Through The Crack: Part 1 - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Confrontation

Twilight gasped. "You can't be serious!"

"I thought you said he was still in your world!" exclaimed Rarity.

"We said we didn't know what had happened to him," replied Tails. "He could've went back to our world or he could've been transported to another." He gulped and looked at Sonic. "What do we do Sonic?"

Sonic's face was now set in determination. "There's only one thing we can do," the blue hedgehog said, punching his fist into his open hand. "We fight."

Applejack positioned herself next to Sonic. "I reckon yer right. I don't want tuh be enslaved and used tuh power machinery."

Sonic gave her a surprised look. "I didn't mean you guys. You should go someplace where it's safe; he only wants me."

Twilight shook her head as she and the other ponies did the same as Applejack. "No can do Sonic, we'll stay with you."

"You're our friends now and friends protect friends!" said Pinkie in a matter-of-fact tone.

Rainbow Dash laughed. "You'd think I'd miss this? Time to crack that Eggman wide open!"
Sonic exchanged a glance with Tails, his own tears reflected in the fox's eyes. He
finally choked out, "Th-thank you."

The loud crashing and earth-shaking footsteps outside had stopped. Suddenly, a huge explosion tore the entire front of the library clean off. Books were flying around the room, papers shooting off the desks, smoke clouding everyone's vision; it was complete chaos. Above it all, Rarity could be heard screaming, "My mane! My beautiful mane! This
wind is going to RUIN IT!"

Once the smoke and dust cleared away, everyone looked to where the entrance used to be. Standing in its place was a twenty foot tall mech with Eggman sitting in his Egg-Pod at the top. Sonic recognized the design. It looked a lot like Shadow's robot friend Omega except a bunch of sizes bigger with some resemblances to the Egg Dragoon. To top it all off, connected to the right side of the body of the mech, was a cage in which resided a brown pony with spiky hair and an hour glass on his flank. This particular pony seemed to be in an extremely bad mood. Sonic couldn't blame him; being trapped in a cage was never--

His train of thought was interrupted by Eggman's overly obnoxious laugh. "Ho ho ho ho ho! At last, after all these years, I finally am going to win! You may not remember me Sonic, but I certainly remember you."

This confused the heck out of Sonic. "What do you mean, Egghead? Of course I remember you! How could I forget?"

Now it was Eggman's turn to be confused. "What!? But how do you remember?" the fat scientist asked, scratching his head. Even the spiky-haired pony looked confused. "No matter, I'll kill you anyway." The mech's right hand folded up into its arm and an exceedingly large chain gun replaced it.

"But wait, how'd you get here?" Tails questioned.

"I might ask you the same question, fox boy!" growled Eggman.

"Our answer is pretty simple: we were sucked into a crack in the fabric of time and space by the energy of pure love," Tails replied.

"Oh that explains how you two remembered everything!" exclaimed the brown pony in a decidedly English accent. "The power of love will protect anything through the void between worlds, even something as easy to lose as memories. Brilliant! It wasn't, by any chance, the blast that Shining Armor and Cadence used at the wedding was it?"

"It was," piped up Twilight.

"Ooo, you're Twilight Sparkle," the pony said, his eyes lighting up, "the unicorn who represents the element of magic. I was there, you know, at the wed--"

"Doctor, enough of this! I don't have time to talk to these insignificant ponies," interrupted Eggman.
"Who're you calling insignificant, fatty?" Rainbow Dash asked, clearly insulted.

Eggman's glasses flashed menacingly. "I'm not fat, I'm big-boned! Argh, these inaccurate insults will get you nowhere!"

Sonic's eyes narrowed. "You haven't answered the question, mustachio; how did you get here?"

Eggman laughed. "Ho ho ho, it was quite simple really. You see, the Doctor here," he pointed towards the spiky-haired pony, "found me in the void using his TARDIS. I tricked him into thinking I was a good guy and he took me here. I saw a blue boom thing and knew you were the only one fast enough to create something like that."

"It's called a sonic rainboom," explained Pinkie Pie, "and Sonic is not the only one to create one. Dashie here has also--"

"Shut up! You will not insult my intelligence you--"

"Actually, she's right," the Doctor said. "In fact, I've seen it myself. One of the most amazing things I've ever seen, and that's certainly saying something!"

Dash smiled. "I don't mean to brag but--"

"ENOUGH!" shouted Eggman, throwing his arms into the air. "After all these years and all these failed plans, I will finally win! Oh, I've waited a long time for this. Sonic, Tails, time to meet your maker!" The mech's chain gun arm pointed itself at Sonic and Tails. The hedgehog, fox, and six ponies tensed up.

"Everyone, make sure to jump out of the way as soon as he presses the button, then go in
for the attack," Sonic whispered urgently.

Eggman raised his finger to press the firing button when, suddenly, all the ponies gasped. This made Eggman smile. "Yes, this machine is pretty impressive."

Twilight shook her head vigorously. "Not your machine, look!" She pointed her hoof to somewhere above Eggman's head.

The portly scientist looked to where she was pointing, as did Sonic and Tails. Ten feet above Eggman's head was a very pink cloud.

END OF PART 1