave them the day off," Captain Stryker said.

"WHAT?!" Paul Crayton said, seeing Captain Stryker coming up to him. "You know that this day has to be the most important day where the guards should be on duty!"

"Oh, I know that," Captain Stryker said. "Oh, and one more thing. I was the one who let in the invader."

"WHAT?!" Paul Crayton shouted. He then grabbed his sword from his scabbard and said, "You... you... you TRAITOR!!" Stryker blocked the King's sword swing with his own swords. "You betray your kingdom! Why?!"

"Doctor Robotnik has promised me that if I let him into the Kingdom and destroy the royal line, I will be his general," Stryker said. "You are unworthy of being a ruler. And your son will never live to see another day!"

"Sarah, get Michael out of here!" Paul Crayton said. Sarah then grabbed Michael and she carried him. Stryker saw them leaving and got angry.

"No!" Stryker shouted. He then threw a dagger at Sarah, but Sarah quickly turned around and grabbed the dagger before it could make contact, then threw it at a wall and it got wedged in. "Craytons!"

Sarah carried Young MC into the Throne Room. Young MC then said, "Mom? Where are we going?"

"We're getting you out of here," Sarah said. Just then, the castle was being under attacked. "Oh, no! Come on!" Sarah then went to the throne. She then went over to the right side of the throne and activated the switch that opens up the escape route. The escape route opened up.

"What about my friends?" Young MC asked. "We can still save them."

"There's no time," Sarah said. "And... I don't think they made it, either."

"Sarah, look out!" came Paul's voice. The two looked towards the door and they saw Stryker throwing another dagger towards them. Sarah jumped towards Young MC and they got out of the way of the throne dagger. "Stryker!" Then Paul charged at Stryker as he was preparing to get another throwing dagger. Paul swung his sword and hit the dagger right out of Stryker's hand. Paul then threw the dagger and hit the switch to close the escape route after Sarah carried Young MC through the passageway. "You are gonna pay for your betrayal."

"We shall see about that," Stryker said. Then a bunch of robots came into the Throne Room. All of them were Robotnik's Swat Bots. Then Doctor Robotnik came in.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the failing king of this kingdom," Doctor Robotnik said. "And his former captain of the guard."

"I cleared the way for you, doctor," Stryker said.

"Excellent," Doctor Robotnik said. "Swat Bots, kill them both."

"WHAT?!" Stryker asked. "We had a deal!"

"Did you honestly believe I would let a Mobian like you be my general?" Doctor Robotnik asked. He then laughed. "Oh, primitive naive simpleton. You honestly believe that me, the smartest person in the world, will need someone like you to be my general. You are so... wrong. Which means our partnership is... DOOKIE." Then the Swat Bots started firing upon the two. Paul Crayton blocked the laser fire as best as he could, but he eventually got shot and killed by them.

"Now, time to destroy this place once and for all," Doctor Robotnik said. "According to my calculations, the explosion shall take out all the remaining survivors. Not even the prince shall survive this." He then left the Throne Room.

In the secret passage, the castle was crumbling down on top of the secret passageway. Sarah was carrying Michael as they were going through the passageway. Just then, Sarah stopped and put Young MC down.

"Michael, listen to me," Sarah said. "You are destined to be the greatest of the whole Crayton family. Even if it means that we're not with you. You have to go."

"I don't wanna go without you!" Young MC said.

"You must," Sarah Crayton said. She then grabbed a couple rings and put them on Young MC's wrists. "Your power will awaken when I'm gone. You will need to go on without me." Just then, she saw the roof collapsing in over Young MC. She then ran in pushed him out of the way. "Look out!" She then pushed Young MC out and took the blow. She got crushed. Young MC looked towards where he was standing earlier, and he saw his Mom crushed. "Be brave... my son." She then closed her eyes.

"No..." Young MC said. Just then, golden energy started coming out of his hands. His eyes started shedding some tears. "No..."

Outside, Doctor Robotnik got into his flying vehicle and started taking off into the sky. As soon as he was in a clear distance, he then said, "Goodbye, Craytons." He then pushed a red button. Then the Swat Bots started beeping. They were set to self destruct.

Back in the escape route, Young MC fell onto his knees, and a huge burst of golden energy came from him as he shouted out, "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" The golden energy blasted through the tunnel and back towards the Throne Room. The energy went around the throne and collided with the Swat Bots, making them self destruct early. All the Swat Bots in the Kingdom exploded, destroying a lot of landscape.

Young MC stayed on his knees, crying out over his mother's assumed death. Just then, a green flash came in behind him. Young MC turned his head to see the Oracle of Delphius.

"Hello, Prince Michael Crayton," the Oracle said. "I am the Oracle of Delphius. I have sensed your power. You unleashed a huge burst of power without control over it. Imagine what you could do with control of it."

"How... How could I do that?" Young MC asked. "I lost my family... my friends... my home."

"Oh, I'm sure you will gain new friends and a new home, Michael," the Oracle said. "But first, how about we train you how to control the power you have?"

Young MC sighed and said, "Okay." He then got up. He then took one last look at his mother. The Oracle then put his arm around Young MC's shoulders. Then in a green flash, they disappeared.

Universe: 160521
Location: Castle of Friendship
Present Time

MC had awoken from remembering that fateful day. He breathed heavily at remembering his seventh birthday. He then looked down seeing who was in bed with him. It was Twilight Sparkle, High Princess of Equestria and his fiancé. She still wore the engagement ring on her left ring finger. MC then smiled at that.

MC then sighed and said, "Put the past behind you, MC. It's time to move on." He then laid back down and wrapped his left arm around Twilight. In her sleep, she also wrapped her right wing around MC's body.

Universe: 250954
Location: Secret Society Headquarters

In the main office where FS watches over the Multiverse, he observes MC and Twilight sleeping together in their universe. He noticed that Twilight was wearing an engagement ring. He then got angry.

"They're engaged?!" Future Sonic asked, angrily. "No! He's not supposed to get married!" Just then, Sunset Shimmer, from Universe 010921, came into the room.

"FS, why are you upset?" Sunset asked.

"Nothing that concerns you, Sunset," Future Sonic replied. "I'm gonna need to apprehend an anomaly. I'll have to do it myself."

"Are you sure that Michael Crayton is an anomaly?" Sunset asked. "Sure, he's powerful, but he seems like he could be an ally against Opaline from Universe 220822. After all, he did stand a chance against his Universe's alternate Opaline."

"But it won't be the same," Future Sonic said. "His power will continue to grow. He must be apprehended." He then pushed a button. "Tails, is it ready?!"

"It's ready, FS," came Tails's voice from a speaker. It was the Tails from Universe 060403.

"Good," Future Sonic said. He then walked towards the door.

"But FS, Michael Crayton is surrounded by his friends," Sunset said. "And there's also the fact that his mother will watch over him."

"Oh, I'm prepared for that," Future Sonic said. "That's why... I'm gonna take her down first." He then left the room. "See you later, Sunset." The doors closed behind him. Sunset then looked at the screen in worry.

"I just hope that he knows what he's up to," Sunset said.

Universe: Space In Between Universes
Location: Just Outside of Universe 160521

Sarah Crayton was sitting on a crystal, watching both the alternate future timeline and the new main timeline, making sure everything ran right.

But then, she heard something coming from behind her and frowned. "Hmm... Took you long enough to show up... Sonic..."

As she turns around, she sees that Sonic comes out of some strange Heptagon-shaped portal, but this Sonic had messed up quills, a scar on his left eye, an eyepatch covering said eye, a large brown coat, and white with golden boats, gloves and bracelets. This Sonic looked at Sarah with a frown, clearly stating he's not friendly.

"I've got a lot to deal with having another Opaline causing mayhem in the entire multiverse, so I'm afraid I've gotta keep this visit short," the alternate Sonic spoke, the portal behind him closing.

"Right, as if I didn't know why you're here, FS..." Sarah said with a frown. FS is short for "Future Sonic", but he's not this Sonic's universe future. He's just called like that 'cause he comes from Year 2154 in his universe.

"Guess that's what happens when you've got Precognition," Future Sonic said, still frowning as well. "But don't bother trying to warn that scum you call your son with those visions. I'll be getting him one way or another."

"You want to get to him? You'll have to get past me!" Sarah stated, duplicating herself and sending her clones towards FS.

However, FS made two big golden blades come out of his bracelets, then slashed all of Sarah's clones with them at super speed, and then he headed towards Sarah herself. She tried to stop Future Sonic with her Chronokinesis, but even if she managed to hold FS on his place, he somehow broke her time manipulation powers and slashed one of his blades with a twirl on her shoulder, sending her backwards. This made Sarah grab her shoulder and see it left a mark, one that immediately healed, but she still looked back at Sonic and growled.

"What? You really thought I'll just come here without being ready to kick your butt?" Future Sonic asked with a mocking smirk, one that grew as he noticed Sarah's frustration, confusion and fear on her eyes.

"H-How did you brake free from my Chronokinesis?!" Sarah asked in disbelief.

"I've got a bunch of Tailses, Twilights, Zipps, and even Dr. Eggmans working for me!" Future Sonic replied happily, but it was a messed up happiness. "If you thought I wouldn't be ready for your silly time manipulation powers, maybe you're not as qualified to look after your sector of the multiverse as I thought..."

Of course, FS is just messing with her. He's telling her all of this to make her low her guard and attack without thinking, blind her in anger as he calculates his moves while she just desires to make him shut up. And the worse part of all? Sarah knows this, and it's still falling for the trick.

"What's the matter, Crayton?" Future Sonic mocked up with a chuckle. "Are you chickening right now?"

That's all Sarah needed to hear to shout in rage and then throw herself with her super speed towards FS, summoning a pair of swords from her coat sleeves and then swing them against the future hedgehog, but he either used his own blades to block the attacks or to attack back at her. He was calculating when to attack properly while Sarah just tried to make one scratch on him, just one. And yet, FS found the perfect moment to attack when she swing her left sword and he dodged it, then cut her coat's sleeve and grabbed the sword, slashing her chest and sending her backwards.

She groaned in pain as she slid back, her chest now bleeding with a mark, but as soon as it healed, Sarah looked at FS in anger and launched against him again, now with only one sword. FS, despite enjoying Sarah's desperation to stop him, still choose to play fair and retracted one of his blades, then threw the sword he ripped from Sarah's coat and blocked her next attack with just one of his blades. Now this was a 1-on-1 battle with swords, with Sarah desperately swinging hers as she tried to hit FS and stop him from reaching her son, while FS kept enjoying her despair as he blocked her attacks.

She could be sending a vision for her son to warn him about FS right now as she fights with him, but she's not thinking straight. Her anger is blurring her senses and way of thinking, which is what FS is using against her. She swings her sword to the left and tries to hit FS' rib, then swings backwards and tried to hit his shoulder, but the future hedgehog blocked both attacks and then brought back his other blade to grab Sarah's, then hold it into place and cut the other sleeve, before using both swords to hit her chest and sent her backwards again.

Sarah groaned in pain as she saw her chest with a giant, bleeding X mark, but then when it healed, she frowned at FS and launched at him with her super speed again. She tried to strike a punch into his face, but he blocked her attack with his blade, so she tried on his stomach, and he blocked the attack again. She then tried with his left shoulder, but he caught the attack and returned it, making Sarah hit herself with her own fist.

"Your Precognition seems a bit rusty, Sarah," Future Sonic mocked up, as Sarah groaned in pain from her own punch. "Here, let me help you fix it!"

After stating this, he hit Sarah's face and stunned her, even making her nose bleed. It started to heal, of course, but then Future Sonic started to punch Sarah Crayton's body with his super speed, having absolutely no mercy as he made sure to hit her face, her stomach, her limbs, and even her back, making it crack a bit. Sarah cried out in pain, and then FS grabbed her to make a suplex on her, before kicking her back quickly, and then throw her in the air, just to punch her meters away by making one of his bracelets turn his glove into a big metallic one.

Sarah rolled in the ground painfully, and yet even as her body started to quickly heal all the punches, she still felt immense pain. But just when she thought this could not get worse, FS rushed pass her and placed a silver collar on her neck. It had two lights, and it switched from green to red, meaning the collar was activated. Her body suddenly started to hurt like heck, making her groan painfully as she touched some of the ares FS hit and realized the healing process has suddenly stopped. She even felt some blood forming in her mouth, so she spit it and looked in horror as the red stain remained there in the ground.

She then saw in horror as Future Sonic approached her, smirking and walking as if he wasn't in a hurry. She tried to crawl back, but her pain was so intense that even the smallest movement hurt like heck. Future Sonic grinned at this, and Sarah gulped nervously.

"W-What have you done to me?!" Sarah managed to ask.

"Oh, not much..." Future Sonic spoke with fake innocence. "I just deactivated your powers for the next 10 minutes. You can thank Dr. Hooves and his brilliant mind that came up with the concept."

"B-But that... that shouldn't be possible..." Sarah said, then groaned in pain again.

"Oh, Sarah... You're brilliant, and yet so naive at the same time," Future Sonic chuckled. "If you thought I'll come to stop you without being prepared, the joke's on you. I know what you can do and how can you do it, hence why I had to be very careful with my words and moves. Now that you're out of my way, all I've gotta do is... Go find your son, and make sure his powers are under control. My control."

After stating this, FS walked away from her, but not without first kicking her face to increase her pain and stop her from trying to stop him. Sarah groaned in pain again, barely standing on her knees in the ground, while FS used his watch to open another heptagon-shaped portal. Sarah turned to him, and he also turned to her.

"You might think I'm a villain, but I just take the hard decisions other Sonics can't," Future Sonic told her. "Then again, I'm not like the other Sonics."

With that being said, he crossed the portal as it closed behind, leaving Sarah painfully in the ground as she teared up, begging that FS will fail and that MC will be able to stop him.

Sarah tried crawling towards the Universe where her son is, but she was in so much pain. She couldn't even get there until it was too late. She then said, "Michael... I'm... coming..."

Universe: 160521
Location: Freedom Fighters Mansion
Time: 8:30 AM

MC and Twilight had come out of the portal that leads to Twilight's Castle. When they got out of the room, they saw it was pouring.

"Oh, great," MC said. "The storm hit earlier than I thought." He then checked his wrist communicator. "Weather apps are always wrong until it the weather hits."

"Goin' down!" came Dulcy's voice. The two of them looked up in the sky and they saw Dulcy coming down. She was losing control of her flying and she crashed into the pool.

"Ooh!" MC and Twilight said in unison.

"That's gotta hurt," Twilight said. The two of them walked towards the pool. Dulcy came out of the pool. "Dulcy, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, Ma..." Dulcy said, her eyes spinning around. "I just need to lie down."

"Alright, Dulcy, that's it," MC said. "You need to learn how to fly without crashing. And I'm gonna supervise."

"Hopefully, you won't keep her out in that storm," Twilight said.

"Oh, don't worry, Sparkles," MC said. "I've got a place in mind. I'll be back in an hour." MC then pulled Dulcy out of the water and he pulled her towards the main house. "First, you gotta shower. We'll leave after that."

"Okay," Dulcy said. Then they headed in. Twilight then went into the main part of the house. Inside, there was Midpoint and Sunny. Midpoint was working on his laptop.

"Hey, guys," Twilight said.

"Twilight!" Sunny said. "What brings you here?"

"Oh, Michael and I are getting used to sleep with each other," Twilight said. "Today, we're just seeing how all of you are doing." She then looked around. "Where's everyone else?"

"They're all working," Midpoint said. "The only ones who aren't working are Zipp and Truemen. Now that Opaline is gone, we can kick back and relax."

"Although, this storm came out of nowhere," Sunny said. "This day was supposed to be sunny. Tomorrow is supposed to be a beach day, but this storm is gonna last all week."

"That's sad," Twilight said. "Why not have the weather team..." She then remembered that only Equestria have weather teams. "Oh, that's right. Weather works on its own here." She then noticed Midpoint typing on his laptop. "Busy day at the office?"

"Very," Midpoint said. "Ever since I moved my business here from San Francisco, things at work have been quite busy. I can barely make it back from the office so Cozy Glow and I can eat dinner together. And she's been having trouble with her homework at school."

"Well, why not have her go straight to your business after school so you could help her with her homework?" Twilight asked.

"Not a bad idea, Twi," Midpoint said. "I'll have a driver to pick her up when she gets out of school."

"Hopefully, nothing will come after us during a much needed break from all that trouble with Opaline," Twilight said. "We wouldn't want our necks snapped or our skin pierced by sharp blades."

"That second thing won't happen to me," Midpoint said. "My skin's unbreakable."

"Oh, right," Twilight said. "Although, you did have to wear a cast after a giant truck ran over your foot."

"My skin is unbreakable, not my insides," Midpoint said. "I better get back to work."

It then went outside of Freedom Fighters Mansion. It was pouring outside. Then everything outside of the mansion's doors start to float around while the environment's colors change. Then, a big portal with an heptagon shape opens up. Out of it steps a mysterious figure, who's shadow reflects on the mansion's door as thunder strikes behind him. The figure's green eye is focused, as it looks around the mansion in front of him. Soon, on his shoulder, an holographic figure appears. This is a anthropomorphic beige lynx with green eyes, black hair and ear tops, black gloves with white palms, a pink dress with a somewhat white cape, black pants and black with white shoes. It was Future Sonic and an alternate version of Nicole.

"Nicole..." Future Sonic said, his tone filled with both annoyance and anger. "You sense that too?"

Nicole looked at the mansion ahead and scanned it, then glitched to show a bunch of screens around her, and then she looked at her boss. "Yes, chief. A magic barrier protects this place from invaders. I detect several hidden Sonic Cannons around the front porch, and myself. At least, the one from this universe."

Future Sonic snorted after hearing this. "Of course. That darn Alicorn thinks of everything... Fortunately for us, we've got the same chick on our tails."

"That... sounded creepy, chief..." Nicole told him with a cringed expression.

"I know, that's the idea," Future Sonic chuckled, then got serious again. "Bring all the security measures down. I want them out of my way."

"Aye aye, captain!" Nicole stated with a salute, then she disappeared from sight.

Inside, Truemen and Zipp were checking the security cameras of the entire mansion in Zipp and Pipp's room. Suddenly, however, they all started to shut down, taking both of them off guard.

"The heck?!" Zipp asked.

"That... Should not be happening..." Truemen pointed out. "Nicole? What's happening?"

"Something's messing up with the security system!" Nicole replied, but then she suddenly gasped. "W-What is this?! W-Who are you?! W-What's going––"

But before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly went offline. "Nicole?" Truemen called out, but when he got no response, he started to grow concerned. "Nicole, where are you?! If this is a joke, is not funny!"

And yet no response came still, so both Truemen and Zipp looked at each other concerned before leaving the latter's room and rush outside. They ran through around the pool to get inside and into the living room where they found Twilight, Midpoint and Sunny. The three of them noticed the other two's concerned looks and heavy pants from their race.

"What's going on?" Twilight asked them, knowing pretty well they come with anything but good news.

"The security cameras aren't working!" Zipp said concerned.

"And I lost contact with Nicole! She's not answering!" Truemen added.

"Nicole and the cameras aren't working? At the same time?" Midpoint questioned with a concerned frown. "That's not possible. I designed Nicole with a special program that keeps her from being hacked. The only one who can hack into her is herself and me."

Twilight then focused on feeling her magic, but then she gasped. "...The shield around the mansion... I-I can't feel it!"

"What?!" The others said with concern.

"Are you kidding?! Twilight, this is not the time to make jokes!" Sunny pointed out.

