High Speed Harmony: Chapter One - When Worlds Collide
Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic or Sonic the Hedgehog, all properties belong to their respective owners.
Author's notes: I'd like to thanks Claret Stasis for proofreading and being my board for bouncing ideas off of. I'd also like to thank my best friend for Jim for helping with ideas as well.
In a fortress hidden in a desert alarms were blaring to alert its robotic guards that there was an intruder.
"Listen up, Sonic is on his way here! I don't expect you to stop him, you never can, but slow him down, buy me as much time as possible!" a voice yelled over the intercom. The voice was that of Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik. Some of the robots readied the weapons and scanned for the hedgehog at the main gate, while other groups patrolled outside.
In a blur Sonic, coming through a side entrance, blew past a group of guards, taking out the ones in his way but not wasting time with ones he knew he could outrun. "'...buy me as much time as you can'?" Sonic laughed. "Slow me down? Good luck with that!" Sonic was confident that the guards wouldn't slow him down at all. He zipped through the fortress searching for the doctor, only bothering with the guards that got in his way.
Outside the fortress dealing with the guards that Sonic left behind were Knuckles the Echidna and Miles "Tails" Prower.
"Why does he always do this to us?" Knuckles said, frustrated, as he punched one robot into another, sending the two flying into a wall and exploding.
Tails flew through the air before dropping to the ground to strike - a hit-and-run tactic. He responded, "He wants to get to Robotnik as quickly as possible; he has Amy." Knuckles ran up to a guard and uppercutted it hard enough to send its head flying off.
"It still ticks me off." He understood sonic wanting to help Amy, but they would be able to fight Robotnik better as a team.
Robotnik, who had just finished making adjustments to a machine, grinned. "Perfect, now all I have to do is wait for Sonic to show up," he said, sitting down.
As he did so his prisoner yelled at him, "Do you really think this will work?" Amy, who was tied to a chair in a cage, was not one to take being captured sitting down. "Just you wait, Sonic will free me,
and when he does it's gonna be hammer time for you, Eggman!"
Just then, as if he was summoned by the mention of his name, Sonic burst through the door. "Amy!" he yelled. When he saw his friend captured it made the hedgehog's blood boil.
"Ah, so you're finally here Sonic. Good. I've been waiting for you." Again Robotnik grinned. "But you played right into my hand." He pressed a button on a remote and the machine he was working on before Sonic arrived came to whirring mechanical life.
"I don't know what that is Eggman, but I'm not gonna let it start up!" Sonic ran at it full speed and jumped , crashing through it in ball form, rebounding off the wall opposite of where he was before and using the force to smash another hole through the machine.
Eggman's confident grin turned into an expression of fear. "You fool! I powered that with the chaos emeralds, there's no telling what smashing it while it was active could do!" As the doctor spoke, the holes Sonic left started to spark and the machine began to rumble.
"Uh oh, that doesn't sound good." Sonic tried his best to get to Amy, but it was too late. The machine exploded, a white light radiating from it and engulfing the whole of the fortress, consuming everyone inside.
"Are you okay?" Sonic heard a voice, but he couldn't recognize who it belonged to. "I think he's hurt, Spike, go get help." Spike. The name didn't register with Sonic at all.
"Are you hurt?" the voice asked again. Sonic tried to push himself off the ground, but doing so triggered a sharp pain in his side and he grabbed it instinctively.
"Apparently so," he said, opening his eyes to reveal the voice as a purple unicorn, standing on all fours. He carefully raised himself onto his elbows to get a better look, wincing slightly when his side twinged again. "Who are you anyways?"
"My name is Twilight Sparkle." The purple unicorn looked at Sonic. "Who are you? I haven't seen you around here before. What are you doing in the Everfree Forest?"
"The name's Sonic, and as for why I'm here..." Sonic thought about it for a moment. Why was he here? He couldn't seem to recall why, or even how he got here. "I must have hit my head pretty hard, I'm drawing a blank." He rubbed his forehead.
"Sonic, you should get some rest. My friend went to get help, and until we get you to the hospital you should save your energy." Twilight was worried for him, whatever he was. He looked pretty banged up.
Sonic nodded slowly. "Yeah, I guess you're right," he said, lying back down and closing his eyes. Suddenly his head shot up, eyes wide. "Oh no! I just remembered! My friends were with me!" He tried getting up again, but it was still too painful.
"What did they look like? We can organize a search party when we get to town," Twilight said, keeping her cool.
"One was a yellow fox with two tails; his name is Miles, but everyone calls him Tails. One was a pink hedgehog, her name's Amy, and the last one was a red echidna, he's Knuckles." Sonic rested his head again. His eyelids felt oddly heavy. "Geez, that took more energy than I thought," he said, before slowly slipping out of consciousness.