Chapter 99

Friendship is a Game

by Twistedphoenix1

Edited by SpedaHooves

Micro caught a blue scaled wrist. With a twist, he used Dracokin strength combined with his own boosts to flip Ember over his shoulder. He thought he had her when suddenly she twisted and landed on her feet before spinning around and punching him in the scaly gut.

It was a hand to hand, or claw to claw, lesson from Ember today. Since Ember wanted to keep an eye on his behavior, she was his partner today.

The young Gamer gasped for air. With a growl, he wrapped his arms around her waist and lifted her into the air. She brought her elbows down between his shoulder blades but he held on and rammed her into a nearby junked car, slamming her into the hood. A fist across the jaw sent him stumbling back. He quickly steadied himself and readied for another blow when he saw Ember was in a more relaxed state. Holding his stance in case this was a trick, he waited until she waved him down.

"Not back," she said, stretching her back. "Wasn't expecting you to ram into me though."

Before Micro could respond, another voice spoke.

"Ram into her? What did we miss?" Micro sighed as he saw Chara in her red Dracokin form walk up with Spike.

"Is your mind always in the gutter?" he asked.

"It is how I get some of your favorite bedroom ideas," she smirked. Spike blushed while Ember laughed.

"You two are certainly something," she chuckled. She looked up at the sky and saw the sun was starting to get low. "Well, time for you guys to get going."

"Great," Spike said. "I have a date with Applejack tonight."

"Applejack?" Ember raised an eyebrow as she took the gem from Micro. "I thought your girlfriend was named Diamond."

"Um...well…" Spike looked toward Micro and Chara, wanting their help in explaining things since they've already told multiple people about their own harem. What he saw was a small orange circle fading into nothing as the two sling ringed back to Micro's lab.

Lab

Micro sat down at his computer as Chara leaned against his back.

"You got the footage Sombra?" Micro asked.

"What little there is Jefe," Sombra responded. "Whoever broke those two out of prison shut down the camera's as they approached. I did manage to get one image that might help."

Filling the screen was a picture of three shadows against a wall. Two were small with one having a rounded head and the other being square headed. Based on some of the details in the shadows, they were robots. The other shadow was a figure who seemed to be mostly legs and a huge egg shaped torso.

"Son of a bitch," Micro said.

"Is that who I think it is?" Chara asked. Micro nodded.

"Dr. Ivo Robotinik, aka Eggman. Meaning that whoever was behind Kamoshida and Spoiled brought him to our world as well."

"But why would he break those two out?" Chara questions. Micro thought for a moment and growled.

"To get to me. Whoever is behind this must have been monitoring our previous fights. After seeing Sugar they might've remembered him from the news reports about his parents and got those two out to target him…"

"Thus targeting you jefe," Sombra finished. Micro took a few breaths as he let Gamer's Mind calm his rage.

"Why?" Micro growled. "Why can't the fucker just come after me? Why does he have to target my friends?"

Chara wrapped her arms around his neck and held his head to her chest.

"It isn't your fault," she said. "Your abilities were found out while protecting Scootaloo and the others and from there…"

"I know," Micro said. "It just pisses me off that I have to react to everything. I can't find out anything since the one pulling the strings can just pop their head when he realizes they lost! I can't do anything!

"Actually jefe," Sombra began. "I've been thinking..."

Micro looked up and his eyes widened in anticipation.

"What is it?"

"Well you know how your dream machine lets you control your own dreams," Sombra said as Micro nodded. He finished the invention a while ago and was in the middle of patenting it. His buyers were frothing at the mouth for what was sure to be a money maker. "Well...what if you could rig it to enter into other's minds?"

"Is that even possible?" Chara asked. Micro held his chin thinking.

"Perhaps...I can't exactly set it to target someone I don't know, but if I could somehow find Flim, Flam, or Robotinik's dreamscape…" He tapped the touchscreen on his computer and pulled up the design software. "I just need to figure how to link to another's dreams and then I can try hopping to different-"

Sombra jumped up and hit the file button. A screen popped up with the blueprints of the Dream Machine with an intricately designed transmitter on it.

"Would I come to you if I didn't already have a plan?" Micro smiled and threw his fist in the air in celebration.

"Hot damn! Sombra, if you had a body right now I would kiss you!" Sombra laughed.

"Don't you have enough girls yet jefe?" Chara and Sombra chuckled at the male Gamer's expense, though he was smiling as well.

"Well then," Micro said as he signalled for some of his clones to come over. Sombra also transferred into the Iron Watcher armor to lend a hand. "Let's get to work."