"I'm not kidding! I can't feel the shield––" But just as Twilight was saying this, the Mansion's front doors exploded and turned into thousands of sharp wooden pieces, which made both Twilight and Sunny, who turned into an Alicorn, activate shields with their magic, until they felt safe and decided to deactivate them.

"Everyone okay?!" Sunny asked with concern.

"Yeah..." Truemen said.

"Unbreakable skin," Midpoint added.

"I can't believe we're not dead!" Zipp chuckled awkwardly.

"Consider yourself lucky." A sixth voice spoke, and then the other five turned to the entrance of the mansion in defensive positions. "If not for your friends's shields, you'll be all goners by now." The group looked towards the sixth voice. coming in through the hole, soaking wet, was Future Sonic. "I'm honestly impressed to see you all live still. Those things would've been pretty hurtful otherwise."

The Freedom Fighters in the house turned behind them, seeing that sharp pieces of wood had tuck into the walls and stairs, right where they were standing, meaning that if not for Sunny and Twilight's shield, they'll be dead by now.

"The heck?!" Zipp asked in anger, as she and everyone else turned back to this new Sonic in the entrance.

"Who are you?!" Twilight asked with an angry expression. "How did you got in here?!"

The answer came, though, when Nicole appeared in front of the other Sonic... facing him instead of the rest.

"The path is open up, boss!" Nicole told him with a smile and a salute, making the present Freedom Fighters feel in shock.

"Excellent work, Nicole." Future Sonic told her with a nod, but his only eye still looked at the Freedom Fighters. "Go back to the HQ. I'll take it from here."

"You sure?" Nicole asked, then she looked at the others for a second before approaching Future Sonic to whisper. "These guys are quite a match, Future Sonic. Not to mention, you're outnumbered..."

"I appreciate your concern, Nicole..." Future Sonic replied, and then finally turned to see her. "But this is not my first battle outnumbered. And is not me who you should feel worried over."

"Yeah, I know..." Nicole said. "Just... Don't brake any of their bones, okay? And if you need help, just say the magic word!"

After that, Nicole went away, while Future Sonic smirked. "I don't promise anything."

The Freedom Fighters had no idea on what to say, except for Zipp. "That darn lynx! I thought we could trust her!"

"Oh, you think she's your Nicole? Nah," Future Sonic stated. "She's just in sleep mode. She'll be back online once I leave. And I'll leave once I see the man of the house eye to eye."

"What do you mean the Nicole you were talking to is nor the Nicole we know?" Truemen asked confused, still frowning.

"Simple word: Multiverse," Future Sonic replied. "Big, vast, full of endless possibilities. The Nicole you saw was built by the Tails from my universe. She's everything I have left of him."

"What?" Sunny asked concerned.

"You're so confusing and frustrating!" Twilight said with anger. "What does 'FS' is supposed to stand for?! That's how this 'other' Nicole called you!"

"FS is short for 'Future Sonic', Sparkles," Future Sonic said with a mocking grin and chuckle, saying the last word in such a way that made Twilight blush in embarrassment and anger alike. "But don't wrap your head on a mental journey that'll make you count the stars in the sky. I'm not your Sonic's future. In fact, I'm no Sonic's Future. I'm just a guy that has to do what has to be done. Now, why am I here? I'm looking for the fox in charge. And I'm not leaving until he arrives."

"Then you're getting disappointed, buddy, because Michael is not here," Twilight stated, as she illuminated her horn with a frown.

"Oh, you don't wanna do that, Twilight," Future Sonic stated, looking at her with a bored expression "I don't wanna fight with any of you, but if I have to to get to MC, then I'll crush your skulls against the walls if necessary."

Midpoint then pulled out his collapsible archery bow, extended it, prepared a trick arrow, and aimed it at Future Sonic. He then declared, "Well... Then crush your skull into this!" He then released the arrow.

Future Sonic just moved aside and let the arrow exit the mansion. Midpoint then whistled and the arrow he released turned around and went back towards the hedgehog. Yet Future Sonic seemed to know this, because as the arrow was coming back, his right bracelet shifted and created a hand cannon, then Future Sonic turned around and shoot the arrow, making it explode out of the mansion, while Future Sonic grinned at he did, leaving the Freedom Fighters with their jaws dropped. Midpoint was shocked that his arrow never hit its target.

"Im-impossible..." Midpoint said.

"They say you never miss, Midpoint..." Future Sonic said, as the arm cannon retracted while he turned to the Freedom Fighters. "But there's always a first for everything."

"H-How did you..." Midpoint tried to ask in utter shock.

"Please. You really think I'll come to capture an anomaly without being prepared?" Future Sonic snorted, then he got so serious that the few present Freedom Fighters could not believe this guy is really Sonic from another universe. "I've been studying every single one of you for months. Your dreams, your hopes, your strengths, your weaknesses... I'm not a man that likes what he does most of the time, but I know I have to be the one to do it. Other Sonics fear to become like me, while I fear they won't even live to see their futures."

"Anomaly?" Sunny questioned confused. "What is this guy talking about?!"

"No clue, but I'm running out of patience," Twilight said with a growl.

"You running out of patience?" Future Sonic chuckled again. "Pathetic. I hope you're happy now, 'Misspoint', because your little trick has ended along with my good mood. So, let me ask this one last time..."

Before making his question, he showed a pair of blades coming from his bracelets, both of them glowing in neon blue while electricity sparked from them. This startled the others, but now Sunny joined Twilight into igniting her horn, while Zipp stood ready to fight, Truemen pointed his robotic arm and charged his cannon, and Midpoint prepared to launch a different type of arrow.

"Where. Is. Michael Crayton?" Future Sonic asked, thunder striking behind him as he made the question. "We can do this the easy way... Or my way."

"You want to get to him? You'll have to get past us!" Twilight declared.

"Funny you say that... His mother told me the same before I came here," Future Sonic said with a wicked grin and chuckle. The Freedom Fighters there all gasped.

That's all Twilight had to hear to then launch herself against Future Sonic, who grinned and launched back, and as they approached each other, Future Sonic raised one of his blades and tried to hit Twilight's head, but she used a small barrier to protect herself and then make her hands glow, creating a spear with her magic as she tried to use it on Future Sonic, managing to hit his chest and push him back. Future Sonic growled in pain, then looked at Twilight in anger and stick his blades on the ground, then he rushed towards her and swing his left sword to pretend he's hitting her there, but when she was blocking that area, Future Sonic literally turned around fast enough to cut a slight zone in her waist, making her groan in pain, then Future Sonic kicked her back, as the spear disappear.

Seeing Twilight down, Sunny growled and then launched herself against Future Sonic, and as he saw her approaching, he changed his right blade for an arm cannon and shoot blasts against her, but Sunny shielded herself with her magic and then head to Future Sonic, almost kicking him if he had not used the blade on his left bracelet to shield himself. He then pushed Sunny back, but just as she was sent backwards, Future Sonic rushed and grabbed her from her tail, then throw her against a wall and made her fall painfully into the ground, before Future Sonic rushed and kicked her face, making her fall unconscious, her Alicorn form disappearing and earning gasps from all the others.

"One down. Four to go!" Future Sonic declared, retracting the arm cannon and then taking out a blade once more, before launching himself against Midpoint.

He frowned and then started to shoot explosive arrows towards Future Sonic, but he dodged them all and then grabbed one to launch it against Midpoint himself, making him throw himself to the side, while the arrow that Future Sonic launched hit the stairs and made them explode, shocking Midpoint, as he quickly stood up and tried to keep doing this, but then Future Sonic punched him backwards while also snatching his bow, crushing it with his bare hand.

"You'll need more than some arrows to put me down, Midpoint," Future Sonic warned with a frown.

Midpoint, however, grinned and then he pointed his hand outside, as some of the water drops from the rain froze in time and then head towards Midpoint, as he made the water bodies move around himself before he made them adopt a sharp form and then suddenly freeze.

Future Sonic raised an eyebrow at this. "Yeah... That won't stop me, either, but thanks for the circus show!"

Midpoint growled and then launched the sharp ice against Future Sonic, who made a flip to the side and then rushed towards Midpoint. He grabbed a couch nearby and launched it against Future Sonic, who slashed the furniture in half with his blades, but this was Midpoint just distracting him enough to bring over more water drops and turn them into sharp weapons that he kept throwing against Future Sonic like a storm. However, Future Sonic only used his blades and reflexes to cut and dodge said attacks, even grabbing one of the ice shards and throwing it to him, but Midpoint only dodged it, and then, he spin his finger with a cocky grin, making all the frozen water bodies that Future Sonic dodged immediately return back to him.

Future Sonic, noticing this, stopped moving and retracted his blades, then made his two bracelets change to arm cannons and shoot at the attacks, destroying them in the air. He then saw how Midpoint launched an explosive arrow with his bare hand, and it could've hit him if he did not activated his Super Speed, dodging the arrow and then staying on his super speed mode to stand behind Midpoint, retracting the arm cannons and then pulling out an orange blade from his left hand.

Meanwhile, the arrow exploded right were Future Sonic used to be, making Midpoint believe he had got rid of him, but then said grin disappeared and he gasped in pain when his chest was traversed by Future Sonic's blade. His eyes slowly drifted down, seeing the blade that passed through his body in shock, concern and pain.

"They say you never miss a shot..." Future Sonic muttered in his ear. "You have disappointed me, Midpoint. I expected better from you."

He then pulled the blade out, making Midpoint fall painfully into his knees while he kept gasping, grabbing his chest and, even if it was not bleeding, the pain was very real.

"W-What.... D-Did you... d-do to me...?" Midpoint asked confused, still in pain.

"I blocked your powers, for a limited time," Future Sonic replied. "I know you've got enhanced durability, so fabricating a blade that can brake the unbreakable skin was a big challenge. Fortunately, I've got a bunch of Tailses working together into making it a reality, and here you have it!"

Future Sonic showed the blade he used to Midpoint, who's eyes widened in horror before such a thing. Future Sonic then retracted it and grabbed Midpoint's head, as he closed his fist while the bracelet built a metallic glove around it, making Midpoint panic.

"You'll be down for a while, and even if you do recover your powers, you'll be too asleep to do anything." Future Sonic declared, then punched Midpoint's face three times, and in the fourth one, he launched him against a wall, making him traverse it and then fall unconscious on the ground, while Future Sonic retracted the glove. "That's two down."

He then heard how Zipp launched to him, and crossed her legs around his neck, then started to hit his face with all the strength she could gather in an attempt to knock him out as well, but even if Future Sonic was grunting, he grabbed Zipp's legs and then throw her to a table, breaking it in an instant, then grabbed her again and throw her against a wall upstairs, making her traverse it and end up in the library. Zipp groaned in pain and tried to stand up, but then Future Sonic rushed and kicked her face with his feet. Zipp groaned again, but then she noticed several books near her, so she smirked and pick them up, then threw one at Future Sonic, hitting him on his nose.

Zipp cheered at this, but Future Sonic growled and glared at her in anger, then made his blades come out and rushed to her. Zipp panicked and tried to launch more and more books, but Future Sonic cut them all off with ease by swinging his blades, and then he reached Zipp, grabbing her from her neck and keeping a strong grip around it, while Zipp herself started to gag in pain and grabbed Future Sonic's arm, then tried to hit it but could not even breath.

"Killing you off could brake the Canon of this universe, so I won't do it," Future Sonic stated. "But I can't have you interfering in my plans. And, since we're on the second floor, we're high enough for me to throw you away. But you'll be fine, don't worry, just as long as you don't mess with my business!"

After stating this, Future Sonic smashed Zipp into the ground and pressed his foot on her chest, making Zipp groan in pain. He then hit her face three times with his normal hand clenched into a fist, and then he grabbed her again before throwing her out of the window of the library, as he heard her scream and then nothing. He approached to the broken window and looked down, seeing Zipp's unconscious body in the ground, also soaking wet because of the rain pouring over her.

"Three down. Just two more to get to the man himself," Future Sonic stated, thunder striking as he did so.

But then he made a flip to the left, just in time to dodge Magical Photon Blasts coming out of Truemen's robotic arm. Future Sonic then switched his blades for arm cannons and then started to shoot them against Truemen, who launched himself behind a table and then overturned it to use it as cover. He then quickly rushed to a bookshelf and picked it up with everything and the books thanks to his arm's super strength and then throw it at Future Sonic. However, he switched the cannon arms for blades and charged a Spin Dash with the blades, then launched himself against the bookshelf and destroyed it, then he slid in the ground and used his feet to make Truemen trip, and then when the bear stood up, Future Sonic dashed behind him and grabbed him from his chest before doing a suplex on him.

Truemen growled at this, then quickly stood up before Future Sonic had the chance to and shoot him, hitting his shoulder and ripping off part of his coat, also leaving a scratch with blood on his shoulder. Seeing this made Future Sonic growl in anger and look at Truemen as if he had found the devil himself. However, Truemen did not felt intimidated, then picked up a table and throw it at Future Sonic, but then the future hedgehog retracted the blades of his bracelets and joined them together to form one single arm: A long sword with white handle that had golden decorations and a neon pink blade, then cut the table in a half, and when the table fell to the ground, the cut zones began to melt.

Now Truemen's eyes widened, but he wasn't going to let fear get the best of him, so he launched himself against Future Sonic and began to shoot again, and yet Future Sonic twirled the sword around to make it work as a shield, before he then hit Truemen's chest with the sword's handle, then launched the sword in the air, slid under Truemen and then hit his back to make him fall on his knees, and then jumped to grab the sword in the air and slashed Truemen's robotic arm off him, both the part still connected to him and the part that fell to the ground melting, while Truemen screamed in pain.

However, Future Sonic did not give him any time to process what happened, because he then grabbed his head and slammed it against his, making Truemen fall unconscious into the ground as well, while Future Sonic nodded satisfied with this result, then he put his hands together to grab the sword's handle, and then it retracted back to be his two bracelets.

"That's four down... And just one to go," Future Sonic said, then he turned around to the hole in the library's wall and frowned.

In the living room, Twilight stood up and coughed, then looked around and gasped in horror when she noticed that Sunny and Midpoint where both unconscious. She then turned to see that Future Sonic had arrived back, and then she frowned, standing up while holding her chest before glaring daggers at Future Sonic, who simply looked at her with indifference.

"...What... do you want from Michael?" Twilight asked.

"I want to make sure his power is under control..." Future Sonic replied. "My control. He gets more powerful each passing day, and the more powerful he gets, the less control he'll have. I'm trying to do something good for this universe, but I know that he's not a guy I can just approach and tell 'Oh, hey! Guess what? If you stay any longer in this universe you could go crazy! Come with me and that won't happen!' without my face ending on the floor, or at least without me losing my only working eye. As I said earlier, I just have to do what I have to do."

"Breaking into private property without warning is really necessary for you?!" Twilight asked in anger and disbelief.

"I have to do what's necessary. And now, only you stand in my way to reach that scumbag..." Future Sonic replied, then grinned. "I can't wait when he arrives and sees you all beaten up, Sparkles!"

Him using the nickname MC gave her felt off earlier because he was mocking her, but after seeing what he has done to the mansion, she frowned and launched herself to him, her arms fully glowing in the same color as her purple magic. Future Sonic, however, did not brought out any weapons. He simply ducked down and ducked her attempt at punching him. However, Twilight then growled and tried to punch him in the ground, making Future Sonic do a back flip and kick Twilight's face at the same time, making her spit some saliva out. She did hit the ground, though, leaving a mark.

But she then growled again and rushed to him, trying desperately to punch him, even launching laser beams from her horn, and even levitating everything around to try and hit him, but Future Sonic dodged it all without even trying, like if he wasn't taking her serious at all. And, in all honesty, he isn't. Twilight then sent literal daggers made of magic against him, but he lifted up enough objects around so the blades would hit those instead of him. He even stepped over one like it was nothing, making Twilight's anger and frustration grow by every second. She then levitated Future Sonic, and he was brought before her, but Future Sonic's expression didn't even seemed like he minded her doing this.

You are not going to get to Michael, you hear me?! You are not!" Twilight stated, charging up her horn and preparing to shoot.

"You don't have the guts to kill me, Sparkles." Future Sonic said, his tone and sight as cold as ever. "You never had them, you'll never will."

That was the final straw that made Twilight snap, so she held Future Sonic on the air with her magic and then shoot her laser, traversing Future Sonic's head and the wall behind him in the process. When the beam dissipated and the job was done, Twilight was panting heavily, and her horn died out, along all the magic she summoned. It took her staring at Future Sonic's dead body in the ground around 10 seconds for realization to hit her like a train, the realization that she has killed someone. Yes, this guy invaded and all, but he never once tried to attack her back. He just dodged her attacks and then let himself get killed. She let out a whimper, falling into her knees as tears formed in her eyes.

"W-What... W-What have I done?" Twilight said, looking at her trembling hands in fear.

But just when she thought that she really had killed someone, the dead corpse of Future Sonic suddenly disappeared, confusing her a lot.

"Hmph... I suspected that taking a life away with your own hands, or horn, would affect you..." Future Sonic's voice spoke, making Twilight's pupils shrink as she slowly turned around, and then Future Sonic appeared from the shadows, meaning that what Twilight killed was just an hologram... A very realistic one, at that. "I didn't think it'd be this bad, though."

"Y-You... H-How did you...?" Twilight asked in disbelief, looking back and forth between the place where Future Sonic was "dead" a few seconds ago and the real one behind her.

"You never fought with me, Sparkle," Future Sonic explained with a shrug. "But like I said, I know everyone's weaknesses too well. And I know you fear to kill someone that's not even trying to fight back. I had to use that to my advantage."

Hearing this made Twilight realize how wicked and insane this guy is. He may be called Sonic, but he's not a good one. Nor sane one, either. He made something so horrid like make her think she actually killed him and then came out to reveal he's perfectly fine. She wanted to kill him for real now, but just as she stood up and prepared to launch at him, Future Sonic brought out his orange blade and then stabbed Twilight, making her pupils tremble as she looked down at the blade stabbed on her belly. He did all of this in just a second, and Twilight didn't even had time to react.

"This isn't gonna kill you, but it will leave you powerless until I get your boyfriend out of here," Future Sonic declared. "And let me tell you this, Twilight: One day, in the distant future, when your universe lives happily thanks to my work and my methods, you'll look pass my actions and thank me. Just you wait and see."

After stating this, Future Sonic pulled the blade out of Twilight, making her fall into her knees and moan in pain. No blood came out of her, but the pain she felt was real, very real. Future Sonic then switched the blade for a metallic pipe and hit Twilight's head, making her fall in the ground, then he retracted the pipe and kicked her face, making her nose bleed and finally making her fall unconscious. He then noticed that Twilight dropped her communicator, so Future Sonic picked it up and grinned, because now he finally has a way to bring MC over to him.

So, Future Sonic just pressed the button to call all the Freedom Fighters and spoke. "Michael? I hope you're there, you big mistake, because I'm not going to repeat myself. Your mansion is a disaster, and the five idiots you had here 'guarding' it are not going to feel their butts in a while. Now, let's get down to business, shall we? I want you to come up here in 2 minutes and listen to my words, straight into my face. Come over alone, pal. I had mercy on the five dummies in this mansion, but if anyone that's not yourself shows up... Their heads will be rolling out of this place, and will end right into your feet. Their blood will be in your hands, Michael, for not listening to me."

"I'm sorry, but do I know you?" MC's voice came from the communicator. "Who is this? And what have you..." Before another word could be said, Future Sonic crushed the communicator with his hand. He then looked around at the destruction he caused. He did knew that a big battle would unleash considering neither MC nor his friends were going to listen, but this... This definitely is not what he had in mind.

"Oh well... Is not like I'm going to repair all this damage, anyways," Future Sonic shrugged.

"At the time, I had not known what I was up against, nor did I know what else was gonna happen. But when I got there, it was a total disaster."

It only took MC around 30 seconds to arrive after receiving the message. As MC entered the place, he gasped, and his eyes widened at the sight of his mansion this destroyed. Seeing Sunny and Midpoint laying unconscious in the ground only added more to his shock, but then seeing Future Sonic arrive... That made him felt terrified.

"What the... Sonic?!" MC asked confused.

"Yes... And no," Future Sonic replied, as he slowly approached MC. "I am Sonic, yes. Many call me Future Sonic, true, but I'm not your Sonic's future. I'm just a guy that came from a different universe where it is what you'll consider the future."

"I... I don't get it..." MC said with disbelief. "W-What is going on? Why did you destroyed the..." But then MC looked behind Future Sonic and noticed Twilight's unconscious body laying in the ground. Of course, he does not know that she's unconscious, and then he looked at Future Sonic with anger rising deep within himself. And in an angry tone, MC said, "What have you done?"

"She's alive, Michael," Future Sonic replied. "I just put her powers to sleep so she won't bother us. I've got things to discuss with you, anyways."

MC sniffed him, then his eyes widened upon realizing that he's not lying. "...This cannot be... The multiverse is a concept you shouldn't be messing with... In fact, you shouldn't be here!"

"Oh, so you know about the multiverse?" Future Sonic chuckled. "Then riddle me this, boy genius: If I should not mess with the multiverse, then why has it been more stable than ever thanks to my intervention? Hmm?"

MC sniffed again, and once more, Future Sonic was not lying. "What the heck is wrong with you, then? Why did you attack my home, and my friends? Why did you attack my fiancé?!"

"Your friends were in my way to reach you, so I did what had to be done," Future Sonic replied. "This is just business, Michael. Nothing personal."

"Well, you attacked my fiancé, and that's very personal to me!" MC shouted, then tried to punch Future Sonic, but the hedgehog grabbed his fist with no effort and then push it back, making MC's wrist crack and then his eyes widen.

"Really? You've got pretty sick powers that just evolve each passing day, and you choose to use your fists?" Future Sonic asked, sounding disappointed. "Pitiful."

"I-Impossible!" MC exclaimed. "I-I've got super strength! You should not be able to..."

"Resist a punch from you?" Future Sonic asked and then snorted. "Please. I've faced Knuckleses stronger than you."

Future Sonic then turned his free had into a big metallic fist, before punching MC backwards and make him create another hole in the wall. MC groaned in pain, but then he shook his head and growled in anger, while Future Sonic stared at him and shrugged.

"So what now, Michael? Are you standing there, or are you growing up some guts to..." Future Sonic said before being interrupted as MC suddenly zoomed into his face and increased his density to gain even more strength, then hit Future Sonic's face and made him spit some blood, then started to use him as his punching bag by hitting his face more, then his chest, his ribs, then made him trip, and then involved his fist in fire thanks to his Elemental Mimicry abilities and punched Future Sonic backwards, making him slide on the ground. When his hands were set ablaze, large words came in from behind him. Words that say "Flames of Disaster".

Future Sonic looked at MC, then licked some of the remaining blood in his lips and started to laugh, slowly standing up and then rubbing his nose with a finger. Finally, after 6 failures of warriors, someone has arrived to give quite the punch.

"The Flames of Disaster. Yeah... now we're talking..." Future Sonic said and chuckled. "This is what I've craved for... an amazing battle"

After stating this, Future Sonic turned his two bracelets into two swords with white handle that had golden details and long blue blades, then twirled one of them around to hold it in the opposite direction, while MC growled and brought out his materiokinetic photon blasts and launched towards his enemy, with Future Sonic doing the same. He has waited long enough to beat the poop out of MC, but today, the wait has finally come to an end.

MC bared his claws and they made contact against Future Sonic's swords, as he held them together to shield himself. MC tried to cut into the swords, but even though his claws were slightly cutting them, it was so slow and small that Future Sonic started to chuckle.

"What's the matter, Michael? Your powers are not working?" Future Sonic mocked up, then he pushed MC backwards and swing the left sword on the ground, but MC made a back flip to dodge this and then rushed to cut Future Sonic's cheek.

The future hedgehog ducked down and slid into the ground, as everything went into slow motion so we can see how Future Sonic dodges MC's attack for barely one or two centimeters. When everything ran back to normal, Future Sonic used one of his swords to stop sliding and then boosted against MC once more. MC did the same, but he retracted his claws and then literally turned his whole arms into living fire, as he hit Future Sonic's swords while the future hedgehog kept swinging them in an attempt to hit MC.

And his chance finally arrived when MC grabbed Future Sonic's swords with his hands and a smirk, but then Future Sonic smirked back and pulled the swords back, his arms went back to normal and he saw his hands, both had big and deep cuts. He was used to physical pain so much, it didn't bother him. His healing factor restored them immediately, as if the cuts were never there, but he still growled in anger at Future Sonic and launched against him once more.

"CHAOS CLAW!" MC shouted, a pair of silver claws showing up as he slashed both of Future Sonic's swords, the blades shattering into pieces and falling into the ground, making MC grin.

Future Sonic, however, did not seemed impressed. He then said, "Huh... That's a neat trick..."

"That's Chaos Claw for you, pal!" MC said with a chuckle. "Nothing can resist an attack from that, not even your fancy tech!"

"Yeah, yeah, I know..." Future Sonic rolled his eyes, then twirled the swords's handles around and hold them normally before extending new blades with a wicked smile. "Fortunately, I studied your every move for months before arriving! I'm prepared for all you've got in store for me, Michael!"

MC's eyes widened in panic, and then jumped into a wall and crawled over it as he tried to reach height to attack Future Sonic, but he seemed to notice this, so he retracted both swords back into his bracelets, then rushed upstairs, charged a Spin Dash and then traversed the exact zone of the wall MC was crawling over before pushing him through the window and then end outside of the mansion, the rain soaking them both wet in the process. The two of them then stood up and looked at each other with frowns. Future Sonic was starting to loose his patience, and MC probably did it already.

"I don't care why you came here, old man!" MC declared. "You messed with my people, now, you're gonna pay!"

"Ugh, please. Your friends could not even stand a straight minute against me!" Future Sonic pointed out. "Your fiancé thought she killed me and let her guard down, so I put her to sleep! And don't make me talk about your Mom! Gosh, that was the lamest fight I'd had in a while!"

However, MC's eyes widened after hearing this. "You... You fought my Mother?"

"Eh, it wasn't a battle. More so me kicking her butt big time." Future Sonic grinned. "Don't worry, she's alive. She's got a collar that turned her powers off, though, and I may had broken a few of her bones that didn't fully healed before I put the collar... But she's alive."

MC started to breath heavily, and then he frowned, thunder stroke behind him. "You... You broke my mother's bones... and put a collar that deactivated her powers..." He then let out some golden energy from his fists and his eyes became nothing but a golden aura. "...BEFORE SHE FULLY HEALED?!"

"You should thank me, Michael." Future Sonic frowned. "I spared her life because killing her could threaten the multiverse. Her job and mine are the same, but I take the decisions she wouldn't dare to because she's so busy making sure her beloved son is having fun with his little friends. Well, get the memo, Michael! Your power will grow to the point you'll be able to wipe this planet out in a snap. Yes, a future version of you learned to control that power and embrace it, but I have no guarantee that you'll do the same because you're not him! If I can avoid a disaster by holding your power my way, then I'll do it."

"Removing me from my own universe could bring down terrible consequences!" MC pointed out. "I have no idea how you refer to it, but you are not pulling me out of here just because some random data told you that I can go wild or something!"

"You staying here and becoming powerful enough to wipe planets with a blink is a risk I won't take!" Future Sonic stated. "So let's decide what happens once and for all..." He then brought out a blade on his left and turned his right bracelet into a sword again. "If I win, you come with me."

"And if I do, you'll leave my universe alone!" MC declared, thunder striking behind him once more.

"Ooh, Michael! You're getting wild now!" Future Sonic laughed. "I love it!"

And then, both MC and Future Sonic head against each other again, both of them jumping in the air, as Future Sonic raised his blade and MC his materiokinetic photon blasts right claw. They both shouted warrior cries, and as they head their attack to the other in slow motion, more thunder stroke behind them both. Then, their weapons collided, and Future Sonic held MC's claw on the blade, then used the sword to cut MC's left arm entirely, and then kicked his face to push him away. However, MC slid in the ground, growled, stopped thanks to his remaining arm's claws, then his right arm grew back in less than three seconds, and then he launched back towards Future Sonic.

Future Sonic made a back flip and stuck the sword on the ground, then changed the blade on the left arm for a cannon blast and started to shoot against MC, who jumped over the attacks, slid under them, and even grabbed one of them to surround his whole arm by said power and then tried to hit Future Sonic, who grabbed the sword again and then changed the cannon blast for a shield he used to protect himself from the hits. He then retracted the sword and switched it to make a cannon blast again, then started to shoot against MC with no mercy, but MC dodged the blasts and then grabbed Future Sonic's cannon, then tried to crush it with his strength.

However, Future Sonic grinned and then made the shield that MC was grabbing with his right arm to change into a claw, which he used to rip off MC's whole arm, making him groan in pain. And as the arms started to grow back, Future Sonic twirled to the right and hit MC on his face with his ripped off arm. He sent him rolling backwards, and as his right arm had come back to normal, he growled at Future Sonic and head back to him, now controlling several of the water drops falling around to create ice stacks and then launch them against Future Sonic. The future hedgehog managed to dodge almost all of them with back flips, but one of them did managed to rose his right arm, making him groan in pain and then glare daggers at him.

However, MC was beyond being over, because he then used the water in the ground to make ice stacks grow and try to stab Future Sonic, so he started to run away across the back of the mansion from the stacks, but then saw more coming up to him, so he jumped in the air and then turned his two bracelets into cannon blasts, then started to shoot at every single one of the stacks to destroy them. He then landed in the ground on his knees as the explosions of his shots died down, just for MC to come out and then try to dig his claws into him, but Future Sonic rolled in the ground and changed the cannon blasts for swords again, as he and MC started to fight once more.

"I don't get it!" MC Shouted. "You're supposed to be a Sonic! So why don't you act like one!"

Hearing this made Future Sonic's blood boil in rage, so he growled and then pushed MC backwards, before he started to swing his swords faster than before, managing to cut and mutilate MC several times. Even if his healing factor was answering fast, he started to grow worried now because his attacks seemed more lethal, as if telling him that he's not acting like Sonic would enraged him. MC then tried to make more stacks of ice with the water around because it kept raining, but then Future Sonic's boots pulled some blades out of the tips, and soon, Future Sonic was making twirls and swinging his sword around to cut all the ice stacks, before land in the ground to cut the last pair and then look at MC with rage.

"Get the memo, Michael. I'm not like the other Sonics!" Future Sonic stated, then he started to literally slash MC's arms and legs without showing any mercy, and even if MC was growing his cut extremities back, he was trying to stay away from Future Sonic. "I use weapons when the others never ever think of it! I kill people when the others hesitate or straight up don't do it! And I do anything that's necessary to keep the multiverse alive! So if you want that to happen as well, come with me now, or I'll make you!"

"Over my dead body!" MC declared. "And that's not gonna happen since I can't be killed!"

He then made one more ice stack grow, and this one stabbed Future Sonic's right shoulder, traversing it entirely and making his eye's pupil shrink. He then used his sword to cut the stack, but his expression clearly said that something has changed deep inside of him, so he slowly turned to MC, and his only working eye twitched. MC himself seemed to regret what he did, but he still stood ready to fight just in case, although he's got a very bad feeling about this.

"Oh, big mistake, fox..." Future Sonic stated, as he removed his coat and his eye patch, showing off a massive scar over his dead eye that was grey instead green. "You'll regret the day you crossed paths with me, pretty boy."

With that being stated, Future Sonic's eyes started to glow, the one that's dead fully glowing in blue along the scar, while the working eye only had the pupil glowing in blue, and yet MC could tell what is coming would hurt a lot. And so, Future Sonic grabbed MC from his neck and then started to smash him against his own mansion, because he has activated his beast mode and can now move at the literal speed of light with no effort. MC tried to fight back, but Future Sonic just grabbed him and smashed him to the floor in the library, then threw him outside towards the guest house and smashed throw into Pipp and Zipp's room, where he grabbed two of the TVs where Zipp looks the security cameras and then smashed them on MC's head, before throwing him into the next room.

They ended up now in Hitch and Sparky's room, where Future Sonic smashed MC's face against the table and then suplex him against a near by invention and destroyed it. He was having no mercy on him. Then, he threw MC against the next room, once again braking the wall. MC landed on a room that contains a portal that leads to Twilight's Castle. Future Sonic literally ripped off one side of the portal and hit MC against the wall. MC managed to grab the piece with his hands, though, but then when he took it away from Future Sonic, he rushed into him and punched his face hard enough to brake one of his teeth, as MC fell to his knees and spit out a tooth.

"I love facing off guys like you, pops!" Future Sonic stated, kicking MC's face to ensure he'll stay in the ground. "Guys that believe they're invincible, unstoppable, practically Gods! But then, I come in, and show them the harsh truth. That they're nothing. That they're just pathetic, little sad people that blindly believe they're their world's best protectors. But here's the thing, Michael..."

"I never said... I was a god," MC said. "I don't even know if my Mom is a goddess. But I do know... I will never give up on what I believe in."

"Well then, it'll be a first time for something," Future Sonic said. Future Sonic then grabbed MC and throw him through Sunny, Silver, Blaze, Gallus, Smolder, Yona and Misty's room, leaving two holes in their rooms before he ended up in a bathroom. Future Sonic then arrived and grabbed him from his neck, pulling him upwards with a frown.

"If this planet where to get destroyed tomorrow, making all it's inhabitants leave to space..." Future Sonic started, then hit MC's head against the bathroom's toilet, braking it, and then throwing MC against another wall, making him roll and then fall from the second to first floor, landing on his face with a thud and a very painful groan, while Future Sonic landed behind him and slowly approached him. "You'll lose all your powers, and then you'll realize what you are: Nothing, but a shadow of the warrior and prince you used to be once, long before I arrived!"

MC, however, chuckled and slowly stood up to look at Future Sonic with a mocking grin. "...And you? Your fancy tech makes you formidable, but what are you without it?"

This made Future Sonic growl in anger, then he grabbed MC from his neck. "Let me show you!"

After stating this, Future Sonic clenched his free hand into a fist and then punched MC to the sky, high enough for him to traverse the ceiling. Future Sonic then took a jump into the air and reached high enough to start to use MC as his punching bag. He was using no tech, not even his metallic gloves: He used his bare hands, his own strength, to make sure he'll harm MC. He hit his face, a scar forming, then hit his ribs and chest to take the air out of him, and then grabbed MC's face to keep it in place before hitting it over and over, as more and more scars along with bruises appearing on MC.

Finally, once they were high enough, Future Sonic extended his arms, and then a bolt of lightning hit him, then he used said power to charge his hands in electricity and then hit MC hard enough, making him traverse the ceiling of his mansion again and then land on the ground on his back. And, for the finisher move, Future Sonic charged up the biggest Spin Dash he has ever given with electricity included, then head towards MC in the ground and hit him, sending a massive wave of electrical power across the entire world, even surpassing space and shutting down a satellite.

Future Sonic started to pant heavily as he stood up, then his powers died down, and then he looked down at MC unconscious, then he grinned with glee. He then pressed a button on his right bracelet and, in a matter of seconds, his coat was back over him, while he catch his eye patch that came out of nowhere and put it back where it belongs, then smirked at MC, who started to slowly wake up from the punch and looked around, until his gaze stopped in Future Sonic, who ducked down and put over him a silver collar on his neck, which is the same one he used with his mother to deactivate her powers, and now, this one switched the green light to red, indicating it is activated and making Future Sonic's pain remain.

"Well... Looks like I won!" Future Sonic said with glee, then pressed a button on his watch and activated an heptagon-shaped portal that made some stuff around float for some reason. "Now, as we stated... You are coming with me."

He then shot a net around MC that immobilized him, then picked up the captured fox from the net and throw him through the portal. However, before leaving this universe already, he heard someone groaning, so he turned around and saw that Twilight was approaching, as she held her belly with one arm and then leaned into the wall with the other to not fall. Yet her eyes widened and she gasped when she saw that Future Sonic has already thrown MC into the portal, and Future Sonic grinned. But before he threw the royal fox into the portal, he failed to realize that MC gave a small smirk. MC faked being unconscious to see what else he was getting into, and to see what he could do against Future Sonic.

"You messed with the wolf, and he bit you." Future Sonic stated. "Now deal with the pain, Sparkles. One day, you'll thank me for doing this. I just saved your universe."

And with that being stated, Future Sonic left through the portal as it closed behind, the rubble falling into the ground and Twilight falling into her knees. The pain she was feeling a few seconds ago has left already, but the one on her heart just increased, and she started to tear up. Meanwhile, Sarah Crayton, who also recently arrived since the collar's effect was gone, looked around in horror at the destroyed mansion, at the beaten up Freedom Fighters, and then at the absence of her son. She knew it then... She knew that it was too late, and that Future Sonic had taken him away...

Universe: 250954
Location: Secret Society Headquarters

Future Sonic had returned from MC's universe, with the fox in a net. A lot of members of the Secret Society were all cheering that their boss had caught another anomaly. One of the members of that society, Shadow, was not there because he did not want him to know about MC's capture because that Shadow was also from MC's universe.

"Alright, everyone," Future Sonic said. "Yes, I have caught another anomaly. The second biggest anomaly has been dealt with. Now, there's only one more left. The one who broke the Paradox Prism and was able to travel the Multiverse by using his speed. Sonic the Hedgehog from Universe 220822."

MC, who was still faking his unconscious state, was listening to Future Sonic's speech. He then thought, "Sonic? That same Sonic that came to my universe during the mission in Soleanna? He's considered an anomaly, too?"

Future Sonic then threw MC onto the ground where a variant of Zipp and a variant of Rainbow Dash came over to pick him up. They removed the net that was around MC and then they removed the collar that was around his neck. His powers then reactivated. The variants of Rainbow Dash and Zipp carried MC towards a cage that was open.

"Huh," Rainbow Dash said. "For someone who can manipulate his self density, he seems very light."

Future Sonic then looked towards the three and asked, "Light?!" He then got a realization. "Oh, no. I didn't capture him. I walked him..."

MC opened his eyes and sweep kicked the variants of Rainbow Dash and Zipp Storm. MC then grabbed the device on Rainbow Dash's foreleg and put it on his right wrist.

"Very clever, Crayton," Future Sonic said. "But that won't stop me from taking you down!"

"If you think I would be taken down by a paradox, you're sadly mistaken," MC said.

"Paradox?!" Future Sonic asked.

"That's right, patch," MC said. "You're a paradox. A destroyer of universes. I will not let an idiot lock me up for existing." MC then let some golden energy come out of his fist and he punched the ground, causing a shockwave, making everyone grounded fall on the ground. MC then rushed out of there. He then headed for a window and jumped through the glass, breaking it. He then saw that he was at least 200 stories from the ground. "I did not think this through!" MC then looked at the device he snatched from the Rainbow Dash Variant. He then started pushing some buttons. "C'mon. One of these buttons has to open a portal." Just then, a portal opened up below him. "Perfect!" He then went through the portal.

"Eventually, I made it out of that Universe. And then I ended up in that one universe where I was attacked by more of those Society Members."

Universe: 010921
Location: Bridlewood

MC walked away from where he trapped the armored figures from the Secret Society in a sinkhole. MC then headed for that Universe's version of the Crystal Tea Room. All the ponies that were in there were surprised at MC's entry. The fox headed for the counter where Alphabittle was being very nervous about MC coming in for something.

"I just need a drink before I can head on out of this Universe," MC said.

"Uh, I'm... not sure..." Alphabittle said.

"You know what, I'll just leave," MC said. He then opened a portal to another Universe behind him.

Universe: 060313 (Toby Mason Universe)
Location: Everfree Forest Entry

A hexagonal portal opened up just at the entry of the Everfree Forest. He then rushed towards the cottage of that Universe's Fluttershy, making sure no one saw him.

"Okay, I just need to lay low and..." MC said before he noticed something. He saw that Universe's Fluttershy, along with a young human boy. He had short brown hair, green eyes, black square glasses, a red hoodie, blue jeans, and red and white sneakers. Both of them were feeding the animals. "Fluttershy? And a human boy?"

"That's it, Toby," Fluttershy said to the boy. "You're such a good boy."

"Thanks, Momma," Toby said.

"Momma? Toby?" MC asked, quietly. He then got a realization. "Oh, this must be Toby Mason. That kid that Joshua met when Nyx accidentally..." He then realized what universe he was in. "Okay, this must be it. My way back to my universe." He then sighed. "Just take it easy." He then started walking towards the two.

Fluttershy's ear twitched when she heard MC coming. She turned around to look at MC and she gasped. She then screamed and shouted, "Monster!" Toby turned and saw MC.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" MC said. "Easy. I'm not here to..." Just then, that Universe's Harry the Bear came in and tried to attack MC. MC was too fast for the bear. He then jumped onto the roof of the cottage and looked down at Fluttershy and Toby. "Listen, Fluttershy. I did not come here to hurt you or the kid."

"How... how do you know my name?!" Fluttershy asked.

"I came from another Universe," MC answered. "One universe that has some friends you two probably haven't seen in a long time."

"Oh, yeah?" Toby asked. "Who?"

"Nyx and Joshua," MC answered. Fluttershy and Toby widened their eyes. Then they looked at each other. Then they looked back up at MC.

"You know Nyx and Joshua?" Toby asked.

"I do," MC said before jumping down to the ground. "Let's just say things have changed a lot since the last time you two seen 'em."

Universe: 250954
Location: Secret Society Headquarters, Future Sonic's Office

Future Sonic was looking everywhere for which Universe MC could be hiding in. He was getting more and more frustrated when he couldn't find him.

"That stupid fox!" Future Sonic said. "He should've been found by now! Where... IS HE?!"

Then, that Universe's version of Nicole had reappeared. She said, "FS, we have located Michael Crayton through the device he stole from Rainbow Dash. Michael Crayton is in Universe 060313."

"Excellent," Future Sonic said. He then got up and opened a portal to that Universe. "Time to bring him back here. And this time... I'm taking the proper precaution." He then pulled out his blade that cancels the powers of those it stabs.

"Are... you sure that's necessary?" Nicole asked.

"I'm sure of it," Future Sonic said. He then walked through the portal.

Universe: 060313
Location: Fluttershy's Cottage

It was at least 30 minutes of MC explaining to Fluttershy and Toby of what happened to Nyx and Joshua. Both of them were surprised at all of that. They were all having tea.

"Joshua's turned back into a pony?" Toby asked.

"Yeah," MC said. "The magic he had in him after what Sombra did to him evolved within him. Since that magic was supposed to be for a unicorn, he's been turned back into one. He's permanently stuck as a pony for the rest of his life."

"Isn't there anything you can do to change him back?" Fluttershy asked.

"Not without him surviving," MC answered. "The only way that Joshua would be human again is to have his magic removed. But he's gotten so used to having magic, it's become a part of his life force."

"Oh, my," Fluttershy said.

"And that device on your wrist, what is that?" Toby asked.

"It's a Universal Portal Generator," MC answered. "I had to swipe it from a member of the Secret Society who is trying to arrest me for existing."

"They want you imprisoned just for existing?!" Fluttershy asked. "That's... that's horrible!" She then got angry. "Those big... dumb... MEANIES!"

"You got that right," MC said, not phased by Fluttershy's angry tone. "Okay. I should probably get back to..." He then noticed something outside. He could see a glimpse of a Universal Portal opening up outside. "Shoot, they found me!" He then looked at the device. "They must be tracking me through this device."

"Go," Fluttershy said. "I'll show those meanies who they're messing with."

"They probably know who they're messing with since they have data on everyone in the Multiverse," MC said. He then activated the device and opened a portal behind him. He stepped back and went into the portal. The portal closed just before Future Sonic broke through the door.

"Where are you..." Future Sonic then saw that a portal had recently opened inside the cottage. He growled and shouted, "NO!!" Then Fluttershy got in his face.

"How dare you try and arrest him for existing?!" Fluttershy asked, angrily towards Future Sonic. "He didn't seem all that bad! He's just trying to go home! Legally, what you're doing... IS KIDNAPPING!!"

"You don't know what you're getting yourself into, Fluttershy," Future Sonic said.

"MC is a friend of some friends of ours from another Universe!" Toby said. "He wouldn't hurt them because he cares about them!"

"You don't get to...!" Future Sonic said before getting a realization. "Oh... So that's it. He's trying to go home." He then chuckled. "Thanks for the help, kid. But now, I think it's time for me to get him back to where he belongs!" He then opened a portal behind him.

"No!" Toby and Fluttershy said in unison. Future Sonic had already stepped through the portal and it closed behind him.

Universe: 160521
Location: Freedom Fighters Mansion, Entry

After going through so many Universes, MC had finally found his way home. He came out of a portal and saw he was in front of Freedom Fighters Mansion.

"Could it be?" MC asked. He then ran over towards the living room window. Inside, he saw the Freedom Fighters who were recovering from their battle against Future Sonic. Along with his mom, Nyx and Joshua. "I'm home. I'm finally home!" He then pulled the device off his right wrist, threw it to the ground, and stomped on it with his right foot. "I don't need this thing anymore." He then headed for the broken door. When he was about to enter, he got stabbed. "GAAAAH!!" That caught the attention of the heroes inside. They all ran out of the living room and towards the front door where they saw MC getting stabbed by Future Sonic.

"Michael!" Twilight cried out.

MC winced through the pain of his powers not working with the blade in his back put in there by Future Sonic. He looked at his fiancé and weakly said, "Spar...kles..." He then went unconscious, for real this time.

Future Sonic then picked MC up and said, "Someday, you'll thank me." He then opened a portal back to his Universe. It then closed right before Midpoint was about to throw another arrow at Future Sonic, but it was too late. He was already gone.

"Dang it!" Midpoint said.

"Michael," Twilight said.

"Daddy," Nyx said. Then she hugged Twilight, crying her eyes out. Twilight hugged her back. Joshua and Sarah joined in the hugging.

Universe: ??????
Location: Also Unknown

MC was waking up from his forced slumber. He looked around and saw that he was in his family's castle, fully restored. Like the attack on it never happened.

"What?" MC asked. "What is this?" Just then, a fanfare came in. He saw in front of him the people of his kingdom, alive and older. He then saw right in front of him to his left was one of his childhood friends. Adrian the Badger, dressed up in Royal Guard armor.

"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Crayton Kingdom!" Older Adrian said. "Our King has returned!" All the people of the kingdom celebrated.

"What?" MC asked, quietly. He then looked around and saw that a lot of people he knew from before the kingdom got destroyed were alive. He then looked at Older Adrian. "Adrian?"

"Yes, your majesty?" Older Adrian asked.

"What happened here?" MC asked. "How is everyone here...?"

"Don't you remember, your majesty?" Older Adrian asked. "Captain Stryker was arrested and executed for betraying the kingdom and was educated for his crimes."

"Not... really..." MC said. But then he saw something. There were some people in the background glitching. MC then got angry and looked at the fake older Adrian. "This isn't real. You're showing me a what if." He then put his hands around his head. He felt something around his eyes. It was a helmet. He then tried getting it off. "Get off. Get off! GET OFF!"

Universe: 250954
Location: Secret Society Headquarters, Sector 6: Prison of the (Future Sonic's ideas of) Anomalies

MC had ripped off the helmet he had on and threw it to his left, but it bounced off the electrified cage that he was trapped in. The helmet also let out some gas that would make other people cough, but he was unaffected by it.

"Simulation Over," a voice came from the helmet.

"What is this place?" MC asked. He saw many variants of different people he knew. A Sonic variant that was giving his back towards the opening part of the cage. A Twilight variant that was grooming her wings sadly. A Ninja Turtle with a blue mask and swords. A Zipp variant that was sitting sad. A Humanized Sunset who was crying into her hands. A Derpy variant with normal eyes instead of having a lazy eye. And an Eggman variant wearing a pink t-shirt, green overalls and was playing a ukulele. "Okay, this place is full of people and ponies who don't belong here."

That laugh came from the Sonic variant that had his back faced towards the entrance of the cage. MC gave off a confused look towards that one.

"Okay, that's creepy," MC said. He then saw something on his gloves. Special devices to keep his claws from being bared and his Stabilizer Rings from getting off his wrists. "Oh, great." MC then tried removing the devices, but they gave off a shock. "GAAAH!" He then noticed the parts of the devices had something on them. "Anti-Matter Tasers. It had to be Anti-Matter."

"That's right," came Future Sonic's voice. Then all the creatures that were there, except for the one Sonic Variant, looked towards where the voice came from and saw Future Sonic coming in. MC then bared his teeth in anger as Future Sonic came in. "King Michael Crayton, founding member of the Freedom Fighters, and ultra powerful being. Able to manipulate the entire planet by having contact."

"Let... me... out...!" MC said, angrily.

"No can do, you royal pain," Future Sonic said. "You're gonna stay in here until your universes canon happens."

"My canon?" MC asked. "What is my canon?"

"Your power keeps growing and growing because of how happy you are," Future Sonic said. "You are not supposed to marry someone, especially your Universe's Twilight Sparkle."

"Wait, what?" asked the Twilight variant that was in there.

"Like you haven't fallen in love with a creature that wasn't the same species as you," MC said, looking at the Twilight variant.

"It's true," Future Sonic said. "We know you had the hots for a human Flash Sentry."

"Well played," the Twilight variant said.

"Anyway, your canon is the death of Princess Twilight Sparkle in your universe," Future Sonic said. "As soon as it happens, you will go home. Your power will diminish to a safe level, and your planet will survive."

"I have control of my power!" MC said, angrily.

"For how much longer?" Future Sonic asked. "If that canon doesn't happen, your universe will collapse. I'm making sure that that doesn't happen."

"My Mom protects the Multiverse, too," MC said. "If she sees what happens, she would tell me if it'll destroy the universe before it happens. But because of you, that won't happen. I'm pretty sure you're not really saving universes, but ruining them." He then looked over at the Sunset variant. "Check her for example. Yo, Sunset. What are you in for?"

"I was on my way to Fluttershy one day because I needed to talk to her," the Sunset variant said. "But when I was a block away from her house, this guy came in and kidnapped me! He said that she was supposed to die in a car crash a week after that happened. That was 4 months ago." MC sniffed and got angry.

"The event happened, and you still keep her prisoner?" MC asked. "Don't you see? You're ruining lives! When I get out of here, I'm gonna..." Future Sonic was ignoring him. He then pushed a button on a remote he had and the tasers on the device around MC's gloves went off and sent a lethal dose of anti-matter energy into MC. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" MC then fell down to the ground, going unconscious, and letting out a little drool.

"And that's... how I ended up here..."

MC was telling the entire story of what happened to him to his new cell neighbor. Sonic the Hedgehog from Universe 220822. The Sonic variant that came to his Universe during Soleanna.

"...sitting here in this cage that will keep me from breaking my canon," MC said. He then looked towards Sonic-220822.

"So, everyone here has been here for months after the certain event that was supposed to happen happened, and he still keeps us all prisoner?" Sonic-220822 asked. "That's unfair."

"I thought so, too," MC said. "But then I remembered Lynol's theory of the Multiverse. Whether you jump onto a timeline in a certain part of it, there's no telling what point in time you'll be in. These guys might be looking for a point in time to send us back in our universes, but it's taking too long with how many people from different universes there are here. Whether they're FS's versions of mistakes, or villains moved into other universes thanks to your Universe's Opaline."

"FS is such an idiot if he thinks I should let my bro die like that," Sonic-220822 said. "At least I'm not the only one in here that thinks like me."

"We need to find a way out of here," MC said. "Otherwise, it'll be the end of the worlds as we know them."

"You're telling me," Sonic-220822 said. "We need to find a way out of here."

"You think I haven't tried that?" MC asked. He then laid on his back. "Right now, I'm waiting for someone to let us all out. My Mom says that a member of the Society, who was fired by your psychotic future counterpart, will be coming here to get everyone out of here."

"How did you receive a message from your Mom?" Sonic-220822 asked.

"She sends me visions in my dreams about things that are about to happen," MC answered. "This time, she showed me herself and just straight up told me what will happen."

"When will that happen?" Sonic-220822 asked.

"That's the thing about my Mom's visions," MC said. "I don't know when it will happen." He then got down and started laying on his back. "For now, I think I should just lay down here and relax until it happens. This will be a good time for you to practice patience. Try meditation. It might pass the time."

"Yeah, right," Sonic said. "Like meditation will help."

3 Hours Later...

MC and Sonic-220822 were waiting for something to happen. But then, Nicole-250954's voice came in over the speakers in the room.

"All stations: We have a Code 325! I repeat: We have a Code 325!"

"Code 325?" Sonic-220822 asked. "What is that?"

"I don't know," MC answered.

"Four anomalies have escaped from their cages! Forget anything you're doing and put them back on their rooms!" Nicole-250954's voice announced over the speakers.

"All stations: You heard Nicole! Stop what you're doing and go capture those anomalies!" Future Sonic's voice came over the speakers.

"Someone released anomalies?" Sonic-220822 asked confusedly. "But we've been all here for the past 15 minutes!"

""I don't think they're talking about us, Sonic..." MC pointed out. "I think Nicole is talking about the anomalies they capture before sending them back to their respective universes."

And then, two blue blurs passed by the cages and released some small balls in the ground, that rolled and then stopped, as they attached to all the cages where the non-villain anomalies were trapped into.

"What the--?!" Both MC and Sonic-220822 said, but they couldn't question anything further, because the cages suddenly stopped working and freed them all.

All the other anomalies looked around confused, and nobody knew if it was a trick or not... But then MC decided to be the first one to test it out... He got down of the platform he was over, and when he touched the ground and nothing happened, he knew that this was legit: He was free.

"Guys... It's not a trap!" MC said happily. "We're actually free!"

This made all the other anomalies around feel happy and exit their places as well... Except for the Sonic variant that kept giving his back and let out another strange laugh.

"That guy still sounds like a weirdo..." Sonic commented, and MC once again nodded in agreement.

But then, everyone heard someone whistling, and they turned their heads to see a Sonic variant, Sonic-200113, also known as Blue Buffoon, standing right in the entrance of the Sector. "If you guys stopped wondering around, is time to go!"

"Buffoon!" Sonic exclaimed with a smile, as he immediately boosted towards her and gave him his right hand in a 'bro' salute way. "My man, I'm so glad to see you again!" He said happily, before suddenly gasping with sparkling eyes. "Did you free'd us all?!"

"Kinda. This wasn't my plan. It was Bacon-head's and Humble Sonic's," Buffoon replied, turning around and running away to an exit, while Sonic, MC and the other anomalies decided to follow... Except for the other Sonic, he stood on his place.

Bacon-head and Humble––" Sonic tried to question confused, but then his eyes widened when he realized who he was talking about. "Wait a second... Sunset and Boom planned this out?!"

"However, before he got a reply, his shoes started to act on their own again, and that's because the Prismatic Energy of his arm and feet was out of control again... The cage has been containing it this whole time.

He still managed to regain control of it, though, just before Buffoon stopped over a door and opened it, indicating with his head to everyone that they had to enter, and enter they did. Then, Buffoon used his guitar to sent a sound wave that blocked the path so they wouldn't be followed.

Buffoon himself entered into the place right before the exit got blocked, and then he found Boom Sonic, Sonic-081114, opening a portal for every anomaly to go home.

"I apologize for everything the Society made you all go through. Now you're free to go!" Boom stated.

All the other anomalies thanked him, as each one of them crossed the respective portal that Boom was opening so each one of them could go back home.

The last one remaining was MC, but before crossing the portal, he turned to see Sonic and smiled. "Well, these two last days were very interesting... I'm kind of going to miss being encaged and have someone to talk to."

"Dude, if that's your way to say you're gonna miss me, you've got a lot of work to do," Sonic said with his arms crossed and a mocking smirk.

MC rolled his eyes with a smile, then made a salute, and then crossed the portal back home.

Universe: Space Between Universes

MC and the other anomalies who had just escaped landed on a boat that was just floating over nothing. MC then looked around.

"That's odd," MC said. "This boat is just floating over nothing. How is it...?"

"Princess Celestia?" the Human Sunset asked. MC looked towards where the Human Sunset was looking and he saw something that no mortal was able to see. What he saw was what it looked like a rainbow supernova.

"OH MY GOD!!!" MC shouted.

"What, what is it?!" Human Sunset asked. "It's just Princess Celestia."

"That is not Celestia!" MC said. "That is a small supernova!"

Human Sunset looked at the supposed supernova in confusion. Then her eyes widened and asked, "Wait, he actually sees your true form?"

"That thing is talking to you?" MC asked the Human Sunset.

"I guess this thing is reading our minds and taking the form of a very familiar face that you know," Human Sunset said. "But how are you able to see its true form?"

"Telepathic immunity," MC answered. "Telepaths won't be able to get into my head. Unless they also have empathic abilities and are making physical contact with me."

"That makes sense," the Human Sunset said.

"MICHAEL!!" came a voice through a vocoder. Everyone on the boat looked towards the voice and they saw the Iron Mask coming towards them. The mask then opened up, revealing Sarah's head. "You're okay." She then hugged MC.

"Mom, how much time do I have left to save Sparkles from death and from what?" MC asked.

"Just enough time to save her from Neo Metal Sonic," Sarah Crayton said.

"Neo Metal Sonic?!" MC asked. "He's back! Oh, it's on!"

Universe: 160521
Location: Freedom Fighters Mansion, Living Room

In the living room of Freedom Fighters Mansion, Twilight, Spike, Nyx and Joshua were all sitting on the couch, waiting for any news from Sarah about MC's progress. Midpoint was repairing Truemen's robot arm as best as he could. He then threw his tools down in defeat.

"It's useless," Midpoint said. "Ever since that creep came here and kicked our butts, my confidence has dropped. I can't do it."

"Well you better get it working," Truemen said. "MC's gone, and Sunny and Zipp are in the hospital."

"I'm trying my best, Truemen," Midpoint said. "This tech is unfamiliar to me." He then pulled off his rings that cancel his precognition. "Even with help from my precognition, I can't..." Midpoint then went wide-eyed. He then looked towards Twilight and shouted, "Twilight, look out!"

"Huh?" Twilight asked. Just then, something came in through the window and grabbed Twilight by the back of the head and rocketed through the wall, taking Twilight with it. Eventually, they ended up outside. It was still soaking wet. Twilight looked towards what grabbed her and gasped.

"Neo..." Twilight said.

"Target found!" Neo Metal Sonic said. "Eggman's mission near completion. Mission: Find and eliminate Princess Twilight Sparkle."

Twilight gasped at that. Neo Metal Sonic's right arm turned into a spear and he held it up, ready to stab Twilight. He then moved it quickly towards Twilight, her not being able to cast a spell in time. But the pain never came. Twilight opened her left eye to see what was going on. She then noticed something and she opened up her other eye.

Preventing Neo Metal Sonic from killing Twilight was MC, who replied, "Honey, I'm home!" The devices on his gloves were no longer there.

"Michael!" Twilight said, excitedly.

Then Midpoint, Truemen, Spike, Nyx and Joshua ran out the back door to see MC has returned.

"Did... not see that coming," Midpoint said.

"MC, you're back!" Truemen said.

"That's right!" MC said. "And I got my family to save!" MC then spun around, still holding Neo Metal Sonic, and the threw the robot up into the air. MC then jumped up, his left fist releasing some gold energy. "Feel the wrath of my Chaos Dragon Fist!" The energy around MC's fist turned into a golden dragon's head. It then collided with Neo Metal Sonic, and it sent it flying into the air, far away from there.

"Mission failuuuuuur..." Neo Metal Sonic said before shutting down and exploding in mid-air.

Back in the pool area of Freedom Fighters Mansion, Twilight hugged MC tightly.

"I can't believe you came back!" Twilight said. "Are you okay?!"

"I'm fine, Sparkles," MC said. "And you are, too. That's what really matters." Just then, a hexagonal portal opened up behind Twilight. MC saw who came out of the portal and got angry. "You." Twilight turned around to see who MC was talking to.

"NO!" came Future Sonic's voice. "That's not supposed to be the outcome! She was supposed to die so this universe could live!" He then pulled out a device and said, "Now I gotta stop this canon event from..." He then checked the device he was holding and got confused. "What? Impossible! This universe is supposed to tear apart if the event doesn't happen! How is this possible!"

"My universe, FS," MC said. "The Universe cannot be torn apart if heroes of that universe save attempted victims of that universe in the universe they are from. Your logic on saving the multiverse is wrong."

"Wrong?!" Future Sonic asked, angrily. "Everything I did was to save the Multiverse. And each universe saved has been saved because heroes from each of those universes had experienced what I had."

"Not true," MC said. "Fates can be changed by the choices we make." Then he charged at Future Sonic. The futuristic hedgehog tried countering him.

First things first...
I'ma say all the words inside my head...
I'm fired up and tired of the way that things have been, oh ooh...
The way that things have been, oh ooh...

Future Sonic tried stabbing MC with the same blade that could cancel powers, but MC was too quick for it and kicked it out of Future Sonic's hand.

Second things second...
Don't you tell me what you think that I could be...
I'm the one at the sail, I'm the master of my sea, oh ooh...
The master of my sea, oh ooh...

Future Sonic then bared his claws towards MC, but the fox ducked and did a sweep kick, sending the futuristic hedgehog down on his back.

"But I beat you before!" Future Sonic said.

"I never said the battle was over!" MC said. "It's still on!"

I was broken from a young age...
Taking my sulking to the masses...
Writing my poems for the few...
That look at me, took to me, shook to me, feeling me...
Singing from heartache from the pain...
Taking my message from the veins...
Speaking my lesson from the brain...
Seeing the beauty through the...

Future Sonic then got up and did a Spin Dash towards MC, but the fox used his hands surrounded in golden energy and caught Future Sonic, who was still spinning. Future Sonic was still trying to get out, but MC was too strong for him.

"That don't work on me!" MC said. He then slammed Future Sonic down with his left fist just as the chorus started.

Pain!
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer...
Pain!
You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer...
Pain!
Oh let the bullets fly, oh let them rain...
My life, my love, my drive, it came from...
Pain!
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer...

Truemen tried running over to help him, but Midpoint stopped him. Midpoint then said, "Wait until he gives the signal." Truemen nodded.

"Sounds like your confidence is back," Truemen said.

"Guess I was waiting for MC to come back," Midpoint said.

Third things third...
Send a prayer to the ones up above...
All the hate that you've heard has turned your spirit to a dove, oh ooh...
Your spirit up above, oh ooh...

Future Sonic then got up and slashed MC's chest. MC stepped back, but the claw marks on his chest stayed, only to heal and fade instantly.

"You're not worthy of having this kind of power!" Future Sonic said. "You're not strong enough to control it!"

"At least I have something that you don't," MC said, smirking. "Real friends!"

Midpoint then brought out a new archery bow and a trick arrow, and fired an arrow towards Future Sonic. But he caught it.

I was choking in the crowd...
Building my rain up in the cloud...
Falling like ashes to the ground...
Hoping my feelings, they would drown...
But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing...
Inhibited, limited...
Till it broke open and rained down...
It rained down, like...

"Did you honestly think that was going to work again?" Future Sonic asked. "Your greatest strengths are your smarts and your confidence. And I took those away from you. You still think you can beat me?"

"I don't need to beat you," Midpoint said. "I just need to outsmart you."

"And how are you gonna..." Future Sonic said before being blinded by a flash coming from the arrow tip as the second chorus started. "Gah! My one good eye!" Truemen then charged at Future Sonic and kicked him down.

Twilight then used her magic to make magical chains appear around Future Sonic and he was trying to get out of them. MC then grabbed Future Sonic by the chains with his left hand and held him up.

"It's over, FS," MC said.

"No!" Future Sonic said. "You should not be here! I'm the only one who can save your universe!"

"No," MC said. "You just want great heroes in every universe to feel the pain you felt when you lost your Tails. What happened in your universe doesn't mean it should happen in every universe."

Last things last...
By the grace of the fire and the flames...
You're the face of the future, the blood in my veins, oh ooh...
The blood in my veins, oh ooh...
But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing...
Inhibited, limited...
Till it broke open and rained down...
It rained down, like...

Midpoint then went over towards the device on Future Sonic's left hand and activated it, opening another portal back to Universe 250954. Future Sonic was still struggling to get out of the chains.

"You can't do this to me!" Future Sonic said. "Michael, you're an anomaly!"

"And you're a paradox... Maurice," MC said, smirking. Future Sonic got ticked after that. He then tried using his strength to get out of the chains, but his powers were wearing off. "Looks like your serum given powers are wearing off."

"He's not a natural Sonic?!" Truemen asked. "What is wrong with his universe?!"

"His universe is so messed up, he doesn't even see it," MC said. He then slammed Future Sonic into the ground as the final chorus started.

Future Sonic got knocked out from the impact. Midpoint then took the device off of Future Sonic and MC went towards the portal, and threw Future Sonic into the portal. Midpoint then pushed a button on the device and the portal closed just as the song ended.

Midpoint then looked at the device and said, "This device is incredible. If I can reverse engineer this thing, I think we could..." MC then grabbed the device from Midpoint's hand with his left hand.

"No," MC said. He then crushed it in front of the group. He then opened up his left hand and the pieces fell to the ground. "Let's leave the multiversal travel to my Mom." He then sighed. "Ah, it's good to be home."

"Dad!" Nyx said, running up to MC. She jumped up into MC's arms and the two hugged.

"I missed you, too, Nyx," MC said. He then looked at Joshua. "Hey, Josh. I met an old friend of yours."

"Really?" Joshua asked. "Who?"

"Toby Mason," MC answered.

"You met Toby?!" Nyx and Joshua asked.

"I was on the run from that Nick Fury wannabe," MC said. He then yawned. "But for right now... I could use a rest."

"Yeah, I gotta get home, too," Midpoint said. "See you tomorrow." He then headed off towards the garage.

MC looked towards Twilight and asked, "Care to sleep here tonight?"

"I think we could all use a good night's sleep," Twilight said. Then they all headed towards the house.

Universe: 250954
Location: Secret Society Headquarters

Future Sonic slammed his fists on the control console in fury after he was defeated by MC and his Freedom Fighters.

"So close!" Future Sonic said. "I almost had him! How could he have beaten me?!" Just then, Nicole-250954 appeared right behind him.

"Chief!" Nicole-250954 said. "We have located the original anomaly!"

"Sonic..." Future Sonic said. "Get me another Universal Portal Device! I want him taken care of immediately!"

"Yes, sir," Nicole-250954 replied. She then vanished.

Future Sonic looked at the console with his one good eye and said, "It's time we finish this!"

Author's Note

This Special was written by both BronySonicFan and... yours truly. I just edited his parts of the story that is more better with the grammar. It's also in collaboration with his story, Sonic the Hedgehog x My Little Pony: The Final Act.

Anyway, thanks for reading this story. The Freedom Fighters will return for Season 5. And expect these guys to show up.

I will see you all when the time comes.

Episode 1: Rise of the Fire Alicorn (Part 1)

My Little Pony

The Mobian Era (Season 4)

Episode 1: Rise of the Fire Alicorn (Part 1)

In the land of Equestria, the image closes in slowly on the Castle of Friendship. Inside the Castle, Twilight was asleep in her bed, sleeping peacefully. Just then, the scent of pancakes came into her nose. Twilight started sniffing it, and it woke her up. Twilight then started sitting up and stretching her arms and wings.

"Mmm... Something smells good," Twilight said. She then headed for her closet to change. After changing, she headed off into the kitchen area, where she saw Nyx, along with MC, cooking breakfast.

"Okay, and once the pancakes have a golden brown shade on each side, that's when they're done," MC said.

"Okay, M... I mean, dad," Nyx said. She then sighed. "Okay, it's still gonna take some time for me to adjust on calling you that."

"You kidding?" MC asked. "I'm still surprised that you are actually my daughter since I was the one who interrupted that ritual." He then chuckled. He then continued on chopping the potatoes with his claws. "I still can't believe this has happened to me, too."

"Well, you better believe it," Twilight said, getting the attention of both Nyx and MC. They turned around to face her. She was in her normal attire. Her blue button up shirt with a sparkle through the middle, her purple skirt with her cutie mark on it, and her normal dark blue boots. "You are Nyx's dad. I'm glad you're here helping her out with this." MC and Nyx had raised eyebrows while looking at her. "What? What is it?"

"Today's the day the six best students of your school are graduating, and you're wearing that?" MC asked. Twilight then went wide eyed.

"Graduation!" Twilight shouted. She then teleported out of the kitchen. MC and Nyx looked at each other and they started laughing.

But watching through a hologram was the mysterious new Alicorn. She and her blue unicorn assistant were looking down at them.

"Look at them, Misty," the Alicorn said. "Those pathetic little ponies and those pesky Freedom Fighters are getting ready for a silly little celebration of that pesky school."

"How come I've never been to school, Opaline?" Misty, the blue unicorn, asked.

"Because, Misty, you don't need the false facts of those history books," Opaline, the Alicorn, said. "Besides, those history books are precisely inaccurate. And also... all the magic in the whole universe shall belong to me. Opaline Arcana!" She had her wings spread wide. She then looked directly at Misty. "And as soon as I get all my magic back, you shall get your Cutie Mark."

Misty then looked down at her right hip, and pulled up the skirt of the custom made dress she had on, revealing where her Cutie Mark should be, but wasn't. Misty had a sad look on her face.

"Do not threat, Misty," Opaline said. "You'll have your Cutie Mark soon. As soon as I take down Twilight Sparkle and those who believe she is right." It then closed in on Opaline's eyes. "I'm coming for you, Twilight Sparkle."

At the School of Friendship's Amphitheater, ponies from across Equestria, along with family members of the Young 6, except for Gallus since he didn't have a family, were coming in to watch the ceremony. Then a ring portal opened up, and coming out of it were the Freedom Fighters (Sonic, Tails, MC, Amy, Cream, Cheese, Mutt, Maria, Sally, Bunnie, Antoine, Rotor and Truemen), Sunny and her friends, Midpoint, Olive and Cozy Glow.

"Wow," Hitch said. "These ponies know how to get ready for graduations."

"You know it, Trailblazer," MC said. "Now, Sally and I gotta go up to the royal box to sit with Sparkles, Spike, Nyx and Joshua." He then looked towards Sunny. "You two, Starscout. You've gotta get ready."

"Me?" Sunny asked. "But I'm not..."

"You are Joshua's descendant," MC said. "And you're also an Alicorn."

Sunny sighed and said, "Fine." She then closed her eyes and concentrated on her having good times with her friends. She then transformed into an Alicorn, her clothes also changing as well. She was now wearing a sparkly, yellow sequence dress that matched her wings and orange sparkles glowing from different locations. The orange straps of the dress were going up and loosely around her neck, and she had an orange gurgle around her waist. She was also wearing orange high heeled shoes. "Whoa! I don't remember this being part of my Alicorn form!"

"Guess even your Alicorn form evolves more and more," MC said. "Let's go." Then MC, Sally and Sunny started walking towards the box where Twilight, Spike, Nyx and Joshua were going to be sitting.

The rest of the Mobian Heroes went to the back row, getting comfortable. Midpoint had a thick briefcase. He then opened it up and out came a bunch of drone cameras, and they were going all over the Amphitheater.

"What's with the cameras?" Sonic asked.

"Starlight asked me to have this graduation broadcasted," Midpoint said. "This graduation is going to be broadcasting all across the Equestrian Continent."

"Just in case somepony doesn't get the chance to go," Tails said. "That's very clever, Alex."

"Sure is, sugah," Bunnie said. "So, how come the others ain't comin'?"

"Silver, Blaze and Marine are staying behind at Freedom Fighters Mansion so they could watch over Sparky and Cloudpuff," Hitch said.

"Wait, Sparky was supposed to be at home?" Izzy asked. Sparky then came out of the futuristic unicorn's mane, giggling.

"You brought Sparky?" Hitch asked.

"I hope he doesn't cause too much trouble," Mutt said.

"Oui," Antoine said. "Zat little baby dragon is so, how you say... hyperactive."

"We should take our seats," Olive said. "This is a big day, especially for those six students."

"Oh, yes," Cream said. "They've done so amazing. Their friendship is powerful."

"Chao!" Cheese said.

Meanwhile, up in the private box above the Amphitheater, Twilight, Spike, Nyx, Joshua, Cadance, Shining Armor, Guard Armor and Flurry Heart were there, looking out at the audience. Then MC, Sally and Sunny walked in.

"Hey, guys," MC said. He then used his powers to forge some proper attire. Most likely, the top half of a tuxedo with a blue tie with gold edge trimming.

"Hey, MC!" Shining Armor said. "Nice suit."

"Thanks, Shiner," MC said. "Can't believe you guys all showed up for this."

"Well, this is the school that Twilight started to help spread the magic of Friendship," Cadance said. She then wondered something. "I have to ask, is it true? You traveled back in time and interrupted the ritual that created Nyx?"

"I was surprised that my energy turned into DNA and mixed with Nyx's," MC said. "I'm still trying to get used to the fact that I'm now Nyx's dad."

"I thought so," came another voice. They all looked on the other side of the room and saw both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. Princess Celestia then said, "I saw you that night when Twilight was captured. And I also recognized your energy signature when you undid what the Storm King's orbs did to us."

"That would explain that shocked look you gave me when we first met," MC said. "Even though that was my first interaction with you."

"Yes," Princess Celestia said. "And I do thank you for showing us where the ritual was being held."

"Okay," Twilight said. "The ceremony is going to start soon."

"This should be interesting," Sally said. Then they all started sitting in their assigned seats.

Inside the school of Friendship, the students who were graduating were getting ready to walk down the aisle. But the Young Six were nervous about graduating. Most of the students in the school were wearing graduation gowns with lavender sashes. But the Young Six, since the six of them were deemed valedictorians, were wearing silver sashes.

"Oh, I'm so nervous," Ocellus said. "What if when we graduate, we never get to see each other again?"

"Separated for the rest of our lives?!" Gallus asked. "No way. I'm not going back home... less."

"We won't let that happen!" Silverstream said. "We need to find a way for us to be together. We can't let our friendship end."

"Yona don't want to leave best friends!" Yona said.

"Maybe we'll find a way to stay together," Sandbar said.

"Like what?" Smolder asked. "Join the Freedom Fighters?" Then all of them went wide eyed. "You know what, maybe we should."

"We would have to talk to Sonic or MC about considering it," Ocellus said.

"That's true," Sandbar said. "Those two are the most qualified leaders of the Freedom Fighters. Even though Sonic doesn't act his age sometimes."

"Neither does Pinkie," Gallus said. Then the six of them laughed.

"Well, let's just talk to them right after the ceremony," Ocellus said. Just then, music started playing. "Oh! We need to get into position!" Then they split up in groups of three, going in different directions. But then they came back running in the opposite direction. "Wrong way."

"Obviously!" Smolder said.

The graduation ceremony started off. All the students of the school of Friendship were coming up to the front of the sitting area where they'd be sitting. In alphabetical order of course, except for the valedictorians. They would be sitting in the six seats that had silver seat cushions. Graduation music was playing through the speakers.

In the private box, Twilight, Spike, Nyx, Joshua, MC, Sally, Cadance, Shining Armor, Guard Armor, Flurry Heart, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and Sunny were looking out towards the stage, seeing the graduates walking up to their assigned seating.

"Wow," Twilight said. "I didn't realize how many of my first students of the school were graduating today."

"I've seen a lot of graduations during my days in my school for gifted Unicorns," Princess Celestia said. "When I saw how much power you had in you during your entrance exam, I knew that one day, you'd graduate as an Alicorn."

"So, technically, her coronation as the newest Alicorn of Equestria was her graduation ceremony?" MC asked.

"Pretty much," Princess Celestia said. "And her crown was her diploma."

"Talk about a valedictorian," Sally said. Princess Cadance nodded in agreement.

"So, how long do these graduations last?" Joshua asked.

"Usually around an hour," MC said. He then chuckled. "Good luck, Sonic." Then the ponies and Sally started laughing. "Sal, you and Sonic still going on your date tomorrow night?"

"Sonic and I still have our relationship since we've started dating," Sally said.

"When did that happen?" Cadance asked. "You and Sonic dating?"

"A couple months after starting the Freedom Fighters," Sally said.

"You're gonna have to tell us how you came together one day," Twilight said.

"We'll remember that," MC said. Sally nodded.

When all of the graduates reached their seats, Starlight Glimmer, Sunburst and Trixie walked up to the podium on the stage. Starlight then started her speech.

"Thank you all for attending this schools graduation," Starlight said to those who were watching. "Even to those who couldn't make it. We're gathered here to celebrate the graduation of our students of Princess Twilight's School of Friendship. This school is the start of spreading the Magic of Friendship across Equestria and beyond. Including the world Equestria used to be a part of."

"Princess Twilight also thought to keep the peace treaty of all the other creatures of Equestria by having one creature attend this school," Sunburst said. "Even though when one member of the Equestrian Education Association tried shutting it down for inexperienced teachers and having non-pony students. But it was trying to follow the rules of the EEA that the school was shut down. But then he realized it was wrong for wanting this school to be like any other school in Equestria instead of a Friendship School. Especially when one of the students tried to get rid of magic."

"That was one time," Cozy Glow said, her arms crossed.

"At least we both saw the errors of our ways," said the stallion sitting next to Cozy Glow, who happened to be Chancellor Neighsay.

"So no matter what happens, the Magic of Friendship will continue to spread, and the bonds we make will never break," Starlight continued her speech. "Especially the bonds made by our six best students; Sandbar, Gallus, Smolder, Ocellus, Silverstream and Yona. Whom were chosen to be our valedictorians this year. Give a hand for our valedictorians." Then everyone there applauded. The Young Six then stood up and headed for the stage.

In the private box, the royals were smiling seeing the best students of the school were going up on stage.

"Okay, here we go," MC said.

"This is what we've been waiting for," Spike said.

The Young Six then went up to the podium. Gallus was the first one to speak.

"Back in Griffonstone, I was all alone for a long time," Gallus said from the podium. "Living out the days of my life on the streets was horrible. So when Grandpa Gruff sent me here to attend Princess Twilight's School of Friendship, I just thought that he did it just to get rid of me. But, it actually turned out for the better. I've made five of the best friends here. There's no way I would wanna give that up." He then stepped back as Smolder took the podium.

"The Dragon Lands are full of dragons who are really aggressive to the other creatures," Smolder said from the podium. "But coming here, I've learned that not all dragons are as superior as they think they are. They might be competitive and bad tempered sometimes, but all they ever needed was a good group of friends who accept them for who they truly want to be." She then stepped back as Ocellus stepped up.

"I was originally raised under the laws of Chrysalis; always trained to infiltrate cities and steal love from the ponies," Ocellus said from the podium. "But ever since she was dethroned, we changelings have been making more and more friends. At first, I thought that it wouldn't last. But coming to the School of Friendship, I've been feeling more comfortable. Especially around my best friends." She then stepped away from the podium so Yona could come up to the podium.

"Yona told that yaks best at everything," Yona said. "But Yona learned that not true. Yaks might not be best at everything, but yaks try their best. Since Yona come here to School of Friendship, Yona made lots of friends that had Yona's back. Yona glad Yona come here to School of Friendship, and Yona wish not to be separated from best friends." Yona then stepped away as Silverstream came up to the podium.

"We hippogriffs have been hiding underwater as seaponies for so long, we never came up to the surface or else the Storm King would have found us," Silverstream said. "But since his defeat, we didn't have to hide anymore. And since coming here, I've seen so many fascinating things and I've learned so much. And having the bestest friends any creature can have made it even better." She then stepped away so Sandbar can step up to the podium.

"I barely had friends growing up," Sandbar said. "I've never thought that anypony in the school would want to be friends with me. But then I met five creatures who had my back as much as I had theirs. My attending this school has made me a better pony, and I've made a lot of new friends. I couldn't have asked for anything better." He then stepped back as Starlight returned to the podium.

"Thank you, students," Starlight Glimmer. "You may return to your seats." Then the Young Six got off the stage. Starlight then looked towards the audience as soon as the Young Six returned to their seats. "Now, all of the students stand up. It is time for the students to achieve their diplomas." Then graduation music started playing as all the graduating students of the School of Friendship started standing up. She then started calling out the names of the graduates in alphabetical order.

"Wow," Sonic said. "That's a lot of graduates."

"I could've been one of them..." Cozy said. "If I wasn't led down the wrong path."

"Your birth father's in jail," Midpoint said. "And apparently, I was the one who made it happen."

In the private box, the royals in there were watching the graduates going up to gather their diplomas. Twilight felt proud that her six former best students were graduating.

"I like that look, Sparkles," MC said, getting Twilight's attention. "You're full of pride."

"I am," Twilight said. "Those six students have learned so much from us, and we've learned so much from them. I am so proud."

"They've done so many things," Sally said. "They helped fight off Metal Sonic with the Chaotix, they helped restore the moon, they helped you infiltrate Eggman's amusement park base full of Dark Gaia creatures..."

"They even encountered ghosts," MC said. The ponies in the room and Sally looked at MC in shock. "Yes. They did. Yona and I were the only ones who weren't possessed."

"There have been no scientific discoveries of ghosts," Twilight said.

"Actually, there have been," Princess Luna said, surprising Twilight. "Before I was Nightmare Moon, I have encountered poor spirits who have never crossed over. Whether they were trapped in this world, or are refusing to cross over. It happens more than you think."

"Tell me about it," MC said. "There was a ghost the size of a car keeping the souls of children trapped with him for eternity. I punched that ghost in the face." Just then, Pinkie Pie then came in.

"Hey! It's almost time for the graduation party in the Castle ballroom!" Pinkie said. "C'mon! We gotta get this party moving!" She then hopped away.

All of the ponies, Sally and MC looked at Pinkie Pie with widened eyes. Sally then said, "That pony is something I still don't understand." Twilight then giggled.

In the Castle of Friendship's ballroom, all the graduates, except the Young 6, were having a great time. And playing the music was Spike. Or rather, DJ Scales and Tail.

"Alright, everyone!" Spike called out. "DJ Scales and Tail is in the house! Let's get this party started!" He then placed a record on the turn table and disco music started playing. Everyone there started dancing to the music.

Meanwhile, down the hallway, Sonic, Sally and MC were walking down the halls.

"So, would you want to live in a castle like this, MC?" Sonic asked.

"Yeah, I never thought you'd ever want to move back into a castle since your seventh birthday," Sally said.

"Yeah, a lot has changed since then," MC said. "Who knows whether I stay here with Sparkles and Nyx, or stay with the Freedom Fighters."

"Speaking of which," came the voice of Sandbar. The three Freedom Fighters turned around seeing the Young 6 standing behind them.

"Oh, hey," Sally said. "The valedictorians of the School of Friendship. What brings you here?"

"The six of us have been friends ever since we've started hanging out with each other," Smolder said.

"And we don't want to give up our friendship," Silverstream said.

"Yona and friends are wondering if..." Yona said.

"If we would join the Freedom Fighters," Gallus said.

"Join the Freedom Fighters?" MC asked.

"Are you sure about this?" Sonic asked.

"You don't exactly have the right training," Sally said.

"Then why not train us?" Ocellus asked.

"We'd be up for whatever it takes," Smolder said, crossing her arms.

Sonic, MC and Sally turned around to speak with each other privately. Sonic then said, "Is it wise for us to have these six become Freedom Fighters?"

"They do need the right training," Sally said. "What do you think, Michael?"

"Well, they are devoted to sticking together," MC said. "I can respect that."

"So, are we going to train them?" Sonic asked.

MC then smirked and said, "They're gonna need their own rooms at Freedom Fighters Mansion." Then they turned around to face the Young 6. "Okay. Since you six are wanting to become Freedom Fighters, we've decided to let you train and live at Freedom Fighters Mansion." The Young 6 gasped in excitement.

"As long as you let your families know and if you get their permission," Sonic said.

"Are you kidding?" Gallus asked. "Grandpa Gruff would beg you to let me stay with you guys forever."

"I don't find that hard to believe," Sonic said. "We've seen Griffonstone, and it did not look safe to be homeless."

"Okay, well Gallus is automatically in," MC said. He then used his powers to forge permission slips. "As for the rest of you, you're gonna need your parents's signatures to allow you to train with us to become Freedom Fighters."

"Yes, sir!" the Young 6, except Gallus, said in unison.

"Okay, now let's get back to the ballroom," Sonic said. "Let's party!" Then they all headed back to the ballroom. Not knowing that Opaline and Misty were watching them.

"So, those pesky heroes are going to train those wimpy little creatures to become Freedom Fighters, eh?" Opaline asked. "Now that is something I cannot allow." She then sat up from her throne. "It is time for me to make my triumphant return!"

"Opaline?" Misty asked. "Where are we going?"

"We are not going anywhere, Misty," Opaline said. "I need you to guard the lair until I come back. I'm going to take down those pesky heroes... once and for all." Then a holographic image of Twilight Sparkle appeared from Opaline's enchanted pool. "Starting with the most annoying of all: Twilight Sparkle." She then started laughing evilly.

Back in the Castle of Friendship's ballroom, the Freedom Fighters were talking with each other, along with Sunny and her friends. Sunny was still in her alicorn form. Just then, the music started dying down. Everyone in the room looked towards the turntables seeing Twilight standing in front of them.

"Good day, everyone," Twilight said. "Is everyone having a good time?" The ones attending the party cheered. "I'm glad to hear it. Now that the first sets of graduates have completed their learning in the School of Friendship, I think it's time for more of the other non-pony creatures to start attending. Since five of our valedictorians did so well." The crowd started applauding while looking at the Young 6. "I surely hope the other non-pony creatures who want to learn friendship are watching this."

"They are, Twilight," Midpoint said, walking up to her. "I'm live streaming this announcement as we speak."

"Oh," Twilight said. "Well that's good. Now, since the School of Friendship is gonna be closed for the Summer, that gives every creature in Equestria enough time to start filling out some applications. Even those outside of the Equestrian Continent."

"I'm sure we can make that happen," MC said, coming up to Twilight.

"Good," Twilight said. "For now, let's all just have a great time." Then the crowd cheered. Twilight and MC then started walking through the crowd, heading towards Nyx, Joshua, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Cadance and Shining Armor.

"I am so proud of you, Twilight," Princess Celestia said. "You've become the pony I knew you would become."

"Thank you, Celestia," Twilight said. "Now, it's only a matter of time until the world has their own ways of joining in our friendship movement."

"Yeah, it's only a matter of time," MC said.

"This sure is a great party, Mom," Joshua said.

"Yeah, you went all out," Nyx said.

"I'm glad to hear that," Twilight said. "I know it's bad luck to say this..." She then giggled. "Don't tell Izzy. But, what could possibly go wrong." Just then, in the middle of the ballroom floor, a tower of pink flames emerged, surprising everyone in the room, the music going out, and the Freedom Fighters going into battle positions.

"This can't be good," Sonic said.

Just then, the pink flames started to die down to reveal a magenta alicorn in a crimson red dress, a metal necklace with diamond shaped spikes on it, and blue eye shadow appeared. It was Opaline. She then spoke.

"Hello, my subjects," Opaline said. "The true ruler of Equestria... has returned." She then laughed evilly. All the ponies were shocked at Opaline's sudden appearance and declaration. Especially Celestia and Luna.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
The Rise of the Fire Alicorn (Part 2)

Episode 9: The Junior Olympics

At Freedom Fighters Mansion, Mutt's alarm clock was going off. He woke up, got out of bed, and headed out of there. He went into the weight room, and was jumping rope. Then he was doing some sit ups. Then he was lifting some 10 pound weights.

Just then, Hitch came into the weight room, seeing Mutt there.

"Mutt?" Hitch asked. "What are you doing here in the weight room so early?"

"Today's the day where the Junior Olympics are gonna be starting in Station Square State Park," Mutt said. "I'm getting ready to compete in the competitions."

"Oh, yeah, I heard that," Hitch said. "I'm actually supposed to be one of the sports officials for the games there. In fact, I should get over there."

"Then c'mon, you two!" came Izzy's voice, surprising the two boys. "We've gotta get to the park for the Junior Olympics!"

Mutt and Hitch looked at each other, and nodded. Mutt then put away the weights and he and Hitch left the room to head to the garage. Ocellus then came out of her room. Mutt stopped and saw her.

"Ocellus?" Mutt asked. "I thought you were working at the library today?"

"Actually, the library's closed today," Ocellus replied. "I don't know why."

"It's actually because everyone wants to see the Junior Olympics," Hitch said. "You could come if you'd like."

"Actually, I have been reading about the Olympics," Ocellus said. "They sound a lot like the Equestria Games."

"Let me guess, they're a bunch of games that competitors compete in different events?" Mutt asked.

"Yeah, pretty much," Ocellus said. "So, why are you heading out there?"

"I'm competing there," Mutt said. "I actually wanna win it so I can carry the American Torch with my mom."

"Aw, that's nice," Ocellus said. "I'm in. Let's go." Then the four of them headed for the garage.

At Station Square State Park, a bunch of young Mobians were getting ready to compete for the Junior Olympics that were about to start. A lot of young Mobians were in line to sign up, some were stretching, some were staying hydrated because it was summer, and some were resting up before the events start.

Mutt was doing some push ups as he was getting ready for the games. Ocellus was the only one that was with him since Hitch and Izzy went to officiate the games.

"Wow," Ocellus said. "You're getting yourself worked up. Don't you think you should slow down before the games start?"

"You know what, maybe you're right," Mutt said. He then grabbed a water bottle and drank out of it. "It might be best for me to take it easy before the games start."

"Oh, really?" came a voice. "And I thought you'd be a warrior." Mutt and Ocellus looked towards the voice and they saw a certain echidna coming up to them.

"Knuckles?" Mutt asked. "What are you doing here? I thought you were supposed to be guarding the Master Emerald."

"I was originally, but maybe I should start getting off the island more," Knuckles said. "But, with what happened on Angel Island, it was best for the Master Emerald to be put under one of the most secure places on Earth."

"And where would that be?" Ocellus asked.

"I'll never reveal the location of the Master Emerald to anyone," Knuckles said. "So, these... Junior Olympics... are a big deal for you?"

"Yeah," Mutt said. "I actually wanted to do this for a while. The Muttski family always competed in the Olympics for generations. Although, my dad only competed only one time."

"Really?" Knuckles asked. "What happened? Was he slayed in battle by a worthy foe?"

"No," Mutt said. "He did die, but it wasn't because he was slain in battle. Mom says he was training for some track and field event. And then all of a sudden... he was..." Mutt then put his right fist to his mouth, biting his thumb knuckle. "Apparently, a robbery was happening around that area and the armed robber... shot my dad."

"Oh, that must've been tough on your mom," Ocellus said.

"It was," Mutt said. "Especially after I was born."

"So you wanna win this for the honor of your family," Knuckles said. "I can respect that. Your mother and father would be proud."

"Yeah," Mutt said. "That's why... I'm gonna win."

"Win, you say?" came a voice. The three of them looked towards the voice and saw Cozy Glow. Instead of her normal outfit (a white tank top, a light blue skirt, and red and pink tennis shoes), she had on a white t-shirt, a pair of light blue track shorts with two magenta vertical lines on each side, and light blue running shoes with pink soles. "We shall see about that."

"Cozy Glow?" Mutt asked. "You're competing for the Junior Olympics?"

"Yeah, I'd thought if you were gonna compete, it'd be for Equestria," Ocellus said.

"Not since I started attending school here in the US," Cozy Glow said.

"That's right," came Midpoint's voice. They all looked towards the voice and they saw Midpoint walking towards them. "It took me a year to get Cozy Glow registered to attend any American sports."

"Did you play in any sports back in San Francisco?" Mutt asked.

"I did, actually," Cozy Glow said. "Soccer and Volleyball."

"Volleyball?" Mutt asked. "Let me guess, you're the middle blocker?"

"Nope," Cozy Glow said. "Outside hitter. Plus, I'm not allowed to use these." She then unfolded her wings. "Flying's illegal in the sport. Coach told me before I started playing."

"That's good," came Amy's voice. They all looked towards her and they saw Amy, Cream and Cheese. Cream was also wearing a different outfit.

"Amy and Cream?" Mutt asked. "Cream, you're competing, too?"

"Yes," Cream said. "It sounds like a lot of fun, so I wanna do this, too."

"Okay," came Midpoint's voice. The group saw him coming up with Olive, Smolder and Blaze behind him. "You two are registered to compete." He then saw Mutt. "You forgot to register in, Mutt, so I did it for you."

"Oh, guess I was too much in a rush just to get ready," Mutt said.

"Smolder?" Ocellus asked. "Why are you here?"

"Oh, uh... j-just wanting... to... help out," Smolder said, trying to come up with an excuse.

"Really?" Blaze asked. "I thought it was because you wanted to..." Smolder put a finger to Blaze's mouth, shushing her.

"Ah-da-da-da-da!" Smolder said. "We do not talk about that."

"Oh... kay," Blaze said. "So, what are the events of these Junior Olympics?"

Midpoint then pulled out an event pamphlet. He then said, "Let me see. Looks like it has up to 10 events. We have archery, long jump, triple jump, shot put, fencing, table tennis, cycling, trampoline, skateboarding... and the final event is a foot race around the entire park."

"I do not know what some of those events are," Knuckles said.

"Well, no doubt that Cozy's gonna win the archery competition," Mutt said. "She has the best archer as an adopted brother. And the long jump, and triple jump."

"Unless Cream wins one of those two events," Ocellus said. "Cozy's not the only one who can fly, remember."

"I was surprised at that when I was watching her," Smolder said.

"Okay, we've got time for the first event," Midpoint said. "Which is... skateboarding."

"Oh, boy," Cozy said.

"Let's see what these events hold," Knuckles said. "C'mon, Hound. You should get ready."

Mutt sighed and said, "My nickname is Mutt." They all headed towards the first event. They eventually made it to the skateboarding ring. Just outside the fence of the ring, there was an announcer's table, where Scarlet Garcia was sitting and the camera was on her.

"Good morning, everyone. I'm Scarlet Garcia, and I'm here hosting the Junior Olympics for the Mobians competing here. In fact, we have the youngest members of the Freedom Fighters joining today's events. Ben Muttski, Cream the Rabbit, and reformed Equestrian villain, Cozy Glow. First up, we have the skateboarding competition."

All of the Young Mobian competitors had number tags on them. Mutt had the number 7, Cream had the number 15, and Cozy had the number 42.

"Each contestant will be going in the order of what number they'll be assigned. We'll see who'll be a step closer to winning the chance to run with the torch in Paris. Contestant one, take your mark."

Time had passed, and Mutt was on his skateboard, racking up some points.

"Look at Ben Muttski go," Scarlet Garcia said through the speakers. "He's coming in to finish it off." Mutt then headed for the exiting ramp and did a double backflip and landed on his feet. "And what an ending. Let's see what the judges have to say." Then everyone looked towards the four judges. One of them being famous skateboarding legend, Tony Hawk. Then the judges held up their judging cards. Judge 1 gave out a 10, Judge 2 gave out a 9, Judge 3 gave out a 9, and Tony Hawk gave out a 10. "A total of 38 points! Ben Muttski is the one to beat!"

Mutt walked over towards Knuckles and Ocellus with his skateboard.

"That was a pretty good run," Mutt said. "I've had a lot of practice on my Extreme Gear; the Guard Dog."

"It was an amazing ride, but the competition isn't over yet," Knuckles said. "You must have the highest amount of wins before you can call it a glorious victory."

"Next contestant!" came Hitch's voice.

Eventually, the other young Mobian contestants took their turn. When Cream was finishing up, she had gotten a perfect 40, making Mutt and Cozy go jaw dropped.

"Oh, there is no beating that," Cozy said.

"Definitely not," Mutt said.

We then skipped ahead to the end where the scoreboard was, and Cream's line had a win card in her position in the skateboarding mark.

"That was unexpected," Ocellus said.

"You're telling me," Smolder said. "I can't believe that Cream actually won that event. Let's see what's next."

The next event was shot put competition. Mutt was getting ready to throw it. Knuckles was giving him some advice.

"If you throw with just your waste, it won't be able to get it far," Knuckles said. "Try using your entire body for more momentum which will lead to a farther throwing distance."

"Really?" Mutt asked. "Are you sure that will work?"

"Let me check," Ocellus said, bringing out a pencil and notepad. She then started doing an equation. Her eyes went wide eyed. "Whoa. You could reach at least 30 meters."

"Next up, Ben Muttski!" came Izzy's voice. Mutt then headed for the throwing circle. He was given the shot put as he was standing in the center of the circle. Mutt then turned his body towards the right, but then he turned his body 390 degrees to the left, his right leg extended but still inside the line, and the released the shot put into the air, and headed across the lines that count every 10 meters. The shot put that Mutt threw went passed the 40 meter line, landing a little over one meter passed it. Izzy came up and inspected the distance. "Forty-One-point-one-three meters!"

Mutt walked over towards Knuckles and reached up for a high five. Knuckles smirked and high-fived Mutt. Eventually, the event ended and Mutt took victory in shot put, earning him a point.

The next event was archery. Every competitor was competing at once with their individual targets. All of them released. Cozy Glow's arrow was the only one that hit the bullseye. She won the event.

The next event was the long jump. All the contestants were taking turns on the jump. Mutt came in third place, Cream came in second, and Cozy came in first.

"Oh, c'mon!" Smolder said. "Pegasi are the lightest ponies, so of course she got the long jump!"

"Physics don't lie," Ocellus said.

Next up was the trampoline. All the contestants jumped on the trampoline, but it was Cream that came up on top. Then it came up to the fencing competition. Mutt was geared up as Knuckles was giving him some advice.

"If you're going to strike your opponent, you must make sure you're not hit," Knuckles said. "Read your opponent's movement, block his or her attack, and then strike."

"I can do that," Mutt said. He then put his safety helmet on. He won the first round, and then eventually, he made it to the finals against Cozy Glow. He took victory. Mutt then got another point. Mutt, Cream and Cozy each had two points. The next event was the triple jump. That time, Cream won the event. She beat Cozy Glow by an inch. Then it went over to the cycling event. Cozy Glow took victory. And to finish it off, it was table tennis. Mutt was already advanced to the finals while Cream and Cozy were competing in the semi-finals.

Both Cream and Cozy were wearing each other out. Mutt, Knuckles, Midpoint, Olive, Amy, Smolder and Ocellus were off to the side waiting for the game to end.

"I do not understand," Knuckles said. "How long does this game go?"

"Until one of them gets 5 points," Mutt replied. "And so far, they each have four points. So the next point wins."

Cream and Cozy were wanting to finish this. And without realizing it, both of them started flying. But then a whistle blew, breaking their concentration.

"Both competitors forfeit!" Izzy called out. "Muttski wins!"

"What?!" Mutt, Cream, Cozy Glow and Knuckles asked.

"Flying is strictly prohibited in table tennis!" Izzy said.

"Seriously?" Cozy Glow asked.

"It's true," Hitch said, walking up to the two competitors. "You must not be off the ground for more than 5 seconds at a time. You two were in the air for more than five, so you're both disqualified. Thus, Ben Muttski is the winner." Then the crowd applauded.

Mutt had his arms crossed and he smirked. Knuckles was giving a deadpanned expression and said, "That victory was just pure luck. There was no glory in that."

"Hey, but it gives me a chance to stay in," Mutt said. "Now, I'm tied with them with three wins in the events." Knuckles looked at the scoreboard and saw that Mutt, Cream and Cozy Glow each had three wins each.

"I see," Knuckles said. "Then, you must prepare for the last event. The foot race around the park. You must win if you are going to carry the torch."

"And you're also gonna need running shoes for it," Hitch said. "You can't use your Jet Shoes." Mutt then looked down at his shoes.

"Good point," Mutt said. "I'm gonna need to run to the shoe store."

"No need, Hound," Knuckles said. "While you were eating your meal, I went to the shoe store. Of course, the great archer, Lynol, had given me the money to pay for these." Knuckles then held out a pair of Nike running shoes.

"Oh, sick shoes!" Mutt said, taking the shoes. He then took off his Jet Shoes and put on the running shoes. "Hold onto my Jet Shoes, will you?"

"Of course, Hound," Knuckles said, taking Mutt's Jet Shoes.

"Alright, ladies and gentlemen," came Scarlet Garcia's voice from the speakers. "The final competition is about to start. Will Ben Muttski, Cream the Rabbit and Cozy Glow please report to the starting line. Everyone else, better luck next time." Then every one else who competed stepped out to the sidelines.

Mutt, Cream and Cozy all got into position at the starting line. Hitch and Izzy were standing at each side of the start/finish line.

"Okay, racers!" Hitch called out. "The goal is to run around the park three times and back here! No flight or super speed is allowed in the race!"

Izzy was holding the starting flag. She then held it up. "Okay, you three. Get into position." Then Mutt, Cream and Cozy Glow all got down on all fours into the starting position. "On your marks! Get set!" Mutt, Cream and Cozy Glow raised their rear ends up. Then Izzy waved the starting flag. "GO!!" Then the three racers started running. They went through the park gate and ran down the sidewalk.

As the crowd was waiting for the three finalist to finish the race, Knuckles, Amy, Blaze, Midpoint, Olive, Smolder, Ocellus and Cheese were having a picnic. Knuckles was eating only the grapes that were packed.

"Hey, save some grapes for the rest of us, Knuckles," Amy said.

"Sorry," Knuckles said. "There's not much to eat on Angel Island."

"That's true," Midpoint said. "Knuckles does nothing but train, eat grapes, and guard the Master Emerald."

"I am more than just a guardian, but a warrior," Knuckles said. "It might be lonely sometimes, but it's actually nice coming down from the island once in a while."

"Who did you have guarding the Master Emerald while you were off it during the time in Soleanna and at Sonic's birthday?" Olive asked.

"During Soleanna, I had the Chaotix guarding it," Knuckles said. "And during Sonic's Birthday, I've had Omega guarding it."

"That explains where he was during that time," Olive said.

"Ba ha-ha ha-ha!" came a new voice.

"Uh oh," Midpoint said. "I know that laugh." The group turned to face the laugh and they saw a certain robot they haven't seen in a while.

"Hi!" Bokkun said.

"Bokkun!" Midpoint said. "What are you doing here?!"

"Oh, relax!" Bokkun said. "I didn't come here to cause any trouble! What's the point of having to cause trouble if the Doctor is still missing?!"

The group looked at each other. Then they shrugged their shoulders.

"You have a point," Olive said.

"So where have you been all this time?" Amy asked.

"Yeah, we haven't seen much of you last season," Ocellus said.

"Oh, that?" Bokkun asked. "Well, it's just that..." Just then, his jet pack stopped working. "Waaaaaaah! Oof!" Bokkun just crashed into the ground. "Ow..."

"What just happened?" Blaze asked. Bokkun sat up and held his stomach.

"Oh, man," Bokkun said. "Not again."

"What's going on?" Olive asked.

"Okay, I confess!" Bokkun said. "After the whole black alien invasion happened, Doctor Eggman said that he had no use for me. He tried to disassemble me, but I broke out and left. So, I've been trying to find a place to call home, but every time I try to find a place, I've always been kicked out!" Just then, his stomach growled. "And now, I'm just scavenging for any kind of food I can find."

"I thought you were a robot," Olive said. "Why do you need food?"

"Bokkun has been specifically made with taste buds and a stomach which converts whatever he eats into fuel," Midpoint said. "I know. I hacked into the EggNet on a dare."

"That was you?" Bokkun asked.

"Who else would have a complex mind to hack into Eggman's network?" Midpoint asked. "How many PhD's does Eggman have? 12. How many PhD's do I have? 14."

"That would make you the smartest person in the world," Ocellus said.

"At least I'm also smart enough to know that genius minds don't mean superiority," Midpoint said.

"The racers have just finished their second lap, and they're all neck and neck!" came Scarlet Garcia's voice from the speakers.

"Oh, sounds like the three of them are just about to finish," Olive said. "Let's go see the winner."

"Hold up," Bokkun said. He then held up a bunch of boxes. "I have something for each of you." He then gave them all to Midpoint, Amy, Olive, Blaze, Knuckles, Smolder and Ocellus. "I hope you all like it."

Knuckles smirked and said, "Perhaps the little bot has changed his ways."

"Maybe not," Midpoint said. "Maybe we should take..." Just then, the presents exploded, and those holding them were covered in soot.

Bokkun laughed and started flying away from the group, calling out, "I hope to see you all again soon!" He then laughed again.

Midpoint grumbled. He then brought out his bow and a trick arrow. He aimed his arrow towards Bokkun and released the arrow. The arrow made contact with the booster of Bokkun's flight pack and out came purple goop, putting out the flames.

"Huh?" Bokkun asked when his acceleration started decreasing. "Uh oh. Whaaaaaaaa!" Then Bokkun crashed into the pond. A few seconds later, Bokkun swam up to the top, spitting out the water. "Hey! No fair!" He then started crying. "You guys can't take a joke!" He then started swimming towards the edge of the pond.

"It's no joke if someone gets hurt," Midpoint said.

"You speak wise words, archer," Knuckles said. "But that was a little harsh, don't you think?"

"Yeah, it was," Midpoint said. "But, I'm sure that he'll get over it."

During the race, Mutt, Cream and Cozy Glow were running as fast as they could. Mutt was starting to lose momentum, making Cream and Cozy pass him. Knuckles jumped on top of the wall, seeing Mutt falling behind.

"C'mon, Hound!" Knuckles shouted. "You're better than that! Make your mother proud!"

Mutt heard that. He then cringed his eyebrows and started speeding up. He was eventually getting closer to the two girls in front of him. Cream and Cozy were surprised that Mutt was catching up with them. They tried running faster than each other. They eventually made it to the entrance, heading for the finish line.

"And the winner is...!" Hitch called out. Just then, the three racers ran through the finish line, but Mutt was the first one to make contact with the ribbon. "Ben Muttski!"

"Alright!" Mutt shouted.

Cream and Cozy Glow sighed. The others walked up to the three young ones.

"It was still a good effort," Midpoint said. "You gave it your all, and that's okay."

"He's right," Olive said. "It's not about winning or losing, but playing the game."

"So, Mutt, who are you going to get you to carry the torch?" Amy asked.

"My mom," Mutt answered. "I might as well do it with someone I love."

"That's nice," Amy said. "Well, we should go home and contact her about this."

"Well, hope you all enjoy your time," Knuckles said. "I've got to get back to training." Then he started walking away. Then the other heroes started leaving the park. But then, Scarlet Garcia came up to them.

"Congratulations, Ben Muttski," Scarlet said, holding a trophy. "Here's your trophy. You'll be able to hold the torch when you get to Paris." She then remembered something. "Oh, and one more thing." She then held out something.

"A Chaos Emerald!" Mutt said.

"That's two," Midpoint said. "Just five more left."

"Hopefully, we'll find the others before any more trouble comes," Amy said. Then the heroes started walking out of the park, heading to their homes.

Author's Note

Next Episode:
Sergeant Mufasa's Military School

Episode 26: Royal Pain (Part 2)

The heroes were all walking down the halls of Opaline's Castle. All of them were on alert to see if anything was gonna come from them.

"Michael, do you smell Nyx?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, I got her scent," MC answered. "She's close." Just then, they were all blocked by a wall of pink fire that cut them off from where they were going. They all turned around and saw that another wall of pink fire blocked them.

"She's mad," Misty said, getting scared. Just then, fiery binds surrounded the heroes who could fly.

"Oh mah starz!" Bunnie shouted.

"What's going on?!" Gallus asked. Just then, holes appeared from underneath all of the heroes.

"Oh, she's really mad!" Misty shouted. Just then, the heroes all started falling down and into the holes. But there were some who jumped out of the way. MC grabbed Twilight and Joshua, Sonic grabbed Mutt, Shadow grabbed Maria, Blaze kicked Silver out of the way of the hole, and Sunny was pushed from the hole entry by Hitch. Most of them fell down the holes. The ones who stated were Twilight, Sunny, Sonic, MC, Maria, Shadow, Silver, Joshua and Mutt.

"Oh, no!" Sunny said. "Our friends."

"Okay, that's it," MC said. "Opaline is pushing it too far."

"We have to find Nyx," Twilight said. "We need to get her out of here safely. Then we'll take on Opaline."

"MC," Mutt said, getting MC's attention. "You all go after Opaline. Joshua and I will find Nyx."

"There are probably villains guarding her," Shadow said.

"He's right," Silver said. "No doubt Opaline will have her heavily guarded."

"Oh, I think I can handle them," Mutt said, grabbing something under his neckerchief. "After we get her out, we'll jet right back to the Spirit of Freedom."

The rest of the heroes looked at Mutt. MC sighed and said, "Go. And be safe." Mutt nodded. He then grabbed Joshua, and he zoomed away from there with his Jet Shoes. "Time to take down Opaline." Then the seven heroes walked down the hall of the castle.

In the basement of Opaline's Castle, the heroes who fell were all shackled against the wall, their arms spread from side to side and their legs pulled down by chains and weights.

Applejack looked around and said, "What in tarnation?"

"Oh, good," came Opaline's voice. "You're awake." The heroes who awoken looked towards the voice. They saw Opaline coming out of the shadows. "You are all going to pay for your crimes against me. The true controller of all magic!" She then gave a glare towards Misty. "And you, Misty!" Misty squeaked in fear. "Your betrayal shall not go unpunished!"

"No!" Misty shouted. Opaline then fired a beam towards Misty, making her cry out in pain.

"Misty!" Izzy called out.

"Enough!" Truemen said.

"Ah agree, sugah," Bunnie said. She then aimed the repulsor in her left hand towards Opaline, and she fired a blast at the Alicorn, making her stop firing magic at Misty and falling over.

"Gah!" Opaline cried out. She then looked towards Bunnie and growled. "I don't know how you did that, but you're gonna pay for that."

"Not gonna happen," Bunnie said. Her legs then lifted the weight that was shackled to them and then she tried separating her legs, trying to make the chains snap.

"You really think I'll let you do that?" Opaline asked, raising an eyebrow. She then fired a beam towards Bunnie, making her cry out in pain.

"BUNNIE!!" Antoine called out.

"Stop it!" Sally cried out. "Stop it! Stop it, please!"

"Oh, I'll stop..." Opaline said, smirking. "I'll stop when she's dead."

"Not if Sonic and the others come for you," Amy said. That made Opaline stop.

"What?" Opaline asked. "What do you..." She then looked around. She saw nine empty spots. "What?! The four hedgehogs, Twilight Sparkle, Sunny Starscout and Michael Crayton...! They're not here?!" She then growled angrily. "Scourge, Ix, Allura, find them!"

In another part of the castle, Mutt and Joshua were sneaking around the halls, hiding in rooms just as some echidnas were coming by. Eventually, they were in one room to hide from the echidnas passing by.

"Whoa," Joshua said. Mutt looked towards where Joshua was looking. They were in a room full of burnt objects, slightly burnt drawings and ash. "This must've been Misty's room."

"Guess Opaline was really mad since Misty betrayed her," Mutt said.

"Well, it was thanks to us that she found real happiness," Joshua said, making Mutt nod. Mutt then kicked something. He looked down and saw it was a doll made of various objects.

Mutt picked it up and inspected it. He then said, "Is this a hand-made doll?"

"Guess Misty felt more alone than she thought," Joshua said. Mutt then took off his hat and put the doll into it. Then he put his hat back on his head. "We need to find Nyx."

"Then let's get going," Mutt said. Then the two of them headed out of there as soon as the coast was clear. They then came across a room being guarded by two echidnas."

"What are they guarding?" Joshua quietly asked.

"Only one way to find out," Mutt answered quietly. He then pulled something out of his belt pouch. It was a rock. He then threw it over the heads of the echidnas and it hit the ground. That caught the attention of the two echidnas. They then decided to check out what made the noise. Mutt and Joshua then ran into the room. There, they saw Nyx in a giant snow globe made of ice.

"Nyx!" Joshua said. Nyx saw the two and smiled. She then banged on the globe trying to break out. "Don't worry, Nyx. We'll get you out."

"Stand back," Mutt said, pulling out his Elemental Whip. He then started changing the settings. "Okay, let's see. Lightning, hydro, vine... Ah, here we go. Pyro." Mutt then cracked the whip and a fire whip came out. The fire whip cracked towards the icy snow globe and it melted a hole in it. As soon as the hole was big enough, Nyx jumped out.

"Thanks, guys," Nyx said. "Now, let's get..." Just then, something came down and blocked the door from getting out. It was Allura. "Oh, no!"

"You aren't going anywhere," Allura said. Just then, Scourge and Imperator Ix came up from behind them.

"Oh, great, the big bosses are here," Mutt said.

Elsewhere in the Castle, Twilight, Sunny, Sonic, Shadow, Silver, MC and Maria were heading down the halls. MC was in the lead, using his sense of smell to find Opaline. He then came across a set of double doors.

"She's in here," MC said, standing up.

"Let's do this," Sonic said. Shadow then stepped ahead and stood next to MC. Then they kicked the doors open. On the other side was the throne room.

"The throne room," Twilight said. "This must've been where she's been ordering her minions around."

"But she's not in here," Sunny said.

MC sniffed around and said, "She was in here recently." Silver looked up at a ramp that was going to a room above the throne room. "I can smell her."

"Hey, guys," Silver said, walking towards the ramp. "What's up here?" They all looked at each other confusedly. Then they all started going up the ramp. The group all entered the room above the throne room, seeing it was a room that had the strengths and weaknesses of all the Freedom Fighters and their allies.

"She's been studying us," Maria said. "Before Misty betrayed her."

"And she was using what research she had of us to defeat us," Shadow said. Shadow then saw images of MC and his greatest strengths and weaknesses. It involved MC's mother, Nyx, Twilight, and even the rest of the Freedom Fighters. "MC. This isn't just about the Freedom Fighters. It was always you."

"What?" MC asked. He then looked at the pictures. "She's... she's trying to make me vulnerable. By going after all my loved ones, she's trying to break me."

"Going after MC's heart," Sonic said. "That's low, even for her."

"But why would she want MC taken down the most?" Silver asked.

"She's afraid of him," Maria said. They all looked towards her. "MC is the greatest threat to her. She knows he can beat her, so she has to take him down so there wouldn't be anyone powerful enough as her. And as soon as he's gone, she'll take out the other most powerful creatures of this world. Shadow, Twilight, Sunny, Blaze, me, eventually, she'll end up going after Celestia and Luna, because she thinks that they betrayed her."

"But what does she need with Scourge, Ix and Allura?" Sonic asked.

"That's... actually something that's been bothering me," MC said. "Why would Opaline need the help of powerful villains if she wants to be the most powerful one of all. She could've recruited Tirek and Chrysalis for all I care. But we locked them up in a special prison that no one can escape from. Not even with outside help."

"So, why would she recruit them?" Sonic asked.

"Because they also have the knowledge and skills of how to defeat us," Shadow said. "And when she's done with them, she'll get rid of them."

"She would've sent the others after us to get us," Twilight said. "Why hasn't she...?" She then got a realization. "She thinks we're going straight for Nyx!"

MC put held up his right hand to his mouth and said, "Mutt, get Nyx and Joshua out of there now!"

In the room Nyx was locked up in, Mutt, Nyx and Joshua were all pushed back by the villains that were in there. They were trying to keep them from leaving the room.

"I'm... trying... MC," Mutt said. "Kinda need backup."

"Oh, you won't be around when they get here, kid," Scourge said. "Goodbye." He then went towards Mutt at high speed.

Scourge charged towards Mutt at high speed. Mutt closed his eyes before Scourge could make contact, but he didn't feel anything. Mutt then opened his eyes and saw that Scourge was stuck in place.

"What's going on?!" Scourge asked. "I can't move!"

"That would be me," came a voice through a vocoder. All of them, except for Scourge, looked towards the door, seeing the Iron Mask coming in.

"Grandma Sarah!" Nyx called out.

"Sorry I'm late," the Iron Mask said. The mask then opened up and the wig vanished, revealing Sarah Crayton's head. "Had to hire a pilot to drop me off up here."

"You think you are so smart, do you?" Allura asked. "You shouldn't have come here when it's an obvious trap."

"I know it's a trap," Sarah Crayton responded. "For us... and for you three as well."

"What?" Allura asked.

"What is she talking about?!" Scourge asked.

"When Opaline gets what she wants, she'll get rid of you," Sarah Crayton responded. "She'll do it even faster that she overheard you wanting to get rid of her."

"She knows that?" Imperator Ix asked.

"Yes," Sarah Crayton said. "To save your lives, I'll give you two choices. Either form an alliance with us to stop her, or... I can transport you all to safer locations. Locations so far, Opaline will never be able to get you."

"And why should we help you?" Allura asked.

"Because I know what you want, Allura," Sarah Crayton answered. "All you want is to reunite with your brother. Alterro." Allura went wide eyed at that.

"Alterro?" Allura asked. "You... you know where he is?"

"I do," Sarah Crayton said. "I can take you to him. It's obvious that Opaline isn't going to give you what you want."

"Not if we get to her first," Ix said. He then pulled a laser dagger out of his robe and tried stabbing Sarah, but she blocked it with her own sword.

"Did you honestly think I wouldn't be prepared for that?" Sarah Crayton asked. She then used her chronokinesis to freeze Imperator Ix.

"Hey!" Ix shouted. "I can't move!"

"Time's up," Sarah Crayton said. She then looked at Allura. "You going to try and stop me, or you want to reunite with your brother."

Allura looked down at her feet. She then said, "Let's take Opaline down first."

"Wow," Mutt said, getting up. "Alright, let's get Nyx and Joshua out first."

"Not gonna be easy," Sarah Crayton said. "The Dragons have caught the Babylon Rogues and they're surrounding the airships."

"Which means that if we're gonna get out of here, we need to defeat Opaline," Mutt said. "Let's go." Then they all left the room, leaving Scourge and Ix in the room.

As they were running down the hall, Allura said, "I can't promise once I'm reunited with my brother, I won't be able to stop my evil ways."

"Oh, I don't doubt that," Mutt said.

In the Throne Room, Twilight, Sunny, Sonic, Shadow, Silver, MC and Maria came back down from the room above there. MC then sniffed around. He then came across a door that was under the ramp.

MC smirked and said, "She's right through here." He then opened the door and there was a staircase heading downstairs. "Who's ready to party?"

Shadow then brought out a couple pistols. Twilight then brought out her crown and put it on her head. Sunny then unleashed her Alicorn form and put on the heart-shaped locket she got from the Breezie Nightmarket, her sparkly dress replacing her normal clothes. Then MC brought out his new crown and put it on his head. Then the seven of them headed down the stairs. As that was happening, Mutt, Nyx, Joshua and Sarah ran into the Throne Room seeing Sunny's tail as it was passing the doorway.

"That door leads to where Opaline is," Sarah Crayton said.

"What's gonna happen?" Joshua asked.

"They're gonna get ambushed," Sarah said. "But there is one way for them to stop Opaline."

"Well what is it?" Nyx asked.

"If I say what happens, it won't happen," Sarah said. Then Allura came in.

"That's where Opaline is going to unleash her final plan," Allura said.

"Then we gotta do something," Nyx said. She then looked up at Allura. "What is her final plan?"

"She's going to absorb the powers of the others and use them against MC," Allura answered.

"Oh, no," Mutt, Nyx and Joshua said in unison. Then the five of them headed down the stairs to follow the remaining heroes.

MC smashed through the door of the dungeon, Sonic, Shadow, Silver, Twilight, Sunny and Maria came in after him. They all looked around and saw the rest of the heroes, all wincing in pain and being surrounded in a pink aura while they were shackled.

"Oh, God!" Maria said. "They're... they're all hurt!" Maria then started to get angry, her eyes starting to go red.

"Well, well, well..." came Opaline's voice. The groups all looked up and saw Opaline coming down. She gave off an evil grin towards the seven heroes. "Looks like the last remaining heroes are here to feel my wrath."

"Opaline," Twilight said. "You are gonna pay for doing this."

"You sent your lackeys to attack us at my coronation, you kidnap my daughter, and now your torturing my friends?!" MC asked, angrily. "All just to make me vulnerable?"

"Oh, you think that's all I'm going to do?" Opaline asked. "Prepare... for your doom!" Just then, she unleashed her magic and multiple beams made contact with the other heroes, except for Misty. All of them were screaming in pain. Just then, colored orbs came out of them, being brought in by Opaline's magic. The orbs from Twilight and Sunny's friends had their Cutie Marks on them.

"What is she doing?" Sunny asked.

"She's absorbing their powers!" Silver said.

"All this... just to get rid of me?!" MC asked.

"You are the biggest threat of out of all I have faced!" Opaline said. "After I get rid of the seven of you, I'll move onto the ones I want revenge on. Celestia and Luna."

"Not on our watch," Sunny said. She then pulled out the Green Chaos Emerald from her dress pocket. Twilight pulled out the Purple Chaos Emerald from her skirt pocket. Maria pulled out the Light Blue Chaos Emerald from her dress pocket. Silver pulled out the Gray Chaos Emerald from his backside. Shadow pulled out the Red Chaos Emerald from his backside. Sonic pulled out the Blue Chaos Emerald from his backside. Then MC pulled the Yellow Chaos Emerald from his backside.

"The Chaos Emeralds, huh?" Opaline asked. "Very clever. But that won't be a problem." She then broke all the chains of her prisoners and they all fell. "Since I have all the powers of them, they should be enough combined to defeat you all. Especially... the Flames of Disaster."

"The Flames of Disaster?!" Sonic asked. "As in Iblis?!"

"Blaze absorbed Iblis in the future before Solaris emerged!" Silver said. "She must've had some of its residual power left in her."

"That's right," Opaline said, her wings and horns gaining fire. "It's time... I got rid of you all!" She then turned around and blew a fireball towards the wall. Then another fireball into the sky. It then broke a hole in the sky. A black hole with purple lightning coming out of it opened up. It then started sucking up stuff from Babylon Garden.

"Is that a Black Hole?!" Maria asked. Then Sarah, Mutt, Nyx, Joshua and Allura came into the room.

"Oh, no," Sarah Crayton said. "She did it."

"Mom, what is that?" MC asked.

"That's a trans-dimensional spacial rift," Sarah Crayton answered. The heroes all looked at Sarah with confusion.

"She... ripped open... a whole in space time," Midpoint answered. "That... black hole... will suck up everything... and destroy us all. And once we go in there... we'll cease to exist."

"She's gonna suck us all in!" Sarah Crayton said.

"Any last words, Crayton?" Opaline asked, giving a dark smirk.

MC smirked and said, "Yeah. I got some final words." Then he, Twilight, Sonic, Shadow, Silver, Maria and Sunny absorbed the power of the Chaos Emeralds and gained their super forms. And with that, Maximum MC said to Opaline, "Bring it on."

Opaline flew into the skies to get closer to the rip in space time so she could send the seven heroes through the rift. Super Sonic, Super Shadow, Super Silver, Twilight, Sunny, Maximum MC and Meteor Maria flew up and got a good distance from the rift so they wouldn't get caught in the suction of the rift.

"She's trying to lure us into the rift!" Twilight said.

"No sweat," Super Sonic said. "It's time we end this."

Opaline then fired multiple blasts towards the heroes, but they kept dodging. Maximum MC saw some debris going into the rift. He then extended his hands towards the rift and the debris going into the rift were coming out with a golden aura, heading right towards Opaline, along with multiple stuff that was on the end of it. Unbeknownst to it that one of the pieces of debris was the Egg Mobile, and it was being piloted.

"You think that throwing junk at me is going to stop me?!" Opaline asked. She then released a huge fireball from above her. As soon as it was as big as a house, she threw it at the heroes. All seven heroes got sent back into the dungeon, all of them on the ground. Just then, all of them were bounded by pink fiery binds, and the binds were attached to the ground.

"Okay, that hurt," Maximum MC said.

"Chaos...!" Super Shadow was about to say, but another fiery bind surrounded his mouth, so he couldn't say another word.

"Shadow!" Meteor Maria said.

"You think... that you could stop me like that?!" Opaline asked. What she didn't know when she was coming down is that Super Silver was using his enhanced psychokinesis to lift so much debris to throw it at Opaline. "I am an all powerful Fire Alicorn! I am..." Just then, she was crushed by the debris.

"Not bad, Silver," Super Sonic said.

"Thanks," Super Silver said. Just then, the debris surrounding Opaline got burnt to a crisp and got out.

"How dare you?!" Opaline asked. "I was still talking!"

"Chaos Control!" Meteor Maria said, teleporting herself and the rest of the Emerald powered heroes out of their binds. They eventually made it back to the sky.

"We need a big distraction," Sunny said.

"I got something big," Maximum MC answered. "It's time we go... Gigan." Just then, Maximum MC held out his arms and a bunch of earthy debris came from below and combined together, making a giant earth dragon with glowing golden eyes and wings.

"Whoa!" Twilight said. "That's big!"

"Usually, when I'm controlling this much matter without the Chaos Emeralds, I have to have direct or indirect contact with it," Maximum MC said. "Time to take her down." He then made the Gigan Dragon charge at Opaline as she was coming out of the hole that lead to the dungeon. Opaline then fired multiple beams at the Gigan Dragon, but it took no damage.

"WHAT?!" Opaline asked. She then growled and gave off the mother of all blasts towards it. It then got pushed back towards the rift and it got sucked in.

"She's more powerful than we thought," Super Silver said.

"She has the powers and magic of our friends!" Super Sonic said. "Along with the fire of Iblis and at least all the dragons of the Dragon Lands! We can't stop her!"

"We can't give up now!" Twilight said. "No way we're gonna let Opaline take all the magic in the world and use it against those who defy her."

Just then, all of them were surrounded by huge fireballs. Then they charged at the heroes, making them lose their concentration. Eventually, they were sent back down the the dungeon. Then a magical bubble surrounded them, and all of them reverted back to their normal forms. The Chaos Emeralds fell down to the ground.

Opaline laughed and said, "It's over! You all lost!" She then looked at Misty. "You see, Misty?! They are all weak, and not worthy of the power! You are a fool to have defected to their side!"

"I stayed with them because they treated me like a friend!" Misty said, standing up. "And I repaid their kindness with my own and helped them out! And because of that, I got my Cutie Mark, and...!"

"You WHAT?!" Opaline asked, enraged. She then fired a beam towards Misty. Misty tried using her magic to block the beam, but it was too late. Opaline took her magic and Cutie Mark and absorbed it. "I told you, Misty; if you want your Cutie Mark, you'll have to earn it by doing what I say."

"No..." Misty said, sitting on the ground, feeling weak.

"Misty!" Izzy said. She started crawling over towards her. She then hugged her.

"You can't stop me!" Opaline said. "You are all weak!"

Nyx then saw a stick that had Opaline's fire on it. She then quickly grabbed it. Twilight and MC saw Nyx coming towards them with the fire stick. She then used it to poke a hole in the bubble, making it pop.

"WHAT?!" Opaline asked. She then got angry. "You little foal!" Opaline then used her magic and picked up Nyx. "You should know that nothing will stop me! Not even them!"

Twilight and MC looked at the Chaos Emeralds. Then towards each other. Then they both gave smug looks. MC then said, "We might not be able to stop her..." He and Twilight then got up. "But she can."

Twilight then used her magic to lift up the Chaos Emeralds. She then sent them towards Nyx, absorbing into the Alicorn Filly. Then Nyx was surrounded by so much power. Her mane and tail turned back to the night sky mane as she had when she was Nightmare Moon. Then her outfit turned into armor. The chest plate of the armor was like her Cutie Mark, a blue navy blue skirt came from the bottom of the armor top, and she had boots that reached up to her knees. And she also had a helmet similar to Nightmare Moon's helmet, but it was silver and had her Cutie Mark right under the hole where her horn comes out.

"What?!" Opaline asked. She then got angry. "Who... are you?!"

Nyx looked at Opaline with an angry expression and said, "I... am Nyx of the Night!" She then charged at Opaline. She then transformed into blue smoke and made contact with Opaline. They both went out of the castle.

"C'mon, we gotta help her!" Sonic said. He then held up his left hand. "Nicole, send out our Extreme Gear." Just then, the Extreme Gear Boards that belong to Sonic, Shadow, Silver and MC came in through the hole. Sonic got on his, Shadow got on his with Maria behind him, Silver got on his and MC got on his. Then they started going up and out of the hole. Twilight and Sunny took to the sky with their wings.

Opaline was still fighting Nyx of the Night, but they were getting closer to the rift. Opaline got angry.

"That's it!" Opaline said. "You are done for!" She then fired a giant beam towards Nyx of the Night. But the filly was prepared for it.

"Chaos... Circle!" Nyx called out, spinning her arms around, creating a blue energy circle, absorbing the blast from Opaline's horn. Her voice echoed when she said "Circle". The pink blast was bouncing in the blue energy circle, accelerating in it, and getting bigger.

"Nyx, throw it back at her!" MC called out.

"Got it, Dad!" Nyx of the Night said. She then threw the Chaos Circle towards Opaline. Opaline smirked. She absorbed the attack, it becoming her own.

"Is that all you got?!" Opaline asked. "It's my power, remember?!"

"Oh, boy," MC said. "Let's go, all of you. We're done."

"What?!" Sonic, Shadow, Silver, Maria, Twilight, Sunny and Nyx of the Night all asked in unison.

"Why?" Sonic asked.

"The magic in the Chaos Circle will keep absorbing and enhancing energy attacks the more time it's in there," MC said. "And if it's absorbed, the Chaos Circle will continue to absorb and enhance the energy attack."

"So?" Sonic asked.

"If it keeps absorbing the same energy attack..." MC said before turning around to look at the rest of the heroes. "Tick tick boom."

"WHAT?!" Opaline asked. She then tried using her magic to get the Chaos Circle out of her, but she was bloating, and she was starting to crack apart. "NO! GET IT OUT OF ME!"

"We can't let her get it out!" Sunny said. Just then, the locket around her neck started vibrating. Then it opened up and a rainbow came out of it. It then surrounded Opaline like a serpent, binding her arms, legs and wings shut. She was then going towards the rift.

"Let me go!" Opaline shouted. Then the magic and power she stole from the heroes in her dungeon left her, leaving only the magic she had in her that was building up inside her. She also lost her Cutie Mark from that. "NO! My mark! My power! Come back!" Shen her body cracked up more, pink and blue energy coming out of the cracks. "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Opaline was heading towards the rift, and she exploded, the rift disappearing.

Then all the magic and powers returned to their rightful owners. As for the dragons, they were no longer under the control of Opaline. The heroes all stood up. Sonic, Shadow, Silver, Twilight, Sunny, MC, Maria and Nyx of the Night returned to the dungeon. Nyx of the Night then released the Chaos Emeralds and reverted back to her normal form.

"Nyx, are you okay?" Twilight asked.

"That... was amazing!" Nyx said. "I mean, I haven't felt power like that since I was bigger, but still... amazing!"

"More like awesome!" Rainbow Dash said, coming up to her. "You basically blew up Opaline!"

"Hey, look," Sarah said, pointing at a spot below the hole in the dungeon. There was Opaline, her wings, horn and dress were scorched. Her horn and wings were coming apart, becoming dust.

"You... ruined... everything..." Opaline said, weakly.

"It's over, Opaline," Twilight said. "That... was for everyone you hurt."

Opaline was getting angry, but she saw that her body was turning to dust. She then said, "I'll... be... back..." She then fully turned to dust and spread out on the ground.

"There's no coming back from that," Sonic said. "She died like Thanos."

"She's right, you know," Misty said. Then everyone looked at her. "She's a variant. Like me, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp, Zipp, Izzy, Sparky, Dad and Haven, we're all from an alternate future timeline. The Opaline of this timeline is about to escape from Tartarus.

"Then we got to stop that one," Sunny said.

"Relax," Olive said. "I'm calling some allies that can help with that."

Meanwhile, at the gates of Tartarus, the gate burst open. Then Opaline's laughter came from it. Opaline, the Opaline of this timeline, came out of the gate.

She laughed and said, "Finally! I'm free from that cursed prison! Now to..." Just then, she saw four figures standing in front of her. Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Tempest Shadow and Shade the Echidna. Opaline was furious when she saw Celestia and Luna. "YOU!"

"Hello, Opaline," Celestia said.

"And goodbye," Luna said. "Tempest."

"Gladly!" Tempest said. She then brought out an orb.

Tempest then tossed up the orb and then she kicked it towards Opaline.

Back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, the heroes had returned. GUN was there to pick up the Destructix. Sarah Crayton had sent the Nocturnus to another time and location where they couldn't attack Earth anymore. Allura was standing outside of the gates. Sarah Crayton then walked up to her.

"You ready?" Sarah Crayton asked.

"You know... after what Opaline almost did to me... I think I should retire from evil," Allura said. "Besides... all I want is my brother."

Sarah nodded. She then opened a rift to the location of where her brother was. Allura's brother, Alterro, saw the rift open up and saw Allura.

"Allura?" Alterro asked.

"Alterro," Allura said. Then she walked through the rift. Sarah then closed the rift and walked back towards the heroes.

"Well, that was a day," Sonic said. "You know what? How about we don't do any work tomorrow, go to an amusement park, and enjoy the whole day?"

"I could use a day off," Shadow said.

"Before that, I got one thing to say," MC said. "Twilight?"

Twilight walked towards MC with a raised eyebrow. She then asked, "Yes?"

"Twilight... ever since we met, you have been so much help to us," MC said. "And a lot of things have happened that I've... admired. And with that... I've realized that I would want to spend the rest of my life with you. And not just because Nyx is our daughter."

"Michael?" Twilight asked, starting to get wide eyed. "Is this going where I think this is going?"

MC then pulled out the box he received from the Oracle. He then opened it up and inside was a ring. MC then said, "Twilight Sparkle, High Princess of Equestria, will you be my queen by marrying me?"

The rest of the heroes, except for Pipp and Shadow, all gasped. Twilight was surprised at that. She then thought about it. She then looked over at Nyx and Joshua. She then smiled and looked back at MC.

"Yes," Twilight said. She then held out her left hand for MC to put the ring on her ring finger. Then the heroes all applauded. Pipp was live streaming the whole thing. She then brought back the phone to let everyone watching her live stream.

"That's right, my Pippsqueaks!" Pipp said. "It's a royal engagement! The newly made King, Michael Crayton, has just proposed to the High Princess of Equestria, Twilight Sparkle, and she accepted!"

Somewhere in Green Hills, Montana, Pipp's live stream was on a TV in a coffee shop, run by Agent Stone with Orbot and Cubot serving.

"I know for a fact that all of you will support their love," Pipp said on the screen. "I'll make sure to live stream the wedding when the big day comes. Ta-ta for now. Pipp-Pipp-Hooray!"

Just then, Agent Stone got a text message on his Smart Watch. He then checked the message. It read:

"PREPARE MY LATTE"

It also had a coffee emoji next to it. Agent Stone then said, "I, uh, I'm sorry, folks. Uh, I have to close early. Everybody out!" Then all the people that were in there were leaving the coffee shop. "Everybody out! Thank you for visiting the Mean Bean." He then reached for the door to close it. "Alright, goodnight! Goodnight." He then closed it. He then changed the sign from open to closed and pulled a sanitary inspection grade that was graded A, and underneath it was another one, but the grade was F-. He then went over to the coffee maker, and the temperature dial closed and opened up to a retinal scanner, which scanned his left eye. Then a red button came out from the drain rack of the coffee maker and he pushed it. He then turned around. "He's back. HE'S BAAAAAAACK!!" Then Orbot and Cubot laughed.

Author's Note

Well, that's the season 4 Finale, and this season is over. Don't worry, Eggman will be back for the next season. That's it for the Mobian Era for now.

...

Nah, just kidding. I have a surprise for all of you! This Season's not over yet! I'm gonna end this season with a Special. A Special that will lead to BronySonicFan's story, Sonic the Hedgehog x My Little Pony: The Final Act. See you all next time.